6/17/21

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(Silver's POV)

The next day, I went to the Louvre to keep an eye out for any demon trying to possess statues or mummies again. The tourists looked at me like I'm truly an angel but they simply took pictures of me and post it on social media. I facepalmed that it might be added to the history but they still believe I'm dead, not alive.

I landed on the rooftop and looked around. The coast is clear. I got inside the museum and saw the Mona Lisa. Tourists, please stop looking at me. Focus on the museum, please. I don't like being noticed but I just quickly moved along so I don't get too popular in this timeline.

"That was close." I said to myself and looked at some other arts and saw the Venus de Milo, "Paris sure has a taste in art." I said to myself and wonder if that Venus statue had arms at some point. It might have lost them.

I walked around and came across a Canova Cupid statue angel. It's so beautiful. I looked at my wings and wonder if I'll ever get my shoulder spines back. Perhaps once Iblis is dead.

I suddenly heard a voice but I don't see anyone here but myself.

"So...you want to stop an evil demon ruling the world, child?" A demonic voice said.

"Who are you?" I was getting creeped out like there's a ghost lurking around.

"Don't you recognize your enemy from your apocalypse timeline, child?" The voice laughed evilly.

"Reveal yourself right now! This isn't funny!" I spread my wings in defense and held out my sword to find whoever is making a scary dark prank on me.

I did not react fast enough when a dark blob shadow captured my shadow on the floor and rose from the floor as a black solid body shape of me with glowing orange eyes, devil wings, and my forelocks like devil horns.

"Ahh! What the hell?!" I backed away from it.

"Such great body shape you have. Yet very scrawny." The dark form of me spoke to me.

"You're Iblis! How did you find me?!" I demanded him for an answer.

"Clever child. I traveled the same way you did to stop you from erasing me." Iblis said with a menacing look.

"That monster leech from the abandoned church probably warned you about it. I will stop you, Iblis. I will not let you corrupt people!" I held my sword.

"Heh, can you stop me from killing your alternative younger self!" Iblis laughed and created a portal of the alternative future and jumped in.

"NO!" I jumped before it closed up as I landed on the other side and saw the alternative future.

Just like from my altered memories but now I gotta prevent Iblis from trying to kill my younger self or I die.

"Where are you Iblis?!" I called out to him.

"Right here!" He appeared in fire.

"Submit Demon!" I fired light at him but he dodged it and went to find my younger self anywhere in the futuristic city.

"Oh no, you don't!" I chased him.

He was scaring everyone so that he can find my younger alternative self anywhere in the city. Can he sense his scent? He probably can just as he found me in Paris 2021.

Good thing I'm wearing my mask, just like that altered memory I saw so that it would be exactly as it is for my younger self to see so he won't know I'm him.

"I won't let you kill him!" I found Iblis about to attack my younger self.

I flew down to grab my younger self away and fly to a safe place. I cannot use my ESP in front of him or he'll be sure that I'm his future self.

"Who are you and who is that monster?!" He was freaking out.

"Calm down. I'm an angel and I'm stopping that devil from killing you, kid." I said to myself like I'm talking to my younger reflection.

"Thank you, angel." Young me said.

"Go get to safety. I'll deal with this demon," I told my younger self.

I flew down to let him get to safety as quickly as possible so Iblis won't find him.

"Give me that boy!" Iblis found us. Shit!

"Over my dead body!" I glared and held out my sword to fight him, "Kid, get out of here!" I told my younger self to run.

"Okay." He ran off while I ran with my sword at Iblis.

I managed to slice at his chest, making him bleed lava, "One more step to him and I'll go for your head!" I warned him.

"You think that scares me, child? Even if I kill you, he's next!" Iblis didn't care if he's wounded but he should know that angels are stronger than devils.

"Just try me!" I stood with bravery.

Iblis approaches me with two swords and we ran at each other clashing our blades before facing opposite sides. We faced each other again blocking each attack until we locked up close face to face glaring. Iblis then swung his blades but I swiftly dodged and returned with my swing but he jumps back as my sword hit the ground. The place around us started to collapse as our blocking and clashing got more intense. He threw both his blades but I pushed them back before he targets my feet but I jumped over.

"Your God can't protect you boy!" Iblis taunted me.

"He does and I'm ending your terror!" I spun my sword.

He forced me down to the ground with his swords but I kicked him off and fired a light beam at some debris, creating dust clouds. Iblis looked around but couldn't see me. Then I vigorously attacked Iblis with my sword. As he tried to block each attack, I managed to knock one of his swords off and eventually his remaining one before kicking him to the ground.

"I won't let you influence innocent people!" I was about to end him but he laughed.

"You think I influence people? They influence each other, boy! There will always be sinful deeds on anyone who goes on that path and one day die to Hell!" Iblis laughed like a maniac.

That was true, there will always be a balance between good and bad in every person. Nature is what makes life go around.

"That may be true but as long as there's love, love always conquers hatred!" I corrected him as I put the tip of my sword near his throat, "You came from the future, which means your past self is still in the past!"

"What are you gonna do about that?! You won't find my past self!" Iblis replied.

"I don't have to because I know where it all started and I altered the past which becomes the future!" I decapitated him and his whole body turned to stone and shattered.

He was too easy to defeat but his past self won't be easy. I gotta get back to 2021 but I don't have rings.

"Shadow" I know one person that can help and it's Shadow because if he's existing in this timeline, that means he's the father of myself.

Then I better find my home in this timeline. There's gotta be an altered memory of what my home looks like. Come on, give me an altered memory. My altered memory appeared in my head and I saw what looks like a futuristic apartment of myself spending some time with Shadow like a father and son thing. The number on the door is 2006. I flew to where I saw the apartment in my head. It has to be close to here. If Shadow in the past remembers me as an angel, perhaps he'll still remember me in this timeline. I went up to the window and knocked it. From there I saw Shadow coming up to me and opened the window to let me in. Shadow hasn't aged a bit, he looks the same as I remember.

"It's good to see you again, angel boy." Future Shadow said.

"Dad, he's the angel that saved my life." Young me said.

"Really? It seems we got our guardian angel, son." Shadow said.

I forced myself not to throw up that Shadow is my father. This is happening too fast and I bet Shadow knows I'm his son.

"Son, can you give me and guardian angel a moment please?" Shadow said to my young self.

"Okay, dad. I'll be with my friend Sonic on the 6th." Young me said as he heads out the door.

Once he's gone, Shadow looked at me and spoke, "You already knew that I'm your actual father. It's true." He said.

"Yeah, but I couldn't tell you in the past because if I did, I wouldn't exist. My stepdad in the different timeline of mine, I thought he was my father but I guess your other alternative self is dead. But…I'm just happy that I got to see my real biological father." I sobbed and hugged him.

He hugged me back. "Well, I don't blame you. You just wanted this timeline fixed without Iblis." He said.

"Thanks, father," I said and wiped my tears.

"Why did you come here anyway?" Shadow asked.

"I need more rings to stop Iblis in the past," I answered.

"Well, I haven't used these rings in a long time. Good thing I kept them in a safe for emergencies but I guess this is your emergency." Shadow went into his bedroom to find them. I saw the picture frames of me, him, and my mother. Thank god she's the same mother I remember. White fur and yellow golden eyes.

"Here you go." He handed me the rings.

"Thanks. Tell me, do you remember how I defeated Iblis?" I asked.

"You stabbed him in the heart in the catacombs of Paris. That's where he is. Remember the incident that happened to Notre Dame in 2019? That was him that caused it." Shadow explained.

"Okay. I better hurry." I said.

"And be sure that my past self does not know you're my son. He'll understand when he's me in this timeline." Shadow said.

"Okay, then father. Sayonara." I opened the portal to the past.

If a person travels into the past and talks to their past self without letting them notice, it can alter your memories and your future. Altered memories would be like we don't remember those memories because our altered past selves will be remembering it but our future selves won't but it will have two alternative side memories from two different timelines. That's another reason why time traveling can cause paradoxes and alternative future timelines.