《A little bit of Villainy》Prologue - part 2 - Liar liar pants on fire
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The only sound that could be heard inside a shabby inn was laughter. While it is completely normal for there to be laughter inside an inn, this laughter was a bit strange. This laughter was not made a bunch of drunk patrons but by a single woman. Inside one could see a red-eyed woman smiling like a maniac, hands raised in the air and you could even see a bit of fire on the woman's clothes. The other people in the inn just looked at her while shaking their heads.
"We are lucky that she lost most of her power aren't we?", asked Death to no one in particular.
"We are indeed, normally there is a lot more fire", replied knowledge.
Death just sighed for what felt like the hundredth time this evening and said, "So who is going to try to snap her out of this?"
"I’ll try", replied War before roaring," "Chaos. Chaos! CHAOS!!!"
Shadow just sighed, "Amateur, you should know that shouting won't bring Chaos back to her senses." She takes off the glove on her right hand and chuckles evilly, "The only way to snap her out of her little evil villain acts is with a bit physical pain."
"Can't we just wait until she is done with laughing?", asked Knowledge."
Shadow raises her right hand and says, "Yeah we can. If you want to waste a few days. Also, waking her up this way is way more fun."
"Sadist", mumbles War angrily.
Shadow smiles again and a loud slap resounds through the whole inn. Chaos flies backward and crashes her into the wall. The impact visibly cracked the wall and made Chaos lose her consciousness.
Shadow looks at the limp body of her sister and calmly says, "Oh yeah, I forgot that she lost almost all of her power. No wonder her defenses felt so weak."
"Oh drop the acts Shadow. We all know you have wanted to beat her up ever since her chosen killed yours 60 years ago.", said Death.
Before Shadow can reply, they hear that Chaos starting to wake up. A few moments later she opens her eyes and asks, "Why is my face burning, why do I have a headache and why am I on the floor? Did I try to beat War in a drinking competition again?”
Knowledge walks to her and holds out his hand before saying, "No you started laughing after revealing your evil plan and we could not get you to stop, so Shadow slapped you."
"Oh", replied Chaos before glaring at War, "War you promised me that you would be the one to slap me if I ever did that again! And all of you, why did you let Shadow slap me? You know what she is like!"
"Oh stop complaining you, big baby.", said Shadow, "I didn't even slap you that hard."
"So Chaos I get why you called Death here but why did you also invite me, Shadow and War?", asked Knowledge in an attempt to get the conversation back on track."
Chaos walked back to her seat while rubbing the back of her head and says, "Ah yes I should start explaining what I need you guys for."
"Knowledge", said Chaos, "I would like for you to fix my new servant's soul."
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"Dare I ask why his soul needs fixing?" , asked Knowledge carefully.
"Well", answered Chaos, "I might have been a bit careless with how I stored his soul. I kind of forgot that a soul without a body always starts to disappear if you don't keep feeding it energy."
"This", said Shadow, "is the reason why we don't allow you to have pets. They always die in the end. It would not even surprise me if that dragon corpse you are keeping died again before you even put the new soul into it."
Chaos replies, "Don't over exaggerate, it is a corpse without a soul, how can it die again?"
“Considering your track record with pets, it would not surprise me that you got a corpse killed again.", said Death.
"Oh!", replied Chaos with fake tears in her eyes, "Big bro War the others are bullying me. Please tell them that I can take care of a pet."
War, who is easily manipulated when one of his sisters start crying, scrapes his voice and says, "Guys maybe you should stop bullying Chaos."
Shadow just looked at War unamused, "Remember that Hydra? Or that King Chimera?"
"Isn't it normal that one or two of my pets die of neglect considering how long I have lived?" , said Chaos in her own defense.
"It is, replied Shadow, "If you had normal pets like cats and dogs, but you had two immortal beings as pets."
"Don't call them Immortal, that is false advertising.", puffed Chaos.
"No", interjected Death, "They are immortal. Well, they can't die of old age at least and can life purely of the mana in the air."
"Then why did Snakey and ChiChi die? You all told me their lifespan ran out.", asked Chaos.
All the other gods in the room looked at each other with despair in their eyes mumbling things like, "Did we not agree to never tell her? and "Shit, who is going to tell her the truth."
After a small discussion War, Death and Shadow grabbed Knowledge and threw him towards Chaos before running out of the inn.
"Well", said Knowledge who was now shaking a bit, "They might have killed themselves."
"WHAT! WHY!", shouted Chaos,"
"You held them captive against their will for eons and almost never paid them any attention. I think they just lost the will to live. You could even say that they died of loneliness.", said Knowledge with closed eye, expecting to get hit at least once.
He heard Chaos walking around and a few moments after that he heard a thud. And another one, and another one. The sound just kept repeating and after a minute he finally mustered enough courage to open his eyes. When he opened his eyes he was perplexed with what he saw, namely Chaos banging her head against the wall.
"Chaos........?, Chaos.............?", he carefully said.
"I am a horrible pet owner, I should just disappear. Light and Chaos were right." mumbled Chaos with a vacant expression .
Knowledge walked towards the door of the inn and opened it. Outside he saw a vast nothingness and the three other gods just standing outside.
When he walked or actually hovered over to them War ran towards him, arms open wide and started hugging him while shouting, "Brother you are alive!"
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"How did it go", asked Death.
"Best if you just follow me", replied Knowledge.
Back inside the three other gods saw Chaos banging her head against the now visibly cracked wall while mumbling about how she should just accept the punishment from Light and Order."
After staring for a few moments Death said, “I think we broke her."
Dearest sister, "said Shadow like she was walking on eggshells, "don't let it get to you. Show us that you can take care of a pet by taking care of this Dracolich that you are going to create. But before you can show us how responsible you can be you need to tell us what our roles are in your evil master plan."
The mentioning of her evil master plan brought a small smirk to chaos her face.
"It is working", mumbled Death in a barely audible voice, "Quick talk more about her plan."
"Yes big sis, you still need to show Light and Order who the top dog is", said War, earning him a slap from Shadow.
"What was that for?" complained War.
"Don't mention dogs you idiot", complained Shadow.
"Oh, don't push the blame on me, it is your fault we are in this mess", replied War.
Their little fight got interrupted when they heard Chaos laughing again, but this time it was one of amusement.
After a few moments Chaos stops with laughing and says, "Thanks, I really needed that. Now let me start explaining again."
"Knowledge I need you to fix his soul and it would be nice if you could improve his affinity for arcane magic. War I would like for you to make and bless a weapon and piece of armor for him. Shadow I would like for you to make an artifact which lets him change his appearance and Death I just need to shove this soul in his body. You all understand your roles now?"
Knowledge just walked towards Chaos and asked, can you give me his soul, I want to get started as soon as possible."
"Sure", replied Chaos and handed him a glass bottle with a ball of essence clad in a red light in it."
Knowledge walked towards a corner of the room while mumbling, "Such a stupid way to preserve souls. But still how long did she keep you in here, it looks like eons have passed since she got her hands on you. You really are lucky to have absorbed a lot of chaos energy from this plane or else there would be no saving you."
Shadow was the second to answer," Yeah got it. I will be leaving now to make the artifact. What do you even need it for?"
"It is so that he can disguise himself as a human or any of the other races. Cause you know, looking like a dragon makes it easier to start thing like a cult but leaves him unable to infiltrate cities. Also, it makes it harder for the heroes or other self-proclaimed defenders of the realm to find him.", replied Chaos.
"Makes sense", replied Shadow before opening a portal. "She waved everyone in the room goodbye before walking away."
After Shadow was gone, War said, "Considering what you just told Shadow, the armor and weapon should be able to change forms?"
"Yeah", replied Chaos, "I would be kind of stupid and awkward if he could not use his armor and weapon after he changed his appearance with Shadow her artifact."
"I will need to inspect his soul for a second to see what kind of weapon would fit him. That is no problem, right?", asked War.
"No problem, you can inspect his soul after Knowledge is done with repairing it.", replied Chaos.
After a few hours Knowledge walks over to the other three gods who are now chit chatting.
"I'm done with fixing and improving his soul.", He said before yawning."
"Already?", questioned Chaos
"What do you mean already. I used my personal arcane magic to warp time. It actually took me almost a half a year to fix and strengthen it.", replied the drained looking Knowledge.
"Thanks, Knowledge", said Chaos.
"No problem, but I will going to sleep for a month or so, using that spell always drains me", said Knowledge and before anyone could reply he had opened a portal and walked through it.
War walked towards the soul and took it in his hands. After a few moments, he gave it back to Chaos and made a portal of his own. Right before he walked through the portal he said, "I will start working on it right away, you can expect it to be finished in two or three months."
Now only Death and Chaos remain in the room. Chaos looks towards Death and says, "I guess you have a few more questions?"
"Yeah, why are you doing all of this?", asked Death.
"Did I not tell you, it is because I'm dying.", replied Chaos grinning.
"You can fool them Chaos but not me. I know you stored enough power during your whole existence to survive for at least a few thousand years. Your connection with the world would have been restored by then." , said Death.
"Simple", grinned Chaos, "Because fixing it like this is a lot more fun. Now let's wake my new servant up, we need to explain quite a bit to him."
Chaos grabbed the soul, flashed Death a mischievous grin and said, "You know I actually did not expect Shadow to fall for my little lie. Especially considering I warned all of them that I was lying."
“Is your memory going bad because as far as I remember you did no such thing.”, said Death.
“Oh you are right I said no such thing but I gave them a hint.” , replied Chaos.
“And what would that hint be?” , asked Death.
The smile on Chaos her face became bigger again as she said, “Remember that when I was laughing, my clothes caught fire?”
“I remember but what does that have to do with anything?”, asked a visibly confused Death
“Don’t you know what the kids of mortals like to say when people lie? , asked Chaos.
"No, I don't really have the time to concern myself with those kinds of things.", replied Death.
"They like to say 'Liar liar pants on fire'.”, said Chaos happily.
Death just sighed, he had a feeling that his workload was going to increase quite a bit after Chaos released her newest servant.
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