Chapter 731

~~ Trinity ~~ "Come on, Trinity, let's get to it." My father put himself into a fighting stance like I had done a few times already. I also saw that he reached into the air and pulled out a sword as well. This sword wasn't icy or covered in flames like my two had been, but it still looked lethally sharp. "I see you and I share some of our magical powers." I smiled at him, and pulled my flaming sword out of the air in front of me. It had disappeared in the onslaught of water and I knew that I needed to resummon it. "Yes, only yours is a lot more powerful than mine. And it's very beautiful too, just like you." He smiled at me before he leapt into the air from the platform. I had just realized now that he had made a platform as well. He had used his purple tinted magic to make a platform out of wind and that had been what was supporting us. I guess there were more similarities between us than I thought. I followed after my father then, into the fray of the battle. I could see that he was making his way toward one of the dragon heads that was spewing its seemingly endless stream of disgusting water. I landed on the side wall of the hall, using magic to help me cling to it and run along the solid surface. My father was a few dozen feet ahead of me, running in the same way. His sword was in his right hand, stretched out behind him as he ran. I was hot on my father's heels with my sword in both hands. I could hold it one handed, but I got so much more accuracy and power with it in both hands so that was the way that I left it. And not to mention, this made sure that I didn't drop it in my haste or nerves. I watched as Edmond leapt from the wall and sliced toward the Hydra's rightmost head. It cut through the flesh, bones, and everything else easily, and I followed up behind, also leaping from the wall. When I was close enough to the dragon, I shot a jet of fire from my sword. That fire was hotter than ordinary fire and it caused the dragon to scream and screech again. "RAWRAHH! YOU BITCH! YOU CUT OFF ANOTHER ONE OF MY HEADS! WHAT DID YOU DO!? HOW DID YOU DO THIS AGAIN? RAWRAHGH! AND WHO IS THAT MAN!? HOW DID YOU BRING SOMEONE ELSE HERE?! RAWRAHGH!" It was clear that Hekate was not having a good time with what was going on. She was screeching and flailing about as the bleeding from her neck stopped almost immediately. She was now down to just two heads, one of which was still spewing water at the shields that seemed to be holding firm and protecting Rudy, Alexio, Zachary, Zander and Zayden. I was happy that they seemed to be safe for the time being, but I needed to put an end to the blast. I just knew that it had to be scaring the hell out of the three little boys. And the men probably weren't having that great of a time either. "Oh, you do not recognize me, Hekate? You spoke to me all the time since I was a boy, but am dead for just a little while and all of a sudden you forget about me? That isn't very nice at all. How could you do that to me?" I saw Edmond shaking his head like he couldn't believe what it was that Hekate had said. "I speak to a lot of people, a lot of my children. You think you were special? You were one of many. You were just a pawn to get me out of hell." Hekate snapped at him, anger dripping from her voice. "That may be true Hekate, but I believe that I was the only one to ever get close to freeing you. Something that I truly regret doing, but it is the truth of my past." Once again Edmond sounded so filled with sorrow and sadness. "Close? The only one that ever got close was.. was Gannon." I could see the dragon bitch was trying to focus her eyes on him then. "Gannon Edmond?" She gasped when looking at him. "You're dead. You're dead and in a cell here in Damnation. How are you here? And why are you helping the bitch that killed you?" "Because this is the right thing to do." A fierce and firm resolve filled his voice when he answered that question. "You need to be stopped." "FUCK YOU GANNON! YOU WERE ALWAYS A WEAK DISCIPLE." The other head stopped throwing water at my kids and my friends so that it could start to aim at my father instead. I needed to protect him now too, he did save me after all. As it turned out, I didn't need to protect him all that much. I was watching on and following behind Edmond so that I could step in if he needed me to, but he was doing just fine. He leapt from the platform that he was on and spun through the air toward the other head. He sliced through it in an instant and called out to me. "NOW TRINITY! BURN THE NECK SO THAT SHE CANNOT REGROW THE HEAD! HURRY UP!" I did as he told me to. I ran along the same path that he had taken and leapt toward the thrashing dragon while it screamed again and again. "RAWRAHGH! RAWR! ARGH! AHHHH! RAWRAHGH!" She screamed over and over again, thrashing and moving about. It was almost impossible for me to get close enough to the neck without her final head getting in the way. I did it though, and I once again shot a blast of fire from my sword at her. The fire seared the flesh of the dragon bitch's neck as it cauterized the wound. I could actually hear the place being burned this time. I could smell it and hear it and neither of those were pleasant to behold. "HOW DARE YOU!? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!? I AM A GODDESS!? I AM AN ALL POWERFUL BEING!? I AM HEKATE, MOTHER OF THE WITCHES AND WARLOCKS! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR CREATOR!? HOW?" "You may be the mother of our kind, Hekate, but you would also be our destruction. You would kill all of your children that didn't agree with you completely. That is a path that I have taken once, and I know how wrong that is. I will not let someone else kill so many innocent people. I will not let that happen to my daughter and her family." Edmond sounded so firm and pissed off at the moment that he almost sounded like the old Edmond. Almost. Still, he was trying to stop her so that was a good thing. "I will kill her and you, Edmond. I will destroy anyone who stands in my way. That is something that we used to have in common. That is something that bound us together, but not anymore." "Nope, not anymore." I snapped at her. "He has changed, but you're still the same old piece of trash that you always have been. Now Hekate, prepare for what you have been threatening me with this whole time. Prepare to die. I am going to end you. I am going to destroy your soul.. I am going to rid the world of your evilness once and for all."