[Vol.4] Quest 309- Demi-Spirit FoundA month later, after traveling as fast as they could to Orario, Malion returned.
"Lady Hestia, I have returned with urgent information!" Malion said.
Malion did not convert to the Artemis Familia so quickly. There were still a few things she wished to impart to Bell. The Hestia Familia was also on her way to the Artemis Familia ho.
"Did you? What is it?" Hestia said.
"Wait... where are Bell and the others?" Malion looked around. "Don’t tell
he has already left for the expedition!"
"They did." Hestia got up and walked to her. "Is the information that important?"
"We found Wu."
"!!" Her eyes widen. "Are you sure?"
"Positive, my ho forest has poisonous miasma slowly killing it."
"Gah!! What luck! Bell and the others already left for the expedition a month ago!"
"Then shall I go and inform Lady Artemis?"
"Go, I will inform Hers of this; we will et up with Artemis."
Malion quickly made her way to the Artemis Familia ho.
"What is the problem!?" Artemis quickly ca down to et her. A look of concern showed on her face as she approached Malion.
"Artemis, we have found Wu."
"Truly!?"
"Yes, Lady Hestia has already gone to inform Lord Hers. They will be coming here."
"Hm, get the eting room ready!" She turned to her Familia and gave out the order before returning her attention to her fellow co-wife. "Malion, are you tired?"
"A bit." She gives a slight nod. "Seems being 5 months now has taken more out of ; ah, how I miss the freedom and clothes to move about."
"Can you last till the eting is over?"
"I can, but I would need so help going up."
"Hm, anything you want? Drink? Food?"
"Salmiak and so orange juice."
"I’ll get you them."
Artemis left, leaving Malion to rest in the eting room.
Resting in the eting room, a few minutes passed, and Haku and Calli entered.
"Ma!" Calli ran up to Malion.
"Little Moonbeam, you have grown so much since I left."
They both hug one another.
"How is my little sister!" she said, touching her abdon.
"They are doing well, but do not get your hopes up if they turn out to be a boy. Haku, do you wish to feel as well?"
"Not really."
"So, what brought you two here? Is it just to greet ?"
"It was Haku’s idea!" Callisto said.
Haku’s face turned red in embarrassnt.
"No, I didn’t! It was yours, Calli!"
"Do not fight." Malion cut short their little fight before it could escalate. "I am happy you both ca to et ." She pats Callisto and Hakushika’s heads.
Knock! Knock!
"Lady D??kk." said an elf mber of the Artemis Familia. "I brought the things you requested."
They ca in and placed it on the table. The food that Malion had a craving to eat.
"Ugh!" Haku said. The sll of the salmiak put Haku off. "I’m going now. How can you eat that?"
"I am not a fan of it either, but I have a craving for it. Your mother had a craving for pickles, peanut butter, and honey."
"Eww! That sounds so nasty! The taste and textures are all weird!"
"I don’t know. It sounds pretty good!" Callisto said.
"You two should be going, I will take a quick nap before everyone gets here."
"Are you that tired?" Haku asked. "You are usually full of energy?"
"Having a child takes a lot out of . Maybe later we will resu your art and archery lessons."
"You can just ask Mom to teach you, Haku." Callisto chid in.
"Uhhh…" Both Haku and Malion reclined at the suggestion.
"What’s wrong with mom’s archery lessons!" Callisto looked at the two, quickly glancing from one to the other.
"Mom is… really… uhh…"
"Brutal in her teachings," Malion said. "I can still feel the cold, sharp pain of her arrows as they lay in ."
"I still rember the pain in my fingers. They felt like if I tapped the end of a fork, they'd burst like a berry," Haku said.
"Don’t be a baby! It’s not that hard!" Callisto said proudly.
"Do not say that so boldly," Malion said firmly. "You will live to regret it."
"You will." said the elf mber. "My friend liboea once asked Lady Artemis for a match to see who was the better archer."
"And?" Callisto said.
"I thought the result was obvious? Lady Artemis is not the goddess of archery for nothing. Now run along you two, Lady D??kk needs her rest."
The elf leads the kids out while Malion gets her nap.
A while later.
"M…. Ma…. Malion, everyone is here." Said Artemis, waking Malion up.
"Mmm…" Malion opens and rubs her eyes. "Sorry, I was getting a quick nap." Artemis, help her up. "Now, as I said—"
She informs her of what she found: how not only has Wu made her way to the Frontier, she has kicked out the Odin Familia and has been poisoning the Lionash forests for 3 years now.
"This…this is certainly a problem." Said Hers.
"Any other day I would be laughing my ass off hearing that one-eyed jerk was kicked out of his ho. It’s karma to do what he did to my ancestors, in driving from the land he calls Asgard." Malion said.
"Unfortunately, the poison the spirit drank would be the Eitr," Loki said with a disgruntled expression.
"What’s that, Loki? Sothing in your region of Heaven?" asked Hestia.
"It’s a poison that old bastard used to get high and, quote, ‘expand his mind’ in Heaven."
"!!" Hers, Hestia, and Artemis were all shocked.
"That’s impossible!" shouted Hers. "The closest thing we had was Ambrosia! Even then, that was quickly regulated! Plus, I would know about it!!"
"If that’s in Gekai, then... it seems she found a poison strong enough to possibly bring down Cirrus." Said Artemis.
"But... why is she not co for him yet?" said Asfi. "I an, if she has it, why not co to finish him off?"
"I would assu it is because she isn’t strong enough to fully adapt it to her being." Said Circe. "A poison like the Eitr would take a long ti to acclimate to, and without a contractor or a reliable source of magic stones, in her case, it will take ti."
" and Freya will deal with her." Said Loki. "Our strongest may be gone, but we can at least hold her back till our main forces co back."
"Do you wanna go just to laugh at Odin?" said Hestia.
"Partially, but we know Odin and how to deal with his personality."
"Is it that bad?"
"Shrimp, he is like Zeus, but instead of the lust towards won, he has a lust for knowledge and an anger equal to it when he doesn’t get his way. That sword Cirrus has is proof of that."
"That damn cursed sword Hera won from him," Malion said, rembering Gram.
"Exactly, so we will head out first, Circe. Do you mind coming along as well? Maybe you could make so antidote for the poison?" Loki said, putting their hands together to garner sympathy.
"I will go if this poison is as dangerous as you said. I will take up that challenge," Circe said. "Besides, if it is said to make a god high in Heaven, then who knows what it can do to a human?"
Frontier, Lionash Forest outskirts.
"Lord Odin, the miasma has spread again." Said a Familia mber.
"The dark elves have even moved out of their forest. Please, my lord, we must—"
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