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Chapter 9 - New Normal

In Heaven, Tera

Gemi walking through the streets of the shopping district ''It's strange that there aren't any guards given the location of this place it being on a raised land and having a stream surrounding it. Yeah, it would make one hell of a fortress'' a man in a cloak keeping his face hidden passes by Gemi ''Well it seems I'm not the only one who notice.''

 

As Gemi walks through buying his groceries ''well that's it for today now just one more stop." He continues to walk through the streets taking several turns and he stops at brick wall and steps through it into a dark building and looks around and a little girl roughly 6 years old with white silver-like hair, deep blue eyes in a white dress with shorts underneath jumps at Gemi with glowing fist and he dodges her easily and multiple light arrows fire at him which he quickly evades by jumping in the air while still holding his bag of groceries

 

Gemi confident "You didn't think normal light arrows would touch me." The arrows then swiftly change direction back at him Gemi ''she's controlling the arrows?'' looks over at the little girl who gets and cracks her knuckles and light covers her fists, homing arrows not bad, he lands down and the girl launches back at him and tries punching as he keeps evading the arrows that are moving in coordination to her movements and an arrow pierce through his long coat bottom and Gemi jumps back and releases mana that cancels out the girl's magic instantly as she is about to land a magic punch on him and the mana gets cancelled.

 

The little girl angry "Again really I couldn't even touch you." Gemi happy "well I don't know about that Roxxie." He lifts up the damaged end of his long coat showing her one of her arrows touched him and her mood lights up Roxxie the strikes a pose with an eagle made out of light on her shoulder and she chuckles "That's to be expected you were fighting the great last pupil of the primordial of the stars and sun, the great magic scholar Roxxie Alvanca the sun mage." And she strikes a pose with the eagle as her mana adds to the moment and Gemi claps his hands impressed by her introduction and whistles cheeringly "Wow that gave me goosebumps nice. You really worked hard on it, as Roxxie bathes in his praise, though why use my last name."

 

Roxxie shyly "I know it's not mine yet but you could change that." Gemi "Adoption?" Roxxie sighs discontent with his answer "forget it." Gemi "Aww, cute aren't you forgetting something you passed the final." as sun like mana pours out of him into her and Roxxie gets excited as his mana pours into her and her hair becomes blond and eyes take a golden color and bright yellow light wings form on her back and a halo over her head. She looks at her herself and gets overexcited and then squeals Gemi summons his staff and hands it over to Roxxie who hesitates to hold it "One last thing till we go. You have come far from the pick pocketer who tried to rob me back in the day and now my second incarnation, I remember you couldn't lift it at all back then so why not give it another try" Roxxie holds one end and Gemi let's go of his end and Roxxie starts struggling to keep the other end up and the end falls down as struggles to keep her end up "come on b-b-ba...bbby. Help!" Gemi grabs the staff by one end and lifts it effortlessly "wow your will has gotten stronger."

 

Roxxie "But still heavy as hell. How do you lift it?" Gemi "I am going to tell you my little secret. My staff gets lighter to the wielder as their will gets stronger as that is my nature or my tie to my strength, just like the other primordial beings have different general personality like Leo has her pride, Chaos is chaotic and so on." Roxxie "Um, Gemi do you really think I can get strong enough to stand against them." Gemi "Archipello was what 2 years into training and he was strongest incarnation out of all of them him and Capricorn practically trained together he became primordial level and he's a librarian so I know you'll reach there soon enough."

 

Gemi "Say would you like to go on a date with me." Roxxie turns to him surprised her cheeks red `a date! Gemi "You know I'm new here so why not explore the city with a fine young lady. So do you say yes." Roxxie about to answer and her stomach lets out a loud rumble and she freezes with embarrassment, Gemi "We can grab something to eat first if you are down." Roxxie eagerly "Yes, I'm down give me a second." Roxxie rushes up some stairs into a room, she comes out wearing a white derby hat with a beautiful white balloon dress just covering a bit past her knees and white gladiator sandals "Boom 3 seconds flat you're not the only one who can change fast. she walks to the buildings door and opens it, come on let's go on our date I know a place where we can go to get a snack." Gemi "Well lead the way."

 

Back on Earth, In Gemi's House

Uriel on the couch staring at the wall turns and looks at the now smaller sun "Well…this is boring. I think it's ok, if I move now.'' she gets up and moves away from the sun which follows, well that's neat now where should I go now, she sees the stairs and walks up them to a door with a sun on it, ''okay so this is the room of the one primordial who chose to stay absent in this war what reasons does he have for staying out. I don't but soon I shall." She immediately grabs the door knob and it burns her hand on contact Uriel in pain screams "Ssson of a Bitch. Seriously magic security well at least now I know there's something he's hiding now let's try this again…'' her hand covered in her fire she grabs and opens the door; your secrets are mine."

 

Uriel looking at his spacious normal looking room with a king sized bed with a fury blanket, a wooden work table with a draw attached and wooden wardrobe near the only window in his room she walks to the work table and finds a book on it and opens it and starts going through the drawings in the book and sees drawings of Roxxie and Archipello "Pupils well I know Archipello but the girl never seen her…''goes through pictures of the other primordial beings and goes past several pictures of Capricorn. ''Oh my someone clearly has a lover and here I was thinking he was gay for Lucifer… No secrets in here, closes the book and puts it down, had no idea he drew though.'' she walks to his wardrobe and opens it and goes through his clothes, ''no secretsss…'' she starts putting his clothes back, ''maybe he has no secrets and just doesn't want to fight.'' she puts his clothes back in and closes the wardrobe and then sits on his bed and starts sniffing his shirt he put her in and falls back on his bed and begins snuggling against the blanket, he smells nice and she falls asleep on his bed.

 

Back on Tera,

Gemi and Roxxie walking together hand in hand, Roxxie points to a restaurant "there's the place." They walk into the restaurant to the receptionist, Receptionist "hello sir that's a lovely daughter you have there." Gemi "Oh, thank you can we get a table for two." Receptionist "Of course I'll take your coat and bag." Gemi hands over his groceries "thank you." as he's taking off his coat sense danger and pushes Roxxie away and the receptionist jumps away with his groceries and a giant rock crushes into him and the reception table.

 

The people inside people start screaming as well as the people outside and a tall muscular man with long black long hair and dark eyes with a menacing face walks in with a villainous smile "Attention!" the panicking people shut up in fear of the man, the man raises his voice higher "I Ahzaizel claim this town in the name of her grace her grace Nyx Medea.., turns and sees Roxxie's now yellow glowing eyes, What have we here an incarnation of Gemi. You will prove useful in our endeavor." As he walks towards her, Roxxie frozen by fear stays on the ground and as Ahzaizel is about to grab her Gemi's staff suddenly appears spinning and hits Ahzaizel across his face launching him out of the building and light mana in the form of birds converges into one forming Gemi and his staff flies to him and he grabs it.

 

Ahzaizel angry "You send you wouldn't interfere with the war great siege." Gemi "Yeah, I know but the moment you mess with one of my incarnations, then there you can expect nothing but my fury." Ahzaizel laughs at his face "Oh, please the primordial who has never fought, is afraid of war is telling me I the strongest incarnation of chaos herself, is gonna what feel his wrath." He hears a thud to the ground and sees the fifty men he brought with him dead in their positions and turns to look at Gemi who is now seated on one of the bodies Gemi looking at Ahzaizel "Hey you have a cut right down your eye." Ahzaizel touches his right eye and feels nothing and suddenly Gemi is behind and he gets a fresh cut going down the side of his right eye and Ahzaizel screams in agony and draws his sword and tries slashing Gemi but he effortlessly dodges his fast attacks and suddenly appears right in front of Ahzaizel when he's wide open with only Gemi's single finger between them.

 

Ahzaizel ''How is he this powerful I've never not seen him not even once raise his hand, so why, why am so scared of him it's like I'm staring down death from her.'' Gemi "For her incarnations you are quite weak…'' as mana starts building up quickly into a tiny star above his finger tips, take this as a lesson no never ever mess with what's mine., mana stops entering the tiny star, Now, nova." The star then explodes releasing a powerful explosion of mana that incinerates the bodies to nothing and sends Ahzaizel flying through the air and partially burnt without damaging the surroundings and when the light clears Gemi disappears and rolls the giant rock away from under it while appearing in his disguise as he dusts himself off "Damn that came out of nowhere." And Roxxie jumps into his arms crying "I was so scared." Gemi carrying her whispers to her "Don't worry I'll always keep you safe." And she starts to calm down to quiet sobs and the receptionist seeing this pauses and turns to the people inside "Okay that's all folks come on get out of here we're closed…, Gemi about to leave and then stopped by the receptionist ''you two stay.''

 

Early Evening in Tera,

Gemi talking and laughing with the receptionist, Gemi "Ah I've missed our little talks Darth honestly, I barely recognized you at first, I didn't expect you to start a restaurant and I had no idea you and Sera had tied the knot congrats." Darth "Yeah definitely a mile away from being in the creator's secret service." Sera wearing a chef's uniform steps out of the kitchen and sits on Darth's lap "Yeah if u asked me a year ago where I saw myself in the next couple years, I'd say still in the secret service treatment department., looks at sleeping Roxxie, I thought I'd never see the day you got a new incarnation and she's quit a cutey."

 

Gemi "Yeah she has potential but there isn't much more I can really teach her effectively." Sera "So you are going to leave her with your Archipello." Gemi "Yeah, plus I can't exactly take her with me I feel a change coming anyways time for us to head out bye." As they wave Gemi good bye.

 

Back on Earth as the sun is almost setting

Uriel wakes up and takes a deep sniff of his blanket and notices another scent and gets up "Two perfumes does he change his perfume." Gets off his bed and lays his bed back to how it was and looks at the sun which's size insignificantly decreased and sighs and makes her way to the hall. Uriel "Best power nap of all time now to continue exploring I mean searching for secrets." She bursts through a door into the house's bathroom and looks around and sees two toothbrushes at the sink. Uriel pauses in terror staring at the two toothbrushes "Why would a person leaving by themselves have two toothbrushes. ''Oooh, I'm screwed if it is who I think it is then, wait no it can't be her and why should I be scared of a couple of plants she probably can't even fight, starts cold sweating, right."

 

She then hears the doorbell ring and she feels relived "Phew, he's back I'm safe now not like I was in danger.", she rushes down the stairs and shuts the doors she opened and rushes down the stairs to the front door and opens it and sees a lush, meadow-like field of grass surrounded by huge beautiful trees Uriel stunned by the sceneries beauty starts to walk outside "Beautiful, am I on Earth…, she turns around and sees the house is a tree and her eyes widen, HOLY SHIT! , as she is looking at the house a vine suddenly wraps around leg and she looks at it and smacks her lips, ''Okay that wasn't worthy of the holy shit but now this, while pointing at the vine, definitely deserves the…'' ,the vine suddenly pulls up a tree and she screams HOLY SHIT!" Uriel then summons her sword and it flies to her from the house and she grabs it and cuts herself loose from the vine and lands down and starts looking around.

 

A woman with green hair, curved and green eyes with a curvy body seated up on a tree branch with a cold tone "Now I have to deal with a bird. What a pain though I guess whores come in all shapes and sizes." she drops down from the tree and lands on her feet as Uriel starts shaking in fear as she senses the woman's blood thirst "damn it! damn it! damn it! Why her why Capricorn." Her sword catches fire and she suddenly receives a swift kick to her right side and the sword's flames go out and she falls 5 meters away from Capricorn and gets up immediately. Capricorn "Don't struggle it will just prolong your suffering."

 

Uriel being cocky after barely feeling the kick "how presumptuous, after all it seems someone's kicks have gotten weak with age, huh granny." Capricorn frowns slightly "what are you insinuating?" Uriel ''okay this is working I can demoralize by being rude and I'll survive I didn't feel that kick but the sun he gave me got a lot smaller…I'm insinuating that your kicks are so weak that a person with no legs kicks harder than you and they have no legs." Capricorn angry "I see well you just lost the mercy of a painless death looks I'll be making chicken wings today." Uriel gulps ''why didn't the insults work.''

 

Back in Heaven, At the Angelic Quarters

Gemi knocks on a door and a man with long silky white hair opens the door while wearing a suit with coat tails, Gemi "Hey their Archipello looks as young as the day I left." Archipello "Same goes for you master may I ask what brings you, if they catch you, they might lock you up." Both of them looking concerned and they burst out laughing Gemi "Yeah right." Archipello "Jokes aside why are you here and who's the sleeping girl." Gemi "She's a new edition to the family." He uses his disturb magic to disable her illusion magic and the symbols of her being an incarnation and Archipello gasps "A new incarnation are you staying as well?" Gemi "No, I won't be staying." Archipello "I see you need me to train her, is anything wrong."

 

Gemi "No, I just don't think the girl at home will be very welcoming also could you give this letter to her for me it's some parting words though not forever." Hands Archipello a letter and hugs them both Gemi "You both have and will continue to make me so proud." And then jumps away and Roxxie wakes up soon after and looks up at Archipello "He left, didn't he?" Archipello "that he did but not without saying you have and will make him proud, sets her down on the ground and hands her the letter, a little word from master I'll give you some time alone come in whenever you are ready." Steps inside the house and Roxxie walks with the letter to the other side of the building and squats down and opens it and starts reading

 

The letter* Gemi "Dear Roxxie, If you are reading this then you are now the newest incarnation of the stars. The guy who you're with yeah that's my first incarnation incase you were wondering and yes, the librarian will be looking after you and training you he may not look like much on the surface but trust me when I tell you this, he will make you stronger way faster than I could though that doesn't mean he's stronger than alright so just so you know okay. I'll be looking forward to the final depute of Roxxie the second incarnation of the stars. I'll let you figure out the rest for yourself.

 Signed your lovely,

 Gemi.

Roxxie looks at the paper lifts it up and looks on the behind "Ok nice and short. she gets up and waves at Gemi who's far of at a distance and mimes the words, See you soon, master." Gemi surprised she saw him smiles and waves back at as the night sky's stars twinkle and then runs off back to the portal to earth at the speed of light Roxxie "Damn but will I ever be that fast." Gemi running with groceries back to earth and makes it to the portal as he's flying down notices Capricorn standing off against Uriel and rushes down as Capricorn is about to kill Uriel with one final kick and steps in between them and she kicks his arm causing a crater to form and dust to rise.

 

The dust settles and she sees Gemi's face and she jumps back on her knees and her personality becomes warmer and loses all sense of enmity ''I'm so sorry I didn't mean to hit I swear it, her personality becomes cold and full of enmity and she looks at Uriel, was to dispose of the trash. he hits her head and she holds her head, ''ow but." Gemi "but nothing this behavior isn't right, you can't kill women for coming here." Capricorn "but she was in the house." Gemi "who do you think let her in. you know what no forbidden fruit for another month." Capricorn "Noooooooo, please I swear I'll go clean last time I swear… as she is holding onto his leg, please I need to eat the forbidden fruit once more I was trying to read but all I could think of was the riding it every night I was fantasying please I beg of you take anything else but don't increase the time with no forbidden fruit."

 

Gemi "fine I won't increase the time but you still have 3 weeks to go." Capricorn gets up and puts arm on his shoulder "about those three weeks can we not do them, While looking at him with puppy dog eyes, please." Gemi looking at her finally caves in "fine tomorrow, he turns to Uriel who's swept by relief and she falls to the ground, you okay." Uriel out of breath "yeah just relived that I'm not dead, she tries getting up but her legs can't move, huh I can't move my legs." Gemi "well that's what happens when you take in too much foreign mana too quickly, temporary paralysis of the part most of the mana when. Upsy Daisy, picks up Uriel and she starts blushing, come on princess."

 

Capricorn also falls to the ground "would you look at that my legs are also not working, upsies please." Gemi "if you get up right now I'll let you eat the forbidden fruit early." Capricorn springs back up full of energy "got to set the mood just right.", she dashes inside the house. Uriel confused "what forbidden fruit it's not a fruit is it." Gemi keeps quiet and just keeps walking inside as Uriel keeps asking him what it is.

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