Emi the Deity Ch7

Emi the Deity

Book 2: The Dry Rose Garden

By Krissie Gault

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Chapter 7: Volume 2

His dress flowed to the ground. It was white with ruffles. The sleeves resembled sea shells and rested on his shoulders. The top lining of the dress were golden circles that rested below his collar bone. Emideus Cheshire Saint, Emi for short, was dressed as an anime princess of the moon. It matched the cosplay theme of the café perfectly. The café’s theme? Planets.

There were several moon princesses and even characters that represented other planets. Everyone chuckled when one of the servers came dressed as Captain Planet, a late 80s/early 90s super hero.

Emi twirled around in his dress on the stage. He lip sung a Sailor Moon song that was requested by several of the patrons. They even filled the tip jar a quarter full trying to bring the musical performances quicker.

Emi was elated.

Today was a great day! He could feel it. He hadn’t had any power hiccups all days. Which instantly made Emi’s day great. Emi skipped down the steps of the stage and beamed a wide grin as he walked over to a table. Two high school aged boys and three high school aged girls sat there.

“Did you enjoy the song?” Emi did his best impression of the character.

“You were wonderful!” the girl with pigtails gushed. The girl with a braid nodded in agreement. “Don’t you guys think so?” She leaned on the table as she addressed the boys accompanying them.

Two of the boys shrugged, “I guess.” They didn’t look like twins, but Emi found it amazing that they were so in sync. One had strawberry blond hair with freckles. He wore an Assassin Creed shirt. The other had curly black hair styled into an afro. He wore a Metroid shirt.

The third boy was the oldest there. He looked Emi up and down curiously before smirking. He wore a shirt with several video game controls on it. He wore several rubber bracelets on his right arm. “It’s been a while,” he waved lazily. “I can’t believe you work here? And in character too.”

Emi gave a smile though on the inside he was nervous. The man before him was Chad. Chad was a few grades behind him. Now Chad was either a junior or senior. Emi couldn’t completely recall. But he remembered Chad. Chad was rambunctious and always full of energy. Chad had tried out for every single sport he could just to get rid of all that extra energy he had.

“I almost didn’t recognize you,” Emi admitted, staying in character. “I hope you found an activity to help disperse all your energy.”

Chad grinned ear to ear. “I did! Tap dance actually. Not what pops was hoping for, but when you shine you shine. These are freshmen from our school. Glenda and Bria were raving about this place and brought us along. I’m glad I came. Now I get to brag about what a star you were when you were in high school.”

Emi blushed. “I wasn’t really a star…”

“She went to our high school!?” The girl with the braid squealed as she clasped her hands together.

Chad simply nodded. “Yep. Princess Serenity here went to the same high school as us. I was lucky to be in share the same school with this talent for two years. I remember causing you all kinds of trouble.” He smiled at Emi apologetically but with a warm joke attached. “If I recall you were on the cheers quad and in drama club for a while weren’t you? I don’t remember if you took chorus or not.”

“Chorus and the cheer squad had too many overlapping dates. So I wasn’t in chorus.” Emi replied. “But good memory.” He added a wink.

“I’m flattered,” Chad bowed.

“I can’t believe it! I want to the same school as Princess Serenity.” The braided hair girl continued to gush with the girl with pigtails.

“Now is there anything I can get for you guys?” Emi did his best to stifle his giggle. They had no clue that under this dress he was a man.

“How about our checks? I think it’s about time to be heading home before Bria here decides to become your ultimate fan girl,” Chad jabbed a thumb at the girl with the braid.

Emi nodded. “I’ll be right back with those.”

Quick work at the register and Emi returned to their table with the checks. He was also greatly relieved that Chad didn’t out him as a man. Emi wouldn’t have minded, but it seemed to cause an uproar when patrons found out. It was like the concept of cross dressing was foreign to them. But then again, he was on the Bible Belt.

“Guess they’re just not ready for crossing dressers yet.” Emi thought as he handed out the checks to the group.

“You can pay at the cash register over there,” Emi pointed towards the register. He began to clean up once the group left. He dropped the dirty dishes off in the sink and returned with a cloth to wipe it off. Someone swept while he returned the cloth with made Emi happy because it was one less thing for him to do. He checked on the other tables.

The fields were covered in roses. There was a maze like path for people to walk through. The roses were normally beautiful and blooming constantly. But something was wrong. The roses were turning brown and the leaves were shriveling. It was like the rose fields were dying. This greatly disturbed the deity of roses, Carmen. She had been trying every means she could in her power to bring the roses back to life. But none of her powers were enough. She had been bringing all the water she could carry to her fields, but even that wasn’t enough.

What she needed was a water deity who could bring water to withering field.

There was just a small snag with that. She didn’t know where to find any water deities. In fact, it seemed that they were becoming a bit scarce. No one heard any tale of them dying, but it was just that no one had seen them. Like they all were just hiding.

“What a time to be playing hide and seek,” Carmen grumbled. She perked up as she saw a fairy flying overhead. “Why didn’t I think of it before? I could just get a water fairy or nymph!” She thought as she called the fairy over.

The fairy had her blond hair pulled back into a low pony tail. Her dress was made of dandelion petals. Her wings were a pale pink with sparkly swirl designs.

“Hey, do you know where I can find a water fairy? Nymph? Anything really? My roses are dying here without it.” She waved her hand around the field.

The fairy nodded. “So sad too that there’s not enough water for them. Why don’t you go ask a water god? They’d be able to fix this in a tick.”

“No one has seen a water god or deity in ages.” Carmen replied.

“Really? I’ve been hearing that there was a water deity in a city south of here. Maybe you can ask them?” the fairy suggested.

“What’s the name of that city?”

The fairy thought for a moment before answering. It was a simple city. But it was also a decent size. Carmen packed a bag and raced down to that state.
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