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Hi Everyone,
This go fund me is on behalf of my friend Devin who was born with HIV, has survived MRSA (a serious infection caused by staph bacteria that is highly resistant to antibiotics), sepsis, pneumonia, job loss connected to his illnesses.
The goal of this go fund me is to raise funds towards a cheap cash vehicle so Devin can keep his current employment which is low wage and does not allow for him to save for a vehicle, continue to afford rent, pick up side hustles and become financially stable. He is not looking for a luxury vehicle and has set the go fund me goal at 2,000 (which is about the price for a cash vehicle in his area).
Financing a car isn’t a viable option due to his credit being damaged by medical debt. There are not many resources when it comes to assistance for vehicles and he has exhaused the few that there are.
He's tried everything else and that's why we're trying the go fund me.
The go fund me has managed to raise 391$ so far!
Thank you for your support in any form you may give it: reading, sharing or donating.

Love Kia's but bought a Ariya a year ago because I couldn't wait for the ev9 lol. I like my Ariya but ready to go back to Kia. Due to my trade in value and the EV9 prices when they first came out I decided it's better to just wait.
So looks like people are getting good deals. I never leased, I prefer to buy and keep the EV9 until I absolutely need to buy another vehicle so I seen there are some lease to buy options that make sense? I live in Texas but open to buy anywhere. I know out of spec says Colorado does business with out of state but don't know their deals. Looking for a GTL.
So my thing is I'm not good at math, especially on the spot at the dealership LoL. I'm looking thru this form and see "36/10/?" (Can't remember the other number). "000.2211 rate", "MF" Etc. I have no idea what any of that means besides the "36" is talking about 36 months lease.
So where have people been getting good deals and do you think I should just keep waiting? Will my Ariya trade in get better or worse by the end of the year ? (Just fyi I pay $970 a month, would rather pay a few hundred less with an EV 9)

Hi all! New to the group. Long story short I had a 2000 Rav 4. I bought it when I was 16 and it’s lasted me the past 7 years, she had 271,000 miles on her and was running amazing still. Until recently, I flew to visit my family and my husband was driving my car while I was gone and totaled her. He is okay thank god, but since that was our only running vehicle (my husband likes fords…) and he left for deployment it has delayed me coming back home since I can’t be 25 hours away from anyone I know with my newborn without a vehicle. I decided it would just be easier for me and my newborn to buy a vehicle here and drive back. I found a 2004 RAV4 with 149,000 miles on it. I would obviously get it maintenance and looked over before I make the drive but the thought of buying a car without my husband to look it over first scares me. So what should I be looking for when I look it over? Any issues that commonly happen in the 150,000 range? My husband told me to turn the car on and take the oil cap off and if there is lots of pressure behind the cap to not buy it. But any input is helpful.

Okay, so I was watching a video, about a man who owns his own business, in child support court. He files his own taxes as owner of the business showing he made less than $25,000 for the year, but from an outsiders view it appears he makes well above that.
Now my questions are

1. If he owns the business, does he file taxes for the business and for himself separately? Or is it a single form until you have a certain number of employees.
   
2. If he does file two forms separately, can his business make $500,000 in profit for the year but on their books pay him a salary of $24,000 legally allowing him to file a $24,000 earned income on his taxes, while technically he, as the owner of the business, has full control and access the the remaining $476,000.
   
3. And would that be better to do? Strictly from a financial point of view. To better clarify, would you making $500,000 in salary from your company and the company making $0 be more or less taxes. I would assume the tax percent/available tax breaks change from personal income to company income.
   
4. If he is able to file separately, and keep his earned income low ($24,000) so that the ex doesn’t get a bigger check. (He already spent thousands each month on everything for the kids. She wanted money for her.) Would he as the owner get to decide what the company uses it’s funds for as long as all taxes and everything is paid? Like could he, as owner decide that every employee gets fed 3 times a day wherever they want, gets a new company vehicle, all of their childrens daycare, medical bills and school tuition paid for, and rent for an apartment all on the company’s dime. And him be the only employee. Basically allowing him to pay for all his needs but still maintaining a low earned income. Or would all those expenses count towards his earned income. Kinda like little bonus’ but they have to be spent on certain things.
   

Thank you the help in advance!

DISCLAIMER: I am not very good to scale, every help is appreciated, thanks in case
So now let's start:
-AP/DURABILITY:
•These versions of Spider-Man are pretty strong, with many incredible feats, like [Peter was able to pulls a crane](https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=29&v=IOKqBSYX0Mg&feature=youtu.be), [which weight 400,000 pounds](https://thinkwelty.com/how-do-tower-cranes-work/#:\~:text=For%20large%20cranes%20the%20pad,much%20like%20a%20ship's%20mast.) (roughly 181 tons), [was unfazed by a big explosion](https://imgur.com/a/8jB6d7H) and during the games we can see both, him and Miles be able to stop running vehicles. [Peter can fight Electro](https://youtu.be/VgvQjCxCpm0?si=tdg\_kj-GJRpDjLye), [withstanding his attacks](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8dfafcef42c755b954d4145eb9e1f842) and beating him, [Electro is someone who performed a Large Building level feat](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User\_blog:Mr.\_Bambu/Insomniac\_Spiderman\_Calc:\_Electro\_Has\_Anger\_Issues) by destroying a smokestack. [He can fight Mr. Negative](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=82F1sCU0XwY&t=13s) and even [knock him out of his Negative form](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uCVp8Qtuh6Q&t=1039s). For reference Mr. Negative is someone who [can create blasts so powerful](https://imgur.com/LdTYynr), which [he can withstand](https://imgur.com/KD5Ce2Y). [His ground pound is strong enough to send shockwaves across Harlem cracking the street under him](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User\_blog:Baken384/Marvel%27s\_Spider-Man,\_You\_can\_do\_the\_Harlem\_Shaker). [Peter can fight Rhino](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&t=40406&v=jXs7kyAcfzE&feature=youtu.be), [stunning him](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sh\_z1Q3O8UM&t=41s). [Rhino can takes numerous Venom punches from Miles](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0lok-YK2mvw&t=679s), [who casually dish out this level of power during the battle against Sandman in the second game](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User\_blog:Dalesean027/Marvel%27s\_Spider-Man\_2\_Feat\_compilation\_1), [Rhino was also stated to have destroyed Six City-Blocks](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-eada891534b143cb56f6637eb17b1c9d), (mere supporting statement).
•Since Rhino was unlimitedly overpowered by Miles' Venom, but still able to withstand with a good amount of Miles' Venom attacks he, (and Peter as well) should downscale from Miles' feat.
•[Also Miles in base was able to stun Rhino too](https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=645&v=18BByvJKPFU&feature=youtu.be), so his base statistics will downscale from his feat against Sandman too.
•Miles, also, in his own game performed a pretty crazy feat. He in fact [absorbed the energy from a sabotaged Nuform reactor which was threatening to vaporise all Harlem](https://www.reddit.com/RTvideos/comments/18ieegi/miles\_endgame\_absorption/), [according this video Miles absorbed 165.3 million gigajoules](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uPyGuDG2r-A&t=360s&pp=ygUXTWlsZXMgbW9yYWxlcyBudWtlIGNhbGM%3D), (credits to u/CrispyNeam for the source), that is equivalent to roughly 39.5 Megatons, or City level.
•Now this feat can't be use to scale Peter and Rhino to City level, since Miles to reach this level of power needs to absorb a huge quantity energy, something that he can't do in normal circumstances, so this feat is only exclusive to Miles at his full Charge.
•In the second game Peter received a power up, entering in contact with the symbiont. With it Peter was able to take the upper hand on Kraven, who previously practically no diff him, and fought a more powerful version of Miles, (since Blue Bioelectricity Miles>Orange Bioelectricity Miles, given by the fact that he showed better feats, like when he was able to briefly overpower Symbiont Peter strength](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&t=276&v=prP0EsmZC9A) and [capable of](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&t=250&v=prP0EsmZC9A) [dodge his attacks](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&t=265&v=prP0EsmZC9A), and no, [Martin Li didn't never amped Miles](https://imgur.com/a/HIVTQSe), but he achieved to this new power by himself), so he, and Miles too, should upscale from Miles' feat to the baseline Low 7-C AP, (1 kiloton).
NOW FOR SPEED:
•[Peter can webswing between multiple gunfire](https://imgur.com/W79zhGM), [dodged gunfire from Silver Sable](https://imgur.com/ZPa6x5v) and [from an helicopter](https://imgur.com/OYoOY0q) and [dodged a rocket as well](https://imgur.com/6rFkLhQ). [He can shoots his webs at supersonic speeds](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User\_blog:RisingIons/Spider-man\_shoots\_fast), [jumped a gun](https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=326&v=7BxTogZ\_HXs&feature=youtu.be), that was calculated to be a [Hypersonic feat](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User\_blog:RisingIons/More\_spiderman\_calcs) and can keep and [catch](https://imgur.com/yFnFBmR) Black Cat, who escaped to explosion at close range](https://imgur.com/lEwPqK8).
•In terms of speed Miles should be comparable to Peter considering he fought many people that scale to him, like Rhino, Vulture, exc..., and fought along side with Peter, keeping pace with him.
CONCLUSION: So to conclude I think that Base Peter and Miles are Multi City-Block level+, (downscaling from Miles' feat), and with Hypersonic combat speed. Symbiont/Anti-Venom Peter and Blue Bioelectricity Miles scale to Small Town level, while Miles can be reasonable scaled to City level at his max, but his feat doesn't scale to anyone in the verse except from Miles himself but only when he's at his Full Charge.
P.s.: Sorry if you have found some grammatical errors, english isn't my language

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Hey, so you ever get a birthday present that's so not your style, but you really can't return it because it'd be really awkward? Normally it's like, I dunno. Shoes, or shirts or something like that, right?
For me it was four fire-breathing horses.
Okay, so I should clarify. My dad didn't really give me four fire-breathing ponies to keep. It was more of a test for him to treat me like his son again.
See, I just recently got out of a Styx oath that would have led me to eternal damnation if I didn't fulfill it. It's a long story, but to keep it short: I swore an oath on the Styx to be a brave hero by my eighteenth birthday when I really should have just pinkie promised. But yeah. My dad, God of War and dad of the year took it well. …In that he pretty much said that I was a waste of space, disowned me and he'd personally hand me over to the Styx for eternal damnation.
Nice guy. Really should get into motivational speeches.
The night before, after riding the high of not having the threat of being sent to Super Hell I had a pretty bad dream. I mean, it wasn’t the normal David nightmare. It wasn't me killing endless hordes of monsters while my dad laughed at how pathetic I was.
Well, half of that. It was just my dad. To be honest, rather I’d take the monsters.
He was laughing at me, with that smug face of his, in that all-leather biker outfit with the shades that made him look even more like an asshole, as if that's hard to believe.
Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to cuss. Anyways yeah. Me and my dad. Not the best relationship, even by demigod standards.
He gave me a toothy grin, like a shark’s as he circled around me. I instinctively stood up straight, at attention. As much as I hate my dad, ticking off a god is a pretty dumb thing to do. Plus, I was pretty dumbfounded to see him here in my dream of all things.
“Well, color me surprised. To be honest, boy, I thought I'd end up taking care of this myself. So, congratulations on that front. But, sorry to burst your bubble, it might be good enough for ol’ Styxy but…it’s not good enough for me. But, you know, I'm a generous guy! Prove me you're a warrior. Do that, and I'll welcome you back in the family with open arms. I even got the perfect way for you to prove yourself.”
Without warning, he tossed me a set of keys with a miniature boar-headed keychain and a really big switchblade on the end of it. I fumbled with it before slipping it into my pocket.
“An oldie but a goodie. Used to let my sons prove themselves to me all the time with this one. Now, I'm sure once you see what I got planned you'll know the rules, considering you're a fuckin’ nerd. But in case you forget…”
He lowered his shades, revealing balls of fire as he glared right at me.
“Sundown. My temple. Don't be late or I'll toss you in the Styx myself. Well! Have fun, yeah? I'm looking forward to watching you fail this one, like your last quest. Now, get up. Clock’s ticking after all…”
“Gaah!”
I snapped my eyes open, falling out of my bed and onto the hard floor under me. As soon as I hit the floor, I could hear one of my many siblings start to stir from their sleep. Immediately, my sister Tiffany started to sigh as she shot up from her bed. I could see her pastel pink sleep mask perched on her head as she glared into the darkness of the early morning. She groaned in frustration, her words cutting through the quiet of the dawn.
"What the hell are you idiots doing?"
To be fair, I could see why she’d think that. Most of my siblings were fond of pranking each other every now and then. The chaos of the Ares cabin was unmatched from most cabins, except maybe Hermes. But, when you cut off her beauty sleep, the threat of an angry Tiff was usually was enough to make nighttime a truce. Usually.
My sister rubbed her eyes and looked down at me. I sheepishly gave a smile as I rubbed my head, still sore from when it hit the floor.
"Seriously, David?"
Tiffany got out of bed and silently made her way to me. She wordlessly held out a hand and I grasped at it as she pulled me up.
"Thanks Tiff. I had this dream, where Dad called me a nerd and was talking to me about testing me now that my Styx Oath is..."
I felt something hard and metallic poke against my leg, from my sweats pocket. I pulled out the unfamiliar object and to my surprise, there were the same keys from my dream. My eyes widened as I realized that my dream was a little bit more than usual demigod stuff.
"Oh. That...wasn't a dream."
She raised an eyebrow as she looked at the keys that sat in my hand. I played with the accessories, absentmindedly feeling the boar head and the switchblade knife. She leaned in, peering at the keys as the dawn started to rise.
"What the hell are those for?"
She looked to the keys, then back at my face, and then the keys again. She looked at me as if I just said that Kronos was about to come back and throw an ice cream party courtesy of the Titans.
"You're telling me Dad gave those to you or something? You're joking. Have to be."
I shook my head, but I could see why she thought so. I was pretty sure I was near the bottom, if not at the bottom of his list of favorite kids. If I was being honest, I was pretty sure he wanted me dead more than a few times.
"Tiff, you know that I'm not exactly Dad's favorite by a long shot. Why would I say something like that and risk him getting even mad more mad at me because of my lying? Dad disowned me, remember? He mentioned something along the line in my dream that if I pass his test I'd be treated as one of his sons again but he didn't mention what it..."
The gears started turning as I looked at the keys in my hands.
”A test…keys…sundown…oh no. Oh, no.”
I immediately pocketed up my keys and started putting on my shoes. No time for pants, sweats would do just fine, I just had to make sure to take my wallet with me, considering I was going to New York now. I had to be quick or this test was over before it even started.
"No. I...I think I know what it is. But if I'm right, then shoot I gotta get going then! Before our brothers take it."
In hindsight, I probably should have told Tiff a bit about my thoughts. But, the more I delayed the more issues that could have cropped up. I just had to make sure it was safe.
"Take what? Where the hell are you going?!"
I burst out of the cabin, staring at what was in front of our cabin. I felt a bit of nervousness bubble up as my thoughts were proven true. Tiffany was close behind me as she walked outside our cabin. I looked at her face and caught an expression of wonder as whatever she was going to ask me was forgotten. Parked in front of the cabin was a red and gold Harley. The seat was white leather and gave a sorta…humany vibe to it that I did not wanna think about. Only one thing came to mind, something I knew instinctively from the moment I saw it. Dad's War Chariot.
Or as the god of war would call it, his chariot.
"I...I think dad wants me to take his ride for a spin."
I ran my hand over the cold metal, and I realized what Dad meant about the “oldie but a goodie.” A while back, before the Second Titan war ended, and all of the children of the gods had to be claimed, there was a ritual all sons of Ares went through. It was something all my brothers did at fifteen. Drive around his Chariot and return it before sundown. It wasn't easy, my Godly siblings, Phobos and Deimos both loved to mess with whoever was in charge of the chariot at the time. And you had to deal with monsters too, but overall when it came to demigod stuff it wasn’t the most dangerous around. I dunno if that says a lot about how dangerous this life can get though.
But, shortly after the then-counselor Clarisse La Rue became the first girl to do it, Dad pulled the plug. I dunno if it was good ol’ sexism, someone totaling it, or dad not wanting to let all of his kids drive his ride, either way it wasn't super common nowadays. It wasn't like he stopped, but it was something given, not a right. Dad letting me do this was him at least giving me a chance to prove myself to be one of his kids, which was more than I expected to be honest.
I took a breath as I looked at Dad’s ride, feeling a pit of unease in my stomach as I started to climb in. If it wouldn't end up with me being tormented for the rest of my short life, I'd tell him no and go back to sleep. But, telling a god no, especially my dad is a neat way to be turned into a rodent. Or a fine red paste. Or a rodent that would be turned into said paste.
Tiffany's brows furrowed as she processed my words, a layer of disbelief on her face as she chewed over it.
You? He wants you to drive it? I...that...what the hell?"
I fought off a wince as she looked at me, then the ride, then back at me again. I could tell she was a bit annoyed. I mean, yeah from her perspective I was singled out by dad to do something she probably wanted to do for a while. I felt a pit of guilt in my stomach, it wasn't fair, really. But at the same time I had to do this.
"I mean, seriously? He must be out-"
She cut herself off. Calling my dad crazy was another way to get turned into a rat that would then be turned into a fine paste. Actually a lot of things carried the threat, my dad is kinda a jerk. I sighed, figuring I might as well tell her about why Dad was doing this. I didn't wanna hide it, but it's not like I like to talk about the fact that I've been disowned for two years. She knew, most of us did. But it's not something I like bringing up, because yeah. It sucks.
"I read a bit about previous Ares campers. He used to do this more often, at first only his sons did, but later his daughters could. I dunno why he stopped but, this isn't really like he's doing it because he's proud of me. I'm sorta disowned, remember? He said if I can drive the chariot, he'll take me back as one of you guys again. It's...more of a test to earn myself back into his good graces, I think.”
Tiffany listened to my explanation, not saying anything for a bit She looked a bit bothered about the fact that I was chosen to drive the Chariot, which again, not surprising.
"Ugh, I guess that makes sense."
I could hear the frustration in her voice as she crossed her arms. I winced again, preparing for her to resent or hate me. But to my surprise, I heard her add more in a softer voice.
"Well, don't get yourself killed trying to pass this stupid test, I don't want to have to explain to everyone why you're not coming back."
Her icy tone defrosted as she looked back at me with a bit of concern in her eyes. She seemed less annoyed and more worried about me, which was sweet. Not that I'd let her hear that. I hoped that maybe, dad would let her give it for a spin later down the road. If anyone deserved it, it would be her. I gave a nervous laugh as I took the keys out of my pocket.
"Of course, I passed my Styx Oath, didn't I? It'd be really dumb of me to die right after barely avoiding that, right? Oh, yeah. If Ellie asks for me, tell her about dad's little test he has for me. Hopefully it won't be too long but you know how it is with godly stuff. I should be back in time for us to hang out for the rest of my birthday once I do this for dad. I'll bring back something cool!”
I felt my trepidation fade away as I prepared to drive. Lots of my siblings dreamed of piloting the chariot. It wouldn't be right to reject the opportunity when it was given to me. And, who knows? Getting back in Dad's good graces (or as much as one can get in them) might help me out. At least I would have one less target on my back. As I sat down in the white leather seat, I put the keys in the ignition and instantly it began to morph.
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The front split apart into one steel horse that slowly split into two, and then four cream-colored horses that looked around with a cruel intelligence. The seat dipped, and warped before it became a horse-drawn chariot I was now standing in. The chariot was gold and blood red, adorned with the lovely images of people dying gruesome deaths, because Dad's taste in decor is somewhere between military surplus and serial killer, apparently.
“Okay…so, I need to get to Dad's temple before sundown. I don't know New York highways though, so how can I…oh hey! A gps!”
My fingers brushed against a touch screen set up on the chariot and punched The Intrepid into the coordinates. I gave one last wave to my sister before I lashed the horses and they immediately took off. I led them out of camp easily enough, but as we reached the highway they sped up to an impossible speed for a chariot. Their speed was even faster than any cars on the highway, rivaling the time that Aphrodite camper drove us to the beach once. I pulled back on the reins, trying to get them to slow down. Instead, they gave a rebellious snort and went even faster.
I would like to say that I embraced my inner Ares kid and relished the challenge. But I'm not going to lie, when you end up going past 80 MPH in a chariot, you tend to think you're going to die, fun fact. I screamed for most of the way, yanking and pulling at their reins so we could bob and weave through traffic.
It's a bit of a drive from Camp Half-Blood to New York City, I know it well, it’s a pretty common place for me to go for some monster slaying. But, up until now, I've been in the passenger seat while Argus drives. The speed of the horses really made the time go by faster. As we entered the city, the horses started to slow down and I felt a ray of hope as I started to steer them through the city. I gave a triumphant laugh as I looked down at my ETA. It was surprisingly quick, considering how congested New York can get. And I didn't see hide or hair of either one of my godly brothers, so I felt pretty good, all things considered.
“Huh. That's weird. There's not many cars today…my luck must be turning around!”
“Traffic update: Incoming Monsters. Rerouting. Cannot reroute.”
“Huh?”
Immediately, a massive boar the size of a garbage truck burst from a nearby alley way behind me. Behind the massive pig, two armored bank cars recklessly merged into traffic. One leaned out, revealing a gray-skinned human in body armor brandishing a shotgun.
“Of course! I had to open my big mouth! Is there anything that I’m going to have to deal with?”
“You are on the fastest route!”
“Well that’s just GREAT! Now I can be on the quickest way to the underworld!”
”Rerouting to: D.O.A. Records, Los Angeles.”
“Woah, woah, woah, no! Keep me on The Intrepid! The Intrepid!”
Seeing all these enemies together though, I started to put a thought in my head. They all had something in common, now that I saw them all in front of me. A boar was sacred to Ares, Spartoi too came from a dragon sacred to him. I put the pieces together as I saw the monsters come out of the woodwork and all to me. Now things made sense. The lack of Phobos and Deimos, the sacred beings to Ares, the lack of mortals on the street.
I didn't see my siblings because Dad wanted to mess with me personally.
Even now, I don't know if he wanted to test me in a Spartan way, or if he just wanted to get rid of me without kinslaying. Either way, I couldn't back down now. Not when I was so close. I snapped on the reins and the rebellious horses continued on their path, bickering and weaving left and right as they snorted and whinnied.
I heard the wiz of something traveling through the air and quickly moved out of the way. A metal feather hit the chariot, bouncing off the hull and onto the ground. I looked up and saw a few birds. They were black and crow-like, but their feathers had a metallic sheen, like iron. Their wings flapped and I heard the sound of metal on metal as they soared above me.
“Dad called in feather-shooters too? Come on!”
I steered left and right as I evaded the metal feathers shooting at me. The newcomers behind me quickly gained as I bobbed and weaved. I had to figure a way out of this, and fast. Problem was, I was quickly outnumbered and outmatched. I wasn't the best at archery, and my sword could shoot a blast of force, courtesy of the then Forgemaster. Main issue was it took a bit to charge, and I couldn't take them on so high up.
I couldn't run. I needed to fight out of this. But even if I could fight the two Spartoi and the big pig, the problem was the birds. I didn't have a ranged option…or did I? I looked to the horses, breathing embers as they huffed and pulled the chariot further on. Ares kids couldn't talk to horses, but these were godly horses. They seemed smarter than your average horse. Maybe I could talk them into behaving, the same way I got some of my siblings to listen to the plan during Capture the Flag.
“Hey guys, are you bored? I'm sure Dad and my brothers take all the good fights, huh? You know, if you guys continue fighting each other, I might lose this and you guys will miss out on a good fight.”
At first, I thought it fell on deaf ears. But then, they stopped their jostling and started to take a more unified path as we raced along the streets. Like I thought, they enjoyed a good fight as much as their owner did.
“That's what I like to see. Look, we're pretty surrounded right now. What do you say we rampage a bit before I take you guys home?”
An evil-sounding whinny came from the horses. I couldn’t really speak horse, but I took that as an okay and pointed at the birds above us. Did I feel stupid? Kinda. But as long as it worked, I couldn’t complain.
“See them? All yours. I'll cover you guys from the ground forces, and in exchange, you guys fall in line. Alright?”
A burst of fire came from one of the horses in response and I heard a loud squawk as it engulfed one of the feather-shooters. I breathed a sigh in relief as the rest of the birds started to scatter. They veered left and right in an attempt to avoid the flaming streams that were now sporadically being fired in their direction.
“Alright! Good job, I'll leave it to you!”
I gave a smile as I turned behind to my land-based foes, quickly gaining on me. I could hear the occasional woosh of fire as the horses fought the birds. One of the armored trucks caught up to my right and one of the spartoi leaned out of the vehicle. They aimed down the sights and pointed their shotgun at me.
“Sudden traffic in your area. You will be delayed by…five minutes. You are still on the fastest route!”
“Woah, that’s not fair! Come on Dad! A gun? Really!?”
I felt a tug in my stomach. It wasn’t something I could do a lot in a row without being exhausted, but I had some sorta pull when it came to weapons. When I gave a command, they were able to fall right out of their owner’s hands.
“Alright, let’s even the playerfield shall we?”
I held out my hand and they dropped it, the gun fell onto the ground, crushed by the wheels of the car. The second caught up to my left and once again, a spartoi leaned out of their car, weapon in hand.
“Another one!? Come on! How am I going to…”
I was jerked to the side as the horses suddenly veered right. At first, I thought it was the horses misbehaving again, but then a monstrous squeal came from behind me, rushing forwards.
Crash
I heard the sound of steel groaning as the boar rushed past the truck, pushing their truck out of the way as they aggressively charged forward. It was a good thing I managed to get out of the way, or else I would have been in trouble. I could see the spartoi shaking their fist as they spun out, their car massively dented with a massive gash in the armor. Now that I had to deal with two enemies, I decided to use the boar’s momentum to my advantage. I pulled back on the reins and the boar kept barreling on, too fast to stop as I made the chariot suddenly stop and then take a sudden turn away from the temple. The boar ran straight into a brick wall, seemingly dazed but otherwise okay.
”Rerouting...”
That temporarily took care of two of my enemies. Now that I had one to worry about, and my horses were pretty steady, I could start this fight in earnest. I kept one hand on the reins as I grabbed my Miku keychain. I unclipped it, and the keychain turned into a katana, with said keychain still on the bottom. It was my sword, Anime (I want to clarify, my friend Jules named it, not me). One of the Spartoi readied a spear and lunged at me. I parried it with my blade, and stabbed at their chest. I felt my blade plunge into their body. I pulled away at it, slashing at it again to tear it apart. To my disappointment though, the monster quickly reformed.
I don't know what I expected, to be honest. They wouldn't be much of an immortal soldier if they died after the first hit. But it bought me valuable time as we pushed forward. Almost as soon as its bones knit back together, it struck at me. I guarded once again, my sword starting to glow brighter and brighter with each strike. Our blades clashed and separated again and again for, I don’t know how long to be honest. I was putting up a good fight, but I just couldn’t gain the upperhand in that fight. For starters, if it was a monster or even a demigod it’d be ten ways to Tartarus at the moment. But, no matter how I sliced or diced it, the immortal soldier kept on coming back. Also, I just wasn't used to multitasking like that, I held on as tightly as I could, but the brief times I practiced Chariot combat with my friends Jules and Cel, I was either driving or fighting. Both at the same time was hard, and I was lucky that the horses were so cooperative.
I heard the whinny of one of the horses ahead as I looked back to the front. No sign of the birds meant that there was a few extra-crispy feather-shooters along the road somewhere, which was good news. But then, I looked out in front and realized that there was a big problem. One of the trucks we left behind somehow got in front of us, blocking the road with their car. Five spartoi were standing outside of the car, swords and spears drawn as they headed the chariot off.
At this moment, I knew I was screwed. I was too fast to just stop. And, even if I did stop, I’d have to deal with all the angry skeleton men chasing me down. I just winced, bracing for impact. But then, I heard a neigh as the horses pulling my chariot started to turn into steel and combined once more. The chariot started to shift, the creak of metal folding and turning. I quickly sheathed my sword as the reins turned into chrome handlebars which I gripped like my life depended on it. The chariot continued to morph until once again it was a motorcycle with flame patterns. I veered as left as I could, narrowly avoiding hitting the side of a nearby building as I sped past the skeletal blockade. I braked, motorcycle now turning back into the chariot form as I turned back and watched as the car that was chasing me slammed straight into the other.
The now pissed spartoi stumbled out of the wreckage and started to scream undead obscenities to each other. I couldn’t speak ghost, but whatever they said seemed to be pretty rude, because both sides started to unsheath their swords and get into an all-out brawl. One of the spartoi sliced the other in two, and they didn’t reform this time as their essence slid into their black sword.
Huh. Well, that was one way to deal with them.
“Whew! Good horses.”
I turned, ready to snap the reins once again, but I stopped as I saw what was waiting for me at the other end of the road. The boar, still very much on my trail stood in front of me. It pawed at the ground in front of it, and my horses started to do the same. I stared at the boar, unsheathing Anime once again as we stared off.
“Keep straight for…500 feet.”
The thing about boars is that they can be pretty deadly. They’re brutish and aggressive, and they go down fighting. You know the crossguard that’s near the pointy end of a spear? That’s so the animal doesn’t run up the spear to take you out with it. You don’t think them being that dangerous, but there’s a reason that dad’s symbol is a boar.
I had to make this quick, and efficient or I’d end up maimed, or worse. I snapped the reins one more time, and the horses started to dash down the street. The boar squealed as it barreled to me. I could see it get closer and closer. I grit my teeth, holding my blade in my right hand as it started to shine more and more brightly. My hand held onto the grip tightly, bracing for my next action.
I’d have one shot at this.
I miss, I’m dead.
I hesitate, I’m dead.
I don’t hit the vitals, I’m dead.
Time started to slow around me as I watched the boar rush at the chariot, enraged as it reached the point where there was no stopping it now. I could see the powerful muscles push and pull, the beast using all its power in an attempt to off me for good. I felt heat coming from the front as all four horses breathed a stream of flames at the swine. The boar kept on charging forwards, through the fire as the flames engulfed it. An angry squeal erupted from the inferno as it lept up from the sea of flames, still on fire as it used its strong legs to clear the horses and go straight for me.
Breathe in
I felt a sense of calm wash over me as I pulled my sword hand back. My blade shined brilliantly, even in the May sun. I watched it fall ever closer to me, the flames still eating away at the flesh. I stared into its ever-angry eyes, burning brighter than the flames surrounding it. I don’t falter. I’ve faced monsters that have crushed my bones. I don’t feel fear. I’ve fought creatures that could have killed me in five seconds. This is it. I need it to be perfect.
Breathe out.
SHING
I swung my blade and a rush of air followed it, making an arc that flew to the boar. I don’t doubt my skills. I simply watch, confident that this will end the monster once and for all. The blast, charged from my fight flew unimpeded. The beast’s chuffs turned into surprised squeal as it sliced the boar cleanly in two, bisecting it from the snout down. I sheathed my sword and put both hands back on the reins, eyes on the road as I barely watched what came next. The flaming boar started to fade into dust, still falling through the air until only a tusk was left. I held out my arm and caught it with my right hand.
“Oh hot, hot!”
I juggled it a bit with one hand before placing it down on the chariot floor. I grinned triumphantly as I realized what happened. Dad tried to test me, to see if I was “worthy” or he genuinely tried to kill me. Either way, I beat him this time, proving to him that I was more. That he underestimated me when we first met, that I was a brave warrior all along. In the end, I proved to him that I could fulfill my Styx oath even past what was expected of me. I laughed as I sped up, I felt pretty good about my victory. I wondered how his face would look, or if I could read his expression past his dumb sunglasses.
But as I rounded the corner, a terrifying sight came to my face as my glee turned to sorrow. I watched with horror as I realized Dad’s influence on the fight kept a more dangerous foe than any before at bay. Now that the fight was over, he had no reason to keep it around, and for once, I wasn’t sure if I could get through this unscathed. I gulped as I put my hands on the reins, not ready to face the impossible challenge alone. I hoped it wouldn’t break me as I prepared what little I had to fight this foe.
”There is an unusual amount of traffic in your area today.”
“Now you tell me…”
None other, than New York traffic.
I’d like to say that I did something else. Like I defeated an army of drakons on my way, or managed to fight off crazed demigods sent by my dad…but no. It was pretty much just traffic the rest of the way there. It was long and arduous, but I managed to make my way over to The Intrepid. After that traffic,I had to say, the amount of crazy drivers was almost San Francisco bad. I’d have taken as many spartoi and boars as dad could throw at me, if it meant I wasn’t drowning in the sea of cars. I drove down Pier 86, feeling a sense of relief as I got closer and closer to the aircraft carrier turned museum. As I got within eyeshot, I realized that dad said to take it to the temple, but not where to drop it off at.
It would be really stupid to end up failing just because I wasn’t sure where to leave dad’s ride. I got off the chariot, and was eyeing the prices of a ticket.
“Adults are thirty-six, Seniors and College Students…thirty four… Oh hey! Children of Ares get in free! Now, how do I wheel dad’s chariot through the front…”
Suddenly the side gate opened, lights flashing and clanging as it automatically retracted. The person standing in the booth waved me over and I hopped back onto the chariot, driving it by cautiously. They were dressed like a security guard, shades covering their eyes as they looked down onto their phone that they were absentmindedly playing with. Eyebrow piercings peeked out from behind the shades. They were tall, looked about early twenties, and seemed like your average bored museum guard, if not for that sorta godly aura I got from them.
“Take the chariot this way, Lord Ares will be at the end of Pier 86. Can’t miss him.”
I eyed the godling suspiciously. They seemed like one of those myriad younger and minor gods I saw when I was on Olympus. Not anyone I’d know, but if they wanted to stop me, it’d be annoying to get past them. They didn’t seem to be that dangerous, at least right now. But when you were a demigod, you learned to be wary of free handouts.
“Uh…look man, I’m going to be honest. I just got through some hellish traffic to get through here. So if like, you’re leading me into a trap or if my godly brothers are going to show up to try and take this, can you just start the fight and save me the trouble? It’s been a long morning, and I just wanna get this over with.”
I stared back at my reflection through their mirrored shades. Growing up, I always thought of myself as gangly and awkward. I could see my messed up hair, tousled from the wind. I stood tall, and although I wasn’t the buffest Ares kid around, you couldn’t call me skinny anymore. I looked almost heroic as I held the reins atop the chariot. Was that how I looked now? The godling shook their head as they chuckled, putting down their phone as they looked at me in the eyes.
“Kid, even for a god like Ares who likes conflict, you don’t do something like that in a temple. You can’t just attack his kid on his own grounds. Plus, it's part of the rules of war to respect neutralized zones. Trust me, you’re home free.”
“Oh. Um, thank you.”
He nodded and went back on his phone. I snapped on the reins and the chariot trotted along, even fire-breathing horses had to follow traffic laws apparently. I was on guard, not taking the godling’s words at face value. Mortals in a daze parted around the chariot, a few snapping pictures at me. I freaked out for a split second before I heard the tourists being in awe at what I heard to be a “vintage bomber”. Dumbfounded, I stopped for a brief second. It didn’t even have wings! But, I could see the mist shimmer around me and for a brief moment, see the silhouette of the plane around the chariot. It was an old fighter, a single propellor with flaming horse art on the nose.
“P-40B Warhawk? Alright, guess we’re working with that.”
I frowned a bit, trying to think if I knew that before this, from a school project or if it was more demigod shenanigans. I was never into fighter jets, but when you’re a demigod sometimes your parent’s godly influence shoves itself into your head and it’s always confusing when it does.
I drove the “plane” to the end of the pier, where I could see my dad sitting down on a barricade, blocking off a massive plane above him. It wasn’t used for war apparently, because I had no clue what type of plane it was. Looked cool though, it was really narrow around the nose end and the wings were all near the back end. He had a big wicked-looking combat knife in his hand that he used to clean his nails. He looked up at me, disinterestedly, before going back down to the knife.
“You’re alive.”
I couldn’t tell from his tone if that was a good or bad thing. It seemed… neutral. Like he was stating the sky was blue. But, overall I’d take that as a good thing, considering our last meeting. I spoke a bit warily, not sure if he was in a good or bad mood considering my victory.
“Uh, so Father. I’m finished with what you-”
“No. You’re not.”
“I’m not!? Do I need to do anything or-”
A moment of panic snuck up into my chest. For a brief moment I was afraid he was going to pull a twelve labors on me, but then he whistled and held out his hand.
“Not until you give me the keys kid, then it’s done.”
I hopped out of the chariot, the reins in my hand turning into keys as the horses went back into their motorcycle form. I somewhat clumsily tossed it to my dad, who grabbed it. He pushed himself off his perch, first making sure his motorcycle was unharmed. Then, he turned to me, eying me up and down as he circled around where I stood. I stood still, at attention as I felt my heart racing in my chest. I felt like a deer, cornered by a wolf just waiting to strike. Yet, the first pang of anxiety soon settled down. If he wanted to take care of me, he would have done so already. Or sent something more dangerous like a Drakon at me when I was driving. I felt my heart leap up into my throat as he clapped a big hand on my shoulder. The gesture wasn’t hostile, if anything, the motion seemed friendly. But his grip was anything but. His hand, like the claws of a tiger dug into my shoulder as he grinned at me.
“I have to say, I thought you were a lost cause, but look at you kid. Took you long enough, but I guess you have enough of me in you after all. Well, a late bloomer is better than being completely useless, but man! You were one of my most pathetic kids when you took that oath. I don’t think I had a kid as wimpy as you in a long time. Well, I’m glad my little nudge helped you keep that oath up after all. It would have been a waste of a perfectly good warrior if you didn’t shape up.”
I looked at him, dumbfounded. He helped me? He didn’t do anything! I wasn’t stupid enough to point it out, but I guess he knew what I was thinking as I felt his grip tighten as he growled.
“Come on, don’t give me that look, kid. Oh, don’t look so surprised. Tip of advice: don’t dip your toes into cards. You have a horrible poker face. Your mom was the same way. But, yes. I helped. Not that kids these days would understand. Parents these days are too soft, including most of us gods. Back in Sparta, we’d leave our kids to fend for themselves. Just give them barely enough food and let them hunt or steal the rest. If they end up dying in the hunt or starved, well that’s fine. They were too weak to do anything of note anyway. You should consider yourself lucky I was generous enough to just turn my back on you.”
He chuckled low, and my blood ran cold as he shook me. I shook my head, fighting off a wave of dizziness as he threatened to take off my arm.
“Oh, but that’s in the past! You passed your agōgē period, all by yourself. Now that is true strength.”
His evil grin widened as he gave me the closest thing to an approved look he’d ever given me. I furrowed my brow as I shook my head. This credit, it wasn’t mine to take, was it? Before I could think, I spoke what was on my mind.
“I’m sorry, but I didn’t do this by myself. Everywhere I went, I had someone to help me out. If it wasn’t for the help from my friends, I don’t think I would be standing here. I didn’t-”
My dad’s good mood instantly soured as his grin warped into a snarl. His grip, although somewhat friendly now seemed dangerously tight as he frustratingly interrupted me.
“Oh for the love of! I’m complimenting you, kid. Look. I don’t care about those other twerps one way or another. Allies are fine enough in war, as long as you don’t make them do all the work. Kid, you’ve gotten strong all on your own, like a true son of mine. Don’t deny you and me the kleos you rightfully deserve ever again. Shut up and just take the honor.”
“I…uh…yes, Dad.”
I was surprised that all it accounted to was a mild scolding. My dad, too seemed to calm down after I agreed with his words, as he went back to a smile. He put his hand back into his pocket as he started to walk up to his chariot. He ran his finger across the chrome finish, taking out a cloth and cleaning off my fingerprints from the metal.
“About your joyride. Not bad, not bad at all. It took you a bit to embrace your birthright, but you ended up not even scratching my ride. Nice. Nice. Saves me the trouble of buffing it out. Now, if you could only stop complaining at everything that opposed you. You’re a man, aren’t you David? Start acting like it. If you think a bag of bones and a pig are hard, just wait until your future. The stronger a warrior gets, the stronger their foes get. Make sure you’re strong enough to stand up against them before you end up a stain on the pavement.”
I heard the engine rev as he got into the seat. He threw a bag at me that I clumsily fumbled with before I fully caught it. I opened it, and a few golden drachmas shined back at me.
“Since your agōgē finished up, consider yourself un-cut off. Even I’m not heartless enough to leave a son of mine stranded in New York. Keep the rest. Feel free to hang around my temple, and help yourself to the gift shop if you want, it’s on the house, happy birthday and all that. Just don’t go overboard.”
He turned the motorcycle, wheeling it around so he could leave the pier. He turned around, giving me a few more parting words he shouted over the roar of the engine.
“Don’t think you’re done yet, David. You got a lot more to grow. Especially now that you can receive my blessings again. What, did you think that taking a good hit was all you can do? You’ll see sooner or later. See ya kid! Don’t disappoint me.”
He revved his engine one more time and took off, leaving me behind on the pier. As I watched my dad leave, I realized that with that resolved, the last of what made my Styx Oath so suffocating was finally finished. A part of me felt that I’d always keep the consequences of it with me. Either dad would continue to disown me, or I’d be horribly injured from my jobs. But, to my surprise, everything worked out alright. I worked as hard as I could, and now everything was over, truly over. I…wasn’t sure how I felt about it. I mean, like obviously I didn’t wanna have them with me for the rest of my life. But, for all of my oath’s lifespan I had the deadline looming overhead, and my expectation was that something would happen to me as a result. I was glad to have it over with, but I never felt that I could relax until now. The feeling of not having the anxiety of my imminent demise was something I wasn’t familiar with, and to be honest I still have trouble relaxing. As he disappeared into the afternoon traffic, I realized that, so too did my previous life.
Maybe…maybe I could afford to enjoy my life now after all.
OOC: And there we have it! The final David storymode relevant to this storyline! I meant to have this yesterday but I didn't see the modmail that gave me the okay until literally an hour ago oop. Which means that yes, the Chariot and Ares both are approved from the mods.
Big thank you to Tiffany's writer, angelspoint for helping me with her parts, I had a blast working with them! Hope you enjoyed David's Victory lap!

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Hello, let me apologize like everyone does in the opening lines . I'm apologizing for my grammatical errors because I'll be doing this from my phone. so my girlfriend Christine (37) has a monstrous sized problem when it comes to managing time . I, James (36), have a difficult time biting my tongue when she does this . Ok so I feel like I am the ahe each and every time this occurs because I usually don't handle her disrespectful time management well. I'll explain. The Saturday before mother's Day, my mother came and picked me up then we drove an hour and fifteen minutes away to pick up my grandmother and bring her to her new house so we could all spend some time together while setting up her stuff in her new house. The house is a mile or so from my parents place. My grandmother is moving closer because my grandfather passed away unexpectedly last year from a heart attack. And let me just say It's been a huge task selling all the tools, equipment, antiques,etc they had . she no longer wishes to deal with all this stuff and no one in the family wants all of it so there are a lot of things that have to go.. so after a long day of working on grandmothers new house Christine has agreed to come over to my mother's for dinner and also pick me up. her and I will also drive my grandmother back to where she still lives. Christine had been unusually working that day, something she's had to do twice in the 4 years of us dating. But I had spoken to her as we were leaving the new place and heading to my mother's. She told me she was leaving and heading towards us. My mother started dinner as soon as we'd arrived to her house. Dinner was ready an hr later and my girlfriend had still not arrived. I'll note that we live 25 minutes away, but I expected this and told my mom we can start eating without her and that Christine expects this. My mom and grandmother would not do this until I'd spoken to my girlfriend. I couldn't reach her by phone. So we all start worrying after another hour! I was able to convince them into eating during this time. It's getting late and we have quite a drive to get my grandmother home. Now I didn't want my mother to have to make the trip because even though she's in remission with her cancer, I know she was tired and that drive alone all the way home would've been a nightmare. My mother wasn't complaining and said she'd went to get her mother and she has no problem taking her home. Finally I get a call from Christine and she says she's on her way. I ask her if she's finished working and she tells me she hasn't. This upset me because she originally told me she had 3 hrs of work that day and it had been nine hours since she supposedly started working! I explained to her that I wanted her to let my mother know we would take my grandmother home for her, that I would just drop her off at home so she could work and I would take my grandmother home. I wanted to do this because my grandmother has extremely high anxiety and doesn't like being away from her house too long. She'll start talking about how all the cats are probably starving because she hasn't fed them. " My grandmother feeds all the neighborhood cats twice a day! There are like eight of them haha!. So I'll just say I was in an accident not long ago and have been waiting on the insurance check to get another vehicle. I also had a Yamaha R6 Motorcycle but was hit by a car last June so we are stuck with just her vehicle atm. Christine explains that she is going to drive and I ask her about finishing work. She lets me know that she only has like ten minutes left to do and we will leave. That means my grandmother will just have to hang out for a few minutes no big deal. Well after an hour of sitting in the house and it getting late grandmother and I are pretty upset and Christine is completely ignoring the situation. I am having to tell her to focus on finishing work because every time we go and look at her she's coloring or on a shopping website instead of working!! I finally lose my sh!t and call my mom to tell her we're still at our house and haven't taken grandmother home. She says she'll come and that get Christine moving but not without an attitude. I ask her why she accepted my proposal to do this. She doesn't respond. We got grandmother home thirty minutes after midnight and didn't get home ourselves until 1:45am. I didn't bring up this ordeal because we're going to my mother's nextdoor neighbors for mother's day that next day. We were suppose to be at her house by 7 . Christine made the entire plan on her own. She wanted to cook at home and us take it to my mom and her neighbors. Let's just say it was 7pm and there was no food. She wasn't even ready to leave by the time she agreed to be at my mother's. The entire time leading up to all of this I am a broken record. Basically I started nicely letting her know she needed to get in the kitchen. Asking what I could do to help. Then I text my mother when I realize cooking isn't happening . My mom goes with the flow and plans on her and her neighbors cooking and for us to just get there on time. So then I get a little more aggressive when I let her know she needs to shower and get ready. Needless to say we arrived at 8pm. Neighbors are at the table waiting. My mother comes out to the car to get us inside because her neighbors,"Her neighbors are husband, wife , son, and husband's mother. " Are waiting . My girlfriend is looking for a hair tie and we are attempting to get her in the house. This take 10 minutes before she finally gives up and comes inside.. my girlfriend calls this time blindness! I personally think she has some form of autism! Dinner ends ok and we go home. Now for today , I had to meet someone who was driving two hrs to meet me and purchase a $500 antique from me. I tell her that this man will be at the meeting location 45 minutes earlier than the actual time to try and make it match up with her "time blindness". I'll just say that we didn't make it to the meet up and this old gentleman was quite upset. I believe he has very good reason to be. Now I feel obligated to give him a break in price as well as bring the antique to him tomorrow. It's truly just her losing focus or getting distracted all day! Everything she does gets deviated away from. It's almost impressive to watch in person. Someone who starts looking at one thing online and ends up six other things down a line of randomness and not realizing how they got there... I'm truly frustrated and feel like a broken record, that I'm mean, and that she truly gets tired of me complaining. I am trying to accept this part of her and she sees that so we are happy in every other aspect. Also, she's gotten really upset and cried a few times when she's talked about this part of her life. I know it's really our a strain on her relationship with her family. I told her doctors can help but she's taken ADHD medication and it only got her G'ed up! Like she was on speed or something so I don't want to put her through that especially if she has attempted. But I believe technology has changed over the years and I need to convince her to a Dr visit. Your thoughts?

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I was meditating on the question, who am I? But then I didn't get much progress and the Holy Spirit guided me to first focus on my body which produced it's own insights, revelations & realisations. Here, I saw my body as being a vehicle and replica of human reproduction bearing the duality of my parents, and this is the bodies identity/image and not necessarily mine. It being made up of flesh, blood, bones and all of this for it's own specific purposes helps to automatically, naturally and spontaneously bring up the "Who am I?" question.
From there, this meditation yielded results very quickly because I was already differentiated from the body, and I came to find the I, or IAM realization, the mountain peak, the bliss & joy, that I AM consciousness. But immediately after I obtained that realisation I heard "There is no I" and it was a shocker to me, how is that even so? I am I!!! I nonetheless accepted and went to the next phase.
This phase is basically becoming headless, and the Holy Spirit illustrated it in three ways, a man with a body-realisation, then infront of him I-realisation (or soul realisation) and infront of that a man without a head, let's call him John the Baptist. I woke up to contemplate that dream and I found out that 'I didn't have a head!'. The way my consciousness was centered in the head wasn't like that anymore and it was totally different. There was no reference point in the head, but strangely it shifted into the heart area. The centre changed from head to heart and it's here that the Holy Spirit revealed to me that one can either turn away from the door of the heart and explore nothingness and nihilism, or knock at the door of the heart to find out where the 'i' truly is.
From my own experience, it really takes Grace to find the heart. It's like trying to fit a key into a key hole in a totally dark room. I found out that the I-centre in the head was just a projection of the I-centre in the heart, but this illusory-i has taken this place because the spirit (or for Buddhists the dharmakaya) is dormant and it projects itself to search for identifications, because it cannot identify with itself since it's not real, and it cannot see. It's dark in there, so the identification goes outward where there is some form of light (the sun). This is the storehouse of skhandas, and the Holy Spirit told me that if one doesn't get to the root of the illusory-identifying structure, then like a tree that's been cut but still has its roots will germinate and manifest again, and that it will provide the skhandas an amplified range/space to express themselves which causes many well realised persons to cling and exercise certain habits with great dedication, even other negative habits to the point of self-destruction.
Beyond this door, one can start to 'feel around for God' and then go on to find Him (Acts 17:27). And as the Saint Theophan the Recluse says, "To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all-seeing, within you”.

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Auto electrical mayhem please help!

1. Left rear indicator does not flash Left front indicator flashes really fast Right indicators both work & flash at normal speed
   
2. When hazards signals are turned on only the Left side both front front and rear flash at normal speed RIGHT SIDE DOES NOT WORK
   

I have replaced the relay fuse and flasher as well as all fues in the fuse box even though the fuse box diagram has nothing to do with lights and nothing had changed. When relay fuse is disconnected indicators and hazzards still flash in their faulty form which im told the shouldnt.I have tested all tail lights via direct connect to battery and even swapped right to left left works connected to right side

1. Head lights and high beams don't work by switch only Parker lights work headlights wired direct to battery work fine so those and bulbs are fine

Other notes: I left the Parker lights on by mistake a little while ago for about 5 hrs and returned to notice smoke and a smouldering wire which I believe to be a home made radio Ariel wire as since I have disconnected the battery I can no longer tune the radio and engine noise is present through the radio now.
As has been verified by toyota the vehicle which is a 1980 toyota hiace only has one fuse box any clues or help in the right direction will be great thanks

CHAPTER 4: Fearbug Festival
Later, in the American Independence Festival.
The PPAIDF is filled with flying insects and monsters, known as Fearbugs, as Loki sees a basic, Incessant Fearbug, and immediately feels fear in his very mind, as he has an immediate flashback at the mere SIGHT of the Fearbugs and their monstrous transformations, as he is frozen with fear, surrounded by his enemies and comrades alike, especially Lamash-Tu.
BEGINNING FLASHBACK..
Loki and Thorr are fighting for brotherly supremacy, as Loki’s blades, Nidvallir and Ulheid, clash with Thorr’s two-handed Warhammer, Mjolnir, before Thorr finally bonks Loki on the head with Mjolnir, as Loki goes rolling towards the cliff of Asgard, almost OVER the cliff, as his daggers, Nidvallir and Ulheid, fall from his hands and tumble in their own ways, as Thorr slowly and menacingly walks towards Loki, as Thorr picks Loki up by the right horn of his helmet, and starts bantering.
THORR: It’s over for you.
LOKI: Now what?.. You know you want to get rid of me, come on, or maybe you can’t?
THORR: You are NOTHING, Loki, you are but a mere INSECT, if you survive this fall, I and few OTHER powers at hand will track you DOWN and FINISH you.
LOKI: I doubt you’ll be able to find me, my trickery almost KILLED one of the two Dwarves who made that good old lightning-flavoured bonkstick of yours, Thorr.
THORR: ENOUGH of this flyting, Loki.. Friggr, Thanatos, Amhuluk, I, and a few others have already been experimenting with ways to put you down, trickster.
LOKI: You won’t.
THORR: Oh, we will.. Goodbye, now.
With those final words, Thorr throws Loki and his Twin Daggers off of Asgard, as he falls down the World Tree, ALL the way to Midgardheim, ALSO known as Earth.
ENDING FLASHBACK..
Suddenly, Loki is being rushed at by a Fear-Killer Bug and it’s bladed arms, but Lamash-Tu gets in the way and uses her Hardlight Riot-Shields to block the attack, and she smashes the Fear-Killer Bug away, as it falls to the ground, and Lamash-Tu scorches it with the Flamethrowers of her Z-Knight Suit’s Gauntlets.
LOKI: Lamie?
LAMASH-TU: Loki? You’ve been standing still like a Gargoyle in the daylight for 3 minutes straight! What is UP with you?
KNIGHTOWL: Yeah, dude! Are you even mentally awake?
LOKI: Yeah, I was just having flashbacks, that’s why these Fearbugs seem familiar to me.
Loki uses his the flamethrowers of his Z-Knight Suit’s Gauntlets, and sprays flame around him, burning Fearbugs and other types of them, as Loki managaes to kill off a few Fear-Killer bugs, before a Fear Queen comes in, and its roar ECHOES throughout the skies.
Lamash-Tu, Loki, Rexob, and Meouna all take on the Fear Queen Bug, ALL at once, as Lamash-Tu freezes the Fear Queen with her Z-Knight Suit’s Ice Grenade, as she uses her Z-Knight Suit’s Rocket Boots, as Lamash-Tu jumps over the frozen Fear Queen, as Loki uses the Flamethrowers of his Z-Knight Suit’s Gauntlets and burns the frozen Fear Queen Bug, before using the Minigun Turrets on his shoulders, and completely shattering and annihilating the iced-out Fear Queen, before he jumps over the bug’s remains with his Z-Knight Suit’s Rocket Boots, and lands in-front of Lamash-Tu.
LOKI: Thanks for the help with that big bug, Mamitu.
Lamash-Tu mishears Loki, thinking he is talking about her Stepmother, Mamitu, the Babylonian Deitess of Sacrifice, Hope, and Fate.
LAMASH-TU: Loki, Mamitu was my Step-mom, HER name is where the “Tu” in MY name comes from.
Loki sees where his compliment fell off, and immediately politely corrects Lamash-Tu.
LOKI: Hehe, Lamie, I wasn’t talking about Mamitu, I called you “MOMMY-Tu” because, just look at you!
Lamash-Tu realizes that this joking compliment from Loki refers to her the way it does because of her physique and her bodily posture.
LAMASH-TU: Ohh! Okay, I get it now.
Lamash-Tu walks off to go slay more Fearbugs, whilst Zaviour looks at Loki angrily.
ZAVIOUR: Really? “MOMMY-Tu”?
LOKI: What? It’s normal!
Rexob comes in and continues the mission.
REXOB: Let’s just get back to ripping and tearing.
Later..
Rexob, Zaviour and Knightowl lead the charge, as they blast, burn and destroy Demons and Fearbugs alike, before suddenly, a gigantic demonic red portal opens up in front of the Assassins, as a new, and more DANGEROUS Demon comes out.
A Demon of IMMENSE physical power, carrying an ancient weapon of Protodite origin, a large, one-bladed greataxe, and he wears armor of Brimstone, with large horns like that of a moose.
This Demon destroyed 3 legions of the Royal Protodite Army, AND almost killed one of their greatest works, The Prosecutor.
THIS Demon, is named.. Vetroxis, the Destroyer.
With him, Vetroxis brings a horde of 6 Berserker Demons, also called Skraggs, which are 9-foot tall Demons whose mere physical strength and firepower ALMOST matches that of Vetroxis, and they come from Kur, the 2nd Underworld.
Vetroxis ALSO brings with him a small group of 9 of Cerberdogs, 3-headed hellhounds that are the demon-children of Cerberus, guard dog of Orcus, the ruler of Hades, the 6th Underworld.
Alongside the Cerberdogs, there are ALSO a troop of 12 Diabolicules, which are the Royal Guard of the Underworlds, that come in different forms depending on which of the 13 Underworlds they come from, as Vetroxis has brought 4 groups of 3 Diabolicules, he has brought 3 Inferno-Diabolicules from H, the 1st Underworld, 3 Micto-Diabolicules from Mictlan, the 4th Underworld, 3 Isazi-Diabolicules from Helheim, the 7th Underworld, and 3 Obutsu-Diabolicules from Yomi, the 10th Underworld.
Vetroxis has also brought out 3 Natokas, which are a species of Dragons that live and dwell in H, the 1st Underworld.
The Assassins see this intense threat, as Rexob responds by shouting gorilla noises and beating his upper torso with one hand.
REXOB: I know how to deal with this! OOH!! AHH!! OOH!! AHH!!
Zaviour sees this, and is not impressed.
ZAVIOUR: Yep, this is gonna get us killed.
REXOB: No its not, just roll with me, come on!
ZAVIOUR: Fine.
Zaviour and the rest of the Assassins comply with Rexob, as they all shout with him, and as it turns out, this “tactic”, if you could call it that, was learned by Rexob from studying the Warmongers, another Reptilian biped species living in the Andromeda’s Way Galaxy, who, as their name suggests, are extremely violent, and do nothing but wage bloody war and violence on each-other on a 24 to 7 to 365 basis.
ALL ASSASSINS: OOH!! AHH!! OOH!! AHH!!
Vetroxis sees this attempt at intimidation, as it was used by the Warmongers, who used it against each-other, and he taunts the Assassins.
VETROXIS: Puny Mortals, you think using a tribal scare tactic will fend off DEMONS? That is but nothing but bringing a protection crystal into the Underworld, and thinking it will WORK!!
Rexob comes back with a snide remark.
REXOB: Well then if THAT doesn’t work, we have weaponry, let’s go!
The Assassins begin what will eventually be a nearly 2 hour long fight with the armies of the Underworlds, before Loki throws a Fear Queen Bug at Vetroxis, knocking him on his back, but with nothing but a small bleeding wound, before Loki, THEN, remembers the “Thing” that him and Lamash-Tu had brought from the Assassins’ vehicles when they first entered the American Independence Festival, as Loki tells Lamash-Tu to bring it out RIGHT as he finishes off a Micto-Diabolicule, and throws its spear at a Skragg, impaling it, but not killing it, as Loki shouts to Lamash-Tu to bring out “The Thing”.
LOKI: Lamashie! I just remembered! Bring out the “Thing”!
LAMASH-TU: A-Are you sure, Loki? Don’t you think we should save it for when things get more DANGEROUS?
LOKI: Does this situation not look DEATHLY dangerous to you? Bring it out!!
LAMASH-TU: Uh, alright..
Lamash-Tu complies with Loki, as he goes and helps her bring out whatever contraption they’ve managed to sneak in and hide from the other Assassins.
Turns out, this “Thing”, is ACTUALLY a big metal minigun turret that also has a ROCKET LAUNCHER WITH HOMING MISSILES attached to it, as it unfolds, transforming from its cylindrical, mini-Time-Capsule shape, and into a ginormous gun capable of mass destruction.
Rexob looks over at the “Thing”, and is impressed that Loki and Lamash-Tu managed to sneak THAT into this sort of situation, flooded by dangerous bugs and demons.
REXOB: WHAT IS THAT!?
LAMASH-TU: THIS? THIS is just, the uhh, BULL-WHEEL LOADER!!
Lamash-Tu demonstrates the Bull-Wheel Loader’s power on the Demons and Fearbug monsters that flood the American Independence Day Festival, as it utterly SHREDS and DESSIPATES the forces of the Underworlds and their Fearbug Murder Mosquitoes, ONCE and for ALL, as Demons and Fearbugs lay dead on the grounds of the Point Pleasant American Independence Day Festival, as the Assassins have managed to fight them all off, but with the extra help of Lamash-Tu and Loki, leaving nothing but Vetroxis standing, as he is mortally wounded, but all of his body parts are intact, and he is still in one piece.
VETROXIS: This is NOT over, Mortals, we WILL be back.. but until then, have you NOTHING to say to your opponent, before you STRIKE him DOWN..?
Zaviour pushes Rexob out of the way, as he walks in-front of him.
ZAVIOUR: I’ll take him.
Zaviour walks towards Vetroxis, who is on his knees, and emitting his final dying breaths.
VETROXIS: ..You can’t kill me, Human, hehe..
ZAVIOUR: Oh, I’m anything BUT Human, I’m more than you can comprehend, buddy.
VETROXIS: Hmph, MORE than Human, oh won’t you wake up to reality? The only things that TRULY exist in this accursed reality are pain and suffering, even when you are the victor, the vanquished will still be there, it’s ALL a LIE, a SELFISH desire to protect PEACE, when ALL that does is create NOTHING but WARS, causing MORE pain and MORE suffering to go WITH it.
Rexob interrupts, and rushes Zaviour to finish this fight.
REXOB: BOOORING, SHUT UP, NERD!
ZAVIOUR: Shut your mouth, Lizard, and let the Demon talk.
VETROXIS: It’s ALL interruptions, it IS part of life, after all, and LIFE isn’t fair, IS it, now? While SOME are born to feast, sometimes on fortunes of their own or the lower ones in their surroundings, OTHERS spend their lives in the dark, BEGGING for the scraps of what’s left..
Zaviour stays silent, keeping himself from uttering EVEN a SINGLE word.
VETROXIS: The way I see it, you and I, are both EXACTLY the same, and whilst your society LOVES its heroes, which is what I am to MINE, the ONE thing they love MORE, is to see a hero FAIL, and fall, and DIE trying, but the only PROBLEM there, is that there IS no heroes, because there is no GOOD, NOR is there any EVIL, it is only POWER, and those too WEAK to SEEK it, but you are only as “GOOD” as the world ALLOWS you to be.. I will SHOW you.
At this point, Zaviour is not even blinking, OR breathing, as his eyes are LOCKED with Vetroxis’ eyes, and his lips sealed shut, tighter than a bank vault, as Vetroxis continues his motivating and poetic last words.
VETROXIS: When the plates and cloths are down, these “CIVILIZED” Mortals that you share a Planet with, will be JUST like the Warmongers of Saturn’s moon, Titan, they will ERADICATE each-other, as you can see, I am not a COMPLETE monster, I am, and YOU are too, just a mental state and a half HIGHER than your Mortal friends.
ZAVIOUR: …
VETROXIS: By eliminating ME, you deny ME my DESTINY, which is to CONQUER this Earth, it’s MORTALS, AND it’s environments, but instead of dying a hero, you’ve lived ALMOST long enough to watch your mind slowly turn towards the TRUTH, the TRUTH that EVERYONE in this dimension REFUSES to accept, the side they ALWAYS depict as “Evil”, the “Darkness”, the Darkness that I was BORN in, and MOLDED by, this “good” and “warming” light has done nothing but BLIND your comrades and everyone else AROUND you, after ALL, it DID work when The Evil One did it, by deceiving the world into thinking he NEVER, even, EXISTED, and if you introduce THAT with a little bit of ANARCHY, and you UPSET the established ORDER, then EVERYTHING becomes CHAOS, OF which, I am an AGENT of Khaos.
Zaviour continues his desolate, hopeless silence.
VETROXIS: And I KNOW you can’t LIVE with your own FAILURE, because you TRIED and DIDN’T SUCCEED to show up to SUCCESSFULLY evacuate the rest of the PITIFUL Mortals that were here before I was, and WHERE did that bring you?
Some of the intelligent male Assassins maintain verbal silence, due to their realization of how small they really are in reality, that being Rexob, Loki, Zaviour and Knightowl, whilst the rest of the male AND female Assassins are just at a loss of words, as Vetroxis continues his sentence.
VETROXIS: It brought you RIGHT to ME, and as LONG as there are those that remember what WAS, there will ALWAYS be those that are UNABLE to accept what CAN be, after ALL, me, the Others, and my Demons were here to HELP, by CLEANSING this Earth, HEALING it’s very SOUL, like Mount Shasta still DOES to this very DAY, THAT is why it has been UNTOUCHED for THIS long, EVEN by US, and you TORE us APART with your INFERNAL machinery and your technological DEBAUCHERY, THAT is why you CANNOT count on ANYONE in this world, in THESE WORLDS, ESPECIALLY those who you IDOLIZE, because whatever I did, I did to make this Earth BETTER, COME ON, TELL ME HOW PROUD YOU ARE, MOTHER EARTH!!
Suddenly, with Vetroxis’ shuddering words, the Earth ITSELF starts to shudder, and even TREMBLE, as large purple holes open between the clouds, in the skies over West Virginia, and other US States, as the ground quakes, and glowing evil green cracks begin to form in the concrete, as the Assassins flee back to their vehicles to leave the area, as does Vetroxis, as he flees back to whatever Underworld he came from, whereas Zaviour decides to stay a bit longer, with Rexob and Knightowl trying to rush him.
REXOB: Zav, we have to go!! This place is LITERALLY about to COLLAPSE!
KNIGHTOWL: Zaviour, come on!!
Zaviour reluctantly obliges, before he eventually leaves to his black and blue pick-up truck, the Rolling Thunder, as the other Assassins follow suit, as they leave the American Independence Day Festival, and go back home, to Assassins Cabin, which is protected by a Z-Barrier that Zaviour had created to protect Assassins Cabin from any sort of danger or even aerial attacks.