There are a few things I hate. It's a small number of things but it's up there; me getting sick. I hate it more than anything which is odd since I rarely get sick.

How so? Well I take care of myself, eat right, exercise, etc etc. But for some reason I'm sick and it's not normal, it's one of those magical kind of sicknesses. Magic base sicknesses are worse since treating them is hard. This one particular is bad since it's chaos.

At first, it wasn’t that bad, just a little stiff and sore here and there but that was a few weeks ago, now it started to grow and with that more pain. Now I’m bedridden, moving hurts and if I use magic something gets destroyed. Gascoigne said it was a buildup of Chaos. I asked him if there’s a way to fix it.

“There’s a way, you learning how to control the chaos. But before you ask, no I don’t have the means to help you to do that, I had many years of learning my own yet I still don’t know half of it.” he explained. So now I’m stuck here in bed, doing nothing which is down right boring. I read some books that the others have gave me over the time I’m in bed, I read them, three times over. Now I sit lay here staring up at the walls and ceiling. Stella was here telling me how her day was and saying that the mane six was heading off somewhere, something to do with an author or something.

“Why are they off to see an author?” I asked her.

“Well, it’s the one who writes the Daring Do books and Rainbow flipped out that the newest book is delayed. I think it’s silly.” she explained. I rolled my eyes at this and thought of something.

“Hey, does anyone know who’s RD’s mother is?” Stella looked at me for a moment.

“No~ she said that she never met her parents.” she stated. I smiled and leaned my head back.

“Hey! You three get in here!” I yelled. After a few moments the door opened and the CmC walked in. Sweetie Belle wore a white dress with a purple skirt. Her hair was, of course, styled to be fancy and all that. Applebloom had her trademark bow with a plaid shirt and overalls. She smiled at me and I saw that one of her teeth was missing. Scoots walked in wearing a black shirt and blue jeans. Seeing her still through me a loop, her hair was much darker than normal and her eyes were also darker than normal, at times I see them change to more draconic. Short story as I was told about it was that Scoots was experimented on when she was little by her uncle and gave her dragon DNA. It somewhat helped her with some illness that was plaguing her that her father had but now some of the after effects were showing.

“Yo Jace, how you feeling?” Scoots asked. I shrugged.

“Surviving, so do you all know why the six went out?” I asked them.

“Ya, somethin ‘bout a book writer or somethin.” Applebloom answered. I smiled at this.

“Well… twenty-five gold says that the writer is RD’s mother.” I told them. Applebloom crossed her arms.

“What, na that’s not true.” she said.

“Really, Twenty? That’s not a lot.” Sweety chimed in. Scoots stared at her.

“You really have a gambling problem.” she said. The purple haired Magi punched her friend in the shoulder.

“I don’t!”

“Whatever~” Scootaloo shrugged. Applebloom shook her head.

“Ah don’t see it if that’s true.” Stella looked over at her then at Sweety.

“I got some gold, I’ll take that bet.” she said. Sweetie Belle looked at her and smiled.

“What side are you on?” she asked. Stella thought about it.

“I’ll go with she is.” she answered.

“Forty gold here I come!” Sweety said as the two shook hands. I rolled my eyes and I reached over and pulled out some gold.

“I made it so I’m with Stella here.” I said as I passed her the gold.

"Sixty!” Sweety yelled with a smile bigger than her face.

“You have a problem…” Scoots muttered which earned her a frown from Sweetie. After some time talking the four of them left so I could get some sleep. Well some rest at least, me sleeping was something I rarely do anymore so I just layed there.

As I did I heard a knock at my door. I looked at it until it opened and a hunter walked in.

“Sir, there’s someone here to see you.” he said. I frowned a bit before coughing.

“Right… send them in, just tell them to be mindful about the coughs.” I told him. He nodded and closed the door. I laid there thinking, I remembered that the tec hunters have made new armor for battle. What did they call them… one was Paladin and the other… Death Knight? The two reminded me of a game I used to play a long time ago.

After waiting for some time the door reopened and a figure walked in. At first, I thought it was Discord but this guy was much more muscular and taller than him. He wore what looks like armor that had the gray and red colour scheme with what looked like a sword at his side. His eyes is what threw me a bit, they were black with red irises and showed no emotion. What else is that I could feel a large amount of chaos coming off him.

“Well, I would greet you properly but as you can see I’m a bit under the weather.” I joked. This brought a fit of coughs.

“You are a far from that.” Was all he said. His voice sounded familiar, though. I narrowed my eyes at him.

“What brings you here.” I said as I felt my arm tense up in pain. I took a deep breath as I push through the pain until it died off. “I didn’t order a legionnaire for a cold.”

Damn, even if I’m sick I can’t help being an ass. The figure raised an eyebrow at me.

“You are in this state due to the chaos build up inside of you. Without proper knowledge, you would die or worse but I am here to prevent that.” He said in a monotonous tone.

“I… see, well I…” I paused as a familiar feeling came up I looked over at the figure. “Mind moving to the right a bit.”

The figure stared at me but moved a bit, revealing a white crystal with black marks around it. I raised my hand up and felt the feeling go through my body until I expel it. A wave of dark power shot out and hitting the crystal. The room darkened a bit as the crystal shone, it was as if light and darkness were coming to blows with one another. When it was done I was breathless as my vision blurred. I looked over at the figure who stared at me.

“That was not chaos if you’re wondering.” I said to him.

“I know.” He said. I shifted a bit and looked at him.

“Sorry for being rude,” I started and saw him tilting his head. “I didn’t give you my name, names Jace Belaguard.”

“I know your name as well the one before.” He said with the same tone, almost as if he was dead inside. I raised an eyebrow at him.

“Right… so who are you?” I asked him.

“You know my name but you don't recognize me. We know each other, you just can't recall.” He answered cryptically. I stared at him and sighed.

“I’m into much pain for all the cryptic stuff, so you’re going to help with this?” I asked him.

“Think.” Was the only word he uttered in response. I frowned at him and was going to ask him what he means until my vision clouded over. Well shit.

I opened my eyes and I was standing in darkness. I looked around until I looked down and saw some sort of well, there were two colours swirling around it, one was a dark purple coloured and the other black.

“Well… that’s makes me all fuzzy.” I looked around a bit at the empty space. “What do I do now?”

I looked back down at the well and crouch down a bit. “Right… two sources of... something are merging into one point.” I closed my eyes and felt the power that flowed in it. “One is… chaos and the other… abyssal, crap.”

While Shadow magic and… whatever Chaos is, Abyssal is something worse than that. Something very dark and would devour anything that can get’s close. I guess my fight with the Father of the Abyss had me absorbed some of it, luckily I contain it for the longest of times but now.

“I still don’t know what to do, I want to control the chaos inside of me but this is frustrating. How do I-” I felt the spot I was standing give way and I fell towards the well.

“SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITT!”

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An hour it has been since the man in front of me fell back onto his bed, unconscious but alive. I sat in a chair located at the corner of the room, waiting for him to awaken.

As I sat there I looked around in the room, it wasn’t like the other rooms that had a certain design to it. It was simple and open, there was a desk near the door out with tools up on the wall. One the other walls were bookshelves, floor to ceiling bookshelves that were filled with books. I took the liberty of looking at them before sitting down.

The books ranges from simple alchemical teachings to demon slaying. I saw books with diagrams of spells and weapons and notebooks, hundreds of them. I didn’t look into them but I can say this, Jace is one of those who if going into a battle he’s going to know everything on how to fight.

Looking around I notice something odd. By his bed was a mirror, one that had a chair in front of it, it’s odd since coming into this place I haven’t seen any mirror in this building, as I stared at this one I saw that it was clouded, I see the sun shining on it but all it showed was some sort of fog. I stared at it until I heard the door opened. Turning to see a child with dark orange hair walk in and stare at me. She looked surprised not by my appearance but just for me being there.

“H-hello.” she greeted me. I could tell that she was nervous, her eyes darted from me to the man in the bed to me again.

“I did nothing to him, in truth I’m here to help with his sickness.” I told her. She relaxed a bit and move towards the bed, as she did she when to move the chair in front of the mirror to the bed. As she did I noticed something in the mirror, a shape that doesn’t match the girl. The girl got up on the chair and started to check Jace. She frowned and went to grab something in a bucket on the side desk which was a damp towel and put it over his forehead.

While the child did this, I looked on to my left wrist, seeing a black screen before it shone to life. It was a communicator for covert operations.

-'Report'. I typed in, waiting for a reply. A minute went by but the child seemed oblivious of my actions. Looking back at my wrist, a message appeared.

-Nothing to report. Was the first reply before another message appeared under.

-Same goes for me. With that the screen went black and I lowered my arm as I resumed my wait. My patience was infinite and waiting for a man under the influence of chaos build up is nothing different.

“You seem familiar.” I heard the girl say without looking.

“In what regard, little one?” I asked her. She looked at me and tilted her head.

“It’s… weird, I feel like I should know you.” she said. I had taken a deep breath and closed.

“Maybe we've met or maybe it is just a feeling, either way, we'll both know as soon as he awakes. If he remembers that is.” I told her as I saw movement from the ceiling but ignored it, knowing who was up above.

“Right… so did Jace asked for your name?” the girl said before turning. “I’m Stella by the way.”

“My name will be known soon enough.” I said, seeing Jace starting to stir. “It is only a matter of time.”

Stella frowned a bit and looked Jace. She looked sad and leaned back. “Hey… can I… can I ask you something?”

“Ask away.” I told her with a small wave of my hand.

“If we have met before then… have you met my dad?” she asked.

“...Yes.” I answered simply. She stared at me for a moment.

“Can you… describe him, I don't really know him that much.” she asked.

“There are many ways to describe your father but the most common would be that he was a wildcard. A man of many tricks, you see and with those tricks brought its fair share of troubles, some even worse than others but he has learned through his failures to keep on. His motivation was his friends and family, including you.” I said to her. She listened to every word, every syllable that had anything to do with her father.

“I just… hope he still cares about me.” she said in a sad tone. Internally, I frowned -This won't do.

“Oh but he does.” I told her, gaining her full attention. “He misses you immensely and only wishes to be with you.”

She looks down and smiles. We sat there in silence before she stood up. “I have to go, Spike needs help with cleaning up, I hope you have a nice day.”

After she left the man stirred and sat up. He put his hand on his head.

“Ugg, seasickness has nothing to do with what I been through.” he muttered. He looked around before looking at me. “Oh… right you're here.”

“Your ways in greeting in old friend is questionable but then again, it is you.” I said to him with a deadpan stare.

Jace

“Weren’t you more...emotion the last time we met?” I asked him.

“Emotion? If by that you mean lively, then yes.” He answered with his monotone voice.

“Right… I guess we all change, even chaos incarnate.” I said as I got out of bed to stretch. I heard pops from my back which I sighed in relief. “Gods I missed moving around.”

I looked around happily until I got the feeling that I was being watch. I blinked and looked up to see someone on the ceiling. “Who are you?”

Whoever they are, they didn't answer. They simply dropped from the ceiling, landing beside my guest.

“She is one my elite guards and my personal guard.” The man on the chair answered, unfazed by the sudden entry.

“Right… so quick question, do I still call you the same thing as before or if I do I’ll see my life beaten out of me?” I asked him as I waved my hand, I felt the weight of my clothes change as I’m back in my old outfit.

“Whatever you choose but I do go by another name now. I am Navarax Parath, Chaos incarnate.” He said, finally revealing his name. Got to admit, it kind of rolled off the tongue.

“Alright… I’ll go with Navarax, it rolls off the tongue a bit.” I joked. I was met with stares as I shook my head. I looked over at my desk and saw some notes that wasn’t there before. Taking them, I saw that they were the notes about the rifts research that the Rift Hunters were looking into. I looked over to Navarax. “How much do you know about Rifts?”

“You're asking the man who creates rifts with just a snap of a finger.” He replied before closing his eyes in deep thought. “A rift is a tear through the thread that keeps one reality from another. A rift forms or opens if a strong surge of chaos cuts the thread. Other means of opening rifts exist but those are for those whose intentions are to cross to another reality.”

‘So… it’s like the whole displaced thing.’ I thought. I tilted my head at the thought. “This is a real odd question but… is there a way to, I don’t know, synchronize the time between two realities or is that a big nono?” I asked as I pulled a new notebook.

“That can only happen between two of the same realities. A parallel universe, if you may. Of course doing so would bring risk to both realities, for example you could meet a version of yourself that chose a darker path for malicious intentions or one where you were never adopted into the royal family.” He explained. I wrote this all down.

“So, it’s not like you can go from one world to another, like the whole displaced thing, and have it change one world a minute passed and in another a month passed to just a minute.” I asked without looking up.

“No, doing so will collapse any realities involved.” He said. I nodded and closed the book.

“That’s… scarily helpful, thanks.” I put the notebook down and looked at my hands. I saw a dark purple smoke trail around my hands. “This feels… odd.”

“Abyssal and Chaos. You hold two kinds of deadly magic.” Navarax said, standing up. This got the guard’s attention and moved her head slightly towards him.

“Of course I have those two like this.” I said as the smoke dissipate. I looked back at Navarax. “So, you’re just here to make sure I don’t blow up?”

“No, I'm here to make sure you use your chaos wisely, your body won't be able to handle an immense amount of chaos used. Think of it as one of it as a limited bar of chaos, too much and your body will shut down.” Navarax said before tapping his wrist. I nodded and crossed my arms.

“Well, there’s a training room that can be used for some training, does that sound like a good place to work or are you going to do something else?” I asked.

“It is best if you practice outside unless your rooms can withstand the untamed chaos you posses. I also wish to test you at the end and an enclosed space won't do.” He replied. Opening my mouth to reply, I was cut off by the door opening.

The Guard beside Navarax vanished just before the door fully opened. I looked and saw Yrna at the door. She stopped at the sight of Navarax.

“Uhh… am I interrupting something?” she asked. I shook my head.

“No no it’s fine, say is room six open?” I asked her.

“Yeah, the tests with the new suits are done so I should be open.”

“Great, by the way that notebook will help with the rifts research.” I told her. She nodded and picked it up. I looked over at Navarax. “I know just the place.”

We headed to one of the many doors in the workshop, the one with a six on it. I opened it and as we walked in the lights turned on. The room, in simple terms, was massive. In truth I believe you could put a starship in here and still have room to move. I looked back at Navarax.

“Will this do?” I asked him.

“For now.” He answered, walking ahead. What he did next stunned me. With his arms spread open and palms out, the temperature of the whole room dropped to the point that the floor, walls and ceiling were encased in a thin layer of ice.

“Chaos reacts differently to extreme climates, be it cold or heat. The reactions vary between wielder, try casting an orb of chaos.” He instructed as his guard stared at me, waiting for me to do as he said.

I looked around and closed one eye, raising one hand I felt the chaos form an orb in front of me. It was as big as a soccer ball.

“Good, now try moving it.” Navarax said another instruction. I looked at the orb and moved it to the left. At first it moves a few inches before falling onto the ground, or into the ground. It shot forward until a dark purple spike erupted from the ground.

“Err… was that supposed to happen?” I asked.

“It means you need to practice in colder areas in order control the chaos during periods of extreme cold climates.” As he said this, the temperature began to rise up onto a boiling heat.

“Now try it again and we'll see what happens.” Navarax said as he walked up to his guard. I made another orb again and moved it. The orb moved much slower than the first but it started to take shape. It turned from an orb to more of a fiery form. After a few moments the orb turned into what looked looks like a purple fire elemental. It looked around for a few seconds before turning into ash. I tilted my head at this.

“Cold I make a spike and heat I make an elemental.” I said out loud. The temperature went back to normal, leaving no trace that had changed in the first place.

“Now try summoning a simple object and work your way up, when you feel your body strain, you will stop.” Navarax said, instructing me on what to do next.

I started out small as I made different objects, from a book to bigger. Making one thing and changing it to something bigger wasn’t that hard. When I get something bigger, like a really big box, I felt a bit of pain in my arms and I stopped.

“That’s… how big I can go.” I panted. By the size of the box, it was as big as a three-story house, I can go quite a size.

“It is almost as big as a dropship.” Said a familiar yet odd voice.

“Indeed, with enough practice, he will be able to create anything planet sized.” Navarax said afterward. I looked over at the guard for a moment than in front of me as I thought of something planet sized.

“Err… I don't think I’ll go that big. Anyway, what next?” I asked as I took a few breaths. The last one was as big as I can go but I only felt a little pain.

“Fighting, a true Chaos wielder knows how to fight without relying on weapons or magic.” He explained just as two more of the same guards appeared out of nowhere. I eyed them all and turned to them.

“So you want to spar a bit? Alright.” I said as I went to a boxing stance. They both clapped their hands together, causing their hands to emit an orange hue. I felt chaos coming from the after they did that.

Without warning, they both charged. I ducked one of their punches and blocked the other. Said punch sent me back a few feet.

“No magic or weapons but they can use chaos ma-” I stopped as I thought on what I was about to say. “Stupid, chaos isn’t magic so…”

I felt it rise a bit and had a bit of a dark huh around me. I blinked and saw that everything seemed… different. I watched the two charged again but this time I saw some sort of shadow in front of them. I waited until they swung at me, I blocked them both and made it they would go unbalance. I then punched them in the heads, which was a bad idea since they had helmets on, but it did stagger them long enough to get some distance.

They turned and went at it again. We spared for some time now and for me, it wasn’t going anywhere. I can keep up with them but I wasn’t doing anything to slow them down. They were strong and fast and all I was doing was just keeping up.

‘I hope this works.’ I thought as I felt the chaos surround my hands. I ducked one haymaker from one of them and punched the guard in the side. Which sent him or her flying in that direction, whoops.

I turned to see the other one’s fist close to my face. I ducked and kicked the guard away. Again sent him flying, I really need to control the chaos. As I looked at the two guards I got kicked in the back which sent me into a wall. I turned and saw the third standing there.

“So, want to go one on one huh.” I rolled my arms a bit before putting them up. “Bring it.”

What happened next happened fast, I don't know what happened but all I knew that we clash, the guard grabbed me, did something and now my back was up to a wall and my arm hurts like a mother. I looked and saw it bent a very odd and painful way.

“You...are much stronger than the other two.” I looked back at the guard and heard my arm making snapping sounds. It twisted and bend in different directions before going back to normal. Odd.

“Alright, let's try something else.” I muttered before sprinting forward. I saw the shadow of her strike coming only it was a bit smaller margin between the two so I rotated a bit and caught the guards punch and used the forward motion to flip the guard and slammed her onto the ground. I brought my foot down onto the guard and stared. I was out of breath and looked around to see what happens next.

What happened is that I got kicked in the head by the guard on the ground, don't ask, flipped to an upright position, really don't ask, and got knocked down to be stomped on in the head multiple times. I did the sensible to so, I repeatedly hit the ground saying I'm tapping out.

The guard, after giving me one last kick, backed off as I moved my head up. I spat out rubble that found itself into my mouth. I looked up to see Navarax standing there.

“I don't know if I pass or not but getting my ass kicked means I messed up something.” I said, out of breath.

“It is impressive how she can fight without the use of chaos, is it not.” Navarax said, revealing that the guard kicked my ass without using any abilities. I frowned at this. Looking onto my hands, seeing the hue from before still encasing my hands and balled them up into fists, feeling the immense power I had gained.

Looking back up to Navarax, seeing him taking off his gauntlets. Each gauntlet landed on the floor with a loud thud, forming cracks under them. He then unhooked his cape along with shoulder pads, both landing and bending the ground as cracks started to form. Lastly, he then removed the top half of his royal garbs, revealing the scars of his bare chest.

“What are you-” Without finishing my sentence, I was sent back onto the other side of the room before slamming against the wall.

“Your test starts now.” Was all I heard as I was picked up and slammed into the ground in a millisecond. Groaning, I stood up and finally got a good look at Navarax only to see him standing there with his arms behind his back.

“Are going to fight back or are you going to stand there?” He asked, monotonously.

I charged at him, ready to deliver a powerful jab only to hit the air as he dodged with ease. I didn't have time to recover as I was then hit the ground just a second later. I heard my spine break and winced in pain.

“Get up.” I heard him said as my vision blurred from the pain. “I said, get up.” And I did though not after feeling my spine fix itself via unknown means. I tried again and came up with the same result, my face into a wall.

‘This is getting me nowhere, all my training over the years mean nothing?’ I thought about it. ‘I’m fighting Chaos incarnate, he's older than time itself.’

'And is that the reason you fight sloppily.’ I heard a voice in my head. I growled in annoyance.

‘What do you want.’ I asked without hiding my anger.

‘Wondering what you are doing, you fought things that make any sane person break yet you can't hold a candle to him?’ I frowned at that as I looked at Navarax who was standing there, waiting.

‘He's also Chaos incarnate, the things I've seen don't hold a candle to whatever he has been through.’

‘Then let me take over.’ he said. I made a broad face.

‘You know the answer to that.’ I heard a growl of annoyance from him.

‘Then stop using so little chaos.’ he said. I stared at Navarax and took a deep breath.

“Let's try this again.” I muttered before charging. I tried to fake him out with some faints but he didn't bat an eye at this. He did the same thing I did, use my forward momentum to flip me, as he did this I saw a small orb shot out of my fist and went into the ground. Seeing this I thought of an idea as I jerked my hand back, this made a clawed like thing to burst out and went straight to Navarax. I looked back and saw him block it with his arm, I didn't know if he was surprised or not, he had that monotone look.

The claw thing gave me an idea, though, I turned my hand a bit and felt the chaos around me. ‘Well, here’s goes something.’ I thought at I move my hand as two more of those claws shot towards him. Navarax moved out of the way as I flicked my wrist, making the claws shoot in a different direction. I did this to move him into a spot before I twitched my hand up, this made a set of jaws burst out to bite him. He jumped up away from him as I turned my hand to make orbs appear above him.

‘This is my field, I control what happens.’ I thought as the orbs turned into spikes and shoot towards him. He battered them away as I sprinted forward, he may break every bone in my body but if I can hit him once…

I made more of those spikes and kept him busy as I felt chaos under my feet. I made a whip out of it and used it to grab him and pulled. It shot me up as I made more spikes and claws, hey don’t look at me like that I’m still new to this, as I got closer I went for a punch, and it connected. Sure it wasn’t his face but still. That thought changed as he punched me and sent me into the ground, breaking most of my bones. I had my eyes closed at this point as I heard Navarax land beside me. I opened one eye to look at him.

“G-give me a minute,” I gasp as I felt my bones heal. I stood up and wobbled a bit, looking back at Navarax and putting up my fists. “Alright, continue.”

“Test over, you passed.” He said, surprising me. He passed me and headed back where we started. “Don't fall behind.”

Once I finally got out of the shocked state, I had noticed that Navarax was gone and started heading back. With a limp, I slowly made my way back. As I limped across the room, I could hear Navarax’s voice along with another voice, a familiar female voice.

“Are you certain he is trustworthy?” The unknown woman asked. I was far enough for them not to see me. It was Navarax's personal guard who spoke.

“Are you doubting my judgment?” Navarax said, earning the shake of the guard's head. “I know the man well enough to know he is trustworthy.” I noticed something, his eyes, they weren't black anymore, instead, they were a normal white with blue irises.

“Apologies, my lord.” Said the guard, earning a disapproving look from him. He shook his head before letting out a sigh.

“You know what I said about formality. You are the only one with the privileges to call me by name.” He said in a different tone than before. It sounded, loving. The guard looked onto the floor in what I could guess was an embarrassment but looked back up as Navarax lifted her chin with a finger.

“I don't mind the slip up, it is good to see your dedication as an elite and my personal guard but you must remember, I chose you to accompany me because of your wish to see other worlds and I intend to fulfill that wish.” Navarax told her, his other hand took hold of her right hand before both held each other. She nodded at his words. Navarax smiled before his gaze moved onto me.

Soon the guard's gaze landed on me as well. I moved out from where I was as if I was still moving and looked at them.

“Oh, don’t mind me I’m just being the living test subject of Newton’s third law.” I said as I limped passed them. I replayed what the woman said, that she doubts if I could be trusted. If she knew my history she would have every right to. I made it to the main room of the Workshop. I limped over to the fireplace where a bot of water or something was there. I grabbed it and moved over to the bench; yes it was very hot but I’m used to it. I saw that the other two followed.

“Would you two like some tea? My sister keeps sending me them and I really hate to waste them.” I asked of them.

“Alright,” Navarax said before turning towards his guard, waiting for an answer.

“I will have some as well.” She said while Navarax sat down on an empty chair. The guard stood beside him, earning a frown from the chaos being.

“Don't just stand there, come and sit as well.” Navarax said just as a chair manifested behind the guard. After a minute of silence, she sighed and sat down next to him.

Pouring some tea into three cups, I then handed it to them. Navarax took a sip of his and I as well but the guard did nothing but stare at it. I wasn't the only one to notice this as Navarax raised an eyebrow but did nothing.

“If my lord trusts you, then so will I for now.” With that said, her mask then poured out a bit of steam as it split open and retracted the two halves, revealing the guards face to be… Twilight?

I shouldn't be surprised but seeing an exact double of my world's Twilight is kind of a shocker, even for me. I looked back at her, she was a spitting image of other Twilight, long purple hair with a lighter purple and pink streak, purple eyes, round face. It was looking at a mirror if it wasn't for the armor.

She took a sip of the tea after her mask was off, staying as silent as she was before. I looked between her and Navarax and thought about it. I sighed and looked at the fire.

“Any other tests or something I need to do?” I asked. I took a sip of my tea, it had a fruity mint flavor to it.

“There will be more tests, some more difficult than others and I will be there to oversee them. For now, though, we speak not as teacher and student but as old friends.” Navarax answered before sipping his tea.

I looked down at my drink and chuckled. Some friends I got.

‘If any friends of yours were somewhat normal that would be surprising.’

‘Shut it you.’ I snapped. I took a drink and was going to ask something but I was interrupted by something going on outside. The doors opened and a duck flew in and landed on the top of a low bookshelf.

“Duck.”

“Quack!” I stared at the duck until I heard yelling from outside.

“He went this way!” I looked over to the door to see Stella run into the room covered with dirt, twigs, leaves, and feathers. Her eyes landed on me. “Did you see a duck fly in here?”

Before I could answer Nyx came stumbling in behind her. She too had dirt, twigs, leaves, and feathers covering her. “Did you… find… the stupid… duck?”

“Quack!” the duck quacked as it flapped it wings and flew out of the room. The two watched it go.

“He was right there.”

“And now he’s off again.” They both looked at each other and began to fall. I thrust my hand out and caught them with magic. I gestured my hand and had them float over to the couch and laid them on it. With another gesture, they quickly got clean as they know slept to what I can guess is hours of chasing a duck.

“Honestly, if it wasn't for the hell I been through this would have been the strangest thing.” I muttered. I looked back at the other two to see Navarax looking at me as Twilight looked at the other two. Their faces were emotionless. “So, have anything to talk about?”

“I'm sure you have questions to ask of me and I will answer them truthfully.” Navarax said after taking another sip of the tea. I thought on about his words and he was right. From the new appearance to his personality, almost every aspect I knew about him changed.

“What made you decide to change? I don't know if you did this on purpose or was this something else?” I asked him.

“It had to be done, I foresaw my future if I continued the life I had. Because of the normality I used to live in, the chaos I held began to, in a word, overload and if nothing was done about it, it have would lead me into insanity. I didn't want to lose the ones I cared for because of my ignorance, so with all of my power, I forced the universe to reset.” He said, placing his cup down. I simply stared at him. Wow.

“That's… I never heard someone just resetting a universe.” I said as I drink a little more. The idea of it was both interesting yet unsettling. Before anyone could say anything the fire roared and a letter flew out. I caught it and looked at it. These were reports from the Valley. I looked over a Navarax as he stared at me.

“Sorry.” I said as I opened the letter and read the report.

Navarax Parath

I sat patiently as Jace read the letter that was sent to him. As he read the quiet snores of two children filled the room while I was left deep in thought.

It happened so long ago yet whenever I am reminded it always feels the same like it happened a day before. I remember the moment I forced the universe to reset, I could hear the screams of the universe itself and it begged for me to reconsider. But I didn't and with a mighty roar, everything went black and the universe was gone, replaced with the empty void of nothingness. A mere second later it happened, the universe was born once again and in a way, I was in the center of it all, watching and waiting .

I was brought out of my thoughts as a hand, smaller in comparison to mine, placed itself onto my own. Looking at the owner and seeing Twilight, I could see the look of worry donning her face.

“Are you alright?” She asked. Closing my hand around hers, I nodded before exhaling and looking over to Jace just as he finished reading.

“Sorry about that, just something to keep me up to date.” he said with a smile. I saw his left eye twitch a bit.

“There is something else, I can see it in you.” I told him, narrowing my eyes as I did. He looked confused before snapping his head to the side. I looked around at the room feeling something around. I heard Jace curse and shot out of his chair, he stumbled a bit due to the limp. With a growl he grabbed his leg and muttered something. After that he walked over, without a limp, to the other two and put his hand out and again muttered something.

Gray mist appeared around them as the one named Stella shifted a bit. When that was done Jace went over to a bench to grab something, muttering loudly.

“Why now, no one knows she's there so there's no reason for anyone to open the lock.” I looked over at Twilight to see her confused.

“What has gotten you in such a panic?” I asked him. He looked at me for a second, within that second I saw his eyes went from normal to darken gray to back again and a presence could have been felt. Something old.

“Something I need to do, this can't wait.”

“Then I will aid you.” I told him as I stood up. He eyed me for a moment.

“Alright, do ya have something that could get us where we need to go?” He asked.

“Yes, it is just outside of town.” I told him as Twilight stood up as well. We all headed out towards where we needed to go. With haste we traversed through the town, gaining the attention of the townspeople as we passed by and some followed for reasons beyond any comprehension.

Once we finally made to the outskirts of town, we came across a clearing, nothing but grass and trees as far as the eye could see. Without a word, Twilight stepped forward and tapped her wrist which resulted in a loud beep followed by the deactivation of a cloaking device. A dropship covered most of the land as it was uncloaked.

The sides of the ship opened, waiting for us to enter. Without a word, Jace headed in and Twilight followed suit before I finally entered before the doors shut.

Twilight sat in the pilot's seat as the metal panels in front of her shone to life, revealing the front of the ship. I sat down as we took off.

A small green panel lowered itself in front of Jace, causing him to reel back a bit.

“Enter the coordinates or mark the area we need to go on the map.” Twilight said, not looking back. Jace looked at the panel and tapped on it. It beeped a few times and sent up.

With that, Twilight began to head towards the marked location.

Jace

I sat in the ship with my arms crossed. I felt anger rise as we traveled. I took deep breaths to calm myself but the ideas of what would happened keeped it at a certain point. One of the ideas has happened before and it made me go through a nightmare. I felt something on my shoulder, I snapped my head over and saw Navarax trying to get my attention.

“You need to keep calm, worrying will only worsen your situation.” He said to me. I looked out of the window with a frown.

“It’s kinda hard when the thought of plunging my home into a terrible nightmare in looming.” I replied to him. My thoughts went back to what I heard, a simple plea of help. I looked back at Navarax as he stared at me. “You have a question?”

“What is it that we are dealing with?” He asked. I looked in front of me as I tried to pick my words.

“Someone who knows the arcane very well who’s also scared.” I told him. “She very fearful to the mortals due to what has happened to her in the past.”

“Is she a threat, an enemy or a misunderstood being?” He asked.

“Not much misunderstood, more terrified of what would happen if she’s found.” I told him.

“I see…” He said, closing his eyes in thought.

“We’re here.” I heard Twilight said. I looked out of the window and saw the temple come into view. We landed in a clearing just some ways away from it and exited the ship. I saw Twilight put her helmet on and push something on her wrist, making the ship disappear.

“Right, follow me.” I said as I started to walk towards the trees. We walked quite away from the ship and the temple until we found a large tree. I pulled a dagger out and cut my hand to smear the blood on the tree. It sucked up the blood and began to shift, making a set of stairs down. I looked back at the other two. “Back door.”

We all headed down the steps which leads to a long hallway. I looked over and saw a lantern on the ground, picking it up I lit the lantern which shined a bright blue. “Stay in the light.”

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked.

“This hallway is trapped out the wazoo, there’er traps under the traps under the traps. It was designed to make sure that if anyone would of found this way wouldn’t live the first step in.” I lift the lantern up. “Also if anyone did know of the lantern there’s a special fire I made to shine a certain way that it would disable the traps when the light hits it.”

“And you know this…?” I turned to her and smiled.

“Who do you think set it up.” I turned back and walked forward onto the hallway of death. As we continued on I looked at my hand and thought back in the Workshop. I had my whole body smashed to pieces yet here I am fine. I know some healing spells but they required a gesture or a trinket to use.

“Hey Navarax, what’s up with the odd healing?” I asked him. I turned my head to him. “That’s something new.”

It took me second to realize the empty space where Navarax once was. Looking back down the hall, there he was, casually strolling through as the traps either miss or dodged

My left eye twitched at the sight and sighed as the two of us continued down the hallway. When we got to the end we saw Navarax waiting for us to catch up. I for one, walked passed him muttering to myself. We continued down until we got to an archway that led into a very large room filled to the brim with books. I looked around and saw that the place is in a mess due to maybe a freak out. I glance over to the others.

“Whatever you do, don't touch anything.” I warned.

“Is this place trapped as well?” she asked. I saw her looking around at the place, maybe smiling at all the knowledge in one room.

“No, Ebrie is a bit nit picky when she places her books.” I told her. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move behind a bookshelf. I moved a bit closer to it. “Hey Ebrie, remember me?”

At first, nothing happened, then a set of long fingers appeared at one of the ends of the shelf. A blonde haired woman with pale skin and green eyes peeked out from the end with a fear full look.

“G-Grakos? Is it really you?” she asked. I sighed at this.

“How many times have I said to not call me that.” I said. She frowned a bit.

“T-that's your n-name so…” I cut her off.

“Are you alright? You sounded scared.” I asked, implying about the message from before. Her eyes went wide with fear.

“They're here! They found me again!” she yelled before ducking behind the bookshelf. “Not again, not again!”

“Ebrie calm down, they aren't going to get in here I place enough locks here to the front that would take them many years to opened them.” I told her trying to calm her down.

“He speaks the truth.” Navarax said, making himself known. Ebrie expression changed to an angry one.

“You… what are you doing here.” I could feel the anger in her voice. I looked at Navarax and back at her.

“You… know him?” I asked. She walked past.

“I've been yelling, screaming for help all those years when they took my blood and cut pieces off of me, and what you do? NOTHING!” She yelled at him. I saw Twilight pull out a gun but was stopped Navarax. I walked over to her and grabbed her arm.

“Ebrie stop-” she turned and growled at me. I saw her eyes went black and cracks began to form. I reared back at this, then growled back. It sounded feral as I felt my teeth changed to fangs. She shrinks down in fear at this as I took some breaths.

“How about we talk about this.” I said. Some of it sounded more of a growl like speech. Her eyes turned back to green and the cracks disappear. “Thank you.”

“I don’t forget many things Grakos.” she said to me.

“Remember the second time we met, you tried to kill me.” I said.

“You killed me! It’s kind of hard to forget about that.” she said quickly. I looked over at Navarax as if he wanted to say something. But nothing was said, he just stared patiently.

“Got something to say?” I asked him. His gaze landed on me as said this but was then moved towards Ebrie.

“... I'm sorry.” He said and with that, the silence broke. She stared at him for a minute and opened her mouth to say something but the whole place shook.

“The hell!” I yelled as I looked around. It didn’t last long as I went to the wall and place my hand on it. I closed my eyes as I felt my sight leave me and travel upwards. As I opened my eyes and saw a now ruined temple and some people in said rubble. One of them that looked like a monkey was shaking his hand at the sky yelling something. My vision returned to me as I turned around. I saw Ebrie was on the ground shaking, I move over to her and kneeled down.

“No more pain, no more, no more.” she repeated over and over. I put my hand on her head as she tensed a bit then relaxed. I picked up the now sleeping Great one and placed her in the spot that had more books and a blanket. After that was done I went back to the other two.

“Temple is now destroyed up above, it would make finding the door to here harder but I will come back here to cover it.” I said.

“I take it that it was this world's Twilight and her friends doing?” Navarax asked. I tilted my head a bit to think about it.

“Maybe.” I answered. He nodded at my answer as he crossed his arms and closed his eyes. “Anyway, we better leave before something else happens.”

“What of your friend?” He asked, raising a brow.

“Again she’s fearful, other than that spat she’s terrified of the world outside. This is her home after all.” I told him.

“Alright then, if there's nothing else to do here then let's go.” He said after accepting my answer.

Navarax

We left the chamber soon after the owner was put to sleep and had headed back to the dropship. On the way, I could sense that Jace had many question to ask of me still but I did not saying anything, keeping my knowledge hidden.

We arrived at the dropship and boarded it without a word before we took off back to the Hunter’s Workshop. It was a silent journey back, no one spoke a word and our journey was spent in an uncomfortable silence.

“So, what is it you do?” I heard Jace break the silence. Looking at the man, I could see that he was looking at Twilight. The latter gave him a side glance.

“What?” Twilight said in confusion. Jace blinked before clarifying.

“I mean what is it you do, you look as if you're ready for war by wearing whatever it is you wear.” Jace said, explaining his question. Twilight, still piloting the ship, shook her head at this but answered anyway.

“What I do varies between whatever my lord tells me, my orders are from him and him alone but as for my attire, to put it simply I am ready for war and so are the others.” Twilight said, taking a side glance towards me as she did.

“Right…” Jace turned to me. “ You didn't answer my question… kinda.”

“What do you mean?” I asked him. He lift his hand up and wiggled his fingers.

“I had my arm dislocated then my whole body broken but I healed it off as if it was nothing, for me that's new.” he explained.

“Because you willed it or thought of a quick heal of sorts and the chaos listened.” I told him. He looked away for a moment.

“Well that's… handy.” he said. After a few moments his face went dark. “Now I had a bad thought.”

“What might that thought be?” I asked in a serious tone. He waved his hand dismissively.

“You’d think it's childish but I thought if someone out there in other worlds that had chaos would try and take over their world or the whole multiverse.” he said.

“I won't lie, that thought of yours has happened in the past but had always resulted in the same conclusion. Nothing. They would gain nothing after all they had lost, some would succumb into insanity before perishing while others seek me for guidance and redemption. The guards you fought earlier, they are part of the few beings to wield pure chaos.” I told him.

“Right.” he said. I stared at him for a bit as I remembered when we were underground as he stopped Ebrie, I took notice that his features changed as well as hers, gray out eyes and fangs.

“You worry about losing yourself into the chaos as well.” I guessed. He glanced over to me.

“I have a bit of the Abyss in me and for me is worse than chaos but here I am.” he gestured to himself. “Why ask me that?”

“It wasn't a question, merely a guess.” As I said this, the ship shook and landed on the ground with a loud thunk.

“We're here.” Twilight said, her mask taken off moments before landing. The side doors opened, revealing that the ship has gathered a large crowd.

“Great, the fan club is here.” Jace said jokingly as the door opened and he poked his head out. “What? You all never saw a drop ship before?!”

After a few moments and some of them taking pictures the group disbanded as the three of us headed back. When we got back I saw the two girls still sleeping.

“... I'll take the… book on the...left… mommy…” the girl with glasses muttered.

“More sprinkles… please…” Stella muttered as she hugged a pillow.

“Well the sleep spell still holds.” Jace said as he picked up the letter from before and reread it. I stepped behind him to glance over his shoulder. I saw that it was a report of the status of a kingdom.

“Yes~?” Jace said as he looked at me.

“I've been thinking over how I will oversee your progress and came up with one solution.” I told him, gaining a confused look from him.

“I would like to offer an alliance.” I said, my tone showing no sign of my words being a joke.

Author's Notes:

You know, this was going to be only one chapter but... things went a bit overboard. Hehe
Crossover with legi- oh wait new name... The Autarch... Naw~ sticking with Legion

See you all in the next chapter :)