On a tragic morning a few decades ago when disaster struck, meteors fell through the sky piercing the clouds as they flew down, throughout the city erupted screams and flames, I was unaware of what was happening outside and until this day I cannot remember what happened after, but then a few years later a peculiar looking man who did not look like he belonged to this world came up to me and told me what would later become the purpose of my life.
The man said "excuse me young lady are you miss Violet Addison?"
"Yes I am sir and who are you?"
"Good, I finally found you" the man said with a soft tone as he took out something from within his coat. "take this, this is a shard of time, it is a shard that has existed from the beginning of time and you must collect these shards for they have been scattered far and wide throughout world after world, I have spent my entire life looking for them for over a seven centuries but no matter how hard I just can't find them, this shard was bestowed upon me by the god of time and my mission was to find them and return them to the god but after taking this long he has told me to find a successor."
"Wow it's so shiny!" was what I thought
he began to speak rather hastily "listen take it, I need you to put it up to your face and stare deep into it, it will show you the reason I am here and also the reason you have to complete this mission, and when you are there you will become 10 years older than you are now, such is the price you must pay for going through time, I don't have enough time left to explain everything but you will understand what you must do when the time comes."
"I wish you luck." were the last words I heard from that man as right before I looked at the shard he started to fade like a ghost in the night.
shortly after looking towards the shard it started to glow even brighter, but at that moment I thought to myself "didn't that man say that the price to pay for using this is 10 years of your life? if so then if I look at this 10 years of my life will be gone and I'll be in another timeline? what is a timeline?"
before I had time to think about a bit more it started making a weird sound as if a gear was turning and the next thing I saw was a street filled with people, clearly I wasn't back at my hometown anymore since my hometown in the city was destroyed and barely had as many people in the street as this place, had I truly been brought to another timeline?, But this time I knew what the word timeline meant as if I'd just learned it, this made me realize that not only do I get older but I also gain more knowledge as I get older.
"no wonder why that guy said he was seven centuries old, he must have used the shard at least sixty five times or somewhere near that number."
"If I was six before I came here then I must be sixteen now."
just then someone who looked odd and was quite young came up to me and spoke to me.
"excuse me who are you? I haven't seen you around before, are you a foreigner? how old are you?"
"well I could say the same to you, at least tell me your name before you start asking me so many questions." I replied whilst staring at her face.
"oh sorry I tend to do that sometimes, my name is Melertz but you can just call me Mel like most do, nice to meet you."
Melertz was not a name that you would hear anywhere in the world from where I was from. "that is all the proof I need, I am definitely in another world." I thought to myself.
"nice to meet you too my name is Violet Add-" I said before Mel cut me short.
"the pleasure is all mine, so anyway mind answering my questions from earlier? Violet?" she asked
"well you might not believe me but I am from anoth-" I said before someone else cut me off again.
this time it was some person in the street that I saw when I first opened my eyes here and had caught my eye since they were wearing a green jacket which a green pendent on the side shaped like a diamond and black pants decorated with glowing gems in little sockets along with earrings with green glowing gems with a different design than the others.
"excuse me but could you come with me for a moment miss Violet?" he asked me as if he really wanted me to follow him.
"how do you know my name?" I questioned him
"I overheard your conversation in the corner over there behind you."
"wait so you were listening to us the entire time?"
"yes." he said suspiciously
"are you one of those creeps who like to listen to strangers talk before talking to them?" I said while I was slightly annoyed that someone was eavesdropping on our conversation.
"now now, no need to say that, I just happened to be passing by and overheard your name, anyway I would like you to come with me Violet."
"and why should I trust you?"
"since you're here I suppose my seven century old colleague found you?"
I was shocked by what he said and after hearing those words I had three questions in mind, are you also someone looking for the shards?, how do you know I would be here and who are you? these three questions kept racing around my mind and then he said. "we'll save the explanation for later." so I decided to ask him later after the explanation.
"alright now follow me I know a better place to have this chat." he said with a ominous tone.
upon arriving at a worn down and old warehouse the man asked us to go in, once we were inside the warehouse it looked as if he was living here or perhaps camping here.
"show me the shard" he told me
"here you go" I handed him the shard, once he touched the shard the light faded as if it had its energy sapped from it, "what was that" I asked him as he was staring at the shard when it faded.
"looks like I got some of my power back, that colleague of mine really did a lot of work for just a single person, but he still couldn't find more than one shard for me it seems, that's why I am going to ask you to please help me regain the power that I lost during the war." he pleaded while asking on his knees, " I know I am just basically asking you to throw your life away but if you find more than one shard I shall grant you immortality" so please help me since i can't actually do it myself.
"alright I have a couple of questions for you." I told him "first what war are you talking about, second just who in the world are you, and third how did you know I would be in that alleyway?"
"well of course I'm talking about the war of the heavens or commonly known throughout all of worlds as War of the Rumbling Skies, it is in this war that I lost my powers to control time even though I didn't take part in the war, a god named Skyler took my power and my power only dispersed due to his death at the very end of the war."
"and I was hoping he would return it when the war was over." said
"how exactly did he steal your power?"
"well every god has an item which if taken away from them they will lose half their initial power and the other half is from the temples we created a millenniums ago, but if these temples are either destroyed or have their core stolen."
"what's a core? is it like something that you can touch or absorb or maybe its something like that but somewhere in the middle?" questioned Melertz
"well a core is simply the embodiment of a god's power and it's very heavily guarded by the god's own soldiers and if stolen somehow they can be converted to the god that stole it's power, my temples were built back in your world and I told Aol to give you the shard since I was residing here for awhile after the war was over and I had not much of my power left, but since the god Rey died my power got scattered and I'm on a mission to tract them down and would like your assistance."
"and if I decide to help you and manage to impress you, you will grant me immortality? if so then I refuse." Violet replied
"wait but why would you reject immortality?" he said panickily
"you still haven't told me your name Mr God."
"fine my name is Timothy, but just call me Tim, happy now?"
"sure but I'll still reject the immortality since living forever sounds really boring."
"wait so you are going to do this for nothing?"
"well no of course I do want something in return for helping you."
"and what would that be Violet?"
"for helping you I want to be allowed to travel across worlds so that I can explore and help as many people as I can." said Violet passionately
"well wouldn't being immortal mean that you can help people forever?" suggested Tim
"well I do want to help people but living forever would still be boring especially if I'm just helping people."
"oh alright I understand now, do as you please."
Tim explained further on which god stole his power and how it all went down in heaven as well as the reason why he came to me and also why and how the tragedy back in my world all happened and what led up to it, there was something he said that shocked me quite a bit, he said that the god of fire, Felix, was residing back in my world and was actually the one taking care of me all this time since my parents died when I was only 4.
"so how do I get back to my world? I want to ask him something about my parents and how he found me."
"that's easy just look back into the shard and think about your world or timeline as the proper term for it, then you can go back to where you were before you came here, I'm sure Felix knows that I brought you here already."
"hey so what am I supposed to do?" said Mel with a confused tone
"you stay with Tim and wait until I come back, and by the way Tim, are you and Felix close?"
"well I suppose you can say were friends."
After his answer I tried what Timothy told me to do and then the same light appeared before and as soon as I knew it, when I opened my eyes I was still where I was standing as if nothing had happened, but this time someone was waiting for me.