Bjorn flashing in and out of view sped through the city as fast as he could with out destroying everything around him. After reaching the divine king realm all of his speed and power have almost quadrupled. Even if Bjorn was moving fast, it was not out of urgency to fix some problem.
No it was because his best friend in the world finally made it.
"Baldir I thought you said that Bjorn would sense us when we reached the city? Where is he then? It has been a whole 20 seconds. Some welcome he gives." Sterling said trying to ruffle some feathers.
"Sterling I swear if you start any shi-"
"Shit this time I am going to actually kill you."
Baldir's words we cut off as a new voice interrupted him. Looking behind Sterling, Bjorn had arrived and set his hand on Sterling's shoulder startling him greatly.
"FUCK! Bjorn you can't go around scaring people like that. I think my heart stopped right there for a second."
Jumping away from Bjorn, Sterling clutched at his chest in mock aggrievement.
"Hmm, was there not old fables talking about how the vampires are undead? Doesn't that mean your heart doesn't beat anyways?"
"Hey that's racist! Our hearts beat, just at any extremely slow rate except for when we are feeding."
"OK Ok thats enough, Bjorn I brought a few thousand barrels of mead with me. Should be enough for awhile right?"
Baldir getting tired of dealing with Sterling and Bjorn's antics cut in trying to change the subject.
"Oh, well that should be enough for our party tonight!" Bjorn said with a goofy grin in his face just happy that some more of his friends have arrived.
"When are the rest of them going to be here Bjorn?"
"Hmm if I calculated correctly it should be tomorrow or the day after. By the way it's great to see you Rufus, Boros, I have missed you greatly my friends."
Boros: "Me too my friend, I thought about coming to find you more then once while you were in the human lands. My father talked me out of it though. He said I would incite panic and mass hysteria with the way I like to travel in my full size."
Rufus: "My friend, I have missed you a lot. Tell me is there anyone strong around besides you? I really need to fight someone strong to let off some steam after being around Sterling for so long."
Boros and Rufus gave to different responses to Bjorn. To be expected out of the two though. Boros has a bad habit of growing to his full height when he wants to travel because he can travel hundreds if not thousands of miles in mere moments in that form. The problem is that everywhere he goes like that reports massive rolling earthquakes, so it makes it quite hard for him to travel anywhere fast.
Rufus for his part just hated Sterling to the bone. He always had to find someone to fight so he didn't kill Sterling himself. Bjorn is still in the dark but he knows that something happened that made a few of his friends including Rufus and Elraine to hate Sterling quite a bit. Bjorn asked more then a few times but nobody would tell him the reason why.
"Hahaha, Boros your father is right you know. I don't know why you don't just let Baldir and I make something for you to help you travel." Bjorn laughed at his giant friend while patting him on his back.
Turning back to Rufus to pat him on the back finally replied to his friends inquiry. "Yes there is plenty of strong warriors here always looking for a fight at the arena. But before that let us break a few barrels in huh my friends?"
In response to his question, Bjorn's friends all cheered and started following Bjorn towards his families halls. Bjorn led everyone to an area where there were the entrances to 8 different large halls. this was his families home. Each person had their own individual hall while the servants and guest stayed in the last couple with another for storage.
In the area where the halls all intersected there was an area meant for having gathering another for training and another for just miscellaneous tasks. The crowning jewel of this courtyard would be Gaia's small but extravagant garden filled with rare and exotic herbs that most god clans would fight to the death over.
"So this is were you live huh Bjorn?" Sterling asked looking around with an unnoticeable glint in his eyes.
*Thwack*
"Yes Sterling this is my family home so stop looking at everything and wondering how much you could sell it for. You would die before you could touch anything here with malicious thoughts."
Bjorn smacked the back of Sterling's head knowing that his stupid friend was secretly scanning his home for valuables.
Setting down two barrels full of the finest dwarven mead Baldir thumped one to knock the corks out and said something that every single one of them could agree with.
"Lets drink boys."
***
"So you're saying that he is with his friends?"
Inquired Gaia with a raised eyebrow. She was just sitting here nurturing a new herb she had found, when her daughters in law came and found her. They started talking at almost the same time confusing her greatly. Finally she told them to shut it and speak one at a time.
From the explanation she had gotten from the two she could gather a couple things. Bjorn had taken his relationship with these two quite a bit, to the point that they were all ready to jump right on the marriage wagon. Next would be that some of Bjorn's friends were finally here and he had gone to meet them.
"OK, I think I understand. Yes we can have your marriage date set for next week and you girls and I can work on the venue setting and much more. But what I am curious about are those friends of Bjorn's. Tell me Elraine who are they and where do they come from."
Putting away her embarrassed face, Elraine sat a little straighter when she heard her mother in law's question.
"Well from what I can feel from here it should be four out of the group meaning half of them have arrived. The other three are coming from farther away so it should still be a little time till they get here."
"Mmm, Ok. Tell me about these four first please."
"Well let's see I guess I will start with Boros, He is the prince of the giant races Titan Kingdom. His lineage actually is quite close to the titans of old. Anyways he is a good man, somewhat slow but smarter then most people would know."
"Oh, titan bloodline huh I wounder if he and I have and mutual ancestors." Gaia mused to herself more then the women in front of her.
"Rufus would be next. He is a lion kin that Bjorn met while saving a town in the beast kingdom. After Bjorn arrived there he had seen the town was being attacked by human slavers, so he started fighting without question. Rufus being the dope he is thought Bjorn was apart of the slavers and tried to fight him. Well I am sure you can guess the results of that right?"
"Nm, yes I could see my son knocking him out and then taking care of him afterwards."
"That's right. That is exactly what Bjorn did. He knocked Rufus out threw him over his shoulder and proceeded to kill the rest of the slavers himself before helping the rest of the townsfolk there. After waking up and seeing Bjorn caring for his people Rufus had offered his loyalty in turn for Bjorn's help but he just told him 'I don't need you to swear yourself to me. I wouldn't mind having a friend though.' And the rest is history from that point on."
"Oh, that's quite the story I would love to here it more in depth some day."
"Right, next would have to be Baldir. Baldir is the king of his kingdom, but that wasn't always the case. Long story short Baldir and Bjorn met and became best friends on sight. The two became inseparable for a couple years even when I was around. Bjorn ended up laying the groundwork for Baldir to become king, overthrowing Baldir's father to stop his tyranny."
"Oh I would really love to meet this Baldir and see what is so special about him that my son would do so much for him. Ok continue El."
"En, lastly there is Sterling. I hate Sterling and so do a few more of the group. No one knows how Bjorn and Sterling that disgusting vampire met but they did. In my opinion there is nothing good about Sterling. We all put up with him for Bjorn's sake."
Thinking to herself for a moment making sure that her face was unreadable Gaia pondered everything that Elraine had just told her.
"Mmm, you know what ladies lets go get Bjorn's father and then we can go and meet with Bjorn and his friends how does that sound?"