Eve's earlier struggles against the army that followed Alissa against her, left her with few burses and cuts throughout her body. No knowledge came to her of what has become of Virgil and Sara. She was lostā¦ lost in this dark brick walled, damp, cold room. The only sign of life inside other than her own, was that of the other woman who lay holding herself, shivering with the fear and the cold.
"Here." Eve said as she moved towards the woman. Eve held her up and took the woman in her arms. "Body heat will help you warm up a bit."
As the warmth from Eve's body seem to begin to pass over into the woman's, the woman then held tighter as starving from it.
"Thā¦thankā¦ than y.y.y.you!" She stammered.
The woman had fallen asleep in Eve's hold. Eve however sat straight awake. The memories of past misdeeds telling her mind that she deserved this, that she should be grateful that Alissa was alive. But the other part of her mind kept telling her that though she deserved this, she should also be ashamed for what Alissa had become.
She heard the guards talking of the wonders in pillaging the passing villages they come to. How much loot they had takenā¦ how many men they killed, cattle they stole, and women they raped without their leader or Alissa knowing.
This made Eve curious. Who was 'Leader' and why would Alissa even serve a man like this. Eve knew 'Leader' was a man by the way he was talked about him. Even how they mentioned that he was the greatest guy to serve under.
"Mah, myā¦ n-n-n-n-name i-is N-n-n-emāes-s-s-is." The thought to be sleeping woman said as she cuddle tighter to Eve.
The wonder went through Eve's mindā¦
But wasn't she mortal in the end?
Eve held the woman tighter.
"My name is Eve. You said your name is Nemesis,ā¦ did your mother and fatherā¦"
"No!" the woman cut her off. "I'm the very Nemesis that once fought side by side with Herculesā¦ I'd say more, but I'd choose not to remember most of my past." "But why?" Eve asked.
"Becauseā¦ the most part was too wonderful. I lost it because when the time came, I was too afraid to die. So I searched the heaven's for Ambrosia and sealed my fate."
"Butā¦ if you are a Goddess, why are you here?"
"I don't know how, but Khaymen, the leader. His blood has a strange power in it." Nemesis shivered hard in a convulse. "The power to weaken Gods, should it be spread on a blade and touch through the flesh of Gods."
"How did he come to get you?" Eve asked.
"When taking up God-hood again, Discord lost her job as Goddess of Justice. That turned to meā¦ she hated that, but she never was too good at it." Nemesis made a soft shivering laugh. "When those who came to me, told me of this Khaymen, who ravaged the world in ways Xena used to, noā¦ worse. I knew something had to be done."
"So you went after himā¦"
"Yes." Tears were rising in Nemesis's eyes. "I went after him, and he knew I was coming. He welcomed itā¦ then he gave his blood to me."
"It must have been a heavy battle for him to have over come you like that." Eve commented.
"Noā¦ there
was
no battle." The tears seemed to flow hard now. "He seduced me into being his woman. The things he said with his sweet and caring voice. A strange Latin almost Irish accent behind him, his long dark hair, the way it was kept. His faceā¦ strong, powerful, yet soft. He spoke words of poets to meā¦ I could not understand why, why I'd let myself be taken by him."
"How did his blood come to you?" Eve asked.
"I was with him for months before that came. I kept my ears from hearing the cries of those he had been cruel to. He kept me in the dark all for himself. He told me almost nothing about his pastā¦ he just spoke words of love as he made love to me. Giving me a childā¦" Nemesis held her hand on her belly. "Then one night came when he wanted for us to be
united
in holy union. He cut both out palms and held them togetherā¦ as his blood surged through mine almost painfullyā¦ I felt it's power, and he brought me here. Where we both lay nowā¦ to have his child and never leave him"
Nemesis began sobbing as Eve held her close to her. "He can't be beaten." Nemesis sobbed hard into Eve's heart.
"Yes he can." Eve answered.
"No!" Nemesis looked into Eve's eyes. "He's the one who fought Hercules in the battle at the hills of Olympus."
Eve stared off in wide eyes as she recalled the story of the most famous battle between hero and evil. The battle a hero had lostā¦
"He'sā¦" Eve swallowed hard. "Khaymen's the one who killed Hercules?"
Nemesis's sob came in a short laugh. "That would have been humane of him to doā¦ no, he broke Hercules's back across his knee in the final blow. Hercules can barely move to this day because of him."
That moment in time came when Eve knew exactly who she was dealing with. Her mother dead, the only who could come close to stopping this man, would be herself. All of his legendary stories of merciless mayhem came to her mind all on account of the story of Hercules she had heard.
Eve's attention was broken by the wet sobs coming from Nemesis in her chestā¦ She ran her hands gently through the woman's dark hair. Holding Nemesis firmly against her body in effort to sooth the woman's tearsā¦ but there was something else felt needed to be done.
Placing two fingers under Nemesis's chin, Eve slowly raised the woman's head slightly until their eyes were locked together. Slowly Eve's lips descended downward towards Nemesis's own.
Nemesis had a sudden shock running through her. For she had never in her life allowed another woman to lay lips upon her. But this beauteous woman that laid her pillowy lips upon her own was one that none could resist. This woman that kissed her, was Eve.
Eve's hand slowly crept into Nemesis's top, firmly cupping her breast in her hand. Drawing a moan from the woman's open lips into her own mouth.
Nemesis began to feel the extreme warmth over come her as Eve's lips passionately trailed down her neck slowly. Stopping to suckle firmly on the flesh of Nemesis's neckā¦ kissing and sucking her throat passionately as her hands both cupped and messaged at the woman's breasts from behind her.
The woman was moaning in Eve's touch. Never before, having felt such sensation of another woman's touch rushing through her entire body.
"Oh Eveā¦" she said almost breathlessly.
Eve let one of her hands release Nemesis's breast and it slowly and seductively trailed downward until it was laying on the woman's bare belly, right above the waist line of her golden skirt. Then drawing a loud hiss from Nemesis, Eve's hand went lower and lower, until her finger penetrated one of the most secret parts of a woman's body.
Nemesis pushed her hips up for more as Eve slid another finger inside of her. One hand feeling the woman's breast, her lips smothering all over the woman's neck, face, and lips, and the other hand almost fiercely fingering the woman's pussy.
