Eclipse

Thirteen

Jacob shifted uncomfortably, turning around and eyeing me discretely before turning around seemingly slightly panicked.

"Please choose something else man." Jacob said, seeming to try and give the man some sort of hint.

"Nope. Its this or your remains floating through the desert endlessly."

Jacob sighed, "Fine." He said begrudgingly. He explained the next part really quietly, clearly trying to keep a secret of sorts but because of my tiger hearing I couldn't not hear it.

"I came to you in a state of depression after I came out of that weird daze that made me reject and kill my mate and asked you to torture me since you're known for having the most painful methods and I thought I deserved it for everything I had done. You guys took me in instead and taught me your ways and helped me through everything."

I stood completely still, pretending not to have heard as I tried to shake off the shock of the information I had just received. I could tell that everyone but Killian had heard since he was standing there looking around in confusion, his aura still light and fluffy unlike everyone else's.

I noticed Jacob's aura seriously darkening saw the desperate hope that I hadn't heard what he'd said.

The man nodded, smiling gently as he pulled Jacob into a man hug, his eyes so happy and excited with a little sadness mixed in.

"Jacob. You've got a lot of explaining to do. Chief is not going to be happy." Finally he turned his attention back to the rest of us who were awkwardly watching the exchange. "Who are they?" He asked Jacob and he seemed to snap back into reality.

Jacob turned around, waving us over.

"Zane, this is Donny, a fire Phoenix, Killian, a werewolf, Zeus, my mentor and trainer as well as the God of the skies and Eclipse, daughter of the sun and moon, Goddess of Eclipses, top God fighter and my former mate, Ellie."

Zane's eyes widened awkwardly at the explanations, probably feeling bad for looking down on us cockily. Once Jacob got to my explanation realization washed over him and he shifted from foot to foot, nervously playing with his fingers. His tough guy attitude completely gone once he realized who he was dealing with.

"Everyone, this is Zane, one of my best friends from a long time ago, he is a guard of ghyr maryaa." The others nodded their head in greeting and Zane decided to awkwardly do I bowing sort of bending over thing.

Jacob whacked him on the back of his head, whispering to him "What the fuck are you doing, stop embarrassing himself and stand up."

Once he stood up straight I read his aura and decided to go in for the hug. He had a nice energy and wasn't opposed to hugs so why the fuck not. He had clearly helped Jacob through a lot and I couldn't help but feel thankful. I would've felt horrible if he had been tortured because of me.

I always thought that the stars had just paired me with a cruel mate to get back at me but they had really just corrupted my real mate. It wasn't his fault, I had nothing to really hold against him.

I felt guilt swarm through me as I imagined how horrible his life had been because of me. He wasn't in control of his actions and had had his mate stripped away from him in one of the worst ways possible.

I couldn't help but feel the anger beginning to burn inside of me and wanted to hunt down and kill the idiot stars that messed with my mate. Even if he wasn't my mate anymore I couldn't help but still feel protective.

There was no mate bond once you died. Gods at some point in their existence were gifted soul bound. It is like the same concept of a mate but I fellow God and much stronger. You can choose who your soul bound is in a way, but in a way it is all planned out and it is said that once you know, you know.

There's no tingles when you touch or anything like that and you can complete the ceremony with anyone but the Goddess of love has it all planned out so that no one can make a mistake. You will end up with your soul bound in the end. No matter how long it takes. We're immortal so time is not object.

Apparently once you're with the right person and the time is right you feel this inexplicable urge to complete the ceremony and once you're together, you're together forever.

Its an odd concept and very complicated but this just means that us Gods will actually date around quite a bit in search of our should bound. I've actually been on countless dates since I died 50 years ago and have had no luck.

Zeus apparently has pretty much run out of women to date and he is just waiting for his soul bound to die one day. I think that is part of the reason he has volunteered to train the new gods, in hopes of finding his soul bound.

He has been alive for millions of years and has been very patient, but I can feel him getting frustrated.

A soul bound can be a man or a woman, the sex doesn't matter, you'll be able to have biological children when the time is right through a very complicated process.

You can only have children when the universe decides its right, then the woman soul bound, or even men in some cases when two men are soul bound, will fall pregnant. There is nothing you can do about any of this but wait until whatever higher powers decide the time is right.

Once Zeus put an arm around me and we followed Jacob and Zane into the invisible city I managed to snap out of my thoughts. I need to concentrate.

I need to concentrate.

I repeated this to myself but my mind wouldn't listen, just trying to wander everywhere.

Aimoto would be so disappointed in me...