"How about we do something about your parasitic ghost problems? Shall we?" He asked as soon as I finished the meal he had placed in front of me. It's been two days since I got here and Ava had left me with him to attend the ascension of someone they called a saint and she was certain he wasn't going to ascend without being shoved. Though I didn't know what that really meant.
"Oh hurry up! I can't wait to taste that juicy roasted meat!" Uriel shouted in my head and I momentarily saw his mouth water as he held spirit kitchen utensils in his hands and was trying to poke at the meat.
"Oh you are not going to eat yet Joe." Khuvan commented as he got up and i followed him. Wait, did i speak that outloud again? "No, i can hear your thoughts. Besides, you don't wanna be his host for longer that a century."
Wait, for "hundred years?"
"Yeah."
"But I can't live for that long." I said it as i remembered a bit about a millennial dragon living longer. Uriel inside of me complained about food and eatjnf more but i was long full.
"Sometimes i forget you're just a kid who was raised by shapeshifters." He shook his head and added. "You will live longer. At least your body will, unless your soul losed to the beasts inside of you."
"How long would i live?"
"Four thousand years max on a sphinx alone. Couple it with a dragon, and a phoenix, seven thousand years is guaranteed. King Uriel would add a few hundred thousand years with ease."
I blinked and frowned as he said an easy hundred thousand years like it wasn't long. But I was already tired before I was thirty and... a thousand...
"What do you mean by that?"
"Uriel is one of the seven eternal guardian spirits. For him and other primordial guardians and their first seven generations, living longer than a million years is as simple as a blink. He can outlive a planet. All that they need mostly is a stronger host. Yours is reinforced by the animal spirits you've absorbed and your lineage adds a bit of an advantage."
"Okay." I agreed even nodded without knowing what i was nodding to. Primordial was all i he... i stopped an looked at him. "What about my lineage?"
"You are the grandson of a magi and a shapeshifter and a Swan." He pointed to a woman who stood near the balcony with lifeless eyes. Her hair was as white as mine was, but her skin was a bit darker than mine. Not as dark as khuvan was but closer to Ava's. "Both you and her are strong enough to withstand the souls of mystic beasts. Or live longer without dying."
"Who is she?" I asked.
"She is Ellipse. The last daughter of the Aetum in this plane. When Uriel came down with the Swans thousands of years ago, he came with her people."
I looked at her and felt sad just looking at her face. She seemed torn and pained.
I felt like i should just go to her and try to comfort her.
But one question ran my mind, if she is sad, how is that my problem?
If she's sad or anything, what has it got to do with me?
"I don't think that answers the question, "what is an Aerum?" I told him as we walked into the white room with a small perfectly made bed in the middle of the room. Someone black, Okay maybe i shouldn't say black. I know I call the people of Alkebulan, the citizens of Punt as black, but that is only a skin tone. Theirs is a bit brownish. This wasn't that black. This black was burnt charcoal black. He even looked like he flew a bit too high to the sun and got burned. Or someone burnt him.
I bet its a troll.
"Aerum was..." He began as I walked to the black guy.
"Hello." He greeted. His teeth were also black. Yep it is a troll.
"Hello, did a troll try to roast you burned you?" I asked him.
"No." He responded. "I am not burnt."
"Really, then when you were made, did your god forget to turn the oven to low heat and burned... no wait. I bet its a troll, don't worry you can tell." I smiled at him. "A troll tried to roast me one time, but I got free before he could me. He was a stupid one, he even used me to wipe his butt before I killed him. So do tell."
"I wasn't..." he turned his attention to Khuvan. "See captain, this is what happens when you bring in people without a proper orientation."
"I know."
"A powerful fool is also a potential enemy."
"Are you calling me a fool, charcoal guy?" I asked.
"I will finally give you my assessment of the unit you are building. With this nutcase, it's a nightmare for Evanco." The burnt guy turned to a different language. One of the old languages the first humans spoke in days of Cronos as king of the gods. But how do i know that?
"Thoth, i think you've spent more time with Khumat, watch your language." He began and once I thought he was going on well, he began, "This guy may be a nutcase and a nutjob," trust me the procyan word is not that friendly. A nutcase is just me censoring this guy like hentai in american entertainment system. Or maybe i should just say the censoring of genitals in a pornographic japanese film.
I mean what's the use of it anyway. I am going online and into a pornographic site to watch porn, why the hell is it censored? I want to see genitals. A hard clear dick going into in between a fleshy pussy li... nope, nope. What the hell is going on in my head?
Where was i again?
Oh yeah right! The insult. The procyan word was something deadpool can say in NC-32 film. Not something a child can hear. Using nutcase, huh, its censoring the censsoring spot. Porn with no tits nor ass, just a black screen... what the fuck is going on in my head? I knocked on my head as charcoal guy said, "case in point, " And pointed at me.
Dont worry, i dont know what that mean either. I don't speak English. Its not invented yet. I have three thousand years to go before its conceived.
"Look, my procyan may be old, but calling me a t-dra-tu ssuessa, isn't something i won't understand." I told the charcoal guy as i held his shoulder. Something shocked me a little it felt nice. He crumbled like cinder in a chimney.
"Guess you haven't been at the receiving end of a taser." A voice crawled into my head. "If this is nice I bet you you will like how a taser feels. I suggest on the tongue or the neck. Beautiful!"
"Tempting."
"Says a hundred year old virgin. Hey in the future do they have prosti... i should censor this probably."
"Sorry, i didn't realise your body was held together by your soul." I apologised as i looked for a bat to hit the guys talking in my head with. One wave, I'm sure it will quieten them up.
On second thought, where am i going to hit?
"Do you know what that means?" Thoth asked and i slapped him lightly. Shit this guy is a ghost. "Somebody give him some flesh!"
"Aruana is doomed." Khuvan agreed with him. "Is everything ready to take two of them out?"
"Like you have the skills to." The charcoal guy added as he retreated into a corner with charcoal on the floor and... "oh shit i pooed last tuesday!" I screamed as he turned into dust and vanished. "Did he just...? That is not gonna happen to me when the phoenix dies right?"
"No. Lay down." Khuvan ordered and i did. I laid on the small thin table and... my lord, this is soft! As i rested, i remembered the Eardrum. Did he say they were again?
"Wait, can you tell me who the eardrums are again?" I asked and he agreed.
"The Aerum, are the humans of Gaga, while the swan are the demigods from there. When the war began, they were cast down here and they were locked in the valley of Ovale."
"You just hit a drum and told it to dance." I spoke. "I'm not sure if that is how the saying goes, but i dont understand a single thing. What is ovale? No wait. That is a foolish question."
"Glad you finally know." The burnt guy chipped in from above me.
"Thoth."
"Why is he above me? This is not lay down, spread your legs, and let me put my dick inside of you situation is it? Because trust me, my pussy is like a shark mouth. It has teeth and it bites. Call it rape proof!"
"Do you arrange word in your head first of you just fart them?" The guy above me asked. The burnt troll food.
"Not sure." I farted but no word came out. "No, i dont fart words. Now what is Ovale?"
Yeah i know. I have that question too. How did i fart at will?
"If you went high up the mountains of the black forest, where no beast dares to venture. Or any bird chances to fly. You will come upon a great wall, of stone, of earth, of sand and of plants.
Built it was not. For a star long before once fell there, and a crater, that wall now is.
The wall rises a few hundred yards into the sky. For the old ones do say, the star that fell there, was glorious in both lights and size.
If you could climb the wall none but one once climbed long before without dying, for the rivers around that wall boil. The fires forges of Vulcan that surrounds that land still burn. You will come a valley with vast plains.
As large as the planes of Arga twicefold, this place, this land, Ovale is its name. For from the sky the land lookes like an egg tilted to the side. This is the place were the last of the Aerum dwell."