New chapter! I'm sorry for the wait, I just had very little imagination regarding this chapter, though from the looks of it, looks good.
Enjoy this chapter that took me around two days of willpower to make it.
Dimensional stream - open space
Add was waiting for Chloe's sobs to calm down to hear what happened to her, she said something about Ran, the one who she pledged loyalty to, that made her look how she is now.
Through the dimensional stream, her sobs echoed throughout the gateway of many timelines and alternate universes. Add already explored a few of them and found some interesting and some... Not worth mentioning. Don't ask him what he saw, it makes him sick every time he remembers it.
"Chloe tell me what happen, I can help you in some way." He said towards her gently, for once he wasn't being a bastard and looked generally concerned of her. She was able to calm down a bit thanks to his words.
"Master Ran, visited me a couple of days ago... He said that I was too weak to stay in the army and that he would cut all ties with the dark elves." She said with a depressing tone to him. "I pleaded him to give me one more chance! But he refused and then... He offered me a choice..."
Add was silently listening to her while comforting her, he didn't know that the dark elves were being backed up by the demon invasion and were given a home, thanks to their extensive knowledge of the art of stealthiness and poison recipes.
"Or I left and took my clan with me back to the elf world to forever live a fugitives life or..." She was slightly trembling of the second option. "I would let him forcibly infuse dark El in me to aid him for a little longer."
Add stopped comforting her for a moment at the words 'forcibly infuse', putting dark El, an energy source highly unstable that has a high percentage to kill someone if not dealt with it correctly, in her was far from what he expected.
"Chloe can you tell me where Ran is?" He asked her having something in his mind, this would make things... Funny, to him.
Heart of the ancient waterway - ending
Elsword and his party defeated Victor, one of the most vicious demons and one of the generals of Ran, in a triumphant way! Actually Elsword went for the final hit while the others were trying to stay away of Victor's rampage, Elsword fearlessly dove right in the rampage and finished him off.
"Whew! That was closer than I thought, need to think before doing something like that again." He said while sheathing his great sword on his back, he then turned to his gang to see them trying to catch their breath.
"You need to be more careful, Elsword!" Said Elesis as she was trying to scold him for the recklessness, he knew that he was reckless.
"No pain, no gain." He responded back while looking back at Victor's body, you could see his chest rising and lowering signalling that he was still alive, that was a surprise to the beat up that he got.
"Sooo... Aren't we going to talk about what happened back there?" Asked Aisha to them, Add appearing and dragging Chloe to god knows where.
"Aisha... Please. I'm still trying to think about that." Said Elsword while putting a hand on his head, just thinking about it gave him a headache.
"I guess Eve wasn't insane when she said that Add went inside a portal. No offense." Said Chung towards the empress, she very briefly frowned before returning back to her usual poker face.
"None was taken, Chung." She responded while sipping some tea that Ophelia took the liberty to bring with her.
"Hmm... If Add can move through time and space, then that means he completed his time formula." Said Raven with a frown while accessing the topic on hand, this was both good and bad at the same time for him.
"You're having the same though as me aren't you Raven." Said Rena close to him, they knew that if Add went a step upper on the insane tree he could possibly kill the gang in the past.
"We need to talk with the gang and Add about this later on." He responded back while his nasod arm trembled a bit with the amount of energy it can spend.
Water temple - Halls of water
"Master Ran, it seems that Victor was defeated on his post." Said one of the many demon messengers to him.
"*Sigh* He is exactly like I though, all muscle and no brains. What about Chloe? Was she defeated as well?" He asked waiting for the bad news to continue, he had no hope for her, even after he infused dark El in her.
"A-about that..." The messenger seemed to sweat a bit due to fear of telling his master. "S-she is believed to be... Captured."
"What!?" He said not at least amused, he seemed actually livid, she knows of crucial information that only their faction know. "Who captured her?" He asked standing up with a dark aura surrounding him.
"S-she was captured by..." The demon was about to say until a small portal was opened above his master.
"By me!" Said Add while grabbing Ran's horns and dragging his head inside the portal, his body remained on the hall of water and his head on the dimensional stream.
Dimensional stream - open space
"Unhand me! You filthy human!" Trashed Ran even though only his head was through the small portal and his body behind.
"Okay if you say so, dynamo minimize the gate near his neck so that he doesn't escape before I'm done." Ordered Add, his creation beeped in response and only around 4 mm were apart of Ran's neck.
"Add what are you doing!?" Asked Chloe seeing his master through the gate he created.
"Me? I'm just going to do something to him, nothing life threatening, only something he deserves for what he did to you." He responded while opening a new gate to gather some... Equipment.
After a few minutes Add was holding down the biggest laugh he could possibly have towards the sight, he put makeup on Ran's face, putted a small tube on his head with a sign saying shameful fox, colored his horns with pink and putted some decorations on them, he also went ahead and prepared a small code to finish the touch.
"*giggle*" Chloe could barely stop herself from laughing at her master, the sight was just... Too much.
"I'll have your head for this human!" Screamed Ran towards Add, he on the other hand just shrugged his shoulders with his hands raised and with a chelsea grin.
"Not yet, now for the grand finale!" Announced Add opening multiple holes on the stream, different timelines showing the alternate gang members looking at the sight of Ran.
"Hello there other timeline selfs!" Said Add with a tint of madness in his cheerful self. "I present to you! The magnificent and only makeup Ran! Why don't you join me and Chloe laughing at him!" He said towards the holes.
Soon enough the dimensional stream was filled with laughter of the other members, Chloe couldn't helped it anymore and laughed with them as well with Add.
"This is so humiliating..." Said Ran that couldn't believe Add did that, he just wanted to leave and destroy him, in the worst possible way.
"Humiliating you say?" Asked Add while sealing the holes as if they weren't ever there before, he was frowning and looked pissed at Ran. "What do you think she went through when you gave her the choice?"
"Add?" Chloe's laughing died down quickly and soon was looking at him surprised.
"Now Ran, I'm going to give YOU two choices, so listen well." He said while sitting down. "One! You will go back down and be humiliated by all of your minions and be ashamed forever that a normal human like me was able to get you without you noticing." Ran was already ready to say no to that one.
"Two! You'll apologize for what you made Chloe go through and go back with you dignity still intact, so what it'll be?" These were basically the same as what Ran asked for Chloe.
"... The second one..." He said while looking to Chloe. "Chloe, I'm sorry for what I did to you." He said while looking to the side.
"Good! Now just so you know, I recorded you saying that and took a photo of how you look right now." He had the trolliest face right now, he guessed that Glaive was rubbing his joker side on him.
"You WHAT!?" Screamed Ran not believing that Add would do that.
"Don't worry! I'll only use these two when you go out of line from here on out." He responded, even though he wanted to blackmail him later.
"From here on out?" Repeated Ran as Add was taking off the props and makeup.
"You could say we are friends now Ran, you don't mind that do you?" He asked taking off the last bit of 'blush' of Ran.
"Hehehe...Hahahaha! You amuse me human! Tell me your name." He said while trying to stiff off his laughter.
"The name's Add, hope we can have a good friendship on these Saturdays!" He said while signalling Chloe to come closer. "If you do something to her on the other hand, I'll rip off your balls." He menacingly whispered to him, he just nodded furiously to him.
"So only on this stream and Saturdays you can visit us Add?" Asked Chloe, Ran heard this and noted it down on his mind.
"Yeah, only on those situations, you kinda need to read the rules on my day off Ran so I'll give you a copy when I get back home." He said while opening more the gate on Ran's neck.
"Rules for a day off? I never heard of such a thing." He said while crashing down on the ground.
"Now you did." With that phrase Chloe went down too near the person she pledged her loyalty. "I need to be going now, they will start saying that I made a pact with you and whatnot. Bye!" He then closed the gate as Chloe waved goodbye.
Hamel - Inside of the Inn
The gang finally came back of their exhausting expedition on the heart of the ancient waterway, they simply flopped down on the couch of the living room and stood still to recover their fatigue.
"I think I could sleep for a week..." Said Elsword with his words being smothered on the couch, he was faced down not bothering to move from his place.
"I'll take that offer..." Agreed Chung with him, they were the most reckless, not counting with Raven, members fighting against Victor.
Suddenly a portal was open in the center of the room, the gang members immediately tried to make a battle position to fight any threat. Add then leaped out of the portal with his dynamos.
"Add! You're back!" Said Elesis happy to see their recruited comrade back. "What about Chloe?"
"She's back to Ran, just gave her a ride with my new time formula." He said while ready to go to the kitchen to make something to eat.
"Ran? You mean my brother!?" Said Ara surprised that Add would do that.
"Yeah that guy, oh yeah just so you guys know, he's on my side with Chloe on Saturdays." He said while going to the kitchen.
"YOU'RE FRIENDS WITH HIM!?" Yelled the gang except for Eve, who was resting and drinking her tea with the taste of mint.
Hmm... I think I should make Add be influenced by Glaive and be somewhat of a joker thanks to his insanity growing, that's actually a great idea! I'll go with that.
Anyway hope you enjoyed this new chapter, I'll update again once my other stories are good. See ya around guys!