Next the golden boy warped himself and Lady through space to a wide field, and Lady saw two distant figures in the middle of the field as she was standing with the golden boy at the far right corner of the field. She looked at the golden boy to see a silly grin on his face.
"Why that look?" Lady cocked an eyebrow and asked.
The golden boy looked up at Lady, confused "What look?"
"That grin and those wide eyes" Lady pointed to his face, making circular motions with her fingers to place more emphasis.
The golden boy's grin returned to his face and now wider "Because we are about to witness the clash of the century, a fight I don't get to watch always"
Lady trembled and her eyes widened with fear" You brought me to a battlefield!" she shrieked.
The golden boy covered his ears and glared at Lady "Technically we are!" he sighed "But that doesn't mean that we are going to partake, we are just illusions here"
" I don't get it" Lady said stroking her chin a bit.
" We travelled here differently, I just made us astral travel unlike the first ones so whatever happens here has no effect on us, we are going to see but won't be able to do anything else" The golden boy explained.
" Oh, that explains why" Lady bobbed her head with an understanding gleam in her eyes "I didn't feel like my blood was boiling neither did I feel any discomfort when we were warping here"
" That's it" the golden boy snapped his fingers " Being with me is finally rubbing on you, you are getting wiser"
Lady choked on her breath from the golden boy's statement " I just can't believe you"
"Everything is about to begin, watch" the golden boy pointed to the two distant figures in the center of the field "I'm going to transport us closer"
Lady nodded and in a blink of an eye they were closer to the distant figures and when her mind registered th the identity of the two figures, she froze,
"I-i-isn't th-that Mai and Aya?" she stuttered.
"Hmm" The golden boy hummed with a nod " True and this is when they fought, I believed Mai might have shown or talked to you about it" he paused gauging for an answer from Lady.
When Lady nodded, he continued "She left parts of it so I'll let you see whatever happened and then our journey comes to an end"
Lady opened her mouth to speak but the loud voice of Aya stopped her.
"I'll make sure you are destroyed today!" Aya shouted.
And then she dashed towards Mai, words were exchanged along with weapons and then finally at the peak of the battle, suddenly a cold engulfed the field that though Lady was astral traveling she still felt the power behind the cold.
"I thought you said we were not going to feel anything!" she hissed to the golden boy.
"No" he shook his head " But this power can affect anything it desires to, that's the raw power of Mai"
" What?"
" Yes, they all thought Aya was the most powerful and strongest God but it's Mai rather, her power is strong enough to even rival the Supreme One. Mai wasn't created, she was formed out of the Supreme One, she is a direct part of him, a figment of his power plus the powers bestowed on a goddess are all in Mai making her the most powerful being ever alive" The golden boy said and smiled " This is what she regrets the most, almost killing Aya, now don't ask questions and watch"
Lady turned to Mai and saw that her eyes were now a vibrant blue and she was levitating in the air,her hair was white and glowing,
"Aya, put a stop to this before I do something even I wouldn't like" she spoke.
The voice of Mai sent chills down Lady's spine and she gasped, Mai's voice was exactly like the Supreme One's, loud and powerful like thunder, clear and dangerous as a mighty storm.
"Why?" Aya chuckled "It isn't like you haven't already done the harm" she snarled and dashed towards in a blur, a speed so fast that all Lady saw was just a fast blur.
But she saw Aya stop a few metres away from where Mai was, she stood frozen from Mai's power and she struggled to set herself free. And then Lady's eyes almost popped out of her sockets as she saw the power and energy being drained from Aya's body by Mai. Mai drained Aya till her body was no more but just a figment of her soul and power stood in a small light dancing before her eyes. Mai just looked at the remaining part of Aya with a dangerous scorn, she was ready to put an end to their battle.
But before she could give the last strike,a dark smoke engulfed Aya's body and disappeared with her and then Lady blinked only for her to be warped back to the forest where she first met the golden boy.
She glared murderously at the golden boy "Why did you bring us back now?, we should have waited to see what happened next"
" Sorry but I can't "The golden boy shrugged and sat on the forest floor.
Lady sat by him and asked " Now what?"
"I tell you the reason why you were sent to me " he said and exhaled.
" And what would that be?" Lady asked again.
"To put things simple, Lady you are now a goddess and you have a big task to perform" the golden boy said.
" I think I might just go crazy from listening to you talk nonsense all day" Lady scoffed.
" It's true, why do you think I took you to all those places, huh?" he paused waiting fo an answer from Lady.
" To show me the history of my goddess?" Lady said unsure.
"No" he replied " It was to show you the responsibilities of a goddess and to show you the importance of a selfless character and sacrifice"
" What are you trying to say?" Lady questioned.
" I mean to say soon Aya will meet her end and we need a new goddess in her place but we needed someone pure that's why we allowed Mai to choose Makri's to train them but none of them were up to the task, they were not so pure like you. Then when Mai lost most of her power in the battle, she stopped choosing a Makri and that was when you were born, we observed all the possible choices and we saw you as the best" He smiled at Lady.
But Lady got up suddenly and turned to him " Why me when there are whole lot of better people out there, those with families and trust and beauty and I don't know, everything?"
" Because you passed all the trials we put you through, from your family's to now. Do you think your family hated just because, it was a divine ploy to see whether you could stay as pure as we wanted you to and you did well, past our expectations" He also stood up and went to stand in front of Lady " You are our best choice"
"So what about the sacrifice and the leaf Mai talked about?" Lady asked.
" Here" the golden stretched his hand towards Lady and a leaf appeared in it " Take it" he waited till Lady took the leaf from his hand and then he continued "The sacrifice is that you would have to lose your mother and you won't be able to do anything about it"
Lady got angry and was about retort but then she realised she was no longer in the forest but in front of the hut she was banished to.
"Took you long enough" she heard the voice of Mai behind her.
She turned and ran into Mai's arms and sobbed, "He said I'm going to lose my mother and I won't be able to do anything about it"
" I know, its very hard" Mai consoled her.
" Please do something about it for me" she begged Mai.
Mai held Lady's shoulders and drew her back a little from her " I told you about what you might have to sacrifice but you said you were ready and now there's nothing we can do about it, you already accepted the bargain"
" So what now?" she asked Mai with a heavy heart.
" We cure Vesi now and wait for the doom to take place" Mai smiled encouragingly " You need to stay strong for this, Lady"
Lady wiped her tears and nodded even though she was still saddened, she followed Mai to the inside of the hut and went to cure Vesi.