Silvertree Chronicles Bk. 11

To blind the King to the outside world. We could possibly access Left-eye but we won't. We will access Gods' Eyes. I know where the portable displays are located. With those, we have better coverage of the area and we can set them up in our control room. My sword asked who would rule after we take down the King.

The answer is we have to get all 14 blades into the hands of wielders. I will ask the Lady of Dreams to send that information to Janella as she can move freely except in the Palace District. Being a bard and jumping around is not that unusual."

She nodded, "I am getting the list now. She likes you delegating some of this off."

Nova nodded, "WE NEED the army on our side. Anything you can do to get Goldeagle elves or other Gold-elves who align with the King sent away the better. When I park this think over Silent Falls in order to do the reactivation ceremony shit will hit the fan and the army will be recalled to the Capital."

He nodded, "True. You are playing it smart. All gold elves have already returned to the capital except for 6. I can say they hate the King as much as I do. I will vouch for them when the time comes. I will keep them in the dark until they need to know. Likely when you enter the Palace district."

Nova nodded, "That portal I can put just about anywhere, and the room is armed with traps. The floor will smash into the ceiling until it is shut off, or I can simply cut them in half. That is our portal security-keeper. I want resistance leaders who we can trust, to come in. I want them on board with changing their symbol of the broken blade to a Nova.

The blades will be repaired soon. Issue a manifesto to the King telling him a Nova is coming to shed light on his corruption of the Kingdom. That was or is my seductress's bard name. I had another when I worked on assassination techniques as Viper."

The commander shook his head, "Rumors of this Viper have been trickling in since the war finished. Attributed to a human female with rapiers. Nova switched forms and Varus'Nor looked like a rapier and she looked human.

Nova put her sword away and changed back, "Brocken, I need you to contact resistance leaders who you can trust and who will travel to the fourth floor of the inn for a meeting with me. I am not bringing them here until I know what they are going to do. We need to put the Commander and my cousin, Senna, back."

She walked in and pointed, "Your family Blade Goldeagle your name chosen by the Gods. Do not touch anything else in this room. Everything is a relic and could fuck you over. Don't block it, let it know you."

Nova thought, "Close all vaults except the relic vault."

He reached over and took the blade down. After a few minutes, it was over.

He looked over, "Leave the blade here for now. I am bound to it. It has infused abilities into me. It agreed it was too soon to have me in the Capital with the blade. Thank you, Nova."

Nova walked over and hugged him. She thought to him, "Thank you for 2 beautiful children that I will not find it impossible to love."

This was the first time she spoke with him in a 'friendly' way. She hugged him with feeling and he looked at her, "Your psionics help?"

Nova nodded and looked at the Commander, "Yes, being a generalist lets me be extremely flexible in what I can do. It was the true way I escaped the rape. I time-hopped him after putting him off balance. Then he fell cock first into my lute! I had moved off and got Moon Eye. Yes, I am a gestalt but I am a very fucking unique one. I can on any given day access any psionic ability.

I am a bard, and I am a duelist. I lost my twin, my mother, and our head enchanter who created the symbol buried in my chest on the same day. My twin fused with me. My mother's psionic talents fused in as well if I had to guess. That is why my psionic ability is not on a scale. I am a Savant or collector of information. All information. Like Charlus. With a psion mind. Captain Moon Eye was a gestalt telepath.

He hid it well. I slammed the door on him when he tried to enter my mind. I gave him a hint with 'Sanity' and he fucking knew who I was. We held each other's secret at that time. He was the closest I had come to finding love if I had to guess. I never had sex with him or even kissed him. I kept it professional, always professional. That also frustrated him."

The commander shook his head, "Explains why 2 of my best officers were not Academy trained. They would have found you if you had been."

Nova nodded, "Arrested and killed being likely. Let me get everyone back. You cannot teleport here because it is moving."

Nova waited for them all to be done hugging her.

She sighed, "I will take Brocken home. I will assume your identity for the moment, Janella, I have to visit the house. Give it two minutes after I leave and I will teleport into House Silvertree."

She nodded, "The Patron is not in the best of health since returning."

Nova nodded, "I understand. His son Nearon?"

She rolled her eyes, "He blames you for his father's health and the loss of 5 years of his life."

Nova thought, "Open it up for them just teleport."

She looked at them, "Teleport is open. Everyone teleport where you need to be. Just have them keep the main house open and wait.

They teleported out in groups. She teleported Brocken home. Nova moved away and teleported into House Silvertree. She grabbed Nearon by the arm and opened the portal.

Using Jan's voice like her image, "Seal it."

He sealed it. She dragged him inside and into the training wing and into a side room and secured it. She looked at him, "You need to get over this hatred of Novella."

He looked at her, "Just stay out of it."

Nova grabbed him by the arm and pinned him to the ground, "You do not go walking away like that with me!"

He sighed, "Why is what I think of her so important? She is dead."

She flipped him onto his back and looked at him, "Because she is not dead! She was sent on a mission by the Gods and she is on her way home. She has spent the last 5 years learning about humans and the disenfranchised mannerisms.

She learned to become an assassin who can fuck a man or a woman one minute and kill them the next. Sex without love. She had 2 children. Did you know when the Gods told her that she had to have 2 children she asked about you first? Your infertility kept that from happening."

He shook his head. She looked at him, "They sent her after the one who had the Moon Blade."

His eyes lit up, "She got our family blade back?"

Nova shook her head as she changed forms, "I got them all and the flying base the fucker operated. I took it all."

He looked shocked. She sighed, "The Gods expected me to get raped to have children. I did not. I chose someone else to give me those children without even looking at them while they did it.

Instead, I relived my mother's birth and her ten minutes of convulsions over and over again. I can remember everything from the womb forward. I did that to keep from loving anyone too strongly. You cannot have that and be fucking someone to kill them. I got really good at what I did. I spent time as a human named Viper."

Nearon looked at Nova, "We have been hearing that name. That was you?"

She nodded, "I found the lowest dredges of society cuddled up with them, made friends, fucked them, and killed them. Sometimes in the middle of a sex act. You have no idea what it is like to get excited about a sex act because you think about the kill instead of the act."

She thought, "Add Nearon to the safe list."

He heard, "Understood and added."

She pulled the blade and extended it to him as she stood. "It is safe for you. You are the closest thing I have to a husband. You hate my fucking guts for the 5 years you lost; I had to give up a part of my very spirit to do the things I did. But I did it for the greater good. Twelve blades recovered, 11 sold by our King to this fucker."

Nova saw the look of shock in his eyes as he held the blade.

Nova nodded, "The fuck captured one; Dusk Moon. He then had them run a gauntlet before he faced them with this sword here."

She pulled the other blade. "It will take three lifetimes to get abilities off of this blade into the family sword. Some very unique shit. This sword is not good or evil it is just a very chaotic blade. Varus'Nor is a good blade and I straddle those two to be able to wield them both."

He nodded his understanding, "I did not know."

Nova thought to him, "There is much you do not know about me."

He looked at her in shock. She nodded, "Hidden, a triple gestalt, three classes. Fused with my mother and my dead sibling to have those abilities and Charlus's memory capability. How I remember being born to relive it. I am not just a psion; I am THE psion. I learned it all from a master neutral dragon when I was 10; in one week."

He opened his mouth like a fish out of water trying to breathe.

She nodded, "I had to wear a suppression ring to keep from broadcasting my mother's death and my birth to everyone in the area. I did that once and they constructed one for me to use until I had my abilities under control. I have been living some of this hell since I was born. Try living with the fact my birth came at the cost of three lives of those who loved me.

He looked at Nova, "Three?" Nova shook her head, "Four if you count me and the Master Enchanter who built the amulets that took the other two lives and her own to make them."

He sighed and felt like shit.

Nova looked at him and spoke, "I took a risk in coming here. In part because of you and your father. I want to see if I can help him any."

He nodded as she shifted forms back to Jan. Nova looked at him as she put the blade away. "Anyone in the blade wielders quarters?"

He shook his head, "Only a couple have access and they do not live here anymore."

Nova nodded, "I need to get a few things from there. Then I want to see your father. I do not want to shock him to death. That is why I look Like Janella. She kissed him with feeling and he returned it."

She looked at him, "We are both infertile now. Maybe when this is done you can teach me how to love."

He sighed, "I have a wife and she does not want a second. Thank you for telling me."

She kissed him again, "Thank you for getting back on board with me being alive. Realizing I was doing something far worse for 5 years for the greater good of us all."

He nodded and hugged her, "I wish I had been the father."

Nova hugged him tightly and then they parted. she unsecured the room went out and made a bee-line to the blade wielders quarters undetected. She sighed, "Add Novella Silvertree heirs to these quarters. She walked up to the master, secured it, and pulled the bag with the displays. She walked out and turned to the Patron's quarters."

She thought, "Add Victen Silvertree to the safe list."

Nova heard a chuckle from Varus'Nor, "Understood. Mending fences."

Nova thought back, "Also reclaiming a piece of my very spirit for hurting them."

She knocked on the door. She heard, "Come in."

She went in and closed the door. He looked up and smiled, "Janella, to what do I owe this visit?"

She walked around and took his hand into hers while he laid in bed. She was quiet for several seconds as she worked to make repairs to his body. Some were due to age which she could not change. Others she could fix.

He looked at Nova, "What did you just do to me?"

Nova smiled, "I figured out how to take some of your pain away."

He nodded, "I do feel better. Much better but how?"

She took his hand as she slid in closer and put his hand around the sword handle. She pulled back so he could see what he was holding. He looked at Nova, "Janella how?"

She shook her head, "Novella lived, she had to do unspeakable things to learn the skills to recover not just this one but all 12 of them."

He smiled, "When is she coming home?"

Nova smiled as she changed, "I already have. But I have a flying Keep that I captured with dragon shields and enough money for two dozen dragons not to want more. I wanted to heal you some before revealing myself. Bad enough I caused you harm. I did not want to cause your death too. I am Corellon's champion and was sent on this mission. I have one part left. Bring down the corrupted King."

He looked at her. She turned down the audio and let him watch her birth and the revelation that she was fused and what the enchanter did and had to die doing it.

He nodded his head, "I can see where that weighs on you, your skills are unbelievable. But you needed them. That was why the enchanter sent me away. To keep me from knowing you would be a champion."

Nova nodded, "Yes. I used them all to become a killing machine. To make me Viper."

He looked shocked at that revelation.

Nova nodded, "I had to learn how to have sex with people and creatures I was not attracted to even remotely. To get them in a disarming position and then kill them. I will come back tomorrow and I will need 12 casters. Arcane or divine. They need to have dismissal prepared, regular, heightened, and quicken if they can. Heightened would be great.

I got a creature on that ship I need to send back to the plane of chaos. It was what the half-dragon used to keep from getting critically injured. He bound himself to this creature of chaos on an evil half-dragon and as far removed from chaos as possible. His actions were cold and calculated.

I had to seduce him first before I got him into a position to kill him. I pulled what I needed from his mind and cut his fucking head off slowly; I could not critically injure him so he had to suffer through it. He did. He told me I was a terrific fuck and such a bitch before he died.

He was helpless the way I had him. I became an aberration; myself, part dragon, and I had extra limbs that were my bone swords. While I held his hands down and crushed them. I am telling you this so you understand how far I had to go to get the blades back. Two are claimed, Goldeagle being the other."

He looked at her, "Is he the father?"

Nova smiled, "I was told I had to have heirs, I had 3 rape attempts I foiled. Some others after I left to let them think they succeeded, before killing them. I castrated quite a few with my psionic abilities.

I wanted the children to be from a good person. They both agreed. I covered my face and relived my birth while he did what he had to do. I isolated myself from the task to not have an emotional attachment to them or a memory of the event.

I do not know if I will ever have a normal relationship. I feel so fucked up inside. Turned on by the kill and not the sex act. It is twisted but it was how I got through it. I will either die or do it again; over and over again. All in the name of the greater good."

He hugged Nova to him. "I know this is not what you want to hear but you made my sacrifice a lot smaller by comparison."

Nova thought, "Dear Lady. Ensure the King cannot disown the blade wielders. Remove that power from him first. To protect the blades."

Nova heard her, "He cannot affect the blades anymore or the chosen wielders. We took that from him long ago. We rule now and you will take out the usurper yourself. We are getting stronger. Once you get more of the blades into wielders' hands, we will be able to return more often. Getting the other two fixes is your next task along with the blade wielders. Getting the resistance organized will be next, or a task you do in parallel with the way your mind works."

Nova thought, "When we show up at the Palace can you strip, at least temporarily, the Spell Power of those who would stand against us. To show the Gods back us?"

She heard, "We will consider that request given the death this King has caused."

She got up and switched forms, "I have a resistance to plan, two blades to repair, and a King that is already dead but I won't have to fuck him first."

Nova heard back, "He fucked himself when he turned from us."

She walked away but turned and smiled back, "We can do this. The Gods are on our side."

The Patron nodded with a smile. Yet his heart was broken for all she had suffered in this life as well. He worried about her now. He was glad he was kept in the dark as he would have likely told them to stop the torture.

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The Lady of Dreams was in a Council chamber with the other Elven Gods. She looked at all of them. "I have not been the best when dealing with female champions.

Having to get her to train to do those things was heartbreaking and showed me some of my own behavior has been just as bad in the past. I will endeavor to do better. For her and others on other worlds. She survived it and has succeeded thus far. When do we tell her of the King's allegiance with the abyss?"

Corellon sighed, "Not yet. Let her get closer to home. Closer to the actual battle. Then we can confirm he is not loyal to us and loyal to a demon lord instead. She does not know she has the fate of the elven people in that world in her hands. The less we tell her, the better. She may figure it out on her own.

She does not know that is why we took her to that extreme. She needs time to heal and hopefully find some love in her life. What we did with the heirs of the children was unfortunate, but it had to be done to make her infertile for when she traveled.

Like Eldar's daughter, who was a hero but not a champion, she knows nothing of being a good mother. In many ways, she is worse off because she cannot forget everything she has had to do and will continue to do as needed. She remembers every horrid detail.

She was built and made to be the weapon of destruction to reclaim our people. The force that we needed in the weeks and years to come. I hope she finds a path forward when this task is complete and does not go down Ginnar's path.

If she succeeds and she does take her own life, she will still be welcomed as the champion we needed. There is much unknown about her future right now. For now, she needs to hold it together and destroy this traitorous King."

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Nova went to the armory and grabbed her old tack. She walked outside and stored the tack. She looked at Nearon, "He is feeling better now. Much better about the future as well."

He nodded. He turned off the teleport blocker. She kissed his cheek. He stepped away and she teleported to the center of the pasture.

She changed to herself with a Nova on her cloak. her red roan came charging over, "I knew you were alive."

Nova patted his neck. "Hello, my friend. It took many years. It has cost many lives, but I will soon be happy to be at home. You retired to the herd now or are you ready to continue?"

Nova heard, "There is one here waiting for you."

She saw a very dark shadow stead come riding forward. He had a small pair of crescent moons behind each ear and slightly down on the neck and under the main hidden.

She looked at him and thought, "Shi'Trika Shadow Striker. Trika for short."

She heard the herd's approval of the name as they confirmed he was the new head of the herd.

She heard him, "Good name. Corellon Larethian sends his congratulations and his thanks. He hopes to see you soon. I have been here long enough to fuck the entire herd. Some of them are on their second or third foal."

She smiled, "I may not be riding for a few weeks but you are free to join me now. Bring me the portal."

He walked into the portal and Nova followed. Nova opened the door. She went and found Janella. She was in the control center. She pulled up Gods' Eyes and did an overview of the battlefield. Then the city and where they were at to see what they looked like.