For a few weeks, we helped Hana get everything back in order. Repairing buildings, restoring plants, helping the people, and getting rid of any stragglers of the evil army. During that time, Virgo was very anxious.

“Hey, are you okay?” I asked her.

“Yeah, I’m... I’m okay.”

I raised my eyebrow.

“Something is bothering you.”

She was silent for a moment.

“I’m just worried about my husband,” she admitted. “He’s very strong and can hold his own, but Moloch has been a thorn in his side for a while. He hasn’t sent me anything that signals if he’s okay or in trouble.”

“I would assume that no news is good news,” I told her. She nodded in response.

“Hopefully. Thanks for listening to me.”

“Not a problem!”

“Virgo! I need some help!” Helena called out. Virgo headed over to her.

I headed over to Hana to help with the orphaned children. My heart broke for them. They lost their families in the battle and having to deal with that at such a young age is horrible. I loved taking care of the children and helping them find new families. Seeing their smiling faces when I played with them or made up stories for them always brought joy to me. It made me wonder if I was ever going to start my own family. I loved the idea of being a father and eventually a grandfather.

I was startled by a clap of thunder overhead. A few of the kids got scared too. I was quick to comfort them and kept them entertained while a torrential downpour began. Well, we were in a rainforest so rain is a common thing. But this rain seemed too heavy. Lightning flashed across the sky in a very peculiar fashion. The younger kids got scared and I managed to comfort them as best as I could.

“YANG, HANA!! WE NEED TO GO NOW!!” Virgo shouted at the top of her lungs as she came into the building. She was full of panic. Celena and Helena came in after her, just as panicked. Hana came over just as swiftly.

“What’s wrong?!” I asked them.

“Pisces needs help! Dost thou not see the torrential downpour? Virgo told us what it meant.”

“I would love to help but I can’t just leave my people while they’re recovering from the battle,” Hana said.

“That’s true,” I said.

“I’ll stay behind to help her.” Helena offered. “I just can’t leave her in this state! She needs the help and it would be good practice for me for when I someday become ruler of my own people,”

“I would protest and ask you to go with them, but I know you well enough to know that when your mind is set on helping someone, you will not take no for an answer which is a trait you need to work on. And I really do need the extra help.”

Virgo grew frustrated.

“We don’t have any time to waste! We gotta go help him!”

“Will you two be okay?” I asked.

They nodded.

“Give us a sign if you need any help!” Celena said. All three of us raced out of the building and followed Virgo to Atlantis.

The sight we saw when we arrived was horrifying. What used to be a seemingly beautiful island city was burning. There was a hoard of those dark beings and other fiery beings as well. I could hear the screams of the people. It was pouring rain, most definitely an attempt to put the flames out, however, it wasn’t doing much. It wasn’t long before we were soaked.

We saw Moloch in the air, watching over the carnage and smiling cruelly. Virgo charged at him with the fury of a million erupting super volcanoes while screaming in rage.

Celena and I headed down to help deal with the creatures, doing as much damage to them as we can.

In the distance, we saw flashes of aqua blue energy. Celena and I tore through the creatures toward the direction of the blue energy.

We saw who I assumed to be Pisces battling a large, fiery, lion-esque monster, and struggling a lot. It seemed his energy was drained too.

He has long blue hair tied up in a high ponytail and light olive skin. In his hands was a platinum trident. He was wearing aqua blue boots, an aqua blue chest plate with sapphire blue wave designs, and dark blue breeches. His eyes were bright green and it hurt to look at them as if my eyes were being soaked in briny water.

He glanced at us and gave a hello nod.

“Where’s Virgo?” He asked as he blasted the fire monster with energy charged water. It hardly did anything.

“She’s fighting ice brain up there,” Celena replied, helping Pisces battle the thing.

“You’re Yang right?”

“Yes,” I replied while fighting the creature.

“You’re more equipped to fight this thing. My powers barely do anything. I think holy light would do more damage than holy water,” he explains, still using his powers on it. “I need to help my people and try to save the island.”

“You do that. I’ll cover for you.”

“Thanks.” He raced off deeper into the burning city.

Celena and I began battling the monster. My holy light was indeed doing more damage. Adding Celena’s arrows and magic and we were beating that ugly creature quickly. Well, we were, until it began glowing a black aura. The aura healed its wounds and turned its flames from red to purple. All of the fire on the island turned purple.

“What the-?” I began coughing from the dark smoke, as did Celena. The creature roared. The shockwaves of the roar knocked us back, crashing into broken walls. I looked up and saw Yin. He came to us and stood next to his creation.

“What a marvelous sight, don’t you agree?” he asked with a cruel grin while stroking the fiery lion-like creature’s side. It purred and nuzzled him a bit.

My blood boiled. Rage filled me as I charged at him.

“You sick and twisted bastard!!”

We engaged in another fight. We’re on equal terms of power, so our fight lasted for a long time. He threw me to the ground and rocketed towards me to punch me with his fist charged with his dark energy. I teleported out of the way as the force of his punch tore the ground up. I sent bolts of light made from my fists at him. He avoided most of them but some did manage to hit him.

Yin charged at me again but was forced back down by a horribly injured Moloch being thrown at him with such force that an even bigger crater was created. I looked up and saw an angry Virgo. I looked down at Yin and saw him throw Moloch to the side, calling him a worthless pest. The fact that Yin treated his own general like that sparked a huge surge of energy in me, fueled with divine rage. Moloch may be the enemy, but no one deserves to be treated like that.

Celena shot an arrow at him which he easily caught, corrupted, and threw back at her. She ducked, barely avoiding it.

I felt my body glow in light and in an instant Yin was flung halfway across the ocean. I chased after him and began pummeling him with my light. He could barely fight back and became a bloody mess again. I blasted a huge burst of light at him which he tried to block, but couldn’t and it hit him directly. I saw him fade with a smirk. It was just a copy.

My rage subsided and I fell into the ocean, losing consciousness as I sank into the abyss.

I woke up again sometime later in an underwater palace. It was a beautiful palace made of white marble and very well maintained. I saw that I had a white fish tail. Helena was in the room with me with her eyes closed and holding my hand. From the looks of her puffy eyes, she was crying. I hated seeing her so sad and crying.

“Helena?”

She looked up at me.

“Yang!” She immediately hugged me and started crying into my shoulder. I hugged her back and comforted her. Embracing her felt so right like we were meant for each other.

“I’m sorry for worrying you.”

Pisces swam in upon hearing I was awake. He had a dark blue blindfold over his eyes and his tail was a beautiful shade of sapphire blue. He came over to me

“Thank the stars you’re awake.”

“What happened to the island?” I asked.

Pisces was silent for a moment before shaking his head.

“We couldn’t save it. The island of Atlantis was destroyed,” he finally said. His voice was full of pain and he clenched his firsts.

I was stunned silent. I felt horrible that I couldn’t do anything to save it.

Sensing my distress, Pisces tried to cheer me up.

“Hey, don't feel bad Yang. When you became cloaked in that very bright light, all the dark creatures and fires were eradicated.”

“But how did the island sink?”

“Moloch managed to free my mortal enemy temporarily and he destroyed the island. I couldn’t do anything to stop him.”

I looked down, feeling relieved that I wasn’t the one who destroyed the island. But I still felt awful because I couldn’t do anything to stop him.

“I wish I did more to help. I feel utterly useless.”

Helena looked into my eyes.

“Thou did all thy could. I mean- you did all you could. I need to break that style of speaking.”

I laughed slightly. Virgo and Celena came in after.

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“You’re okay!”

“Oh thank goodness.”

“What exactly happened to me?”

They began explaining. Pisces found me at the very bottom of the sea, a good 7 miles down, after about a week of searching. He brought me back while Virgo brought Hana to heal my apparently awful wounds. Helena came with them upon hearing of my condition. Hana couldn’t stay for long due to her kingdom duties and Helena stayed behind, worrying about me for nearly a year.

Yep, I was asleep for an entire year. I must’ve been super drained.

“What happened while I was asleep?”

“Well, for starters, you were sleep talking about wanting to marry Helena for a month,” Pisces said with a mischievous smirk. I was absolutely mortified and completely embarrassed. I was pretty sure that my face was redder than a lobster. Then he started laughing hysterically, along with Celena. Virgo rolled her eyes and Helena was blushing. The two laughing hyenas named Celena and Pisces eventually calmed down.

“I’m just kidding! While you were in a coma, the rest of us helped get the surviving island citizens settled in with the ocean citizens and during that time our powers came back.”

“Huh?”

“Oh, yeah, Atlantis had two parts of it, the ocean and the land. Somehow the ocean part was untouched,” he explained.

“Yin probably only wanted the island destroyed,” Virgo chimed.

“That could be it,” Pisces replied

“Or he couldn’t find it,” I said.

“That could also be true.”

“My bet is on the first option,” Helena stated, moving herself to sit next to me. We still held hands.

“Sorry to ruin the mood, but damn it you two, just kiss already,” Virgo said, annoyed. “It’s so obvious that you two are both made for and hopelessly in love with each other.”

Pisces and Celena nodded agreeing with her.

“Well not everyone is as forward and blunt as you, Virgo,” Helena scolded.

“She has a point honey.” Pisces said.

“They do have feelings for each other, but I don’t think they’re ready for a relationship,” Celena informed her.

“Hmm. True.”

“I wish to wait until we kick Yin and his little minions out of Earth,” I told them. Helena agreed with me.

“My concern is what to do when we do kick them out. I don’t want to leave you guys,” Celena said. “And we also can’t just leave our kingdoms here.”

“That’s true...”

“And all of us are supposed to make a world together,” Hana said, appearing from seemingly nowhere, startling us all.

“What makes you think that?” Celena asks.

“Well, remember what the Rosetta Stone said?”

“‘Seven deities, five from our world, two from outside, will join forces to build a new world, a bridge to connect all worlds to each other.’” Pisces recited. “Either some humans had exceptionally powerful clairvoyance or it was a remnant of Xero.”

We all shrugged.

“The two from outside are obviously Yin and Yang,” Hana said.

“My brother is the God of Time, so anything to do with the flow of time is his domain. So he’s obviously going to be governing time in the universe we’re supposedly going to create.”

“We can’t allow him in our world,” Pisces said, a bit harshly. I agreed, but I was worried about it. Light and darkness are two sides of the same coin. One can’t exist without the other. So regardless, Yin was going to spread his darkness into our world too. The least we could do was prevent it for as long as possible. I wanted our world to be a safe haven for people whose world was lost to his evil. But how would they get there? Perhaps my power over space would help.

I also began worrying about Yin’s time powers. Him having power over time would mean that he is able to look through time, which meant that everything he was doing was precisely and carefully calculated to ensure his success. He knew our every weakness and what we would do in the future. I opted to not say anything though as I didn’t want my dear friends to worry and feel that the situation was hopeless.

The six of us discussed it for a long time, trying to figure out what to do in the long run.

“Maybe I can use my space powers to connect the two worlds?”

“Is that even possible?” Pisces asked me.

“I can bend space to my will. If I want to rip open a portal to some random place in the multiverse, I can.”

“You could’ve just said ‘yes’ ya know.” Pisces retorted.

“He can be rather showy at times,” Helena said. “I can tell.”

I blushed. I knew she was right, even if I wouldn’t admit it.

We all laughed a bit and continued chatting for a while.

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Yin POV:

I looked at my brother and his friends all happy and smiling. The very sight sickened me. It was all pointless. They could try all they wanted to suppress it, but darkness lurked in their hearts. It lurks in all hearts.

Abandon, Beelzebub, and Moloch, were absolutely useless at their jobs, but they were all I had so I put up with their annoying antics, knowing that I would have significantly better, more ideal, servants in the future. They would also have antics, but they would be more amusing.

I monitored the worlds I had enslaved and made sure they were all groveling and worshiping me. Their gods were statues, decorating the halls of my temple. Others served me willingly with the false hopes of having dominion over their worlds. Pathetic.

The three idiots employed under me were the only ones willing to serve me, as I had freed them from their hellish prisons. Beelzebub was particularly interested in that stupid pebble Earth for some unfathomable reason. Then again, he had a great fondness for devouring life energy and was hoping to kill every life deity he could find. Abbadon only wanted destruction and chaos while Moloch desired to turn any life-filled planet into his personal frozen paradise.

I would get rid of them one day, but at that point, they were still useful to me. I would have to be patient, as the time of their demise was coming, and a new world was going to be born, becoming a bridge to many worlds of reality.

All I had to do was wait.

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Yang POV:

My friends and I spent many hours discussing what we wanted in the world we were going to create.

We unanimously decided that we wanted a world where everyone is equal, obviously. We also wanted to share the gift of magic to our future people. Why should us deities hoard all the magic and powers? Obviously, there are going to be limits to what people can and can’t learn. Limits are a good thing. Even we have limits... that we sometimes ignore or push. We aren’t perfect. We have flaws. My flaw is my anger and impulsivity. I have a small anger problem and can get very jealous and very overprotective. I also tend to do things without anyone’s input or say. It’s something I needed to work on to be the best ruler I can be for my people and among all the gods of the multiverse, as the light half of Xero. Knowing that means that all gods born from the light are under my care and protection. However, I can’t be everywhere at once, and Yin knew that. He used it to his advantage to conquer a handful of worlds, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to help.

His intelligence honestly made me a bit jealous. I felt utterly helpless knowing that.

Helena noticed that I clammed up and stopped talking.

“What’s wrong?”

“Huh? Oh, nothing really,” I said, not wanting to burden her and avoiding her gaze. She frowned and made me look at her.

“You’re lying.”

I avoided her gaze again.

“You can tell us what’s wrong,” Hana said.

It took me a few minutes for me to gather my thoughts.

“I feel like a failure,” I admitted. “Any god born from the light is under my care and protection and I can’t be everywhere at once! Yin knows this and I can’t do anything!”

I began crying, full on ugly crying. I hate being helpless. I hate feeling useless.

“I couldn’t do anything to help Hana or Pisces. Atlantis was destroyed, Countless worlds are undoubtedly under Yin’s control AND I COULDN’T DO ANYTHING!!! What use am I if I can’t protect everyone?!”

I just kept crying and crying for probably twenty minutes or something. The others comforted me, especially Helena. I am eternally grateful for friends like them, however, I was crying uncontrollably and hardly anything could stop me. That is until Virgo took my face and slapped me. That definitely made me stop ugly crying but I was still sobbing, and not because she slapped me... again. The others looked appalled at her. Then she grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me.

“Yang! Pull yourself together!” she made me look at her. Her fiery orange eyes were burning with a serious blaze of passion... and annoyance. “If you keep sitting here feeling sorry for yourself and doing nothing then, of course, nothing is going to happen! None of this is your fault!” she yelled at my face.

“But-”

“Nah ah! No more negative talk. You are the freaking god of light! No- the CREATOR of light! Light also brings hope! You are LITERALLY a beacon of hope Yang! If you lose hope then so does everything else!”

I stopped sobbing gradually as she was talking. I knew she was right.

“Yang,” her voice was calm now. “Please, for us, try to be positive. You can tell us if you need help. Stop acting like you have to be perfect. We know you aren't. No one is.”

“She’s right,” Pisces chimed. “Also Virgo, please stop slapping people to calm them down.”

“What other option did I have? I can’t let Yang be a sad sack of ‘woe is me’ when he is literally the only one who can knock sense into Yin!”

“True, but slapping him is not necessary whatsoever.”

“Guys, It’s fine. I needed that,” I said, finally calm. “Don’t make this a habit Virgo.”

“I’ll try not to. I tend to not respond well to intense emotions. Pisces knows that.”

“Oh yeah, I do,” he said with a laugh. Virgo shakes her head slightly with a smile.

“I admit that I have some... anger issues. But I try not to direct it at people. And I blurt things out without thinking,” Virgo admitted.

“You all know mine by now,” I said. “Overly emotional.”

“Not to mention a bit of a short temper,” Hana chimes.

“And impulsive,” Celena adds. “I admit that I can also be pretty vain and appearance driven and bitchy.”

“I tend to bottle up everything and be nitpicky,” Hana admits.

Helena thought for a moment.

“I’m rather naive and too trusting.”

“Well, you are pretty young. That will probably change as you grow older and gain more experience,” I said to her. She nods in agreement.

“I’m clumsy as hell and don’t often think this through... and I’m also impulsive,” Pisces admitted,

“At least you’re good in bed,” Virgo chimed.

Pisces’ face turned lobster red and he buried his face in his hands, utterly embarrassed. Celena snorted. Hana rolled her eyes. Helena sighed. Virgo laughed hysterically and hugged him.

“I’m just teasing! You know I love you, honey.”

“I know but still. That wasn’t cool.”

“Sorry, sorry,” she said. She kissed his cheek.

“You don’t just say that in front of people.”

“Poor judgment on my part...”

We all nodded in agreement.

“Let's never speak of this again.”

“Oh, no, this will be talked about,” Celena said with a laugh. Then all of us broke into fits of laughter. This whole scenario was quite fun.

I got out of the bed and stretched.

“Sweet mercy I’m extremely sore,” I said, as I cracked everything in my body that was crackable. “That’s better.”

“Those were some really loud cracks,” Hana said, concerned.

“I bet they felt good though,” Helena said.

“Heck yeah it did,” I replied, still stretching.

I swam out of the room, as we were still underwater. My tail was gold fading into white and I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that I didn’t have my wings before remembering that wings don’t exactly work well underwater. Then I just felt dumb.

I didn’t know how or when we were going to make our new world. There were many factors to consider such as bringing over Hana and Pisces’ kingdoms if that was even possible.

They still had to manage them. Add their duties as gods in our new world, then they would be twice as busy. We could bring their kingdoms over, but that would be tricky. It was the best solution. But having to take into consideration their enemies on earth. It would leave earth completely defenseless. I swam back inside and began pacing around the room.

“What are you thinking about?” Hana asked.

“How we’re going to bring over both yours and Pisces’ kingdoms to our new world,” I reply. “We can’t just leave them on earth. Your enemies will attack them. Not to mention earth will be defenseless. It’s too risky and dangerous.”

“That’s true,” she says.

The thought of leaving earth completely defenseless scared me. What if Yin attacked again? We wouldn’t be there to defend it as we would be too busy with our own world. Although I had this feeling that It wouldn’t be a problem. Still, I wanted to be cautious. I managed to convince them to give some magic to earth as a way to protect it. Only a few humans will be able to harness and use it properly but knowing that makes me feel at ease about its safety.

Then afterwards, I took them to interdimensional space. We all have our full powers back, so we’re able to begin the creation process.

“You guys ready?” I asked.

“I’m kind of nervous,” Helena admitted. Celena patted her back.

“You got this,” she said with a smile.

“I was born ready!” Pisces exclaimed excitedly.

Hana nodded eagerly.

“Why are we stalling? Let’s go!” Virgo stated.

I looked back at the universe Earth resides in and felt somewhat nostalgic. I was there for ages and was only conscious for a few weeks. But I knew that we didn’t belong there. It wasn’t our world. I thought we could visit from time to time in the future. I looked at my friends and smiled at them.

Then I used my space powers to form the foundation for our world, our new home.