It was the middle of Winter and heavy snowfall was there. Dr. Swan has arranged military escort using his connection, as jay reached at New york military airport, he had alredyconvinced his family that he has gotten a job in the states. In a country like India, where most of the people are religious, jay always disregarded the existence of the gods, even his family was conservative but he already tagged himself as atheist.
"(phone ringing) hello. Dr. Swan, I just landed."
"I'm really sorry Jay I could not come to pick you up, I had to pick up my daughter from school. I have sent you the location of my house, will meet there"
"It's alright doc, I'll see you soon."
Jay started to understand that if he stay's calm and does not get excited or nervous, whatever that makes your heart beat faster people around him will not get sick, so, he got into a taxi and gave the location to the taxi driver, there was another lady passenger in the taxi, he was a bit tired because of traveling, so he took a small nap in between the ride. When his eyes opened again, he was covered in sweat.
"Again with the same dream. hmmph..."
Wait I thought Doc's house was in the city why I am in such an empty place?, maybe it's the other passenger's location, then taxi stopped in some abandoned building.
"Sir, did we reach the location ?"
"We'll be getting there shortly, right after you empty your pocket but first let's go inside."
The taxi driver said that while getting out of the taxi, at the same time two people were also coming out of the building, armed with guns and baseball bats, Jay understood that the situation is not good but there was no hint of any concern in his face, he knew if the situation gets worse he can use his power to defend himself, they took both of them inside the building and tied their hands in their back.
"Look at the pretty lady..we usually take money but looook aaat thhaat body."
"hey look at this guy, why he is sitting so calmly, I don't think he understands what kind of situation he is in "
"What we are thinking about doing to this girl, I don't think we can let any one of them go!"
When the muggers were trying to scare the girl and Jay had already broken the rope through his power, he was just sitting ideally thinking will be able to beat these people and also protect the girl at the same time, one of the muggers dragged the girl in the separate room.
"I don't think taking out two of you will be such a deal"
Jay said standing and showing his freed hands in a calm voice, two muggers who saw were stunned for a second. Even after showing his cool side, Jay had never been in the real fight alone. Both of the muggers had a baseball bats in their hands.
"You must think of yourself as a hero huh..let me bring you back to earth"
The first mugger raised his bat up and swung toward Jay's head, at that moment it was as if time slowed down for him, this was the first time that was happening to him, he just took one step to the left and dodged that attack.
Then he raised his hand towards the second mugger using pushing hand gesture he used his power and yelled "fuck you", the second mugger got thrown back really hard and got crashed at pillar behind and instantly fell unconscious.
At that moment there was a slight smile in the jay face like he enjoyed hurting the man, first mugger again swung his bat toward him, this time he blocked the bat with his hand like it was a really slow ball thrown at him.
"what is going on there? I haven't even started with this girl yet and yo.."
The third mugger came out saying that and saw the first mugger getting punched in the face and falling down, he instantly took out his gun and shot one bullet at Jay, Jay raised his hand in a protecting his face like someone was throwing stones at him but the bullet got deflected when it was like a meter close to him.
"What the fuck!!"
The third mugger said in a very low voice and started shooting continuously but after two bullets Jay put down his hand and stood straight calmly while the bullet was getting emptied in the gun.
While stopping the bullet Jay felt his energy draining rapidly, he knew used his power much more intensely than he ever trained with it. The first mugger who had fallen down beside him stood up and hit Jay in the back of his head with the bat.
"No, wait!!! Don't"
Jay said while falling down on the ground
"(shouting)shut up you Freeeaak...!!"
Third and the first mugger started kicking Jay while he was on the ground, (boom) wall in front of them blasted inside, muggers stopped of the moment to see. Someone slowly walked toward them, it was girl wearing white top, blue jeans and black boots up to the knee.
"You know, there are always people like you in every era, who just can't live seeing people happy."
"Now, who the fuck are you? Are you with this freak?"
"Let me introduce myself first, then you can call me whatever you like. I am Themis goddess of justice, second wife of Zeus the great and currently working as a part-time superhero."
Introducing herself Themis stood directly in front of the muggers and Jay, with a straight face, raised her hand and suddenly there was a weighing scale in her hand like the one you see the law statue holding.
"Your punishment should be judged from your sins."
Suddenly one side of the scale lowered, both the muggers eyes went blank white and they fell to the ground, shaking and yelling like someone is torturing them brutally.
Themis gave her hand to Jay to pick him up, but Jay ignored her hand and stood up on his own, brushing off dirt from his close. Jay went inside the room where the other passenger was taken to check on her, she was okay, but she was confused about what was happening there, Jay told her to call for help and started walking away from the building.
"Hey listen!!! I just saved your life there is not a single word of gratitude from you."
"I didn't ask you to save me "
Jay said that while walking away but Themis started to follow him, she was irritated that Jay did not show any kind of appreciation towards her.
"You think that you are so cool acting like asshole but the truth is , you may have been a powerful god back then, but now you are just a nameless wuss"
"Wait what!! what did you me just now?"
"An asshole!"
"No, after that, a god?"
"Yeahh.. so what?"
Jay stood surprised there, and turned back towards Themis, he knew that his power is something to do with gods coming back, but he never considered himself as one because of his limited power, and from what he heard from news and rumours other gods were way more powerful than him
"Why would you call me that "
"Because you are one...wait you haven't gotten your memories back have you?"
"What memories?"
"If you want some more answer, you need to feed me"
Jay took Themis to the doc's house, Dr. Swan and her 18 year daughter welcomed him in the house form there, Jay explained the whole thing, what happened since he landed while Themis was eating food.
"so you are also a god. woww..."
"Also?? you knew I am god as well."
Jay looked at doc's face with a surprised look on his face.
"I wasn't sure but I had my suspicions"
"Alright, Themis what were you saying about my memories?"
"yeah..so, all the powerful and high ranking gods can retrieve all their memories"
"So, you must be really powerful?"
"Not anymore, I used to be much more stronger than this, but after getting released from the stone I was left with small fraction of my power, that is also one of the reason that my family threw me out"
Themis explained situation with a sad face, some of the gods who were not powerful enough after the reseraction, were not accepted by their king's and regarded as namless god as they were thought not enough powerful to maintain balance in the world.
"So the reason you are doing this superhero thing is to prove them wrong huh?"
"I haven't thought about it like that. I guess I'm doing that"
"So, how can I retrieve all my memories?"
"I don't know I started remembering everything after the blackout. May be you are still not powerful enough"
Themis felt bad for Jay, she knew how it felt not knowing your place in the world feels like.
"Alright then, why don't we try to figure it out my way, let's go to my lab run some tests"
Themis went back after exchanging the mobile number, doc and jay went to the lab and doc started taking all kind of sample from Jay including blood, tissue, urine etc.
"All test result will take time to come out and I have to analyze the data as well, it will take some time. Its already late night, why don't you go back and get some rest in the house."
"Okay. I'll see you in the house tomorrow morning."