Journeys of Time 35: A Return of Serenity
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"Mom! We are back." Kari announced proudly as she walked through the door, Ainohi following along before a door down the hallway opened and the once warm air had been replaced by a chilling wind blowing as Peridot came walking out of the room, wearing a black dominatrix outfit, her chain whips spinning like a windmill in a hurricane, leaving both Ainohi and Kari to gulp loudly at their mother's intimidating presence.

"Ainohi and Hikarinoai. Have you any idea the trouble you two are in?" Kari quickly dropped the bag on the floor as Ainohi followed suit, "Mom, we're sorry, we wanted to get back at them for hurting mama Tenchi. We couldn't let them get away." Peridot's voice bellowing down the hallway, a voice so powerful it made even Janch, who was entering the building, quickly turn around and walk away, "You are not Tenchi! You are our children! You could have gotten killed or worse, been used as tools to fight us!"

Ainohi lowered her head, but Kari stood her ground, "But we didn't fail..." Peridot's whips suddenly stopped and she launched the hooks out with precise aim to wrap around their arms, both of them soon finding themselves pulled hard towards her as Peridot called out the line coming to her mind, "Get over here!"

They were ready for anything now. Spanking, losing their allowances, over 500 dB of yelling by Peridot, having to swim in a pool of wyvern manure, but soon they found her arms around them and her tears hitting the bridge of their muzzles as Peridot held them close, "I am just happy that you are both back safely. Just don't do anything that stupid again." Both Ainohi and Kari hugged her, "We cannot promise, mom. But we'll try."

A bit away, Alexander was slowing down his approach to Tepehi and landed on a field full of beautiful flowers before turning back to normal again and watching everyone, "This is as close as I will bring you all. We will approach by foot. However, we are gonna make it a grand entrance anyhow." Tenchi, Lilizim, and Maria looked confused, but the bats were too busy looking around at the beautiful landscape before light erupted from Alexander until it disappeared and he was a feral bat made out of light, but a lot smaller than his gigantic solar bat form, lifting Tenchi up to place on his back before taking Lilizim very gently and placing her in front of Tenchi, soon beginning to walk.

But the bats didn't follow his words and instead began to flap their wings while following along as the illusionary spell once placed around the farm broke for all of them and a massive capital city grew forth, making Tenchi cover her muzzle, "How is this possible?" Alexander smiled, "You got my sister to thank for it. Also, I would like to know how it feels to be a vampire now." Tenchi looked at him, "Like everyone is a walking meal, but I hold back from falling to the temptation." They both began to laugh gently.

Back in Tepehi, they noticed the illusion had been broken and saw the massive capital city growing forth behind them, their eyes growing wider as around the entire farm was now a wall and where the main house was, had now grown into a castle, with most of the Frostclaws running out to witness the changes. Janch was laughing at the wonderful change of atmosphere as they took their time to watch all the wonders of what would be the true Tepehi.

But the wonders suddenly stopped as Gane came diving and growled to Janch, who looked at him, "What is it, love?" Gane growled to her in a specific way she knew how to read and made her quickly walk back inside and over to Peridot to whisper, "Tenchi is approaching." Peridot gasped, "Tenchi is home?!" Wasting no time, Peridot ran back into the bedroom and quickly began to switch back to her normal clothes, while Ainohi and Kari were collecting their bags and ran out to be among the other Frostclaws.

Tenchi and the others could see the castle appearing and Tenchi was speechless, even at the wall protecting the farm and houses, the wyverns looking like they were examining all of it, and as they got closer, the sounds of excitement could be heard until the gates opened up and Tenchi entered with Lilizim on top of Alexander, while the bats were landing on top of the wall.

Tenchi climbed off quickly and both Peridot and Hildegaard tackled her down, same with Ainohi, Kari, and who she understood was RyuKa, all hugging her happily, "You are back!" Tenchi smiled and hugged them closely, which made all of them cough from Tenchi forgetting her newfound strength, but soon she let them go and got up before Peridot looked at her, and then waved for the others to leave an open path, "Arashi! Tenchi is back home!"

The serenade of thunder following the multiple lightning strikes could be heard accompanied by the rapid, heavy footsteps of Arashi coming at full speed towards Tenchi and about to pin her down, but Tenchi took the impact and stood her ground, showing off her new strength as Arashi was growling and whimpering happily, "Hehe, hey there, you big baby. Missed me?" Arashi stopped pushing before nuzzling into Tenchi's chest, so immeasureably happy to finally have Tenchi back home, the sudden soft bite of Tenchi's neck warning her a bit as Arashi was kidnapping Tenchi and carried her to her pen, quickly putting her down on the ground and laying on top of her, making Peridot giggle as she saw it and approached, "Silly girl." The sound of Tenchi's other wyverns began to be heard as they all soon approached rapidly to see her again.

What they didn't expect was to hear Arashi growling at them, making Peridot move back, "Hey! Bad girl. You cannot keep Tenchi all to yourself." Arashi unleashed a lightning strike that hit near Peridot, forcing her to move away, but what they saw next was making Peridot and Hildegaard almost cross their legs as Arashi began to shake a bit before slowly standing up, but not by her own decision, but by Tenchi lifting her up, "Bad girl! Listen to Peri, or I will cut your playtime by half."

Arashi growled gently before walking away from Tenchi, laying down next to her as Tenchi looked at the entire tribe standing there and watching her, just as Ainohi and Kari approached her with their bags, making Tenchi look a bit perplexed, "I did hear something about someone going to avenge me. What have you two done?" Opening the bags, Ainohi and Kari pulled out the heads of the jackals hosting the souls of Läkare and Bjorn, making Tenchi gasp in shock, "You went and took revenge upon them for me?" Ainohi nodded, "Yes, and we brought back their heads as trophies to prove we did it." Tenchi looked at the heads before looking at Janch, "Up for a delivery? Deliver those to Mez'Vr so their princess can handle it. It is not my juristdiction."

Janch nodded before leaving with the heads, Peridot slowly approaching Tenchi to look at her, "Ten-Ten, who are all the bats?" Tenchi gave her a look of calmth, "That's something we're gonna have a meeting about, but first we need to find a big enough room to host the meeting in. To the castle."

As they all entered the castle and took a look they witnessed how it looked exactly like their previous home had looked, but now expanded to a larger size and with more rooms, so looking through all the rooms and witnessing the old and new decorations, they finally found the throne room in its beautiful glory of looking exactly like what the one in Grobuz had, but with influence from the one in Morgova. And like on command, there was a large table with chairs standing there and Tenchi quickly called out, "Vana, Chaldoa, and Corohn, please come to the throne room for a meeting now."

After they had arrived in the throne room, they all took a seat before the room was filled with the Au'ric vampires and Lilizim as well, the throne room's size rivalling the one of Grobuz's castle, but the peace was interrupted when Peridot spoke up, "So, are you gonna tell us now?" Tenchi nodded, "Everyone, these are Au'ric vampires, also known simply as solar vampires. They used to be a menace for the people of Q'Sta'Ei,  they are now cured of their affliction, but for the safety of their future, they couldn't stay back in Q'Sta'Ei as people might look at them with hatred, so I offered them a piece of land here to build a monastery and a place to live."

Peridot began to smile, "That's very honorable of you, Ten-Ten." Tenchi nodded, "But this is when I realized something. We have a small amount of people in Ri'Co'Va." Vana interrupted her, "Pardon my disturbance, but why are we calling the realm that?" Tenchi looked at Vana with a smile, "Because Ridgecore Vana." Vana covered her maw in shock over not realizing it before as Tenchi continued, "To resume what I was saying before I was interrupted. We have a small amount of people in Ri'Co'Va, so I was thinking that we could open our borders to let people, who are having no home due to poor treatment, live here in a free realm without the risk of being judged for who or what they are." Vana nodded, "A wonderful idea." Corohn applauded it, "You are fair in giving them a right to live the life they deserve." Chaldoa made the big declaration, "If there are any Mezians getting treated badly, I am sure that sister will let them come here and support them."

The throne room was silent at Chaldoa's words and Tenchi was the one to break the sudden silence, "Chaldoa, did you say that Janch will support Mezians who are treated poorly?" Chaldoa began to laugh, "What can I say? After seeing how honorable and genuine that their goddess of war and also their leader is when she came with the news, she had to admit that she was wrong in judging all of them for what a few had done."

Tenchi applauded the decision of Janch that Chaldoa had told them before she felt something and looked to her left to see Sas'Ha appearing, "Hope you have something important to tell, mom. You are interrupting a meeting here." Sas'Ha smiled, "Hello to you too, your bloody highness." Tenchi got a blush on her face, "Don't call me that!" Sas'Ha began to laugh before taking out two parchment papers, unrolling one to show Tenchi an invite to a martial arts tournament in Postiche, the capital city of the bear population of the planet, "I thought you would find this interesting. It is almost that time of the year when they host their tournament, and some of the big names are gonna be there. Maybe you can send some to represent your queendom."

Tenchi looked at the parchment paper and smirked, "Leave it on the table and I will check it out later. Now, what about the second one?" Sas'Ha placed the first paper on the table before unrolling the second one, showing a list of multiple names with all of them having a species next to their name that isn't one found on the planet, making Tenchi look confused, "What is this, mom?" Sas'Ha smiled warmly, "I heard on the winds that you are planning to make something like Gac'Ea'Ax, so I gathered a list of potential candidates that you could help finding a new home." She placed the second paper down on the table before looking out the window, "That's all I wanted to tell you. Now if you excuse me, I am going to Niagar. I have a visit to pay a friend there."

Before Tenchi could stop her, Sas'Ha had already disappeared into thin air, leaving her unable to form a sentence before looking back at everyone sitting there, shrugging her shoulders before speaking, "I guess if no one has anything to say, we can adjourn the meeting and get started on giving these lovely men and women a home under the leadership of their high priestess, Lilizim." They all cheered in agreement and they all stood up before Tenchi realized, "Does anyone here know how to design a cathedral?"

The End.