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Indra - king of the Devas, God of all weather

The Trimurti - the three main deities of Hinduism

Vishnu - the god of preservation

Shiva - the god of destruction

Brahma - the god of creation

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Lakshmi - consort of Vishnu - the goddess of wealth and purity.

Parvati - consort of Shiva - the archetypal mother goddess and fertility image

Saraswati - consort of Brahma - the goddess of education, creativity, and music

Indrani - wife of Indra, queen of the Devas

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Rama - discusses duties, rights and social responsibilities of an individual also an avatar of Vishnu

Sita - consort of Rama - avatar of Lakshmi

Kali - goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death, consort of Shiva

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Ganesha - a god of wisdom, and the remover of all obstacles.

Buddi - consort of Ganesha intelligence, wisdom, or intellect.

Kertikeya - major god of war

Devasena - goddess of aspiration, consort of Kertikeya

Yama - God of death

Dhumorna - consort of Yama

Chandra - God of the moon, plants and vegetation

Rohini - main consort of Chandra, the red goddess

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"Ah, you must be Indrani, I apologize to you though, to him? Never! I am sorry to and for all of you." Here I turned to Indrani, "please tell your husband that, tbe non-god, his words, is done. Tell him it is his fault and his alone. Though as arrogant as he is? He probably won't care and now? Neither do I."

I then bowed to all three goddesses, bent over their hands, kissing them, then I vanished. When I appeared, it was more than a few minutes later, damn I thought looking around had been a while.

Damn, how in the hell had I managed to get all the way home? I was back in the U.S. standing outside my old home. I sighed as I also realized that there was no one here anymore.

I reached in shutting all the power that my supposed father had opened up. I might have to develop a type of dampening so they couldn't find me. My supposed father worried about finding me, then didn't even stay half a day.

I tried to lower my power more, finally feeling that there was hardly anything. It might work, though Kali could possibly find me, shit.

Back in the Hindu god realm mainly in Svarga, there were some very unhappy Devas. Most of their unhappiness was directed toward Indra.

The main three were Kali, Rohini and Indrani, though Indrani was the most upset. They had started in on Indra when Kali and the other two gasped.

The Trimurti were afraid as they asked the three what was wrong. Kali fell to her knees with an almost vacant look in her eyes. "It's Robert, I can't feel him," she turned toward Indra and growled.

Indra turned toward her, scoffing at her, "it was just a demi-god of no," He started, then was blasted against the wall.

He turned toward The Trimurti, his mouth hanging open, all three of them were breathing hard a look of pure hatred on their faces.

"I knew that you were proud though, I didn't think that you were this stupid," Brahma snorted.

Vishnu and Shiva's hands were glowing as they were prepared to blast away at him again.

"Brothers, we do not need him, he is below," Indra started.

"You are dumber than we thought," Vishnu said. "Without him there would not be any of us out. He released all of us. I and Shiva tried, we paid for that. He is the only one that can aid us in this war. In case you didn't notice, he destroyed three of them with no problem. You best hope we can find him."

Kali was still on her knees, a look of lost hopelessness on her face. "It's like Robert ceased to exist, no! This can't be happening."

Rohini and Indrani were beside Kali as tears started to spill from her eyes. "Like he ceased to exist?" Rohini said. "Do you feel any of the Davanas nearby? It might be possible they are blocking him."

Kali turned toward both of the goddesses, tears still falling. "No, it's like I said, he was there, then suddenly he wasn't. I don't know what's going on, but I can't sense him at all," a now very worried Kali said.

They all turned their attention to the Trimurti and Indra as Indra once again grunted. Indra was pushed back to the wall again, the Trimurti blasting him again.

"He's not that important!" Indra was yelling.

"You might want to rethink that," Kali growled as she got into Indra's face.

Back in the United States, I was trying to defeat the wave of depression that was sweeping over me. Being back at the family home, such as it was, was doing me all that well.

I sighed as I stepped up to the front door, though I was surprised when my cousin of my adopted family appeared. "Robert! Been a long time, where have you been hiding?"

"Not hiding as much as out of the country, on a few digs," I said.

"Oh really? Find anything earth-shattering?" He asked.

I shook my head, "no not really, just mostly follow up on other people's finds," I told him.

"That's too bad, I thought that by now you'd have discovered a lost city or civilization by now. Here, as smart as you are, I figured you would have by now," he said.

I sighed, I knew he meant well though, there were times that his comments weren't welcomed. Growing up in the children's home wasn't all it had been cracked up to be.

Then I found out that my mom had never told me who dad was. Worse yet was the way that I had to find out. Yeah, I thought, life was really starting to suck, that was for sure.

So, I just smiled as I used to, "I've been trying, though as I said, nothing as of yet," I told him.

"Well," he said with a smile on his face, "keep at it, you never know." Oh yeah, I forgot, he was the one trying to always blow sunshine up everyone's ass.

God, I really didn't need this happy ass and his comments right now, I had enough problems.

It was at that moment that I saw a ghostly image of one of the Danavas pass by. I shook my head, what in the hell were they doing in the States? I thought they could only go to, oh shit that's right, it's America no bunch of gods.

The longer I thought about it, the more I thought that I was wrong. I mean there were American Indians, didn't they have gods?

I must have had a frown on my face that my adopted cousin noticed. "You alright there bud?" He asked, God I really hated that term of endearment.

I snapped out of thinking while keeping an eye on the Danavas that were still floating nearby.

"Just going through memories, most of which aren't all that good," I told him. I took a deep breath, then relaxed when I saw that the Danavas didn't notice me.

Even as I relaxed, I saw that the ghostly image looked more confused, then moved on rapidly. Hmmm, I thought that was interesting.

I watched as my 'cousin' moved on, leaving me with my thoughts. Though I really didn't want to with the horrible memories I went in.

I nodded as the crushing nightmare of my childhood hit me full force. I fell to my knees gasping for breath, shit this was going to be worse than I thought.

I tried to stand, then fell to the floor again, shit it was hitting me like a freight train. I growled as I tried to fight against the memories. We were just children, why had they tortured us like that? It was a case I had heard of where a child had been beaten 'til he was comatose.

That case had many, many group homes investigated, a hell of a lot of staff across the country had gone to jail. Here? They managed to pull it back enough to keep from jail, barely. Still, the beatings continued, though, a lot more inspections started.

This had quite a few more going to jail, so it helped a lot. Not here though. The day I turned eighteen, I got out, the male who ran the place thought he owned me. I took him out with a few well-placed punches. Then, for the hell of it, I crushed his scrotum, that was a satisfying sound as he screamed.

I excelled in school, though I remained anti-social. Finally, out I decided I needed experience, as I worked on my masters and then my PhD. I barely got my masters; I was so caught up in the digs.

So, here I was two years into trying to get my PhD. in Archeology. I was good though I did have a slight problem, at least thats what my advisor said. Just a slight one, extreme anger management? Yeah, I had an extremely volatile temper, with a very short fuse.

Here I was, back in the place of nightmares, attempting to hide out. I was afraid though, that any moment that Kali was going to appear. I could resist her, I think. Though not for long, with a sigh I just shook my head.

I was finally able to control my breathing as I sat up. Shit I thought, had this been a mistake? The complete vibe that I got from the place was an evil that I couldn't recognize.

I started to bring my power up to clear the place, then take a stopped suddenly. I had just started when I felt the first niggling of Kali. Shit! She was searching for me. Why in the hell would she? She was with that bastard god, Indra, just like the rest of them.

Her, Rohini and Indrani had acted like they cared though he felt it was a show. Why in the hell would she or any of the others give a shit. I had released them, to them, I was just a big whoopie do.

No, I thought, as I dropped my power faster than I had started to bring it up. Even as fast as I was, I could still feel Kali and a few others approaching fast.

I went out the back door running as fast as I could, shit I had maybe ten minutes? Then I was afraid that she'd find me.

Even with my power as damn near dead as I had it, I could still feel her. Shit, have sex one time, and they were a magnet for you.l I mean what the hell, I wasn't that good in bed. I knew the sex wasn't that good either.

I managed to catch a cab two minutes later, having the man getting us out of there as fast as possible.

Even as we were leaving the area, I swore that I saw Kali, plus two other goddesses. As they got smaller, I could swear that I saw a few of the gods also appear. Great, I thought, they were pissed enough at me that most of them were hunting me.

Somehow, I had to keep out of sight and their feeling of my power if I was to survive. Sure, I had power but not against how many I saw as th house grew smaller.

I sat there as the cabbie tried to draw me into conversation, then, grew quiet when I didn't respond. I looked up a moment later, seeing that the man was Indian, shit I needed to get out of here.

"Let me out here," I nearly shouted at the man. I watched him drive off, waiting 'til he was out of sight. What had scared me so badly was the small effigy of Kali that he had up front.

I had really just got here; I really didn't want to run into any of them for a while.

Kali and the rest of the gods had left Svar-loka, leaving a shocked Indra. Though his mate leaving was the biggest shock.

Indra was shocked to inability; this had never happened before. Usually there were a few that were against him, but not all that were present. Plus, his mate had sided with them, especially Kali.

A shake of his head had him deciding that he had to banish Kali. No, he thought, that wasn't a very good idea either. This made him pause, they said that his father was also a demi-god, wasn't it Ephus?

Yes, he thought, he'd have to talk to this Ephus to get things set right. With that, he stretched out feeling for a demi-god called Ephus. Then with a smile he blinked out.

A few moments later, he appeared in a gray misty area. Funny Indra thought this seemed very familiar. Then a titanic blast barely missed his chest, a blast that could have seriously crippled him.

A smile on his face, Indra doubled the shield around him, then was summarily knocked on his ass. With a shake of his head he popped back up and went four times as powerful. This time the blast barely bumped him.

He started forward toward Ephus, then, was once again knocked on his ass by two powerful blasts. This time Indra got up slower and extended his senses more. Whomever this was, was trying to figure out who he was, hmmm wise.

This time, as he advanced, he could feel the attacks as they were launched. Oh, he thought, they really didn't even know he was here. He got almost to where Ephus (he guessed) and what appeared to be a type of horned demon were fighting.

"So, Shuten dōji, after all this time you'd think that you had been defeated enough," the human said.

"Defeated though never beaten, something you can never do," the demon said. It was at that moment that the demon noticed Indra. "Are you afraid that I will defeat you this time?" The demon sneered.

The human Ephus shrugged, "Here I thought he was here to aid you, you have been afraid before, so it was a thought."

This, of course, angered Indra as he fired a blast off at both of them. Both just smirked as they caught and extinguished the blasts. Indra's mouth just hung open, who were these beings?

Shuten dōji and Ephus could only look at the Indian? God, whose mouth was still gaping open.

"He seems kind of weak, doesn't he?" Shuten dōji asked.

"Yeah, he kind of does, hell that was as weak as the first one you threw at me all that time ago," Ephus said.

"I am not weak, you wanna be gods," Indra spit out.

"No, wait, wait, wait, I am not a god thank you, just the king of the Demons here," Shuten dōji said.

Ephus looked at Indra and shook his head, "I am no god, a demi-god, yes, but no god."

Again, Indra's mouth dropped open as he couldn't believe the deep bull-shit he was hearing from the two.

"First off, let's introduce ourselves before we destroy you for interfering. I am Ephus, an ex-human turned Demi-god," Ephus said.

"I am Shuten dōji, king of the demons in the realm of the Japanese," Shuten dōji said. They both waited patiently as Indra was still shocked. "Well?"

Indra snapped out of it then said, "I am Indra, king of the Devas." Which caused both before him to frown.

"What are those?" Ephus asked,

"What are those?" Indra asked incredously. "They are the true gods of India," he said with pride, though not much at the moment.

"Ah, that's OK, I was just there a little while ago. They were still building up after being imprisoned for so long. Something about in- house fighting? Yeah, not sure, seemed a waste of time."

"A waste of time! What do you call this? Seems a bit of wasted time to me," Indra said as he started to glow.

"OH! Look, he's getting pissed goody-goody," Shuten dōji said with glee.

You'd think this would have warned Indra, though it did not. So it was not a shock when his very powerful blast barely moved Shuten dōji.

"Ummm, such delicious anger. It has been a while since I ate this well," Shuten dōji said with a satisfying belch.

Again, Indra's mouth hung open as if the blast had done nothing. Ephus had started laughing, this was funny to him, he greatly enjoyed putting arrogant gods in their place.

"Well, I have to go, Ephus, see you soon," Shuten dōji said, then popped out.

Ephus sighed, then turned toward Indra with a look of anger on his face. "I should destroy you for this, now I have to weaken him down again. Damnit, I nearly had him this time, and you re-power him."

"Ha! That's not how it looked to me, you should have..." Indra started.

"Shit!" Ephus said, then waved a hand as they both vanished, to Indra's surprise.

Less than a few moments later, several Goddesses appeared. Bast was the leader of them as she waved a hand. "Damnit! We almost caught up with him. He is always so quick," looking around, she turned to a Japanese goddess. "Isn't this your realm, Benten?" Bast asked a pale-skinned, long, dark-haired Oriental-looking female.

She stepped forward waving a hand past her pregnant stomach. Her face concentrated, then she nodded, "this feels like the area of the realm that the Onis used to live in. They have been gone a very long time, wait husband was here, with two others." Benten started to hiss.

Concerned, Bast started to power up, as did the rest with her. "Was Ephus hurt," a worried Bast asked.

"No, the other here had such anger that he re-powered Shuten dōji. All husband's work to weaken it, has been destroyed," Benten hissed, as did the rest with her. Bast just got a furious look on her face.

All the goddesses that were there with Bast were all now glowing. How dare another god invade here and destroy all the good work that Ephus had done! They all now had looks of death on their faces as they all started to look for the ignorant god.

Then Bast thought that Ephus had moved both of them, perhaps it wasn't as bad as they thought. They would have to see when they caught up with both of them.

Both Indra and Ephus appeared not far from Svar-loka. "So, this is your home? Not all that much," Ephus said as he waved a hand and the door opened.

"How did you do that? It was keyed to me, only no one else can open it!" Indra was nearly shouting.

"What that? That was easy. I find that not many locks are as unopenable as you think. I have only ever had trouble with one lock at that was a long time ago," Ephus said.

Again, Indra could only stare with his mouth hanging open.

"So, you need to recharge more while you tell me why you interrupted me," Ephus said, then sat down to listen to all that his son had done.

Ephus just sat there shaking his head or nodding, with several smirks. "So, do you think that you can aid us?"

Ephus just looked into Indra's eyes, then said no. This, of course, had Indra starting to get angry.

Ephus held up a hand to stop Indra, "I cannot interfere. This is his assignment to grow far stronger. I therefore can not do the work, he has to."

"In that case, can you find him, bring him here?" Indra asked.

"I could for now, though he'd be far angrier than he is right now. That I could handle, you no. I am afraid he'd destroy you and this realm. I can speak to him, though it is you that has angered him the most. You are going to have to apologize to him and mean it, if not? Then forget it, Ephus explained.

Indra's face got angry again, causing Ephus to sigh again. "You want me to apologize to him?"

Ephus' eyes narrowed at Indra, "you are about ten seco0nds from me leaving and saying screw you. You're almost as bad as Zeus was, that, was a stubborn god."

Indra's anger drained almost as fast as it had appeared. "I will accept all and help that you can provide." This time Indra's head was slightly bowed. It's about time, Ephus thought.

Now Ephus thought I just have to find him and get him to listen. I need to get him as far away from people as I can. After a few minutes, he found me, though at the time I didn't know it.

Nor did I know that he could feel just how pissed off at him that I was. Yeah, I was as mad as I could be at my supposed father and the bastard god that had rejected everything I had done.

I was still running, though now I was on foot trying to get out of the old neighborhood. When I made it I was damn near exhausted, though I was further into the city. Great out of the crapper and straight into the septic tank.

I finally caught a ride to the city edge, at least now, not as many would be killed if the Danavas attacked me. I just hoped that they didn't it'd be a beacon to all the rest of them.