Subj: DS:Goddess 14
Date: 5/7/02 3:37:14 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Aesgaard

"An immortal !!" Angelique sat down. "But how could I do that with every sort of war and death god looking for me ?!"

"Not all the gods of the underworld support Ares." Clara shook her finger before Angelique. "Tuonetar, the old Finnish goddess hates Ares and Hades both. She will do anything to get back at........."

Clara stopped in mid-sentence. Three hundred years of living in the underworld had fine-tuned her senses to detect all sorts of beings and entities traveling in and out of the underworld. " Run !"

The two of them charged from the tiny room just as a huge firebal incinerated the interior and its contents. Clara dragged her
former student down all long passageway and into a long crampt tunnel. Crawling on all fours, Angelique looked back and felt the backdraft of another fireball coming straight after her. Coming into a small chamber partially submerged in water, she just managed to roll out of the way of being barbecued alive.

"You'll have to swim for it." Clara told her. "I can't go with you either."

"But..."

"All the underworlds of the gods are interconnected." Clara explained. "Dive as deep as you can and swim through the channel. It will empty into Tuonela, the Finnish underworld."

"Thank you." Angelique took a deep breath of hot air tasting of brimstone and dived.

She swam as deep as she could and looked for the underwater route she was told, but then a sudden current grabbed her and she pulled down twenty feet of another tunnel. Fighting for air, she rose into a fountain of a great hall. Was this it ?

"Hello, Angelique." a female voice said. "I've been waiting for you."

Angelique turned to the voice. It was from a short blonde in a metal gold bustier with a white cape and skirt. Her sleeves and boots were of gold leather.

"Laura !!!" Angelique screamed as Laura drove her hands into the water and had it boiling in minutes !!!!

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