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Gods taking a liking to mortals, or even as far as adopting them wasn’t uncommon. But it is an unspoken thing amongst gods that you NEVER, interact with their mortals if they left their claim on them.
When they did adopt a mortal in any sorta way, a marking would show up on their skin with the symbol of the god. Tommy had three on his left arm.
However, it was uncommon for the mortal to try and leave their place with the gods. It’s never happened before, so it was surprising that Tommy was the first mortal to run away from his godly family. The amount of damage the Angel of death, Blood god, and the Music god wreaked onto the land was unfathomable while they searched for their lost mortal.
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Tommy has been traveling around the world for some time now, met some of his best friends, and dubbed their small group the “Bay Boys.” He was 14 when he ran away from Techno, Phil, and Wilbur. Now it’s two years later and his 16th birthday is within a day, which was surprising on how long he’s been able to hide from them. When Tommy was with them, they were so overprotective it was terrifying. They would even go as far as locking Tommy in his room, which was the highest tower in the whole castle, and keep him there for months so he could be “protected” in their eyes.
So when Tommy had gotten the chance to book it out of there, he took it without any hesitation. He felt bad for leaving Tubbo though, he was in the same situation he was in with other gods. Tubbo’s gods; Eret, Ranboo, and Niki as they were known by Tommy, were also scarily overprotective of Tubbo. Tommy and Tubbo became best friends rather quickly though considering they were the only people they could interact with outside their godly family, the gods were pleased with their friendship so it was left to be. He thought he was so far gone, so unreachable, that no one could find him anymore.
So when he and the Bay Boys went to the yearly solstice festival heald for the gods, he thought he would be completely safe!
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“Deooooo this is so boring!” Tommy exclaimed out while he was getting dragged around by Deo, the rest of the Bay Boys such as Luke and Wisp went to go look at other parts of the festival. “Tommy, if I let you go play the games will you stop being a brat? I want to go look at the shops!” Deo said in an exhausted tone, Tommy perked up at the mention of the games. “Yeah, bitch boy! I’ll meet up with you guys later, see ya later bitch.” Tommy screamed out as he ran away towards the game.
Though he stopped in front of the statues in the middle of the town. The statues were Phil, Wilbur, and Techno carved out gracefully. Phil standing in the middle with his wings extended, Wilbur on his right holding his signature guitar, then Techno on his left having an axe on his shoulder. Tommy took a deep sigh as he looked at them, then glancing around to look for the game booths. As he spotted the ring toss game and started running towards it he saw a familiar brown head of hair wearing green. Tommy stopped dead in his tracks as the person turned to reveal Tubbo, then he was spotted by Tubbo and the world seemed to stop.
“Tommy? Tommy, is that you?” Tubbo whispered out slowly making his way towards him, “Oh my, it really is you!” Tubbo whispered yelled as he engulfed Tommy into a hug. Tommy returned the hug immediately, this was unbelievable. Tubbo, his Tubbo, was here! “Jesus fucking christ Tubbo, you’re going to suffocate me!” He said with a small chuckle, it felt nice to be able to be near him again.
“What are you doing here? You ran you, went missing!” Tubbo exclaimed out, “And how dare you leave me, man! I was so lonely for so long.” He then playfully punched Tommy's arm. “I'm sorry Big T. I really am, I just couldn't stand them anymore. I couldn’t take another day of being coddled, then being shoved in a tower to be ‘protected’, it was insufferable.” Tubbo gave him a sad look of understanding, “But I’m free now Tubbo! I’ve never felt more alive in my life man. You should come with me, run away. I don’t see Ranboo, Niki, or Eret here!” Tommy finished off-putting his hand on his shoulder. Tommy took note of how tense he was.
“Tommy you can't stay here. They’re here. All of them are here, hell even Dream is here!” Tubbo whispered out as he pulled Tommy into one of the alleyways, “I was only able to slip away for a moment, but I'm sure they’re probably going to start ripping this place apart to find me. And if they find you, you’ll be taken back!” Tubbo exclaimed.
Fuck. This was super bad Tommy thought, “Okay okay. I need to get out of here now and get my friends. I don't even want to fucking think about what Techno would do to them if he found them.” Tommy whispered back, “But what about you? You could come with, please Tubbo.” Tommy exclaimed out, Tubbo only shook his head and hugged him again.
“Tubbo won’t be going anywhere.” A deep voice called out.
A deep voice that belonged to Eret, The god of Light.
On his right was Niki, The Goddes of Grain.
Finally Ranboo on his left, The god of Warped.
Tommy and Tubbo slowly let go and turned towards the three. “Thesus? THESUS? Is that you? This is unbelievable. You’re in a lot of trouble young man!” Niki yelled out, Tommy flinched at the use of his real name. He hasn’t been called Thesus in years. “This is a surprise. Ranboo. Go find Wilbur, Techno, and Phil would you?” Eret said to Ranboo while his white eyes never left the pair of mortals.
Ranboo disappeared leaving behind purple particles, Tommy was now terrified. If they found him it was only a matter of seconds before his gods found him. “Tubbo, come over here. Now.” Eret commanded out, Tubbo’s whole body tensed up and he took a glance at Tommy unsure of what to do. However, Tommy’s body acted on pure impulse as he grabbed Tubbos's hand and bolted towards the other end of the alleyway which led onto a more discrete street.
“Deo? Luke? Bitzel? Where the fuck are you!?” He screamed out as he dragged Tubbo along with him, “Tommy are you insane, they’re going to start hunting us down.” That only made Tommy start to run faster frantically looking around. “I don’t care! Just haul ass would you?” He needed to find the other three, get out of here, and run like their lives depend on it.
Because quite frankly, it did.
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When Tommy and Tubbo had finally found the three Bay Boys, they started immediately trying to get them out of the town and far away from here. “I don’t have time to explain, I’ll explain later, alright? Just fucking run already!” Tommy said physically pushing them as he started running. “Tommy you need to slow down! What's going on? And who is this guy.” Luke said pointing to Tubbo, “Like I said we don’t have time just run!”
As they started to run forward that's when everything went to shit.
“Stop running.” Someone commanded behind them, which made all of them freeze, not being able to move their bodies.
Tommy knew that voice, that was Wilbur.
He then heard more footsteps approaching, and wings overhead. This was bad. Really bad.
Deo, Luke, and Bitzel then fell onto the floor their bodies contorted in strange ways as blood started pooling out of their eyes and mouth. Tommy let out a horrified scream.
“NO. No NO NO no NO.” He screamed out, but he still couldn’t move. He so desperately wanted to move to help them.
“Tubbo, turn around and walk towards Eret, Niki, and Ranboo.” Tubbo’s body moved on his own as he turned around his a terrified expression moving away from Tommy. He heard gentle talking and coos coming from Niki and someone scolding Tubbo. But he couldn’t decipher what they were saying, his ears were thumping, everything was super loud, he could hear his heartbeat.
“Thesus. Turn around. Now.” Tommy did just that but kept his eyes squeezed closed as he heard a gasp coming from someone in front. He didn’t want to look at the three, tears started flowing down his face while he let out soft whimpers. This was hell. Pure hell.
“Open your eyes,” Wilbur said, now standing in front of Tommy.
He slowly opened his eyes and came face to face with the three people he was so desperately trying to run from. It only made him cry harder. “Please, please let me go.” He whined out as Phil’s hands found their way onto his face, “Please. I don’t want to be with you.”
Phil wiped away his tears, Wilbur intertwined their hands, and Techno stood behind Tommy putting his hands on his shoulders firmly.
“We finally got you back. You’re not going anywhere. You belong with us, you’re only safe with us. It’s stupid for you to think you could get away, downright pitiful. But don’t worry, you’re back now. You’re safe now.”