166 To Walk In the Shoes of Thousands (2/2)

He seemed to have planned this all out and waited in the Original timeline all this time waiting for everything in all the other Timelines to happen and go along their natural course until he could merge all the positive out comes.

I find this frightening that he can just watch us all the time, but it explains how he is still young.

The way I made the Gods of Destruction are still affecting him, until he finishes his task that he was given he will remain a peerless monster that grows unceasingly.

If he is from the Original Timeline that means we, both of us as well as every other God or Creature other than himself died in some catastrophe.

Both Dashnell and his younger self have hidden this information from us, I know Dashnell knows what wiped us all out but he won't say anything about it nor will he let me dig it out of his mind.

All I have seen was a massive Gate but that is all.\”

Upon hearing about a massive Gate, Verena's eyes light up and she tells Nala about her time with Dashnells younger self.

At first Nala wanted to ignore her as she thought she was bragging about being the first of the two to love him, but as she listened to the story she found out that Verena might know where to find this Gate.

Nala Told her how there was nothing in this world but the Gate and a battlefield of corpses that died at the hands of the youth, as their cause of death was very similar, a hand through their chest a claw like hand piercing them through the heart and it was the hands of a child.

She even watched as something crawled out of the Gate and tried to eat the very ground it lay on before it spotted the dead on the ground and rushed at them. As it ate the remains of the dead it began to take their form and gain intelligence before spotting the young Dashnell and rushing him.

Their battle was short as like all the others it soon found itself without a heart and joined the dead on the floor.

Verena asked the child why the monster attacked him and why did it act as if it was starving after exiting the Gate. His answer was short and stuttered as he has not talked to another living thing in a very long time, until she arrived and changed her name to Verena as she interacted with the child.

She learned that the Gate will open and the things that exit it are created to destroy everything on the opposite side so the being that made the Gate can enter this side and rule it.

In the Original Timeline Dashnell never absorbed the Void he just came to live in it as every God of Creation died in a massive war when invaders showed up from beyond the Gate. Only until later after watching his other selves absorb it did he do the same.

How the Gate came to be and when it first appeared the Gods did not live long enough to find out or tell anyone if they knew.

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Dashnell was watching as his people died fighting against the Creed before being forced to sleep inside the Orb.

When he awoke the only one besides him were the survivors of the war and a few remnant Creed that were being killed by young Annabel. Just like in most Timelines the two fell in love and fought the rest of the Creed and stabilized Nala's Realm and waited for more life to born within it.

Only to have many Gods of Creation fleeing into their Realm seeking protection and fearing that everything would end. What happened next was a long war where the Gods depended on the young Dashnell to fight against these invaders.

As time went on they found out he was a God of Balance and at first they feared him but during the current crisis they decided it was best to handle it after they got rid of the Gate.

Things became bad when Ghost one of the best fighters they possessed died to one of the creatures that exited the Gate. Once it devoured Ghost it let its army devour it and they all gained Ghost memories and abilities.

With this knowledge they began to target and kill all the Gods of Creation as this was the fastest way to wipe out everything on this side of the Gate. Dashnell and Annabel fought and protected many of the Gods of Creation until Higras betrayed them and fled to the other side of the Gate.

The Creatures knew they were no match for Dashnell and Annabel so they wanted to find out were their Creator was and they gained that information from Higras who was always observing her Realm.

To everyone's surprise Nala had become the Core of her Realm and entered a deep slumber.

After knowing were their greatest challenge, weakness lay they besieged every God of Creation and Nala who was defenceless. No matter how strong Dashnell and Annabel where they were to young and did not yet reach maturity and Nala died before them.

While everything Nala created did indeed die like the Creatures knew should happen, Dashnell remained as he held the vanishing Annabel in his arms and as he watched Nala die.

Abandoning emotion and reason he used his full power that he always kept in check and never used.

This transformed the youth into a massive winged serpent that coiled around the entirety of Nala's falling Realm. Many could see that the Serpent was trying its best to support the Realm but no matter how hard it tried the Realm fell into ruin.

As the invaders watched the Serpent they witnessed it cry as its emerald eyes turned crimson and horns grew atop its head.

The massive Green Serpent retracted its wings and they became a extra layer of armor as it rushed and thrashed about killing its enemies, that being anything that came from the Gate.

The only thing that remained after its eyes no longer glowed red were a few injured Gods of Creation along with a few powerful Creations that held Affinities that were deemed to be banned and a offence that would result in that Creations immediate death.

As time went on and the injured Gods of Creation died out so did their Creations leaving Dashnell alone in this world to face the Gate by himself.