Blessed by Night

A door opened in a dark hallway and a steady stream of visitors walked out.

Malachi couldn't help but do a double take when he stepped into Thea's home for the second time.

Because it was nothing like the last time he was here.

*Whistles* "Hell of a lot of renovations going on here… If I didn't feel underdressed the first time that I came here, then I sure do now." Aisha looked around in wonder.

"D-Don't be like that." Thea nudged her. "You look perfectly fine… more than fine. Actually, if you wanted to-"

Mal: "You are all making me violently uncomfortable."

Serana: "I like the way my sister-in-law thinks! Where's your room, handsome?"

Apophis: "Right down the-"

Mal: "Dog, I'm not gonna say it again. Violently uncomfortable!!"

Everyone seemed to smirk at Mal as if they found the irony of him being the one to complain amusing.

After everything he had ever forced them to sit through, he had such minuscule room to complain that it was embarrassing.

"Come on, he should be this way." Thea relented.

Aisha actually looked moderately disappointed that she was no longer being harassed.

Suddenly, a door opened down the hallway and a small child walked out rubbing his eyes.

For a moment, Malachi mistook him for N'Kai due to his black skin and sclera.

"Baby bro! Come meet our friends." Apophis called.

The child looked their way, and the visitors unconsciously stepped back at the sight of his swirling red eyes and unnatural cold demeanor.

Even more horrific was the fact that he without a doubt had the deepest voice they had ever heard.

"I find it unbelievable that either of you were able to convince anyone to be friends with you. I'm aware that mortals often scrape the bottom of the metaphorical barrel for companionship, but they have outdone themselves by standing beside you plebeian children."

Malachi and the girls' jaws dropped. Meanwhile, Thea and Apophis took it all in stride as if this occurrence was normal.

"Aww, did someone miss their nap today?"

The young child lowered his head to the ground. "…Yes. Gaia would not stop pestering me."

"Nubia's room is free, buddy. You can hide from her in there."

"…Thank you, brother."

The small child vanished in a puff of smoke and left the stunned group behind.

"What… or who… was that..?" Aubrey sputtered.

"That's our brother Bashenga. Isn't he cute?" Thea gushed.

Aubrey didn't know if she was joking or not, but that little boy was the single most terrifying entity she had ever laid eyes on in twenty years of life.

If she were going to run across more entities like that in this house, she was absolutely positive that she should run back to borrow one of her niece's diapers before trying to travel any further. Find adventures at m_v l|e-NovelBin.net

Serana raised her hand like she was in a classroom. "Umm…When he said Gaia, did he actually mean-"

""Uh-huh."" Thea and Apophis nodded in unison.

"…"

It was official… this place was a nut house.

-

After a brief adventure / tour of the new house, Thea finally led the group to a pair of fancy looking double doors with the letters M.C on it.

And a little sticky note that said '+ Jazzy'.

"MC?" Aisha asked.

"Man cave." Thea rolled her eyes.

"Someone is upset because she's not invited in but her wife is?" Apophis smirked.

"Don't act like dad wouldn't flip all the rules in a second to let his precious baby inside."

"Tch."

Apophis pushed open the doors and a light smoke spilled out.

Malachi noticed several things in that moment.

The smell of exotic cigars, the familiar sound of clinking glasses, loud football announcers, and of course, foul language from several different male voices.

…And one female voice among them.

"This shit is fucking embarrassing. Number 72 is getting beat like allegations on every play."

"You're worried about 72?? Our safety keeps picking the wrong man like a former child star."

"That running back is ruthless. If he stiff arms his defender one more time, then his neck is going to look like my dick after a cold shower."

"Look at this shit! The QB throwing out picks like the other team's hair is nappy."

"Fuck this, I have to make a call to the GM and demand a new coach."

"Isn't that a bit much, Jasmine?"

"No! You think I'm going to keep letting him fuck us day in and day out with no ring to back it up? Does my favorite team look like your mother??"

"You dumb broad! We can take this outside if you really want to go there!"

"You've been drinking, Darius, you don't have that in you today. All you're going to do is put your hands on my jacket and shake me like your momma's ass and I'm going to beat you to pieces."

Raunchy laughter spilled out from the group of men and even Malachi found himself covering his mouth so that he didn't chuckle.

"Hey, can you guys fix your faces, we've got guests." Apophis called.

Inside of the man cave, there was a fully stocked bar, pool table, several arcade machines, and a table lined with party food.

A huge sectional sofa was placed in front of a movie screen with a televised game on.

The score was 42-12. No wonder everyone in here was mad.

Horned men say with their backs turned to the entrance. Their bodies tensed up once Apophis gave his warning.

One by one, they started to turn around, but only one figure stood up.

He was massive.

Without exaggeration, he must've been close to nine feet tall.

His body was somehow overcrowded with muscles, and yet they fit perfectly within his body to make him look like an immaculate divine statue.

But Malachi could see and feel it clearly. This man was more impossibly dangerous than any god he had ever met in his life. Perhaps even more than his mother too.

The man had deep black skin that was even darker and more ominous than his own. Shining gold tattoos literally moved across his entire body from the neck down.

His hair was tied behind his head in a single ponytail- and it was equally as unique as the rest of him. Half of it was dyed white, the other side was pure black.

His three golden eyes were encircled with ominous black sclera- and his simple gaze was heavier on one's back than the entire weight of the world.

And the large one in the center of his chest was too disturbing to even look at for long.

His presence was so imposing and regal that for a while the duo didn't notice that he only wore a simple hoodie and sweatpants like a secret NEET.

Albeit a very, very, frightening one.

"O-Oh… You found your jacket, huh?" Thea scratched her cheek in embarrassment.

"After I fished it out of your closet."

The visitors felt their vision become slightly blurry. The man's voice stroked a certain pleasure center in the mind and just kept rubbing, and rubbing, and… it was very nice to listen to.

Finally, the unit realized something that they had sort of skipped over at first.

This man was impossibly handsome. Aisha almost started liking men, and she had never done that.

"I was planning to return it at some point, dad." Thea apologized.

"Oh, I'm sure." Thea's father rolled all four of his eyes.

He pulled a burning cigar from between his thick lips and smiled at the group of foreign young humans.

"I'd say nice to meet you all, but… I probably know you better than you know yourselves by now." He laughed.

Thea elbowed him lightly in the stomach. "Dad, ease up on the all-knowing monster thing. You're freaking them out..!"

Thea's words were an understatement. They were absolutely terrified.

Aubrey suddenly fell back on her butt as she stared at Thea's father.

Her eyes had turned fully black and lost their shine, while dark murky tears ran from her face.

"Am I… going to die…?"

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