Hello! In this chapter, the plot will begin to pick up. Now, if you've read Nighmares, there's a spoiler or two there.
Kinkajou woke back up with sunlight filtering through her window. It felt like just an hour ago that she had gone to sleep! It couldn't be mourning already! But, that meant she should discuss this with Turtle before telling… WHOEVER she was going to tell. Kinkajou thought that she should tell her 'parents,' but, who knows what they'll do.
Kinkajou went and picked up the seed to make sure it wasn't just a weird hallucination. It wasn't. It sprung back up to show the same results. Deathbringer as her father, and Glory as her mother. Nothing changed, except that they looked… older. Maybe it wasn't just a dream after all. Kinkajou thought to herself.
Kinkajou got one of her old bags, slung it under her left wing, and put the seed inside of it. She needed to keep it safe, after all, in case they needed any… convincing.
She walked out of her house and headed to the new visitor house, where Turtle was staying. It was a big house, compared to what the Rainwings usually built. The only one Kinkajou could think of was the royal platform, fitting that the current queen had ordered it be built.
The actual building was very square, with almost no curves. It was built out of a dark black wood and was comprised of one main central room, with several smaller rooms connecting to it, with every other one designed for a different tribe. Turtle was staying in one designed for a seawing.
She opened the front door and walked in. She found poor, nervous, Turtle there, sitting on a couch, inside of the common room in the middle. The room itself was a big square room with couches arranged in a semi-circles in different areas, with a fire pit in the middle of each one. There were carpets signifying where the walkways were.
"Oh! Hello again." Turtle said, rubbing the back of his neck, looking to the side, not really looking at Kinkajou. "So… about last night."
"I know. I… don't think you messed up the enchantment." Kinkajou replied, with Turtle not having the reaction Kinkajou expected. He seemed to become more stressed out, with his eyes becoming unfocused, along with him muttering under his breath.
"Um… hello?" A new dragon entered, looking like a Nightwing-Rainwing hybrid, due to the telltale frills, the fact he had shades of indigo on his wings, frills, and his front half for his Rainwing half. For his Nightwing half, he was black everywhere else, along with his general appearance was that of a Nightwing. "I'm looking for Kinkajou."
"Well, you just found her!" Kinkajou replied, turning an excellent shade of gold, standing tall. Finally someone recognised her brilliance. "What do you want?"
"Oh. Good." He said, with his indigos turning to light shades of yellow, along with his face lighting up a bit. "So, I have something I want to discuss with you… in private."
"Whatever you intend on discussing with Kinkajou, you can discuss with him present." Dominar's sophisticated voice stated, suddenly materialising on the couch across from the group, except that this time he was laying on his back, holding what looked like two white slabs joined together on one side, and one side was colored. Well, I guess that confirms that my dream was real. Kinkajou mentally said to herself.
"I don't know why it would be appropriate to discuss it with someone else here." The dragon eyed Dominar, his yellows turning orange.
"Whatever you intend on discussing with Kinkajou, you can discuss it with him." Dominar replied, eyeing the dragon back. "Kinkajou trusts him, so that should be enough for you to trust him."
"Ok. Fine." The dragon relented. "So…" his orange scales turning pinkish while looking uneasy. "Kinkajou… it turns out I'm your brother."
Kinkajou gasped, turning acid-green, Turtle stared, not responding, and Dominar looked back at his slab-thing, looking thoroughly uninterested.
Kinkajou was the first to recover. "WHAT!? WHEN DID GLORY AND DEATHBRINGER HAVE ANOTHER EGG!?"
"Keep it down. There's other guests here." The dragon motioned down, turning back to a pinkish shade.
"No, there isn't." Dominar half-replied, thoroughly absorbed in whatever he was doing. "So feel to shout as loud as you want."
"Ok." Kinkajou said, turning her scales a very light aqua. "So, what's actually going on here? How are you my brother and how in the world am I Glory's and Deathbringer's dragonet!?" And Kinkajou's scales turned to a vivid orange color.
It was the mystery dragon's turn to turn aqua, except his was a bit darker than Kinkajou's, while taking deep breaths. "Since it is evident that you already know that you already know that you're Glory's and Deathbringer's daughter, I'm assuming that you already know about how you got here?"
Kinkajou shook her head. Dominar's explanation seemed too… unlikely.
"Well, I'm assuming that Dominar hasn't told you yet," Kinkajou didn't notice the quick glance the mystery dragon gave him. "so your egg got here by a naturally occurring time-slip, aka, a tunnel between two timelines."
Kinkajou turned a mix of orange-purple and acid-green. "So, I really am from a different timeline."
"I spoke from experience." Dominar commented, again not looking up from his slates.
"Wait, Who are you?" Turtle asked Dominar, just realising what was going on.
"I'm Dominar." Dominar said, putting the slates down, but still looking thoroughly uninterested. "The omni-god of time, but I won't say anything beyond that."
Now that Dominar wasn't in the spotlight, the mystery dragon started to stare at Turtle making Turtle fidget around.
"Um, would you please stop staring at Turtle?" Kinkajou asked, waving a talon in front of his face. "It's getting kinda creepy."
The strange dragon turned the brightest yellow Kinkajou had seen him turn, with his eyes widening to the size of saucers. "So, That dragon, over there," he pointed to Turtle. "is Turtle, the seawing prince?"
"Yes." Kinkajou said, somehow turning more orange-purple. "Why does that matter?"
"Because we're about to see the Kinkajou in him." Dominar replied, with Kinkajou swearing she saw a twinkle in his eye and a small smirk forming on his face.
The mystery dragon's scales shifted to gold. "So you're this time-line's Turtle? As in the one that saved the icewings?"
"… I wouldn't put it like that but… I guess so?" Turtle said, fidgeting even more.
The dragon just lit up. Literally and figuratively, do to his scales turning a very bright yellow, that Kinkajou hoped she could one day emulate, and his seemingly endless rant. "Oh my… you're a celebrity! You're the one who saved the Icewings! And the one who defeated Darkstalker! The husband of the skywing DOD! And an amazing author!"
Turtle was just staring at the mystery dragon, again, with big wide discs for eyes. Dominar seemingly noticed this, and proceeded to remind the mystery dragon of something. "Remember, this isn't the Turtle from your timeline. He only did one of those things."
"Oh. Right." The mystery dragon composed himself. "So, what has happened? In this timeline I mean."
Dominar's face went back to the neutral position it had been. "Darkstalker was defeated by Kinkajou's wit, Qibli used Turtle's enchantments to save the Icewings, Peril has a crush on Clay, they're not considered siblings, and Turtle hasn't become an author yet." Dominar set himself back to presumably read his slate things.
"Who are you?! What's going on here?! What's a timeline?! How are you even here!?" Turtle yelled, with an utterly shocked and confused face, along with him rubbing his forehead, disbelieving.
The stranger visibly recoiled, turning a bit of white, before completely turning mint-green "I'm Coatis, Prince of the Nightwings and Rainwings. What's going on here is that I'm here to retrieve my sister," Coatis said, pointing to Kinkajou. "a princess of the Nightwings and Rainwings. A timeline is basically is what would happen if someone did something else. I'm here because Dominar over there." He pointed to Dominar. "Was able to artificially create a time-slip, put it appears that the one Kinkajou's egg fell through transported her into the past too."
"So, you're from the future?" Turtle asked, appearing just as confused as before.
"A potential future, and the one Coatis is from has subtle differences." Dominar reminded them. "There's also Kinkajou, who has already changed this time-line."
"What are those differences?" Kinkajou asked, curious what her original timeline was like.
"For one, the Nightwings and Icewings aren't bitter rivals. Arctic ran away after his seventh hatching day, making sure that his mother wouldn't wage a war. Darkstalker still turned out bad, but was dealt with in the same way. Peril found her way to the Dragonets of Destiny and was adopted by them. The only other thing of importance right now is that Turtle dealt with Darkstalker, and later settled down with Peril to pursue a career as an Author."
"So… I have to marry Peril now?" Turtle asked.
"Not exactly." Coatis said. "Remember, my timeline is fundamentally different than this one."
"Correct. All of you remember, Coatis's timeline doesn't have to happen." Dominar smirked. "In fact, I'd say that Turtle is more likely to end up with Kinkajou at the moment."
"But… my feelings could not be mine." Kinkajou said, her scales shifting to orange-purple, with a lot more orange.
"I know someone who can that problem for you." Dominar offered, a thin, yellow, stick forming in his hand.
"Really? When can she get here?" Kinkajou asked, turning a little gold.
Bold of you to assume my gender. A voice echoed in Kinkajou's head.
Wait? What? Who are you? Kinkajou mentality asked.
I'm Chaos, at your service. The voice said, along with a vague mental image of someone bowing. You want me to fix ant residual animus effects on your mind, right?
Yes? How did you-
I'm currently inside of your mind Kinkajou. I can read your thoughts.
Oh! So… could you please do it?
Do you want me to do change your emotions towards Turtle to be their natural state?
Yes! I just asked you to do that!
Ok… and done! That took literally no time at all! Bye!
Wait what?! That's all it took!?
Kinkajou noticed that Dominar had presumably wrote something down on his slates. But, it couldn't of been, with him writing that down when her conversation started, and it couldn't of taken the minute that the conversation took.
"So, did Chaos visit?" Dominar asked, still unamused.
"Yes. Chaos did visit. Didn't me just standing still make it obvious?" Kinkajou asked, confused.
"Actually you didn't just stand around." Dominar stated, pointing his yellow stick at Kinkajou. "Chaos can manipulate time when he's inside of somebody's mind."
"Wait… aren't you the omni-god of time?" Coatis asked.
"Yes, but Chaos is technically above me." Dominar replied. "Actually, he's about the second, third in-command."
"Who's the boss?" Turtle asked.
"I can't tell you that." Dominar replied. "Anyway, Kinkajou, Turtle, go tell Glory about who Kinkajou's actual parents are, and ask if Coatis can stay here."
"Um… ok?" Kinkajou replied. It was about late afternoon, just before sun time, so they didn't have much time.
"And Coatis, we need to prepare something." To which Coatis nodded, recognising something.
Kinkajou and Turtle went to the grand royal platform. There were other dragons there, other than Kinkajou, Turtle, Deathbringer and Glory. Kinkajou saw two Nightwings and at least five Rainwings.
"... and I don't think she shouldn't get punished." One of the Nightwings said.
"Well I never-" a bright red Rainwing tried to respond
"Both of you, SHUT UP!" A dark red Glory shouted.
"Um… Glory, can we have a private audience?" Kinkajou asked.
"Sure, I need a break from these two." Glory said, sending a glare at the Nightwing and Rainwing.
"May I come along?" Deathbringer asked, still the sly snake he usually was.
"Yeah, in fact I would prefer it." Kinkajou responded.
"Ok, shoo, shoo." Glory said, waving away the dragons in attendance, and led them to a private room, without Turtle. "So, what did you want to tell me?"
"Um… I don't know how to tell you this… but…" Kinkajou turned a light rose-pink, along with mint-green, "so… it turns out I'm both… of… your daughter…"
"What?!" Glory shouted, completely turning acid-gree. "How is that…"
"Apparently, I'm from an alternate future." Kinkajou responded.
"So… does that mean… ?" Deathbringer asked, not really reacting.
"Now is not the time Deathbringer." Glory yelled, turning a bit red.
"No, Coatis is from a different universe, one where things are ever so slightly different." Kinkajou stated.
"Who's Coatis?" Deathbringer asked.
"Apparently, he's my brother." Kinkajou answered.
"So, about how many siblings do you have?" Glory asked, unconsciously taking a step toward Deathbringer.
"I don't know." Kinkajou responded, "That's probably a question to ask Coatis."
"So, can we go meet him?" Deathbringer asked, wrapping a wing around Glory.
"Yes, I think so." Kinkajou responded.
They departed, picking up Turtle along the way. It was about 15 minutes before sun-time, so it had to be quick. When the got to the visitor building, they saw Coatis lounging in the central room.
"Hello mo- queen Glory and Deathbringer." Coatis greeted them, with some blackish-looking liquid on his claws, with a mix of orange and gold.
"I'm assuming that you're Coatis?" Glory asked.
"... Yes, did Kinkajou tell you about me?" Coatis asked.
"Yes, is there a problem with that?" Kinkajou responded.
"No, no, I just thought that you were going to ease them in." Coatis responded.
"I prefer that Kinkajou told us." Glory interjected, "It makes it less confusing."
"Plus she doesn't like being in the dark." Deathbringer stated. "Unless of course, it's me."
"Now is not the time, Deathbringer." Glory playfully responded.
A thought had just come across Kinkajou's mind. What if… Glory and Deathbringer… no. It couldn't be.
But you are a product of their love. A mature voice echoed in her mind.
"Wait, what!?" Kinkajou said aloud. He wasn't supposed to…
"Kinkajou is something wrong?" Glory asked.
"Nothing, nothing." Kinkajou reassured her, turning a bit green. Ok Chaos, what do you want to do this time?
I'm not Chaos. The voice responded. I'm Dominar.
So, what do you want? Kinkajou questioned.
"Ok, so anyway, does anything significant happen in your timeline?" Glory asked.
"Um… Dominar doesn't want me to reveal anything important." Coatis said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Who's Dominar?" Glory asked, turning to Kinkajou. "Kinkajou, is there any other new friends I should know about?"
Don't tell them about Chaos. Dominar stressed. He won't be coming back.
Um, ok. Kinkajou thought. "No."
"Ok, now that's over with, who's Dominar?" Deathbringer said.
"Me." Dominar, walking into the room. "Now, would it be ok if we stayed here?"
"Yes. But, are you ano-" Glory asked.
"No, I'm not another sibling of Kinkajou's." Dominar cut her off. "I'm far older than anyone you know."
"Um, Glory, it's sun time." Deathbringer reminded her, looking out the window.
"Ok, let's finish this later." Glory said, exiting with Deathbringer and Kinkajou.
Kinkajou glided to her old spot, seeing it was still free. That was good, at least. She really needed to collect her thoughts after all that went on today. She had went from not knowing where she belonged, to having a brother, to having a god visit her, to having a god speak inside her head, to telling her "parents" that she was their "daughter" to, well that was her day right now. But now, she slept.
Ok, now that's done with, I have a few points to discuss.
First, I'm not a Peril x Turtle shipper. It's just the most likely option in my opinion.
Second, I think I left a mention of Qibli In by mistake. His alter-ego will be important for later
Third, yes, I have a pantheon of omni-gods
Fourth, I think I've accidentally make Chaos a mystery. But I'm sticking to it!
Lastly, please, review and comment what you think the plot will be? I'm curious.