Bab 12: CHAPTER 11
As he kept on looking at his sleeping Goddess wife lying on his laps, Exceediel had a sudden flashback. He was now soaring across the sky sea of Amakiel world, while he was feeling ever tired. He descended at a tiny floating island that was brimmed with overgrown plants and shrubs. Exceediel sat down on a rock, since he was exhausted. He scratched the back of his head, while he was panting,
"Darn! I was just sleeping in my cell, then someone just opened our cells. Next, there was a strange portal that transferred us to the other worlds. Though, throwing that opportunity away would be such a waste, so—.".
"Are you done talking to yourself, HERO?",
someone with a voice of a mysterious maiden interrupted him. He raised his chin up and saw that there was a woman shrouded by a full-fledged cloak from the abyss. The only thing he could see was her velvet kissable lips and her diamond white porcelain skin free from all blemishes. He asked her,
"You are?".
The air felt cold, as the woman didn't respond immediately. She cracked out a grin and she replied that would send chills to anyone's spine, as her breathe was filled with chaotic ethereal vibes,
"Just a wayfaring traveler but, I am here to help you...".
Exceediel seemed intrigued,
"Help me on what?".
She told him,
"You see...your ethereal form has been altered, while you were at the prison. In order for you to not get out so easily.".
Exceediel wore a disturbed look, as he could not believe the words of the mysterious maiden. He looked at his arms and hands. They don't look that much different. Though, he was still curious about the woman's statement about his sake, turning him to just ask more and more, while he held his chin,
"My spirit altered? How?".
The woman masked a smile of a horrifying maiden. Afterwards, Exceediel sensed a strange pulse from his left arm. Afterwards, he felt surging painful thorns from his arm and shoulders, making him to grip unto it, while his expression was filled with severed pain,
"What...is this! GAAAHHCK!".
Soon, tattoos engraved from the forbidden abyss appeared from his left arm, tainting him with a strange kind of darkness. More than that, his arm was releasing an aura of malice. Thick miasma of emerging destruction were surging throughout the place, as Exceediel was spewing out his chaotic energies. Later, the woman walked around and told him,
"If I were you...you should follow my orders, since I can supress your painful transformation.".
Since, he can no longer hold the pain not much longer, Exceediel just replied immediately,
"AAHHHCK! Okay...what are your...orders?".
The woman took a sudden a pause upon walking around, she cracked out a smile of a demoness again,
"First, I'll do this.".
The black hooded woman went close to him. Exceediel felt nervous, as the woman was near his space. Then, the woman kissed him and locked him down. Exceediel had a different vibe from the aggressive woman, as their entwining tongues had felt each others warmth. Thereon, he was surprised in his thoughts,
"What the?! Why did this woman kiss me that suddenly?".
Though, he didn't just felt her warmth but also, the chilling darkness inside her aura. His pain was gradually weakening for some reason. The maiden revealed a transparent sphere from her other hand. As they kept on feeling each others licorice-filled tongues, the negative energy surging out from Exceediel was being siphoned by the sphere, turning the sphere to have a golden sparkling energy filled with immense darkness. Moreover, he had clearly seen that the woman under the hood has the beauty of a highly Goddess, as their faces were locked-on. As the mystical sphere was filled to the brim, the shrouded maiden had stopped kissing him and went back a few paces away from him. Exceediel looked at his arms. He witnessed that the black tattoos were gone and the thorns wrung around them were no more,
"What the? The pain is gone?".
He looked at her with his curious look,
"What did you do to me?".
The woman responded casually,
"I just gave you the kiss of a...DISTORTED GODDESS...".
Then, she brought out a silver ring that has a green stone embedded on top of it. Exceediel was surprised, as the woman was holding a ring on the palm. There after she said to him, regarding the mysterious emerald ring,
"Also, here this'll give you a physical form. A corporeal form that will suppress your unstable ethereal form, whenever IT acts up again.".
She gave the green ring to him and Exceediel wore it. There wasn't not much change for his physical appearance, but his spirit became stable. His senses became solid but, it was weaker, whence he wore the ring. She took a seat at the rock.
"Second, you shall welcome the guests who will come here later on, utilizing your Goddess wife in slumber.",
as she told him more and more afterwards. She snapped her fingers and the slumbering Goddess Aily emerged and fallen into Exceediel's strong arms. He was truly awestruck, as he was seeing his long lost Goddess wife once again, even though they weren't in good terms for some reason,
"Aily?".
His heart had a deep pulse, as he was both filled with intense happiness and chilling nervousness, as he saw his Goddess wife under a mysterious condition.
Somehow, on top of her chest, there was a worn-out scroll tied with a red luxurious ribbon. The mysterious maiden went near him once again and told him with her cold look,
"Lastly, you'll need to turn yourself in, if you want to save her from your own demise. Since, I can't be with you any longer, nor can that ring control you forever.".
Exceediel was lost for words, as he heard the dire consequences. Though, he felt much more alarmed for the sake of his Goddess wife. More so, he had felt a deep guilt, since he kissed another woman other than his Goddess wife. There was a winding silence in the air, as he was deep in his thoughts,
"While Aily did become a Goddess. Since, she was the one who had slain me with the help of our pet dragon before. She still tried to prove my innocence at Celestia Heavenly court.".
Then, he was more and more locked in his thoughts,
"Not only that, she didn't have any other lover other than me. I still love her deep inside as well as our daughter that I had abused before.".
He even questioned himself in his thoughts,
"Gods...what was I doing before?".
The strange woman asked him again,
"So, what do you say...HERO?".
He gulped, as he heard that term of praise once again, even though he was no longer a hero. He sighed and he gave a serious look aided by his determined eyes to the black hooded woman.
Sooner or later, Exceediel had stopped delving in his past memory. He was now back to the cozy hollowed place and his Goddess wife was slumbering on his laps, sleeping soundly. He took a drink of his wine again. He caressed her head and felt her smooth hair. Then, he took a glance at her again and he said with his soft voice,
"To think I'd be helping you again, even though you're a Goddess now.".
He was in his sublime thoughts once again,
"Though, I wonder is that hooded woman really a Goddess? How did my Goddess wife fall asleep?".
A little while later, the teenage girl came back. She asked Exceediel like she was a worried and adorable little girl,
"Are they gone now, father?".
"Yes yes.",
Exceediel replied. It seemed, the teenage girl was his long lost daughter and the slumbering Goddess was her full-fledged mother. For some reason, the teenage woman doesn't hate her father, even though she was severely abused by him before. In fact, she misses him and she's very worried for her own mother's condition, that his father was very concerned as well. Thereupon, the little girl told her worries to her father,
"Please do cure mother's sickness, father.".
Exceediel nodded and smiled, as he truly wanted to save his wife. He doesn't care what happens to him later on, as he's very determined to do everything for his long and missed family through the forced assistance of Yumine, Ira, and Otorine,
"Yes, I'll do what I can, Alia.".
At a different area, the sky was still basked in morning sunshine. The clouds were still visible. There was no hint of night whatsoever, since the sun was always present below in the world Amakiel. It seemed that the visible sun below the hollowed floating world of Amakiel, was it's own planet's molten core in all actuality. Otorine, Yumine, and Ira were fluttering their set of signature wings across the radiant sky. For some reason, Ira was looking tiresome and annoyed, aided by her desperate hand gestures,
"Ugh! We've been flying for ages and there's still no f*cking sign of that beast or something.".
Yumine and Otorine also had bloodshot eyes, as they were also exhausted upon looking for the strange beast o'er the horizon. Though, they didn't mind Ira's ramblings and just continued their search. As there were still no signs of the mystical creature, Ira expressed her frustrations,
"GRRR! I HATE POETIC VERSES!".
Yumine replies to Ira's complaint,
"Shut up! It's only been 8 hours. Also, don't give a wrong impression of us Goddesses.".
Somehow, Yumine's statement wasn't just a measly reply to Ira, as it was also a reminder. That the three of them were being observed by the divine people of the Celestia heavens through some kind of otherworldly apparatus that's very unnoticeable to many. Yumine turned to look at Ira and she said, while she was pointing her finger at Ira,
"Oh and stop complaining! You're the one who wanted to tag along in the first place.".
Afterwards, she twisted her body forward again. Though, she still let out some kind insult to Ira, while she was wearing a smug on her sinister face,
"Also, is this what a GODDESS, hailing from one of the SAID PERFECT WORLDS is like?".
Ira didn't like Yumine's insult, although she didn't react like a measly little girl. Instead, Ira tried to talk back at Yumine,
"Oh? Are you trying to insult me, you stinky catgirl!".
Yumine replies with an added taunt,
"Maybe I am...B*TCH!".
They stared at each other with their intimidating eyes. The air was turning very intense, as the two b*tchy Goddesses weren't getting along very well. As for the silent Otorine, she just facepalmed with an exhausted look filled with poise,
"Sigh...".
Suddenly, a colossal dragon that originated from the far east came across their view. It's long and scaly body was tinged in the fragments of jade. It wasn't flying but, it was swimming along the sky such as it was a serpent moving along the rippling ocean floor. Strange thing is, there was a golden flower on top of its menacing head. In turn, Otorine was convinced,
"I guess...that's the one we're looking for.".
Ira tells her thoughts,
"Oh you mean the dragon?".
Yumine says her own,
"Err no...it's the flower.".
The three of them didn't want to argue this time, since that's the mystical beast that was in Exceediel's riddle and the scroll's contents. They've just decided that both of their points were true. Though, Ira was still unsure on how to get the flower from the dragon's head,
"How do we even get that thing out of its head?".
Yumine scoffed and she replies,
"What else? By doing this!".
She brought out her trusty rapiers and gripped them tight. In a split of a second, Yumine went near the dragon and swung her rapiers down at the dragon's body. Sadly, both of her rapiers broke into two, since the dragon's scales were hard as titanium and diamond. Yumine turned white, as she witnessed that her treasured weapons were broken,
"Eh? M-my rapiers, they b-broke?".
The next moment, the dragon disappeared without a trace. Ira was flabbergasted, making her to say,
"What the?! It disappeared?!".
The air felt subtle afterwards. Otorine tried to pick-up the dragon's aura and its energy stream through her pink mermaid feelers. Sadly, she sensed nothing. In turn, she told her friends,
"Sigh, I can't even sense it's presence anymore. Time to rest and regroup girls...".
Thereupon, the three of them landed at a nearby deserted sky island that was lush of greenery. The three of them took their break. For some reason, Yumine was at the other side looking at the grand waterfalls. She looked-like a lifeless corpse, as she can't rub-off the feeling of her broken rapiers. Ira seemed a bit concerned for Yumine's sake, so she nudged and asks Otorine,
"Say...is Yumine gonna be alright?".
Otorine replied filled with doubts,
"I don't know...".
Though, she was also deep in her thoughts,
"This is the first time I saw Yumi being like this. Maybe since those were her only rapiers that she ever used her entire Goddess life.".
Since, Otorine was very much worried for her close friend. She went near to the frozen Yumine staring into space. Otorine exhaled and told her concerns with a calming voice,
"I'm very sorry for what happened to your rapiers Yumi.".
Yumine rubbed off her tears, as she heard her friend's worry for her. Soon, Yumine had stopped crying and her optimistic smile had returned. She looked at Otorine and said,
"I already know that moping here won't solve anything. Now could we?".
Otorine already understood what Yumine was trying to say, so Otorine just nodded,
"Okay.".
Afterwards, Yumine and Otorine went to an area with rich loamy soil. Yumine struck down her broken rapiers into the ground. Then, the both of them held their hands together, while their eyes were filled with sincerity for the broken rapiers. They looked-like they were praying and giving a proper burial to the rapiers that had finished their purpose. Soon, Yumine's rapiers let out a mystical purple energy stream of lights, as it responded to her owner's respect. Then, it's energy ascended into the sky such as it was a spirit ascending into heavens. Ira took a sneak peak of the two from a distance. Thereon, she was convinced in her thoughts,
"Hmmm...I guess that's one of their WEIRD customs.".
Even though, Otorine and Yumine were highly Goddesses, they still held great respect to the living and the non-living alike that were below them. For some reason, Ira was boggled in her mind afterwards,
"But really...THAT CHANGE OF PACE WAS TOO QUICK!".
Thereupon, she was frustrated in her thoughts,
"And why do I have a feeling that SOMEONE pulled a generic scene. Then, HE/SHE turned it into an even wider blowhole!".
She continued on and on with her ramblings inside her thoughts,
"A BURIAL FOR SWORDS?! HOW ORIGINAL!".
Sooner or later, they returned with Ira. They brought out their own sleeping bags through their magical prowess. Funny thing is, their sleeping bags had their own respective identities as well. For Yumine, she had a black sleeping bag with violet scale designs. Ira had a white sleeping bag that was free from all stains. While for Otorine, she had a marvelous-looking sleeping bag, that was somehow similar to a mermaid's scale. The three of them slumbered for quite a while. The three of them slept soundly. Though, Otorine was wearing a mask of deep of worry, while she was sleeping. Not only that, she was calling unto someone's name that she holds quite dear, while she was asleep,
"Nassus...".
More than that, a scarred tear dropped from her shut left eye. Ira wasn's totally asleep for some reason, as she overheard Otorine's plea of worry. In turn, Ira was deep in her thoughts,
"Nassus huh...I remember the first time meeting him.".
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