Chapter 1
"Supreme Kai of Time, may I have a word with you?" I asked the young bubbly ruler of time itself.
"Oh, sure thing! It's nice to hear you again." Supreme Kai of Time replied with a pleased grin on her purplish-pink skin. Her large black eyes danced with delight.
"…" Her comment threw me off guard for a moment, Supreme Kai of Time acted as young as she appeared at times and would throw comments like these every so often. I didn't expect her to make a comment on my lack of vocalization, that is usually left to others making such comments. I was hit with a sour note with this feeling and I stared at her debating if I should ask my request or not.
"Go on, don't be shy now! I miss hearing your lovely voice," She giggled.
I frowned slightly, and knew very well that she was genuine about hearing my voice. There was a reason for her comments, after all it is how I do my job so well.
What is my job you ask? I am a Time Patroller, myself along with many others maintain the balance and flow of time itself. We make sure the timelines aren't altered in anyway so it continues to flow smoothly. If something changes in the past it could completely destroy the future which is already laid out, those changes create alternate time lines and isolate the true future that is supposed to happen.
Where did my lack of voicing things come into to play? Well you see; the thing about that is over the years I've learned that not every planet and its inhabitants speak the same language which led to a great deal of confusion whenever words were trying to be exchanged. That often took up too much time, especially if the said inhabitants weren't yet familiar with aliens visiting their planet. An easy way to get around the language barrier was body language. Body language was absolute key into getting things done as quickly and efficiently as possible. After all a friendly smile or act of kindness is universal – usually. Just like if you show a friendly smile or smirk with soft eyes while getting into a fighting stance often would be taken as a friendly sparring match. That could be said for the other way around, it was easy to take a hard stare with a calculating look as a sign of caution. It was like what I was once taught in school back on my home planet; over 55% of communication the other 45% was mostly mixed with your tone of voice being 38% and all words actually spoken was a singular measly little 7%.
In a way it had become a sort of habit to express my thoughts using body language through facial expressions and gestures to get my point across. Through this habit I've given up on using my name anymore, it made things easier if wherever I go in time the inhabitants give me a name to go by. More often than not I've been called "Blue" due to my unusual blue hair color that I kept in a high pony tail. I've been called "Green" and "Greenie" of course because of my bright green eyes. I'll even answer to a "Hey you!" or more often than not the males would call me "Woman". Of course though most people in Toki Toki City, the city in which Supreme Kai of Time created that is connected to the Time Nest where us Time Patrollers inhabit in between missions, well they know my name, even if as Supreme Kai of Time had mentioned that I don't talk too often even within that universe. Habits are hard to kill sadly, but on the other hand practice makes perfect as well. That not to say I don't ever talk, I'm sure you've noticed, it's just a rare occurrence if I do, in necessary cases I can be quiet a chatter box, but it's usually to the point, or during a battle I often call out my attacks in a very trademark manner. This proves that I am in fact not a mute to others, which can be confusing at times if I try to play myself off as one to avoid conversations.
Now you might also be wondering how this all is supposed to work, how can someone like me jump from time to time while both knowing the past, present, and future of the worlds around us. Its quiet simple really; you see; the Supreme Kai of Time controls our universe in a place that is outside time itself. It holds the Eternal Scroll of the past, present, and future. We can exist within this scrolls to correct mishaps and we can also exist with parallel worlds that act as real places to sort of travel, train, and just complete quests to further ourselves as Time Patrollers. I have a feeling you might be wondering about why we do what we do, or even how I got drafted into the job, don't worry I'll get to that. You see as for why we do what we do is well, we just do because Supreme Kai of Time asks us to. But another explanation might help if I explain my mentor Trunks for a moment. In his time, he was originally from, his world was destroyed by powerful and murderous androids. His world was doomed. All of the world's heroes had perished and that left only Trunks and his mother to try and fight to find a way to survive and find a way to beat his world's destroyers. Trunk's mother, Bulma, was a genius scientist who with her son, dedicated their lives into making the first ever time machine. The time machine would allow Trunks to travel back in time to stop those strong enough to defeat the androids from dying. One of those heroes by the name of Goku, would have died from something as simple as a virus in his heart. With enough warning and medicine Trunks had prevented one of the greatest heroes from dying, again. Thanks to Trunks and Bulma, Trunks was able to go back in time to save the past and in return he rewrote the future. It was in a good way, but he still rewrote it causing major changes in the time line, certain things were now happening that hadn't taken place in his time; when it was all said and done a new villain was born who went by the name of Cell.
That's just the tip of the iceberg that Trunk had created for this new future. Supreme Kai of Time had seen what Trunks had done and sealed that time within the Eternal Scrolls making that the new permanent future. From what I have gathered Supreme Kai of Time found Trunks and told him that Time Traveling was a moral sin and to make up for his and his mother's crimes he would have to work for her. But there was also another rumor I had once heard, about Supreme Kai of Time looking for an assistant when she stumbled upon Trunks and his time machine. After all time traveling was never done before without the Scrolls. But I'm still not certain if that was entirely true or if it was in fact just a rumor. Together, Trunks and Supreme Kai of Time gathered people with special abilities to help manage and maintain a happy, peaceful timeline, well when the times were peaceful I should say. Time wasn't perfect all the time, Supreme Kai of Time once told me that "Evil appear in every era". Sad, but it's true, we just need to make sure that things don't get tipped to far out of balance and off track.
Now, where did I come from and how did I end up with this job? If you're wondering if I managed to time travel like Trunks' did to save a time line, you'll be sadly mistaken, I was drafted to put it in nicer terms. Trunks had made a wish to the Eternal Dragon for a warrior that could help defend time itself. The Dragon had chosen me, it had taken me from my home planet that was much similar to the planet called Earth, it very well could be Earth in a parallel way, many things were similar, our beings looked and acted as those on Earth, to make things easier on those who had asked about where I was from and what my planet was like. I tell them Earth and I am a human from the planet Earth, a super human mind you, but still human none the less. That was a much better and quicker explanation than having to explain certain things about my homeland and what my people were like only to have others either question me further for more info or tell me its plain old boring; that was rather insulting the first time, I guess being brought here by a wish made others think my world was something extraordinary to be special. It was becoming bothersome fast until a fellow patroller had suggested that I use Earth as my pseudo home for the sake of conversation and headache with the everyday patroller who had those questions and if I really felt like explaining my world to someone who was genially interested then that would be the time to sit down and tell my tale.
"Well? I don't got all day," her tone was light and playful, eyes still dancing with both joy and curiosity.
I shifted my weight slightly, "I was wondering if I could go back to Earth Age 476." I stared at Kai waiting for her permission.
"Age 476? Nothing significant happened during that time, was there something in particular you wanted to accomplish or is this a vacation request, because if it is, I can most certainly direct you to a much enjoyable time period," Supreme Kai of Time was being thoughtful, she had a remarkable air about her person. There could be times where she felt like she was just a child to me, but then there was time where her true status as Ruler of Time came into play and it felt like a switch had been flipped turning her laid back personality into a hardcore serious one that made me feel nothing but complete respect for the young ruler.
"There is a great natural disaster that happens during that time, the one that wipes out the years crops and causes great hardship on the land."
"Yes, I remember that, it was hard to watch so many people starve and turn to war over the shortage." Supreme Kai of Time's eyes held a sad look to them, she was replaying the time within herself. I too remembered looking at the past with great sadness but with great resolve as well.
"I would like to lessen the pain during that time, to make it less painful for its future, it won't be much to change the world but it'll be beneficial to a small portion of the future."
Supreme Kai of Time's eyes clouded in thought, she was calculating how things would play out if she granted me my request. "There is a small village that nearly gets wiped out after the fire hits, I suppose if the village had a little extra help replanting they might make it in time to harvest for the season."
My eyes light up, "Thank you Kai!" I went to hug her.
She held a hand up to stop me, "That's Supreme Kai of Time to you." I stopped in my tracks in disbelief that I was going to hug her out of gratitude. She then winked at me and stuck her tongue out, "But I do appreciate the gesture."
I stared at her in shock that changed to amusement, I let a smile spread across my face. I nodded with a soft pleased laugh.
I was glad to be drafted into such a fulfilling job.
(A/N: Thank you for reading the first chapter. Forewarning: this story is going to start off slow. If you don't know from reading this story is going to have a lot of background with Dragonball Xenoverse's world and time jumps. Yu Yu Hakusho will enter in a few chapters, so try to hang in there. Also other members of DBZ will make an appearance when time calls for them.
Also, I feel that using Supreme Kai of Time can get a bit repetitive at times, she is a person of high power throughout the universe. I am still playing with her name and debating on shortening it for the sake of making things flow better. But we'll see.
Comments, critiques and praises are all welcome.)
