The Atheist And The "Goddess"
This woman's claiming was ridiculous to many levels... what in the hell the "goddess" of the Ylisseans would be doing inside his mind?!
"Eh... are you putas (fucking) kidding me?" Kiran narrowed even more and shook his head slowly.
"Naga" also shook her head and smiled gently. "No, I'm not. I'm pretty sure the future Exalt must have told you about me."
"You might have discovered that by checking my memories... that's no proof at all that you are the "Naga" Lucina mentioned."
Naga considered that for a moment. "I guess everything I mention and you know may be obtained through that method... what about I tell you something you don't know but the future Exalt does know?"
"Mmmh..." Kiran relaxed a little. "okay, go ahead."
"I have a daughter, her name is Tiki." Naga said that with a very big smile.
Kiran raised a little his eyebrow, while he wanted to confirm the information, he was more interested in the name.
"Does she have a ladybug costume or something?"
Naga seemed genuinely confused. "Eh... no. Why the question?"
The Z-Saber and the Z-Buster disappeared. Kiran inclined a little his head, closed his eyes, and shook his hand. "Due to nothing, due to nothing... em..." Kiran crossed his arms. "If you actually have a daughter, you must be able to create a copy of her... right? I mean, you are pretty much self-aware here just like me, therefore you must have some power... not as big as mine but..." He then extended his arms and opened his hands.
Naga didn't respond, instead, she closed her eyes. After three seconds, a feminine figure materialized into the existence.
That woman was a little smaller than Naga, but she shared her hair color and having a tiara. She wore a red dress, had dragon-elf form ears and... big... breasts...
This "Tiki" indeed looked like a daughter of this woman... however, certain detail was bothering Kiran.
He scratched his hair and forehead "You know, you could have been more original with her design..." he snapped once more. The two green membrane monsters disappeared and in front of "Tiki" another woman materialized.
Naga's eyes went wide... both her daughter and this woman were... very identical.
"W-Who is she?"
Kiran looked at her with a little contempt. "Don't play the dumb, you must have seen her inside my head by now. It's Terra, one of the protagonists of Final Fantasy 6."
"Final... Fantasy? I don't know what that is."
"Suuuuure! and Mario wasn't part of my childhood..." Kiran growled and snapped once more. Both Tiki and Terra vanished. Then, behind Kiran... an enormous version of the green monsters of before suddenly appeared...however... it made... what seemed to be happy noises that... despite its horrible appearance... they made him look cute... "Don't force me to use the super metroid on you and now tell me who you actually are."
"I am Naga." This time, she seemed upset about the situation... it didn't help the chains weren't exactly comfortable.
Kiran rolled his eyes, then the "super metroid" approached a little, but instead of attacking Naga, it only made more happy noises as Kiran caressed its membrane. Then he created weird yellow... gelatinous organisms that were trapped inside crystals, then he threw them away, the super metroid didn't waste time and flew after them... it began to eat.
Kiran smiled at this before turning back to Naga. "Okay, so let's pretend you're Naga for a moment... what do you wish from me?"
"Since you have freed Ylisse from the invaders of another world, it is fair and necessary to give you a reward." The woman seemed serious about that.
"Em... I suppose... yeah, I deserve something... but... you didn't have to give me... that..." Kiran covered his eyes with his left hand and with his right hand pointed to Naga's... "I mean, no mames (don't be fucking kidding)"
It took a few seconds to the goddess to comprehend what this human-like life form was implying.
"T-T-That's not what I'm here for..." Naga looked away, annoyed but with a notable blush present on her face.
"Then why would you dress like that?..." Kiran growled. "Al carajo con esto (to hell with this)." A new snap generated a dress for Naga. It was white and hid more skin.
"I hope you like Hylia's clothes..." He then let his left hand fall. He maintained his eyes borrowed though.
Naga noticed that even though this dress did indeed cover more of her skin, had this been a place filled with light the white nature of the thing would reveal some stuff anyway. "I gotta admit this is marvelous," said Naga. "Thanks."
"You're welcome?... so how are you going to "reward" me then?" Kiran rubbed his forehead.
"I was thinking in strengthing your sword." she commented, crossing her fingers.
Kiran remained silent... suddenly the Master Sword appeared, Kiran held it. "You mean the Espada Maestra?"
"Yes... em... could I?..." she would have extended her hands to reach it if she could.
Another snap erased the chains holding Naga. Kiran handed over the Espada Maestra. However, once the "goddess" had it, an invisible barrier generated between them.
"It's not a bad sword." Naga nodded slowly. "However, being this a little heavier than the average one... wouldn't it be good to add an especial attribute?" she commented as she looked at the blade.
"Well, in the story it could throw bolts of lightning." He made a quick demonstration materializing a second Master Sword and raising it before unleashing the skyward strike.
Naga nodded slightly. "I can't exactly replicate that, but I don't think it'd be difficult for me to add the power of a Levin sword... there are some issues though."
"You can't or you can? make up your mind." Kiran sighed.
"You see, due to your special nature as a soulless being my magic judgment cannot work on you the same way it worked on the Exalt. That and the fact you also seem to behave... different from normal heroes." This time Naga seemed to looking at him with some distrust.
Kiran once again closed his eyes and shrugged. "I am not a hero... that's for sure... anyway, then what's the point of coming here in the first place?"
"Well, I cannot use my judgment... but I can test you. You'd have to bring your sword to my temple. The test is gonna be different due to your soulless and lacking of divine blood condition, but if you pass, I will bless your... Espada Maestra." Naga gave him a smile.
Kiran sighed.
"The thing is... unless your temple is on the way back to the gate which we came from... I don't have time for that..." he shook his head. "Couldn't you just give me something more simple?"
Naga rubbed her chin. "What do you wish then, child of the stars?"
Kiran's left hand abruptly began to shine. He then put on display his hand's back part. The light was golden or yellow and it had the form of three triangles.
"A mark?..." Naga noticed it also was in the sword. "You must like that symbol a lot... don't you?"
"Even if it does not shine in the real world I don't care... I mean, you gave a mark to the Ylissean royal family so I guess this isn't hard." Kiran commented as he looked at the mark on his hand before it disappeared.
"Are you sure?" while Naga was kinda happy to know this human-like being was humble... that wasn't a very good reward for what he had done. "Take into consideration that this mark won't give you divine blood."
"As I said before, I don't care." he sighed.
"I see... if you change your mind in the future I will be in my temple that is over the Mont Prism." she attempted to place a hand on his shoulder only to find the presence of the invisible wall.
"I suppose for a manakete it does not matter a lot if I go right now or in 50 years..." he left his arm down and the shining stopped. "By the way... why do you call me child of the stars?... It's technically true since the atoms that form my body were generated in the cores of stars that died a long time ago, however... this applies to any life form..."
Naga smiled. "That is true, but you're the only one on this planet that was born in a world that is beyond any sun we are able to see from here." she pointed out, putting her index finger on display.
Kiran's mouth opened a little. "Do... you know about that?... oh wait... probably you learned thanks to my memories."
Naga giggled. "Living millennia may result to be extremely boring without a pastime. One of mine is to discover things about our world."
"... do you know how to create a nuclear explosion?" if she really was that old and was a scientist... she should know about that.
"We both know we would need to break an atom. That's not a good idea... and even if it was due to the circumstances, that power is beyond my normal reach."
"So when you sent Lucina back in time you calculated where the galaxy, the sun, and the planet would be in that very moment in the past... didn't you?"
"I'm not my future self but it's for sure I did. Hadn't I done that, she would have ended up dying in the outer space." Naga seemed to imagine the situation as she narrowed her eyes.
Kiran noticed how math formulas appeared behind Naga... he knew some of them.
"You have had this knowledge for so much time... and yet you never gave it to the humans that worship you so much." he crossed his arms.
"If I give them all this they wouldn't learn to progress by themselves, they would become even more dependent on me of what they already are. Given your "human" condition, it's not very probable they would create a religion with you as their god."
Kiran raised his eyebrow "Mmmh... well, at least you actually told me the reason why you don't help them... a lot... unlike certain "god" back home that people even aren't sure if it actually exists..." Kiran rubbed his face and growled. "Not that I totally agree with you... but dammit, it's something!"
"I'm not either omnipresent and omniscient to fix everything... unlike humans like to believe."
"I see..."
"Anyway... I desire luck for you in your battles, child of the stars." Naga closed her eyes and raised her hand as it began to shine with a green light.
Kiran began to felt... weird... before he decided to attack... he woke up.
Confused, he felt something burning a little on his left hand. The dark of the night wasn't a problem to see what was happening.
Three triangles had been formed on his hand.
While the original hero had only a single triangle being totally golden... he had the three. Of course, they didn't have the power of the real triforce, but again, he didn't care.
After a while, they stopped shining. Were they golden because they were being created and then they just became into the mark?... or perhaps they would begin to shine once more if he did something?
Kiran smiled like a child... this felt so good.
It was obvious the heroes of The World Of Awakening hadn't wanted to stay home. All of them wanted justice for what happened to their babies... or even if one of them didn't have a baby, the shepherds were like a family and weren't going to abandon their "siblings"
This, as anybody could have expected, didn't please Veronica.
She took the dolls and crushed them without hesitating... the remaining ones... some of those crying bastards had been a headache for her and some maids... it didn't matter while she made the Awakening heroes believe they were still alive... not to mention the few adult versions she also killed.
Xander tried to give her a massage but it wasn't working.
Seein her leader dark mage entering her tent and kneeling at least allowed her to feel interested regarding something else.
"What do you want? better for you to be important..."
"Your highness, I've completed what you asked for."
Veronica narrowed as three heroes also entered the tent.
The first one was a red-haired knight, wielder of a very big sword. His armor was sky blue... just like a cap he also wore.
The second one had a more dark blue armor, it was decorated with many golden lines. His hair was also blue and wielded an enormous ax.
Finally, the last one was a woman, green-haired just like her clothes, they were more light and she had two katana-like swords.
The three shared a detail... their faces were emotionless... around their eyes, their skin was... darker.
"Now they will follow any order if you're holding this amulet." The dark mage said. Veronica extended her arm. Once she had it around her neck she wasn't sure about what to say.
"Put your weapons down."
The three heroes did that in less than two seconds.
"...Take them and then leave."
Again, they knelt, grabbed the weapons and each one went outside. They never made any noise of confirmation or disagreement... they just did what she asked for.
Veronica stood up and left, too. The dark mage and Xander followed her.
"Fight each other."
Immediately the woman jumped fastly and attempted to stab the armored man on the head, he stopped her with his ax. The knight attempted to swing and make a cut on the woman's arm but she used her second sword to block it.
Then they began to hurt each other, they didn't seem to get bothered at all by the wounds... even when they were many.
"Stop." Veronica didn't need to lose more heroes.
She smiled...
I had a lot of fun writing this one.
Perhaps Naga seems a little out of character because she's showing more emotions instead of being the stoic woman we usually see... but that's in part because she's interacting with one of the few life forms that does not treat her as a goddess. He's also the first one ever questioning her, she's happy about that.
Why is she rewarding Kiran and not anybody else?... well, the order of heroes had already attempted to free this world before, however, they failed. It was Kiran's tactics and knowledge about electricity that allowed them to win.
She being a scientist too is something I've done to fix a detail regarding time travel stories... they almost never are aware that every second, the Galaxy, the Sun, and the Earth are traveling through the Cosmos. Even going a single second to the past would materialize you in the middle of nowhere... this was another reason why Kiran thinks all this might be a dream or a matrix... or at least that Lucina wasn't being honest about her backstory. In his logic, had she actually traveled back in time... she could not be standing in front of him. So this also changes something: She didn't arrive alone. If Naga is precise enough to calculate the position of that many space bodies... why some of the future children would end up in different places of the continent or even on different continents?
Of course, this also means she needed to have a reason that explained why she hasn't given her knowledge before... and in a way, she's already like that in her canon version. It wasn't that hard. Think about her like a Kaioshin that sometimes actually decides to help when it's absolutely necessary.
All the test thing was a detail to make sure that the idea wouldn't sound like an asspull if I ever do that part.
The triforce mark is just that, a mark, as Naga says it does not give any power to Kiran. It's an adorn he wanted and that's it.
And Veronica is back... the next world to free... the World Of Blazing!
By the way, I'll try to give you a link that displays how Kiran looks like with his cosmic tactician clothes as stated in the previous chapter (it does not show his face though)
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Anyway... time to answer reviews:
Guest:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Well, I guess you're right XD. That was kinda obvious.
I hope you understand now why she called him child of the stars.
Half-BeastDragonSoul2013:
That's why Raigh is the only other one who has sworn. I cannot wait to make them two interact more.
Papa Wolf? mmmmh... we will see what happens.
I know that Kiran. However... I'm not sure what to opine about that one... my mind is not working.
Guest 2.0:
If by Star Warrior you mean the faction Kirby is part of... no, he likes stars and that's it.
Blexan22:
Summoning a "god"... (because even the ones that actually were gods in the canon aren't that here...)... too convenient... perhaps Grima and only one of them (probably the male one).
The concept is Dream Weaver or Lucid Dreamer. Being a lucid dreamer is something actually possible in the real-world... it's hard though. While Kiran maintains these skills perfectly, I sometimes am unable to modify every single detail. During those dreams, I can only control where the "plot" of a dream is going to (which includes making the "time" go in reverse in case I didn't like something).
Em... if you say so...
