"How?"
Adonis stuttered with his mouth open in shock.
"You are Mr Zero!!
Ohhh ohh now I see, I've been dreaming all this while right??
Right??
So it's all a bad dream definitely.." The idiot kept on rambling with his eyes closed, like it will activate the mechanism to wake.
WAIT!
Adonis suddenly froze up wide eyed, like a bowl of cold water had been poured over him. There was two memories in his head right. Further into the introspection felt like he was going mad. But there was one clause and that was Vermin. There was a memory of it and without it. But he was right here on Mr Zero's shoulders.
"Don't you think there's a more important question to ask?" Mr Zero bent towards Adonis with a faint smile on his face.
"I don't understand.."
Mr Zero blinked, in a way that painted him genuinely baffled or shocked someone could be really dumb. He flicked the bunch of braids that fell from his bun to the back of his ear. Then proceeded to to stand and stretch, letting a bit of his imaginably compact muscles show. From a spectator view, 10ft only worked for the divine, well not really sure whether his a god or not.
And he was me..
It only seemed to make the situation more worse. More confusing, the more he thought about it, the more it seemed warp his mind. Did my mother have another child? Adonis gambled with the thought.
Well this could be my mother's child with Apollo. It could explain the height and the presence.
"How?" Adonis seemed to gained enough confidence to ask the obvious question although it seemed he pictured a better tone in his head. Cause he seemed to absolutely nail the tone of a scared child.
"Better one yet, why?" Mr Zero answered cheerily and corrected Adonis question.
"You know what your name is annoying, Adonis??
Really??
Seems pretentious as fuck don't you think-I mean Adonis, really?"He said with a mocking intone, lacking the teasing aspect it had early. Almost the two versions of him I knew where just a mirage he suddenly adopted a stoic countenance.
"I'll call you outcast from now on." He said expressionlessly.
Adonis was dumbfounded. He couldn't imagine what he could have done within this short period to offend this familiar stranger. But aside fear or the headache coming from the headache the cluster fuck situation his in brought. What burnt in his heart was curiosity, and he could feel the disdain in his supposed sibling eyes.
"Are you my brother? Do you know where mother is? Did she tell you to bring me here?" He rapidly fired his questions towards his present anchor.
"I didn't really expect an intelligent question from you anyways." Zero lazily side-eyed Adonis. He started walking east towards the city. The footwork he used when walking, was strange almost the sand was slippery, but Zero didn't fall.
Adonis to the best of his brain cells attributed it to a footwork to disregard the sinking effects of the sand. He continued to watch Zero moving farther and farther away from him. To Adonis it looked almost like a strange exotic dance. Also at the same time remembered he needed to follow Zero as his only familiar guide in this desert.
"Wait up!
Mr Zero wait up please, I can't move. How will I be able to follow you Zero?"
Zero turned towards Adonis with a bored look on his face and whispered something to Vermin on his shoulders.
"Mr Zero please don't ignore me!!"
'SQUEK-SQUEK'
Adonis looked at Vermin that appeared to his left, looking at him with the same curious look as before. It then bit into his tentacle and started dragging him out of the sand that seemed to almost devour him.
Vermin started dragging him towards the city following right behind Zero.
Adonis started his own version of analyzing. Looking at the back of his younger sibling,, he became so sure that he was god. Even his parentage pointed towards Apollo. To him basically it was obvious, they shared the exact face. Well used to, that's before he became a freak.
Adonis laughed at himself inwardly.
He watched as the sun touched mocha ebony skin color like the Anunnaki's. The chimes and charms attached to his blonde braids jingled as he danced across the sand.
"Consider me jealous now, everything about him screams masculine upon everything on him that could be counted as feminine" He muttered with an envious tone, it sort of brought out his decade old insecurity which never seemed to favored him. He was born looking androgynous, and his fashion style didn't seem to help him. Especially with the present standards of male attractiveness, the situation about his body that although horrifying, didn't necessarily faze him now did. Vermin suddenly sped up again following right behind Zero in a speed that was a blur of colors and sounds.
One second a Adonis was miles away from the strange city, the next his at the gate. He tried looking to his left at Zero, before..
BOOM-BOOM!!
The compressed air from moving caught up a fraction later, exploding into a deafening boom that rattled the the desert. Dust billowed everywhere behind him, even causing a sand storm infact. Every dune is the surrounding area was smashed and scattered.
"Fuck me!!"Adonis shouted not even being able to hear his own voice. His weirdly functioning ears where bleeding.
"What have I told you about canceling your inertia before stopping." Zero started chiding Vermin serious due the scene it caused.
'SQUEK-SQUEK'
'SQUEK-SQUEK'
"Okay okay your forgiven, help me drag him into the city, follow me until you see Anti. Would you yeah?"
Adonis was already going through an existential crisis, especially about his lacking hearing. He watched Zero walk up to him, with the desert sun's granting him a sort of visual halo effect. His silver ear-rings and piercings gave him an extra allure, like the stars in the astral sky. Trail of biolumiscent hues danced from his silver eyes as he looked down on him. He didn't have build of a fighter, almost like a man of science. But the compact lean muscles under his silver bisht, like a bunch of tangled cords. He pulled down his headgear at the same time letting his braids fall from his bun.
To say Adonis wasn't intimidated was an understatement more of existentially threatened.
The alien aura around him was what lead the god theory still dancing in his mind. Then the thought of his mother...
His mother.
Mr Zero turned his head sideways still eye to eye with Adonis.
"I feel you should be more interested in the strange place you are, rather than the stranger with your face"He said emotionlessly, with Vermin back on his shoulders looking at him like a clown.
"I'm also not the answer to your mummy issues Adonis" He turn towards the gateless city, with just an arch marred with strange markings at the entrance.
"Adonis!!"
He said with his hand spread wide like a host showing off the star of the event. A smile finally graced his lips, showing of his pearly whites. All his features worked tendem with each other, like he was blessed by Adphrodite herself. Adonis looked up well to note his surroundings, then back directly at Zero, to his intoxicating biolumicent silver pupils.
"Welcome once again to Sodom.."
His smile horrifying took on a monstrous look, his teeth became nail-like. Almost like the mouth on his-Adonis realized freezing at the thought.
"Sodom-City of Sin."