summary: in one moment, their lives changed forever.
a/n: title inspired by Scott Pilgrim vs the World. alternatively titled: i have too many ideas, someone please stop me. very much un-beta-ed.
also, this work is on AO3! find it at archiveofourown works / 14265606
Daniel made his way down the shadowy steps leading to his and Blaze's domain, wincing whenever he jolted one of his ribs, cracked from the sparring session with Wiggles. He massaged his side, and took care to make his footfalls quiet and measured, since he didn't want to disturb Blaze while he was on one of his "vision quests."
It should had been Blaze that Daniel sparred with, but Blaze had been reclusive for a while now. He blew off any invitations to spar or even visit their allies, and chose to sit in front of their common fire, unmoving, for a long time. It wasn't the first time Blaze went on a vision quest, but it was the first time he did it for an extended period. Daniel wasn't angry, but he was definitely not worried.
(Okay, he was a little worried, but he'd kill anyone who pointed it out.)
Picking a fight with Wiggles wasn't one of the stupidest things Daniel had ever done — he and Blaze accidentally destroying Dark's manor topped that list — but it was close. Wiggles could be a formidable foe when he felt like it. Besides, he had to do something while Blaze ignored him for the time being.
Daniel jolted out of his musings when his feet reached the bottom of the steps. He took a deep breath, and then looked around the domain.
His and Blaze's domain could be best described as a set of furniture (two beds, a low-hanging table, several potted plants begged off Death Wiishu) in a pitch-black void, lit only by a small bonfire that never burned out (their "common fire", as it was). Their domain didn't have walls like Dark's manor or Mad's laboratory did, since they didn't need elaborate chambers to accommodate visiting allies. He and Blaze often did the visiting, not the other way around.
Blaze still sat in front of the fire, facing away from the steps, but a large, full-grown lion with flaming fur was already approaching Daniel.
"Hello, Lion," Daniel greeted, taking his hand off his side and digging it into Lion's fur. Lion purred, and pushed his head against Daniel's side — the one with the injured ribs.
Well, fuck.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Daniel stepped back, nearly stumbling onto the steps, while Lion paused and made a distressed noise. "Careful with the ribs, Lion. Not exactly at top condition for cuddling."
Lion sat back on her haunches, still making worried noises. Great, he was making the eyes at him.
Daniel shook his head. "Not your fault, Lion. I'll be fine in no time." He straightened to his full height to show he was fine, even though his ribs kept protesting. "See? Nothing to worry about."
Lion stared at him for a moment, before nodding, satisfied. He then stood on his legs and turned around, heading back to Blaze. Halfway there, however, he stopped, and then looked back at Daniel, like he was waiting for Daniel to catch up.
"Moment of truth," Daniel muttered. To be honest, he truly wanted to know what future Blaze saw this time. And to sit down before he fell over from exhaustion. So he shuffled after Lion, holding his side again.
Blaze didn't show any signs of noticing Daniel's approach, not until Daniel sat next to him in front of the fire. While Lion curled up next to Blaze on his other side, Blaze turned his head.
"Did you get into a fight with Anti?" Blaze asked, his eyes unblinking while focused on Daniel's face.
"No, it was Wiggles." Daniel tried to laugh it off. "Never piss him off. But you should've seen what I did to his arms."
Blaze didn't reply right away, but went back to staring at the fire. After a moment, though, he said, "I'm sorry."
Without outright mention, Daniel knew what Blaze meant. He shrugged. "No big deal, you get visions all the time. So what did you see?"
"The end of the worlds."
Daniel turned his head so fast, he thought it would fall off. "I'm sorry, did you just —"
"Humans has kidnapped God," Blaze began. "They plan to use Their power to unite our world and theirs. But to do so will spell the death of both. They don't know that, so they will do so anyway. "
For a moment, Daniel sat there, mouth hanging open. So many questions whirled in his mind about the implications of Blaze's prophecy.
Then Blaze reached out a finger to lift Daniel's chin up, shutting his mouth, and Daniel spoke again.
"That's impossible." Daniel held up a hand, making his fingers form a circle. "One does not simply waltz in and kidnap God."
First, the being they called God slumbered in the darkest depths of the world, trapped by unbreakable chains and weights stuck to the earth. No one, not even InFelix who was the strongest of them all, could destroy those chains and weights.
(Their kind didn't really worship God. They simply called Them that because it was believed They shaped the world, before going to sleep. Blaze once told Daniel that the day God awakened, They would destroy the world. Which was, well, about to happen, apparently.)
Second, how can a human being survive in this world without getting ripped part by the natural forces upon first few minutes of entry? Finally, how did they manage to steal away God, without anybody noticing?
"I don't know either," Blaze admitted, frowning. "I tried to find out how, but..."
"Your visions showed you nothing," Daniel finished. That was the problem with Blaze's power: he can peer into the past or the future, but had little control over what he could see.
Blaze turned back to the fire, while his one hand began stroking Lion's fur. "The things I saw... they mainly confused me. It was like watching three different scenarios all at the same time."
"What do you mean?"
"I saw..." Blaze broke off, mouth open for a moment, before he closed it and remained silent. Huh, it must have been really confusing if Blaze was this speechless.
Daniel thought it didn't matter how humans managed to kidnap God, anyway. The point was: their world was in danger.
"We have to tell someone."
Blaze paused in petting Lion. "I'm sorry?"
Daniel turned in his sitting position to face Blaze — the lack of pain meant his ribs had finally healed. "We have to warn the others. Wiggles, Anti, InFelix, Skar —"
"You know they scoff at my power," Blaze cut him off. "They won't believe us."
The first part wasn't true, but Daniel knew the second part was. Hell, part of himself still refused to believe their world could be in danger, on the principle that this was the first time it ever happened, under mysterious circumstances no less. But if Blaze saw it in his visions, then it meant the danger was real. And Daniel always believed in Blaze.
(Besides, Daniel neither wanted himself nor Blaze to die, so he refused to take any chances with the end of the world.)
As Daniel once heard upon the wind, if nobody else wanted to do it, then they had to do it themselves. "Okay then, let's go to the human world ourselves."
Blaze stared at him. "By ourselves?"
"Yep." Daniel nodded. "Once the others notice we're gone, they'll surely investigate. Then they'll follow us into the human world, where we can just explain what's going on."
"And what if they don't do any of what you suggested?"
Daniel... just shrugged. "Then I guess it's you and me versus the world. Just like it's always been."
Blaze turned his gaze back onto the fire, lips pursued in thought. Then he smiled. "Okay, let's do it."
a/n: should i be working on the roadtrip fic? yes.
did i decide to work on this anyway? yes.
okay, i only published this to get it out of my system. i won't actually work on this until i finish the roadtrip fic, which, by my estimates, will take... a while. this is more like a preview than anything, to remind me of my ideas.
lemme know if i should continue this mess or not!