Tarous, стр. 59
“How does this gifting of power actually work? Cronus never went into great detail on how the process works.”
“You simply will some of your powers into another person. Within our faction the rules state that a God can only gift powers to others in our faction or to loved ones. You will then be able to draw on those powers, though how much is limited by how much power is given. The process is simple. It is all about the strength of your will. You simply focus on giving your power over while touching the other person.”
I nodded my head while reflecting on what Cupid had just told me.
“The God of Time has always given the current God of Death at the time around 25%-30% of his actual powers. I’ll only be giving you around 10% of my power. That is why you have to be careful with the power Cronus has granted to you. You have some real power thanks to him.”
I nodded at his words. I shouldn’t have used the power of time to play pranks. It was a truly great and powerful gift. That Cronus was willing to give up so much of his own power for the greater good was rather humbling.
“Now give me your hand.”
I held out my hand and Cupid grabbed it. He closed his eyes and I could feel a new power rushing into me. I felt the same way I did when I received my first kiss from a girl. I felt the way I had felt on my first date, butterflies and all. Pure happiness flooded into me and I felt like I was floating on a cloud. Well, actually, I currently was floating in a world of pink clouds.
So much raw emotion flooded into me, but then came more. My first breakup. Every bittersweet moment of my life all flooded into me. I was lost in the flood of overwhelming emotion that bombarded me. I was addicted to it. Addicted to the feeling of living.
As quickly as it started, it stopped. I felt like I was falling from Heaven and crashing back down into my own body. That wonderful feeling from a moment ago was lost. On the inside of my left wrist I now had a tattoo of three tiny black hearts, each smaller than the last. With the tattoo, knowledge flooded into me.
‘Cupid’s Bow’. A bow appeared in my hands, but it was different from Cupid’s. Mine was a long bow. Long and slender and solid black. It looked like death incarnate. On my back appeared a quiver of arrows. Instead of the red arrow heads that Cupid had, mine were sleek, thin, and extra pointy heart shaped arrow heads. They were a deep blood red color. The feathers were also black just like the shaft of the bow.
My bow gave off an aura of death and failed love. It was terrifying even to me. I wasn’t sure these arrows were safe to shoot.
“Amazing,” commented Cupid. “It looks like your death qi is so strong that it corrupted the little bit of love power that I gave you. I’m guessing you can still shoot arrows to make others fall in love, but if you wanted you could also shoot arrows of death that would instantly kill any human.”
I couldn’t see how my arrows would be able to do anything besides kill, but I decided that when I shot one I would focus really hard on happy thoughts and, most importantly, love.
Without any warning and with a swirl of pink hearts, Cupid teleported us to the human realm. One second I was on a pink cloud and the next second I was standing in a street with a car zooming at me.
Chapter 34
I yelled and braced myself. Just because a car couldn’t kill me didn’t mean it wouldn’t hurt. Luckily for me the car passed right through me.
I was like a ghost currently. One of Cupid’s abilities, I assumed. No one could see me and every so often I found myself floating above the ground. I floated over to the nearest sidewalk, where several humans walked through me without pausing.
“You see those two down there?” Cupid pointed, drawing my attention to a man and a drop dead gorgeous bombshell of a woman.
“Those two are meant to fall in love,” said Cupid as he notched his arrow and shot the man as soon as he looked at the woman.
“One down,” whispered Cupid. He pulled another arrow from his quiver and notched it to the bow. He pulled the arrow back and let it fly straight to the woman’s heart.
“Success!” whispered Cupid with a smile.
The two humans began to walk towards each other. Both with hearts in their eyes. It appeared that the only thing that existed in the world besides them was their beloved. As they got closer their walking turned into running.
Right before they reached each other, the woman dodged right, avoiding the man, and continued to run. She stopped in front of the window of a shoe store, staring at a pair of high-heeled shoes and practically drooling.
“I love you,” she said to the shoes.
The man turned, completely confused and looking a little lost. Things hadn’t turned out the way he had pictured them going.
“One out of two isn’t bad,” I commented.
“True,” replied Cupid.
“Now what?” I asked.
“Now we move on to the next two targets. We only get one chance at this, it’s dangerous to shoot mortals with love arrows more than once.”
“Wait, won’t that man always chase after that one woman only to be constantly rejected? He’ll never find true happiness with anyone, because the one person he loves doesn’t love him back.”
“Yep. Time to go, we have more people to help,” said Cupid as