Chapter 3

• Tezy
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• “I swear, it was a female snake shifter, Goddess!” the male worshipper replied.
• My reptilian red eyes became slits, as I tried to process his answer. I portaled right away, and I was right at the palace of the Goddess of Manchisi. The black tourmaline palace, as I could remember, was the same. It stood like a mammoth structure, glittering under the two moons. The conical roof looked sharp and intimidating.
• I scoffed and rapidly glided into the cold palace. Just when I was inside, the Karrauhebbi Tribe’s goddess, Kigga, was seated on her throne.
• Right, she loved to be worshipped by her subjects in this form, not in her colossal black snake form. She wore an all-black ankle-strapped combat high heels, with diamond tiara on her head. Her skimpy body cover was merely a strappy design, tied back, and thong backside. She was slender, with an average height. She touched her half-up half-down black as night hair up to her back as she watched me coming, transforming into my human form. Her black eyes regarded me calmly, with her long curly lashes touching her cheeks as she did. Her dusky skin looked beautiful, and my eyes caught the diamond asymmetric meteorites ear jacket and stud earrings she wore.
• “Welcome, Imōatto!” she greeted me with a smile, calling me Sister. Her white even teeth seemed to sparkle as she did so.
• She looked me up and down. As usual, when I transformed, I wore an equally titillating piece of clothing. It was a sexy, white sleeveless see-through nylon babydoll dress with long side slits and G-string. I paired it with gold-studded decor tie leg strappy flat sandals. I also sported a pair of gold-drop earrings and a white-and-gold serpent headdress. With my five feet and eight inches height, my slender form was a sight, especially with my long silver hair down, which had reached behind my knees, and my golden nipples peeked behind my see-through dress. My magical tattoos of golden armbands and ankle bands stood out as well. And I believed I was indeed looking exquisite, as Kigga told me not only once. She had said she always loved the way I looked in my human form, and I had witnessed the admiration and envy in her sable eyes numerous times.
• “Do you know what’s happening in the west and north of our realm, Imōatto?” I asked directly. I tried to keep my tone from going high.
• Kigga smiled slowly, standing up gracefully from her obsidian throne. She took the three steps down to stand in front of me.
• “No, what happened to those two fools, Imōatto?” she inquired. She touched my face with her soft hand.
• My maroon human eyes grew bigger, as her memories were shared to me.
• I saw how she seduced Famiq first. The red snake shifter god mated with my sister. Using her powers, he stayed in his sleeping form. When she was out of the palace, standing by the edge of the lake, the fire opal bridges and the red coral palace slowly sank into the deep water. A couple nights after that, she went over to Yrdis’ golden palace. She also beguiled the earnest Kinuohebbi Tribe’s god. When he realized what she had done, they had a small scuffle. But since they had just mated and he was high from pleasure, poor Yrdis was not powerful enough to defeat her. Absorbing his powers while they copulated made her stronger than anyone. She then also put Yrdis in a vegetative state.
• I saw how the golden palace was swallowed by the brown soil, together with some worshippers that were present in the palace at the time. It included my worshipper’s mate.
• “Kigga!” I interjected. “What have you done? You’ve tempted and imprisoned our two brothers in the dark pit of Hebbiza? How could you?” My sharp stare did not make her flinch, though.
• She laughed softly, gazing back at me. “Ah, Imōatto! You’re such a dramatic goddess! Don’t you know what it means?”
• I slowly swallowed, my mind swirling by what she meant. It just occurred to me. “You… you want the whole Hebbiza all to yourself?” My voice almost squeaked, heart thumping harder against my chest. I stepped back, looking at her in utter disbelief.
• Her malicious smile grew wider. “Now, you get it, dear Sister.”
• “So… that means I’m next on your list?” I scoffed, putting a hand in front of me. A greenish white shield separated me from her.
• My sister eyed the shield that protected me from whatsoever she might want to do to me. She slowly paced in front of the shield, while she regarded me.
• “I was actually thinking about what to do with you, Imōatto,” she began. “I should’ve just rushed to your underground palace in Benzai. But… I put it off. I was thinking you wouldn’t know what’s happening anyway. You’ve always kept yourself isolated from us, anyway. And yet, here you are! It’s the same as asking me for the same fate as our brothers.”
• I slowly shook my head. “Huh! What has gotten into you, Kigga? You’re not my sister anymore for doing this to our brothers!” I spat.
• “Well then, if we must cut ties, that’s better for me, Tezy,” she drawled, giving me an evil look. Gone was the smile on her now fierce-looking face.
• I could feel and see her aura change, from calm to murderous state. Not a couple seconds later, Kigga shifted into her enormous shiny black snake form. She was as huge as me with black diamond eyes. She hissed, tongue sticking in and out of her large mouth. Her large fangs were threatening by themselves alone. She pounced on my shield with her sturdy jumbo head. Greenish white sparks flew all around, and loud thuds sounded.
• This was not good. I could tell that she could break my shield anytime soon. With Famiq’s and Yrdis’ powers inside her body, it was three against one.
• Oh, Mighty Deity of all Deities! How could I stop my own sister now? She had gone completely insane!
• “Stop this now, Kigga! You don’t have to do this! We can still get our brothers back from the dark pit of Hebbiza!”
• She laughed in my head. “You think you can do that? Even the Mighty Deity wouldn’t bother to do that, dear Tezy.”
• My eyes wavered. She continued to bump her gargantuan body against the shield. I could feel the ground shake. I gritted my teeth and shifted as well. There was no other way. It was crystal clear that she wanted to fight me. Then fight I would give.
• Not a couple seconds after, Kigga finally broke the shield. It was shattered into pieces like a delicate crystal. The tingling sound resounded.
• Kigga sprang at me, hissing murderously. I did not back off. Our bodies entwined as we fought. The palace shook from our movements, so did the ground where the rest of our massive bodies touched. Her tail grew a blade on the tip. She sliced my body, but I hardened my scales. I could see the amazement in her diamond eyes when she failed.
• “Ah, you know this trick, huh, Tezy?” she mocked me.
• “If you’d ask forgiveness now, Kigga, I might forgive you.” I told her instead.
• She hissed and laughed in my head. “Ask for forgiveness? Never! I’m never wrong!” She raised her tail to stab me in the middle of my body. However, I was fast to dodge it, gliding fast away from her. It caused some pillars to dent and bow. Some pieces of the huge beam fell, hitting us. It did not hurt, though. My body was strong, and my scales were thick to withstand to such extent.
• Kigga moved smoothly outside. I heard her calling her worshippers to gang up on me.
• I tried to communicate with her worshippers in their heads, as they all shifted as well. Although they were not as massive as us, too many of them would put me in peril.
• “Stop! Your goddess has gone insane!” I informed them. However, I realized my words had not penetrated in their minds. “Of course, you blocked it.” I turned to my sister-enemy.
• “It wasn’t in my plan, but you have to be silenced now, dear Tezy,” Kigga replied in my head.