Going through a portal, we enter a cold and windy plane of ice. It is mostly flat and seems to go on forever. Spread out among the plane of frost are what look like frozen solid, humanoid bloblike shapes. They look similar to the shape of souls. Most of them seem like they were frozen in place mid-movement but some look like they were crawling or huddled up on the ground.

"Where are we?"

"This is the plane of freezing. It is where we purify souls in ice."

"Purify? What does that mean?"

"Hmm…Essentially, it's like farming. We take in all the souls that were unwanted or corrupted with Chaos energy and we split the Chaos energy from the soul. The Chaos energy congregates into the land and the purified soul makes for a succulent meal."

"You eat souls?"

"Yup. We don't need them to survive but they do make us stronger. The purer the soul the more succulent and effective it is."

"And what happens to the soul when you eat it?"

"It gets absorbed into our body and if we have eaten enough of them we develop our own personal demon form that gets enhanced with each further soul we eat and if we die, those souls re-enter the reincarnation cycle," He points at himself, "For us though, if we die it's over. Our soul resets to a blank state and all our memories are lost as we reincarnate as something random."

"Uhu…And what's a demon form?"

"It is a form you assume that matches your desires. It enhances your physical abilities and gives you unique powers that match the type of person you are."

"Do you have one, Mr. 'Demonking'?"

He grins, "I do but I don't want to show you."

"Heh, I know for sure this is a dream now because Fey can't lie."

He pokes my cheek while pouting, "I already told you I'm a Demon not a Fey."

"And I told you, you're a big fat liar, dream Dave."

He sighs.

"This willful ignorance will make first introductions easier, so really I should be happy but I'm also annoyed that you don't take me seriously whatsoever."

I pat his cheek and give him a smile, "It's okay. You're cute, when you're cute people might not take you seriously but they are always kind to you."

He breaks out into laughter, "Hahahaha, I assume you are speaking from experience?"

I nod and give him a thumbs up, "Being cute is awesome."

Dave then brushes over my cheek and walks me toward a cave built into a cluster of ice. Putting his fingers in his mouth, he lets out a loud whistle. I then hear what sounds almost like a roar, echo from the inside and heavy footsteps coming closer. Something that looks like a ten foot tall yeti with long white fur and grayish, ape-like features, comes running out toward us with their arms stretched out.

Placing me down on the patch of ice behind him, Dave opens his arms as well and receives the yeti's impact like a football player, surprisingly not moving at all or showing any strain.

The yeti, in a slow and deep voice says, "Daddy! Aghanim………. Happy………… To………… Seeeee…… You………."

"I'm glad! I brought you a surprise!"

Smiling widely, Aghanim answers, "I…………Like………..Surprises………"

I then feel myself being lifted up as if someone was forcing me to fly and Dave grabs me mid air to show to the yeti, "I brought you a new little sister~"

Looking at me, the giant apelike person's eyes widen and get a huge smile on their face, "Babyyyyy!"

He gives me a big hug, it feels…Quite nice actually. A bit too warm though. He is really fluffy and he smells like a freshly cleaned fuzzy carpet. Letting go of the hug, he pulls me up to his face and gives me a very genuine loving smile, "I……… Am……………. Aghanim………… You………… Can…………… Call………. Me………. Aggy…………."

I smile at him, "I'm Sammy. I like this place, it has nice weather."

"I……….. Also……………….. Like ……………………….. The…………… Cold."

Dave brushes over Aghanim's belly, "We're having family dinner tonight. Make sure to come, okay?"

He smiles, "Yes………….Dad……………….."

Flying out of Dave's arms, I ask, "Do you live in that cave?"

"Yes."

"May I see?"

He smiles again, "Yes!"

Flying next to him, we enter the giant ice cave and find…An empty ice cave. Well, I guess it's not entirely empty, there are some white hairs, one cushion and what looks like a well loved and somewhat broken plushie that resembles Aghanim but otherwise…That's it.

"So…Aggy…Do you like have a secret room or something?"

He looks around, "I……… Don't………….. Think………………. So."

"Are you really happy here? You only have a cushion and an old plushie…Do you not want a bed or some other toys, maybe a kitchen? Do you even have a toilet here!?"

He smiles at me, "Sister…….. Care………. About……. Aggy. That…………… Make…….. Me…….. Happy. I………… Don't…………. Like………… Clutter. Many ……………. Thing……….. Make………. .Aggy………… Dizzy. But………… Aggy………. Not …………………. Alone. If………….. Want……….. Thing…………. Ask………….. Dad ………….. Or……….. Sibling. I…….. Happy."

I pat his head, "Okay, just make sure to ask."

He gives me another hug, "Yes."

When he lets go, Dave is already standing there with another spinny wheel, "Care for a spin~"

"Uuuhhh…Sure!"

Man this dream is surreal…Mommy must be trying out something really experimental today…

Spinning the wheel, it lands on something I can't read again and we now pop up in some sort of decrepit mansion where multiple soul blobs are running through the hallways, pushing and tripping each other while a noise of metal chains scraping along wood come closer. A muscular person with a sack over their head, glowing red eyes and blood stained butchers clothes then rounds the corner and looks at us. Quickly approaching us, I can see bloody hooks stuck into its back that are scraping the wooden floor behind it.

Flying behind Dave, I yell, "Mommy, I don't like this, it's scary! I wanna wake up now!"

Turning around, Dave smiles at me, "It's okay, he might look scary but he's nice~" he then gently picks up and hugs me tightly before turning around again, the big monstrous thing right in front of us staring down, breathing heavily.

"I brought you a new sister, go on introduce yourself~"

Looking at me, the thing suddenly shrinks down to a man dressed in a tweed suit, with a hat that has two curved horns peaking out of it. His skin is purple and he looks like a young man in his early thirties with yellow eyes and dark purple curled hair. He also has a tail with a heart shaped tip.

Putting his hat down, he looks at me and smiles, "My apologies there, I do come off quite intimidating in my demon form. It was certainly not my intention to scare my new baby sister. Let me properly introduce myself, I am Zackary. Lovely to meet you, would you like some biscuits?"

He hands me a small rectangular shaped cookie. Feeling a bit hesitant, I take it and bite into it.

"Ooooh it's banana flavored! I love bananas!"

He puts his hat back on, "Oh my, what a coincidence! So do I! Would you like another?"

I nod my head and he gives me another cookie.

"Now, if I may ask. What is your name, sister dearest?"

Munching on a cookie, I answer, "Sammy."

"I see! What a nice name!"

"Thank you! Mama gave it to me."

"Is that so~? How nice of her."

I smile at him, "Yeah!"

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Looking over to Dave, Zachary telepathically asks, "That's the Winter Princess isn't it?"

"That is correct~"

"Are you actually taking her into the family or is this a joke?"

"I'd never joke about something big as family~"

"You literally took in a mechanical snowman toy once and gaslit Dhana into treating it like it's her new brother…"

"Hahahahaha, yeah, that was hilarious. I only did that though because she said I was predictable and that pissed me off."

"Right…And I'm sure over the past 127 000 years we know each other, I have pissed you off enough to prank me too…"

"Who knows~ She really is your sister though."

"Sigh…Kay. When did you rape her mom? Did you wipe her mind? Why aren't they retaliating?"

"I did not. I was able to corrupt her when she was a newborn, so there was no need to put my literal seed in her mother, though~ When her body was formed, I did make sure to put some of me into Sammy. I actually had to fight the White Queen off to do so, can you believe it? That old hag really does need another beating."

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"Didn't you lose each time you two fought?"

Sounding angry, he answers, "Those were simply battles. As long as I survive I can learn, recuperate and get stronger. Eventually that bitch will fall. I have to admit though, she does have a good taste in children."

"Ah…So the Princess is a proxy war between you two?"

"She certainly is now! I tried corrupting her even before that bitch did! And the most annoying part about it is that she didn't even know I was doing it!!! She fucked me over without even knowing she did until Sammy's body started reforming! That damn bitch tried taking away what's mine!!!"

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"May I have another cookie please?"

Smiling at me, Zachary hands me another one, "Why of course~"

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"So you're actually serious about this, huh…"

"Of course! I'm currently going around introducing her to everyone. Make sure to come by for dinner today."

"Alright…So uhm…Dad?"

"Yes?"

"I know you don't really care about that but I have to ask, isn't this going to cause some extreme tensions between the Fey, the White Queen and us?"

"Most likely, yes."

"Sigh…Kay. I'm going back to work then until dinner…"

"Sure! See ya!"

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"Now then, sister dearest. I shall return to work and meet you again during dinner. I wish you a wonderful time getting to know everyone."

"Thanks! See ya then!"

He then transforms back into his creepy form and vanishes around the corner.

"So…What's Zach's job?"

"He is in charge of the plane of Chasing. Where he purifies souls through fear and pain."

"Huh…Weird."

Snapping his finger, the wheel appears again right in front of a creepy painting with eyes that follow you. Spinning it together with Dave, we suddenly appear in an extremely hot place, it's extremely uncomfortable. I have trouble breathing, my throat burns and my eyes make things go blurry. But thankfully, I am quickly cooling down. The first few seconds were agony but everything is slowly getting better.

Looking around now as my vision clears, I can see a cloud above my head, gently snowing on top of me and further away from me, the snowcloud is raining.

Looking up, Dave whistles impressed, "You made it snow in the plane of burning. That's no easy feat."

"I didn't do it on purpose…I just felt so hot."

"That's even more impressive then!"

Rubbing my eyes, I look ahead and see the entire place around the clouds covered in fire. But despite the fire everywhere it is actually entirely dark in here. I can see just fine but I think this is just like the carriage. There is no light here whatsoever and the only sound is the quiet crackling of fire. Only fire. So much fire.

"I-I-I want to go."

"Hmm? Go where?"

"Anywhere not here! I want to go! NOW!!!"

He looks down at me and nonchalantly answers, "Okay~"

We then appear back in the room that I first woke up in, where Dave sits down on a chair and gently brushes over my back, "What's wrong?"

"F-Fire. I don't-I don't like fire."

"Ah, I see…My apologies, I should have thought about that earlier. Let's rest for a bit. Would you like some iced coco?"

"M-Maybe later."

"Alright. Just relax, I'm here."

Putting my head on Dave's chest, I start to cry while he gently consoles me.

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Stacey, the purple demon teen who likes music, enters the room a bit later when Elleanor is taking a nap.

"So…How's parenting the baby going, dad?"

Propping up his head by leaning it on his fist, he answers, "Already made a mistake. I forgot to take into account a trauma she has from being burned alive, when visiting Melchior."

"Wait, hold on, the winter princess survived being burned alive? That's pretty hardcore."

"Uhu, she was barely a few weeks old back then too. She's overall pretty cool, though she does have the flaw of being overly 'righteous' and caring for others. And even worse, she has self sacrificial tendencies. The kid really needs to learn that self preservation is the most important thing. The reason she nearly burned to death was because she was trying to save some farming human she barely knew a few days. Can you believe it!?"

"That…Does seem kinda fucked, yeah. Did you help her out when she got burned?"

"Huh? Of course not, why would I save a kid I was just interested in? I didn't think of her as my daughter at the time. Though her surviving that was pretty cool. Wanna hear something else cool?"

"Sure."

"She survived being near the Archlich of this island by playing dead."

"Impressed whistle Wow."

"Yep. Also, turns out this island is one of the few where Adam had the potential to destroy the four realms directly attached to it and she stopped it."

"Hot damn, and she did all that as a baby?"

"Yup, as a new born."

Smiling brightly, Stacey gets a little closer to the two and answers, "That's cool as fuck. Good job, lil sis."

Dave nods proudly, "She is so cool she can even make it snow."

Stacey groans, "That was a shit pun dad."

He chuckles, "Regardless, Sammy might have great potential but she is still just a toddler. Experiencing all these things as an infant was not beneficial to her mental health. We need to be mindful of that in the future."

"Gotcha."

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Opening my eyes, I find myself leaning against Dave's chest. Looking around I'm still in the room from before but Dave is now sitting in a rocking chair instead of a regular one. Noticing me getting up, he smiles at me and uses a pink handkerchief to wipe my face.

"Are you feeling better now?"

A bit groggy, I answer, "Uhuh…When can I see mommy?"

He grins, "Tomorrow. Say, Elleanor, do you like spiders?"

I shake my head, "No, they're scary."

"I see! Let's meet Arachne at dinner then."

He summons the wheel again.

"Now, how about you spin again~"

"I-Is it gonna be a scary place again…"

"Probably, yeah. But I'll protect you. No harm will come to you."

"Kay…"

Spinning the wheel, we now pop up in a pine needle forest. Looking around, there are multiple limbs and pieces of souls on the ground and if you look really hard, you can see multiple, almost invisible, wires strung up everywhere.

A tall red skinned person, wearing only a pair of golden trunks, approaches us. He is muscular but also has a big belly. There are multiple golden chain piercings on his body and he has multiple blobby soul limbs and heads hanging from him. In each of his hands is a small sickle and there are wart-like black bumps on his arms. As for his face, he seems to have tusks and antler-like protrusions coming out the side of his mouth and the top of his head. The rest of his face looks similar to an enraged Ogre with black fiery looking sideburns and mane like black hair. Walking up to us, the strings cut into his body slightly but break each time, with his wounds instantly regenerating.

In a strained somewhat high pitched but calm voice, the guy says, "Hi dad."

"Hello! I brought you a new little sister!"

Looking down at me, he looks back at Dave, "Uhm…Like for real?"

"Yup!"

He blankly stares at Dave, then back to me.

"That's the Winter Princess isn't it?"

"Uhuh!"

He stares at Dave, then back at me again, lets out a sigh and drops one of his scythes to the ground.

Moving his finger toward me, I see him pierce through multiple invisible strings.

He then puts his finger on my belly and starts tickling it, "Goochie goochie goo~ I'm your big bro Gothmog. Nice to meet you!"

I look back at him completely stone faced.

Seemingly a bit uncomfortable, he looks at me for a bit, "Oh! Right!"

He now transforms his body to look like a forty year old, slightly overweight man with red skin, a hairy chest, a pair of small antlers on his head and the same black side burns and mane like black hair. He seems to have a red tail with a heartshaped tip now and his face and general body look a lot more approachable. He looks like your typical, forty year old football dad, just with the worst sunburn imaginable. The only weird thing about him besides his tail, skin color and antlers are his eyes. They look like a lion's or tigers' eyes.

Trying to tickle my belly again, I grab his finger this time to stop him, which seems to make him weirdly happy, "How cute!" he looks over to Dave, "What's her name?"

I answer, "I'm Sammy."

"Ooooh! You can speak already!"

"Yeah…Doesn't it hurt to get cut by the wires?"

He crosses his arms and throws back his head, "Hmm…Yeah? But I barely feel it and the sting doesn't last long."

"But even if it hurts just a little that's not good…Shouldn't you wear a suit or something to protect you?"

"Gohahahaha! Nah! I'm not made of paper, that doesn't bother me at all," he ruffles through my hair, "But thank you for worrying."

This guy…Is such a middle aged dude…

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Dave tells Gothmog telepathically while grinning, "She thinks you act like an old man."

"Gohahaha, well compared to the toddler I am an old man."

"Sigh You're the 5th youngest…6th now with Sammy being part of this family. When are you going to get over this phase of acting like some geezer…"

"Gohahaha, never. I was just born with an old soul, I guess."

"Right…Make sure to come by for dinner today."

"Sure!"

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Dave then summons the wheel again and I spin it. When it stops, we appear next to a circus tent and some wooden wagons. The vibe of the entire place seems a lot more like earth.

A woman dressed in a tight fitting blue, red and white jester outfit with golden accents and a porcelain mask then backflips toward us, the bells on her hat jingling with each rotation.

Stopping in front of us, she bows and I clap, "That was cool!"

Dave smiles at me, "Right~" looking over to the woman, he says, "This is your new sister. Her name is Sammy."

Getting close to me with her porcelain mask, a bouquet of colorful flowers appears in her hand and she puts a pink one in my hair.

I giggle and ask, "What's your name?"

She puts her hand on the chin of her mask, then raises a finger.

Daggers now appearing between her fingers, she jumps up at least ten ft into the air and nose dives back down while spinning and throwing daggers into the wagon walls before landing on one finger, rolling forward and kneeling in front of the wagons with her arms in a 'tadaah!' motion.

It does seem like she wrote something with the daggers but unfortunately it's in a language I don't understand…

Dave chuckles and yells, "She can't read yet," looks toward me and answers, "It spells Kiko".

"Oh! So her name is Kiko! Hello, I'm Sammy!"

Dave smiles, "She is your new sister."

Her outfit suddenly vanishing, I now see her turn into what looks like a very fit, young looking woman with ash colored skin, orange eyes with black slit pupils and long wavy black hair with pointy ears poking out of it. She is wearing what looks almost like a pirate outfit, with a red coat and a white puffy blouse together with brown pants and black boots that go up to slightly above her knees. She has a long and thick gray tail with a heart shaped tip and long black horns on top of her head that almost look like a U-shape, with her right horn being slightly shorter than her left.

Overall, she looks very pretty and has a confident smile on her face.

"Oh my~ So, father. Do my eyes behold a bundle of joy that will become one with our family, or a lie wrapped up in the appearance of the Fey princess?"

"She's the real deal~ I am currently introducing her to everyone. Make sure to come for dinner later."

She walks over to me, gets close to my face and starts inspecting it before poking my nose with a smile, "You're cute."

"Thank you! And you are pretty!"

Throwing her hair back she answers with a proud smile, "I am well aware, darling."

"So, is this like the plane of circuses or something? All the other ones had a theme before."

She starts cackling, "No darling, this isn't hell. It is just an island I am trying to conquer. Sitting in hell all day would stifle my creativity. I prefer a different kind of audience."

"Huh…"

She looks over to Dave, "Has she met Lula yet?"

"Nope, not yet~"

Giving me a thumbs up, she tells me, "You should visit her next. She has dream powers, I'm sure you'll get along."

I look to Dave, "Can we go there next?"

"Of course! Say bye to your sister."

"Bye bye!"

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