[ Lumine's POV ]
Me and Jean were on our way to see (Y/N) to check up on him because of what Lisa has said, I'm wishing he is okay right now...
"I may have regretted on leaving you all behind, but that is the past now, for I have brought you the savior, shouldn't you be happy for this at least? " I heard a voice from the back of the Headquarters "Like I would be! The damage was too much for us to recover and yet you expect him to save us?!"... Venti...?
I stopped walking which caught the attention of Jean "Is there something wrong, Lumine?" I looked at her and gestured her to follow me, as we slowly moved nearer to the building, the more Venti's conversation with someone was clearer
"You lack hope, Barbatos. " The voice spoke with a menacing tone "This child i had brought saved his own world, I am confident that he can save this world as well. And I will make sure of it" What is this conversation about? "...we missed you... Gaia-san..." I could hear Venti's saddened voice as his talking partner giggled "I had missed you all as well, now if you could excuse me, I have something to do" before they could stop their conversation, I immediately tried to act like I wasn't listening to their talk and looked at Jean, who immediately gave me a shocked expression
"You do know it is bad to eavesdrop a conversation that you aren't involved in, right?" A hand quickly grabbed me by the shoulder " Ah, it's you... Lumine, was it? "I slowly turned around to face a woman taller than me and was revealing lots of skin "...You fit well to the requirements, very well. I shall accept you as the wife for my child, as well as you. Jean Gunnhildr"
H-huh?!?!
"As unfortunate as it may seems, I do not have enough blessings to give to you two other than... Well... A 100% chance to becoming a parent with a wonderful child if you know what I mean" I felt my face heat up as she laughs "Fret not my dear, You have lots of time to prepare yourself" she quickly winked at me before laughing again "Y-you...!" I could hear Jean stuttering from behind me "If you do not know my name yet, I am Gaia, The goddess of life"
"B-but y-your clothes!"
"I look sexy in it, don't I? Did you know that He likes women who wears this? Fufufu~ I know my child the best~" She giggles again before looking at me, I was about to speak but she slowly putted a finger on my lips "I entrust my child to you. Keep him safe, no matter what, and I will assist you on finding your brother as long as I could"
Brother...?
"That is right Lumine, Your brother, Aether... Perhaps I shouldn't tell you or else someone will get angry at me..." She sighs before backing off and looking at Venti who I'm assuming is still standing there "I will be wandering this world for a while now that I am back, would you care to join me, Barbatos?"
"...it would be an honor... Gaia-san..."
She then turned to face me and pay me on the head "Remember, Take care of him okay? If you need my 'blessing' just pray for me and you shall receive, if your brave enough that is, fufufu~ " I felt my face heat up the more she talks about it, she then suddenly disappears in front of me "I admire your courage to give him what he needed, Gunnhildr. Should I give you my blessing just in case?" I quickly turned around to see her head near Jean's ears, her voice was loud enough for me to hear and for Jean's face to blush "Just kidding~! Let us go and leave the youth be, Barbatos!"
Gaia immediately hopped in happiness and spun around in the middle of the road as Venti followed her slowly. Me and Jean had to take a few moments of calming ourselves before continuing onward to the Cathedral
[ It was an awkward walk for the two of them as they ventured the stairs, Literally none of them talked to each other after what just Happened ]
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[ No one's POV ]
( At the Cathedral )
"How did you recover so fast?!?"
"Barbara-san! Your healing powers must had improved!" A nun said as she praised the idol who quickly shook her head in denial "But I haven't done anything yet!" she claims, although it was ignored by the nun
"Excuse us, but is (Y/N) here?" Jean opened the door to only see the Nun, her younger sister, And (Y/N)...who had been sitting on a chair with a frown "(Y/N)!" Lumine quickly rushed to hug the man "I... I'm glad you are safe! Lisa told me that you-"
"Ran out of Mana? Yes, I did, Even if the Lance's I threw at the dragon returned to me, it's still not enough to form a gauge" he sighs "I can't even perform any skills now..." He added before looking at Jean "I'm sorry Jean, I can't do the job you had given me now..."
"No... It's okay, your safety is much more important to us" She sighs before looking at Barbara "Hello there Barbara, I wasn't expecting to see you here" Jean smiles which caused her little sister to smile as well "Me too! I didn't expect for you to come out of your office!" Barbara says which cause her sister to laugh nervously
"Alright Lumine...if you could please stop hugging me" he slowly taps lumine's back, which got her to back off of him and scratch her cheeks "sorry... I was just worried" He smiles at her for a bit before sighing "What am I supposed to do now?" The three girls looked at him with confusion
"Ah, I must do something real quick, so please excuse me" the nun quietly bowed to them before leaving "...Why don't you just rest for a while?" He looks at Lumine for a moment before giving her a shrug "Sounds boring" Lumine sighs at him "Then what do you want to do?"
"I want to drown a certain floating fairy in an ocean and wish to catch a fish with it"
The monotone in his voice made it clear that he was willing to do what he just said, suddenly the door closed "...Haha that was a joke, I want to travel to Liyue, I guess" he looks at the ceiling before smiling to himself "Yeah...Yeah! Screw doing nothing! Jean! Lumine! Uh...Priest! Let's all go to Liyue!" he cheered to himself before standing up and wobbly walked a few steps before falling down to the floor "A-are you okay?!" Lumine quickly went to his side and slowly sat him on the ground
He spaced out for a few moments before frowning "Did that woman take my spine or something?"
"(Y/N)... Spines and leg bones are different..."
He only looked at the one who answered him, Jean, and immediately gave her an angry pout "You don't know how my skeleton works!" Barbara giggled at the commotion while Jean gave him another look "But your skeleton are the same as others.."
"Does mine have a crack in the skull and is missing a rib cage? No it doesn't!"
"Sounds like a skeleton from the books Klee asked me to read to her" Jean sighs before walking to him and sitting by the side of him and Lumine "Thank you for protecting this city but... Why did you make the guards retreat?" She glances at him which caused him too look directly on her eyes before frowning even more
"Casualties" He said, switching his gaze to the ceiling "Even if I buff them, we would still suffer heavy casualties" he sighed "Didn't you have something that could heal people?" Lumine asked, causing him to space out for a moment "Honestly... I forgot about that, but it wouldn't help either" he laughs nervously before continuing "People back in my place can handle getting one of their arms taken off their bodies, but can they handle such thing? Especially during battle"
The two girls stood silent, Barbara only listened in the conversation "even if they used clubs or something, Mentality is not something my healing buffs can provide. So if one day Jean no longer has sanity, you can all expect me to do nothing but sit there and watch the world burn" Jean looks at him while sweating "If that happens... At least do something to help"
"Awww but Jean! Didn't you say you didn't need my help?" (Y/N) playfully whined at her "That was when I was busy doing the paperworks..." He smirks at her "but helping you recover sanity includes me signing paperwork's for someone to help you, right?"
Jean didn't even speak anything before looking at him and weakly slapping him on the face...
Which for some reason, sent him flying outside of the cathedral, shattering a window in the process
[ Paimon asks the author to stop bullying her, the author however shrugs at her and cheered her on her new job as a fishing bait ]
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After the defending a whole city from an invasion with the usage of many elements, (Y/N)'s popularity skyrocketed, there wasn't any places you could go to without hearing his name in a conversation
"Can't believe I just got slapped by Jean..."
And yet, nobody could really explain why and how he keeps appearing from different places, some say that he knows teleportation, some says he is just fast, but the true answer is still not visible...
"...Actually I'm pretty sure that wasn't even a slap... What the hell?"
But if your wondering what the answer is, Don't ask "Hmm...? Oh hello my child, is the pool warm?" He quickly looked up to see Gaia staring at him with a smile "Barbatos wished to visit the statue near the tree, so I let him be" She says before reaching out to her master and pulling him out of the lake "Thank you..."
"You are quite wet, but do you know what else is wet~?"
The two stared at each other before (Y/N) turned around and jumped back to the lake "Aw... Why not let me have my own fun for once~?" He quickly glared at her "Your own fun includes giving life to things, Not being horny 24/7 straight! Who are you?!? The goddess of lust or something?!?" He shouts from the lake while pointing at the goddess who only grinned and winked at him "you do know that 'Giving life to things' also includes t-"
"Nope! Shut up, you don't have the talking Stick anymore, shut!" He shouts at her, which made her grin turn into a smile before she sat on the ground "ok then, O (Y/N) of the lake, what is your wisdom?" She smugly says before she giggle "Let me guess what you are going to say, 'go get some mental health' "
"Well if you knew what I was going to say, then why did you even ask me?!?!" Her giggles turned into laughter as he slowly swam back to the shore "Your floating friend... Where is she?" After finally getting off the water, he looks at her with a raised eyebrow "You meant fish bait? Dunno prolly with Lumine, why you ask?"
"Nothing... Since I'm pretty much used to being inside you, my first thought of the lake is throwing her to the lake" she puts a finger on her chin as she looked at the sky "i kind of like how she looks, although I don't like how she is a child, you won't mind if I do changes, right?" He shakes his head "I would have to make a new rod and besides, I'm pretty sure that her name as a fish bait wouldn't work anymore" he says as he sits on a rock near the lake
"... someone is coming" she muttered before disappearing into the air "plus, you know how hard it is to get a rope to tie someone perfectly you know?" (Y/N) continued to speak before he felt someone tap his shoulder, he quickly stood up and turned around to see someone he didn't recognize
"You are (Y/N) (L/N), correct?" She asked while examining him "Ah no, I'm (L/N) (Y/N)!" He laughs for a moment before sighing "yeah that is me, what do you want?" The girl grabbed his hand "Jean-sama has asked to get you back to the Cathedral, so that's what I will be needing you to do today"
He tilts his head "Ah, are you perhaps one of the recruits?" He asks in confusion to which the girl replied "I have only returned after scouting... Could you be the rumored savior of Mondstadt?" He nods "Ah... I see.. it's nice to meet you, I'm Eula Lawrence, part of the reconnaissance company for the Knights of Favonius" she reaches out to shake hands with him, which he did "(Y/N) (L/N), at this point I forgot my title but I'm the one who trained the knights, it's a pleasure to meet you, Madam Eula" he smiled and bowed to her
"Ahaha... I see, then please follow me, I will be leading you back to the headquarters" he nodded and soon the two started walking back to Mondstadt, as the two were getting farther from the lake, Gaia slowly appeared back "...I wish you the best of luck, my dear child" she says before touching the lake, causing it to bubble for a few minutes "Meet up with me and Barbatos in a few hours near the big oak tree on windrise" the bubbling stopped as she smiled "I bring good news to you so it is time for you to wake up, Pontus"
She stands up from the ground and started to walk to another direction "Now where could the good old T-rex be?" She says as she walked into the forest and disappeared once again
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[ On the way to Mondstadt...
"So (Y/N), How do you strengthen the guards? I only see them wearing heavy armor, are they yours?"
(Y/N) struggled to give an explanation to Eula about the equipment he got from repeatedly killing dragons that Gaia has spawned for him to gather materials and Holding a blacksmith in gunpoint to create the same thing in one day just to test a skill he learned back then ]
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Word count : 2,437
Damn, I really need to catch up bringing in the New characters...
Haven't even like, studied the archons yet!
Yeah! I made up that name! Pontus! The...uh... First gods of something idk hang on let me just get my magical textbook that I did not stole from someone who needed it...
Hmmm... Where was it... Ah here!
PONTOS (Pontus) was the primordial god (protogenos) of the sea. He was the sea itself, not merely its resident deity, who was born from earth at the dawn of creation.
Bam! See aren't I smart? Ahahahahaha!
Man I hate thinking of names for characters... Seriously I would name the water archon something like, lake or something if I was too lazy!
As always, thank you for reading this chapter
Oh, and we ran out of time, next stop the d4dJ book!