Author's Notes:

Palutena finds herself in Rin's world continues after the end of The history of hatred.

Palutena was absently pacing in her room fiddling with Rin’s token, thinking about upcoming lessons with her master, when a portal opens up under her feet,

“Motherfucker!” Palutena exclaimed as she falls into the portal.

When Palutena fell through she landed on a large, luxurious bed making its occupant squawk in surprise as she was launched into the air. On reflex Rin shot a spell at the intruder in her bed before landing. ‘Squeak!’ Once Rin caught up with what just happened she reached under herself and pulled out the plush toy.

“Rin if you wanted to cuddle all you had to do was ask,” Palutena deadpanned.

…‘Squeak’ Palutena went as Rin gave her a squeeze with a deadpan…… ‘squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak!’

“Pally,” ‘Squeak’ “What are you doing in my bed?” ‘Squeak squeak squeak!’

“you didn't summon me for a roll in the hay?” Palutena asked slightly confused, “because otherwise I have no clue why I'm here.”

“That wasn't me or any god from here, what void dweller did you piss off?” Rin responded.

“Huh? Well maybe some related to Dollette, when me and Gilgamesh and a load of other gods killed her, that can't have been received well. But why send me here to the realm of an ally?”

“Maybe because you’re not welcome in this world? Almost every other member of my pantheon is disturbed at how you got so many aspects. They could easily react violently to you being here in the name of self preservation.” Rin replied.

Palutena frowned, “It's not like I want to eat Sapient beings divine or otherwise Rin, surely they understand that. In fact I subsist on a purely gem based diet now.” Palutena sighed.

“If these facts didn’t exist I’d say they’d be well within their right to worry about me, given my history and current strength and unfettered will. But as it stands these facts do exist, and I am not an unthinking or savage beast,” Palutena paused remembering her berserk mode and added, “well the vast majority of the time at least.” Rin facepawed at that.

Palutena stood there thinking to herself and sighed, “it can’t be helped please take us to your badlands Rin and stay back.”

“Why? What are you going to do?” Rin asked.

“Fear is borne of the unknown and that is a festering disease. I am going to elucidate your patheon, so I need to be in a place where there won't be collateral damage when they come for me. Fear not I will not attack them merely defend when required, or take the hits.”

“... I don’t like that plan.” ‘Squeak’ “It involves putting you in a situation where you might have to ‘defend yourself’ in a way that verifies those fears. And you get closer to the point they fear.” Rin said.

“Then can you think of an alternative where they won't attack because what you have told me today doesn’t exactly give me confidence that doing something else can happen.” Palutena replied with a frown.

“Ya, you can go home. They fear that you will one day grow so strong you will have no choice but to eat nothing but gods every day till you get to the point where even that won’t sustain you. But so long as you aren't here they’re willing to give you the chance to find a solution while they watch.” Rin said as she created one of her dungeon portals.

“I will use the shadow realm so whoever sent you here might not be able to stop or redirect it.” With that Rin tossed Palutena at the portal and hit her with a spell to change her back before vanishing through a portal...A portal that appeared right over Rin’s before Palutena could get through. “...Oh ^%#$! My life.”

Palutena found herself hurtling out of the portal into the desert, shaking the land and creating a crater. She got to her feet and growled, “Rin! That was uncalled for!”

Palutena sighed and got a look at her surroundings, “Huh…. I thought she wasn’t going to send me here… unless something else that really wants me dead interfered… so much for nothing can interfere with your portal Rin,” Palutena grimaced.

“I never said nothing could interfere with shadow portals, it’s just not a common thing among void dwellers as they have their void portals.” Rin said as she crawled out of another portal that opened in the ground. “And this one is obviously no exception. A void portal opened up right over my portal to stop you from leaving. Think about it, if it were mine you would have come up out of the ground not crashed down into it.”

“Someone obviously wants me dead enough that it won't tolerate other’s interference,” Palutena growled more at herself than anyone else. “Well motherfucker If you want to see a fight I guess I’ll have to oblige… Rin you are like family to me, please stand back so you do not get caught up in this fight. That at this point seems inevitable, I promise that I will not kill them or assimilate anyone of them….” she growled again before she continue, “Not even that bitch Harmony.”

“I don’t think you have to worry about her at the moment. She-” At this Rin was cut off as the ground began to shake violently. Looking down as cracks began to form in the ground giving off heat, the fires in Rin’s eye sockets shrank. “Oh cheese and crackers Move it a volcano is forming!” Rin screamed as she was enveloped in dark magic and flew off.

Palutena acted quickly and summoned a dome shield around herself.

“What are you doing! Volcanos-” At that moment the ground under Palutena exploded upward with an eruption of lava. As she used a dome which would have no bottom she was hit full blast and launched into the air. “Shit! Heal heal heal heal!”

The magma solidified into obsidian around Palutena and encased her in a sphere, her new spherical prison fell to the ground next to Rin.

“Okay, Tatonya, goddess of earthquakes and volcanoes. She’s actually one of the nicest and most reasonable of them so we should be able to talk your way out of this one.” Rin said to the occupant in the ball.

The obsidian throbbed and cracked and out hatched Palutena, she stepped out tired but unscathed, “You just had to say it didn’t you Rin,” Palutena groused as the opening in the ground grew larger and larger before a massive claw bigger than Palutena’s home temple rose out of it before grabbing the ground and pulling up the largest dragon she had ever seen.

“Whatever you do, don’t say anything bad about booze.” Rin warned.

Palutena quirked an eyebrow, “Why would I do that? I love booze, even made my own brand of magical whiskey damn near the only thing that seems to even get me buzzed nowadays.”

“If you get out of this crap, remind me to send you home with a barrel of dwarven ale.” Rin grumbled.

Palutena chuckled conjuring one of her infinite hip flasks and taking a drag, “want some?” Palutena asked Rin

“Anything I consume goes to a void that’s replaced my stomach and turned to pure energy. Can’t get drunk by drinking anymore.” Rin grumbled.

Palutena gave her a look of sympathy before morphing into a shit eating grin, “I bet Equestria and the multiverse is glad for that?”

“I can still get drunk, I just have to bathe in the stuff and absorb it through the skin. It’s just not as enjoyable.” Rin replied.

“Wow talk about taking the fun out of drinking.”

“Ahem,” Tatonya coughed to get our attention, “Yo, fluffy. You mind moving so I can do my thing?” The massive goddess spoke making strong enough winds to send us flying a short distance.

“Yeah Rin please move back, I don’t want you getting hurt on my account,” Palutena added as she transformed into her true draconic form and increased in size, near matching Tatonya’s size

“Damn it! Stop stealing my shtick!” Rin cried out.

“I could always do this Rin, just never had a reason to,” Palutena replied.

“Not just a cannibal but ripping others off to?” Tatonya said disapprovingly.

“It’s not ripping off when you could do it anyway, didn’t even steal the ability.” Palutena retorted as she straightened up, flaring her four wings. Tatonya looked at the nine heads and tails flowing from Palutena’s body.

“I’ll admit those tails weren’t mine and they manifest with multiple colored heads. But I wasn’t in my right mind when I gained them,” her mouth curled into a snarl, “Dollette the void dweller I killed is the one responsible for most of the aspects I now have, she fed me the corpses of dead gods when I was at my weakest and most vulnerable, and when my body was breaking down, and then again after I lost to Gilgamesh the first time but with fate servants, my assimilation ability is one I refused to use anymore!” Palutena said.

“So you got rid of some of the stolen aspects so your body no longer needs to feed on more?” Tatonya asked with a raised brow.

“No, unfortunately those aspects are a permanent part of me now until I can transfer them to other hosts, however I have completely replaced my diet with gems, the only thing besides sapients that can sate me and gave an Oath to Gilgamesh never to kill again those who aren’t irredeemably evil or a credible threat to my life. Also Dollett boosted me in the most sadistic way so I could handle it, so I am stable,” Palutena explained with a grating tone of voice.

“And you think that just because you said that it would never happen again?” Tatonya asked.

Palutena sighed and thought about assimilating Tatonya, and braced for the pain. And just as expected Palutena fell to the grounds writhing in pain, screaming as she rolled to try and stop it, despite knowing that it won't stop. Tears formed in Palutena’s eyes as she arched her back and grabbed at her throat trying to claw off the offending collar her teeth grinding together. Blood leaked from her eyes and mouth, as she continued to scream. Palutena began choking on her saliva and her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she started foaming at the mouth. Tatonya looked to Rin expectantly.

“I locked a collar on her that makes her experience unimaginable agony whenever she tries to absorb anyone.” Rin answered.

“...She just tried to eat me?” Tatonya deadpanned. Before the shaky, rising Palutena could respond her head was knocked to the side by a surprise blow while someone shouted “Leroy Jenkins!” As Palutena Flew back from the blow she saw a griffin with a glowing battleaxe.

“I have no idea who that is. But all the kids keep shouting his name these days when opening with a power attack.” He said with a grin.

Palutena spat out some blood and responded, “it’s a meme from a video game called World of Warcraft, it’s reference to an idiot who ran into a fight without tactics or thought for the strength of his foes. His blunder cost his friends their lives. And Tatonya, I merely thought about eating you to demonstrate that I am not bound by word alone.” Palutena gasped and panted as she wiped the blood from her face with her arm.

“Hmm, bad choice of names to honour. Anyways I came out here for a fight.So let’s fight!” The griffin shouted happily as he lifted his comically large for his size weapon.

Palutena straightened up and snorted, “Fighting doesn’t solve everything.” Palutena replied eying Tatonya who was deadpanning at the griffin.

“I am Krass, god of war. It’s how I solve everything.” The griffin replied.

Palutena sighed cracking her neck, “I guess I could spar with you,” she replied summoning her armor and scythe, before it shifting it into its sword form.

“Tatonya will you referee this fight?” Palutena asked the dragoness as she became more anthropomorphic.

“What? A spar? No I can’t, it’s against the rules.” Tatonya said before pointing to the fox in the distance. “Rin has to do it.”

Raising an eyebrow Palutena shrugged, “Rin will you ref this match?” Palutena called to the still fuming fox.

“I don’t wanna!...But as the one with the closest aspect for the job I guess I must.” Rin called back as a massive ring of black crystals formed around the combatants.

“What are the rules?” Palutena inquired getting ready to fight.

“No killing blows, dismemberment is fine.”

“YES!” Krass cheered.

“But when it comes to bones don’t shatter them. The more pieces they’re in the longer it takes to heal them!”

Palutena nodded and waited for the match countdown while shrinking back down to normal size, “through the flow of my blood my power strikes you down.” Palutena chanted out as her runes glowed.

“Start on my signal! 3,2,1” At this moment a giant illusionary rooster head shot out at them and screamed.

Palutena charged with her sword in her hands trailing behind her, and started off slashing at Krass who blocked with the flat of his ax and pushed away before thrusting his axe forward to to bash her with its blunt tip.

Palutena went with the force of his attack to swing around and slash at him from the right parrying his axe. She kicked him back away from her launching herself back into a more defensive position.

“Oh I love a chick who can swing a sword!” Krass said with a grin.

“That’s what she said!” Tatonya cried out.

Palutena smirked good naturedly even as she shook her head, “I am sorry to disappoint! I am already spoken for and I don’t think my fiance, Celestia would take to kindly to you pouching her mare.” Krass’s wings shot up at that.

“”Well, I salute you.” He said before shooting forward with his axe spinning as fast as lawnmower blades before bringing it down for an overhead strike.

Palutena braced for the stroke and and eyes widened at Krass’s smirk, With an exhale of air she felt one of his paws kick her in the stomach.

Palutena flapped her wings sending her away with the kick lessening the damage, “grr, still got much to learn,” she chided herself as her feet touched the ground she crouched her sword readied as she launched herself forward kicking up sand she went to thrust at him

“Got first...well not blood but gave you a trim.” Krass said as he blocked with his axe allowing some of the bits of hair that was on his axe to blow off in front of Palutena before punching his side of his axe which knocked the sword back and sent the other side of the axe in for a headbash.

Palutena twirled to the right dodging the axe and used the pommel of her sword to hit him in the chest, and then grabbing his arm with her left hand and pulling it behind her head as she wrapped her right arm around his neck and then pushed back forcing them both to the ground where he would take the brunt of the fall, While they were falling Krass moved his axe so that it would be facing up on his side but where Palutena’s leg would fall on it.

Realising almost too late Palutena warped away and landed back where she started panting at the close call.

“Haha! You’re a bit of a rough blade kid but not bad!” Krass called out.

“I apologise for that, I am originally a mage style fighter, only took up the sword as well recently as I noticed that weakness. But I appreciate the compliment.” Palutena said as she decided to forgo the sword and her sword shifted into a scythe, Krass frowned at this.

“Do not misunderstand, I am more skilled with the scythe than I am the sword and I gain access to my magic, which the sword limits me with, here I come,” Palutena smirked as she dashed forward, and used the pole to vault into the air and twist so her scythe would hit his shoulder

“Steel skin, haste, greater reflexes, accelerate perception!” Krass called out, his body lighting up with each cast and his body taking a silver shine with steel skin and managed to avoid the blow, leaving an afterimage as he moved.

Palutena smirked and caste, “Haste, Shell, Protect, faith and brave.” flashing red, blue and orange, a blue and hot pink shield appeared in front of Palutena as she flew back and start chanting, “White! Light! Bright! Gelida halitus, immitte! Nivis Casus!” An avalanche of snow fell from the heavens towards Krass,

“Fire storm!” Krass responded with a spell that combined wind and fire magic to surrounded him with a tornado of fire. Greatly increasing the temperature of the area.

Palutena grunted, “Ignus, Ignus, Infusiarus!” Palutena attempted to take control of the flames, the flames collected into her hand and then she cast another spell, “Sacred Create Water!” a ring of water dowsed the field in a flood of water, causing Rin to get splashed.

“Careful Rin those first few rows are a splashzone~” Palutena warned in a melodic tone. As a response Palutena suddenly found herself wearing a Shamu costume.

“Huh does this whale make my butt look big?” Palutena asked causing the only male in the earshot to sweat and Tatonya to burst into laughter.

Palutena, sighed and started casting again, “White! Light! Bright! Veniant spiritus aerialis fulgurientes! Cum fulguriationis flet tempestas austrina…Iovis Tempestas Fulguriens!” Clouds twisted and bent as a cyclone of wind gathered and lightning gathered in Palutena’s staff head when it was spinning at high speeds she sent it at Krass, it sped towards Krass twisting and shaking full of lighting as it inexorably flew towards him.

“Winds of the north!” He shouted as he spreads his wings to catch the wind from his spell to aid in his speed along with haste. “Muffle, dust storm, raging winds!” With those spells the area was covered in a violent sand storm with winds so strong the grains of sand stung with each hit.

Taking the advantage she had gained, Palutena started her last spell landing and smirked, a golden yellow magic circle appeared under her feet, filled with many runes and stars, a chromatic field of planets emerged from Palutena as they expanded away from her as she chanted light spun around her, her eyes closed “Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens…All the stars, far and wide...Show me thy appearance...With such shine. Oh Tetrabiblos... I am the ruler of the stars...Aspect become complete...Open thy malevolent gate.” Palutena’s eyes opened suddenly as a spell circle flashed in her eyes, and more light was expelled from the circle “Oh 88 Stars of the heaven... Shine! Urano Metria!”

The planets gathered to her and then they shot out at Krass’ sand storm pounding it with light damage,

As Krass was charging through the sand storm under the cover of the raging winds a large shadow flew over his head. “What the?” He said before what appeared to be a planet with rings flew at him, forcing him to duck the ring that for all he knew was a blade. “...da fuuuuuuuuuuuuke?” he said in bewilderment as he dodged another planet and another before he found himself in the path of one too large to dodge. “ Oh that is bull s-” ‘Crash!” Once the planets finished crashing the sand storm was cleared and the area was decimated.

A large distance away next to a sand coated dragoness was a hole where a fox head popped out wearing a construction helmet with the words ‘wear in case of stupid’ written on them.

“What was that!?” Rin exclaimed.

“Could have been worse.” Tatonya said. “For some reason I was half expecting her to turn the sand in that sand storm into glass.” Rin looked up at her helmet.

“I would need a much bigger helmet for something like that...Note to self, have dwarves build giant ‘in case of phenomenal cosmic stupid’ helmet.” Rin said to herself.

Palutena turned to Rin, “It’s called Urano Metria, it’s a star spell that creates a field of stars that once completed are sent towards the target, it can be used for single targets and area of effect, it originally comes from the anime and manga Fairy tale.” Palutena explained.

“Figures it’s from Fairy tale. But you should be more focused. As the goddess of games, if the match were over, I would have sensed it.” Rin called out.

Palutena tensed at that and scanned the field for the griffon warrior.With an explosion of rubble the griffin with cracked metal skin shot out of the ground at her feet and swung his axe with all his might to chop her leg off.

“Tch!” Palutena said as she warped away to the other side, “you’re a tough one aren’t you?”

“I’m a war god. Plus I had the steel skin spell.” He said with a shrug. “Now let me show you one of my heavy spells.” With that a there was a powerful suction towards Krass as a liquid ball started to form in his talon and grow to about several times his size.

“Oh I’m going to need that giant helmet!” Rin shouted and she retreated back underground.

Palutena didn’t want to take that head on so she gathered her power, creating a shield that would protect her in all directions, and thickened it as she placed anchors into the ground and mixing a dissipation matrix into it to spread the impact. As extra protection she cast “Full Guard” from Golden Sun in addition to her other protection spells, and auto-life just in case,

With a massive grin Krass sent the orb of super compressed pure oxygen flying at Palutena and just as it touched her shield he snapped his claw lighting it aflame and releasing it all at once. The next thing Palutena knew was a bright, white light and the sensation of flying. She suddenly found herself in a crater with ringing in her ears while looking up at a mushroom cloud rising up in the distance.

Palutena growled as she got up, she rose her arms up crossing them at the wrists, all the shadows nearby gathered above her head in an orb that also gained specks of light like stars,

“Hey! Listen!” A fox shouted as it ran up to Palutena. “The match is over!”

Palutena’s eye twitched as the spell stopped, “Why?” Palutena asked

“The match has been declared a draw. You are both out of bounds!” The fox replied before looking back to where the fight took place. “You a lot more than him, but you both still left the ring placed for the duel.”

“Damnit,” Palutena growled as she teleported back to the foolhardy griffon,

“AGAIN!” Krass shouted as he flew back and raised his axe.

“Not till I build my giant helmet you're not!” Rin’s voice rang out from the distance.

“But I want to try out my biggest explosion spell!” Krass whined.

“At this close range?” Palutena deadpanned with an eyebrow raised.

“Of course not! I’ll need you to back up a bit first.” Krass replied.

“Um, Pally… you’re really going to want to back up a bit.” Rin called out.

Raising an eyebrow in confusion she looked up and her eyes widened before she teleported ten kilometers back. Just in time to see Tatonya sit down right where she was standing and Krass was still.

“Honestly, why is it that everytime he gets too excited I have to be the one to babysit him till he calms down.” The dragon goddess asked aloud.

Perhaps because you’re fireproof! Palutena thought to herself wisely choosing not to say it out loud.

“Normally he’s the embodiment of the perfect general but when he finds a fighter that can damage his armor he can get a little overzealous ...Come to think of it. This was kind of anticlimactic to how I thought you guys would react.” Rin said as she finally stuck her head out of the hole.
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“Strange. Something should have happened by now.” Tatonya said as she looked around.
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“Oh I only said that because I stole Murphy’s work schedule at the tournament. It’s his day off.” Rin called up to her.

Palutena facepalms before turning to the dragoness, “So I take it we’re cool?” Palutena asked Tatonya

“Well I could go over and smoosh you...but then I’d have to get up... Ba, just go home.” The dragon goddess said as she waved her off.

Palutena was about to leave but another void portal interposed itself and and redirected her back, “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!” Palutena screamed in frustration when she saw she hadn’t left.

“Okay this is getting ridiculous!” She added as she began stomping her feet in rage.

“Okay why do I taste blue? For that matter how can I taste it!?” Rin asked in bewilderment.

The air distorted as the air was filled with screeching, as if something was trying to claw their way through metal, “Rin, I think we are about to have an unwelcome visitor…” Palutena warned causing Tatonya’s eyebrow to rise,

“Other than me! Geez,” Palutena added.

“Way ahead of you!” Rin shouted from her gem pile which she was quickly transmuting into a giant helmet with the words ‘Wear in case of phenomenal, cosmic stupid! Prototype #1’ written on it. “Alright, I’m ready!” Rin’s voiced echoed from under the helmet.

Palutena groaned as muffled cries emanated from Tatonya’s Titanic Tuckus, the sky was rent in two as a writhing mass of tentacles pulled itself through the breach. It was large and spherical though it's body writhed and shifted it was looking down at Palutena with a single great cyclopean eye filled with hate and rage.

It’s lower half split open revealing row upon row of razor sharp teeth that suggested a violent end to anything that would enter it’s maw.

“Shaaggd'itri is our name, seeing as these incompetent gods failed to end you, I will do so!”

Shaaggd’itri wrapped its tentacles around Tatonya, lifted her up and then threw her at Palutena, reacting quickly Palutena grew to full size catching Tatonya in a bridal carry. The force and weight of the Dragoness’s form caused new rivers to form from the water in the area as Palutena's feet dug into the ground to stop herself. Ending up at the coast, where salt water mixed with fresh holy water purifying it.

Tatonya growled as she twisted out of Palutena’s arms and landed on all fours before rising up. “Oh that beach ball is going to get it!”

As Tatonya began leaving lakes formed in the craters left by her footsteps as she left to get back to where they were. Greenery, flora and fauna slowly grew from where Palutena stood and the various water sources as new life took hold in the badlands turning desert to lush plains.

Palutena moved to follow, life passively sprung up in her wake. Palutena's thoughts turned to what animals could live here, inadvertently creating them without her knowledge. She thought of ixion and sleipnir the lightning horses from final fantasy, Tabaxi, gyno and andro sphinx of dungeons & dragons, ants, bees, spiders and many more insects. Naga, half snake and half humanoid, and Harpies. Various fruit trees bearing trees and rabbits, various fish species in the rivers and lakes.”

Tatonya smacked Palutena upside the head, “would you stop that!? your life and animal aspects are going into overdrive.”

Palutena recoiled back sheepishly, “Oh, sorry I didn’t realise.”

“Damn it.” Tatonya said as the ground shook violently and lava exploded out in a circle around the new species that were just created before rapidly cooling and hardening into a dome around them. “Not right to kill them because you made them. But I can’t let any spread till we examine them and make sure they won’t fuck up the balance, eradicate the ones that do.”

Shaaggd’itri obviously wasn't patient enough to wait until Palutena and Tatonya had finished, it dug its tentacles into the ground pulling up a chunk of the desert and threw the massive chunk of the earth, leaving a huge gaping hole where the rivers ended and began filling it up. The huge piece of land flew at Palutena and Tatonya they caught it together with Palutena making it levitate and grow life anew on the land, waterfalls fell to the ground on the left side of the now floating island before dispersing into the air, rainbows and clouds gathered around it and over the plains, the badlands experiencing its first rainfall in millenia.

“Well someone is certainly hasty for death,” Palutena remarked.

“Don’t create anything that shouldn’t already exist here!” Tatonya complained with a minor quake as her eyes moved along the ground.

Palutena sighed and charged at the void dweller, “White! Light! Bright! Agite, tenebrae abyssi, ensis incendens! Et incendium caliginis umbrae inimicitiae destrunctionis ultionis! Incendant et me et eum, sint solum incendentes! Incendium Gehennae!” Black hell flames converged on Shaaggd’itri creating a tornado of flames,

“Ultima!” Palutena shouted continuing her assault a sparkle of light sparked around Shaaggd’itri before bursting out into a sphere of emerald green and purple death, as Tatonya bombarded it with molten rocks that shot out of the ground. Then the flame’s heat intensified as they began to spin in the twister. Looking up into the distance, Krass, looking no different than how he did when he first showed up was flying in place. His two talens held like he was gripping an invisible ball. Shortly after, razor sharp black crystals started shooting out of the ground and got sucked into the burning vortex.

Palutena bent over and poked towards the ground with two fingers on each hand before swinging her right arm back and pointing to the sky while the left remained pointed towards the ground, dark clouds gathered above the conflagration, “True heavenly body magic, Sema!” a huge ball of flames emerged from the clouds charged lighting expelling from it. It hit the flames covering the void dweller, creating a mushroom cloud.

The flames and cloud dissipated leaving a slightly bloodied and pissed off Shaaggd’itri, “Enough!” it demanded,

“Not until you are gone!” Palutena shouted, Palutena threw up her arm as a fairy glyph appeared on it, Golden light emitted from the glyph creating a cylinder of light around Palutena, “Gather! O river of light that's guided by the fairies!” shards of light scattered around her as she continued her chant aiming her fist at the void dweller and bracing her right arm with her left hand, “Shine! In order to perish the fangs of evil!” a halo of golden light shrunk down to the size of Palutena’s target, “Fairy Glitter!” a cylindrical beam of light struck Shaaggd’itri, causing it to wince in pain, blinded Palutena called, “Krass! How much longer!?”

“Oh, about now!” He called back, fireing what looks like a drill made out of energy at Shaaggd’itri at high speeds. Shaaggd’itri tried to block it with a tentacle only to have it shred right through the appendage forcing it to dodge, only getting a flesh wound on its side as the attack brushed against it while passing.

Watching the void dweller try to escape Palutena growled, “I won’t let you escape! This is a Palutena original, TIAMAT’S ROAR!” Light, dark, lightning, fire, air, ice, water and earth energy gathered in her mouth before she opened it wide again, a magic circle made of rainbow light spun into existence as the smaller beam hit it, out of the other side a much larger beam of elements launched at Shaaggd’itri hitting him from behind, launching him upward as Tatonya flew over him and volleyball spiked him back down at tremendous speed at the ground.

Meanwhile with Rin who was sitting underground with a large black ball held in her tails.

“Do do do do, da da, da da da, da da da, I’mma charging my attack.” ‘Ding’ “Oh, it’s done!” With her magic Rin opened a hole in the ground and looked up at the plummeting void dweller. Casting haste on herself she ran over to where he was going to land and threw the negabomb at it. There was a sickening crack as the two collided and Shaaggd’itri found himself flying back up again on the large ball and the two local gods were flying away from him as fast as they could.

Palutena took off following Tatonya and Krass away from Shaaggd’itri,

Grunting, Shaaggd’itri tried to get up with some effort as he peeled himself off the large black ball ready to-

The three retreating gods flapped faster when they heard the boom. Looking back they saw a wave of darkness heading straight at them.

“I think she might have fully charged it this time!” Tatonya shouted before the coming force swept them up and sent them flying several miles and into the sea where they skipped for a while like a flat stone on the water. Krass being much smaller, kept going while the other two sank.

Once back on land Palutena’s stomach growled in hunger, she shrunk down in size groaning she conjured a pile of fire rubies and star sapphires, and began munching on a ruby, as Tatonya returned she asked, “want a couple?”

“If you can make all the fire rubies you want with magic then why do you even need Rin?” Tatonya asked.

“I didn’t make these, this was from my treasury/hoard/goddess offerings vault, I just summoned them,” Palutena replied while Tatonya’s eyes widened at the mention of hoard.

“...Look, I’m sure you're nice and all what with being Fluffy’s friend. But we only just met today, not to mention the different world’s thing and after the headache you caused creating new species without consent you’ll probably get banned from entering this world till you get your problem fixed unless it’s an emergency… I’m flattered but it just wouldn’t work out.” Totonya turned her down as gently as she could.

“Huh? Am I missing something here…” Palutena replied in confusion as she trialled off.

“No no, it’s not that, it’s just it could never work out between us as things are.” Tatonya replied.

Palutena’s eyes widened in shock, “Wait did I just propose!? Dammit, I mean sure you’re beautiful and I wouldn’t mind if that was an option but my fiance would kill me if I brought home another herd mate, but I was just offering you a snack I didn’t know about that custom.”

“There are only two reasons a dragon freely offers from their hoard so easily. When feeding their own children and taking a mate. By dragon law, if I took that offering we would be married on the spot.” Tatonya told her.

“Hmmmnn, not exactly something I would mind, but at the sametime I need to make sure I don’t run afoul of draconic customs I don’t know. You wouldn’t happen to have a copy of them to hand would you? Also Rin I guess I survived this ordeal, you still got that keg of dwarven ale, Rin?” Palutena asked as she got out a sack of bits, and gave them to Rin, “I hope that covers the ale,” Palutena remarked as she went back to snacking on her gems. Rin glared down at the sack and pushed it back to Palutena.

“It’s on the house.” She grumbled in annoyance. “Honestly, like I need more bits.”

“Oh okay well and sorry about the mess, hadn’t intended on it, I probably won't be coming back anytime soon, but It was good seeing you.” Palutena beamed and gave the fox a hug. Rin’s tails wrapped around Palutena in a return hug. Once they let go Rin backed up.

“Krass, I look forward to our future rematch!” Palutena told the crazy griffon.

“Let’s do it on one of Rin’s unnavigable dead worlds. That way we don’t have to hold back so much.” He replied.

“And farewell to you too Tatonya, I know we didn’t really get off on the right foot, but I hope we can at least become friends in the future.” Palutena sighed as she finished her last sapphire.

“Well then, it’s time I send you off. And seeing as you’re here, might as well take some munchies with you.” At that Rin opened a portal under Palutena causing her to fall through and out in a massive treasury filled with assorted gems. From the ceiling there are several holes where she could hear mining sounds and a continuous rain of gems fell from.

“Well damn, if I could…. No I am a guest it would be rude to ask for more than I got,” Palutena chided herself shaking her head to clear the gem related greed that was slowly overtaking her. With a rumble she suddenly found the gems in the middle of the room sinking down, pulling more into what looked like a gem sinkhole. Soon she found herself being swept up in it and quickly sinking deeper and deeper, making her wonder how deep the gem vault was. After a while of sinking she found herself riding the tide of gems out of one or Rin’s portals, sliding across her room, down her stairs and out of her temple where she sees is already overflowing with gems which were still coming. All of her followers now outside the temple watching this happening.

“Wewt gems!?” Palutena cheered and then she saw a keg of Dwarven ale roll down the flow of gems, with a smile she hefted up the keg of dwarven ale on her shoulder and dismissed her new gems to her vault,

“Find ‘Tia, Lulu, all the Twilights and Captain Dash, tonight we of Ponyville feast!!!” Palutena announced to a roar of cheers, grinning wide she watched as her temple had already started overflowing with gems again.

Rin tried to stretch her muscles from sitting still for so long. She was sitting in the pantheon, meeting room while Summer broke down the bodies of the new species, races and plants and and how they would affect the environment if allowed to live in this world. Celestia of course convinced the others to simply deport the intelligent beings that we can’t keep to other worlds. It’s been three hours so far and we’ve barely scratched the surface.

“Pally is so getting a good pranking for this.” Rin grumbled to herself.

“The wandering tabaxi are catlike humanoids driven by curiosity to collect interesting artifacts, gather tales and stories, and lay eyes on all the world's wonders. Ultimate travelers, the inquisitive tabaxi rarely stay in one place for long. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, no treasures or legends lost.”

“Most tabaxi remain in their distant homeland, content to dwell in small, tight clans. These tabaxi hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep to themselves. However, not all tabaxi are satisfied with such a life. Those tabaxi gifted with curiosity are compelled to wander far and wide. They seek out stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant of the world beyond their home.Tabaxi treasure knowledge rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it's not intrinsically interesting. In the tabaxi's eyes, gathering wealth is like packing rations for a long trip. It's important to survive in the world, but not worth fussing over. Instead, tabaxi value knowledge and new experiences.

Their ears perk up in a busy tavern, and they tease out stories with offers of food, drink, and coin. Tabaxi might walk away with empty purses, but they mull over the stories and rumors they collected like a miser counting coins. Although material wealth holds little attraction for the tabaxi, they have an insatiable desire to find and inspect ancient relics, magical items, and other rare objects. Aside from the power such items might confer, a tabaxi takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use.”

“Sphinx, In sacred isolation, a sphinx guards the secrets and treasures of the gods.”

This gained the bored gods attention as Summer continued,“ As it calmly regards each new party that comes before it, the bones of supplicants and quest seekers that failed to pass its tests lie scattered around its lair. Its great wings sweep along its flanks, its tawny leonine body rippling with muscle and possessed of forepaws powerful enough to tear a humanoid in half.

An androsphinx bears the head of a humanoid male on its lions body. Outwardly gruff and downcast, it often begins conversations with insults or negative observations beneath this gruff exterior, however, an androsphinx has a noble heart. It has no wish to lie or deceive, but it doesn’t give away information readily, choosing its words as wisely as it guards its secrets. An androsphinx tests the courage and valor of supplicants, not only by forcing them to complete quests but also with its terrible roar, which echoes for miles as it terrifies and deafens nearby creatures. Those who pass its tests may be rewarded with a heroes’ feast.”

“I want one!” Krass declared boisterously

“A gynosphinx bears the head of a humanoid female. Many have the regal countenances of worldly queens, but some are marked with wild, leonine features. A gynosphinx’s eyes see beyond the present time and place, and penetrate veils of invisibility and magic. Supplicants who look deep into those eyes might find themselves magically displaced, banished to some far-flung plane where a difficult trial awaits them. Gynosphinxes are virtual libraries of knowledge and lore. They ask riddles and present puzzles to test the wit of supplicants that come to learn their secrets. Some are willing to bargain with such supplicants for treasure or service.”

“The Naga are a humanoid race, with their lower bodies replace by that of a snake, their eyes have slit pupils, they have four arms two on each side, a Sapient predator species which can swallow prey whole, they keep to themselves or in small communities little else is known due to their secretive nature.”

“Harpies, humanoid species with wings coming from their back or from their arms. They have taloned feet and their feathers come in a variety of colours. They are an all female species they live in medium to large aeries, because they are all female a harpy will take any opportunities to mate with a male, species doesn't seem to matter. This often culminates in their worthy male prey as involuntary mates as well as food or those who overpower them could expect a harpy to become a very submissive and loyal mate.”

Tatonya groaned, ”don't even think about it Krass!”

Summer giggled at their antics before continuing, “Ixion and the Sleipnir species, they are equinoid sapiens similar to the horses of saddle Arabia, they differ in that they both have metal horns that sweep back along their necks like a dragon’s spines and have eight legs with metal hooves instead of the standard four, some of the species have been spotted running in the sky on a carpet of thunder. They are also capable of magic they are especially proficient at lightning affinity spells. Ixion herself is larger than her subjects with a longer and sword like horn on her snout, her mane and tail are silver in colour. Ixion is the leader of the species. Ixion also seems to have taken a liking to Luna actively flirting with her. The mare seems to follow the knight's code of chivalry and honor, she is boisterous, playful and often filled with mirth and enjoys a good mead. The species also enjoys contests of strength and battle each other and others to test themselves, these contests rarely end in death.”

“Note to self. Prepare traps and curses in the horn dog room.” Rin said to herself while sending a command to her imps to prep the room reserved to meet potential suitors after her girls. So far none’ has had the balls to stick around when the chair tips forward towards the trap door that shows an image of Hell. “Summer...Did you just copy all of this off god Wiki because you didn’t want to work them out yourself?” Rin deadpanned making Summer blush and hide the cards she was reading off of behind her back.

Luna face hoofed in embarrassment, “must you go to such extremes auntie?”

“If they can’t make it through the entire thing they don’t love you enough.” Rin replied.

Celestia snickered at Luna’s predicament, causing Luna to arch an eyebrow at her.

“At least all of ours were alive! How thou wound up getting aunty to put a cake on that chair and give it the run down still baffles us to this day!” Luna teased with a smirk

Celestia's cheeks burnt bright crimson as she tried to hide behind her wings.

Luna sighed, “I shall go inform Ixion of Aunties decision once this vote is passed, I am sure she will be overjoyed,”

“Luna, the first rule of the horn dog room.” Rin began.

“Never talk about the horn dog room.” She groaned.

“I am aware Auntie, I am merely going to tell her thou wisheth to meet her in person,” Luna replied

“Now let’s get this over with.” Death said. What followed was seven hours of debating to determine what we cut out and what stays. When it came to plant life over half of it was wiped out because they would spread like a plague without the right animals to keep them in check. The exception was a few medicinal herbs that Summer took. As for the rest, Luna managed to get Ixion and her subjects to stay, and Krass fought tooth and nail to keep the sphinxes, not that he needed to try hard. The rest got the boot because no one would fight to keep them here. Which meant less adjustment with them and the food chain to make sure Pally didn’t screw us over with her explosion of life.

“Well this was fun, bye!” Luna galloped away in a rush forgetting she can teleport.

“I too shall take my leave I have some business, somewhere nowhere near the containment domes in the sky we’re keeping the new locals in.” Krass flew off.