Hades

Frozen Origin 3

Hades

By Crystal Dawn

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Frozen Origin 1-Zeus

Origin is the best in the field of DNA
research and they have finely tuned their craft. They started out
with a line of supermen pulling all the best traits from the
millions of human DNA samples they had available to them. These
supermen were the smartest, fastest, strongest, and most adaptable
the human race had to offer, but Origin wasn’t satisfied. When they
expanded their facility in Antarctica, they discovered something
that made the next level reachable. These were the gods, so far
beyond the abilities of man that even with some of their gifts
still undiscovered, they put the supermen to shame.

Origin managed to get by with enslaving the
products of their research for years until they rented the talents
of those products to terrorists that used them against the US and
her allies. A team was sent to free them and they were allowed to
be an independent entity, free to rule themselves. They had much to
overcome and Origin wasn’t ready to give them up yet. Origin fought
hard to recover their losses, but the gods fought harder to remain
free especially once they realized that they could have a mate and
children when they find the right woman.

Frozen Origin 2-Hermes

Hermes is captured by rogue Origin agents and
meets his future mate under the worst possible conditions. He had
hoped to mate a fierce warrior like Zeus did, but is drawn to the
timid mousy girl despite his wishes to the contrary. When she helps
him escape, he begins to discover she isn’t anything like he
thought her to be.

Origin continues to try to bring the gods
back under their control and rogue agents with their own plans are
added to the mix. The gods deal with the US military, spies in
their midst, and are offered another captured Origin lab to use for
their own needs. Zeus offers this to the demons but Lu wants to
think about it.

Several of the other gods suspect they’ve
found their mates but they aren’t sure yet. Some of them wonder if
they’ll ever be truly free of Origin and if they’ll ever have the
things that other people take for granted.

Prologue

The gods, those who a company named Origin
had developed from the DNA of the best humans had to offer,
combined with the DNA of a creature found in a cave in Antarctica
that had special powers even the Origin scientists weren’t
completely knowledgeable about, were now free and trying to find
their place in a human world.

Zeus, Hermes, and even Darius had found
mates, now the rest would follow. Hades had what might be the
biggest struggle with his mate, but was it really a case of simple
stupidity on his part? How had he overcome the drive to claim only
his one true mate to bed another? Nioma, Doc’s lab assistant was
driven to find out. Doc refused to allow her to do so, but Doc was
far away right now and in no position to interfere. Nioma wondered
if she would discover that there was no sign of the changes mating
caused in the male in Hades’s tests, or if someone had managed to
use drugs to overrule the changes, which was Nioma’s theory.

Her scientist mind demanded to know and she
needed to know as a friend also since she cared for Doc as a sister
might. Before Doc and Hades returned from their mission, she would
have the answers that were needed and she would answer the
questions once and for all. Were Doc and Hades soul mates? If they
were, why had he strayed when he was beginning to make progress in
their relationship? Nioma put on her lab coat and pulled the
samples she had drawn from Hades the day the she had found out
about the video of him with a female that was not his mate. If
anything was funky, she would find it. She was that good.

Hades

Chapter 1

Welcome to the Jungle

A slap sounded echoing through the jungle
causing animals to run and a silence to descend on them broken only
by the buzzing of the mosquitos who refused to leave the bounteous
source of blood they had found. Hades turned shooting the human
soldiers who accompanied them on their mission a look that would
freeze the blood of even his fellow gods. Doc shot him an irritated
look from where she stood beside the handsome young Darven.

Hades pretended not to notice though it
pained him that his mate so obviously preferred the young
lieutenant to him. He couldn’t blame her, when he fucked up, he did
it all the way. He still had expected her to act differently now
that she was affianced to Marlin. He didn’t know if he was happy or
sad that she seemed to show no loyalty to the man she planned to
marry but he was definitely surprised. He had expected more of
her.

Her eyes bored into Hades back while he
continued hacking a path for the others to follow, as if she wished
them to burn holes there. She didn’t really know what she expected
from him, the damage was done and it couldn’t be undone. She
couldn’t look at him without images from the video of him with that
bitch Dee, flashing into her head. Oh, she tried to forget it, she
wanted nothing more than to wipe it from her mind. She tried
sleeping it away, drinking it away, and even fucking it away with
other men, but it always returned and she thought it always
would.

She knew why she was here, or at least what
they had told her. Origin ran a club where they whored out the gods
they kept there for whatever money they could make. Rumor was the
club was quite successful. The gods kept in the club, the club
which catered to rich lonely women, might be in need of medical
help. No one else was willing to go and Doc had been a soldier long
before she’d become a doctor. She’d been breaking bones long before
she’d been setting them, even as a medic which she was before
becoming a doctor. Thirty years old and so disillusioned by life
she felt fifty. If they made it through this mission without her
and Hades killing each other, she was taking a long vacation
somewhere without the infernal heat and mosquitos.

Something buzzed past her and Darven, but it
wasn’t a mosquito. It took her mind a second to catch up and she
pushed Darven to the ground as another buzzed by. Someone was
shooting at them and by now, Hades had everyone on the ground while
he scanned the surroundings as well as anyone could under the
circumstances. There were no sounds besides her breathing and that
of the men around her. Even the insects seemed to be taking a
break, that was when it hit her, the smell of burning wood. It was
barely there, like a campfire put out some time ago. Somehow, they
had run upon the camp of someone that didn’t want them around.
Origin or not, she didn’t know, but right now they had declared
themselves their enemy by shooting at them.

She watched him, she couldn’t help herself.
He moved with the grace and strength of a predator, his body hard
and muscled. Every move he made telegraphed the danger he
represented to the enemy that had dared to challenge him. In
seconds, he disappeared in the direction the shots continued to
come from. She was pinned down for now and unable to do anymore
than hunker down with the rest of the squad. With Hades stalking
the enemy that threatened them, it would be foolish to take risks
to try to run for cover. Unfortunately, one of the humans the
military sent with them didn’t realize that. He broke for cover and
was hit by a bullet.

Her training kicked in as she assessed what
she could from where she was. The bullet had entered his lower
back. The bleeding wasn’t bad, yet, but could get worse quickly. If
it missed all the vital organs, it wouldn’t be serious, if it hit
one, he might be dead before she got to him. Her mind made up, she
began a slow crawl toward the bleeding soldier. No bullet whizzed
through the air, had Hades stopped them? She moved faster getting
to him then accessing her med kit from her pack. She gently rolled
him over, thankfully it was a through and through. She wouldn’t
have to dig for a bullet.

It looked like a minor nick to his liver, it
would probably stop bleeding on its own so she concentrated on
stopping the wound itself from bleeding, disinfecting it, and the
area around it. She first gave him a shot for pain and ended by
packing and bandaging the wound. The biggest problem would be what
to do with him now. They couldn’t get him out so he had to go with
them. He shouldn’t walk because that would stress the wound so he
had to be carried. That was going to slow them down once Hades took
out the enemy now pinning them down and was ready to move on. She
had no doubt Hades would do just that. If only she could have the
same faith in him when it came to
them.

When she was through, she noticed it was
still quiet. Either the shooter had run, or Hades had taken him
out. She looked up seeing Hades strutting back to her, the long
stride and confident walk could be described no other way.

“How is Driver?” Hades asked.

Most of the military men were called by
nicknames, his was the job he did the best. He was a top notch
driver. “I can’t guarantee the wound isn’t worse than it appears
without any equipment, but I feel confident saying with no
straining, he should recover. He can’t walk without hurting his
wound.” Hades nodded walking away. He sent two men over and who
stood near her waiting for her instructions.

“We need to make a stretcher to carry him
on.”

The two men found two long, thick wooden
sticks, some vines, and she had a durable blanket in the med kit
used for patients in shock, or those that needed warmed up for any
reason. They used vines then fastened the blanket across the top
using rope they carried in their packs to attach it. It wasn’t
pretty, but it worked.

Hades called a brief meeting to inform all of
them about what was going on. “I took out two men that were
shooting at us. I think we’re getting close to the club and they
are guards that work the perimeter. I don’t know if they radioed in
about us, but they will be alerted before long so this is what
we’ll do.” He took a moment to look each person in the eye before
he continued. “Driver is out of commission and there’s no point in
moving him forward. Dewey and Kicker will carry him back to the
landing zone, if they arrive before we do, they’ll wait for us. The
rest of us will continue on to the club as fast as we can.”

Dewey and Kicker moaned, but they were the
two slowest on the team. The team would move faster without the two
of them. Hades had also considered that Kicker was a sniper so if
they got pinned, he’d be able to protect them. Dewey had medic
training and both he and Kicker had extreme survival training which
also helped. Both were strong enough to carry a heavy load and make
it back slow, but steady. He had made good choices, but now they
had all better move out quickly if they wanted any hope of
completing the mission.

The club, called the Lonely Woman’s Club,
officially, had to be close now. They needed to push hard to get
there as soon as possible or they might find it packed up and empty
once they arrived. The heat was stifling, but they pushed on with
their clothing wet from sweat. Doc wasn’t a complainer, she sucked
it up and moved on trying to keep an eye out for any more attacks
as she moved. She tried not to, but her eyes moved to Hades’s back
and yes, to his ass, constantly. Was he her one true soul mate? He
certainly had the looks that could drive any woman to distraction.
He was the tallest and strongest male in this group of tough
soldiers.

They stopped for a brief break so they could
grab a trail bar, take a drink, and they all watched Hades consult
a map and recheck the intel he had for the mission. He waved his
hand letting them know break was over. She hoped the club was
nearby, not just because she was tired, which she was, but the
quicker they got to it, the more likely they would free the gods
held captive. Right now, they were trekking through a jungle that
didn’t look like modern man had ever stepped foot here. She knew
that was just an illusion, but it was a damn good one. It didn’t
daunt them since they knew the club was a self contained facility
unreachable by any roads. Clients were flown in to visit for
however long they chose to stay.