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Chapter 18: Game of the gods

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...


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Sum12hate Sum12hate

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.

Chapter 19: To battle!

Cab can't stop laughing, if he had eyes right now they would be leaking. All Sunny can do is just stomp around with his hands thrown up in the air still raging about his 'Unfair' death. Tom tries placating him "Hey man It's not my fault, my teammates didn't ping enemy missing and our Jung bought wards but decided not to place them."

"Where do your teammates live?" Sunny asks just a little too calmly. "Your going to punish mortals over a game? That's petty even by your standards Sunny" Hotten replies saving Tom the trouble of explaining how online gaming works.

Noticing Cabs unusual silence Tom turns around to see that he's gone.. "Uh hey I know you two are arguing right now but Cab's missing.." Tom says causing the two glowing figures to look his was before Hotten sighs

"Men.. why do they always cause so much trouble, if they aren't killing each other for 'glory' the get lost and say it was an 'adventure' or some other cr@p. I'll help you look for him Tom He can't have gone far".

As Tom and Hotten walk through the jungle Sunny stays behind to cheer himself on. "Go you Beautiful Glorious Scarab, Show that Lightning b@$t@rd what real divinity looks like!!."

After walking in silence for a few moments Hotten speaks up "You're quite the odd one Tom.. Most humans either fall to their knees the moment they see a god or flat out deny our existence, but you.. you acted slightly startled at first but you seem to have grown accustomed to us rather fast."

"Well it's probably because you guys act a little bit like some people I know.. now if you and Cab were as loud and demanding as Sunny I probably would have been to afraid to go back to sleep again.. but you helped me get back to my own plane and Cab doesn't seem to know what serious means.. Besides I still think you guys might be on the bored side otherwise you could have just stayed quiet and I would have just thought you were pillars of light."

Even though she doesn't really have eyes Hotten turns to look into Tom's "How would you have found your way home if I stayed quiet? do you have someone to shake you awake everyday?" Tom blinks a few times trying to think of a response "Ok you got me. But how did I call you there? like it could have been any of the gods so why was it the three of you? and why was Sunny the first one to show up?"

Hotten laughs before turning away "Just because we're gods doesn't mean we're all knowing Tom.. otherwise we wouldn't need to look for Cab I would just find him."

Tom just shrugs and continues searching with Hotten. After a few more minutes they see the Bee/man floating through the jungle with Cab following closely. "kill the beetle kill the beetle kill the beetle..." Tom smiles wryly when he hears Cab chanting as if he thinks it can affect his character.

At this point in the game Tom placed wards and his teams Izanami Built pure attack speed and damage, Bee boy is in for a surprise and Tom can't wait see how Cab reacts to what happens next. "Let's hurry you're going to wanna see this Hotten" Tom shouts as he takes off running.

Thirty minutes later and the jungle disappeared leaving the four of them standing in the abyss once again. Sunny is ecstatic "Hahaha you thought that little stinger could crack my shell? it was amazing to watch you getting dragged under that amazing tower into your own doom."

"Shut up Sunny.. why do you get to revive yourself and I can't even turn into a swarm of bees to avoid getting hurt" Cab sulks away while Sunny gloats about all the 'fools' that 'he' crushed. "Hmm it was a very interesting game nonetheless Tom maybe we should get a group together one day.."

Tom turns to look at Hotten "Huh? wait how would we even do that?" Sunny chimes in almost glowing "No need to worry about that Tom we can handle the little things you just need to go back to the mortal plane for a while and we will set everything else up.. but first" Sunny gestures to Hotten whom reaches out and touches Tom's forehead as she pulls her finger away a small purple bubble comes with it.

"This is just a copy of your memory Tom nothing personal just everything you know about that game.. ok now close your eyes and go back to bed we have some work to do."

"Umm ok guess I'll see you later?" as Tom closed his eyes he could hear Hotten's voice "Bye Tom and don't come back for at least a week!"

Tom sat up in his bed after opening his eyes and looks at the clock.. It's only been five minutes "What the Hell I thought I was in there for at least an hour or two.." Tom gets up and goes into the kitchen to make himself some hot cocoa as he boils some milk Larry comes up from the basement. "Make me some too? I'm craving some chocolate like crazy"

Mike takes his headset off while he let's out a sigh "I'll take some to if you don't mind?" a victory animation of Bardock on screen shows his win over Chelsea and the laptop to the right of him has her screaming and cussing.. apparently she figured out who's voice was on the other side..

As the three boys relaxed and drank cocoa Chelsea signed of twitch and made a phone call "Hey Mari did I wake you up?" a somewhat lazy reply came through the speaker of her phone "Nah I just got out of the shower but I was about to go to sleep.. what's up girl?" "Mike stomped me with one of Tom's Smurf accounts on xenoverse 2.. I'm gonna call Vicky if she's up are you down for shenanigans?"

. . . . . .

"What do you have in mind?" Chelsea could almost hear Mari smiling. "We're going to war!"


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Sum12hate Sum12hate

Remember men Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned.. and a woman scorned hath no wrath like an author with no caffeine... God I need a red bull™ so badly I would even drink a... *shudders* sugar free monster™ at this point.. but yay sleep is so nice I will hibernate for a little while then do some edits on the next chapter.. also hope you guys have your fireworks ready for tomorrow

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