《Timeline Goddess》


 -Prologue-

    Aressa woke up slowly with what felt like the absolute worst headache she''d ever had in her entire 19 years of life. As she slowly sat up, she thought to herself "This hurts like a motherfucking bitch! Holy shit, this doesn''t even compare to the hangover headache I got on my 18th birthday." She thought about the present her mom gave her when she got caught sippin¡¯ on dad''s good bourbon; she was so pissed, that she made her drink the entire bottle! This headache topped that, so she thought to herself, "it can''t get any worse than this right?"As she opened her eyes, what appeared to be a soft gentle white light suddenly made her feel as if a heavy war hammer had just collided with her head; she passed out instantly.


    She woke again some time later hearing what sounded like exhausted voices talking too low for her to hear. She wondered if it was because they were too far away, or possibly too exhausted to talk at a normal pitch? As she thought about this though, she realized her headache was receding. Her eyes instinctively tried to open again, and she quickly shut them tight so as to not risk passing out again.


    While she kept her eyes closed, she quickly sensed the area around her like her odd uncle Josh had taught her as a child. First, she listened for any sounds she could pick up, but disturbingly all she heard was the sound of voices. ¡°There¡¯s always some kind of noise happening¡± she thought, ¡°be it radios, heating or air conditioning, doors opening and closing, cars flying by; something!¡± Since she heard nothing, absolutely nothing but the voices, she concentrated on trying to verify their direction in case she needed to escape. As she focused on the voices, she cautiously opened her eyes to see the puzzlingly soft white light surrounding her and the bed she was on; she felt grateful it wasn¡¯t painful this time. As she sat up, she noticed that she wasn¡¯t restrained in any way, nor did it feel like it was the intent of the voices she heard . At this point, she heard a voice more clearly then the rest. ¡°Was the owner getting closer, she thought?¡±.


    The voice sounded exhausted but beautiful, cold but gentle as a mother could only be "...is she truly the only survivor? The only survivor out of this entire timeline? You couldn''t find anyone else Hermes?" Aressa gasped at what she just heard, ¡°Only survivor? Timeline? What is going on?¡± she thought. Her gasp apparently startled the owner of the voice since she quickly said, "She''s awake?..... Why didn''t i sense that happening? Everyone! The girl is finally awake! We don¡¯t want to overwhelm her so only around ten of us should go. Who shall greet her?"


    All of the sudden, the voice of a man sounded; Aressa immediately recognized it as belonging to a man who had seen countless battlefields. The voice just simply said "The child though female bears my name and is a stalwart warrior. She will not break under this pressure, but become mighty.... Which is a good thing i think." Then another voice, simplistic, young and mellifluously vibrant said " I do not know how long it will last, but she is chaste and a swift hunter, making her perfect in my eyes." Then, yet another voice booming with thunder laughed and said "Indeed she is a mighty maiden fair and gallant, yet her temper has been shown to be thunderous when roused, however unlike me she can keep it in check so i too will go."This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    At this point, an elderly voice spoke containing the vicissitudes of time, "I sense she has passed beyond my power, but she is wise for her years, I too must go." Then a husky low pitched female voice spoke saying " She is beautiful, kind, and longing for a true love by her side so i must also speak with her," and left it at that. Finally, one last voice spoke. It was kind and caring but simply said " Old one while she is beyond your power, she is not yet beyond mine, which is exactly why we are gathered here. Only when she has fully come into her power and accepts what she has become, will she be free of even death."


    The voices got closer and closer as Aressa listened to their conversation. As she processed what she was hearing, she finally understood what was happening; years of training has taught her the name of Hermes, the harbinger of the gods. She quickly got up, and flung herself off the bed the best she could. She then quickly knelt in the ancient warrior¡¯s pose used to greet their lord; one fist propping her up and one fist held to her chest showing respect and honor. This pose seemed quite fitting when matched with the armor she was wearing when the light that had knocked her out appeared and caused this. As she finally heard footsteps, she connected them with the voices in her head. When she sensed them stop in a semi-circle in front of her, she raised her head to look at the legends in front of her.


    On the left of the woman in the center was a man strong and tall wearing ancient grecian armor, which she had expected and beside him stood a young man with a fierce temperament wielding a hammer. Beside him stood an aged elder that seemed young and old at the same time. To the right of the woman in the center stood a young vibrant woman wielding a bow and wearing simple leather armor. To that young huntress'' right stood a mature woman who wore a simple outfit that while covering her body, did little to hide her beauty. And finally, on the extreme right stood yet another beautiful woman in a black dress who while standing there simply looked at Aressa with sorrow in her eyes.


    As Aressa looked them over again quickly, she swiftly and firmly, starting from the center outward, greeted these people. " Hail the Mother Goddess who is kind! Hail Ares, the God of War who walks the battlefield by the side of all soldiers! Hail the Goddess Artemis, the Chaste Huntress who hunts by moonlight! Hail Thor, God of Thunder he who wields Mjolnir with great might! Hail the Goddess Venus, who loves! Hail the most ancient god, Father Time! And hail last but not least, the Goddess of Vengeance and Death Scathach!"


    After saying these ancient and powerful names, as was in line with teachings of the ancient warrior rites, Aressa then stood and proudly said " I am Aressa Rayehk daughter to Lineas and Yevira Rayehk of the Rayehk family, and I humbly ask for your assistance!" When Aressa finished her sentence, she immediately fell to floor unconscious yet again.

 -Prologue 2-

    As Aressa once again woke up from her unconscious state, she realized her senses had gotten much sharper as she could now hear the gods talking far more clearly then before. To get their attention, she called out to them, " I¡¯m awake again, so would you please come and explain the situation?" As her voice faded away, she heard footsteps headed in her direction once again.


    As she waited, she looked for her spear Aenar, which had been by her side since she first picked up a weapon. Noticing that Aenar was floating at a point about 15 feet away she decided to go get it. That¡¯s when something surprising happened. Aenar let out a piercing ring, and shot into her outstretched hand. When she finally grabbed hold of the 7 foot spear with a footlong spearhead, she realized Aenar felt alive and happy to be in her hand.


    At the same time, she heard the gods come to stop just inside the door with a single set of footsteps drawing closer. She turned to face them, and greeted the one closest to her with a grim look on her face. "I''d like to know what¡¯s going on Great Mother Goddess and please don¡¯t leave anything out." The Mother Goddess sighed, and started telling Aressa what had happened when the bright white light had knocked her unconscious. "To put it simply Aressa, this entire timeline has been reset to absolute zero. The reason this happened is the timeline could no longer handle the future that was going to happen because of the choices that had been made, were being made, and going to be made. Just as you had learned could eventually happen, all life, all planetary bodies, and all power has been utterly destroyed. Except for you that is. As the last living mortal, everything is now residing in you. You have gained unprecedented power that mocks all of us gods combined because you alone were able to survive the ravages of the collapse. Your newfound power grants you two choices.


    First, you can choose to abandon this timeline and go to another one leaving this one to it¡¯s fate, but you will also lose most of the power and insight you have recently gained. The newly chosen timeline deities will have some input from you before your memories are removed, but you will once again become a mortal if that be your wish. In contrast, you can create new life on the tattered remnants of the old. If you choose the latter, thus becoming the new creation goddess of this renewed timeline, any surviving deities within this timeline will belong to your pantheon. If you choose the first option, we gods will cease to exist."


    As Aressa digested what the Goddess had said, she looked at the gods and goddess'' whose existence depended on her choice. Then, she slowly said "I choose the second option for two reasons. First, to save you because though you are not mortal, you are all that remains of my old world. My second reason is purely for curiosity because I also want to see where this rabbit hole leads. With this, the deities looked at each other, and then upon Aressa. The Mother Goddess stepped forward and spoke, ¡° We are forever beholden to you, our gracious goddess, and to show you our gratitude we will now bestow upon you great knowledge from each of the deities.¡± With another step forward, the Mother Goddess took two fingers and gently placed them to her forehead. It felt warm for a moment, but then she felt herself glowing hot. As her vision began to fade, she said with a concerned look, ¡°you are still young goddess Aressa, you must sleep while we impart our gift to you for you are not yet strong enough. When you awake, you will know what we do.¡± This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    When she awoke yet again, Ares then stepped forward and said ¡°Young Goddess, you have made a difficult choice, to make it easier on you I will impart to you all the knowledge i have on the art of war and all it entails.¡± He then took one more step and pressed two fingers to her forehead, same as the Mother Goddess before him.


    The deities that were present each took a turn to impart their knowledge to young Aressa, from Father Time she received knowledge on how to control time and how to understand its mysteries. From Artemis she received knowledge on how make her kills swift and clean when hunting as well as the promise of friendship. Venus granted her knowledge of love and told her that the one she had waited for would come to her side soon though in an unexpected way. From Thor came the ability to control lightning and how to move as fast as lightning. From Scathach came the knowledge that death is only as fearsome or as joyous as you let it be. The knowledge granted by the Mother Goddess was the most interesting as it taught Aressa how to make an avatar that she could send to planet that she had created.


    ¡°The gods and goddess'' who are present will retain their positions within my pantheon.


    The first races i want to appear are the ancient dragons in all forms, then all the races of the elves and dwarves. The races that follow shall be decided upon seniority of the former pantheons of Earth. The Dragons shall be my people, the Elves will belong to Wiccan pantheon, the Dwarves will belong to the Norse pantheon, the Beast people will belong to the Japanese pantheon, the Giants will belong to the Roman pantheon, the Merfolk will belong to Greek pantheon, and the remaining pantheons will be split among the humans in order of seniority."


    What Aressa envisioned as she spoke was a large planet that was easily larger than original sun that lit the earth surrounded by seven suns and six moons it was more than large enough to support all the life started filling the planet. That wasn''t all that formed as she envisioned a galaxy forming of which this planet was the center.


    When she noticed all that she had created Aressa then stated "Magic and Swords will now lead the way instead of science, for humanity was going down a dangerous road with that line of research." She paused looking at the beautiful life filled planet she had created below her, she then said "I need to consolidate and learn to control my newfound powers for a few thousand years otherwise when I prepare to journey among my new people I may bring too much harm to them. Take care of them and guide them well Mother Goddess.¡±


    When Aressa finished speaking her six foot seven inch form with mid back length black hair and gray eyes filled with great sorrow at the loss of her family and all that she had known, but that also had the bright light of hope and determination disappeared in a burst of golden light which turned into flashing golden words.


    ¡°When my spirit is needed, the call will be heeded¡±


    ¡°By one of the descended, will the worlds be defended.¡±


    As the gods and goddess'' saw these words, they imprinted them upon their minds to spread to the peoples governed by them. and started the long process of waiting for Aressa The Goddess of Creation and War to return to the world she had created.

 Prologue 3

    Aressa worked on hard on mastering the powers that she had obtained from the destruction of her timeline, but every use of knowledge and power caused her heart to hurt. The fact that all this power came from the death of all she held dear as well as the loss of trillions of lives. ¡°At least they live on through me, even though I cannot fulfill their dreams with all of our worlds being destroyed I will make sure that so long as I live they will not be forgotten,¡± As Aressa said this to herself she looked down on the world she had created. It was teeming with abundant life, from small insects all the way up to the mighty dragons and multiple species in-between. The humans of this world as usual were divided in their purpose always warring with each other as well as the other intelligent species on the planet. However with the planet¡¯s size there was plenty of room for expansion and finding new territory to either claim for oneself or for one¡¯s lord, king, or emperor. The giants and the dwarves occasionally fought each other but for the most part lived in peace most often warring with the humans as an alliance if they were attacked.


    The merfolk were not hostile to anybody despite having the capabilities to do so easily. They offered their services as guards to all races and nations without prejudice on the rivers, lakes, and oceans that were abundant on the surface. Meanwhile the beast-kin had the largest spread in territories from the plains to the mountains to the forests. The demi-human species such as ogres, trolls, and goblins were definitely threats as well as some of the other races. In the secluded parts of the planet there were high level undead that had built civilizations that rivalled that of the humans. Last but not least were the dragons in all their species from Frost Dragons living on the cold mountain peaks and in the frozen south in large colonies. The Earth Dragons living in the mountain ranges at lower heights and moving around the massive plains in large herds. Then you had the Flood Dragons living on the shores of rivers oceans and lakes where floods were common. Water Dragons commonly found in large bodies of water sometime as family groups. The prideful Fire Dragons that lived on volcanoes with their mates. The Sand Dragons that lived in the Desert of the North as well as others. The ruling classes of the dragons were the Metallic Dragons and Astral Dragons. The Metallic Dragons were known for their brutal melee capabilities and the Astrals for their Mastery of Magic. The ruling pair of dragons were always of a Metallic and Astral. Of course the ranks of the Metallic dragons were based on precious metals while the ranks of Astrals were based on Astral bodies. As such the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress must be Platinum ranked if a Metallic Dragon or Nova ranked if an Astral.


    Aressa loved the tenacity of the races that lived on the planet she had created, they lived laughed and loved as deeply as any humans that she had known or seen in her previous life. And it was because of this that she was grateful to the Mother Goddess for the gift she had given her. The ability to form an avatar so that she could mingle with the races that lived on the planet she had created would allow her to once again form attachments and friendships.


    This was something she greatly desired so she went about creating her avatar with great hope, though she knew that it could not deviate from the form that she had by a large amount. So she set the height at 6¡¯ 4¡± with a lithe sporty body with long sapphire black hair, stormy grey eyes and defined muscles that were not bulky. Basically the avatar looked exactly like she did when she was still mortal in every way shape and form.  She didn¡¯t change the size of the chest because she didn¡¯t feel the need to do so because she was comfortable with how she looked. She just didn¡¯t appreciate the fact that some of her family members had made fun of the fact that she wasn¡¯t as statuesque as them despite being better in martial arts. To Aressa, being able to do well in martial arts was better than being a good looking wallflower. Looking pretty but being unable to defend yourself was the height of sheer stupidity in her mind, which is why she practiced her Spear Arts diligently.


    After looking over her avatar multiple times to make sure nothing was wrong, she decided to set a random point of appearance on the world below. She knew that this might not be a good idea but her joy of mischief had caught hold of her once again so she also set a few other things to be random while she was at it. The one thing Aressa enjoyed the most was causing mischief, that was a fact. Martial Arts were the only thing she took seriously, well that and her studies. Other than that if she had the chance to cause mischief she¡¯d take it with great glee, which you wouldn¡¯t expect from her normally serious exterior. Now that everything was set to her satisfaction she placed her consciousness into the avatar and started the process of avatar incarnation.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    Her mind started to go black which was not part of the normal process according to the knowledge she had received from the Mother Goddess she knew instinctively that the settings she had chosen were just what she had wanted. Just before her mind went completely black she thought to her herself ¡°From the looks of the situation, this should be a hell of a lot of fucking fun!!!¡±


    As her avatar incarnation was going haywire notifications that her powers as a goddess were restricted, knowledge that she had was restricted, contact with other deities was restricted, and last but not least the part of her immortality that kept her from being killed was locked. Unfortunately for Aressa she would not get these notifications till she incarnated on the planet many years later.


    At the same that Aressa¡¯s Avatar was going crazy, the Dragon Empress Esviara Asuos was going through the most difficult egg laying in her 7000 years of life. As her husband, mate and love of her life, the Dragon Emperor Serion Veratu watched her anxiously he asked ¡° Is there anything I can do Vi? I don¡¯t like seeing you in so much pain. I mean it hasn¡¯t been this difficult before right?¡± Esviara replied ¡° I¡¯m fine dear, it¡¯s just a bit more difficult than usual though not by much. I¡¯m a Metallic Dragon and you know our bodies can handle more physical stress than any species, just as you Astrals can handle the most Magical stress of any species. Blessed be Aressa in all her glory for that fact.¡± Serion automatically replied, ¡° Blessed be the Goddess¡± and then continued, ¡° She is the Creator of this world and our Patron Deity, she has given us great gifts, but some of the humans are slowly turning away from Her and the other deities. It¡¯s alarming that they would do so, but Aressa left behind the Message, ¡°¡± When My spirit needed, Call will Be Heeded. By one of the Descended, will the World be defended.¡±¡± She has given us a hope should this world, Rayehk, ever be in peril.¡± Esviara at this moment gave a loud growl and said, ¡° The egg is almost out!! Thank goodness, hold on dear give me a minute.¡± She then cast magic to ease the pain and to ensure the safety of the egg so that the dragonling would be fine during its incubation.


    A short while later when the egg had successfully been laid, Esviara and Serion were looking at it with a puzzled look on their draconic faces, constantly looking at the egg then each other. At this moment Serion ask Esviara, ¡° Vi what kind of egg is this? It looks like a combination between an Astral egg and a Metallic egg, also it¡¯s a sapphire black color. Platinum Metallic eggs are silver in color and Nova Astral eggs violet in color, what¡¯s going on?¡± Esviara looked at Serion then the egg and said, ¡° Rio dear looks like I¡¯m going to have to use the egg status to find out, link minds with me.¡± As Serion linked minds with her, something only possible between soulmates, she said, ¡°Egg Status open! What appeared in their minds was this,


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    <td>Species</td>


    <td>Dragon Egg</td>


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    <td>Gender</td>


    <td>Male</td>


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    <td>Parents</td>


    <td>Mother: Metallic Dragon Empress Esviara Asuos</td>


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    <td>Father: Astral Dragon Emperor Serion Veratu</td>


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    <td>Further Notices</td>


    <td>This Dragon Egg contains the offspring of the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress, due to circumstances involving the Creation Goddess ceasing contact with everyone the egg contains a message about Aressa changing the parameters of every race so they have the possibility of giving birth to children able to wield magic and martial arts. Boys born with these abilities will most often be known as Knight Mages if their abilities are more physically focused, if their abilities are more magically focused then they will be Magic Knights. This will be slightly different for females as they will more often be born as Magic Knights instead of Knight Mages. Due to her love for the Dragons the Goddess Aressa gave the Dragon Emperor and Empress a child with the abilities of a Magic Knight in the year 729 of the Era of Change, 12,729 years after the creation of the Planet Rayehk. All other races will have children born with these capabilities 1,200 years after the birth of the Dragon Prince. The Goddess Aressa will return when the Prince has grown 1,800 years or older.</td>


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    After Serion and Esviara read this they looked at each other horrified at the thought of the Goddess ceasing all contact. They then looked at the egg that contained the newest member of their family and also contained the promise of the return of the Goddess should he reach the age specified in the message. Esviara turned her head to Serion and said, ¡° I want to name him Kishi Megami to honor the promise given to us upon his birth.¡± Serion looked at her then egg and said, ¡°It is a good strong name and I hope he bears it well. We will know in the future how this will turn out, but I know the Goddess will reward us for our faith, because I know many tribes will turn away from the Ancient deities that rule us all at her behest. No matter what we will remain true to her teachings.¡±