Part 1
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“Hence why they didn’t bother asking you seeing as you’re not a real queen anyways, just an artificial puppet. You truly are just the Princess of the Catalaphyllia Dragons, by the way, whatever happened to them all?”
Zelus’s gaze communicated her cold rage, “Tethys.” She said, her voice trembling with anger. “We’ve went over this dozens of times: don’t mention it.”
The cyan haired teen shrugged, her smirk still present, “Okay, little princess. Anyways the bindings were connected to your core thing, so in order to use the full extent of my power I needed it gone. This includes the human transformation~”
Zelos winced, her previously clenched hands slowly loosening, “How did you even manage to function like that? Being able to change your form is the very basics of a dragon’s magic. Either way, I haven’t heard of a spell that could bind a queen anyways.” The miko dressed dragon’s glare intensified, “Is this some sort of convoluted joke or something?”
However, the harsher tone Zelos spoke with had quite the opposite effect, Tethys clutching her chest as if she were having a heart attack. “Ugh, shrine maiden plus hime style hair plus angry glare! Please spare me Zelos, it fits you too much! If you had black hair and eyes you might’ve killed me right here.”
“Yeah, I hope it fits me. You were the one who chose this outfit for me.” Zelos sighed, finally taking a seat in the armchair across from Tethys. “Now I remember how hard it is to talk to you at times.”
“Wait, I put you in it? Wow, me in the past was a real pleasure seeking daredevil. The quality of eye candy is only increasing with every moment.”
“...that outfit… wrong…” The spectre, who had chosen to be silent throughout the previous conversation between the two dragons, finally interjected.
Zelos's face, after having heard its words, transitioning from confused to slightly panicked in an instant. “Wait, just what’s wrong with what I’m wearing?! I asked Tethys to pick something out for my humanoid form since she knew more about human tendencies than I did, but she put me in something weird?! Please tell me that’s not the case, cause I’ve been walking around in this for several millennia and-”
“Oh right, Psi is here too. It’s just so hard to notice you when you’re not standing right in front of me.” Tethys exclaimed, interrupting the still worried Zelos in the middle of her spiel. “You were always the quiet type, but having your soul split into itty bitty pieces certainly did not help.” The cyan haired teen turned to the shrine maiden, “By the way, could you fix our little ghost here so that she can at least project her form?”
Zelos huffed, crossing her arms before sinking deeper into the armchair. “Sure, if you give me the formula.” She was probably still cross about the whole outfit thing, but her curiosity over what she missed during her hibernation outweighed it. Promptly, as soon as Zelos spoke, Tethys raised her pointer finger and instantly drew a magic circle in the air. It was full of many intricacies that it would usually take more than half a second to create, but thus was the advantage of magic. The only reason Zelos couldn’t do it herself was because her semi-hibernation mode, the same thing that made her slightly transparent, also limited her power. Despite this fact, her magic pool was still so monstrous it was more efficient for the Catalaphyllia queen to cast the spell.
And as soon as Zelos used the magic circle, a blinding light consumed the room. Once it finally died down, a third party had joined the room, although they had technically always been there. “Good afternoon, shishou, I’m glad you’re in good health.” The previously monotone and androgynous voice of the spectre was now… still monotone. However, said voice was the kind that would sound nice while laughing, despite how rare said expressions of emotion were rare. And this voice belonged to a short girl with vivid tangerine colored hair braided loosely into short twintails. However, she was still a lot taller than Althea. Psi had round, nutmeg eyes and was dressed in a traditional, frilly maid uniform. But most notably, she had a pair of dog ears and a long bushy tail, both matching the color of her hair.
Zelos’s electric blue eyes narrowed as she looked over the new addition to the room, but Tethys was doing the same with a grin on her face. “Stoic, ice cold maid Psi~ Ahh, I wish you’d step on me! I also wished you called me goshujin-sama instead of shishou…”
Psi’s deadpan eyes began checking if everything in her projection was in order: both hands had five fingers, her tail was of appropriate length, her skirt was in order, things of those sorts. Then, she finally turned to Tethys. “No.” She said plainly with a crisp bow before turning her attention to the other water dragon queen. “It’s a pleasure to meet you face to face Zelos, Queen of the Catalaphyllia Water Dragons. I am Psi, designation of Sign 23, the komainu. I consider Tethys my shishou, however, she is technically no longer with the current state of my soul.”
“Ah, okay, nice to meet you- WHAAAAT?” Zelos got up from her armchair. “W-W-What the heck Tethys? Are you insane? You made one of the Signs your apprentice?! You know once one gets involved all the other ones will too!” If the elder dragons were at the height of the draconian affinity, the Signs were the height of the earthy one. Not in the sense they all used rocks, but that they were as “of Earthland” as anyone could ever get. Besides, of course the planet itself. For one thing, that means that Psi had absolutely zero draconian affinity, but Tethys made her an apprentice anyways. It was true that the Sign’s would would be able to survive making a connection with Tethys’s, but it also meant they wouldn’t even be able to learn slayer magic. So what even would be the point?
“Oh, don’t worry about it too much, it all worked out besides the fact Psi died! It was part of the whole campaign to seal me here, y’know? I didn’t think they’d have the nerve, so I didn’t set up any precautions against it. My bad Psi! At least your soul persisted, right?” Tethys said, rubbing the back of her neck while innocently gazing at the komainu maid.
“Shishou, I was stuck there for years. If I wasn’t a Sign I would’ve gone mad.” It was true that the Signs were granted several Blessings of Terra, but none of them prevented them from losing their mind. It was just that they had lived for so long that they didn’t perceive time the same way creatures like humans did. “I won’t stay angry at you, however I am annoyed about the outfit thing. You too had picked this dress for me, insisting it was something the average person wore, but the moment I went into a town I got plenty of odd questions.” She cast her cold gaze towards Zelos for an instant before returning it to her master, “It’s clear you do this to anyone you give fashion advice to, shishou. How long until your new apprentice is affected by your weird taste?”
“Twintails, tsundere, thigh high black stockings, miniskirt.” Tethys chanted as if it were a curse. “Too bad it won’t stick around like that.”
Zelus’s gaze communicated her cold rage, “Tethys.” She said, her voice trembling with anger. “We’ve went over this dozens of times: don’t mention it.”
The cyan haired teen shrugged, her smirk still present, “Okay, little princess. Anyways the bindings were connected to your core thing, so in order to use the full extent of my power I needed it gone. This includes the human transformation~”
Zelos winced, her previously clenched hands slowly loosening, “How did you even manage to function like that? Being able to change your form is the very basics of a dragon’s magic. Either way, I haven’t heard of a spell that could bind a queen anyways.” The miko dressed dragon’s glare intensified, “Is this some sort of convoluted joke or something?”
However, the harsher tone Zelos spoke with had quite the opposite effect, Tethys clutching her chest as if she were having a heart attack. “Ugh, shrine maiden plus hime style hair plus angry glare! Please spare me Zelos, it fits you too much! If you had black hair and eyes you might’ve killed me right here.”
“Yeah, I hope it fits me. You were the one who chose this outfit for me.” Zelos sighed, finally taking a seat in the armchair across from Tethys. “Now I remember how hard it is to talk to you at times.”
“Wait, I put you in it? Wow, me in the past was a real pleasure seeking daredevil. The quality of eye candy is only increasing with every moment.”
“...that outfit… wrong…” The spectre, who had chosen to be silent throughout the previous conversation between the two dragons, finally interjected.
Zelos's face, after having heard its words, transitioning from confused to slightly panicked in an instant. “Wait, just what’s wrong with what I’m wearing?! I asked Tethys to pick something out for my humanoid form since she knew more about human tendencies than I did, but she put me in something weird?! Please tell me that’s not the case, cause I’ve been walking around in this for several millennia and-”
“Oh right, Psi is here too. It’s just so hard to notice you when you’re not standing right in front of me.” Tethys exclaimed, interrupting the still worried Zelos in the middle of her spiel. “You were always the quiet type, but having your soul split into itty bitty pieces certainly did not help.” The cyan haired teen turned to the shrine maiden, “By the way, could you fix our little ghost here so that she can at least project her form?”
Zelos huffed, crossing her arms before sinking deeper into the armchair. “Sure, if you give me the formula.” She was probably still cross about the whole outfit thing, but her curiosity over what she missed during her hibernation outweighed it. Promptly, as soon as Zelos spoke, Tethys raised her pointer finger and instantly drew a magic circle in the air. It was full of many intricacies that it would usually take more than half a second to create, but thus was the advantage of magic. The only reason Zelos couldn’t do it herself was because her semi-hibernation mode, the same thing that made her slightly transparent, also limited her power. Despite this fact, her magic pool was still so monstrous it was more efficient for the Catalaphyllia queen to cast the spell.
And as soon as Zelos used the magic circle, a blinding light consumed the room. Once it finally died down, a third party had joined the room, although they had technically always been there. “Good afternoon, shishou, I’m glad you’re in good health.” The previously monotone and androgynous voice of the spectre was now… still monotone. However, said voice was the kind that would sound nice while laughing, despite how rare said expressions of emotion were rare. And this voice belonged to a short girl with vivid tangerine colored hair braided loosely into short twintails. However, she was still a lot taller than Althea. Psi had round, nutmeg eyes and was dressed in a traditional, frilly maid uniform. But most notably, she had a pair of dog ears and a long bushy tail, both matching the color of her hair.
Zelos’s electric blue eyes narrowed as she looked over the new addition to the room, but Tethys was doing the same with a grin on her face. “Stoic, ice cold maid Psi~ Ahh, I wish you’d step on me! I also wished you called me goshujin-sama instead of shishou…”
Psi’s deadpan eyes began checking if everything in her projection was in order: both hands had five fingers, her tail was of appropriate length, her skirt was in order, things of those sorts. Then, she finally turned to Tethys. “No.” She said plainly with a crisp bow before turning her attention to the other water dragon queen. “It’s a pleasure to meet you face to face Zelos, Queen of the Catalaphyllia Water Dragons. I am Psi, designation of Sign 23, the komainu. I consider Tethys my shishou, however, she is technically no longer with the current state of my soul.”
“Ah, okay, nice to meet you- WHAAAAT?” Zelos got up from her armchair. “W-W-What the heck Tethys? Are you insane? You made one of the Signs your apprentice?! You know once one gets involved all the other ones will too!” If the elder dragons were at the height of the draconian affinity, the Signs were the height of the earthy one. Not in the sense they all used rocks, but that they were as “of Earthland” as anyone could ever get. Besides, of course the planet itself. For one thing, that means that Psi had absolutely zero draconian affinity, but Tethys made her an apprentice anyways. It was true that the Sign’s would would be able to survive making a connection with Tethys’s, but it also meant they wouldn’t even be able to learn slayer magic. So what even would be the point?
“Oh, don’t worry about it too much, it all worked out besides the fact Psi died! It was part of the whole campaign to seal me here, y’know? I didn’t think they’d have the nerve, so I didn’t set up any precautions against it. My bad Psi! At least your soul persisted, right?” Tethys said, rubbing the back of her neck while innocently gazing at the komainu maid.
“Shishou, I was stuck there for years. If I wasn’t a Sign I would’ve gone mad.” It was true that the Signs were granted several Blessings of Terra, but none of them prevented them from losing their mind. It was just that they had lived for so long that they didn’t perceive time the same way creatures like humans did. “I won’t stay angry at you, however I am annoyed about the outfit thing. You too had picked this dress for me, insisting it was something the average person wore, but the moment I went into a town I got plenty of odd questions.” She cast her cold gaze towards Zelos for an instant before returning it to her master, “It’s clear you do this to anyone you give fashion advice to, shishou. How long until your new apprentice is affected by your weird taste?”
“Twintails, tsundere, thigh high black stockings, miniskirt.” Tethys chanted as if it were a curse. “Too bad it won’t stick around like that.”
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