897 - From His Coy Mistress
The gods assembled in the Synedrium watched in silence, the atmosphere so solemn that it was almost palpable as they bore witness to the death of one of their own kind.
On the viewscreen, Kryonex shuddered and went still, the glow of his remaining eye slowly fading to nothing.
Lex Legis looked the corpse of his foe over, keeping Belligerence buried in the demigod’s head for several seconds before he seemed satisfied, dissolving the bands of black crystal he’d used to secure Kryonex before withdrawing his weapon and walking away-
Just in time for the demigod’s body to move.
The titan immediately whirled in place, bringing the pitch-black quill up so quickly it was as if he’d expected something like this to happen.
But he needn’t have bothered.
Kryonex – or rather, his corpse – wasn’t moving to attack. Instead, it was slowly rising into the air, caparison sliding off from where his limbs dangled carelessly to crumple upon the ground, his body looking as though someone had attached a huge, invisible hook to it. Nor was that the only part of the deceased demigod to rise up, as all around the broken valley, the severed body parts and drops of godsblood that he’d shed were similarly beginning to float, displacing whatever ice or stones or magma were covering them as they hovered in the air and moved to rejoin the corpse.
The only exception was the eye that Lex Legis kept clutched in his left foreclaw, talons of wire keeping their hold on the gory prize and preventing it from returning to its source.
The others returned from whence they came, and once they had rejoined the divine cadaver, Kryonex’s body began to calcify.
Shrinking in on itself, the corpse shuddered and grew larger as the substance of its body turned rocky and colorless, the monument expanding and warping until its lupine shape was lost amidst the change. Instead, the husk rose further upward as its shape became something that might have been an amalgamation of the deity’s varied manifestations, the striations in the jagged matter somehow suggesting different aspects that Kryonex had taken depending on which angle they were viewed from. And still the petrified corpse grew larger as it rose further upward-
And then a silvery portal opened above it, the sky seeming to split open as it made room for the god-corpse, the rift closing as soon as the body passed through its boundaries.
“And so passes Kryonex, the Lord of Evil Ice,” intoned Soft Whisper. “May he rest peacefully on the Astral Plane forevermore, under the watchful eye of the Guardian of Dead Gods.”
“̴͕͋̈̓̽̈́͂A̸̱͛͋̆͝n̶͔̟͋̈́͝͝ͅ ̸̜͍̟̮̽͆̎̓a̴͔̽͛̑̕͝ć̸̟̦̪͍̰͇͒c̵̗͎̺̫͂̓ͅȇ̶̇͌͜ͅp̵͔͚̣̭̦̹͐̎͘͠t̷̘̆ä̴̧̦̰͎́͒̄͘ͅb̶̗̹͠ḹ̶̢͎͇̥͊̽͐͝ͅę̴͈̼̑̎͝͠ ̵̱̭̓c̸̺̀͜ò̵̺̇́̅n̴̪̄̅̂̕c̶̱͍̞͎̖̝͆̍l̷̟̪͖̩̬̾́ṷ̸̡̢̳̈͑̓̾̓s̴̪͉̿̚į̸̛̰̺̞̺̃͊̎͊͗͜ơ̶̛̛̗̘̤͂ǹ̸̲̗͙̓͐,̵̜̍́̎̾̀ ̵̡̜͕̪͉̆̋͋͝i̸͎̺̠̗͎̮̓̓̐͆͌̋f̶̻͓̤̤̞̖͂̕ ̶̥̫̪́̇̈̍͌͛n̵̜̲̝͚̹̋̅͌o̸͙͇̰̼̜̒̉́́̒̈͜ț̵̿͒́̀ ̶̧͓̗̃͗á̴̗̱̚ ̶̯͔̺͙̊̈́̀͠v̷͍̻͓̓̔̽ͅḗ̷̯ṙ̸̳̝̤̜̓y̸̗̙͊ ̷͆́̆̕̕ͅī̴̝n̸̺͉͌̓̾̈́t̵͓̲͇̥̘̾ͅe̷̪͂̄̀͐̂͐r̴̠̦͍̯͒̀͊̓e̷͇̫̓̎s̴̩̼͉̰̈́ṱ̸̼̀̑͊i̵͙̪͉̠̰͕͒n̸̙͆́̄͝g̵̝͕͇̰̈ ̷̨̛̳͇͎̀̾͒͒̕ͅȯ̵̬̞ņ̴̳͕͓̟̮̀̑̓́e̷͚̱͊͐̌͆̄.̵̜̪͍̘̿̾”̴̯̤̮͎̊̂ The Author turned away from the viewscreen then, looking at the Sun Queen. “̶̬͔̹͔̭̌́̉̈́̓D̸̩͐e̸̗̪̅͛͆̐͝͝a̷̢̘̠̝̻͌̄̈̓ͅl̵̲͉̙͈͑̀͊͝ ̷̮̞̞̈̆̊̈́̒̎ẃ̷͎̲͓̂͑̐̕ĭ̸̟̬͔̿̓̄t̸̠͔̿̍̂̉̚͝h̴̢̖̞̟͕̣͂ ̴̢̧̤͙̩̱͒̔͊̄̚͠t̷̛̲̪̳̩̹͌̋̕͜h̶̘̏̎͆͝ẽ̷̦͍̤͓̳̻̾ ̸̼͇̆̀̇̌̓́ŗ̵̮͖͔͐͋̉e̴̞͖̪̱̬͆͑̽̃̿͛s̸̨̯̹̄t̷̡̨̗̟̐̀̊̾͌̈́.̶̻̈̃͆”̵̰̲͘͝
The radiant alicorn nodded. “Of course.”
But she was speaking to an empty space, The Author having left as soon as their order had been given.
The abrupt exit earned a snort from Kara. “You know, sometimes I wonder why everyone thinks there’s a lady under those robes. Taking off as soon as the fun part’s over and leaving the mess for someone else to clean up is much more of a guy thing.”
“This is a lot worse than just a mess.” Letting the viewscreen fade, Luminace gave the other gods a worried look, fiddling with her monocle. “Did anyone know about Kryonex’s connection to the Aesir?”
“I doubt it,” sighed the Moon Princess. “That pantheon doesn’t have many enemies, but the ones they do have wouldn’t overlook a chance to upset their destiny by killing a single demigod with no close allies.”
“Which is probably why the Aesir had no dealings with him, or at least none that I ever heard of,” noted the Sun Queen thoughtfully. “If they’d maintained any sort of relationship with Kryonex in an effort to safeguard his role in their future, it would have alerted their foes.”
“And now we’re their foes anyway!” cackled Blaze, looking delighted by that fact. “Not to mention the elves won’t take this lying down either! At this rate, the Guardian will have more dead gods to watch over very soon!”
“Which will probably be most of us if we don’t do something!” snapped the Moon Princess. “Our pantheon doesn’t have the strength to stand up to either the elves or the Aesir, especially if they join forces against us!”
“You should all try to relax, the Aesir are good people!” huffed the Unspoken, his anteater’s snout swaying indignantly. “I’ve hung out with their god of mischief before, and we always have plenty of laughs! I bet they’ll find this whole thing hilarious; they keep this big secret to make sure that demigod who ate their wolf stays out of trouble, and then he gets himself bumped off anyway!”
He guffawed at that, slapping his squirrel’s paw against his bear’s knee, but the Moon Princess scowled at him. “The Aesir are clannish by nature. For all that they act individually and without consulting each other, they believe very strongly in ties of obligation and responsibility. They will see Lex Legis’ actions as something that we need to answer for.”
“Oh please. Do they even have worshipers on this world?” drawled Kara. “Because they’re a human pantheon, and last time I checked, most of Everglow’s humans were getting all hot and bothered over whatshisname. That new god, Za...something or other.”
“Zarus,” supplied Luminace with a frown, “the Father of Humanity, at least according to him. His clerics have been persecuting the other human religions for a while now-”
“Which means that instead of starting a holy war between their faithful and ours, the Aesir will likely come after us directly, in our own realms,” finished the Moon Princess. “Between them and the elves, we’ll need to prepare for the worst. I motion that we take the Night Mare’s Umbral Regalia by force and use them-”
“No.”
“Sister!”
But the Sun Queen was already shaking her head. “You were the one who said that the Night Mare would never leave her realm undefended, even when she herself was not there. Invading Darkest Night would not be without cost to us.”
“Not if we all worked together!” protested the Moon Princess.
“Let me guess, under your leadership?” sneered Blaze. “Because if you think I’ll take orders from you, then live up to your portfolio and keep dreaming.”
“And I already said that I’m a lover, not a fighter,” added Kara. “Though I wouldn’t mind if the Aesir’s war god wanted to thrust his spear deep inside me again and again until he was satisfied.”
“He doesn’t fight with a spear, he fights with a hammer,” corrected Luminace flatly.
“Oh really now?” Ears rising in interest, Kara grinned. “Is the hammer his pe-”
“If the Night Mare’s champion makes good on his pledge to place Kryonex’s eye into the wolf he’s enslaved, the Aesir’s wrath might be diverted.”
Soft Whisper’s statement prompted a disbelieving laugh from Luminace, giving the death goddess an incredulous look. “You can’t possibly believe that he was being serious when he said that. It seemed obvious to me that he was just spiting Kryonex in his final moments.”
The Unspoken shrugged, his starfish arms rising and falling. “That Siren whose tail he was chasing put some godly mojo into his spine, and then he took it back okay. Why can’t he do the same with that eyeball and his doggo?”
“Adagio Dazzle knew better than to try and place divinity into a mortal vessel,” noted the Moon Princess. “It took the help of a god – a fully-ascended, true god – to make that possible.”
“Which means that one of us will need to help Lex Legis perform the same operation on Solvei. If what Kryonex said is true, the Aesir might accept that she’ll fulfill the role the demigod previously held.”
The Sun Queen’s statement left Luminace gaping, her monocle falling from her face and dangling from its string. “We’re already going to be in trouble with the elves for raising a mortal-”
“Which means that repeating the offense won’t make things much worse on that front,” replied the sun goddess. “And so is a small price to pay if it means avoiding the Aesir’s ire.”
Luminace bit her lip as she replaced her monocle over her eye.
“As the goddess of friendship, I worry about doing something which we know could further damage our relationship with the elves, especially when it’s already so tense,” she replied at last. “But we did agree to support Lex Legis if he overcame Kryonex, and we can’t afford to upset another major pantheon.”
“You’re assuming that he’ll even accept our help to begin with,” cut in the Moon Princess. “Right now, he doesn’t know what’s happened to the Night Mare. Do you really think he’ll trust one of us if we tell him that his goddess has been imprisoned, but we’re happy to step in to help him elevate a servant who isn’t one of our faithful?”
Kara’s expression was smug as she tossed a lock of hair over her shoulder. “Leave that to me.”
The Sun Queen raised a brow. “You’d take on this task yourself?”
A broad grin crossed the love goddess’s lips. “Oh, absolutely. The Night Mare might be Lex’s goddess, but I’ve been his divine side-chick for a little while now. Besides, he’s going to call me about his reward soon, so I might as well bring this up when he does.”
“Reward?” Luminace cocked her head. “What reward?”
“Oh, I promised him that slutty little Siren would be his sex kitten if he scuttled her plans,” replied Kara nonchalantly. “And once he realizes she’s not available, he’s going to call me and complain.”
“Adagio Dazzle was the one who brought that anti-god’s egg forth,” noted the Sun Queen. “It’s important that she be questioned so we can find out where she got it from. But you’re saying he won’t be able to resurrect her, even though he previously brought back an entire tribe of adlets?”
“It’s because the Night Mare isn’t going to be able to grant him any more resurrection spells,” yawned the Unspoken, his head now that of a sloth. “Or grant any spells to anyone now that she’s locked up. Probably.”
The Moon Princess shook her head. “The Night Mare is my rival for dominion over the night, a contest that she would have lost long ago if she were a fool. The same way I’m sure her realm won’t be left unguarded, I’m equally certain that she’ll have some alternative set up to continue granting magic to her faithful. She knows that a sudden loss of clerical spells is a serious – possibly even fatal – blow to a worshiper’s faith.”
“Assuming you’re right, that means that something else is going to prevent Lex Legis from resurrecting Adagio Dazzle.” The Sun Queen turned to look at Soft Whisper then. “Can you confirm the state and location of her soul?”
The ancient zebra goddess paused for just a moment, then shook her head. “She was not one of my worshipers, and she died on a plane beyond the one where I keep my realm.”
“But you still saw her die,” pressed Luminace, waving a wing at where her viewscreen had been. “You’re the goddess of death. Even if it was only remotely, seeing her die didn’t give you any insight about what happened to her?”
Soft Whisper closed her eyes then, falling silent. It was only after a long moment that she opened them again. “The direction that her soul took, when it left her body, seemed...unusual.”
“Unusual how?” prompted the Sun Queen.
“...I don’t know. That void eradicated her body a moment later, obscuring the trail her soul left behind. But in the instant before that happened, its bearing wasn’t what I would have expected, based on its numinous quality.”
“Lex is going to be so mad when he can’t bring her back, and finds out that no one knows where she went!” giggled Kara.
“And you think he’ll still allow you to help him uplift his wolf if you break your promise to him?” scowled the Moon Princess.
“It’s not my fault she can’t be brought back,” mock-pouted Kara. “I just promised him her love, not her life. Which is why, when he’s done talking to me and realizes that there isn’t someone warm, wet, and tight waiting to congratulate him for all his effort...”
She shuddered then, a low moan rising from her throat as her eyes fluttered closed, tail flagging and her thighs rubbing together. “...he’s going to make one of the most impressive booty calls I’ve seen in a long time.”
Luminace rolled her eyes. “Just make sure he transplants that eye and appeases the Aesir,” she huffed, before turning to look at the Sun Queen. “With your permission, I’ll start researching the connection between their pantheon and that wolf. Just in case we need a backup plan.”
When the sun goddess nodded, Luminace and Euclase vanished, which the Unspoken seemed to take as his cue, stretching his cricket’s legs as he stood up. “You throw a pretty wild bash, Queenie. Next time, come hang out in my realm. We’ll do gelatin shots.” His viscuous companion bubbled agitatedly at that, and the two disappeared as well.
Blaze, however, was not so gregarious. “We were given numerous opportunities for war, and they were all missed!” she snarled, giving the Sun Queen a dark look. “Next time, I’m getting involved, no matter what anyone says.”
“I’ll be sure to convey that sentiment to The Author the next time I see her,” answered the Sun Queen with a demure smile.
From his place behind Blaze, Vutok fumed at the response. “THAT BILLOWY GODDESS’S ROBES WILL BURN IN THE FIRES OF-”
He didn’t get a chance to finish as Blaze kicked out, her back hooves catching him right in the middle, striking so hard that he was knocked out of the Synedrium – and the Soothing Meadows – altogether. “I think I’ll go work out my frustrations on that idiot instead,” decided Blaze, taking off after her servant.
Soft Whisper made no statement of her own as she left, simply vanishing as quietly as she’d appeared.
Seeing that the conference was ending, Silhouette looked up at his goddess, his expression stricken as his butterfly wings slowly opened and closed. “So he’s going to get away with it all?” he whimpered. “Lex Legis puts us at odds with two mighty pantheons, carries a weapon of terrible power, and gets his own goddess banished, for which he suffers neither censure nor sanction?”
Seeing his distraught countenance, the Moon Princess put a wing around the stallion. “Justice is a process, not merely a result. The shockwaves that Lex Legis has caused throughout the planes will eventually reverberate and find their way back to him. Until then, remember what I’ve taught you.”
Swallowing once, Silhouette nodded. “To be as patient as the stars, for even though the moon’s light wanes, it eventually grows full again.”
The Moon Princess smiled. “Indeed.”
Pulling him to her side, she gave the Sun Queen a nod. “We shall speak on these matters more later, sister.”
The Sun Queen returned the nod, and a moment later the two were gone, leaving Kara as the last of the Synedrium’s divine guests.
Stretching in a way that looked more like an erotic dance than a release of tension, she climbed to her hooves. “Well, this was fun, but I need to go find Honey a new husband,” purred the love goddess. “Also, sorry about the stains on your divan. Seeing that orgy Lex is about to have really put me in the mood. I’ll need to figure out who’s face I’m going to sit on when I watch it happen in real-time.”
“Actually,” interjected her host, “I was hoping to speak to you privately for a moment.”
“Aw, just speak?” pouted Kara.
“I’m afraid so.”
Tsking, Kara turned to the bloody bride she’d brought with her. “Honey, I want you to head back to the Quivering Depths ahead of me, okay?”
A whine came from the horrific figure’s throat. “But you said you’d find me a stallion to give me babies after we were done!”
“And that’s the first thing I’ll do as soon as I finish up here,” soothed Kara, “which I promise won’t take very long.”
Honeymoon Trap’s shoulders sunk, her head downcast. “Fine,” she murmured, before vanishing.
The Sun Queen gave Noble Bright a look, and the stallion made the sign of her faith in return before turning and marching out of the Synedrium.
Once he was gone, Kara raised a brow at the other goddess, her expression vaguely bemused. “So, if you’re not looking for some slap and tickle, what’s on your mind?”
“Actually, I was wondering what was on yours.”
“Hmm? What do you mean?”
“When the Night Mare defied The Author, all of us were shocked,” explained the Sun Queen, glancing over at the edge of the Synedrium where the conflict had happened. “All of us, except you. Your expression was triumphant.”
Kara’s smile diminished slightly at that, her eyes narrowing.
“I confess, I didn’t notice,” continued the Sun Queen. “I was too surprised – and horrified – by what was happening to pay attention. But Noble Bright was too shaken by what had happened when he’d seen The Author without her glamour to watch, and so he was looking at something he found more pleasant instead: you.”
“I do tend to have that effect on guys,” murmured Kara. “Girls too. Everyone, really.”
“And he thought it was unusual enough to tell me about it just now, confessing what he’d just seen in a prayer to me even though he was right by my side, just to make sure that no one else overheard.”
Kara snorted. “And here I thought paladins didn’t know the meaning of discretion.”
“He does, as do I, which is why I wanted to make sure we were alone to talk about this. Why were you so pleased to see the Night Mare pick a fight with The Author? You must have known how it would turn out.”
“Oh, how it turned out wasn’t important,” smirked Kara. “It’s what it signaled.”
“And what was that?”
Kara’s expression turned sly then, giving the other goddess a knowing look. “Come on, Sunny. Are you really going to tell me that it’s never once crossed your mind how unusual that entire episode was?”
A flicker of confusion crossed the Sun Queen’s face. “Unusual how? I’ll admit, it was odd that The Author seemed so intent on allowing that unmortal to emerge, even though doing so would have been catastrophic, but-”
“Not her,” sighed Kara. “The Night Mare! The way she was acting!”
“She was acting like she normally does. She stood by her principles, regardless of the cost-”
“Ugh, I forget how forthright you are sometimes,” groaned Kara, rolling her eyes. “You’re almost as bad as Luminace that way.”
“You’re implying the Night Mare had another motivation for her actions?”
“Think of it this way,” explained Kara. “She’s known Lex Legis for, what, less than a year? Yet in that time, she’s not only given him one of her highest blessings and one of her Umbral Regalia, but has repeatedly stepped in whenever he needed her.”
“That’s also part of her nature, to help those who help themselves.”
“There’s help, and then there’s doting on someone.”
Raising a wing, she began counting off on her feathers. “Giving him a resurrection gem when he was bereaved over his followers having been killed by a devil. Saving his life when his misplaced teleportation would have killed him. Guiding him to her shrine and giving him a new body. Making him a titan. Defying The Author herself. When’s the last time you saw her do so much for any one follower, let alone in so short of a time?”
The Sun Queen’s expression turned uncertain then. “That was loyalty.”
“It was love!”
Rising up onto her back legs, Kara spun in place, looking upward as she laughed loudly. “She actually thought that she manipulated me into giving him that blessing! As though I had no idea that peeking into dreams would bring her running, or that she’d demand compensation for it! And then she didn’t even try to tell me what sort of blessing she wanted; she let me pick it out myself! It was like she was asking me to find her a boyfriend!”
The Sun Queen’s eyes were wide. “You’ve been playing matchmaker...with the Night Mare?!”
“And it’s been so much fun!” squealed Kara, dropping back to all fours. “Especially since she obviously has no idea how she feels! But she’ll figure it out eventually, especially now that she’s in time-out in Hali. And once she does, well...”
She gave the Sun Queen a wicked grin. “I really hope you can smooth things over with the elves, because once the Night Mare knows that she wants him, I don’t think she’ll wait very long before raising Lex up to become her divine consort.”
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I think Lex is going to find out what terms and conditions Adagio had signed up to with the laywer devils, and go to see what can be done about all that satanic and demonic red tape?
How to have Solvei become the avatar of Fenrir now, thats going to be intresting.
Honestly, it floors me every time how whenever I finish the latest chapter I have this unrelenting thirst for more. You truly have a gift for making each chapter interesting enough to lose oneself in and harrowing when the ending comes around. Bravo my good man!
On another note, the idea that Kara's blessing could be working on the Nightmare is hilarious to me. I doubt it is going to work out well as Kara thinks but there is a part of me that laughs at the idea that the Nightmare catches feelings for Lex an then is just like, "Nope. stop all your doing! your mine now!" lol
Also, Also.... I wonder if Sonata and Aria would be cool with Lex coming back and being like, "Alright, good news. I found Adagio. Bad News, I lost her in Soul Court and need to find a really good lawyer..."
Ah right, I forgot about the deals Adagio made with the devils for the power she had acquired. Guess even with almost all of her children taken, it still wasn't enough to keep her own soul safe though she likely made deals with multiple devils and other denizens of the other planes so the condition of her soul is bound to be tricky, especially given that she's technically an Equestrian soul, an apparent hot commodity in certain circles.
Also, the idea of the Night Mare having feelings towards Lex certainly caught me off guard but it does make a lot of sense given how much she's done for Lex which is odd given how her religion works. Granted, most of the things Lex called upon her were warranted but some do feel like there's some favoritism going on. Though whether it means she wants to make Lex her divine consort or not, is hard to know until the Night Mare returns.
11775109 That does seem to be the likeliest reason for why Adagio's soul isn't available, doesn't it? Which naturally suggests further such complications, especially since Adagio apparently had taken out several deals with multiple different powers, none of which she intended on honoring. And since Lex sword he'd bring her back, he'll need to clean up the mess.
But at least there's a power-up for Solvei on the horizon!
11776322
If she had dealings with Commodore Buisiness Machines demonic management, she would Never get released. Its taken 30 yers so far and theres still bits of the company that are, Uncertain.
11775322 Thank you so much for your comment! I read and re-read it several times, and it's absolutely made my day!
I'll keep doing my best to make sure that future chapters are just as enjoyable to read!
Speaking of which, Kara's revelation (if she's correct) could be a major source of conflict going forward. The Night Mare as a jealous girlfriend is something I suspect that even Lex would be hard-pressed to handle, though her current situation means that probably won't be an issue for the moment. Being locked up (from what it sounds like) by The Author means that the Night Mare isn't in a position to elevate anyone...right?
Nor does Lex seem to be aware of what's happened to his patron goddess, as he's apparently going to have other things on his mind, such as what will happen when he can't resurrect Adagio.
11776137 The real question at this point is whether or not Kara's analysis is accurate. Even leaving aside that she has a penchant for deception and manipulation, is she right about the Night Mare's feelings? I mean, the Night Mare has gone out of her way quite a bit to help Lex out, but a lot of those involved special circumstances (i.e. his bringing her religion to an entirely new world). So it's somewhat ambiguous...though I suspect Kara works well with such uncertainty. Love, like a shapechanger, can be difficult to pin down.
As for Adagio, yeah, the problem with making a lot of deals that you're intending to renege on once you gain ultimate power is that, if you don't gain ultimate power, your debts are called in even though you have nothing to pay them with. Which means that Lex is now going to have to step in and try and get her back before...well, before something awful happens to her, even if we're not sure precisely what that will be, or even who exactly has her soul, for that matter.
Woah. I caught up too fast. No matter how much I stockpile these chapters I keep finishing them too fast for my taste. I had a hint that Kara would think that 'The Nightmare' caught feeling but I am not convinced. There is something more at play here.
11776352 That certainly seems like a possibility. Kara is a scheming goddess; that's simply her nature (i.e. you'd expect a shapechanger to be two-faced). The question is, what exactly is she scheming towards?
And I'm really happy you're enjoying things so much!
I love the ponyfinder pantheon because none of the gods are actually outright evil.
11776949 Well, their alignments say that the Night Mare, Kara, and Blaze are...but there are gradations of how a given alignment works. And of course, they're all committed to their pantheon (albeit for their own reasons).