Gaze.Zero: the killing is because I wanted to show deep she has gone. She's diligent to the point of callousness. She'd kill Urgence and the other elementals to suck the any worth she can out of them.

loserkiduwu: I love and hate this review so much.

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In a large room composed of a black sand floor and walls of dark blue bricks, a giant behemoth of a turtle like monster stood face to face with two small figures. One was a penguin lacking the usual exposed green brain. The other was a beautiful woman with unblemished blue skin and snow hair. She wore a navy blue off-shoulder long-sleeved top with a royal red cape that hung off her neck, black leggings and fancy feminine white boots with a snow flake mark on them as well as a golden crown adorned with three red gems.

The woman, Diligence Snowflakes leaped into the air with grace in the world. Ice skate blades made of pure ice manifested under her boots as she hovered in the air above the turtle's head. The beast roared as it extended it head towards the ice elemental ready to swallow her whole. However, Diligence was prepared. She landed on the snout of the beast and slid across it, twirling over the monster's flesh in a beautiful dance as she did, towards the turtle's neck before raising her foot high in the air and without hesitation, unleashed a powerful slash to the beast's neck using her skate blades. However, the size difference made the wound as shallow as a puddle yet that didn't matter to the elemental. From the tiny wound, ice burst through the beast's neck tearing through it like a savage hyena ripping the flesh of its prey until the turtle's neck was cleanly seperated from its shoulders.

Seeing her opponent dead, Diligence jumped down from its body with a smile. "Another monster cave done!" She exclaimed cheerfully, placing her hands on her hips. "I haven't had this much exercise in a while." She said with a smile before turning to her Penguin friend. "Hey, Goonts, how much money did we make today?"

Gunter turned to Diligence with narrowed eyes as he sat atop a pile of gold. "I don't know; a lot?" He answered with a shrug, causing Diligence to smile in satisfaction. "I'll grab the gold in a sec. You can leave."

"You've been weirdly attached to gold recently." Commented Diligence as she pet the penguin curiously. "Did you find a girlfriend penguin when I wasn't looking? Wanna take her on a real fancy date, huh?" She asked with a smug smile before Gunter stared at her with a disgusted expression. "Are you into bo- OW!" Before Diligence could finish her sentence, the penguin pecked her hand violently. "Okay, okay! I'm going! Geez."

Gunter eyed his companion's back as she left the area. Once she was completely gone, the penguin turned not to the pile of gold, but to dead monster. Gunter slowly approached the beast's cut neck and stared at the ice covering. "Powerful as always." He muttered as he caressed the ice with his flipper with eerie silence. Suddenly, slim yellow tendrils extended from the penguins flipper towards the ice. Once the appendages touched the ice, the two almost merged before pulses of blue light traveled through the tendrils and into Gunter's body.

Eventually, the ice disappeared into nothingness as if had never existed. Seeing this, Gunter pulled the tendrils back into his body and gave the beast's neck a satisfied gaze. "Almost there. Just a little bit more."

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On a grassy plains outside the dungeon, Diligence stared at the flowery horizon containing a giant rock silently before taking a deep breath. "Ahhh, so satisfying." She said with a smile before pausing as the wind blew through her snow hair. "Ugh, who am I kidding?! This sucks!" She snapped with a deep frown, throwing her hands into the air. "I AM INCREDIBLY BORED!"

Suddenly, the giant rock across the horizon started moving and shifting to reveal a giant made of rocks. "I have tabletop games if you'd like!" Exclaimed the giant cheerfully with a bright smile before a lightning bolt fell next to him causing him to shrink away from where it fell.

"Nobody asked you!" Snapped Diligence as another bolt of lightning formed inside her fist. "Nyeh!" She exclaimed throwing the second lightning bolt near the rock giant, causing him to run away crying boulders onto the ground. Seeing the giant leave her vision, Diligence sighed dejectedly.

"I hear sounds of misery!" Exclaimed Gunter cheerfully, leaving the dungeon with a wooden chest full of gold on his back. "Show me the loser!"

Diligence sat on the grassy ground with a dejected frown. "That'd be me, Goonts. That'd be me." She replied with a downcast expression. "I'm the loser." She said before going silent as her mind drifted away into a myriad of thoughts.

"Will you tell why or do I have to guess?" Asked the ex tyrant calmly as he waddled towards his companion who groaned in response.

"I'm bored out of my mind! There's nothing to do!" Diligence exclaimed tiredly as she layed on her back. "All this power and nothing to do with it." She added with a deep frown as she caressed her hair. "What the point anymore?"

"Why not conquer some worlds? That's what I used to do." Replied Gunter with a proud look in his eyes as he placed his flippers on his hips, causing Diligence to give him a disturbed look.

Diligence sighed once more before she hugged Gunter as she layed on the ground.

"Can you stop using me as a teddy bear?" Asked Gunter tiredly in a surrendered tone, accepting his fate of being a plushie.

"It's not my fault you're so huggable." Replied Diligence calmly with a smile. "Plus, I'm super hot; so I'm automatically forgiven." She added cheerfully, giving Gunter a kiss on the head before her stomach rumbled in hunger. "Ugh, I'm so hungy. But I don't wanna make food." She whined with a groan.

"Then make someone do it for you." Replied Gunter calmly before pride filled his voice. "It worked out for me."

Memories of a certain half demon flooded Diligence's mind, causing a single tear to fall down the ice elemental's cheek "People suck."

"Not all of them. Some of them can be loyal. Really loyal. If you know the right tricks." Said the penguin as if he was speaking from experience, earning a 'bleh' from his companion. "How about we make a bet. We find some servants and see for a week if they betray you or not. Loser owes the winner a favour." Diligence went silent for what seemed to be minutes before getting up from the ground.

Falling onto the ground, Gunter let out a penguin "wenk" before he turned to Diligence flooding the area with snow. The penguin quickly focused on the ice elemental to see what she was doing before seeing her grab a clump of her snow hair. A magical light encompassed the ice elemental's hand as she clenched her snow filled fist. "From my cells and knowledge, grow." She said before opening her fist and blowing the snow inside into the air.

The snow particles fell onto the snowy ground peacefully as seemingly nothing happened. Gunter stared at the scene in confusion before three blue skinned hands broke out of the snow and out came three beings of ice and snow of different shapes and sizes all wearing clothes made of snow to cover themselves. One of them was a short man just as short as Gunter himself with a beard and pointed hat both made of snow. Another was a muscular giant with snow hair that DEEPLY covered his eyes. The third was a beautiful woman with snow hair wrapped into a pony tail. The woman looked the most like Diligence if you ignored her pointy ears.

"Shorty, I made you the smartest. Make me something fun, I'm bored." Said Diligence pointing at the short man before turning to the giant. "Big guy, protect shorty. Call me if you can't handle it." She said bluntly before turning to the snow woman and creating a knife and a crossbow made of ice. "Lady, here are some weapons. Hunt us some dinner." She added turning to Gunter before getting interrupted by the small man.

"Can you give us names?" The small man said suddenly in an Irish accent, causing Diligence to raise a brow as she placed her hands on her hips.

"A name would be nice." Added the lady cheerfully as the giant nodded. Diligence sighed before eyeing her new servants curiously.

"Norman?" She whispered to herself as she eyed the short man before pointing at him. "You'll be Snorman the Snome." She declared nonchalantly before turning to the giant as the Snome cheered his name. "You'll be...Snewt the Sniant."

"Snewt!" Said Snewt cheerfully as Diligence turned to the last of her servants.

"Last but not least, you'll be...Snoelle the Snelf." Snoelle froze upon hearing her name before she got onto one knee.

"I'll do my best to serve you, my-" Said Snoelle in a firm tone before Diligence cut her off.

"Princess, Princess Snowflakes." She said, narrowing her eyes at her new servants with a frown.

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Later, a distance away from Snewt and Snorman doing whatever, Diligence sat on a chair made of ice eyeing her servants with a deep frown. "Find anything suspicious yet?" Asked Gunter with a smirk.

"No, but I can see it in their eyes." Replied Diligence narrowing her eyes at Snewt and Snorman as the snome made an explosive mixture and threw it onto the ground with a maniacal laugh before the sniant clapped for his friend. "Their burning desire to take me down is apparent." Hearing this, Gunter turned to Snewt in confusion and stared at where his eyes would be had they not been underneath several feet of snow.

"Huh." Whispered Gunter before he was suddenly picked up by Diligence. The penguin quickly noticed a few potion bottles flying their way. Diligence quickly waved her hand in front of her, causing a devastating wave of snow to drown the potions greedily.

"I KNEW IT! I'm taking them down!" Exclaimed Diligence getting up from her ice chair before she felt someone behind her. She quickly turned around and found nobody other than Gunter hiding behind her chair and a boulder. The elemental shrugged before dashing towards Snewt and Snorman. "You're trying to kill me, aren't you?!"

"What?" Asked Snorman in confusion scratching his head before Diligence gestured towards where the potions fell. "You were there? We were jus' throwin' 'em around."

"Snewt!" Added the snow giant cheerfully.

"So it's just a coincidence that your explosive magic made its way to my specific location?" Asked Diligence with a deep frown as she glared at the snow gnome. "Really?"

"Snewt."

"That's sus and you know it, Snewt!" Snapped Diligence glaring at the sniant. "If that is your real name."

"Snewt?!" Exclaimed Snewt in shock before turning to Snorman gesturing towards himself. "Snewt?"

"Ya named us literally 2 hours ago." Replied the snome calmly, causing Diligence to freeze. "And if you're still suspicious, you can access me memories with magic. I'm an innocent snome." Hearing this, Diligence winced at her mistake and stared at the ground.

"S-sorry." Said Diligence awkward with an embarrassed blue blush as she rubbed the back of her neck.

Suddenly, appearing to her rescue, Snoelle walked into the area holding the body of a deer. "Guys! I got food!" She said cheerfully.

"Y-yeah! Let's eat!" Exclaimed Diligence with an awkward smile, trying her best to change the subject.

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In front of a campfire above which a deer body was being cooked, four ice beings and a penguin sat on a circular bench made of ice. Suddenly, Snorman pulled out a potion and threw it onto the ground before music reverberated in the air.

"Where do you keep getting the glass for these from?" Asked Diligence curiously staring at where Snorman threw the potion.

Snorman gave Diligence an odd look. "Glass? What's that?" He said blinking in confusion before Snoelle cut in.

"Stop it with the magicky stuff. Let's celebrate!" She exclaimed cheerfully with a bright smile as she passed around deer meat and water. "Let's have a toast to the best princess in the world. The one who brought all three of us to life. Princess Diligence Snowflakes!" Diligence blushed at Snoelle's words as the snow elf raised her cup to the air. "To the princess!"

"To the princess!" "Snewt!"

The newly appointed princess couldn't help but blush at the toast in her honor. Even after all those years, compliments remained to be her greatest weakness.

And that night, Diligence slept like a baby.

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In the darkness of the night where Diligence and her new servants slept on beds of snow, an ominous shadow approached the sleeping ice elemental and the penguin in her arms. The shadow's eyes were bloodshot, their breathing heavier with each step they took.

Once they were in front of the princess drooling in her sleep, they pulled a knife from behind them before the penguin in Diligence's arms woke up. "Wenk." He let out the sound of any normal penguin.

"Shhh, penguin. I'm not here for you." Said the shadow firmly as they raised their knife into the air with murderous intent before the penguin slid out of the ice elemental's arms and stood in front of the shadow. The shadow froze in confusion before a giant tendril shot out of the penguin's head towards the shadow's head. The tendril quickly wrapped around the shadow's mouth, keeping them from screaming as the penguin began to transform into a form much more primordial. A form that has not been seen for eons. Orgalorg.

"Like a mighty chrysalis pushing out of a damp cocoon, I emerge." The shadow's eyes widened in shock as they heard the penguin speak. "Do you enjoy my true form, Snoelle? Or are you too preoccupied by murdering your own princess." In the crushing grip of the primordial, Snoelle struggled to get out the best she could. But alas, she was no match for Gunter. "If you wanna live, let's keep this between us. I have a bet to win."

Without even waiting for Snoelle's reply, the being transformed back into what seemed to be a harmless penguin once again. Snoelle panted in panic and fear as the penguin slid comfortably back into Diligence's arms as if nothing had happened.

Snoelle gave her princess one last hateful glare before going back to her bed.

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Toodles.