The New Elemental God

In his dreams Adam was watching Earth while flying in space. He was just enjoying the view on his own until something pulled him from behind. Out of reach, that force was taking him away from the planet and into the darkness of the Universe. His breath became short and rapid, and then something struck him in the head.

On the floor, he woke up with someone dragging him by the foot. 

"What's wrong with you, man?" 

Aggressively, Adam pulled his foot back and waited for an answer from his kidnapper. 

"You slept too much. There's things we need to do." 

Calder was standing by the bathtub pouring water from his sleeve to fill up the thing. 

"What time is it?!"

Crawling up to bed as if he was a zombie with only one leg, the young God tried to go back to sleep. 

"It's 8:00 AM…"

"Argh!" Adam grunted.

"Of the next day! You slept for more than 24 hours, that's enough." 

The boy did not react. Cunningly, the older God smirked. 

"Well it figures. You're still very weak so you need to rest. I myself can't remember the last time I took a nap." 

An even louder grunted came out of the boy. Visibly angry he stood up and dragged himself to the tub and started to push Calder out of the room.

"I'll make you some coffee for the trip." The old man was grinning from ear to ear. Teasing that boy was too easy. 

Calder was already on his third cup when the Playboy emerged from his tomb. The face wasn't better than earlier but the clothes were for once matching his personality. 

After Cal's dress prank Hikari gave Adam a plain long-sleeve tunic with a lace-up neckline and black trousers. Let's say, the Fire Goddess wasn't known for her creativity. 

Adam was wearing an elegant black outfit with intricate gold details. A black button up shirt with a few open buttons displayed his neck muscles. A high-collared coat combined with a layered shoulder armor with golden designs made him look noble and powerful. 

He also fixed his hair. The two block haircut was pulled back very aligned. To show off, Adam ran his hand through his black thick hair pretending not to care about Calder's disgusted expression. 

"You look like a villain from a drama." Caressing his gray beard the God took a sip of his coffee ignoring the boy's arrogance. 

"They are always the best-dressed." Cup in hand, Adam approached the kitchen open view. "What's on the God agenda today? Save some folks, grant a few wishes?" 

"Training." The old man stood up stretching his arms. 

"I said I ain't doing this God-training-school bullshit." 

Bending over to touch his feet while his beard brushed the floor while the old goat did some stretches.

"Then you are never going to visit the Material World." Calder replied.

"I don't give a shit about the rules. You can't forbid me of doing anything."

Adam couldn't stand being treated as a child.

"I'm not. I'm just saying I'm not gonna show you how and neither will the other Gods and only we know how to do that." 

Carefree, the Water God shrugged and washed his cup. It wasn't really a big deal. Every God was free to do whatever they wanted. In the end it was up to their conscience to follow the rules or not. 

"You're full of shit, man." 

The Playboy was shaking his head in disagreement. Not once in his life was he dependent on anyone and he wouldn't start in the afterlife. 

"Do you know why we can't have a physical body?" Calder's tone was peaceful but firm. 

Adam mumbled, making fun of what the man had just said.

"Because a human body can contain our energy. It would be like putting an atomic bomb inside a tuna can." 

The Young God stopped his tantrum and listened with a grumpy face. 

"To use our powers near anyone we need great restraint." Noticing he got the Newbie's attention, Cal moved closer to him to continue.

"Take Shu for example. If they lost control of only one of those mini tornadoes the whole city would be destroyed." 

Once Adam's guard was down and he had given up on his rebellion against the training, the Water God approached him and touched his shoulder.

"I've been wrong before but I don't take you as the kind of guy that would be okay with killing a bunch of innocent people."

"Just tell me what to do so I can go back." 

The young man pulled himself away from the God who didn't move or say anything. Instead he just stared back at Adam. 

"Safely. I'm not a serial killer." The boy added after getting tired of goat-beard creeping over him. 

"I knew this would be the case, so I invited the expert on the matter to help us today." Calder turned to the living room passage. "You can come in now."

Something whooshed inside the kitchen blowing off everyone's hair and clothes. The scent of spring dominated the air and a musical voice hummed in excitement.

"Morning, fellas-..." 

The slender eccentric creature of pointy ears and silver hair stopped the second they laid eyes on rebranded Earth God. 

"Oh but don't you look like the hottest-most-heteronormative villain I have ever seen." 

"Thanks?" 

The Playboy decided to ignore the statement since he had more stuff on his mind. Adam had a bad feeling about the God training. He would be at Calder and Shu's mercy and they weren't the most level-headed people he knew. 

All three of them took off together but no one told Adam where they were heading. 

The trio left the mountain behind flying towards a part of the land that the Earth God hasn't been to yet. After the end of the green carpet some rocky hills with piled up house-sized stones took over the landscape. 

As they descended Adam could see the layers that formed the plateaus. They were in a red desert canyon. On the ground level a particular balancing rock called the Young God's attention. On top of a much smaller rock a big red stone of almost triangular shape was balanced by the narrower side. It was incredible to see something that heavy be so still. 

"Where are we?"