Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

"I suppose it\'s that cult of Lantherm that\'s causing the disruption…" Elenaria spoke through Cassiopeia.

Catching on to the godly presence inside the fairy, Athenia instantly knew who was speaking. Turning her attention to the girl once more, she pointed at the gun dangling by her fox\'s waist belt.

"A replica gun of Nightsilver\'s party member, you don\'t think it\'s as devastating as the real one, do you?" Said to annihilate mountains with a single blast of mana, the weapon of legend was far beyond anything a mortal should wield.

"If it is…" Her eyes glowing a light blue hue, Cassiopeia spoke again but the words weren\'t hers. "Your heroes\' journey and that of everyone on that island might come to an end sooner than expected."

Though the goddesses were certain about the gun being a replica, with their eyes glued on the dangling thing, they couldn\'t help but worry. Turning around to face Athenia, Elena had to ask as her concern grew further.

"Where is the real thing anyway? Did your mother not even attempt to hide it somewhere?" Her tone tinged with anger, the goddess hoped that she was wrong and Athenia where the real rifle had been sitting for more than a millennium.

"Did you forget that I slept in a time spell throughout the end of the last war?" Squinting her eyes, a bit annoyed herself, Athenia wanted to flick Cassiopeia like a fly but since it was truly her who was talking but rather Elena, she refrained from injuring the little fairy.

"Besides, every god was busy fighting each other with greater powers than a damned rifle, why would they stop to pick up the weapons from the cold hands of their soldiers?"

"So it wouldn\'t end up in incompetent hands?" Elena\'s quick response burst a nerve in Athenia\'s mind. She didn\'t like a sassy tone on anyone but herself.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Leaving my bitch of a mother and my father alone for a moment," crossing her legs and leaning closer to the fairy\'s face, Athenia put on a smirk and looked deep into Casseopea\'s eyes. Through them, she could see Elena sitting amidst the comic sea of Stellaris and staring right back. "What were you doing? You\'re what, nearly a thousand years older than me?

And you still haven\'t figured out where the fuck any of those weapons went?"

Clicking her tongue with a devious smirk across her lips, Athenia shook her head in disappointment.

"What a shame that is, isn\'t it?" Staring through the eyes of the fairy, for once Elenaria learned of the goddess\'s prickly nature. She knew exactly where to stab, what words to use to insult someone, and if there were any doubts left in her mind, Athenia cleared them up with her next words. "As for my heroes dying, yours already did."

"That\'s enough, Athenia!" Elena barked through the fairy\'s lips and with her words came a shudder that shook Athenia\'s throne.

"You started it," she shot back.

"As if a simple question enquiries such bolt words!" Elena reprimanded.

"Perhaps don\'t remind me of my mother the next time we get in a fight, she has a knack for pissing me off." Keeping her tone calm and quiet to appear triumphant, Athenia rubbed more salt into the wounds on Elena\'s side.

Silence took over their council for a minute past their small quarrel, and even as the two tried to speak to each other again, a clone of Athenia split from her body and covered her mouth with her hands. As for Elena, forcing her lips to remain shut, the pink blob of a fairy didn\'t let her master\'s words be uttered in Athenia\'s prison.

"You both need to shut up!" Said the clone and the fairy nodded with her hands covering her own mouth.

Keeping the duo shush for a while, their attention was drawn back to the mirror. Finished with the rune, the fox-girl had already bound everyone in a deep sleep. Everyone, but a few, Amedith and Liliyana as well as Linkle and Asmodia.

While the warrior was unaffected due to his resistance to charms and hexes, Liliyana and Asmodia were both naturally able to overcome it, as for Linkle, the witch was far too versed in magic to be charmed so easily.

"What should we do?" The clone whispered, slowly letting go of Athenia\'s loud mouth.

Letting go of her mouth as well, the fairy allowed her master to speak through her again.

"The girl seems to be after the witch, how important is she?" Asked Elena, not having a clue about what Linkle meant to the group.

Staring at the girl heading for Linkle\'s door while sensing a hint of murder in the air Liliyana was about to drag Amedith out of their room, Athenia stared at the rifle some more, wondering just how powerful of a replica that weapon truly was.

"You sure that\'s a replica, Elena?" Turning her head to the fairy, the goddess stared into her eyes and waited for an answer, but when she was met with dubious silence instead of an answer, Athenia decided to take matters into her own hands before things escalated further.

\'Breaking the heavenly rules again, let\'s see what goes wrong this time.\' With those thoughts, Athenia shut her eyes and peered into the past. Stretching her hands forward and tearing with it the fabric of time, she tried to prevent the girl from ever meeting the party, but before she could finish her task, her hand was pushed out of that portal beyond time.

"What the–"

"I told you not to mess with time!" Through the closing portal came a voice, a voice that both the goddesses knew very well. "Just put some trust in the warriors you\'ve chosen and stop fucking things up for convenience!"

It was Razor, giving out to the pair of gods as if they were children.

"This guy again…" Athenia cursed under her breath, disappointed by the fact that she could no longer manipulate time.

Elenaria was just as disappointed, but looking at the mirror her worries began to die down a little. Confronting the girl as she held the doorknob to Linkle\'s room with her hand, both Amedith and Liliyana appeared to have the situation under control, but with the rifle still clutched by the girl\'s fingers, the threat of annihilation for the whole party was still, very much real.