Yuna immediately sat up, while doing so she heard a goddess speaking. She knew that it was not the goddess of magic was speaking but she's able to identify it because of the presence the voice gave off.
"My, what a beautiful memories." it was a charming, alluring voice. Her speech style was completely different from Hecate, it was refined and graceful.
Yuna looks to the source of the voice. She then saw a beautiful goddess, I don't know if the word beautiful is enough to describe "Her". Everything about the goddess before her has an unworldly beauty, she's like the perfect image of the word perfect. Yuna tried to speak but no words came out of her throat.
As if "She" read Yuna's mind "She" stated, "How generous of you, little one. I hope you enjoyed what you saw in there", pointing at the Astral Gate. The goddess also saw what the Astral World showed Yuna. Then "She" continues, "And for you to have the courage to enter the Astral World, I even let you stay there longer for a bit yet you were able to get out of there in one piece. You have my blessing.
"I have my satisfaction from you so better not let me down. Farewell for now, my little lamb. See you next time." the goddess said with a smile then vanished from Yuna's sight.
The whole time the goddess spoke, Yuna have not move from her position nor tried to interrupt the goddess. It took a few minutes for her to snap out of it. Yuna finally stood up but somehow she felt so tired.
She willed her soul body to return to her real body lying on her bed. Even though her body stayed lying, it feels like she just ran for a marathon tiring her whole body. Yuna let her tiredness govern herself to sleep.
...
Earlier in the Boundary, Hecate was in the front of a tall metal-like rail gate. Its pillars were made of white stones stacked together. It was elegant and pure, the Gate to the Spirit World.
The goddess was there to check up on things when she felt something that made "Her" alarm.
Cling!
There is someone in the Astral Gate! A person's soul body has entered the gate but I do not feel any disintegration of the soul body. Who would have come and enter.
Hecate had the hunch it was Yuna but what should she be doing here? I didn't even have to call her here, for now.
In a blink of an eye, the goddess headed to the Astral Gate but somehow she cannot get near it as if someone is blocking her access to the gate.
Standing in a distance, "She" can feel a gods' power blocking her to her destination. Hecate tried to intervene but the other rejects. Recognizing whose power, the barrier vanished and the Astral Gate has entered Hecate's sight clearly and before the gate was a goddess that no one can resist.
The goddess of love, desire, and beauty. Represented sex, affection, and the attraction that binds people together, Goddess Aphrodite.
"She" has a glimmering curly light pink hair, generally but mostly changes in color to others. Depends on the light reflecting from "Her" hair to your eyes that in each person looking at her hair can see a different color from one another, also with "Her" eyes.
The goddess wears a beaded cut out slit plum chiffon long dress and has a magical gird that compelled everyone to desire "Her". Perfection can only describe "Her", or more than perfection. Think of the most beautiful woman or actress you can think of and multiply that beauty many times as much as you can. An unimaginable beauty of the goddess.
"Aphrodite" Hecate said then shorten the distance between them. Is she the one that opened the gate? But the gate would not alarm me when a higher being like us uses the gate unless it is a majicai or a soul body. Hecate was about to speak, when Aphrodite spoke first.
"She was more than I expected Hecate."
She? It could be... Aphrodite brought Yuna here and let her enter the gate!
"Where is she?"
"Do not worry. She is fine, already returned sleeping."
Hecate was relieved hearing Yuna's fine but she didn't show an expression. "How long?" she stated. Asking the duration was important because when someone touches the gate, the flow of the time is different from how long she saw a scene and how long she touches the gate. Watching a scene from gate for a minute means it was only for a second she touched the gate.
"A few seconds. Approximately 2.04 seconds." Aphrodite replied happily.
"Most soul or lesser majicai disintegrates for a few milliseconds or just a second. Yet she..." Hecate stated and Aphrodite continued with praise in her tone, "Yet she just tire herself and was able stand up consciously then she herself controlled her soul body to return to reality."
She has grown that much to be able to will her soul body. I think it's time to properly educate her. Hecate sent her gratitude towards Aphrodite.
The goddess of love didn't mind it and only thought of her amusement. They exchanged pleasantries then both of them vanished into thin air.
...
The next day, Yuna woke up actively. The tiredness she felt last night was like it didn't happen. After a bath and wearing clothes, she stood in front of the mirror starring.
"Wha—!" The yellow color in her hair has covered halfway from the edges. "My hair color! When?! Why!" Yuna never bothered herself when she saw changes in her body but went it comes to hair color, it disturbs her. She has never wanted to go to a salon to change her hair except when she needs a hair cut.
She examined her hair and her room to look for what have caused this change. If someone did this as a prank... but who would dare? I don't have siblings and only my parents and I live here.
Hearing the commotion in Yuna's room, her parents ran upstairs to know what is happening. Her dad knocked at her door but Yuna was not able to hear since she's busy looking of the cause. Worried, they immediately open the door.
"Yuu, what happened?"
Yuna who was on her bed removing her pillows and blanket to search paused then turned to look at her parents. The sunlight from her window strucked at her hair making the yellow part in her hair seemed to glow. Her mother's eyes widened while her dad immediately closed the curtains and the glowing faded.
"When did that happened?!" her mom asked. Yuna thought her parents are angry and didn't know what to say. Then her mom added knowing what Yuna may think after raising her voice. "Sorry for raising my voice. It's not that I'm angry about it... it's because we are worried for you." Her mom and dad sat beside Yuna.
"I—I don't know. I just woke up and my hair just turned out this way." Yuna replied.
"Do you remember when did it started?" her father asked. Yuna answers her dad's question that it started when the gym incident happened but it was not that noticeable. That time it was still a few centimeters and only happened in a few hair strands.
Both of them took her answers then told Yuna to head to school but not let others see her hair especially when out in the sun. Didn't know why but Yuna did not object. She took a hairtie with a cloth attached to it so only the black part of her hair color can be seen. She also wore a cap then head to school.
When Yuna left the house, Mr. and Mrs. Sakamaki head to their room and talked for a moment. They lowered their voices for them to only hear each other and their tone was serious like their life depends on their decision. After an agreement, Mrs. Sakamaki pick up an object covered in gray cloth in her closet. Under the cloth was a small leather box with a symbol, it looked like a capital letter N in cursive but the first stroke is a stretch down 3. Below the symbol was a small x.
She opened the box and in it was a round silver badge with a torch inside a door emblem. When she pressed the emblem, the doorbell rang. The two of them went down stairs heading to the front door. Mr. Sakamaki touched the doorknob and before turning it he look at his wife and both nodded.
Opening the door, a woman that looked like in her early 40's was standing before them. She is a beautiful fair-skinned woman with a curly silver hair. Sunglasses covering her eyes, wearing a denim shirt dress and a chelsea boots.
The Sakamaki pair bow their heads as the lady enters their house. They closed the door then head to the mini guest room. The pair stood still before the lady sitting in the couch.
"You may sit." her soft voice filled the room. As the pair sat across her, she removed her sunglasses and her magical eyes radiate.
"O'Goddess, we ask for your blessing" the pair said in unison.