Three weeks ago...

"This is rather sudden Mary" Alicia said. "I thought it over and this right here made up my mind" the woman said pointing to a cut on her calf. "I cut my leg shaving last night. I'm a dream deity. I don't get cuts that don't immediately heal, I don't get migraines, and I don't get locked into one gender!" Mary shouted. "Mary..."

"Is the name you all gave me but it's not my true name. I haven't felt a single human use my true name since she took over. I don't feel like Morpheus anymore" Mary said sniffling. Alicia put her hand on her shoulder. "Cordelia is going through the exact same thing but she's not doing it alone. You really want to move into the city?" Alicia asked. "If I become human, in need to figure out what kind of human I'll be. I need to do that own my own. I'll give you my address" Mary said softly. Alicia softly nodded. Alicia watched quietly as she left for the shrunken city and shrunk down disappearing into it. Alicia wished she hadn't left. With Selah still shaken by her battle with Izanami, she needed all the support she could get. But she understood needing alone time to figure out matters of the heart. 

Two weeks ago...

Alicia sat quietly in front of Mary's small home. Even shrunken to three and an eighth of an inch tall, she was still a giantess in her own right among the humans there. Alicia loathed the reason she was there. Mary has been gone barely a week before Alicia came asking for her help. At least Mary agreed to meet her after tapping on her small door. She just needed a moment to put some decent clothes on.  Mary stepped outside. "You look exhausted" Mary said. "I just finished putting on the concert performance of my life" Alicia said. "I know. A great many people here were crying in the streets for lost loved ones. Some of those lost loved ones created by your old friends" Mary added. There was an awkward pause. "Anyway, care to enter? You look like you could use some tea" Mary asked. "I won't be staying long. I still need to get some rest" Alicia said. "Hmm. Then why did you come?" Mary asked. "Right after the events in Yorkshire, Lilith went on a rampage in New York. Times Square looks like a tactical nuke went off. I need to know if there anything left of Faith inside her" she replied. 

"So, you can determine if there's any chance of saving her is your surface thought. Underneath you're wondering if you and Selah can actually kill her if the time came. You fear the answer more than the question" Mary said. Alicia softly nodded. "Why ask me?" Mary asked. "Because you can peek into her dreams, can't you?" Alicia asked. "What makes you think I can?" Mary asked walking up to her right foot. She dusted off her giant toenail and sat on it. "You read my thoughts, didn't you? Isn't your skill set reading the thoughts and desires to craft dreams?" she asked. "I do not craft dreams. Just as a conductor guides an orchestra, he does not compose the symphony. I can...nudge it along a path but nothing more" Mary replied. "Okay then can you see if Faith is still in there?" Alicia asked. Mary sighed softly. Moments later, a young boy running down the street slammed into the dusty sole of Alicia's left foot. The boy tumbled hard onto the street. "Ooh. You okay kid?" Alicia asked. The boy stood up and felt his forehead. He saw blood and began crying. Alicia plucked him up and placed him in her hand. He was a cute child of seemingly mixed descent like much of the population. 7 years old at most dressed in a lose shirt, shorts, and flip flops. "There there" Alicia said wiping the blood away and healing him. The boy immediately stopped crying realizing he sat in the palm of a giantess. 

What he had been told at birth kicked in and he prepared himself to be at her mercy. He was scared but he showed bravery by not crying or whimpering. Alicia petted him admiring his cuteness. Her fingers now on his hips picking him up from her palm. The giantess stared at him for a long ten seconds before kissing his forehead. She placed him back down on the street. "Be more careful next time kiddo" she commanded. The boy nodded and ran off. "Do you wish to know what was in his mind?" Mary asked. "I already know. And at one time I would've eaten him. But people change with the times...God willing for good" she replied. "Indeed, they do. Yes, I can see if Faith is still there. I have grown immeasurably weak, but I can still walk through at least one unconscious mind. You will have your answer tomorrow" Mary told her. "Thank you Morpheus" Alicia said softly before leaving. Mary went back inside her home. "You know the goddess?! You never spoke of this" a young man naked in the living room said. "You never asked. I must run an errand Kyle. The sex was very good but please return home. I do not know when I will be back" she said. "Mary...why are you so cold? Why cannot I wait for your return here?" he asked placing his hands on her hips. "I wanted to know what human sexual relations truly felt like. There is no script to it. It's pure chaos. Toe nibbling, nipple sucking, you even kissed my ass. And it felt...frightening and exhilarating at the same time. And when you came inside me you set off an orgasm of my own. I see why humans love it so very much. But I cannot love. I am impartial by nature. I neither hate or love anything" she replied as a tear fell from her eyes. "Then why does it hurt for you to say that?" he asked wiping the tear away. "Because I want to love and that means my fall is worse than I thought" she replied. He watched as she walked upstairs to her bedroom. 

Once dressed, she came back down to find him still there. "If you wish to stay then do so" she said quietly. He hugged her suddenly startling her. "I... I must go" she stammered as she disappeared in the blink of an eye. Morpheus could always sense the ebb and flow of dreamers. How one part of the globe would spike as night fell and fall as morning came. It was as if wading into the shore of an ocean looking for a seashell. Eventually, she found what she was looking for. Lilith's unconscious mind stood out like a hideous black rock on a white sand beach. Though she found it, intruding was a delicate matter. Normally, she'd just slip in but the mind of someone like her was as tough as antique iron. Morpheus has to wait as her mental defenses waned as she slept. Hours passed and then she found a crack she could slip through. Pain, anger, and rage whirled around like a typhoon as Morpheus lowered her head to walk. Recent memories wafting through the air told her of her temper tantrum on New York. Memories strong enough to begin forming a dream. She stood on a path with two forks. On the left was the dream of death, and destruction by a seething giantess, the other a dark path with a door at the very far end. 

Morpheus took the dark path knowing it was her unconscious mind. Whispers floated through the air. Words of conquest, plans for the future, ways to conscript the world even worse than now floated through the air. She stood before the door and opened it. She found herself in an old room. Morpheus recognized it from before, it was Faith's old bedroom when she lived in Yorkshire. "Faith?" she called out. "Mary?" Faith replied appearing from behind a book on the desk. Mary bent down. "It is you, isn't it?" she asked poking her. Faith began sobbing clutching her giant finger. Mary picked her up and sat down on the bed. "What is that place?" Mary asked. "A prison she made for me. I can't leave and when I try...bad things happen" she replied sniffling. Mary looked at the door she came through and found it still open. "You cannot walk through that?" Mary asked. Faith quickly shook her head. Mary looked her over and found her eyes sullen, her clothing ragged, bruises on her body. "She did this?" Mary asked. "Her imagination did. When I don't answer her questions, she tortures me. When I fight back, she has my parents do it." Faith replied shaking. 

Mary had the answer to Alicia's question. Was a part of Faith still there? Yes, there was but that part was barely holding onto sanity. "Is...is Alicia okay? Selah?" Faith asked. "They're all okay. Selah was the one that took out that Japanese goddess" Mary replied. "With the driver I left instructions for?" Faith asked excited. "Indeed. They're fighting back using the plans you left" she replied. It gave the battered borrower some hope. Mary sat with her as long as she could answering all kinds of questions until Mary sensed Lilith would soon wake. "I must go. She'll be waking and if she does while I'm here, she will know" Mary said standing up. Faith nodded softly fighting not to plead for her to stay. Mary slipped out and closed the door. She hurriedly exited Lilith's mind. Once she returned home, she gave Alicia the news. 

"So, she's still in there?" Alicia asked quietly sitting on her bed. Selah in her shrunken sate sleeping soundly on the pillow nearby. "Yes...for now" Mary replied. "What does that mean?" Alicia asked worried. "A psyche can only take so much punishment. Lilith has been incessantly torturing her either out of spite or not giving her information. Her body is...wracked by it" she replied. "You're holding back" Alicia scowled. "I have traveled through many minds, many dreams Alicia and I have become an expert on what a body that's been brutalized looks like. From Alexander the Great and Hitler, to Nelson Mandela and Ted Bundy. I have seen it ALL. Describing it to you will give you no peace" she said. "I thought you were impartial" Alicia sniped. "She's inflicted by forms of her biological mother and father. Her mother has raped her. Her father eaten her. Sometimes they both do things at the same time. When I found her, her legs had recently been broken, her right shoulder dislocated, bruises on her body indicated she was beaten bloody with a giant penis" she said softly. Alicia quickly got up, ran to the bathroom, and puked in the toilet. She returned minutes later. "She clings onto hope that all is not in vain. That and her love for all those here sustains her" Mary told her. "Did your visit help her?" Alicia asked. "Very much so" Mary asked. "Can you go again?" she asked. "Not immediately. It's best to wait at least a week before doing so again. Less chance Lilith senses my presence" Mary replied. Alicia nodded. 

Mary returned to her home to find Kyle sitting on her sofa. "So you did stay" she muttered. "I was worried about you" he said. "Do you wish to stay the night?" she asked. He nodded. "Then come upstairs. I'm exhausted" she sighed. Mary laid down in bed next to him. Her mind was on Faith. What she saw disturbed her in more ways than one. While she claimed to be impartial, she was still moved my Faith's suffering. After all, Faith had shown her considerable mercy and kindness after attacking her. And that was the other thing. What Faith was going through was not so different from what she planned for Faith when they first met. To torment her psyche until it broke. An act she had not done in centuries. It worried her to the core of what may have happened if she succeeded. She closed her eyes and tried to steady her mind. Eventually she fell asleep. 

It may surprise one to learn even a goddess of dreams herself. She found herself on the streets of Babylon not far from the Ishtar Gate. The citizens screaming and running all around. Soldiers running past her as a shadow fell upon her. Looking up, she could see in the distance a boy of 12 towering over the city as a giant. His hair a dusty red, brown eyes that gleamed in the sun, his chest bare with simple cloth wrapped around his waist. Mary knew this boy instinctively as Alexander. He raised his sandaled foot and crashed it down silencing screams. He raised it once more revealing crushed bodies, gore, and blood falling off the sole. He must've stood 500 ft. tall as he wrecked the city like a destructive child. One would think this is a very odd dream for a bit to have but not Mary. This was his unconscious mind acting out visions of conquest in a way a child's mind might see it. Him being a giant the influence of his father's, King Phillip of Macedonia, stories of Titans of legend. This is how the actions of those begin. In their dreams. When Mary awoke, she brushed off her dream as simply that, a dream and nothing else.

One week passed and Mary agreed to visit Faith once more. Kyle had not left her side and said he would be there once she returned. She met Faith just as before and saw her more ragged than last time. "Forgive me but not enough time has passed before I can stand" Faith said laying broken on the floor. Mary sat down next to her looking at her shattered legs. "It's worse than last time" Mary said. "She's getting very worried now that Morrigan has gone. Even worse someone intervened a nuke heading for Yorkshire" Faith said. "Wasn't aware of that. Alicia said nothing of this which means neither did Hope" Mary said. Faith smiled. "Doesn't matter. Curious that he acted on his own already" she said. "Who?" Mary asked. Faith shushed her. Faith asked her many questions about Alicia and Selah. "They're resting. The last fight took a lot out of them" Mary replied. "Then the plans are working" Faith muttered. As Mary got her caught up, Faith had healed enough to stand. "How do you cope?" Mary asked curious. "Telling myself this isn't real didn't work so well. Everything is how I remember it. The sounds of the floorboards, the smell of the bedsheets, the scents of my parents."

"I take the good memories and hold on as best as I can until they're done with me. Thing is, I sometimes hope they kill me quick. Then I can't...can't feel anything" Faith said shaking. Mary gripped her hand. "Selah is aging. She's becoming a woman" Mary said changing the subject. "I knew those powers would do that. Any physical issues?" she asked. "Joint pain mostly. Her boob size went up" Mary chuckled. Faith laughed a little. "Lilith is up to something. She's keeping her mind more hidden than before" Faith said seriously. "I'll take a look when I leave" Mary said. When it did come time to leave, she promised her she would return. Mary stood at the fork in the road and very carefully approached Lilith's dream. Her feet sank into snow indicating Lilith's cold emotions. Mary found this very odd comparing the last time. For a person panicking, her emotions were too subdued. Cold emotions that could only come from a confidence. Curious, she walked further. What she finally saw was a blurred visage of the city as Lilith spoke to someone. Both giantesses seemingly lording over the ruined shrunken nation. Mary nearly spoke aloud realizing the true meaning. She quickly fled to home.

"Lilith is conspiring with someone here. I don't know who" she told Alicia. "That's impossible. Only we have left the island and the barrier cloaks it from magic either it be clairvoyance or scrying" Alicia said. "Be as it may. Her dream showed her standing alongside a giantess in this city. A giantess I sensed with familiarity" she told her. Alicia nodded silently and left her home. Mary stood where she was sipping tea as she felt now giant footsteps shaking the city block heading away. "Someone would dare betray the goddess?" Kyle asked sitting. "With any that have power, there will be one wanting to steal it. It is the way of things. If she is wise, she will heed my warnings" Mary said playing her teacup in the sink. "Still. It is heresy" he said. Mary sat next to him. "Have you had many interactions with what you call gods or goddesses?" she asked. "Only the occasional feet rubbing. The luckier ones are fucked into their pussies or assholes. The luckiest die" he replied. "Do you know anyone that you'd call most lucky?" she asked. "A classmate a few years ago was eaten by the one called Libra" he replied. "What if I told you they are not gods or goddesses. Just people with very strong magic" she said.

"As is their right. Those with magics are gods and goddesses. We lowly humans serve them" he said matter of factly. "Kyle. They are not gods or goddesses. They grow old and die just like you do. Think about this. You have gone to the meat vendors right? Seen them butcher animals for meat right?" she asked. He nodded. "Is the butcher a god?" she asked. "Of course not. The animals are livestock" he laughed. "And that is what you were to the others at a time. To keep you in your place you were taught from birth to worship them as gods" she said coldly. "You...you are testing me" he stammered. "You have seen what I can do. What am I?" she asked. "A... a goddess. You came here a giantess and got smaller. Only a goddess can do that" he said. "And you fuck a goddess? You shoot your sperm into a goddess?" she asked. His face went pale. Kyle dove to the floor bowing. "Stop that this instant!" she yelled. He looked up barely. Mary picked up a knife and cut her finger. "There is no trickery involved. This is real blood. Taste it" she commanded. Kyle licked her finger. "I can't heal my wounds. What I can do is because people like you believed in me enough I could" she said. Shortly after she said that she stumbled, and Kyle had to catch her. "I'm just tired. Can you help me to our bed?" she asked. Kyle did.

Mary was so tired she said something uncharacteristic. She said "our" bed. He laid Mary down and pulled off her shoes and socks first. Then the rest of her clothes. "Did what I say frighten you?" she asked. His hands began massaging her leg. "As you said, we were taught from birth to believe them to be superior beings. You say they are not, and I know you'd never lie to me, but they are stronger, more powerful" he muttered. "Being stronger or more powerful doesn't mean they're better than you. I saw the dreams of a boy who was a son of a Georgia pastor become the driving force for change. And I also saw the dreams of a boy born into the throne of a Roman emperor bring utter ruin. And then there are dreams like yours" she said. "What...what about them?" he asked stopping his massage. "Me. You dream of me" she replied. Kyle laid down next to her and hugged her tightly. He would not let go until she fell asleep.

On the third week, Mary went back and found Faith was very much destroyed. A stain on the floor of what she was. Mary could sense the precariousness being there as Lilith's sleep was not very deep. Her last visit caused great concerns of a traitor back home. Mary waited patiently as Faith regenerated. "You have to warn them! She's coming with a fucking navy to kill you all!" Faith yelled. The floor shook violently. "Damn" Mary said reaching for the door. It opened and Lilith stood right before her. "Morpheus. You just can't help yourself, can you? Of all the minds to waltz through, you should've known to avoid mine" she said coldly. "You cannot harm me Lilith. I am dream" Mary said softly. Lilith grabbed her by the throat. "You're a terrible liar. I can feel the weakness in you. True this isn't your body but that doesn't mean you're free from harm" Lilith said. "LET HER GO!" Faith screamed attacking her foot. Lilith kicked her away annoyed. Faith's body slammed right into the wall sickeningly. "You want in my mind so badly? Take a real look" Lilith said grinning. 

Mary shrieked as an eon of existence in hell was shoved into her mind all at once. Mary had seen many horrors over the millennia but never the infinite tortures of damnation. It took all her strength to break the connection and flee. Mary reappeared at the crack of dawn stumbling around the living room. Kyle rushed downstairs finding her. "Lilith...is...coming. Navy" she muttered before convulsing and passing out. Not know what that meant or what to do, he carried her out of the house and made his way to the mansion. Let it not be said that the young man did not love her. Astonishingly, Kyle carried her all the way to the mansion. By no means was this an easy feat for someone the size of an ant. For him, the distance was like walking over 20 miles. By the time he arrived, it was very late into the night. Kyle entered what he once thought holy ground. The mansion was the domain of gods and goddesses. Humans brought there almost never returned so only rumor and myth described it. Like he figured, everything was ginormous, but the floors were not marble, the walls not gold, no jewels, no choirs. Just recognizable furniture. However, there was something. "So, you've never seen this before?" a massive voice asked. "We don't have television or on demand streaming back home" a much smaller voice replied. "HELP! Please help!" Kyle screamed. Nothing.

Kyle carried Mary to where the voices were and right up to the bottom of a sofa the size of a mountain. He could not see their faces with only partial light from the tv. Then two gigantic soles hovered over his head. They came down and Kyle shrieked. Fortune favored them all that night as instead on him and Mary becoming little stains, they survived as a giant big toe and second toe landed on either side. "Skylar? Did you hear something?" Hana asked. "No? Like what?" Skylar asked. "A man screaming" she replied. "The tv? We are watching The Grudge" the giantess shrugged. "No. Mute it please" Hana said. Skylar did. "There it is. It's coming from the floor" Hana said. Skylar looked down and gasped. "There's some tinies between my toes! What the hell..." she said using her fingernails plucking them up. "Why are you in the house? It's dangerous" Skylar said. "He's babbling something about help. Place him on the table" Hana said. Skylar did. Hana hopped down. "Slow down!" she shouted. Kyle collected himself and explained. "By the Kami! He's saying that he carried Mary here! Something about a job and then she began shaking!" Hana yelled. Skylar raced to wake Alicia and Selah.

"Oh my god. He's right mom. It's Mary" Selah said hopping down to look. Selah placed the ant sized Mary in her hand and Alicia quickly took her to one of the bedrooms. She placed her on the bed and very slowly grew her to human size for a better look. "I need to know exactly what happened. Ask him" Alicia ordered. Alicia began using healing spells but found out quickly that they had little to no effect. "Shit" she hissed as Selah returned with Kyle. "What happened to her?" Alicia said coldly. Kyle told Selah all he knew. "He's saying she came back from a job you sent her on and barely got out that Lilith was coming here...with a navy? Then she began convulsing. Mom what's he talking about when he says you sent Mary on a job?" she asked. "...I sent Mary to see if anything of Faith was still inside. There was so I kept sending her back to check on her and see what Lilith was up to. Mary must've found something out but was caught. Lilith...did something to her" Alicia replied. Selah grew incessantly pissed with Alicia and befriend she could say a word, Kyle asked her to put him next to Mary. "Sure" she said placing him beside his titanic girlfriend. "I need to make a call" Alicia muttered.

Alicia went to her room and quickly dialed Keith. "Hey. What's going on?" he asked. "I need your daughter to confirm something. Only her level of clairvoyance can do" Alicia said. There was a long pause on the phone. "Hey Alicia. What's up?" Hope asked. Alicia caught her breath hearing her voice. The same voice Faith had. "I got a warning that Lilith is coming my way with a navy. I need you to see if that's true" Alicia said. "That's a little too broad" she replied. "Focus on the northeast direction of my island. That's should narrow it down" Alicia said. Hope went silent. She could hear a faint crackling of static as her powers flared up. Hope sensed Alicia's location and began northeast from there. Further and further out she went until she spotted something. From her first vantage they looked like very tiny dots in the ocean until she zoomed closer. "Daddy. Help me out" Hope said sharing the vision. "Oh shit. Your warning pans out Alicia. You got a small fleet sailing your way. The American pacific fleet by the looks of it. 16 ships. A carrier, three battleships, cruisers, Aegis destroyers, and support vessels. Hmm...something else. Hope honey focus right there" Keith said. There was another pause. "She's with them. Alicia, she plans to wipe you off the map. I'm going to send Hope to back you up" he said. "No. She could use that to launch an attack on you. We already know she tried to nuke you. I wouldn't put anything past her. How far out is she?" Alicia asked. "At that speed, a day at most" Keith replied. "Understood. Thanks" she said. "Call if it gets too much even if it's a trap" he said. Alicia hung up the phone.

"When was you planning on telling us you sent Mary to spy?" Selah asked. "...it was a need-to-know basis" Alicia replied. "THAT'S BULLSHIT AND YOU KNOW IT!" Selah screamed stomping her tiny foot on the bed. "Mary said there was a traitor among us. Looks like she was right. How else would Lilith know our location" Alicia said. "And so you couldn't trust us?! For fucks sake Lucy rejected heaven to come back to us! Me and Skylar have been fighting tooth and nail to fix this fucked up world! And Hana? She chose to leave the only home she ever knew to be with Sky. I didn't believe it before, but you can be a nasty fucking person at times" Selah spat. "It wasn't that I couldn't trust you. It was possible the traitor could read minds. Faith's plan warned of the possibly that..."

"Don't you fucking dare use mom as an excuse. If we had known what you were doing, we could've used Hope to spy on her or God knows something else. Look at her. Can... can we do something about her" Selah asked reigning in her rage. "No. Her mind has been...overloaded. Burnt out for a better word. Magic can't fix a tattered mind" Alicia replied. "So, she's pretty much dead" Selah said. Kyle heard them and looked at the monolithic giantess and her smaller yet more frightening giantess daughter. "She's not dead" Alicia said. "Might as fucking well be" Selah said sniffling. Alicia bent down to console her by touching her hair. "Don't touch me" Selah spat hopping down on the floor and leaving the room. Alicia sat down on the bed next to Mary. She reached over to move Mary's hair out of her face when she noticed the bug sized Kyle glaring at her. "Sorry. Forgot you were here. I guess you heard all that" she said. Kyle shouted at the top of his lungs, but it was barely a squeak to her at his size. Alicia plucked him up and placed him in her hand.

Kyle's knees shook as a lifetime of indoctrination told him to submit. To prepare himself to live and die at her whim. He had no plans to submit to her that night. "You're trying to say something?" she asked bringing him up to her left ear. Kyle took it upon himself to leap off her hand right into her ear canal. His sore aching feet stepping on fine hairs and earwax. He turned to face the pitch-black tunnel and spoke. "Mary was right about you all. You're no goddesses. You're no fucking goddesses at all" he spat. Alicia was shocked a human from the city would say such a thing.  "No, we're not. We're just as mortal and fallible as you are. You should know that she's pregnant. I sensed it when I was trying to heal her" Alicia said softly. An ant sized man in her ear began weeping softly. Alicia took him from her ear and placed him on the pillow next to Mary. She sat there quietly until the sun rose.

She made her way to the kitchen to make coffee and found everyone there as if waiting for her to explain herself. After putting the coffee on, she turned to face them. "Is it true Alicia? Is it true you kept this from us?" Lucy asked. She looked at Selah who barely gave her a glance. "Yeah, it's true" she replied. Lucy grew to human size and slapped her. "I think you loosened some teeth" Alicia said spitting blood. Lucy in her anger forgot her own strength. "Now that you've drawn blood, we need to address the bigger problems. First of all, who is the traitor" Alicia said rubbing her cheek. "There are 50,000 people here Alicia. That's a lot of suspects" Theo said. "Then we narrow it down.  The only people with the power to leave the island by translocation are me and probably Selah. Since the vast majority of everyone else are shrunk, that leaves out conventional means" she said. "So our traitor is still here. That doesn't narrow it down" Theo said. "Well, the barrier acts like a cloaking spell to hide it from being found by magical means. It even acts like a perception spell, so planes and boats steer clear. The only way the traitor could help Lilith is by contacting her my magical means. It would take a decent caster to do that" she said.

"That narrows it down to about 68 people. 5 Class A mages, 15 Class B mages, 20 Class C mages, and then 28 Valkyries" Skylar said. "That we know of. Who knows how many talented mages might be in the city" Hana said. "She's got a point" Lucy said. "Could Lilith learn our location just by talking to someone? Even I don't know the GPS coordinates for this place" Skylar asked. "No, the barrier would still prevent that. It would be like talking to an echo in a dark room.  We're missing something. Has anyone noticed anything unusual in the last few weeks? Anything no matter how small. "Well. There was the time Skylar was nearly killed by a raindrop. That's unusual right?" Hana asked. "We never did find out exactly why that happened" Skylar said. "...no, we didn't but the barrier is fine" Alicia said looking out the window. "Is it?" Selah asked. "Watch my coffee" Alicia muttered as she walked out the door. Still in her nightgown, Alicia walked to the city. At the edge to the city, people were just beginning to go about their day when they saw their giantess standing before them. They did find it odd for her to be dressed in such a way, but they lined up to please her. They made their way to her sand covered bare feet until she looked down at them. "Not now. Go away" she commanded. The people obeyed, and although slightly dejected missing a chance to worship her huge feet, went about their business. 

Alicia quickly saw something was very wrong. "Shit" she muttered as she paced the city. For 15 minutes they could hear the giantess saying shit over and overlooking down until she stopped. "Goddammit!" Alicia yelled. She stomped back to the mansion. "Coffee is getting cold" Lucy said. "The arcanes. The goddamn arcanes that power the barrier have been wrecked! The barrier must be at most 25% effective right now. Our traitor has been slowly destroying them" she hissed. "I thought Faith said that there were hundreds of arcanes that made up the barrier" Skylar said. "Just under a thousand actually" Alicia said. "But that would mean over 600 have been destroyed. Why haven't we noticed that?" Selah asked. "It could be done with pinpoint precision. Still, that's a lot of work. We should've noticed if someone as walking around..."

"Greta. She's the one behind it. The other week I found her walking around which wasn't that odd, but I smelled around on her. Thought it was her feet but now I know what it was. It was ozone" Skylar said. "You sure?" Alicia asked. "I've fired off enough electrical magics in my time to know that smell. Goddammit I should've picked that up sooner" Skylar hissed. "In any event, we need to bring her in" Alicia said. "I'll do it. Valkyries are my responsibility" Skylar said standing. "And if she fights back?" Alicia asked. "Then I'll remind her why I'm her superior officer" Skylar said coldly. Skylar left the mansion and made her way to the dorms where the Valkyries lived.  She stood outside towering over the small structure until she shrunk down. She cast open the doors and walked in. She was well known obviously to them but in recent times had not spent much time with them. To see her walking the hall caused whispers. "Skylar, what brings you here?" a fellow Valkyrie asked passing her. "Where's Greta Agna?" she asked. "In her room as far as I know. Something wrong?" Agna asked. "There is" Skylar replied walking past her. Skylar came to Greta's door and opened it. "What do you want?" Greta asked coming out of a shower. "We need to ask you some questions. Come with me" Skylar replied. 

Greta nodded silently and dressed. A shirt, sweatpants, and sandals she put on and led the way out of the dorm. "What kind of questions?" she asked. "Security breach and you're a suspect" Skylar replied. Greta grew very nervous. "Such as?" she asked. "Someone betrayed us and weakened the barrier that protects us" Skylar replied. The air grew cold, very cold suddenly and a strange sound came from behind Skylar. Immediately she side stepped as an icicle missed the back of her neck. Greta turned around. "Invoke" she muttered transforming. "Hard way it is. Invoke" Skylar muttered. Both transformed into the white reinforced uniforms, both holding their swords. "Don't do this Greta. It will only end badly" Skylar warned. "Always with the arrogance!" Greta yelled attacking her. Skylar parried her blows with no hesitation for she knew if she faltered for a moment Greta would kill her. In the hierarchy of Valkyries, Skylar was the top commander, but Greta was just below her. They were damn near equal in terms of skills. Greta was quick with her sword, always training. Skylar focusing on spell casting and hand to hand. Though three inches and some change tall, their blows shook the air. Fortifying, lightning, and parries.

Skylar was blinded by a blast of cold air and pivoted left. Suddenly she was struck with a shrinking spell. "You always did favor your left" Greta chuckled snatching her up. The now bug sized Skylar stifled a yelp as Greta squeezed her cracking a rib. "When Lilith arrives, I'll be the commander and those who don't fall in line will die just like you. I'll have to hide in the city obviously until she gets here after I decimate it enough for the barrier to fall" she snickered. Skylar concentrated turning the sweat on her hands into two very fine icicles. She used the razor-sharp edges to slash her palm making Greta cry out. The pain making her drop her sword along with Skylar. Free, she quickly broke the shrinking spell and grew to human size. "You always did taunt too much. And you call me arrogant" Skylar said grabbing her. "Tables turned. Now do it" Greta spat at her. "Won't be that easy" Skylar said taking her back to the mansion.

When she returned, it was clear she was hurt. "Jesus Sky! You okay?" Selah asked. "Better than she is. She all but admitted it Alicia" Skylar said. "...take her to the room down below next to the basement" Alicia said quietly. Hours passed as Greta shivered naked in the cage she had been placed in. Skylar entered the room. "Figured you'd want some food and water" Skylar said dropping a shrunken sandwich and bottled water through the cage bars. "Come on out Greta. We need to talk" Skylar said opening her cage. Greta cautiously stepped out of the cage. "Why Greta? I know you chaffed living here but to sell us out to the Queen of Hell?" Skylar asked. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. Ever since Odin chose you, things came easy to you. Training, promotions, money, accolades. We can't all fuck our way to the top" Greta said devouring her food. "It wasn't like that. Odin didn't set his sights on me till I began to stand out by my own talent. I didn't sleep my way to the top, more accurate I was raped for my promotions. You have no idea what it was like being alone with him. I was 15 the first time he raped me. Barely a second lieutenant and haven't been assigned a mission yet. We were alone in a hotel room in Rio. He whispered sweet words in my ear. Rubbed my feet and told me how much he fancied me."

"Being a teen, I was elated my god took a liking to me. Then he took my clothes off and pinned me to the bed. He lined his dick up and shoved it right in. You care to guess what it's like to be raped by a god? Pain you can't imagine. My blood soaked the fucking sheets. Just this stabbing pain until my blood lubricated his cock enough to let it slide in easier. The smell, holy shit the smell. Ozone filled the fucking room and then the look in that one eye of his. A single rune burning in it. To this day I don't know what it was, but I'll never forget it. And then he came inside me. Like molten metal poured in your cunt. I couldn't walk right for a week. And by no means was it the last time. The better I got at my job, the worse it got. I wore boots to hide the bite marks on my toes. No bra because my nipples were swollen from being pulled. You once asked me how I got so good at healing magic. Well now you know why. And then I ended up pregnant" she said.

"You carried his child? You never told me that" Greta said. "Because he beat me till I miscarried. Beat me with his finger. Oh how he liked to shrink me when things got too boring for him" Skylar replied. "She promised me the right to rule" Greta said. "So you could torment tinies. Let's be honest here. You delighted in shrinking people and offing them. I know where your skeletons are buried just as much as you do mine" Skylar spat. Greta looked down at her little feet knowing she was right. "She lied to you Greta. She played you like a harp from hell and as we speak, she's sending a fleet of fucking warships to wipe us off the map" she said. "That can't be..."

"You know it's the truth. Greta, you broke my heart. Out of anyone here I was the one that had your back most of all. Nobody here can understand everything we went through. Not even our fellow sisters" Skylar said. As she did, the door opened, and Alicia stepped into the room. Skylar sighed and walked to the door. "Skylar please! PLEASE DON'T GO!" Greta yelled. Skylar looked at her and shook her head before leaving. Now it was just Alicia and Greta in the room. "So you're here to kill me?" Greta asked. "Sit down Greta. We need to have a conversation" Alicia said softly. Greta sat. "Did Skylar tell you a fleet is on its way here to destroy us?" she asked. Greta nodded. "And do you know you severely weakened the barrier?" she asked. Again, Greta nodded. "Normally at full strength, the barrier would be strong enough to shrug off a tactical nuclear weapon. But now? Now a heavy barrage could shatter it. Before I met Faith, I was a member of an organization plotting world domination. Sounds funny unless you knew who we were. Then not so funny. One of the things I had to learn was how to break nations. Find ways to destroy them if they misbehaved."

"There are two types of powerful people in the world. Those that use power and those that wield it. You see those that use power would say shrink a president and eat him. Or crush his White House or palace of whatever to make a country capitulate. And they would be fools. Those that wield power learn everything about their enemy and then methodically destroy any hope they have of resisting. Markus, the bastard that he was, was right when he said not everything is a nail to be hammered down. My point is I studied the American military and what it can do. The odds of us surviving such an onslaught are slim at best. Push comes to shove I'll evacuate my family. Who's left behind..." Alicia muttered. "You'd leave everyone here behind? Even the Valkyries?" Greta asked. "A little late to care or did not you not consider they wouldn't go with your plans? Even if I shrunk them down further, I doubt I could translocate so many so far. Your treason pretty much signed their death warrants" Alicia said. "Bullshit! You yourself spoke how powerful you are! You cast a spell over the planet with your voice!" Greta yelled.

"It's not as simple as you think. I come from two powerful bloodlines. The Alux and Lemurians. It makes me a very powerful Mage but at a cost. To cast spells, I mean really powerful shit your pants 

kind of spells I need...souls. When I used my power to trance the world, I used Hope as a kind of battery. I don't have that luxury right now" Alicia said. "...shit" Greta hissed. "Now that brings us to the subject of you. You sold us out and tried to kill Skylar. You were given a second chance and you fucked us over. I pronounce you guilty of treason and attempted murder. However, I'm going to give you the choice of punishment. Choice number one. You're forever stripped of your powers and shrunk to the size of the humans here. You will live the rest of your days a weak powerless human the size of an ant. That's assuming you all survive tomorrow. Choice number two. Feed yourself to me body and soul and I can use that to put up a decent fighting chance and maybe, maybe save your sisters" Alicia said coldly. "You can't be...

"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I AM FUCKING JOKING?!" Alicia yelled paining Greta's ears. "You got 24 to decide" Alicia said looking at her phone before leaving. Greta knew she was beyond screwed as Alicia didn't even bother putting her back in the cage. She didn't know what to do. Maybe survive tomorrow and live as a teeny, little normal human for the rest of her life, or give up her life, her very soul to try to make it right. "I never should've summoned her..." Greta muttered softly. 

Alicia returned upstairs to the living room. "So what happens to her?" Skylar sniffled. "That's up to her and I'll discuss that later. We got other concerns. We need to prepare for this assault. Lucy, Theo, I need you both to begin evacuations. Have the people move to the southwest part of the city.  Then we'll deal with the overflow here. Hana, look after the babies. Skylar, you're in charge of getting the Valkyries in order. It's been a while since they saw combat I'm betting. Selah...where's Selah?" Alicia asked. "She was walking towards the city" Skylar said. "Is it possible to fix the barrier in time?" Hana asked. "No. It would take weeks to fix it completely and we got 24 hours before they get here" she replied. "Then that settles that. Come on Theo" Lucy said to her husband. Alicia followed the tiny couple outside and walked with them very slowly. She was thinking about what was to come but also what to say to Selah. Eventually she found her where she expected to.

"Mind if I join you?" Alicia asked towering over her. "It's a free island" Selah shrugged. Alicia sat down and stretched out her legs on either side of the girl. "This is my favorite spot too. You can see the entire city" Alicia said softly. Selah said nothing. "Are there any other secrets you haven't shared?" Selah asked. "A few. One big one" Alicia replied. Selah looked up at the giantess. "You know how Faith made a Plan B right?" Alicia asked. Selah nodded. "She made a Plan C too. Me and Skylar acquired a very powerful artifact that can be used for mass destruction" she said. "...you shitting me? And you told nobody else this?" Selah asked angry. "Would you be eager to tell anyone you had a device that could end the world if misused? Faith told me this thing nearly destroyed the planet where she came from" she said. "What is it?" Selah asked. "An ancient artifact that can bend space creating portals. It's called the Eye of the World" she replied. "Like translocation?" Selah asked. "Similar but thousands of times more powerful. Imagine sticking your hand through a portal and crushing an entire city on the other side" she said. Selah's eyes grew wide. "Nobody should have that kind of power, especially me" she said.

"But you got us" Selah said. Alicia was quiet for a moment as he picked the girl up and placed her in her hand. She gently stroked her body with her thumb. "Selah, as you're just beginning to learn, doing what is necessary isn't always going to be easy. Hell, some you care about may hate you for doing it. But in the end, doing what is necessary is better than not doing it at all. You can have people help you along but, in the end, it's you that has to make the call and live with the consequences" Alicia said to her. "Is this the final battle?" Selah asked. "I don't know" Alicia replied. "What's our odds of winning?" Selah asked. "Lilith has lost all her major friends. She'll probably lead the attack. What that much going on...the odds are slim at best even with your strength" Alicia replied. "Thanks for not lying to me" Selah muttered. "Trying not to rack up any more sins in case I..." Alicia was saying before she choked back tears. "We're going to survive this! Now cheer up!" Selah shouted stamping her foot in her palm. "Yes ma'am" Alicia chuckled. "Keep tonight open. In the meantime, I have to do some things" Selah said hopping off her hand. "Like what?" Alicia asked curious. "Personal stuff" Selah huffed. "...okay. If you say so" Alicia said watching her walk away.

Alicia walked to the Mage dorms to go over a plan of defense and saw Selah disappear into the city.

Now to say Selah was different person than who she was two months ago is an understatement. A 12-year-old orphan girl suffering from PTSD who could barely cast a single spell was now a 13-year-old girl, with a 16-year-old body, with the maturity of a battle-hardened Norse warrior. Any other girl her age would be concerned with a boy crush and what color to paint her nails next. Right now, she was concerned with where to find a nice beer. Hearing that she could be dead this time tomorrow put things in perspectives for her. The question being asked was if you had 24 hours to live, what would you do? Well, Selah's answer was a little interesting. Selah was raised in a society that the tinies worshipped the bigger class. That was the number one rule and a rule even now people refused to break. Other than that, just common-sense rules like no rape or murder directed their lives. Now depending on their families, cultural rules came into play. Growing up Kabbalist, Selah was forbidden from doing certain things namely what to eat and drink. At that moment, the girl said fuck it and walked around the city looking for a nice eatery that served beer.

Selah found such a place by smell and entered. She was given a booth and a menu. "Bacon cheeseburger and a tall gold ale please" she said. A big taboo for Selah but she didn't care at the moment. The order was up, and she bit into the burger. "Holy fucking shit. It's like a coke party in my mouth and Pablo Escobar was invited" she thought savoring the juicy meat, creamy cheese, and perfectly soft and crunchy bacon. And then she took a swig of her beer. "Bitter but not bad" she thought as she kept eating. It gave the girl a slight thrill not eating kosher. Once she was done eating, she went to the next thing on her bucket list. Selah didn't have to look far as a teenage boy sitting with an older man, his father most likely, had been looking at her for a while. She motioned for him to come to her booth. The boy took the bait and came over. "You've been watching me since I came in here. Like what you see?" Selah asked. "Well, you're very pretty" the boy stammered. Selah gave him a look over now he was sitting in front of her. 15 maybe 16 years of age, black hair and green eyes. A skin tone indicating some European and middle eastern heritage. Not unusual in the mixing bowl gene pool of the city. "What's your name cutie?" she asked. "Elliot" he replied. "You ever been with a girl before?" she asked. "No, I haven't" he blushed. "A virgin? So am I" she said softly rubbing her bare leg against his.

"Elliot? Would you want to fuck me?" she asked. The boy was speechless. "Forget I asked" Selah said looking away as she stood up. "Wait" he said holding her hand. Elliot pulled her closer. "I... I do" he croaked. Selah felt horrible using him to satisfy an urge. He seemed almost too innocent. "Walk with me" she said leading him out. His father chuckled as they left. Selah roamed the city for three hours listening to him talk. He was indeed 15 years old, had two siblings, and was a Muslim more or less. He joked they were Muslim only when it suited his family. Selah never gave it much thought but the society they lived in was more complicated than she believed. Although anyone could worship however they wanted, some things just didn't carry over. Dealing with the opposite sex was maybe the biggest. No taboos about premarital sex or children. Nobody gave a shit about underage drinking or smoking. If anything, it was unusual for Elliot to be a virgin at his age. Selah chalked that up to him being shy. However, he didn't seem shy right then. "Have you ever wished you were a giant like the others?" she asked. "Once or twice but that's a right reserved for gods and goddesses" he replied. "Take off your shoes and socks" she said abruptly. He was going to ask why until he saw her doing the same. "Good. Now close your eyes" she said. Elliot did and felt a strange vibration in his body.

"Now open them" she said. He did and gasped as he now towered over the buildings he was standing in front of. At 3 1/2 inches tall he was not exactly a titan but was a giant to the other humans. He went to bow but she caught him. "No. I wanted to see a different reaction" she said. Selah led him down the street as Elliot worried, he would step on someone. "It does take a little getting used to. Just don't flatten someone under those big feet of yours" she snickered. She had him sit down near a large park on the west side of the city. "You're looking at me differently. Why?" she asked. "Because you can do magic and I cannot. I am beneath you" he replied. "No. If anything, I'm beneath you. I chose you because I wanted to have sex before I die. I didn't even consider your feelings" she said. "You're dying?" he asked. "A great evil is approaching, and I don't know if I can win against it. Don't know if anyone here will survive it. Look out there. See those two? They're evacuating the northeast part of the city" she said pointing to Lucy and Theo. "I'm terrified of what's coming! I'm trying to hide it, but I can't..."

Elliot kissed her. He held her hands. Selah cried into his shoulder and he held her close and then he looked into her eyes. "I still want to have sex with you but not just that" he said softly. Selah tore off his clothing and then hers. She straddled him and lowered herself onto his shaft. With a slight yelp, she broke her hymen and slid all the way down. "You alright?" he asked. She nodded softly. For the people in the area, it had been some time since they had seen anyone of giant stature fuck openly. They began to gather around them as if to cheer their union. The old ways were still in effect as some of the crowd stepped forth to...help things along. They flocked to their feet worshipping and cleaning them. They climbed on top of Elliot's chest to stimulate his nipples and to fuck themselves. A young couple chose the moment to conceive a child of their own and the male began to pound his wife above the rapidly beating heart of the giant. Selah could see this and began to pound her pussy down on him harder and harder. Instinct mixed with wanton abandon filled her hormone flooded brain as she seized one pretty girl fingering herself with her lips and slurped her into her mouth.

Rolling her around savoring her sweet and salty flavor was just the thing to send her over the edge. Selah came hard making the boy grimace as her pussy squeezed him even harder. Elliot gritted his teeth and came deep within her. Her greedy cunt milking him for every drop of seed. Thankfully, she had enough sense left not to swallow the girl in her mouth alive. She spat her out onto his chest after leaning down. She petted the exhausted couple and swiped her fingertip over his wife's pussy before licking it clean of juices and cum. The show was over, their work done, and they won't about their lives leaving the giant couple in post coital bliss. "That's one way to spend the day" Lucy thought seeing them. "Was it everything you hoped for?" Selah asked. Elliot placed his hand over her breast and made the girl shiver. "Round two?" she snickered. Elliot wasn't laughing as his hand moved and rested over her heart. The look he gave her made Selah stop trying to make everything a joke. She knew what that look was as her father gave it to her mother on many occasions. She had stolen his heart. "Elliot. You told me everything about yourself. It's only right you know everything about me. Everything" she muttered. Still naked, Selah told him everything. About Faith, about her powers, about the world, and especially what was coming. And by the time she was done, the sun had begun to set.