Chapter 15

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

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

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

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

In Yellowstone Park, deep within the interior, I had been setting up. Finally, glad to be away from all the ridicule I was feeling from the male gods. I sat as I tried to think of a way to rescue Rohini, without the help of the male gods.

I knew that my power had increased almost to twice what it had been. I knew that I could waltz in there and get her out, probably easily. I was hoping that what I was feeling was still true, that they couldn’t touch her yet.

I knew that they could prove nothing about the lies they had said about her. I was almost ready to call my father for help as he was stronger than me, some. No, I thought that would make me look weak.

I was about to go to where we had left off when nine females appeared in front of me. I immediately put a shield around me.

“I don’t care what all of you want. I will not go back to being the joke of the gods. So just go away and leave me alone, I will save your sister. Unlike your mates, I honor what I say,” I told all of them.

Kali tried to move towards me and bounced back rather hard on her ass. “Here I thought that we had something special. Enough that you wouldn’t cast me aside,” she said.

“Cast you aside, no. It is all of you who appear to be slaves to your mates, they cast me away. Go away, I will keep my promise,” I said with some anger.

“Go away?” Indrani said. “Oh no, she is our sister, we wish to go with you and free her.”

I was then surprised when all nine of the female goddesses drew some damn fine and wicked weapons.

“If I refuse?” I asked.

“We’re going whether or not you allow us,” a very determined Kali said.

I could only nod as they looked more determined and deadly than their mates had.

“How am I to know that you won’t cast me away once she is free? All my life this has happened to me,” I said, then I turned towards Kali. “You are the first that has ever treated me as if I was worth something. Forgive me if I am having a very hard time believing all of you are genuine.”

Kali took a deep breath before she started, “Robert, you really think that I don’t care about you?”

I looked deep into her eyes for a few moments, then dropped my shield. “As I said before, you are the only one that has actually appeared to be real. You know of my life before now, the rest of you don’t. Do you think that they could take it?”

Kali turned to look at the other eight goddesses there, assessing each. She nodded yes, then grabbed my arm. “Robert please, go easy on them, they don’t know the pain, the humiliation, the terror.”

I looked at her incredibly, seeing the pleading look in her eyes. With a sigh, I nodded as I explained. “What I am about to show you is my life, why I am as I am, ready?”

I saw all of them nod, a little uncertain. I grimaced as I opened up, letting it all go to them, slowly. At first, they only had shocked looks on their faces, then the real tears and almost agony started. A few moments later they were all on their knees.

Kali again grabbed my arm as she made a slashing motion across her throat. I closed down as fast as I could, feeling a little bad though only a little. I had always been the brunt of jokes of every kind.

A few moments later each one of them rose and threw their arms around me as their tears continued. Then the strangest thing happened as they all apologized to me.

After a few hours, they were better, they were also even more determined. It was about then that I noticed that they had even more sinister weapons in their possession.

I nodded as I saw all the weapons, I then sat as I started to go through the plan. “We have five more areas to go through. I think that they will have the constructs in the first four waiting for us. We take all of them slowly, this feels like a trap.”

“You think that all the forty-nine that are left are going to ambush us?” Indrani asked a few moments later.

“I do in fact believe that they want to end this with all of them in the last place. They think that they have an advantage with their numbers.” I looked around as I continued. “In this they have made a fatal mistake.”

I reached out to each goddess, placing a hand on their shoulders. At first nothing happened, then, each that I was touching, eyes each opened wide as they started to glow. I passed a hand over each of them as soon as I was finished. I nodded with a smile as I started again.

This time, when I released each one, the glow they were giving off continued. I again waved a hand over them, then an even wider smile lit up my face.

I rose as I nodded to each goddess, each nodded back that they were ready. Seeing that we were all ready, I waved a hand appearing in the fifth of the last areas. As I thought, they were in fact ready for us.

I held a hand up to all the goddesses, then moved forward, taking a hundred in no time. I felt my anger rise as I started to decimate the constructs.

I had two hundred dead around me when the goddess started toward me. The looks of anger on their faces helped to fuel my anger more.

Within ten minutes, all one thousand were dead or dying. I looked at the surrounding carnage with satisfaction. I really wanted the other forty-nine demons though, depriving them of this many constructs helped.

I looked over all the goddesses, seeing that no one had been injured. I could also see that they were more than ready to continue on.

I nodded my head as we vanished, a mere three minutes later four demons appeared. All three stared at the devastation of the thousand constructs.

They were about to vanish when the two further away from the others dropped with their heads missing. The other two snapped their fingers, shocked when nothing happened. They were more shocked when they turned, and several swords pierced their chests.

I nodded, as I thought well only forty-five more, so the odds were a little better. I thought it might be best to wait for more, though I was afraid they’d send many more.

I decided to wait, the goddesses agreeing with me. It took quite a while for more to appear, these were tougher and angrier. I managed to get the first three and the last seven, trying as before, to vanish. Five fell as they tried to turn, the last two drawing weapons.

I got there as quickly as possible. I could see that the rest of the goddesses weren’t as good as them. Kali took up with me as we went against the two demons. I had to admire Kali’s sword work as she kept the demon at bay.

I made quick work of the one against me though, Kali was evenly matched. I joined in as we caught the demon in a cross-cut. I smiled as it went down, “well, only thirty-four more the odds are better,” I said.

This caused the goddesses to giggle a bit, though I was afraid that their sword work was still poor. I sighed as I thought about it, then touched each of them again.

Another two hours later I had all of them a lot better, though nowhere near to mine and Kali’s skill. I flashed us out to the fourth area, expecting a large crowd. I was almost disappointed when there were only a hundred.

All of us, again, made short work of the constructs. We again waited for any of ther demons to appear. I had to admit this was the best I could think of for the moment.

After we finished, I knew that the goddesses weren’t going to last that long. I, again, touched each of them, making them even better. I was just hoping that it was enough.

I knew that Kali and I wouldn’t have a problem with them. I still wasn’t as sure about the rest of the goddesses.

I sat with them as I thought about how we were going to do this. There were thirty-four of them and only ten of us. I was also worried that the goddesses mates might actually find them. I really didn’t need them to interfere in this. They were after all against me doing this.

I thought I might improve the goddesses again, then thought better. It was one thing to have knowledge, though actual ability was another thing.

I knew that the fights had improved them, though not enough to go against the best of the demons. No, we neede3d another strategy if we were going to win. A strategy that didn’t include the goddesses’ mates.

Another thing that came to me was the fact that if the goddesses were hurt or killed, they would hunt me. I also knew that they wouldn’t stop ‘til they ended me.

I felt that if this happened I would more than deserve what they gave me. Love and devotion were something I had never felt, and actually didn’t think I deserved.

I had hinted to Kali about this, severely upsetting her. I shook my head as I had told all of them, she was the first I had ever felt any of these emotions with.

I sighed as I discussed my idea with them. I had to rethink our plan of attack. We all agreed as they themselves weren’t that sure of their skills.

When we appeared near the area where they were holding Rohini, I saw her start, as I am sure that she felt all of us. I had the goddesses hold as I went around the encampment, taking four without any sound.