In the eternal sea of darkness, a boy laid in the dark.
"Huh, where am I?" Sigewulf awoke with a startle he looked everywhere the darkness writhed and changed into winding roads many people were walking them.
'System where am I?' Sigewulf asked the system but revived no response.
"You are on the path of fate sigewulf," a voice said as a figure of light appeared this caused Sigewulf to become even wary.
"Do not bother yourself if I had I'll intent then I could have changed fate to kill you." the figure said as it looked at Sigewulf from above.
"Who are you where are we?" Sigewulf asked still on guard.
"As I've said the path of fate."
"You can call me whatever you wish I have been know as destiny future fate chance any you can decide." the embodiment of fate said as it looked at Sigewulf.
"Fate?" Sigewulf said as he looked at the figure with confusion.
[achievement unlocked]
[reach the path of fate and meet fate]
'System?'
The system stated quiet as it finished its protocol.
"He is in sleep mode, for now, let us talk in private."
"Then what do you want with me?" Sigewulf knew he couldn't fight fate not now at least and she or he didn't want to fight him.
"I wanted to see why you entered here so my question is quite obvious why are you here?" fate asked those that could see the path of fate where all strong and Sigewulf didn't meet the criteria.
"I don't know as well I thought you brought me here?" Sigewulf responded as he walked closer to fate.
"Strange?" fate muttered as the paths faded only showing three paths.
"Maybe it was something father wished for."
"Father?" Sigewulf asked.
"Yes, he is also your father Odin." fate answered as he gestured to one of the three paths. Sigewulf saw odins back and on the road, it was dark compared to other roads he saw he also saw many different odins in the path doing different things.
"So what are you showing me?" Sigewulf asked.
"I am showing odins path."
"So odins is a part of fate?"
"Yes and no he can join it but he isn't truly a part of fate." fate answered
"You see fate works in a level system and also in a color system."
"It goes from 1-10 ten being bad fate and one being blessed by the heavens as the mortals say."
"Ok?"
"The lower the number the luckier you are but the more of a pawn to me you are and vice versa." fate explained.
"So we are puppets to you?"
"Yes but you are less as you are on the 8th fate." fate explained.
"Then what is Odin at 10?"
"Yes when he decided to join fate is moved to the tenth anyone in that level will have the worst luck but I can not mess with them easily."
"The colors also determine the fate of a person white means they are tied fully to fate grey means they are in between this is what most considered as unbound by fate and then there is black they are not bound by fate and can not be determined." fate explained as she showed a three different people to explain the colors.
The first was a random man with a white road that shown brightly the next was one of the men that fate showed before his path was a dark grey Sigewulf felt as if he knew this man. The last was Odin his path matched the darkness but his compared to others' paths had things on it from people to trees there were many things.
"Now Sigewulf you are close to being a son of Odin but I wish to ask you my future brother are you ready?" fate asked as the world around him rippled and he awoke on the desk where he was researching his new technology.
"Am I ready?"
[ready for what sige?]
"Nothing." Sigewulf said as he focused on the build print for the technology.
••••
"Visions in my mind, I see you every time I sleep at night."
"Close my eyes, I feel your fingers running up and down my spine."
"Breathing down my neck, you got me stuck inside the limbo."
Odin sang as he drove on the martian soil talking about the day of rest he had before the meeting he decided to relax and what more relaxing than driving other than torture.
"I'm lookin' up at the moonlight like, was I wrong to think you was into me?"
"Little symphonies in my head telling me differently, had an epiphany."
Odin drove off a cliff and enjoyed the descent down the tall cliff the car landed without any damage. this car has been with him for a long time gaining it from a system as his first sign-in. This car has handled many battles in space a simple 1000 meter drop was nothing. Odin kept driving at fast speeds.
Odin saw speeding vehicles in the distance these weren't military vehicles but normal civilian vehicles.
"Must be racing let's join!" Odin drive to them and speed down the outlined path. Reaching the car in third in a few seconds. Odin's entrance caught the man in third place off guard as now he had to guard his place but soon that thought was extinguished as Odin took over second place and was neck and neck with first.
Odin and the other man were driving at 500 mph as Odin took over by an inch the man stopped giving Odin first place. This wasn't the man giving up but him not killing himself as a deep canyon was a few meters ahead. Odin still kept his foot on the gas but made a sharp turn easily keeping himself on the path.
{how the fuck can he turn at that speed!?} the man spoke into the radio.
{dont know he appeared out of nowhere.} the man in third place spoke.
{hes good that for sure} second place said as she overtook the confused first place.
{dammint!} the man yelled as he put his strength on the gas hoping for the car to release even more power.
The racers reached the final point they saw the crowd of people in their Evo suite cheering them on. Odin looked at the crowd and let the car go faster by the time he hit the finish line he was going at 680 mph. Odin drove off heading to a new destination.
"I guess he didn't want the money?" the woman said as she stared at the fleeing car.
"Maybe he didn't know about the prize." the man said with joy at having the reward for second place.
"Well it seems first place didn't want the rewards so we will give them to second place." a man said as he walked over to the woman handing her a card with 100 million dollars. the other to got 10 million and 1 million respectively.
To Odin, that amount of money was nothing he could easily drown a universe in money if he wanted. Odin enjoyed the drive up Olympus mons stopping at the peak he got out of the car and watched the setting sun. Taking a puff from his cigarette Odin relaxed on the hood of the car closing his eyes he took a small nap.
Odin awoke to the sound of the car running opening his eyes he saw it was morning.
'What time is it?'
[9:32 MST]
'Ok, I have a few hours until the meeting I should go meet the group they should be here already.'
Odin got into the car and drove down heading back to the city of Ares the red dust flew in the wind as odins car passed by. Reaching the city Odin drove to the elevator and sat on the good as he waited for the group to arrive.
Odin soon notice people heading towards him looking up he saw the group omega and bob wore suits and Serena wore a white sundress. Odin noticed she had a tattoo it was a centipede Odin looked at omega questioning.
"Don't ask me she wanted to get it I'm not gonna control her life." omega responded.
"Why you'd choose a centipede?" Odin asked.
"Because I saw it on you back before and I liked it and it's also in honor of you for giving me a new life one, not of war and death," Serena said with a bright smile.
"Do you want to know why I have that tattoo on my back?" Odin asked as he snapped his fingers the charger switched to a truck.
"Yes, please!" Serena said with excitement.
"It's not a grand story but the centipede is a tribute to the insect I ate to survive when I was a child."
"Long ago my parents threw me out of the house since I was a mouth they couldn't feed after wondering around before having the confidence to hun animals I ate what thrived the most in the frozen north and that was centipedes."
"The centipede is my family crest and also my will to survive and see a day where I didn't have to starve and be weak its also the form my will takes when it takes the form of a creature."
"And the reason it's shaped like an infinity is because of the endless cycle I have lived."
Odin explained as they drove to the market they were going to eat since they still had lots of time before meeting the protag, James."
"So did you reach S rank?" omega asked as he looked around the city.
"Yea yesterday what about you guys?" Odin said as he turned over to look.
"Yes we have reached S and with the armor, our stats are at the SS rank!" Serena answered as she looked out the window at the many sights around the city.
Odin bought the ingredients for the meal he was going to make and the equipment loading them on the truck they left the city heading for the outside to enjoy a picnic.
Odin arrived on solis planum parking the truck Odin unloaded the food and grill while omega prepared the table. Since bob and Serena were augmented they didn't need to breathe the nanites turned the gasses around them into oxygen to bass through the body.
Odin could have evolved them to the humans from the hundred thousand they were near the next realm. they could use the vacuum of space to enhance themselves and could easily alter their time so they always had oxygen so they wouldn't asphyxiate on the martian planet.
Odin prepared the synth meat by marinating it and then using time magic to speed it up. After that, he prepared the vegetables cutting the huge tomato that was more the size of a pumpkin and the lime that matched it.
'Who the heck needs a lime this size?' Odin thought as he lifted the 30-pound lime.
Odin turned on the grill and placed the pan on the fire letting it preheat. Odin turned up the volume from the truck's speakers and had the music play.
Odin and omega cooked the food they decided to make a martian meal serving val har and gre klee and many other dishes.
Val har was a dish made during the martian African war it was a dish of raw meat with vegetables most notably tomato, spinach, and cucumber. this dish came from the lack of food found during the war and was not really cooked only if they had fuel to cook. During the war, the African empire cut off trade routes between mars and earth this mixed with the mass bombardment caused widespread famine where only a few foods survived.
The dish was a reminder of a time of mars struggles more than a dish. Of course, this hasn't happened in this period only happening a few hundred years later. But the rising tensions from mars and the other earth governments are decedent of it happening soon.
Gre klee was another dish from the future during the terraforming of mars this was a dish made of grilled vegetables notably made with tomato, zucchini, squatch, and cilantro. This dish was a representation of the terraforming of mars showing the first vegetables grown by most martian residents. Each dish has had a history of mars and was also one of the many dishes that represented the eternal struggle and accomplishments of the martian ancestors and decedents.
Surfing the dishes Odin opened a wine bottle from his collection it was a wine made from ice grapes from the frozen world of denath. Odin poured the light blue wine into the glasses and handed them to the group.
The group sat around the table and Odin toasted.
"De nar!"
"What does that mean?" bob asked as he drank the wine.
"Its martian for may glory persist," Odin explained as he ate the food. Odin and the group are and then relaxed watching the martian terrain before heading back to the city to meet James.
"I should change I feel left out you guys are wearing suits or a dress and I'm in a zip-up hoodie and joggers," Odin said as he turned a corner his clothes changed from the hoodie to formal wear.
"You know with how you are I expected you to change to a onesie or maybe an entire set of flesh." omega said as he flipped through the phone he got from somewhere.
"Well am I the flesh God right now or am I trying to be comfy no I'm trying to fit in and as much as the idea of wearing a onesie right now is great I can't," Odin said as he asked the truck and looked at the massive building next to them.
"Do you know where they are because there is a lot of people here or do you have their number?" omega asked as he looked at the sea of people in the reception area.
"Easy I just use tracking and I have found them second-floor room 6," Odin said as he got out of the truck and left with a gust of wind the group followed him up to the room.