Fated Encounter Prequel: A Thousand Years

Face My Odyssey

A/N: More centuries pass and the war is over, all the 7 of the children of the great houses have to the 2nd Throne's dismay but Ista's joy are the victors. However Ista gets badly injured by her pursuer forcing her to retreat where they can't follow. Dainslief is named captain of the royal guard. I hope you enjoy the song for both Dainslief and Kairos~!

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The Year of the Lunar Tiger.

The Archon War was long gone and all but a horrible memory now but one that would not fade from the minds of history for a long time. Every single child of the Four Great Houses of Celestia had come out the victors. Barbatos Aion, God of Freedom of Monstandt. Morax, God of Contracts of Liyue. Buer, Goddess of Wisdom of Sumeru. However that was where the joy ended as one by one the Time Goddess watched her nieces that ruled Fontaine, Natlan, and Snezhnaya had all perished by one means or another. The most recent death being in Fontaine, the once elusive and kind lochfolk refusing to bend for the second generation and scattered.

So much time had happened as Kairos sat on her sickle staff in the air invisible to humanity below. The hourglass she had created dangled from the hilt of her blade with glowing crystal sand. Each grain falling faster as the centuries had passed by. The gentle glow of lanterns cast to the winds as she watched a massive tiger lantern come to life before running into the sky. The trail carried all the wishes of Liyue's humans and adepti making the goddess smile in delight as she heard every prayer, every desire, and saw all the precious moments.

But it also made her feel a bit sad....Creator Father and her siblings would have loved this splendor. Humanity had come so far and she had witnessed it all in her eons of travels, avoiding capture while searching for her sister, Nyxia. At the same time finally making herself known slowly to her family. Morax's rough personality...it had softened, made gentler somehow. No doubt Guizhong and now his new friend, a geo Vishap had something to do with that. It had saddened her to see the failed Courtship Rite was taking effect. Her cute dragon nephew...he had not noticed due to how slow it was happening but the signs were there. Give it five hundred more years and she suspected he would notice.

Then came her first meeting with Baal, or Makoto she had called herself. Her sister was away dealing with an order given by Celestia's court—-an execution order. She felt sympathy for that poor serpent but she couldn't interfere. Little Makoto Nyx...she had been a sweetheart, reminding her a lot of Guizhong and her little squirrel that guarded Irminsul. Such a tender and gentle and wise goddess, not as strong as her identical twin sister, Beezebul but she was no slouch either. They were her best lead towards Nyxia so Kairos took to visiting or talking to little Makoto when she could.

She had reached out to the new generations....each for her own reasons. For the new hydro archon, one most melodramatic and bizarre, it was to offer words of warning. A warning that justice could be blind and that her niece, Themis had always been partial and fair. That if young Focalors Nereus was not careful and heeded her karma would come to collect its debt in this masquerade of the guilty. But she had laughed it off her warnings as nonsense. Kairos had then met the young and boisterous pyro archon, the now little half sister of Buer and a member of House Ratatoskr. To her delight she had been easier to deal with and the way her eyes sparkled whenever she brought her ambrosia wine or ambrosia buns was a joy. Her adorable little war goddess was always so happy to see her or hear from her, quick to try and show off too. Out of all the nations Her cute niece's people held the most passion and fighting spirit, like a roaring inferno of a volcano.

The new cryo archon had surprised her. Such a tender, soft spoken and sweet little child. Soft as newly fallen snow but had the temper and cruelty to her of a blizzard. No doubt she would grow up to be a beautiful goddess, probably one of the most beautiful of the Seven. On her last visit she had told her of this Khaenrian visitor. She had the look of a starcrossed young woman when she had shown the gift the boy had given her. "I wonder how she is doing now? It was adorable seeing a daughter of House Nereus so lovestruck. How funny, little Aphrodite smitten with a human."she thought with a fond, sad smile. However a jolt at the back of her mind alerted her from her musings.