Chapter 131 Aubrey Saint: Her Hidden Ambition!

131 Aubrey Saint: Her Hidden Ambition!

For some reason, Aubrey was having a really hard time sleeping. Perhaps it was due to everything that happened tonight, but she just couldn't seem to relax even with her girlfriend's arms wrapped around her. Her body was falling asleep in weird intervals due to exhaustion. She would close her eyes for around five minutes, and then wake up immediately and see that it was still dark outside. If she hadn't had so much on her mind, she would have been dreaming peacefully by now about any number of silly little things. But unfortunately, she was having no such luck. Her eyelids became too heavy to keep open once again, and it became time for her regularly scheduled cat nap. However, when she opened her eyes again, she felt entirely different. There was no longer a blanket covering her body and she felt like she was lying on a stone floor. It had been so many years since she had slept so roughly that she had thrown herself out of bed, so her embarrassment level was at an all time high. Opening her eyes, she realized that there was far too much light in the room. And this was most certainly not her girlfriend's mansion. "She has awakened." A jolt ran through her spine when she heard a masculine voice that was surely new to her. She briefly considered that she had been kidnapped by that same shadowy organization from earlier and her heart started beating uncontrollably. 'Aubrey my darling daughter, don't be scared. No one is going to hurt you here, on the contrary we just want to help you.' 'Help me? Help me how?'

'How do you think, my dear? We want to bless you.'

Aubrey expertly picked out the voice in her head from the crowd of gods in the stands. Once she made eye contact with Nyx, the goddess flashed her a small wink to put her mind at ease. For some strange reason, everyone here was staring at Aubrey like they already knew her. Even though she wasn't famous by any sort of metric, they were looking at her like she was some kind of religious figure. "Sister to the fabled son. Tell us the limits of your ambition." The one who finally addressed Aubrey was a horned and hairy beast that sat high among the Chinese pantheon. Pangu seemed to be staring at the young girl rather intently just like all of the others, though she wasn't sure if it was because he wanted to eat her or not. "My... ambition...?"

Aubrey had heard from both her girlfriend and brother about this part of the ritual, but she still was not ever expecting to ever be asked this question herself. She honestly wasn't sure if she had any ambition. The way that her life was set up now, her brother and girlfriend gave her everything she could ever want. Malachi even gave her a few million once he signed with Luna, so she was already pretty wealthy despite never even finishing high school. It was hard to answer what your ambition was when everything was done for you by your loved ones. Aubrey wasn't ungrateful or spoiled, but things had been this way for so long that she had never stopped to question it. But in thinking about these things for the first time, she realized what the answer to the question that Pangu had asked her a few moments ago. "My ambition is... I want to be someone who can stand on their own two feet again." She said with great difficulty. "My brother and girlfriend... They tend to coddle me a lot because of my...past. I'm grateful that they love me so much, but I think... I want to do things for myself again. I want to protect myself so that they don't have to feel obligated to do it for me.

I want to be able to walk on the street again, even if they aren't holding my hand. I want to be someone who can stand beside those two amazing people proudly. My ambition is that I want to be strong, and independent."

With every word that she spoke, Aubrey's words flowed easier and easier. It made her realize how deeply buried this wish was, and just how long she had been suppressing this desire inside. "Such powerful words, my daughter. Your brother would be proud, as am I." Nyx said warmly. Even though Aubrey and the goddess had yet to build a proper bond of any kind, it would be a lie if she said that she did not feel anything when this woman referred to her as her child. It was a very warm and pleasant feeling... so much so that it gave her flashbacks to her birth mother and father. She missed them... so very terribly. But just like her brother, she had to keep living with their memories and lessons ingrained into her being everyday. "Now then... who will bless my child?" Nyx asked. The casual way that Nyx referred to Aubrey set off a chain reaction inside the minds of the highers. Previously, everyone was looking at Aubrey like they could not wait to offer her their blessing. With her brother's immense potential, surely she would not be very far behind him, right?

They may have missed their opportunity with him, but this was their chance to correct that with his sibling!

But...Nyx's interference was a not so veiled way of saying that any intentions had to be pure, or they would be punished. Immediately, that dissuaded most of the demons and powerful monsters from trying to bless her. Their power tended to corrupt, and 98% of the humans blessed by them were now sitting in the underwater prison Tartarus or dead. But as for those who did not have any impure motives, Aubrey was fair game. And they lobbied for her like she was prime real estate. "Daughter of man, accept my blessing!"

"No, mine! The fuck do you need a wine god's blessing for?"

"Kill yourself, Apollo!"

"Watch your mouth or I'll fuck your wife, Dionysus!"

Aubrey was being solicited by so many highers that her head was beginning to hurt. She didn't know how she was ever going to come to a decision with all of these highers yelling at her like this. 'This is more annoying than they mentioned...' Aubrey thought exhaustedly. 'Fufufu~ Don't worry, dear. Help is on the way.'

If she had, she would have liked to have done it intentionally, but all she did was mutter a few words. "Oh, right!" She realized. She gestured for Thanatos to lean down so that she could whisper something in his ear, and he looked at her strangely before obliging. "I don't feel that fullness thing that my brother and girlfriend talked about so does that mean I have to pick again?"

Today, Aubrey learned that in a room filled with higher beings, it should not have come as a surprise that they all had super hearing. This time, the common was even louder than the first. "She's fine!!"

"She is like her brother! She can handle more!!"

"Young girl, please allow me to give you my blessing!"

"Eep!"

Aubrey had specifically chosen to whisper in the hopes of avoiding this exact situation, but it appeared to have been useless in the end. In the blink of an eye, two more gods appeared in front of the young Saint girl. One was a large, green skinned oni with white and red hair and the face of a hungry ogre. The other was a beautiful woman with richly tanned skin and dark black hair. Her golden eyes were warm and gentle, like pools of warm honey. "Mortal, I am Fujin, the god of wind! Together we can outshine both of our brothers and-"

"Young lady, I am Isis, goddess of magic and healing. I believe that if you accept my blessing then-"

"I'll take both, I'll take both!! I just want to go home now!" Aubrey cried.

The two gods blinked their eyes several times before smiling at each other widely and undergoing the ritual. In the thrones above, Nyx was sitting on her throne wearing her usual warm and motherly smile as she watched Aubrey do just as her brother had, accept blessings from different pantheons. It was like she was watching her child win some kind of award in school or bring home a straight-A report card. She honestly couldn't remember the last time she felt this proud. 'Honestly...my children are so special.'

Bro, I was riding around with my girl and her best friend all day and I just checked my bank account.

I been laying on the floor for the past twenty minutes, trying to pray that money back into my pocket by the time I wake up

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