Unending Punishment, Favor, and Surprise [Rewritten]

[Author Here: So, the previous version of the chapter was not bad, in my opinion I liked and laughed while making it, but I felt it was too forced. And after reading it again, and again it felt like he was not making full use of his connections, and powers, and I seemed to be trying too hard to make jokes and use references, in the process almost completely changing the characters I have been portraying until now, so I decided to rewrite the chapter. I hope you all enjoy this one as much as I did;)]

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Spectre POV: 

As Frigga and I with baby Aldrif in my arms step through the portal. We can see Lady Death herself, just outside her castle, standing at the edge of a cliff, as if overlooking her realm. We walked up to her, and she started speaking without turning around.

"If you are here to cash in your favor for that baby's father, it will take about five more hours for that interesting darkness to finish him off. It seemed you really wanted him to suffer, and for that, you have my thanks."

In sudden inspiration, I snap my fingers for dramatic effect, and respond, "Thank you for the reminder, now his wounds will be erased when he cannot manage them anymore. Meaning he will be tortured until we feel like stopping, and do not fret over it, Hela will and has been your Champion; it is the least I could do for her when I had the chance."

Lady Death looked towards me and said, "Regardless thank you. Now why are you here? It has not even been twenty-four hours, and you already blessed four people, and made a fifth your Champion, on top of that, no one willingly visits this realm, unless they need to or want something, so out with it."

I smiled softly, as if caught red handed, but then my demeanor became serious, as I answered. "I want to cash in that favor."

Lady Death with no small amount of surprise made a follow up question. "Why? the baby's father will not die any time soon, now that you fix him constantly, so what could you possibly need it for?" She asked before her eyes widened in surprise and eagerness, as if she were unable to wait for my answer.

Noticing that weirded me out a bit, but I still responded. "For the baby herself" And her eyes and eagerness immediately died down, "For my plans for my universe to work Asgard included, this baby cannot be anywhere near Asgard, at least while it is still developing. So since I have no prior experience taking care of babies, even though I love them, I thought why not cash in that favor with Death, and have Aldrif live, train, and be taught in the realm of the dead by the best trainers, teachers, etc. to ever live with her mother being allowed to raise her here, or visit very often, would that be alright with you?"

Lady Death seemed to be pondering, before smirking. "Lady Death herself, allowing a prospective Queen of Hel, to be raised under her own roof, without this advantage she has taken the throne from my Hela in the past, this would take away all of Hela's opportunity would it not?"

For some reason having forgotten that, I decided to counter the argument. "No, she would not. As this Aldrif has no reason to become queen of Hel, and even if she somehow does find Sera marries her, and Sera dies, Aldrif's status as my Champion, should give her enough weight to exchange favors with Hela without needing to dethrone her."

Taking her time to think about this decision Lady Death responded. "Fine, but only because beside owing you a favor, you thought of Hela and already helped her with her revenge."

Smiling gratefully towards Lady Death, I turned to Frigga who felt relieved as I returned her daughter to her. I turned back to Lady Death and walked off with her, something about her eyes and eagerness were bothering me, much more than I would like to admit.

"Alright we are alone now, so what is it? That surprise and eagerness in your eyes, you definitely showed it on purpose, so what do you want?"

"It is not what I want, but what you want. I thought that with that favor you were going to bring someone or something else back..." Lady Death stated, while I was very confused.

"What or who could I possibly want back? I have not even visited Earth with how young it still is."

Lady Death just looked into the distance and seemed to ignore me. "Every once in a while, it feels so good to just think out loud. The freedom of talking to myself and ABSOLUTELY NO ONE ELSE is so refreshing. Especially when I think of the new batch of dead that just arrived from a certain Earth's pocket dimensions, of a certain universe belonging to a certain someone, to whom it was promised. Honestly that someone must have left the requirements for the planet open ended for THEM to appear here, of course they are not the only ones added the others have just not been killed off yet, but at least it does let me know how much fun a certain someone's Earth will be even before the era of superheroes."

As she finished speaking, I looked in the direction she was speaking, AND! MY! JAW! DROPPED! "Is that Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia playing with...,?! IS THAT RAAVA?!

Cackling in a way only Death herself could. A certain Harley Quinn from a neighboring multiverse would be left in awe had she heard her. She finished her cackling and through dark chuckles she said. "Yes, they are, and yes that is Raava the primordial spirit of light and patron of all Avatars from the elemental lands pocket dimension." She finished speaking and by some miracle of TOAA she had an even wider grin on her face.

"Wait, then that means!" My eyes widened to unrealistic levels when everything clicked together. "TOPH BEIFONG WILL EXIST?!" Immediately connecting to the Vishanti, as if cosmic energy were a cellphone, they answered the call. "Hello Lord Spectre, how may we be of service?" Completely ignoring how they knew I called for something, I answered their question with another question. "There are multiple pocket dimensions on Earth Correct?" They answered, "Correct."

"Good there is one that should cover most if not all of Asia and or what will be Asia and maybe even a bit further from it housing some incredible new methods of manipulating the elements, I have no problem with you learning, interacting and even having a few benders join your sorcerer organization. BUT I NEED YOU! To make sure that Toph Beifong, the greatest earthbender of all time, is born AND I NEED to be notified the moment that happens, also even if I do not show up make sure that everything that needs to happen for her to become the GOAT she is, to happen.

Besides her, you could even have the Avatars be a part of the Sorcerers and heads up Air and Water benders will especially do better in the Mystic Arts. Air, because they are almost all if not all already monks, and can project their spirit, and bend energy, though that last one I only have knowledge of Avatars pulling it off. And Water, because they with enough proficiency can Spirit bend, and heal wounds through water. The rest of the information you can find out through the Time Gem, that is all, goodbye." They said their farewell. "We will make sure those outcomes happen, thank you for your generosity and information Lord Spectre, may you have a wonderful time."

"Seriously, every time I take on a human form some mind-blowing discovery is made. I do not know how to feel about that."

And just like that I was left with Lady Death before we both burst out laughing like madmen.

"Alright, that was amazing! I definitely owe you one now. That just made my next few thousand years." I continue laughing softly.

"Alright, though your reactions were definitely payment enough. It is so rare to see an Abstract showing any emotion, unless they are an emotion and it is usually only negative emotions that are showed, if they are not showing what they represent. So, seeing actual excitement and happiness on an Abstract when something outside their agenda genuinely surprises them is quite endearing. Perks of being a newborn I guess." She ends in soft chuckles.

Not knowing whether it was my human form or something else, but something was pushing me to hug her, so I did. She froze, and just stood there letting me hug her for a few seconds, before I let her go, and saw a single ink black tear running down her left cheek, which I wiped away. She snapped out of her daze before expressing herself. "You know my origins are very complicated, but the old Oblivion was still like a father to me as my progenitor, yet we never interacted as such, so thank you for that Spectre, and fine I will take that favor."

Smiling happily at her reaction, and response, we both turn around and go back to Frigga and Aldrif before Lady Death spoke again.

"So that is baby Aldrif, give her here." She said while extending her hands to Frigga, who knew better than to defy an Abstract in their domain and handed her daughter over. "Hmm cute indeed, fine I will allow you free entry to travel to and from the realm of the dead." Finished Lady Death and Frigga was suddenly covered in a dark mist that disappeared as quickly as it showed up. "Now you can stay and raise her, or travel without restriction to and from her without problems." Lady Death finished with a light smile on her lips.

Frigga was deeply surprised and thanked us profusely. After which I said, "Well it is time we return and deal with that foolish king of yours Frigga, see you later Lady Death." I said, as a black portal opened beside us, Lady Death sent us off, and Frigga and I entered the portal.