Christmas Morning?

"Persephone the goddess of spring and fertility, walker of the afterlife, and queen of the underworld, was a virgin?"

"…"

"Haha, your face is funny."-Gwen

"I honestly didn't expect her to be a virgin. I mean I've read the myths and… wait-"

"Well, she told me that she's been keeping it for someone. And I suppose that someone is you."

Scarlett strolled toward me and sat down with her head resting on my shoulder.

"I also waited… waited for you."

As I felt her soft hair tickling my arm as she gently laid on me, a question popped in my head.

'Were the myths we learned actually true?'

I recalled the lessons Prof. M (I'll be shortening his name from now on) gave us specifically the Greek myths, and to my surprise, he was right. Given the information I know about Seph, the story about her somewhat lines up.

Alright, that may sound far fetched but Prof. M always had a say in mythologies. Every lesson he gave was different from the ones we've read in books. Sometimes I question whether he was sane or has gone senile by the things he said.

Like that one time he told us Kronos wasn't a giant baby-eating titan, nope, instead he was a beautiful woman, trapped inside a box, forever punished for disobeying the gods.

According to him the true origin of Pandora didn't come from Hephaestus, instead she came from Kronos. As a added bonus he also said that's where paradoxes came from.

But as much as I admire our professor, I feel like the stories he's given us were too bizarre. Considering that the entire pantheon came from Kronos eating his kids. But as I recall the story of Persephone, a story about a woman who fell in love with a god of chaos, wreaking havoc in the natural order and disrupting the cycle of life and death.

Somehow, everything seems to fall into place. But according to Scarlett, Seph has been a virgin all her life, and wouldn't at some point in their relationship that she would've already done it with the so-called god of chaos?… unless it hasn't happened yet.

"!"

I opened my eyes wide in realization.

'Were Professors lessons about the future?'

"Luke? Are you alright?"

I turned to my right seeing Scarlet looking at me with worry in her eyes. I didn't realize but my arm began trembling.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I think I might have a clue of what's going on."

"You do?"

"Yeah… but what does his final lesson mean?"

"Huh?"

I returned to my thoughts remembering the last words our Prof gave to us.

"Erebus. Who is he?"

Despite being our last lesson, he already talked about him way early on, or more specifically, it was our first lesson. But from what I remember, the story of Erebus was the same.

A primordial being, born from chaos, and the ruler of darkness.

It was the first lesson he gave us, and from there every myth was distorted. Except for that, but why?

'He was someone important to me.'

His words echoed into my ears, the cogs in my brain turning in an attempt to decipher what he meant.

'Was he also from this world? Was he like Gwen? Someone to take care of the humans back on Earth? But, wouldn't that mean that Erebus is still alive?'

No, that wouldn't make sense. From the tone of his voice, it sounded solemn and melancholic, as if it's been years since he last heard of that name.

But what does it all mean? Who is Erebus truly?

As my brain overclocked from thinking, Scarlett pushed me onto the bed, and now her body was on top of mine.

"Luke! Are you okay? I've been calling out your name, but you weren't responding!"

"Ah, I-I'm sorry. I sometimes do that when I think about something."

"Hahh* You got me worried there for a second."

"Don't worry I'm fine. I just, really need some rest. Today's been the longest day of my life."

"Pfft alright l, but just saying, a day is nothing compared to a century."

"Well, who asked you to wait for me?"

"Haha, then did you want me to go for someone else?"

"No. Absolutely not."

"U-Uh yeah, see, as I thought."

Imagining her being with someone else struck a chord inside me, and I did not like that.

Feeling somewhat irritated, I lifted my arm and wrapped it around her waist, pulling her into my chest.

"!"

"You're mine Scarlett. No one can take you from me."

Her beautiful face looked up at me, with her eyes opened wide slightly by surprise, then a warm smile dawned on her lips as she said.

"Yes, I'm forever yours, my love."

"Un…"

With that said, I can feel the top of my eyes dropping down, exhaustion finally coming down on me.

I loosened my arms for Scarlett to escape, but to my pleasant surprise, she dug her arms beneath me and hugged me tighter than before.

I didn't have a chance to react as my eyes finally closed.

"Sweet dreams darling… and… -on."

"…huh…"

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"Hahhhh yawn*. Smack* smack*."

Waking up, feeling as if I was reborn, I let out a satisfied yawn and smacked my lips. Then remembering what happened last night, I tried to recall the words Scar said to me, but no matter how much I tried, I couldn't seem to remember. This is weird considering how my brain memorizes everything, but if not I blame it on my exhaustion from yesterday.

With everything I've gone through, all within 24 hours, I'm bound to have a mishap or two. But something tells me that she said something very important that might come to bite me someday.

But I can't cry over that now, I lifted my head off the pillow for a bit, and as I surveyed around the room I found myself in quite a predicament.

Having been the first one to sleep, it seems the girls did whatever they wanted, making me the doll of their little experimentation.

Finding myself completely naked, save for my underwear, I'm currently sandwiched between 6 women whose beauty can topple entire nations.

"This must be what Christmas morning feels like. Thank you, Santa."

I quickly gave my thanks as I laid my eyes on the girls nuzzled up around me. The room was completely dark, but with my senses, everything was easy for me to see.

And I did see, that I was definitely not given coal this year. With my eyes on my right I can see Gwen at the back with her legs sprawled out haphazardly, her sleeping pattern still as chaotic as before, and lying unperturbed by her was Scarlett. Surprisingly she wasn't next to me given how tight she was clinging on me before I passed out.

Then laying in front of her was Miya, with her blonde hair untied and spread all over the pillow, or should I say my arm.

Yup, it seems the girls did whatever they wanted with my body without my consent. Who am I kidding, my girls don't need consent for having an arm pillow, they can do whatever they want. As long as nothing else happens.

'Foreshadowing? I hope not.'

Well, besides the other three were Seph, Laura, and Levi. Levi surprisingly at the front, Laura in the middle, and Seph in the back.

It seems Seph was feeling guilty about what happened yesterday.

'Hahh* I might need to talk with her about that. And about the lessons our Prof gave me.'

As I was wide awake, I gently made my way out of the bed, careful with my movement of course to not disturb them, and left the sub-space.

Although the girls completely undressed me, it seemed my clothes were saved in my inventory, conveniently letting me equip them instantly like a character in a video game.

"Wow, talk about convenience. Now, what do we have here."

Having my clothes equipped, I turned my head to the right, the portal quickly closing behind me, and an uninvited guest quickly approached my location.

"Guess Santa left some coal for me after all, I guess I was pretty naughty recently. Knuckle crack* let's warm up real quick.

"Roar*"

"Grrr."

"Awoo."

A third one howled and immediately a few dozen more appeared.

"Ooh, that's quite a few of you. Neck Crack* Alright, bring it."