[Closed] But we are ready and prepared to fight

[kill_some_time]

Characters: Steve Rogers and Hades
Location: Scandinavia
Rating: PG-13
Time: May 24th
Description: A forgotten God and a living Legend go troll-hunting.

After maybe an hour of speaking with the locals, following hints and getting a vehicle Steve and Hades finally arrived in the outskirts of a forest that was supposedly part of a famous park. Hades had left most of the speaking to the human Meister, assuming correctly that doing so would inspire more faith and cooperating from those they met.

The place their tracking had led them to was the shore of a big river that was filled with water that was of a muddy blue-green color and kept making small noises as the floods rushed by. A light rain was falling and the barest hint of faint mist had build up along the surface of the water.

Hades walked up to it until sand mixed with the earth beneath his feet and only a few steps divided him from taking another unwanted swimming lesson. “According to what that one said the last victim was snatched from about here.” He took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a moment. It wasn’t the ocean, but all that water still reminded him of his late brother. Silly stupid brother who had went down while trying to punch giant scorpions in the face. “…I don’t think that dying in the water is really preferable to dying on the land.”

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[kill_some_time]

"No."

He walks over to the slowly disintegrating cadaver and picks the small red sphere of the corrupted soul out of it once it is reachable. Holding it up, he allows it to hover over his palm for a moment before tendrils of dark energy seem to reach out of his hand and absorb it. There was a strange sort of casual reverence in the way he handled it and when he spoke again.

"It is about life."

Turning back to Steve, he gives him a fleeting smile. "Do you hate me for what I just did?"

[itsfondue]

Steve watches as Hades absorbs the soul, just like what he did before with the others before. He still has a problem of using souls to become stronger, but there's another matter at hand now.

"That isn't life."

That's all he says for now, as he listens to Hades' question. Course the guy has to send him a smile as well, as if he's just amused by this. "At the moment."

[kill_some_time]

His expression doesn't change, only the layers of his ears turn to curve sideways rather than high. "That is rather normal. I am after all no god that is to be loved."

He crosses the distance between them, facing in the direction they had come from. "There are no more kishin eggs to be found here for the time being. We should leave." There was a tiny pause before he adds. "What kind of life would it have had? Is staying alive against no matter what becomes of you really that imperative? I do not understand human values, so I cannot tell."

[itsfondue]

Steve decides not to comment about the loved comment, but he looks at Hades as he approaches. "I don't know what kind of life it would have had. It was about giving it a chance."

Despite his anger with Hades, he didn't move to get into a physical fight with him.

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He gave him an unreadable look.

"Would you want to be given a chance like this? Or if it were your child?" Hades shook his head, lowering his voice. "You mortals, even though you already know that it is pointless... You still struggle."