"Tonto, TONTO WAKE UP TONTO!" a voice rang as the young blond man dreamed. For some reason, he was dreaming he was on top of the Empire state building, dancing while avoiding pies being tossed at him by mimes and Ares in a tutu. There was a evil laughter, that seemed edged in Ozone.
"TONTO, WAKE UP OR I WILL HURT YOU!" the voice yelled, causing him to wake up. Scrambling, he fell out of bed (Like anytime anything interesting happens to him, his wife is not around, nor is his kid)
"AHHH, 5 more minutes, I don't want to go to school, huh" he looked around for whoever was talking to him.
"Dude, look at me!" Tonto shook his head, blinked a few times, and looked up. Floating, sort of like a transparent ghost, with normal color, was a skinny blond haired, pale skinned man who sort of looked a bit like him, but he was wearing an old fashioned feathered hat, over sized yellow clown shoes somewhat bigger than Sora's with a puffy shouldered red life is good T shirt (That showed the figure laughing as another was being zapped by that buzzer prank) and puffy cargoes that made this guy look like a horrid fusion between Tonto, Sora (Of Kingdom Hearts), Peeves the Polterigest (From Harry Potter) and well, me (I have a lot of those shirts).
"Um, what are you doing in my house?" the ghost ignored the question and laughed.
"So blunt, really you need to learn how to have fun, goof off, pull a few pranks that get you driven out of town for a few weeks, heck I did a great couple of them that got me locked up for a few thousand years for some reason..."
"I have doctorates in goofing and wierdenisim, and I've been nearly driven out of town several times, so what's your point!" the man laughed at Tonto's burst of anger.
"Well good, seems as though my only current male descendant is still packing the good ol Loki charms, and I see they've helped you score yourself a stunning trophy wife!"
"Loki?" Tonto asked. The ghost did a huge draw drop.
"WHAT, you don't know about me, perhaps your most important ancestor! Me, the infamous, all feared, king of humor pranks, I was doing my job way before Hermes, and he gets the credit of being the guy who gave the mortal who invented the buzzer the idea, humph!"
"Loki, that name rings a bell from somewhere, but what..."
"OH FOR PETE SAKES! I AM THE ALL FEARED LOKI, THE NORSE GOD OF TRICKERY, DECEPTION, CHAOS AND PRANKS!" to prove it, the ghost made a pie form in his hands, and tossed in into Tonto's face.
SPLAT
"Yum, cream, and is that strudel?"
"No, that's Finnish itching powder, a ancient torture technique lost to everyone but myself!"
"YOW!" Tonto started to rapidly scratch at his face, that was looking as red as a shined tomato, filled with mountainous boils about 5 inches tall from the skin they were latched to and as wide as the opening of his ears, that were erupting green streams of pus that were bubbling.
"Now, Tonto I've come to see you, as you are our last hope" Tonto stopped itching his face for a second.
"Whose last hope, and tell me you have a antidote for this stuff!"
"Yeah, just bottle your own..."
"That is just disgusting!"
"Talcum powder works too, if mixed with fish oil and cheese wizz, now about the last hope thing, see you are my last descendent, now that the Joker is dead"
"Wait, I'm related to a psycho maniac!"
"Barely, see I am your great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather, and that makes the Joker your cousin, 7 times removed or something, yeah when your the master prankster of any god pantheon, you get blasted off to other worlds at least once or twice, and well off world chicks are very cute, um never mind, you see Tonto, the cursed Greeks are not the only ones whose gods were once at full power on the world now called Olympian Manhattan" Loki seemed Nostalgic "But then, when our groups first made contact, out of nowhere Zeus attacked us alone"
"Just Zeus?" Tonto was surprised, his voice was a little far off as he searched the nearby areas of his mansion as he searched for fish oil, cheese wizz and talcum powder.
"We had no idea how he got so much power, but I'll tell you this, his power reeked of the forces of darkness" Tonto, who had just started applying the chaotic mixture to his face, was shocked "And he defeated us all, and locked us away in some alternate dimension, with the others"
"Others!"
"Yes, Zeus did the same thing to every other pantheon of gods he ever found, the Aztec, Mayan, Inuit, Celtic, Aboriginal, Lakota, Gaul, Masai, pretty much any group of gods that isn't part of a large following at this present day, are trapped, in the horrible puppet dimension!"
"What sort of dimension?"
"Think Tartarus, but 100 times worse. Its dark and misty, and filled with beautiful girls, but then they turned on you and drop poison into your eyes" he shivered in his ghostly form " Because I am a master of escaping predicaments, I have been able to mentally project myself among the modern world, helping along pranksters while keeping an eye on Zeus. But you, as my distant descendant, have the potential to free us, but of course, your two little daughters could work too" Tonto stood up abruptly.
"Wait, you wouldn't dare do anything to Jen, or Diana, they're just kids..."
"True, but being my descendants as well, you three all have the potential to unleash the wrath of Ragnarok, the ancient Norse ultra super weapon. Mortals may think its the chaotic battle of ultimate doom by the gods, and surprisingly they think some of use would die, but in secret, its a world destroying attack that only a demi descendant of any of us could unleash if we wanted too. We had believers of us back then, and Odin had declared that we were not to destroy them, as we expected to win. But I can still, let me say, manipulate little Diana to unleash it, and if Olympus blows up, Zeus and his family would go zapady zap zap. But seeing as that could trap us in puppet land forever, I don't feel like doing it"
"You better not mess with her!"
"You know, I have to say, your a pretty good man Tonto, you care for even such accidental creations such as her. I know that you have already found evidence of the war between the Egyptian and Greek Gods, that's the only war of common knowledge to the other gods! Helios and Selene, those lost gods, as well as one of the past hundred handed ones, had apparently seen one of the fights, I forgot which ones, and Zeus made sure they stayed silent"
"He made them fade away!"
"Yes, Zeus has slowly been gaining more darkness in his heart. This darkness led him to lust for the talented Ms. Grace, leading to the breaking of the oath, unlike Poseidon who truthfully had feelings of love towards Sally Jackson. The recent humiliating defeat of the gods by the Pokemon armada has also increased the flow of darkness into his heart, as well as you and the other offworlders who have begun appearing as of late"
"Wait, I'm a real problem in this!"
"Yes, for decides me, you have another, Celtic, goddess who you have distant ancestry from, but I could not get her here today, I'll try for next time, but we, the trapped gods from across the world, come to you with a mission!" Tonto stood upright and saluted.
"The only way for the rest of us to be freed is for the fractured world of Olympian Manhattan, and its other half, Du'attian Manhattan, to be reunited. To do that, first you, or any one sharing your blood, must go on dangerous searches across the world to find the locks, and just touch them, your distant Celtic blood will help you, or her, there. Then, you must get Zeus, and any Egyptian immortal, to meet in battle, that will help set us free from our torment"
"You can count on me, Loki!"
"Thanks, and as a request, can you put me in Heroes Quest Two!"...
Meanwhile
Two figures stood in a misty abyss, the figures tall and opposing, radiating power and strength, though they looked pained. One figure wore a white and red cloak, held on by a yellow gold brooch. A travelers staff was held in his hands, and his white hair covered one eye, the other eye was a golden color, but not like a Titan's, this man's eyes were warmer. His other eye, though unseen, was metal. A long white beard rolled from his chin half way to his bellybutton.
The other figure had a younger look to him. He had tanned skin, as if he had spent a lot of time in the sun. Intense dark hair covered the top of his head. Brown pants covered his lower half, but his chest was bare, showing muscles that would make Aphrodite herself melt. On his back was a cape, the fabric that made it up appeared to be made of reptile scales, but feathers adorned it on the edges.
"Why have you moved our minds into Limbo, Odin?" the tanned man demanded. The staff wielding man sighed.
"Because, I frankly hate talking with all that mist blocking my eyes. Zeus is cruel and unusual, is he not, Quetzalcoatl?" the man huffed.
"That fiend should not even be named. When I get out of here, I will destroy him with my bare hands!" Odin shook his head.
"Discussing our hope, is exactly why we are here. Loki, that trickster, thinks he's found us a champion, a savior" Quetzalcoatl was intrigued now.
"His name, is Tonto. This mortal, may be our only hope."
