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The food was good lots of verity. I lost track of time and realized I was coming up on my 900th birthday. I was no great student as a human but I seem to remember something about the Greeks right about now and Rome. It was interesting seeing history unfold. There seemed to be a lot of blood shed as the romans began there empire. It was one such day that I came upon a young immortal. Just a baby under a hundred but very personable his name was Aro. In my 900 years I leaned that I could tell the gifted from the ungifted. They just pinned in my head. When Aro took my hand he got a look in his eyes like he would do anything to get me, trick me, or use me. He knew I was aware of his gift. It was a, I know that you know kind of game. I decided to hedge my bet with him freezing him in place I laid out his options. 1. I pull his head off and burn him. 2. He agrees to do as I say for the next hour. 3. I take his head and drop it deep in the sea.

He looked at me with hate in his eyes. "I will do as you say for one hour."

"Agreed, Please stay right where you are" and I let him go. The other power had already taken hold making him keep his word to me. He found himself rooted to that piece of land. "Tell me how your power works."

He fights but words start flowing out. "Wi th a tu touch I seeee your entire life every thought or deeed."

"You may be the second most dangerous immortal in the world." I give him a smile. "You will never user your power on me again."

He tried to fight but the word burst out "Agreed."

"You will never tell anyone human or immortal by thought or deed about my powers."

He gives up "Agreed."

"You will never harm me or cause harm to me."

"Agreed."

"You will forget all you saw when you took my hand."

"Agreed", it was like someone ripping a hole out of his mind. He screamed for five straight minutes.

"Finally you will never seek revenge for anything I have done or will do."

"Agreed."

"You are free Aro." At my words he stumbles forward. He has a lost look on his face we are made to remember everything I had just done the impossible and erased it out of his head. I reached out to help him up and he grabbed my hand trying and failing to get his power to work.

"Something wrong Aro?"

"No not wrong just my gift seems to not be working."

He traveled with me long enough for me to get his gift. If I didn't have an off switch for these powers I would never want to be a mind reader. The roman vampires were at war with the Greek vampires. We came across the god of war Mars, a Roman Vamp that loved to kill humans with the Legions. My young friend was feeding off of the wounded. I had left him to hunt myself as the game had become scarce. The armies kill and eat everything. He was ripping Aro to pieces when I got back it was a good thing he had not started a fire first. He kept yelling "no one eats at Mar's battel but him". He was huge 7 foot tall and 4 foot across the shoulders. I could see a small group of 4 vamps watching from a near by hill. They saw me racing to the rescue of my young friend. Pointing and laughing waiting for the next show I could hear them taking bets on how long I would last. If it's a show they want then so be it. I kicked in my strength and avoidance. Yelling "leave my friend alone!" He had lost both legs and one arm chunks of his torso had been ripped out. He throws what's left of Aro to the side to deal with the new threat.

He smiles at me. "Leave little one and you live." He has no special talent nothing is pinning in my head. He kicks a piece of Aro toward me. Pointing at the others on the hill, "they know to wait till I have left. Stupid ones die slowly."

Always one to try talking when I can, "alright Mars I'll just gather my friend and be on our way."

He roars with laughter. I can hear them chuckling on the hill. "He is for the fire little one. No second chances for him."

I look right in his eyes. My golden orbs making him pause. "If we fight I will kill you and burn you. I never leave an enemy at my back."

If we did not have an audience he might have let it go. I could tell he was unsure. "I have never lost a battle in 5 thousand years little one. I have killed 38 immortals soon to be 39 pointing at Aro. Will you be 40? How many have you killed little one?"

"I have walked the earth for over a thousand years. I have killed 12 immortals 10 of them in one battle. I do not wish you to be 13. Let me gather my foolish friend and leave I will make sure he never bothers one of your battle again."

It almost worked until a striking girl among the vamps looks at Mars. "Finish the small one I grow bored." I could see she was excited to see him fight again.

That was all it took. He leaped at me. He never laid a hand on me. I was water flowing away from his blows. I was a snake striking. He was that good that we went at it for five minutes before I saw out of the corner of my eye the girl edging closer. I ripped his head off and she screamed charging at me. This was the first time I had fought a mated pair. She had a gift. Some kind of attack, She was always were she needed to be to win. But my avoidance was better. I had both her arms and legs removed. "Give over and I will let you live."

Sobbing she looks at Mars head. "Will you let my mate go as well?"

Aro had been slowly gathering his pieces and putting them back on. He looked up at that with horror. Mars would kill him on sight next time they meet he had no doubt of that. "Mac," that one word and a shake of his head let me know what he thinks.

I know Mars will keep coming, he said it himself he had never lost. I look at the other three and rip her head off. As a mated pair she would never stop trying to kill me if I burned Mars. Looking back at the hill I see the three run. I look and Aro has latched on to a throat. Shaking my head I start a fire and start throwing the pieces on soon Aro is helping me find the stray bits.

The Greek's heard about the fight Ares pride was not to be out done. "You, You killed Mars?" He also came with a band of cohorts. Unlike Mars I could tell they would not hesitate to fight as a group.

Before their eyes I blinked out Ares head hit the floor followed quickly by three others the rest scattered running as fast as they could.

Aro looked at me with a smile and started a fire. "Remind me to never piss you off Mac."

"I value our friendship Aro but you have had your warning." I smile back at him. We had many discussions about food, how we should live, I told him in a few short centuries' we must stop being seen. He had seen some of the power I had and assumed I could glimpse the future. Humans will evolve they have a capacity to destroy that even we will stand in awe of.

I kept him safe and out of trouble. I had to kill a few before both sides got the idea, attack me and die. The Greeks started to call me Thanatos, the Romans Hades. My kill number was at 20 immortals. I was single handily reducing the vampire percentage. Things had finally quieted down I was just about to turn 1000. That's when Toa showed up with a message from Zhou. Sietar was gone she was caught going through Egypt. Anubus sent her back in a small box to Zhou.

In almost 1000 years she is the only one I had an intimate relation with. She was a good immortal caring for her people even if she had a problem showing others that side. I stated to shake. I called up the power and blinked out, they felt a breeze and I was gone. We were not mates but we were FWB. I would miss her for as long as I walk the earth. I raced to Memphis in Egypt Anubus had retreated as the Romans moved in. He was in a weak position after the fight with Zhou. I knew he was the most deadly immortal I have ever faced.

I got to his city and it was thick with vamps seven at least. Roaming around being unseen and unheard let me hear some interesting conversations. I was a ghost, a fly on the wall, or a whisper on a breeze. I gathered I was expected. Whispers of death coming for the god of death, I think if Anubus had it to do over not a hair on her head would have been harmed. A good spy lays in wait, a good assassin will bide his time. I was immortal I could wait for a very long time.

I learned why the others feared him he was sadistic, cruel, and unforgiving. He was by far the oldest immortal I had seen his eyes clouded over his skin looking like limestone instead of granite. I was soon to learn not to let appearances be deceiving. He could see fine and he was fast, much faster than anyone I had seen before. I never learned his exact age but one of the vamps I spied on let it slip he was well over 10,000 years.

Then one day I saw his power in action. All his people were required to take his hand to refuse meant death. A young girl in her first decades of immortality sent by the Romans with a message was brought in. He looked on her with contempt of course he looked at everyone like that. She had heard the rumors of his power and hesitantly took his hand. In a shaky voice she made the demand of the Romans. She was told he would not dare to kill her she was needed to return with the response. It was so quick that if I was not watching even with vampire eyes I would have missed it. She would be returned but in a pretty little box.

I watched 10-20-25 years passed he had grown lax thinking I had been killed or just didn't care. Slowly his people went further afield still I waited I was not close enough to gain his power so I planned, watching what the Romans and the Greeks attempted. They sent baby vamps with gifts I picked up a few new ones thank you very much. After I was finished here I would go home and play with them.

Then it happened after 30 years he took off alone running and leaving a wake of destruction. I would kill him just for how he was killing humans. I had long ago come to the conclusion that to kill humans to eat was a sadness and if I was still a human I might be horrified. But every animal on this earth prays on another. Some of us believe we are dead. I think we are an off shoot, a road the rest of humanity did not go down. No less valid we eat, we think, and we move. A heart beat is not a sign of life. He had finished eating and was looking off to the north as if he could see the Romans and the Greek. I opened the door to a power I seldom use immobility. Starring at his back I can feel him trying to break free. My hands reach up to his neck and with my enhanced strength relieve him of his head. If anyone would have been there to see, it would have looked like his head just popped off. With his head in hand I walked over to one of the many fires going and tossed it in. I felt his power sliding into me. This was one power I was afraid of. It could turn me into a monster like he was. I made a promise to myself to only use it as a last resort.

I headed back to his throne room three of his prodigy were there. Sitting on his throne I became visible. The oldest there an immortal maned Amuen started to shift his weight to attract. "Take one step and I will kill you all."

"Who are you? Do you know whose seat you sit on?"

I am dressed in rags I hold up Anubus's ring. "I am death some call me Thanatos others Hades my friends call me Mac." You could hear a pin drop. "Here is what's going to happen. You are going to go home and stop slaughtering the humans. I have no problem with you eating them. They are thinking feeling aware beings it is cruel how Anubus treated them. Wasteful, I swear weren't you people taught not to play with your food. Where you so well off as humans you could slaughter all you livestock?"

They all had the grace to look away. I point to Amuen, "let the others know if they keep this up I will be visiting them and they will not like that. After you do that this city and everything that was Anubus's that I don't take is yours. I will inform the romans and Greeks that Memphis is to be left alone."

He bows deeply, "thank you lord death."

It was Anubus's title I guess it's mine now. I nod my head and the three beat feet. I find his servants quarters and find a few pair of nice linen pants and shirts in my size. One thing I can say about the asshole he dressed them well before he killed them. I wonder to his privet rooms I see a 12x12 tapestries a map of Egypt, before the Romans. I take it down I liked it, it was coming with me. I spread it out on the floor and threw my extra cloths on it. I grabbed his cask of bobbles gold jewels a few vases I wrapped in sheets a little of this and that. I pulled the ends together and tie it off it looked like Santa's bag of toys. Once I make sure the assholes fighting will leave the city alone I am heading home for a while.

I stopped by Athens first I stood on a hill and just appeared as an immortal was passing a young one name Iris. She was posed to run when I held her in place the power locking her body up. "A moment please," I release her and she waits she has figured out who I am. "Please tell the Olympians Anubus is dead and they are to leave Memphis alone."

She tilts her head looking me up and down giving me a cute smile. "Of course Thanatos."

I smile back reach down for my bundle and blink out. I move a few feet away and watch.

She gives a wistful smile and I hear her whisper "Zeus is goanna love this." She takes off and I head for Rome.

It took a day to get there. I decided to try the same idea. I found a hill by the Pantheon and waited. A young arrogant immortal was racing by I popped in front of him and he came to a halt. He had seen me fight Mars so he knew who I was.

"Hades" he said with contempt.

"Well it seems you have a name for me what is yours?"

He looked astounded everyone knew who he was. The Greeks ran from him he has killed 5 immortals a proven warrior. "I am Mercury" pride dripping off every word.

"That's nice for you. Just tell the rest of your friends I took care of Anubus. They are to leave the city of Memphis in Egypt alone."

"Who are you to tell us what we can or cannot do you gold eyed freak," poking me in the chest.

I freeze him in place and snap off his finger. "Be glade it's not your head boy. If you're good next time I see you I might give this back." Keeping him in my sights so he can't move I reach down fade away and back away. I release him and he grabs his hand and screams.

"Give it back, GIVE IT BACK. I'll kill you! WE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!"

He is not going to deliver my message that's for sure. One of his people has heard him and is coming over I hope she is more reasonable. I walk over and rip off his head. She stops dead in her tracks. I fade in with a bag in one hand and a head in another. There's a fire pit 100 yards away I toss his head in and she gasps. "I hope you can be more helpful."

She looked at the headless body twitching on the ground and then back at me. "I have always been helpful sir."

"Please my friends call me Mac."

She smile and nods her head she always thought Mercury was a tool he got what he deserved as far as she was concerned. "Nice to meet you Mac my name is Minerva."

"Like I told headless here Anubus is dead I would like the romans to stay out of Memphis Egypt. I gave it to Amuen that city has suffered enough."

"Of course Hades I will be happy to give them your regards."

"Please call me Mac." I extend my hand in farewell and as she grasps it I use Aro's gift, Wisdom, fairness intelligence, and honorable.

She smiles and heads over to a group of immortals that have watched our exchange. I take the rest of Mercury and pitch him in the fire pit. Grab my bag and head out fade away one more stop before I head home. Good thing it's on the way.

I entered Zhou's city uncloaked. Striding up to his palace, the sun making my body sparkle the humans moving out of my way Toa waiting at the open gate. He bows to me in the Chinese fashion. I return his bow.

"Word has reached us of Anubus's departure."

I smile at him. "If ever there was an immortal that needed killing it was him. Is Zhou home?"

"Alas he is visiting an old friend in Africa for a few decades. He left me in charge of his city. Please come in I have a strong tiger for you to dine on."

Zhou made a point of having something for me to eat at all times in his home. He took the role of host very seriously. Like I said everyone has to eat. So as we dined that night me drinking my tiger. Toe eating a young man. I had no problem with it like I said we were not human anymore. The years having changed my world views, however I still would not stand by for vamp's playing with their food. Kill them, drink them, and dispose of them. After dinner we had a nice game of GO made some small talk before I gave him the reason for my visit. "Please let Zhou know that I have given Memphis to Amuen let him know I would take it as a personal favor if he would leave it alone the city and its humans have suffered enough."

Toa bows, "I will deliver it word for word. I think you are right if any herd should be left alone it would be the late Anubus's."

I bow in return "thank you for your hospitality Toa until next time." I pick up my bag heaver one GO set a gift from Toa. He was a good friend of Sietar's it was his way of saying thank you for doing what he knew he could not.

As I leave the city I become unseen and unheard. I have made a few enemies I will not lead them to my home. I race across the land bridge stopping to dine on polar bear and watch the northern lights for a few weeks, the stars are so bright with no sunlight. I take my time moving through Canada watching history unfold before your very eye is the greatest gift of immortality. I get home and look in my sack, looking around I place my new things on display, the map my favorite. It has a wall all its own, the colors so bright the weave so fine it is someone's life time work. The other things make a nice addition to my home. I take the 6 foot thick stones that sit in the windows out, I put in the spun glass I had made hundreds of years ago. I move the stones to the third floor I will need them when I leave again.

well he's home again for how long we will have to see Review please I already have a few chapters done however some ideas down the road are helpful