The Atlantean Compensator 126 Heracles' Chronicles 1

*Almost 500Years ago*

A bunch of kids were playing near their little houses of wood, the place looked dirty and unhealthy.

Yet these kids didn't care, for them it was home and all they know about.

However, one kid out of all of them. Was different!

Rarely ever smiles, or plays...But he's always near them, when someone comes asking him to join.

He simple nodes sideways, as to say he doesn't want to!

Although he was mysterious, kids didn't reject him or feared him. Sometimes they'd make him join by force, which he timidly obliges.

However, what was going through his mind was bigger than what kids could understand.

He hated it! He hated his life!

That is because...

The worst time of the day for all of them was when they get called up to come back inside their homes, but for him it was ten times worse! The moment he enters, chaos is all over the place.

An old dirty little house where one can barely live in, little food, an abusive father and a tired frustrated mother... He wasn't their sole kid, but he's now left to be. That's because his older brother preffered going on a journey to the unknown rather than passing one other day with them...It did hurt him badly, his older brother was what made it bearable for him in the first place.

But tonight, his life will change to the best...Or maybe not!

Another fight escalated between the parents, the drunken father tried to have his way with his so called woman, however she refused to give him her body, her frustration caused by how he conducts himself has made what was once love turn to hate and disgust.

Ofcourse, the father flipped the switch and tried to **** her...Defending herself, she took a sharp tool and put it straight in his stomach!!

Falling to the ground, bleeding...The terrified face of the mother who has all her clothes ripped off...The little kid saw everything happening in front of him.

Traumatized! He ran out of the house without looking back for a second.

The mother tried to call him...But she herself realized that it's better for him to go, just like her first son....Maybe she was better off like her soon to be dead husband as well...

The kid ran as fast as he could, until he reached the woods...Then he sat down, and cried nonestop til the point of screaming his lungs out...

He didn't realize that at that moment...He wasn't alone, and that fire started burning the forest!!!

When he opened his eyes, he was terrified!! The fire has caught his body as well!!

He was burning in flames!!

Screaming and running, trying to put down the fire but it wouldn't stop...It took a voice of reason to stop him!

"Calm down, Heracles Barnian!!

Didn't you realise that it doesn't hurt?"

The miserable kid all this time, was none other than Heracles during his childhood!

"What??...WHO'S THERE!!!???". He turns his head in all directions to find the sound source, but he sees no one!

"I am you friend, the one who'll get you out of darkness towards light!". The sound continues to reply,

Heracles stops in his place, no more scared. With a sure face he says.

"Show yourself!"

"Splendid, it was enough I said those words for you to calm down."

The mysterious person decides to reveal himself from the dark.

First, the wings...Then the classic boots...the tight black pants,...The decorated classical shirt tied under his brown belt...The skinny long hands, one of them holding a magical spear!

And then finally...The face!

Pointed beard, sharp features, shady glasses and black hair slipped to the back!

"Taraaaaaa!". As if he performed a magical trick!

His looks were so classy yet so dark, that it would intimidate anyone! For some reason...Heracles had his eyes wide open, but fear wasn't the reason!

"Who are you?"

The weird creature laughed a little. "Hahhaha! Haven't you guessed already? Oh yes I forgot...
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Your parents haven't teached you much anyways!"

Heracles when hearing that, got mad!! Which resulted to more flames coming out of his body.

"Oh wowowow! Calm down i was only joking...

My name is...Mammon. I am the devil himself!"

"The...devil? But his name isn't like that..."Replied Heracles.

Mammon. "Well to be quite exact, there are many of us...However I am not one of those weaklings who trouble themselves with mere mortals. I am done with that long ago.

To make it simple for you, I am the son of Satan, the devil himself as you may know it."

Heracles was confused, but at the same time very very curious...At the end of the day he's still a kid, to encounter such creature is almost like a very fun thing to him now.

"The son of Satan! And What's someone like you is doing with me?

I am just a kid."

Mammon got closer and touched the flames coming out of Heracles.

"...They're really hot!

Do you want to see yourself?"

He summons a mirror for Heracles to see his reflection.

"Don't you see? You're not a normal kid. With me you'll be able to know everything you want to know. You'll gain power, fame and wealth. I promise you the happiness you were denied of!"

Heracles looking at himself, was super surprised, but in a good way!

'How am i burning without being burned? Am i truly...not normal?!!'

"...Why are you helping me?". He asked

Mammon holds his forehead and bites on his teeth.

"UGH!! You're a troublesome kid aren't you?

But...To be expected, since you're not like them.

Well i'll tell you the truth as it is, I am not helping you just out of boredom and fun.

In exchange of having all of what I previously said, you'll become one of us!

One of the children of Satan!"

Heracles takes some time to digest what he has heard.

"....And why would i want to be that?

It's true my parents didn't teach me a lot, but even I know that Satan is bad and evil, my parents themselves may have been children of his!!"

Mammon moves his finger.

"You're wrong, your parents were the exact opposite. Children of the lie!

Where was the God they presumed to be their savior when all of the bad happened to them, and then fell down on you and your brother! Innocent souls!! You're surprised i know all of this? Well that's because nothing escapes my knowledge! I can even tell you where is your brother right now.

I have saved thousands of souls before, but if you weren't interested in that.

Then do as we have never met, continue struggling your whole life!"

The kid was put into two hard choices, to either trust a demon that claims to be the son of Satan, or to continue the life he had already been living, with no assurance that it will get better or worse...And then with the powers he has just discovered, he doesn't know anything about who he really is at this point. He's lost...And in desperate need to find himself, and who he really is!

'My brother....Mayhem!'

Who's there in front of him, that his eyes sees and his presence feels...No one other than Mammon!

It was a matter of time before, he gave up to the demon's will, and walked towards him.

Without saying a word, Mammon understood.

"Very well then, our journey starts from here on young man!

Unlike previous times, you'll have all my time and knowledge under you for the next 10years!

You're that special!"

Heracles. "Ten years?? Woah that's a lot!"

Mammon. "Not much, i can even grant you eternal life!!"

Heracles. "You're kidding!"

Mammon. "You'll see..."

Both of them continued talking while walking away...It was like a magical story for Heracles! As if he found a Jinnie that grants him wishes!

Chapter end