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Aether smiles as she looks at him with the gaze he’s always been used to.

“Brother...?”

He smiled and immediately rushed to embrace her, little twinkling noises indicating that Paimon was following him. Lumine cries as she too hugged him, and it was as if fate was finally set in stone as the twins were finally reunited.

“Hello, Lumine!” Paimon’s voice rang out as the two separated from each other, although still holding hands. “Paimon has heard a lot about you!”

“Only good things I hope,” she laughs out. Oh, how he missed that sound. “I know it wasn’t a good impression when you first met me...”

He saw Paimon’s eyes widened and his own softening. “No! Paimon didn’t believe that was you!” she harrumphed. “Aether always told me very good things, and he never lies about those kinds of things! If he says you’re good, then you’re good. End of story!”

Lumine smiled softly, looking at Aether before pulling Paimon and bringing her into the hug. The pixie gasped and giggled. “You do give good hugs! Paimon always wondered what yours felt like since Aether described it!”

Aether took one glance at Lumine and knew she already fell for the charms of his companion. She squished Paimon’s cheeks, making the latter offended.

“Aether, I’m replacing you with Paimon now. She’s more adorable than you and she’d make a better sibling.”

“Hey!” Paimon looked affronted. “Don’t tell Paimon she helped Traveler through all that just for him to be replaced!”

Lumine stroked her chin in mock thought. “I’ll treat you better than Aether! I’ll give you the nicest beds, nicest accessories and nicest food!”

The pixie froze and looked at Lumine with stars in her eyes. “Now you got Paimon listening,” she said cheekily.

Aether looked at Paimon in mock hurt. Suddenly, a soft breeze appeared and Aether tugged Lumine’s hands. They turned around to see a crowd of people and Archons, all from different nations witnessing the reunion. Although there were many fights and arguments, the one constant was the little fairy who always stayed, helping him speak up to actually TELL them to help him.

“Come on, I’m pretty sure the people who ended up helping me in the end would not appreciate being left in the dust.”

They saw Venti dramatically weeping at the reunion, they saw Klee trying to throw a “celebration bomb” as she called it - Jean and Albedo trying to stop her. They saw Archons looking at them solemnly, yet they could tell they were happy for the twins as well.

Lumine looked at them hesitantly, as if one word from her would cause some sort of backlash. It never came.

“I’m Klee!” the little girl runs up to her and extends a hand which Lumine gently shook. “Aether told Klee that he loves you A BUNCH! Like how Klee loves Big Brother Albedo!”

The alchemist in question smiled gently at the young girl, although he was looking quite pale. It was quite worrying.

It could warm even the coldest of hearts, how the ever quiet traveler now speaks a lot, feeling comfortable knowing his sister was now with him. They had a long talk, getting to know each other. All Archons and people from Mondstadt to Snezhenaya. It was a tad bit overwhelming, but everyone was kind enough not to crowd each other all at once.

Yet destiny still wasn’t satisfied, and the ground started to rumble. Murata immediately got into a defensive stance, narrowing her eyes as she looked around. The others stilled, and pulled out their weapons.

“Outlanders, your journey ends here.”

The twins froze. Yes, destiny and fate definitely hated them.

“You’re the Unknown God we’ve heard about,” Themis said, not as a question but as a confirmation. She was right of course, her voice as sharp as her spear - yet moves as fluid as the element she was the Archon of, rushing to deflect a large arrow meaning to hit one of her people.

“Please, do call me Asmoday.”

Then they appeared. Beasts and monsters from realms the twins traveled to, and some even they could not recognize.

“Well then,” Venti’s voice rang out, the wind now not just a mere breeze. “Why don’t we have one last fight.”

And they charged. Mortals and immortals, both now fighting for victory and the promise of a safe realm - not overrun by this deity that most of them know nothing of. Clashes of swords and bombs and everything in between - this is not what peace should be like. Dainsleif with his unknown element, clear concern on his face as he fought - looking like he had never expected this.

“AETHER!” Paimon screamed and he looked around in concern before he heard nothing from her - before a small drop. He looked to see his companion bleeding, a sword in her stomach, blood coating her white outfit. He dropped down on his knees and frantically ripped off his scarf to try and stop the bleeding. In a daze, he heard Lumine’s cries as she too brushed her hands in Paimon’s hair, although he doesn’t know if it’s to comfort herself or Paimon.

Time freezes.

Asmoday walks out slowly, her eyes focusing on Paimon. She looked at the one who stabbed the ‘pixie’, before snapping her fingers and killing them instantly. She looks at Paimon, eyes filled with disbelief.

“Get away from us,” Lumine snarled.

Asmoday kept walking towards them, seemingly ignoring everyone other than the pixie. She turned around slowly, before snapping her fingers once more. All those monsters faded into oblivion, and now everyone just stood in shock, looking at them, not able to move.

She flicked her wrist and Paimon appeared right in front of her, both the twins cried out in shock.

“Sister… I…”

The God looked at Paimon with a slight panic, and she put her fingers on the pixie’s temple. Everyone saw some sort of magic flow through the God’s fingers and Paimon exploded - literally exploded, and in her place stood a tall, bright light. The twins just stared at it, unable to say or do anything.

Suddenly, out came a woman. Hair as white as snow, adorned on her head was a golden halo. It looked… familiar…

“Paimon…” Aether whispered.

She opened her eyes and looked around before she processed everything.

“Ah…” she said awkwardly, so out of place with everything that was going on.

“Sister,” Asmoday said once more and Paimon looked at her sister. The God looked joyous and clasped her sister’s hands. “Join me and we’ll destroy the seven realms. We can have everything to ourselves, even! No stuck-up Archons and no annoying mortals. Just us.”

Everyone stared at Asmoday, horrified before looking at Paimon. The once small pixie was now looking at her sister with so much emotion in her eyes, you could not decipher them even in an eternity.

“I cannot let innocent people suffer, Asmoday,” she states. “You know that, I am not going to change my mind.”

Asmoday let out a wounded noise, before shaking her head and narrowing her eyes at her.

“Fine then. We shall fight. I will never maim you, Paimon. I will only give you the quickest death to honour you.”

Asmoday then disappears into the sky, and if you were focusing intently you could see a star shining brighter than any other.

“I’ve always hated you Archons, you know.”

The said Archons flinched, and everyone stared at the God who was once so cheerful, now glaring hatefully at the other Immortals. The twins were still shocked and silent.

“You destroyed the nation I so generously left, so mortals wouldn’t have to worship a deity and be able to be free without having any worry of angering the immortals.”

She sighs, though. And she looks at the sky with an expression of melancholy. It felt so wrong to see that from her, Aether thinks.

“Three times, I have traveled around Teyvat. Once, to ensure a land for a godless nation. Second, to help a dear friend to find their loved one. And my last time,” she looked Aether and Lumine directly in their eyes. “Was the same as my second, yet their roles were reversed.”

The twins looked at each other before looking at Dainsleif, who sighed in pain. Kaeya was beside him, with Albedo at the other side of the ex-guard. Paimon looked between the three of them, before her eyes locked onto Kaeya, and she smiles.

“Your Highness, I advise you to seek neither vengeance nor forgiveness. But seek peace. You don’t need to forgive the Archons for what they have done, but do not cause another war because of that.”

Albedo’s grip tightened on Klee. Dainsleif looked away and Kaeya stared at Paimon with a sense of loss in his eyes. She nodded to herself before turning to the Archons.

“Never make an enemy of the divine. That is my only warning,” she addresses the Tsaritsa who could only nod.

“As Guardian of the Seven Realms and the Keeper of Time, I leave Teyvat protected by their Archons who I place my hope in, and not misplaced.”

She then looked at the twins before putting on a smile that was so familiar to the pixie, and it looked so right.

“Save Paimon some Sticky Honey Roast, yeah? She’ll be VERY hungry if she ever comes back!”

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