Awakening Chronicles

Chapter 34

Eros stood up as the light around him faded away. He opened his eyes and scanned the room. As soon as they landed on Helios, a disgusted snarl appeared on his face. "Filthy Angel."

Helios gazed down at him from his seat. "I can say the same to you, vile demon," Helios replied with a voice full of disdain.

Feeling the tension in the room grow, I spoke up. "Now now, children. You can hate each other later. We have much to discuss. First, welcome to Ouradia Eros." I told him as I tried to diffuse the situation a bit.

Eros tore his gaze from Helios and glanced at me. "My, I didn't realize the Administrator would be so beautiful."

I gave him a blank stare in return. Did he think that he could try and be smooth with me? "Thank you, Eros, though I am sad to say this is not my true form," I replied to him and crossed my arms.

"I see. Well then. What is it we need to talk about?" He asked me as I swept my white hair back.

" I am trying to bring together the Demons and the Angels. I want to see them unified before the protection period for Ouradia is up." I explained to him as I created a chair in front of me and gestured for him to take a seat.

Eros quickly complied and walked up the stairs, elegantly. Since I forgot to set clothing on him, the system gave him a deep red cloak with red trim that hung down to his knees. It flowed around him with each step he took and gave him a menacing appearance with his black raven wings. He took a seat across from Helios and I and patiently waited for me to speak.

"So why do I need to help unite the Angels and the Demons? We have a genetic disposition to hate each other." Eros told me as I tried to formulate my plans into words.

"Because in a cycle, Ouradia loses its protection period and we do not have a barrier world to help stave off attacks. It would be greatly beneficial to us all to be united in some way." I explained to him once more, though I was starting to get irritated at having to repeat myself.

"I don't see how that is my problem. I don't have to help those pompous angels." He replied with an aristocratic tone and upturned his nose at me.

I felt a flash of anger course through me, and I clenched my hands, and a loud crack echoed throughout the room as the arms of the metal throne were snapped in half. How dare this demon question me, and threaten to destroy everything that I was working on. After a few seconds, I managed to calm myself.

"Eros. It would behoove you never speak like that again. That is an order. You are to help your brother in uniting yours and his kind under one banner. Is that clear?" As I spoke, I noticed that my voice took on a sickly sweet tone, and judging by the look on Eros' face, he knew he screwed up.

"Yes my lord. Please forgive me." He spoke quietly and stood up and bowed before me.

"All is forgiven. Helios, please show Eros around, and please play nice. I'll send you and Eros a written plan, and we can discuss it after Eros learns his way around." I told him as I brought up my screen and quickly typed in my plan.

"Yes, Lord Kairos. I will get on that right away." Helios' words were clipped and lacked his usual teasing tone. I had a feeling making a Demon would kind of ruin the peace around here, but it is alright. It was going to happen one way or another.

The two quickly exited the chamber, and I typed away wrapping up my plan for the Angels and Demons. I added Inovia into the list of people to send this to since she was my war goddess, after all. After reading over the plan's basics, I sent it to three deities and settled into the chair. My eyes wandered over to the clock. I spent two hours here, which means that I had about an hour left before I needed to go back. I did have more than an hour, but I wanted to go explore the city a bit and get a feel for my races.