First Demonic Dragon

"Abaddon... Wait..!"

The dragon paused momentarily before shaking his head.

Izanami stumbled into the darkness as she chased after him. She yelled and she screamed for him, but he didn't come back.

The water around her began to thicken, and it pulled her into it's dark depths as she yelled for him to save her.

And Abaddon, for reasons that he did not understand, did not turn back. He just kept treading forward while hearing laughter that he did not recognize..

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"Abaddon?"

A hand on Abaddon's shoulder caused him to jolt.

When he looked down, the entire assembled party was staring at him with a concerned expression.

They were all ahead of him, and he looked to have been dragging rather far behind.

At one point, maybe even stopping entirely.

Lailah had been the one to place her hand on him, and the look of worry in her face permanently affixed.

"Were you just.. having a vision?"

Abaddon almost said no because the sensation was so unfamiliar to him, but the more he thought about it, the less he could deny it.

While the dragon has just about every flavor of power one can think of, visions are not exactly in his skillset.

He can induce them in himself, but they don't really come natural to him anymore. Not like they did when he was younger, and less powerful.

No one had actually said anything, but they were aptly concerned.

If something were serious enough to give even him a vision, then it definitely had dark bodings for everyone.

"What was it about?" Lailah asked again.

Abaddon took his time answering for several reasons. Chief among them was that he didn't know how his wives would react if he told them that he had a vision about Izanami.

Granted she was a member of their family, but still.

The way she called for him, and the way he walked away from her.. they were both out of the ordinary. And far out of it at that.

Luckily for him, he and the girls got a text at that moment to give him a sufficient distraction.

Sweet Baby Eris: I won't be coming back for a few days. Please take care of each other while I'm at home.

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Eris set her phone back down after sending a text that would no doubt send her loved ones into a tizzy.

In her arms, she lifted up little Odessa, who had grown just a bit bigger since her mother had seen her last.

She smiled softly as she kissed the baby's full cheeks affectionately and melted as she nuzzled her back in response.

Eventually, she stood up and looked back at the sleeping Izanami as she rested in bed.

She exited the room quietly, but being sure to leave a trail of flowers in her wake that would act as a form of defense.

Eris walked down the hall and arrived in the common area living room. By now, the entire house knew that she was back, but she had only called certain individuals in to speak with.

Namely, Nyx, Bashenga, and Lailah's mother, Sei.

"Sorry for keeping everyone waiting." Eris bowed politely.

"That's fine, dear, you're more than entitled to your time. We were just sitting here with this one." Sei gestured to Nyx. Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

Eris felt her heart clench at the sight of her friend. The night goddess was shaking like a leaf and her gaze was firmly affixed on the floor.

Eris placed Odessa on the ground so that she could crawl around freely.

In the meantime, Eris kneeled down in front of Nyx and lifted her face up.

Her eyes were bloodshot, and her lips were set in a thin line.

"You're shaking. This isn't very like you."

Nyx forced herself to smile. "If you knew what we were in for, you'd shake too."

"No one is going to harm our family, Nyx." Eris said firmly. "And since you are apart of our family, then you will be safe as well."

Nyx laughed. It surprised Eris and everyone else.

But soon, Nyx's laughter just devolved into a fit of hysteria. She even cried as she laughed.

Eris just pulled the goddess in and held her head between her breasts until she calmed down.

"I-I'm sorry, I just.." Nyx bit her jaw to keep from crying again. "You have no idea the fullness of what that being is. I don't understand why they're doing this."

"She is behaving strangely.." Bashenga nodded.

"How do you know that?" Eris stared at him.

Bash just stared back at her. It had been so long that Eris had forgotten. Some universal texts do credit Tartarus as being born from Chaos, while others argue that he came from Nyx.

"She visited me before." He confessed.

Eris looked horrified. "What? When?? Why didn't you say anything??"

"Shortly after Thea announced her pregnancy when I left home…" Bashenga didn't really have a reason for why he didn't say anything, just that he didn't think it was worth mentioning.

Chaos had never really done anything to him. She was neither abusive nor affectionate.

"Y-You idiot..! Why didn't you tell her?! You know what the laws say!!" Nyx actually grabbed Bashenga by his amulet.

Bash's gaze hardened. "I didn't tell her specifically because I didn't think it necessary. She would have blown it all out of proportion."

"There is no blowing this out of proportion, you oaf! Do you realize what she just did?!"

This is the first time Eris ever saw Nyx look like she was about to hurt someone who wasn't Erebus.

She gripped her firmly by the shoulders and stared into her eyes with clear agitation. "Stop. You will not treat my son that way."

Sei was sitting on the sofa, tapping her pen against her glasses and opening her notebook.

"You both spoke of some laws a second ago. Mind telling us a little more about that?"

Bashenga scratched the back of his head as he lay back on the ground.

"The old man has always barred Chaos from entering him or having any influence here. I don't understand the details, but it's why even father hasn't come across her until now."

Sei raised a brow. "Then how were your variants born if she's not allowed on this or any plane?"

"Yesh has a piece of her. He uses it to make the ginnungagap and the first of the progenetoi in every universe. Or at least he did… there are so many variations of us now that he can just copy his original drawings of us now."

"So then where is the piece of her?" Sei inquired.

Bashenga shrugged with his eyes closed. "It could be behind the gates for all I know. That's a secret I cannot tell you."

"And you know all of this how?" Eris poked him.

Bash closed his eyes as Odessa crawled on top of his chest. "My variants are made from her. I know what they know."

"The piece of her isn't the problem." Nyx sighed in exhaustion. "It's what she just tried to do. If she's trying to get a body, then that would mean it is the full her, not a remnant piece."

Sei: "The difference is significant?"

"The difference is insurmountable. She's always been relatively harmless before, but this-"

"You both have spoken to her before??" Eris glanced between them.

Both of the old gods looked ashamed.

Chaos had been active for a long, long, time. It is just hard to tell because of her flippant personality.

She never does the same thing twice, she can almost never be contacted directly, and half the time she doesn't actually speak back.

She does however cause trouble in creation. But her involvement is minute and barely noticeable.

In those delicate moments where it seems that the one thing that everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, it is likely her doing.

But Chaos only makes those moves in scenarios that will lead to a mass loss of life and bring about societal collapses or wars. I,E Chaos.

But this is more of a compulsion than anything. She can't really help it.

Nyx, Erebus, and Tartarus are the only three who know that she's been here even though she's supposed to be barred.

Tartarus enjoys tormenting the souls she sends, so he doesn't say anything.

Nyx would have told the creator ages ago, but she holds tremendous fear of her mother.

Erebus is just the same.

Yesh has had suspicions about her involvement, but nothing concrete. Chaos covers her tracks to an impossible degree.

But if she's trying to take Izanami's body all of a sudden, then it means that the worst case scenario has happened.

Something has truly, genuinely peaked her interest. And she sees an opportunity to bring about a calamity that creation will not recover from.

"H-Hello..? Is someone there?"

Izanami came around the corner suddenly. When everyone saw her they drew in their breaths.

She was sweating through all of her clothes, and she looked to have aged at least ten years.

"Eris..?"