“That asshole!”
Lumine outwardly cursed as she was now face to face with Stormterror, her windglider barely holding on from the strong winds and tornadoes assaulting her.
“I don't even have a weapon to hit him from this distance!” She said to herself.
Fortunately, Stormterror didn't seem like she noticed her and continued flying over Mondstadt.
Then suddenly a mysterious voice echoed through the wind, reaching her ears.
“That was a spectacular launch from your friend back there, haha!”
The young male voice echoed through the air leaving Lumine even more confused.
“Who are you? How can you talk to me?”
“I'm keeping you afloat with the power of the thousand winds, now for you to drive the dragon away, concentrate and feel yourself harnessing the power of the wind.”
The voice faded away seemingly into thin air, “Who was that?” seeing no other way out of the situation, she followed the mysterious voice's advice and tried her best to concentrate anemo energy inside her, she noticed the energy building up into condensed forms of pure anemo energy then suddenly bursting into a continuous spray of condensed wind bullets hitting Stormterror’s back.
“I have no clue what's going on or what I'm doing, but it's working!” the 4 winged dragon took notice of the damage that was being done to it, roaring in agony, it tries to escape by going higher and higher, but the thousand winds supporting lumine relentlessly follow it in pursuit higher in the sky, "Damn!" Lumine said to herself, she needs to end this now before the dragon goes even higher, she focuses herself and with newfoud determination, she aims for the weak parts of the dragon, "I should mainly aim for the head, the neck or maybe-, wait what is that thing on its back?"
Lumine changes her attention to the purple crystal-like thing, "Whatever it is, it seems like the dragon doesn't like that spot being hit." With continuous punishment and attacks, Stormterror decides to retreat, away from Mondstadt, yet his Anger and agony still remains ,out of spite he decides to retaliate. The dragon quickly turns around and opens its mouth and like lightning, dashed rapidly in the air to it's attacker with such speed that it seems to rip apart the air producing a terrible sound, "What the?!" Lumine panics, she had no time to think, with instinct alone she overcharges up the anemo power she was given by that mysterious voice, making a big ball of condensed anemo energy, she launches the massive anemo energy burst, just in time as the dragon were mere seconds away from devouring her, "Take this!" She cried out, the overcharged anemo ball makes contact with the dragon and bursts into an explosion, hitting the dragon straight in the face, but she forgets to take into account that the explosion will also reach her. Bursting in the air, the explosion hits and pushes her back, sending her spinning through the air, she quickly tries to regain control, doing her best to manipulate the anemo energy around her, "Damn it!"
Her windglider was greatly damaged, barely holding on. Regaining whatever control she can over the battered windglider, she stopped herself from completely crashing down but she was still descending really really quickly, but hey, atleast she's still alive, without major damage it seems, surprising considering she just basically exploded a big burst of energy near herself.
"Hah, Too easy." She smugly declares to herself, after all she just beat a dragon, a literal dragon without her usual powers, ignoring the fact she's borrowing someone else's, of course. She looks down, finding a place to descend, only to see a blue-green blur zooming in her location, "Ah?" Stormterror was in fact, not defeated, "I might have celebrated just a tad bit too early."
It was at this moment that lumine discovers a very important connection, something she hoped crossed her mind earlier, the dragon she was fighting was an anemo dragon, which means it's probably very resistant to anemo damage, even when she was using the power of the thousand winds, she only had one word in response for this, unfortunate, crucial blunder, "Woops."
Lumine closes her eyes for what seems like centuries but nothing comes, and nothing will come, she opens her eyes again, and sees stormterror fleeing, a sigh of relief washed the panic and dread that engulfed her soul back there, she looked closer at the fleeing dragon only to notice that there was an arrow stuck to its neck, ""Amber?"" She thought, "No, she wouldn't have enough strength to hit the dragon so much that it retreats, then who saved me?" The questions and mysteries keep piling up, such as who was that voice? Was he watching me? How did I just get the power of the thousand winds? Wait, what even is the power of the thousand winds? These questions filled her mind but as for the mysterious arrow that saved her, she felt like she had a strong guess to whom it was.
But for now, she has to clear her mind and enjoy still living, after all she just almost died, never in the many, many years of life had she almost felt that vulnerable, another proof that she has to regain her original powers back as fast as possible.
The power she was borrowing gradually faded away, so she uses her own anemo energy to safely descend down. While descending down, back to Mondstadt, she could see Paimon repeatedly trying to punch Heimdall in the distance but every single inexperienced jab hit nothing but air, so she resorted to insulting Heimdall. “grape eyed punk!”, “Ugly evil Blondie!” Lumine chuckled upon hearing Paimon's silly names for Heimdall.
"Im alright guys!" Lumine said as she caught the attention of everyone.
As Lumine touched the ground, Paimon came to her as fast as she can and hugged her, Amber came running to her not too long after Paimon, asking if she was alright, Lumine, after saying to everyone that she was alright looked for Heimdall, but surprisingly, even when she just saw him moments ago, was nowhere to be found.
"Where's Heimdall?" Lumine asks, "Huh?" Amber looks around for him too but she too fails to see him, "Wait, Where did he go!?"
"Who cares? He almost just made Lumine go to her death!" Paimon said. "Well, I think he just saved me." Lumine replied, "What? Why do you say that?", Paimon asks, "I'm also curious." Amber added.
"Well, Amber, did Heimdall borrow one of your arrows?"
"My arrows? he did ask me to give him a single arrow earlier-, wait a moment! Did he actually hit Stormterror earlier when you were fighting him!"
"Yup, thats why im still here."
"Huhh?! From this distance? That's impossible, and he just threw it with his bare hands!" Paimon said in disbelief.
"Yeah, it's completely impossible for a human to do that right? Even if they're a vision holder?"
Lumine stares into the distant sky, now free from the oppressive winds that plagued Mondstadt earlier, ""Asgard huh? Heimdall is clearly a foreign God or at least a foreign legendary creature of renown, then what is he doing here at Teyvat?"" Lumine thought to herself.
"Lumine?"
""Heimdall, I wonder if he would help me find my brother..""
"Uhh, Lumine are you okay?"
Lumine continues to be lost in thought, ""He might just be my best bet at revenge on that goddess that sent me here! Even though he has a bad personality, unlike that damned goddess it seems he doesn't just trap people into an unknown word! Yes absolutely, I need him now, have him on my side, to find my brother, and nothing else of course!""
"Lumine!"
Lumine finally breaks free from whatever weird stuff she was thinking about. "Ah, sorry, sorry, I was just lost in thought." She apologized to Amber and Paimon.
"Jeez you scared us back there."
"Yeah, now that you're listening, we should get going now, no use standing here all day, I'm sure we'll find Mr Heimdall in the city, after all, he might just become a new honorary knight, with you!"
"What? A honorary knight?!' Lumine asked,
"Why and what is that?"
...
Heimdall opens the door to Angel's share, a bar, reminding him of his home, in Asgard, or what is left of it. Walking into the empty bar, an uncommon sight as bars were usually filled with people, but Stormterror’s presence made the people evacuate, all except for one bard.
Heimdall walks over to one table at the corner of the bar, a young boy with aqua green eyes, and short black-ish blue hair with short twin braids at the sides of his face that fade into aqua blue, wearing a green and white bard outfit, was sleeping on the bar tables drooling, holding a wine bottle on his hand, Heimdall sits to the chair across him, Staring at the stranger with disgust.
“So, when are you going to get up? Or am I supposed to smash your head in right now?”
“O-oh, huh? Ohh, I didn't think you'd be here this early, weren't you with your friends?”
The stranger said, waking up from the table, the stranger was clearly still drunk.
“Friends? Don't make me laugh, What matters is that you're the one who spoke to me back then right?”
“T-the wha?, oh, I remember now, I think?”
Heimdall becoming more agitated with this drunkard, reminding him of a certain someone, took the green bard's dandelion wine bottle and threw it away, shattering in impact.
“Woah! mister, that's a bit rude! I even used up all my money to buy that…”
Venti whined.
“I didn't know buying something is shamelessly grabbing it from the counter while no one is around, care to enlighten me?”
Venti laughs at Heimdall's comment,
“Hehe, alright, alright I'll stop messing around.” Venti composes himself, sitting straight, seemingly instantly becoming sober.
“Really now? What kind of poem was that? You were better off drunk”
“Hey! Are you trying to offend me? I wasn't done anyway, Ahem! Though mortal in appearance, di-”
A loud clapping from Heimdall forcefully makes Venti stop reciting his poem,
“What a AMAZING poem, truly a marvel for all living beings to witness, I truly feel very honored.” Heimdall says sarcastically
Venti rolls his eyes in response.
“You're no fun y’know, I was quite proud of my improvised poem too, fine then, I'll stop fooling around, judging from what I've seen and heard, you probably already know who I really am.”
Venti cautiously thinks about how to go about this.
“I am also known as Barbatos, Anemo Archon of Mondstadt, A god of wind of these lands, I was the one who asked for your help back then, the strong gust of wind carried my voice back when you were with your friend back there.”
“Hmm, God of wind huh? Well I suppose it's my turn, Call me Heimdall, Æsir god of foresight and a foreigner to these lands, now let's get straight to business, I did not help you with your pet attacking your city here just for the kindness of my heart, you know I want something in return.”
Venti, taking the information in, takes a deep breath before speaking,
“I see, never thought a foreign God would take interest in Teyvat, or even make it here, considering, well, Celestia,Very well, I understand, as the great God of Freedom I shall-”
“I need answers, Barbatos.”
“You have a bad habit of cutting people off mid sentence y'know.”
“I don't have time to entertain a drunkard god, now my first question.”
Venti listens carefully, hoping that Heimdall's questions won't be difficult to answer.
“So, you mentioned Celestia, What is it?”
Venti was proven wrong instantly. ""Why did I even think of them? They've been inactive for a while."" Venti thought to himself.
"Inactive? How so? What happened?"
Heimdall asks straightforwardly.
"Uhh, huh!? You can read my mind?!"
"Yes, I can, with just a single mere glance."
"T-that's cheating! What does being a god of foresight have to do with reading minds!?"
It was at this moment Venti knew subconsciously, that the fate of Teyvat, would be once again, be challenged.
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