Prologue
Auctioneer “Welcome gods and goddess's to today's galaxy auction! The first property on our list today is known as 'The Milky way” The listed property has one class four black hole at its center, slightly more then one hundred and fifty billion stars with many accompanying smaller black holes, planets and resources. Due to serious lack of any survey work or upkeep by the previous owner, stats on living creatures is unknown at this time. The property is being auctioned off AS IS, and is also free and clear of any loans or other entitlements. Seeing that the previous owner only setup the basics then ignored this property it is considered low in value and as such the minimum opening bid shall be set at one hundred thousand souls.”
“Now then lets get this show on the road, Who is going to start off the bidding” Hephaestus yells out “I will bid one million, its worth that much just in raw materials” A powerful male voice loudly cry's out and yells “Hep you always were a sucker for ugly worthless things, even Aphrodite couldn't make that worthless galaxy into anything worthwhile.” Aphrodite “Ahem... Is that a challenge Zeus? It better not be or you're going to be sleeping on the couch for the next thousand cycles” Zeus hearing Aphrodite's words quickly teleports himself away from the auction. ”Better out of sight and mind for a while than THE couch” he thinks to himself.
Seeing this byplay between the gods the auctioneer chuckles to himself and yells out once more. “We have a bid of one million souls, Are there any more bids for this property?” A clear beautiful voice from the very back of the crowd of gods and goddess's cry's out “fifty million souls!!” This large increase to the auction bid stuns many of those present, Such a high price for a low quality galaxy was unheard of!. Some in the audience silently started wondering if the owner of the voice knew something they did not. After a couple minutes the voice Is heard again “Finish the auction!!” Causing the
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auctioneer and many others to snap out of their shock. “The going bid is fifty million souls anyone willing to raise the bid will have to match the current bid amount , One hundred million souls is the minimum bid. Anyone?”..............
”Going Once for fifty million souls”...
“Going Twice”..
“And sold for fifty million souls!” The auctioneer yells out.
“Come up here lovely voice and claim your new property” The crowd of gods and goddess's part to make way for the voice, Who they see surprises many, Fortuna goddess of luck and fortune. What makes many curious is the fact Fortuna up until this day has never attended a property auction before. This raises many questions, Why now? Why this property? What makes it so special she would pay so much for it..................................? And what is the goddess Fortuna going to do with it? Only time will tell.