A strange, white-clad form jumped out of the ruin of the wall. "WhooooBOY! Wow! That Titan packs a punch! Crossed three realities at least. So, where am I and who are you?" The flame-haired figure leaned close. "Genma??! But what is my mark doing on you?"
The divinity began visually inspecting the flustered martial artist, rubbing his chin. "One of mine? Who'd have thought? Normally, you're... well, never mind that for now. You have obviously changed from that dishonorable scoundrel."
The deity leaned out the broken window to look around. "So what are the drow doing here?"
"He... he..., uh, that is... Eilistraee..." Stammered the startled man, trying to answer the direct question from the god for fear of what might happen if he didn't.
The flame haired deity looked back at him. "Oh yeah? Good ol' Lizzy has followers here? Figures. That explains why a dimensional twist could knock me here. Ever since I killed the Spider Queen and took over the bulk of Drow I've been trying to reform them and Lizzy and my portfolios keep rubbing into each other. Grab a place where the two of us have got temples and I'm bound to show up sooner or later, by accident if not otherwise. So what's cooking?"
A trio of guards burst in the doorway, alerted by the noisy crash earlier. Jared gave them a flat glare and said nicely yet firmly. "Divine visitation. Come back when we're done." His stomach rumbled and the young appearing deity blushed in embarrassment, rubbing the back of his head in a gesture almost exactly like Ranma. "Oh, yeah, and send some food up, will ya?" He turned to looked thoughtful at the guards. "You wouldn't have any pizza, by any chance?"
Terrified shakes of the head by awestruck guards followed.
The deity shrugged. "Figures. Oh, well, no one could make it as well as Ucchan anyway." Seeing their blank incomprehension, he gestured to Genma. "Ask him sometime about Ukyo Kuonji - best okonomiyaki chef I ever met. Makes *great* pizza." He rubbed his stomach just at the thought of it. He closed his eyes momentarily. "Oh well. Have the kitchen send up some of those honey rolls, a pitcher of milk, and one or two of those meat pies. Mmmm, taste good just thinking about it. Okay," he turned back to Genma, the guards vanishing behind. "Where were we? Oh yah! You actually managed to reform yourself from a lying, scum-hearted, black souled, hypocritical scoundrel who knows nothing of honor into someone fairly decent. That deserves reward. And if you're anything like what I remember, I think I know what to give you, too."
Genma was too thunderstruck to form a reply.
the flame haired god produced a book. With a flick of his wrist he translated it from Gnomish to the local common tongue, and set it down at Genma's feet. "There you go. 'A Treatise on the Nonexistence of Magic' by some gnomes who pride themselves on never getting anything right. Naturally, it turns any human who reads it into a mage, and I put a rider on it that will prevent them from losing any powers in the crossover. So you can be a martial artist *and* a wizard, too. They work so well together, like having a heart *and* lungs. You just don't want to do without once you've tried the combination. Anyway, I've got giants to kill."
The deity leapt through a hole in reality that sealed up behind him.
The chief guard returned with a plate of honey basted rolls, requested meat pies and pitcher of milk, along with half a dozen raisin cookies baked fresh. He appeared startled to find Genma alone in the room, but got even more startled when a hand appeared out of a brief gap in the fabric of reality and snagged a meat pie, cup of milk, and a roll, before again vanishing.
Genma stared at the book in his hands, and...
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