"Looking good Sora. Looking real good," Levi said while giving a whistle.
'That haircut was amazing. It felt like a better version of the ones I had on Earth,' Sora thought as he stood in front of a mirror with an elven tailor.
"Excellent. How does everything fit?" the tailor asked.
"Perfectly thank you. Levi, you look great too. Thanks for being my best man. I appreciate you," Sora said politely.
"I'm honestly glad it's Levi. I couldn't handle it. Too many people," Jubelle laughed.
"I'm just glad I wasn't made the ring bearer. I get I'm young and all but I'm not that young. It's the King and Queen's youngest daughter, correct?" Julius asked curiously.
"Yes, Lily. Crazy how she's 40 years old but looks like a 4-year-old toddler," Levi said. "Elves have some crazy way with time. It moves more slowly here in their magical barrier and they age more slowly as well. Quite remarkable."
"All the races age differently, honestly, it's kind of crazy," Julius said. "I think Azazel is like 7000 or something. No one knows for sure."
"Aren't you also immortal though?" Levi asked.
Julius laughed. "Yes, technically I am immortal. Demons, when we feel our time is up, offer ourselves to the gods. We have a ritual. Yes, that sounds creepy–it's not. We simply offer ourselves to the gods and goddesses in prayer. If they visit us in our dreams, we know it's safe for us to pass on. The next day there is a ceremony and we are executed."
Jubelle interjected. "If you wanna call it that. I can choose to go into eternal slumber whenever I want, but I'm actually only 19 so I don't plan on that anytime soon. Just hoping you guys won't get me killed!"
"You guys are funny," Sora said while shaking his head.
"Alright Sora, let me just put on the cufflinks and you're all set," the tailor said.
*****
Sora wore a black suit, white dress shirt, black tie and black dress shoes. His cufflinks were gold bows with an arrow through them and made from elven material.
Levi dressed in a black suit with a purple shirt and black tie. He felt the purple shoes were a bit much, but the tailor explained how everything was designed to highlight Sora and Brie's attributes.
Jubelle wore a vampiric suit given to him by his father. It was black with their family crest on the back and on the pocket square pocket in royal purple, matching their eyes. It looked brand new, despite probably being very old.
Julius wore a nice white polo and dress slacks with white shoes. He chose to go casual as he wasn't formally a member of the party.
"I wish my parents were here," Sora said with a frown while looking toward the ceiling.
"They will all be watching, don't you worry," Celeste reminded Sora telepathically.
"Thanks Celeste! What about my piece of shit biological Father from Earth?"
"I'm not sure he knows or cares to look."
"Good. Thank you for everything. This has been an amazing experience!" Sora said happily as he ended the telepathic communication.
Xavier walked into the room.
"Everybody is looking very good. That is amazing, thank you Taylor Rosethorn. You are free to go. Please feel free to come to the after party," Xavier said, his voice booming with excitement.
"Thank you, your majesty," Taylor said as he gave a wave and left the room.
'A tailor named Taylor, that's funny,' Sora thought. 'Maybe that's why he didn't tell us his name?'
"Now today is a very special day Sora, especially but you but it's also a special day as we will announce our allegiance with your alliance, including the humans, to the Chimera and Elves of MeadowSong!" Xavier exclaimed.
"Really?! That's amazing! Thank you so much your Majesty," Sora said with a bow.
"You can stop calling me that. If anyone should be bowing here, it should be me. You are a god after all" Xavier returned Sora's bow.
"Please don't bow to me or treat me like I'm a god. I'd prefer we just viewed ourselves as equals, like I do with my party," Sora finally had the courage to say.
"Equals. Yes, ok I can agree to that. I will join your council. However, we will stay in touch as the elves and Chimera are not going to relocate for now. It's in the best interest and safety of all of us to stay," Xavier said politely.
"I agree with that wholeheartedly. I offered Bishop an invite to my party, if that's OK with you. He said he will let me know at the after party. Are you OK with that if he does join?" Sora asked.
"Yes I am. But let's save these conversations for another day. You and Levi are needed by our minister," Xavier said as he gave Sora a hug.
As the king hugged Sora, Sora thought 'eye of Chronos,' and kindly hugged the king back.
When the King disengaged and turned to leave the room, he stood in shock.
"My goodness. You can freeze and manipulate time as well. Thank you for showing me," Xavier said as he turned and faced Sora, whose amethyst eye illuminated and radiated beautifully.
"Yes, but only for one minute. I'm still working on it. I only recently gained this power. I cannot combine my two eye skills yet, but what do you think?" Sora said with a large, kind smile.
"I think we're about to witness the wedding to the savior of Exteria," Xavier said, returning the smile.
"Do you really think I'll save the world? There are two sides of the prophecy after all." Sora asked nervously.
"I wouldn't be hosting your wedding and giving you the elven blessing if I thought otherwise. Be confident, you're a strong, humble god." Xavier turned and hugged Sora to not reveal his secret.
"My party knows, but this is very kind of you," Sora said as he thought 'release.'
"Let's go watch the lovebirds get married!" Julius said.
Everyone laughed, including Xavier, as Sora stepped out to the most beautiful view he'd seen in either life.