There it was, a congress of gods. Many of the deities were there. Krishna, Odin, Ra, Zeus and Gaia were all there. The looked towards the many Chosen Ones in the large dining room. The table was set, and the oblivious Chosen Ones, all reincarnations of powerful villains or heroes were there, in the same room, mysteriously teleported.

Jouji Kanako

"Kana~, lets go to that shop at the station again."

"Eh?" Jouji Kanako turned to her best friend, who was grinning from ear to ear. "But Rita... won't you get tired of that shop quickly if you keep on going everyday?"

"Don't worry. I won't get tired of the ice cream there!" Rita laughed, brushing off strands of her messy hair off her face. "They taste really really good, and they have a different special every week!"

There was no way Kanako could ever refuse her friend, not when the redhead was already tugging impatiently at her sleeves. Together they walked, down the road surrounded not by large buildings, but with verdant fields and the occasional houses. Cars passed rarely by, one or two, but never in large numbers, so their pleasant conversation was never interrupted for long. Today however, Rita sounded a bit melancholic, a rare sight, for she was usually loud and cheerful. However, she seemed to cheer up a little once they reached the shop, possibly due to the handmade ice cream and crepe combo they had here.

"Hold this for a moment." Rita spoke, handing Kanako two ice cream crepe cones. "Today will my treat."

Waiting for her friend to pay, Kanako glanced at a passing truck, before turning back at the grim figures and some others sitting at a dinner table. Ah, Rita's going to be mad at me, was her first thought, before finally registering the situation she was in. Kanako was no longer at the station, she was seated here with some imposing figures and a few others that wasn't, and she was still holding onto the ice cream cones in both hands. She tried to force out something, some words to say, but could only manage a single word in her shock.

"Eh?"

“Um…what’s going on?” was what Kacey Winny said aloud, staring up with wide eyes at the imposing figures gathered before her. It was a typical day for her, school having just been let out. It was supposed to end like a typical day too, with her walking home to get started on the homework that was no doubt going to be piled on for another date. Yet it would seem fate had other plans in store for her.

Instead of rounding the corner to her street, she found herself walking right into some looming chamber that looked like it came straight out of a fantasy novel. She paused in her step, blinking as she glanced around the people sitting before her…then her eyes synched onto the only other girl who looked normal in this place. As a result, she ran right for her, scooting to stand beside Jouji’s side.

“Hiya there! You seemed like the only person I could probably talk to so here I am. Say, this isn’t some weird cosplaying party I walked into is it? Oh! By the way, my name’s Kacey if you wanted to know,” she said, still glancing her eyes over to the weirdos sitting down. “So…um, are these friends of yours?”

Abigail sighed. Work was a long day. There were a lot of angry customers and she'd spent an hour standing in front of a spill because maintenance didn't want to come and nobody seemed to understand what the orange cones with the word ' caution' meant. Then her bus had been early, which meant she was late getting home. None of that was a problem though. Hell, even the broken window and missing television she found when she got home wasn't the problem. Her main issue with the day's direction was she'd forgotten to do some quick shopping after work and all that was left was a single cup of ramen, and how easy it had been to burn everything inside of it thanks to her putting it in the microwave without water, again.

"Well, Ice soup it is," again. She got out a cup, put some ice and water into it, and sat down. She stared at her drink for a few moments before giving another sigh and looking up. "Uh. I don't know what's going on but if any of you are bill collectors your going to have to get in line."

Jouji Kanako

“Hiya there! You seemed like the only person I could probably talk to so here I am. Say, this isn’t some weird cosplaying party I walked into is it? Oh! By the way, my name’s Kacey if you wanted to know,” the person named Kacey spoke, startling Kanako as she did so. “So…um, are these friends of yours?”

"I-I'm Jouji Kanako. Nice to meet you." Kanako replied automatically. She was still in shock however, and could barely even think of a reply to that Kacey besides her name. Cosplay? Some sort of party? Those words made sense, but not when she was somehow literally teleported somewhere without much ceremony. Just a blink, and the station disappeared to this bizarre scene. A scene she was sitting at, holding two melting ice cream. Holding onto the ice cream like it was her last link to reality, she started eating hers, a simple strawberry ice cream with crepe cones plus some additional sprinklings. There was the matter of Rita's heavily sprinkled chocolate and vanilla ice cream though; she had not the stomach to eat two ice cream in such a short span of time, but Rita wasn't here to eat it either.

Sorry Rita, she thought. I'll make this up to you somehow.

"D..do you want this?" Kanako held out Rita's ice cream towards Kacey. "I can't eat two of these."

"We are the gods. The Great Council of Gods over the Earth." They stated. "You have been chosen to defend the Earth and all Humanity." They stated. "You are all reincarnations of the greatest people in history over the many dimensions of reality." They paused. Krishna spoke. "I'm one of the senior gods. Please accept this situation as real. Your souls, your past lives will all begin speaking shortly."

“Jouji Kanako huh? That’s cool name,” said Kacey, trying to be polite. Though Jouji didn’t really answer her question about this place or those strange people but the girl seemed like she knew what she was doing. And she had free ice cream too! With an eager nod, Kacey took the second ice cream cone in hand and gave Jouji the biggest grin she could muster.

“Thanks a bunch Jouji! I’ll make sure I can get some money to pay you back later, ok? I wouldn’t want to keep you from your cosplaying friends over there,” she said before the arrival of yet another girl caught her attention. “Er, bill collectors? I think I’m a bit too young to be paying my taxes but I guess-”

It was at that moment that one of the strange people spoke up, speaking about guarding the Earth and souls that passed down from different worlds. Or something. Kacey wasn’t quite sure what that all meant and soon turned to both Jouji and the new girl. “So this is pretty weird for a cosplaying party,” she whispered.

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"No. This is not a cosplay party, Human." Krishna spoke, annoyed. "This is real. This is entirely real and has nothing to do with Cosplay.' Suddenly, everyone's past lives begin speaking to them at once. The heroes, the villains, the inbetween. Krishna smiled. "In this world there is no reincarnation, this is yet one of the worlds of the multiverse which has no magic at all. I would be surprised you can Awaken on this Earth, if I didn't know better."

There were voices coming from inside Abigail's head, but not the ones she was used to. They were male voices, confident voices. Within them there was experience unlike anything she's ever done before. There wasn't many but the few she heard were almost too much.

"What?" The redhead swallowed hard and looked around to see if anyone else could hear what was going on. "What is this? I don't know who any of them are, but their all familiar. It's all deja vu." She stopped to arch an eyebrow at the god who was speaking. "Multiverse? As in those gimmicky rps?"

Jouji Kanako

“Thanks a bunch Jouji! I’ll make sure I can get some money to pay you back later, ok? I wouldn’t want to keep you from your cosplaying friends over there,”

"A-ah.. I don't know them either.A-and its alright, you don't need to pay for anything."

She tried to continue eating her ice cream, before the figures before them spoke.

"We are the gods. The Great Council of Gods over the Earth. You have been chosen to defend the Earth and all Humanity. You are all reincarnations of the greatest people in history over the many dimensions of reality." All but one stopped speaking. "I'm one of the senior gods. Please accept this situation as real. Your souls, your past lives will all begin speaking shortly."

"Hmph. It is as he said. Kindly do not give me and my soul a bad name." A mature man's voice spoke, or rather, projected into her mind. She was not hearing it through her ears, but directly, an experience shocking enough that she froze right in the middle of eating her ice cream. "Don't worry! We'll be alright. I'll help you as much as I can. He'd do the same thing after all..." A cheerful voice continued, a young girl, though she sounded wistful at the end. "As they said." A gruff voice offered, but saying nothing else besides that. He doesn't seem like the friendliest of people.

Ah. So I've gone mad. Kanako went right past disbelief and shock, and straight into numbness. It felt like a dream. I hope I don't give Rita too much trouble by going mad right at the station shop.

"No. This is not a cosplay party, Human." One of the gods spoke again, annoyed by Kacey apparently. "This is real. This is entirely real and has nothing to do with Cosplay. In this world there is no reincarnation, this is yet one of the worlds of the multiverse which has no magic at all. I would be surprised you can Awaken on this Earth, if I didn't know better."

"E..Excuse me." She spoke out to the figures seated at the table. "When can we go home?"

“Oh. So this is real. I guess,” she said in a small voice, becoming more unnerved as the situation progressed further into surreal territory. A council of Gods and the Multiverse? This sounded like something straight from a bad television show but given that she was watching it before her eyes, she doubted it was that. So then, spirits from the past here to teach her. Wonderful.

Though when she listened in, she could only hear two voices. One seemed overtly cheerful yet at the same time she couldn’t help but feel a sense of dread when they spoke. As if they had an aura of filth about them…though the second voice was much nicer, yet stern. Someone serious to reign in the other spirits…and then there was someone who didn’t speak at all.

Kacey wasn’t sure whether they could speak or just chose not to, but this one had the same sense of danger as the first one. “I got stuck with the psychos. Fun,” she muttered to herself before looking back up at the gathered Gods. "Um, what my new friend said. When can we go home now?”

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