The aimless god meets an OP baby

In a place far, far away from Paridae was a gigantic mountain where resided one of the most powerful being in all existence. Its name was Silvana. Unlike its power might imply, it was a gentle being. Yet she has lived since the beginning of time. It has seen countless of its companions die, children she had helped birth die of old age. She has by all means lost any will to live. Her live has no real meaning to her. Her only distraction was in doing her nominal duty as the goddess of dragons, which basically included throwing a few blessings at random and showing up sometimes in dazzling manner. Other gods and goddesses tried to get closer to her yet she could see through their souls. Everyone wanted something or the other from her or use her to gain something.

She couldn’t die and neither could she weaken herself. It was as if she was cursed for her spirited younger self was cursed with loneliness. She still remembers how she used to fly everywhere and fight anyone in order to gain strength. It always lonely at the top she told herself.

As she was resting in her territory she sensed a pure soul that was moving at a slow pace a millennia away. She sensed that the soul was very powerful. As powerful as many of these gods combined yet there was none of their desires in it, this made her interested. One more fool trying to fight or curry favour she thought to herself. She unknowingly kept tracking it now and then.

After nearly a millennia it neared her place, she was oddly getting curious, what being would go at such a slow space for a thousand years without once changing its trajectory? She decided she would at least bless him a little for causing such interest and having such a pure soul. As it neared she could see that it was just a metal object.

“What? Why can I sense a soul in it?” curious she flew up to catch it.

When she saw the object, it was covered in special dust and metal and was the size of a moon. She extended her field to slowly catch it brought it down. She stood there studying it for some time. She deduced there was something inside it. She extended her soul to search and found another layer of the toughest metal which had a presence inside it. She started scratching the ball layer by layer gently. After hours of this she finally reached the core where she saw a metal box. It was covered with odd runes and shapes all over it. She kept studying it yet couldn’t make out anything at all. She lost interest after a while. “Just another oddity I guess” she said dejected as she had lost another distraction.

She picked up the metal handle to throw the object into her vault but it suddenly made whirring motions and came off in her hands. “Damn broke it…Oh greeny slimy stuff found!” she found the insides of the metal filled with a green bulbous stuff. She transformed her hand into a claw and pressed on the bubble like stuff.

~POP~

It burst open and the green slime flew all over, when it was near Silvana though it disintegrated into nothing. She looked into the object only to find a baby covered in a golden layer of viscous fluid. She was alarmed and instinctively kicked the shell which made it fly several miles away. Only after a few seconds did she realize what just happened!

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“What!! Shit! I just kicked a baby!!” She yelled and flew after the child, reaching him in seconds she slowly caught it and brought it back to here abode. She stood there in a daze not knowing what to do. “Baby it’s a bay. Yes, it’s a baby in gold which green ichor around it placed in a box flying in the sky for what seems to be easily a 20000 years and of all the people it comes to me. Wait, how can a baby be alive for that long!!”

She slowly ripped the golden layer and moved gently to lift the baby out. As soon as she touched the boy an aged voice entered her mind.

“His name is Aneurin . He is our grandson. He is the last of us and of our world. We have done everything we can to make him powerful enough to face whatever may come. In the process however he has become an ageless immortal he will mature at his peak body state and will remain so forever. We hope whoever it is that you’ll take care of him. We know that you are good soul as only those can touch the golden layer. Don’t tell him about us, only tell him that his grandparents loved him so very much and that they breathed their last thinking about him. He also has all the knowledge of various branches such as weapons, blacksmithing, medicine, Alchemy, Botany, Beast taming, all the skills our world has are poured into him.We don’t know who you are but if you could raise him as your son , you would do everyone a lot of good. There hasn’t been such a pure soul ever seen in all our lives, even on this dying world. We hope you love him as much as we’ve come to love him.”

The goddess didn’t know what to do. This was the first time since she was a young hatchling that she felt so speechless. The voice was filled with sadness and love that made own soul tremble. She always loved children but all of them died in time. She also hated souls that were even tainted the slightest. Now she met a soul purer than her own, a boy that was immortal, had no one to love but her. She opened her eyes to look at the boy who still had has his eyes closed. She gently placed a hand on his cheek. As if they were fated their souls touched and the boy took a part of her energy when she opened her eyes gasping, she saw the boy trembling after a few seconds he stopped and opened his eyes. They were sparking blue eyes which looked as if they contained vast universes in them when he looked at her giggled in his own baby-ish way , she fell in love and knew what she would do.

“I have a son. Yes, you shall be my son Aneurin and I am your mother Silvana. We’d make quite the pair both of us.” She giggled happily, in a way unbecoming of a goddess and like that of a young mother. She bought the child to a warm hug and started planning.” Now a bath would be first, then clothes then toys or a bed. No I need a cradle, he needs someone to play with or a dog no not yet a toy yes toy, No FOOD, I need food for him…..”And thus the aimless goddess found her purpose in the form of a son could wipe the floor with few gods.