The Dreamer's Game

Chapter 4: Anger my Anger, how You Shine Your Waves

Chapter 4: Anger my Anger, how You Shine Your Waves

"I've been meaning to talk to you" Jake stood across from the fit male, wearing the patterned sweater identical to him in face.

"You're...blonde"

"I'm Apollo of course I'm blonde"

"Right he frequently tells me he's not-"

Future Jake laughed.

"You know Apollo's a liar"

"I thought he was the god of truth. Or rather you were since you're claiming to be him"

"Maika is about to return to you"

"Why do you have an accent"

"Look Jake. Yes. In the future you become human. You miss it. You hate being a god. You can't get mad at your family- our family. For treating you as what you look like"

"Do you have any idea how fucked up you sound right now?"

'"I know Jake. Miss that name. Jake Caloway my favorite aspect"

"You're not really me" Jake had bedded and known his future self. This man seemed an imposter.

"It doesn't matter who I am. I just want to give you some advice"

"Under false pretences"

"Your eye, is gona bleed hardcore"

"What are you fucking talking about?"

"Read Oron's books"

"Oron is a crazy lunatic atheist. I keep him out of my notes, and while Raven is in love I can't stand him sometimes and right now is one of those times"

"You really got self loathing issues"

"I'm not Oron. He just fixes my stories"

"Well whoever you are. I hope you like where you going. Because you can't ever come back" then current Jake woke up. He had a conversation with Azazel kept off the books, and spent most of the day painting. He was drawing a lot of dead things and making their corpses shine with the water color.

While doing one such painting of a bird with an arrow in it's chest, dripping gold, he let it slip to Athena one of his godforms- what we would call an aspect was a god of war. It became quickly apparent she was furious with him and in that anger she cut him off.

"Athena I have done nothing but show you respect and admiration. You have done nothing but get infuriated with me" Jake said gentle.

"Fine! Go work with Medusa!" Athena screamed. "I am done with you! I will not aid you on your quest or during the war!!" Jake didn't know what he did wrong. Later that night Dionysus was working some sort of mind games on him, regarding the ritual of the seven suns, which Jake had been repeatedly told was over, but he knew wasn't.

Dionysus worked his magick on Jake's mind and tried to convince him he was like the god. Then he started to convince Jake he was himself. Finally he tried to convince Jake he was human. Angry, this killed something in Jake and feeling the death Jake snapped. He grabbed one of cupids arrows from his inner temple and stabbed himself slithering the black thing up his stomach. Jake was instantly filled with rage for Dionysus and everything about the god. Then he searched for more weapons to hurt the god within his mind of the arrow. He found a silver twirled dagger with a dark tip.

Consumed with rage Jake held the athene up to Dionysus's neck. It began to drip gold and then Jake was in his mind, his inner mind palace, his temple of the dead heard "Please Jake have a heart. Show mercy" the words were casual, not grandiose or upsetting. He didn't know who said it. May not have been Dionysus. Angry and infuriated Jake collapsed late at night in his bed crying. Still pissed Jake cut off all the gods and cut short their orange threads. He said "Please leave my altar. This is my goodbye to you" and the gods realized that this knife from the abyss as Jake put it, that he had conjured nearly killed the god of wine. "You should know we're not gona talk to you again. I'm also taking back the shoes" Hermes said to him. "Threats like that are exactly why I'm giving up on you!" He was infuriated hit by one of cupids black arrows those things are powerful.