“Yes, but I think I can help with that, just don’t get too excited. If you let me take care of you, I can help you get your powers under control,” I explained to her, but Tiga didn’t look convinced.

“No! I can’t leave here! My father has been protecting me from my crazy mom that wants to eat me!” Tiga cried as I slowly waded into the water.

“Don’t you worry about her; I already dealt with your mother once when I was a weakling. So now I shouldn’t even have to look at her to keep her back; plus, If she starts causing trouble, we will be the ones that are eating her!” I declared.

Tiga gave me a strained look, and the water near her started to froth, and I stopped. I wasn’t sure what her range was for whatever she had used on me, but I was prepared for it this time.

“Who are you, and how can you be so confident of yourself?” Tiga asked me with shock; her tentacles were causing the water to undulate and boil around her.

“Mex gave me his place as Demon Lord, and I killed Doa who killed Neft. I am the strongest, and only Demon Lord left on this island, but I have also been helping everyone I can before leaving. I will help you learn to control your powers so you can become stronger, or you can just relax with the other girls, but you will have to help out,” I explained, and suddenly Tiga froze.

“Girls? Relax? Get stronger? Free?” Tiga asked with a confused but partially hopeful look growing.

My body became clear and blue as I activated my Water Pact Aspect, and I let the air around us filled with snakes. I told my mind what I wanted to have around me, and my intense control over water made the snakes swirl and twist around us.

“All of those things, you just have to agree,” I said, and I parted a path three feet deep and two wide and walked over to where Tiga was stunned, floating in the water.

Tiga didn’t even look like she was breathing as she watched me. I was walking on top of the surface of the path and the snakes around her.

When I finally reached her, I offered Tiga my hand with a smile.

“One step at a time, but I will show you the world if you let me. You have a lonely life with only a crying father to keep you company. Let me take you to meet many girls of different races, shapes, and sizes,” I explained, but Tiga looked away for a moment, then looked back before speaking.

“My father does cry, but he is a good man. If I go, you have to bring him along and find him, someone!” Tiga declared with a determined look that made me take a step back in surprise.

[Ah shit, of course, she would pull this shit.]

“Fireden: Toss her back!*

*Grogvel: Sounds like too much work.*

*Windorf: So, you just need to fall in the water, and then you absorb into the rock, then make a clean getaway!*

*Blaza: an extortionist! I like this one! You should definitely keep her!*

*Wataluga: Oh, for the love of Elementari! What is wrong with you that the Dark Elemental has more compassion than you three!*

*Blaza: Elementari can suck Phenox’s Burning cock!*

*Kali: Tell Phenox to stop sticking it in dirty wind storms then, and it won’t burn as bad!*

*Fireden: Get rekt cock cheese; you got drenched!*

*Wataluga: That is not how the saying goes!*

I ignored the rest of the chat and smiled down at Tiga, nodding against my own better judgment. Still, this girl didn’t deserve this.

Plus, her father had already run off to more than likely go try to confront Mex, who was busy. Who knows, Calbro might already be working his way into the pot.

“Yes, I will take your father with us. He did save you from your crazy mother after all,” I said, and Tiga finally relaxed and smiled, reaching up to take my hand.

I took hers in mine and confirmed that I would take care of her in my mind, causing her to burst with light. I watched as she grew two legs, and then her eight tentacles moved back to surround her strange scorpion tail.

Once the light faded, I helped her climb up on the path I was standing on, allowing her to stand on it like I was. Tiga was wide-eyed, but before she could talk, I put a finger to her lips and started to back up.

Tiga followed, but I was sweating by the time she got back to the shore with me. It was weird because I was man-made out of water.

The strain of doing so many things at once had been fine at first. I pushed too hard, and I still wasn’t used to doing so much at once.

The moment Tiga had stepped up, that was like I had to double my concentration to let her walk on water. It was something to keep in mind for the future.

[Controlling the water is easy, but using it to move things is much more challenging. Earth and Wind are better for that.]

I dropped down to just my Fire Force Pact and then smiled at Tiga, examining her new body. I stepped back, and she looked terrific, but the way her nine tails looked like an undulating flower was remarkable.

“How did you do something so drastic?! Am I dreaming? How can I be so different? What are you?!” Tiga asked me in shouts of confusion, and I just grinned down at her with a big goofy smile.

“I am just a man looking to help the people that need it if I can. You have been stuck here because of your idiot mother, and I plan on changing that.. So, now are you ready to meet all the rest of the girls and your new family? I think that we need to go stop your father from getting himself killed,” I told Tiga, and she gave me big eyes.