Late at night, Symph slid out through the front door of the castle as a puddle, rising up from the ground he made sure the coast was clear he sighed in relief before stretching his arm up to the roof of a nearby house and pulling himself up. He stood on the top of the roof and looked out at the moon, ready to begin his search. He closed his eyes and began to focus on locating Zerlinda, which would be no easy task. However, as long as he could figure out the area of which she was hiding he would be able to find her once he reached that location.

After a few minutes of searching he managed to find the basic area of where she was hiding. "The Crystal Empire huh? This could take awhile..." Symph looked back at the castle and scratched his chin in thought. "Guess I'll have to be gone for a day or two..." While he contemplated what he should do he remembered something. "Hey wait a minute...tomorrow is when Twilight gets the invitation to the Empire to attend the Crystalling."

He decided that he'd head out to the Crystal Empire after leaving a note for Twilight. After sneaking back into the castle he reached inside his body by turning a small patch into liquid and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. Once he left a note by Twilights bed he opened the window and jumped out before using a tendril to close it behind him.

Since there was nobody about other than a few nocturnal animals he didn't need to hide himself, the dark of the night already concealed him enough anyway given his colour scheme. He grew four tendrils out of his back and joined them together to create two black wings before lifting himself off the ground. While he could have tried to teleport to the Empire, he didn't want to risk it as he could end up in the wrong place or on the other side of the planet given he hadn't actually been there before, so there was nothing to directly focus on for a teleport to actually work correctly.

While he was flying through the night sky he felt a slight vibration. He pulled up his right sleeve slightly to reveal a purple wristband with a blue gem in the shape of a sun embedded in it. The gems glowed softy as it sent a soft vibration over his body. Tapping the gem with his finger caused the vibration to cease. "Hello father."

"Hey Symph, how's it going in that universe?" Symbol asked, his voice emitting from the gem.

"It's ok so far, I ran into a being that could venture outside of reality, confirmed hostile."

Symbol was silent for a moment. "I see...I'll be honest I didn't want this sort of thing to happen in your first world alone."

"It's fine, what matters is that we now know a being like this is in our own Multiverese and that we need to take him out."

"You're right. I'll inform Roden, he can get the message back to the rest of the Chaos Family." Symph smiled as Symbol mentioned their shared mentor. "If you find anything else make sure you tell me, especially if it's a Nightmare. I already have enough worlds that were completely devoured by them to deal with as it is."

Symph decided to keep Zerlinda a secret for now, at least until he could actually talk to her. There have been friendly Nightmares in the past, but only around four out of millions. "I will, don't worry."

"Good. I'll check in with you again later Symph, one of my displaced is finally waking up." (Note right now that this story is only connected to the displaced universe, a displaced will never actually show up here).

"Alright, see you later father." The voice stopped and the glow on the gem faded. Slipping his sleeve down again he sighed and looked up at the moon. "What're you doing Symph?" He asked himself.

The next morning

Symph retracted his wings and fell down to the snowy ground below him. He landed on his feet without feeling the effect of the impact before he began walking through the soft snow. He could feel himself getting closer to Zerlindas location, something he was happy about. As he felt a slight shiver from the harsh cold he went all black and formed a layer of a black metal-like substance over himself to shield himself from the cold.

Pressing on he heard the howls of arctic wolves close behind him. He turned around fast enough to punch away a wolf mid pounce. Taking a quick look around him he spotted around ten other wolves surrounding him. "You predators really need to pick your targets more carefully." He lifted his hand and five large tendrils grew out of the ground and swatted the wolves away like flies. "Pathetic."

With the wolves retreating he made his way onward to a large cave near the Crystal Empire border. As he got closer he was able to pinpoint Zerlindas exact location within the cave, being deep underground, most likely hoping no one would try venturing so far into the cavern.

"I hate to cause you so much trouble, but I need to make sure you're out of Dementias reach." He spoke to himself while walking into the cave, failing to notice Dementia standing behind him, covered by the heavy snowfall.

He just watched as Symph disappeared into the caves entrance and looked to his open hand which he then clenched into a fist. "Well...if that's what you are trying to do Symph...game on."

Author's Notes:

Sorry if it seems a little rushed, suffered a little but if writers block for awhile