If, and Only If || (Xiao x Reader)

九

'Crap, I didn't remember...'

"Lady Xiwangmu is currently in the Minlin area. She mentioned she went to go pick some cor lapis."

"Cor lapis?" Xiao mumbled.

"Oh. Well we came all the way up the mountain for nothing!" Barbatos stomped his feet on the ground nearly throwing his bard hat on the ground, throwing a fit.

"The Minlin area is rather large, so I am not sure if you two will be able to find her."

"I think I've got a small solution for that." Barbatos winked, and dragged Xiao by the arm with him after he handed Ming the wine.

"Where are we going now, Barbatos?"

"We're going to listen to the wind in Liyue, to find her.

"You can do that?"

"No. Ehe." Barbatos smiled. Xiao quivered with irritation.

"But don't worry. We'll find her sooner than ever. After all, Y/N doesn't have such a small aura that adeptis and archons cannot see." Barbatos then narrowed his eyes, as he scanned the area like a hawk. And concentrated. After he seemed to come back to his normal senses, he turned his head to Xiao with a grin. And pointed the way, running off in the same direction as his fingers pointed.

Xiao did not like to look around everywhere for one person. Nope. But Barbatos wouldn't let him go so easily. He was curious as to where the goddess had run off to because she's precisely always on her mountain waiting for Xiao to arrive.

So what stopped her today?

"I think I'm lost." The anemo archon said sheepishly, rubbing the nape of his neck.

"You do not know your way around Liyue, yet you run around with confidence." Xiao sighed very deeply in disappointment with arms crossed over his chest. And his eyebrows creased.

"I don't go around Liyue as much as I go around Mondstadt. You can't blame me."

"...."

"DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!"

"But I think we're close, we have to follow or else it'll fade away quickly."

Barbatos dashed off in a random direction based on his instinct. God bless the poor soul as he slipped into the lake full of cryo slimes. Bringing Xiao's attention as he heard his yelp, but was cut off when he was frozen. Xiao immediately got rid of the slimes, and stared at Barbatos very unhappily.

"Sorry, I was being intuitive."

"And did it work?"

"No... BUT! She's that way! I just know it!"

Xiao eyed him carefully, looking for any randomness and recklessness. Something else that brought his attention in the direction Barbatos was talking about. Was that there were several of evil spirits. Several. Which brought him to a slight anticipated demeanor.

Barbatos was confused as he ran after the adeptus, almost tripping on a tree root.

Xiao didn't know what might happen. He didn't think of the worst case scenario at least. He wasn't worried at all. Definitely. Just super curious, that's anticipating for him to know, I suppose. All of his thoughts were jumbled, that he forgot....

Y/N wasn't just any goddess. She had power. She was one of the most powerful, possibly. And the fact that she isn't an archon with a gnosis was questioning.

And whatever the Tsaritsa wants with the gnosis to bring power to herself, that won't work for her. Since this girl didn't have anything to keep her from losing her powers, and destroy the whole Snezhnaya. Maybe even the whole Teyvat.