Nether forgot his thoughts on Nyx’s new child he stood up and asked, “So where is our sister? Is she safe?”
Nyx smiled and said, “I know you’re probably the most anxious about her since you were born together but relax. I noticed that my son came across her soul core.”
The news shocked Order and Nether causing the latter to collapse onto his throne speechless. The 4 new Protogenoi had no idea what the other 3 were talking about. Nyx notice their clueless look and explained, “A soul core is created when a god or beings such as us decide to reincarnate. Our souls are too large to reincarnate regularly like those of mortals so it's divided. The mortals who hold pieces of our soul gain extraordinary powers but the mortal who holds the core gains power plus our knowledge.”
“So why did our sister decide to reincarnate anyways?” asked Dream
“No clue Nether over there would know better than me. From what I remember they were closer than with each other than the rest of us.” said Nyx as she pointed towards Nether sitting on his throne.
Everyone turned and looked at Nether who sighed and started to say, “I don’t know why she disappeared in the end but she did once say to me that life was now flourishing even without her help. I thought nothing of it at the time so I ignored it but that may be part of why she left. I assumed she was taking time to travel through the early worlds we built and I never would have guessed that she would choose to reincarnate.”
“True we have a habit of going thousands of years without seeing each other so it wasn’t strange for her to leave for 5,000 years. We should have looked for her sooner.” said Fate
“Yes, we should have. It’s a hassle to create avatars to interact with the lower realms but we still should have.” said Order
“Umm so who’s this mortal with Aether’s soul core?” asked Matter
“Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that part. My grandchild has it.” said Nyx as she played around with her hair
The entire group was shocked once again and looked in Nyx’s direction but she paid it no mind and continued to mess with her hair. Order coughed and said, “Elder sister may I ask you to further elaborate on that. I know you don’t usually explain things fully but I hope you’ll make an exception for this case.”
“Hmm yes, I suppose I should. Well, my son created a child named Nova by combining different creatures on world 8654. Thankfully he doesn’t truly understand that power so he allowed the process to proceed without interfering.” said Nyx
The rest waited for her to continue but she stopped talking. Void got irritated again and yelled “Oi!” but as soon as she received a look from Nyx she promptly shut her mouth. Fate having figure out what Nyx meant went on to say, “I think I get it. So, your son mix a bunch of creatures together and didn’t decide how’s its personality should form so the strongest one was placed in charge meaning that this child Nova is an exact replica of Aether.”
“Correctamundo Fate! I figure you’d be the smartest one here.” said Nyx as she clapped her hands
“Hmm so rather than her personality changing as it normally should have she was reincarnated with the same personality. That’s quite a coincidence or rather the chance of that happening naturally is too unlikely.” said Matter
“I agree with that so I checked her out thoroughly. I noticed that her memories are fragmented and sealed. The child Nova seems to be able to unlock the memories easily but I planted doubt in my son’s mind not to let that happen until I figure out what’s going on.” said Nyx in a serious manner
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“But wouldn’t the best way to figure that out be to allow her memories to awaken?” asked Void
“No, I doubt Aether by herself could have pulled this off and I don’t know what she planned to do. Truthfully, I believe at least 2 of you are aware of what is going on so the reason I’m explaining all this is to warn those 2 to not lay a hand on my son or grandchild. If you do I’ll be very upset.” said Nyx in a serious tone sending a chill down everyone’s spine.
“Elder sister please stop you saying something like this will cause suspicion and conflict amongst our group. Besides even if you’re our elder sister you can’t interfere with our sibling's movement that much.” said Order
“Don’t worry I don’t really care what this plan is or why it happened so relax. Let me change my wording then if any harm befalls my child the perpetrator will have to deal with me. Better?” said Nyx
Order sighed yet again and said, “Very well that seems fair. I purpose a rule that none of us will be able to directly harm each other or our kin. What say you?”
“I will abide.” said Nether
“Same.” said Dream
“Very well.” said Fate
“Yes, I agree.” said Matter
“Fine.” said Void
“Hi hi I agree.” said Nyx in a cheery manner making them almost forget that she had threatened them a few seconds ago.
“Well then excluding Aether's vote the law is passed. From this moment forth no Protogenoi shall take any direct action to harm each other or our kin. This law shall include elder sister’s son and the inheritor of Aether's soul core.” said Order
“Um, I have a question.” said Matter
“What is it?” asked Order
“Shouldn’t all the inheritors of Aether soul fragments also be included?” asked Matter
“No, because while they have a piece of Aether’s power they are not her. This girl holds Aether's soul and memories so she can be considered Aether’s proxy. That is why Order is willing to include her.” answered Dream
“So, we can do whatever we want to any other fragment holder?” asked Void
“Yes.” answered Order
“Big sister Chaos you still haven’t told us about your son.” said Matter
Nyx snapped her finger and a circular screen appeared in the middle of the room and started showing the moment Nyx notice Zero’s soul in her realm. The images were playing so fast to a normal mortal they could barely see any images. The Protogenoi easily absorbed all the information and the images continued to show all of Zero’s adventure in world 8654 until he left the world.
When the screen disappeared, Matter looked off to the side looking surprised, and asked, “Older sister why did you show us his future?”
“No real reason I was curious as to what he would go through so I peeked into his future. Well you now know enough about Zero.” said Nyx
“Older sister I’m wondering as to why you haven’t explained anything to the boy? He doesn’t seem to even understand a god’s relationship with worlds nor the looming war between the gods.” asked Fate
“Why would I need to do that? Did you forget I represent Chaos? Chaos is formless and free from all restrictions and rules. My son is following the path of Chaos so he needs equal freedom to make his own mistakes. I’ve only interfered because he’s still new and will make many mistakes but the training wheels come off when he leaves world 8654.” explained Nyx
“Still I believe more instructions will be necessary. Will it be okay for us to instruct him as we see fit?” asked Nether who remained silent throughout most of the conversation.
Nyx shrugged and said, “Do as you see fit so long as no harm comes to the boy.”
“Okay, then I believe that Nether should also be the first to instruct the boy. He got quite a bit of dark powers but fails to use them optimally. He’s also quite haphazard and needs a lesson in patients. The best person to teach all that is Nether.” said Dream with a yawn
“I also believe that will be the best for Zero’s future.” said Fate
“Aww I wanted to meet my nephew but I guess I’ll wait.” said Matter
“Hmph if that’s all I’m leaving.” said Void who then vanished after saying that.
“Aww looks like Little Void is sad she couldn’t go first. Well, I have to go too I have many things to take care of. Since none of you can come to my realm I’ll stop by and see my 4 little siblings whenever I have free time.” said Nyx as she too vanished.
Dream, Matter, and Fate all bid their farewells and left shortly after leaving only Nether and Order. Order motioned for Nether to stay when he tried to bid his farewell too. Order then said, “I know you had something to do with Aether's decision to reincarnate.”
Nether said nothing and looked at Order who then continued to say, “You 2 are quite close even amongst our group so if anyone knew it would be you. I’m assuming you, Aether, and Fate were the ones who came up with this little plan. There’s no way Aether core would have entered such a low-level creature without Fate pulling some strings. I don’t know what this is all about but I just want to say be careful little brother.”
“I understand I will. Thank you for your concern big brother.” said Nether
“Haa, just know that you can come to me if you need help. I just want you to know that if I know this then big sis definitely knows this too. She may seem careless and aloof but she is smarter than I am. Just try your best not to tick her off.” said Order
Nether nodded his head and then returned to his realm. This left Order alone in the room as he stayed seated on his throne and rubbed his forehead. He sighed and said, “These kids will be the death of me. Maybe I should reincarnate and leave all my responsibility to my next self. No, I’m not that bored of existence just yet. Still this boy Zero is quite intriguing even if he is a little foolish at times. I just hope he doesn’t grow up to be like big sis or my days will get hectic like back in the old days when I spent most of my time cleaning up after big sis’s messes.”