Chapter 127: Reminding the World

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During the next days, Hella continued to show the realm to the group. Little by little, the goddess of death opened herself to Erik's wives. It seemed that she was very lonely. Because of who her father was and her divinity to death, Hella was isolated from others in Asgard, and everything bad that happened around her, she was the blame for it. Her father did not react to these things just like he had no reaction when the same thing happened to any of his sons. Because of that, she could only rely on herself.

When came the day for the group to part, Hella was sad but preened up when the girls gave her their contact information, promising to come to visit too. And just like that, Selena's tea party gained another member. At the start, Hella was afraid of getting out of her realm for any one reason or other but with the help of the others, she managed to conquer that fear. Erik had helped in that a little when he gave her a way to hide her divinity. That way Hella could walk between others without being avoided like a plague. It had been a surprise for her too to find Frigga at the tea party. Even more surprising for her was when the woman didn't avoid her or make any mean comments. Since everyone that she had met within Asgard had been mean to her in one way or another, she had expected the same from the Queen of Asgard but it didn't come. Hella was skeptical at the beginning, thinking that her behavior was like that just because of the tea party but she was proved wrong when one day, out of nothing, Frigga dropped by her castle in Hel's realm to chat and have some tea. The would-be adopted grandmother was really trying to 'bond' with her adopted granddaughter. In the end, after a lot of teas together with the tea party and not, both Norse goddesses developed a special friendship. Gandul, the valkyrie who was Erik's aunt, was too dragged into it when she managed to participate in one of the tea parties. Her presence was very sporadic at the events since she had her duties as a Valkyrie of Asgard but after that, she had been mysteriously transferred from her normal duties to the personal guard of the Queen, having to 'unfortunately' follow her everywhere she went. Just like that, Gandul's presence at all the next tea parties was guaranteed.

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Years continued to pass for the family. Back to Earth and from their 'vacation', each member had gone back to do their own things. Calypso had 'contracted' Erik's building services to build three new greenhouses for her. Each one would have different internal configurations and would house the seedlings that she had obtained from Jotunheim, Muspelheim, and Alfheim. Unfortunately, the little flora that she had found in Hel could not be grown outside the realm due to their need to feed on death energy. Later, when she commented on that unfortunate event in one of the tea parties, Hella invited her to build a greenhouse in her castle's grounds, and in the end, the goddess of death gained a new hobby when Calypso taught her how to care for the plants.

It was the year one thousand six hundred and fourteen when Erik had his first encounter with the holders of the Heavenly Dragons. Erik was relaxing in his home on a Saturday afternoon when he received an emergency call from one of his offices. Apparently, two supernatural beings were fighting in the middle of the city of Porto, in Portugal, and were destroying the city with it. After explaining the situation to his wives, Joan decided to go with Erik and he quickly teleported both of them to the company's office with a 'have fun' from Selena, Calypso, and Serafall. As they arrived, they could feel the ground shaking with each impact caused by the trade of blows that was happening and could feel the draconic aura being emitted. When the couple got out of the company and they saw the destruction that both had caused to the city with their squabble, Erik knew that he had to stop this or there would be no city left, so he, together with Joan, ran to the location where he felt that the two draconic auras were trading blows. What he and Joan saw when they arrived there was more destruction. Two armored humanoid beings, one red and one white, were trading blows in the air. With each punch, a sonic boom was caused and destroyed a little more of the city. Eventually, a kick or punch would connect and throw the receiving party to the ground, destroying even more of the city with it. And Erik was getting pissed with it.

"How do you feel about a little trashing, Joan?"

Erik asked his wife, who smiled back at him. She had already changed her garb to an armor before having Erik teleport them. So she just activated her sacred gear once again to change the sword that she would use against her target from a generic one to one of the swords that she had gotten from the dwarves of Nidavellir. What was so special about this sword? It had dragon-slayer capabilities.

"I thought you would never ask, darling."

Joan replied to Erik while putting a hand on the sword's hilt. Erik smiled at that.

"Take the red one, I will take the white one. Aim to take him out of combat."

Erik said to Joan, who nodded her head in confirmation. And then, without any warning, both disappeared from their places in a burst of speed, reappearing again in front of their 'targets'. They didn't say anything useless to them. Erik pumped his vital energy through his body, reinforcing it to the extreme, and just punched the white armored being in his stomach.

"Wha-"

Was the only thing that the white armored being managed to say before feeling the impact of the punch. His white armor, that had remained pristine during all his fight with the red armored being, was shattered instantly at the point of impact of the punch, exposing the belly of the person inside. His body was then catapulted far away by the strength behind it too.

Joan didn't lose time either. She appeared in front of the red armored being and simply drew her sword while revolving her vital energy through her body and the sword, slashing the target in diagonally down-up motion. The result of it was a shower of red blood. The red armor was cut like it was nothing by her and the being wearing it had no time to say anything before being cut down.

"Why…?"

Was his only words before passing out due to the shock and starting to fall to the ground. Joan watched with uninterested eyes as her target fell to the ground. She then looked at Erik and saw that he was already finished with his target too. Joan then flew to Erik and both landed on the ground.

"How was it?"

Erik asked Joan, who just shrugged.

"Disappointing."

Joan replied. She really expected more from the holder of one of the Longinus Sacred Gears. Erik chuckled at that answer and snapped his fingers.

*snap*

Two seconds later, two magic circles appeared in front of them, and from it, two bodies were materialized, one wearing a shattered white armor, and the other a cut red armor with a pool of blood quickly forming under the second. Erik looked at that and let out a sigh.

*sigh*

"You had to go for the dragon-slayer one?"

Erik said and looked at Joan, who in response looked to the side with some shame on her face.

"Not my fault if he was so weak?"

Joan boldly said. From all of his four wives, Joan was the only one who trained constantly with Erik. Both of them would go for at least half-hour of spar every day. Erik smiled and shook his head. Activating his own sacred gear, he created two handfuls of micro monsters and dispatched them to both armored beings. The micro monsters immediately started to enter the bodies and heal them. Erik then grimaced. He had just received feedback from the guy who he had punched. It seems that he had shattered more than just the armor with his punch. Some of the guy's organs had been smashed too and he was bleeding internally.

While the micro monsters were doing their job, Erik looked around them and reaccessed the damage caused to the city. All around the city, people were running wildly with some few trying to rescue others from under the damaged buildings. Erik let out a sigh at that.

*sigh*

"So much destruction… I'll be through with their punishments."

Erik said and raised his hand to the sky. With some concentration on his part, a blue magic circle appeared on top of his hand and quickly started to expand at the same time that it climbed to the skies. When it reached about three hundred meters high, the blue magic circle sporting a raven in the center was big enough to cover the entirety of the city of Porto, attracting the attention of everyone in it that stopped to look at the amazing vision. A few seconds later, the shining of the blue magic circle intensified and Erik released his spell over the city. As his magic washed over the population, their memories of the happening were being altered. For those that already knew about the supernatural world, nothing had happened to their memories and it was just explained that the destruction was caused by a fight between the Red Dragon Emperor and the White Dragon Emperor, they were stopped, and what the cover history would be for the normal population. The cover history would be that a cyclone suddenly formed in the city and caused all the destruction around it.

With the spell taking effect, Erik again snapped his fingers and a big blue magic circle appeared under the four of them. A second later, Erik, Joan, and the two unconscious Dragon Emperors disappeared in the middle of motes of blue light.

Known to Erik, his actions of subduing both Dragon Emperors and the 'cleaning' of the supernatural involvement were witnessed by agents from almost all factions and pantheons who quickly send their reports back. That day the entirety of the supernatural world was remembered that there was a powerhouse named Erik Ravenclaw that was married to Satan Leviathan and had at least another very strong woman by his side. Those who knew him personally and were there when the reports arrived, like Frigga, Gabriel, and Amaterasu, only smiled while hearing it.

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a/n: Next chapters could arrive with some lateness due to the launching of a project taht I was waiting for.