Friendship is Failure #13: DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS
Chapter 26: Final Act: Is this the end?
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Once back in Kaede’s village, Robin and the Titans got straight to work combining all the ingredients to make the special powder to unlock Raven’s time spell-- Heating up the contents, and grinding up the demon’s hairs, and finally mixing it well and letting it dry out into the demonic powder.
“I can’t believe it!” said Tai “We actually did it!”
Applejack could barely keep her emotions from showing, “We’re gonna go home! Everythin’ll alright again!”
Everyone felt the same way.
They were going to get their worlds back, and put an end to the Dark Zone and all of its suffering.
“I can’t wait to have my family back.” said Cadance.
“How much longer do we have to wait?” Twilight asked anxiously.
“It’s almost dry.” answered Robin “According to what Raven said to us, when we combine it with her powers that she gave us, all we have to do is focus really hard on the time in which we wish to open a portal to.”
“And that would be to the Very Beginning,” said Cyborg “Back when the Creator Gods made everything.”
Starfire agreed and recounted the story of how Kiran lost her memories, and cursed Erebus sending him to the Dark Zone which began to the dreaded Dark Legacy of the Dark Angels.
“If we are somehow able to stop the creation and cursing of the Dark Zone,” she said “Then it means the dark angels shall never be cursed either, and there will be no rapturing of our worlds.”
Everyone was really hoping that’s what it would come to.
“Indeed it shall,” said Nobunaga “Should the Dark Zone never be cursed, your worlds will be spared from said ravagings yet to occur.”
Now everyone seemed really happy, exictied even.
Nobunaga seemed pleased, but Princess Tusyu could sense he was uneasy about something.
This was further confirmed as he slowly turned to walk outside, and Tsuyu could see his expression changing to sad.
Kari saw this too, and she wondered what was up, and both she and Tsuyu followed him outside.
“Nobunaga?” said Kari “Is everything okay?”
Nobunaga stopped and didn’t even turn to face him. “Everything is fine, or rather will be.”
“Is something troubling you?” asked Tsuyu.
Trembling fretfully, Nobunaga knew he had to act now, and he quickly spun round towards the princess, capturing her lips with his, much to her shock, and Kari’s surprise.
It was good thing Lord Kimo had not seen this as he was with the villagers gather supplies for he and his wife to carry on their journey.
Tsuyu just stood where she was with her eyes open-- lost in the cold feeling of Nobunaga’s lips.
Finally, he broke off of her, and turned away feeling most embarrassed, “Forgive me, Princess… I…” he paused and stammered “I… just had to do it, just once. I only wished to feel the taste of your lips against my own before the end happens.”
“Nobunaga.” cried Tsuyu. She honestly couldn’t feel outraged at what he had just done. She knew he loved her, and though her feelings for him were still not reciprocated, all she could feel was understanding and refused to scold him in any way.
Kari felt heart-struck and pained for Nobunaga as she approached him. “It’ll be alright. Once all this is over, everything will happen all over again.”
She explained that she planned to be a better friend to Davis when she returned to her world. She wouldn’t be so mean to him. She wouldn’t tease him, and try to be a better friend. “I want to help make his life better, and… well… even if he still doesn’t want a girlfriend, I guess I can learn to accept that.”
Tsuyu agreed, “Nobunaga,” she said hoping he would look up at her, but he didn’t. “I know how you feel about me, and I understand that you are grieving, but it will be better.
I shall help you find a good wife. I will help other see the real you-- how heroic you are. How sweet and kind you can be.”
Nobunaga still did not look at her. He looked sadder than ever, almost to the point where he could cry, but he didn’t.
Finally he spoke, “…I will not be there, Princess.”
“Huh?”
“What do you mean?” asked Kari, and suddenly she gasped, “Wait a minute…!”
Nobunaga nodded, “You understand right, Lady Kari…
I myself, as well as my fellow Dark Angels before and after me-- we were all created by the Dark Zone. If the Dark Zone never comes into existence, we dark angels will never come to be.
We will never have been born.”
Tsuyu felt her heart skip a beat, and her blood cold.
Kari was trembling with doubt and fear, “Never be born!”
“WHAT?!” snapped Pinkie Pie who had overheard them “You mean Spike will never be born either?”
Her scream alerted all the others out into the field, where it was re-explained what was going to happen.
“No way!” cried Cyborg “So, if we do this, then BB will never be?”
Nobunaga nodded, “It the way things are.”
Twilight shook her head, “No…! No, we can’t let that happen! There has to be some way to prevent that.”
“There is none.” said Nobunaga “It shall not matter much to some of you anyway.”
“What is that supposed to mean?” asked Inuyasha.
“I think I know,” said Robin “It means that after we do all this, we’ll have changed the past. All of history will be revised and relived, as it was in the beginning. All of us will relive our lives.
We’ll never remember any of this ever happening to us because it never would have happened in the first place.”
The others all finally began to realize the seriousness of what they were doing…
…That is until Nobunaga corrected Robin, “Not all of you, only some.”
“Some?” asked Discord “Okay, I know I’m going to regret asking this, but just what do you mean by that?”
But Kagome already got the drift. “He means some of us may not even be born either.”
Everyone fell totally silent as she explained, “All those created by the Dark Zone won’t ever exist, including those who were born with the curse, but managed to overcome it in life so they never fell into the darkness.”
Tai thought deeply, “Who knows how many people were born from the Dark Zone?” he asked “For all we know… famous people-- inventors, pioneers, even our own great-great grandparents might never be born!”
“That means some of us may never be born either!” whimpered Rainbow Dash “And even if we still are born, we’ll never be the same.
We may have different lives, and different personalities!”
Deep and most desperate concerned looks were exchanged back and forth between everyone.
“We can’t do this!” cried Mimi “It’s just too risky!”
“But… if we don’t,” said Twilight “Then the ravage will still happen! Even if we don’t disturb the Dark Angels, somebody else might!”
Kari looked down, “And even still, how could we go on knowing our friends and other men from all over are suffering-- wallowing in darkness for all eternity because of our actions.”
Nobunaga felt touched she felt that way, and said to her. “We Dark Angels are willing to accept our fate of non-existence.”
Tsuyu gasped “But Nobunaga…!”
“No,” said Nobunaga “Do you not see. We Dark Angels loathe our afterlife, and the way our sad lives were lived. For us, this would be the greatest thing-- never feeling pain. Never having to suffer, and never again having to put our mortal friends and loved ones through the same experiences.
I understand you are all frightened by the risks involved when the change is made, but if you think hard of it, it is for the better.”
Everyone suddenly remembered what the Creators had warned them about-- to beware of consequences when changing the past.
The more they thought it over now, the more they realized they had no choice.
“I say we should do it.” said Inuyasha.
Everyone turned to face him.
“But Inuyasha,” cried Shippo.
“No buts!
We should do it. It’s less risky than not doing it! Got it?”
Kagome grabbed him by the ear and shouted right and clear, “HOW CAN YOU BE SO INSNESITIVE?!!”
Inuayasha groaned as he picked his ear.
“No!” snapped Robin, and then he sighed “…He’s right.”
“Robin!” said Starfire, but she couldn’t argue, “I feel I must agree.”
Many of the others slowly and sadly began to agree too, but not one individual felt they could ever be strong about this.
Tears ran down Tsuyu’s face as she gazed at Nobunaga.
“It will be fine.” he said to her “You will never remember any of this.
…Farewell, Princess. I truly wish we could have been.”
He then slowly rose up into the air, while the Princess tearfully called out to him, and he faded away, and poor Tsuyu feel into soft but deep despair.
“Nobunaga.” she cried so softly she could barely be heard.
Cadance thought this so heartbreaking, and remembered what she had said a while back about Love-- “Just as it can bring the greatest of joys, it can also bring forth the greatest of sorrows.”
She and Twilight shared a soft hug, feeling upset of what was about to happen.
Nobody else seemed to feel the same, or even felt like exchanging any goodbyes, knowing that it would all be erased and they wouldn’t even remembered anybody as from the beginning, they thought it best to just go for it now and get it over with.
Robin then went back to the hut, and came back with the magical mix. He was so upset that he nearly had dropped the small clay urn the mix was contained in.
“Easy, man.” said Cyborg “We gotta do this.”
Robin looked around at everyone, and one-by-one everyone nodded their heads, telling Robin to do it.
“Well, here goes…” said Robin, and he, Starfire and Cyborg sat close by the urn with the mixture inside, while all the others huddled close to them.
The three Titans then focussed Raven’s power, and concentrated hard on the era they wished to travel to-- the very beginning.
“All of you concentrate with us.” Robin said to the group.
“Right,” said Pinkie, and she began to go, “Concentrate, Concentrate, Concentrate…!”
“Oh, brother!” groaned Discord.
Applejack gave Pinkie and nudge telling her to keep it quiet.
Everyone shut their eyes, and concentrated their thoughts hard on time traveling.
Princess Tsuyu backed away, and gazed in awe at what happened next…!
Raven’s magic began to glow from the Titans, and struck the mixture in the urn, and the spell was beginning to resonate, and glow brighter and brighter!
Every began to feel strange, as if they were spinning through a magical vortex-- which they really were
Robin opened his eyes first, and slowly everyone else woke up as well, but all they could see around them was nothing…
…Absolutely nothing!
Just black, black, and more black. It was all empty.
“Where are?” asked Fluttershy.
“I don’t reckon we’re anywhere at all.” said Applejack.
“It must’ve worked!” cried Izzy “We’ve gone back to the very beginning, before anything was created at all.”
Everyone felt astonished, and frightened at the same time.
“I wonder how we’re still breathing when there’s no air.” wondered Cody.
Miroku pondered and guessed, “Perhaps the natural laws do not yet apply, for nothing has been created yet?”
“That still hardly makes much sense.” said Sango
Suddenly, there was a big blaze of light shining in the distance.
“What’s that?” cried Starlight.
“Could… Could it be?” wondered Izzy.
Everyone watched the bright light, and could assume this was the mythical Big Bang that was in theory the start of everything.
Now to be actually seeing it, every single induvial member of the group thought they would never feel the same again.
However, rather than seeing what science text-books had theorized about the glow, there in the center of the light, everyone could see six beings.
“It’s them!” cried Kagome.
“The Creators!” added Twilight.
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Maona of the red Earth
Huo of the Fire
Nerio of the Water
Briseas of the Wind
Kiran of Light
…And Erebus of Darkness
Erebus looked rather different-- He had long black hair, the antlers atop his head of course. His robe was black and sparkly, with a big grey streak down the middle. His skin seemed to be grayish in color.
“So, that’s what he looked like before.” said Cyborg.
Everyone then watched as The Creators, all stood together in the circle, and held their arms up high, like joining in a chain.
From that began The Great Creation… of all existence!
Every world… Every dimension… the planets, the stars, the forces, and elements of nature—basically all the seeds to begin the Eternal Cycle of existence.
“It’s so beautiful!” said Yolei.
“My goodness!” said Myoga “We are truly witnessing the greatest of marvels!”
Everyone continued to watch as more and more things formed-- the creation of whole galaxies, and then brining the natural forces that would allow the universe to handle things on its own--creating more stars, more planets, and life forms.
The Creators seemed content with their creations, and the teams then watched as Erebus and Kiran gazed at one another, in a loving manner.
The ponies all gazed with sparkles in their eyes at the loving couple.
Suddenly, something strange happened!
The dimensions began to react and shift in frightening instability.
“It’s just like in the story!” cried Inuyasha.
Suddenly, there were strange yet forceful energy pulses, striking about like lightning and explosions, all over the place.
“Look out!” Shippo cried as a huge strike zoomed past everyone and headed straight for The Creators, and striking Kiran’s head before anyone could do anything.
“KIRAN…!!” cried Erebus.
The mortals all gasped in shock.
“Relax, she isn’t dead.” said Discord.
He was right-- Kiran, being a goddess, was very much alive after a hit like that, but she was unconscious.
“We’ve got to help her!” cried Fluttershy, but Sora stopped “No, no! We can’t let them know we’re here.”
“And we won’t have to.” said Twilight, and she nodded at Starlight and Discord, and the other two agreed.
The trio then combined their powers together to cast an invisibility spell on the entire group so they could not be seen or heard by The Creators.
“Let’s get in closer.” said Ken.
Everyone moved in towards The Creators, who were all huddled around the unconscious Kiran.
“Is she alright?” asked Maona.
Erebus held his beloved in his arms and softly touched her forehead, “Kiran?”
Briseas then used her power to blow a tiny breeze at Kiran’s face, which worked and she began to awaken.
“Kiran!” cried Erebus “Are you alright?”
But much to his and the others’ surprise, Kiran looked nervous, “Who are you?” she asked.
“Kiran, you don’t recognize me?” asked Erebus.
“Should I?”
Huo was puffing smoke in worry. “She’s lost her memories!” she coughed.
“Well, I’ll be darned.” said Nerio.
Erebus began to fret, “Kiran, try to remember.”
But Kiran was only getting stressed out. She couldn’t remember anything-- who she was, her incredible powers, her colleagues and the universe they had all just created…
…Not even her love, Erebus.
She was beginning to feel more and more creeped out with all these strange creatures huddling around her and trying to help her remember.
“Kiran, we only wish to help!” said Erebus.
“Stay away from me!” cried Kiran “I warn you, don’t come near me again!!”
Suddenly, she began to feel very strange as her head was struck by mysterious rays of light that came seemingly out of nowhere.
It was the mortals, using their combined powers of destiny, Azarath, and harmony to relieve Kiran’s amnesia so she wouldn’t go berserk and bring forth the terrible curse.
As they all worked their magic, they exchanged looks at one another, as if they were saying goodbye to one another, and at the same time, thinking of all their other friends who were dark angels-- whom would never rise again.
“Goodbye, Spike,” thought Twilight “I really wish things could’ve been different.”
Many of the Digi Destined thought of Davis, especially Ken and Kari.
Despite all the horrible things Davis had recently done with his fellow dark angels, they only focussed on the better things.
Ken was grateful for Davis giving him that second chance and helping him overcome his discomfort.
Poor Kari felt really upset and thought “Davis, I’m really sorry this happened to you. I wish I could’ve been a better friend.”
The titans thought back to their friends…
Raven…
Terra…
Even little Gar, though his poor little life was tragically cut short.
In the end, the all thought of Beast Boy, and how all of this was mainly because of their bad attitudes and trying to enforcing their views on him.
All three of them wanted to think they would remember him, but that wasn’t going to be possible in a few moments or so.
“Star… Cyborg,” said Robin.
“Robin…” Starfire said “I have always…” she stopped, when he smiled at her and they shared one quick kiss, much to Cyborg’s delight.
“So long, kids.” he said to them
Inuyasha’s group all felt their emotions creeping up on them.
Miroku couldn’t help himself and touched Sango’s rear one last time, and surprisingly, Sango didn’t turn around and slapped him, but let him go ahead, much to his own surprise.
Kagome, she was so scared and so nervous, she held Inuyasha’s hand, much to his sudden shock, but he gripped her softly, and they looked into each other’s eyes and nodded at one another, and Shippo just curled up by them both.
The magic has ceased, and Kiran shook her head and rubbed her eyes.
“Kiran…?” said Erebus “Are you alright?”
Though she felt a little confused and groggy from what just happened, answered “Yes, I am unharmed.”
“Wait… you remember?” Erebus asked.
“Yes, I remember. Why?”
Erebus looked as if he could cry, and the other creators all felt relieved, and they watched in joy as Erebus embraced his love.
“You had given me quite a scare.”
As confused as she was, Kiran embraced him, lost in the warmth they seem to emit.
The mortals gazed at the couple as well.
Mimi and Yolei wiped the tears from their eyes.
Then, Pinkie Pie blew her nose with a hankie she grabbed from out of nowhere. “It’s so pretty!” she sobbed happily.
Suddenly, everyone’s bodies began to glow and sparkle as they slowly began to fade away.
“What’s happening?” cried Applejack.
“I believe our timelines are being erased.” said Myoga. “We have succeeded, and now the future is renewed.”
“Tai…!” Kari cried.
“Kari!” her brother called to her.
All the others exchanged crying calls to everyone as they all faded away and everything went white all around them.
And in the present, all the dark angels could feel their own existence being wiped out as the world around them seemed to vanish into brightness.
All the angels embraced their fates as they began to fade away, as well as the four generals.
Nobunaga…
Davis…
Beast Boy…
…and Spike…
…Their eternal suffering and torment was over, and they all faded off smiling brightly.
Erebus himself felt his force being wiped as history was changed, “…My children!” he said softly as he watched the last of his empire fade away, and all flashed a bright light around him!
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