GUARDIAN OF THE END

'Why do I have a bad feeling all of a sudden?'

For some reason, Jason suddenly felt a tingling sensation spreading throughout his body. It was around midnight and he was lying on his bed.

The strange feeling forced himself to stand up and look outside his window. Moonlight was entering his room and shone on his face.

'What could cause this?' Jason wondered silently and was about to open his window when he noticed a shadow leaping towards him.

"Amber?" Jason asked in a surprised tone when he saw Amber sticking on his window.

"Will you open the window or wait for me to smash it?" Amber grinned.

Jason opened the window and let Amber in. He didn't bother closing it and simply looked at her face which was being illuminated by the moonlight.

"I couldn't sleep at my place so decided to check on you. Should have known you would be awake as well." Amber said while dusting her clothes.

"I was trying to sleep but its quite hard." Jason shrugged. "Too bad you couldn't stare at my sleeping self."

"That would be a lovely sight to see. Imagine you were drooling all over your pillow."

"Oh please. You are the one who drools while sleeping."

Both Jason and Amber started laughing. The former's eyes noticed that a strand of Amber's red hair was dangling near her eye, giving her a cute look while she was laughing.

'For fk's sake, I feel like a teenager in love. I am starting to think the cringe things again…'

[ That's what love is. To make it appear less cringy, you can say that love is just the mixing of bodily fluids. ]

'…' Jason didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the definition given to him by the system.

It sounded both right and wrong at the same time. However, it did relax him a bit and made him look at things more clearly.

"So… what do you want to do right now?" Jason asked.

"I don't know. Anything that is interesting I guess." Amber shrugged. "The night is still young."

"That sounds like something my grandpa would say…"

"Not gonna lie, it actually does. Maybe your family is influencing me more than they should." Amber smiled. "But I guess I don't mind it."

Jason didn't know what took over him but he suddenly reached forward with his right hand and tucked the loose strand of Amber's hair behind her ear.

'That felt nice for some reason.'

[ For Erebus's sake, don't make me listen to feelings of love. I am happy that you have found someone you can love again but please, keep the thoughts restricted to yourself. ] The system said in an annoyed tone.

'I guess that's pretty valid.' Jason agreed.

Amber on the other hand had a strange look in her eyes. She was staring right into Jason's eyes and he was staring back.

Slowly, both of them moved forward until their faces were inches apart from each other.

Jason tilted his head a bit and went in for a kiss. Since both of them were of the same height, it was easy for him to do so.

Amber felt her body going limp as Jason's lips pressed over hers. She instinctively put her hands around his neck, pulling him a bit closer to her.

The two continued to kiss for a minute before separating. Jason could feel blood rushing towards his face as his heartbeat sped up.

Amber was in no better condition as her heart was pounding loudly inside her chest.

[ Don't go beyond kissing. You are still underage and are under the observation of the FBI God. ]

'But I am not on Earth.'

[ The FBI god only cares about the age at which someone is considered an adult. That age limit for Clover is eighteen so you gotta wait till then. ] The system replied.

'All right. I wasn't thinking about doing anything else anyways.'

"Can we do that again?" Amber mumbled.

Jason didn't reply and simply moved forward, putting his lips on top of Amber's. He slowly parted her lips and entered her mouth with his tongue.

The two continued kissing like this before finally deciding to sleep. This time, they slept facing each other even though they were blushing slightly.

[ Hestia, I am trying hard not to laugh and make Amber feel embarrassed but I think I might lose it soon if they keep doing things like this. ] Flamey sighed.

[ Well, both of them aren't really used to it. Though Jason had experienced the same feelings once in his life, I don't think he is used to such things. ]

[ I don't think that either. I mean, I have had much more weird and complicated relations but I have never seen someone act so… innocent. ]

[ Let's not compare ourselves to them. We have seen many things unlike them so its best that we remain silent and don't say anything on this matter. ]

[ True but its hard for me to do that. Find me a topic with which I can distract myself. ] Flamey requested.

Hestia thought about it for a few seconds before remembering that they needed the details on Apophis.

[ Flamey, do you know anything about a god named Apophis? ]

[ Apophis? You mean the Egyptian emo dude with the long scythe? ]

[ That is a pretty accurate description. Do you know him or anything related to him? ]

[ Well, he was there before you were born. He was the Egyptian god of death and carried a scythe with him, just like all the other death gods. Its their crazy sort of addiction or something.

However, he was far too ambitious and actually wanted to be the strongest god of death. And to do that, he decided to absorb all the other death gods and goddesses. A pretty dumb move I must say. ]

[ How did he even manage to think that he could absorb all of them? Even if he could get one or two low level death gods, its not that easy to absorb them especially considering the fact that their divinities will interfere the absorption. ]

[ Even I don't know what method he planned on using. I do know he had a team with him, whose members were all ambitious. Never got to know their names though. Surprisingly, they had managed to absorb a handful of gods.

The divine emperor found out about this and issued a decree to have them sealed and thrown off to a black portal world. Clover was already a world like that back then since it had just merged together. ]

[ So that was how the cubes ended up here. This means that there should be more than two cubes on Clover. ] Hestia soon started wondering who else could be supporting Apophis.

She knew that Phobos, the goddess of fear was sealed inside a cube. Veritas, the goddess of truth might be on Apophis's team as well.

'There should be more than two people who helped him. Even if Veritas and Phobos used their full powers, they couldn't absorb other gods.' Hestia concluded.

[ Why are you curious about him? Did something happen in my absence? ]

[ Well… ]

Hestia launched into an explanation of the events that had transpired in the forest. She didn't left out a single detail and told Flamey everything.

[ Oh boy. Things are about to get pretty heated up in the future. ]

[ Indeed and I feel like both of us are going to be at the center of it due to Jason and Amber. How do you feel about that? ]

[ The only thing that is currently heating up is Amber's cheeks. At least she is asleep unlike Jason who is rolling on the bed. ]

[ That's something he does on a routine when he can't sleep. Let's not bother them and play some game. What do you think about playing the game 'Who's that god?' with me? ]

[ You are on! ]

While the two guardians busied themselves with the game, Jason was trying hard to fall asleep. However, something weird was happening in his abdomen which prevented him from falling asleep.

[ You are feeling butterflies in your stomach which is honestly quite cute. But I don't think you will be able to sleep tonight if you keep experiencing that. ]

'I know that but I can't control it! Can you please help me?'

[ I am not some kind of emotion manipulation device which can be used to numb what you're feeling. You are on your own, Jason. ]

'…'

Jason fell silent because for some reason, he felt as if he had heard the same line before. He couldn't exactly remember who he had heard it from.

_{𝑓r𝘦𝘦𝘄eb𝒏𝙤vel.c𝙤𝙢}

[ Obviously me, idiot. Now if you want to sleep, pinch your nose and hold your breath. When you feel like you are about to pass out, breathe again and you will feel calmer. ] The system sighed.

Jason did as instructed and managed to successfully calm himself.

'Thank you, system.'

[ No need. Now go sleep. ]

'All right.'

Jason closed his eyes and soon enough, he was soundly sleeping. The system on the other hand sighed inside its mind. 𝙛𝘳𝒆𝒆𝒘e𝗯𝒏𝗼𝘷𝚎𝗹.𝒄૦𝘮

[ At least you are starting to forget the words I said, Jason… ]

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AN: damn, I think I ate cringe while writing this chapter. However, it was necessary for me to write this.

Also, it took nearly 250 chapters for Jason's official kiss… I have fallen from my post as a smut author…