Xander stopped sharply in the darkness whatever or whoever had brought him to where he was wanted him there now. He looked around in the empty expanse and found nothing no demons no hot fires no tortured soles anything. Just an endless expanse of nothing and that scared him more than stories of the pit ever did. To simply exist in nothing to never touch or feel, to never hear music or the sounds of nature to just exist in this empty expanse going mad over time in the suffocating nothing. Until he herd it an old wise voice that came from all around him
"Hello childe"
"Who are you?" he asked uneasily
"My name is Odin I was king of the gods in this realm before the fall" the voice sounded so old grandfatherly full of wisdom and sadness he couldn't help but ask
"Is there anything I can do to help?"
"No childe my time has come and pass my people pray to a new god now" the voice lamented "but why are you hear this is where gods go to die"
Xander looked at the wise old voices direction
"I sacrificed my life to close a portal to hell but ended up hear" he said
"Why did you do that by the look of you I sense no grate destiny no grate power and no influence of other gods save a small spark of residual chaos energy from Janus but you are not a chosen just a normal mortal" the voice said in a soft voice that had such intensity you could feel it reverberating through to his very soul
"I didn't have any faith in the chosen one who refused to do her duty " he explained "all because she fell in love with a demon in human form, a vampire named Angle who had bin cursed with a soul, his human self a was drunkard layabout named Liam who was turned on his 25th birthday after being thrown out of a tavern, a man who delighted in deflowering young girls who would spend the rest of there lives being known as scarlet women" he spat in rage "she had sex with the animated corpse he lost his soul and began his reign of terror anew, Angelus was… is a monster who delighted in taking the hope from his victims taking the family the friends every one that they held dear and delighting in there suffering" he ran his hand through his hair "she had multiple opportunities to kill the thing but refused because she still loved the thing and in the end she just couldn't get the job done, because of her love for the creature the man I saw as a father to me lost his love a woman who was as close to a mother to me as any I had ever met, so as my friend tried to resoul him something I was against I tried to ensure that the thing died for vengeance and for justice but I failed and before she hit the final blow the soul curse worked and she took her lover away after he opened a portal to hell she refused her duty to seal it so I did sacrificing my self to close the portal but ended up hear" he said in his rage he didn't notice lightning forming around him and cascading from his eyes like a thunderstorm.
"It seems my young friend that you have bin hear too long and have begun to absorb the ambient power from fallen gods" said the voice Xander could notice a shift around him a grate power was moving and began to form a body "mortals should not be hear for any long period of time lest they begin to ascend to god hood and die hear, I can already see much of my sons in you Thor's nobility Loki's prankster like humour Baldur's logic and Tyr's wrath and Heimdall's want to protect every one even at the ultimate cost and that was before your time hear" the energy formed an old frail looking man who had the look of nobility about him. Even in the state he was in looking centres old he still had that royal look in his one eye.
He was almost skeletal but you could see he used to have the body of a champion power lifter, he was bald on the top of his head but had ling gray hair cascading down his back his eye was in set and around it there were heavy bags his Merlin like beard was matted the remnants of his once beautiful and regal clothes coved his body.
"It seams that you, my friend are becoming a high father" he said Xander looked at him with a blank stair "a god king your body is absorbing a tremendous amount of power if you stay hear any longer you may never leave"