Chapter 11

Coca POV:

After watching the scrying bowl for a few hours, I saw that only three different armies of the hundreds of nations believed Hades instead of me, all of them facing off in front of a town that belonged to the least powerful of them within a total of 10 hours.

"Okay, time to head out," I said once Palutena came back and Pit and I both rushed out of the door to the battlefield.

"These humans have fallen for Hades's hoax. They're killing themselves over that fantasy," Palutena said with sadness in her voice.

"It looks like entire nations are fighting each other!" Pit gawked.

"Three in total, and all of them quite large," I frowned as I saw some hellspawn above us in the form of Sirens, Reapettes, and Monoeyes.

"The Underworld Army is here to gather souls. Clearly they expect many casualties. We can't stop this big a battle on our own, just focus on handling the Underworld monsters," Palutena said, me already shooting at them while she was speaking.

"Roger," Pit said as we continued to pepper the monsters and I looked down at the humans with a sigh.

"I can't believe these humans fell for Hades's lies," Pit groaned.

"He spread the rumors about the wish seed... and it looks like these humans were gullible enough to believe him over us," Palutena frowned.

"Just look at them... all of these soldiers have anger and brutality as their only emotion right now... permission to try and protect the innocent townsfolk from being hurt?" I asked, hoping Palutena would allow it.

"Of co... ah!" Palutena gasped at something... I looked up and immediately grabbed Pit, flying us far away from the city. Why? A giant bomb had fallen down from the sky and I looked back... I was in shock and anger fueled my body. The entire town of innocent bystanders and every single soldier had just gotten obliterated by a gigantic bomb that covered the entire affected area in pink and purple thorns!

"What was that?!" Pit asked as I seethed angrily, an image appearing from above and me growling as she then started laughing.

"Hahaha! Nice shot if I do say so myself," the image said as I immediately tried to sense for where her essence was by looking at the image. It was Viridi without a doubt! And after sensing it for a small amount of time, I sniffed her out. She was in a floating garden in the sky, where I knew to find her. "Good riddance, human scum! The world's better off without-" she said before I immediately warped myself to her location and I shocked her at how I appeared not three feet in front of her.

"You..." she gasped when she saw me. I didn't even speak. I growled and grabbed the murderer by the neck, her gasping when I did so as I then slammed her against the ground.

"Tell me why I shouldn't end your pathetic existence right this minute, you fucking monster," I growled angrily at her as I felt some kind of magic try to attack me from behind. It felt like electric magic, but it affected me zero percent.

"Y-You're a Draker... Let Viridi go right this minute!" the owner of the electric magic exclaimed, me snapping my eyes back at her and making her halt in place.

"She killed an entire city of innocent bystanders and you expect me to let her walk away unscathed?! You both are fucking reprobates," I growled again as I looked back at Viridi and saw she looked to be a bit drained, but not dead.

"Now, explain yourself. And if I don't like your answer, I'm going to do something to you that you will remember forever," I growled at her as I then stopped choking her and Viridi gasped for air, her breathing in and out a bit before answering.

"Humans... they massacre Earth's creatures... decimate trees... exploit land... and them fighting for a fake wish... the final straw... I can't allow them... to hurt my planet... anymore..." Viridi said as I saw some tears start to roll down her face, me not even caring.

"You think that humans are the worst of the worst? Look in a fucking mirror and tell me what you see," I growled at her as I conjured on up so she could look at herself.

"I.. I see myself... the Goddess of Nature," Viridi said.

"Wrong! You see a little girl that looks almost identical to a normal 10 year old girl! And I bet your fucking ass that there were numerous children even younger than 10 that you just straight up murdered when you demolished and killed that city! No, not just humans, but their art, animals, everything! And you expect me to let you walk away from this without some kind of comeuppance?!" I growled as I then shattered the mirror and grabbed a piece of broken glass. "Stay still," I growled at her, making my paralysis glare affect her so she couldn't fight back.

"W-What... are you... doing?" she asked, her body straining to fight back.

"I'm going to do something to you to let everyone see what a monster you are. A couple of words, etched out with sliced skin. And if I remember right, those scars will always remain on your dainty little face," I growled at her, Viridi gasping as she tried to fight my powers, but found it fruitless.

"Phosphora... c-call... Cragalanche... now!" Viridi exclaimed.

"I... I wish... I could... can't... move..." Phosphora groaned as she too tried to fight my powers. But before I could make the first slice on Viridi's skin, I heard a voice in my head.

"THAT'S ENOUGH, COCA!" I heard Palutena exclaim in my head, me frowning as I then moved the glass away from Viridi's face.

"You're lucky, little cactus. My sister's pleading just spared you a lot of embarrassment and pain. Now listen up. If you kill anymore humans when you look exactly like one yourself, I will be back. And I will give you pain if you do this again," I growled at her as I warped myself away and let the paralysis go the moment I appeared back in Skyworld. And when I appeared right by Palutena, I could tell by her gaze that she was quite upset with me.

"What was that?!" Palutena growled at me as she slapped me in the face very hard, me seething from the pain and simply taking it.

"You expect me to simply let that madwoman get off scott-free when she kills an entire city of innocent people?! That city had my relatives in it, Palutena! My human forefathers were among the regular citizens of that city! And now they are obliterated! Never to be seen again! If you had family and they were taken away from you with just a wave of someone's hand, you would've done the same fucking thing!" I growled at her, Palutena gasping and frowning afterwards.

"Still, you didn't need to take it that far," Palutena frowned at me.

"Bitches like her need to learn their lesson through pain. Otherwise, they'll keep on doing the same shit over and over again. Trust me, I've been on the outs with little miss cactus for far longer than you have, oh Goddess of Light," said the voice of Pandora from nearby, me seeing that Pit was just now returning from his area.

"Where'd you run off to like that, Coca? I was worried sick! And I had to take down a giant rock monster while rescuing survivors!" Pit said, me frowning at that.

"How many of them were just regular citizens?" I asked him honestly. Pit sighed and shook his head.

"Then that proves it... Viridi killed my human forefathers... all of them, in that one blast... we need to stop the production of whatever the hell those bombs are! We need to... for my family," I sighed with tears rolling down my face.

"I agree, but next time, don't just wildly go off to attack an enemy head-on in their headquarters, Coca. And please, for the love of all that is good, don't threaten to slice them with glass to prove a point! That was too damn far, even for you!" Palutena growled at me, Pit gasping at that bit of information, but knowing well enough not to get me more upset.

"Like I said before and I'll say it again. Viridi is a stubborn little cactus. If she doesn't learn from this instance, then if Coca doesn't prove her point to her, then I will," Pandora said.

"Not likely, Pandy. She has a subordinate that specializes in electrical magic. Since I'm part dragon, I was immune, but you'd be deep fried from the inside out by her magic," I said to her.

"Point taken... sounds hurty," Pandora frowned.

Viridi POV:

"Ow... damn... that Draker was brutal..." I groaned as Phosphora helped pick me up off the floor. My body ached all over and I had sore spots all over, especially in my neck and my arms, because that's where I got squeezed the hardest from that Draker's iron grip.

"I honestly don't know how my electricity didn't affect her. She's part human, so why would she be immune to my magic? I thought that Drakers didn't get all the benefits of a true dragon?" Phosphora pondered as she helped heal me with a small healing via. I drank it and sighed afterwards.

"Drakers are naturally impervious to all magic, unless it happens to be a physical manifestation. I could've trapped her with my thorns if I had the chance, but she surprised me by appearing out of nowhere just from looking at the visage I put in the sky... now she knows the location of my domain and she threatened grave consequences if I were to slaughter anymore humans... I don't know what to do... if I attack the humans, she'll hurt me even worse. If I attack the Drakers, she'll be even more pissed," I sighed as I looked at herself in one of the shards of the mirror that broke. I really did look like a human girl. She was right. And I hated that she was right.

"Would you like it if I were to go to Skyworld and launch an attack?" Phosphora asked, me looking at my commander with a growl.

"I've heard that she's the reincarnation of Medusa and she is quite close to Palutena. We piss her off, we piss off her angel. And her angel is as destructive as a hundred Reset Bombs," I said to her, Phosphora frowning at that.

"Then who do we go after? I mean, what kind of force would be just as destructive as the humans and want to destroy the world even more than them?" Arlon asked as he appeared from nearby, his mannerisms not really helping as he had stayed away from attacking the Draker when she invaded.

"Aren't you supposed to be guarding the Lunar Sanctum, Arlon? You know what would happen if... you know what escaped," I frowned at him with honesty.

"Oh, you needn't worry about that, Mistress Viridi. So long as I am alive, the Lunar Sanctum will remain hidden and the Chaos Kin will remain imprisoned," Arlon said with his usual manners.

"Always the polite one, aren't you?... Any ideas on who to attack, Mistress Viridi?" Phosphora asked me. I sighed and tried my hardest to think. I then looked into my scrying pot and saw that there was a smaller battle between the humans on a nearby peninsula... but it seemed that they weren't fighting each other. They looked to be fighting monsters that I knew would be MUCH better targets.

"Well, if we want to fight anyone, I say we go after the Underworld Army. They have complete disregard for life and it may lighten our load if we were to eliminate the Underworld forces. It may even convince that Draker to join our side," I smiled widely.

"Are you sure it'd be that easy? From what I've heard, that city you demolished was originally founded by humans that were distant relatives of the avian Drakers. It may be hard to get her to team up with us after you killed distant relatives of hers. Drakers are quite protective of their families and have a natural instinct to demolish anything that threatens their family tree or their lineage. You must rectify this posthaste, lest she try to attack again. We don't need her attacking us and we don't need Palutena's army attacking either. Especially my Sanctum," Arlon said.

"Agreed completely on that much," I sighed as I looked into the pot and saw that the humans were taking quite the beating from the Underworld monsters. "As much as I hate to admit it, that Draker bitch was right. The humans aren't going to be on our hit list. Like it or not, we look exactly like normal humans would," I said.

"Oh, come on, Viridi, that's not-" Phosphora tried to say before I showed her her reflection and she frowned.

"Are you seriously trying to play that card, Viridi? She was trying to get under your skin, both figuratively and quite literally with these glass shards. So who cares if you look like a little girl, you look nothing-" Phosphora was about to finish before I whacked her with my staff, Phosphora shutting up afterwards and standing straight.

"Have you seen a human girl? Because I have through this scrying bowl. And though their appearances are all different from one side of the world to the other, I look a lot like the little blonde ones with ponytails. And I'm sure you have someone down there that has hair like yours and your gorgeous 18-year-old looks," I frowned at her.

"Fine, fine, you win, I never saw a human before in my life. So we're going after the Underworld Army?" Phosphora asked.

"Yes, we are. But keep in mind, we have to be prepared for anything, especially since, like Arlon said, Drakers have the worst kind of grudges," I said as I turned my staff into a horn and blew into it. The call of my armies. "ONE TWO THREE FOUR! I DECLARE A NATURE WAR! FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT! HADES WE'LL ERADICATE! ALL TROOPS, DEPLOY OUT TO ATTACK ANY UNDERWORLD MONSTER YOU SEE!" I exclaimed into the horn, all of my children listening to me as all of them had hearing far better than any other creature in the world. "Prepare to enter the mortal realm... And remember this: If you see a large army of Underworld monsters, make sure all humans are out of the way and deploy a Reset Bomb to obliterate the monsters!" I said into the horn, my children hearing and listening again as I then sat on my small throne and looked at Arlon and Phosphora with seriousness.

"Okay, Phosphora, you go and return to the Thundercloud Temple to charge up. We need you at full power to face off against a foe as tough as Hades! Arlon, retreat to the Lunar Sanctum and use the laser systems to attack any groups of Underworld monsters you see. But make sure that no humans or Drakers are caught in the crossfire, understood?!" I exclaimed at my commanders.

"Of course, Mistress Viridi. I shall go back to the Sanctum and prepare it for battle," Arlon said.

"And I'll go to the temple to recharge. It'll take a good 24 hours, so be sure to have your troops stall for time," Phosphora said.

"Okay, let's do this!" I said with seriousness.