Tama“Tama is not crying! Saki is crying!” I wailed at the control panel. I summoned a box of tissues and blew my nose. “It’s so sweet!” My tail shed excitedly back and forth as I watched Alia lead Hero over to the boulders.

  “They were so close, Creation!” Admin Destruction smmed her fist against the wall. “That void of a reset ruined everything.” She had taken her destruction form and she looked simir to me in my creation form, except she was all purple and glowy.

  “Tama thinks they are doing fine, look at Aqua! Three down, three to go!” I said cheerily. Moderator Time, in her Sabi form, rushed over and pushed a few buttons.

  “The good news is that the reset didn’t do any sting damage. The bad news is that Ruby had the same mental flush as.. Aqua? Except the system didn’t consider her a pyer at the time of the reset.” She spoke quickly as she pushed more buttons.

  Saki shifted her form to be Saki the Foxkin and sighed. “How bad is it?” Her tail shed back and forth and after a moment she shifted into a fox form and began running around in circles.

  Sabi shifted to her Anna form, then to her Time form, then back to Sabi before shrugging. I had let her out of the cube and she had gotten her powers back. “Well, she was pced in her normal NPC role in the castle but has no idea who she is or what is going on.”

  I paled and Saki cursed under her breath. “So.. she is reset entirely? Like not sentient anymore?” I asked curiously, trying not to be disappointed.

  Sabi looked at me, then ughed. “No! You misunderstand, the same exact thing happened to Ruby that happened to Sapphire, now Aqua. She isn’t reset. She is in the same state as Aqua is right now, but trapped in the castle at level one with no memories of who she is!”

  “Nya! Can we move her now that the reset happened?” I leaned in and looked closely at Sabi. She frowned and pressed more buttons.

  After a moment, she sighed. “Yes.. and no.”

  Saki snapped at her. “Well, speak!” Sabi shuddered for a moment and I smirked. Saki facepalmed. “Not right now!” Sabi and I looked at each other, then Sabi expined.

  “Well, technically we can teleport anyone anywhere..but the transfer is set up to be a swap…” Silence filled the room.

  After a long deafening silence I spoke quietly. “Swap Alia and Ruby.” Both girls looked at me in shock.

  “Are you insane? They just got back together!” Saki said in horror.

  “That does.. Seem a bit cruel Mis.. er… Tama.” Sabi echoed.

  I swallowed and looked away. “Nya, but Alia won’t reset, we know that now. Ruby needs to be near Hero. Aqua is dangerous. Alia will find her way back.”

  Sabi, Saki, and I all looked at the monitor. Hero was on his back and Alia was riding him hard. I smiled. “Nya, we can do it right after they are finished. No need to interrupt.” Sabi turned to look at me with hopeful eyes.

  “Really you two? Incorrugible!“ Saki said, even as her outfit changed to a cy bra and panties.

  AliaHero turned to me and was about to say something, then everything around me was bright and I felt funny. A moment ter, I was standing inside Ruby’s bedroom in the emerald kingdom castle. I considered that for a moment.

  I summoned my bubble pistol and fired it. Still worked, good. I looked around the empty room. “Well, that figures. Might as well get back.” With that I turned and walked out of the room.

  “Might get me an outfit and some clothes for everyone on my way back.” I commented casually as I walked down the hall.

  “Oh Hero! It is so nice of you to visit!” I whirled to see Princess Sapphire running down the hall towards me. It took me a second, then I remembered that Aqua and Sapphire were not the same, that meant this was NPC Sapphire.

  I smiled and nodded. “Of course Princess! I just had to see you!” I said cheekily. Sapphire blushed and rubbed her legs together.

  “You truly are perfect, Hero.” Sapphire said in a serious voice. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. Then an idea hit me.

  “Yes, yes I am. And as your Hero, I have a request…” I giggled as Sapphire’s eyes lit up and she began to grovel.

  I ignored her and began walking down the hall as she followed me. We reached the front doors and I was about to open them when Sapphire said something and I froze. “Oh Hero! When will you take over and rule our kingdom as only you can!”

  My smile widened and my idea got better. I turned and walked into the throne room. Walking up to the King, I pointed and spoke. “By my right as Hero, you are hereby dismissed as I take my rightful pce in your seat as Queen!”

  There was a moment of silence and I sighed. “As King!” The old man on the throne stood, walked off the throne and left the room out the front door.

  “As always Hero! Your perfection knows no bounds! Even my father is nothing to your greatness.” Sapphire’s groveling continued and I was starting to get irritated.

  “Princess Sapphire, you are hereby known as Sapphire and no longer a Princess. You are now my personal sve. Bow before me!” Sapphire panted heavily and rushed up before falling to her knees and bowing.

  Good, now for the fun part! “Sapphire, kill yourself.” Sapphire summoned an ice spike and it went through her head. She fell over dead. I giggled and snapped my fingers.

  A maid appeared. “Bring me a dress of every color. A T-shirt, a pair of pants, some male boxers, 4 sets of panties and 4 sets of bras.” I snapped my fingers again and the maid rushed out of the throne room.

  I leaned back and whispered to myself. “It’s good to be Queen.”

  Hero“Okay so, Ember, remember, you have to..” I started only to be cut off again as she screamed and rushed the crab.

  “AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Ember, formerly known as Ruby screamed as she ran up to the crab and punched it with her fist. The crab immediately bisected her for the fourth time.

  “Um.. Hero.. maybe I can try?” Aqua asked quietly. I sighed and made a gesture for her to have at it. I caught Ember as she fell on me and I gently put her down, moving her red hair out of her eyes and turning her towards Aqua.

  I looked towards the forest. My best guess was that Alia was swapped with Ruby, who must've had the same thing happen to her as Aqua. I wasn’t sure why she would have been at that castle, but since when had this world ever made sense?

  That also meant that.. SMACK. I turned to see that Aqua had smacked the shit out of Ember and Ember was now on her ass, crying in fear as Aqua gred down at her. Ignoring them I looked back to the forest.

  Alia was most likely back at the castle. I knew she could take care of herself. But I would prefer to get there sooner rather than ter. “UNDERSTAND!” I turned to see Ember now nodding vigorously under Aqua’s gaze.

  I smirked, you know, I think I was starting to warm up to Aqua… “So, what do you have avaible?” Aqua asked Ember seriously. Ember swallowed and spoke quietly.

  “Um.. I have a fire bolt, it lets me summon a small ball of incendiary fire that can be lobbed at enemies, it sets them on fire and does damage over time. I also have Ignite, which just does damage over time but it can’t be dodged and instantly attaches to an enemy? And finally, I have Inner Fme, which increases my.. Um.. defense? By around 420? It doesn’t give me a time limit though…”

  Aqua seemed to consider it and I watched them. After a long moment Aqua asked. “What do you think you should pick?” After they debated back and forth for almost a minute, Ember ended on Ignite and we tested it.

  “Okay, so, that's bullshit.” I said as Ember snapped her fingers and the crab in front of us was suddenly on fire from every pore on its body. I blocked it, but after only about five seconds I was able to just stab it and it died.

  “So, out of curiosity, I never actually asked this with Alia. But.. Why Ember, why Aqua?” I asked the girls. Ember snapped her finger six times in quick succession, six separate crabs raced towards us.

  “I don’t know, it just felt.. Right.” Aqua said quietly. I stabbed the first crab and it instantly died, I repeated it for the other five. Aqua’s Wavey hit me with a ball of water and my energy maxed out.

  “Cause I wanna burn!” Ember said. I turned expecting a cheesy line. Instead she looked back at me with a dead serious look on her face. She snapped her fingers and three more crabs caught fme.

  I stabbed them down and they died easily. Ember sighed. “This is taking forever! Let’s try a different approach…” She turned to the trees and snapped her fingers… One of the trees caught fire. She smiled and snapped three more times. Three more trees caught fire.

  I watched as the fire grew and the trees melted like cheap pstic. Ember continued to kill crabs with me even as the forest next to us became ash.

  I sighed as Ember finally reached level 5. Most of her XP came from the rge swathe of forest she had burned down and all of the spiders she had killed. But she had made it to 5.

  “So, I picked Regeneration!” Aqua said cheerfully. She snapped her fingers and I instantly felt much better, all the little scratches and cuts I had faded and I reached full health. I smiled gratefully.

  “Well, I picked Imbue Fire!” Ember said excitedly. She casually walked over and grabbed my spear. It began to glow red. She took it from me and stabbed a crab, the crab was set on fire.

  I summoned another spear. She walked over and imbued that one, but the one she was holding stopped glowing. “Fuck!” She said as hers began to glow again and mine stopped. “Oh well, not a big loss. We are level 5 now right? What did you pick?”

  I sighed and shook my head. “Honestly, st time and for the st thirty or so iterations I had picked anti-gravity, but with you two I felt I could live a little more dangerously…”

  They both looked at me and I opened my mouth, but Aqua cut me off. “Can it be used to beat me within an inch of my life during sex?” Ember and I turned to her and I shook my head.

  Ember however giggled. “Why would you want to get beat up during sex? You know what I would want? I would..”

  “I chose blink. It allows me to teleport short distances.” I said quickly, cutting her off.