And now, the closing installment for this portion of the story.
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Chapter EightAfter a few hours of joyfully passionate consummation, James and Carmen announced they were now ready to return to the now torch lit encampment at the beginning of nightfall.
"So soon," AlexG wryly commented,
"I would have thought at least another day for you two humping Mega Deities. The terrain to the north of us still needs to be leveled . . ."DeniseH symbolically with the power of her mind put an astral hand over his mouth.
"Now dear," DeniseH impishly smiled,
"they've shown remarkable restraint in this matter. Conservative, compact and to the point. Just because when we first did it and you seduced me for the length of a week, doesn't mean everyone does."Gently removing DeniseH's astral hand, AlexG said:
"Me? Don't believe a word she says young ones. This nymphomaniac of a wife of mine - I bargained her down from a full month and that wasn't easy to do. Once she gets started, I have to satisfy her needs - fully.""And you don't have a choice either," she smiled lustfully at him,
"your chivalrous soul cannot refuse my just wishes - as you well know.""Quite right, I have a very hard time resisting your sexy body and sultry seductive voice. Your powers keep me vertical are a wonder to be-hold. Even when I'm fatigued in my work."James and Carmen by this time were starting to laugh at the two's bantering back and forth. It was obvious that they deeply loved one another greatly. In addition, AlexG and DeniseH must have been doing the same with each other at the encampment, as they had in enjoying one another's pleasure five miles away.
"Please stop," James broke in,
"your sex talk will corrupt our young minds with all sorts amorous ideas.""Oh, I doubt that," put in Carmen winking,
"young minds just seem to grow them all by themselves.""All too true James," AlexG said,
"when we were much younger several millennia ago it was not much different with us.""Actually darling, we still are in many ways . . . as some of our Vassals think of us.""Yes, true as their Young King and Young Queen - anyway, patch up your differences, because the amazing team of God James and Goddess Carmen are on their way . . . "With a radiant burst of Starlight from the pair of Megas standing five miles away and then less then a second later, another pair of energy flashes, but more normal-sized appeared at the encampment.
" . . . In a flash," he finished now with the two of them returned.
The four of them were still naked but like the older pair, they had fully integrated into their new forms and paid no mind to that fact or of their own nudity.
"Well," AlexG observed, "you've shrunk a bit I see - James at eleven and Carmen at nine feet plus."
"Yes," said Carmen, "we've decided to normally be about this size together in public."
"In a way" James continued, "you two motivated us and are our role models - so we copied your Deity to Mortal scale. It is easier, as you said to relate to them; otherwise, they seem less then insects. Which of course, they definitely are not."
"But Carmen," DeniseH commented, "I'm eleven feet plus tall, not nine - you're shorter then me."
"I know," Carmen said in an honest tone, "I convinced James here to be like AlexG, in stature, however I like being shorter then you and as well it pleases me to be this way with James.
"My dear wife," James chuckled, "is just as hard to refuse as yours is AlexG - so I agreed with her wishes."
"I hope you understand and aren't disappointed - you see, I've always had a thing for very large and tall men, despite the fact that all my life that I wished to be taller. Therefore, in this way I get the best of both worlds. I'm taller then any Mortal man or woman, but my beloved husband is very large, even compared to myself - a fact that I dearly love."
"Ah I see," DeniseH said, "I understand your reasons - and don't concern yourself, I'm not in any way disappointed, dear one. If that makes you two happy, then by all means do so as you wish."
"Wait a second," AlexG stated, "did I hear you two correctly - husband and wife? But you two aren't married."
"Before we became God and Goddess we weren't," James explained, "but afterwards I proposed to her."
"And I accepted," Carmen added with a broad grin, "since we are Deities now, we didn't think any Mortal could rightfully do the ceremony for us."
"So we pledged ourselves to one another under the open sky and in the fading sun to the Supreme One -
Zed."
"You knew to do that - in Him/Hers name then?" asked AlexG.
"Yes," Carmen confirmed, "that's was something we both were surprised by, somehow we both knew all the required words to say, the power that Zed represents - everything. It was as if we always had known it. Perhaps that is part of the process of becoming a God or Goddess?"
"Yes," DeniseH answered, "it is Carmen - but for the pair of us, it was a bit different. Zed revealed Him/Her-self directly to us, so we knew even before we were transformed and then married by Zed right after our transformation."
"Well," AlexG teased, "what happened next - or should I just assume massive horizontal action."
"No," James answered, "exactly something else first - and it was really weird, we heard a voice in our minds, Zed."
"Dang," AlexG exclaimed, "Zed's on vacation, He/She talked to you - what did He/She say?"
"Zed said," Carmen replied, "
'No problem my children, so be it. You look to be a fine couple and I accept and bless your oaths to one another.' And then His/Her presence was gone from our minds."
"Fantastic," AlexG exclaimed, "just like it was for us - well sort of. Anyway, this called for some real honest to Zed adult beverages to commemorate your joining."
And at this, a selection of potables ranging from imported Polish Vodka to Jack Daniel's No 7 materialized on the table with liquor glasses. All agreed to put on some clothing in order to properly celebrate the marriage of the new young God and Goddess of Terra. AlexG resumed wearing his sports jacket, casual dress shirt and slacks - while DeniseH slipped into tastefully designed twin-strapped, one-piece cocktail dress that revealed as much as it concealed. Wishing to emulate her mentor, Carmen followed suit with a strapless dress that appeared to be spray painted onto the curvaceous contours of her august body. James being of a more conservative nature simply shifted into a pair of denim blue jeans, an embroidered shirt and cowboy boots.
As they were celebrating the new marriage of James and Carmen, a Starlight flash materialization suddenly occurred within the encampment. It was a living Adonis of a God - and wearing a set of flowing robes that would have looked right at home in Classical Greece or Rome. Given the size of his ubermuscular development and masculine endowment, a modern set of clothing (shirt and pants) would have been highly uncomfortable in all the wrong places.
"Thank Zed I found you AlexG, please, you've got to help me!"
Impulsively, he gripped the sports jacket in his two ham-sized hands - much to the surprise and suppressed annoyance of AlexG. Obviously, he was terribly scared and upset.
"You're the Scribe of the Supreme One and you'd know what to do if anyone would. I know you warned me, but when I got involved with them I though it would be a great thing. The greatest thing ever, but now their insistent demands for more of myself is going to kill me."
"Nonsense," AlexG replied, "you're a God you cannot die."
Gently, AlexG got the other God to release his sports jacket - smoothing it with his hands.
"I know that," he said all but with tears in his eyes, "but it would beat being pleasured tortured by them. I cannot keep up with them, I don't have the stamina - I'm a God, not a perpetual motion machine for Zed's sake! And I cannot refuse them - they're so
wonderful. However, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing - Zed knows I've learned my lesson and I want out, but they won't let me - so I escaped them, for the moment."
"Well, my advice is to hide out in some universe that they'd never thing to look in, perhaps yet you should even act as a Mortal man for an age or two. Maybe become a writer or some such occupation - but for Zed's sake stay away from romance novels - with you it would be a dead giveaway. It should be easy for a person like you to avoid them, you're a God, creativity is in your blood."
"Yes that's a great idea - thank you thank you."
Then he looked at his sundial watch - and his face turned white.
"Oh nuts, I've been here too long . . . and the pair of you seem like a lovely couple, my congratulations to you both."
Backing off some distance from the group, he disappeared in a Starlight flash.
"Who was that?" James asked - somewhat in confusion at the suddenness of the event.
"Oh," DeniseH answered, "that was God Aeros. A short while back he became intimately involved with some of the
Goddesses of the IRT - but then that's his business."
"Goddesses of the IRT?" Carmen inquired - now curious for more information.
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Inter Relay Talk," AlexG answered, "it's a guild of Goddesses who manage computer chat rooms amongst several universes of the Multiverse. They get a real thrill out of role playing - and I hear it's a growing interest with Mortal males. Some of their leaders names are . . ."
A synchronization of Starlight flashes and a pair of nine-foot Goddesses appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Standing side by side, one was possessed of long cascading dark hair, the other, a blonde with short-cropped hair. The two of them were dressed much as Aeros had been. They were clothed in Classical period gowns with a single strap over the right shoulder. A bronze clap or brooch held the feminine outfit in place. Bracelets, rings and a necklace were adorned upon each of them, along with leather sandals on their feet. However, the eight-foot plus clothing or for the most part lack of it was very revealing. In addition, even the cloth itself was semi-transparent revealing their well-developed high bosomed bodies in all of their glory.
"These are the Goddesses Brigid and Trish."
"Hello AlexG," Goddess Brigid coyly smiled, "the perfect gentleman, you're as gracious as ever - alas."
"Too true - so what can I do for you lovely ladies?"
"Oh plenty," Brigid laughed, "but for now we are looking for the God Aeros, he escaped from our clutches. And we figured he'd come to you for help or advice - seen him?"
"Actually yes, but he sensed you coming and winked out of here before I got more then word or two."
"Oh," Trish grinned with a lustful glint, "I think you got more in then that with him, but we'll find him and drag him back to his job as our personal sex slave."
"And you know we will," Brigid smiled in pleasure, "he's powerless in our presence."
"Any time you get tired of supermuscular chicks, let us know," Trish winked knowingly.
DeniseH sensing their intentions protectively took AlexG's arm in hers - ownership fashion.
"Not on your Immortal Deity's lives girls, he's all mine - besides, I've already promised him to the Goddesses Rojo, Kate and Faylinn if I ever do give him up. They has first dibs on his muscular butt."
"What about this new young God here?" Brigid inquired with a predatory glint in her eyes.
"Nope, he's mine," Carmen declared - and following her mentor's action, "and stick that drooling tongue back in James."
"Who me - ouch!" he joked - then felt a free finger jabbing him in the side.
"All right, my boss - I'm all yours!"
"See, I've already claimed him - sorry."
"Dang," Brigid pouted, "well it didn't hurt to ask."
"See you around," Trish said, "in time they all come to us."
"One way or the other," Brigid added, "sooner or later."
They then winked out in a bright duel flash of Starlight, leaving the two couples all alone again in the dark of the night with only the torches breaking the darkness.
"What a pair," James commented - still somewhat in awe.
Carmen added, "I'll say - do they have a name for what they do?"
"Yes," AlexG answered, "they are called
Collectors and you'll have to watch out for them. Moreover, be especially vigilant for ones from the side of evil Deities -
The Consortium. This extends not just for yourselves, personally as a hazard, but to the beings under your direct protection. As Mortals or even Immortals, they have no one other then the pair you to look to for security. Good-hearted ones like Brigid and Trish are playful and nice with their assumed property and seek permission first from the ones they want to take. Though I think Aeros might have a slightly different opinion to express at this point in his relationship with those two."
"Others," DeniseH declared, "who should know better - and do - are ones that I'd nuke totally out of the Multiverse, if I had my way. Cruel and sadistic with their acquisitions as if they were no more then sex toys rather then sentient, ensouled beings."
"I know we cannot really die as Deities," Carmen asked, "so what do you do with them when you find them on your territory?"
"When I catch them," DeniseH firmly stated, "I beat the crap out of them and then warp them out of our Domain. The
No Trespassing Permitted Period - Violators will be Crushed and Burnt signs are well marked on the hyperspace pathways leading to the authorized ports of entry into The Realm."
"I thought that was the job of the Guardian-Knights as protectors," stated James.
"Normally yes," AlexG said, "that's true - but the two us in our joint rulership consider it as much a matter of Civil Administration as Security when such encounters or others akin to them occur. Sort of prevents jurisdictional conflicts you might say."
"Actually," DeniseH added with a coy wink, " I can be a real terror when the various peoples under our aegis are threatened by the likes of such vile scum. Therefore he's had the inspired wisdom to permit me join him as an armed auxiliary."
James and Carmen chuckled at the thought of Multiverse enemies seeing the twin pair of God AlexG and Goddess DeniseH coming at them in wrathful anger. No doubt if they did, they'd need new Deity strength underwear - to say nothing about retreating at twice their speed.
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With their abilities as God and Goddess, AlexG and DeniseH had cloaked the younger pair from prying eyes so they could be alone - or as they put it:
Time Enough For Love. Wisely, they'd allowed the Starlight flashes to be observed knowing that they'd eventually be recognized as heralding to the world at large that it now had two Deities living in residence.
From high orbit, spy satellites of both the Western and the Eastern power blocs had picked up the two distinct flashes hours apart - presumably from covert nuclear tests. However, none of the instruments detected any radiation, such as from a traditional nuclear weapon, just the light itself. Nor could the high-resolution cameras pick up any other unusual activity - the area looked totally normal otherwise. After ruling out computer glitches, falling space debris and meteorites, all available information was transmitted by the USNA Air Defense Command Center under Apache Mountain to
Washington House in New York City, the
District of Washington. Confirmation was received that neither the Republic of France, its clients or any of the other members of the
Western Confederation of Democratic Republics and their clients were doing any testing in the Sahara Desert - covert or otherwise. The same was true with the
Eastern Association of Socialist States and their clients when the Premier of the
Russian Union of Soviets pointed inquired over the Hot Line demanding the same answers from him.
With friends and foes alike denying responsibly, the mystery was still on the minds of the President and his Cabinet when the secure telephone to the Octagon rang.
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(Now what, you might ask - ah, but that is another story for another time and place.)The End?
