- 1 Year Ago -
"Azuka, the God within you is still asleep, sorry but you will have to come back again next year."
- Present Day -
As Azuka arrives with the participants, Rai, Amanda, and Franz pay no attention to Azuka. Franz mostly doesn't pay attention due to him being asleep, Rai already hates the peasant's guts. Amanda doesn't even want to associate with a criminal, "Yuki come on we have to get ready for the first rou-" Yuki had already went ahead and tried to make friends with Azuka, grabbing his hands as soon as she could make contact with him. She looks down at his hands and rubs them creepily.
Azuka rips his hands away from her as soon as he could. "Your hands are really warm. Do you think you could burn the winter with those hands?" She says while inching closer and closer to Azuka. "I don't think anyone could burn the winter. Isn't that impossible," Azuka says completely weirded out. Before Yuki could respond, Amanda had started dragging her by her hair to distance her and Azuka.
After Yuki had gotten a considerable distance away, Dan walked up to Azuka and greeted him. He was not a man of many words, but Azuka thought that he could trust him. "Participants, now that you have met each other please proceed to the center of the stadium. Line up in the same order you were called." Every one of the participants, except for Franz, followed the announcers instructions. From left to right, Rai, Dan, Amanda, Yuki, and Azuka lined up.
"Franz, please get up," says the announcer trying to wake him up, but she fails and does not attempt a second try. "Now, ladies and gentlemen we will now begin the first round of the ceremony!" The crowd begins cheering once again, but the cheers soon stop as a scream from above the stadium causes everyone to look up and become silent. The source of the scream is a man, with long brown hair, and seemingly only wearing a long skirt. As he fell onto the stadium, everyone stared at him with a confused, mixed with surprised look, on their face. The man quickly recovers from the fall and laughs.
The announcer reassures the crowd and the participants, "This man is supposed to be here everyone, please don't worry. He is-" the man intervenes, "I am Crazy!" Everyone stays silent and become more confused than before. "Oh, my name is Waldo," Waldo turns to the participants, in the center of the stadium, and points at them, "Today I will be revealing what God you have within you." Without anyone being able to react Waldo quickly disappears. The crowd, the announcer, and the participants are speechless. After some time, Azuka finally says, "Where's Waldo?"
Suddenly Waldo appears behind Rai, "I am right here," scaring Rai so much that his skin jumps right off of his body. Waldo walks in front of the participants, putting both hands behind his back. "What I just demonstrated to you was my godly power, the God within me, the Invisible God." Waldo starts walking back and forth from the start of the line to the end.
"As you may already know, if the God within you has awakened, then you will slowly be filled with holiness. Holiness is the energy that Gods give off. It determines how powerful a God is and it can be used to access the God's power within you." Waldo finally stops at the start of the line and faces Rai. He closes his eyes and puts his palm to Rai's stomach, Rai who is completely nervous stands there frozen. Soon Waldo's palm glows and he opens his eyes, which are glowing too. "OH! MY!" Ecstasy was written all over Waldo's face, he then removes his palm from his stomach and quickly does the same action to each participant. Even to Franz who was asleep, but had waken up from him doing the action.
Franz did not join the participants instead he stayed where he slept at and sat up. Every one of the participants had a disgusted look on their face, holding their stomach. "Rai!" Waldo said pointing at him, standing in front of him, "You have the Lightning God within you, very powerful God you have within you. Your holiness is a solid 20." The Announcer interrupts Waldo, "Waldo, I believe you are combining the second round with the first, please only tell them their God!" Waldo turns around and points at the Announcer, "Shut up woman!"
"What does my holiness mean?" Rai says, "Oh." Waldo says turning back around at Rai. "Holiness is the energy that Gods give off. It determines how powerful a God is-" Rai stops him from continuing, "You already have said this, I mean what does the number mean?" Rai says slightly annoyed. "I should slow down," Waldo says to himself. "The average number of new God's holiness is around 7.65, by our measurements that is. So Mr. Rai, you are an extraordinary fellow." Rai smiles with relief.
Waldo then stands in front of Dan, "You, Mr. Dan, have the Strength God within you, your holiness is an astonishing 14.1." Dan smiles and bows at Waldo, who backs up at the bow. Waldo then moves on to Amanda, stares at her, then moves on to Yuki. Amanda angered yells, "What about the God within me?!" Waldo looks back at Amanda, "It is better if I just didn't tell you, but you are a smart girl...good luck next year." Amanda falls to her knees as she hears the news of her God not being awakened yet. She holds back tears, but the coldness of her sister's hand touching her hand, forces her to let all the tears go.
The crowd who was mostly silent the whole time, begin cheering for Amanda, as a way to comfort the broken soul. After a minute of crying, Amanda gets up and runs off the stadium. Yuki tries to go after her but is stopped by Waldo, who just shakes his head. "It always saddens me to see a dream crushed. Now Ms. Yuki, the God of Snow, you must now focus on your own dream. Your sister will catch up soon, but it may be a while since you have a holiness of-" Yuki was barely listening, she was desperately trying to get to her sister, but at the same time was holding herself back. The single hand of Waldo, blocking her way, was the only thing stopping her.
"Should I go," she thought.
"I have to go," she thought.
"She's my sister," she thought.
"Mother would be angry if I left," she thought.
"I can't, but I must," she thought.
"No...Don't cry Amanda... Not again," she finally thought.
"You're meant to be the stronger one," she thought.
In a confused state she screams out of frustration, creating an area of snow and ice around her.
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