Daniel smiled because he had an idea. Angelica, the beutiful, but rather strange Godded of Toenail Fungus, eneterd Daniels sitting room. She sat down beside him and watched the mortals also. Daniel wanted to share his wonderful idea with the goddess who was obviously as bored as he.
"Angelica," he said, taking her small hand in his, "I have a question for you."
Angelicas eyes grew wider and brightened as she jumped up and exclaimed, "YES! Of course I'll marry you!"
Daniel was stunned. "But Angelica!" He exclaimed. He realized that he had to let her down easily. "But what about, oh what;s his name?" he membled, low enough so that she did not hear. "John!" he protested. "What about John, the God of Toilets, Angelica? You two are betrothed to one another!"
"Oh, who cares? He's a wuss anyway!" She grinned, "C'mon, let's get married right away~"
"Look, Angelica, that wasn't what i was going to ask," Daniel protested.
"Sure it was!" Angelica insisted. "You love me, and i, well, that doesn't matter. The point is we deserve each other!"
"But," he began to protest again,, and then decided to give up. "Okay," he said. "So what if it was what i was going to ask? What does that mean anyway?"
"Just forget about it," Angelica said, rolling her eyes, "You obviously don't love me..." she let her voice trail off.
"But Angelica!" He said forcefully. "I do love you, and we can't just forget about it!" he exclaimed.
Angelica yawned and sat back to file her perfect nails. She glanced at him and said, examining her nails, "I'm sorry, Daniel, did you say something?" She went to straighten out a nail, and then rolled her bright blue eyes at herself and tossed the file away. "I'm a Goddess," she membled. She snapped her fingers and her nails were once again perfect.
Daniel rolled his own green eyes. "Yes," he said, beginning to become annoyed, "I said i love you, and that we must be married at once!"
"What?! But Daniel, you know that i am betrothed to John. I can't marry you, i love him," she smiled sweetly at Daniel.
Daniel said, "But whatever happened to 'of course i'll marry you'?"
"Huh??!!" Angelica asked, sounding shocked. "Oh, Daniel! You big joker, i said nothing even remotely close to that! But, I must admit, you almost fooled me with that one." She giggled at her own cruel joke.
"UGH!" Daniel threw his hands up in the air and let them drop heavily to his sides. "WOMEN!" He shouted as he stormed out of his sitting room.
Angelica watched him walk down the hallway,
murmuring curses on all women everywhere and other
such nonsense. "ooooooo, is he ever cute
when he's angry!" she said with a
grin.
"Bill, let your brother tie you up," she called with little, if any, feeling in her voice.
"NO!" Bill said, as if the idea was ridiculous (and it was).
"OK, whatever!" Ele said as she scurried around the small kitchen.
Aaron, the middle child, came out of his room and shouted, "Why is everyone yelling?"
Gabriel went back into his room and slammed the door.
"Living in a box would be more fun than living here!" He
yelled through the closed door. "Sometimes i wish some of
the Gods would just put us in a box,' he said. He
sniffled quietly, refusing to cry.
Daniels bored green eyes brightened as he heard little Gabriels comment. "IDEA!" he exclaimed happily. With a snap of his strong fingers a box appeared. "Oooo goody!" he said, jumping and clapping his hands and giggling like some kind of maniac. "Oh, Gabriel," he called sweetly. "Come hither!."
With another snap of his strong fingers-and another and another and another (For after all, he was a young god)- The Bale family appeared in front of him - Young Gabriel, Stubborn Aaron, Handsome Bill, Beutiful Ele, Drop-dead-gorgeous Christian, and, of course, Trey, the dog.
Daniel snapped his fingers again, testing them and wondering why it had taken so many times to make them appear. He decided that it must be because there were so many of them. He looked at the mortals and beamed at his handiwork. His grim faded slightly. "Oh, my. Something went wrong," he said, scratching his head, "But i can't figure out what it is... OH! I see! They came in whole, but they're on backwards! We musn't have that, must we?" With a few more snaps of his fingers, the Bale family was back to normal.
Daniel closed the lid of the box. Minutes later, as he was staring at the front of the brown box, he realized that something was again wrong. He couldn't see the Bale family! He cut a large section out of the front of the box. "There! That's better!" He said, setting down his scissors.
"You can't keep us here, you know!" Aaron shouted.
"Wanna bet?" Was Daniels retaliation. "If you so much as step out onto these clouds, you'll fall straight through and go splat on the ground."
Aaron stared at Daniel. "Not if these clouds can hold something as big as you!" he said finally.
"Mommy!" Exclaimed Gabriel.
"What is it, dear?" asked Ele, becomming annoyed.
"The big, smelly God isn't playing fair." He started to pout.
"HEY!" Daniel said, also starting to pout, "I'm not that big!"
Angelica entered the room. "Why are the mortals here, darling?"
"Darling!? Daniel said.
"Sure, we're getting married, aren't we?"
Daniel rolled his eyes. "I don't need this," he mumbled.
Trey came trotting up to Angelica. "AHH!!!!" she screamed, jumping into Daniels arms. "Get it awaaaaaay!!!!" she screached.
Aaron laughed and called Trey back into the box. "Told ya so," he said with a smirk.
Daniel dropped Angelica and had another idea. He put a large screen in front of the section that he had earlier cut out of the box.
"Oh, i get it." Angelica said thoughtfully. "The mortals go in the box, and you watch them for entertainment!" She seemed very proud of herself.
"Exactly," he said, nodding.
"Hey, Christian, looky!" Ele said to her husband.
"What?" Christian said, turning towards her.
"Hm. Angelica, i need a name for my invention." Daniel and Angelica sat down and began to think.
Ele pressed her nose against the large screen and said, "Look! It's Elevision!"
"You're becoming as immature as the kids," Christian said.
"Just trying to brighten up the moment," she said.
"That's it!" Cried Daniel. "I'll call it the television!"
And this is where mortals first discovered the television. Daniel was kicked from Mt. Maddux for bringing mortals into their realm. He soon opened a little shop on the corner of Thirty-Fourth and Vine, and called it the Love Potion Number Nine Shack. Here he sold his invention, only he used his godly powers to create images inside the boxes instead of using people. Daniel and Angelica never became married.
Thanks to Daniel, no mortal will ever be able to say
they have nothing to do as long as there are televisions,
for every hour of every day, there is always something on.
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