Worlds Collide (crossover fanfiction)

Chapter 30

Kia was swinging the blade around when Thea came in. "Oh hey!" She carefully put the sword aside. "Didn't see you there."

Alistair quickly put on the shirt and jeans, checking himself in the mirror. "This looks bloody different to what I usually wear." He spun around in a circle slowly, mussing up his already messy light brown hair. "Yo! Dom! Are you done?"

"Yup, I'm done." Dom walked out in a pale purple button up shirt; a cream checkered knitted vest, and a pair of black jeans. "But let's just stay up here for a while. We don't want to annoy the girls when they're downstairs changing."

Thea smiled at the older girl. "Come on, it's your turn. I've already picked out a dress for you, and I think you're going to absolutely rock it. Kylie's downstairs ready, I just need to find a way to disguise her batons as an accessory, and then find a way to hide a katana in a dress. And please don't say the wonder woman way. You can't exactly do that with a short dress."

Kylie gasped. It seemed so much clearer now. Thea wasn't just an angel, she was a goddess. That was what she nearly slipped up on, when she said lord of Time. She wasn't just the lord. She wasn't just some lowly angel that lived as a mundane and helped save people under the moon. It made sense now. Arthella, Kitana, Alistair, even Dominik. They were Greeks, maybe even Romans, from the ancient civilizations. And the other slip-ups: Kia proclaiming her father as the lord of the Underworld. Dom clarifying that his father serves her father. Kia was the daughter of Hades himself, and Dom was the son of Thanatos. That left Alistair and Thea. Alistair was a warlock, that hadn't changed, and Kylie could sense it. He was a son of Hecate, not a god but a Titan, and Thea? Kylie examined the tapestry with the five gods again. Poseidon, Artemis, Apollo, Athena, Nike. Poseidon stood on one side, with Athena and Artemis on one side, and Apollo and Nike on the other side. The two dark haired girls, probably the sister Thea had mourned, knelt before them, with Thea on the side of Artemis and Athena. So her father was Poseidon, her powers originally from the two goddesses. And the magic she did, that was photokinesis, not sorcery. And even so, when she had muttered 'huntress abilities please kick in.' That was what gave her her vision, her speed, her enhanced senses. They were demigods.

Kia pouted. "Aw, that's just sad. But seriously, Gal Gadot rocked that blue dress." The gauntlets Gadot wore while acting as Wonder Woman were cool too, but she'd never be able to pull it off.

Alistair chortled. "True. It's never a good idea to tell a girl to hurry up when they're changing." He winced. "Trust me, it's not cool." Especially with his cousin Celeste, who took up at least two hours to change, do her makeup and whatever else girls did to get ready for an outing, even if they were just going out to Diagon Alley by Floo to get some weird girly stuff from Madam Primpernelle's Beauty Potions. It wasn't like anybody was going to see them, so why bother preparing so much?

"So my gauntlets aren't cool?" Thea gasped in mock horror, before laughing. "Okay, I hope you like this dress. I personally think it looks amazing, but I could never pull it off. My legs are way too long to rock this style." She ruffled through the racks of red dresses, with dresses of varying shade of red, before pulling out a scarlet dress. It had a sweetheart neckline, a golden belt around the waist relatively high up, and a short ruffled skirt. The material was ruffled, and along it was a matching pair of gloves, where a long piece of silk connected the elbows of the gloves to the back of the dress. "Feelings?"

"You are a demigod." Kylie said, stepping out of the curtains. "The tapestries, they depict different scenes from different greek myths. But the people in it are different. They are... they are you. You are no angel, you are a goddess. The daughter of Poseidon, Artemis and Athena." Her hands trembled slightly, before they went still again. "Why did you not tell me? Was I not trustworthy?"

"I hope the dress fit." Thea said, a weirdly cheerful grin on her face. The expression turned serious, before she sighed lightly. "So you figured it out. I didn't really think about it when I put the tapestries as curtains. Usually the customers I have are fellow demigods, and it's boring just staring at a clear fabric when you change, so I give them a story to read, or watch. To be fair, I've only known you for four hours and I already let you into my house. And I don't trust easily. How would you like to conceal your weapons? I have a few ideas, but I have to get Kia into a dress, so, be my guest. Another option is if you just give me your weapon, and I'll try to modify it so that it will be able to be disguised as jewelry of the sort."

Kylie hesitantly gave her batons and katana to the young girl."Don't damage them. My mother gave them to me." The smile on Thea's face made her feel uncertain, but Thea just grinned.

"Kia when you're done feel free to browse. There's labels if you don't know what's what." Thea called, as she twisted a few knobs. "I'll just be in the forge in the basement." She wiggled her fingers in goodbye as a panel slid open, and she jumped into the hole, before the panel shut tight. Thea free-falled through the air, before she landed on a comfortable pillow chair, and wheeled it towards the furnace. "Now, let's get these weapons reforged."

Kia slipped into the changing rooms, putting the dress on her own body. "I suppose this'll have to do." She shedded her own clothes, replacing it with the dress.

Thea placed the batons in the fire, and slowly, with all her skill from the countless times she customized weapons for her clients, she shoved her hand into the fire, and reshaped the batons into a necklace, the batons shrunken into a silver cross. Taking it out of the blazing furnace, she put it around her neck as a test run, and touching a finger to the cross it transformed into her batons, and after that, she touched both ends of the batons on the chain, and it shrunk back down. Taking her katana, she placed it in the furnace and shaped it into two bangles. She put them on, and clicked them together, and she was holding the blade. "This blade is really well-crafted." Thea looked at herself in the mirror, and a thought came to her. "Oh gods, I forgot. I can't go out as me." Curling her silver energy around her, she summoned the auburn wig she often wore as Sylvia Hunter, and placed on her blue gray contacts. Checking the mirror again, she summoned another dress that she had designed for herself. It was her normal dark green, a halterneck top with sleeves on the side that left her shoulders bare, with a swishy skirt. she removed Kylie's weapons, and floated back up.