Rats, , and Life

I busy myself with killing rats as Alice dresses up in biker leathers and leaves, and pull some news radio up on my phone as I go through the house finding the rats, killing them, closing up the holes they used, and cleaning up… collecting that sweet, sweet XP… and listen as I do. It's mostly boring, mundane stuff. Traffic… huh, a slasher **** spree? Ugh, that's going to slow down the hunt for my killer… apparently they have genetic evidence from the women's bodies… ugh. Wonder why Alice and Adam haven't pulled me in on it? Maybe it's not their case, they're not the only detectives… eh. Weather, politicians being corrupt, stock market woes, and such.

Then the news goes dead and the lights flicker off. The lights come back on after about six seconds, but the news doesn't. I check my phone… cellular towers are down. The house wifi is up, but doesn't have internet access. Huh. Not a big deal. Shrugging, I continue to exterminate the vermin, until there's a different kind of power outage:

My Mythic Power.

Which means either someone in our pantheon revoked it, or someone died. I still have Spheres, so I use that to check in: Greater Communication from the Mind Sphere lets me spend some of my limitless spell points to contact anyone I've met. I go with “Hi, what happened?"

I start with my lady, Alice… no response. Adam… no response. Tina….

“Oh thank You, you're alive!” She pauses, “Quick, give me your High Priest position. I don't want to die.”

“Can't, it has a twenty-four hour cool down,” I cringe, not that it's visual, “what do you need?”

“Escape. I'm stuck in my apartment, and there's a wall of darkness between me and the exit. I threw my soap in and it didn't bounce off the far wall. I stuck a curtain rod in, and couldn't pull it out… until I could, when it was half the length. Whatever that is, it's hungry.”

I consider, “I can get you over here, give me a minute…”

“Please hurry,” she replies.

“Will do,” I frown, form an Extradimensional Room, step in, and use Conjuration's Call Planar Creature,m with Quicken Spell (which brings it down to a six second casting time), attempting to bring Tina to me. She comes with zero resistance… and she makes a lovely nude. She's tall, soaking, huge breasts, muscular… hmm… I think I'm probably dating Alice now, though?

“Oh, thank you,” she let's out a breath, “that thing was scary.” My aura does some lifting here, I think… she doesn't seem embarrassed.

“Yes… mind if I look at the memory? I want to know what we're facing,” work to do, otherwise… wow she's hot.

“Um…” she considers, “You can DO that?”

A couple of ways, permission is best, “Yes. And I really want to know what we're facing,” especially as it apparently killed Alice. Man it's hard to keep a level head right now.

“Okay.” Tina takes a deep breath… ooh, the rise and fall of that chest… “What do I do?”

“Just let me in…” I reach over - it's a touch range spell - and grab one of those wonderful orbs at my eye level as the conduit for the spell, grabbing the minute of memory where she first saw the darkness. It's very fresh, full sensory, and… she was rubbing herself off in the shower, moaning out Adam's name: Her body is not nearly as responsive as mine, but I still feel the shuddering orgasm she gave herself… she's certainly deep in lust, at least. Good for her… and then the wall of darkness… I take ten on Spellcraft: It's a Polished Dark Spheres effect, using Total Midnight for a truly massive area (miles), Solid Night to make the edges have substance and prevent exit, Consuming Star to utterly destroy everything inside, Eternal Darkness to make it stay, and the various requirements for the combination: A magical nuclear bomb.

And the really scary part is that the person at the center probably survived it; there a talent for making yourself immune to your own darkness.

Rhey are so dead when I find them. First, though: I need to reassemble the pantheon. I stick the grief and rage in a deep dark hole in the back of my head as I get to work: I still have my Spheres talents, and Alice and Adam are probably dead. The combo results in disintegration, which is one of the few things I can't fully ward against… yet.

But I can reverse **** in limited quantities.

The Creation Sphere, with Create Materials and Fleshcraft to produce bodies: Alice with her wings, Adam… I find I have trouble concentrating, and end up making two copies of Alice. Eh, Adam can fix it with Many Forms when we have the pantheon back together. Or I can do it once I can think straight. I want Alice back….

Then I use the **** Sphere for Summon Spirit, adding Quicken Spell so it only takes a minute. Then Resurrection from life and another minute to bring her back, followed by Life's Make Whole to clean the permanent negative level, and again for the constitution drain.

The first thing she does is look at me with love and devotion in her eyes, “Oh, my goddess….”

l accept when she kisses me… oh that's nice… I wrap my arms around her and kiss back, reaching my hands around that perfect ass….

Until Tina coughs, “Can I get my man back before you get too distracted?” She pauses, “Umm… you're going to need to be at full power to take on the destroyer, and that means the full pantheon, right?”

“Right,” I reluctantly break off the session with Alice, and focus on Adam, using the same methods to bring him back.

When he opens his eyes amd takes his first breath, he frowns, sits up, looks down, and screams.