"Here they come!!"
"Adelheid, hang onto me tight. We're going in hard."
"I can soften our fall."
"Shadow, it's nice to….see you again? Where'd you go?"
"Adelheid, why have you turned us invisible? Can they still hear us?"
"Time for the snake to squirm!! Let's see how well your wolves have been trained. Will they still be able to follow if they can't see who leads?"
"You think you've won, have you? My followers need not see my face to know I am who I am.
Genie, have you made the seat?"
"Did you retrieve my stone?"
"Have patience."
"Then the same goes for you."
"Did you get Nightmaster?"
"You know he rejects the light. You'll have to go to him."
"Thank ya, Genie."
"Send him my best."
"See, transporting me somewhere else has not diminished my stature in any way."
"I had no dealings with them. You forget your place, Shadow!! We are in Nowhere!!"
"I know where we are."
"Do you? You may have a relationship with Nightmaster, but right now you and him rule two different worlds. You have not yet combined, so if one finds the other on their territory without them asking to be there….then; you get the gist.
In order to walk anywhere in the Physical, you have to walk the same distance in the Parallel to match. So, if we want to walk to the Nightmaster above, we need to walk to him below; which would put us…."
"....Having to walk directly past his beasts!!!"
"Now you're getting the picture. Tell me, Shadow, how fat are you?"
"Move it princess!!!"
"I'm going, I'm going. Where are we even?"
"You sure you're the only one that has a stone?"
"As far as I'm concerned. Nightmaster gave me only one to give out."
"That may be the case, but then how did you receive yours?"
"He put the crosses into us. He said we could use the crosses to enhance our healing abilities."
"Us? Who's the other?"
"You got the stone for me, Genie?"
"NightMaster, I thought Shadow would be on his way here by now to tell you."
"Tell me? Tell me what? He has not crossed my border above land."
"That is because he is not going above. Someone he was with turned him invisible. That means that his physical body is in Nowhere while his parallel body still walks up here."
"He seeks to sneak into my territory right under my nose!!!"
"Sir, he didn't turn invisible willingly. He was forced."
"That matters not. He has ample opportunities now to stop this person, but if I see him rising from my depths then there will be war!!! He knows the code. We fight above land and not below. If any is found sneaking in others territory below, then it shall be taken as an act of attack. No dealings ever happen in dark but only in light. The world only goes dark if something big is about to make it light.
Tell your troops that they best be praying really hard that I do not see Shadows face, or else they'll be guaranteed that I'll sick my beasts on every last one of them."
"You don't mean that do you?"
"I mean every word."
"Then for the sake of us all, the girl he was with had better do her best to keep him down there as long as she can."
"Down there? Adalyn, what do you mean down there? You said that your sister was fused with the healing stone. Why should she be able to heal others from all diseases, when she herself cannot be healed? How is that fair?"
"It's not."
"Do you think it could be possible for…"
"Don't say it."
"Don't say what?"
"Could one intentionally extract the healing DNA from the regular DNA and then refuse it into their own DNA?"
"I don't see how that's possible. She's already dead and we're in the past which means that she could potentially still be alive."
"Only living things change. You can't take someone dead from the present and bring them to the past so that they can come back to life. They stay dead."
"Then why are you worried? Her DNA will be shot and so will her healing."
"I wouldn't be so confident about that. DNA can last one hundred fifty to millions of years after death. As long as the body is untouched and kept preserved then DNA can just eat off of each other and survive indefinitely."
"Can you two tell me why we are talking about extracting dead people to get their DNA?"
"We're not talking, Shadow is."
"Adalyn, Shadow wants the healing stone, and he will stop at nothing to get it from you. But what if he learns of your sister and decides that it would be easier to extract it from a dead girl instead of a live one? Think of how that would change the future. He would have both the power of death and life in each hand. He could change the world to only have one section following him and if they don't; he punishes them. We can't have that."
"What if we can?"
"Adalyn, you seriously aren't going to just sit by and let him extract your girl. If he is down there, then we should protect her."
"Protect a corpse? What has this world gone too!!"
"Star, Shadow is already down there. Adelheid told me that that is where she would send him so it's only a matter of time."
"Adelheid, hold! What did you say? You were talking about a sister?"
"Oh yea. Why chase Adalyn if you can just chase her sister. She also has the healing stone in her. We just have to extract it."
"Why are you telling me this? It seems like you are helping me, but that would be impossible since we..."
"Have to preserve the timeline. Don't you see? In order for NightMaster to make his healing cars, he needs a healing stone."
"Yes, but can't you just give him your physical one?"
"No."
"Why not."
"Timelapse!!!!"
"Huh?"
"Never mind. I need to call Adelheid and for that, focus is required. Now shh.
"Adelheid, did you hear something? What was that? I saw something move."
"That's because something did. Have you never been 'inside' of NightMasters' territory?"
"No!! I made a pact with Night that all our dealings would happen above the earth and nephew below unless asked if we could venture there."
"And you're a man of your word?"
"Princess, there are two ways one can rise to power. You can either scare people into submission, or you can rise with respect. One requires people to vividly be scared of what you can physically do and the other requires people to be scared of what you don't do but are too afraid to find out."
"So, you're telling me that out of all your years as king, you have never once had the idea of sneaking into the other's territory to spy out their map in the case that they turn against you. Then you will be ready."
"Ready? Ready for what? Princess, there is a single word that drives us to do what we do, and you heroes have not quite seemed to grasp."
"Oh really. What's that?"
"It's called trust. We trust and know that whatever happens in life, Night will be here for me and I for him. We may not like each other but both know what ruling is like and will gladly help the other. You don't have to like someone to trust them. We don't look at each other cross. When one calls, the other picks up the phone and is right there on time to do anything they can to assist the other."
"So, what do you call this?"
"Hey, I wasn't the one who put us here, remember that little girl!! But when someone intends you harm, the best thing you can do is turn it around for good and with this healing stone, I won't be needing Night's service ever again. Now what was the name of Adalyns sister, again?"
"I didn't give it."
"Adelheid. Come in Adelheid. Where are you?"
"Did you say something, Shadow?"
"I don't think I did. What, are the voices in your head coming alive?"
"Adelheid, I repeat, come in. I have something to tell you."
"You sure you didn't say anything because I could've sworn that…"
"It wasn't me, but please, by all means talk to yourself. You'll forget that I'm here and may even relay info that you wouldn't relay to me otherwise."
"Adelheid!!"
"Anything?"
"Ouch!! Shadow, what are you doing? Stop poking me with your claws."
"If you don't answer back then I'll do more than just poke you."
"Y..ye…yes, I'm here Adalyn. What is it?"
"Have you made it to the caves?"
"We have!!"
"Shadow, wh..what are you doing on our feed? I only contacted Adelheid's spirit and not yours."
"I know, but here I am. Funny how that works. Listen, if you are here to try and stop me from fusing with your sister, then you can just forget it. That is, unless you want to come down here and let me extract the healing power from you instead."
"On the contrary, Shadow. I won't stop you. I wouldn't even be able to make it if I tried. My sister is already dead. What you do with her is none of my concern."
"I'm sorry, can you repeat that?" At first, I thought you said that you didn't care what I did with your sister, but that's preposterous because you should…right?"
"My sister is of no concern to me right now. What matters is the timeline, and you'd do your best to keep it intake. Adelheid, if you could be so kind. I give you my passing to say my sister's name."
"Adalyn!! You can't be serious. Who knows what he could do with that kind of power? Has defeating him to defend the stone meant nothing? Now you're just going to hand it to him on a silver platter?"
"Adelheid, please do not rush. You yourself can see in the future. If we don't give him the stone, then he's just going to find other ways to retrieve one. I will not risk losing more lives when they are not needed."
"What if he gets out?"
"I'm more then positive you can make sure he stays down there until the time being."
"Are you certain of this?"
"Nothing could be clearer. Just have faith."
"What's her name, kid?"
"Can you promise me that you won't use her to punish the innocent."
"Why would I do that?"
"Promise me. My sister is pure and as such, when she will fuse with another…..pures can't turn evil like everyone else has to, which means that although you are not pure, you will still be able to reap the benefits of a big chunk of what the healing stone can do. The only thing you won't be able to do with it, whereas with me, is raise the dead and create things out of nothing. You can only use it on people and nothing else."
"I don't need the instruction manual, lady. Now give me her name."
"Not until I hear the words you know I want so desperately from your mouth."
"How do I know I can trust you and that you won't bring me a random girl?"
"Shadow, just like you, I'm all about truth and when I hear someone breaking what I believe, I turn. I'm all about love. The only time I would deceive is if I were first deceived, and the only way that could happen is if someone broke my wish of not loving. So, tell me, is that a knife in Adelheid's side because if so then I'll have no choice but to send my dragons over, pull out that knife, and stab you with it. Good boy!! Now keep slowly pulling out that knife and raise it with your hand, then say your code."
"I Shadow hereby solemnly swear to only use my gift I receive for good and not for evil. So help me."
"See, was it that hard?"
"I held up my end of the deal, now pay up yours. The name, please!!
".... Huuu!!.....It's Dandelion!!!!"
"Pleasure doing business with you, Adalyn. I hope we can meet like this more often."
"Only time will tell. You keep my wishes, and you might get yours. Goodbye!!"
"There, you happy? You got what you wanted. Now keep up your end of the…huuu!! Shadow…why? I'm your Princess. I just helped you. Huu!! Why'd you just stab me?"
"I told you. Life's all about trust. I gotta see if this healing stone works, don't I!!!
Oh, Dandelion!!
Dandelion!!"
"Shadow, I can't breathe. Hold me."
"Get your hands off me and stop clawing for help. You may be dying now, but if your girl is as great as you say she is, then there is nothing to worry about. You'll be saved in no time.
DANDELLION!! GET OVER HERE!!"
"You called me, Shadow."
"Yes, I did. Do you not see that this poor lady here is bleeding out at the side? If we do nothing, then she will surely die. I would not want that, and neither would you, my darling."
"I can't heal her!! I'm but a mist. The only way I could do it is if I used a host, but there are none around."
"You have me!!"
"You!!! You killed my father and now to entice me back, you threaten to kill this girl before my eyes so that I have no choice but to weep at your feet."
"Dandelion, that was not me. The actions I may have done or didn't do in the future, do not impact me today. The Shadow whom you are speaking of is of a new era while I am of now. Whom you speak of sounds cruel and heartless, but I will try my best never to become like him. My goal is to…"
"Yea, yea, I know. Your goal is to put Dreamworld on earth so that no one has to suffer again."
"Exactly! Would the future me have agreed with you just now?"
"Please…help!! I can't hold on much longer. Darkness is slowly clotting out my eyes and the future is becoming nonexistent."
"Dandelion, whatever I have done to hurt you in the future, I am sorry. Come with me to Dreamworld and I'll show you who I am. From there, you can decide your verdict, but don't do it here. What do you say?"