Prologue

"Forces of Nature! Attack anything that moves, we must protect the Mother Heart!" Viridi commands as she swings her Rose Staff, throwing out thorns in all directions near the enemies surrounding Cragalanche, a commanding officer, impaling them before they could strike at the red ruby embedded on his butt. Cragalanche looks at Viridi, his eyes sending a message before falling over the rim of the platform to rain down onto the enemies below him like a meteor.

Viridi stomps her foot and jumps up and down in frustration. "How many times have I told that stupid boulder to fix that!?" she walks around the edge of her platform, throwing out thorns and roses to help her minions, but even she could see they were weakening and depleting.
"If only Pit and Palutena hadn't destroyed my Reset Bomb Depot, I could have finished this easy!" she mutters darkly. "I really could use their help right now though…" she says quietly to herself. Her thought are interrupted by a womanly, high-pitched laugh.

"Hades! So help me, I will overgrow your stupid Underworld if you even put a toe into my domain!" she yells angrily, throwing out her staff in defiance, her crimson floral dress swirling around her plant shoes.

"Oh, Viridi, I'm not that ugly, am I?" asks the same womanly voice. With a flash of blue light, a woman of gorgeous proportions stands before her, long blue hair tied up by a small halo-like band on top of her head in a fountain-like appearance, with a few stands that floated around in front of her face. Her purple and white outfit showed plenty of knees, arms, belly and cleavage while still being prudish. Her purple, eye shadowed indigo eyes smiled, like her thin magenta lips that complemented a perfect nose and raised cheekbones.

"Ah, miss me?" she smiled even wider, showing, of course, perfectly straight, bleach white teeth.

"Oh, of course!" Viridi commented, her sarcasm thick enough to spread on bread.

"How do you like the outfit? Just picked it out this morning", she said, twirling on the spot, her cobalt hair flowing like water behind her.

At first, Viridi looked at her, puzzled. "It's the same one as when you were at the Rewind Springs." She commented, hands raised, palm up, at her shoulders.

"Nah-uh, that outfit was a bit darker, you know, more purple." she huffed, a frown took its place on her face and still not a crease was made.

"Whatever! You didn't come all this way to talk about outfits. What are you doing here Pandora? Where's Hades?"

Now it was Pandora's turn to look puzzled. "What are you, stupid?" Viridi's face started to turn indigo as well "No, he never came back. Little Pitty took care of him alright." She twirled a finger through the end of her ponytail. "Nope, all of this is my doing!" she exclaimed, holding her hands outstretched above her head.

Viridi, stunned, stared at the woman before her. "I don't care if this is cliché, but why?" Viridi demanded desperately, walking up to her.

"Oh Viridi, you're so naïve! Duh, I'm the Goddess of Calamity, remember?" Pandora said, smiling sweetly again.

"But you wouldn't just attack just 'cause you felt like it! What are you planning?" she demanded, stopping halfway to reaching Pandora, planting her legs wide and crossing her arms stubbornly in-front of her chest, even though she only came up to Pandora's shoulder, but Viridi slipped a small bundle from her hidden dress pocket and held it tightly in her hand and out of sight.

"Why, the Mother Heart of course! As the Goddess of Nature, you know that with it I can control Earth and everything on it! See, like Hades, I'm planning on world, no, universe domination, I'm just doing it at a different approach", she smiled again, but her eyes betrayed the friendly façade she was putting on. "Sadly though, it means that someone might be missing in the picture", she said, pulling out her blade with a soft hiss. She stroked the blade lovingly, like an old friend, being careful not to cut herself on the long blue blade. She held the blade horizontal to her eyes, looking through the thin strip cut into the blade.

Viridi, planting a foot back, held her rose staff in defence and protectiveness in front of her. She narrowed her eyes, her mouth pursed. "Hope you like the smell of roses", she hissed.

As Pandora charged, Viridi threw the Demon Vine in-front of her, blocking her path with thick, ugly vines.

"C'mon, is that all?" she scoffed, and hid behind the tangled growth. As the vines wilted, the open domain of the Mother Core's beautiful and wild interior filled Viridi's vision, but not the beautiful and wild Pandora. Suddenly, behind her, she heard the scraping of…a nail filer? As she turned, she saw perfect nails and smooth, porcelain skin of a palm slap into her cheek. As Viridi hit the dirt, she cursed as one side of her face was red like the Rose on her staff and the other cheek, brown like freshly turned Earth. She whipped her head around to find Pandora gone once more.

"That's unfair! If I can't use teleportation, so neither should you!" she cried out angrily, throwing out wild arcs of thorns all around her. Pandora's high laugh came out again.

"Well, I didn't use items, so neither should you! Just getting back at you for playing unfair as well, but since I'm an honest Goddess, I'll play fair", she said, appearing on the far side, laughing at her own joke. Both Goddess' took their stance again and charged.