Divinity: Chapter forty five
Gaia held her friend while she cried her heart out; Obelix walked out of the shrine giving them privacy.
Serenity held her friend tightly; she knew the only person who could actually understand her was holding her at this moment. Her sobs started to decrease; breaking the hug she gave her friend a warm smile.
Gaia sat once again on the bench and motioned Serenity to sit next to her.
"We had been having discussions very often…" the lunar queen sniffed softly. "We have been trying to have a baby for so long now and…this is wearing me out"
Gaia wrapped an arm around her friend. "He loves you Serenity, I remembered how his eyes gleamed with joy when he saw you walk in to the shrine the day of your wedding"
"Time and destiny are wise dear friend, maybe you still have things to do before you can give your full attention to a baby"
Serenity smiled and nodded.
"Who knows? Maybe my baby is going to look after yours" Gaia smiled.
"I wished you could be with us in the Alliance" Serenity looked down.
"Don't worry little friend, we are going to be fine. I still am going to protect this planet no matter what"
Serenity smiled "I will always look after you"
Gaia gave her friend a kiss on her cheek in gratitude.
"Speaking of protecting…have you heard anything from Metallia?" Gaia asked.
"She was here on your wedding day…I confronted her, she got very upset. I think she won't be molesting us anymore since her strongest card moved on and got married" Serenity played with a strand of lavender hair.
"You mean Ares?" Gaia raised a brow.
"Yes, she felt confident every time she made him angry. She knew you were his weakest point. But now he moved on, she has no more cards to play" Serenity talked softly.
"Metallia is… she was his perdition or he was her perdition…I don't know anymore, they are much alike" Gaia sighed.
Serenity looked up at her.
"You mean your brother?"
Gaia nodded.
"She had feelings for him…" Serenity said softly.
"He never gave her any reasons to believe he loved her" Gaia frowned.
"In her world he did" Serenity said.
"I feel sorry for her"
Serenity shifted in her place "I too feel sorry for her, but she knew what she was doing…I don't know how she got away"
"I don't even know how he met her" Gaia said.
"I still am going to be careful, you should too"
Gaia nodded and smiled. "I will"
Serenity smiled and placed her hand over her friend's belly once again.
"How does it feel?"
Gaia chuckled. "A million ways, at first I felt so tired and nauseous. Now I can feel slight movements inside and a lovely warm feeling"
"Have you thought of names for the baby?" Serenity smiled.
"I have but none of the names Eros proposed to me are of my liking…well not that he proposed too many, he said that if the baby is a girl she should be called like me and if it's a boy he should be called like him" Gaia chuckled.
Serenity laughed.
The day went by quickly and soon the sun was set revealing a gorgeous full moon upon them. The soft white light illuminated the shrine.
Gaia was about to talk again when she saw Aurea coming to their direction.
"My assistant is coming"
Serenity stood up "Want me to leave?"
Gaia moved her head no. "Hide behind that pillar"
Aurea came to view; her hair was disheveled and had a bruise on her right cheek.
Gaia's eyes widened and came near the young woman.
"Aurea what happened to you!" Gaia's hand caressed the bruise.
"I had a fight"
"What? Why?" the queen was surprised.
Aurea sighed "I was at the party with Marlo, when Aurora started to tell some of the new rumors going on, I got angry and punched her in the face"
"Aurea, don't listen to rumors!"
"She talked trash about you Gaia! I couldn't let that happen!" Aurea raised her arms in frustration.
"What kind of rumors are they saying?" Gaia raised a brow.
Aurea stayed silent.
"Aurea, what is the rumor?"
Aurea sighed. "That the royals are afraid of you and your black magic"
"They keep calling me a witch then" Gaia sighed.
Aurea nodded "They called your baby an abomination and that I couldn't stand it, that's why I punched her in the face"
Gaia looked down.
"Aurea, never hit a person ever again"
"But she was disrespecting you and the baby! I don't know who could start a rumor like that" Aurea defended her actions.
Gaia turned her face to her friend behind the pillar then turned to look at Aurea.
"There's someone I want you to meet" Gaia told Aurea.
Aurea made a confused look "I don't see anyone in here but us"
"Serenity you can come out…" Gaia called her friend.
A woman in a long white gown appeared from behind the pillar, her lavender hair was styled in a different way, her body was covered by a soft aura, like the one her queen once had but instead of golden hers was silver. Aurea's eyes widened in shock.
Gaia smiled and walked up to her friend. "Aurea, I want you to meet Serenity, Goddess of the Moon and my best friend"
Aurea kneeled before them; her eyes were fixed on both beauties in front of her.
"This is my friend and assistant Aurea" Gaia told Serenity.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Aurea" Serenity smiled.
"The pleasure is mine" Aurea said amazed.
Serenity chuckled. "Come on, stand up. There's no need for you to be on the floor. If you are Gaia's friend then you are also mine" Serenity winked an eye at her, Aurea stood up.
"And about the rumor…I think we know who started it" Gaia commented, Serenity nodded.
Aurea frowned "Who could make up such horrible thing?"
"Metallia" both goddesses said in unison.
Eros opened one eye, he took the longest nap ever; he expected to see his wife next to him but found nothing. Standing up he went to the small reception in their chambers and saw the book she was reading on the small wooden table in front of the red couch.
He started to worry since she always is in bed at this time before dinner. Walking towards the door he found Leonidas walking through the hall.
"Oy! Leonidas" Eros called out.
Leonidas turned his head over his shoulder and waved at his king.
Eros caught up with the general. "Have you seen Gaia?"
"She is not with you?" Leonidas arched a brow.
"No…which is strange, she always takes a nap on the afternoon"
"Maybe she's with you mother"
Eros smiled "Yes, you are probably right. I'll go look for her to have dinner together"
"Is there a way to destroy this witch?" Aurea touched her sore cheek.
"There must be" Serenity sighed. "It's time for me to leave"
Gaia hugged her friend "I'm so glad you came, remember what we talked about. Don't worry, everything will be fine"
Serenity smiled "Thank you Gaia"
"Nice to meet you Aurea…please, take care of her. She's very special to me" Serenity smiled at the young woman beside her friend.
"I will, I promise" Aurea smiled back at the lunar queen.
In a flash of silver Serenity was gone, leaving the terran queen and her assistant and friend alone under the moonlight.
"She's beautiful" Aurea whispered.
Gaia nodded "We've been so close since I can remember"
"So this is where you've been all this time!"
Gaia and Aurea turned to find a smiling king at the entrance.
"Hello dear, did you sleep well?" Gaia asked.
"You should have waken me up earlier, you have been here…Aurea, what happened to your face?" Eros tried to take a look at Aurea's bruises.
Gaia sighed "There are more rumors about me"
"Who is making all this?" he asked annoyed.
"There are some people who don't accept me as their new queen" Gaia said.
"There must be someone behind all this" Eros said.
A few feet away a dark figure appeared and hid behind a tree, Metallia's eyes gleamed in the moonlight; her nails dig in the hard trunk of the tree and listened carefully to what the terran royals were talking about.
It was her, the one who was creating the rumors, everything began since she brainwashed Charmindy with her lies at the engagement ball.
Gaia felt a strong evil energy and shivered, she tried to find the source of that aura but the shrine didn't have too much light.
"Dear, let's leave this for later. You need to eat something, both you and the baby" Eros commented.
"Baby?" Metallia repeated his words.
"Yes it's not healthy to be up so many hours and not have eaten yet, the baby can resent it" Aurea said.
"Baby…" Metallia's eyes widened in surprise "Gaia is pregnant!"
Gaia nodded and turned to see her husband.
"Dear…I need to talk to Obelix just for one moment, and then I'll catch you at dinner, okay?"
"Obelix isn't here" Aurea turned to both sides.
"He will be in a minute, I just called him" Gaia said.
"Why do I feel you are not telling me something?" Eros raised a brow.
"Me? Why would I do that?"
"Very well…I'll wait for you at the dining room, don't take long, please?" Eros said before turning to leave.
"I won't dear" Gaia smiled.
"Do you want me to wait Obelix?" Aurea came forward.
"No, you go and put some ice on those bruises...I'll be fine"
Aurea nodded "If you need anything, please call me"
"I will" Gaia smiled.
Aurea left the place a few seconds later leaving Gaia alone.
"I know you are here" she said out loud. She heard laughs.
"Well well, so you can still sense when somebody from the upper world is here"
"What do you want Metallia?" Gaia snarled.
"What? No hug for me?" Metallia appeared in front of her, her black dress flowing like a shadow in the night as well as her long hair.
"What are you doing here? Haven't you had enough? Leave me alone!" Gaia said.
"You are pregnant. Expecting a child from a mortal..." Metallia half smiled.
"Don't you ever dare to hurt my baby"
"I don't think you are allowed to be this happy Gaia, you deserve to suffer" Metallia walked around the place.
Gaia followed her with her eyes "Of course you want me to suffer, you think that if you destroy me you will be able to free my brother. Let me tell you something dear, even if you ever free him, he won't wait for you with open arms"
Metallia frowned "We will see"
"Why don't you leave us alone?" Gaia asked.
"Because I hate you! I hate you and the blasphemy you are carrying!" Metallia yelled.
Gaia widened her eyes.
Metallia regained herself. "Does Ares know of this baby?"
Gaia half smiled "Ares has moved on…he won't listen to you"
"But your father will…and I don't think he'll approve a blasphemy in his family" Metallia snapped.
"You stay away from me and my baby!" Gaia yelled.
Metallia laughed.
"Or what? You are just a mortal…you can't do nothing"
"I swear Metallia…that if you try to hurt my baby I'll kill you with my bare hands"
Metallia's laugh echoed the place "Please, you can't do nothing, you are a nobody!"
"And that is why…your people doesn't like you"
"I knew you were behind this" Gaia said, her baby inside started to move abruptly.
"I'm always behind everything Gaia" Metallia started to create an energy barrier around her and started to affect Gaia.
Gaia started to cough.
"You won't win against me Gaia!"
Gaia started to feel dizzy and disoriented; Metallia's laugh was the only thing she could really recognize now. Her baby was moving more and she couldn't take it anymore.
She fainted at the witch's feet.
A/N: Do you know how much I enjoy writing this story? I think, is my way to escape the stress I live day by day. Although I love my job...stressing out is inevitable. Inevitable is going to an end. I have been analizing that maybe of you might get tired of my story for being so long, I love long stories and this one makes me feel like it's some kind of a novel...but, I think I'll have to break it in two parts and maybe, mayyyybe I'm still bringing the pieces together I'll write the third part, to make it a trilogy. I hope you guys stay tunned to it, I would love to continue having your support and reading from you :) well... we are getting close to the end of our first part of Divinity, still more chapters to come, but we are getting close to it's first end. I hope you like it, oh yes, and we already know I don't own sm just some of the characters, the story and this particular plot. Enjoy!