Chapter 49: Chaos (Part 1)
[Clock - 11:23 | 11:23 AM]
[Calendar - 23/03/2003]
[Location - Cart 10 - Beastialis Kingdom, Old Gotham, Gotham City, New Jersey ]
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POV Change
3rd Person POV
"Explain." Holding out his hand towards the chihuahua sized crocodile before him, Atlas casted [Telekinesis], holding the God before him while his eyes glowed a bright white light: "Now." He couldn't be pregnant, right? He has too much to do, so fucking many problems to deal with, and he is not mentally well enough for this kind of shit! He knows he's not ready for a child, and he knows Waylon is not ready for a child, so either is this crocodile fucker messing with him, or he's being serious. If he's being serious, Atlas doesn't know what he will do... He considered casting [Block Seed], an Abjuration spell that prevented pregnancy, but was it too late? He casted it on himself regardless. "Before I fucking explode you." He tightened the hold he had on the fucking God of Lizards, making him squirm like a disgusting little worm- can you tell that Atlas is not happy right now?
Chocking, Sobek coughed out a desperate: "C-calm down! I can explain!" He could practically see his glorious life flashing before his eyes as the consort and mate to his son held him magically by a chockehold. He looked pleadingly at his son only to see that he was silently looking forward, like he was having some sort of war flashback that was making him have some sort of panic attack. Seriously, he wasn't even blinking! He was staring ahead, a blank look on his face, like he had just heard the most overwhelming news and didn't know how to react to them. "It's not concrete! I mean, the majority of eggs will not even germinate! That takes a while, about two to three days? And then your body will just absorb them naturally if they're not full of life- if you know what I mean -it's okay! If you don't want that, you can just-"
"I've heard enough." Atlas sighed with relief- So it seems that everything was okay! He groaned, feeling all the despair and nervousness flowing out of his body in a rush of energy, until he realized that his relief might be badly interpreted by Waylon! "I mean, it's not like I don't want children... I do! But, not now? I'm constantly occupied with something, and our kingdom hasn't even launched- heh -yet, we don't have a stable territory, and we're not a global powerhouse to guarantee that our children might grow in a peaceful and powerful society... And we're not even married yet." The last little thing was whispered instead of clearly spoken like the others, it was a shy realization to Atlas that he even considered marriage, when they declared their love to each other literary yesterday! "So, uhm, I love you but... I don't think I'm ready for children right now? I mean, we can take care of random children we find on the streets if you want, but I don't think I'm ready to get pregnant and give birth!"
"Oh, thank Sobek-" Waylon sighed in relief, finally showing sign of life after being frozen in time for an extended period of time.
"You're welcome!"
Atlas glared at the crocodile god, who shyly stepped away and left the room.
"-Look, love, I wouldn't mind children..." As he said that, he paused for a moment- His eyes softened as Waylon imagimed the future, several little crocodilian children running around in a palace, playing with their siblings and laughing happily... But he snapped out of it, coughing a little as he shook his head: "But I agree with you. I am not ready to be a father right now!" The fantasy sounded amazing, but fatherhood was not something to be taken lightly! He knows he'd be an awesome father (specially when compared to his own- fuck that guy) but he's not ready for kids yet! "And, well, we already take care of random kids anyway, so I guess we'll have experience with taking care of children when we have our own." Discussing having children was both domestic and romantic- it was almost like a promise, a promise to keep going and have such a deep relationship that a new life would be born from it!
"W-well, I have to go..." Pushing his hair back, Atlas shyly started to softly float away, but he was held back by Waylon- who pulled him into a kiss. French kissing Waylon was a fucking weirdly pleasurable experience— He has two tongues! If one tongue could make him go wild, with two, now Waylon was the epitome of everything that drive Atlas crazy. When Waylon pulled back, he pressed his forehead against Atlas' chest and whispered something that Atlas didn't hear, but it felt like a "see you later", so Atlas softly answered: "See you later today... love." With that, he simply vanished in a puff of blue smoke.
Waylon looked at the dissipating cloud of blue smoke and sighed softly before he turned to look at his own hands: "...I'd be a great dad, right?" Doubt sank in, but when he remembered the soft kiss he received, the doubt seemed to melt away. "Yeah, I'd be an awesome dad... Would it be wrong to teach a kid how to steal? Meh, ask my Queen later." He only noticed his tail was swaying from side to side happily when his tail blade cut through the steel of the train cart, sending sparks everywhere: "...fuck."
He didn't know that thing was so sharp!
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Time Skip - 9 Days
[Clock: 05:09 | 05:09 AM]
[Calendar: 01/04/2003]
[Location: King & Queen's Quarters - Beastialis Kingdom, Old Gotham, Gotham City, New Jersey]
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It was almost a lie, how quickly the kingdom was improving. With his apprentice in the form of a small boy that shoots lighting from his fingertips and a group of nobles that have titles that reflect their responsibilities, Atlas was ready to start the process of slowly but surely increasing the population of their kingdom by recruiting more homeless people or people that need help- Because that was what Atlas wanted. To help those in need! So, within the 9 days that he spent working on the kingdom, he easily went with Victor and retrieved the man's wife and healed her with a cast of [Greater Restoration] to be sure! She was a very nice lady, and when she discovered that her healing was partially due to the good will of the gods (That's a story Atlas wanted to spread, to drive more worship for the gods to help them recover faster, but that was already happening) she decided to dedicate herself to becoming a professional healer. It was interesting to see Victor and Nora discussing the applications of magic in one's DNA. Healing Magic was something very interesting, and they were studying it alongside the Bat Serum, that was being called Awakening Serum.
Another thing in the 9 days that Atlas focused on was to making the Croc Pyramid! Well, it wasn't meant to be a burial ground, but Atlas was taking a huge inspiration from Egypt to make the palace into a giant pyramid that was attached to the ceiling. This project was huge, so he started slowly by first enchanting every single stone he would use on the building with the [Immovable Object] spell, to make sure the stones would stuck in space permanently (or until he himself dispels them), which would make the pyramid stuck in place too. He began building the base of the pyramid first, the largest "floor" of the building. He was planning the pyramid to have several layers or floors, and each floor closest to the surface would be the least important until they reached the lowest floor, which was the pointy tip (or the "top" of the pyramid) that would house the artificial sun.
He still didn't know exactly what he wanted to do with all the floors, the but last one became his and Waylon's room. He made four viewing "windows" from their room that he artificially enlarged with the [Bigger on the Inside] spell, making their room that would normally be 15 feet by 10 feet by 5 feet into an enormous 1050 feet by 1000 feet by 500 feet room. The sheer size of the place made Waylon flabbergasted and really excited to just decorate the room. Atlas made this room this size because he wanted to have many things all around! He made a separate portion of the room where he would do his private experiments and enchant magical items. There, he also carefully placed a white feather that would forever float inside a box, for whenever they want to or need to go back to the Elemental Plane of Air.
In nine days, he created an entire palace! Sure, it was kinda barren right now, but furniture would be created and those rooms wouldn't be so barren... But for now, Atlas was working on another thing!
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List
1: Build Foundation
2: Get a King
3: Get a Queen
4: Get land
5: Establish military power
6: Establish monetary power
7: Make Waylon a Shazam (Progress)
8: Make Waylon a Demigod
9: Get stronger.
10: Get memories back?
11: Lose Virginity
12: Enchant Items (Progress!)
13: Make a pocket space (Bag of Holding?)
14: Find out how to make safe drugs. Gotta legalize weed!
15: Get the city in the sky!
16: Get the gods more worshippers
17: Make a Roman pool, make it magical too because I want it to be.
18: Get Pamela her little gift.
19: Make temples (Turn special buildings into temples?)
20: Learn about Transmuter's Stone (Make one!)
21: Magical herbal drugs?
22: Train more in Metamagic, can't only know Transmute Spell!
23: Learn Sorcery?
24: Test more things on Immortal Test Dummy (Solomon)
25: Make magical school
26: Drinking age is 16! Buying is 18.
27: Get magical teachers... Constantine?
28: Leylines, study them.
29: Develop currency? (Not likely)
30: Plane Shift! Trip to the Elemental Plane of Air?
31: Make Sobek a little hat
32: ...is it possible to get pregnant from a Werecreature? (YES IT IS)
33: Develop Teleportation Circles, to where? (Make various floating islands?)
34: GET GAYER (Progress made)
35: More Awakened Animals! (Progress made)
36: Get more Werecreatures, need diversity. (Working on that)
37: Maybe become THE magical empire? (PROGRESS!)
38: Get a dragon. Preferably a metallic one. (...still not)
39: Make new life (magical, not pregnancy)
40: Annoy Batman
41: Make a Palace (Pyramid?)
42: Train Adam (Boy needs some help)
43: Prepare for emergencies (Get emergency supplies, healing, and defenses)
44: Get plumbing working
45: Find out where there's Aquatic Homo Beastialis (Apparently they're second class citizens in Atlantis?)
46: Cure Nora Fries
47: Get Robert a Wife (Poor guy, he's lonely)
48: Get Pamela a girlfriend (HARLEY WHERE ARE YOU!?)
49: Get Lonnie into the council (Give him a goofy title?)
50: Plan for cyber security, don't want the kingdom to be hacked. (Develop Technomagic items?)
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There were several other items on the list. Number 49 was actually done yesterday, March 31st, where Atlas gave Lonnie Machin the title of Techno Defender Cyber-Neet.
Like that, they had:
Waylon Jones - King Croc, King of Beasts.
Atlas (Jones?) - Queen of Beasts, Jester
Pamela Isley - Lady of the Immaculate Garden
Robert Langston ¹ - Genius Blood Sage
Victor Fries - Pale Blue Sage (or was it Pale Blue Doctor?)
Cinderelli - Contessa of Cheese
Sobekneferu - Protector of Children
And now, they had Lonnie Machin, Techno Defender Cyber-Neet.
"And that's our noble council." Atlas chuckled, his head resting against Waylon's chest: "I did my best to give him at least a title that sounded a little bit goofy, mostly because I think the kid's gonna be great."
"And you gave him authority over the Kingdom's cyber security, knowing he could very well bring our kingdom down...? Isn't he an anarchist or something?" Waylon's clawed hand softly dragged itself down Atlas' body, gently prickling his body with its sharp pointy ends: "That sounds way dangerous, doesn't it, love?"
"Well, don't worry. I made sure to... well, look... the kid's been through a lot. He lost his family because of the corrupt goverment of Gotham, so I promised him he could help us and make sure that at least our kingdom wasn't corrupt, so nothing like that could ever happen." Atlas relaxed, letting his naked body breathe through his pores as he looked at the ceiling he enchanted to constantly look like an endless night sky- he could see thousands upon thousands of stars, and they made him smile: "And I also promised him that when I create our own afterlife-"
"Our what now?"
"-that his family would be the first to join it." Atlas paused: "Oh, right! You weren't there- So, I found out a way for me to, kinda become a god? Well, have the power equivalent of a god. I already planned a customized afterlife where the people of the Beastialis Kingdom will be able to enjoy their afterlife. I even have made an entire week long imaginary festival where the dead can come back to the world of the living for a week, where they can visit their family and party." Shrugging, Atlas stretched his arms and sighed: "You'd become a king from the living world and the dead world."
"...and you'd become the queen of the living and the dead too-"
It was subtle, but Atlas frowned.
"...what is that?" A sensation was flowing through his body: "This feels weird..." Atlas immediately got off of Waylon's chest even as the demigod looked confused. Atlas floated towards tue circular window to look outside their room- And his eyes widened.
The entire kingdom was shaking. Dust was rising, and the ground was breaking.
An earthquake was shaking Gotham.