Alright let’s see, it’s been a month or so and some stuff has happened; let do a recap shall we.

First I been released from my stone prison, then I reunited with Tia, Lu, and Discord. Went on some crazy adventure with the CmC, Nyx, and Stella. Told something to Discord about his family in Yharnam which shook him, haven’t heard from him since. Got blasted from some sort of beam by Twilight when I gave her a book by Big Hat Logan which put me in a bed since I couldn’t feel my legs. Went to the Boreal Valley to kill the Pontiff… again and regain my kingdom. Went to Canterlot to make ties and deals with Tia and Lu to do some trading between kingdoms and found out there’s a changeling hive near the Fairgate in the Whitetail woods. Some things not in that order.

So far I had a busy month. Although right at the moment I was sitting on my throne listening to the council. Tia and Luna have their day and night court, in have my council. The council consists with two people from each main group in the valley, such as farming, crafts, trading, magic, and army. One of them is the head of said group while the other is their right-hand person.

“Trade between towns are going smoothly for some of the nearby towns but there’s some difficulty in getting trade to the much farther towns due to bandits and beasts.” the man from the traders guild said. He was a tall Skyborn man with a green shirt and jeans and tan skin. His name was Eto and his right hand was a Magi woman who looks like an accountant who's named is Chelle.

“The farm's lands are having similar problems with the beasts, we can only go so far before they show up and attack, luckily no one has died but a few were injured.” the woman from the farmlands said. She was a Cross-breed between a dragon-kin and a Terran. She had a tank top with dirt stains on it and jeans with the same stains and some grass stains. Her name was Terra Rain and her right hand was a hulking Terran man that goes by Hank.

“We are trying to send soldiers out there but so far we been straight thin as it is with the attacks at some of the other keeps, we will send knights to drive them out but for so much I can spare.” The woman said in dark leather armor said. She was a Magi with tan skin, black raven hair, and teal eyes, her name was Moonlight. The person beside her was a man wearing engineering clothing with brown hair and burn marks.

“The Hunters are also are having troubles, some of them went out to hunt for some big beasts that live in some nearby woods and others are fixing other workshops.” He said he goes by the name Mac.

“Is that why you're here? Emma had to go out and you're the only one that she could spare?” Light said.

“Pretty much, trust me I think she has a screw loose for doing something like this.” He said with a smile. Light rolled her eyes as we continued. Moonlight and Mac didn’t have any right-hand people but others say that they are each other right, or so I been told.

“We have been researching ways to cast domes that can keep out the beasts, we have everything ready to make about three to four domes.” A small Magi woman said in a small voice. She wore light blue robes and had a book on her lap. She had short blond hair and blue eyes at I could see behind her glasses. Her name was Ril.

“When can you be able to cast them?” Terra asked. Ril looked down and blushed.

“Umm… anytime really, we had everything ready about two weeks ago.”

“Then why didn’t you cast it beforehand!” Light yelled at her. Ril flinched at this and squeezed her eyes shut.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Ril yelled back. The man beside Ril and her right hand was a man named Jegec, and he looked around having no idea what to do.

“Quit ya yelling!” A man said as he slammed his hammer onto the table. He was a Terran that I can describe him as a dwarf, no really he looks like a dwarf. He grumbled something under his breath. “It’s been a hard few weeks and yelling would give us more trouble to deal with, it’s also giving me a headache.”

“Thank you Hordin.” I said to him and saw that he didn’t have a right-hand person. “Where’s your right?”

“He’s in the shop working on some new blades for the soldiers, I don’t think I need anyone to be with me to get my point across.” he said. I leaned back and thought about it. I looked at Moonlight and Mac

“Can you spare some of your knights and some hunters to protect the mages as they cast the dome spell?” I asked them.

“Yes my lord.” Moonlight said.

“Well… it won’t be a lot but I could send a few to help.” Mac said. I nodded and looked at Ril.

“I want you to get a group of mages to head out tomorrow morning to cast the spell.” I told her. She nodded as I stood up. “Then if that’s all I'll end this meeting, thank you all for coming.”

With that everyone left the throne room. I sat back down and looked over to Yorshka as she stood nearby.

“You know that you're supposed to be sitting here, right.”

“Of course, but you were still here and most people think that you're the lord at the moment.” she answered me. I sighed at this.

“I’m also guessing that you have something to say?” I asked her.

“Yes my lord, your invitations went out and so far only the ones that went to Castle Cainhurst, and Yharnam has sent word about it, no message came from the Iron Kingdom.” She told me. I rubbed my chin for a bit as I thought, the new Iron king by what I heard was trying to do what the old Iron king did and build an ancient dragon out of iron, I pushed it aside as something dumb but I haven’t heard anything from them and I was getting a bad feeling about it.

“Anything else?” I asked.

“I got a letter from your sister, she is sending a man named Blueblood to see the Valley.” she told me. I silently groan at this. I turned my thoughts on the Iron Kingdom for a moment.

“I think I’m going to pay a visit over to the Iron Kingdom to see what’s the hold up, can you watch over the valley when I’m gone?” I asked her. She bowed to me.

“Of course my lord, I’ll ask for an airship to be ready by tomorrow.” She said as she walked out of the room. I sat there for a moment and looked out of the window to see it was dark out.

“For the first time ever I’m going to sleep.”

Volburaal Nahlii

When I first thought of actually living a mortal's life, I called myself insane which by my standards is a very bad thing but through time I've grown used to the normality that is life while sometimes wreaking havoc for shits and giggles. Lots of shits and giggles.

It has been what? Ten maybe eleven years since I arrived and decided to stay, gotten married and tried not to blow the planet up. Now about nine years ago I've received news of something I did not expect whatsoever.

My wife was pregnant. I didn't know how we weren't of the same species but I should've seen that coming.

Being a father isn't a new thing for me, since I've had one the day I gotten married, a stepchild if you may but I cared for her as if she was my own.

Days after the announcement of my wife's pregnancy, things had started going a little crazy. Other worldly beings had tried to take over, the world splitting open and let loose an army of demons and more.

Being me, Chaos incarnate, handled everything and made sure things won't repeat.

Then about nine months after all that, my wife gave birth to two twins. A filly and a colt. The filly, whose name is Solaris, had her mother's looks and even a stripe in her hair while the little colt named Lunar had some of my traits, mismatch eye color along with a pair of horns.

Cutting towards now, I stood in a forest of another universe with my two children beside me, Solaris and Lunar Eclipse. They both have the gift of chaos but in their own special way, a way I still haven't figured out.

Today I had wanted to show them what true chaos is and looks like, hence why I had taken them to another universe to avoid being scolded by Twilight.

Though as soon as I set foot onto this world, I felt a familiar presence. It could either be someone I know or me being me again, either way I don't care. Onwards we go.

Jace

I remember why I don’t sleep that much and just meditate, I get nightmares. A lot of nightmares, from seeing cities burn and people screaming and a whole lot of monsters. When I woke up I felt like I went through hell and then some. I got up and saw that it was morning and got ready. I wore my old hunter outfit and headed out. I got to talk to others until I ran into Emma. She was Skyborn with Dark red hair and brown eyes. She was also one of the head hunters in the Valley. She was talking to two other hunters before noticing me. All of them turned and bowed.

“My lord.” She said to me. I raised my hand to them.

“Good morning to you all, where are you all going?” I asked them.

“Reports say something is happening in the nearby forest, abyssal magic has been felt there and there’s a lot of it. It’s making the beasts there act up and if we don’t do anything they will go on a rampage.” she told me. I looked at the rest of them and back at her.

“And this is how many you got?” I told her.

“All I could spare since some of the other hunters are out protecting the mages.” she said. I nodded and looked at the three others.

“Mind if I join you for this hunt?” I asked them. She went wide eyed at this.

“O-of course my lord, we would be honored.” She said. I nodded and told her to meet me at the gates. I went off to get some weapons for this hunt. I grabbed the Chikage and a repeating pistol.

I went to the front gates and saw them there and we headed out.

After an hour of travel we arrived at the forest and began our hunt. We split up into two groups, me and Emma in other two in another. We found some beast tracks which showed us that there’s werewolves here. We followed them until we got to a clearing and saw… wow.

The place looked wrecked. The ground turned up and trees upside down. I saw some beast blood and black sludge as well. In the air the scent of abyssal magic was around but it also felt familiar. I remember a memory of a being that looked like Discord but much stronger.

“What happened here?” Emma asked as she stood next to an upturned tree.

“Don’t know, but by the look of things there was a battle.” I looked at the tracks and saw three beings running in different directions.” They fought here but split up in three directions.”

As I said that I heard a scream coming from one of paths that one of them took. “Move!”

We both headed towards the sound and I got there and saw three werewolves walking towards a… mare? Wait what?

I saw that she was back to a tree and looked at these beasts. I could feel the abyssal magic coming off her. I grabbed my weapons and waited until a moment showed itself as one of them pounce towards her. I dashed forward and got between them and swung the chikage in vertical slash, cutting the beast in half. I looked at the other two and pulled out my pistol and shot the head of the beast that was cut in half.

“Next.” I said as I dashed forward to take on one of them. Emma came onto the other with her Saif.

It took a bit but the other two went down. I cleaned my blade and put it away and looked at the mare who saw all of this. Oddly she looks like Twilight, in the show I mean.

“Why is there a Cross-breed here?” Emma asked. I didn’t answer as I walked towards her and kneel down.

“Are you alright, did you get hurt?” I asked her. She looked at me and at Emma with some fear and confusion.

“I-I’m fine.” She answered in a whisper.

“Why are you here?” Emma asked. I looked at the Hunter with a frown.

“Hey now let her breath.” I looked back at her. “What’s your name?”

“Solaris Eclipse.” She answered again in a whisper.

“Well nice to meet you Solaris, my name is Jace and this is Emma.” I told her. I saw her eyes widen when I said my name.

“I've heard about you before, from my dad.” She said, this time in a normal tone. I tilted my head a bit.

“Really, well now back to the last question why are you here?” I asked her. She looked at me for a moment before answering.

“My dad wanted to give a us a lesson in Chaos.” She said. I nodded and looked over at Emma. She gave me a weird look and I shrugged.

“Know where they are?” I asked her. She looked off into forest for a moment.

“For a Skyborn I don’t sense magic that well but whoever she came with are teeming with magic.” She nodded toward a direction. “I feel two sources that way.”

I looked back Solaris. “Come with us, we will help find your dad.”

She nodded and I stood up and the three of us headed towards where the abyssal magic is.

After traveling for some we came up to a clearing that was being used as a battlefield. I saw two beings, the taller one was fighting off werewolves and carrion crows. So far they are holding their own, one of them as smaller than the other and the other… oh god I know him, I don’t remember his name but I do know him.

“Is that them?” I asked Solaris.

“Yeah, that's my dad and brother.” She said. I watched as the one who’s her dad waved his hand as blades came out of who knows where and tore into the beasts. Only three remained until one of the three exploded as black sludge poured out of if as it turned into a monstrosity. Oh hell.

With a sigh and seeing the blades hit it and sink into it I stood up and felt my power build.

“Oh boy, kid you’re going to see a show.” I heard Emma said. I walked forward a bit as everything slowed down. The beast lifted its… arm? As it tried to slam at the two. I saw the older one pushed the younger one behind him to protect him. I took this chance to dash past the two and slash at the beast. Nothing happened at first as I put the blade back into its sheath.

“Burn.” I said as I made the blade click and the beast burst into flames. I watched as it burns into ash and went out leaving nothing but… well ash. I turned back to look at the other two. “You know I wished I would've meet you two on better terms but beggars can’t be choosers.”

“Thanks for the aid.” The older one said as the kid hid behind him. I got a good look at him, he looks a lot like Solaris, well other then his eyes were mismatched and he had horns, twins maybe?

“Well look at that, you look almost like your sister.” When I said that he perked up as I tilted my head as I remember something. “Oh yeah… Hey you can come out now!”

I watched as the two of them walk out, well Emma did but Solaris ran towards us.

“Daddy!” She yelled as she tackled the big one. I saw Emma walk towards me as the other two hunters came into the clearing. I saw that they had their own fighting.

“What happened?” One of them asked.

“Just hunting, I want one of you to make a teleport circle to return.” I ordered them. They nodded and went to get to work. “Emma as they do that I want you to secure this area, seeing a beast turn into a monstrosity is unsettling.”

“Yes my lord.” she said and went off. I looked at the pile of ash and frowned.

Monstrosities are only around when the world is going dark but I felt fire was still going, I got a bad feeling about this the same as in the Iron Kingdom. I looked and saw the older one was looking at me.

“Thanks for bringing my little filly back to me, we had gotten separated when we were attacked by the beasts.” He said as he held the girl in his arms.

“No problem, always happy to help an old friend.” I told him. He stared at me for a moment as I pointed at the filly. “You told her about me.”

“So I'm not going insane, that's a relief.” He said with a sigh before looking back at me.

“Nice to see you again, Jace.” He said. I nodded at him and grinned.

“Also there’s no goin insane, we are all insane.” I told him.

“Here here!”

“Shut up and get the runes written down.” one of the hunters yelled at the other. I rolled my eyes and looked back at… Vol? Was it Vol? I think it was.

“Didn’t know you have kids, but I lived through two very long life times and everything else so I’m shouldn’t be surprised.” I said to him.

“It's only been ten years since we've last seen each other but then again, time is weird.” He said with a shrug before looking behind him, seeing the little one behind him.

“Come on, Lunar. He's not going to hurt you and even if he did, he'll have to deal with me.” He said to the little one before he finally stood beside his dad. I looked at him.

“Hello, it's nice to meet you.” I said to him. He nodded at me but didn’t say anything.

“It’s up!” I heard someone yell behind me. I looked back and saw the teleport circle glowing and Emma was standing near it. I looked back at Vol and his kids.

“Come on let’s get out of here, this place is not the safest place to be.” I told him. We went into the circle and I saw the runes glow for a seconds as mist gather around us.

As the mist faded I saw that we were back in the Valley, right outside of the castle, up thousand of steps… uhh…

“I told you to check the runes!” one of the hunters said to the other.

“Hey at least we’re here!”

“Oh you two knock it off.” Emma said as she bowed to me and dragged the other two with her to the workshop. I sighed and looked at Vol as he and the other two looked around.

“Welcome to my kingdom.” I told him as I started to walk up the steps as they followed. As we walked I talked to Vol for a bit.

“Didn’t know you owned a kingdom before.” He said to me. I shrugged.

“Well when we last met I didn’t but everything changed and… reset itself. I came across this place and liberated it from the tyrant that ruled this place, and again some time ago. The people wanted to crown me but I said no, I wanted to help them not to rule them. Over time I built a Hunter’s workshop and started to make this place better and at some point they were calling me lord.” I told him.

“Well congrats man.” Vol said. I shrugged again.

“Yeah well… they can call me that but… I’m not really the Lord of this place.”

“What do you mean? You just said-”

“I know what I just said it just, I don't feel like I earned it, sure I saved the place and got it back up and running and maybe make it better but there's much more out there and I want to be ready to led them to a better tomorrow.” I told him. For some time we didn't say anything until I felt a hand on my shoulder.

“Still congrats man.”

As we came to the top I turned and saw the other two crawling up the steps out of breath.

“You two are out of breath from that? It’s only over five thousand steps.” I told them. They looked at me and gave me the evil eye.

“They're only kids.” Vol said to me as he walked up to them. I looked back and saw two Darkmoon knights standing by the doors. We walked one as they opened the door. We walked through the hallways and passing other knights, servants and what not. I saw some of them look at the other three and shook their heads, some even said the word ‘Cross-breeds’ at points.

As we came to the doors to the throne room I saw some guards that aren’t mine, they were from Canterlot… ahh shit. I looked over and saw a Darkmoon knight.

“Is my airship ready yet?” I asked him.

“No my lord, it won’t be ready until an hour.” he said as I groaned at this.

“Perfect, just perfect.” I muttered to myself and by judging by Vol lookin at me he heard my annoyance in my voice.

“Is something wrong?” He asked with a raised brow.

“Something that I was hoping I would avoid.” I said as I walked towards the throne doors and opened the doors. I was met with an angry voice.

“Where is he! I was waiting here for an hour and my time is precious!”

“For the last time, HE’S. OUT!” I heard Moonlight’s voice as she yelled. I saw who she was yelling at. He wore a very expensive outfit and it was blue. He had blond hair that was shiny, so much so I thought I could see my reflection in it. He had his head in a way that he tried to look down at Light but it just comes off as looking silly.

“Blueblood…” I said softly that only Vol can hear.

“He's a prick in this world?” Vol whispered back, making sure his kids didn't hear a word.

“I heard he’s getting better but he still has his head up his… well you know.” I told him as he nodded. I walked towards the two and saw Light look at me with the look that said ‘Help!’ I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. “Hello Blueblood, it’s… nice to see you.”

He turned to me as I saw Moonlight backing away from him, I didn’t blame her. I saw that Blue wasn’t happy.

“There you are! You know how long I was waiting for you.” He said.

“Yes I heard, and I apologise for that I should've left a note saying that I was out. So what would you like to talk about?” I asked him. He was about to say something until he looked passed me and saw Vol and his kids.

“What are they doing here?” He sneered. I could feel the anger coming off Vol when he said that.

“We are guests and he happens to a friend I'm visiting.” Vol said, trying to keep his anger in. Blueblood on the other hand didn’t seemed to like it.

“Lord Belaguard I have to remind you that Cross-breeds are lower then the command folk and they aren’t-”

“Listen.” I cut him off. “You can do whatever you want in Equestria but you’re not there, you’re in my kingdom as a guest and I should remind you that if you do anything that would insult me, I’ll have you thrown out of here and you will walk back home. Understand.”

“You can’t do that! I’m Prince-”

“I know but here you’re not a Prince, so if you think that I’ll bend the knee to you, you have another thing coming. Now if you have anything else to talk about say it, if not go look around or leave.” I told him. He stared at me for a moment and he huffed and walked out. I heard him saw ‘Filthy Cross-breeds’ as he leaves. I sighed and went to sit on my throne.

“And today was going so well.” I said as I watch Vol walked up to me.

“If you want I can plague him with Nightmares for two weeks, you can pass that out as a rogue who casted a Hex.” He said. I shook my head as I pulled a note out.

“No, if I allow it Lu will find out and I don’t want to get chewed out on it.” I looked at the note as it burned in a gray flame. “I’m going allow Tia to deal with it.”

“Umm excuse me, what's a Cross-breed?” Solaris asked.

“My dear, a Cross-breed is a hybrid of two beings.” I watched the three of them jump as Yorshka said that. She walked pasted them and turned to them. “I apologise for the scare.”

Vol walked back to his kids again before looking at her.

“Vol this is Yorshka.” I told him as she bows.

“Greetings Volburaal Nahlii, Solaris Eclipse, and Lunar Eclipse.” She said. Vol looked at me raising an eyebrow at me.

“Don’t ask.” I turned to Yorshka. “What is it?”

“The airship is about to be ready to depart for the Iron kingdom.” she told me. I nodded and stood up. I walked a bit and stopped by Vol.

“Want to come?” I asked him.

“Sure.” He answered. I smiled and looked at the other two and frowned.

“They can’t come.” I told him. Lunar looked fine not coming but Solaris...

“But why not?” Solaris asked.

“Because I’m having a bad feeling about it and they are rarely wrong.” I told her. She frowned at me as Yorshka walked up to me.

“A moment, I believe that you came here to train your children in the ways of ab- I mean Chaos magic correct?” She asked Vol.

“Let me clarify, Chaos isn't magic, it's everything and everyone.” Vol said before kneeling towards his kids. “And these two have pure untamed chaos and with a simple sneeze or change of emotion can cause their inner Chaos to spike. I came here to show them how to tame that Chaos inside them.” He finished. Yorshka nodded at him.

“Then how about this, as you are gone I’ll begin their teaching. I’ll not go past the beginning and you’ll pick up from there.” She said. Vol eyed her for a bit.

“..Alright but on one condition, I leave their bodyguard here.” Vol said, arms crossed.

“I see no problem with that.” she said without batting an eye. Vol nodded before snapping a finger, causing a familiar symbol behind him.

The symbol then slammed itself into a wall before it created a portal. I stood there, eying the portal before a large beast walked out of it. It was half flesh and half machine.

“Don't let his appearance fool you, he is a gentle giant and has taken a liking to both Solaris and Lunar. Any threats to any of them and he will act immediately.” Vol explained. The beast took noticed of its surroundings before setting its gaze on Solaris and Lunar.The kids had a big smile on their faces before running towards the beast.

I looked at Yorshka as she eyed the beast. She wasn’t even fazed by it.

“A loving father know's best.” She eyed me for a second and gave me a smile. “Have a good trip, my lord.”

She waved her hand and I turned and saw that I was at the docks. Teleportation magic, very useful. I looked at Vol as he looked around.

“You know you and Yorshka talking freaked the hell out of me.” I told him.

“I've dealt with others like her, some were evil and have even tried to seduce me while my wife was standing beside me.” He replied. I raised my eyebrow at him.

“I see, well I trust Yorshka and she haven't made me regret it yet, it's the last thing I can do for a friend of mine..” I told him. He eyed me for a moment.

“Sounds personal.” Vol said to me. I shrugged a bit.

“Kinda, when you walked into the throne room did you feel anything?" I asked him.

“Kinda, I couldn't focus much from the anger Blueblood gave me.” He answered. I watched groups of people walk to wherever they are going.

“Well to keep this short I liberated the Valley twice now, the first time I had to kill… well ‘a god’.” I said as I did air quotes. “Basically he… it was called the devourer of gods and my friend sacrifice himself to protect his sister.”

I shifted a bit as the memory came back to me. “Now that I killed him his aura still lingers in the throne room and if you focus hard enough you can see his shadow.” Vol didn’t say anything as I shook my head to clear it.

“Anyway all I can say with both the bodyguard and Yorshka there your kids will be safe from anything, hell even if it’s just Yorshka their safe.” I thought about for a minute and chuckled. “Hell if she wanted to she could take over the world.”

“Why doesn’t she then?” Vol asked. I turned and smiled at him.

“She’s a pacifist, now come on our ride is here.” I told him as I saw the ship in front of us.

It looks just like the airship from WoW but with a different paint job. With silver coloured balloons and dark wood and steel it’s a fantastic ship.

“Vol meet the Black Iron wolf.” I told him.

“Cool.” Vol said. We both headed to the ship as I saw the crew loading supplies onto the ship. I saw the captain of the ship as he turned to us.

“Well isn’t it the holy lord himself, can’t find another ship to take you anywhere?” He asked with a smirk. I rolled my eyes.

“You’re the only captain that’s stupid enough to be willing to head into dangerous territory.” I said to him. He laughed at me.

“You know it, there’s no fun going to places with no danger to it.” He looked at Vol and stared. “Bringing a Cross-breed with you?”

“Got a problem with that.” Vol said to him. The Captain stared at him then shrugged.

“Not really, never really seen that many Cross-breeds and you stick out like a sore thumb but to let you know there’s one rule that everyone needs to follow, don’t cause problems.” He said with a straight face.

“That can probably be arranged.” Vol said with a smirk. The captain nodded at him.

“Just don’t blow us up.” He turns to me. “That goes double for you.”

“Right, so how long is the trip?” I asked him.

“Three days by ship, and that’s the fastest we can do so get comfy.” And with that he headed to the ship. We both followed him onto the ship and I took a look around. The feeling about this trip wasn’t going away which made me frowned. I felt Vol tap me on the shoulder and I turned to him.

“How bad of a feeling is it?” He asked.

“That depends since you're,” I gestured at him. “...you but how much do you know about the Iron Kingdom?”

“No, I'm new here, remember?” Vol said, poking my forehead.

“Well yeah but you are chaos incarnate and you can do a lot, but anyway the Iron kingdom is basically a place built on a, now active, volcano.” I told him. He whistled at that.

“As impressive as the sounds, it's a stupid idea to build over a volcano of any kind but anyway, whatever is over there, is something that is life threatening to everyone?” Vol asked.

“Well I heard rumors that the current Iron King is trying to build an iron dragon and the last time that happened the Iron King went depress and flung himself into the volcano and turned into a raging fire demon.” I told him. Vol stared at me for a minute.

“Alright then, the reason I asked is because I shorten the trip by three days but only if it's an emergency.” Vol said to me. I nodded as I heard the captain started to yell.

“Alright lads! Get into positions, pray to the gods for a short trip.” he yelled as I felt the ship rumble and took off. I watched as we flew off and away from the Valley. I looked towards the direction of where we are going. I just hope that my feeling is wrong.

Volburaal Nahlii

“So do you want the shortened trip or not?” I asked Jace as he stared into the horizon. He looked at me and shrugged.

“Do whatever just don’t blow us up.” He said to me.

“Can't promise anything. I'd advise you to warn the captain, it's better with less panic.” I told him. I had the means of travel to anything and anywhere in the known multiverse, a shortened trip is a breeze for me to do but not fun to experience for others. I saw Jace walk off to do so and I saw the captain listening to him. He eyed me for a second then nodded.

“Alright lads hold on to something, this is going to get bumpy.” He yelled.

“Hold onto your asses, cause this is Volburaal airlines where we do the exact opposite in safety.” I shouted before snapping my fingers, taking the ship and everyone in it to the fourth dimension.

The travel to the dimension was filled with bumps and colorful wubs before finally arriving at the other side. The black void of the fourth dimension.

“Please do not think about what you just witnessed or how it's all possible to avoid any headaches. Just go North and only North.” I yelled out to everyone before looking out to the void.

“Good to know.” I heard three others yell out behind me. I chuckled at their response.

Jace

I have no idea what just happened. First I saw the sky then I saw a lot of colours as if I was on a acid trip than darkness. I heard what Vol just said and I just chalk it up to the whatever category. After what I could tell was an hour I saw a bright light and we headed towards it. After that I saw the colours again and then I saw gray clouds. I looked over the edge and saw a wasteland and mountains.

“Statics report.” the captain yelled out.

“The fuck was that!” one of the crew yell out. The rest of them just groaned in response, the captain pulled out a map and looked at it and looked around before walking to me.

“Well whatever your friend did he sent us ahead of schedule, we’ll be there in an hour.” he said to me. I nodded and headed to Vol as he looked around.

“Whatever you just did, and don’t explain it to me because like you said it’ll give me a headache, it put us from three days to an hour travel.” I told him

“I know, I'm that amazing.” Vol said with a grin. I rolled my eyes and went below deck to look at some supplies that I had brought on. If things go south as my feeling said it is then it’s better to be prepared for it. I looked through some crates and saw what I had brought with me.

“If a weapon ain’t got kick, it just ain’t worth it.” I said as I brought out the two weapons and set them up.

After putting them on I went around the place to see everything is alright after the trip we just had. Most of the crew was fine but one of them must have drank too much since he looked more green than normal.

After some time I headed back up to see a volcano coming to view. I stood at next to Vol and looked out on everything. He looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

“Excessive much?” He asked. I was about to ask what he meant but he spoke again. “Don't answer that.”

“Alright… anyway welcome to the Iron Kingdom.” I gestured towards the volcano. I saw buildings at the base of it that looked like a city.

“I see, do I need to look out for anything?” He asked as a grey overcoat appeared in his hands. Not going to question it as the place grows closer.

“I don’t really know, I do have a bad feeling about this but I have-” I was cut off when someone started to yell.

“BRACE!” He yelled as an explosion hits us. It shook the ship as I grabbed the edge. I saw one of the crew ran up with a telescope and looked out.

“We got golems!” He yelled. I went and grabbed the telescope to look. Sure enough I saw golems loading cannons up.

“That, look out for that.” I said.

“Well, it's time for Alexander Anderson to make a comeback. Do join in.” Vol said in an irish accent. I looked over to him and saw that he was a human this time.

He walked off the ship and fell.

I saw some of the crew ran over to look over the edge. I went over to the captain as he was barking out orders.

“Get the cannons up and running to return fire, NOW!” I watch them run all over and prepare to do so. He looked at me. “What the hell is going on!?! I thought this was a simple transport!”

“Don’t look at me, I have no clue.” I told him as I looked at the front and saw a ballista turret. It gave me a really dumb idea. I went over to it and aimed it towards the golems, when that’s done I tied a rope around the bolt and around me. One of the crew looked at me as I finished.

“You’re insane.” he said. I looked at him and smiled.

“If I wasn’t this wouldn’t work.” I said as I fired the shot. A few seconds later I jumped off the ship and got yanked into the air as I went towards the golems.

Volburaal

My inner psychopath is having hell of a time though it was a little disappointed when there was no blood but a kill is a kill as I always say. Hacks and chops with a few slices, the golems fell from the might of my blades.

A few have tried to disarm me, I impaled them with only a hundred bayonets which was enough to kill them.

“Come on, ya stupid rocks! Can't ya hit something besides.the floor!?” I yelled as I pulled my glasses up before flicking my wrists, making two more bayonets slide down my arm and onto my hands.

“I’ll give you a free hit.” I said with a growl, my grin never leaving. One of the golems walked forward and raised its arm. Only it wasn’t an arm, it was some sort of cannon. It lit up and blasted me, causing me to slide back a few feet.

“That didn't even scratch my glasses.” I said in disappointment. I took two steps until something bit into my shoulder. I looked over and saw, what I guess, is a golem wolf biting my shoulder.

“You might want to stop that if you know what's good for ya.” I said but didn't give it time to answer as I dashed sideways before swing a bayonet at it. The golem wolf slowly split into two.

“Too late.” I said to what remained of the wolf. I turned back to the other golems.

“Well, you know what time it is.” I said, gripping the bayonets.

“Time to meet God.” I felt myself grow more and more chaotic by the second. The golems didn’t respond other than advance forward. My grin became more sinister and right before I went to work I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Something came flying towards the golems and crashed a little bit away from me ahead of me. Deciding not to worry about it I went right back to what I was doing.

Jace

I had times that I made dumb ideas, this was one of them. I watched as I was heading into a wall at fast speeds I grabbed the rope and cut it as I saw a golem coming closer to me. I drove the stake driver into it as both of us slammed into the wall.

Standing up I saw that there was golems both sides of me. I looked down and saw that there was a huge dent in my cannon, big enough to make it unable to fire.

“I didn’t get to use it… damn it.” I said as one of the golems reached and grabbed my arm with the cannon. I unbuckled the cannon off me and jumped back and watched as the golem crushed the cannon. “... Really.”

The golems started to rush me as I drove the stake driver and made a hole into one of the golem's legs and used it as a springboard to get into the air to drive it into another. After doing that for some time I looked back to see that this wasn’t working very well then I thought. I looked at the driver and frowned.

“Now I remember why I never use this, I suck using this.” I said as I fiddle with and threw it towards the golems. I watched it exploded, why did it explode? Don’t ask so many questions.

I went and pulled out my sword and dashed towards one of them and cleaved it in two. It fell to the ground dead.

“Much better.” I said as I continued carving my way forward. As I did that I felt a strong presence of Abyssal magic coming from behind me. I looked back to see golem bits flying around.

“... Vol.” Was the only thing I could say as I continued on. I wasn’t getting souls out of these so these aren’t soul forged. I pulled out some pale pine resin and put it on my blade. It started to glow a blue light as I charged forward and started cleaving them to pieces.

The ship was helping by blasting more of the golems. It took some time but about an hour of fighting most of the golems were gone and I was standing in front of the doors. Looking back I saw the bodies of the golems and then Vol walking toward me with a mad grin. I was sitting on a rock cleaning my sword.

“You look like you have fun.” I said to him.

“I've only just spread the word of our dear lord above.” He said. I looked at him and then to the sky.

“You mean Sans?” I said to him. He stared at me for a moment.

“No, he made a complete alternate reality that is not accessible by any means, unless he comes to you.” He informed me.

“Or drag you to him.” I muttered to myself. After a moment I felt like something is now watching me. I stood up and turned to the door. “Right on wards!”

I looked at the door for a bit and saw no handle on it. I tapped the door and saw that it was a double door. I took my sword and slashed it right down the middle and waited for a second. Then kicked the door opened. I stepped in and looked around.

“Well this is a problem.” I said out loud.

“And what might that problem be?” Vol asked. I looked at him for a moment, I can’t get used to the fact that he sounds irish.

“This place has changed since the last time I was here so I have no idea on where to go.” I walked forwards and saw that the path goes two different directions. “What do you want, right or left?”

“Left, the right leads to a dead end.” He answered. I looked down the path and about thirty feet down I saw a dead end. I thought about it and pulled out my gun and shot at it. The whole area burst into flames as the bullet hit the wall.

“Right it is.” I said as I went down that way. We headed down the path and it leads into a dungeon. There’s were locked cells all around and as we walked Vol stopped and kneeled down to look at something. I looked back and saw it was a golem wolf.

“What’s up?” I asked him. I looked at the wolf and saw it was much different than the others, it was made out of steel and iron then stone.

“We just killed hundreds of these things yet this one looks stronger, why is it here?” He asked. I shrugged and saw there’s a book at the side. I picked it up and saw it was a journal of somesorts. The pages were torn but the last one.

‘Date: week thirty nine

The golems started to attack us, the Iron king has lost it and sent the golems to attack the people and his workers. But Vellath has a plan, he had us make special golems, ones that can repair themselves and only follow his commanded, to combat them. It’s a good plan but the hellhound is blocking the path and we can’t reach them.

Luckily I took some time to build a wolf golem of Iron and Steel to help re-taking the room.

But it’s not working, what did I do wrong! Why isn’t it working?!”

I reread the page and look at the wolf. Was this the wolf the page talked about? Vol reached over and flicked it on the nose and I saw runes lit up.

“Oh you gotta be kidding me.” I said as the wolf stood up and shook itself and looked around. It saw Vol and walked over and lightly headbutted his leg. Vol just stared at it and I chuckled a bit. “Looks like you made a new friend.”

“I make friends all the time, same for enemies and frenemies.” Vol answered back before giving the wolf a pat on the head. I smiled and turned to head out, the wolf followed us along the way. We took a few corners and down some stairs. We came to another split.

“Okay, right or left.” Before Vol could say anything a big iron wall came down and slammed between us, there was a window between us. “... or both.”

“Well it seems that these paths come together later down the way.” Vol said to me. I stared at him through the window.

“How do you know this?”

“I have my ways.” He replied. I watched him walk down the path and I turned and walked down the other way.

Volburaal

Once me and Jace both went our separate ways, I had only noticed just then that the mechanical wolf was mostly following me. I didn't let that bother me when I changed to my normal self again.

As much as I love anything that resembles a dog, I had more important things than to ogle at a Wolf golem. After a full six minutes of walking, I came into a large room with two almost human like Golems stood in the center.

They snapped their gaze towards me then the wolf behind me. I sighed before being covered in black fire. Both armored golems stood back and watched as the torrent of flames grew in size before finally revealing myself.

“Come face the King of Kings!” I yelled out as I drew out my sword.

The two golems took a fighting stance as I charged at them.

The raised the shields up to block my strike, if I were to strike that is. I slammed full force onto the two golems, breaking both their shields and sending them back a few feet.

Not giving them a chance to regain their sense, I quickly threw my sword and impaled it in one of the golems, sticking him onto a wall in the process. While the other golem impaled onto the wall, I quickly dashed towards the second golem before taking a hold of it by head.

I applied pressure to my grip and gained the desired effect. Cracks could be heard and seen around the head of the golem before exploding into pieces.

Looking at the impaled or I should former impaled golem, I saw the robot dog from before tearing it limb from limb like flesh.

I heard another growl behind me. I groaned at the annoyance. I turn to face whatever is growling, as I turned I came face to face with something that looked like it didn’t like me.

“Why hello there.”

Jace

I heard the sound of fighting from somewhere near by. I guess Vol found something because all I can find is rubble and more rubble.

Many of the rooms were filled with random stuff and tools for blacksmithing. I even found some plans for the golems. It seems that whoever is making them found a way to make them by magic instead of using souls. The older ones that we been fighting only take orders by the king and there are the new ones take orders by using a crown. They have a picture of what the golems look like.

“Neat.” I said as I moved along. I turned a corner and saw a group of golems in front of me.

They turned to me and started to move in on me, slowly. I sighed and went to work on them. These golems were strong but slow, I dodged one of their punches and sliced its arm off and drove the sword into the gem in the middle of its chest. Pulling it out I dashed towards another and cleaved it's head off, using the momentum I cleaved the last two in half and pulled out my pistol and shot them in the chest.

When that was done I continued on. Along the way I found a room with plans and blueprints. I looked at the blueprints and saw that I was fearing, they were for building a dragon. I quickly walked down the hallway a bit faster until something caught my eye. I looked and saw that there’s was a map of the place, Lucky!

“Alright… if I continued on this path I would met up with Vol in a bit which leads to a really big storage place and after that…” I looked a bit over and saw that if we take some stairs and some doors we’ll be at the old lava pit. I got a hunch that the iron dragon would be there, also where is everyone? I looked at the map and saw that there’s another set of cells along the way, they could be there.

After figuring out where to go where to go I went on my way down. As I got closer to the storage room I felt a bit hotter than before and it climbed the further I go. I started to hear barks from ahead and I started to run until I made it to a large room where I saw the metal wolf barking at Vol, who was in the mouth of a hellhound who is trying to eat him.

“Ummm…” Was all I said as I watch Vol stab the hound with a sword, only to pull out a melting piece of metal. He turned and looked at me.

“Don't just stand there, do something before I nuke this place.” Vol said and just by his tone I could he was beyond mad. I sighed and walked forward so the hound can see me. It did and hit Vol which sent him into a wall and growled at me. We stared at one another until it roared at me, I did what any sane person would do.

I punched him in the nose.

“Bad dog!” I yelled at him. The hound looked at me confused, I just pointed my finger at it. “Bad dog, no eating chaos incarnate it will give you bad indigestion you don’t want what happen when you ate those black slugs.”

It whimpered at that as I pointed to the ground. “Now sit.” It did with a thud, the hound sat around eight feet tall as it watched me as I put out my hand. “Paw.”

It place it’s paw onto my arm, not trying to claw me. I nodded and dropped the paw.

“Now lay down.” The hound walked around and laid down around me. His head was on my left side as I scratched behind one of his ears. “Good boy.” I looked up to see Vol now standing with burnt armor with either a mad or confused look on him. Maybe both.

“Next time, don't just stare.” Vol said. I rolled my eyes as I heard the hound started to growl at Vol.

“Oi, no growling.” I told him. He stopped and I looked back at Vol. “Sorry it was kind of odd that you were getting eaten by a Watchdog.”

“It took me by surprise, I can't use or manipulate chaos without focusing.” Vol explained, still in the armor. The hound snorted as I glared at him.

“Stripe that was rude.” I told him. He snorted again and I frowned. “I don’t care if Vol killed your snake trying to eat him is still wrong.”

“Did you find anything?” Vol asked.

“I found a map that will leads us to an old lava pit where I believe the Iron King is building his dragon, oh and there are some cells and I think the workers here are there, all we need to do is go through those doors and head that way.” I said as I nodded to double doors. I turned and saw that Stripe was not next to me and was sniffing the two golems that were impaled and took one in it’s mouth and started to eat it. Vol was watching him as well.

I looked at the door and using my sword I pushed at the doors. They weren't locked, I walked into the room and came face to face with a golem, I stared at it and saw that it wasn’t active. I looked around and saw more of the same golems just standing there. The room became lighter as Vol, the wolf, and Stripe came in. Vol walked up to one of the golems and tapped it.

“These one seem different than the others, I can feel magic coming off them and it’s different.” Vol said. I nodded and looked at the golden golem.

“It seems that the Iron King went insane and made the golems attack the workers so the workers built this army to combat the king, these are much harder to kill and only listen to the one named Vellath, I wonder what happened?” I said as I saw the other door.

I opened the door that leads down a hallway. As we walked I notice that there wasn’t that many golems here, well there wasn’t any golems which was odd. We went on and took some turns until we found the group of cells that the map said. I saw that there were people inside them and are locked. Man and woman locked in the cells saw me and stared at me and at Vol.

“I’m looking for someone named Vellath, is he here?” I called out.

“Down here.” I gruff voice called out. I looked at Vol for a second.

“Mind getting them out?” I asked him. He looked at the cells and nodded. I headed to the cell with Vellath in. As I got there and looked in and saw… oh wow.

Vellath looked a lot like a golem, he was about, at what I can guess, eight feet tall and a dragonkin. He looked at me with charcoal coloured draconic eyes, his face was scarred up and his right hand had burns on it while the left was a mechanical arm.

“So you’re the one who’s making all that noise, I must admit I didn’t think anyone would come to this god forsaken land.” He said.

“What can I say, god forsaken lands are my favorite place to be.” I placed my hand on the lock of the cell door and pushed. I heard a thump and a click as the door opened. Vellath stood up and got out of the cell, which was odd that the door was smaller than him. How did he get into the cell in the first place?

As He got out of the cell Vol came over and I notice that Vol was a bit shorter than Vellath by a few inches. He looked at Vol for a second and nodded to him.

“So what are you two doing here? It wasn’t for sight seeing.” He asked.

“Well I came here do to the fact that I sent something to the Iron King and he didn’t replied. I also heard rumors that he was working on making the iron dragon.” I told him. Vellath scrunched up his face at that.

“Well they are true, the king made us build this dragon by force and now he locked himself in the lava bit with that thing. If you want to kill him and the dragon be my guest he’s no king to me or the people since he order the golems to attack us.” He said as he pointed down the path. “Just as a heads up there’s two golems guarding the doors to the pit, the king's guardians the name, one fights up close with a axe and hammer while the other fights at range with a repeating crossbow and cannon.”

“Nice to know, anything else?” I asked him.

“Yeah, the dragon armor is almost impossible to break with both weapons and magic of any kind, even abyssal magic, but luckily I made a weakness just in case something like this happens.” He bends down and tapped the back of his neck. “The metal on the neck where the head connects is not fortified so hitting it there is your best bet to kill it.”

“Thank you, we’ll take care of your dragon.” I told him. He nodded and headed down to the rest of the people, who were giving a wide berth of Stripe. Me and Vol headed down the hallway and took some turns. After some time Vol started to speak.

“I can blast our way through to where we need to go.” He said, I noticed that didn't wear his armor anymore. Speaking of armor, it didn't look like anything I've seen and the power that radiated around the armor was immense. It had no trace of chaos or dark magic.

I was about to say something but I felt something in the wall. I looked at it for a moment and stood in front of the wall. I took chikage and swiped down at the wall and saw that it disappeared. I stepped in and saw it came into a round room with a sword in the middle of it.

“Huh, didn’t know you were here.” I said as I reached for the sword. As I grabbed it I felt a sharp pain in my arm. I looked at it and nodded as I put the sword on my side. I turned and went out to see Vol lookin at me.

“What’s with the sword?” He asked.

“I’ll tell you if you tell me about your armor you had on.” I said to him.

“It's just armor.” He said, crossing his arms. I nodded and put my hand on the sword.

“It's known as the chaos blade, she's a double edged sword in the literal sense.” I said as I felt her history, many battles she has seen. “She’s a powerful blade but has nasty bite."

“So it hurts to touch it.” Vol stated. I nodded.

“Something like that, many blade smiths tried to make a copy without the bite but it didn’t work.” I looked over at Vol for a second. “Didn’t you have a sword as well?”

“Yes as a matter of fact, I did. The Blade of Chaos Destruction, a sword so powerful that it can annihilate worlds with a single swipe.” Vol said as he summoned the sword in his hand. I looked at it and nodded.

“Fitting.” I said. He shoulder the sword and grinned at me.

“Yeah that’s one of two swords that I sometimes use.” he told me. I tilted my head at him.

“One of two, so you have a second one.” I said.

“Yep.” He answered. I looked at him and looked down the hallway. I went a few feet but stopped as I felt like I was being scanned. I turned around to see Vol following.

“What was that?” I asked. He looked at me for a moment.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” He said. I frowned at that and looked back forward and shook my head. I’m must be paranoid.

Volburaal

Jace felt something, I know it. A disturbance was the only thing I felt but nothing else before we went forwards down the hall. As we walked I looked over at Jace, he has changed since the last time we met and I don't mean his appearance. His walk, the way he looks at things, his aura and magic is completely different from before.

My gaze went to the two swords he had. The chaos blade was admitting a dark aura around itself, nothing that I haven't seen before and it wasn't anything that I can declare worrying. The other sword on the other hand puzzled me. I can't get much of a read on it, there wasn't much of aura to read but there was something one thing that stood out, that sword was hungry.

We walked for a few minutes until I felt something behind us. I turned and saw nothing is there. Narrowing my eyes I scanned the hallway but still saw nothing. I turned and headed down until Jace stopped at a corner and press his back to the wall and looked around it.

“Well there's the doors and the two golems that are guarding it.” he said. I peek around to see them. The one on the left looked more armored and held a double bladed axe in one hand and a warhammer in the other. The other golem had less armor but with a cannon strapped to its left hand and its right arm split in half and holed two crossbows in each of them.

“So you want the melee one or the ranged one?” Jace asked. I answered with a simple snap of a finger, causing my armor to appear again along with my two swords.

Taking hold of the two swords, I whispered an ancient phrase that caused the two swords to glow blue and red. Slowly, I merged them together and made my favourite sword.

“How I've missed you.” I said to the Sword. Looking at the heavily armed Golem, I pointed the sword at it and gained its full attention.

“Does that answer your question?” I asked Jace. Not giving him time to respond, I charged at the Golem as it did the same. As we neared each other, I chanted out the words to fully power my sword.

“Ryūjin no ken wo kurae!” That done, the sword emitted a powerful aura. We both swung our blades before sliding to a halt, I spun the sword around before placing it in the scabbard. As the click from the sword was heard, so was the grunt of the golem before it fell.

“Not even a challenge.” I said, unimpressed. I turned to look at the other one but I heard something from the golem. I looked back and saw that it was getting back up. I watched as the wounds that it had repaired itself and went back to a fighting stance. I snorted and pointed my sword at it and charged at it. We locked weapons again but it blocked with it’s axe and turned it in it’s hand and brought it down to the ground it pinned my sword on the ground as it swung it’s hammer at me. I grabbed it with my hand and I stared at it.

“Your kind really needs to know when to give up.” I growled, smashing the hammer against the ground with incredible strength. The hammer was still intact but embedded into the floor.

It swung its axe at me but struck the ground instead. With a little quick thinking, I took off one of my gauntlets before gripping the axe’s blade. The Blade soon turned into a heated red color as slowly but surely melted down. One the axe was just a pile of molten metal, I snapped fingers and made it flash freeze.

It took some steps back and I was about to swing at it as the other one shot at me with its crossbows. I jumped back and watched them move a bit closer to the door. The big one wounds repaired themselves and the blob reformed into an axe again.

“So how's it going?” Jace asked me. I growled at him as he looked at the golems. “I'll handle this."

He walked forward as the two shifted their gaze onto him. He pulled the chaos blade out and went into a kendo stance and stood there. The bigger Golem lumber forward towards him as the other aimed its cannon at him. The sword started to give off some black smoke as Jace lifted the sword to do an overhead slash.

When he did he sent out a wave of energy that missed the golems and hit the wall above the door. Jace started to roll his arm after that.

“Damn that hurt.” He said as he walked towards the bigger golem and pushed it. It fell to the ground as the other one did as well. I just stared at him.

“How?” I asked him. He pointed at the top of the door.

“As you were fighting I saw a glow above the door, I thought it may be the thing controlling them.” I moved closer to the door and saw a now broken gem. I looked back at him. “There are times that you got to be observant and other times where you have to say 'Fuck it' and start swinging.”

He stood in front of the door as it opened up revealing a hallway. He looked at me with a grin, I could guess a grin with his mask on.

“Come on Vol, it’s time to kill a fucking dragon.”

Jace

As both me and Vol headed down to the hallway I was planning on how to fight this dragon if it’s up and running. Normally ancient dragons are weak to lightning attacks but this is an Iron dragon so that won’t work. It’s weak spot is a spot on the back of it’s neck so one of us has to distract it and the other has to climb it and hack away at it.

No pressure, none whatsoever.

We came up to a door which leads into the lava pit. We entered and I looked around at the place as it brought back memories of the last time I was here. I saw that the hole was covered up with some steel and iron, good that hole almost killed me a few times. I looked out and saw a body on the ground. I went to it and turned it over to see that it’s the Iron king, dead. His eyes were gray over which means that his soul was taken. I looked out to the pit and I thought of something that going to suck.

“Well this is not good.” I said out loud.

“What’s up?” Vol asked. I stood up and pulled out my blade.

“I was figuring out why the Iron king wanted to build a dragon out of Iron, this proves my theory.” I said as I looked out into the pit.

“And that theory is?” he asked as he pulls out his sword. I don’t know the name of the sword but with the power coming off it I’m just going to dub it the Fuck off sword. The lava began to rise and explode upwards. I jumped back to avoid the falling lava. I looked to the pit and saw a giant metal dragon sitting in the middle of it.

It was big, it looked at us and let out a roar.

“My theory is the Iron king took his soul and put it in the dragon, it looks like he succeeded but there's one problem.”

“And what's that?” he asked. The dragon swiped at us, I backed peddled away and Vol jumped over it.

"Normal souls are designed for one body, so putting it into a different body will do one of two things, the soul will changed to what the body is or,” I pointed at the dragon as it thrash around. "Go mad and turn into a mindless beast.”

“Great…” Vol said as his armor appeared again. The Iron Dragon roared and breathed out fire. It then glared at us as if we're it's next meal.

“Bring it.” I said as I dashed towards it. It swiped at me but ducked and swung my sword at it. Pain shot through me but I shrugged it off and saw that I didn't do any damage. I jumped back as it tried to smash me. I saw Vol swinging his sword and sending waves of energy at it. All that did was piss it off. The last wave it grabbed it and sent it my way.

“Oh shit!" I yelled as it hit me and sent me thru the wall. Ow.

I saw colours and shapes for a bit until I climbed out of the hole. I felt the… chaos wave? enter me and it made me woozy for a second. I felt something stir inside me as I look at my blade. It was now giving off chaos energy and it was connected to me

“Okay, that's new.” I said. I ran back into the fray and slashed at one of its claws. It did little to no damage but it did make the dragon rear back a bit to try and squash me. I moved out of the way and stood near Vol.

“You ok?” He asked me. I shrugged without taking my eyes off the dragon.

“I’ll be fine, a little chaos won’t kill me.” I told him.

“That wasn’t a little…”

“Let’s worry about that later alright.” I said as the dragon tried to bite at us. I moved to the left and saw my chance and went for its neck. My sword went into the neck as the dragon roared in pain. It shook a bit which sent me flying away. I looked up and saw that the dragon was glaring at me. That is until it got hit with an explosion in the back of its head. Vol was shooting it with some sort of hand cannon which drew the attention of the dragon.

The dragon reared it’s head back and fire spewed out towards Vol. He dove out of the way and ported to beside me. The dragon looked at us and tried to eat us, we both jumped out of the way as it’s head passed us. I saw the opening and both of us swung at the part of its neck. It roared in pain as both swords cut thru it’s hide. It shook its head and reared it’s head and started to beat it wings, sending lava towards us. I used a bit of my magic to make a shield around me as the lava hits it. As it hardens I jumped back towards Vol.

“Well this is getting annoying the last time I was here I had to fight a demon, fighting a dragon made of iron is just down right… annoying.” I said. I looked over at Vol as he stared at the dragon. “You’re going to do something stupid aren’t you.”

“What me? I never do something stupid.” I was about to say something but he ran up to the dragon. “Hey! you overgrown lizard come on! You can do better than that, I seen monsters put up a better fight than you, you overgrown fat dra-”

*Chomp!*

I watched as the iron dragon ate Vol. Like just ate him, whole… I facepalmed so hard that I could feel it tomorrow.

“God damn it Vol.” was all I said before the dragon tried to squash me again. I moved out of the way and dodged most of the attacks but the more I dodged the more frantic it’s attacks become. It kept doing that until my back hit a wall. I looked around and saw that I was in a corner and the dragon loomed over me. I gripped my sword as it reared its head back, waiting for it to attack.

… It never came for that an energy sword came out of its stomach and moved to cut right down the middle of the dragon. It roared before both halves fell away into the lava. I felt the soul enter me as I looked out to the pit. I saw Vol slowly rises out of the lava with his sword resting on his shoulder as he slowly walks towards me. I gave him a deadpan stare until he was standing in front of me.

“Did you have to do that?” I asked him. He looked back at the pit and then at me.

“Yes, yes I did.” He said. I rolled my eyes at him and looked at his sword.

“So you took your sword that can one shot worlds and another sword and made a ‘Fuck off’ sword, you make me ask so many questions Vol.” I said to him. I shook my head and looked at the door. I headed to them to tell Vellath and send a message to the ship.

After what seems to be an hour of talking to Vellath about the dragon and the invite to the Gala in the coming months so the new Iron king can come. After that I sent a message to the ship to tell it that it can leave. I needed a way to get here but getting back I have other ways.

Returning to Vol I made a circle to teleport back and both of us were teleported back to the Valley. The only problem is that we were at the bottom of the steps, again. Trekking back up We finally got to the castle and went to find Vol kids. I asked one of the guards were Yorshka and the two cross-breeds are, which earned me a glare from Vol. He said that they were using one of the many rooms in the west wing I asked which one and he answered ‘The big one’.

Both of us headed to the west wing of the castle and began looking for the door to the big room. As we walked Vol looked at the doors as they passed.

“What’s up with these doors?” He asked.

“The west wing is mostly filled with different rooms that can take you to different places, we used them for training.” I said as we came to a set of big doors. I opened the door to reveille not a room but a view to the planes. “The big room is connected to a place on the other side of the world. Here we train for anything really big or just sightsee.”

We headed out to search for the three of them. It wasn’t hard since about four minutes later I found Yorshka with Lunar sitting on a hill. As we approach she stood up and bowed a bit.

“You have returned.” she said.

“We have, so how are the other two?” I asked her. She smiled and looked Vol and then at Lunar.

“They are truly gifted, Lunar has already grasp with making illusions that are so lifelike it’s hard to tell it’s fake.” Lunar smiled brightly at that.

“What about Solaris?” Vol asked. Yorshka stared him for a moment before speaking.

“She too has grasp at a way but it’s more… blunt.”

As she said that there was a massive explosion in the forest that was near by. I heard the sound of a girl laughing as she was having the time of her life. I looked at Vol as he stared at the forest.

“She’s definitely your kid.” I said. Vol shrugged as Solaris came skipping out of the forest and saw us. She smiled and ran to Vol and gave him a hug. He chuckled as Lunar walked up to them.

“I think we should head out, we've been gone for long enough, any moment longer both Nyx and Twilight will chew me out.” Vol said.

“I can understand Twilight but Nyx?” I asked. He looked at me with a smile.

“We just went and killed a giant iron dragon and she didn’t come.” Was all he said to me. I laughed at him.

“Well it’s good to see you Vol, come by anytime but if you do don’t blow this world up it’s where I keep my socks at.” I said. Solaris and Lunar giggled at that as a crystal door appeared behind them. Vol went and opened the and stepped through. Right as the door was closing Vol waved at me and the door closed and cave into itself.

I looked down at my hand and saw the chaos around my hand and disappeared into me. I frowned as I felt the chaos in me.

“My lord, are you alright?” Yorshka asked me. I looked at her and back at me hand.

“I got hit by a wave of chaos and I absorbed it. I can feel the chaos in me mixing with the magic of the Abyss.” I told her. I looked at her and smile. “So yeah I’m fine.”

“I see, should we return now a tailor came by and he’s here to make your suit for the gala.” she told me. I groaned a bit which made her frown at me and we both headed out.

Volburaal

As the door closed and shone a bright light, I looked down at Solaris and Lunar. I couldn't help but smile.

“You two have fun?” I asked them. Both nodded with enthusiasm. I chuckled before picking them up.

“Let's go find your mother and sister, eh? Maybe tell them what you've learned?” I suggested.

“Do you think mommy will be happy when we tell her?” Lunar asked in his usual shy voice.

“Oh, I'm sure she'll be ecstatic.” I told him. I looked at Solaris and saw that she had fallen asleep, judging the amount of energy she used up it wasn't a surprise. I reached a set of large double doors, with a thought, both doors swung open.

I saw Twilight sitting on her throne with her friends sitting in theirs. I looked over Twilight and smiled. I saw my twenty two year old daughter, Nyx.

She wore clothing I would see on a rocker but despite her appearance, she still had that bubbly personality that rivals Pinkie's. Next to her though was her colt friend, who's name I keep forgetting. I narrowed my eyes at him, earning a nervous smile.

Nyx ran up to me before hugging me, being careful to not hurt her two siblings.

“Hey dad, back so soon?” She said to me. I gently placed Lunar on the ground before Solaris was levitated away from me and towards Twilight.

“Well, I have to. How often can I see my little girl come home from college?” I asked her, earning a smile from her.

“Come on, you know I visit every weekends.” Nyx answered with a laugh.

“Hey big sis.” We heard Lunar. Looking down at him, Nyx smiled before crouching a bit and hugging him.

“Hey, squirt. Had any luck with your inner chaos?” She asked him.

“Funny you should mention that.” I answered for him. I placed my hand on top of his head before ruffling his mane.

“He and Solaris both had used some of their chaos but I'm sure Lunar here is dying to tell your mother about.” I told Nyx before Lunar went ahead and ran up to Twilight with a big smile on his face.

“So had fun?” Nyx asked me.

“Oh no, being in another world that so happens to be an old friend's home was dreadful. I had to kill an Iron Dragon from the inside out and now I smell horrid.” I said in mock tone before raising my arm and sniffing a bit under and reeling back.

“Ugh, that was a mistake.” I said afterwards, earning a giggle from Nyx.

“Sounds horrible.” She said, still giggling. We continued to talk to each other while we made our way towards Twilight. The latter cradled Solaris in her arms while conversing with her friends.

I help but smile. Seeing that my life here had changed so many others while even changing mine as well, for the second time I truly felt at home. I looked at Twilight before giving her a kiss.

“Hey honey.”

Jace

I stood on the deck of the Black Iron Wolf with Stripe sleeping beside me, knowing that my business in the Valley is finished I handed it over Yorshka; at first everyone was confused but I told them that I would return from time to time but I still had business somewhere else.

I looked up to the sky and closed my eyes; when I did a vision of a stallion with demonic energy stood in front of me. I reopened them and smiled.

“Hmmm… I wonder how you doin Shade? It been thousands of years in my time, what about you?