Nix sighed, as she pushed her red hair out of her face with a black scaled hand. She had been standing here for well over an hour waiting for the rift, she looked around the room, it was a stark room, one she had never use in her castle up to this point, the black walls were covered in the red runes that were required to tear a hole in space allowing her to pass through to another reality.

Normally it would not have taken this long, but she really wasnt the traveling type, and as a god of war and death she had a lot on her plate as it was, and frankly she was never good at creating stuff, it really wasn't her thing.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity the rift opened, she looked at herself in the mirror, she was an averaged sized woman, or an averaged sized dragon woman as it were, she had an elegant red dress on that split at the thigh, revealing her leg which was covered with black scales from the mid thigh down to her bare feet. It was also split down the back revealing the scales also covered there as well.

A spiked tail peaked out of the back of the dress, and two horns stood out on her forehead, curling back in magnificent obsidian patterns that crowned her head. She adjusted her hair once more and folded her large black wings back into place, even her ash grey skin shone in this moment. Nodding to herself she decided she was as ready as she was ever going to be.

Normally she was not a people person and would leave such diplomatic meetings up someone like say her sisters, or any of the gods that were well, more sociable. But this issue, this problem that had sent shivers through the entire cosmology of all reality, it had caused so much work for her, and had angered her so she was just itching to get at the asshole that had caused all of this.

With a sigh she stepped forward.

“Remember, be sociable, be more like your sisters...” she whispered to herself before walking through the portal. There was a brief flash of light and she found herself in a pristine meadow, it was frankly to perfect. Every blade of grass was the same height and it honestly made her feel like she should not be walking on the grass.

“Hello,” a voice said and she turned around to find herself looking at a multitude of beings behind her. There were people of every different shape a build and color all glowing with different divine aura.

“Greetings,” she said, bowing while lifting up the hem of her dress, just like her sister had shown her. She bowed her head, there was no way she was the most powerful here she could feel those overpowering auras as they beat down on her. “My name is Nix, from House Arua” she said.

A beautiful goddess stepped forward, all curves and a motherly smile, “I am Maut, mother of the heavens, you are welcome in my realm.” she smiled “I only wish it was on better conditions that you visit us...”

“As do I, let us get these unpleasantries out of the way...” Nix said.

“Well,” Maut’s face scrunched up. “There has been a slight complication.” she said, her face twisted in discomfort.

“Complication?” Nix asked, feeling her gut twist ever so slightly, this was going to be bad, she could already tell.

***

It didn't take but an hour or so to fully explain the situation, and as soon as she had heard it she marched off in the direction of this Asherah. If the mortal thought he could avoid her wrath by hiding behind some other god then he thought wrong.

The woman’s estate was massive making up more than double all the previous areas she had seen around here. And they were gated not with gilded gold, but with a simple wood that seemed to grow into the form of a gate rather than have been hewn into that shape.

“I uh, don't think this is the best of Ideas...” Maut said, she was the only one who had followed Nix after she had said she was going to see this Asherah, which gave Nix cause to pause, but she pushed that thought out of the way. She was fed up and done with all this political bullshit. This Asherah had made this mortal part of her family, meaning he was currently protected because everyone was afraid of upsetting someone else.

Typical bullshit.

“This really isn't the smarte-” Maut started to day, but before she could finish Nix raised her scaled hand and beat against the gate’s wood, which promptly splintered and flew inwards like rotten wood, littering the immaculately landscaped yard with millions of wood splinters. “Oh dear...” Maut breathed out, before retreating to hide behind a tree, in the hopes that it would protect her in the upcoming moments.

Nix stepped in unperturbed by the destruction, in fact she thought it was an improvement, everything here was to perfect, to immaculate.

“Watch out don't step on-” Maut tried to warn her, but Nix paying no heed placed her foot down on top of a beautiful plant, crushing it underfoot. “Oh no...” she whispered as she saw the purple petals disappear under the Dragon woman’s foot.

This was bad.

“Some nerve you have breaking down my gate and entering my land without permission.” said a soft voice, and Nix turned around, and found herself face to face with a Tanned woman, with large eyes that had four golden pupils in them. She was a rather voluptuous woman, and the way she had her arms crossed just enhanced that.

“Are you Asherah?” Nix growled, her red eyes glowing in anger.

“I am, and you are?”

“I am Nix, from House Arua” she said in a low and dangerous voice. “And you are standing in the way of me administering justice.”

“Did you know that that gate you just destroyed was older than most of the people living here?” Asherah said softly, there was a danger to her voice, one that made Nix’s skin crawl. “I planted that, nurtured it for millennia, shaped it, and watched it grow to the gate it was.” she whispered. “And you just come in here a wreck so much work.” she said this, her long black hair blocking the burning golden eyes as she took a step forward.

“Listen I don't give a fu-” Nix started, taking a step forward and pointing an aggressive finger at the approaching Asherah. When she did however Ashy saw what she had trampled underfoot. She froze, her face slack with shock and horror. The sheer look on her face was enough to make Nix pause in her words, she followed the other goddesses gaze as it landed on the broken plant.

When she looked up Asherah was no longer so far away, but instead a mere step in front of her. Asherah's hand clamped around Nix’s throat and lifted her off of the ground, Nix attempted to claw back at her but found her arms obscured by roots and vines that had seemingly sprung into existence. With a single hand she tossed Nix aside slamming her into the tree behind which Maut had been hiding. The impact caused the tree to splinter and topple over, raining wood and leaves down all around it.

Nix stood up a burning rage in her heart, ready to fight. But Asherah was not even looking at her, she was kneeling down, carefully and gingerly lifting the purple flower, and if Nix was not mistaken there was even some tears running down her face.

“Of all the things to destroy.” Maut sighed, grabbing Nix by the arm she pulled her away.

“This is not ov-” Nix shouted. As soon as the words left her mouth Asherah looked her way, her face dark as a night sky shrouded by thunderclouds, the only visible thing on that face were her eyes, each pupil burned with a divine hatred and rage that put the sun to shame. The words stuck in her throat, and under that gaze that could possibly kill she allowed herself to be dragged away by Maut.