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The Ever Twisting Wind: Threshold Breakthrough

Chapter One: Casino Little Hangleton

Beta: ShadowofAxios

Picking up the Triwizard Cup with resignation more than anything else, Andi was relieved as the familiar pull on her navel gripped her and she was Portkeyed back to Hogwarts. Though she really didn't need it depositing her right next to the annoying Ludo Bagman or worse, his superior the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge. That they were both grinning at her like loons just made the whole thing ten times worse.

"And our triumphant Champion has returned at last!" Bagman shouted, his voice apparently enhanced by a Amplifying Charm and booming loudly enough for the whole stadium full of spectators to hear him. "Let me proudly present to you the Triwizard Champion, Andromeda Potter!"

The so called victory, to Andi's tired mind, rang hollow.

"And here to officially present her with the Cup is our esteemed Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge! Minister, please."

The portly little man ambled forward, grabbed one end of the Cup Andi was still absently holding and held it up before whispering under his breath, "Smile for the cameras, dear. Smile."

It was only as the cameras' flashes went off in bursts of retina searing light that Andi realized they were on a raised stage of some kind, one that was surrounded by camera crews and reporters.

"And now, Minister, for the other part of Miss Potter's prize." Bagman said with a slimy, greedy smile. "Her one thousand galleons."

The Minister took the mokeskin bag from his subordinate before presenting it to Andi.

She was tempted to refuse it but that would likely kick up a fuss that she was too tired after dealing with Voldemort to deal with. So she just played along and putting the Cup down, received the bag from the Minister with a brittle smile.

"Thank you." The short haired girl said, feeling the light weight of the magical bag. Her thoughts danced around giving it to charity, it wasn't like she actually need the currency.

The reporters had a field day again and Andi was blinded for a second. When her vision returned it was to the sight of Moody storming through the crowd of journalists towards the stage.

"What did you do?!" The Hogwarts Professor shouted, shoving his way through the crowd at a hobbling pace, his face a rictus of fury, his hands shaking as he struggled to maintain a grip on his cane. "What have you done to my Master!?"

The crowd murmured in confusion at what had triggered the eccentric former Auror, but otherwise parted for him. None, it seemed, were willing to test a man with as deadly a reputation as Alastor Moody.

Staring the man in his faux eye, understanding dawned on the child of the sky. Of course Voldemort couldn't do this alone. He had to have someone on the inside right? How else did her name end up in the Goblet?

And of course it was the Hogwarts DADA professor. Again. The post really was cursed.

It was probably a result of her exhaustion but Andi was so distracted by these thoughts that she didn't notice as the man drew his wand, its tip already glowing a sickly green. Others did not. While most of the crowd who did just gasped in shock, a few reacted more productively.

"Andi!" Wendy shouted from a few feet behind the demigoddess, before an instant later zipping around her body and transforming into her Storm Mail in a hissing wail of wind that whipped around her, blowing the Minister back with a yelp.

Another who acted wisely and quickly was Dumbledore who with wandwork that Andi's heightened half-blood senses struggled to follow, silently cast a chain of spells that first caused Moody's wand arm to abruptly jerk skyward where his spell discharged harmlessly, and then bound the man in thick cords, before finally knocking him unconscious with a familiar stunner.

"W-What, what is happening here!?" Cornelius Fudge demanded even as his security detail of Aurors swarmed out of wherever they'd been hiding and surrounded him and Andi.

Dumbledore chose to ignore the question, choosing instead to march over to his prisoner and examine him, starting with the liquor flask the man carried everywhere.

"Polyjuice," the Headmaster noted with a frown. "But why impersonate Alas-"

"To use this stupid Tournament to set up Voldemort's scheme to kill me," Andi shouted, frustrated with this latest impediment to her getting some rest. She was tired damnit!

"Voldemort has returned?" Dumbledore asked calmly, even as all the wizards paled and shivered in terror at the prospect.

"Yeah, but I dealt with him." Andi told him confidently, her eyes stormy. "He's dead. For good this time. Bloody parasite."

"Again I ask, what in Merlin's name is going on here!" The Minister shouted belligerently.

"I believe that's enough of harassing my Champion." A darkly, sensual voice said as a thick bank of Mist appeared out of nowhere and surrounded all the wizards. Immediately they, without exception, froze in place even as their eyes glazed over.

It was in the midst of this unnerving scene that a superhumanly beautiful woman in dark robes, holding twin torches and with a face that was pale, beautiful, and ageless appeared.

"Lady Hecate," Andi greeted politely with a bow even as Wendy detached and did the same. "It's an honor to be in your presence."

The pleasantries didn't come easily to Andi. Part of her rebelled at the idea of treating anyone with this kind of respect. But her lessons with Apollo and the crappy turn her life had taken lately thanks to gods cursing her had beaten into her the need to avoid offending gods. And if that meant minding her manners then she'd do it.

"So polite? I see Apollo can teach even the unteachable." Andi's matron said with an impressed grin. "Good work, child, with that leech. Honestly, such mortals are an annoyance. Hades is pleased too. It always heckled him when a mortal finds a loophole to stick to the mortal plane even after death. Perhaps with one less irritation, he'll become less of a surly neighbor? Only time will tell, but the possibility alone pleases me."

"Uh?" Andi mouthed, not really getting what the goddess was trying to say.

"It means, my Champion, that I am pleased by your actions." Hecate explained with a sigh.

Andi felt her cheeks color, both in embarrassment and happiness.

"Are you speaking in riddles today, Lady Hecate?" Adrasteia asked as she and her sister walked over, but only after offering the goddess a respectful bow.

"What kind of goddess of mysteries would I be if I did not oread?" Lady Hecate replied with a clipped tone.

"Well, as Lord Zeus, you know, my client, said in the agreement we made, you need to treat Miss Andi fairly." Adrasteia said glaring at the goddess. "I don't see how deliberately confusing her to your meaning as being fair."

"It's not like I was issuing a quest to her," Hecate huffed in indignation. "I was simply trying to praise her."

"And avoid doing so by making it so complicated she didn't understand you," Ida chimed in. "That's having your cake and eating it too. Hardly fair."

"Yes yes," Lady Hecate waved her hand. "Ruin all the fun of it, Ida. Now before you distracted me…"

With a snap of her fingers, the wizards all sprung to life. But the thick Mist did not lift and they scurried about under its influence, all whilst pretending the women of the Greek pantheon weren't even there.

"There. Now they'll go about their little investigation into tonight's events without disturbing you Andi. Ever. At least on this matter."

"Thank- thank you Lady Hecate." Andi bowed again, shuffling on her feet so as not to fall on her face from exhaustion.

Noticing this, Wendy quickly reached over to support her though with her small frame she wasn't exactly offering much help. Ida walking over to do the same though did wonders.

"Go get a good rest, my Champion." The goddess of magic said with a frown at the sight. "You most assuredly need and deserve it."

With that Hecate vanished in a cloud of Mist.

"Bed," Ida ordered before anyone could say anything else.

"Yes, Ida," Andi agreed easily enough. It was what she wanted to do anyways.

"Oh, and congratulations on your win Andi." Ida said offering her pupil a proud warm smile as she helped the girl stumble down the stairs to the stage.

"Thanks Ida, that really means a lot to me."

And it did. It really, really did. Ida might be a hardass when it came to Andi's studies, and that made the girl resent her most days. But she was also the closest thing to a mother figure the girl ever had. So it was only natural that she preened under her mentor's praise.

"Congratulations Andi," Adrasteia said as she went over to replace Wendy on Andi's right in helping the demigod walk. "I'm proud of you tonight. And I'm sure your Father is as well."

Andi just nodded. By the way he helped her back in the graveyard, she was pretty sure he was.

"You sure, you're okay? Just tired?" Wendy asked worriedly as she floated just ahead of the trio.

"Yeah, I-I'm just wiped out. Nothing a good rest won't cure."

Wendy looked skeptical but accepted it nonetheless. "Then let's get you to bed ASAP. You look like you just went three rounds with Lord Ares."

Andi winced. She remembered fighting Ares. He was one helluva a opponent. Going three rounds with him honestly sounded like a nightmare.

I must look awful. Andi thought and yet, But I can finally close Voldemort out of my life. That's a victory, right?

Andi had hoped for a good night's rest that evening. Unfortunately, the Fates had other plans. Literally.

The daughter of Zeus had barely closed her eyes when she found herself sitting in a blank white room with three old ladies. Three very unsettlingly familiar elderly women knitting away as they glared at her.

A lump of dread filled her belly at the sight of the three grannies. Her throat ran dry as she knew this couldn't be a normal dream.

"G-Greetings, Lady Clotho, Lady Lachesis, Lady Atropos?" She asked cautiously.

"Least she's polite." The first sister murmured.

"Not that it matters," The middle sister huffed.

"She's derailed us enough as is. Let's get this over with." The third sister grunted. "Girl, we're going to play a game."

"A game?" Andi asked, totally confused.

"Yes, one to regain a semblance of the charmed life you were originally supposed to have." Clotho said with an angry growl.

"But which you lost when you angered us by your actions allowing the Machine Gods to rise generations before their time." Lachesis said with an annoyed huff.

And that dread grew three sizes at those words.

"But your fulfilment of that Wizarding prophecy earlier this evening has earned back enough favour with us for us to give you this opportunity." Atropos informed her with a grim finality that befit her role as the Fate of Death.

"Wait, wait," Andi paused, holding up her hands. "Are you saying that all my trouble lately is your fault?"

"That and your Father's. I swear, most tragedies happen because of his bumbling."

"Don't absolve her of blame, Clotho." Lachesis hissed. "She wasn't supposed to go on that quest with the daughter of Ares. She was meant to walk in the son of Poseidon's shadow but no! She had to try and steal the thunder by carving out her own place in the quest."

"Like Father, like daughter." Atropos snorted. "Always after the attention."

"I suppose you're right," Clotho mused. "We did even try to save the weave by killing the girl before she could tear it asunder but she had the audacity to live!"

"Exactly," Lachesis said with a nod. "Dumb Scylla, can't even do her job right. I swear the monsters are getting more complacent as the years pass."

"Yes and now millions will die as the Machine Gods establish themselves." Atropos said with a sad, frustrated sigh. "All because you showed mercy to a single AI with a sob story. One we made deliberately annoying so you'd be encouraged to toss her into the Sea of Monsters."

"But you didn't," Clotho while pointing a finger accusingly at Andi.

"And now we need to rework our tapestries! All of them! All because of you!"

"Calm, Lachesis," Atropos urged her sister. "We've got our hits in already. Or did you forget how we created the opening for the gods to curse her and the massive response that got?"

"Oh yeah!" Clotho said with a pleased smile. "All those gods angry at the girl or Zeus taking the chance to curse her. It was totally cathartic to see!"

"Indeed," Lachesis said, chuckling in amusement.

"Agreed," Atropos said with a nod. "But we've wasted enough knitting time. Let's get this show on the road."

That little tirade certainly didn't make Andi feel confident about this meeting. Her hands tightened into fists around her shorts. It stung to have all her so-called terrible decisions flung in her face.

"So, uh, we're playing a game?"

"You are playing a game. We're watching." Clotho corrected with a wave of a crooked finger.

Before Andi could reply, the dream shifted and the grim landscape of the graveyard where she'd recently fought for her life surrounded her. She'd just finished her survey when the vapors of the graveyard coalesced into a mess of earth in front of Andi before proceeding to shift like clay and transform into a sculpture.

One identical to herself.

An uncanny resemblance that only persisted as the sculpture came to life. The only difference came in the choice of clothing, with the clone having abnormally long sleeves that covered her wrists entirely. It was a minor detail but on an otherwise identical clone, it stood out though Andi couldn't even guess at their significance.

"That doppelgänger really is you by the way," Lachesis said with a sick little grin. "She just happens to be a version of you that would've been if our tapestries followed our original pattern."

The doppelgänger offered Andi a airheaded grin that just repulsed her.

I'm not that empty headed, am I!? Andi thought to herself, only to realise with some horror that she had been. For the longest time, she hadn't cared about learning at all. It had taken Ida's guidance for her to really take to it. Sure, Hermione had tried when they'd been friends, but the bushy haired girl never really succeeded. Too often she just gave up in exasperation and studied for her rather than make her do the studying herself.

"And we've even invited Lord Hermes to be our referee for today's festivities." Atropos finished with a grin.

As if on cue, and Andi reasoned it probably was, Lord Hermes materialized in the graveyard. He was instantly recognizable in his regular guise as muscular man with curly blond hair, blue eyes, elfish features, and sly grin.

"Thank you for inviting me ladies," the god of sports said with a winsome smile that had the Fates swooning. "So what game are we playing today?"

"Craps," Clotho informed him.

"Ah, the game of champions." Lord Hermes chuckled.

"Or a version of it at least," Lachesis added as she snapped her fingers and a casino table for the game materialized between Andi and her doppelgänger. "In our game, each player starts with twenty life points which they'll use to place wagers."

"And since we're got ourselves a casino table and you to serve as our referee, you can serve as the neutral banker." Atropos concluded the explanation.

Gambling? O-Okay, that's not too bad. I'm usually lucky with this sort of stuff. Andi thought, psyching herself up but a thought came to her that she immediately gave voice to, "And if I lose?"

"Then the Fates will let it be known you're on their shitlist." Hermes told her. "Considering how many gods want to use cursing you to get back at Zeus, I strongly recommend you win. 'Cos if they knew that cursing you can score points with the Fates too? Well, let's just say that saying you're doomed is an understatement."

No pressure than.

"Good luck!" Her double smiled cheerfully, almost uncaring she could screw someone over for the rest of their days.

I'm not like that. I'm not!

"Fine. Let's do this." The blue eyed girl growled out, her heart hammering in her chest.

"Then let's begin," Hermes said handing both girls twenty golden chips. "Here are your life points."

"Thanks, Lord Hermes," the fake Andi said with a flirty wink.

Shuddering at the thought of flirting with her brother, Andi accepted her chips with a nod.

"Alright, place your bets, girls." Hermes declared with a grin that showed he was enjoying this a little too much in the half-blood's opinion.

With that the game was on.

Andi had no idea how to play craps, so when Lord Hermes asked her to place her bets she hesitated.

"If you don't know what to play then just play the pass line," Hermes offered both players helpfully. "It's the beginner's bet."

"Sure~!" Andi's doppelgänger replied cheerfully as she placed her bet, putting down two of her chips onto the felt of the casino table on the pass line just like the god had suggested.

Gulping nervously, Andi put one of her chips onto the pass line section of her side of the table.

"Since this is a game over your life, you'll roll first Andi," Hermes said as he used a stick to push five dice over to her. "Choose two of the dice and on my call throw it on the table."

The daughter of Zeus nodded and picked up two dice at random. Hermes promptly used his stick to pull the other dice away. Once they were out of the way, he gave Andi a nod to begin.

Shakily Andi tossed the dice she'd been given and rolled a five and a four.

"That's a nine," Hermes declared as he flipped a button that Andi hadn't even noticed before and placed it onto the section on her side of the table for the number. "Now you'll need to roll another nine again before you roll a seven."

"And if I roll a seven?"

"If you roll a seven before another nine then you'll lose the wager."

Andi nodded as she shakily rolled a second time and ended up with a pair of threes.

"Aw~ So, so close." Her doppelgänger cooed and gave a giggling snort. "Try harder next time."

"Shut up!" Andi hissed as Hermes used his stick to push the dice back towards her.

Picking them up, she whispered pleas for them to roll the way she wanted before tossing them onto the table once more. Her prayers were answered and much to her pleasure she managed a five and four. She'd done it! She'd hit nine!

"Congratulations," Hermes told the players with a smile as he rewarded their wagers with a matching amount of chips.

"Thank you, Lord Hermes. You're the best!" The doppelgänger said as she gathered her winnings with a dopey grin.

"How long do we have to play?"

"Until either one of you have no chips left," Clotho said with a nasty grin.

"Or if you double your initial bank," Lachesis allowed with a frown.

"Then we'll call the outcome." Atropos said with an ominous finality.

"Enough negativity!" The doppelgänger said while waving her finger in a nagging manner at the Fates. "We need to stay positive. Stay positive! Always!"

"Positive. Right." The daughter of Zeus frowned at the display by the doppelgänger.

"Time to place your bets girls." Hermes informed them with a professional smile, though his eyes betrayed how unsettled he was by the doppelgänger's behavior.

Andi couldn't blame him. She was just so cheerful. To a disturbing extent.

The champion of Hecate pushed the thought aside though as she examined the table and putting three of her chips on the don't pass line.

That's gotta be betting against the roller, right? Andi reasoned as the doppelgänger placed her wager of four chips on the pass line once more.

"Alt Andi, it's your turn to be shooter." Hermes said as he pushed a new set of five dice at the double.

"Righty-oh!" The double exclaimed as she picked up her chosen dice. "So real me is betting against me huh? Well, I'll show her."

Andi didn't raise to the bait and just kept her eyes glued to the table. A move that earned her a huff of annoyance from the doppelgänger.

Though that annoyance soon became Andi's as the double rolled a seven and won her bet, whilst she lost hers.

Damnit!

"Aw yeah! I'm the best! Haha!" The ditsy doppelgänger cheered.

"Can you quiet down? I don't think they heard you from Elysium." The Champion of Hecate snarked.

"Don't be jelly you can't compete. It makes you look sad."

Sad would be my fist breaking your face. Andi bit back the threat in her mind. It was as if the doppelgänger was trying to annoy her on purpose… just like she used to do with people she didn't like.

Great, so I don't like myself. Therapy is going to be fun next session.

An idea sparked in her mind as a grin crossed her lips.

"Hey you wannabe," Andi called out to the doppelgänger. "You want to prove you're better than me right?"

"Sure! 'Cause I am, duh."

"Then let's not drag this out," Andi told her double with far more confidence than she actually felt. "Let's play pass versus don't pass again. This time though we bet everything on the next round."

"We just got started though." The doppelgänger pointed out as she cocked her head to the side.

"And I don't want to be here all night. Do you?"

"I guess I would like to go back to my own existence too, hmm…. Alrighty! Let's do it!"

Hook, line, sinker. Andi smirked as she glared at the doppelgänger with all the intensity she could muster.

"But! We leave one chip each out."

"Why?"

"So that the winner can gloat of course," the double said with a self-confident grin. "Once one of us go bankrupt I'll betcha the Fates will make me go 'poof'."

"Yup, we totally would." The three grannies acknowledged in unison.

"See," the double said gesturing at the moirae. "So we need to hold onto our last chips so we can properly gloat. But we promise once we're done we forfeit that. Deal?"

"Deal." Andi nodded, inwardly grinning like a loon. Moron, you didn't have us swear on the Styx.

With that declared, each placed all but one of their remaining life chips onto the table. Andi as the next shooter placed hers on the pass line whilst her counterpart placed hers on the don't pass section.

"Let's begin," Hermes ordered. "Andi, please."

"Yes, Lord Hermes." The daughter of Zeus acknowledged as she tossed the dice whilst silently praying to all the gods she knew that it would roll a seven so she could score an easy win.

Her sharp eyes trailed the dice as they bounced across the table. It was like watching them in slow motion, stupid ADHD. The first dice quickly hit the side of the table and spun to a stop with a four. The other kept going for a while longer before finally stilling on a two.

"It's a six. Point set." Hermes declared as he flipped the button and set it on the appropriate section of the table.

"Oh, so, so close." The doppelgänger taunted in a cutesy voice. "Better luck on your next throw?"

Andi growled in anger as she picked up a pair of dice from those offered by Hermes and shook them in the palm of her right hand, whispering prayers and entreaties for good luck.

"You know that they hate you right? The gods you're invoking, I mean." The double reminded Andi unnecessarily.

"If they hate me, they must loathe you." Andi sniped back as she flicked the dice. Watching as they rolled and bounced.

"Nope," the doppelgänger said, popping the 'p' like an obnoxious brat. "They totally love me! See I'm not just daddy Zeus' daughter, I'm grandma Aphrodite's legacy too. So they completely understand why I'm spoiled rotten. 'Sides they all want to get in grandma's panties, so they know better than to mess with me since I'm one of her favorites."

"Must be nice to have things handed to you. I like earning them better." Andi retorted and pumped her fist at seeing where the dice landed. "Like so!"

However unlike how she'd so proudly declared, fortune didn't favor her. Both dice had landed on a five.

"Roll again, Andi." Hermes said as he pushed the dice over to her again.

"Yeah and don't suck this time," the double mocked.

Andi ignored the other girl and rolled once more, hoping against hope that luck was on her side this time. Maybe her fervent prayers had finally gotten through to the gods of chance, because this time her dice landed on a pair of threes! She'd rolled a six! Andi had hit her point. She'd won!

"So it looks like you did win. Congratulations." The clone said in a strangely somber voice.

"I like living, sorta different." Andi exhaled and leaned against the table. Crap that was intense.

"Yeah, yeah, I get it." The double said with a sigh. "Now before I hand over my last chip like I promised. I want to tell you something. Or really show you something."

With that said the doppelgänger pulled up the long sleeves she wore and presented Andi with the back of her forearms which were crisscrossed with scars.

Andi's heart thundered in her chest, breath hitching as she started at the lines running down the forearms. Even if this was a dream realm, she felt bile bubbling up and fiercely kept it down. "W-Why?"

Her voice was more of a croak, stunned that such a thing could happen to someone like her. The old her at least.

Before she finally started to grow up.

"We lost. That's why." The doppelgänger shrugged, beaming a broken smile that made the half-blood swallow dryly. "You see, like you said I never really needed to try to succeed. Like at anything. So when I finally needed to, I couldn't. When the Titan War rolled around I kept going around like I could just coast through things and we'd somehow still win. I didn't take things seriously. And it cost us. One by one, my friends died around me. But I never learned. It always wasn't my fault. It didn't help that everyone agreed with me."

Her fists tightened until her knuckles were white as Andi replied, "That's not me. I'm… I'll make mistakes but I learn from them the best I can. If I mess up again, I'll keep going until I learn the right lesson."

"Oh, but it is." Clotho sneered.

"If not for your Father's intervention with Ida," Lachesis continued.

"This would no doubt be your future." Atropos finished.

"And now it's not." Andi stared at the Fates, her eyes stinging badly but she refused to cry. "I will not be that."

"Isn't it?" Clotho asked.

"Do you not forget your hard earned lessons so very easily?" Lachesis added.

"One step forward, two steps back. That's practically your motto." Atropos sneered.

"What's life without mistakes? Sure… I'm a screw up, an idiot, and I can't listen too well. But even I can own up to when I mess up."

"The point, Andi," Hermes chimed in with a gentle voice. "Is that you need to learn from your mistakes. You've built up a habit of not doing that."

"But I'm working to fix it!"

"And now you know the consequences if you fail to do so," her doppelgänger warned ominously.

Andi could only look at her feet at that. She couldn't look at herself, it was… painful.

"You see, Andi," the doppelgänger continued. "I'm not a version of you cooked up on the fly by the Fates. I'm the you from an alternate universe. One where my arrogance led to a Titan victory. Where I was helpless as Kronos tore Father in half and shattered Olympus. Where half-bloods were reduced to fugitives on the run, perpetually hunted like wild animals. I survived by fleeing that universe but even now I'm hunted, but that didn't let me escape my nightmare so I had to find other ways."

Andi's eyes strayed to the many, many scars that covered her analogue's exposed arms.

"But traveling across universes is against the rules, so the overgods came after me. And they caught me, but they are merciful. They let me come here and give you this warning as a last wish. So please, please, for the sake of all you hold dear, never become like me Andi! Never!" The other her pleaded desperately.

The burning in her eyes was too much, hot tears spilled as she gripped the table tightly.

"I won't. Not ever."

"And that's what makes you the winner." Her alternate self said with a hopeful smile as she passed her last life chip over to Hermes, forfeiting her existence.

The moment the chip left her hand a katana blade materialized out of nowhere and impaled the other Andi in her heart. It was held by a figure in a pitch black robe that obscured all but the faintest glimpses of long pink hair and terrifying eyes with what seemed like endless concentric circles for pupils.

"Begone from all existence, failed hero." The figure sneered as the other Andi disintegrated, leaving nothing, not even ash, behind.

With its task done, the killer turned to Andi and looked at her even as it slowly vanished. It was wordlessly promising to do the same to her should she fail like her alter had.

Fuck you, I'm not failing! Andi snarled in her mind, staring into the abyss itself.

"We shall see, little breeze, we shall see." The being said as it completely disappeared.

"Andi, please don't taunt Lady Yuno. Please." Hermes said, his face pale as he tugged at his collar a few times.

"Who?"

"She's not someone you'll need to know about," Clotho said firmly.

"In fact, once you wake up you won't even know she exists. Right, sisters, Lord Hermes?" Lachesis said, looking jittery.

"Indeed," Atropos agreed. "It's for the best."

Hermes just nodded.

Andi was about to object but before she could say anything, her world went black.

The daughter of Zeus shot up in her bed covered in cold sweat. Her hands gripping the sheets like a lifeline as her eyes darted around her room. With all the lights turned down it was dimly lit room, the only illumination coming from the first few rays of the rising sun.

That was a horrible dream. She mused as she got up to grab a towel and headed to the restroom to wipe herself down. First, I gamble for my fate with the Fates themselves. Second, I see what could happen to me if I don't change myself. And then, I… I what?

Andi frowned. She knew that what she was forgetting was important somehow, but for the life of her she just couldn't remember what it was.

"Well, it probably doesn't matter." Andi told herself as she toweled the sweat off her brow. "It was just a dream after all."

Unbeknownst to her, looking down at her from the clouds far above both Hermes and the Fates breathed a sigh of relief at her words.

Splashing some water on her face, Andi smiled into the mirror over the sink.

But if it was real, then...

"One small step towards happiness. Hehe, it's pretty refreshing."

Done and done! Thanks to Nameless and Axios as always!

Wow, this first chapter went into an entirely different direction than what we planned for. I mean, Lovecraftian horror much? I mean, we had a few more topics of discussion with Hermes and the Fates but it was cut out thanks to the sudden appearance of Death Murder Hobo Bae.

Nameless: I'm partial to calling her Queen of Yanderes, myself. Anyways, so this chapter shows the final fate of OG!Andi that we alluded to in COTU II Chapter 25. Hope you guys like how we're tying the Heroineverse together like this. Now, to work out how to do something similar for Rhode… Hmm...

May you rest in peace you symbol of my early career. Andi gambling for her life seems nuts but the sly thinking on the early all or nothing along with her damn blessed luck with games really helped her out. She totes pulled a Daddy Z on this, he would have done the same. With more cheating though. And flirting. You know he would even with himself, his ego demands it!

Nameless: Andi won't realise this and it's not really necessary knowledge, so we didn't include it in-story (at least not now), but her prayers for luck were answered. None of the gods want to offend the overgods and well… It's quite obvious what they want, namely to kill OG!Andi ASAP. So, the gods, for once, decided to set aside their dislike for their Andi and helped her out. When will Andi learn this? Well, maybe when she [redacted].

Oh no, the spoiler brackets, truly the woes of the fanbase.

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