C 122
"I think… I think we're back!" I cheered in relief when our portal deposited us in a place I actually recognized! We were in my apartment back in New York!
"Whoever lives here sure is a slob…" Kokabiel said as he looked at the fungus covered pizza crust that had been left sitting out for weeks now.
It was just as messy as I'd left it too! And the moldy food and scattered clothing everywhere wasn't my fault. I was expecting to only be gone for a day or two to investigate the stray devil. That ended up becoming a multi week long adventure.
I was glad to be home for now though. I had a bunch of things I needed to do here. I explained to them that this was the correct dimension and that we'd finally made it. I ignored the 'disappointed big sister stare' Gabriel gave me when she saw the state of the room. A quick burst of magic from her a second later, and the place was once again spotless. I needed to learn that spell…
"So this is Earth Marvel?" Kokabiel asked. "Hmm, it feels just as I remember. There's a lot less supernatural beings wandering about though. I can barely sense any in this entire city."
"So do you two want to look around a bit? Or do you want to speak to Azazel immediately, Kokabiel?" I asked.
"I would love to look around and explore a bit. I feel bad. I can sense that there's so many Believers in this city alone, and yet none of them realize that they and their ancestors had been cut off from the Heavenly system for over a thousand years…" Gabriel said as she walked over to a nearby window and gazed out into the city.
Yeah, that's a whole can of worms I do not look forward to touching anytime soon. It'll probably be better for Michael to just lie and claim there was a separate heaven for both worlds or something.
[It's not like the dead people will be coming back to life to prove otherwise.]
"Are you going to go out incognito or will you be… revealing yourself?" I asked Gabriel. "Just so you remember…everyone in this world pretty much knows about me."
Gabriel told me that she'd be going out incognito at first so she did not get swarmed by people immediately looking for pictures, autographs, or just to ask questions to her. And then she was gone. Gabriel faded away into motes of golden light and teleported away.
"..."
I turned to Kokabiel. "I guess we're off to Asgard then. That's where Azazel was last anyway." I explained. Kokabiel nodded and I opened a portal towards Asgards throne room. When I stepped out, it wasn't empty like I'd remembered. In fact, it was packed to the brim with guards, along with other noble looking Asgardians.
All of them were now staring at Kokabiel and I who had just stepped out of a random portal in the middle of Asgard's throne room.
"Awkward…" I muttered as I avoided all the gazes on me. Kokabiel didn't care and just scoffed. He glared at everyone around us challengingly.
"Halt! How dare you infiltrate Asgard's Sacred Palace!" One of the nearby guards adorned in golden armor shouted at us. He along with a dozen other guards, all drew their weapons and pointed them at us.
"Lower your weapons. Your queen commands it!" Hela's voice rang out across the throne room. She was sitting at the top of the stairs on a regal looking black throne. I wondered if she had Odin's golden throne replaced as a final 'fuck you' to the old man.
"Hi, Hela! I'm back!" I called out to her cheerfully.
There were gasps that went out among the onlooker Asgardian. Many of them were berating me for being so casual with Asgard's new queen and addressing her by her name. Hela didn't seem to care at all though as a beautiful smile adorned her face. She stood up off her throne and quickly made her way down the steps towards me and Kokabiel.
She barely spared him a second glance before she wrapped her arms around me and smashed her lips into mine right in the middle of everybody's gazes.
I was startled by the suddenness of her kiss, but I wrapped my own arms around her and kissed her back!
The two of us ignored the gasps and mutterings about proper royal decorum. We continued for a good 10 seconds before we finally separated. "I was afraid you had been lost when the Bifrost failed to deliver you to Midgard." Hela said to me with concern.
"I was fine. I ended up back on Earth DxD and then went on quite the adventure. I'll tell you all about it later." I said to her and then gestured to all of our spectators with my eyes. It wasn't really a story I wanted to share with everyone here. It did involve an alternate Evil Hela slaughtering the entirety of Asgard's people after all.
"I'm glad. You'll have to tell me about it later then." Hela said as she glanced around at all of the people who were looking at the pair of us in confusion.
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