Chapter. 25
"Torri get back!" Lance shouted as he fired his left arc at the nova. Torri leaped back to dodge the nova's claws. Lance held up his left arc and fired a light sphere into the air followed by a beam of holy light came down on the nova.
When the attack ended Torri fired both of her weapons at the nova's face. The nova roared as pink lighting sparked off its body, blood spread out of its back and the beast fell.
"It's almost done! Just one more push!" Lance switched his god arcs to sword mode as he dashed towards his enemy. Torri retracted her own god arc into her arm and ran after Lance, holding Alisa's arc with both hands.
As Lance came in close the nova swung its front paw at him. Lance held up his right arc to block. The nova stood on its hind legs to put more pressure on Lance as it swung its other paw at him. Lance's tail morphed into a spark brog camlann's and impaled it into the nova's paw.
With its paws held back Lance thrusted his left arc into the nova's face, twisting the blade. "Torri!"
Torri leaped over her father and stabbed her god arc into the nova's back, carving into the beast as she ran along the nova. When Torri reached the end she jumped off while blood spilled out of the nova.
The beast fell and Lance pulled his weapons out and ran around to Torri. "We did it! It's over!" Lance stopped as he drew closer and Torri had her back to him. "Torri?"
Torri dropped her god arc and spun to Lance, grabbing him by the neck and shoving him down. Lance's god arcs disappeared and he grabbed a hold of Torri's arms. "Torri stop!"
"I will be whole again."
"Torri don't let it take you!" Lance blinked and Torri was replaced by her younger self. "No... Torri!" Lance was losing his strength from lack of oxygen, he shoved Torri off of him and watched her shatter. "Torri!" The singularly reformed into the nova then leaped out at Lance.
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Lance awoke in his room, sweating from the dream. The duel wielder sat up and held the sides of his face. "Get out of my head. You won't have Torri, either of them." Lance heard a soft grown, he looked down to see Torri and Alisa sleeping beside him. Torri hold onto his tail. Looking over the room he saw Leo and Vale we fast asleep on the sofas with spare blankets. The older Torri was sleeping on the floor, half buried in a pile of clothes.
Lance felt his heart slow down to a normal beat, he took a breath and looked at everyone around him. "If this is the future, we need a bigger place." Lance laid back when her heard his phone go off. Lance reached over to the floor to pick up his jacket and took out his phone. "Who's calling at... four in the morning?" Lance opened his phone to find a text message.
Meet me at the church. We need to talk.
Lance closed his phone and got out of bed. He went to his closet to grab a blue sniper outfit to quietly change into then walked out.
An hour latter Lance rode Kirito to the city of mercy, landing outside the church. Lance patted his griffin and walked inside. "I'm here Ren!"
Ren held his back to Lance and looked up at the broken stained glass window. "Thank you for coming Lance, I need to speak to you about something."
"Okay what?"
Ren turned around to Lance. "I never knew my father before I came here. After speaking to him and mother, he's a good person. The world was robbed of a good man."
Lance shook his head. "No it wasn't. You saw to that."
Ren sighed and looked down at his god arcs. "Lance. Do you know the law of causality?"
"I'll guess it has something to do with time travel."
"It's theorized that time is a forceful sort. That it will force events to happen to meet the same end, and if it can't then time will fall apart."
"Why are you tell me this?"
"You heard your sons, right? Each time we change something the future it gets worse! My future maybe bad but it's better then the other two, I have to fix this." Ren pointed his weapon at Lance. "I have to kill you."
"Where is this coming from? You came back to stop the virus-"
"I came back to kill you!" Lance was silent as Ren glared at him. "Patient zero. The first one to get the virus, no one knew where the virus came from so my mission was to you and stop it from spreading."
"If you we trying to gain trust for a back stab you're doing it wrong by telling me."
"At first I thought I could find the virus and stop it from getting you, save the world that way. Now though, after hearing the others talk... We can't change the future, only make it worse. We have to accept that our fates are made the day-"
"Stop it!" Lance stomped his foot as he stepped forward. "You can make your own choices, you have freewill. Stop saying that our lives are on rails, it's just a way to hide from facing the world and making a future for ourselves. Stop acting like a machine Damian!" Lance relived what he said and looked away.
"Damian, who is that?"
"Someone I failed to save. I refuse to let it happen again." Lance closed his eyes and took a long breath, exhaling slowly as he opened them. "You know you can't beat me."
"I know that but I have to do something to save what I have."
"And what about the nova?"
"I never knew about the nova until I came here. maybe it didn't get out, maybe you didn't get the warning when you went feral. I don't know, I just know that it wasn't a problem in my time."
"Just because you ignore it, it doesn't mean it's not a problem."
"But at least I can make the world a little better. Isn't that worth any sacrifice?"
Lance shook his head. "Not if it's for false hope. I won't roll over for that."
"Maybe I ask too much. Then let combat decide what the future is to be!" Ren took a fighting stance while Lance didn't move.
"You won't win."
"I have to try. I have people counting on me to save them. I have promises to keep."
"Then try!" Lance stepped back and spun his arcs. "But I won't hold back. Because I too have promises to keep."
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