Chapter 9: Another Adventure(or Misadventure)of the Goddess

Disclaimer: I don't own Black & White, the folks at Lionhead do. Any attempt to sue me will result in a tornado being dropped on your head(I am a wind alchemist, after all)

"Senka, keep putting food in these people's village store while I go see what the next village needs," Rekka said as she transformed into her true form.

I will do as you command, Mistress, came the tiger's reply as he cast another Food miracle.

Looking on in approval, Rekka reached down with a divine hand and pat Senka on the head.

"Keep up the good work, Senka. I know I don't tell you that nearly often enough," she said, giving a mental smile as the tiger looked up at her.

You've been telling me that in your own way, Mistress. I know you've been too busy protecting our people from those who would hurt them. You've been telling me that I'm doing good with your smiles and general attitude of approval.

"Well, Senka, I'm verbally telling you to keep up the good work. I'll just fly over to the next village and see what they need," the goddess said with a chuckle just before flying off.

When she reached the Indian village, the smell was enough to force her to land.

"What's happened here?" she asked, unsheathing her sword in case of an enemy attack.

"Our food supply has been poisoned," one of the sick villagers told her, then took a closer look at her.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Rekka, Goddess of War, and I'm here to help you," she said, her voice solemn as she traced a spiral shape, then a heart shape in the air with the tip of her sword. A rainbow colored light engulfed the villager and he stood straighter.

"I feel better! Thank you!" the man shouted happily as he spontaneously hugged her.

"It wasn't any problem," she said with a chuckle before transforming back into her true form. Since Senka was out of earshot, she switched to telepathy.

Senka! I'm going to need your help. The entire food supply of this village has been poisoned. I'll have to empty the entire village store of food and find a way to dispose of it. You'll have to help me refill it.

Yes, Mistress. I'm on my way, the tiger replied as he stopped casting Food miracles and ran toward the Indian village as fast as he could. He'd sensed the urgency in his mistress' voice, even though it was telepathic.

When he arrived, Rekka had already emptied the village store and was looking for a place to dispose of it.

"Senka, start refilling the food supply. I need to find a place to dump this blasted stuff," she said when she saw the tiger. Senka nodded with a growl and started casting Food miracles in the village store.

"You know, you could use just a pinch of that poisoned food on the other villages that you'll need to win over to defeat Lethys," Evil said with a chuckle.

"Really! That's not very nice," Good chided.

"I'm with Good on this one. No one deserves to die by poisoning. Maybe I can dump it in the sea," she mused aloud, but decided to dump the poisoned food on the beach, instead, and set fire to it with a fireball.

After flying back to the village, she sat against a tree after giving the villagers instructions that, if they were poisoned by the food to see her for healing, while Senka kept refilling their food supply with fresh food of various types.

Hours later, after she wearily healed the last villager, she found herself yawning and stretching.

"Hmph...apparently, even deities can get tired," she muttered to herself as she curled up on the ground next to the tree and dozed off to recharge her powers.

Senka, once the village store was refilled, rejoined his Goddess, and, noticing that she was asleep, stood guard over her. When he'd grown up a bit from the rambunctious cub he was when she had chosen him, he'd vowed to protect her always, and that was one vow he would always uphold.

To be continued...

A/N: Wow...it's been awhile since I updated this story. I was suffering from lack of inspiration to write. Now that I've regained the inspiration to write, I'll try to update this more often. ;