The Showdown
"How pathetic." The Piper commented at my plan. "You killed the Time God which by the way did not call himself a Narrator. Then you faked your death, making everyone think you were perished by the hands of a witch. But we all know Mother Gothel didn't kill you. She offered you a deal in which you accept."
"But… but…" My sister Aureole was confused for the moment. She can't tell if the Piper is telling the truth or just making up a sick crazy story. "But we recovered the corpse…"
"Yes. The mangled corpse of the Time God that your brother killed."
Aureole looked back at me, still trying to understand what's going on. "Is it true?"
I remained silent.
My sister began to feel dizzy and seconds later she fainted. I caught her before she floats away to the void. I gave her a time wave that disorients the human senses. Most of the time travelers experienced that. "Now you revealed the truth to my sister. What are you going to do now? And where are Eugene and Rapunzel?"
"Why bother?" Piper snapped his fingers and his shadow friends brought out the unconscious princess and her husband. "This lovely princess should have been your wife… your true love… However, you gave her up for power. The Power of the Time God."
He's right. Mother Gothel found me and I cowardly begged her to spare my life. There, she offered me a deal. If I continue my quest to save Rapunzel, she will blind me and send me to the scorching desert for months. But if I give up my quest, she will let me go and show me the way to the throne room of the old Time God. The opal of power. She told me it will be mine. Time is in my grasp once I got the gem.
Of course, I chose power. I want to prove to my brothers that I'm tough and earn their respect. I want to see them bow down before me.
However, it did not turn out what I thought. Once I taken down the god and got the gem, I turned into this entity of time trapped in this immortal body for eternity. I tried to get the power away but I just caused an wide explosion of light. A bomb of secrets to the world. Secrets that start wars. Secrets that destroys family and relationships. I have doomed the world and the Piper laughs at what I have done. In just a second, I changed a single moment in the past. Even my beloved Rapunzel's story has changed.
It was not the drop of sunlight that gave her power to heal and grew long hair. It was the witch's vegetables. The actual Rapunzel I know was born with golden hair, long and healthy. And her parents are not royal people. They are simple peasants who happens to be living near the witch's hut. I can't remember the details after I interrupt a single moment in the past that leads to this. I can't change it now.
"You had a wonderful future but you turned it down. You also manipulate events, creating this stupid adventure fantasy of yours and trying to win back Rapunzel's heart by showing off your godly might. You look pathetic, mortal!" He then added, "And you called yourself Oliver the Narrator and narrate all of your exploits thinking someone is listening to you… thinking you are the hero of this fantasy! WAKE UP!"
I clenched my fist and tried to hold down my anger. But he's right. I'm pathetic. I made myself a hero of this story when there are no heroes here. Just a villain who is about to do bad things to the world and a fool who just stupidly turned the world upside down.
"I will not let you continue!" I yelled.
The Piper crossed his arms and grinned, "Oh, really? How are you going to do that?"
I responded, "You are just like me. You forgot that I have the gem." I pulled out the opal from my sleeve and used its mighty power to create a orange construct to grabbed Rapunzel and Eugene way from them. Unfortunately, the shadow man smashed the construct and then dashed towards me. He grabbed my throat tight and made me let go of my sister.
"The gem is weak in this domain! There is no Time around you! It is just Nothing!" Piper grinned and started to tighten his grip on my neck.
I slammed the gem on the man's face. In just one touch, the gem bursted out orange sparks like a firecracker. The Piper did not scream as his cheek deteriorate into ashes. The shadow man was not harm for he was inside a host like a knight wearing an armor.
The next thing he did, Piper opened his mouth and let himself out to reveal his true form as the shadow man. The human body drifted away to the void as the shadow man continued to attack me.
But I was not worry about myself. I'm more worried about my sister and Rapunzel and Eugene floating slowly away from us. With the mighty gem on my hand, I opened a large doorway back to Time. In a flash appeared a bright orange vortex. It pulled us right in like a whirlpool swallowing us. The shadow man got in too. He never let goes of me.
We stumbled onto a warm green knoll and tumbled down to the ground. Rapunzel and Eugene fell to the other side and my sister Aureole crashed to the bushes. Immediately, I stood up to get my sister and the others to safety. The task may be simple but if a dangerous shadow man is chasing you, the difficulty gets higher.
"Benjamin!" The shadow entity yelled my name. "Stop running! There is no where to run!"
I looked up and see the bright sun visibly hiding behind the clouds. It is a strange scene to see a shadow man walking during the day. Well, if the gem is right, that means they are weaker. The shadow man approached me with fists dense enough to smash a rock. He made a powerful swing to me aiming at my face. He has a powerful punch but not fast enough for a time god. Everything around me slowed down and I dodged his attack at ease.
He missed and then I flee. I know that fighting him will not help when there are people who are in danger. I went to locate Rapunzel and Eugene to the other side of the knoll. When i got there, I saw the couple lying between the two trees still unconscious. I ran down towards them. "Guys! Wake up! Wake up!"
"Benjamin!" The dark entity appeared and his voice was more alarming than an incoming stampede.
"Rapunzel! Eugene! Wake up!" I tried to wake them up but failed. I had to do the second option. I activated the gem and took us to the future three days from now.
It gets bizarre when I thought it transported us to another grass field but instead we stumbled into a ship in a middle of a sea. The men in the large ship moved away in shock and awe as they saw us appeared covered with orange smoke. I coughed and talked to them. All of them looked at the unconscious couple behind me and began to wonder. I said, "I can explain."
Then a man with auburn hair approached us with a sword pointing on my nose. "Now where did you come from?"
I answered him, "From the kingdom of Corona... mister. I just saved the princess and her husband from danger."
"Princess of Corona?" Someone heard my answer. A woman in blue appeared before us and commanded the men. "Gentlemen, stand down. They are allies from the kingdom of Corona."
"But my queen..." That same guy said but he was silenced.
"Calm down, Hans. They are with me. One of them is my cousin."
That's great! An ally to help us in our situation. But there is something in my mind that bugs me. After a few seconds of thinking deep, I remembered what I forgot. "Aureole!"
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