57 Surprise!
A/N: Pat-reon: HelloDarkness07.
I recently discovered the band The Lonely Island, and I'm fucking loving their songs. I'd heard the Bin Laden song before, but didn't know Andy Samberg actually sang it.
I used to think he was just the face of that song lol. If you don't know who the band is, I suggest you to check out their YouTube channel. They have collabs with Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, JT, Maroon5, Akon, and a whole lot more. Songs are funny, but with surprisingly good vocals.
Read on!
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Sonny. The AI that used to reside in Eson the Searcher's Ship, or at least the one that was reserved for En Sabah Nur, the Apocalypse. And now, he was based in my mother's ship, now my ship, giving me knowledge whenever I asked for it, or he deemed me worthy of it, while the Ship of Apocalypse was destroyed.
Among the information he gave me, was a brief package on the Abstract Beings. Death, Phoenix Force, One-Above-All, Eternity, The Queen of Nevers, just a few of them, the Abstract Beings were the Embodiments of different concepts in this vast Multiverse.
The Queen of Nevers was the embodiment of all possibility, and she was the one who brought me here. Why? Who knows, but the intense feeling that told me to always keep the Power Stone with me gave a hint.
But that's not important, for now. Sonny is.
For the last 5 days, Sonny had been scanning the Magical (but not yet Divine) metal of URU.
Uru is formed in the hearts of Stars that are approaching their natural deaths. At least, I know that much from the movies I still remember. How the Dwarves of Nidavellir -which is a part of the Asgard Dimension- found it, I don't know.
Anyway, when a star approaches its death, its inner core begins turning the Neutronium into this material, Uru. But it isn't much, strictly speaking. As far as I can tell over the multiple visits I made to my Throne-world, as I'm calling my Dimension, the amount of Uru that a Blue Dwarf managed to create, only amounts to 21478 litres. That's not even 1% of the volume of Vibranium on Earth, and just twice the volume of Vibranium I have on Donna. If you want to compare further, Thor's hammer- Mjolnir amounts to about 2.5 litres.
But, 21478 litres is more than enough for me, unless I want to build myself a castle out of it, and even then I can use Cosmic Energy to transmutate more of it.
Anyway, the Uru, once formed, somehow manages to become Magical, and can only be forged with Magic, or Cosmic Energy. And the Dwarves have a monopoly over the Uru Market, with their sole customer being the royal family of Asgard.
And now, I had Uru, but no way to use it properly. I wasn't a metal worker. And even if I was, I can't possibly use pure Uru weapons without declaring war, or having a treaty with Asgard. Which is why I was looking over the data Eson and Mum had about Metal Working. Hey, that was a surprise to me too. But, it shouldn't have been. Knull did forge his Weapon and Armour, All-Black before the first race were even born.
It was a surprisingly detailed study, with mum having a practical experience in forging weapons, and most important to me, creating alloys.
"Scanning complete." Sonny says, making me turn away from the display in front of me. I see a bigger display start scrolling different chemical and physical properties of the Uru metal. I read through it, taking note of the more eye catching stuff like the density of the metal ore, which is 232.7grams/cubic centimeter.
Huh.
I expected it to be more, to be honest. So the Neutrino loses mass when converting to Uru, a lot of it, if the numbers are right.
"Sonny, start going through Package MF314 through 317 and start a program to see if Uru and Adamantine can be turned into alloys." I say, turning my head away from the complex data about the energy readings of Uru.
MF314 to 317 contain the data concerning mixing different metals, materials, etc while forging. It's a lot of data for me to go through, let alone carry different permutations and combinations. I myself am still in the first 10% of MF314 itself.
A beep sounds as the program starts running, and Sonny says, "Sure sir. Estimated Time till completion: 1245 days."
"Oh, damn! Good luck, Sonny! Ping me if you need me." I say, and leaving the Brick of Uru for Sonny, walk out. Time to start with metal working. Huh, maybe Chhaya will be interested, she is the Goddess of the Sun, after all.
With that thought in mind, I teleport to Andalok, in my room. Walking out of the doors, I go towards the Throne room, and yell, "I'M BACK!!" as soon as I walk through the doors, and stop, staring at the sight before me.
Kali was sitting on her Throne to the left side, while Chhaya was to the right, leaving one throne in between, for me. Although, there was another addition that I knew nothing of. A girl, barely older than 10, was sitting on a smaller throne on Kali's left.
She was brown skinned, and black haired, looking suspiciously familiar, and wore a skin tight body suit, that the Eternals are more known to have. Even the two sisters were wearing that right now, as they were in the comfort of their own home, in Andalok.
"Hello. Who are you?" I ask, looking at the girl in curiosity, while she does the same to me. I hear Kali sighing, and see her pinching her nose in frustration, while Chhaya was looking on in amusement.
The girl frowns, stands up, gets into a fighting stance, and says, "You're the one who barged into my home, intruder. Introduce yourself, or prepare to die!"
"…"
"…"
"…"
I just keep staring at her, not believing she just threatened to kill me, while sitting in my own throne room. She's got balls, at least. But her threat just looks cute to me!
Not liking that I was just staring, and that I was dismissing her threat, the girl points her palm at me, shooting a highly dense orb of water at me, with an odd combination of Cosmic Energy and magic in it.
Almost negligently, I slap the water orb away, sending it crashing into the wall harmlessly, and raise my eyebrow, looking at Kali.
Kali sighs, and says, "Manasi, stop." The girl, Manasi, refrains from attacking again, and instead turns towards Kali with indignation plain to see.
She whines, "But, mother! He's trespassing in our home!"
Well.. I so did not see this coming!
Widening my eyes, I observe the kid once more, this time a bit more closely, and say, "Damn, Kali! You had a daughter? I actually expected Chhaya to be the first to have a child!"
"Hey!" Chhaya indignantly yells, which we both ignore.
Chhaya is a bit more adventurous than Kali. Just a bit.
Scowling, Kali sees her daughter Manasi opening her mouth to shout at me, and says, "Enough, daughter! Don't be rude, and introduce yourself to him."
Scowling at me, the cute kid grits her teeth, her cheeks red, and says, "My name is Manasi, Demigoddess daughter of Lady Kali. Nice to meet you."
Smiling in amusement, I say, "Nice to meet you, Manasi. My name is Theos, The King of Andalok, and the Son of Gaea."
At that, Manasi shows one hell of a reaction. She widens her eyes, and drops down on the ground with a thud, her eyes rolling back. Kali gets up from the throne to tend to her daughter, and takes her away, leaving me with a chuckling Chhaya.
Turning to her, I raise an eyebrow, and ask, "So, what's the story? Fill me up on everything I missed in these 45 years."
Pointing towards the huge screen that was rising from the ground, Chhaya says, "For starters, we upgraded the Scrying pool, into a Scrying monitor, finally. I still say that you could have done this thousands of years ago. It can show different images to different people at the same time."
"I could have, but where's the fun in that. You should be able to do Magical improvisations too, you know." I mumble, looking over the spells over the mirror-monitor, feeling impressed.
Rolling her eyes, Chhaya continues, "Next, we both decided to create more Gods."
"Hey! What happened to the vote of the King, ergo, me?" I ask, just a tad bit upset about it.
"Voted out, 2-1. Since we both agreed, your vote didn't exactly matter, sorry." Chhaya says, waving her hand, and she actually seems apologetic.
Nodding, I prompt her to continue, so she says, "Well, Kali went first, because, you know who I want to be the father." Looking pointedly at me, making me look away in embarrassment, she says, "Oh, come on Theos. Just because I want you to father my child, I am not going to ask you to marry me, nor am I going to jump on you right at this moment."
I just stay silent, already having been fed up of this repeated discussion. Chhaya sighs, and says, "Anyway, Kali couldn't lay with the mortals here, and neither can I. We think of them like our own children. So, Kali went to Terra, and laid with a man there, a demigod one. And then, she came here, 10 months later, Manasi was born, a Demigoddess daughter of Kali, with a high affinity to the Water element."
Purposefully ignoring the topic of being a father myself, I smile at Chhaya, and ask, "Tell me about Manasi?"
Sighing, Chhaya mumbles something about idiot men, and says, "She's smart, like Kali. Not that strong, but she will be, soon. She loves to swim, and takes to water spells very quickly. She knows a lot about you, except perhaps recognizing you."
I snort, and add, "I noticed how she didn't recognize me as a God right away. And why didn't you call me when Kali was pregnant? Or what about when Manasi was born?"
This, I was upset about. Manasi is the first of the next generation of Gods, and I, as a friend, if not their Skyfather, should have been informed! I could have been here for Kali, and I could have helped in raising Manasi, teaching her.
Chhaya softens her eyes, looking sorry, and softly says, "I apologize, Theos. There is nothing that can excuse this, but I can only say this. Kali wanted to surprise you. Your mother knew, as she was the one who delivered Manasi, but Kali convinced her to keep it a secret."
"Why, though?" I ask, still upset.
Chhaya smiles, and says, "Kali loves you, you know." I did know that, but I also know that it came from hero worshipping me, when I saved their planet, and it will go away, someday. Chhaya snorts, and adds, "She was ashamed of 'cheating on you' at first, but she also loves her daughter. Her conflicting feelings had a toll on her, which is why she did not call you. She knew that you would come, eventually, and she felt, quite stupidly, that you wouldn't mind Manasi if you see her when she's grown up."
"That's a stupid reason, and you know it." I say, staring at Chhaya.
Shrugging, Chhaya says, "Definitely. But she's a new mother. For her, that was the only way to safeguard her daughter and herself from your hypothetical wrath. Speaking of, you're taking this a lot more calmly than I'd expected. I've heard tales of the Gods of Terra, and they would have… I don't even want to think what they would have done."
Snorting, I lean back, and say, "I want to be angry at her, at you, and even at mother. But I understand the love of a mother. My mum sacrificed herself for me, and even now, she's helping me from beyond the Veil. So, no. I will not go and smite your daughter, Kali."
Kali, who was listening to our conversation for a minute now, comes out of hiding, sits on her throne, and holding my hand, she locks her tearful gaze with mine. She says, "Thank you, Theos. And I am sorry, for not informing you earlier."
"Wait, what did you mean by your mum helping you from beyond the grave?" Chhaya asks, looking confused.
Giving a soft press to Kali's hand, I summon the brick of Uru, showing it to them, and say, "Well, here's my surprise to you two, and the reason I came early. Kali, Chhaya, this is Uru, the most Magic absorbent material in this entire Universe. And I, have a room full of this, in my Celestial Dimension."
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A/N: Well I downloaded more songs, some from back when I had a phone with actually buttons.
Anyone has played Assassin's Creed on Android? Is it any good, as compared to the PC or Console versions? I find myself with a lot of empty storage in my phone, and was looking to buy the game.
Anyway, toodles!
