It was inevitable that Chi return to Medusa to tell her what happened. She was dreading it. She would start with the good news and end with the bad. Ugh, this was twice now she risked her neck to make sure Sona would have a fighting chance. This time Pit had gone with her...so that made her feel a little..better? But even he wouldn't be able to stop Medusa if she got angry enough.
"Chi..it's been a long time." Medusa sat in her throne room, her precious new pet standing next to her. He was new..must have showed up when she disappeared. No wonder Medusa hadn't noticed she was gone. "I trust you have a proper excuse?"
"Yes, My Lady." Chi began as she slightly bowed her head. "I got lost in the barrier. The very same one Ike and Samus to refuge in. I found them, but I ended up getting captured for a period of time. However, Ike came to talk to me..and he let me go."
"Let you go?" Medusa raised an eyebrow. So he murdered most of her army but he couldn't actually kill her messenger girl? Or was it something deeper than that? "Why?"
"I..have no idea. He knew that I'd report to you everything, and I will report everything that I saw while I was there." Chi started from the beginning, from when she first slipped through the barrier. She had even drawn a small map of the area, though most of it was unlabeled. It brought Medusa great joy to know that there was a way inside..a small space that she could tear open. And Chi and Pit knew exactly where it was going to be.
"Hmm...so they had to communicate to Ashunera through an artifact? So that means she's not inside of that barrier, but rather somewhere else." Medusa was disappointed to hear that...but the rest of it was good news. "What else, Chi? What else did you do while you were there?"
"Well my Lady, since Ike took a valuable warrior away from you, I took one from them. I convinced Sona to split off from them and now she's outside of the barrier." Chi could feel Medusa staring her down...her heart rate was quickening and Medusa frowned at that.
"And..?" Yes, more good news..but that little girl was getting nervous about something so there was a second part to it.
"Well, I sent her off to see Magnus." Chi admitted, and that was when she saw it...the look of agitation and the hiss of the snakes in Medusa's hair. Yep, she was angry. "B-but...I did so because he might be a threat later, and so I thought we could take care of him along with Sona!"
"You're a liar." Medusa got up from her throne and started walking towards Chi slowly. "You are either a liar or you're an idiot...or both. You did a good thing by splitting her away from Ike and the others. But then you ruin it by sending her to that damned Magnus who is more than capable of holding his own against most of my army!" Medusa hissed, causing Chi to back a little. "I warned you Chi, that the next time you did something to defy me I wouldn't go easy on you."
"B-but I didn't defy you, honest! Magnus and the ex General of the Underworld isn't a threat...yet. That's why I thought it would be best to take care of them now. There's only three of them..." This wasn't looking good, Medusa's eyes were doing that thing that they did when she was about to turn people into stone. Ugh.
"You thought it would give Sona a better chance of survival, didn't you? You knew that I have wanted that girl since she harmed my beloved back before the world was ours! You should have just sent her here! Now come here, you little cur! I do not tolerate traitors!" Medusa reached out to grab her, and Chi just closed her eyes and held her breath.
