Chapter 3 :Resolution

'Where have you been? It's been 3 days I haven't seen you returning home.' my dad asked after our long hug.

'I…' I hesitated, how can I explain?

Things just became complicated and happened in split second that I don't even have the time to react, plus I don't even understand what's going on that time. All I know was I got transported to another place while I was falling to my death.

'I got lost in a forest…' I lied, can't find a better explanation. 'Later found some food in the process.'

My dad frowned for a second but later decided to let me take a rest, he gently picked up Papyrus and led me to our bedroom (me and Papyrus used to share a room together). Once my dad put Papyrus back to his crib, he later tucked me in. Few seconds later, I was out like a light.

I don't know how long I've slept, the next second I opened my eyes, I found Papyrus lying next to my side, sleeping. Slowly, I got up and gently covered him with my blanket, later decided to leave the room.

' Z…Zan!''

I turned around and noticed Papyrus has woke up, looking at me with his big puppy eyes.

'Good morning, brother!' I said, smiling.

At the exact moment, he burst into tears and started to wiggle out of my blanket, later crawled his way to me in a fast pace and hugged my leg.

'ZAN!' he cried.

For a few seconds, I'm not quite sure what to do. But then I remembered my dad used to comfort me by patting my head gently and gave me encouragement. I slowly kneeled down in front of Papyrus and patted his head as gently as possible.

' Hey…it's alright….I'm here, brother.' I said softly, he seemed to calm down a little.

'You will not believe what I've just seen….holes, lights, weird guys…'I continued.

Papyrus stared at me with his puppy eyes, tears still streaming down his face.

'Things got really weird and confusing, even myself don't know what have happened…but no matter what, I'll never leave you again…I promise….'I said, looking straight at him.

He stopped crying and started to smile. Seeing him smile made me happy.

'Heh…heh…heh…come on, let's head downstairs…dad should have prepare some food for us…'I chuckled, later picked up Papyrus.

After taking him downstairs, I noticed my dad was reading newspaper on the couch casually.

'Your food is inside the kitchen.' my dad said without looking up.

'Ok…'I said, I put my brother on his baby chair and headed to the kitchen.

A large bowl of porridge was placed on the kitchen table and it was still hot. I wasn't too hungry at that time and decided to give half of them to Papyrus, who will literally eat everything and don't seem to feel satisfy every time he finished his food. Once I placed the porridge in front of him, few seconds later, he started playing with it and made a mess on his face and the table, I can't help but laughed a little. After everything was settled, I began to eat my food.

While I was eating, I can't stop thinking about the 'accident' that happened earlier, which it kept popping inside my head. For some reason, I got a feeling that it will keep happening unless something stops it. I don't want my family to worry about me again, especially Papyrus. Whenever he's upset, it just makes me really sad as well. Perhaps my dad can help me?

'Dad?' I asked.

'Yes?' he replied, still looking at the newspaper.

'Is it possible to travel from one place to another place?' I asked.

'If you're talking about transports like the boat that the Riverperson used in Waterfall, then it's a yes.' my dad answered.

'Then can we travel from one place to another complete different place that you've never seen before?' I asked, trying to clarify my question.

'Well….that's a good question and it's a bit tricky to do this….hang on, there are some books you might be interested…'my dad said, he quickly got up and went upstairs.

Around few minutes later, he returned with few books ranged from thin to thick. He placed them on the couch and gestured me to sit next to him. I followed his instruction and stared at the books curiously. He picked up the thinnest book which named 'Space and Time' and flipped to the content page and showed it to me.

'This book explains the most basic things about space and time and it included a lot of stories which revolve around topics like planets, stars, history and myths. For example, have you ever heard of the zodiac? They are a group of stars which represent different types of animal or human…'my dad explained.

I wasn't fully paid attention that time as I was busy on scanning titles and flipping pages of each books, most of the titles were related to space and time, while two of them related to something called 'Parallel Universe' and 'Time travelling'. All of them look interesting and I'm eager to learn more about them, they might be the solution to help my case!

'…If you have any question, feel free to ask me.' My dad said, smiling.

'Thank you, dad!' I hugged my dad and quickly carried all the books he gave to my room.

'You haven't finished your food yet…'my dad said, but I've already shut the door and started reading the thinnest book.

My dad has home schooled me since I was like 4-5 years old and likes to teach me lot of science stuff, because of these reason, it took me only a short amount of time to understand a concept/ theory and I can move on to the next chapter quickly. Days slowly turned to weeks then to years, I started to understand the relationship between time and space, later I began to figure out my wings were the key element that caused the 'accident'. Somehow it can transport me to different multiverse in few seconds, I often found myself ended up in weird places or meeting alternative selves. The process was really complicated and confusing sometimes, nonetheless, after 7 years of hard work and experiment, I managed to capture the skill to fly and use magic to attack the same time, plus travel through time/dimension for short amount of time (this part still need more practice).

Everything went quite well until something happened the day I turned 14…

(END OF CHAPTER 3)