10 [Generation]
'Fuck that was exhausting!' Icarus thought heaving his chest out in exhaustion.
'Heracles will probably be back up in no time as that's pretty much his entire character, while the noise likely alerted anyone nearby....'
He knew that after defeating Heracles alongside Jason's blabbering he would most definitely be label an enemy to anyone who arrives.
'Damn, I really should've thought this through...!' Icarus thought as his hand reached into his pack once more to fish out more items.
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When Icarus launched Heracles away, the loud fighting was already heard from afar and multiple people nearby came to see what was going on.
From the beginning, when Jason was sent out to hunt he had been followed by his teacher for his own protection. The teacher of course noticed Icarus and Atalanta stalk Jason and allowed it out of interest.
He was curious of why such a young pair was out this far in the forest by themselves without any supervision, so he decided to see how things would unfold.
To say he was surprised would be an understatement as the young boy was even able to outwit and defeat even his most powerful student, Heracles, who the others at the camp couldn't even touch.
The boy had something that most of his students lacked, resourcefulness. Most of his students saw themselves above others due to their divine linage and raw talent, and in turn, were rather arrogant and overly confident in a fight.
The only ones without this quality were Jason, who lacked divine lineage and talent along with Asclepius who disliked fighting in general.
The rest were arrogant and looked down on others, perhaps this would be beneficial for them Chiron pondered as he watched the young boy reach into his pack once more as the rest of his students arrived at the scene.
Chiron continued to watch with interest while hidden on the treetops above, briefly glancing to the side as he watched someone else preparing to join the party.
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A few pouches slipped into Icarus' sleeves as he calmed his frantic mind. Heracles was currently down for the count and Icarus had already begun to hear movement towards his direction.
Icarus tried to approach Jason once more in an attempt to defuse the situation before the others could arrive, "Hey—!"
But, before he could continue, he was interrupted by an arrow slicing through the air towards his head, an instinctual lean to the side and the arrow passes through, slicing his cheek and almost impaling the meek Jason ahead of him.
"Eeek!" Jason squealed as Icarus turned to face his attacker.
"Oi, can someone let me finish talking for onc—!" Icarus spoke while turning.
"Silence, curr." An effeminate voice spoke up from behind as Icarus finally got a look at the rude little shit who interrupted him for the third time.
It was a young but handsome boy with soft features, he had short blonde hair and purple eyes. He had a cocky smirk as if he was looking down on Icarus, who's eye twitched at the boy's behavior.
"Can you let me fuckin—!" Icarus yelled out in frustration before being interrupted once more.
"Language!" a voice yelled out once more as someone slowly walked to beside the boy, revealing a girl with a nearly identical appearance.
Icarus sighed in frustration, this was really starting to piss him off. He was really at the edge of saying fuck it and beating his words into them.
"Look, this is—!"
"Silence! You do not have my permission to speak!" The boy yelled with an upturned nose as the girl never changed expression.
'Fuck, it' Icarus thought, with anger overpowering his remnant pain, "I'll just have to beat my words into you." Icarus spoke in irritation before throwing a bomb pouch from his sleeve into the air.
BOOM!
The bomb went off, the twins had their eyes widen in surprise while looking towards the explosion, while Icarus had already prepared his next course of action during their lapse in attention.
A roll to the side and Icarus had vanished into the woods without notice, but not without leaving them a present.
The twins didn't have time to react as another bomb was thrown unnoticed at the female during their distraction, which caused the male twin's eyes widen in fear as he spotted the bomb headed for his sister,
"POLLUX!"
The boy shouted in fear as he threw his body at the bomb to protect his sister which went off point-blank in front of him.
BOOM!
"CASTOR!?" The female counterpart screeched in horror as her brother's body flew onto her as they collapsed onto the ground.
"I'm.....alive?" The boy whispered in disbelief as the female cried out in relief, not even noticing that the bomb was actually a smoke bomb with a little umff.
Icarus had already changed positions, rushing to incapacitate the already fleeing Jason.
"DON'T KILL ME TOO!!!!" Jason screamed in fear as tears and snot ran down his face.
He watched frozen as the bomb hit Castor and immediately ran the fuck away, believing Castor dead.
His cries only became louder as he turned around and made eye contact with Icarus and screamed in terror, "AHHH—!" But was quickly interrupted by a chop to the neck as Icarus incapacitated him and his body hit the ground.
THUD
Icarus then lazily hid his unconscious body propped up against a trunk before climbing up the branches and jumping from tree to tree to locate the others.
Arriving at the scene of the previous explosion, Icarus noticed Castor and Pollux had regained their wits as the smoke dispersed, and, boy they looked pissed! 'Haha, I'm not even done yet.' Icarus thought with a smirk.
Icarus reached down into his bag once more and took out his bow and an arrow, he then wrapped another bomb onto the arrow before tying them secure, taking aim, and then firing.
His skills had increased after all these weeks in the forest and could at least hit a moving target with decent accuracy, but that wasn't what Icarus was aiming for.
THUNK!
His arrow embedded into the base of a tree nearby as he lobbed another smoke bomb in between them.
Thud!
The twins glanced between them to see a small memorable pouch land between them after a short roll.
BOOM!
They both jumped to opposite sides in a panic as the smoke bomb went off before another loud boom rang out.
BOOM! CRACK! THUD!
The bomb Icarus had preciously shot into the base of the tree exploded, causing the tree to fall over and collapse between the two twins, separating them within the smoke.
"Tch!" Castor clicked his tongue in annoyance, when a sharp wind pierced from above before he turned his head to the treetops as Icarus dropped down over him.
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He quickly reacted, using his bow to swing at Icarus in offense and attack while Icarus responded with his sword.
The two attacks ended without mention as Icarus' sword absorbed any kinetic energy exchanged between the two.
Castor was baffled at the event while Icarus already knew it would happen and had twisted his body midair to kick him into the ground.
THuD!
"AhK—!" Castor coughed out when his body hit the ground as the air in his lungs was forcefully exhaled.
"Bastard—!" He tried to call out in spite but Icarus had already drove his fist into Castor's stomach, knocking him unconscious.
'....Heh, for a son of Zeus to call me a bastard, the height of irony.' Icarus thought with a scoff before suddenly being jumped from behind.
"Bastard!" The girl who threw her body onto Icarus and drove him into the ground yelled!
The girl had an absolutely vicious expression as she held a blade to his throat. Icarus was pretty sure she was going to kill him without hesitation.
But he still couldn't help but smirk,
"Takes one to know one, eh?" Icarus spoke while the crude sword still gripped in his hand made contact with part of her body.
"Wha—!" She asked in an obnoxious tone before she was interrupted as Icarus transferred the kinetic energy from his exchange with Castor straight into her body like he did to Heracles prior.
THUD!
"AhK—!" She coughed out as the blow hadn't stored enough energy to do anything other than knock her down.
While she was disoriented Icarus quickly mounted her before raising his fist. Pollux could only watch in disbelief as Icarus slammed his fist into her solar plexus causing her to cough once more before he sent her to Hypnos himself.[1]
"RRaGh!" A deep voice screamed out from the forest as Icarus heard a rapid pace rushing towards him.
"Finally back up huh?" Icarus spoke in-between exhaustion as Heracles re-entered the fight.
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[1] Hypnos - The Greek God of Sleep
