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Disclaimer: and so it ends.

Chapter 24

Hestia End

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"Marcus…is this?"
"…yeah, it's Hestia's."

Marcus Diaz looked at the memorial stone as did the rest of the Diaz children, placed where the portal used to be it.
There was no more a fitting place for it, the same place where Hestia had toiled for years keeping the universe together.

Sunflower ran her hand across the cold stone before Mythra picked her up so they could read the inscription engraved upon it

Hestia 'Don't-Call-Me-That' Diaz
Daughter
Sister
Heroine

First Child and Eldest Daughter of
Marco 'Marcus' Ubaldo Pendragon-Diaz
Hekapoo Diaz

Let it be known she held the fate of All on her shoulder;
Keeping the tapestry of time true and in order.
Even at the cost of her precious life,
She stood resolute, above fear and strife.

But above all: truly a kind and loving soul.
May her name be eternally remembered for her valor, duty and compassion for All.

"…big sister." Sunflower mumbled, tracing the engraving."

"...Hestia."
"...sister."

"...soeur."
"...sorella."

"...sis."
"..."

"Hestia would have wanted something more…uplifting. Happy."

And the siblings took a moment of silence.
Reflecting on their sister's sacrifice.

.

"Well, what do you expect when you bring a slab to our favorite dragon half-sibling, huh?" Hestia laughed, the other Diaz kids turned and waved to her, Sunflower leapt out of Mythra's arms and ran up to her older sister.

"Where have you been?"
"Oh, you know, Uncle Omni fussing over me again when I got out of the hospital from my check up." Hestia laughed as she knelt to hug her sibling.

"Oh, Sunflower…you're so heavy now." Hestia mock grunting, Sunflower pouted, "No more Snooker Bars for you."
"Bleh!" the child blow a raspberry at her sister.

"It's not fair you're the only one who got to see Father again." Hal David whined, the others however agreed, especially Marcus, he had a striking resemblance to their father, often mistaken for him.

They were lucky to find Hestia after they awoke and rushed her to the nearest healer, had they not go there when they did…well, it didn't bear to thinking. Hestia was asleep for 10 days before she awoke; she couldn't help but babble about their father being in the future and them working together to close the portal.

Normally, they would think she had gone mental from her vigil of the portal , but seeing as the sword gone and the timelines realigned they took her word for things being set in order once again. Assurance from Father Time and Uncle Omni only cemented it.

Hestia looked thoughtful for a moment,
"Well, he saw all of you sleeping." Hestia said comfortingly.

"I…I suppose."
"Mhmmm."
"It's not the same, Hestia."
"I know, I know. Still, Dad was a teenager, not an adult yet, it would have been unsettling to see him like that."
"So what? Mom said Dad was a huge dork when they met and ended up together."
"Yeah, I know. I was super jelly when I saw Mom being clingy."
"What? You had an Electra moment?"
"Sorta kinda…"

Hestia's sisters stared at her, while the boys paused then laughed their asses off.

"What!? I had my memory stolen from me! I reacted the way I thought was right!" Hestia felt her cheeks flare.
"WOW, Hestia. Crushing on Dad! Ewww~" Flammetta made a face, Sunflower saw this and mimic her sister, too.
"Hestia, you're standards are like Legendary tier. No guy exists like that anymore." Ignacia teased.
"Oh, come off it, if we were in her shoes it wouldn't be any different. Well, minus Sunflower anyways." Mythra picked up the youngest Diaz child.

Hestia rolled her eyes at her sibling's snickering,
"Whatever. Now that the universe is fixed, we can live it up again. Father Time and Uncle Omni have been working overtime."

"Mhmmm, it's a pity that Grandpa Pendragon took the sword, I wanted a swing at it." Sighed Marcus, the rest nodded and agreed. With the sword gone, their parent's resting place felt emptier, but at the very least it called upon their father to save them from catastrophe.

In a way, their parent's were still watching over them.

Hestia smiled and looked at the sky,
"It's where it belongs…I'm sure it will show up sooner or later."

Sunflower ran up to Hestia tugging her sleeve, "Was Papa cool? Like your stories?"
Hestia smiled, Sunflower spent the shortest time in their birth dimension, time moved extremely slow for the hybrid children only their birth dimension affected them normally. After their parents passed, they couldn't bear to stay in their ancestral home, too many good memories was made there and the children didn't want to spend the rest of their days grieving what they lost.

Their parents certainly wouldn't want that for them.

"Yes, little flower, Papa was super cool! He said you looked super cute! Kawaii even." Hestia boop Sunflower on the nose and she giggled, "And when he used his sword, it was just like the stories and the portraits all over universe! He held out his hand and bam!"

Hestia mimicked a her favorite pose her father used to do when she was Sunflower's age, it never failed to put a smile on her face.

An iridescent light erupted blinding Hestia and her siblings, she blinked wildly; her siblings cried out in surprise and concern for her.

"Sister!"
"Hestia!"
"Whoa!"

Blinking furiously to rid herself of the dots that swam in her vision, she came to see her siblings looking at her, sheet white.

"!"
"…Hestia."
"No way…"

Hestia followed their line of sight:

The Traitor's Sword in her hand.

"Figures."
"Hot damn!"
"Aw, Hestia!"
"Neat-o!"
"You have Papa's sword!"

Hestia held the sword, turning it slow letting the blade catch the light: it was the real deal. And not once did it shock her like when she was a child; it felt…accepting of her. Her sibling looked at her with approval,

"…you're the new master of the sword, sister."
"Better take care of it or Dad will visit you."
"I'm glad it's back."

"Same here."

Hestia smiled and brought the sword forth just the same way her dad used to and it blazed into life, ready to serve its new master.

"I've seen dad use this sword to do a lot of crazy things before...whose up for some time-travel shenanigans!?"
"Yeah!"
"Yes!"
"I've been waiting for this all my life!"
"Let's go see Papa first!"
"Ooh, I always wanted to slap someone in the back of the head!"

However, their talks of time-travel was cut short by subsequent yells from the authority in time and space, timespace/spacetime.

"Hold it, you crazy kids!"
"The universe nearly broke, you knuckleheads! Give it a rest!"

Father Time and Uncle Omni seemingly popped out of nowhere and yell at them before the Diaz kids quickly ran away from the two figures, Hestia grinned widely as she swung and ripped open a rift, ready to start a whole new adventure with her siblings.

"Hestia, no!" the two cried.
"Hestia, YES!" the eldest Diaz child cackled, Omni could hear the reminiscent of his sister in the laugh.

The kids grinned at the aghast faces.

"Let's get the whole family in on this! Every single one of them in the other timelines!"

The siblings cheered and whole-heartedly leapt into the golden portal.
Father Time and Omni yelling at them from the portal entrance before it promptly closed.

Hestia let herself fall, feeling better than she had before.
She pulled the sword and looked at her reflection, seeing every bit of her father and mother in her.

Dad...thank you for coming back and saving us…I miss you everyday...oh and Mom, too! Hehe~!

Hestia turned and looked at the portal exit, smiling at the new adventures that await her and her siblings.

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And that concludes Hestia's Arc in my fanfic. I had initially had plans for Hestia to break into the timelines to help her father, sorta serving as a Deus Ex Machina cliche, but after so many drafts and writing her arc, I realized she was just too good of a character to end up like that. She really is her father's daughter, and Hekapoo's too.

And so Hestia's adventures continues in,
Hestia the Renegade Knight.
Or Hestia the Timeline Cop.
Hestia the Dimension Breaker/Time Breaker.

That's what I originally intended for Hestia after she acquired the Traitor's Sword, her having her own AU fanfic. But that would have taken away time to write the main fanfic and I have so little resources to spare as it is.

Also for those interested, children born in order:

Hestia Diaz
Marcus Diaz + Venus Diaz-Butterfly
Sol Butterfly-Diaz, Summer Thomas-Diaz, Sparrow, Zinnia Diaz, Mythra Diaz
D'Artagnan Diaz, Marcello Lightningsong-Diazson
Ignacia Diaz + Flammetta Diaz
Vincent Diaz
Orion Diaz
Soliel Diaz + Dante Diaz
Hal David Diaz
Sunflower Diaz

Also, I want to address some concerns of Marco's 'future' actions plainly: future Marco is an idiot. Yeah, it seems out of character for Marco to suddenly go ham and clap cheeks with every female possible, but this is a timeline where Marco DOES get very carnal with the ladies. And it's pretty much canon in this fanfic that Warco did indulge in his carnal desires when Marco was trapped in the mirror, so there is a considerable chance of this repeating. Maybe. Who knows.

And so the following chapters will be leading up to the final showdown.
Hopefully it will shed some clarity and it'll be easy to follow and digest.

Ciao,
I am NRG

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