We all stood there in silence, trying to pay attention to the man we desperately needed help from and ignore Donny who was groaning loudly and trying to climb out of the pit he created, rubbing his neck.
Tears were beginning to cloud my vision as I tried to hold in my laughter, my fists clenched as I tried to be serious.
I could see Zeus visibly shaking with silent laughter next to me and I could feel Jacob and Killian's struggle without even having to see them.
The man looked around regally, probably expecting us to bow down in awe and beg for him to bless him with more of his magic or freak out about how he had just appeared out of nowhere or something.
He just stared at us as we all stood in an awkward silence before he finally decided to break it.
"Who are you?" He boomed throughout the space intimidatingly.
Apparently that was the limit for us because as soon as I heard Jacob snort a little behind me, no longer being able to contain his laughter we all burst out into a full blown laugh. Zeus's laugh was loudly booming while Jacob fell to the ground, slapping the sand next to him. Killian seemed to keep it together a little better, chuckling a little be seemingly distracted by the cocky man.
I was hunched over, grabbing my stomach as tears flowed down my face.
Okay, so maybe we were overacting, it wasn't THAT funny but there's something about situations when you really can't laugh that make the awkwardness so much more hilarious.
Donny pouted, running back to us with his natural speed, effectively shocking the man a little as he inspected the idiot that just flew head first into a dune shrieking like a 5 year old girl.
Seriously, he has a pretty deep voice I had no idea his voice could even come close to getting that high.
Once we finally pulled our shit together the man cleared his throat, making it very obvious how irritated he was.
Jacob finally decided to step forward and I saw the recognition flash through the man's eyes.
"Hey, man!" Jacob explained and the man who's name I still didn't know stood there with wide eyes staring at him.
Jacob tried to go in for the bro hug but the man stepped back eyeing him.
"I don't know who the fuck you are but taking over the body or appearance or whatever the fuck you are of a dead king is beyond disgusting get the fuck away before I blow you and all of your friends up so they will never find your bodies just some mysterious red mist covering the sand that will soon blow away and you'll never be found again. Just mysteriously disappearing." He said darkly and we all stared at him with wide eyes.
Somehow I found myself in the situation again where I just wanted to burst out into laughter but this REALLY wasn't the time.
"Woah dude, I never knew you cared." Jacob said playfully, placing a hand over his chest and tilting his head. "But you're right, I did die, temporarily. But it turns out I'm a God."
"Prove it." The man said with narrowed eyes. "Prove you're my friend and not some sick psychopath or I'll blow you up."
Jacob looked taken aback, seeming to search through his memories. I don't know why people always asked this question its really not something that you can easily answer I mean damn.
"I can't think of anything... Can you ask me a question or something?"
The man thought for a second before nodding. "Tell me how we met and why Jacob came to stay with us in the first place."
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...