Chapter 73
Jake Pov:
I was talking to the group of people surrounding me and Emma when the king called out. "It is time for Jake's Baptism, if his Family and friends would head to the Baptistery, that would be appreciated," Rex said. I got up and went in that direction with Samuels family and Theo and Aaron.
On the way, the Killer's, join us along with some others. When we arrive I leave them and head down to the dressing room. I enter, I get changed into white clothes, folding my own. The bishop is baptizing me as I have no friends at the correct age to perform it.
We walk in and the Ceremony starts, I nod when he asks me something, and I am dunked under. But the second I go under, I wake up somewhere else entirely. It is a blue space with light shining as if through water everywhere. I look around and see a table on the platform I am on.
Looking down on either side their are hundreds of people it seems. I walk down the platform to the table to see Nine people. "Why did you call me?," I ask them.
The first, an old man around six foot six with a long brown beard and hair down to their waist with Golden eyes. The second a young woman holding a black scythe and a bottle of elixir. She had on the Scythe side, her left, black hair and a red eye, on the other white hair and a green eye. She also has medium breasts. The third, a slightly obese gentleman wearing merchant clothes. He had unusual pink hair and a mustache, neatly trimmed.
The fourth, on the other side of the old man, another young women with Light green hair and Dark green eyes. I could feel Mana of the four elements coming off her in waves. She had Large breasts. The fifth, back on the other side, a well muscled man who was a Beastman. He had every single fur color, ear, and tail, along with a bunch of scars.
The sixth, on the opposite side this time, a old, frail man with short white hair. His eyebrows were covering his golden eyes a bit, a human. He had an advanced object in his hands and reeked of extreme skill. The Seventh a physical specimen of a man with black hair in a martial arts robe. The Eighth a middle aged woman who had kept some of her youth with Large Breasts. She had brown hair and green eyes and held a Jar of dirt, every looking down at it, along with elf ears and blue nails.
And finally the Ninth, or tenth since it was twins, one on each side, who pretty much stays out of everything. They were women with Sun yellow hair and eyes, a trait of Apostles. Their hair was down to their chest and since they were on the side I could also see a bulge in their pants. They also had large breasts. They were Hurito, the god of Hurito. They were the only ones on my side. They were Beast-kin Cats. And due to them being twins, no-one knew their was another. So there was only a single statue in the chapel.
"Can't we just talk to an old friend?," The first said.
"Not when it is you, Maleson," I called the old man out. This was the first god, the god of Creation. "What do you want?," I called out again.
"We were wanting to warn you of something," He said in a stern tone.
"If it is about that man, I already know, you don't need to remind me! I just want to live my life without constantly looking over my shoulder! You can do whatever you want, but please leave me out of it this time!," I yell at them frustrated.
"You may find that you don't have a choice child!," The Beastman yelled.
"I can do what I want Batun! Why didn't you or any of you, especially Lime, do anything! You could have cut off his life, never given him skills, or anything! But you let him come back!," I yell, outraged.
They had let the stain that had almost destroy the world, a man blessed by their predecessors, come back.
"We are not in control of everything, we cannot determine who will live or not. I just breathe life into things and guide souls to Kimer and Dotan. But the one you speak of is not the threat we have come to warn you about. The old god managed to escape his execution and is in your world. We can't view him due to his power, all we wanted to do wa—," I don't let Lime finish.
"I already know what you are going to say. But I don't need to be warned, if he threatens my family, I will kill him myself. But please leave me out of it and choose someone else. As I told you hundreds of years ago, I will not become your apostle, and leave my sister and brother out of it," I say leaving and coming back. As I do I am risen out of the water and the ceremony is complete as everyone watches.
I leave with the bishop, dry off, and get into new clothes. No more than a second or so passed in this world while I was there for five minutes. Man do I hate those gods, always interrupting my life, I didn't really mean what I said though. I just wish they didn't choose me, technically they can't as I haven't died yet.
Judging by what happened, they didn't choose me, but I should check my status later. I wonder if it has changed any in all these years?
Narrator Pov:
Back in the world of the gods, or world between worlds, the gods had just seen Jake leave. "You may find that you do not have a choice in the matter," they all said as they saw him leave. Though Hurito and Hurito did not, they were with Jake after all.
I guess they were right, but the man they were talking about would not appear for the next two decades or so. If that was the case, they could just choose Jake's child or something. Or just give it to someone when they visit, but they have a criteria. That criteria is based off something Jake had said to them when he was in-between life and death years ago.
But as to the reason Jake was talking like that, he is an existence that is unusual. I will not say more than that as it is best to leave it as it is. They already had an apostle, who had messed up, so they could not pick his family again, or trouble might arise again.