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Upon returning to Atlanta from the temple of Clio, we met with BOOBS at the usual starbucks. He told us that not only Clio, but all the muse sisters have gone missing apparently. He told us we needed to talk to Xochipilli, the Aztec god of song and dance and homosexuals. This Xochipilli sounded like a fun guy! But apparently, he's also a bit difficult to pin down, flitting about being fey all the time. BOOBS told us to contact a guy named Thomas Coyotl at a local club in Atlanta called Caballero Gallante. Apparently Thomas was also kinda gheyish. But anyways, he should be able to help us track down Xochipilli.

With that, BOOBS headed out.

Right after BOOBS left, the 3-man hipster douchey band in the corner of the Starbux called Niko out to sing a fun song about him. But as they began to sing, suddenly the entire audience within the Starbux became possessed by the music and were incited to attack us. Well, Niko. As people rushed forward at Niko, he lashed out and broke the faces of three poor soccer moms who were attacking him with pens and purses, while Gail sent her ghost dude to scare the shit out of four more patrons. Meanwhile, I walked up to the douchy hipster band calmly and began singing with them, taking over their melody and projecting a song to the crowd about a mother whose eighteen year old soon joins the army and gets deployed to Afghanistan… and whose good friend in his unit gets killed by an IED and then he mourns for his lost friend, thinking about how he will have to go home and talk to his friend's parents and tell them how it all happened…..

And just as suddenly, the spell was broken. Everyone in the Starbux was sniffling or crying, wiping their faces as they began looking around in confusion. Once everyone took stock of the state of things around them, and the employees began dialing 911 to call an ambulance for the people Niko smash-fisted. I eyed the two holes in the wall near the unconscious patrons, thinking they should probably call a mason too…

Once people's minds seemed to be their own again, Niko and I were about to leave but Gail stated she wanted to investigate some. So Niko and I loitered outside joking about Niko's powerful right hook and the damage he'd managed to inadvertently do to the building. Eventually Gail emerged and informed us that one of the muses must've attacked us through the musicians, inciting the crowd around us into attacking us, but that she wasn't sure which muse.

Ah, okay well that made sense I guess. I called up BOOBS and let him know. We headed out of the Starbux just as the ambulances pulled up, off to prepare to go clubbing. Everyone headed over to my house for preparations, and I called Ahren to meet us there as well to provide wardrobe services for Niko and Gail.

I selected something slutty, of course, and for Niko…

Me: “Here, you should have a mesh shirt, with some tight vinyl pants….”

Niko: “I'll wear tight jeans, but not vinyl pants”

Me: “….”

Ahren: “Alright, here we go…”

A few minutes later we were ready to go. Ahren even managed to whip up something somber but hot for Gail. Man, it was too bad she was such an ice queen. I'd love to get me a piece of that…

We headed over to the club Caballero Gallante that evening, and I waited for the others in the parking lot, checking out the cars of the other clientelle. Hmm, only one gay rainbow sticker. It seemed this club wasn't expressly gay-themed, which was good considering we had two chicks in our group and only one (straight?) dude, Niko.

Once Gail and Niko arrived (only a few minutes later, their cars were slower than mine), we convened and walked up to the building. There was actually a shortish line to get into this club, but Gail made short work of that by stepping forward to the bouncer and using her exotic hottness to cut in line and get admitted immediately. Damn, I would so hit that… I'm going to have to see if I can make her loosen up a bit…

Inside people were jamming to Mariachi Electronica. Everyone was having so much fun! Screw this searching for some dude crap! I was about to go out on the floor and just screw around all night but Gail put a hand on my shoulder and gave me the evil eye. “Alright, alright, I'll look for him.” I stuck my tongue out at her and darted off into the mass of people.

I found some guy standing on the side watching the people dancing, looking wholly like he needed to loosen up some. I jumped on him quickly and drug him out to the dance floor and rubbed up against him while scanning the crowd. A few minutes later I spotted Niko. Really, it was hard to miss him. My, my, Niko. Oh my, Niko! He was out there and began fucking OWNING the floor with his hot moves and superior dexterity. The guy I was hanging on already had his hand up my skirt and inside of my panties, and man, I was ready to get down to business. But Niko was so distracting, tearing the floor up like he was, that even I couldn't help but stop and watch and cheer him on with the rest of the clientelle. Once had the crowd's full attention, it surely didn't take much longer for a guy who simply HAD to be Thomas to walk up to Niko and start dancing with him.

I watched, and oh my gods, they danced so hotly. And being near enough to hear their conversation, wow it just floored me.

Niko: “I'm Niko…”

Thomas: “They call me Tommy.”

Niko: “I think I've been looking for you.”

Thomas: *smiles, rubbing a hand up Niko's chest* “I think I've been looking for you, too.”

Holy shit…!

Niko: *looking Tommy up and down* “I think we should take this somewhere more private.”

Oh gods, too much….

I slipped away from the random guy I had been humping on who continued staring at the two like the rest of the crowd, and went and hid in the shadows near the bar. With all attention focused on Niko, I slid one hand up under my shirt and the other inside of my panties, diddling myself quietly as I watched their hot dancing and ridiculous innuendo-loaded discussion.

Kiss you two, damn you, KISS!

Alas, a few minutes later Gail came up and interrupted this hot and sexy display telling Tommy that we were actually here looking for him and that we needed to talk to him in private. Shit. I pulled my hand up out of my panties and licked my fingers clean, and then walked over to join them.

Into the VIP room we went to talk to Tommy about Xochipilli.

Apparently Xochipilli was Tommy's daddy. Hah. Xochipilli was apparently known as the “flower prince.” Tommy said he was a very gay deity. As in, “happy.” But also gay. Y'know. Kind of unusual for my pantheon, but okay, we could work with that!

As Gail prodded him, Tommy explained to us how to go to Xochipilli's temple and how to go up to the Overworld to visit him. Apparently this Overworld thing was worth remarking about, as he specifically asked if we'd been there before. Nuh-uh, she told him. He nodded and then told us to remember the following while there – “know your place.”

And then we began discussing a potential gift for Xochipilli. Well, Gail did kinda, while Tommy and I exchanged innuendos about having a 3some with Niko. Tommy was a fun guy, I'd totally hang out with him in my spare time if I had any anymore.

Anyway. After we finally got all the boring talk out of the way, we all ended up going off into a yet even more private room in the club, where Niko and Tommy and I got our little “3's a crowd” party under way. But hey, I could handle two dudes, no problem. And furthermore, we had an audience, which was even more hot. Our audience, Gail, had decided that she would paint a picture of our shenanigans with a flower motif, and that this painting would be presented to Xochipilli as a gift instead of an actual flower.

Afterward, Tommy asked Gail if she could make a print for his office. Hah!

Mmmm… such a good time, I really enjoyed myself. Tommy was just fabulous, and of course, as I was coming to expect, Niko was quite a good lay yet again. Too bad he wouldn't kiss Tommy! That would've been so damn hott. Mmmm, I could just imagine it. Ahhhhhhh-!

…. *ahem*

Anyway, back to Mexico City to head to the temple of Xochipilli in an abandoned subway station located between two active subway stations. I contacted my cartel people and had them escort us where we needed to go. The cartel guy who drove us to the subway stop asked us if we were sure about this, that it was a bad area… I pitpatted him on the shoulder and told him no problem, we could handle, just look at this giant wall of man-meat. *patting Niko on the shoulder* I told him we'd call him when we needed to be picked up, and he nodded. With that, we headed down into the subway.

We paid the fees and breezed through the turn-style. Right after a train left we hopped down onto the tracks and began heading off in the direction of the temple. Some cops and bystanders yelled after us, but I “convinced” them that we were a maintenance crew and so they let us head off without any hassle.

Niko and I were walking down the tunnel quietly, looking around (actually, I was distracted by watching Niko's ass-muscles flex as he walked), when Gail pointed out a ladder descending to somewhere below the tracks. Niko and I came over to peered down into the darkness below. Niko shrugged and then began climbing down. Gail and I followed, and it dropped us into an extremely tight room whereby I was pressed up against Niko as we all listened quietly to the dance music coming from where the small room at the bottom of the ladder opened up into an abandoned track and station. I squeezed Niko's ass since it was right near me anyway, meanwhile Gail sent her ghost out into the area beyond to go check things out. A few minutes later Gail told us that there were people, teenagers, to either side of the platform, with fires, and music playing, and that her ghost was very uneasy about the atmosphere of the area. Not the people, but supernatural flavor of the area – the temple must be close.

Well, since the ghost had said there was really nothing of interest to either direction on the tracks, the logical path would be to head across the old tracks and up onto the platform across from the small room in which we stood. I squeezed Niko's ass one more time before he slipped out of the room and snuck across the tracks and up onto the platform. Gail and her ghost went next, no problem. I went last and got distracted by two people making out in the darkness nearby. Hot. Some other dude noticed me and came up to talk to me. He asked who I was. I told him my name was “Margarita” and that I was here with Juan. He asked Juan if he knew Margarita and he yelled back from the other end of the tracks that he sure did. The two came over and invited me to come join them, rubbing their hands all up on my boobs and I told them I'd be right over, after I used the “little girl's room”… with a lot of emphasis on just what exactly I had to do there and that they did not want to be anywhere nearby when I did it. The two made faces, getting the hint right quick, and told me to please, go take care of business. I smiled and told them I'd be back in a few minutes probably.

I watched them walk off for a moment thinking “too bad!” and then proceeded up onto the platform and into the stairwell where Gail and Niko waited. Gail shook her head at me and I smiled at her and shrugged, and we headed up the stairs.

We climbed the stairs only a short way before taking a side path through a maintenance hatch. Inside the maintenance hatch we crawled, and then it opened up a little after a short ways and we were able to walk. Not too far in we came to a small tool shed. The tool shed had a busted wall in the back of it that lead into an earthen tunnel. This seemed to be the way to go. So we stepped into this tunnel and followed it back. It led to what was pretty obviously, even to my uninformed eyes, an Aztec temple of some sort.

Beautiful, fresh, fragrant flowers adorned an altar with skulls on it in the back of a large room that we entered into. Gail walked around inspecting the room while I leaned against the wall watching her being so entranced by her nerding. I licked my lips. After a few minutes she pointed out four bowls built into the floor with channels leading to a large, shallow bowl before the altar.

The two of them each stood before a bowl and I, one by one, cut them ceremonially in the Aztec way, dripping some of their blood into the bowl before them. Gail moved down to the second bowl on her side and filled it as well. After that, I walked back to the one remaining bowl and cut myself as well, dripping my own blood into the mix. The blood flowed from the bowl, activating the channels and flowing to the main bowl, whereby the skulls lit up with an eerie red light. We all moved to stand before the altar where the skulls sat and waited. Nothing happened, we could still hear the music wafting up from back on the platform. We looked around. Gail studied the altar area intently. Well?

Gail tried placing her painting on the altar and it shimmered and disappeared. We glanced at each other and also touched the altar, but nothing. Touched the flowers, nothing. Touched the skulls, nothing. We all scratched our heads trying to think of what to do. “I'm going to try channeling some of my divine essence into this altar…” I said, placing my hand upon it. Suddenly, light shimmered around me and I stood in a clearing in a forest with extremely fragrant flowers all around me. The flowers shimmered before my eyes in an array of colors indescribable in any language. Moments later, Niko and Gail appeared next to me. The painting of Gail's was nowhere to be found.

We now stood atop a raised platform amongst foliage, with three temples nearby. The two nearest to the platform were smaller, and on the same side of a little stream that split the area, and the one across the stream was much larger. I suggested we try the nearest one, not across the river. Down the steps all three of us went, through the thick flower foliage along the ground, and then back up the stairs of the step-temple nearest to the platform. Atop the temple stood a guy who was not paying us the slightest heed at all. Gail eyeballed him next to me and then whispered that she thought this was some kind of Aztec emperor guy who may've been a follower of Xochipilli in life, and had been elevated to god status in the afterlife. Okay, so not the guy we're looking for.

I glanced around the area. “I'm heading back down to the platform. I'll see if maybe I can summon Xochipilli from there.”

I headed back down the steps leaving Aztec dude unpestered. Niko and Gail trailed along after me. Once back upon the platform I began singing a song of springtime and flowers blooming and happiness. The flowers around me responded excitedly (hard to describe beyond that), but nothing happened. “Why don't we go up the steps to the larger temple across the stream?” Gail suggested. I shrugged and nodded, 'bout as good as a suggestion as any.

Down we went back through the fragrant, colorful foliage, across the small crystalline stream, and up up and up the steps of the largest temple. We reached the top, and found it to be empty. I glanced around. “Niko, let's let some more of your blood into this bowl here,” I said, “and I will try singing again.”

I started to sing and then my voice caught a second later. I cleared my throat and began a second time, belting out the springtime flowery again, really throwing myself into it. As I completed my song I reopened my eyes and there stood a man at the top of the pyramid wearing an Aztec skirt, shirtless but with an elaborate Aztec bead necklace across his chest, and a feathery headdress mixed with lots of colorful flowers. And he was totally smokin' hot too. Nice. He applauded my song and then mentioned Gail's painting. Apparently he didn't recognize his son in it, haha. But he did recognize that Niko and I were in it. Mmm, I stared at the shadow beneath his Aztec skirt with interest while Gail began to ask him about his cousins, the missing muses.

Oh yeah, the muses.

Xochipilli told us that apparently the muses'd had a falling out without their daddy, Zeus, and were instead hanging out with their Titan mother, Mnemosyn. Well, it was Gail who knew the muses' mother was Mnemosyn, the titan of memory (or something). And anyways, Xochipilli said that if we wanted to find the muses, they would probably be with their mother. A titan. That meant they were definitely not friends of ours or any of the gods.

Well, alrighty then.

I eyeballed Xochipilli's muscular legs and chest, and lamented to myself that I wouldn't get a chance to hit that. Oh well!

“Thank you for your time, your greatness,” Gail said, inclining her head to him.

“Oh, sure, sure, good luck on your mission,” He said merrily, waving his hand at us.

And… back to the mortal realm for us!