Visitation from the old woman

When Bethany opened her eyes she was standing outside once more in the temple garden she looked around shocked

what just happened? how did she get here? had all that just been some weird elaborate daydream?

"Bethany! where are you? It's time to leave" the voice of her professor calling for her

"yea I'm here! coming!" she called back

she boarded the bus with her group and sat down at a window seat she pulled out her cellphone and put in her headphones so she could listen to some music

putting her head back on the seat, she was so tired she couldn't make heads or tails of what just happened to her or if any of it was even real

suddenly she felt a familiar feeling of the air around her shifting and moving

the bus she was traveling on suddenly came to a stop in the middle of the road not that anyone else noticed besides Bethany her classmates carried on as if nothing was happening

suddenly someone boarded the bus walked down the aisle and sat down next to her the bus began moving again

"what the hell?" she gasped in shock

it was the grinning old woman who plagued her life ever since she was about eight years old

dressed in flowing peach-colored kimono that hugged her form almost indecently and a fluttering flowing pink robe over it,

decorated with embroidered gold lotus blossoms her black hair graying at the temples

brushed into a soft braid that hung down her back threaded into her hair was flowers

"where the hell have you been?" she asked

"so I see you've finally found him" she answered with her eyes shining

"met who?" Bethany cried

"tut-tut" she chided her

"I'm talking about him," she said reaching out and suddenly grasping a golden necklace

that hung around Bethany's neck, it had thick elegant looking links styled in the pattern of the infinity symbol

at the end of the necklace was a big golden circular medallion pendant with a large shining blue orb-like stone sitting right in the middle of it

the orb itself shone and sparkled as if flames were dancing inside the stone it was mesmerizingly beautiful above the orb on the gold medallion itself was engraved a black raven in flight

and below it, a pair of crossed swords thrust right in the middle of the swords was a wooden staff

decorating the top of the staff was white flowers that seemed to be growing out of the wood the staff was made of while green vines were wrapped around the entire length of it

"what the hell is this? where did this come from?" she cried sitting up in shock why hadn't she noticed she was wearing it??

"it's him the one you just freed back at the temple" she informed her

"That was real?" she gasped touching her still swollen lips

"I told you! remember child you have a great fate and now you've met him"

"well what the hell am I supposed to do with him?" she cried in frustration "this is going to turn my life upside down!"

the old woman laughed "you were never meant to have such a life I've told you already there are much greater things in store for you, but you were the one who always had to insist on being "normal"

she rolled her eyes at her and tutted at her some more while shaking her head

Bethany groaned she was in big trouble she didn't want this, being mixed up in some crazy magical world filled with beings who could easily obliterate her with a snap of their fingers

"I suppose I have to give up school now right and my internship and everything else?"

"you're the one who got yourself into that mess, to begin with being stubborn like that" the old woman mused

"I told you none of it will matter to the gods when the time comes for you, I told you that you didn't have much time these things don't wait until you think you're ready for them"

"dam it are you going to keep telling me I told you so? or are you gonna help me figure out what to do now?" Bethany demanded annoyed

the old woman chuckled "I can't tell you because I'm not the one in control here the gods are sweety I'm only their messenger, I've been sent to watch over you and teach you as much as possible, but you didn't care to learn, always rebelling against your own fate, so now look where you are and you don't get a choice"

"so what now?" she sighed "what happens now that I've found him" she asked

"all I know is that you two belong together" she answered "and will be together from now on, you need each other to face what's coming

in my opinion, just go with the flow, you lucky brat that is a royal prince you get to have all for yourself, enjoy him he's a gorgeous one, if I were a few thousand years younger" she sighed

Bethany's eyes widened in shock at the smirk on her face

"what?" Bethany gasped

"he kissed you and he's already bonded with you I'm so jealous, oh to be young again" she breathed

if Bethany eyes could get any bigger they would have fallen out of her head at the look of delight and lust on the older woman's face

"How did you know that? and aren't you supposed to be like a motherly figure?" she gasped "you should be telling me to stay away from boys"

"I am but you're grown" she replied "believe me after the first hundred years or so you cease having hang-ups about sex there's nothing more useful to a woman than a good looking man, especially one as strong as him, take him to bed and have a good time with him my dear, as much to your heart's content while you still have time before the shit really hits the fan"

"oh my god!" Bethany cried the old woman released a cackle of amusement that made a shiver go down her spine as the bus came to a stop

and she got off the bus standing outside waving to Bethany as the bus pulled away they were back on the road and everything went back to normal

Bethany exhaled in shock she wouldn't give her any useful information

but she could tell her to get laid by the celestial being around her neck as soon as possible

"what the ****!" she breathed running a hand through her hair

the universe was definitely testing her today.