"and this is for surviving... welcome home my daughter"

tears slowly spilled out of Yel's eyes for a moment before she hugged her mother and sobbed for sometime until Xel let her go and looked over at Mars and asked with a serious look on her face

"so when can I expect some grandchildren?"

"....not for a few years"

Xel clicked her tongue and walked back and sat down on her floor cus.h.i.+on before she looked over at Mel and asked

"how did your patrol go?"

"good we, I mean Mars got us 6 wolves"

"I see that's good, you may arrange for transport now"

"yes mother"

Mel and the rest of the sky people patrol bowed deeply before they took their leave, leaving Mars, the girls, Victoria and Yel alone with Xel that looked them over one by one and stopped on Varvei before she asked

"what's your name?"

"my name is Varvei"

"hmm... you must be Mars' first wife right?"

Varvei blushed for a moment before she nodded with a happy smile on her face

"yes that's righ---"

"don't lie Varvei"

"...sorry Chloe... well we're not married... yet"

Xel looked over at Mars and gave a deep sigh before she complained

"what kind of spineless person did my daughter find as master...? not only have you not married such a strong woman as Varvei, but you tell me to wait a couple of years to see my grandchildren?"

"well I have a lot on my plate okay, it's not easy to be a living G.o.d"

"ah, more complaining! just pump a baby in her it's that simple... ah Yel you should have found a living G.o.d of s.e.x!"

Yel's face flushed with embarra.s.sment at her mother's dirty language, but on the inside she was happy, after all this is exactly the way her mother used to banter with her father, the only person to ever defeat her or in other words her equal. Mars and Xel continued to banter for a few more minutes until Mars turned his head towards the door, Xel was about to question him when suddenly she also turned her head towards the door with a frown on her face and soon there was a knock on the door and Xel yelled

"go away Tor, you are not welcome here!"

ignoring Xel shouting the door opened and a gentle looking middle aged sky person stepped in and looked around before he asked

"I'm not here for you Xel... which one of you are the master of Yel?"

"I am"

Mars stood up and faced Tor, the two men stared at each other for a little bit before Tor spoke

"your name?"

"normally one must give one's own name before asking about another's"

"...fine you win, my name is Tor I am an elder on the council, now state your name"

"Mars"

"good, very good Mars I challenge you to a duel to the death!"

"....have I offended you in someway?"

"hurmph a dead man doesn't need to know his sins"

with that as his closing statement Tor turned and left leaving Mars slightly stunned before he gave a wide smile and asked Xel

"do I have to honor the duel?"

"no technically you don't but not honoring a duel means you have to give up your citizens.h.i.+p and thereby become an outcast, of course you lose the right to have servants too so Yel must leave you, are you okay with that?"

"...when will the duel held?"

"at the next elder meeting in 2 days, so what do you say, are you running away?"

"no... this is perfect actually"

"oh how so?"

"well I was looking for a way to get on the elder council, and this foolish mortal has just presented me with a perfect way to do so"

"interesting... looks like your master has some spine Yel"

"of course mother, my master is splendid"

Mars gave a slightly sinister smile as he thought on how to show this foolish mortal what exactly a living G.o.d is...

Two days pa.s.sed in a flash, during the two days Mars trained Mel, spent time with the girls and accompanied Xel. and so as the night drew near Mars stepped out of the house along with Xel, they were heading to the elder meeting, on the way there Xel asked Mars

"how confident are you?"

"well let's just say that even if he manages to kill me I won't die"

"right you are immortal..."

"well only half immortal"

when Mars and Xel arrived at the central plaza he saw a crowd of sky people, they were sitting on the roofs of the surrounding buildings and stranding around the plaza, Mars asked Xel

"is this normal?"

"no... Tor must want to make an example out of you"

during the past two days mars had figured out that Tor was the father of the sky person he had grabbed by the neck a few days ago and thus he put two and two together

"well I don't mind a audience"

Mars and Xel walked up to the plaza and found 10 so called elders sitting in a half circle with Xel being there too there was 11 in total, when Mars arrived Tor stood up from his floor cus.h.i.+on and walked towards Mars and stopped right in front of him and Xel before he gave a degrading look at Mars and spoke in a loud voice

"I see you didn't ruin away"

his voice drew the attention of the other elders as well as the other sky people, Mars gave a smile and spoke back in a loud voice

"I'm here to send you to the wheel old man"