Believer

Chapter One

(Athea's First Outfit)
  

"We will split up here." Athea spokes as they were finally at the Hub.

 "Once we are confirmed that they are nowhere near finding us, we meet here again."

 They all nodded but Tommy frowns at her.

 "Athea, are you sure you should be alone?" Athea smiles at her little brother. 

"With my mana and skills restored, da-Philza could easily tracked me down. So, I should be alone." The young woman explained, reaching up to ruffles her brother hair. 

"Take care of each other." She said, turning to smile at her friends and family. 

Lani looks at her with teary eyes, Drista placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

   The blonde teen had long abandoned her smiley mask, revealing forest green eyes with freckles dusted her cheeks. 

"We will hear from you, right?" Fundy asks, his own tears gathering in his eyes. 

Athea smiles at her nephew, trying to hold back her own tears from falling. 

"Yeah. I texted you once I got there. But don't reply to a single thing I texted until I said that I'm safe." The Fox Hybrid nodded in understanding.

 "Purpled, make sure they don't cause too much trouble. You are the most mature between them." A loud 'hey' come from others while Purpled chuckles, nodding at her words.

 "Of course. Be safe, Athea." She smiles at them before taking a portal that will spawn her at a random server, either with no players at all or abandoned.

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       Athea eyes flutter open as before she slowly sits up with a groan. She is standing in a pure white Quartz temple... One that almost resembles Kristin, their mother, who is the Goddess of Death, temple. 

"Athea." A soft voice spokes and she immediately draw out her guns, only to find the Goddess of Kindness and Mercy, Irene or known as Aphmau among the Gods and Goddess. Also known more as Developers by Admin and players alike.

"Lady Irene! What is this?" The brunnete looks around, frowning. 

"Where am I?" The older woman smiles gently before speaking again. 

"I'm sorry if I scare you but I need your help... And please, call me Aphmau." Athea lifted a curious eyebrow at her word. 

"Okay... But I'm just a DemiGod... There is nothing much I could do to help you."

        Aphmau chuckles before sitting down next to her on the marble floor. 

"You know that every Gods and Goddess has a personal domains they rule over, right?" Athea nods. 

"Yeah, DreamXD, God of Chaos, rule over Dream SMP. My mother, Kristin, Goddess of Death, rule over most hardcore server. But they influences, of course, still exist in other domains."

 Athea recites from one of her many books and Aphmau looks really impressed. 

"You been studying, I see." She said to the DemiGod who shrugged. 

"Well, you see... You are about to step into my domain...And I have no problem with it!"She immediately added at the worried look on Athea's face.

      "You see... My world have been corrupted..." A frown appeared on the DemiGod face.

 "Is it a virus or a hack? Because that is something every full-pledge Admin and Gods could fix." Aphmau chuckles and shook her head. 

"It is not that kind of corruptions. It is among my...NPCs." 

      Athea looks at with a blank face. It was not unheard of NPCs of modded server acts weird or get into trouble. NPCs are aware of the God or Goddess  that rule over their domains, but they never know the existant of players or Admins. However, if the God or Goddess descend to help their NPCs, more bad than good will happen.

"I take it you want me to care for your NPC?" Aphmau nodded, smilling. 

"Yes. There are also several trouble that I can't truly explain and you need to see it for yourself. Are you okay with this?"

       Athea start to think for herself. She lived in the worse anarchy server, 2bt2 and survives. She had fought wars, both outside and inside Dream SMP and won. She has nothing to fear. At least, NPCs are much more predictable than players and Admins. After mulling over her thoughts, Athea finally nodded. 

"Okay then, I help you out. Is there anyway I can contact you] just in case?" 

      Aphmau nodded before lifting her hand. Suddenly, Athea's comms that is inside her cargo pant pocket glowed purple. 

"I did some adjustment with your comms. You can contact me through it." 

Nodding, the DemiGod stands up and dust her pants off. 

"Well, I better get going then."

Aphmau smiles at her, standing up herself. 

"Thank you for this, Athea. Please take care of them for me."

 Aphmau lifted her hands, her mana gathering at her palm. 

"I will grand you the abilities of an Admin and you have limitless amount of respawn. I also grand you the Blessing of Irene." 

      Athea nodded in understanding, closing her eyes as mana covered her body. Slowly light covered Athea body before consumed her completely, leaving Aphmau alone in her place. 

"Thank you, Kristin, for bringing your daughter here to help." Aphmau whispers to herself, smilling.

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         Athea blinked, trying to clear her vision as light fill her vision, before slowly dissipating. The brunette looks around, taking in her surrounding. She is deep in a dark forest, with nothing to serve as a source of light. She sighs before start walking forward, hoping to bump into a village that has NPCs sooner than later. She was walking for hours with no rest. For once, Athea was glad she was alone. She can't bared the thought of putting the others in danger, walking in a dark forest, where any mobs can spawn. 

"It's getting darker..."Athea whispers to herself, staring up at the darken skies. 

"Should I camp here? Or..."Before she could finish her own sentence, she saw a tell-tale sign of light. 

     Eyes widened in pleasant surprise, she rushed forward, gripping tightly on her bag pack, uncaring on what she bumped or rushed into, eager to get out of the dark and cold night. Once she burst out of the forest and into a clearing that leads to what seems to be a village, she lets out a relief sighs. 

"Oh thank God... I was losing my mind." She whispers before straighten herself up, only to see 2 male NPCs approaching her slowly.

     The one in the lead is wearing an iron helmet that completely covered his head and white and iron chain armor while the other wearing a black helmet with only his eyes could be seen and full black armor. 'I did said I need to meet the NPCs as soon as I can... Never thought I can cross that list today.'