The Adventures of Rose Hood

The beast kingdom wasn’t too far, so we were able to make it there quickly.

“Ah brother in Ausar, what are you doing with these repulsive beasts.”

Darsen was confused.

“I don’t see any repulsive beasts, unless you mean Jacob.”

“HEY!!!”

“The Humans. They are servants of Silith.”

…

“We don’t serve Silith.”

“LORD AUSAR WILL JUDGE YOU!!!”

A birdkin sleeping on a bench snapped awake.

“HUH what where am I? Oh, hi Celios.”

He went back to sleep. Then his eyes snapped open.

“WAIT CELIOS?!”

Celios snickered.

“I don’t really think he’s fit to judge. Useless hobo.”

Ausar blushed.

“Shut it!!!”

“That’s definitely the less impressive of the two.”

Ausar gaped at Darsen, who just said that his eternal rival was more impressive. Then Ausar started crying.

“Even my own people are against me.”

“That’s not true!”

“We love you Lord Ausar.”

Ausar stood up and basked in the worship.

Thalia looked irritated.

“Can I punch him?”

Celios nodded.

“Go right ahead.”

Thalia punched him in the gut, causing him to keel over. All while carrying me.

The people gasped, and Ausar complained.

“No fair.”

Celios sighed.

“How are you even a candidate for the throne? You’re too immature.”

“I don’t want to hear that from you.”

He stuck out his tongue and Celios ignored him.

“Excuse me citizen, which way is the Palace?”

The wolfkin pointed.

“Thank you.”

Celios grabbed ahold of Ausar’s collar and started dragging him to the Palace.

Then a catkin spoke.

“If I had a copper for every time Lord Ausar got folded by a dragon, I’d have two coppers, which isn’t much, but it’s odd that it happened twice.”

We followed Celios.

_

“So, Kala isn’t a good person?”

“Nope, she even lied about her aspect. She’s the god of lies, not good.”

“Hmm. I knew it.”

“No, you didn’t.”

“No, I didn’t.”

It was very disappointing. I kind of assumed that the being that could give someone like Silith that much trouble would be more impressive, unfortunately, we had this guy.

“How does he even give Silith trouble?”

Celios answered.

“Because in terms of raw power, he is the strongest, he’s just vain to a fault.”

That made sense.

“So, I assume you talked to Silith?”

“Yes, he also mentioned that the being you summoned from another world could help.”

“I doubt it, it’s just a human, she can’t even cast magic.”

“Could I meet her?”

“Why not?”

“So, where is she?”

“AMY!!!”

A human stepped out, and she looked nervous.

“Hi, my name is Amy Faust, how are you?”

Thalia stared.

“YOUR SO PRETTY!!!”

She gave a tackle hug, dropping me, but Darsen caught me.

Amy was freaking out.

“Oh sorry, I get overexcited.”

“You’re telling me.”

She realized, she looked at me with a sheepish smile.

“Sorry…”

“Uh huh.”

_

“So, you came from a world called earth?”

“Yeah, I was walking with a friend of mine when I woke up here.”

“Unfortunate.”

Ausar spoke.

“You can take her if you want.”

“What?”

“I was trying to get someone to take her, but no one wanted her as a slave.”

We glared at him.

“Are you okay with joining our group?”

Thalia smiled motherly to the girl. I saw Asura looking at her in an… interesting way.

It seemed Thalia’s feelings were reciprocated.

“Yeah, I’m fine with joining you guys, until I can find a way back to my world.”

“Wonderful, let’s go!!!”

Thalia maintained her hyperactivity all the way to the gate. She was carrying me again. Despite this, she skipped.

We exited the gate and Thalia transformed.

“HOLY ****!!!”

As we expected, she was sc-

“IS SHE A MOTHER****ING DRAGON?! WOAH!!!”

Okay? She was excited.

She got on Thalia’s back, and we began to fly. Then she began screaming in fear.

“Look over, you’ll see from a dragon’s view.”

“I’m going to fall and die.”

“You’re scared of heights?”

“No, of course not. I’m scared of falling from said heights.”

“AH I KNOW HOW TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER!!! DO JUMPING JACKS!!!”

Asura started doing jumping jacks on Thalia’s back. Amy looked at him as though he was going to die.

“I’m going to vomit.”

“Do it off of my back please. Scales are hard to clean.”

“If I look down, I will vomit.”

Amy looked around with terror.

“Lord Almighty protect me.”

“Who are you praying to?”

“The main God in my world. He will protect me.”

Celios smirked.

“If He’s anything like the gods here, I’d rather not meet Him.”

I spoke.

“Celios, you are a god.”

“Yeah, and I’m a jack*** what’s your point?”

“Fair.”

She laughed,

“No, if He was part of this pantheon, I suppose He’d be called the God of Love.”

“So, He was the romantic type.”

“Nope, hm… see it more like how a father loves his children. God is like that.”

“What’s his name?”

“He has a lot.”

“Okay.”

“We’re here.”

I looked down and saw a forest that I’d only seen before as a child.

“Haven.”

_

Amy POV

I still was having trouble comprehending this. It was a week since I was summoned here. From what I understood, there was a pantheon of gods that interacted with the people here.

The one who summoned me was a god named Ausar.

He was a bit of a jerk, and upon realizing I had no magic potential, he cast me down and tried to sell me to the highest bidder.

Everyone in the kingdom admired him, but he was an immature idiot.

He acted like a spoiled brat who thought everything, and everyone, should go his way.

When Thalia, the dragon, tackled me, I felt safe. She seemed to emit safety in her looks. Besides, she was so cool.

Dallel, the disabled elf, seemed to be the leader, he had been crippled in a recent battle with a god.

Celios, another god, made me feel uncomfortable, but at least he realized he was bad.

The only other one I learned the name of was Asura, he was terrifying, a human like me, but he was as strong as Thalia if not stronger.

I learned that the mission was to meet with the Nature god and get her to bless Dallel so he could evolve and properly fight against the mother of gods named Kala.

I was still worried about Amanda, and I hoped she was fine. Her book made her receive so much hate that I was terrified that she would get hurt while I was away.

What happened to Heather was bad enough; I couldn’t stand it if it happened to Amanda too.