A few moments later Hope arrived.
"What happened here!"
"I'll explain later I have things I really need to do" I said handing her Peacemaker and Blob.
"I thought you said he wouldn't get hurt!" She said hugging him.
"I said physically" I said flying into the tree tops. I landed on top of a tree and started scanning for Glory.
"Where is she? Oh there … and the kid. Should I-but I really don't- but he deserves at least that and Glory will survive long enough." I debated with myself "uh, I really hate my job in moments like these". And I flew down to a pile of rubble. I moved enough to drag him out from underneath.
"Hey Toucan, it's going to be ok, you're going to be fine". I was lying.
"Where is c-*cough* Capybara. Is *cough* is she alright."
Capybara, his girlfriend, where is she. Oh there. Teleport her to us.
"Yeah she fine, she right here, you're going to be ok" I said before Capybara teleported next to us.
"Toucan! Are you okay!" She said running up to his side.
"No *cough* no I'm not going to make it. I *cough* I love you."
"I love you too, but you're going to make it you have to" she said, tears streaming down her light blue scales on to his almost completely white scales.
"It's going to be *cough* be ok. Just don't be *cough* afraid to *cough* to move on. I will *cough* always love and *cough* protect you *cough* but you're still young *cough* please move on."
"I-I" she was interrupted by him kissing her. Then I saw the familiar face of Death. His red scales shined in the sun, his talons piercing the dirt. I gave him a nod and Death took Toucan's soul just as they finished.
"N-no no please wake up, please Toucan, please come back to me, please" she said shaking him. Death looked at me with his wary eyes and I looked at him with mine, we didn't even have to speak to know what the other was thinking.
This is why I hate this job. Then I looked at the kid.
"See you in the afterlife kid" I said before they left, heading to the next realm, my realm. I stared at his body, Capybara still crying over it, for a few moments before saying.
"Christ I'm a failure"
"Hey it's not your fault, you couldn't have done anything to save him" Capybara said, still crying.
"Oh but I could. I could have done everything to save him, but the timeline is better if he dies now, but even though I know that things are going to be better in ways that outweigh his death, God dose it still hurt.". She stopped crying for a moment, taken aback by what I just said.
"Now if you excuse me I have more of my mess to clean up." I said taking off. I landed next to another pile of rubble, turned into my human form, and went in a that was bearely wide enough to fit a dragon and about 3 dragons long
"Deathbringer it's me Mason, I'm here to help Glory.". He moved to the side so I could get past him. I got there just in time, Glory would have died in 20 minutes. She had lots of cuts and a big one going from her shoulder to her wrist, she lost a lot of blood, tons of broken bones, but by a miracle she didn't have anything else, unless you count the fact she was in a coma.
I worked on her for who knows how long and when I did all I could me and Deathbringer moved her unconscious body to the healer's hut. We put her in her own room and the doctors had left to work on other patients my clones were bringing in, when Kinkajou and Moon came in.
"Took you long enough" I said before two of my clones teleported to me with Qibli and Turtle, Qibli was still unconscious but Turtle was awake but couldn't move much.
"Their in stable condition sir" one clone said
"Good, you take Qibli to a doctor." I said to the second one
"Yes sir" he said taking away Qibli, then I absorbed the other one.
"Glory!" Kinkajou said realizing who was in the hammock and running over to her side.
"W-Whats wrong with her."
"She lost a lot of blood but I filled her back up, she has a lot of broken bones and she's in a coma"
"W-W-When will she wake up"
"Could be anytime from in a few hours to the rest of her life". Kinkajou began crying. I looked over at Moon who was staring at Deathbringer who was sitting in a corner staring at Glory thinking
"Please don't die, please don't go, please wake up, I can't lose you" he had a flashback about Quickstrike "not again"
"Pretty tragic backstory." I thought to Moon.
"Yes it's really sad that his mom died in such a way, that he was left alone in the world and that he blames himself for her death, I'm surprised he doesn't think about it a lot, I've gotten little bits from time to time but they've never been this long or detailed before."
"I know it's sad to see him so broken" I thought back. Then I heard Turtle think
"I could reverse all the damage, I could heal everyone and it wouldn't hurt my soul sense it's for good"
"Turtle don't, not this time." I thought to him
"What! Why?" He thought.
"Because a couple of things need to happen that haven't yet and if you reverse everything they definitely won't happen."
"Uh…Uhhh…" *physically sighs* "ok" he thought back. I went back to looking at Glory. Kinkajou was crying over Glory, her scales light blue then a few started to turn red.
"You could have stopped this". Everyone looked at her, eyes Deathbringer was taken out of his trance for a moment.
"You could have prevented all of this!" her scales fully turned red.
"You could have but you didn't! And why is that?! Oh I know maybe it's because you're a selfish, jerky, little asshole!" She said walking up to me snarling ,eyes staring at me angrily, snout, which was almost half my body size mind you, inches from my body.
"Kinkajou!-" Turtle said before I cut him off.
"You're right". Kinkajou moved away a little, surprised that I just agreed to her.
"You're absolutely right, I could have stopped this from happening, but want to know a little fact. Things could have turned out a lot worse even if this didn't happen in the first place. I didn't tell you the full reason why I came here, I did come here to befriend you guys but I also came here to protect you. And you know why I didn't stop this sooner. It's because this gave you the opportunity for the best future believe it or not. I don't want dragons to get hurt or die, but some times I have to make sacrifices. And it's not even easy, I have been trough all their life and possible lives so it makes it feel as if I'm killing a friend, I have been trough so much pain and suffering because of my job, listen Kinkajou I know that you love Glory like a mother and you think I'm responsible for why she is hurt, because I am, but you do not get to call me selfish!" Everyone stood in silence.
"Christ I need a cigarette." I said pulling out my special cigarettes, lighting one, putting it my mouth and breathed in then letting out a puff of smoke, feeling better as my brain released dopamine.
"A-Are those cigarettes?" Moon asked still trying to process what I just said.
"Yeah, these are special ones, all the benefits with no drawbacks. They help me with stress relief but normal ones would slowly kill your lungs from the inside out. So I made some with zero health risks. So in summary only get some from me and only ask for some in really stressful situations." I said it a bit of an annoyed tone. I was about to leave then remembered something.
"Oh yeah and bring Turtle to a doctor he still needs rest" I said then teleported to my house, more specifically my bedroom, in the Land In Between. (The Land In Between, What's that. Well it's the land in between universes. It was just a black void before we got here and yes I mean we) I laid in my bed, put on my headphones, and started listening to my music and smoking my cigarette.
I looked at my bookshelf, it had my favorite books and books series from when I was still mortal, but most importantly my favorite book series, Wing of Fire, I remember trying to figure out who the DoD were going to pick to be Sandwing Queen, I remember trying to figure out how the Jade winglet were going to defeat Darkstalker, I remember trying to figure out how the arc 3 protagonist were going to dethrone Wasp, I remember almost crying when Freedom "died", I remember trying to answer the question The Guide to the Dragon World brought. Then I became God and book 16 and everything after just didn't feel the same. The universe after the canon timeline was still one of my favorite WoF universes but the one I was just in felt a lot more nostalgic.
That's probably why Kinkajou yelling at me hurt so much. I turned my head back to the ceiling and stayed like that for hours.
I should probably give Peacemaker and Hope an explanation now. I put away my headphones and through away my cigarette then teleport to the front door of Hope's hoses, turned into my dragon persona, and knocked. She opened the door looked at me for a few seconds then said
"What happened"
"He turned into Darkstalker before I turned him back"
"B-But how, that shouldn't be possible"
"I'll tell you after I tell Peacemaker about everything." I walked past her and towards Peacemaker's room and she fallowed behind me. I opened the door and saw Peacemaker curled up on his bed crying a little.
"Hey, listen is there anything you want to know because I'll gladly tell you, you deserve to know about your past, I'm sorry we had to lie to you and I hope that you understand why we did.
"I understand but you lied about something like this, I've killed dragons now and I couldn't do anything about it. I hurt so many dragons because someone else was in control. Were you ever going to tell me about what I really am."
"Peacemaker your not him and you never will be anything he did isn't your fault" Hope said
"Were you going to tell me or not!" He snapped. There was a brief pause.
"Yes Peacemaker I was, if this didn't have to happen or if we were in some other universe I was going to tell you when you were 7." I said surprising Hope.
"So I ask again is there anything else you want to know"
"I want to know everything, tell me the truth, the whole truth."
"As you wish" I said pulling out a projector and a screen. It played how Foeslayer and Arctic met, The legend of Darkstalker (The camera was pointing away from Arctic during his death), and arc 2. I paused it when Hope was giving Peacemaker a strawberry to make him stop crying.
"So there you go that's the story"
"But how did Darkstalker get back in my head" Peacemaker asked.
"Well you see the strawberry locked up Darkstalker in a mental cage of sorts and replaced him with you but when you named that stick figure Clearsight it gave him the opportunity to talk to you and, subsequently, allowed him to convince you to give him control."
"Oh, so it's all my fault"
"What! No, no it's not your fault you couldn't have possibly have known, if anything it's my fault I could've prevented this from happening in the first place but thing are going to be better because of this I promise."
"You're promises don't mean much" Hope said bitterly.
"I said physically and I don't see a scratch on his body.". She gave me a glare.
"Listen I only used technicalities because otherwise I knew you wouldn't let me take him"
"Wait you knew this was going to happen." Peacemaker said directed at his mom
"She only knew that something important to the future was going to happen, she didn't know what, when, or who was going to get involved, again don't blame her, get mad at me" I said
"You promise things will get better because of this" Peacemaker asked.
"I swear by whatever means the most to you, now I have to go" I said.
"Wait, take your friend" Peacemaker said handing me Blob.
"No, you take him and keep him until the part of your brain that says you're going to turn back is way smaller than the part that says otherwise." I said handing Blob back to him.
"But why?"
"Because that's Blob, the one Fathom created, he can help you out mentally. And before I forget put this to your head when you what to talk to him." I said handing him a stone. "Well bye" I said teleporting to the top of a tree in the middle of the Rainforest
"Ok one more thing for this crazy day." I thought as I pulled out a radio and microphone that would play whatever I said into whoever I wanted's head.
"Ahem Dragons of Pyrrhia and Pantala, and a few humans, I have some news. This morning Darkstalker returned but to explain how, first we have to go back 2 years ago, when Drakstalker was first defeated. You see Kinkajou and a Nightwing named Hope had a piece of Darkstalker's scroll and enchanted a strawberry so that once Darkstalker ate it he would turn into a completely different dragon. They managed to get Darkstalker to eat the strawberry and the the spell worked, sort of, it trapped his mind in a kind of mental cage and replaced him with a new dragon, which was named Peacemaker, Hope took in Peacemaker as her own and everything went smoothly until today.
Peacemaker was playing with some stick figures and he named one of them Clearsight, for those who don't know Clearsight was Darkstalker's lover 2,000 years ago, and when he named the the figure Clearsight this allowed Darkstalker to talk to and convince Peacemaker to give him control, now keep in mind that Peacemaker is only 2 and didn't know who Darkstalker was yet plus Darkstalker is very convincing.
Darkstalker now in control set of to the Rainwing village where he caused tons of damage and killed 10 dragons, 5 were Nightwings on their way to attempt to assassinate Queen Glory, 4 were Rainwings who were going to start a rebellion to bring Darkstalker back, Ironic, and the last one was a 5 year old Rainwing dragonet named Toucan. He also injured dozens of others including Queen Glory who is currently in a coma, he also injured Prince Qibli and Prince Turtle but they are both in stable condition and are recovering.
Before Darkstalker could do anymore damage I turned him back to him back to Peacemaker permanently, no mental cage thingy he is fully dead, now some of you are probably wondering who I am, well I'm Mason Rivera, God of the multiverse. I have every power imaginable. Now some of you, still, don't believe me when I say that Darkstalker won't return considering that he just did and some of you want to kill/kidnap Peacemaker now. I will warn you that if you attempt such an act then I will kill you. That's all for now, I'm Mason Rivera, sorry this had to happen, and until more Pyrrhian or Pantalan news occurs, signing off."
I put the microphone and radio away and I was done for the day, nothing I needed to do anymore. I went back to my bedroom and took a nap. (I only say nap because there is no time in the Land In Between but otherwise it was just like you going to bed at night.)
Death here is heavily inspired by Markus Zsuak's "The Book Thief" if you haven't read I highly suggest it to do so.