10 Chapter 10: Games

"What do we do now?" I asked. What do I do now?

Instead of replying, they all looked at the Goddess of the Mind. It was like they had subconsciously marked her as their leader. Which she was, I guess. I thought back to the story she told me; after Time betrayed them and joined the rebellion, she was the one who took the position of leader. She made it so that the two sides were in a stalemate for who knows how long, despite facing all three of the High Gods. So of course it makes sense that they would look to her now for insight.

"We will go to Earth and wait until our powers come back," she said. Their powers had been sucked dry by the crystals they were in. They now needed to go to a place with lots of mana to gradually restore what they had lost.

"Actually, we can't do that," I said.

"Why not?" asked Wrath, confusion clearly written on his face.

"Earth does not have magic anymore." Or I would not have been drawn here.

"As in everyone has forgotten magic or that there is no mana at all?"

"As in there is only enough mana to keep the planet alive and humans think that anything related to magic is a myth." Wait, how did I know that?

"What! There is no magic anymore, but there are games right?" The kid with wacky eyes asked, flailing his arms around. He said it as if games were more important than his life.

"So what if humans don't remember games? All that matters is the mana." The one who spoke was like a werewolf except he was more of a werefox. And he had nine, no ten eyes all over his body. He was definitely one of the weirdest things I had seen today.

"What are you talking about?! Games are the best!"

"No, magic is the best."

And just like that, a simple question erupted into a great topic for debate.

"Alright enough. Let's get back to the topic at hand. But seriously, do games still exist?" The Goddess of Minds spoke putting an end to the conflict.

Raphael, the fox god, who was agreeing at first was now giving her a you-really-want-to-go-there look. He was probably thinking that the world had gone crazy when he was asleep judging from his expression.

On the other hand, Games, the one with the weird eyes, was beside himself with joy at her words.

Wanting to put an end to this matter, I said, "Yes, there are games, but-"

Before I could finish, I was interrupted by Raphael's loud scream consisting of one greatly elongated word: No.

It was like he had been sentenced to die a million times.

As if everything was normal, Prophecy, the Goddess of Minds said, "If there is no mana on Earth, we can go visit him."

After that, there was dead silence.