The Immortality Trials: The Complete Collection, page 1
The Immortality Trials Complete Collection
Skies of Olympus, Tides of Olympus, Storms of Olympus, Fires of Olympus
Eliza Raine
Contents
Trial One
Hera
1. Lyssa
2. Lyssa
3. Lyssa
4. Hedone
Quote
5. Lyssa
6. Lyssa
7. Lyssa
8. Hedone
Quote
9. Lyssa
10. Hercules
11. Evadne
12. Lyssa
13. Eryx
14. Hedone
15. Lyssa
Quote
16. Hercules
17. Lyssa
18. Evadne
19. Lyssa
20. Hercules
21. Lyssa
22. Eryx
23. Hercules
Trial Two
Athena
1. Lyssa
Quote
2. Evadne
3. Lyssa
4. Lyssa
5. Lyssa
6. Hedone
7. Hercules
8. Hercules
9. Eryx
10. Lyssa
11. Lyssa
12. Lyssa
13. Hedone
14. Hercules
15. Lyssa
Quote
16. Hercules
17. Hedone
18. Eryx
19. Hercules
20. Lyssa
21. Lyssa
22. Lyssa
23. Eryx
24. Lyssa
25. Lyssa
26. Eryx
Trial Three
Artemis
1. Hercules
2. Eryx
3. Lyssa
4. Lyssa
5. Hedone
6. Evadne
7. Lyssa
8. Lyssa
Quote
9. Lyssa
10. Evadne
11. Eryx
12. Hercules
13. Lyssa
Quote
14. Lyssa
15. Lyssa
16. Eryx
17. Hedone
18. Eryx
19. Lyssa
20. Hedone
21. Evadne
22. Hercules
23. Lyssa
Trial Four
Apollo
1. Lyssa
Quote
2. Evadne
3. Eryx
4. Hercules
5. Lyssa
6. Hedone
7. Lyssa
8. Eryx
9. Evadne
10. Hercules
11. Lyssa
Quote
12. Hedone
13. Lyssa
14. Evadne
15. Hercules
16. Eryx
17. Lyssa
18. Evadne
19. Hedone
20. Lyssa
21. Hercules
22. Eryx
23. Hedone
24. Evadne
25. Lyssa
Trial Five
Dionysus
1. Lyssa
2. Lyssa
3. Hercules
4. Hedone
5. Eryx
6. Lyssa
7. Evadne
Quote
8. Lyssa
Quote
9. Eryx
10. Lyssa
11. Hercules
12. Evadne
13. Hedone
14. Eryx
15. Lyssa
16. Hedone
17. Lyssa
18. Lyssa
Trial Six
Hephaestus
1. Lyssa
2. Lyssa
3. Hedone
4. Hercules
5. Lyssa
6. Evadne
7. Eryx
Quote
8. Lyssa
Quote
9. Hedone
10. Eryx
11. Hercules
12. Evadne
13. Hedone
14. Eryx
15. Lyssa
16. Hercules
17. Lyssa
18. Evadne
19. Hedone
Trial Seven
Hermes
1. Lyssa
2. Hercules
3. Eryx
4. Hedone
5. Evadne
Quote
6. Lyssa
7. Lyssa
8. Hedone
9. Eryx
10. Evadne
11. Lyssa
12. Hedone
13. Hercules
14. Eryx
15. Lyssa
16. Evadne
Quote
17. Lyssa
18. Eryx
19. Hedone
20. Eryx
21. Lyssa
Trial Eight
Aphrodite
1. Lyssa
2. Hercules
3. Eryx
4. Evadne
5. Lyssa
6. Hedone
7. Lyssa
8. Evadne
9. Eryx
10. Hercules
Quote
11. Lyssa
12. Eryx
Quote
13. Hedone
14. Lyssa
15. Hercules
16. Eryx
17. Hedone
18. Evadne
19. Lyssa
20. Evadne
Trial Nine
Ares
1. Lyssa
2. Hedone
3. Lyssa
4. Eryx
5. Hercules
6. Lyssa
7. Evadne
8. Hedone
Quote
9. Lyssa
10. Evadne
11. Eryx
12. Hercules
13. Lyssa
14. Evadne
15. Eryx
16. Hedone
17. Lyssa
18. Eryx
19. Hedone
20. Hercules
21. Lyssa
Quote
22. Evadne
Trial Ten
Poseidon
1. Eryx
2. Lyssa
3. Hercules
4. Evadne
5. Lyssa
Quote
6. Hedone
7. Hercules
8. Lyssa
9. Eryx
10. Lyssa
11. Evadne
12. Hedone
13. Hercules
14. Eryx
15. Lyssa
16. Evadne
Quote
17. Eryx
18. Evadne
19. Hedone
20. Lyssa
Trial Eleven
Zeus
1. Lyssa
2. Evadne
3. Lyssa
4. Eryx
5. Hercules
Quote
6. Lyssa
7. Hedone
8. Lyssa
9. Evadne
10. Lyssa
11. Hedone
12. Lyssa
13. Eryx
14. Hercules
15. Hedone
16. Lyssa
17. Evadne
Quote
18. Eryx
19. Lyssa
Trial Twelve
Hades
1. Lyssa
2. Lyssa
3. Hercules
4. Hedone
5. Eryx
6. Evadne
7. Lyssa
8. Lyssa
9. Lyssa
Quote
10. Hedone
11. Hercules
12. Lyssa
13. Lyssa
14. Evadne
15. Hercules
16. Hedone
17. Lyssa
18. Eryx
19. Lyssa
20. Lyssa
21. Evadne
22. Lyssa
Thank you
Acknowledgments
Epilogue
Copyright © 2020 by Eliza Raine
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Editors: Anna Bowles
For my husband. It’s my magnificent octopus!
Hera
Skies of Olympus
Trial One
1
Lyssa
A silence fell over the crowded cargo deck as the last side of the wooden crate was crowbarred loose. Not a comfortable silence, or an amazed silence, but an unpleasant silence. The type that is never followed by anything good. Captain Lyssa of the Alastor stared, tight-lipped, as a being she had never seen before swam gently in wide circles around the tank that had been inside the crate.
It was the same size as a human, with a torso and head that was humanoid. It had no legs though, and Lyssa frowned at the tail-like limb that was there instead. The whole body and face were covered in iridescent white scales that glistened pale purple when the thin shafts of light fell on them. A brisk cough snapped her attention to the woman stood beyond the tank, the Lady Lamia.
‘I’m sorry, my lady. Can we just have a minute alone?’ Epizon said, ste
‘Epizon, I know what you’re going to say, and it’s too late. We can’t afford to upset these people.’
Epizon spun to face her, his dark face set and angry. ‘Captain, our code isn’t much, but we’re not slavers!’ His deep voice rose as he spoke, and she glared at him. He looked down, taking a long breath, visibly containing his emotion. ‘Captain, we did not know there was a being in the cargo. We will not sell beings.’
‘She’s already here, with six Cyclops guards and the money. What exactly do you propose we do?’ Lyssa gestured back towards where the Lady Lamia stood, surrounded by the ugly beings. They were large, stupid creatures with one amber eye in the centre of their forehead, and sharp protrusions erupting all over their hairless skulls. A nervous-looking human boy stood behind her, holding an open box of silver drachmas.
‘You know exactly what I think we should do,’ he said, urgency in his low voice. ‘You can’t seriously be suggesting we hand this creature over to her. You’ve heard the rumours.’
Lyssa clenched her fists and looked back towards the Lady Lamia. The daughter of a god, and clearly not all human, she was famous in Olympus for her cruelty. Some of the rumours said she only ate living flesh. Lyssa’s nose scrunched up in revulsion at the thought. Her eyes flicked to the tank, and her stomach lurched. The creature’s huge green eyes were fixed on her. Even from a distance, they were piercing enough to unsettle her. This thing had been alone in the dark for weeks in the hull of the Alastor. Lyssa looked back at Epizon. Any moral turmoil she felt was magnified plainly on her first mate’s face. He looked at her beseechingly.
‘Of course not,’ she breathed, and Epizon’s tense stance relaxed. ‘But we really can’t afford to fight her. That’s why we took this bloody job in the first place; she was paying well,’ Lyssa muttered. Her ‘ask no questions’ attitude suited the captain of a smugglers ship, but this wasn’t the first time it had landed her somewhere she didn’t want to be.
‘Don’t worry, Captain,’ her first mate said, his huge frame filling out as he stood taller. ‘Maybe we can reason with her.’
Lyssa snorted. ‘Ever the diplomat,’ she said, rolling her eyes. ‘The woman is rumoured to be a vampire demigod. The chances of getting out of this with no damage are slim to none.’
Epizon shrugged. ‘Cost of doing the right thing, Captain.’
‘If that cost ends up being our lives, it’s on you,’ she said, turning back towards the tank.
‘I can live with that. Besides, we’ve taken on worse things than her and her Cyclopes,’ he answered, starting towards the lady.
‘I’m more worried about the thing in the tank,’ Lyssa muttered, and followed after him.
Lyssa knew she didn’t look like much of a threat, a slightly shorter-than-average human woman whose only standout feature was her mass of flame-red hair. Epizon, on the other hand, was well over six foot, built like a Minotaur and had skin the colour of onyx. Remarkably, he was human too, though Lyssa was sure there must be some giant in his ancestry somewhere.
She shot another sideways glance at the tank being as they passed it. Its unnerving gaze was now, like everyone else’s on the deck, on Epizon. Their intention showed in the tension of Epizon’s walk, the way he seemed to grow as he approached. The guards simultaneously moved closer to the lady, protecting her on all sides.
‘Lady Lamia,’ Lyssa addressed her guest formally as they reached the tank.
‘Do we have a problem?’ The lady’s silky-smooth voice came from behind a dense black veil. The red shine of her eyes and lips was all that could be seen behind it. Her headdress and long gown glittered with gems and metals that were intricately woven into a blue fabric that looked like liquid when it moved. If you believed the rumours, the expensive and demure outfit was hiding a form nobody had ever laid eyes on. Lyssa wondered what kind of being she was. She couldn’t even tell how many limbs she had.
‘Yes, I’m afraid we do. You are aware, I think, that it is against code to trade in living beings. We were unaware of what was in the crate, and now that we do know, we’re not going to be able to complete this job.’ She tried to make eye contact through the veil and prayed that the rumours were exaggerated.
After a pause, the lady replied. ‘We’ve already paid you half of the fee. An exceptionally generous fee.’
