The Next Guest Ch. 1

Ephus - A demigod possessing the power to repower the gods

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Egyptian Deities

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Ra - God of the Sun, the major god of Egypt

Bast - Goddess of cats, protection, joy, dance, music, family, and love

Serket - Goddess of scorpions, medicine, magic, and healing venomous stings and bites

Thoth - God of knowledge

Anhur - God of war and the sky bearer - Full brother of Bast and Sekhmet

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Norse Deities

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Odin - King of the Greek gods

Tyr - the god of war, justice, law, and honor

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Greek Deities

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Zeus - King of Gods

Enyo - goddess of war and destruction

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Japanese Deities

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Amaterasu - Japanese Goddess of the sun (head goddess)

Benten - Japanese Goddess of love

Hachiman - Japanese God of war

Shuten-dōji - King of Japanese Demons

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Ephus and Quinn bid all the Norse gods and goddesses goodbye, a few moments later, appearing in their house. Ephus almost collapsed in his bed as soon as he saw it.

It was a few months later that Ephus was actually starting to get bored. He entered his home looking around for his wives.

Going upstairs, he found Quinn, Bast, Serket and Thoth. "I think we need to slow down with all the children," Ephus told all of them. "I think we all need..." Ephus started.

There was a huge boom as the sky seemed to split. Ephus shook his head as once again he saw what appeared to be a body falling from the split.

A shake of his head, he pulled what he thought was the body towards him. A moment later, a pale-skinned, long, dark-haired Oriental-looking female fell to the roof. Like before with the others, her silk clothes, maybe robes were shredded.

Looking up, the female said, "Sore wa anatadesu, ephus. Herupu!" Then, of course, she passed out.

Ephus could kick himself because he had been bored and wished for something to happen. Though he wasn't wanting the hassle of more gods.

Bast and Serket looked at the passed-out goddess. Bast hissed as Serket quieted her.

"Like so many husband, she is so weak she barely made it here," Serket then turned to Bast. "I believe that she is here for the same reason you were my sister."

Bast hissed again as she looked over the goddess. "Our husband does not need more goddess wives. He can barely satisfy those he has now!"

"You know that your father, Zeus and Odin, have me traveling to their realms to help out. If you need or want more time, I suggest you talk to them," I told her.

Bast immediately bowed her head, "I am sorry husband with so many wives and business, we all miss you greatly. The children miss you also, I will attempt to get my father to not call you as much. I'll call my sister wives to talk to the other two head gods."

"I am sorry, my Bast, that I have not been there as much, all three realms have been a mess for a while. I have just gotten Ra's realm almost normal now. "Zeus' is getting there, though Odin's is still a giant mess," I said.

"I know this husband and, but for the children, we would all help you every step of the way. I am sorry, forgive?" Bast said.

"As always my Bast, as I will with all of you. I just need to make sure that the Titans can no longer affect anything here. I have enough trouble without their interference," I said softly.

Bast's face held rage for a few moments as she nodded, "Zeus and the others have been trying to repair the prison far better than it was."

"Yes," before Thoth spoke up. Now that the crossover ban has been lifted, it means all three realms are attempting to help. Besides almost stripping them of their power, the resistance of their prison now has multi - layers."

Ephus nodded his head as he turned toward the new arrival. "So any idea who she might be? I couldn't understand what she said. Actually, to me? She appears to be Asian."

"Ummm," Thoth said, thinking. "She does appear of the Wakoku."

"Wakoku? Is that your name for them?" Ephus asked.

"Yes, either Wa or Wakoku, we never had much interaction with them or their gods," Thoth said.

Ephus sighed, "I guess we'll have to do as we did with the rest of them, wait 'til she awakens."

"If you power her some, do you think she might awaken sooner?" Thoth asked.

"Hmmm, maybe, but I won't do that much. She might try to kill me after all," Ephus said.

Ephus reached out and placed a hand on her slender white shoulder. A faint glow started to envelop her for a few seconds, then Ephus let go. They all saw as the Goddess started to breathe easier, then sat up.

She looked around 'til she spotted Ephus bowing low.

"Anata o mitsukete kureta chikara ni kansha shimasu, efusu," she said. Ephus held up a hand as he concentrated. He then made a motion to say it again, to which the Goddess nodded.

"Thank the power that I found you, Ephus," she said again, him understanding her.

Ephus nodded as he looked at the other three. A slight groan escaped his throat.

"I've barely been back a few months, and they are coming out of the woodwork again," he said, then turned toward the pale Goddess. "What seems to be the problem?" Ephus said with a sigh of defeat in his voice.

"It is the king of the Demons, Shuten dōji. He has entrapped almost all the Gods and Goddesses. Amaterasu -

The Goddess of the sun sent me to find you. Our realm is about to collapse. If he wins, then he will come after the others with abnormal Grand power," the Goddess said.

Ephus sighed, this was almost a repeat of the first three realms he had helped.

"Alright but first," he said. He passed a hand over the female, making her clothes appear new. He then walked up to her and asked, holding a hand over her shoulder. "May I?"

She hesitantly looked at me, her mouth open. "What do you wish to do?' she asked.

"I can re-power you, not all the way for tight now, but a significant amount. So, may I? It might make things easier for you," Ephus told her. "Oh, by the way, what are you called?"

"Ah, I am called, Benten, Lord Ephus," Benten said.

Still somewhat hesitant, the pale Goddess thought about it for a few moments. Then she looked at Ephus and very slowly nodded her head.

Ephus nodded back to her as he laid a hand on her nearly nude shoulder. He then smiled as he felt the power start to re-power her.

Just for a moment, I thought that nothing was going to happen, then she started to glow. Her eyes opened wide as her skin grew younger, as did her face.

A small shriek of glee escaped her mouth as she watched. Then her mouth dropped open even further as her power increased.

Finally, Ephus pulled his hand away as she glowed a minute more. When it was done, she smiled wide and looked at Ephus.

She stood and walked sexy over to him, kissing him deeply, passionately. "I thank Ephus, I was so weak I wasn't sure if I would survive."

They both heard an exacerbated draw of breath behind them. Ephus looked back at two of his wives, Bast was irritated.

He walked to them as he kissed Bast, making her almost melt in his arms.

Then he whispered in her ear, "You know I have to bond with her in order to do this.

"I know my husband, though I don't have to be happy about it," Bast said with a smirk.

Ephus walked back to Benten and kissed her as he removed her robes. With a sad smile, she helped him to disrobe.

Her sad smile changed to shock as he moved between her thighs and took a taste of her sex. Benten went suddenly still as he found her clit and pulled on it.

A moment later a long, near-hysterical groan escaped her throat. "What are you doing, Oh! I have never felt this. Don't stop!" she nearly screamed as a huge orgasm ripped through her.

Ephus smiled at her as he moved higher, and whispered, "Are you ready?"

Benten's breath slowed, and she smiled hugely as she nodded yes.

Ephus slowly, very slowly slid in her opening as she moaned in impatient pleasure. When he bottomed out in her, she gasped from the feeling.

Ephus then started to move in a slow rhythm. Benten again started to pant as she put both her legs around Ephus, urging him on.

Ephus was rapidly nearing his release as Benten was far tighter than he thought that she would be.

With a final push, he flooded her insides as she again started to shriek and promptly passed out. Not as worried as he used to get, he got up naked, his phallus swinging in the air.

This wasn't ignored as both his wives noticed. Serket, who was extremely distracted as she tried to examine Benten.

Bast actually giggled as she noticed that Serket couldn't concentrate. A fact that annoyed Serket to no end.

"Sister!" Serket yelled. "Stop this, I am trying to heal the young goddess!"

This, of course, had Bast giggling even harder. "Don't blame me have husband get dressed you no that we can't resist him."

Serket turned away, able to finally concentrate. "Husband," she said a few minutes later, relieved that he'd dressed. "It appears that she experienced more pleasure than she has ever received." Then under her breath she said, "much like all of us." This, of course had Bast giggling again.

Ephus just shook his head and sat next to Benten on the couch.

It was about half an hour when the Goddess groaned, and her eyes slowly opened. She looked around to see that she was on the couch.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Obviously you have never truly been pleasured. Ephus has had to teach a great many of our males the proper way of love making," Bast said with a huge smile, which got larger when Benten's mouth dropped open.

"All of them?" a shocked Benten asked.

"Nearly all three realms, since then, pleasure has actually been that," Bast said in all seriousness.

"Here I thought that it was just in our realm," Benten said, still in shock.

"Now," Ephus said from the couch, "we need to plan how we are going to do this. I need to know what is where, in your home. Might as well start there, what's it called?" Ephus asked.

"Takamagahara, it is where all gods and spirits dwell, or rather they did 'til Shuten dōji took it over. As I said before, he has captured and enslaved almost all the gods," Benten said.

Ephus and Thoth, with the help of Anhur, Enyo and the newly introduced Norse god of war Tyr, sat to plan.

We had been at it for a few hours when Ephus felt a powerful entity approaching his home.

A moment later there was a huge bang as something bounced off the protection around it.

Ephus and all the males appeared outside. A human-appearing Japanese male was picking himself off the ground.

"Human, ah I see a demi-god. You are housing a war criminal, you will release her to me. We will have problems if you do not, as a demi-god you can't," the large male was suddenly knocked off his feet. He was screaming as his chest armor was on fire as well as several slashes across his chest.

"Oh-ho, so I see that there are a great multitude of war gods here," he was saying as he was knocked down again.

"You are weak, whoever you are, there are a great number of gods and goddesses here. You can not win," Ephus said, pointing at him.

"Ah, where are my manors? I am Shuten-dōji, King of the Japanese demons. Who are you little demi-god?" the demon asked.

"I am Ephus, and I am far more than a Demi-god, demon," Ephus said.

A look of shock appeared on Shuten-dōji's face, "So the great rescuer of three realms. Well, you are far too late to save this realm. Though I invite you to try, your power will add nicely to my own."

The demon laughed at Ephus 'til he powered up and literally fried Shuten-dōji where he stood.

"Alright little demi, come and take what I now own," the crispy demon said as Ephus hit him again. This time Ephus put all he could into it, making the demon king scream. "Come for me, I'll show you what true power is." Then he vanished.

Ephus smirked as he looked at those there. "Seems like I have heard that before from several. Including Ares and the Titans."

The males there laughed as they remembered Ares' boasts, then his defeat by Ephus.

They all sat down to discuss everything for a few more hours. He also questioned Benten, who said that most of Takamagahara had been covered with demons. She was also afraid that Amaterasu was captured or worse.

They decided to wait a day so Ephus could completely re-charge Benten. He figured her at full power might piss this demon off. He knew that a mad enemy was a careless enemy.

The next morning, Ephus kissed all his wives that were there. He made sure they could feel him if he had trouble.

Finished he took ahold of Benten's arm and felt where the God realm was. What seemed like hours, though, was only minutes when they appeared in an area that had hundreds of fires burning.

Ephus immediately drew his sword as several demons charged him. All four of them screamed as he cut them as if they weren't there.

He turned as more came at him from behind, those ten went just as quickly. He took out another twenty as they headed toward the main building.

There was a huge crowd around it that were doing all they could to break in. H uh. Ephus thought the building reminded him of the old Pagoda buildings in Japan.

Ephus approached the crowd and, as quietly as he could, started to stab the demons in the back. He'd probably killed a hundred when a few started to notice a great many weren't standing with them.

That's when they started to turn around. Now Ephus thought, I got problems as he started to cut down as many, as fast as he could. He also noticed that the press of so many bodies was starting to push him back.

After twenty minutes, there was a great pile of bodies that were cut in half. Ephus shook his head as they seemed to keep coming, he swore that he'd killed hundreds.

Benten had been trying to keep as many off me as she could, though I saw that she was starting to tire. I started trying to push back, though the body press was starting to grow too much.

He figured that I was going to have to leave, then come back as they were about to overpower us. That's when I felt a rather powerful entity appear.

The entity had red armor on with a Japanese yelling mask on. It looked at him and the huge pile of bodies, nodded, then started to draw and fire arrows so fast that I almost couldn't see it.

Now a lot of the demons in front of him started to scream. They were being mowed down as fast from the back as the front. Now he breathed a sigh of relief as he started in anew.

He and the bowman finally met up, still killing as fast as we could. He looked at Benten as she still tried to help. With a wave of his hand, she vanished.

"She is safe. I sent her into the prime building with Amaterasu. Though I am afraid that we may lose energy before we defeat this army," the red armored warrior said in a deep male voice.

He went back-to-back with him as he felt energy start to flow to him from me. He very briefly looked at me as his energy started to climb higher. Then, he swore as his energy got very high, he was firing off three and four at a time.

He started to swing in wider arcs as they were starting to back off. Ephus also noticed that there seemed to be quite a lot less than when he'd arrived.

They had been going a full two hours; they managed to get them down to a few hundred. After they were dead, he almost fell over. He almost fell as he felt the red armored warrior grab him, easing him to the ground.

He thanked him as they both surveyed the scene. There were thousands and thousands of dead demons everywhere.

He looked at the warrior. "We need to shore up the walls around this place," Ephus told him.

The warrior shook his head no, then explained, "There is an invisible barrier around all this. As you can see, it is almost completely down. We have to repair that which makes it," the warrior said.

"Can we do that?" he asked.

The warrior shook his head, "Only Amaterasu can repair it and her energy is very low. I fear that the coward Shuten-dōji will attack before her energy has returned. I am Hachiman, God of war, and you?"

"I am Ephus, nothing special," Ephus said.

Hachiman's eyes went large as he slightly bowed and thumped his fist off his chest. "I have heard of your many exploits. I just remembered! Come with me," he said, then grabbed his arm and they blinked out.

They appeared in a large room that had a couch with a female lying on it. Benten was nearby and came running ro Ephus.

"Ephus," Benten said, tears falling from her eyes, "please help her, she is so weak."

"I take it this is the Amaterasu that you mentioned?" Ephus said, the warrior nodded as Ephus went to his knees beside the couch. He whispered in her ear, "I need your permission to do this."

She motioned me closer as she whispered to me, "Please hurry. I don't have much left." Then she closed her eyes.

He put both of my hands on her and concentrated. After a minute, a low glow started to come from his hands and started to surround her.

It took almost five minutes to get what little he could in her. He felt that she was only at half power. He was panting pretty badly as he tried to start giving her more. That's when she woke up and pushed him away.

"I know that you would sacrifice yourself for me. I can not allow you to do that. I have more than ninety percent of the wall repaired. It should stall anymore that come here. Now, as I promised your wife Bast, you shall rest. When you're stronger you can help me repair the rest," Amaterasu said.

He started to argue, then felt as if he had no spine as he went down. He was not sure how long he was out as there was no day and night here. He did know that the couch was not as comfortable as he thought it would be.

He tried to get up, finding that he had a body lying across him. Then, to his greater surprise, he found that there were two bodies keeping him immobile. He managed to get his head up to see one of them was Benten. The other he wasn't sure of.

Benten awoke from his moving and kissed him as the other goddess did. "Ephus, let me introduce you to Wakahiru-me, Amaterasu's younger sister."

Ephus' eyes got large as he saw that both females were almost naked as he was. Then there was the fact that they were lying across him.

"So I have to ask why are the two of you laying on me?" he asked.

"Well," a voice said behind me. "I had to have some way of keeping you in bed. Had you gotten up you might have done something stupid. Hey your wife's words not mine," Amaterasu said.

Ephus smirked a moment as he nodded his head. That was about like something that she'd say he thought. "So how long have I been out?" I asked.

"Hmm," Amaterasu said as she thought a moment. Probably four days here. That's about half a day in the human world. We had to make sure you were OK; you were almost too strong to hold down."

"How is the barrier? Ephus asked.

"Far more solid than it was. I have almost the entire place covered now. Do you think that you could finish?" Amaterasu asked.

Ephus nodded as he walked up to Amaterasu with his hands far brighter than the night before. As soon as he finished, Amaterasu sighed as he saw that the entire barrier had thickened and closed.