Chapter 2: Displacing Time

Theory: If one changes something in the past, no mater how small, can have huge implications towards the future. If one changes something major in the past, the future becomes something new and unknown.

Dr. Ora Tomoe looked at the screen of her computer and smirked as she saved her most recent entry. Years ago she had set out to prove that the dragon warriors of old and King Hiryuu were real and not purely a myth or children's tale. She had found her evidence, very little, but still some in the old red dragon palace; but still had been laughed at for her supposed findings by those of the scientific community. Setting that aside, she had decided to take on her father's research on time disruptions and the theory of time traveling. It wasn't as impossible as most thought it was. There was a delicate balance that was needed to be kept.

Walking through the underground labs of her family's corporation, she smiled as she passed fellow scientists. At twenty-five, she was one of the youngest scientists here. The building housed the scientists from around the world, while giving them a place to do their research without boundaries. As the automatic doors slid open to one of the larger labs, she found her grey-blue eyes lighting up with excitement as she look at the device that dominated the room. It was the time dialation device or as most had come to call it; the TDD. They had done nearly a thousand tests with it. Now with the bugs had been fixed and insurance claims had been handed out along with privacy disclosures to the families of those injured in the early testing stage; it was ready to be used.

She approached her partner and father, Dr. Kye-hon Tomoe, who was currently at the controls of the device behind the protective nine inch glass. "What are you testing today, father?" she questioned him.

The grey haired man smiled, causing his wrinkles to crinkle at the sides of his eyes at the pride he held for her and her discovery. "We sent another device into the past today. I've sent people to its location and now we are waiting for confirmation that it is indeed there." he replied with pride showing in his voice.

"How far back did you go?" she inquired as she began to look at the instruments and dials on the computer screens. She quirked an eyebrow as she read the date on the screen. "A thousand years ago?" she asked in surprise.

Her father chuckled. "We are going to prove your theory on Hiryuu existing one day soon," he said. "but it'll take baby steps in order to do so."

Ora smiled at her father's words. "I had almost forgotten about him." she said sadly.

"We may even be able to prove your theory that without Princess Yona's influence that our world that we know may not exist." he said with a crazed smile spreading across his face.

"How?" she inquired, curiosity getting the better of her.

"By making sure she doesn't technically exist." he simply answered.

Ora's eyes widened at the implications. "Father!" she hissed. "You're talking about killing an innocent child!"

He shook his head. "Not quite." he stated. "All we have to do is displace her somewhere and see where that leads us." he stated. "If the results are not as expected we just return her to the point in which she was taken from." Just then one of the computers began to beep.

"Dr. Tomoe, we found the device." a voice came from the computers speakers. "The dirt samples came back at around one thousand years prior to our own time." the man on the other end sounded excited. "The TDD worked sir!" Cheers could be heard in the background of where the person, who was talking, was.

"Now we begin the living tests." he muttered quietly. "First we have to make sure the hand held TDD's work as well, otherwise this next phase of tests will be for nothing."

Ora sighed. "I suppose I'll head over to talk to Dr. Wong and see if he's discovered a way to make sure those devices are up and working." she said sounding slightly bored, even though she was excited that the TDD was up in working order.

Steam rose up around Ora's body as she soaked in the warm water of her deep bath. The water came up to her shoulders as she leaned back with her obsidian black colored hair pulled into a bun on the top of her head. It had been a month since the test that had led to them digging for a device that had appeared in the location a thousand years ago.

The device had taken pictures for one hundred and fifty-five years of whenever something or somebody had passed the area. Most of the images had been of animals or bugs, though there had been some humans; however it was then that Ora began to notice something odd. A blond haired male had appeared on film. Each time he had appeared, twelve times in all, he never seemed to age. She had run his face through a facial recognition program and had come up with a name, Zeno Uuyruo. She couldn't even pronounce his last name, but backwards it spelled Ouryuu and that couldn't have been a coincidence. How could a man from a thousand years ago be alive in her time unless somehow, he was the legendary Ouryuu; the dragon warrior who couldn't age, nor be injured.

So far she had kept this a secret from her father, after all, what would they do with this information? Knowing her father, he would want to search for this Zeno and capture him, where he would then begin experimentation on him. For some reason that just didn't sit well with her. She had taken the photos and their copies, placed them in her personal vault and then simply hoped nobody would find them.

Taking a deep breath she put her mouth and nose under water and breathed outward, causing bubbles to form. Sighing afterwards, she slowly began to dry herself off. She had just pulled the plug when her cell phone began to ring. Picking the blue-tooth device up her ear, she answered her phone. "Dr. Tomoe answering." she said.

"Dr. Tomoe, it's Dr. Wong." the voice on the other end said. "I was just finishing up the latest de-bugging of the TDD hand helds when I noticed that one of the devices was missing."

"What do you mean missing?" she inquired as a frown appeared on her face. Stepping out of her bathroom , she went to her bathroom and began to dress in order to return to the lab.

"I mean I've looked everywhere in the locker and the sixth device is not there." the thirty something year old man sounded panicked.

"Have you looked to see who was in you lab last?" she inquired as she pulled over a beige oversized sweater before she pulled on her black jeans, socks and heels.

"Yes." he answered her. "Your father was the last one in the laboratory." he paused before continuing. "You don't think he's going to-"

"-conduct human testing without my approval?" she finished for him. "Yes. My father would do just that. Charge one of the other devices for me, just in case I need it."

"Ma'am?" he asked questioningly.

"My father wouldn't trust anybody but himself to do this." she stated as she got into the elevator. "I'll be there in ten minutes." she ended the call as she pressed the number for the third basement. She'd have to get onto the second elevator to get to the laboratory. When the doors opened she noticed that the entire level was empty. That was never a good sign.

Taking a deep breath she exited the elevator. Walking quickly across the empty basement space, the only noise being her heels clicking the cement. As she passed one of the pillars she saw out of the corner of her eye one of the security officers. He pulled his taser and was about to shoot her with it when she kicked off her heel and hit him with deadly accuracy, knocking him out. Walking over to him she grabbed the taser and her heel. As the second elevator closed with her in it, she knew that her father was up to something now.

When the elevator doors opened to the main floor she found it to be empty, just like the basement. Holding the taser to her side, she began to make her way to Dr. Wong's office. She found the olive skinned man waiting for her in one of the side rooms of his laboratory.

"We don't have much time." he stated as he handed her the fully charged device. "The device is just like cell phone. You dial the date and time and then press the green button to launch yourself to that year. Yours is fully charges, meaning you have a full seventy-two hour spans to go to any era and return. Your father's wasn't updated with the latest debugging update. His only has a twenty-four hour charge; if that." The lights suddenly dimmed before returning to the regular output. "He just activated the TDD, you have to go."

"Right." she said softly as she placed the device in her pocket.

"The device also allows me to keep track where and when you are, so please keep it on!" he yelled out the door as she took off.

Ora arrived in time to see her father enter the brilliant blue orb that the TDD created as it sent him hurtling through time and the spaces between time before he'd arrive where he wanted to be. Rushing over to the controls before they'd shut down she found that the era he'd sent himself was exactly one year after Princess Yona had been born, three years before her mother, Queen Vashtif's death. A moment later the device shut down.

Shit. She cursed herself for being too slow in acting, she quickly began to get the TDD back online. The reactor came online slowly, with the device itself giving off a very small glow. It would take ten minutes for her to get the device back online; which meant her father could accomplish his goal by the time she arrived. She just prayed that all her theories on time and how quickly it could pass between one era verses another were wrong; but she doubted it.

M-Angel: AN: So, I decided to update this story. This chapter was mostly to get everyone up to date on how things are going to happen and why. Yes, Ora's dad is my bad guy for the first few chapters, but as you will soon find out; there will be other bad guys that are far, far worse than him.

So, I hope everybody enjoyed this chapter. I will try to keep this story updated. ^_^