A/N: Ok, considering I have a busy day ahead of me, I decided to post the final chapter of this story even earlier than previously thought, but I suppose getting these stories out for everyone to read as quickly as possible is better than having to wait long periods of time. Enjoy!

Viridi's feet could have been sparking flames she was running so quickly to the gardens, not only to aid her poor, parched plants; but to see how Palutena kept her plants (if there was one thing The Goddess of Nature could do to Palutena, it's hark on her lacking of a green thumb). Viridi at the very least hoped she could make something out of her gardens if they needed more help than a simple watering.

Meanwhile behind her, Pit was having a hard time keeping up with the speedy blonde, just barely keeping up with her at his absolute fastest.

"Viridi….I know there plants, but….could you at least….slow dow-"

"NOOOOOOOO Way Pit!" Viridi yelled back rounding the final corner to the gardens, which Pit didn't take quick notice of, causing him to slam right into the wall. The angel then swayed in a dazed state for a few steps before completely falling forward.

"Lady Palutena….if you can hear me-" Pit barely finished asking if his boss heard him despite long ago discarding his laurel crown on a table in the temple before a fresh drink of the gods popped right in front of him, Pit looked up at the vase like bottle of sweet liquid before looking up to the ceiling and smiled.

"Thanks, Lady Palutena." The angel said out loud before taking a gulp of the drink.

When Pit finally caught up with Viridi, he noticed she was already hard at work softly quenching the thirsts of the neatly placed bushes and flowers placed across the spanning collection of nature around them.

"Glad you could make it, Pit." Viridi said in an odd mixture of snarky and sincerely joyful. "If you want, I can handle this and you can take a break." She continued now only pue joy in her voice.

"Really? Cause I'm willing to help." Pit said honestly.

"I'm sure, this is my territory, after all, and probably the only thing I won't hate out of this stinking list."

"Oh come on, we've spent time together, that means something right?" Pit asked pouting playfully, slowly slinking over to Viridi, pressing his head on hers, causing the young Goddess to blush.

"Of course it does." Viridi said shyly, kissing him quickly before going back to watering some bright yellow tulips.

Pit smiled brightly and simply sat on the soft grass, watching Viridi happily continue her work. After half a day of doing chores, the two finally found the peace they had in the morning.

So of course, something had to ruin it.

-SPLAT-

"AAAAH! WHAT THE?" Pit suddenly screamed as some sort of thick goo fell from the sky right onto the angel, drenching him.

Viridi jumped at the sudden noise, turning to see Pit covered in….white paint?

"What on Skyworld?" The Goddess of Nature said looking upwards at where the paint could've come from. Upon lifting her gaze upwards, she saw a pair of jet black wings flapping in the air.

"Oops. Sorry about that, Pit-stain." The sarcastic and snide voice of Dark Pit suddenly yelled down to the now snow white angel. "If it makes you feel any better, white looks good on your hair. Heh heh."

"Pitoo!" Pit yelled at a level of angry Viridi had hardly seen from the angel outside of the battlefield. "Why are you flinging paint on me? You've ruined my tunic!"

"Firstly, your tunic is white, moron. Secondly, you think mine is faring any better?" The Dark Angel commented turning to show off his black tunic stained with dozens of white paint blotches. "And thirdly, I'm didn't actually mean to fling it at you; I've just been painting the upper levels of the temple for Lady Punk-utena. It was a happy accident that you got in the crossfire." Dark Pit sneered.

"Wait, your doing chores too?"Viridi asked suddenly.

"Had a feeling Lady Palutena would've given the rest of the jobs to you." Pit said picking the paint best he could from his hair, spitting more away from his mouth. "But what I want to know is why your allowed to fly?"

"Yeah, why didn't she block your powers?" Viridi snapped.

"She said it make the jobs easier for me, and I also think just to piss you two off." Dark Pit said not holding back a chuckle.

Pit and Viridi, meanwhile, were steaming furious.

"ERRRRRRRGH! Why that egotistical, overblown excuse of a Goddess!" Viridi suddenly yelled, throwing down the watering can and quickly sitting down, pouting intensely.

"Why does Lady Palutena love to torture us?" Pit said, sighing in complete defeat.

"No one said I was torturing you." a fourth voice suddenly spoke up.

The two angels and Goddess of Nature suddenly looked to the archway entering the garden, where Lady Palutena was standing with a content smile on her face.

"And no one said I wanted to either." She continued, looking up at the wall Dark Pit was painting, smiling at the fresh new coat of paint he applied.

"Very good, Pitoo, your done the painting then. Now be a dear and clear out some boulders that fell in front of the east wing exit; I left some smart bombs for you to make it easy."

Dark Pit both frowned and smirked. "Ya know I completely hate this crap, but allowing me the use of explosives is certainly a silver lining."

"Yes, just don't blow up the temple please, Pit and Viridi just cleaned up the halls." The Goddess of Light said as she snapped her fingers and sent Dark Pit on his way.

"Now then." The green haired woman said happily turning to the two before looking over at her flowers. "You two did a marvelous job with the flowers and the dishes. I'm very pleased."

"You have some explaining, apologizing, and compensating to do for us, Palutena!" Viridi snapped standing in front of The Goddess of Light sternly.

"Alright, alright. Calm down, Viridi." Palutena stated, placing her hands on Viridi's small shoulders. "I'll explain."

Pit and Viridi sat down in front of Palutena, both listening intensely as Palutena spoke.

"Now I know that the things I've done to the both of you and even Pitoo might have been….forceful and even a tad unfair in your eyes, but realize I'm only helping you."

"How?" Pit asked honestly as paint now started to drip from the tips of his hair.

"Well, you all need to know how to commit yourselves to hard work." Palutena said softly to the angel.

"I think all three of us know hard work, Palutena; we were in a war not 8 months ago that lasted three years. A war that almost cost both Pits there lives. Not to mention I'm a Goddess, one who has to protect all of earth's nature no less. We all know hard work, what your making us do today is slave labor since you are too lazy to do hard work yourself!" Viridi said in rising anger.

"She is kind of right Lady Palutena, I've even done these chores alone before, and even then I got it done." Pit said. "Well I did also have my flight power." He said much softer.

"I understand that." Palutena replied, an ever so slight ounce of seriousness adding to her voice. "But I'm looking out for you all, even Goddess' like you, Viridi. Not only because it's my job as Goddess of Light, but because I want you three in particular to succeed going forward."

The Goddess then sighed slightly, leaning her head to the ground and shutting her eyes.

"After everything that happened in the war, all the close calls, the near death experiences, I fully realized that every possible measure should be taken to keep the forces of right and good strong in every possible way."

Pit swore he saw the tiniest of tear drops form in Palutenas right eye, but he decided not to bring it up. He knew what she was remembering.

Palutena then faced the two again. "That's the reason I took your powers away, because you never know, one day in the future, you may just have to, dare I say it, rely on human instinct to get by."

Viridi scoffed loudly. "Please! I understand and appreciate the idea of what your doing, Palutena, but the day I rely on anything with 'human' in the title, is the day I decide to burn every plant in existence. Now please, for the love of Sakurai, can we be done with these chores and have these magic barriers taken away?"

"It has been a rather long day, Lady Palutena, besides I need to get a bath before this paint dries and I'm stuck looking like a ghost angel for a week." Pit said mildly, somedays he wished he could speak his mind a bit more to Palutena, but being his boss and the closest thing to a mother he's ever had, the young angel couldn't bring himself to do it sometimes.

Palutena then smiled softly, sighing before popping her staff into view. "Ok. You two did very good work today, thank you." She said calmly, waving her staff, causing the barriers around Pit and Viridi to reappear than shatter into a mist, dispersing altogether.

"Finally." Pit and Viridi whispered standing up.

After a long pause of the three simply looking at each other awkwardly, Palutena spoke up.
"I should go get Pitoo and make sure he doesn't bring the house down with those smart bombs. Pit, please clean yourself up before dinner. I'll have some centurions finish up the rest of the work." Palutena said before warping away.

"Thank goodness that's over." Viridi said letting out a breathe. "Now what?"

"Well, I don't know about you, but I could go for a calm relaxing soak in a hot spring after I get this paint off." Pit said shaking the slowly drying paint from his hands a little.

"Think I'll join you, my tenses are on edge after all that work."

Pit chuckled as they both walked into the temple. "Oh come on, it wasn't really that much work."

"Think of what we ended up getting out of, imagine if we had to do everything on that stupid list." Viridi said. "You really need to stop defending your boss too much, Pit. You know she's evil sometimes, and I intend to get back at her for this." She continued playfully nudging the angel in the middle of talking.

Pit merely rolled his eyes and smiled as they went inside.

*Two weeks later*

"Thank you again for dinner, Viridi. It was awesome!" Pit said as he, Dark Pit, Palutena, and Viridi walked to the entrance of Viridi's temple.

"Eh, it was alright." Dark Pit shrugged. "There wasn't as much of a show as the last dinner here." The dark angel began to chuckle before Viridi promptly slapped his arm hard.

"I'm glad you all enjoyed."

As the four walked to the edge of the temple, Pit and Viridi quickly kissed goodbye while Dark Pit and Palutena weren't looking before Palutena warped the two angels back home.

"Oh shoot! Wait! Palutena!" Viridi suddenly yelled, causing the green haired woman to jump slightly at the noise. "Huh?"

"I just remembered I had Arlon package up some leftovers for you guys, there just inside on the kitchen counter."

Palutena was surprised at this little extra gift from Viridi, but appreciated it all the same. "Why thank you, Viridi."

As the two Goddess walked through the doors, Palutena head a loud SLAM! Quickly turning to see the doors had shut and had a great big oak tree trunk suddenly appear blocking them. Then she heard something being cast in her direction before seeing a familiar blue orb around appear around her before fading away.

"Oh no." She whispered sharply.

"Oh yes." came the voice of a now very pleased Viridi. "In actuality, Palutena, I was hoping you could help me spruce up the temple a bit. I made you a list of things to help me out." She said pulling out her own curled up paper.

Palutena flushed greatly. "Viridi, please don't."

"Hey, it's like you said, you'll never know when you'll need to rely on human instincts."

A/N: And this story's done! I hope everyone enjoyed it. My next story is another story which has sat in my computer files for a while, so I will be sprucing it up a bit, but it will be out soon. Also, if anyone has any ideas/requests for Kid Icarus stories, I'd love to hear them (but obviously nothing too adult please, I'm trying to make my KI stories nice and readable for everyone!)