I headed inside, wracking my brain to think of how to get back at Senna. It was going to be hard since I still had to do some stuff up north and then in the Underworld after, so Senna had the home-field advantage for now. When I got back, this Cat God was going to turn his trickster to ten!

Then I fell into another hole hidden by carpet, but time slowed as my adrenaline pumped, and I turned to see Eliza tossing a tube to Senna, who just rushed back inside. I opened a portal below me and one above Senna to the right as she laughed. The moment I was through the portal, I opened on below Senna and into the hole, catching the glitter tube Eliza had tossed as Senna dropped out of sight. Above her, the paste she had gotten me with last time was already being poured as my portal closed.

Senna screamed in rage as my portal closed, and she was covered in the goop intended for me, and I walked over and pulled the tab on my tube, sending glitter up into the air to fall down on Senna. In moments, the goop hardened, and the Guard Captain was frozen in place and covered with glitter.

"Don't worry, I am going to get you out," I said with a grin as I started cutting her out of the hardening product.

Once Senna was freed from her glittery prison, she glared at me for a moment before sighing and shaking her head. "I think we need to set some ground rules for this prank war."

"And what would those be?" I asked with a raised eyebrow, and Senna chuckled as she walked over and pulled me into a hug.

"No more using your powers," she said, and I snorted as I shook my head. There was no way that was going to happen! This was way too much fun, but I did get it.

"While I am gone, it is not fair that you get to set up for every time I come back, and I don't, so I will still use my portals, but when I come back, I will stick to just normal, no magic, or portals, deal? No using your Guard Captain position to make things difficult for me either; that isn't fair," I said, and Senna chuckled as she nodded.

"Deal!" She said as she walked past me, and I sighed, but Eliza came and jumped into my arms.

"Did you miss me?" Eliza asked after kissing me, and I grinned.

"Are you breathing?" I asked, and Eliza looked at me funny but then started to giggle as she cuddled into me.

"I missed you too," she said, and I chuckled and hugged her tightly.

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"So, I am home for the night, so what do you want to do?" I asked, but Eliza pulled back and gave me a distasteful look that confused me until she spoke.

"Listenia told me that if she found out any of us were taking you out before she got to, we would all be in for a world of pain," Eliza said, and I winced. I had forgotten all about that, and now I was going to have to deal with an angry Harpy.

"Guess I should go see her then. It has been a while since I checked up on her anyways, and she is my apprentice, but I want to do something before I go," I said as I set Eliza down.

"Oh?" Eliza asked, but then giggled as I reached into her shirt to grab one of her perky soft breasts. "You know, we can go in the room and have some fun if that is what you do?"

I grinned and gave her breast a slight grip as I placed my mark on her and then removed my hand. "I was just putting this here so I can track you, and you can get ahold of me if you need my help or someone tries to hurt or kidnap you."

"Oh, is that all?" Eliza asked as she pouted and stepped back away from me. "I thought you actually wanted to play!"

p I chuckled as I shook my head with a grin, then opened a portal right beside her. "Some other time, beautiful."

Eliza snorted as she watched me step through the portal, and I chuckled as the portal closed. I really liked that woman, and I loved to watch her grow. Once I was done up north, I really wanted to just relax for a while and catch up with all the girls.

I stepped out of my portal into Listenia's room with a yawn as I stretched my arms up over my head. It had been a while since I had seen her last because of everything going on with Torrain's situation up north, but she wasn't in her room, but I could hear talking coming from the kitchen. I portalled there and found Listenia and her mother Elfinia, but both of the Elves were cleaned up very nicely and were wearing beautiful dresses.

Listenia was in a long white one with gold trimming, while her mother was in a dark green one. They both smiled as they saw me enter the room, and I just raised an eyebrow at them questioningly. "What's going on?"

"You are talking my mother and me out, and we have been waiting for you," Listenia declared, and I frowned, looking over to Elfinia.

She looked angry, but she still looked amazing in that dress, and her long brown hair was in a beautiful updo. Elfinia's eyes looked over me, and she sighed as she shook her head slightly. "You have changed much since I last saw you."

"I have remembered who I am," I said calmly, even though there were some bad memories that still haunted me from my past. "I know everything that happened between us in the past, but now is not the time to dwell on that. A better question is how you knew that I would be coming here?"