I walked down the halls of the large academy alone. Story of my life. Let me start with an introduction. Zane. I belong to the southern clan. My surname, or clan name, is Lonely storm. Funny name. Here, the four great clans rule all four parts of the world. This grand academy, or Scornwall, is the stitching that pieces them together. It's the biggest castle you will ever see. Now, the reason i'm alone here is because there was an evacuation. I'm alone because all the students have gone. I'm here because I gotta take out the trash. I listened closely. There were people hiding in dorms and classrooms. Students. where were the little varmints.
I sighed and leaned against the wall. I had entered the cafeteria and was standing against the wall next to the door. I didn't bother checking for life here. Why would rebel insurgents be hiding in the kitchen.
"Freeze!" I heard from right behind the counter. Apparently, they do like hiding there.
I looked at them with my harsh gaze as five of them swept the room. All had assault rifles aimed constantly at me. I didn't flinch.
"Get away from the wall. Now! Drop any equipment you have on you." Said what appeared to be the leader of this group. I did so and held up my arms, taking off my uniform coat. It was pure white with blue and black lining. I threw it to one, who reached out a hand to grab it. In no time, wind swirled around me and my physical body disappeared. Before they could even jump I caught my jacket, put it on, and swung my foot to trip that very soldier. As he fell I caught his arm, stopping him. I stood stock still as they all reacted.
"What the hell?! How did you do that?" I looked at him, seeing my own ice blue eyes in his reflection. I winked, then threw the man in a way his body flipped over mid-air and he was facing the cieling. I swung my arm in an arc, the same arm I grabbed his hand with, and slammed his body down, hitting him straight in the chest. A resounding crack was heard, and he didn't get back up.
I straightened up slowly, looking at each individual.
"F-fire!" The leader yelled.. I took a running pose as the bullets started raining. Wind covered me up once again, and I disappeared. All around the soldiers electricity crackled, and the guns either exploded, broke apart, or jammed up. I appeared again, an inch away from the leader. He jumped back and pulled out a handgun. Pathetic. He aimed it at my forehead, shaking.
"Drop your gun. Or do you want to end up with your ribs in your lungs like I did to that fellow?" I gestured with my thumb to the man still on the ground. I looked him straight in the eyes, unrelenting in my gaze. He finally obeyed and dropped his gun.
"We surrender." I blinked at him.
"Surrender? You cannot surrender to me. I don't take prisoners." He was about to protest when wind blasted from me out into all directions. The men fell down.
"I don't like to take lives either." I said as one of them breathed in their sleep. This is why I didn't like humans. They were too weak.
"If you wanted to knock them out quickly, then you should have done so quietly." I heard from behind me. I turned to see an enormous man, his arms bristling with muscles.
"You know i'm not the quiet type, Horus." I said, turning around to face him. "Where's Anubis?"
"Funeral. You know how he likes to act." He rolled his eyes. He and Anubis were twins, but they couldn't be more opposite. One represented light, the other darkness. One is Gold, the other silver.
"You haven't answered my question. Why do you waste time with them?"
"Them?"
"Humans." He said, as if the word stung his tongue every time he said it.
"That does not involve you. Now leave me be."
"How can I leave you be? That is impossible, and you know it."
"Then do not waste my time." I walked out, my black hair swishing with how fast I turned around.
"This wasn't your assignment."
"Why should I follow her words? She's gone. Leave me be." Him mentioning the assignment set something turning in my stomach.
"We know how you feel Zane. We all do." Then I snapped.
"No. You. Don't!" As I said the last word, lightning shot out from every direction. He simply blinked, the lightning heading for him suddenly veer away. Around him was a circle of light.
"Right. Well, your company will arrive and I prefer not to be here when they do." Gold wings sprouted from his back, and he was gone. Thank goodness. I dispersed as well as an assembly of teachers and guards stormed in. I didn't look back.
I was outside on the patio, right behind a truck full of police officers.
I whistled, which made them jump. They had all been waiting around, eyeing the Academy.
"Five of them were taken out. I'm not sure if there were any others, but they had big guns." I informed them. They still gawked at me until the chief shook his head and ordered them around. The most of the group went in while others called in for more vehicles. I didn't wait to see them finish. I left...
... And reappeared in a mountain range hundreds of miles away. A storm was brewing, and I let the raindrops hit my face, closing my eyes and letting them cool me down. It didn't take long for the rain to turn to ice. I didn't move, and eventually the hail avoided me, hitting the ground all around me save for where I was standing. I checked my left wrist and saw that my Gizmo was still attached to it.
The Gizmo was our latest technological achievement. It was a phone capable of everything a PC can do, as well as a self defense mechanism. I tapped on it, and found I had ten missed messages. All from my friends. Or what I would call friends. Horus left the most messages. Aside from him it was Athena.
Now, you might be wondering why we are all called the same names. Horus, the Egyptian god, along with Anubis. Athena, who might I say wasn't the only one, from Greek myth. Well, there is an explanation for all this.
We are what we call ourselves. What you say mythology is our daily lives. Horus is an Egyptian god, the vengeful son, and I am Mjölnir, the Hammer of the Norish gods.
You might be asking how this is possible, and the answer is simple. Some few believe. We are not immortal, like humans say they are. Instead, each time we die, we will always come back. It is one simple rule: reincarnation. When we die, think of a video game. We respawn. With new memories. Yet we always find each other, no matter where we are. We only retain our memories after we see each other.
I sighed, closing my eyes as the smallest droplets landed on my face. We only had one rule, one law that we must follow, or we will cease to exist all together. We must not show ourselves to the human race. Something like that will be catastrophic. In my most recent memories, I only know that I revealed the secret to a mortal once.
That cost me too much.
I sighed as I felt each cell in my entire body quiver and dissipate as I became one with the storm. It was a small one, not the worst I have seen.
By the way, you can thank me for hurricane Katrina. Kinda.
I moved the storm the way I wanted it too, flying just low enough. I didn't want to end up in the territory of the Sky.
I re-materialized in the streets of a nearby town. While I was inside the storm, I had no concept of time, and by the time I made it out, it was already night.
The town was apparently more of a village, located in West side of America in California. A town named Wrightwood. It was night, and the temperature was dropping quickly. I walked towards a nearby bench outside a restaurant. Sitting down, I flipped up the collar of my coat, looking up as the storm went by. The chill went all the way to my bones. I looked through the storm, at the molecules of water and electrons.
"So the mighty hammer of the gods just likes to swim through storms huh?" I looked around, but no one was there.
"Do you know how hard it is to track a storm? That is, if Aeolus hadn't helped me find you. He kinda makes the call on those."
I closed my eyes, reaching out with my other senses. There.
"I see you've gotten better at stealth, Vidar." I said.
"Not good enough apparently. You still figured out it was me."
"Anyone who knows you long enough can figure it out. They can also figure out that you don't come at all unless there's a quest behind it."
"You can read me well. We got something new, and the higher ups don't really like it."
"Wanna give me an explanation?"
"... It's a hybrid. The first of our existence." I froze at that, quite literally. Sheets of i.e. Glossed over my hands and started running up my arms.
I opened my eyes to see a figure in shadow next to me. I stared at him, unbelieving.
"Hybrid of what?"
"We don't know. That's why we need you, hammer." He said. "We have some Deities missing, and a couple Aspects as well. We only have a little information as to what took it, and what for, but we believe it has to do with the hybrid. Your job goes like this: either find all the missing Deities and Aspects, or find the hybrid. After that..."
"I got it." I said. I stood up arching my back and flexing my right shoulder. "This hybrid you speak of, does it have a name?"
"Yeah." He looked to the side for a moment. "The one you're looking for." I saw violet eyes stare at me.
"His name is Index."