"I'm Apollo...you are enchanting,"
Apollo let out his hand just to try and touch her. To see if that gold shine is real. Seeing if it's a burning flame that would burn him. If it could, he touched her when Shai grabbed his wrist midway. She stared at him confused then he watched her eyes widen in realization, Apollo held back a hiss feeling that she burned him...she burned him? Apollo smiled slightly, she didn't notice it was a pained smile but Acslepius did.
"Apollo as in one of the healing deities in Greek myth?"
He heard Shai say so softly, as if she were afraid to speak dreading that it would only bring her more pain. He gently moved his hand away from her only for a moment longing to touch her cheek. Apollo stepped back allowing her to have some room,
"I am him yes," Apollo peered beside him seeing Acslepius almost beside him hand glowing and swift moved it to the side, the temple around them seemingly disappeared, and Shai kept her eyes on them feeling her body burning from the inside out, her veins pulsed under her skin. Shai moved her hand, touching the vibrant veins while Asclepius observed her,
"You must be the holder,"
Shai glanced up her eyes glowing noticing him stepping closer to her, he reached touching her hand slightly, not grabbing it, just a light touch he felt that power in her veins again. It wasn't the one that he and Apollo placed in her. Asclepius flinched staring at her trying to ascertain if she was hiding her true intent, seeing if she would lie. Asclepius bent down to her level not to frighten her he whispered,
"Shai that's your name right? You've been through something that's been done before once it broke the person's soul so much it was repairable, however you have gotten through it healed,"
Asclepius picked up her arm examining her, he dragged his hand over her veins, it stung him when his hand drifted over her arm but he didn't show it, Shai watched him her body still reeling from the pain, she felt the shocks form him dragging his hand all the way up her arm,
"I see. I am Shai. The pain is still there what..did you say my soul was?"
Apollo cut her off "Shattered yes. Dalos used you right? As a vessel to fight?"
Shai's eyes clouded with the blurred memory of her and Dalos, he told her it would be fine. Trust him. He will handle the Apet leave for me. The rest of it is a blur.
"He told me to let him deal with Apet. He did in a way that would make the most cold hearted shiver, having goosebumps on their arms from the sight of it,"
"The he had done what we have thought of," Asclepius uttered, he softly let go of Shai standing up on his fee he peered at Apollo, he sees the exasperation on his face and he found that Apollo was fascinated by her, by what she had been put through did concern for her, but this isnt somthing that didnt happen only once...
"He controlled you and used up your soul that spirit you carry so much it had to shatter. You understand that hasn't happened once before, we thought for a moment you wouldn't make it...could have taken you away from your body it could have broken you apart,"
Apollo bent down taking a slight strand of her now long curly gold hair in between his fingers, he looked at it examining it he felt what Asclepius did. That shock coursed through his body,
"You've changed into something intierly different. Your eyes and hair look at them,"
Apollo moved letting her see the glow from her hair emphasizing the point, she lifted her hand taking the hair out of his grasp, looking at her strained hair which had its own shine. Shai looked up at the two her voice a breathy mumble,
"It has changed me. It won't..fade"
Shai looked at Apollo her hand shaking, "Wh..what was that ring of fire around me. Was that some kind of healing spell or ritual? It hurt like jamming your fingers in the door but for the whole body,"
Apollo tried not to laugh as he and Ascelpius sent slightly humorous looks, Apollo looked back at her with a soft noticeable smile, "Well I don't think I would describe it that way, however that is what happens when you have a shattered soul. It's agonizing to bring it back together, Nonetheless, you've changed. You're not a human anymore."
Shai tried to get up from the bed the room now looking like it was before, Shai had Apollo helping her up as Asclepius held a hand out for her in case she fell,
"Im not human? What...what has happened when I was out and..your Acslepius? His father a healing deity?"
"Yes, that is I Shai, and you. Have missed little, you've only been out for a couple of hours, I would say ten maybe,"
"Only ten that's not bad, I took a nap that went all day,"
Shai tried to joke with a pained smile on her face when she felt a spike of pain go through her body. She leans on Apollo her gaze scanning around the room,
"Im not in the house, I'm in Olympus?"
"You are, do you recall anything?"
Apollo asked as Shai walked to Asclepius, her hand clenching around his tightly, nodding fatigued with a tired voice she spoke, "I remember scraps of it, when he doesn't have me covered in a bright white light,"
"Can't remember anything in the white light?" Asclepius asked rubbing his chin staring at her,
"That is him in a sense his power,"
"Im power, his soul?"
Asclepius nodded with a slight grin, she wasn't wrong, but wasn't right either. He placed his hand on her arm steadying her, Asclepius then explained, "You have it somewhat right Shai, Imagine his soul, his life force as his weapon, his sword right?"
"Like an anime.."
Asclepius and Apollo glanced at each other confused, Asclepius looked back at her while Apollo sort of tilted his head, wondering as if someone had taken something from under him and he just figured that out.
"That's not what I meant, we know nothing about that Shai but perhaps there's something you can tell us?"
Shai peered at the two when she realized they wouldn't know of anime, she nodded hearing Apollo asking her,
"What is an anime?"
"It's an image played in real time with voices behind them and made in a certain art style, but some of them talk about a hidden power. From within, some of them anyway,"
"I see a story told it's like what Ares has told us of your world moving images,"
Apollo hummed as he moved her closer to him seeing her leg trembling from her weight. From the pain and let her lean on them,
"But you're not wrong Shai, it is your life brought out before you and used as a weapon, that is what he did and used your soul as another weapon he used "
"That's what Eurus told me however there are variations of them"
"Eurus...we know not much of you only of what has happened Shai,"
Asclepius stopped Shai from falling keeping her up, Apollo stepped closer to her side holding her side staring down at her lowered head, he saw the pain etched into her face her glowing hair falling persistently around it her face cradling, almost caressing.
"Shai you're not ready to walk much less handle the stress out there, Art would bombard you crushing you in a hug until you turn blue Hermes might save you but put pulls into a similar hug, then there are Ares and Athena. You're not getting out of that onslaught"
Apollo and Asclepius help her back onto the bed when there's a knock on the door a small warning for the time ahead, Asclepius chuckled hearing Art's faint voice from the other side,
"She must have heard your voice Shai," He truned looking down at her for a moment when his gaze reverted to the door, Shai shakingly breath out her waxed over gaze hearing the whispers of not just from Art but from the others around the door that Shai coulnt make out, she held back a hiss from her lips as they have set her down, Ascelpius moved his hand over her chest checking her breathing, vitails, her heart. They're functioning like they should, pumping and beating,
"It seems to be in order Shai,"
Asclepius wanted to pull away from her, when something struck him her soul abruptly changed, shining a faint hue that made him flinch back his hand twitched at the feeling, it wasn't the calm and storm he had felt before in her soul, but a sharpness he would associate with Dalos. His eyes widened ever so slightly the brazen blaze glowed upruptly. Ascelpius went to speak but a soft pleading voice came from the other side of the door,
"Is she..she alive right please tell me she is Apollo,"
That was Art's soft pleading voice her hand touching the door, Asclepius's head shot up at the door while Apollo answered Art's plea,
"Yeah she's alive been through the fire of Hades but she lives"