Sisters Of Fate V

"Holy fuck! He was going to erase me?!" Loki stammered pulse sky rocketing. Zero slightly chuckled before answering.

"I stopped him, he can be very protective... For all your questions I'd like to ask a favor." Loki frowning and crossing his arms knew he couldn't refuse seeing the power he would face after.

"I'll tell you the true name of the Ether and Materia if you save all your questions till after the mission." Loki tapped an angry foot at Zeros request, before shaking his head in agreement.

"Good... Good, uhhh, the Ether is called Quintessence and it very well is older than the ambient Ether on this planet." The anger of almost dying slipped slowly away as Loki listened.

"And the Materia is considered the tears of God's."

"Bullshit, the Tears of Gods has been myth and legend since I was a boy, but there are no Materia in this world that could give you a Sin Seal." Even as Loki said it he couldn't ignore the memory of the girls gaining seals.

"It doesn't normally give you a seal since if the body isn't ready for it or made for it the host dies, but with Quintessence and the right Materia..." Zero sidestepped to show off the calm triplets still absorbing the threads behind them.

"Fine, I am not one to deny a truth in front of me, but is that how you have so many seals?" Zero looked to the floor quickly as if shamed by the question.

"Not exactly..." Zero replied bashfully.

"Then are you even human? Are you synthetic made to carry more seals?" Impatience grew in Lokis' voice.

"No, I'm human mostly..."

"Mostly? What's mostly? Because either you're lying about being human or you're part god." A shiver ran cold down Lokis' spine, the intense fear of mortal peril gripped his chest, Zero for a split second had let off an intense desire to kill.

"We are all part Gods Loki, but I am human and do not tolerate Gods and would prefer not to be accused of being one." At the sound of Zeros' voice, the feeling left, and Loki could stand easy again.

"Are you done with your questions for now?" Loki shook his head in affirmation not satisfied, but unwilling to fight.

"Good, 'cause I think my girls are ready to wake up." The triplets' eyes slowly began to open as Zero returned to their normal cheerful mood Loki was accustomed to.

Tia awakes to the soft touch of a blanket on her body and an unfamiliar ceiling immediately she checks for stumps where she was sure her hands used to be to see her favorite ten digits wiggling back at her.

"Yup, I checked for my arms and legs first thing when I work up." She hears from her right, she looks to find Nia sitting on a bunk bed smiling at her sister. Tia lept from her bunk and into Nia tears streaming down her face.

"We thought you were a goner your vitals were low and you didn't return to the fight!" she let out through pained tears.

"Alright alright I get it you're happy we're alive, but could you cry on me with clothes on." Nia said jokingly as Tia accessed the situation realizing she stood in her birthday suit. Her face flushed red as she lept back into the bunk and underneath the covers.

"Thank the gods you two are awake." Sia says entering the room fully clothed in a red color schemed outfit that fits her perfectly. Instead of a kimono, she now wore combat boots that ran tall and a pair of short shorts revealing her ample thigh, she had a short crimson shirt that revealed her midriff and a short jacket that wouldn't zip over her bust even if she tried with long sleeves ending at fingerless gloves.

"Siaaaa why am I naked!" Tia cried through tears.

"Better question why instead of waking us up did you go and have a chat with the enemy." Nia said peering at the figure hiding behind Sia. Zero stepped from behind Sia giving a meek wave of hello. Which in return Nia flipped the bird and Tia hid shivering under the covers.

"Alright on that note ill let you take it from here." Zero said defeatedly hanging their head in shame.

"Guys you need to hear them out, yes they were hired to kill Lady Mia and Master Toshi, but that's just it a job. Now they have a new job and if we don't help it'll cost our family their lives." Sia said trying her hardest to advocate for her used to be enemy.  Nia exchanged a look with Tia who was peeking from under the blanket.

"Alright spill it why are we here and why are we naked? The short version." Nia demanded a gleam of hatred in her tone and eyes.

"Uh well, you are naked because I destroyed your clothing in the fight and you had to undergo surgery, and why you're here well um I guess..." Zero started to stammer uncomfortably with the daggers Nia was staring at her.

"We're here because Lady Mia joined a PDC with this reaper and if she doesn't make good we all will belong to the guild and most likely be killed and used for parts research." Sia stated plainly causing Nias' fiery to dim.

"So what? The Ladys life is even more so in danger and it makes it twice this little red devil's fault? Well, I'm naked and don't see any prosthetics making me worthless!" The ambient Ether took to her emotions and started to swirl and take a silver form around Nia. When she noticed she panicked losing the anger and control releasing the Ether causing it to disperse.

"First I'm going to train you three on being Ether users and then you'll join my assassins guild and help me save your Mother and Father." Zero said with more confidence in their tone.

"A-assassins? We don't want to be assassins!? We're bodyguards..." Tia said from underneath her protection.

"Not much Difference... And I want to save Mia and Toshi don't you?" Nia asked Tia who was now less afraid and more resolute in her agreement.

"Alright so how do we get a pair of clothes or are we supposed to fight in our birthday suits?" Nia said standing and placing both hands on her hips she had a similar build to Sia, but with a more slender frame and about an inch shorter.

"You all got a piece of Mothers Mold in you, it'll allow you to make any clothing you can think of." They hear from a voice in the hall.

"Show yourself!" Nia demands. An older man comes into the room with his one good eye tightly shut.

"Loki at your service." He introduces himself with a modest bow.

"The Loki!" a gasp and awe from Tia underneath the covers before she shot up and out of the bunk.

"You are the universe's greatest weapons smith you made all the weapons for the original valkyries!" Tia said still awestruck by the star power in the room the other two on the other hand just rolled their eyes not interested in the old weapons smith.

"Ah too kind too kind I'm glad I could make a weapon for a fan." He says raising his head and keeping his eye shut. You could practically see the steam roll from Tia's ears.

"Weapons?" As she said this her whip formed in her hand.

"Weapons!?" She screamed twirling around the room with her new toy. Nia follows suit summoning her spear she felt out its weight while spinning it in her hand.

"I'm going to train you three to be the best assassins alive and then you'll help me fight the Shogun and his Samurai for the survival of your family." Zero said enjoying everyone's mood lightening.

"Don't know anything about being the world's greatest assassins but ill take a rematch." Nia says pointing the tip of the spear at Zero as she did threads formed around her body taking shape as clothing. A baggy shirt with a smiley face that had X's for eyes in the middle formed on her upper body, suspenders formed clipping themselves to a pair of tight pants that held a wavy aqua pattern a jacket began to form that zipped in the front, and back with sleeves that went long and formed around her hands with a hole she could stick her thumb through, lastly were the cerulean short combat boots forming to her feet.

"Yeah! The inseparable three are gonna kick your ass!" Tia said holding her whip taut and forming her own clothes now, she dauned a green romper with a slowly green lace robe tied tightly together around her waist with a chartreuse ribbon and finally a pair of green sneakers.

"Well, my little Norns I'll be training the spear holder and Zero will take the other two." Loki said still standing with his eye shut.

"What!? No fair you at least have to teach me some of your forging techniques Loki senpai!" Zero laughs at Tia calling Loki "senpai" and chuckled even harder watching him grow uncomfy.

*Ahem*

"If there is time." Loki says shakily he senses a presence grow closer to him.

"Can't that all-seeing eye see through that lid of yours Loki senpai?" Zero mentions jokingly.

"Of course not how would I sleep!?" He says defensively causing everyone to laugh.

"Alright, now that's all out of the way it's time for your team name... How about the Sisters of Fate?" Zero proposes to the group the triplets share a look for a moment that set unease in Zeros' stomach.

"Alright, we the Sisters Of Fate will help you save our family," Tia said with a warm smile sitting on her face.

"Great! Welcome to the Threads Of Fate." Zero said glad their family was slowly growing.

~End of Chapter 2 Sister Of Fate