Dangerous Gods (Completed)

Adventurous Dreams and Boys

1st April 2017
I smiled as I got ready for bed wondering where my adventures would be tonight. Placing my journal on the bedside table I switched out the light and closed my eyes.
I had been having adventurous dreams each with a variety of hot boys for the last couple of years, each of them with individual distinct personalities, from Bo's calm loving, to Mo who was dark, possessive and controlling and sometimes scary, the boys sometimes together sometimes individually and I would head off to investigate the world, we travelled through beautiful godly realms and met many different species and at the end of each adventure many of the boys would kiss me goodbye. I talked to Leto as I had never heard of dreams having the same people in again and again and she had laughed and told me maybe one day I would meet them in real life.
It was Leto's idea to keep a dream journal and from there I decided I would like to one day turn the dreams into stories.
Xx
Tonight I found myself alone in a ruined temple overgrown with vines, this was a new location for me, I spun around trying to find out more information and saw a statue of Zeus. I felt myself drawn towards the statue and reached out to lay a hand on the cool marble.
"Stop!" Cried a voice behind me and Bo appeared.
My hand hovered just inches from the statue
"Don't touch it, its cursed for mortals"
I took a step back and started circling the statue
"Cursed how" I asked him
"Zeus has a real hatred for humans, if you had touched the statue you would have died" he moved behind me and placed his hands on my shoulders.
"Come now, Ati and Eb are waiting, what shall we show you tonight" his hand slid down my arm and captured my hand pulling me along as we left the temple.
I smiled at him, my dream boys saw none of my shyness, with them I could be relaxed and open, something I struggled with in real life.
"can we see the Maze" I asked
"Are you sure, the Maze is not a safe place" he cautioned
" I am always safe with you" I sasses him before breaking free to run to the others.
Eb Picked me up and swung me round "where to" he asked
Bo reached us "she wants the Maze"
"No" said Ati and Eb together and Bo nodded.
"But....." I started only to be cut off by Ati "not safe, anywhere else"
I pouted knowing that the three of them would stand strong on this.
"Pegasus is in the meadow by the lake, would you like to meet him" Ati offered softly
I squealed and jumped on him "really"
He swung me round before setting me down and taking my hand "come on Nettie, maybe the crotchety old nag will let you ride him"
I stopped "Ati, please don't tease me, that would be wonderful, in fact just meeting Pegasus is a dream for me"
We wandered down to a meadow by a blue lake and Bo whistled, the beating on huge wings had me looking up at the horizon to see the famous mythological Pegasus land before us. 
I gasped as Ati led me forward and held my hand out to the giant winged horse, I giggled as its soft snort tickled my arm, feeling brave I took a step closer and laid my hand on his neck, Pegasus took a step closer and brought me against its body with a nudge of its head.
"He likes you" Bo commented
"He's beautiful" I whisper gently stroking his neck
Another nudge from Pegasus and I stood shocked as the horse dropped down to kneel by me
"He will let you ride him if you want" Ati said moving behind me to grasp my hips ready to lift me on.
"I've never ridden before, what if I hurt him" I ask nervously
"Peg will look after you, just sit still and hold onto his mane, you ready"
I nod and Ati lifts me onto Pegasus who rises up.  I grip onto his mane and try to relax as Pegasus shakes out him wings and starts forward.
"guys, what's he doing" I ask nervously looking at them.
Bo try's to move in front but is pushed out the way by the giant horse's steps, Eb and Ati shout at Pegasus to stop but the great beast surges forward and in three steps and one flap later we are flying, up and away from the boys who I can hear shouting in the ground.
I grip tight to the mane and try to relax into the movement not wanting to be thrown off and after a few minutes I feel more confident in the rhythm and start to look around.
I can see temples and forests, paths and lakes and my boys rushing along underneath us.
I laugh in delight as Pegasus changes direction and drags one hoof through the water before rising up and circling round and slowly back towards the boys waiting on the shore.
My three had become four and a loud whistle pierced the air making Pegasus jerk and turn tightly.
I scream as the move unseats me and I start to fall, Pegasus drops lower to the water but nothing is going to stop my fall.
Splash, cold, cold cold, quickly I swim to the surface and look around before swimming the short distance back towards the shore where the boys were now shouting at each other in panic.
Eb noticed my approach and rushed in to pull me out, helping me to my feet before dragging me to the shore.
I stood there with my teeth chattering as the cold seeped into my bones.
"Gods, your freezing, I'm sorry Nettie but you need to take off your wet things, quickly now, Ati and Bo I need your jumpers, quickly" Eb ordered, rubbing his hands up and down my arm to get some warmth through friction.  "Mo come and help me, I can't hold her up as well"
I felt hands carefully peeling off my wet clothes but I was too cold to care, I had never been unclothed in front of any male, not even in my dreams but nerves had fled along with the warmth. I leaned closer to Eb trying to absorb his heat as my shirt was lifted off.
A sudden gasp and still hands brought me back to the present
"Gods" Mo shouted pulling away from me with a terrifying look on his face.
"Later" barked Ati pushing past Mo to pull his jumper over my head, it was so large it went down to my knees, "Bo pull yours over the top, she needs to warm up"
The boys bundled me up and Eb lifted me into his arms, cradling me into his tense warm body
"What's wrong" I whispered to him watching Mo pace back and forth.
He sighed "it will be alright Nettie, just focus on getting warm"
Adjusting me in his arms he walked over to a circle of stones and sat holding me close.
Ati and Bo started a fire and we all watched Mo pace.
The tense atmosphere was getting to me I could feel tears welling up and one tracked down my face. What had I done wrong?
Xx
Two fingers under my chin lifted my face to Bo's "Why are you crying Nettie?"
I met his eyes "I'm sorry"
"What for" he asked.
"For whatever upset you, I'm sorry" I whispered
The others exchanged looks.
"Nettie how did you get your tattoo" Ati asked
"What tattoo" I asked searching their faces.
"The mark on your side" Mo grunted.
"That's not a tattoo, I've always had it, it's my birthmark" I tell him confused.
I watch as Ati drags his hand through his hair "this changes things" he states to the others.
Mo resumes his pacing "we need to tell the others, that'll be fun" he grimaces before swinging back to me "when's your birthday?"
I turn in Eb's arms to look at him "Eb what's going on"
He looks down at me his expression worried "when Nettie please"
"1st June, this year I'll be ..."
"Twenty one" they all replied together.
I looked at each face, something was up but what, they weren't telling me anything.
A warm hand cupped the side of my face, I looked up into Eb's eyes "soon Nettie we will tell you but for now you need to wake up" he told me
"You're sending me away" I whisper
"No Nettie, it's time we came to you on Earth"
I shook my head, that was crazy, this was my dream, I had imagined them.
"No, please I don't want to go yet"
"Nettie!" Mo barked coming to stand in front of me "wake up"
And I did, I lay in my new room looking up at the ceiling and trying to calm my racing heart. Once calm I grabbed my journal and wrote down tonight's dream.
I shook slightly as I tried to make sense of what had happened, my birthmark had been a trigger and not just for Mo, all of their behaviour had changed once it was revealed.
I traced my hand over the mark on my side, feeling the slightly raised mark, did it repulse them, was it ugly. I had always kept it covered scared people would mock me because of the mark, it was huge covering the side of my body.
And Eb saying they were coming to Earth my imagination must be in overdrive with the move and everything to come up with that.
I knew I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep so I quietly started to sort and put away the boxes in my room, humming to myself as I worked.