166 To Walk In the Shoes of Thousands

Once Verena took the spot at the top of all the other Empressess, she headed towards the back room were the others waited.

The first thing she heard upon entering numbed her, she heard the voice of her love, Dashnell.

\"I am leaving.\" He said those words with no emotion, so they knew trying to talk him out of his decision was something impossible.

That was until Verena walked in carrying Tianna and Ella under her arms, everyone looked over and saw all the others following behind Verena like a group of tamed sheep.

\"If you dare step foot out of my reach I will... I will ...\" Dropping down to the ground Verena looked up at Dashnell and did not know what to say.

\"Hello Verena, My Teacher, My Master, My Lover. You have followed me everywhere you could in life, this I know I understand your desire, Obsession with me. When we first met in the Void all those years ago it was you who aided me in learning how to fight with a weapon.

It was you who taught me how to love and depend on another again.

So you should understand why I must leave this time, I am not leaving forever you won't even notice my absence. If you all would stop panicking and listen to me you would not have such a look of grief on your faces, I will be viewing my past lives.

Those past lives who lost their lives on the battlefield.

I wish to know more about them and about those who died alongside them, it will take me awhile to absorb all their memories and I will vanish every now and then, I just want you to understand this before I start or it would cause you to act foolishly.

This I know.\"

As I stopped speaking they understood my 'leaving' is to take time to myself and venture into the memories of my other selves. What I did not say was that I can no longer be reborn, no one needs to know this not Nala or Verena not even Lilly will be told of this.

Looking out at my wives I see that Verena completed her first task, as I was about to congratulate her a rift opens up as Annabel and Nala shoot out of it.

Both of them wounded looking as if they were really trying to kill each other, this causes Verena to smirk and the others to feel a shiver down their spine.

Nala was the first to speak and she was directing her anger towards Verena.

\"How did you use Valara's ability against me? Is it because Dashnell is our Creator now? I see, you rushed her while me and Annabel fought. Even if you are already the head of the Harem do not think I will obey you!\"

Next was Annabel.

\"I expected this, I was never someone who fought without a reason and I wanted to aid Dashnell in controlling you wild women, but it seems he has chosen you to take that role Verena. I will have you know just like Nala I will not obey or listen to you.

I will remain in my world and visit Dashnell whenever I please.\" Saying this Annabel looked down at me and a few of her sisters that are her allies and left.

After a bit of silence in the room Sophia could no longer hold it in as she let out a pleasant sounding moan, reminding everyone of the feast that was going on. As she lay in my embrace, her smile of being impaled by me causes the others to push things to the back of their minds as they rush me.

Those behind Verena looked over and wondered why the others did not look at or ask her questions, they found out that although Verena cracked back then for a moment she was able to hold most of it in only allowing those near their 'battle' to peek into her mind and find out her past.

They were then signaled by Verena that they could also join and she would not interfere, she even dropped Tianna and Ella to their surprise. saying to them.

\"If it leaks out I will know one of you leaked it and when it leaks not one of you will be spared.\"

As they walked over and joined the fray, Nala and Verena looked at each other before manifesting a table and chairs and began their 'peace talks'.

Once the two were seated, Tia tried to rush over and serve them drinks but I dragged her back into my waiting arms and smashed her against her wailing mother.

\"I will give you two 5 minutes, if you have not finished your talks I will consider it that you don't want to participate in our family bonding time and would rather drink over there in peace.\"

About to continue with my teasing they both interrupt me with. \"We will be done in 5mins, now shut up and enjoy what you have while you can!\"

From their tone I know they found out about something I have been hiding but I have no idea what it could be.

As I go back to spoiling the mother and daughter in my arms Valara and the others reach me and join in while Nala and Verena erect a barrier around them to begin their talks.

\"He is becoming the monster he was always meant to be, soon the ripple effect of us changing time will take effect. What will happen to the Creed and the other 9 God Races you created? How will the Gods of Destruction come into existence if they have no one to fight no reason to be here?

Have you thought of this Nala?\"

\"I don't have too, Dashnell... I mean the young version of him has already taken care of it.

He managed to merge our Timelines together and cut out all the parts that are... unpleasant and replaced them with his own changes.

He seemed to have planned this all out and waited in the Original timeline all this time waiting for everything in all the other Timelines to happen and go along their natural course until he could merge all the positive out comes.

I find this frightening that he can just watch us all the time, but it explains how he is still young.

The way I made the Gods of Destruction are still affecting him, until he finishes his task that he was given he will remain a peerless monster that grows unceasingly.

If he is from the Original Timeline that means we, both of us as well as every other God or Creature other than himself died in some catastrophe.

Both Dashnell and his younger self have hidden this information from us, I know Dashnell knows what wiped us all out but he won't say anything about it nor will he let me dig it out of his mind.

All I have seen was a massive Gate but that is all.\"

Upon hearing about a massive Gate, Verena's eyes light up and she tells Nala about her time with Dashnells younger self.

At first Nala wanted to ignore her as she thought she was bragging about being the first of the two to love him, but as she listened to the story she found out that Verena might know where to find this Gate.

Nala Told her how there was nothing in this world but the Gate and a battlefield of corpses that died at the hands of the youth, as their cause of death was very similar, a hand through their chest a claw like hand piercing them through the heart and it was the hands of a child.

She even watched as something crawled out of the Gate and tried to eat the very ground it lay on before it spotted the dead on the ground and rushed at them. As it ate the remains of the dead it began to take their form and gain intelligence before spotting the young Dashnell and rushing him.

Their battle was short as like all the others it soon found itself without a heart and joined the dead on the floor.

Verena asked the child why the monster attacked him and why did it act as if it was starving after exiting the Gate. His answer was short and stuttered as he has not talked to another living thing in a very long time, until she arrived and changed her name to Verena as she interacted with the child.

She learned that the Gate will open and the things that exit it are created to destroy everything on the opposite side so the being that made the Gate can enter this side and rule it.

In the Original Timeline Dashnell never absorbed the Void he just came to live in it as every God of Creation died in a massive war when invaders showed up from beyond the Gate. Only until later after watching his other selves absorb it did he do the same.

How the Gate came to be and when it first appeared the Gods did not live long enough to find out or tell anyone if they knew.

....

Dashnell was watching as his people died fighting against the Creed before being forced to sleep inside the Orb.

When he awoke the only one besides him were the survivors of the war and a few remnant Creed that were being killed by young Annabel. Just like in most Timelines the two fell in love and fought the rest of the Creed and stabilized Nala's Realm and waited for more life to born within it.

Only to have many Gods of Creation fleeing into their Realm seeking protection and fearing that everything would end. What happened next was a long war where the Gods depended on the young Dashnell to fight against these invaders.

As time went on they found out he was a God of Balance and at first they feared him but during the current crisis they decided it was best to handle it after they got rid of the Gate.

Things became bad when Ghost one of the best fighters they possessed died to one of the creatures that exited the Gate. Once it devoured Ghost it let its army devour it and they all gained Ghost memories and abilities.

With this knowledge they began to target and kill all the Gods of Creation as this was the fastest way to wipe out everything on this side of the Gate. Dashnell and Annabel fought and protected many of the Gods of Creation until Higras betrayed them and fled to the other side of the Gate.

The Creatures knew they were no match for Dashnell and Annabel so they wanted to find out were their Creator was and they gained that information from Higras who was always observing her Realm.

To everyone's surprise Nala had become the Core of her Realm and entered a deep slumber.

After knowing were their greatest challenge, weakness lay they besieged every God of Creation and Nala who was defenceless. No matter how strong Dashnell and Annabel where they were to young and did not yet reach maturity and Nala died before them.

While everything Nala created did indeed die like the Creatures knew should happen, Dashnell remained as he held the vanishing Annabel in his arms and as he watched Nala die.

Abandoning emotion and reason he used his full power that he always kept in check and never used.

This transformed the youth into a massive winged serpent that coiled around the entirety of Nala's falling Realm. Many could see that the Serpent was trying its best to support the Realm but no matter how hard it tried the Realm fell into ruin.

As the invaders watched the Serpent they witnessed it cry as its emerald eyes turned crimson and horns grew atop its head.

The massive Green Serpent retracted its wings and they became a extra layer of armor as it rushed and thrashed about killing its enemies, that being anything that came from the Gate.

The only thing that remained after its eyes no longer glowed red were a few injured Gods of Creation along with a few powerful Creations that held Affinities that were deemed to be banned and a offence that would result in that Creations immediate death.

As time went on and the injured Gods of Creation died out so did their Creations leaving Dashnell alone in this world to face the Gate by himself.