Page 19 of The Goddess is Fierce
“Watch this shit. Play it again.”
George watched the whole shit show go down with her mouth open. There had been a lot of fuckery since we all arrived at the Academy of the Profane, but we finally reached a level that rendered her speechless.
“That whole move isn’t possible without my brother. I didn’t even know I could sprout wings and fly myself until last semester, but even if I canin theoryI don’t know how and I also don’t know how to fly. My dad is going to be changing my schedule so I won’t just be taking classes with witches to figure out my magic, but flying isn’t going to be one of them because I don’t really need it. I mighteventuallylearn, but that’s going to be a ways off. I’m going to need Michael for that move for the next four years if they don’t kick me off the team.”
Ren started giggling.
“I’m pretty sure your brother and his boyfriend took care of that.”
“My idiot brother may have also gotten himself kicked off the team!”
“He didn’t,” I said. “Some guys masturbate to naked women but sometimes I do it to dodgeball playbooks and the regulation manual. Theonlyqualification for playing dodgeball is magic. Like, if you take up with a human, have two kids, and one hasmagic and one doesn’t, the kid with magic can play dodgeball and the one without can’t because it’s not safe for them.
“They’d have to make a new rule that gods and angels can’t play, but they’d have to say it’s because it’s not fair to everyone else. If they do that for you and Michael, it’s going to kick open all kinds of nasty doors they don’t want open. Someone can say vampire speed and strength isn’t fair or pixies shouldn’t play because the rest of them don’t have wings. I’m pretty sure the letter to Zion was just them covering their bases to say they did something. Your brother and his boyfriend just pointed out you couldn’t do what you did without an angel and shamed the other team for trying to get you banned because they couldn’t pull it off when they tried to plagiarize it.”
“You can’t trademark dodgeball moves, West,” George pointed out.
“You should! It’s in poor taste.”
“I don’t think anyone is going to try to tame the Air Ball without an angel again,” Ren giggled. “Dude got flung further than I’ve ever seen anyone in a dodgeball match before. It was almost like a movie special effect. It’s probably going to take a healer ages to fix everything. He’s probably out for the whole season.”
“I could portal there and heal him. That would show everyone gods have good powers and I could talk to him about what my actual gifts are.”
“Absolutely not,” I said. “The dude is a victim of his own fuckery, and he tried to take dodgeball away from you. Hear me out. Portal to him and give him magical crabs. Gods can do that, right?”
“Without catching them myself and sleeping with him?”
“Nix that fucking plan. Absolutely not. I’ll come up with something better than magical crabs.”
“Conjuring living things is tricky, so I’m not sure I could conjure them.”
“Damn. So, the treatment-resistant head lice are out, too. Someone needs to come up with something.”
“Bro, Dexter just plastered him getting flung across the whole dodgeball field to the entire internet. He probably hit a tree and broke his ass. Why are you stuck on crabs and lice?” Drake asked.
“Because he probably broke his arms, too, and can’t scratch,” I said.
“That’s actually a good idea,” Church said. “Maybe we could hook him up with Paris. Belladonna was gossiping with me in one of our vampire classes that she was in the infirmary for a potion because she gets migraines and Paris was there getting a potion. Paris made the healer shut up real fast when she tried to tell her you put it on your vagina in front of Belladonna. Belladonna has been sitting on this information in case Paris decides to carry on Kaylee’s feud. She thinks of you like a sister now because she’s dating Matilda and Mags. Belladonna perfected the mean girl thing in high school because of her family and she’ll drag it out again if she needs to.”
That could also work. I could take one for the team and use my lion charm to flirt with Paris and make her thinkI’dgo there ifshewent there.
“Guys, leave it,” George said. “There’s something I wanted to talk to you about.”
Oh, fine. His ass was probably broken, Dexter embarrassed him, and I really didn’t think George was getting kicked off the team. Yeah, he suffered, but had he sufferedenoughfor trying to take something away from my girlfriend that she loved? I’d think about that later. Right now, she needed me to listen, and that’s what good boyfriends did.
“So, I just intended on going for a walk, but I found myself looking for Baldur. I don’t know why, but I’m drawn to him. I really don’t think it’s him killing witches. I need you to know we nearly kissed. I wanted him to, but he stopped and said he wouldn’t until I talked to all of you, and he had his magic back.”
Was that it? I mean, I was pretty sure she was going to go there if he wasn’t a killer. I knew he was a god of Light and I was just a lion, but he was nearly as pretty as I was. And from what I learned in history, everyone loved Freya and she kept extolling his virtues before he died.
I saw it coming, and I was fine with it. I’d doanythingto make her happy and if the other gods loved this guy, I probably would, too. And he respected all of us enough to hold back until she talked to us first. He could have just gone there and told us to deal with it since he was a god.
I didn’t think Ren and Oscar had a problem with it. They technically tried to hit that the first day they met him when we thought he was just the maintenance guy who felt weird to be around. I think Ren and Oscar were even cooler with it now that Baldur had told them the only reason he hadn’t taken them up on it was that he was just shocked to be invited to his first moon orgy.
Church might be a problem. George and Church apparently made their peace for several hours in the snow and she saved his dick from more beatings from Bethany. Church’s little tantrum was because he got slightly jealous that he wasn’t as fabulous as Azren and thought she was going to fuck off with them. Adding Baldur might be a little much.
“George, honestly, I thought it was going to head there, but I need to tell you something you aren’t going to like,” Church said.
I swear to all fuck if Church got stupid about this, I’d punch him in the nuts myself. George braced herself like Church was about to tell her she could have Baldur or she could have him.
