ACT 2. The Godmakers
Authors note: sorry for taking sooooooo long to get this up and to be honest, I was just being lazy, but I'll try to push out more chapters!!!
No lie, I didn't know what I was getting into when me and sweet walked through the mirror. Was it a portal to another world? To another dimension? Or right on the Godmakers doorstep? But my questions were soon answered as I opened my eyes.
We were somewhere alright. The place look dreamlike; stars everywhere, big and vast, but most importantly, there were other minors all over, or more liked placed neatly next to each other, they were also somehow floating in mid air. This place was more like a hallway, with mirrors as far as the eye can see, it definitely gave the feeling that this entire place was man made.
"Wow, this place looks amazing!" Sweet said as she let go of my hand and walked around.
"Yeah it is, but it's big as well, how are we suppose to know where to go?"
I looked at sweet, only to see her gazing off into the distance, as if she sees something of interest, I tried to see what she was looking at, but I saw nothing. I walked up to her and snapped my fingers in her face.
"Hu? What? Oh yeah,that map might help us. Maybe there's a clue we missed." She then pulled out the map that brought us to the mirror on the asteroid and looked over it until she found something.
"Ha! Look at this, on the back ther are some numbers, maybe it's to tell which mirror to go through." She then turned the map around to show; sure enough there were number: 1193.
"Ok then, but where are the numbers on the mirror then? I don't see them anywhere on any of the mirrors." It was true, nowhere on the mirrors had numbers on them.
"Hmm maybe..." sweet then walked over to one of the mirrors and flipped it around, surprisingly the mirrors had a backside! With numbers on the back.
"2198..." She then walked over to the mirror to her left and flipped it, revealing the numbers 2196.
"Ok, so it looks like we need to starts heading to the left right now." She said, pointing down the hallway.
So we headed off, flipping mirrors one in a while. After what seemed to be 10 to 15 minutes later we found the mirror with 1193 on the back.
"So, this is it hu? Do we just Walt's in and introduce ourselves to the other side?" To be honest I was kinda afraid of what would be on the other side.
"I see no other option, besides, if my mom had a map leading to this place then it must have somthing important on the other side." She said confidently.
She then grabbed my hand and squeezed it tight. I then started to feel confident as well, I looked at her and nodded. We then faced the mirror and walked through.
When we made it to the other side I immediately felt like something was off, like, I was the same person but in a different body; I then squeeze sweets hand and it felt off, I then looked at sweet and she looked different! Her body kinda looked like what It did before we walked through the mirror but she was...she was...was more smooth, her armor looked smooth as well, and her hair looked like thin colored strings was attached to her head! She then looked at me and her face immediately looked shocked and let go off my hand.
"Emmet, yooou look different."
I then looked down at myself and I was different as well! My body and clothes were smooth, and I touched my hair and it felt like string as well. And then I noticed something: my hands felt completely off! I then looked at my hands to see instead of my classic C shape hands, I see what I can only describe as long and thick straws attached to a deformed square. I was panicking a bit at this point and I could tell sweet was at the very least confused at what was going on. Then out of nowhere a voice appeared.
"Where did you two come from and how did you find this place?" The person speaking had a British accent and sounded very displeased that were where here.
Confused, we started to look around to see where the voice was coming from. We were in what seemed to be a waiting room. The walls, ceiling, and floor were white while the only other color was two red couches facing each other with a black table in between them. Then at the end of the room, there was a brown door with an intercom right next to it that we guessed is where the voice is coming from. We then approached the intercom where the voice repeated its question.
"I repeat: Where did you two come from and how did you find this place? If you don't answer me soon I'll have to force you two out off here." The voice started to sound more angry by the minute.
Sweet then walked up to the intercom and press the button to speak.
"We come from the sisstar—"
"No no I ment what mirror you came from?" The voice said as he interrupted her.
"Huh?" Sweet was confused at first but immediately understood what he ment.
" Oh, um, were from mirror 2197." She said this and there was a moment of silence until the voice came back on.
"And exactly how did you found this place?" The voice demanded.
I was the one to speak up this time.
"We followed a map to a asteroid where the mirror was, then when we got to that mirror hallway place we noticed the numbers 1193 on the back of the map and so we went looking for the mirror that had the numbers, thus finding this place."
"And where did you get this map?"
"We got this map from a box my mother gave me." Sweet spoke again.
There was silence again until the voice asked:
"What's your name miss?"
Sweet then replied with her full name. "Sweet glitter mayhem."
"And...why are you here?" The voice asked confusingly as if he heard the name before.
"Because a cult named the Godmakers attacked and almost kidnaped me at a wedding." I said kind of stirn yet calm.
For the third time silence fell and was quickly broken when the voice spoke.
"Please have a seat and wait." The voice instructed.
And so we followed and went to the red couches and sat The the one that was facing the door. We waited for a while until the brown door opened and two figures walked through and sat at the couch across from us. The One on the left had an average body built, a small beard, a sharp jaw, green eyes, a normal nose, and a fade haircut, for what he wore he had a simple red shirt, blue pants, black shoes and socks, and wore a gold ring on his right hand. The one on the right however was more big and round when it came to his body, had a chubby face, had no hint of a beard, brown eyes, and middle length blond hair, he wore a dark green shirt, brown cargo shorts, and had blue sneakers and white shocks. Then, the one on the left spoke.
"So, you're sweet mayhem we presume?" He looked at sweet, and for some reason he had a look you would give to someone who had a lost in there family.
"Yes and who are you guys?" She asked, confused as to why her name brought there attention.
"My name is Jacob and this big man over here is Milla. And we are the men of business."
"And what do you guys do?" I ask, hoping it would shed some light on how they have this whole waiting room. And Milla was the one to speak.
"We can do any job, if the price is right." He then handed us a card that had there business name and there phone numbers.
"So you guys are basically mercenaries?" Sweet said in a sour tone.
"We don't kill people for money if that what's you're thinking." Milla retorted in an annoyed tone.
"Ok, both of you calm down, Milla, we should have expected this sine her father didn't want to tell her about us."
"Wait, you knew my father?" Sweets eyes go wide when they mentioned her father.
Then Jacob took out a photo and placed it on the table. The photo was of the two men and a third person, Jacob on the left, Milla on the right, and the third person being in the middle. The third person had blue hair, blue eyes, and pale skin, him and the other two were all wearing some sort of armor.
Sweet looked at the photo for a moment and didn't say anything. Nobody said anything for a while.
"How did my dad die?" Sweet said out of the blue.
"What?" Jacob said, surprise that sweet asked that question.
"I SAID HOW DID HE DIE!" Sweet got up and started yelling.
"WHAT? You think I'm stupid? 1. My Dad went away one day and NEVER came back. 2. My mom has a box, two amulets, and a map leading to a mirror and THIS PLACE! and 3. Here you guy are with your stupid mopy faces and giving me a picture WITH YOU GUYS AND MY DAD! ITS NOT THAT HARD TO CONNECT THE DOTS!"
Sweet was yelling at the top of her lungs, but I can see that she was fighting back tears.
"Sweet calm down and look at me." I got up, grabbed her face and turned her head to look at me.
"I know you're dealing with a lot of emotions right now but please, calm down, and let them talk."
Sweet looked at me for a moment and sat back down, still fighting back tears. I nodded at Jacob and Milla to talk.
"You sure you want to know?" Milla asked concerned.
Sweet gave a simple nod. So Jacob started to tell the story.
" your father worked for us for a while, even when you were still in your mother's womb. We were like best friends, he would always lift our spirits up, he always did his job and did them the best he could. One day, we sent him out on a job to deliver a cargo wagon; we didn't hear from him for days, so we new something was up. When we went to the world where the job was held, and we went searching for him, but we where too late. We found him next to a destroyed cart, lying in a middle of a Godmakers eye symbol, dead."
When he finished the story, he reached his hand out for the photo that was on the table, but sweet stopped him by placing her hand on the photo.
"Is it ok if I take the photo with me? Please?" Makeup started to streak down her face.
"Of course, go ahead." Milla replied, sounding heart broken by the whole ordeal.
Sweet then took the photo, fold it up and placed it in her pocket.
"Sorry to be that guy that suddenly changed the subject but... Emmet? Mind telling us about the people who tried to kidnap you?, we can talk in another room upstairs." Jacob said, obviously feeling ashamed for changing the subject during a tense moment.
"Quick version: I was at a wedding, everything was fine until everyone around me went out cold. Then someone appears on the platform where the newly weds were, but before he could even take a step he clenched his stomach and round down the stairs,I went over to help him but he kept warning me about a man wearing a bird cage as a hat, and soon these strange flowers burst out of his chest. No long later a man named Neco came over to me and had a couple of knights surrounding me, soon a raptor came over, only to then turn into a man with a bird cage for a hat, who called himself Dargons. They told me The were the Godmakers and that I was a god for some reason; soon some knights grabbed me and forced me to look at this device. I would have been a goner if mayhem hadn't came in the nick of time." I then took Sweets hand in mine, and she smiled a bit.
"You're right, if mayhem didn't come rescue you, you most likely had been a goner, because the two men you met, Neco and Dargon, are in fact the leaders of the Godmakers." Jacob said, in a serious tone, suggesting that he had seen what they can do.
"Yeah I'm pretty sure that I deduce that, but what I'm wondering, what's the history behind them?"
Milla then spoke up.
"The Godmakers existed for a long time,They use to fallow three gods that they made: Chemshar, Rudabeh, and Harclees, they soon grew a massive following, they were able to take down kingdoms, citys, worlds with ease."
"If there so powerful, why haven't they simply taken overt my world then to get me?" I asked.
"Simple.." Jacob spiked up, "Out of no where there gods started dying off, one by one, and no longer support by there gods, the words they took over fought back."
"How come there back all of a sudden?" Sweet said, with some makeup running down her cheeks.
"We don't know honestly, when there gods died and they lost the words they took over, people started to have doubts and left, soon there entire cult was flung in chaos and was never heard from again in over 20-30 years." The man in the intercom bud in.
"Like what he said, they basically collapsed into nothing and was never heard from again." Jacob said while getting up.
"Well we don't mind you guys staying here for a while until the heat is off of your guys backs ." Milla said as well while getting up.
"What? You just what us to wait the problem out? If these guys are such a big problem should we be doing our best to stop them?" I said, in a more aggressive tone.
Milla started to chuckle a bit.
"Wait, seriously? Do you even know what your asking of us? Your asking us, two guys and a mad genius, to go agents an entire cult? One who took over entire worlds before? Sorry, but we don't stand the slightest chance." Milla said as he started to walk out of the room.
"Milla has a point, we've given up the whole world traveling gig a long time ago, so with the resources we have, we really don't have a chance." Jacob said, fallowing Milla.
"What about my father?" Mayhem said.
Both Jacob and Milla stopped in their tracks.
"Didn't you say my father was a best friend to you guys? If so, then you guys are terrible friends. My father died and your guys respond with just quitting and sitting on your buttts for the rest of your life?" Mayhem said standing up.
"Listen, I know where your coming from bu..."
"No, she's right." Jacob interrupted Milla.
"What?" Milla ask confused.
"Her father, was our friend, it's was wrong for us to just abandon him like that." Jacob then walked over to Milla and put his hands on his shoulders.
"This is our chance to make things right, and prevent other people from suffering like they had, So I'm in." Jacob said heroically.
"Thank you." Mayhem said softly.
"You in Milla?" I ask.
Milla stood in silence for a moment befor coming to his conclusion.
"Fine, I'm in, but we still need to do a lot of things if we even want to stand the slightest chance again them."
"Agreed, I say we start with trying to find out what we can about the Godmakers." The intercom spoke.
"Well I'm the general for a queen if that helps." Mayhem suggested.
"True that would but I don't think it's a good idea to start raising an resistance just yet." Jacob said while walking away.
"Me, Milla, and farro will try to see if we can try to contact our old clients to see if they can lend us a hand."
"What do you want me and mayhem to do?" I asked.
"You guys just head back home for now and let us do the work. Here, take this phone, we'll contact you when we come up with something."Milla responded.
Milla then took out a box, open it, and pulled out a simple red phone and handed it to me. I take it and put it in my pocket, and me and mayhem went through the mirror and when back home.
When we got back to our world we decided it would be a good idea to bring the mirror back with us to Sweets home. So we took it and placed it on the ship and set off.
The ride was as silent as when sweet picked me up that afternoon. When we got back to Sweets house I got the mirror off the ship and me and sweet went inside. When we got inside I place the mirror in Sweets room, when I got back to the living room I saw that Sweet was on the couch with a book in hand. I went over to see what she was reading, only to see it was a family photo album. She was on a page where there were multiple pictures of her with her mom and dad, she then placed the photo she got from the brother of business and placed it in an empty slot. She then started to tear up again, so I sat next to her in hopes of comforting her.
" You miss him, don't you?"
"Of course, ever since the day he stopped coming home, I would always wished he would come home one day, with the smile he always had." Sweet then started to tear up more.
"Well, what would he do when he was home?" I asked in hopes that talking about her father might cheer her up.
"He would always wake up before me and my mom to make us breakfast, he would always buy me something new like a stuff animal or drawing notebooks to make me happy, and when it was time for bed, he would always read me stories."
"He sounds like an awesome dad."
"He was. When he would go away I promise him the same thing."
"And that is?"
"That I'll be the first thing he's see when he walks though the door. When he stopped coming back I would sit and wait at the door everyday in case he came back, so I wouldn't break my promise."
Tears then started to flow from her eyes. I didn't know what to do, so I just wrapped my arms around her.
"I'm sorry you had to go though that sweet, I can't even imagine living without a dad."
Sweet then put the album down and went in for a kiss, which I accepted. The kiss was long, and when we pulled apart Sweet spoke.
"Man, we only been on one date yet here I am sharing you my very personal life." She said in almost a chuckle.