OBS Chapter 430: angry gods*
Chapter 430: angry gods*
"What happened Amy?" Rebecca asked while erecting a barrier around them to block the curious gazes of strangers from disturbing them.
"Who hurt you? Did someone say something?" Seeing her sobbing in silence, Becca asked again. "Did you have another fight with aunt Artemis?"
"..."
Seeing Amy dodge her eyes and cry harder, Becca knew that her guess was right. So she could just sigh and hand her bestie another tissue.
"Look, Ames, how many times have I told you that you don’t need to pressure her. She’ll let go, when she’s ready. You poking that mama bear part is not helpful at all."
"..."
"I know that you want them to forget about Rio and laugh again, so you don’t have to see their tears and feel guilty for it. But this _ this isn’t the way."
"That’s not what I want." Amy, who was slowly leaning towards calming down, suddenly lost her control when she heard her bff’s fimal words.
"Really?" But her words caused Rebecca’s sincere expression to disappear and turn into a sneer.
"The best lie is the one we tell ourselves. _ your brother told me that line." Rebecca spoke calmly, "It suits you. You’ve built this picture in your head that your acts aren’t selfish. That you’re doing everything you do, so those around you can be happy. But that’s not the truth."
"The truth is, you’re trying way too hard to take his place, knowing, you never can._ And that’s making you anxious."
"I’m not." Amy shouted.
"Really? Then prove it." Rebecca replied calmly, "Prove me wrong. Prove that you aren’t selfish."
"I will. Is it selfish to hope that my parents can be happy? They’re trapped in misery of his memories. Father is hellbent on revenge. He hasn’t been home for months, and whenever he comes, he’s covered in blood and bones. I’ve seen him getting more injuries in the past year than in the past decade combined."
"As for my mom, she’s even more crazy. Her love had made her blind and she’s still refusing to accept the truth. She’s picking fights against the academy, the avatars, even the gods _ and each of them can get her killed."
"So forgive me if I’m trying too hard to please them, cause I can’t sit back and just watch them die. I’ve lost one family member already, I don’t wanna loose another."
Amy finished her speech, her tone resonating with the determination she felt in their favor. Yet her high sounding words only caused a sneer in Rebecca’s lips.
"It’s funny. How you talked for so long, for so many things, yet you never mentioned your own mistakes. It was your foolishness that got him killed."
Amy was still going on with her threats amid the belaspered gazes of the crowd, when a voice echoed from the sky, as the world froze around her.
[Big words for someone so small.] A feminine voice came from the clouds which started moving at rapid speed, gathering to form the figure of a goddess, shroded in fog.
[Your brother said something similar to me two years ago, and look where that got him.] Apate spoke calmly, yet the cold tone of hers caused the temperature all over the streets to drop till a freezing point. Amy could feel the mist bellowing out with her breath, yet she refused to back down,
[I was going easy on you, hoping you’d learn your lesson and leave me alone. But you’ve taken my pity and mistook it for cowardice.
An ant crawls on an elephant and seeing him silent, it thinks he’s afraid of her. But that’s not the truth, is it?
Your constant ignorance has really annoyed me, ant...So let me give you a taste of what really happens to those who forgets their place.]
As Apate’s words finished, everything around Amy disappeared in dust. Amy raised her hands, trying to rip the space apart with her own mana, forcing her element to expand the cracks forming under Apate’s anger.
She just had to get out of this illusion, and then she’ll have a hundred ways to handle this goddess. If nothing else, she’ll just crush her token and call her father.
But how could her thoughts avoid the eyes of Apate.
Apate looked at the ant gaining hope of escape and then raised the corners of her mouth in an evil grin.
[You want to go back. To see your brother so bad? _ here, let me give you a hand.]
As her voice finished, she waved her hand. The clouds rolled, the pressure crushing whatever gateway Amy had formed. Burying it, alongside her in the heavy sheet of white fog.
Sparks of red flew in the clouds as Amy tried her level best to channel the chaos and get out of it, but by the time she stepped out of the fog, the world around her had completely changed.
There in the skies was no goddess, or clear clouds of blue, _there was but a red moon hanging overhead and the clouds churned in hues in red. Like someone soaked the fog and mixed it with blood.
Rain fell from the skies, but it wasn’t water, but something akin to blood. And when it touched her skin, it made a sizzling sound and melted a piece of her armor in seconds.
Amy looked around in confusion at the apocalyptic world with no sign of life and covered in ruins and doomsday aura of death, destruction, and dread. _ and a guess came to her mind.
She finally realized what Apate’s final words meant. She knew where she was._ And as if to confirm her thoughts with reality she was now trapped in, tremors rose in the ground. And as Amy turned her eyes around, she saw the murderous gazes of a monstrous tsunami of undead creatures, all rushing towards her like an unstoppable tidal wave.
When you’re in a world with no sign of life, your heartbeat becomes the beacon which will attract the most attention. _ and safe to say, after seeing this horrific sight, her heart, was beating pretty fast.