ɪɴᴛᴏxɪᴄᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴅᴇꜱɪʀᴇ
5
𝓣he night had fallen, but it felt heavy for Venti since the woman he had met earlier in the morning during his escape from the festival had gotten into difficulty with the Lawrence plan...it didn't feel right to just leave it alone.
Venti stopped staring down blank as they walked through Exist mondstadt, Luna was just guiding them in front, (y/n) paused as she turned back to stare at him bewildered, she could feel his hold tighten around her hand
"my flower.."
He called softly out as if something was worrying him.
"I do not wish to get you involved on this situation again. But hear me..."
Was he going to do something rash again that would land him in even more trouble? It was bothering her so much that she didn't want to let go of his touch, and he didn't want her to become engaged in his actions either.
(y/n) took a deep breath and let out a heavy sigh, realizing he needed to do something without her aid or risk being wounded. She gently let go of his hands as Venti gazed up at her.
"Go..ill wait for you, just remember"
"call my name.."
Venti grinned at her approval as they both repeated it at the same time, recalling those phrases correctly.
"I'll come to you after im done!"
He said enthusiastically as he grabbed her hand and pressed it on his cheeks, feeling her touch more before leaving to accomplish something vital.
"My divine goddess Arthia ...I love you like a endless bound that never wants to come to an end but eternal"
He fell first and harder, he kissed her hand for public adoration since Luna was watching and waited for them to finish once again, he longed to wrinkle her lips but not just now. He slowly let go of her hand and returned to mondstadt as (y/n) watched him go from the buildings.
Luna touched her shoulder to gain her attention and to reassure her.
"lets go (y/n) theres more adventure through the night than the night..until morning raises"
As they started leaving the mondstadt building, the mood changed, as if a major storm was about to hit Tearing Mondstadt, but it wasn't the weather; something else just seemed different once Venti left.
(y/n) stared at the walls that surrounded the city; they were far away from the city; she wondered where the walls originated from or why the city was locked up within. The situation reminded her of Decarabian, where he shut up the city for himself. She returned her gaze to Luna and came to a halt, calling out her name to get her attention.
"Luna..You have not spoken more words about what happened to mondstandt, since it's the only two of us, clearly you didn't want to tell your brother or he will do more trouble"
she widened her eyes in disbelief, perhaps realizing that she had been caught by her own actions (Y/n) doesn't read people's minds but can detect powerful emotions from anybody.
"if you so wish to know the truth then ill tell you..on this very next day there will be a battle coming up its not only the ludi harpstum it was meant to for the Lawrence to take defend on mondstant people or luck in a worse way possible"
Luna explained, a battle? What kind of battle between who It's like the situation between Decarabian and the Lawrence clan, and it irritates her a little bit.
"battle with who?..does this happened every year? It doesn't seem its your first time or once this happened"
(Y/n) replied she looked back at mondstadt wall for a far.
"hill devils(hillicurls)..the corruption of khaenri'ah created those things, they come by to attack since theyre God has no presence of mondstadt against the protection, they build the walls to protect themselves..but only ones are chosen to enter, slaves will consider to fight outside until till their life"
Luna explains. Not only did the Lawrence clan wreck a festival, but there was more to it...more depth and brutality, they have done more than just take mondstadt as there is no stand to their own God, however Venti was sleeping to notice the call of those things.
"You did nothing else to watch your people die without their original God to walk by them? those poor slaves die to the hands of the hill devils."
She questioned Luna with a serious tone, perhaps this was the reason why she didn't tell his brother directly, if sooner he would put the rapid act, she didn't react for a second to think of an explanation, if Luna can't tell him (U/n) will.
She turned around to walk back to mondstadt, but before she could, a bright sword flew at her head, and her body moved so rapidly to avoid it that the wind came earing her ear when it passed as the sword became caught in the tree.
Suddenly, a lady with pink hair approached her quickly, nearly severing her neck, but she managed to avoid it with ease thanks to her fighting abilities. She gripped the blade, causing her palm to bleed from its sharp edge, shocking them with her daring choice to even reach for it
The shock caused a distraction as (y/n) made a move pining her down to the ground.
"I won't think twice about having you killed so our plan doesn't fall through!"
Struggling to free herself from her body, the woman shouted.
"plan??"
(y/n) became more perplexed as she stared at her bleeding hands and groan as flames began to inflict healing from her hands, she looked down at the lady she caused the attack first and (y/n) will also act without receiving divine approval to carry out to attack an innocent.
However, Luna swiftly grabbed her hands to stop her before she could bring them to the lady's face where the flame was.
"(y/n) Stop!"
She yelled, healing someone's body without any injuries can have dangerous consequences, especially when her powers have a burning sensation. the flame died down as her hand was completely healed, the lady was surprised to see her hands healed as if they hadn't been there before...and those powers were only held by the Goddess of Life Arthia.
(Y/n) eventually got off her and looked at them, luna assisted the lady to get up She definitely need to explain it more clearly to (y/n) and it appeared like the one who assaulted her was teaming up.
"Your no mortal aren't you?"
The lady said coldly glaring down at (y/n) seems like she was already a threat to her.
"alright alright calm down Kota..i will explain everything and you will regret your words"
Kota sighed heavily when Luna suggested kota (y/n) was perplexed since she had never seen one or been brave enough to tackle a stranger without realizing it was a Goddess she was battling.
"this is (Y/n) or known to be Arthia.."
"Arthia?.."
Kota questioned the name, she was doubting that her own Goddess was right in front of her,she worshipped her for protection, health and the trauma she had experience which kind of work everything she did..but does (y/n) know her for her prayers? No
She only gives and never truly knows the person such as Kota, the moment Kota gathered her thought,based on the power she preform it was already enough evidence she bowed to the ground slowly she didn't felt panic rather she felt calm
"my grace. Please forgive me for what I have done...not only I have thread you but I have harm your body..forgive me I have no excuses towards you"
She quickly relaxed her guard towards her, which was unfortunate for (y/n); she didn't respond for a long since she needed to know what was going on first before forgiving her
"So, the second huge question..me and kota work with after years of this happening, we covertly save the ones out of the wall but..most of them didn't make it, now that you're here, we can start rescuing people more than before, but we mustn't let ourselves be known in the Lawrence clan."
"and let this happened once again the next year?..if you both want to stop this cruelty its facing the Lawrence, you know yourself it will still keep going"
"(Y/n)..we don't have the boldness to show our true self to the people letting know that it's their second god is showing up not their original one they wont have a trust in me"
"then venti will..his daring thoughts are free will on his action"
He did this not once, but twice, and Luna had to admit that she heavily sighed after her explanation that there was no way to provoke (y/n), if she wants to help this generation, Luna and Kota would come along.
Kota was still sitting on the cold grass when (y/n) glanced at him and told him to rise up. She gave Luna and Kota a stern look.
"As your Goddess, I command both of you to defend this nation once again; do not allow the decarabian situation to reoccur; all people must be free, not captive in the hands of others; this is what the God of Freedom wishes."
They both nodded accept her words go through them and have a blessing towards her, Luna started to explain their current plan, or the one they also needed to do, saying they had to go to the lion tribe (Vannessa team) as they were treated by slaves with the Lawerence and train them to survive or go from the walls of mondstadt.
And so they did (y/n); they merely needed to carry out their existing strategy for the time being. She is limited in what she can do until Venti stands up for his own nation. It's a boundary for her..even venti tried to allow her
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A member of the lion tribe then approached with a sorrowful expression on his face. He glanced at Luna, who appeared extremely worried and nervous about tomorrow. (y/n) suspicion grows as they are all reminded of the girl he bumped into. they aren't from here, but rather from the nation of Natlan, where there were Muratans. The question is, what brought them to this place in Natlan, only to be treated like slaves?
They clarify that Vannessa, one of their lion leaders, was abducted by Barba, the son of Lawrence, and sacrificed without informing Luna. Venessa had only left the area three hours before that, and her disappearance had alarmed the whole tribe.
After a little while (y/n) was passing by the area while Luna and Kota took care of them. She paused and gazed at the two fresh apples on the paper back for a while; it was the same apple Venti had given her, but why was it here?
"Oh hi miss!"
A little girl called Lind approached with a cheerful, innocent grin. Despite the situations they would face the following day, (y/n) couldn't help but smile back at Lind, which briefly eased the situation.
"you can have the other one! They are really sweet! More different from the mondstadt apple stand"
After Lind remarked, she took her by the arm and led her to sit on a broken limb. She then handed her the apple from the paper bag and (y/n) accepted her offer without hesitation
"It's funny, but they say an apple a day keeps the goddess of life away, and they miraculously cured my illness after I had a bite!"
She laughed, (Y/n) thinks her joke was cute, not realizing it was directed at her..she was known to be the greatest healer after all, She shouldn't hold the little girl responsible, though, because she was right to expect this to be the same apple that she had eaten, blessed by her, and now that the girl had eaten it, she was healing herself.
"We always do pray for her blessing not only she was on this land but in our nation before Natlan! i heard she played against the god of sun.. Her story is inspiring but.."
Her faith in her was very great, and (y/n) was so pleased that even for such a little child, she took a bite of an apple and tasted the sweetness; it was different from the other one.
"you seem to have a lot of fond with this goddess"
"yeah!, It's no surprise that the anemo God had fell for her actions! Who wouldn't, after all? I'd like her as soon as I witnessed her exquisite beauty and be blessed by her affection!"
She laughed again, and for a few moments longer...(y/n) heard a faint voice through the winds and she was staring at in mid-air.
"I call my name upon you..Arthia"
(y/n) returned her apple with a smile after hearing the wind's voice.
"I'm going now.. I forgot I had something to do, until we meet again, my child."
(Y/n) softly patted her head, there were sparkles on her hands that got into her head as a blessing for the little girl Lind as she walked away and passed by the tree, she wanted to know her name before she leave.
"Wait miss! What's you-..r name"
Lind went up to the tree she passed by and then disappeared on the tree. She even started looking around the tree but there was no sign of her.
Lind became a little freaked out and puzzled, and she heavily sighed, giving up on finding her. She looked back at the apple she given, and curiously, the apple did not receive a bite.
"I swear I saw her took a bite with my own two eyes!"
She exclaimed, perplexed, as if the apple had never been eaten, which caused her to ruffle her hair. She returned her gaze to the paper bag, expecting just one apple to remain, but there were.. three.
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Shortly after connecting with a Venti, she went into the realm to touch him physically. She step out of the realm, only to discover that she was in a dark place with the portal rapidly disappearing. It appeared to be a corner of a building in Mondstadt, but when she turned to look back, all she saw was the rear of the large cathedral.
She looks in admiration at the scene as the moon overhead illuminates the highest point. She briefly sensed a powerful presence close her, and it was venti of course. He wrapped her in his arms and again pressed his face into her back in an attempt to contact her.
He couldn't help but feel envious of her every moment of her absence. He struggled with everything he had been taught about Vanessa, but he let his guard down and gave her all his issues with just one touch.
"warm and gentle,yet electrifying
Your touch sets my hear on fire..
Leaving me breathless and yearning for more"
With a deep sigh, he matched her fingers and gave (y/n) a tighter grip as their bodies lit up glowing blue of anemo
They were carried away by the wind to their peaceful and comfortable place. The winds may flow freely in the old mondstadt decarabian, also known as the storm terror, today, and they can especially visit their old friend the moon, which follows them everywhere they go and provides their sole light...
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With a deep sigh, he took a seat on a cracked rock where they had first met. (y/n) sat on the cold grass behind him, not bothered by the cold touching her body
"Luna told me everything we should have known earlier morning. They have been through a lot without you,and expecting the mondstadt hearts will remain peaceful after the war, their freedom from greed led them to forget the God who had abandoned them for peace."
"I still do not regret my choice..or at least I try not to"
Venti smiled softly in response. They sat on the grass, and he lowered himself to fully embrace her.
"But I'll set things right again, isn't that what he and you want?"
He buried his face against her shoulder, feeling the comforting sense of heaven. (y/n) Nodded, full of faith that he would protect Mondstadt once more. He was considering a potential plan for tomorrow's cruelty event; if he revealed it to Luna, she would not agree, but (y/n) had already assured her that Venti would take care of everything, with Luna and the other serving as backup.
He clears his mind for the time being and focuses only on her, realizing that comforting her with his thoughts would only make matters worse.
"ill start joining on your journey...i want us to take a step of our promise."
They haven't followed through on their pledge since she left, and he fell into a deep slumber. She was taken aback by his genuine devotion to her, but she agreed again.
"Am I forgetting something?"
Venti inquired, looking perplexed, as he turned to face her full length and moved his head away from her shoulder. Before giving her a kiss and continuing their journey even after the station, he glanced around to make sure Luna wasn't around and in case she disrupted their moment.
She thought it was funny that he was determined to put her lips to his
"silly you..come here"
"ill take you on heights tonight..my flower"
She puts her hands on his cheeks and draws him in. He smiles to make her laugh a bit and immediately lowers his guard to give her a final embrace. They lock lips for a little while longer creasing each other's skins as the air felt intimate of their love
A blue dragon growled at them, interrupting their kiss, but it seemed like Venti was content with the kiss and didn't mind being disturbed. They glanced at the cranky baby dragon that was leaning on (y/n) arms
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A/N
next chapter Kota will be removed.