Tom wiped his hands clean of grease and got ready for Mike and Larry to show up. He decided his room is going to be his alone tonight, so he set up the living room and threw the extra blankets and pillows on the couch.
Before they got there Tom decided to Febreze bomb the house and hide the bong in case Mr schulz asked to come inside. After making sure everything looked right Tom went back to his jeep. Just as Tom closed the garage door Larry texted him saying they were pulling down his driveway.
Before Tom could get up to greet them he heard the car doors close and Mike saying goodbye to his father as the car left. "Tom you out here?" Larry shouted as he entered the garage. "Yeah man right here" Tom called from under the hood.
With the extra hands Tom was able to throw everything back together after cleaning up all the parts, he still couldn't find anything wrong with the engine so he just topped the oil off with some motor honey and prayed it would work.
After everything was put back together he cranked up the Jeep and let it idle for a few minutes to let the motor honey spread throughout the engine before revving the engine up. Luckily the rattling noise was gone.
"Alright! at least the beast won't blow up on me anytime soon" Tom said after cutting the car off. "You guys wanna troll Chelsea? I'll bet she's been playing since she got home" Mike asked as they went inside.
"You guys go ahead I'm gonna call Vic" Larry said as he grabbed a pillow and blanket before heading down stairs. "Well looks like it's just you Mike, I'm tired as Hell and need to catch some shut eye" Tom left Mike alone in the living room and went to shower before going to sleep.
As Tom laid in bed he could hear Mike talking smack to someone over the mic, it sounds like he found Chelsea. After a few minutes of listening in Tom decided to cut on some music to help him go to sleep. As system of the down played in the background he finally drifted off..
"Well hello again everybody.." Tom was back in the strange place with the pillars of light seemingly waiting there. "Welcome back Thomas.. you must have missed us to bee back so soon" The yellow pillar answered Tom first while the white and green pillars remained silent.
"So you guys know my name but I don't know yours.. feels kind of weird" Tom says while looking between the three pillars "Names are powerful here Thomas, so you shouldn't say ours.. but you may call me Cab" the yellow pillar seems to be the chatty one of the three.
"Well it's nice to meet you Cab and could you please call me Tom? I feel like I'm in trouble when people say my whole name.." Tom can hear a slight buzzing noise emanating from the pillar slightly similar to laughter. "Sure Tom but you should know most mortals would feel honored to have us speak there names.
The first pillar grows brighter and brighter as it's voices echoes across the darkness. "Silence! enough idle chatter, Why are we here Thomas I have more import.." Before he could finish speaking Cab interrupts him. "He asked to be called Tom, and I believe he does not wish to bee here anymore than you do."
At this point the third pillar speaks up. "I agree with 'Cab', it appears we are all trapped here together 'Dung beetle'.. A little civility amongst fellow prisoners may be in order.."
The first light grows even brighter almost blinding Tom as it surges. "I dare you to try and order me again!! Do not think I am against putting you in your place merely because you are a woman, if not for this 'Dung beetle' Your people would have never seen the light of day.."
Before the tirade could continue the green pillar swelled in size equal to the first pillar. "You forget yourself.. long since has passed the time of ancient Egypt at least there are still tribes in the recesses of Africa whom worship my name, you are only known in history books and pictures scrawled upon stone".
As the two pillars fought Cab spoke out, "Umm you're scaring the mortal, maybe you two should introduce yourselves and the four of us can figure out a way out of here?"
"She started it.. but fine, you may call me.. Sunny seeing as there is no word in your guttural language to properly address this will do." As Tom tried really hard not to laugh at the fact that the @$$hole of the group gave himself that name the third voice chimed in.
"You can call me Hotten if you wish, So tell me Tom is there anything special you can think of that caused you to come here?". Tom paused to think for a moment before replying "It's nice to meet you Hotten but I'm sorry I can't think of anything special happening before I came here, I just went to sleep Everytime I came here, I didn't do any ritual dance or eat anything special.."
Tom's voice trails off as he thought about his mom's necklace and reached for his chest just to find that the necklace was gone. Frantically he starts looking around before Cab Chimes in "Did you lose something?"
"My dad gave me a necklace that my mom used to wear all the time before she passed away.. the first night I fell asleep with it on was the first time I came here." Tom replied while trying to trace his steps back to where he first appeared.
"You can stop searching Tom there is nothing here that I cannot see and there is no necklace" Sunny says with a slightly softer voice than normal. "Hmm maybe it didn't cross over with me then.." Tom ponders before Hotten began laughing.
"It seems mortals do not remember how astral projecting works.. Tom you are not physically here, none of us are we are merely being forced to project our consciousness's onto this plane. You are only wearing clothes and in the shape of your body because that is how you view yourself".
"Oh.. that kind of makes sense, otherwise Larry couldn't have shook me awake last time, well anyways that necklace is the only thing different from any other time I fell asleep, but why did it bring you three here?".
"A necklace can't bring us here Tom, you have some kind of connection to us that brought us here. You might even bee able to bring others, But I wouldn't risk it not everyone is as polite about being 'Kidnapped' as we've beeeen."
"Ok I hate to but I have to agree with 'Sunny' the bee puns are getting rather old rather fast." Hotten says causing Cabs pillar to dim a little as if it had it's feelings hurt before he mumbles. "The Mayans had a better appreciation of humor.."
ugh I don't wanna go back to work tonight Noooo I refuse to go back, You can't make me!!! 'Sees list of bills' D@MNIT! I gotta go...
As the three gods bicker Tom tries to keep the conversation from derailing further so he speaks up. "Ok I 'THINK' I know who Cab and Sunny are but I'm sorry to say I have never heard of you Mrs Hotten could you give me a few hints?" Before She could say anything 'Sunny' started laughing.
"Hahaha so much for people still chanting your name 'Hotten' at least he knows of my glory, Tom I believe I may have been a little too harsh on you earlier." "umm thanks? Sorry 'Sunny' I only know about you and Cab because I play a video game called SMITE.. I used to main your character as a support before I started running Jung..."
...
Complete silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. "Umm all powerful Gods? What's wrong? why did everyone get quiet?" Cabs pillar breaks into an uncountable number of lights that resemble bee's now that Tom knows who he is. As the specks get closer to him an intense buzzing noise could be heard from all around before they solidify into the outline of a glowing yellow man with no defining features standing beside Tom.
"I understood the first half of what you just said but what do you mean by everything after 'Video game'???" Before Tom could start explaining, Sunny's Pillar shattered into pieces and formed into a man Similar to Cab only Solid white. "Yes explain to me what you meant by 'Maining' me as support".
"Oh man this is going to be tough..." While Tom scratches his chin he feels a hand touch his shoulder and turns around to see the outline of a very curvaceous Green woman standing behind him. "You really don't know who I am?" Hotten sounds slightly distressed.
"I'm sorry Hotten I didn't study Polytheism or mythology, and like I said the only reason I know about these two is because of a game.." Hotten hangs her head in defeat while mumbling "I can't believe these two are more renowned than me".
Sensing that her feelings may be hurt Tom starts waving his hands in front of him "Hey hey hey cheer up they are constantly adding more gods and pantheon's they could be saving you for a later release to add to the storyline. You guys said Africa earlier right? they're adding the the Yoruba pantheon pretty soon so you might get added in a month or two.."
After hearing Tom try to make her feel better Hotten seems to get upset before yelling. "That's the West African Orishas!! I am the God of the Khoi!" Tom ducks behind Sunny before apologizing "I'm sorry I didn't know, really please stop yelling I'll put a petition for you to get added I swear." Sunny moves away from Tom quickly while saying. "You realize you just swore to a God.. I hope you plan on following through because she can be quite.. tricky".
As Sunny warned Tom, Cab spoke up "So do you plan on explaining this game called 'SMITE' I'm Buzzing with excitement!." "Uh sure Cab just let me think of a good way to explain it."
A few moments of silence and Hotten speaks up still sulking "You could always just show us projections of the game.." Tom turns around to look at Hotten again. "how do I do that?". Hotten just slumps her shoulders before grumbling "Have humans forgotten everything we taught them? If I knew that a couple centuries with out us ruling over them was all it would take to make them into idiots I wouldn't have bothered in the first place..."
As Hotten began explaining the long and complicated process of how to project thought in this plane sunny interrupts. "There's no reason to clutter this place with your thoughts, we can just view them with your consent by contact." After speaking he placed a hand on Tom's shoulder. "Now quickly show me how glorious I am in combat."
"You guys wanna see too? I watched a few videos of other players so I can basically show you each of the gods and the play styles that most people run with the different builds."
Even though the figures have no facial features Tom could see confusion painted across their faces. "You know what, how about everyone just watch, I'll show you everything I know and I'll take questions at the end of the presentation.."
At first the four of them just stood there with the three gods surrounding Tom, he felt awkward because he didn't quite get what he was supposed to do. Cab sensing the situation speaks up "Just think about the game and we will do the rest Tom, this isn't ritual magic".
Tom begins thinking about a few of his better games then suddenly... BANG!! a bright light descended unto the dark plane and he was in the Mayan jungles of the siege map, exotic bird calls and strange monkeys whooping in the distant jungle.
"I'm Home!! hahaha I missed this so much! Thank you Tom" Before Tom could get his bearings, Cab starts shaking him shouting in excitement. After a moment of looking around Tom speaks up. "Hmm I thought we were going to be watching from a screen, not actually in the game."
Hotten and sunny release Tom and begin walking around as Cab keeps celebrating. shortly the 'creeps' spawn and begin fighting. "Hmm this place is quite odd, why are these strange little creatures fighting in the middle of the jungle?" Hotten asks aloud as they watch the little guys kill each other.
"It's only natural, humans have always killed each other for little reason that's how they are built.." Sunny gives a small commentary from behind before he grows quiet. "What happened Sunny usually you never shut.." Hotten turned around to get a jab at Sunny before growing quiet herself.
A beautiful woman with Raven black hair and a strange glowing purple spear appears running down the dirt path. The woman was trailed by a large scarab, and a woman with deathly pale skin carrying two small scythes.
From the opposite side a large white knight with a sky blue shield flies down the lane.. Literally he was floating just above the ground with lightning arcing beneath his feet, behind this strange knight a three headed monster of a hound with a snake for a tail skulks into sight.
After watching the five gods battle for a few moments Sunny began to shake with excitement. After the scarab managed to get first blood of the match he could no longer hold it. "I AM MAGNIFICENT!!!" Sunny roars upon watching the large scarab in combat. "How did you humans capture my dominance so well? Look at that shell Hotten, That is truly the most radiant shine I have ever seen, see my beautiful jewelled eyes? DID YOU SEE THAT!!! I rolled the sun across that pathetic mongrel!"
"Can you be any more arrogant Sunny? You do realize that that's not actually you right? I believe that Tom is showing you a memory of him controlling that bug.." Hotten says trying to rain on Sunny's parade. "You're just jealous that the mortals haven't added you to the list of comba..."
Bam!! Sunny was goading Hotten when suddenly a giant spike lands right on top of the sacred scarab before a swarm of bees and a well timed lightning bolt finish it off. "NOOO!!! What happened? THOMAS!!!" Suddenly a half man half wasp like being floats into sight from the brush...
Sorry for the delay I'm sure everyone guessed who Cab and Sunny are by this point I'm interested in seeing who can figure out who/what Hotten is before I give all her details away. DID YOU SEE THE VIEWS!!! ITS OVER 9,000!!! lol I honestly can't believe that many views that fast I promise I'll keep up with the posting just beeeeen Buzzy with work and Volunteering. BTW if you want an Actually good novel to read check out 'chrysalis' and 'goblin progenitor' on Web novel they're really good reads.
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