inanis journey[new]

{Not Freya pov}

 

After Freya left, Inanis was alone in the store, only them, sweet tea and oversized cupcakes.

 

They weren't lonely or sad Freya left, they were eternal, what was one day compared to eternity? They were patient to say the least.

 

But they weren't sitting idly, they knew people weren’t going to visit with the strong rain but they still left the store open just in case, as they looked at the book on the counter their ears turned a darker shade of black as they blushed, they weren’t the ones at fault here! The book really started like a history book! how should they know it?

 

they didn’t want to read an erotic book in the open so they preoccupied themselves with other things; they started  to make clothes for the store, both based on their memories and based on what they saw on the people around the city.

 

they made more mannequins to put around the store and put clothes on them but also made accessories like earrings, bracelets, collars etc and put on the mannequins along putting them on the glass counters. They also made racks for clothes and started filling them slowly.

 

as they sat behind the counter making clothes with rather silly drawings on them they received a surprise, a peculiar group of people entered the store not long after they started filling the store with clothes, Inanis was in the middle of making the drawings on a t-shirt when the group appeared.

 

this group had quite the diversity of races, each one of them was a different race, one was a panther-kin woman with gray fur dressed like a priestess that gave motherly vibes.

 

There was a suspiciously beautiful elf woman dressed in green and red robes that smelt like nature.

 

Another one was a human man dressed only in shorts and had a shirt wrapped around their waist that had vibrant glowing blue hair and arcs of electricity dancing around him.

 

There was a dragon man as tall as Inanis that had a halo of fire behind his head and was dressed in black leather armor that seemed to be made of scales, his horns and below his scales glowed like red hot iron but didn’t emit heat.

 

and finally a person that wasn’t exactly male or female, they had brown skin of the color of soil with scales here and there that seemed to be stone and metal in some parts, they were dressed like a blacksmith. None of these people carried umbrellas but they weren't wet from the rain, and they seemed more… sparkly? glowy? Well, it doesn't matter really.

 

the group approached the counter but Inanis quickly raised a hand and said “one moment please” . They were busy, the shirt they were working on was good, but not perfect, they were having trouble with the drawing on the shirt.

 

But after a few seconds they moved their hands on top of the shirt, the drawing changing to the rhythm of their will.

 

Inanis picked the shirt and raised it, displaying it to the groups as Inanis asked “how is that?”.

 

The corners of the dragon man's mouth twitched into an awkward smile and the glow on his scales pulsed in slow waves, the drawing on the shirt was that of a very round cute red dragon spewing orange fire.

 

This display removed some tension from the air as the group seemed ready to attack Inanis at any moment, but despite them calming a bit it appears that the electric man has a short fuse as he immediately said loudly to the panther woman while gesturing to inanis “Why can't we just blow her to oblivion?! I am enough to do it! Even the dragon is more than capable!”

 

Inanis put the shirt down and took a sip from their tea(is this tea pot bottomless or what?!) as if the dude didn't threatened to blow them up.

 

The panther woman calmly shot him those motherly scolding glares making him shrink a bit(not literally) before she said “we came for answer, to negotiate and resolve this peacefully, not to make enemies or brew conflict”

 

They were speaking out loud on purpose, they believe that telepathic conversations would be easy to intercept for Inanis kind and because they wanted Inanis to hear it.

 

“Um, sorry to inform you but ‘blowing me up to oblivion’ would do nothing except delay me for around one day, maybe less, I am shooting high here with one day, and by ‘blowing up’ I mean complete obliteration”

 

The electric dude glared at Inanis while the rest only observed, but they weren't supposed by this information, they know it to be true as it happened before.

 

The motherly panther woman turned to Inanis and said “as I said, we came to get answer you might be able to give us, your kind is… troublesome, to say the least, through history only a few came here, but all of them came to play some incomprehensible game, some played humble and simple characters while others tried to play ‘classic demon kings’ according to them or some other nonsensical characters, such characters tried to plunder the world into chaos and death or just annoy others, their objectives varies a lot”

 

Inanis watched them with a calm face as if they knew what they were talking about, but they had no clue whatsoever.

 

She continued with a calm warm deep feminine voice “Yet, here you are, you don't wear someone's face, you don't hide or play any character, and are trying to connect with one of our people on top of that, is this some game like the other times? Do you find playing with someone's feelings amusing and funny? Do you see our children as nothing but toys to be used and discarded when you want?”

 

Her voice had a purring hint to it but when she mentioned feelings it turned into a scolding growl.

 

Inanis blinked innocently and the group could feel it, the veins on the twitchy dude forehead were almost popping. Inanis of course found this highly amusing. How would you feel if sparkly glowy(from Inanis pov) people spouted nonsense to you with a straight face for no apparent reason?

 

Inanis was holding back their laughter and managed to stay calm on the outside as they said “ I do not know about any ‘game’ my kind plays but I assure you, this” they gestured to themselves” is not a character nor I am playing any game, I do find the beings of this world highly amusing, funny and cute, specially the round hyena children, but seeing them as toys? I do not see them that way. And in regards to Freya… I did not chose to end up here, meeting them was a coincidence, but my feelings are not tricks or falsehoods, I am not playing with the feelings of others in any way”

 

The group of visitors were beyond surprised, each had its equivalent of a surprised face, Inanis didn't suspect the visitors origins to be anything extraordinary, or to be more especific, they didn't care, so they didn't knew that all members of the group could see through falsehoods and lies as easily as breathing, and the group found none on what Inanis said.

 

The elf in green and red robes leaned to the panther woman and whispered loudly with a voice that reminded of the wind passing by a tree foliage “they don't seem to have that evil and corrupting aura they usually have” it was a rather comical sight, but they were acting all serious, the panther woman just gave a nod.

 

Then the dragon dude spoke to the group with a deep rumbling voice “do you think they just happen to end up here coincidentally, where their Hak-lotcha just happens to be?” It was not a sarcastic question, he spoke seriously and didn't even try to lower his voice.

 

The blacksmith looking dude-gal spoke in a voice that was neither too feminine nor too masculine(who would have guessed?) “when dealing with their kind there are no coincidences, you can't take chances as you are always on the losing side, they may be telling the truth, but it might not be so simple as ‘coincidentally' appearing here”

 

Inanis added “I said the truth, but I myself do not believe I was dropped here by ‘accident’ or by ‘coincidence’, but who or what dropped me here is a mystery to me, I do not even know how or why, so I can not give you answers in regards to that, do you have more questions? Want some clothes? I can make clothes with nice cute drawings on them, I also made cupcakes, buy clothes and receive a cupcake as a gift ”

 

The honesty again surprised them, they mostly ignored the clothes part, well, except the dragon man, he asked seriously “do these clothes come with drawings similar to the one you showed us earlier?”

 

All eyes of the group snapped to the dragon man, with the panther woman being the most composed and calm while the outlet dude being the most surprised and twitchy as he asked while stomping his feet and all “you can't be serious, right? We came here to kill her!”

 

The blacksmith person corrected them “if they were evil and a danger to the world” they turned to Inanis “Say, are these silks your strongest ones? We might become business partners if you can sell them, none of those that came before you revealed much about themselves, nor stayed enough to make business, so pardon us for our curiosity”

 

The zappy dude snapped their head to the genderless person at lightning speeds with arcs of electricity dancing between his fingers, he was itching to throw a bolt at the blacksmith, but a glare from the panther woman shut him down.

 

Inanis answered the dragon man first “these are just pre made clothes, as long you show me what you want or describe it well I can make any drawings you want, and I will not rise the price because of the drawings, unless you keep asking me to change it like a hundred times, it requires some effort and energy”

 

Inanis turned to the blacksmith and said calmly “it is no problems, but even if they stayed long enough you probably would not learn much useful stuff, each of us are quite unique, so you will not find the same one two times, I probably have and will have vastly different abilities from my predecessors. and these are not my strongest silk, if my weakest is 1 and my strongest is 100, these are around 43, but as my abilities are on their infancy so they still will grow a lot”

 

the blacksmith said “interesting” but as they were going to continue with a business proposal the electric man screamed to the group “Interesting?! are you guys serious??!! the last one who came almost wiped humanity! because of some stupid game and some stupid sense of amusement! do you guys think they are some harmless Lizz!?”

 

the dude with anger issues was actually the youngest and weakest on the group but he had potential, but because of his young age, he didn’t knew the horrors of outer gods, the last one who visited this world tried to kill all and only humans for some stupid reason, but after he was “”””””“defeated”””””” by a “hero” he left, so this young god knows they are dangerous, very dangerous, but not how much.

 

Inanis tried to de-escalate the situation “calm down, you do not need to worry, i-” but they were interrupted by the young god “Shut up!” he screamed as he shot a warning bolt towards inanis, he planned for it to only graze Inanis, and as he is the second fastest there, the group had no time to react, when they realized what he did, and when he realized it, it was too late, their blood ran cold and the blacksmith barely had time to put a barrier behind Inanis so that the bolt do not go straight through half the city.

 

the young god accidentally put too much force on it; what was supposed to only graze and stun inanis actually hit their left horn, completely shattering it along taking a chunk of the left side of their head, black flesh, bone and even blacker blood spread behind Inanis creating a mess.

 

on the outside, the group of gods seemed calm and just appeared frozen for a moment, but in actuality, they couldn’t be panicking more, the moment they realized what happened they started preparing a spell to teleport every single soul in a 10000 kilometer radius to the other side of the planet just in case, the youngest god couldn’t know about it but the last time they battled a outer god…lets just say there were more gods back then.

 

but to their absolute shock and dread, inanis started… laughing, still with a chunk of their head missing, this time, their laugh sounded like the bells that signals the end of the world, it smelt of every possible emotion, and tasted of something the group couldn’t put their finger on what it was, the blood on the older gods ran colder and colder, because, they knew that when one of them starts laughing like that, it means they found a new toy… a toy they will play until it breaks or they get bored of it.

 

inanis laughed for exactly 13 seconds, but for the gods, it seemed like centuries, long tense centuries, they knew the best moment to evacuate the civilians was when inanis attacked as they would be focused on the gods, so they waited, those long,  agonizingly slow 13 seconds would decided the fate of the major pantheons and change the world as a whole, again.

 

but when the laughter stopped, what came was not an attack, but a few chuckles, before inanis spoke to them. but no-instead of the silky warm motherly and mature voice inanis usually has, what came out was something else, no, not those deep and and demonic voices, but instead, what came out was the voice of a thousand worlds, each voice belonging to a individual unique person, each word that was spoken, was like if the person spread out a single phrase throughout their entire lives, a thousand world, trillions of beings, every age, every sex, every species, millions of languages and even more dialects.

 

the young god knew he fucked up when he heard it, despair and the weight of the voice started to settle in his heart, and the older gods were not faring any better.

 

using this voice that somehow was emitting pure amusement, it was so much you could put it in numbers, it was so thick you could almost touch it with your eyes.

 

inanis said “i was going to say ‘you do not need to worry, i pose no danger whatsoever… unless provoked’”

 

what do you think was the reaction of the gods upon hearing this? they gulped down a mouthful of dry nothing and think ‘FUCK!’