Leaves drifted soundlessly as light wafted in through tinted windows. It was blissfully peaceful, no sound could be heard, no disturbance to be found. The silence was so pure, that the lightly placed footsteps seemed deafening in contrast. Sequoia walked through the temple, looking for Viridi. He wanted to show her the little Bumbety Bomb that saved his life.

"Viridi! You there?"

A woman's voice responded, the sarcasm usually entwined in it was vacant when speaking with Sequoia.

"Yeah I'm here, what's up?"

A small grin always seemed to sneak onto Sequoia's face whenever he heard or saw Viridi.

"I'd like you to meet someone. I'll come to the main room."

Sequoia did as he had told her, long strides carrying him to the throne room in barely any time. He turned to the blonde haired goddess sitting on the throne.

"Meet my consciousness."

He gestured to the small Bumbety bomb that had been following him.

"I'm confused, what am I looking at?"

Sequoia was caught off guard. How could she not see the Bumbety bomb right beside him?

"It's right here beside me. The Bumbety bomb."

Viridi stood up and circled Sequoia, her eyes scanning the air around him.

"There isn't anything here, you must be seeing things."

Her gaze narrowed at Sequoia, and he knew what that look meant. She was scanning his thoughts.

"You are definitely seeing it, have you heard it speak?"

Sequoia thought about the question for a second before he answered.

"Yes."

Viridi's gaze returned to normal as she thought about the issue.

"I think your little journey inside your own mind made you schizophrenic."

Sequoia was strong in physical prowess, not mental prowess, so he just stood dumbfounded.

"What?"

Viridi sighed and answered him.

"It means you have voiced in your head and you sometimes see them in person. The Bumbety bomb is you, and he is like a different personality."

The bomb spoke up next.

"She's right, you know."

"Shut up, you aren't real."

Viridi laughed at Sequoia snapping at a voice inside his head.

"Might get worse, you could develop multiple personalities in addition to...er, it. Give the bomb a name. See you later."

Sequoia and the bomb strolled around the temple trying to think of a name for the bomb.

"How about George?"

"No."

"Steve?"

"Seriously? No."

"Susan?"

"I'm a boy!"

"Susan it is."

The bomb groaned in protest.

"No!"

Sequoia giggled and kept walking.

"Shut it Sue, let's go find something to do."

Sue grumbled and kept following Sequoia.

"What are we doing?"

Sequoia shrugged and kept walking.

Viridi peered back into Sequoia's mind. He had voices inside his head, meaning that there were likely more than one. There were two more that she could see, likely more hidden in the recesses of his mind. One of the two wasn't fully developed, and the other was ready to invade Sequoia's thoughts. She allowed it to, Sequoia needed some friends. Viridi analyzed the new personality, seeing it as tactical. That would be helpful, wouldn't it?

A new voice took Sequoia by surprise.

"Greetings."

Sequoia's body reacted on instinct, sweeping his leg around him and jabbing at the voice's owner. His fists passed through air as the owner of the voice seemed to vanish.

"What the fu-"

Pain seared through his body as the swear began to exit his mouth. He fell to his knees as he regained his composure.

"Holy shi-"

Pain shot through him again as he bit his lip. No matter how good his pain tolerance was, the pain shot right through it as if it wasn't there. The voice that had caused him to swear in the first place spoke to him again.

"Haven't got it yet? This is a sacred place, you probably shouldn't swear."

Sequoia opened his mouth to profanely chew him out, but he bit his lip to avoid the swears to exit his mouth.

"Who the- I mean who are you?"

The voice spoke with a refined tone in reply.

"Tages, your personal tactical personality. Lady Viridi put me at the front of your mind."

Sequoia subconsciously corrected him.

"Mistress."

"Hmm?"

Sequoia realized his correction and hurriedly explained.

"She prefers to be called 'Mistress'."

The voice let out a grunt of approval as Sequoia resumed walking. He went outside the temple to spar with Cragalanche.

The rocky behemoth swung an arm at Sequoia, who blocked it with a cannon similar in appearance to the wordless rock. With Sequoia's armored arm occupied, the igneous giant swung its other arm into the chest of the wingless warrior.

"Damnit!"

Sequoia enjoyed being able to curse without being seared with pain.

"Tages, prove your worth. Now!"

Sequoia could almost hear the tactician analyze the behemoth.

"Run in a large circle around him."

Sequoia did as told, though he didn't know why. Cragalanche kept his front towards the scarred warrior as Sequoia circled around him.

"He's keeping his front towards you, he's hiding it. Attack his back with the Black Club. Viridi had one forged for you."

How does he know that but not me? You know what? Never mind.

Sequoia envisioned a large black rectangle attached to a pole appearing in his hands, and it soon did. Sequoia lifted the enormous club above his head and swung it down with a bellowing war cry. A large black wrecking ball shot from the club at the behemoth, stunning it for but a moment. Sequoia's calves tensed as he built up energy and leapt high and far over Cragalanche, using momentum and strength to bring the flipped club hard against the boulder's back. Cragalanche blinked in defeat for lack of a better expression. Sequoia fired another wrecking ball into the sky in triumph right before his bruises began to form. The soreness hit him like a goddess-powered locomotive as he yelped in pain.

"Fuck!"

Viridi began to worry about Sequoia, he was starting to develop wounds and scars since the loss of his wings. She guessed it was due to Thanatos' curse. When she was examining a gash in his arm, she noticed that his skin was growing calloused as his body adapted to the constant combat. It made it easier to tend to his wounds though, he could barely feel a thing through his thick, hard skin. His arms and chest no longer shone untouched, and had scars of varying shapes and sizes covering nearly every inch of his body, but Viridi didn't mind. She just thought it was a little attractive in all honesty. She called him into the temple room to give him a mission. He was to transport gifts to the towns his body had ransacked when Thanatos was controlling him. The journey would take him several months without his wings, but he was ecstatic to meet up with his human friend again. He promptly set off after quickly kissing Viridi on the cheek, coaxing a blush from her. She had him wear his autumn leaf-tunic instead of his armor to show he meant no harm, he would bring no weapons, just the gifts, which were vastly valuable to hope ease tension in the towns. From diamonds to rubies, and even a pearl was in the mix. She transported him as close to the first town as possible, but he'd have to walk from there to the other towns. Many villagers were frightened at his scars, thinking he was hostile, but such feelings dissolved when he began distributing the gifts. It took him all the self control he had not to kick the local woodsman in the teeth however, and he got lots of hugs from the villagers and their children. One small girl even made him lift her up high, and a goat even bit off part of his tunic, to which he cursed under his breath at. When he got to John's house, two small children greeted him intrigued, one girl and one boy. The boy climbed his leg and chest, finally stopping to sit on his head. Sequoia just shrugged and lowered the boy to his shoulder, then jogging around the yard while the child giggled. Sequoia eventually set him down and went to see his friend. John pulled him into a bear hug so tight that he could feel it through his hardened skin.

"It's been too long, lad. What took ya?"

Sequoia glanced towards the children then back at John, trying to think of how to word his answer. Before he could, Tages took over and did it for him.

"I was...doing business."

Tages had Sequoia's body tap a prominent scar on his arm. John nodded in understanding and introduced Sequoia to his wife as Tages relinquished control of Sequoia.

"Mary, this is him, the angel."

Mary walked over to Sequoia and studied him, then smiled and hugged him.

"Thank you for keeping John safe."

Sequoia smiled back at her and just gave her a thumbs up and went to deliver the rest of the gifts. Towards the end of the journey he got homesick, making the final town seem that much slower. He finished up and strolled out of the town. He called to Viridi to pick him up. As the column of light surrounded him he smiled at the thought of coming home. He appeared in the throne room, wasting no time before running to Viridi and hugging her. She accepted the embrace, but during the hug Sequoia noticed something has changed about Viridi. He retracted for the hug to ask Viridi about it.

"You smell different."

Viridi quickly countered.

"Since when did you pay attention to my scent?"

Sequoia blurted out his response before actually thinking about it.

"Since you started smelling nice, so always."

Viridi flushed and took great interest in the arm of the throne.

"It's from a new flower I planted, that's why."

Sequoia chose speech before thought again.

"It smells nice, but you would probably smell nice no matter what."

Viridi's blush deepened as Sequoia realized what he said, and quickly apologized.

"Oh goddess, sorry about that..."

Viridi looked up from the arm of her throne and into Sequoia's gray and green eyes.

"It's okay you needn't apologize for being sweet."

She got up and gave him a quick kiss on the lips before walking off.

How the fuck does she do that? The only needs to barely kiss me before I go nuts. I wonder if that's a good thing? I don't even know anymore. Wait, where did she go? What am I doing?

Sequoia ran after Viridi, partly in curiosity and partly in want of a better kiss. He searched to no avail, Viridi moves fast when she wants to. Sequoia contacted Pit, thinking that he might be better to go to for relationship advice. The angel flew into the temple soon after being summoned.

"Pit, you have a girlfriend right?"

Pit narrowed his eyes and hesitantly answered.

"Yeah..."

"Who?"

Pit bit his lip and lied to his former soldier.

"Just an angel back in Skyworld."

Sequoia smiled inwardly and began to coax the truth out of him by revealing that he knew the answer.

"Dude don't hide it, everyone knows about the blonde bounty hunter from your little inter-dimensional fight club."

Pit was surprised as Sequoia's knowledge and gaped at him.

"Relax, Viridi told me after Palutena gossiped with her."

Pit let out a sigh of relief.

"So what do you need?"

Sequoia groaned and swallowed his pride.

"I need some advice about girls."

"Who is it?"

Sequoia bit his lip and slowly answered.

"Viridi..."

Pit coughed in shock.

"Who now?"

"Viridi..."

"One, that's bold. Two, I honestly have no idea how I got a girlfriend, it just kind of happened."

Sequoia groaned again, this time in frustration. Pit giggled uncontrollably.

"What?"

Pit stifled his giggles as he replied.

"Guess you better...Wing it."

Sequoia's face morphed into a scowl at the witticism directed towards his lack of wings, but two can play at that game.

"Nice one, ostrich."

Pit's laughs halted immediately as he frowned and left the temple promptly.

Can anyone guess who Pit's girlfriend is? Inter dimensional fight club... Heheh.