Chapter 87: Good News!
A/N: Pat-reon: HelloDarkness07.
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20 years, it has been, since Manasi became an official God of Andalok, which allowed us three High Gods to finally rest a bit.
Don't get me wrong, there wasn't much work for us in the first place, but we do need to always keep an eye on the planet for other presences, and it gets tiring after a while. Many a times, we had to deal with snooping aliens, and a God or two that tried to take over. Well, we dealt with it.
While Kali stayed in Andalok for the small holiday, I brought Chhaya to Donna. It was time to try for children. It was 10 years of constant 'trying for children', again and again, everyday.
Of course, we didn't do just that. I trained in using my new Spear, which was yet to name itself, and keeping up with all my powers. Then there were the books from Asgard, which I hadn't touched before. I finished them all in these years, giving me a command over my magic that was bordering on Reality Manipulation.
Well, no. My statement was wrong.
I could just command things into happening, such was the magic of the Runes. Combined with my previous knowledge of Greek Runes, that just made my life easier than ever. But this wasn't it, no. I was getting better with every use.
I have a chance to become like the Rune Prince Thor without actually doing anything.
Other than that, I was working on the Potion that Loki gave me, changing its recipe. But I have no need for it, yet, so it's not something I'm rushing.
Otherwise, it was just sex with Chhaya.
Somehow, after a lot of tender kisses, holding hands, and roaming around Donna together, I have to confess, I did come to love her as a lover.
"What are you thinking?" Chhaya asks, climbing over my body as we were sleeping on my bed.
Smiling at her, I say, "Just our holiday. I didn't think our efforts at getting a child into you will take this long. This is probably the only time I'll regret us being Gods."
Divine beings don't easily get pregnant. Other than Mother, but she's literally the Mother Goddess. I'm not the Father God of anything. I'm the Nature God, Elder God, High God, but I am not the Father God.
But we're not complaining. We do have a lot of fun together, you know.
Chhaya asks, "Oh? Getting tired of me already?"
"Never." I whisper, and softly bite Chhaya's nose. As she giggles, I raise my hand and start rubbing her face. I say, "Chhaya?"
"Hmm?" Chhaya asks, enjoying my hand with closed eyes.
"Nothing. Just felt like it." I smile, lying. It's not the time to say it yet. At least, not pre-nut.
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"Stop pacing, brat. Watching you makes my legs hurt." Scathach's voice interrupts me, as I stop pacing around.
Rubbing my hands nervously, I say, "I'm just.. worried, Scathach. This is my first child." In either life, to be honest.
It's been about 100 years since my Weapons were made, and 80 years, since we found out that Chhaya had gotten pregnant. 80 years of pregnancy.
I don't want to sound complaining, but I have no idea how my mothers handled literally thousands of years of a single pregnancy, because I just felt these 80 years almost unbearable.
Not as much as Chhaya found it painful, of course. Don't want Chhaya to get angry at me again.
So, for these 80 years, we've just stayed on Donna, not doing anything that can harm her. Mother and Scathach would visit us, and so would the rest of our Gods. Even the Lokisons were allowed to come here, despite their probation, because it's just that momentary an occasion.
The first Divine pregnancy of Andalok!
When Chhaya had realised that the time for birth had come, we had all immediately left for Induk, as Chhaya wanted to give birth on her birth planet. I agreed, because she's the one giving birth.
Right now, we were in Andalok, in Chhaya's wing. Jormungandr was keeping an eye on the planet, while Vali, Manasi, and Narfi were keeping an eye in Andalok itself. Childbirth will make her vulnerable, and I don't want to take any risk.
Meanwhile, Chhaya, Kali, and Mother were inside her room, preparing for the Childbirth, having kicked me out when I tried to comfort her by saying "It's alright. You'll be okay."
Bloody women.
Scathach snorts, from beside me, and says, "I've never seen a God so worried about child, or the mother. Your own half brothers left the women to their tasks and went out to drink during the birth of their children."
"How do you even know that? Aren't you like, 600,000 years younger than them all?" I ask, not out of any point, but wanting to keep my mind busy.
Shrugging, Scathach says, "Gaea loves her tales almost as much as she loves her children. Well, not as much as you of course, you favourite child."
I snort, knowing that it's only because she actually raised me from childhood. Most of the other Gods were born as teenagers or something. Heck, Atum was literally born as an Adult!
I suddenly gasp, and whisper out, "What if my child is born an adult?! I don't know how to raise an adult!"
"Theos?" Scathach asks, but I don't listen in favour of hyperventilating.
Heck, I don't even know how to raise a child! Will I even be a good father? What if I become someone like Odin, or Queen forbid, Zeus?! What if Chhaya becomes like Hera?! I don't want my child, even if it's a cripple, to be thrown down the mountain!
Suddenly, my cheek stings, as a hand hits my face. I look up, to see Scathach raising her hand for another hit, and just ask "The fuck was that for?!"
"You were panicking. You forgot that Chhaya's the one pushing a baby out of her, and you're the one panicking. Now, speak." Scathach says, sitting down in front of me, right on the floor.
When did I sit down?
Shaking my head, I sit a bit more comfortably by crossing my legs, and ask, "What if I'm not a good father, Scathach? What if my child grows up to hate me because I didn't get them a gift one birthday or something!"
Scathach scoffs, and asks, "You really think a child of you, the humble Nature God, or the grandchild of Gaea, the Mother God, will be such narrow minded? Please, you were amazing as a child, if a little off in the head. There's no way your child will be arrogant. Unless you raise them that way. And will you raise your child to be arrogant?"
"No!" I whisper-shout, knowing that I can't actually shout. Mother might just send me even further.
Scathach then says, "Don't worry too much, brat. You'll be a good father. The worries you show now tell us that much. And, if the child does get arrogant, I'll be there to bring them down a peg. Alright?"
I nod, some tension leaving me. Scathach did a really great job in training me, so I know she'll definitely stop my child from getting arrogant.
Then, she points her head towards the closed door, and asks, "Can you see what's going on over there?"
I shake my head, scowling, and say, "Mother Enchanted the room herself. I doubt even the Watcher Ulana can see in there right now."
"Who?" Scathach asks.
I wave my hand, and say, "Later."
A few minutes later, I suddenly feel something that should have been impossible. Someone's inside Andalok, and they don't have permission.
"Someone's here." I mumble, standing up and summoning my spear, Anugoptr, to my hand.
Scathach stands up with me, and asks, "Where?"
"Somewhere in Andalok." Pausing, I add, "Scathach, stay here please. Kill anyone who comes here. And don't hold back."
Scathach nods, summoning her own spear, Gae Bolg to her hands. Knowing that she's enough to protect my family, along with mother and Kali, I summon a portal to the Throne room.
"Theo!" Manasi yells, jumping up, as I walk through the portal.
Seeing Manasi and Vali suddenly panicking and jumping away from each other, I say, "We'll talk about this later. We have an intruder."
Vali uses his magic to fix his clothes, while Manasi does the same. They both summon their own respective Weapons, and ask, "Where?"
I sit on my Throne and with a thought, the Scrying Pool rises up into the air, now showing the entire area of Andalok.
There was the palace, shown exactly proportionate, while many dots were spread all around.
There were the 3 expected dots showing Chhaya, Kali, and Mother inside Chhaya's room, while a single dot denoting Scathach stood outside it. In the Throne room, Manasi, Vali, and I were the only dots present.
But Jormungandr and Narfi were nowhere to be seen inside the Palace. There were literally hundreds of Dots outside the palace, spread around.
Turning towards Vali, I ask, "Where is Narfi?" I know Jormungandr was on Induk, to defend in case someone attacks while we were distracted.
Vali walks closer to the Scrying Pool, and says, "Narfi went away when Manasi and I needed some privacy. He said he was going outside the palace."
I click my tongue, looking over the map again and again. Damn, I really should have put the naming function in too. Or at least something to distinguish friend from foe.
I say, "I'll be going outside the Palce. Manasi, Vali, you'll keep to the Throne Room, but keep an eye on Chhaya's rooms. If more than three dots start moving there, go defend them."
Nodding, they start keeping watch. As I prepare to teleport outside, Vali says, "Theos? Find my brother.. please."
I nod at him, and teleport outside the Palace, but stay inside Andalok. Once outside, I close my eyes, and push my Echolocation to the limit, looking for Narfi.
It barely takes a second before I shoot into the air, towards the direction Narfi is in.
He was surrounded by what felt to me like necromantic energy, and he was fighting the warriors that exuded it.
Within a few seconds at most, I drop down on the ground in front of Narfi with a crash, sending dust all around, and put my hand on Narfi's shoulder. As I heal his cut, I say, "I don't know how you came here, demons, but you won't leave."
Narfi grunts, as the cut on his shoulder heals, and says, "They're not demons. They just look like them. And they don't talk, at all."
Frowning, I give the group a good long look.
There were around 200 of them, all of them pitch black in colour, with eyes of either red or white. Many of them were surrounding Narfi and I, and even he was having a hard time defeating them.
His staff lay on the ground, along with a few dozen of these creatures frozen into statues.
I say, "Narfi. Go to the Throne Room, and tell Vali to find and help Jormungandr. They are not Demons, but the one who controls them is far more dangerous than them."
"What about these creatures?" Narfi asks, as he picks his staff up from the ground.
Seeing the creatures become vary with my appearance, I smirk, and say, "These creatures dared to sneak into Andalok, and interrupt my first childbirth. Eliminate them all with extreme prejudice."
And then, as Narfi goes through the portal I create for him, I spin the spear in my hand, and yell, "Bring it on, Berserkers. Show me what the God Butcher's toys are made of."
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Elsewhere, on Induk, a lonely Giant of a God stayed floating above the planet, keeping an eye on any approaching dangers.
Suddenly, his senses blare, but before he can even look up, he gets drop kicked into the ground.
As he crashes down, Jormungandr sees the enemy to be covered in black, his size almost bigger than him.
Standing up, Jormungandr takes the Warhammer, from his back, and grins at the enemy. He says, "I haven't gotten to test my new Strength Divinity yet. You shall be perfect, creature."
"A God of Strength, eh? Show me your strength then! Show me!" the attacker yells, covered in a robe made of black, which moved around according to his wishes.
And then, he attacks.
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A/N: I wanted to bring the TVA, instead of Gorr, but then I realized. If TVA was going to interrupt his methods, they would have done so when Theos was born, or when Theos killed Cuchulain, or when Theos was present during Ragnarok, or when he brought the Lokisons to Andalok, etc etc.
So, yeah. Gorr is here!
I won't make this into an arc, but a filler, sort of. So at most 5 chapters, but probably just 2-3.
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