Suddenly, Aiko saw a vision of events through her own eyes but the perspective seemed both right and wrong at the same time. In the vision, she was walking through a strange room full of people and weird objects the like of which she had never seen to a wall covered in doors. The room beyond the door she opened was too large to fit there without the doors next to it being on this side too but they weren’t and she seemed perfectly fine with it.
The room she was in had some strange object in the center and she went to it and began tapping on a plate covered in strange numbers and letters. She realized with surprise that she could read them all but the movements were too quick for her to follow and she was moving again.
Now she stood in front of a large glass tube on one side of the object and then looked down at a golden pad floating in front of her. More tapping but now on the strange clear, gold pad and she looked up in time to see a squirrel appear in the tube in front of her.
She then moved over to one of the other two tubes and began disrobing. She looked down and there was a pile of black and white clothes forming at her feet while she was slipping out of a pair of strange shoes. She removed the white covering over her breasts and pulled the last piece of fabric down from her crotch before looking up just as a tall mirror appeared in front of her.
In the mirror, she was looking over herself while turning side to side and posing. She was a human woman with pale skin and black hair. Her eyes were a little strangely shaped and black too but she didn’t have time to think about it. Suddenly, she began shrinking down to a tiny size and had eyes that seemed a little large for her face, no breasts or feminine figure, and two pairs of long, thin, round-tipped, transparent wings on her back.
She began turning around and looking herself over in the mirror again before nodding in satisfaction. She then flew up to the pad again and tapped on it. The tube opened beside her and she flew inside before it closed over her.
She landed on the pad at the bottom and looked at the glowing pad in front of her before tapping it again. She quickly straightened and held her arms out to the side just in time for a bright blue plane of light to pass over her from the feet up. A moment later, the tube opened and she flew out and went to the pad in the center again.
After a few moments of doing some kind of strange arcane ritual on the pad, she looked at the tube in the center of the others. Aiko was startled to see herself as she knew herself on the pad in the middle. The tube opened and she flew up to her body and started studying it. It was odd looking at herself standing there motionless except for breathing, not even blinking.
Suddenly, she heard herself speak in a high-pitched squeak of a voice. “Not bad, not bad! This might be more fun than I was originally thinking! Look at those claws and her face is just soooo damn cute! I bet I never get anything done because I’m too busy petting my fur and stroking my own ears! I can’t wait any longer.”
She flew around behind her body and walked forward. She could feel herself melting into the body she was used to and then she was herself again but it was awkward. She stumbled a little because she wasn’t used to standing on her feet the way they were. She looked down and flexed her fingers and tested the sharpness of her claws. “Neat!”
It was her childhood voice! She then floated up into the air again somehow and hovered in front of the mirror. Suddenly, she was wearing another one of those black and white sets of clothes again and there was another woman beside her, the angel.
“I’m going down for a time. Don’t let anybody fuss over me, okay? I don’t need all of you trying to coddle me down there. I need to experience the world I created but I will leave a slip of my conscience open in the background anyway.”
“Also, I will clone myself up here to handle anything too big so contact my PDI if anything comes up. I’ll have it connected to my conscience but try not to interrupt me too much, okay? I have faith in all of you.” The other woman just nodded with a somber look like she didn’t want to agree but had no choice.
In an instant, she was looking at a tree while floating in the air. She flew around it a couple times before settling on something. She raised her hand and some of the branches broke loose and fell. She looked up and down and then at branches in other trees before dropping down to a lower branch, placing a couple scratches on the branch, and landing on the ground.
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She looked down at herself and spotted the suit and then it was gone and she ruffled her fur up a bit. “Okay, now I just give myself a concussion and lock my… Actually, should I have a different name? Probably.”
“Now, what should I call her… Furry, Fluffy, too cute? Get serious Kaori. Hmm. Maybe I’m overthinking it. I absolutely love her cute little fluffy body and I suppose she is kind of like my child in a way. Hmm, yes, Aiko should work perfectly. Now, off to sleep I go. Ow, ow, ow… What a splitting headache! Who knew concussions hurt so much? *Snickering* Okay, sleeping for real this time.”
She lay down and closed her eyes and the vision was over like it had never happened. Aiko could feel tears in her eyes. She wasn’t sure what she felt, was she even real? Tozanna was at her side hugging her in an instant and making shushing and soothing noises.
‘You see? You needn’t worry about any family other than me and… You know what? I really don’t like the way we left everyone down there, especially not Brass. Now, I’m afraid you’ll just have to deal with the notion that your mother was there when you were having sex but aside from that, I think I would rather have you as a daughter than as part of myself.’
‘Now, let’s go down and clear some things up, shall we?’ Suddenly, Aiko felt a chill throughout her body and saw a form meld out of her and form the woman from her vision, her mother, the goddess from her visions. Kaori was standing in front of her with a hand on Aiko’s cheek and she didn’t seem to realize she was naked!
Kaori chuckled. “Really? That’s the first thing you think of your mother?” However, she was instantly clothed. “I think that for this, we will both go down to meet with each of them individually.”
“One thing first. You should check your status screen.”
Aiko pulled up her status screen and immediately knew what Kaori was referring to. On her screen, a row of formerly unreadable symbols ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ turned red and then blinked away to be replaced by the words Godspawn Avatar blinking in place. Before Aiko even had time to process the words they were replaced by a single word Demigoddess. Aiko’s breath caught at the idea that she was a demigoddess. Somehow, the idea of being the daughter of a goddess didn’t sink in until that moment!
The next moment, the two of them were at a funeral service. Aiko watched as many of her companions and the orphans all threw bouquets of wildflowers into a raging bonfire. At the center of the fire, she could see a tightly bound figure and knew it was her body.
The two of them stood there watching the whole scene with people coming and going around them without ever seeing either of them. Kaori stood stoically while holding Aiko in her arms and they just watched until the fire died down and finally, only one figure was left.
Brass sat in front of the pile of smoldering ashes of his lost love and couldn’t even summon the emotion to cry. When Aiko died, he felt like he had too. He couldn’t remember what happened after the flying lizard breathed fire on Aiko but he was brought around when Shumai tapped his nose with some kind of weak lightning spell.
When he looked around, he saw that the monster was sliced into bloody ribbons and he couldn’t bring himself to look at the charred body of Aiko that Merrill was cradling and crying over. The fight was over and something just broke, something he suspected would never be whole again.
Behind him, he heard shuffling, and dimly in the back of his mind, he placed the spacing as being that of a larger humanoid. The voice he heard next broke his mind a little more. “It was a really nice funeral, I uhm… I appreciate it.”
Brass whirled around in a flash and had to shade his eyes from the radiance of the beings standing there. Fighting his way through tears, he forced himself to look and there she was. “Ai-Aiko?”
The next moment she was in his arms and Kaori was holding both of them. Rather than being offended or something, Kaori was jubilant as she held the fuzzy cuddling pair. But sadly she had to explain the bad news to Brass.
Once Brass had calmed down enough to listen and understand her, Kaori began explaining things to him. About an hour later. “I have to apologize about the wyvern. That monster was too powerful for this area. Lastly, I would love nothing more than to bring you back to the deific realm with us however if you leave right now, both yours and Aiko’s claim to the land will be invalid. I hate to say it but you really have to stay here for now.”
“If you talk to Zenya and get her to claim this land with the orphans on it, they will be protected. If you die after that, I can gift you a little bit of divinity and we can, I mean you two can be together again.” Brass turned, shocked, towards Kaori. Aiko was shocked for a different reason. Kaori’s slipup reminded her that her apparent mother was actually there every time she and Brass…
The next couple of days, Aiko and Kaori appeared to each of the people they were close to and told them all why they shouldn’t feel bad for Aiko.
A year after Zenya got the decree informing her of her official deed to the lands formerly belonging to Aiko and Brass, Brass set sail in a tiny schooner, never to be seen again.