The Arks

Her hands gripped onto her fluffy blanket once more. Her expression was serious as she looked at Raiyen once more. It felt like a huge weight to carry right after the elimination of two of the Five Kings. Raiyen snuggled her close to try to take her mind off of things.

"The future you helped out in the battle against the Umbras. He warned us that the Old Man Pond will return soon," explained Mavislin, rubbing her arm.

"Yeah sounds like what I would be doing. But the returning of that snake would not be my prediction," replied Raiyen, placing a finger under his chin.

"Not your prediction? Then whose prediction will it be? You"re the only Time Boy here," replied the sa.s.sy Valkyrie.

"Well, Gil was already discussing plans to seek out Old Man Pond. And currently, he"s got a job for me."

"You"re going away again?"

"Most likely after this upcoming feud has been quelled. But I can manage the mission in under a day, so it shouldn"t be a problem."

Raiyen pulled out a piece of parchment from his coat and opened it up. He then flipped the intrusion over and pa.s.sed it to Mavislin to read it. Her eyes skimmed through the page. She sighed and handed him back the parchment.

"That"s asking the impossible. Going into the future, particularly that future."

"You know about the event?"

"Not enough to give you a proper explanation. All I know it"s that there are going to be two of them in total. The major event. But this particular even in just one of the many in those two instances."

"And how"d you know?"

"Gil is an Aki. They are the only beings in the Universe to have access to the Universe"s archives. That"s why they aren"t allowed out of the Akhaten Belt."

"Prisoners?"

"Imagine. All of time and s.p.a.ce. Whatever information you needed, which empire fell, who had been born... All at the hands of Akis. They were the ones who wrote every single thing that happened and preserved them in the form of books."

"Yea, I"d prefer those people to watch only. Hang on, why is the mission near impossible?"

"Aren"t you worried about the missing event? If the unseen problem has the control of taking out certain events in history, won"t it be impossible to capture it? Just looking at the problems won"t be enough to fix the patches in history."

"I know, but I have got no choice but to see and access the problem first. In total, three points in history do not add up. All results of these events have been eradicated from the books. If we allow that ent.i.ty to continue, the whole foundation of history will collapse."

"For the earth"s history or the Universe"s?"

"If the earth"s history fell, then the Time Frame for the earth to thrive will also be affected. The Mages that have sought earth as refuge would never have existed., This"ll bring a ton of chaos for all Time Frames."

"But the existence of different possibilities should debunk this, right?"

"Not necessarily. Sometimes it doesn"t affect the rest of the Time Frames. But most of the time, the Time Frames get jumbled up. If you took away the root of a giant oak tree, then the whole tree comes crashing."

"But how about Z"s case? Wasn"t he from a parallel Universe?"

"Yea, but the roots of the Universe had collapsed."

"Then won"t we be dead too?"

"Each Universe has its set of Time Frames. We Time Mages view each Universe as a cinematic record. And each Universe represents a reel of frames. This Universe is one and Z"s original home is another. That reel had been destroyed so he jumped into this one."

"But his transfer wasn"t a proper one. He"d arrived earlier than humans or Mages. These are the complications of St.i.tching, the act of combining two events that should never occur."

Raiyen stood up and sighed. The Valkyrie proceeded to stand up as well but was promptly stopped by the activation of the Time Mage"s power.

"You stay here. I can"t risk you getting hurt again," replied Raiyen, looking at his daggers.

Mavislin looked defiant as she tried getting up once more. In a single strong push, Raiyen had the rebellious teen pinned onto her bed.

"Look at you, you can"t even move... You"re in no condition to fight. You"ve done a lot to help us against the Umbras. Now, all you need is to recover your strength and leave this small matter up to me."

As Mavislin remained silent, Raiyen gave her a small peck on both of her before releasing her. Her face turned red quickly.

"I"ll be back."