20: Alien Threat, Blame Azathoth (Twice)
\\// New York City, four years later //\\
Sitting in the driver's seat of a Humvee I had purchased from my old military commander. I waited for the kids to get out of school while doing a crossword puzzle with Umbra and Pandora. The two, in these four years, have become quite the pair with learning through modern style combat. Pandora sported tattered feathers in places after we were discharged due to a psychotic break in Iraq.
Riveria had become rather famous as the "bitch teacher" in a high school in downtown Manhattan. She honestly was a good teacher for science class, just she was cold and serious the entire time. The only time her classes would see her soften up is if I or the kids dropped by. The one time someone tried stalking my wife to cuckold me thinking he could fuck my wife because "sexy cosplaying teacher and milf." Well, he became she and now lives, declaring himself the queen of manly women.
Her female, and some male, students call me a dilf yet at least respect boundaries. They ask for pictures of me and my wife together or have given us some…. Creative stories they wrote. But her students seem to like actually shipping us together instead of the weirder and normal way. One student, Jamie Franklin, got exempt from homework for one admittedly wholesome piece he did. He literally walked up during the first period and gave her a painting he did of our family in a forest just laying against a tree. It's weird having people be diehard shippers about you…
That painting, though, is hanging in the living room of our penthouse in Time's Square. The kid is gay with a wild imagination, yet he has talent and swears wholesome is the best sexy. I had to try not look at the ceiling because he said that towards me with zeal, he's seventeen, and I'm like thirty-something now. Plus, he took it in stride when I clearly rejected him, saying he can dream. I mean, I know by most standards I'm plain as fuck with looks, yet I got muscles, and it's hard to regain my old weight due to my active state.
Noticing Pandora cheating at the crossword puzzle, I grabbed her taloned foot holding a pen. Looking at her as she stubbornly tries to circle a word out of turn, we stare at each other, with Umbra creating a glowing purple fly-like eye on the crook of my neck to glare at the Thunder Phoenix. She huffs, pulling her foot back, so I let go of it, crossing out Suicide on the page. Pandora squawking in outrage at me stealing her word, while Umbra gives off a smug feeling and hiss.
That's when we heard the back right door open with Lulana, Seigfried, and Cecelia piling in. Seeing them dressed casually, I smirked, knowing they'll get scolded by Riveria. They seemed to have realized their mistake when I just smirked and began pulling out of the school parking lot. As I could hear frantic cloth changing as they tried to look better dressed. The only time Riveria would let them dress casually was at home, or during training. May live normally for now, but the kids are taught the art of war and killing with no hesitation.
Because we won't always be around. So it's for the best that they learn now or die young given our world.
Grabbing a meat tenderizer in the passenger seat, I coasted next to a woman showing her ass out a car window. Rolling my window down, I switched hands holding the steering wheel, hoisted the tenderizer, and bitch slapped the woman in the ass with it. She screamed like a dying fowl while I drove away calmly, with ISAC altering the camera footage of nearby cameras.
"Dad… why do you have a meat tenderizer in the car?"
Glancing back at Lulana through the side mirror, I answered simply.
"Someone tried stealing my car, I grabbed what wouldn't kill them, jumped from our Penthouse, and scaled the building down while screaming threats of violence. They were terrified seeing me coming down with a vengeance of a serial killer and ran away. So I just threw it in here and went to pick you up."
As I finished up those words, my inhumane enhanced hearing picked up something. It was the sounds of tires starting to burn rubber from close by. My body guided by Umbra acted faster than I could put things together. The kids and Pandora were cocooned by the Archaean parasite rapidly. A truck with a snow plow ramming the side of my Humvee violently, metal slightly buckling as I could feel the vehicle flip onto its side. The truck that hit us, shutting down almost immediately upon the impact.
Looking back at the cocoons that hadn't even swayed, I thought of many scenarios. My Anger I usually hide surfaces and become as sharp as a blade ready to rend flesh. Opening the driver's door upwards and outwards, I didn't even bother climbing out. I just swung out, landing on the sideways vehicle as I saw the kids be gently set down. Feeling my Falna and its raw strength itching to be used, I jumped down onto the hood of the truck lightly.
Looking at the same wannabe car thief from earlier, I grin. Umbra, after righting my Humvee, quite frankly helped me become Slender Man, while I broke through the windshield with a hand. Pulling the thief who was now an attempted killer, screaming in terror all the while as I began running away with him impaled on two tentacles hooking into his body. ISAC notifying Riveria of the situation as the Humvee seemingly began to drive away by itself.
Time to have a bit of fun, and feed Umbra….
//\\ Bell Cranel POV \\//
It had been six years since mine and Ais's adoptive father figure and wife by now had been trapped in the dungeon. I don't get the how's and why's still, but Cthulhu lets us get in contact with the wayward man and his wife. He was as hearty as the day I had last seen him, my Goddess feeling helpless every time we got in contact with them. She feels guilty of his involvement at the meeting, Cthulhu I could tell he was livid yet forcibly calm.
Loki, Miss Rivera's Goddess, HATES whoever did this and is relentless in carefully making her Familia stronger. However, things got tense when two Outer Gods showed up and Cthulhu only allowed us to hear their titles. The Crawling Chaos, a tall pale white man, with crimson irises, dressed in an overly fancy black and purple suit with blood stained dress shoes, and white hair. The Eternal Sleeper, a dark-haired woman with waist-length hair, red skin, golden irises, a black and gold dress, with golden bracelets, and RED skin. The two male God's called her "Your majesty/Mother."
They had shown up looking rather apathetic and displeased during one of our times we spoke with those in the dungeon. The Goddess had apparently strong-armed something from Cthulhu and given him a location, while the God who arrived with her was sent to Freya. The God, who had some obvious mental issues, seemed to ENJOY that choice, as the smell of blood and iron filled the air before he vanished. Four days later… The entire Freya Familia was slaughtered of all active members, and Freya was sent back to the Heaven's.
Leading me to believe… that the Crawling Chaos was responsible for that. Ottar, THE KING OF ADVENTURER'S, was found as nothing more than a room decorated in blood and guts. His only mark of existence being his left ear, as if on purpose from his killer. Today, however, was the day we could contact Dad and Miss Riveria. So myself, my Goddess, my wives Ais, Haruhime, a Renard, and Ryuu, an elf, Cthulhu, Lady Eternal, Mister Chaos, Lady Loki, and the Jackal God, Anubis, who came to the city to find us. We're gathered in the missing couples' home as Cthulhu scryes open a window to speak with them.
When the scrying window got through to them, we were greeted by a blood stained Dad, Miss Riveria cleaning him off at a sink like he was a dog, Pandora on a perch sleeping, and their children waving at us. By now we were used to seeing the older man covered in blood from his travels in the lower floors. Though this is the longest he's stayed on one floor, the reason was pretty compelling for them, which I understand. However, the fact they're living currently in a complete copy of a world similar to dad's original one was still strange.
As strange as that all was, he still managed to find a way to send inanimate stuff to us as birthday or wedding gifts. Though, half of those wedding gifts were things called dildos and strap-ons. When he mentioned pegging, my wives looked at me strangely before looking away. I later learned what pegging was when Ryuu took that innocence from me during one late night activity. I still loathe him for that, but I put up with it because it makes my wives happy. Just Haruhime should be gentler… She gets riled up, and I wake up feeling as if someone mainly beat my ass in a fight.
"How's your situation? Anything concerning?"
Hearing Cthulhu ask that, I glanced at the God, seeing him fidget with his fingers. His concern showed for his friend and his family as he tried not to look like it.
"Someone tried to kill my husband and the children because he scared them. The one responsible is now among the dead, and why my husband and a soundproof room are drenched in blood."
Miss Riveria spoke in a cold and indifferent tone of voice. All while she scrubbed brain matter from her husband's mouth out with a chiding look. Dad looked unrepentant all the while as he cackled, I'm guessing he went berserk and ate the culprit. He's done that a few times as this "Slender Man" creature using Umbra, who also would go berserk.
"Whoever keeps messing with my blessings though, you're not funny, but seeing SOMEONE with you all, I can only say this. I'll fuckin kick your ass, main Eldritch God or not, I'll kick your ass as your forced father."
The red skinned Goddess blanches as she tries speaking, only to say nothing. Her eyes looking between us all before she bolts to the bathroom screaming. We all blinked at that, while dad just cackled with promises of pain in the future.
"What exactly has my mother done to your Falna?"
"I have a blessing called "Dad of the Sleeper", titles called "Forced Dad" and "Grandpa of Eldritch Beings", a skill called "My Word is Reality and Law", and an innate skill called "True Death" because of SOMEONE who ran away."
Blinking, I couldn't help asking what that one skill did, as that sounded… reality breaking.
"My Word is Reality and Law: Prerequisites to even get it are at least one reality warping skill, I have several that can do so, Dimensional Divinity, it's a primary for me, and being level ten, which I had become three years ago with Riveria being level nine now…. Let's see now…. I can create subspaces, pocket dimensions, entire dimensions, and I can set rules which govern them, including creating life.
It also ties into True Death, I can now kill Eldritch Deities entirely and put the literal fear of death into conceptual entities. Because if I want something dead, it's going to die, as I temporarily would get control of the current dimension and be able to write that law as true.
It's also connected to my Embodiment of Dad… so that's why I can create life and have weird boosted stats since my Divine Domain counts as a separate dimension and my monsters are there…. Which I consider family… so two hundred and seven monsters plus Riveria, Pandora, Umbra, Cecilia, Lulana, and Seigfried…. Is a horrendous boost to my stats… I feel as if I'm becoming less and less human and more of an unshackled God."
That's when everyone just agreed to blame the Goddess hiding in the bathroom. Although no one expected the shit show that happened next while talking through scrying as it cuts abruptly when things looked bad.
//\\ Umbra Amplectere POV \\//
I contentedly watched and listened to my more flesh and blood family, with them talking through the scrying magic with others. However, my instincts have been slowly screaming at me for a while now. A call whispering to me and, undoubtedly, my host. Yet, he didn't let anything slip that he was hearing whispers reaching out to us. That was until the whispers became a maddening screech of a simple demand. Submit to the hive, become one with us.
The front door burst into splinters as Rainbow Six operatives we had met before charged in. Around our nest, the collectively connected Archaean Hive makes its presence known. The black slime of my kin surfacing from everywhere as the Hive Mind screams for us to submit. When a mass of my kin tries to touch the children, bursts of cold and burning electrical plasma cause my kin to recoil. Screeching out as one about submitting once more as they covered the floor and made cocoons. Cocoons which they rebuilt and altered assimilated Humans and Animals for use in attacking, spreading, and defending the Hive at large.
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To be continued….