After Felix and Violet parted ways with Timothy and Melertz, Timothy told Melertz to check a nearby town and he would check the town they were in.
"ok Mel you go that way and I'm going to stay right here to try to pinpoint exactly where the shard is alright?" Timothy told Melertz, "alright then I'll leave this place to you, but wouldn't it be safer if we stuck together?" Melerzt replied to Timothy, "Mel, wouldn't it be faster if you were to check off locations where the shard might be so that I can find the exact location faster?"
"ok then I suppose that does make sense, but still it would be dangerous, the town you're sending me to has been reported to have thieves and thugs in it."
"but they'll be no problem for you right? ms O great mage." Tim taunted Mel, "fine, I'll get going now then, but if something happens you'd better come help me."
"yes, yes, if anything happens I'll come help you right away."
With that Timothy started to meditate and look for the shard while keeping an eye on Melertz as she ran towards the town, mid-way she was interrupted by a sudden arrow that she deflected with a magic shield, then a few steps ahead of her were some thugs, she used her wind magic while blocking off the arrows coming from each side and when the thugs started running towards her she used her magic and blew them all into the forest, either getting stuck on the trees or getting knocked unconscious by hitting the trees, she then sent wind spears invisible to the naked eye, flying towards the archers piercing all 3 of them right through the chest sending them tumbling to the ground.
She continued her march forward after the incident and finally reached the town, once she was there Timothy who had been watching her while searching for the shard, saw that the shard was being taken away by one of the thugs and told her to chase after the one in the back, with one blast of wind she knocked them all back and destroyed the town, she used her wind to pursue the thugs that were running away and successfully caught up to the one with the shard that was riding ah horse.
"Ah! you can fly too!" the thug screamed in fear, "well of course, it's called wind magic for a reason, you know?" Mel sounded like she was mocking him then she stopped the horse in it's tracks sending the thug tumbling forwards and faceplanting onto the mud, at this point Timothy had also managed to catch up with a horse he borrowed from another town.
"wow this girl is quite fast if I do say so myself, well? where's the shard."
"here you go Tim, it's in this small pouch."
The pouch was glowing blue from inside and once Timothy took the shard out the light faded away once again, "yay! that's one more shard down 8 to go!" Timothy laughed, "say Tim, just how many shards are there in total?" Mel asked Tim, "if I remember correctly when my power split there were 10 shards and now I have 2 out of the 10 shards which is great progress, just don't know why it was in the hands of a rouge batch of thugs is all."
"if you ask me, I just think they happened to find it buried under the dirt is how they had it, it must've been glowing blue even if it was underground."
"we should be meeting up with the others back at home base right about now."
Felix and Violet head back to the other timeline and Timothy and Melertz arrived a little ahead of schedule, "oh you're finally back Felix and Violet." Tim said.
"yeah and we got some information, I know for a fact that Mede was the one who caused my temple to collapse, she even destroyed two of them now."
"wait is she trying to make you lose most of your power and kill you afterwards?" Tim said to Felix looking concerned, "no need to worry, even if I do lose all my temples, I'll still be quite tough to kill." Felix replied without a doubt about the extent of his own abilities.
"since we already got the shard that was in this world, we should be heading on to then next, and I presume that you won't be coming? right Melertz?" Tim said, "of course, I had already made up my mind beforehand, so don't worry about leaving me here."
And with that Violet along with the two gods used the new shard to travel to the next timeline, " I wonder what'll be in front of us once we get there." Violet thought, once they all landed on the ground safely, there was a young boy who was looking at Violet like love at first sight, "um, young man, where would the closest settlement be?" Violet asked.
"wow she's so pretty! and she even came out of some portal from heaven accompanied by two men!" The young boy thought to himself, he looked like he was around 15 years of age while Violet had become 26 after going through a another timeline again.
he was so amazed that he almost forgot Violet's question, "oh! the nearest town is that way!" the boy pointed towards a small town which didn't look like the liveliest of places, but they had nowhere else to stay for the time being and had no choice but to settle there for a while until they found the next shard.
Felix and Timothy went to the town first while the boy had asked Violet to stay for a while, "hey MS, what was that big round shiny thing that you came out of?" the boy asked filled with wonder, "that's a secret." Violet whispered in the boy's ears.
"aw, no fair! I told you where the town was so you have to tell me what that was!" the boy started throwing a tantrum, "listen, calm down, that was a portal to the other city." Violet lied but didn't expect the lie to work, the boy believed what Violet said.
Afterwards Violet talked to Timothy about the shard, "have you gotten a clue about where the shard is Tim?" Violet asked, "well I haven't really started looking for it yet hehe..." Tim said nervously, "you better get to it, or else were going to be here for quite a while and we have to get moving soon."
"right Violet have you gained some of your memories back after we came here again?" Felix asked, "well I can't really tell, but I'm sure that I can use more magic now."
Just then Violet noticed that the boy was listening to them while peeking inside the room they were staying at, and when she went towards him he started to run away, "hm, why did he run away?" Violet thought.
"it looks like the year in this timeline is quite a long time back, I remember being here when something big was going on but it looks like were just a few years ahead of that event." Tim said with a glitter coming out of his eyes, "why are your eyes glowing Tim?" Violet asked.
"well Timothy's eyes glitter whenever he's checking the timeline of any world." Felix replied for Timothy so he could focus on the timeline, "I see." Violet said.
"okay I just got a clue about where the shard is, we should get going early tomorrow morning."
Violet noticed again that the boy was peeking into their room and was signaling for Violet to follow him, Violet walked towards the boy, "where are you going Violet? we have work to do tomorrow." Felix asked, "I'm going for a walk." Violet excused herself from the room, "alright just don't come back to late, don't forget were leaving early."
Violet followed the boy through the town until they reached the inside of a tall tower, "hey Violet remember when you first came here through that portal?" the boy said, "of course how could I forget." Violet replied, but what Violet said gave him a misunderstanding of what she meant and thought that she was in love with him, "um.. Violet I really like you!" the boy confessed "oh and my name is Veol, so will you marry me?"
Violet was shocked since she just realized that he misunderstood what she meant by her words, "Veol I appreciate it but you're too young for marriage." Violet tried her hardest to put him off as lightly as she could, "but I really like your long black hair and your red eyes!" Veol complimented Violet in the hopes she would fall for him if he complimented her.
"thanks for the compliment but your still to young." Violet found it increasingly hard to let him off easy since he was getting more and more persistent, "are the children really like this in this timeline?" Violet thought, "I'm not too young! I'm 15 which is the age that's ok for marriage is what my dad told me, but he said I should marry someone from the village, but I want to marry you!" at this point there was no chance that Violet could let him off easy, "this kid is too persistent!" Violet thought as Veol kept complimenting her.
"listen Veol, there isn't a chance in the world that I'm going to marry you, so I'm sorry ok?" Veol then stopped talking and ran away crying, "whew finally, it's over." Violet mumbled, "hey there Violet..." someone was in the shadows on the very top of the tower talking to Violet in a menacing tone, "who are you?" Violet asked the shadow, "it doesn't matter who I am, all that matters is that you will die!" the shadow jumped down revealing itself, Timothy and Felix had also been following Violet watching her.
The shadow dashed towards Violet taking out two long swords in each hand and nearly sliced Violet in half, just in time, Felix blocked the two swords with his sword, "Violet get back! this man is dangerous!" Felix shouted as Timothy ran in front next to Felix to combat the threat.
Violet created magic swords around her to act as a barrier as she was making another offensive spell, but even so there were no signs of their enemy backing down, Felix and Timothy charged towards the shadow and started clashing swords that could be heard from the other side of the town, all the townspeople got worried and retreated back inside their homes, the shadow cut both of Felix's arms as soon as it pushed Timothy back, Felix wasn't able to fight after being heavily injured, Timothy despite Felix's retreat, rushed towards the shadow full speed and created a portal in time and time leaped behind the shadow and cut it down it's back, the shadow flinched as it jumped away from Timothy on full guard, but the shadow forgot about Violet and didn't have time to dodge as a giant sword fell from the sky, destroying the tower and pinning down the shadow, Felix was nearly caught up in the debris, luckily Timothy knew what was Violet planning on doing and pushed Felix outside the tower as it fell down, Timothy got hit on the head with a piece of debris and was knocked unconscious, Violet went to check for the man but he was gone, he had left a trail of blood leading into the dense forest, Felix stayed behind as Violet chased after the shadow through the jungle, little did she know the shadow had a plan B which was a trap in the forest that would make Violet fall extremely deep underground, she saw through his strange running pattern and knew he had placed a trap somewhere in the forest in the direction they were running.
Once they reached a open field, the trap was bigger than she had imagined, it wasn't a small hole that could fit one person, but the whole field opened up and violet fell down at an extremely high speed, "did it just use wind magic to blow me into the trap and make me fall faster!" Violet thought.