Magic: the Gathering, Friendship is Magic -I think?-
Chapter 25: Chapter 24: I got arrest by a dragon god, Oh and other stuff
Previous Chapter Next ChapterIt’s been a few days since Samuel came and went, normally I wouldn’t have mind that he went but how he went is something that I’ve seen a lot of. He saved this world and no one will know about it. I sighed at the thought and went on with my normal day. Stella is with Sylph since she was around, oddly I haven’t seen her around much which was due to her traveling all over the place. Moonlight was with Rainbow and Applejack training, seems that ever since the wedding they wanted to train to fight better so Moonlight is training them. It was better if she did it instead of me for if it was their bones would be broken.
I shook my head as I stood up from my perch where I was eyeing an orc camp a few miles off from Ponyville. It seems that they’re not heading towards the place or even know of it but can’t be sure. After a few hours of this my legs were cramping up and I had to move.
“I hate this job sometimes, should've brought something to eat,” I muttered to myself. I turned and walked towards home to relax.
As I was walking I looked behind me, was I being watched? After walking for twelve minutes I stopped and turned around.
“Who’s there!?” I yelled out. I waited for an answer which I didn’t get one. I sighed and turned around, right into someone with armor. I looked up and saw that it was a dragon in armor.
“Umm, hello can I help you?”
“Jace Beleren,” He started. How he knew my name is something that I'll find out later. “By the order of The All-Father, you are placed under arrest.” He finished before pointing his trident at me.
“Okay… who did I piss off this time?” I asked. He poked at me as a portal opened, “Okay, okay I’m walking look I’m walking,” I said as I walked to the portal. All that went through my head is ‘What did I do this time?’ as I walked into the portal.
I walked through the portal and the first thing is a shadow covering me. I looked up to see that the guard grew in size, I could guess that he’s about thirty feet. I looked around to see everyone was much bigger here then back home.
There were all kinds of dragons roaming the large streets. The city looked like it was straight out of a utopian fantasy from the way it looked.
“Now I understand why everyone is intimidated by me,” I muttered to myself. Both me and the guard walk to what looked like a Palace of some sorts, which was a hundred times bigger than any palace and castle I have ever see.
“Captain.” I heard the Dragon speak above me. I followed his gaze and was greeted by a half Dragoness, she had a few human traits. I saw her look at me then back at the guard.
“Good job, the other is already in a cell. Put him in with her, there's still time before they meet The All Father.” She said. I blinked at her. Her? All Father? What’s going on?
“Umm question, what’s going on? What did I do?” I asked them.
“You should know. Take him away.” With that, I was hauled off. I turned to the guard hauling me off.
“Look I did many things in my life but I really don’t know what’s going on, can you give me a hint at least,” I asked him.
“You've broken the Veil more than once.” He said. I blinked at him, Veil? We continued on as we got to the cell. He opened the door and threw me in before closing the door.
“I'll return once The All Father says he's ready.” The Dragon said before walking away, leaving me in a state of confusion and silence with the occasional dripping sounds of water throughout the hall. I got up and dusted myself off. I looked at my gauntlet to see that all five gems were dark. Frowning at this I looked around the cell, which was much bigger than the ones I seen.
“Great, I’m locked up for something that I don’t even know if I really did, what did he meant by the Veil, did he mean the void?” I asked myself. If he did then it wouldn’t make a lot of sense, every displacement can go through the void with ease when someone summons another. I was brought out of my thinking by the sound of crying. I looked around to see someone sitting in the corner of the cell. She was curled up into a ball crying, I frowned and walked over to her.
“Hey, you ok?” I asked her. She looked up at me with bloodshot eyes and frowned.
“No, I’m stuck in a cell for who knows what by a dragon with armor.” She told me. I sighed and sat a foot away from her.
“Yeah same here, do you know why they brought you here?” I asked her. Sure I don’t know what this Veil is but if it has something to do with me then I might have broke it, but her? I looked at her and saw that she was wearing a long dark blue shirt with brown pants and boots. She had a red coat with two wing like strips coming from her sleeves with what looked like stone claws at the end. She had a head piece that looked like the sun in her brown hair. Looking at her, I was getting the feeling that I should know her.
“You can't do this to me!” A loud voice was heard another bipedal dragon came to view.
“Quiet! You've been warned not to cause another riot in the plaza. The All Father has had enough of your shit.” We heard another dragon say as he walked up to the four armed dragon and jabbed the back of his trident at the four armed dragon.
The guard then walked up to him and grabbed him the horns before pulling up to his feet. He dragged him towards a wall and with a wave of the guards armored hand, the shifted into a door.
The Guard opened the door before shoving the other dragon in and walking in behind him before closing the door. There was a sign on the door, execution.
“Umm…” was all I could say as I heard the girl beside me started to cry again. I looked at her and put my hand on her shoulder. “Hey it’s going to be alright.”
“Alright! We just watched one of them drag another into an execution room! How is this alright!?!” She yelled. I didn’t say anything, I couldn’t think of anything to say. Who ever this All Father is he’s the boss here and he’s pissed at both of us. I frowned a bit, I understand why he may be mad at me but at her?
“Can I ask what you did?” I asked her. She looked at me and sniffled.
“They...they said I broke some Veil thing, I don’t know what this Veil is I just got ripped out of my home into some place called Equestria and been there for two days!” She said. So she’s like me, a Displaced. With a sigh I closed my eyes and began to think, only to be interrupted by her.
“Can I ask, what’s your name?” She asked me. I opened one eye and looked at her.
“Jace,” I told her.
“Hey there Jace, I’m Taliyah, the Stoneweaver,” She said to me. I nodded and closed my eye again.
“So you don’t know why you are here?” I asked her.
“No, I was just walking in some forest after talking to Tahm and then an armored dragon came up to me and took me away, I told him that he got the wrong person, that I didn’t know anyone with the name Beleren but he just dragged me he and threw me into this cell, I was alone for some time then the guard came and threw you in here.” She explained. I opened my eyes and looked at her. Beleren? That’s my last name, why would they take her then. Before I could say something I heard something coming.
“Get up.” I heard a guard say. We both stood up and the guard opened the door. He gestured to us to get out of the cell. I looked at Taliyah.
“Looks like he want’s to see us,” I said as I walked out of the door with her behind me. We walked down the hallway. We didn’t say anything but I felt Taliyah grab my coat, I frowned at this. She’s still new to this and this is how she starting out.
“It’s going to be okay,” I told her in a soft voice. I looked back at her as she looked at me and nodded. I was also getting the feeling that I should know her from somewhere, I just can’t place it where.
“Keep Moving.” We heard the guard growl. I frowned at him and continued on. We got to a set of doors that the sizes of them were stupid.
“Why such big doors, sure they are huge but this is just stupid,” Taliyah commented. I couldn’t help but snort at that.
“Watch your tongue or I'll cut it off.” The Guard threatened her before opening one of the doors. I didn't know what I was seeing due to it being pure light. I covered my eyes as the guard pushed us in.
Opening my eyes, I saw that we were standing near a cliff. I looked back, seeing the door and wall but looking in front of me, I saw a seemingly endless valley.
“Ok that’s cool,” I said. Taliyah chuckled a bit but stopped as the guard towered over us.
“You better pray that he'd give you mercy.” He said before spreading his armored wings and flying into the fog that was rolling in. Not long after that the ground started to rumble as loud stomps were heard.
“I take back my comment about the doors, I know why they are so big,” Taliyah said as the giant dragon head looked at us. I swallowed at it.
“Impressive, isn't it?” We heard someone behind us. We turned around to see whoever said that.
“It's Impressive how a non-Dovah could grow with enough space.” The Dragon said as he waved his hand at the giant before it turned around and walked back into the fog. I looked at the dragon with a raised eyebrow.
“And you are?” I asked him.
“You should know, not only have they dragged you in here but you have also mentioned one of my titles in vain from time to time.” He answered with his hands behind his back. I thought about it and frowned at him
“You're the All-Father I'm guessing,” I told him. Taliyah hid behind me from him.
“Yes and I got a bone to pick with you, Mr. Smith.” He said with a glare. I blinked at him.
“I haven't been called that for a long time, but let me guess why you’re mad at me. It's something to do with this Veil.” I told him with my own glare.
“I know about your predicament but I draw the line when another being not like you manages to arrive from another world. I've created the Veil to protect others from otherworldly threats and seeing as how you manage to shatter with ease is disconcerting.” He said, walking up to the edge.
“Look let's just get a few things straight, until today I haven't even heard of this Veil and I doubt I broke it since I only been to two worlds that I been summoned to by a Displaced,” I then pointed at Taliyah. “And I doubt that she did anything either since she only been a Displaced for a few days, why is she here in the first place.” I said to him.
“To clarify on how you broke the Veil, all you did was hand over a token to a non Displaced. As for your second question, I wasn't going to take any chances with her.” He said without looking back.
“What do you mean by that?” I Asked him.
“You haven't figured it out yet, hmm? Not long ago you were reminded of the one thing you missed in your old life, Mr Smith.” He said as he waved his hand again, causing the fog to be blown away.
“Almost as if by faith.” He said in weird tone. I frowned at him and began to think. The only thing that reminds me of my old life is… Oh. I heard him chuckled a bit. “Now he figures it out.”
“Umm, I'm lost what are you two talking about?” Taliyah asked. I looked at her and stared at her.
“What's your name,” I asked her. She frowned at me.
“I told you, it’s Tal-”
“What's your Real name.” I told her. She looked at me for a minute.
"Rose Smith, yeah I know my parents weren't that creative.” She said. I closed my eyes and looked away from her. I felt tears in the back of my eyes. I opened them and looked at the All-Father.
“Let's move back to the token, yeah I did that I didn't think it would make a difference but guess I'm wrong, so why not just go grab it and get rid of it or send one of your guards to do it?” I asked him.
“I did but I needed to tell you, warn you not to.do that again, even now the Veil is still weak. That is how your friend, Samuel arrived and he was a non Displaced. In a way, you are the reason he was there, unable to save humanity, the reason he died.” He said to me. Wait what
“He's not a displacement, huh,” I said crossing my arms. “I just thought since he dropped in like that.”
“No, he was a soldier that was meant to save humanity.” He said. I looked at him for a moment.
“Well, at least he went out saving my world,” I told him with a smile. “I wonder if he went to heaven?”
“That is none of your concern, Mr. Smith.” He said. I blinked at him.
“Uhh ok? So now what?” I asked him.
“I'll answer that question with another question. Do you understand that what you've done caused an entire race to die?” He asked as he turned around. I stared at him.
“...Really.” Was all I said. I heard a gasp behind me. I saw him glaring at me.
“Yes, really. Samuel wasn't around to do what he was supposed to do because of a rip through the Veil.” He said, still glaring at me. I looked down at my feet. One little thing I did and a whole race to die out.
“Hey, it's not his fault!” I hear Taliyah yell behind me I looked at her. “How is he supposed to know that was going to happen, he doesn't have godly future seeing powers.”
“One doesn't need future seeing powers to think of the consequences of an action, Ms. Smith.” He said to her. She frowned at that and was about to say something but I stopped her. I looked at him with a stern face.
“I was the one who sent the token to a non-Displaced world so this is my burden, I'll bear any punishment that you have,” I said to him.
“The punishment has already been given to you, the knowledge of what you've caused.” He said. I narrowed my eyes at him until I saw a flash on my gauntlet. I looked at it and saw that the black gem glowed. I sighed at that.
“Well, here comes more sleepless nights,” I said to myself. I looked at the All-Father.
“I'm not cruel as one might think, you know. There is another reason why I brought the both of you here when I could have just talked with alone, Mr Smith.” He said, crossing his arms. I looked him in the eye for a few minutes. Taliyah looked at both of us for a moment.
“Uhh are you two reading each other's minds?” she asked. I snapped my head to glare at her.
“No, mind reading powers are stupid,” I told her and looked at the All-Father. I’ve seen gods before, I even fought them, but this guy is on a whole different level.
“That I can agree on.” He said, regarding my statement with telepathy.
“Now, you can leave and forget each other while living your lives, unless there is something you might want to do, Mr. Smith?” He asked. I looked at him for a minute, then looked at Taliyah. I took a deep breath and let it out.
“There's something, mind giving us a minute… unless you have to be here?” I asked him.
“I'll return in a few minutes.” He answered before walking towards the door and opening it before walking out. I stared at the door and shifted my eyes to Taliyah.
“Well it seemed that we lived through that one huh,” She said. She turned to me with a smile. “You know, you’re the first Displaced I’ve had ever met, well it’s been a few days but still.”
“Fancy that,” I said to her. She gave me a toothy smile and spun around. She then stopped and looked at me.
“Say, you have been at this for some time, can I ask you a question?” She asked.
“...Sure.” I answered. She started padding around and was looking for something. She frowned when it looked like she didn’t find it.
“Dang can’t find it, anyway if you find someone name Nick Smith tell him that I’m looking for him,”
“Taliyah…”
“I know that there’s a lot of Displacements out there and Nick Smith is a pretty common name,”
“Rose…”
“But still, if you meet him to tell him that I’m looking for him and stuff and…”
“Rose, did you wonder why the All-Father called us Mr. and Ms. Smith,” I asked her. She blinked at me and tilted her head at me.
“Umm… Because that your name ends with Smith, maybe,” She answered. I got closer to her until I was towering over her.
“Rose, earlier today you told a guard that you didn’t know anyone with the name Beleren right,” I said to her.
“Yeah, it’s still really weird you know.” She told me. I looked at her with a sad look.
“My new name is Jace Beleren and Rose, I’m sorry,” I said to her. She looked at me funny.
“Why are you saying sorry for me, you’re kinda scaring me.” She told me as she took a few steps back. Time for the kicker.
“Come on little troll, you’re smarter than this,” I told her. Her eyes went wide then to ones of anger, then to confusion.
“Don’t call me a little troll! Wait, why did you call me that? Only one person… calls… me. . .” She looked at me for a moment and I saw tears in her eyes. “N-N-Nick?”
I nodded to her and felt my eyes tear up for a second as I felt her hug me. I felt my shirt get wet but I didn’t care, I hugged my sister.
“D-D-Do you- k-know how long I-I-I been sear-searching for you,” She sobbed. I hugged her as my own tears ran down. “For f-f-five years.”
“It’s alright Rose, I’m here everything is going to be alright,” I told her as I brushed her hair with my hand. I looked up and saw that The All Father walked back in. I was going to say something but Rose broke away from me.
“You… you knew, you knew that he was my brother.” She asked him. She walked straight up to him and looked at him. He didn’t say anything but nodded. Nothing happened for a moment until she did something that freaked the hell out of me, she went and hugged him.
“Thank you for bringing my brother to me.” She said. I blinked at her and looked at him, hoping that he wouldn't turn her into dragon food. She then pulled back and looked at him. “Please tell me that I didn’t just screw us over with me hugging you.”
“No, it’s fine and you're welcome Ms. Smith.” He told her. Rose walked up beside me and smiled. I looked at The All-Father. “I guess I’ll send you two back to your homes now.”
“Umm if you don’t mind, can you send me to his world for a bit. It’s not every day you get to find your brother.” Rose asked him. I stared at him and he thought about it.
“Alright, but I need to go as well. You won't be able to send her back, Mr. Smith, you haven't summoned her.” He said. I nodded to him until a thought came to mind.
“So how is this going to work? Are we going to walk through a portal or Tele-”
PoV:Silverlay
“This is the life, no shadow ponies trying to tell me what to do, no little changeling thing to bug the Tartarus out of me, just me, this tree, and relaxation,” I said to myself. I looked up to the sky to see a few birds fly past. I slowly closed my eyes and began to take a nap.
“Hey, Silverlay, yah here?” I heard somepony call out for me. I opened my eyes and looked around to see AJ walking towards me.
“Hey Applejack, how's training with Moonlight?” I asked her. She let out a sigh and chuckled.
“Hard and she says that she going easy on us, Rainbow complained a bit but Light said and ah quote ‘I’m going easy on you if Jace was here all of your bones would be broken.’" Applejack said as she imitated her. I started to laugh at her.
“Wow AJ that was good, I didn't know you could imitate others that well,” I said. She pushed her hat down in front of her.
“Ahh shucks Silver ya making me blush, by the way, have you seen Jace anywhere?” she asked me. I shook my head.
“Nope, haven't seen him at all," I told her as I got up. She frowned at me.
“Not that I should be worried but he has been gone for the last few hours, little Stella will be worried,” Applejack said. I opened my mouth to say something but a popping sound happened and sure enough, Jace was standing about four feet away from us with a some weird mare looking thing and a tall dragon.
“-porting.... oh it's teleporting.”
“Did you expect anything less?” The Dragon said. I blinked at this and saw the mare thing turned green and bolted towards a group of trees.
“Should have warned her, first-time teleports suck,” Jace said. He turned around to see us. “Oh hey AJ, Silver how's it going?”
“Same old, stuff, by the way how ya friends?” Applejack asked.
PoV: Jace
“Well the lady that went to throw up is Taliyah and this is…” I stopped as I gestured to the All-Father and stopped. I don't know his name and I'm sure it's not All-Father. I looked at him for a moment, ahh screw it.
“This is the All-Father,” I told them. Applejack looked and smiled and Silver snorted.
“Really, the All-Father, didn't his parents thought of a better name than that?” she said. I looked at her for a moment, then at the dragon god. He raised a brow at me.
“Really? I wasn't aware of having parents on account of being the entity that existed before the multiverse.” He retorted.
“Wait what?” Silver said looking at him. Before anyone said anything AJ sighed.
“Silverlay, this is Jace we're talking about he has friends everywhere,” she explained. Silver just rolled her eyes.
“Sure whatever, I’m going back to my nap.” she said as she headed off to someplace else.
“Well ah’m off to do farm work, oh Spike and Sylph are looking for yah, anyway have a good day.” Aj bowed her hat and walked off. Just as she did Rose came out of the trees looking slightly less green.
“That sucked~” she groans.
“First-time teleports always does,” I told her and looked at the All-Father. “Sorry about that Silver is a bit rude to others.”
“Tis fine, a bit of normality is fine. Before I forget, All-Father is my title back in Skuldafn, my name is Saanvodkiin but there has been a few to call me Sans.” He said, mentioning the last bit with a bit of confusion. I heard a snort from Rose, I looked at her as she covered her mouth.
“Sorry! Just that the name is one that I heard of from a video game.” She said. I looked at Sans and shrugged. I was about to say something until someone called out my name.
“Jace!” I turned and saw Spike coming towards us. As he came to us I had to look up to him since he’s about six foot eight, which made me on edge since seeing the dragon guards. Rose stood behind me.
“Hey Spike, how’s it going?” I asked him. He smiled at me.
“It’s going, I’m here to say that mana lesson you promise to Twilight has to take a rain check on it. ” He told me. Oh yeah that, I forgot about that. I nodded at him and heard flaps of wings as Sylph landed behind him.
“You found him, Spike, great now we can tell Twi not to free… Oh my lord.” She stopped as she saw Sans with a shocked and fearful look. I looked at Spike and he just shrugged that he didn’t know.
“Uhh, Syl? You ok?” I asked her. She responded getting on her knees and bowing.
“My lord! I-I-I-I didn’t know you were coming… I’m so sorry not knowing!” She said. I blinked at her and looked at Sans as he looked at her. He had an odd look on him.
“Sylph?” He said in a guessing tone.
“You… may not know of me my lord but you might know my great great… there’s a lot of greats grandmother who my name is from, she was a head sage to one of your temples, it’s… gone but the legends and teachings are still around, though not a lot of dragon clans follow them.” She explained.
“Syl, you know who he is?” I asked her. She looked up and glared at me.
“Of course I do, like I said my many great grandmother was the head sage and she passed the teaching down my family for eons, he goes by many names by the way, many lost but The All-Father tested the will of time and it’s still being used by some.” She explained. I thought about it and some trips into ruins came to mind.
“You know, I think I heard that name. I found it odd that few temples had that name in there.” I said out loud. Sylph nodded and bowed her head.
“Again my lord please forgive me, if I had known I would've made a proper greeting, oh wait you're with Jace, did he piss you off? If he did I’m sorry but he can piss off everyone if you let him.” She said. I smiled and looked at Sans.
“She’s not wrong!” I said to him. Rose groaned at me.
“Only you can think that.” I rolled my eyes at her.
“It's good to see you, Sylph. You look as beautiful as you ancestor.” Sans said with a smile. I looked at Sylph and saw her ears go red.
“You flattered me, my lord. Oh, I wish she was here to see you, she would be so happy to see you.” She said with a sad tone. I frowned a bit and bent down to her and patted her on the back.
“Sylph, she’s a great woman and I should know, remember,” I told her. She nodded at me as I saw a tear fall from her eye.
“Gran can rest peacefully thanks to you,” she said with a smile. We stood up but she kept her head looking down. I looked and saw Spike staring at me. “Old evil spirit tormenting the graveyard that held her great-grandmother.”
I frowned and rub the back of my head, “Even as a ghost she hits like a freight train.”
“Gran was one of those tough love dragons, she was also married to the High General of the dragon armies,” Sylph said. I groaned at that.
“Don’t get me started at that, fighting his undead knights are facing the Hulk on steroids,” I said to her. I looked at Sans as he looking at me. “They were! They move fast in heavy armor and hit hard as well, that’s Dark Souls level of hard for you.”
He didn't say anything but he did give me a weird look after I stating that was Dark Souls level hard.
“Uhh Jace, he doesn’t know what Dark Souls is,” Sylph whispered to me. Right… forgot that.
“Even I knew that, dude.” Rose also whispered.
“Oh don’t you start,” I said to her. She rolled her eyes and looked at Spike, keeping away from him. “He’s not going to hurt you, Spike is a nice dragon.”
“I’m still not having a safe feeling around him.” She replied. I frowned and looked Sans. “Well, your godliness welcome to probably one of maybe millions of versions of Equestria- OW!”
I rubbed my arm where Sylph punched me, she was giving me a death glare and looked like she was about to punch me again.
“Don’t call him that, just for once can you not be an asshole for ten minutes.” She asked me. I frowned at her.
“Sylph, you’ve known me for a long time,” I stated to her. She rolled her eyes at me.
“I know but just for once don’t be.” She replied. I heard a chuckle from Sans.
“Much like you ancestor, Sylph.” He said. Sylph blushed at that.
“Like I was saying, one of many Equestrias, it might not be pretty but it’s home,” I said to him as he looks around.
“Yes, I can see and sense the difference and similarities.” He said and muttered something under his breath. I nodded at him and looked at Sylph.
“Hey, where’s Stella?” I asked her.
“At your cottage, she’s worried that you disappeared all of a sudden you know you shouldn’t do that.” She told me. I winced at the thought of that.
“Well, things just got out of hand,” I told her. She glared at me and I looked away. “I’ll get her something and apologize.”
“Umm who’s Stella?” Rose asked.
“You’ll see,” I told her and looked at Sans. “Want to walk around town or something?”
“You’re bad at this,” Spike commented. I frowned at him.
“You try and figure out how to entertain the god of everything other than blowing something up,” I said to him. He just shrugged and walked off. “Where you off to?”
“Twilight asked me to get a blimp ready for a trip, did you hear that Rainbow got into the Wonderbolts Academy?” He said as he walked off.
“Right, so…” I said as I looked at Sans. Now thinking about it I’m really am bad at this.
“Let's go get little Stella.” He said to me. I nodded and we all went to the cottage. Along the way, I heard Sylph talk to Sans as me and Rose walk in silence. This was getting awkward.
“So… I have been gone for five years?” I asked her. I know it’s nothing great to talk about but hey it’s something.
“Yeah, we been looking for you all that time but you just disappeared off the face of the Earth, although now thinking about it you kinda did.” She said. I chuckled at that.
“Yeah, I kinda did though I did make something out of everything, save some cities, kick-started a race and made some friends,” I told her.
“Gasp! You made friends, oh I’m so proud of you!” She said dramatically.
“Oh shut up,” I told her. We continued to talking for the rest of the way until we got to the cottage. Even though I left it only a couple hours I’m happy to be back. I went up to the door and opened it.
“Hello, I’m back did I miss some-ahh!” I yelled as an orange-red blur tackled me.
“Daddy!” Stella yelled as she hugged me. I looked at her and chuckled.
“Are you going to do that every time I walk through the door?” I asked her. She looked up at me and blinked.
“...maybe.” She said. I rubbed her head and walked inside, letting one in.
“Stella we have guests so be good alright,” I asked her. She nodded and looked behind me. I turned and saw Sans looking around and Rose looking at me.
‘Daddy?’ She mouthed the word. I shrugged and looked at the rest.
“Ta da, my home.” I said while shaking my hands. This got a giggle out of Stella.
“It’s simple, you always like having things simple.” Rose said as she looked around.
“What’s wrong with simple, I like simple.” I told her she just snorted and went to sit in a chair. I looked at Sans and smiled.
“An impressive abode.” Sans said.
“Like what Rose said, it’s simple and I like simple.” I told him while taking a seat, Stella sat on my lap as Sans and Sylph sat in different chairs. I’m happy that I got more comfy chairs. “Want a drink?”
“If you insist.” Sans said with a nod. I snapped my fingers and brown bottles and a juice box appeared in front of everyone. They floated over to them and I grabbed mine and the juice box and handed it to Stella. I took a drink of mine and smiled. Rose made a face when she tasted it.
“This is the same Root Beer from back home that you liked, I don’t know why you like this stuff.” She said. I just shrugged at her.
“You just don’t understand the greatness of this drink.” I told her. She huffed and crossed her arms. Sylph looked at us.
“Wait, ‘back home’ you two know each other?” She asked. I looked at Rose and smiled.
“Of course I know her, she’s my little sister after all.” I told her. “Sylph meet my sister Rose… or is it Taliyah now since the whole displacement thing?”
“I don’t know, I think with everyone in this room it’s Rose but to everyone else it’s Taliyah.” She said.
“Does that mean she’s my aunt?” Stella asked. I looked at Rose as she looked at me. I smiled at her.
“In a sense.” I told her. Stella smiled at me.
“Yay! I have an aunt and she’s not the size of a grain of rice!” She said excitedly. I started to laugh at that.
“Your child has a strange sense of humour.” I heard Sans say with a few chuckles.
“If she’s his kid then it makes sense,” Rose said. I frowned at her.
“What do you mean by that?” I asked. She gave me a deadpan stare.
“Your sense of humour is weird.” She told me, I smiled at her.
“Yeah well it make it all the better.” I said. She just rolled her eyes and slouch back in her seat. I chuckled a bit and drank some more of mine. After a few minutes of talking Sylph quickly stood up.
“I made up my mind, Jace I’m going to be away for some time but this important.” She told me. I stared at her for a moment.
“Uhh… can I ask why?” I asked her.
“Well right now The All Father and my lord is sitting here in this room and from when I met him and walking here I been thinking, little to no one remembers the old teachings, so I’m going to go to the old temples and find everything I can find of the old teachings and go around and spread them around.” She then turned to Sans and bowed. “It’s an great honor to have met you my lord.” And with that she was out of the door, I leaned back to see her taking off into the air. I chuckled a bit.
“Ahh Sylph, when she puts her mind to it she can’t stop for nothing.” I said as I drank the rest of my drink. I looked over to Sans as I saw him looking at the door.
He muttered something under his breath before signing. I frowned at him.
“You alright?” I asked him. He looked at me
“Yes, yes, I'm fine.” He said with the wave of his hand. I frowned at him.
“No you’re not, your sad.” Stella said to him. He looked at her which made her flinch.
“Stella, how many times did I tell you not to read others emotions.” I told her in a parent tone.
“Sorry.” She said sadly as she went back drinking her juice.
“It's fine, a Metaling can't help in reading emotions. As for what you daughter said, yes it's true.” He said. I looked at him for a moment and started thinking.
“You’re doing it again,” Rose said.
“Doing what again?” I asked her.
“You have that look on you, that school counselor look.” She told me. I rolled my eyes at her and looked back at Sans.
“Even though you are a god you still have problems.” I told him. Dear lord I do sound like a counselor.
“Yes, I do. Ruling over a kingdom in another plane of existence can do that to anyone, especially when one has two daughters that they rarely see.” He said as he closed his eyes. I narrowed my eyes at him.
“These daughters, you keep an eye on them.” I asked him. I kept my mind blank just to make sure and focus on him. He stared at me.
“Yes and I do it to see them grow.” He answered me. I stared at him for a minute before speaking.
“I hearing a but somewhere.” I said to him.
“I can't go to them.” He said. We sat there in silence for a while until I spoke up.
“You can’t, is there something stopping you.” I asked him. He stared at me for this whole time in the eye.
“I can't leave Skuldafn, even now I'm just an illusion that can't go far through the Multiverse.” He answered. I kept a straight face for the reason that if I give any emotion it could turn this to something bad.
“I can't say anything about ruling anything since I never done it and I don't think I’d ever will but I do know one thing that I told and asked,” I leaned forward a bit and looked at him. “Which is more important, Skuldafn or your family and I believe that when that question comes you will pick the right one.”
He stared at me for a long time as I stared back.
“Umm mister Dragon god person,” we both looked at Stella as she was standing in front of him. “I don't know if this will do anything but I think you should go and see them, they're your family after all, I also know that if something happens to me, daddy will drop everything thing to help me.”
Sans looked at Stella in silence for a few moments. I couldn't read his face as he looked at her.
“Thank you, little one.” He said before standing up. “I'll be flying around while you and your sister catch up, Mr Smith.” He said before placing two fingers on his forehead before vanishing. I blinked at what just happened.
“Did… did he just DBZ teleport away?” I asked out loud.
“I don't know but if he did, that was cool.” Rose said. She then turned and looked at me. "So how did everything happened to when you got Displaced?”
“Well get comfy because this is going to be a long story,” I said as I started my story.
“And you know what happened at the last part.” I finished my story. I got to say I have an interesting live. Rose looked at me as she listened to the whole thing. I saw her twitching a bit. I sighed and looked down. “Go ahead, let it out.”
“I don't know what you are talking about… Jess,” and that did it. She was laughing her ass off at that. I rolled my eyes at her.
“Yeah ha ha very funny, are you done?” I asked her.
"Hahaha… Yes , yes I'm done I'm… No wait AHAHAHAHA!!!” she said as she continued to laugh. I groaned at her.
“I knew I shouldn't have told you that, why did I tell you that?” I asked. Her fit of laughter turn into giggles as she wiped her eyes.
“Haha… Oh god... hehe… I, I think I'm crying, okay… Okay I'm done, I'm done.” she said to me. I raised a brow at that.
“You sure?”
“Yes, I'm done it's funny but not funny enough to keep on laughing.” she told me. I sighed at her and looked up. I saw that Sans has returned from flying.
“Welcome back,” I said to him. He nodded at me.
“I take it you two were having fun?” He asked.
“I don't know about him but I sure did.” Rose said as she stood up.
“You're going to hold that over my head aren't you.” I said to her. She smiled at me.
“Oh heck yeah.” she told me. I groaned at that.
“I forgot how having a sister is more of a pain then it looks.” I grumbled. Rose went and patted me on the back.
“Love you too Nick, love you too." She said. I smiled at her back and look at Sans.
“Guess this is goodbye for now.” I asked him.
“As it saddens me to say, yes. But it isn't the last time you'll be together, as long as you have this.” Sans said as he pulled out two large gemstones that emitted a powerful aura. He handed a blue one to me and a light brown one to Rose.
“Think of it as instant tokens. You won't need to wait to reach each other but this does have a cool down.” He said as a portal appeared behind him. The portal looked like the gateway to heaven compared to the normal portals I've seen. I looked at Rose and gave her a hug.
“Take care of yourself, if you need any help just give me a shout.” I told her. She nodded and pulled away, she then walked to Sans and both of them went through the portal and it closed. I went and sat on my couch and began to process what just happened to day.
Let's see, I got dragged to a different world by a big ass dragon, found guilty for ripping a hole in the vail that killed off an entire race of somethings which I must live with for the rest of my days, been a counselor to the god of freaking everything and found out that my sister is now a displacement and I have a gem to her. I sighed and looked outside and saw it was dark, dang time really flies huh. I looked in front of me and for the first time today I let everything wash over me.
I felt tears ran down my face, both of sadness and happiness. I was happy that I got to see my little sister again and that I was alive, but sad that now she has to go through the life of a Displacement, a live of danger and risk. I was also sad that a whole race died and it was my fault. How can I be someone that can protect if I was the one that killed millions of people, monster or other wise. I sat there for what seemed like hours but really it was like… ten minutes.
“Daddy?” I heard someone say. I looked and saw that Stella was standing at the end of the couch with her pj’s on and a blanket. “Daddy why are you crying?”
“It’s nothing Stella, daddy just had a long hard day.” I told her. She frowned at me and climbed up on the couch and gave me a hug.
“Please stop crying daddy, if you cry then I will cry.” I heard her say. I hugged her and we sat there for some time until I heard her snoring. I should take her to her bed but for the first time in my life I felt tired, well tired and in a safe place. I laid down on the couch and pulled a blanket on me and Stella. It covered her well enough but it didn’t do squat for me but I didn’t care. I slowly let sleep take me I closed my eyes.
Next Chapter: Chapter 25: When in doubt, Assassins Estimated time remaining: 38 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
'Every action has a positive and negative reaction' Just something to think about when you are doing something small.
So yeah this was a thing I did with Legion, was anyone surprised about this.
Also ALL HAIL SANS! THE DRAGON GOD OF EVERYTHING!
See you all in the next chapter :)