"CLAP".
The hands closed as THE GOD OF PATIENCE walked into the circular opening created in between the prayer beads.
...
"Well well well. Now if you don't mind, GOD OF SECRETS. Please tell us exactly what THE GOD OF FLAMES did to THE GOD OF HEAT?"
Sitting on the first level were THE GOD OF MESSAGES, THE GOD OF SPEED, THE GOD OF SOUND, THE GOD OF COLD, THE GOD OF SECRETS, THE GODDESS OF BEAUTY.
With WIS floating in the center of the hall and ETON, THE GOD OF CREATION having his face on the floor and ceiling around THE GOD OF SECRETS.
Every god waiting for him to speak.
"OI. WHY ARE MY MIXED UP IN THIS!?"
"Oh. GOD OF EVENTS, you were still present. By the way you actually don't need to put your energy in this. After all, you'll be the host for the TOURNAMENT OF GODS. So you can leave". WIS replied.
"LEAVE? JUST TOSS THOSE ORBS HERE. I'MMA MAKE SURE THIS TOURNAMENT HAPPENS. IT'S AN EVENT THAT'LL SHAKE EVERY GOD REALM. HAHAHA". He says laughing.
WIS tossed the orb on his left to him.
THE GOD OF EVENTS stops it. in mid air, keeping it afloat close to where he sat.
"THE SHOW MUST GO ONNNNNNN!" Screamed the GOD CALL ORB as he poured his energy into it.
"WIS. MAKE SURE TO CONTACT ME WHEN IT'S BEEN DECIDED... ALSO, DON'T CONTACT ME IF IT'S NOT HOLDING. I'LL WRECK YOUR REALM IF YOU DO..."
He stands up and opens the GATE to COLOSSEUM his GOD REALM.
"CLAP... CLAP... CLAP... HAAA... OHHH... AHHH... OHHH... CLAP... CLAP..."
Cheering and claps could be heard around the HALL OF GODS as his gate opened.
"AH, YES. MY WELCOME CHANT. THE SHOW MUST GO ON... GOD OF SECRETS PLEASE DO NOT SPILL ANYTHING ABOUT ME... HAHAHA".
"DOOM".
And his GATE closes.
"Well, guess it's just us now". WIS says, turning to THE GOD OF SECRETS as the left GOD CALL ORB returned to him.
"See. You all are not getting anything out of me. Forget I said anything". He replies angrily.
ETON straps his seat to him and adds a teleportarion restriction to THE HALL OF GODS.
"We're aren't trying to harm or bully you. THE GOD OF COLD needs to know why you brought that up. I need to know what you know to help me perfect the creation of the GOD ESSENCE ORB. WIS... Well, WIS?" ETON says, creating a new face on the edge of the platform to look at WIS
"I just want to know the details. so don't worry about me. I suspected it, but wasn't sure and didn't want to ask THE GOD OF FLAMES directly". WIS answers.
"See. Whatever I am about to tell you all, should stay with you all till... ETON remove my restrictions. I need my PASSIVE to ensure no secrets will leave this place".
ETON does as he says. "Done. I'm sure you can feel it already. Right now, both of us are the only ones with their PASSIVES active".
THE GOD OF SECRETS looked at every god currently present, all nine of them.
"Uhm... I think BEAUTY should leave. Not just cos' my PASSIVE won't work on her, but cos' GOLIN will know my PASSIVE. I don't want anything to do with the CRAZY GOD OF LIGHTENING".
BEAUTY who hasn't been praying attention to any of the things going on rolls her eyes and laughs.
"Haha, so it's true. GOLIN really is CRAZY. I'll have to keep my promise now". She replies looking at WIS.
She stands from her seat and floats to the center of the hall.
"WIS, be careful of your actions. FORESIGHT sounded really scared, and that wasn't BEAUTIFUL to me. I don't want this tournament to hold. It doesn't feel BEAUTIFUL enough for me to be a part of it".
She pours her energy...
~{BORING...
THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?
THE GOD OF SECRETS IS KILLING THIS STORY.
JUST LIKE THE GOD OF EVENTS SAYS.
"THE SHOW MUST GO ON".
DO I NEED TO ADD THE EXTRA N'S?
HAHA...
DID ANYONE MISS ME?
WELL I'M BACK.
CAN'T BORE YOU WITH WHAT'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN.
TRUST ME, IT GETS WORSE.
THE GOD OF SECRETS IS GONNA DO A LOT MORE STUPID THINGS JUST TO PISS EVERY GOD OFF, SO THAT HE DOESN'T SPILL THE BEANS COMPLETELY.
BUT YOU SEE, HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW I'M ALWAYS AT EVERY MEETING WITHIN THE GOD HALL.
LOVE HOW HE THINKS, HE CAN BORE MY MORTAL FRIENDS.
WE'RE FRIENDS RIGHT?
ANYWAYS, THIS CHAPTER WAS ABOUT TO BE A LONG BORING ONE.
BUT DON'T WORRY FOR I, THE GOD OF...
WILL SAVE IT.
IF YOU THOUGHT I WAS ABOUT TO SPILL THE BEANS ON MYSELF, THEN YOU KEEP READING.
HAHA.
LET'S GET THIS OVER WITH.
YES, THE ISSUE WITH THE GOD OF HEAT AND THE GOD OF FLAMES.
YOU KNOW, THAT GOD. OF SECRETS REALLY IS FUNNY.
LET'S FLIP THROUGH HIS GAMES.
.
.
.
ALRIGHT, LETS GO.
HAHA, SO HE PLAYED THEM.
HE REALLY IS THE GOD OF SECRETS.
THE GOD OF HEAT... HE'S NOW SAYING GODDESS OF HEAT.
NICE, JUST WHAT WIS ORDERED.
THE GODDESS OF HEAT, WAS A GODDESS WHO ALWAYS HAD QUARRELS WITH THE GOD OF COLD.
THEY FOUGHT FOR BILLIONS OF PIONS.
THEY'RE PART OF WHY THE HALL OF GODS WAS CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND TRUST ME, SHE WAS BEYOND DANGEROUS.
HER ABILITIES, HER PASSIVES AND SURPRISINGLY... HER BEAUTY.
EVEN THE GODDESS OF BEAUTY DIDN'T LIKE HER.
EVERY GOD HAD AN EYE FOR HER.
NOT EVERY, BUT YOU GET WHAT I MEAN.
NOT ME THOUGH, THE STORY IS THE ONLY THING I GOT MY EYE ON.
THE SWEETER THE STORY, THE MORE FUN I HAVE.
HEADING BACK TO 40 TRILLION PIONS AGO.
SHE WENT SILENT.
GOLIN THEN HAD A SQUABBLE WITH THE GOD OF FLAMES.
I'M SURE YOU CAN TELL WHY.
WITH A GODDESS, CAPABLE OF MAKING THE GODS DO HER BIDING THROUGH HER BEAUTY AND PASSIVE.
FOR HER TO DECIDE TO STICK TO THE GOD OF FLAMES.
GOLIN COULDN'T TAKE IT SITTING.
OF COURSE SHE WAS GOING TO STICK WITH THE GOD OF FLAMES.
AFTER ALL, HE'S THE ONLY ONE HER PASSIVE... RIVERS OF HEAT... DIDN'T WORK ON.
STUPID GODDESS.
YEA, I HATED HER.
NOT COS' OF THE WAY SHE DID THINGS.
OH YES, THAT. THAT DISGUSTING RIVERS OF HEAT.
BURNING MY STORIES.
NOW THAT'S A HEAT I DIDN'T WANT AROUND ME.
GUESS THAT'S WHY I COULDN'T COME TO LIKE HER.
RIVERS OF HEAT... THE. PASSIVE OF THE GODDESS OF HEAT.
A PASSIVE THAT WORKED ON ALMOST EVERY GOD SHE ENCOUNTERED.
IF THE WAVE OF THE FIRST RIVER DOESN'T WORK ON A GOD.
TRUST ME WHEN I SAY, ONE OUT OF THE REMAINING 6 WILL.
RIVERS OF HEAT, IS A PASSIVE WITH 7 RIVERS.
EACH RIVER HAD A UNIQUE WAVE THAT FLOWED OUT CONTINUOUSLY.
ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
...
YEA DON'T WORRY. THIS IS WAY MORE INTERESTING THAN WHAT THE GOD OF SECRETS IS DOING.
I'LL TELL THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED, AND CHIP IN SOME GIFTS FOR YOU GUYS.
LET'S HEAD BACK..
...
THE GODDESS OF HEAT, WAS THE ONLY GOD OF SOMETHING TO COME WITH A PASSIVE THAT HAD MORE THAN 3 FORMS AND ABILITIES IN IT.
THE 7 RIVERS OF RIVERS OF HEAT, HER PASSIVE POSSESSED A UNIQUE WAVE FOR EACH.
THE FIRST RIVER...
THE SECOND RIVER...
THE THIRD RIVER...
THE FOURTH RIVER...
THE FIFTH RIVER...
THE SIXTH RIVER...
THE SEVENTH RIVER...
HAHA.
DID YOU REALLY THINK I WAS GOING TO JUST SPILL IT ALL FOR YOU FOR FREE?
WAKE UP TO REALITY.
I'M TELLING A STORY HERE.
NOT GIVING FREE SNEAK PEAKS AT THINGS TO COME.
KEEP READING AND YOU'LL SEE IT IN ACTION.
AFTER ALL, THE GOD OF HEAT SHOULD HAVE IT NOW...
MAYBE?
BACK TO THE STORY THEN.
OH YEA, THIS CHAPTER IS CALLED A MESSAGE TO THE ABSENT GODS.
LET'S MAKE THIS QUICK AND JOIN WIS AND GOM GOM ON THE FINAL PAGES.
...
IT WAS AROUND 40 BILLION PIONS AGO.
A LOT OF PIONS HAD PASSED.
AND NOT ONLY WAS SHE QUIET.
BUT SHE WAS NO LONGER SHOWING UP TO THE HALL OF GODS.
NORMALLY SAGE WENT TO DELIVER MESSAGES TO HER FROM WIS.
REQUESTING HER TO RETURN TO THE HALL OF GODS.
WHICH SHE ALWAYS DECLINED.
SAYING SHE HAS NO REASON TO COME TO A PLACE WHERE THE GODS OF THE FIRST LEVEL SAW HER AS BELOW THEM.
MORE TIME PASSED AND THE GOD OF FLAMES BECAME HOTTER THAN HE HAD EVER BEEN.
THIS WAS 20 BILLION PIONS AGO.
WE ALL SHOULD HAVE REALIZED IT.
BUT HOW COULD WE, SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT WAS GOING ON.
THAT GOD WAS ON THE MOVE AGAIN.
WE GOT OUR PLATES TOO FULL TO BE BOTHERED WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT TO THE GOD OF SECRETS THAT WAS SOMETHING HE COULDN'T BELIEVE.
WIS PROBABLY AND DEFINITELY SUSPECTED IT.
BUT AVOIDED TROUBLE WITH THE GOD OF FLAMES.
A GOD STRONG ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY PUT GOLIN DOWN FOR ONCE.
A GOD SMART ENOUGH TO KNOCK OUT THE NUISANCE WHICH WAS THE GODDESS OF HEAT.
OF COURSE WIS WOULDN'T WANT TO MESS WITH HIM.
HIS FLAMES COULD DO WEIRD THINGS.
...
BY THE WAY, BEAUTY ALREADY LEFT.
HER GATE IS A BEAUTY, SAME AS HER REALM.
HOPEFULLY YOU'LL GET TO SEE IN THE FUTURE
...
THE GOD OF SECRETS FOUND OUT THAT THE GOD OF FLAMES HAD ASSIMILATED THE GODDESS ESSENCE OF THE GODDESS OF HEAT.
TRUTH IS, HE COULDN'T TELL WHO ASSIMILATED WHO.
AFTER ALL, THE FINAL GOD FORM WAS THAT OF THE GOD OF FLAMES.
THE ESSENCE WITHIN HIS HAD TWO COEXISTING CORES.
SOMETHING HE DEEMED IMPOSSIBLE, AND DECIDED NOT TO SHARE.
THE GOD OF COLD LOST A ZEAL TO DO THINGS.
HIS NUMBER ONE TROUBLE MAKER HAD DISAPPEARED AFTER ALL.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED?
HOW DID BOTH GODS BECOME ONE GOD AND NON OF US CARED OR REALIZED IT.
WHY DID WE NOT NOTICE IT.
THEY WERE TWO REASONS.
ONE OF WHICH WAS, IF THE GOD ESSENCE OF A GOD OF SOMETHING TO COME GETS DESTROYED, EVERY GOD WILL FORGET THAT GOD ONCE EXISTED.
BUT WE STILL REMEMBERED HER.
MEANING IT WASN'T DESTROYED IN ASSIMILATION.
BUT SHOULDN'T TWO GOD ESSENCE MERGING CREATE A GOD OF NOTHING?
OR WAS WIS LYING TO US?
THE SECOND REASON WAS, NO ONE CARED ANYMORE.
NOT EVEN GOLIN.
WE ALL COULD TELL, SHE WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER GODS.
ESPECIALLY WITH THE GODDESS OF JEALOUSY AND THE GODDESS OF BEAUTY AROUND.
WE CONCLUDED SHE HAD DECIDED TO STAY WITH THE GOD OF FLAMES AND NEVER RESURFACE OUT OF HIS REALM... "BLAZE".
FROM WHAT THE GOD OF SECRETS COULD FIND OUT, IT ALL HAPPENED 56 MILLION PIONS AGO.
WHEN SHE SUDDENLY ASKED THE GOD OF FLAMES TO BE ONE WITH HER
THE PROCESS AS EXPLAINED BY THE GOD OF SECRETS IS WEIRD BUT TO PUT IT SIMPLE.
HE HAD TO CREATE FRAMES THAT COULD MATCH HER HEAT.
AND SINCE BOTH HAD POSITIVE TEMPERATURES IT WAS EASY TO PERFECTLY MATCH AND ASSIMILATE EACH OTHER AT THE SAME TIME.
THEY SPENT A WHOLE PION ON ASSIMILATION
AND ON THE NEXT PION IT HAPPENED.
THE GOD OF FLAMES WAS THE ONLY ONE LEFT.
BUT HIS REALM BECAME LARGER.
HIS FLAMES BECAME WAY HOTTER.
AND HIS PASSIVE BECAME...}~
"His PASSIVE became what?" ETON asked.
"I don't know ETON, I DON'T! I'll have to experience it to tell what his new PASSIVE is or can do. And trust me, that's me literally snitching myself to him. I'm not dumb enough to stroll into BLAZE, just to get burnt or worse, have my GOD ESSENCE assimilated by that freak". THE GOD OF SECRETS replied angrily and trembling.
"I see, I see. Sorry to startle you. But with this I have a good idea how to perfect THE GOD ESSENCE ORB. Haha. Thanks GOD OF SECRETS. You're free to go". ETON replies as he fades back into THE HALL OF GODS, removing every restriction he put on THE GOD OF SECRETS prior to the interrogation.
WIS takes the GOD CALL ORBs to him.
"Sorry for that, but that was too long and annoying. Here, put your energy into an orb and leave".
"You all who heard this. Are in serious trouble if he finds out on his own that some gods know about this... I'm out of here". He says as he teleports straight to SAFE his GOD REALM.
"That idiot. He actually voted against. Guess he's that scared of THE GOD OF FLAMES." THE GOD OF COLD says with his palm to his face.
He sends a breeze of ice particles into the orb on WIS' left.
"I HAVE FOUND A NEW PLAYMATE IT SEEMS... HAHAHA". He exclaims as he turns to ice particles fading away into his GATE.
"That leaves the seven of us it seems". WIS says.
"Seven?" S replies in confusion.
"I thought you left earlier TIM?" WIS added looking at a shadow on the second level.
"Hmmm. I did leave. Just left another time of me here. That was an interesting secret he let out". TIM replies as he jumps down from the second level and stops in mid air at the center where the first level begins..
"Yo". He says waving at S.
"You sly. You really warped the time around you to prevent my waves for perceiving you".
"Well it's not a hard trick. Especially when you need to prevent PASSIVES that don't function in a timeline that doesn't exist". He replies with a smirk.
"Anyways... I believe all of us here are in for the tournament and only SAGE isn't participating?" WIS asks,. looking at the gods left on the first level.
"Well, you can count THE GOD OF SPEED in". SPEEDY replies sending a tiny him running into the orb on the left of WIS.
"I'm definitely not sharing my GOD ESSENCE with some random". S replies sending a physical construct of sound waves into the same orb.
"Was already in. Haha, this is gonna be interesting". TIM replies.
"Well, I have no choice, cos' there's no way those against are winning this one". SAGE replies as a the orb glows, signifying it received his message...
"And I'm in. Would love to put mine last, but best to put it now, before something changes my mind". WIS says looking at the others.
"Just do it and prepare the message I'll be taking to the absent gods... And the ORBs too".
WIS' head glows golden and blue.
With a stream of that light flowing into the orb on his left.
"See you all on the final day".
SPEEDY does a salute with two fingers as his gate opens below him.
With two tiny versions of himself running in opposite directions around him, from his feet upwards.
He slowly fades away into "NITRO" his GOD REALM.
"Well, there goes SPEEDY... I better leave now, since it's about to get much more boring than THE GOD OF SECRETS story... HAHA..." TIM says as sand pours in front of him in the shape of an hour glass.
He floats into the sand from the top.
As he sank into the sand, it poured downwards leaving a writing on it's base... SANDS OF TIME... Then it blew away.
SANDS OF TIME being the name of his REALM.
"Wasn't last time some holographic digits? Which wrote, "DIALS OF TIME"?" SAGE asked looking at the sand fade away.
"He changes the name of his REALM based on the gate that he uses. A weird REALM indeed" S replies. Well I'll be on my way now. You three have fun".
His body turns into black strings of sound waves from his foot and moves into a black box which appeared underneath him.
"I wonder who the 7th person was. WIS must be tired". He whispers to himself as he fades away into his GOD REALM... "VOLUMES".
"And that's all of them... Alright let's begin". WIS says turning to SAGE.
"Oi. Number 7 you can come out now".
"Cool then, just leave". WIS adds.
~{WHAT DO YOU WANT WIS?}~
A voice replies from the empty spaces of the hall.
"What do I want? Are you for real?"
~{IF YOU GOT NOTHING TO SAY, THEN LEAVE ME TO DO MY JOB}~
"Oh, sorry I interrupted your job of eavsdropping in other gods s..."
~{THAT'S ENOUGH OUT OF YOU.
PREPARE THE MESSAGE TO THE ABSENT GODS FOR GOM GOM.
EXCEPT YOU WANT DECEIT TO COME AFTER YOU.
HAHA}~
SAGE and WIS sit on the first level which was now the only level left.
With both of their seats floating in the center, they began.
"TO THE ABSENT GODS AND TO ALL GODS OF SOMETHING TO COME.
I WIS, THE GOD OF WISDOM HAS DECIDED TO HOLD A TOURNAMENT OF GODS FOR EVERY GOD WILLING TO PARTAKE IN IT.
THE WINNER OF THIS TOURNAMENT WILL BECOME RULER OVER EVERY SINGLE GOD.
MYSELF INCLUDED.
NOW, BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON JOINING OR DECLINING THE OFFER, HERE ME OUT.
THE TOURNAMENT WILL HOLD AFTER EVERY SINGLE GOD OF SOMETHING TO COME HAS PUT THEIR ENERGY INTO ONE OF THESE TWO ORBS SAGE WILL BRING TO YOU.
THE ORB ON THE LEFT IS A YES LET IT HOLD AND I MAY JOIN.
THE ORB ON THE RIGHT IS A NO.
THE TOURNAMENT IS GOING TO BE A BATTLE TILL ONE GOD DIES.
BEFORE I MENTION WHAT THE PRIZE IS FOR THE WINNER ALLOW ME TO THROW IN A WARNING FROM THE GOD OF FORESIGHT.
"SOMETHING OMINOUS IS COMING".
THIS WAS HIS WARNING TO US IF WE AGREED TO GO ON. WITH THIS TOURNAMENT.
HE SAYS, HE WAS UNABLE TO SEE A FUTURE WHERE THE REWARD FOR THIS TOURNAMENT EXISTED.
WELL, THAT WAS BECAUSE I PREVENTED ANYONE FROM KNOWING HOW THE TOURNAMENT WILL GO.
AFTER ALL, THE PRIZE IS WAY TOO BIG TO LET SOMEONE KNOW BEFORE I ANNOUNCED IT IN THE GATHERING AT THE HALL OF GODS.
I KNOW A LOT OF YOU LEFT IN ANNOYANCE TO MY WORDS.
BUT FEEL FREE TO JOIN OR DECLINE AFTER HEARING THIS.
THE WINNER OF THE TOURNAMENT SHALL BE GIVING PART OF THE GOD ESSENCE OF EVERY GOD.
THEY SHALL ASSIMILATE IT AND BECOME THE GOD OF EVERYTHING.
THANK YOU".
"Why didn't you tell them about JUSTICE?" SAGE asks as a white ball merges with his throat region.
"Are you dumb? You'll join if they find out they won't be themselves anymore. Only those present here, are to know. Also it's not 100% certain that they'll forget who they once were considering what we now know from THE GOD OF SECRETS". He replied.
"I see... I'll be taking my leave then. Do not do anything that'll force me to come back here without meeting every GOD OF SOMETHING TO COME". He replies as he stands up and puts the two GOD CALL ORBs which WIS had now duplicated and linked to the ones he had, into his pocket dimension for keeping physical messages.
SAGE leaves the HALL OF GODS from an opening ETON created underneath him.
He bids both ETON and WIS a goodbye till he returns.
~{HEY WHAT ABOUT ME?}~
A "FUCK OFF" message appears as the hole closed.
"HAHA, he hates you". ETON says laughing.
"Probably not as much as me". WIS says.
~{BOTH OF YOU ARE CRAZY}~
"Heard that a lot. I'm tired of hearing it now" WIS replies.
"Isn't it, YOU SCARY BASTARD. They normally say... HAHA"
~{PFFT}~
"Seriously you two are helpless".
"Oi. Are you joining the TOURNAMENT OF GODS?"
~{YOU KNOW I'M JOINING.
I SHOULD BE ASKING YOU IF YOU'RE JOINING.
OR SHOULD I SAY, IS THE GOD CREATING THE GOD ESSENCE ORB AND THE ARENA ALLOWED TO JOIN THIS TOURNAMENT?}~
"WIS, has a plan for making sure I don't cheat".
~{THAT'S TRUE...
WHERE IS HE WIS?}~
"Yea, where is he?"
~{WHERE IS ...}~ "JUSTICE?" Asked ETON and THE GOD OF...