What I've Done.

Chapter 26

By Archaeologist of Humanity.

Sorry for taking so long to write this chapter... I think my description-style is failing me a bit... I'll do my best however! If I fail then... I'm sorry, okay? :)

Blanc put Sky back into her cot gently as the little child had fallen asleep in the Lowee Goddess' arms. Blanc had a smile on her face. Sure, Neptune was annoying but... She was starting to get used to this whole situation and theoretically everything else at the same time.

"I think she likes you Blanc."

Blanc turned to Nepgear and offered a slight smile. "I guess." She mumbled at Nepgear. She walked towards the door. "I'm going to get some fresh air. I'll be back later."

Nepgear nodded as she took a seat next to Uni. The latter of which flinched when Nepgear sat down. Something was bothering the Black Sister. But... Maybe it was best if Blanc went now. She had spent time with the three of them (Sky included) and it was apparent that she had other things to do.

Things with IF and Compa were ordinary to say the very least. They were sat in the kitchen still, talking about Sky and the other things which Neptune had done/said before this whole mess had started. Compa did try to mention some of the things she witnessed in the birth but IF...Let's just say, she was less then okay with said knowledge. She would rather stay ignorant if Compa was alright with it. Which she was. IF did mention some things were better left unsaid.

Blanc noticed IF and Compa in the kitchen/dining area, but carried on when she heard someone's footsteps heading towards the Basilicom/Palace.

"You're heavy."

"Mmmm...Then put me down..."

"Not in your condition Nep."

"Meanie..."

Blanc went to the door and saw Max and Neptune (well Neptune over Max's shoulder) and pointed to the nearest room, Max was thankful and headed there immediately. Blanc closed the door behind them and followed.

"She's been in a terrible state since we left." Max reported to Blanc as he entered the room that Blanc opened the door to. "-She's been having headaches, can't walk, feeling sic-"

Blanc nodded. "That's understandable for someone who has only given birth in the last week or so. Get her into bed..." She watched Max's reaction and felt an urge to growl - So she did. "Not that kind. Now, get on with it."

Max slowly lowered Neptune onto the bed and covered her with the bed sheets...Much to Neptune's reluctance.

"Let me get back...To Plan...Ugh..." Neptune panted as she was really out of it. Something was happening to her and without Histoire around...It made things even more awkward but Blanc had an idea as to what was wrong.

"She's changing."

Max blinked and then his eyes widened. "What do you mean, changing?" He almost stopped on the word.

Blanc nodded as Neptune fell to sleep...Again. "She's starting to become a more... I don't know what the word is now, but she's becoming much more goddess like. Her human form will cease to exist soon if she carries on changing."

Max looked to Neptune with a thin line on his lips. Thinking hard. "I don't want her to change. She seems happy the way she is."

"That was until you came here and gave her a baby." Blanc's monotone voice echoed through the room that they were in.

Max could not argue with Blanc's assessment of everything. All he could do was look at Neptune. "I need to get a drink. Do you mind keeping-"

Blanc nodded again. "I'll keep an eye on her. Go and get your drink. Take a break as well, it looks like you need it."

Max exited the room while Blanc made a chair appear from almost no-where and sat down next to Neptune's bedside with a book. She began to read it. "You know Neptune, you can fool him, but you can't fool me. You're hiding your power reserves. Why?"

Neptune cracked her right eye open a fraction just in case Max was still in the area. "I can't walk Blanc. I tried earlier...And I fell over." She wheezed. "Sometimes I just don't know why I did it all..."

Blanc took her hat off of her head and placed it on the table next to Neptune's bedside and continued. "You also realise you are the FIRST Goddess to give birth like you did?"

Neptune cringed as she remembered. "Y-Yeah..."

"Then why did you? You could have said no when you were procreating the child in the first place, couldn't you?"

Neptune sighed. "I would have if I had remembered. Things went so fast and then when Max left the nation and I sent a message to angry person on the other side of the dimension I-"

"Wait, wait, wait. You what?" Blanc stopped reading and focused on Neptune as Neptune opened both her eyes - Max was clearly not coming back for awhile.

Neptune stopped talkign and closed both her eyes. "Ummm...Pudding?"

Blanc emitted a throat growl at Neptune, putting her book to one side and placing a hand on Neptune's chest. "You don't answer me - I'll make things VERY cold for you..."

Neptune opened her eyes a fraction to see Blanc's 'Red Eye of DOOM' staring at her with a twisted expression on the Lowee Goddess' face. "Ummm...Blanc? Blanny? Can you...Stop looking at me like that?" She fidgeted and tried to get out of the bed but failed as Blanc had quite the grip on her. "Ummmm... I'll speak? Just let me go."

"Not a chance Neptune. If you don't talk - I'll simply mind read you."

Neptune went red in the face as she tried to think of a suggestion that would both satisfy Blanc and enable her to keep her dignity. "Alright alright! It was a simple challenge I set to this rather angry person... He was hinting that Goddess' were easy to destroy..."

Blanc's red eye glowed as she began to force a cold sensation to flow into Neptune, making the Planeptune Goddess rather uncomfortable. "Yes? And?"

Neptune coughed as she saw just how serious Blanc was. "Ummm... I said I would wage war with anyone who acted like...That?" She felt her eyes close of their own accord as Blanc stopped the cold sensation.

"You...You declared war...On someone who - You don't know." Blanc took in a deep breath and exhaled slowly to calm herself down. "You're an idiot."

"Tell me something I don't know."

Neptune's light snoring could be heard soon after.

Blanc went back to reading as she heard Max in the kitchen talking to IF and/or Compa thanks to her excellent hearing as a Goddess.

Over in the kitchen it was an interesting sight to be sure - Max was sitting on Compa's right while IF sat on Compa's left...Not wanting to be near - "It". As IF put it.

"So, when did you meet Nep-Nep?"

Max blinked. "Nep-Nep?" He repeated, unsure of the nickname. "Can't you say, 'Neptune'?"

Compa shook her head. "It's too hard to pronouce. So, I just resorted to Nep-Nep. It's easier for me." She cast a look to IF who was quietly drinking some orange juice. "Its not like you to be so quiet Iffy!"

IF looked away.

Compa giggled at IF's reluctance as she looked at Max. "Don't worry about her. She's just unsure of people sometimes. Pay it no mind. Anyway, like I said - When did you meet her? Was it in Planeptune Tower? Or somewhere else?"

Max put a hand behind his head and nodded. "It's like you say, I met her during the day in Planeptune's harbour for visitors... And it just took off from there basically. I started to get to know her and everything... Went very fast... So fast in fact that-"

"That you ended up giving her a child?"

Max looked to the now glaring eyes of IF and nodded. "Yes..." He looked down which only further irritated IF.

"So, why not get someone to turn back the clock? Or, better yet, remove you from existence?"

Compa looked to IF with a look of shock while Max looked away. "How could you say such a thing Iffy!?"

"I won't go..."

IF looked to Max. "Why not?"

"Because I love her."

IF felt conflicted at that moment but then nodded. "If you can prove that you indeed, care about her... Then I'll consider letting you off the hook."

Max nodded while putting his hair back again, seriously, did his hair always grow this fast? "Thank you. IF."

IF sighed. "Whatever."

Meanwhile - Inside Neptune's mind, Things were getting interesting... She was floating in a sea of some kind of liquid while her daughter communicated with her.

'Mother?'

Neptune nodded. "Yeah kiddo?" She giggled. "I'm still getting used to that..."

'That amulet... You do know its the only reason I can talk to people with my thoughts?'

Neptune sat down in the liquid-ifed dream room while her daughter (who looked almost 12 in the dream...Strange.) "I had a feeling..." Neptune nodded at Sky. "So, you look older in the dream world. I reckon its the shares..."

Sky put a finger to her lip. 'Sounds like it. Oh, oh! You know that there's been some trouble in your natio-'

Neptune cut her daughter off. "Don't you mean, OUR nation?"

Sky shook her head with a smile. 'Good point. Anyway, you need to recover...We need to get back...'

"Oh ho! What's this? A Goddess and her child? I say!"

Neptune snapped her gaze and stood up in a shot. It was Arfoire...Or at least, someone with Arfoire standing next to him. "Who are you?" She demanded. "And why are you in our dream world? I demand that you leave!"

"I think WE will be the ones with the demands, seeing as we control the amulet."

Neptune's eyes widened. "No way..."

'Mom! Help!'

Before Neptune could turn, Sky's amulet had disappeared and was now none-existent.

"Hey! Where'd that Amulet go!? GIVE IT BACK!"

Arfoire stepped forwards and pointed at Neptune, making her freeze in her tracks. "I think we'll be the ones making the proposals. When you fall asleep again Neptune, prepare yourself. You will have a battle on your hands... And the winner..."

Arfoire turned her head to the left and the new enemy smirked. Neptune gulped. She had a bad feeling about this. "The winner gets the new child...What did you call her? Sky was it?"

Neptune had never gone red in so many microseconds in her life before. "N-NO!" Neptune was furious, but inside the dream world... There was little she could do without her own powers back to normal levels.

Outside Neptune's dream world and over with Nepgear and Uni they were looking over the child who was starting to cry in her sleep.

Nepgear offered a sad smile. "Awwww, Poor Sky. I'll have you happy in no time!" She slowly reached in to pick up Sky but found there was some kind of barrier as her hands were forced away in moments. "Eh?"

Uni blinked. "What are you doing Nepgear? Shouldn't it be easy to-" She tried to reach in...Again, it didn't work.

"What kind of magic is that?"

"Ancient magic."

Uni and Nepgear looked to the door where the voice had come from and spotted Silver standing there. "I felt a drastic shift in the air and I had to come and see what was going on... What's going on with the child?"

Nepgear shook her head. "We don't know Silver. We've tried to figure it out but there's some kind of barrier in the way."

"Barrier?" Silver walked forward and leaned across Sky's cot, reaching in and without much more then a touch Silver was thrown away from the cot into the wall on the opposite side of the room.

"Ow ow ow ow..." Silver rubbed her back as she tried to get her senses back to normal. "...That...Hurt."

Uni felt her throat rumble, emitting an almost animalistic growl noise. "I don't like this. Maybe someone should go check on Neptune? It may be affecting her as well?"

Nepgear nodded. "Right!"

To Be Continued...