Chapter 543 Here I Was

"Get into line, and let me remove the old blessings. While this sucks, I have my mind back, and if we seal off the two realms, Kadeon will be stuck, and we can ignore them all for now. I will get my Royal Guards back at some point, but there I need more power to face them all," I explained, and the other 12 women leaped up to get into line, but Tallia frowned.

"What about Tessera?" Tallia asked, and I shook my head.

"Unless someone knows where she is, I have no way to find her. Nemoria is locked in her dimension right now and will have lost control of the Blood Witches, and that is why I purged Xena, but I also put her to sleep for now. I really don't know how far The Guides and Kadeon's influence stretches, and until the realms are divided, I will not be taking a single chance. Kadeon used Cancer because he knows that I love her, and he assumed that I would come straight for him, but that is not what is going to happen," I explained, and Tallia nodded, taking my hand and putting it on her chest, pressing into her smooth sink.

"Well, let's get this started. It looks like we have a lot of work to do," Tallia said, and then gasped as shadow form was blasted from her body, and I roared out, "Accelerate times 10!"

Time froze as the shadow form tried to escape, still able to move slowly as it started to cast spells to trap the shade of Kadeon. Spell circles started to wrap like bands around it, and the shade turned to me, even as my spells tried to restrict its movements.

"You think that you can hold me? Even as a shadow? I am coming for you, Galio, and I will use your own people against you to crush your soul!" Kadeon growled, and I shook my head.

"You know that Matthias is going to consume you, right?" I asked, starting to feel the stress of holding Accelerate.

"I will be the one that consumes him! The Guides have no power while I live!" Kadeon laughed, and I smiled, making him get angry. "You laugh! You always thought you were smarter than you were!"

"I will come for you, but not until I am good and ready. Hold my guards for me, but I will come in time to take them all back. Then when you have nothing left, I will come to take what you took from me and everyone else. You are nothing more than a distraction, and that is all you have ever been, False God Kadeon of Prime," I said, and then let go of my spells, but Kadeon remained, looking at all the women around me.

"You think that you can protect everyone from me?" He asked, and I held up my hand and used True Magic, creating a sphere of light that instantly made him scream in pain and flee.

Then I collapsed, gasping for breath and covered in sweat.

"Galio!" Everyone cried, but I put up my hand.

"I am okay; that just completely drained me," I said between breaths and then slowly stood up. "But Kadeon will not be coming back for a long time. I sealed him away with True Magic, and he will be stuck in the between worlds until I free him. Now, let's get back to this."

It took awhile, but once I was done, I had twelve goddesses under my belt, and then I went around to each of the other women and made sure there was nothing that could control or harm any of them. Only Lexi and Karine had the shadow, but the Winds were free of influence, and so was Eliza.

"I will send you all back now, and then I will seem to be right behind you, but I am going to get Nemoria and then drop my island down. I don't know what effect this is going to have on the Mortal Realm, but we will have to deal with it. As it stands, everyone is to be on the watch for Blood Witches now more than ever, and you all will be able to smell them just like I can. Do not engage them, or you will be going over my knee, got it?" I warned, and Olivia smirked.

"You shouldn't threaten us with a good time!" She laughed, and so did the others.

"Haha, real funny. Save your jokes for when everyone is safe," I said, and then gestured for a portal to open, sticking my hand through. "Everyone through!"

One by one, the women stepped through, and then I let the portal close as I looked over at Xena, who was now the only one left in the room, but she was sleeping. I walked over and picked her up, then portalled into the room that Cancer was sealed in and set Xena on the bed beside her. I wasn't sure what I was going to do about them yet, but they would both be safe inside this room for now.

I opened a portal back to my living room, walked over, poured myself a cup of wine, and sat down on the couch alone. I was still trying to take it all in. I had taken back control of my world, and I now had most of the beautiful women in my life who once stood by my side in Prime.

Prime. The place that I had called my home, and the same one that now didn't exist. I had been fighting to prevent Matthias from doing this very thing when I sealed him away, losing my own home in the process. I had done everything in my power to seal him away, and I still didn't understand how Kadeon was able to free him. Matthias should have been cast out of that reality and headed to a dimension alone. There should have been no way to free him, but here I was.

Occasionally missing content, please report errors in time.