Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 371: recklessness unpunished

It had been years since Yunan actually performed divination, he was the kind who always forged his own future and ploughed his own path to tread upon, his divination skill was mostly used for miscellaneous things that were mostly unrelated to his decision making, at the moment, Yunan was very troubled with the bad feeling he had and what might come of it, especially if it was related to Catelyn his little daughter.

"I'm going all out, channel your spell through me, I plan on using my shards of divinity" after saying so, Yunan open his mind and soul for Leader to intrude upon, she took off her clothes and started drawing a circle of magic on the floor, he undressed as well and took out a pail of fresh clean water and waited for Mary to finish the circle.

After she finished drawing a complex and very mind-boggling piece of ritualistic art, she used the water to cleans both their bodies in a certain pattern, from left to right for her and from right to left for him, the two then sat in the heart of the ritual drawing and entwined around each other, then she started channelling her magic through him, he allowed the magic to fill him and then seep in his sea of consciousness where all shards of divinity stood in line, each shard was then used as a catalyst and were arranged in some pattern according to the ritual, eventually linked and Yunan's mind flooded with a prophecy.

You have read it correctly, it wasn't a premonition nor was it a prediction, a vision or whatever, it was a prophecy, and it just flooded his mind with so much information he almost went mad. It didn't help that Mary used his mind to sort out the noise and filter the true prophecy through it, she took advantage of the existence of the shards and the fact that he opened himself to her, all so that whatever this prophecy foretold, it wasn't going to be misinterpreted.

After some time, Yunan felt Mary untangle herself from him, he opened his eyes to see that blood has erased the circle of the ritual, his mind was still slow and hurting to realise that both he and Mary were bleeding from every pore, he saw her wobble and the fall face first onto him, he was so powerless that he could not even withstand the impact and he too lay with her on the ground, spent, tired and in need of sleep, neither of them knew how, but they both fell in dreamless sleep.

When Yunan woke up he was in the honey pit, still naked and holding to a waking Mary, whatever toll was taken for the prophecy was heavier on her, how could someone who was strong like her only wake up at the same time as him.

"Home" he heard her mutter with a weak voice, he too extended his senses and felt everything exactly like it should be, even the bated heartbeats of the family resonated in his ears, full of anxiety and stress, then he felt Leader dive in his mind and search frantically for something that should have been there, although it hurt as she rummaged in his sea of consciousness, he took it silently and waited for her to calm down.

Once Leader pulled back her consciousness, he looked through his mind, everything was in order, the shards were where he usually kept them, his memories untouched, his thoughts and mental notes still as disorganized and chaotic, but something was missing.

"I don't remember", he said, "do you?" She shook her head, never has Yunan felt Mary and Leader switch so many times before, he patted her hair gently, it was sticky and dirty and bloody, she calmed down slowly, the lost look in her eyes made Yunan feel like shit, it was his fault, he knew, so he kept her close and touched her gently until both were composed enough to stand from the pool and go clean up, they huddled together in the bath as they let the water wash over them. "We screwed up bad, huh".

After leaving the bath, the gods were sitting with the family sharing the sombre mood, Hephaestus was holding his head in his hands as the Black Fate floated beside him, Drogon was keeping Cat safe while Apophis tried his best to meld with the background, the wives were huddled together, Debauchery were doing the same and lastly, Ignis and Sapphira were looking like they were on guard duty, they patrolled the room with sharp killing intent obvious to all.

Mary sent a look to her partners and Yunan looked at his wives, but neither said anything, Yunan sat between Luna and Death, while Leader sat beside Apophis, seeing no reaction to their arrival Yunan voiced a very cautious "so?". Hephaestus looked up and waved his hand making the Black Fate return to Yunan's hand, he sat straight and smiled.

"Congratulations, you just scooped up from fate itself and survived, you lost nothing but your memories of what you saw, that is truly getting away lightly", Death was not so impressed on the other hand "I have yet to meet someone as reckless as you in my entire life, what were you thinking? diving into fate before you could even comprehend destiny is no less than suicide", on the other hand, Fortuna just said "talk", she glared at him as if she would have to tweak something inside his brain.

"I had this bad feeling nagging at me, it was so bad we left the Awakened island and decided to perform a divination, she used some ritual and I gave her my shards to power up her magic, it went fine at first, we got a prophecy, we made sure to take it all in and properly record and interpret it, but after the ritual was over, we were bleeding from every pore, then we both fainted and that was that, when we woke up, it was gone, just the prophecy, nothing else was missing, we even knew it was a prophecy but couldn't find the memories, neither in her mind nor in mine, it wasn't deleted nor ripped away, it just is missing".