Chapter 462 Settled In?
?Standing outside of Abaddon's bedroom door was one individual whom he always wanted to see, and another whom he barely wanted to see.
One was a cute young girl of around fourteen years age who had a permanent mischievous glint in her red eyes.
Though he was used seeing her covered in blood, as of right now she was wearing a cute little bunny onesie, complete with floppy ears and a little tail.
The other was a giant bat monster who had shrunk himself to the size of a doberman to appear more cute and friendly.
"Good morning, little one." Abaddon hugged Mira with a tight enough grip to crush a car, and she returned his gesture with one of her own.
"C-Can Camazotz have a hug too?" the bat asked with surprisingly wide eyes.
"Of course Daddy will hug you!" Mira volunteered.
"Glorious!"
Abaddon wanted to tell Mira to stop placing him in these sort of perilous situations, but he did not know if it would do any good in the end.
Instead of fully hugging the bat god, he playfully ruffled the fur and ears on top of it's head and called it a day.
Luckily, Camazotz seemed to have no problem with this.
"M-Master has actually bestowed his touch upon Camazotz... Camazotz is unworthy to receive such a gift!!"
"Yes, yes. It is the least I can do since you seem to be taking your role as Mira's pet so seriously."
At this, Mira nodded furiously. "He's a good pet! I was going to introduce him to Entei and have the two of them play together!"
Abaddon imagined that the foo dog wouldn't exactly be all that thrilled to suddenly have a rival appear out of nowhere, but he would spare telling his daughter that in the hopes that something funny would happen.
"Oh right! Cama has a special diet so can you feed him?" Mira asked.
At the mention of food, the bat god straightened up onto all fours and pretended to be the goodest boy ever created.
Sensing no real harm in it, Abaddon sighed as he crossed his arms.
"Fine then. Does he have a bowl?"
- On the rooftop garden
"...This is absolutely not a bowl."
Abaddon was staring at a metal trough made of pure ice that was at least thirteen feet long and deep enough to completely submerge a full grown hog.
"But I made it for him because he has such a big appetite! He says that he used to eat upwards of 1,000 humans a night before he was banned from earth!"
At Mira's side, Camazotz nodded furiously.
*Sigh* "Well.. since you went through the trouble to make it for him."
Temporarily, Abaddon grew into a larger, more infamous form.
A black dragon with seven heads and an underbelly that seemed to be made from a swirling cosmos.
His menacing multi-eyed wings were folded into his back, and this combined with the fact that he had the lower body of a serpent made it easy to mistake him for some kind of superior species of naga.
In reality, Abaddon's true form was the amalgamation of western and eastern dragon philosophy.
Both devilish and divine, the embodiment of ruin and sanctity.
This was the first time that Camazotz had ever seen Abaddon as a dragon before, and it had a profound effect of him.
He was unaware of the fact that the only reason he was not currently mad with fear was because he had already taken Abaddon's blood.
"She was... helpful. And your son is very cute."
"Isn't he? I wonder why that old bastard Zeus would ever see fit to trap someone like him underneath a mountain."
The eyes of both women practically ejected from their skulls.
THAT adorable little baby that they saw last night... was the hundred headed horror who tried to destroy Olympus.
The difference between the two forms was like night and day.
Straga was powerful enough when he was jut a primordial beast, but with godhood now coursing through his veins... there was no telling how far he could grow.
It was scary.... but his cheeks were so chunky looking!
"Ah, sorry." Abaddon realized. "This is my friend, Bagheera. Say hello, boy."
The locust made a scoffing noise and Abaddon's gaze narrowed.
"Don't be like that. You could at least let them pet you, ya know?"
"Groh." (It's two things I've never seen. A turtle with speed, and a bitch I need.)
"You're spending entirely too much time with Thea."
"Ba!" (That's my bestie for restie!)
"This is exactly what I mean." Abaddon grumbled.
After seeing Abaddon talk to the creature so freely, Persephone and Demeter were not as afraid as before.
They gradually inched closer, no doubt intrigued by this strange creature that was unlike any monster they had ever seen.
The sections of Apollonir wilderness that they had seen were teeming with monsters and animals alike, some of whom were cute and others who were...not so cute.
Bagheera was on the latter end of the spectrum, but they were certainly curious about why his size and intelligence seemed to be so extraordinarily high.
"This... creature of yours. What do you call it?" Persephone asked.
"A locust."
"Like the insects?"
Immediately, Bagheera made the closest face to a look of betrayal possible. "Bwa?!" (You named my race after fucking bugs!?!"
Abaddon looked away and started to whistle inconspicuously.
Persephone and Demeter didn't quite seem to understand what was going on, but they knew the look of someone who stepped in something accidentally when they saw it.
Honestly... it was rather interesting to see him behave like this.
Before, he always seemed like some sort of malevolent ruler who was as unpredictable as a raging storm and 1,000,000 times more dangerous.
But now he kind of seemed like a relatively easygoing man, whose air and steps contained a very distinct lightness and tranquility.
It was non-oppressive, and content.
"You're in love." Demeter realized.
Abaddon paused temporarily, and showed the girls a true, happy smile that only came out when the subject of his wives came up.
"I am. Is it so easy to-"
"YOU FUCKER!!"
Out of nowhere, a woman appeared underneath the arch of the greek temple.
Her flaming black hair was burning as brightly as a miniature sun, and her face was as red as a cherry tomato.
"GET ME OUT OF THIS SHIT HOLE RIGHT NOW! THIS PLACE FUCKING SUCKSSSS!!!!"