"Appa," Mu'ut called her father as she played on top of him, climbing him all over, at times sitting on his chest as she was now.
"Yes?" He responded not bothered by the apparent harrasment as he lay on the ground watching the sun setting while painting the western sky red.
"Why haven't you married Aunt Gaga?" Mu'ut asked looking at her father.
Gammad almost got up and looked at his daughter.
"What?"
"Are you still not over mom yet?" She asked with the seriousness of a focused puppy.
"No, I'm... Where the... did you hear that?" He asked wondering a couple of things at once.
Where on earth did the topic change from puppies to his love life?
"Aunt Aba. Are you going to turn into larvae? You aren't going to leave me right?"
"I will never leave you." He said as his dragon wings turned into dove wings and hugged her with them. "So don't worry about it."
"Then are you going to marry Aunt Gaga and make babies? Can you make a lot of them?"
"Mu..." He stopped himself as he read her white noise mind to see what she was thinking about.
Being barely five years old, she had a lot in her head and a lot of questions but the answer to those questions was not a bit of interest to her. Or rather the true answer to those questions.
She didn't even know what she was talking about. Making babies to her was in context with what she had seen Ava do in the past. Cloning and raising animals in the biomes, was something he and all guardians could do.
But keepers specialized in.
"No. I can't make babies, but I can make puppies."
"No. Are you married to that tree then?" She asked pointing to the pale greenish tree on the southwest horizon.
The tree was even paler than the hills and seemed even further than them. Even some of the clouds even appeared to be part of its branches.
The tips of it vanished among the darkening sky and gleamed a bit due to the setting sun.
***
"wait, hold on." I tried to get up from the table I was strapped in but I couldn't move. Not even twitch my dick.
During the time that Khuvan was telling the story, they had strapped me onto the table and a couple of thoughts went into my head.
what if the stories of aliens kidnapping people and probing them were true and this was just an example of it?
I mean i dont even know any of these guys and...
how the hell did I get from, Andri run! to sit on the table and.... gosh I just hope they aren't going to try and fuck me.
my cheeks almost burnt as I wondered how it felt to be done in like this.
A hard cock with my thighs almost close and it finding its way onto my pussy. Would it feel better than being stuffed from the back?
would it rub against my sweet spot and make me feel joy for the first...
"Ma ma ma ma! dryad! please i dont want to hear any of your fantasies in my head! I am a guy for God's sake."
Khuvan and the burnt guy looked at me like I said something blasphemous.
"Sorry guardians' sake!" I apologized but they kept looking at me funny.
"What?"
"Should I tell him to..."
"No. Let's not embarrass him any further." Khuvan ran Thoth short and shook his head.
"what is it?"
"nothing. why did you ask us to stop narrating?" Khuvan asked focusing on my face.
"Who were those and why did we revert back? what can you time travel or what?"
"I wanted to explain something first before continuing the story to the finish."
"Don't you think its a little too late to introduce new characters into the story? I mean we spent seventeen chapters for me alone. We took Princess Ariana and dropped her like a bad habit. Now we introduced Ellipse and her story isn't even complete yet now we have three more. aren't we touching all over?"
"who are you talking to?"
"No one. ypu were saying?"
"I'm starting to have a head ache only a lich can cause." Khuvan hit his own head like a mad man and puffed.
"and there we go again."
"Let's continue okay?"
"explain them first."
"I wil explain everyone. The one who erased the army alone was a destroyer."
"what is a destroyer?"
"The one who when planets even stars don't live up to their standard destroys them. He is both the right hand of the creator and a judge high on steroids."
"what is a judge?"
"A judge is a a form of a guardian who decides what we species, what being we should destroy and..."
"Consider a judge a lord of destruction. If balance is upset, it's his job to balance it,and if guardian doesnt function as a guardian should, he decides what happens to him."
"wow, you guys like to keep things simple and straight to the point don't you?" I asked them. "by the way what was i expecting, you call yourself guardians yet you don't guard anything."
"we protect life."
"yeah. i can see that." my sarcasm was palpable. "Where were we?"
"Your tone say the opposite."
"shouldnt it? I've head a lot about the gods you guys sure are different from them."
"sure thank yo..." the blackest night smiled and almost jumped but stopped when he saw Khuvan's grimace. "was that sarcasm again?"
"Are you sure a troll didn't burn your brain too?" i asked as i loomed at him. My energy seeping down like something was sucking it.
"No."
"what makes you so sure?"
"Thoth." Khuvan shook his head. "There are a lot of things that a monkey can't understand. Now just..."
"Did you just call me a mon... Ahh!" I screamed as i felt as though my stomach was ripped open once more and all of my energy ran out.
I watched them.
The man and the little girl as they looked up at the tree.
"No I'm not married..." The man stopped as
talking as two lights appeared in the sky next to the tree.
the clouds and fog near the tree took form of a face with the two lights as clouds.
"Heads up." The face spoke without any explanation before vanishing again.
"what?"
"Then why do you care for it more than you do for Aunt Gaga?"
Gammad looked at her, wondering what he could say to his daughter. She was serious even her face wore a frown.
"Mu'ut, that tree is the of life." He pointed at the huge tree. "All life comes from that tree."
"How can a tree be of life?"
"All trees are alive, Why do you think the leaves move?"
"do they dance?"
"No."
"Then do they smile and talk?"
"Yes, that one does."
"Can i play with it?"
"Not all things on earth are playtoys."
"What's a play toy?" Gammad sighed and thought once more of his daughter's social circles. Maybe he should send her to Aksum. Maybe even to the Nekhen. Or maybe even to Nubia like Avalendra the Ra keeps on saying. She really needs a social life. But with how close they were to the Olympians and the violent Anunnaki and their allies, he didn't feel safe letting his Sun get close to those abominations. At least not without letting the secret of Alkebulan out or even letting the gods know the existence of the guardians.
"I'll show it to you tomorrow." He said getting up as the sky started to darken. "Now let's go eat dinner."
"I want Cornupy!" She excitedly got up and even floated in the air as her eyes lit with stars thinking of her favorite meal. A fruit salad made up of all of her favorite fruits, dipped in ambrosia. From pears to golden apples that tasted like honey to fluffy melons and mallow fruits.
"It's Cornucopia." He corrected her.
"That's what I said. Cornupy."
"Yeah right. Wanna fly over the lake first and take a shower."
"I'll take a shower after I eat cornupy. Race..." she stopped and looked south.
Gammad followed her gaze and saw the Yggdrasil branch, even felt it crack and break. His eyes went wide in horror as the humongous tree branch fell to the earth with the grace and subtility of a meteor. It flared the sky red, as it burnt even brighter than the sun ever did.
The clouds most of the tree branches rested upon and made, turned black like thunderstorm clouds and even cracked lightning and thunder. The ground trembled as leaves the size of a football field fell.
"what the heck is that?" Voices of both his boss, Avalendra, and the rest of the guardians keeping watch over the eight continents of the Earth and those employed over every Biome and field of existence both created by the Ra or the Supreme saints. They all said the same thing, except in various forms even in different languages.
"Gaga!" He bellowed, calling for Mu'ut's second favorite babysitter and also the chamberlain of the Ainoth, a world created solely for the descendants of the guardians to live their lives as a normal species by the Ra. Most saints were kings of those lands but because of his view of the elders of the guardians and the governing body, he had given the throne up and separated the responsibility of the sain from the king of the entire Ainoth realm.
"Go," She said appearing behind him. "I'll protect her with my life."
"Thanks." He smiled at her before putting his armor on and turning to Mu'ut.
At least that was what he thought he was doing, but Mu'ut was gone.
"Mu'ut!" He shouted as he saw her small figure fly at high-speed hundreds of miles away but closer and closer than he was to the tree.