Devil in a Red Dress

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A/N

First of all, this is going to be a double update hopefully, just gotta edit the next chapter real quick and I'll get it out.

Second of all, please, if you guys see any plot holes, feel free to send me a DM or a comment in the story because its just so convoluted and complicated so sometimes I even confuse myself because I forget which idea I go with and forget my timelines lol and I wanna get it right and I'm all for constructive criticism.

Annnnd my rambling last thing, I promise we're slowly getting to the present time with some more Jenlisa, bear with me. Love you guyssss. Carry on.

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Hephaestus had long ago forged symbolic symbols of power for their creators that they kept at the Olympian palace at Olympos, so that it would remind them of the benevolent creators that let them rule in the Celestial realm, and even in the living realm, despite them being more powerful than the gods.

The symbols of power were displayed in a grand hall, to remind them of their Celestial Queen, the Great Sage, the Lost Queen, and the Mysterious Last Creator.

Zeus and Artemis went first during the ceremony, since their chosen creator had been the first to be born, she was the first they all honored.

Hephaestus had crafted a beautiful blue arrow in honor of the Blue, of Jisoo, with intricate silver designs engraved within it to honor the most important thing to their Queen, her soulmate, the Silver.

Zeus approached it and summoned lighting, using all of his energy to summon the biggest bolt he could, striking the arrow with it, symbolically giving away some of his power to the creator he admired the most.

Artemis grabbed her own arrow from her quiver, aiming for the wall and striking it. Her arrow dug in to the marble wall with such force that it almost shattered, but it flimsily stayed erect. She then grabbed Jisoo's blue arrow, and nocked it on her bowstring.

She aimed and shot it and it flew with such speed, splitting her own arrow down the middle as it dug into the marble wall as well. She had done the same thing she always did, splitting her arrow for Jisoo's, symbolically sacrificing her weapons for hers.

Though no one had ever met the creator that was born after Jisoo, only knowing her as the Red, thanks to Jisoo and Chaeyoung, who had always been vague about their fourth companion but always talked about her fondly and gave them little tidbits about her, the Gods that followed after her still inherently knew they took after her despite not ever knowing her.

They somehow knew she was the creator whose powers they derived from, it was like second nature for them to know.

Ares, Hermes, Dionysus, and Hephaestus gathered next. The mystery creator's symbol of power had taken Hephaestus the longest to make.

He felt a connection to that creator because he inherently knew that she had been the one to create fire. The very fires he used to forge his weapons. He spent half of his lifetime, with the help of Athena and Hermes, who were both also great at inventing things—to make the benevolent version of Hellfyre in her honor.

The fire they created was gold and red, and just like Hellfyre, it also burned forever, but rather than give the person eternal torture when touching it, this fire tickled and gave the person who touched it a feeling of eternal warmth. They named it Seraphina.

Seraphina had a mind of its own, it allowed itself to be picked up and put down. Hephaestus liked to think his creator had somehow infused her power into it, because there was no way even they could have invented it like that. He somehow felt like she had somehow sent them her power. Even Athena had agreed with that thought.