The Daughter

The last thing she remembered was lying in his arms at their wedding day. Ashi woke up and noticed she's lying in someone's lap. She turned and saw her mother, unmasked and different.

Quickly, Ashi got up with shock. "You! What are you doing here?"

"What are you talking about? I'm here for you, Ashi." The priestess said. "Everyone's here."

Ashi looked around her and noticed she's back in the cave. Then she encountered her six sisters who were alive and well.

"Hello, sister." Avi said.

"Hello, too." Ami responded.

"We're glad you are okay." Aki was worried.

Ashi was puzzled. "How is this possible?"

"I can explain what happened." A familiar voice answered her from the back.

She turned around and saw her father Aku alive and well, tall and powerful right in front of her. "You're alive?"

"Of course, I am." Aku said. "But I can explain."

Ashi listened to her demon father.

"Well, I have encountered entities who were beyond the knowledge of gods. I met one entity who claimed to be the Time itself!" Aku said. "Of course, a naive entity told me the workings of Time. There, I have found an escape plan to save myself from being erased from existence."

Then Ashi asked, "So you planned this from the start?"

"YEEEEESSSSSSS." Aku answered her with an evil grin. But then he added. "Honestly, I didn't think this through. I did not expect that meddling with the past will create a new entity. Now this new dude kept us prisoner here."

Suddenly, a voice called out to them. "And this entity has chose a name! Call me Oblitus!" The entity's colossal eye appeared in front of them. "So, what do you think of my name?"

Aku commented, "Eh... doesn't feel threatening for me."

The Priestess said. "It's okay. That name could work."

And the daughters of Aku shared their opinions. "It's alright." "Change it into Oblivitor." "How about the Nameless Entity?" "I don't think it will work." "I'm sorry. But it sucks."

Then Ashi asked, "Why are we still here?"

Oblitus was surprised at her. "Seriously? You ask me after I saved you from your non-existential demise? Well, it will not happen because the future was already set. When you helped the Samurai kill Aku, history changed which means the River of Time was severed. The erased future will become me. The new entity of Time!"

Aku simplified. "That means he is the alternate timeline. We are now separated from the main timeline which is okay. That means... I still rule this universe!" The demon cried with joy. His daughters and the Priestess rejoiced. "No more samurai! No more magic swords to kill me!"

"Oh, no..." Ashi said. "What have I done?" She began to wonder what should've been the alternative. Send Jack back to the past after she was born or kill Aku in the future and send Jack back to the past and tell him not to kill Aku. Just seal him somewhere he will rise again and face the future Jack. So many alternatives and she took the easy way. But it was stupid. Stupid. Stupid! Stupid! She thought it would work.

Now she knows that her future father is still alive in this timeline prison. She must find a way to communicate to Jack in the main timeline.

If only...

The Samurai looked at the gauntlet, inspecting its function. He asked the entity, "What is this for again?"

The time entity showed him the history of the gauntlet. Images of people, aliens and humans, fighting to claim the gauntlet. "As you can see here, millions of people in every timeline wanted to have the gauntlet. It is the weapon of power. Whoever wields it can rule the universe."

The samurai saw the image of a large armored man wearing the gauntlet while standing on the mountain of corpses.

"However, there are people who wants to destroy it." The entity chuckled. "But they failed. Instead, they plan to separate the gems that was attached on it. Six gems of power."

"And they did, right?"

"They did but it caused them their life."

"What happened?"

A large image of a titan slaughtered these people. But one hero manage to defeat the titan by cutting the titan's arm that was wearing the gauntlet. The titan was lost and the gems were separated across worlds.

The samurai began to understand why the entity wanted it.

However, the time entity reassured to the warrior. "I wanted you to complete the gauntlet because Time is about to reach its end."

"What is the threat? How will Time end?"

"The War at the River of Time... this is the greatest threat of all."

The samurai doesn't trust the entity. His intentions doesn't seem believable. He'll just pretend that he trusts him.

The dark entity doesn't trust the samurai as well. He knows the mortal's main motive. He already prepared a plan if the man betrayed him. "Anyway, now that you have the gauntlet. It is time to go fetch the stone that my only subordinate got."

"Alright." The samurai picked his sword and wore the left-hand gauntlet.

A portal opened and the mortal warrior entered, heading to his next destination.

Ashi wanted to leave this celestial prison. She went up to the mountain to see how big the prison is. However, she was followed by her sisters Ami and Avi.

"What are you trying to do, sister?" Ami asked.

"A way out." Ashi answered. She took a good look at the world. "It looked normal. No barriers. No walls. It looked the same."

Avi wanted to let her know. "It's everything, Ashi. This Time is our prison and we are part of this entity now. There's no escape, sister. Just give up."

Ashi believes there's a way. "Jack will find a way."

"The samurai?" Ami began to remember. "Oh, right. The person we were ordered to kill. Yeah. How can he help us? He succeeds on killing our father."

Avi added, "And I was told by father that you helped him!"

"Our father is not what we think he is!" Ashi tried to defend her decision. "The samurai was not the one destroying the world. It was our father Aku! He destroyed the world and ruled it for thousands of years."

"Stop defending him, sister. Ami showed her hatred towards her sister. "You loved him. You are weak."

Out of rage, Ashi punched Ami's face. "Weak? Remember, I was born first. I'm the leader."

Avi corrected her. "Was." She attacked her but she was easily tackled down.

"Stand down!" Ashi yelled.

"Stop it!" The High Priestess stopped her three daughters from killing each other. "You foolish children! If you kill her again, she will just be revived by the entity."

"What?" Ashi was puzzled. "What do you mean?"

Her mother revealed her the truth. "When we got here and knew about your betrayal, we killed you, Ashi. We killed you countless times. But the entity kept on reviving you back. We reached to the point where we stopped killing you."

Shocked by the revelation, Ashi wondered. "Why does the entity revive me?"

Ami answered, "No clue. The only think we know is that the entity wanted you alive."

Avi speculated. "It appears we wanted to collect us. Display us in his collection. 'Seven Daughters of Aku' Complete and minted."

Then Ashi began to think. "Wait. We are the daughters of Aku, right?"

"Yes." Their mother wondered what Ashi was thinking.

"We all have his powers."

"Correct." Avi said.

"Do you have a plan in mind, Ashi?" Ami asked.

"Yes. I know what we will do. Call the rest of our sisters. I want father here as well. We need his power as well."

Even though they despised her, the followed Ashi's command and ran off to call the others. The Priestess went up to her eldest daughter, "So what do you have in mind?"

"We are from the Future, right?"

"Yes."

"Then we must go back to the Past."

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