"So ...." I appeared in the throne room and found myself surrounded by fairies.
"Fairies huh?"
I turned to a fairy by the throne that was visibly bigger and more powerful than the rest.
The fairy queen.
"About time." Margo sighed in relief as a fairy soldier held her at spearpoint.
"Aha!" Eliot grinned, "What will you do now, fairy bitch?"
"I don't suppose you'll surrender peacefully?" I asked, just to be sure.
"No. But I would advise you to surrender while you still can-"
"Let me stop you right there. If you think that pathetic reflective barrier you guys put up over the palace will stop me from wiping the floor with you, you're dead wrong." I snapped my fingers, shattering the barrier she had made.
She frowned.
"I still have my army. And your friends." She put a firm hand on Margo's shoulder. "If your heavenly weapon attacks us, they will be caught in it too."
"It's cute." I wagged a finger at her, "That you think you have any power here. Your magic, it's nothing. Your army? What army?" I raised my hands and UNO cards glew out of it at blinding speeds whistling through air as the fairies surrounding us fell to the floor, grasping at their slit, bleeding necks.
"And your hostages?" I snapped my fingers and Eliot and Margo appeared at my side.
"Now..... I'd advise you to surrender while you still can...." I smiled, throwing her threats back at her face, "And perhaps I'll save your kin here from a painful, bloody death. Or, you can keep your pride and let fairies ve wiped out, here and now. What say you?"
And just to sweeten the pot, I let out my divine aura at full power, shaking the throne room to everyone's surprise.
The fairy queen was clearly shocked, but hid it well, swallowing thickly as she looked at me with her fairy eye.
"You are....a god!" She spat through grit teeth, realizing her loss.
"You're a god?" Margo asked with surprise.
"Since I killed Hades." I grinned happily.
"So you're now what? God of death?" Eliot asked.
"Not really. I'm still like a baby god. Not fully there. I have decided what I want to be a god of though." I replied.
"Let me guess. Technology?" Margo hit it right on the spot.
"How do you always know?!" I exclaimed, playing along.
"Woman's intuition~" She giggled.
"And you didn't exactly make yourself subtle with that industrialization plan." Eliot added.
"Hm? I guess it was pretty obvious."
"Back to the topic at hand..." Eliot pointed at the fairies.
"Oh right." I waved my hand and healed all of the fairies I had nearly killed.
"Now, where were we? Ah yes, the terms of your surrender."
"What do you want?" She gave me a venomous glare, refusing to bend, proud till the last moment.
"There is nothing I want that you can give, and what you can give, I can just as easily take from you. So..." I swiped my hand and the final key, the Key of the Realm, appeared in my hand. It was the key that created and supported the fairy realm. With it gone, the realm would collapse in on itself, wiping their home out.
"No!" She cried out in despair, "My children-"
"Are safe. Outside the castle. I brought them with the key. Oh, and..." I looked at Wanda and she teleported the earth fairies over too.
"The fairies your mother left behind on earth. Safe and sound. And their slavers are now dead in their beds, their bloodline wiped from Earth. Your revenge is complete." I announced.
"Is it....are they really?" She looked out the window in disbelief.
"Why would you...?"
"Because fairies are a beautiful species, in concept. You guys are fucking creepy. But the idea of letting you just die out felt wrong. So I just saved them. It's what you can do once you are a god. Anything you want. Kill a world. Save another. Create life or just chill out for the rest of eternity. Don't get me wrong, just because I'm not going to punish you for trying this coup, doesn't mean you are forgiven. I just didn't feel like committing genocide. So here's what we'll do. I will give you citizenship to Fillory. A nice little slice of land by the Nameless Mountains. Lush valleys, deep rivers. Very moist and fertile." I told her.
She got the hint.
The fairies had survived that last war against humanity by escaping to the fairy realm but their population had dwindled due to being unable to reproduce in the artificial world made by the Realm Key. You see fairies here reproduced like radish, growing out of the ground in big mushroom embryos. But the land in the fairy realm wasn't fertile enough to sustain them. In fact this coup was their last ditch attempt at survival. It was why I was letting them live without recourse. Because if I was in that situation, it's exactly what I would have done for my family. Hell, I'd have done worse. I'd have started with biological and chemical warfare and wiped out all other sentient species from Fillory so my family could have the land to live and prosper. What the fairy queen did? A tiny little coup? That was mild in comparison. Moderate even.
"Thank you....your majesty." She bowed to me clasping her hands in prayer as silent tears trailed down her cheeks.
I stepped forward, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"What must it have been like to know that it was victory or extinction for your people? That is a burden, one you have borne bravely." I patted her head, "Good job. I'm sure your mother would have been proud."
At that she burst into choked sobs, hiding her face in shame as I hugged her, patting her back.
It was a full minute and a half before she regained her composure, wiping her tears with the hem of her robe.
"How can I- how can we ever thank you, my lord?"
"That's the thing. You don't." I said, with a sigh, "I don't say this often, because really, humans are a shit species. I should know. I was one. I know humans did some horrible things to your people but .... this is a new world. Let the past remain in the past. Bury the hatchet. Start anew, without the burden of hatred. And in return, I decree here today..." I scanned the room letting my divine power flare out, taking control of the reality of Fillory, etching my words into the world's very soul.
"No human shall harm a fairy without good reason. They shall be afforded the same rights as all others and the accompanying responsibilities as citizens of Fillory."
"As you wish, sire." Tick nodded and furiously scribbled on the notepad I had given him.
"Alright, now shoo. Get out. Take your people to your new home." I waved her off, "Tick, get the royal mapmaker to make them a copy of the map."
"And you two." I turned to Eliot and Margo, flicking their foreheads.
"How did you get caught with your pants down after I gave you a worldwide surveillance apparatus and literal superweapons?"
"Hey, I'll ket you know we were very busy!" Eliot huffed.
"Busy getting high, I'll bet." I poked his liver, silently adding a detox organ to his gut.
"No-Well yes, but also, we really were busy." Eliot said.
"It's partly your fault. One of your readymade factories blew up. Apparently some dingus jabbed his...well dingus into a hole and ....." Margo added.
"Pfft!" I choked back a laugh when I saw that they were serious.
"Wait really? My factory?" I asked.
That can't be. My factories are perfect. I mean they can survive the fucking apocalypse, much less some guy and his micropenis.
No. This seems like sabotage. And not just sabotage.
"This is divine sabotage. This....is war." I muttered.
"I'll gut that stinking man-sheep. Wait for me." I told them and disappeared, appearing in a small pocket dimension in the Cock Barrens of Loria, and yes, that's literal. The rocks here are shaped like dicks. Just 40 foot tall, rock dicks. Small ones, big ones, thick ones. It's a variety bag really.
And under the biggest one, why am I not surprised, was his little hidey hole.
"Ember, Ember, Ember. Not very smart are you?" I appeared behind him as he eep-ed, traipsing away so gayly.
"Uhuhuhu! My, what an honor, Jay Walker. What brings you to my humble abode~" He giggled like a kid who had just shat on the carpet and blamed it on the dog.
"Oh, I think you quite know what." I froze him in place, lifting him telekinetically by the neck as the godslaying dagger appeared in my head.
"I was going to leave you till later. I really was. Give you time to get your affairs in order and all. But you couldn't just sit back, relax and spend your last days boning some nymphs, could you?" I pressed the dagger to his neck, drawing blood as she began to squeal in fear like a pig. I could see the terror in his eyes.
"You just had to fuck with me, poke the fucking hornet's nest. And now, you get to be stung to death. Or so I'd like. But for you? Tch, tch, tch!" I wagged my finger, "You will face the end of your days as a mortal. Live in the shit you so long chucked at them. A taste of your own medicine."
"No! NO! Just kill me! Just-" i silenced him with a spell as my hand blurred, digging into his chest.
"Now now, little piggies on the chopping block don't get to speak!" I grinned evilly as I ripped.out his divinity and let him fall to the ground, his existence shriveling up like spinach in a hot pan.
And in full view of him, mich to his chagrin, I popped his divinity into my mouth, swallowing it whole.
"Uhmmm, that hit the spot!" I laughed, "As for you....enjoy mortal life in the stinking pile of shit that is backwater Loria. I'll watch your career with great interest." I cackled and swiped my hand at him sending him away.
Ehehehehehe.
The look on his face as he was ported away, I think he even pissed his pants a little.
I looked down at the little pool of piss on the floor and snorted.
Yeah. He definitely pissed himself.
Eh, first time for everything, I guess, even the feeling of pissing your pants and not being able to think it away.
I returned to the castle and clapped, restoring the factory back to working order.
"There. Factory is back in order. And Ember is gone, so no more penis pranks will be shutting it down." I informed the two, "And as a bonus, with Ember gone, I am the new god of Fillory. You know what that means."
Eliot's eyes lit up as he realized.
"Can you-"
"Already did." I replied, "High King Eliot is officially banished from Fillory and relieved of his burdens by marriage."
Instantly, Eliot flickered, going through to Earth and back.
"Now you can come and go whenever you wan-" Eliot pulled me into a bear hug.
"Thank youthankyouthankyou!"
"You're welcome." I patted his back, "Have fun with your newfound freedom. I also made the two of you Travelers. So you can come and go whenever you want."
"You really are the best friend I have ever had." Margo said and Eliot gasped playfully.
"I'm right here!"
"I said what I said." Margo giggled.
"Well it's been fun." I said, stepping back.
"Uh oh." Margo muttered.
"I don't think I like the sound of that...." Eliot added.
"Yeah. I've got a couple more things to do before I leave but this is.... goodbye, I guess. For now at least. I'm going to finish the final quest I have left. And well, you know how quests can get..."
"Don't say it..." Eliot balled his fists.
"I might maybe.... probably.... not return. And not the same even if I do."
"But aren't you a god?" Margo asked.
"Yes. But as you can see from my example with Hades, even gods can be killed. Or worse."
"Then let us come with you!" Eliot grabbed my hand.
"No. If even I can't return, and I'm a god, what hope do you have?" I patted his hand and pulled away.
"You just said...gods can be killed by mortals. Strabger things have happened. I have seen you do them. And I believe-"
"I will not lose you. And that's final. Don't make me put you two to sleep." I warned.
"Besides, you have a kingdom to run."
"Fuck the kingdom. I'm comi-" Margo fell asleep, and was teleported to her bed.
"She'll wake up in an hour or so." I said and Eliot nodded silently.
"Don't die. Please." He rubbed my hands.
"Eh, I probably won't. And well, if I do you'll know."
He nodded.
"What's the quest, anyways?"
"Oh you'll know soon enough." I smiled mysteriously.
"And then they kissed." Wanda ruined the moment.
I gave her a deadpan look and she chuckled.
"What? Tell me I'm wrong."
"You're wrong." I laughed, and hooked her arm with mine.
"My wife's bored and I really have nothing else to say, so.....see ya when I see ya, how about that?"
"What else was I expecting from you?" Eliot rolled his eyes.
I just shrugged and waved him goodbye as I disappeared.
Onto Castle Blackspire and the final step of my plan.
And then, Ragnarok.
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No. Before you ask, he's not getting fairy waifu. The fairies here look real creepy.
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