Chapter 35 - Timeline Emerges

Ryūsei cursed himself as why now, Why would he had to experience the drawback at this crucial moment, As the Corrupted Elementalist was about to hit Ryūsei, The Corrupted Elementalist was cut off by a dagger that was thrown.

"Do it Ryūsei!!!! Do it!!!!!" Jikan yelled.

"Time Dragon Continuum Shift" Jikan casted the spell once again and this time he casted it on Ryūsei.

Manipulating time around him making him move again by resetting him back a few seconds before the drawback occurred.

"Do it Ryūsei!!!!!" Ryūshi yelled. With all of his might Ryūsei pierced the Dragon King's Blade at the right side of the Corrupted Elementalist.

With the Dragon King's Blade pierced into the Corrupted Elementalist gem, Ryūsei falls to the ground lying with a smile on his face.

The Corrupted Elementalist tried to grab Ryūsei as a last attempt but with the Dragon King's Blade pierced into his gem, he was powerless.

The Corrupted Elementalist kneeled to the ground as the corruption around his body slowly start to disappear.

Soon the Corrupted Elementalist started to turn back to normal with his body slowly turning back to flesh.

But something is off with the way the the corruption disappeared. It's true the Corrupted Elementalist wasn't anymore corrupted but the scars and injuries he received still remained.

He still had both of his cut off, He's whole body was covered in blood and worst of all... He had the Dragon King's Blade pierced into his c.h.e.s.t.

"W...What happened" The Corrupted Elementalist muttered as he was lying on the ground unable to move.

"Are you Chad Preston?" Ryūshi asked as he slowly approaches the young Elementalist.

"Hang on don't move for a second" Ryūshi stated.

"Your life is still in critical danger" Ryūshi added.

"Is he going to be alright?" Ryūsei asked as he struggles to stand up, Jikan had to help him maintain standing up by supporting his left side.

"Don't worry, he'll be just fine" Jikan replied with a smile on his face.

Ryūshi then slowly grabs the Dragon King's Blade and carefully removes it from the young Elementalist.

He then gently places his hand on the wound of young Elementalist. "Since when did Ryūshi learn to heal??" Ryūsei asked.

"Oh, Ryūshi isn't healing anyone" Jikan replied.

"Then what's he doing??" Ryūsei asked.

"Well Ryūshi's Elemental Art works in mysterious ways, He's actually restoring back the cells that Chad lost" Jikan replied making Ryūsei even more confused.

"You see Ryūshi only has the power to create, he simply cannot do any destruction. For example he cannot destroy any cells or even atoms, he can only create or change the atoms around him" Jikan happily said.

"Right now Ryūshi is restoring the cells that were destroyed from the fight" Jikan added.

"He's restoring back the bone cells, the flesh and even the blood cells" Jikan happily said as he pointed his finger to both Ryūshi and Chad.

The arms slowly started to appear as if they were being healed from thin air, the wounds were slowly being healed and the massive amount of blood around Chad was now gone.

"There, that should do it" Ryūshi happily said as he restored Chad's body.

"Try not to move around to much" Ryūshi added.

"Thank you for healing me" Chad happily said but his voice was weak. He was exhausted like he's about to faint.

"Can I ask? Where's Catherine.....?" Chad asked but sadly no one replied.

Ryūsei then slowly walks to Chad with Jikan supporting him move.

"Chad.... I don't know how to say this to you..... but Catherine's gone..." Ryūsei sadly said with a few tears dropping from his eyes.

"What do you mean she's gone?" Chad worriedly asked.

"Did she go home already?" Chad asked again.

"No Chad.... I wish she had hone home but... She's gone..." Ryūsei replied.

Chad couldn't handle the news he just heard. It's almost impossible to believe that she's now gone.

"You're lying right?.... Please tell me you're lying!!!" Chad yelled as tears began falling from his eyes.

"I wish I was Chad.... I wish she didn't have to disappear" Ryūsei replied.

"It's all my fault.... It's all my fault..." Chad angrily yelled as he slams his hands on the ground.

"I never wanted her to disappear.... If I'd known from the beginning...." Tears then fall at Chad's eye.

"It's fine Chad, we'll find a way to fix all of this" Ryūsei happily said trying to cheer up Chad.

"You'd help me even after all of the things I've did??" Chad asked in shock.

"Of course, it's our job as the Crowned Dragons" Ryūshi replied.

"Well then allow me to explain what happened to the timeline and why did Catherine disappear" Jikan happily said.

"You see, let's symbolise the time stream as an endless flowing river" Jikan happily said.

"The time stream flows a straight and unison course like water flows in a river" Jikan added.

"When Chad travelled back in time, the time stream began to change, like let's say a large stone was drop into the river changing the course of flow" Jikan added.

"With more and more large stone being added the flow of the river was changed and the original course was dried up and forgotten just like what happened in the timeline" Jikan added.

"The drastic changing course of current timeline affected the flow of time and the original timeline course of the time stream slowly started to disappear" Jikan added.

"So how do we fix the timeline?" Ryūshi asked.

"There's no possible way for you to fix the timeline" Jikan replied shocking everyone.

"Catherine....." Chad muttered as he was in shocked that there's no possible way for Catherine to return.

"You're lying right??" Ryūshi asked.

"You got to be lying, I've seen you restored the timeline countless times already" Ryūshi added.

"I'm not lying Ryūshi, what I said was simply the truth" Ryūshi replied.

"What I said was that there's no possible way for YOU to fix the timeline" Jikan replied

"The current timeline couldn't be anymore fix, it changed to the point where even I can no longer fix it no matter how much I'll try" Jikan added.

"Then Jikan.... Tell me if this is possible...?" Ryūsei muttered causing everyone to be more curious.

"Is it possible to bring back Catherine even if the timeline changed?" Ryūsei asked.

"Unfortunately no" Jikan replied.

"The Timeline that Catherine originally came from disappeared along with her, The only possible way to bring her back is...." Jikan muttered causing Ryūsei to be curious.

"So there is a way!!" Ryūsei happily said.

"There's only one possible way but I can't guarantee that it'd work" Jikan replied.

"As long as there's a way, we still have hope. Even if the odds of it pulling through is really low, it's better to fail trying than live with regret without knowing the true outcome" Ryūshi happily said.

"Very well then, the only option available is to reboot the entire timeline" Jikan replied.

"Reboot the entire timeline?" Ryūsei curiously asked.

"The only possible way I can think of was rebooting the timeline; I'll be ending the current timeline we're in and merge it with the original timeline in order to fully restore the original timeline" Jikan replied.

"But the odds of it working is really low and if I somehow fail..... the current timeline will also disappear and you'll all vanish along with it" Jikan added.

"If there's a way to bring her back then I'll take the risk, I'll take full responsibility for it" Ryūsei replied.

"You can also count me in" Ryūshi replied.

"Very well then" Jikan happily said and a rainbow enchantment appeared from the ground beneath them.

"Stand within the enchantment" Jikan stated and Ryūshi and the others stand inside the enchantment.

"Time Dragon Continuum Reboot" Jikan then began casting a spell, the surrounding trees around them began to rapidly age, some began withering and some even began sprouting out from the ground.

The ground beneath them also started to shake and lava began emerging from the ground and and the sky began turning scarlet red.

Soon they notice that the surrounding area around them began turning into a rainbow like aura and soon it was nothing but darkness.

Ryūsei and the others were still inside the enchantment but the area surrounding them was nothing but darkness, an endless void with no signs of life.

"Where are we??" Ryūsei asked.

"We're in the realm of time, We're outside the boundaries where time doesn't flow or occur" Jikan replied.

"That rainbow stream over there is the timeline itself" Jikan stated as he pointed his hand to the rainbow colored river.

"It's beautiful, I've never seen anything like this in my entire life" Ryūsei happily said as he was astonish seeing something so pretty.

"But wait what's that over there?!" Ryūshi pointed seeing something was missing from the rainbow stream.

There was a little bit of rainbow aura flowing outside the time stream, like something was originally there but it had disappeared.

"That's where the original timeline originally flowed" Jikan replied.

"Now then it's about time we fix this mess" Jikan stated as the enchantment underneath them slowly started to move towards the time stream.

A rainbow aura then appeared to Jikan's right hand and the time stream that was flowing was slowly starting to break and the particles that break slowly head towards Jikan's right hand.

Ryūsei slowly started to vanish as he notices some parts of his hands slowly start to vanish as the timeline continues to break.

Soon a large portion of the current timeline was already broken and the remnants were gathered in Jikan's right hand.

Jikan on the other hand was already exhausted as well but no matter how tired he was he kept on persuading and kept on rebooting the timeline itself.

A sudden burst of rainbow light then occured causing a massive explosion shocking everyone and knocking them to the ground and soon after the rainbow light cleared up, Jikan was holding a rainbow gem.

"What is that??" Ryūsei asked.

"It's the remains of your timeline with Ryūshi's help we turned it into a gem" Jikan replied.

"All what's left to do is place the gem back to where it was originally belong" Jikan replied as he goes outside of the enchantment.

He then places the gem into the time stream causing the time stream to merge with the gem.

A massive light outburst suddenly occurred but luckily there weren't any explosion occured. The flow of time was then restored and the original timeline appeared once again from the void.

Tears couldn't avoid falling from both Ryūsei's and Chad's eyes as they were so happy everything was back.

"If the timeline is now back then that means-" Ryūsei happily said and he then turns around seeing a massive amount of rainbow particles merging with each other forming a shape of a young girl.

The rainbow particles merged and as the light slowly fade away, Catherine appeared within the light.

"Grandpa!!!!" Catherine happily said as tears began flowing from her eyes.

"Welcomed back Catherine" Ryūsei happily said.

"You did it Grandpa, you save us" Catherine happily replied.

"It wasn't just me, every here did there best to help me.... If it wasn't for them... I don't know if I was able to do it" Ryūsei replied.

"Catherine I....." Chad muttered as he was too guilty to even try to talk to her.

"Chad!!" Catherine happily said as he hugs Chad.

"Wait!! Why are you still talking to me.... After all I've done..." Chad muttered as he breaks the hug and looks away from Catherine.

"I really screwed up big time.... I've even involved the Crowned Dragons just to fix my mess.... Not only that... I put you and everyone else in danger..." Chad muttered.

"Chad.... It wasn't your fault, you were corrupted.... Besides everything's all right now" Catherine replied.

"Trust me my boy, there's more ypu should know about the Crowned Dragons" Jikan teased trying to cheer up Chad.

"What do you mean by that Jikan??" Ryūsei asked.

"Well let's save some things for the future" Jikan replied.

"It's about time you both return to your original timelines" Jikan added as he looks at Catherine and Chad.

"Good bye Grandpa...." Catherine muttered with a sad face.

"Hey you don't have to be sad" Ryūsei happily said trying to cheer up Catherine.

"No matter where I am... I'll always be proud that you're my grandchild" Ryūsei happily said.

"I'm sure your grandma will feel the same" Ryūsei added.

They both hugged for the last time and Jikan then opened a portal for Catherine and Chad and they said there good byes and they went through the portal.

"That was a fun journey" Ryūshi happily said.

"Yeah... but what about us??? Where would be go??" Ryūsei asked.

"You'll return back to the day after the Fallen God encounter" Jikan replied.

"Just try to go with the flow with what happened" Jikan added.

"What about you Ryūshi??" Ryūsei asked.

"I'll be at the Crowned Dragons Sanctuary for a while, until the Grand Shōtotsu is finished. I'll come pick you up for training after the Grand Shōtotsu is over" Ryūshi replied.

"What about you Jikan? What'll you do after this?" Ryūshi asked.

"I'll be out of commission for a while, restoring the timeline takes a real toll on me, I'm so tired I need a break" Jikan replied.

"Well then good luck with the Grand Shōtotsu Ryūsei, well I don't need to say that cause I already know what happened" Jikan teased.

Jikan then opens a portal for Ryūsei, They said there good byes and Ryūsei goes inside.