Epilogue
Hereafter
Emily turned to Shichika upon hearing his question, her eyes briefly scanning the group around her... Taking note of the solutions proposed, before she smiled, almost uncharacteristically, winking a little.
"I think we've already found the solution..." She said mysteriously.
Sure enough, when the six tablets were raised in order... The corresponding colors flashed upon the panels in the following order;
Red,
Yellow,
Green,
Blue,
Black,
White, with the corresponding notes ringing out as a result.
This time, instead of a bleep, a seventh note rang out, as all six panels flashed briefly, before the door finally slid open, revealing an ancient looking pedestal, where an blue, shimmering artifact rested.
Despite how long it must have been sitting there, it seemed almost timeless... With not even a speck of dust on its surface, and a distinct, almost enchanting glow emanating from within, though it looked like it was shattered; a mere piece of something else.
Seeing this though, Emily ran forwards, her clasping her hands around the object... Evidently pleased to find it.
"... It's still here... The tear of love. Now... It's finally time, to re-unite it with its other half..." She said, holding the piece tightly to her chest.
One could notice that it was beginning to glow brighter and brighter, a blueish color resonating from within, with a hint of red, as Emily let the artifact go, allowing it to float into the air... Where it began to hover, as if waiting for something.
"This journey is almost over... I promise..." She said solemly, looking towards the artifact, as it hovered in the air.
...
Those in the afterlife could notice something happening with the artifact the blue haired woman had been holding; a reddish glow began to resonate from within it, with a hint of a bluish color, like from before... And alas, she looked towards the others, a smile on her face.
"It's time..." She said, sighing in relief.
With one last look at her surroundings, she finally let go of the artifact, allowing it to float into the air, where it stopped in a particular spot, seeming to be joining with another segment... One that the others could not see, just yet.
"I'll... See you... On the other side." She added mysteriously.
Her gaze focused on the artifact hovering in the air... As if she was waiting for something...
...
There was a brief pause, as those in the afterlife, and the world of the living both witnessed their respective artifacts they found... Suddenly joining with their counterpart... And thus, became one... Joining from across dimensions, to form what they had once been; a strange, crystaline object... That almost resembled something akin to be a frozen flame, of some kind.
A distinct melody ran through the air, emanating from the object... The same one that had played from the door when those in the world of the living had successfully unlocked it, repeating over and over... Creating one last tear through space and time... One that was a different color than the others; red...
Soon the melody faded into the background, as both those in the afterlife, and the world of the living alike were sucked through... Together, rushing through time and space once, more.
...
This time, as they tumbled through what seemed like an infinite void, they felt a presense of two individuals within them, both seeming familiar, in some form or another...
"We were nothing more than victims..." Said a foreign voice.
Yet, somehow, its mannerisms aligned with the various females those who had not died encountered; the mysterious, yet somehow friendly tone... Or so it seemed.
"It was... But circumstance that brought us together..." Said another voice...
Those that had passed on, and met a certain blue haired woman, may recognize this one; her more reserved, yet almost ambiguous tone and all.
"I was once a caretaker... Of a series of timelines..."
A gentle breeze could be felt, as their surroundings shifted and changed, at first to what looked like some sort of pioneer camp.
One could almost feel the warmth of the sun, and hear the faint creaking of its gates... And the distant sound of birds chirping, before the surroundings changed once more...
"And I... Was a prisoner... Destined to be a slave..."
This time, it looked like everyone was high up in the air, upon a series of floating islands... With the silhouette of a blue haired woman, with some sort of cat in her lap, watching the horizon.
"But it all changed... When they came..."
"For me it was Lavos... Who tore my Kingdom Apart."
The image of a ginormous shelled beast... Not unlike the creatures those in the afterlife had fought off... Just... Bigger, and without the patches of darkness on its body...
"And for me... It was Aku, who invaded my realm... And wrested it from me..."
The previous image was replaced by the face of a demonic creature, who's laughter seemed to echo for an eternity, before the image faded... Replaced by near complete darkness for a moment.
"We had thought they were defeated... But... We were mistaken..."
"A fragment of Aku escaped my banishment... And was flung across dimensions..."
"Until it met with what remained of the creature that held me prisoner... Lavos... Who used my very body to evolve into a being capable of devouring entire Universes..."
"Aku and... The creature that was once Lavos... Became one... A fearsome creature we now know as... Emnity."
"This new entity devastated what was left of the Sovionok Camp... Transforming it into an empty void... Where it lay... Growing in size and strength..."
"But... It could never reach its full potential, and wreak havock across the multiverse without malevolence... The very thing it had come to feed off of..."
"And so... It began to reach out... To other Universes... Tearing holes through space and time, creating 'time gates' in the process..."
"It was only when we discovered... That we still had some influence left, throughout all the dimensions that Emnity had attempted to claim as its own... That we found you..."
"We believe Emnity had initiated an event... A so called 'murder game' in order to feed off of the resulting malevolence it would produce... Allowing it the strength to create a new body for itself... And to traverse dimensions..."
"But... This plan would ultimately fail, before it even began... For the few it managed to corrupt amongst you... Were sought out, and freed from its influence..."
"All we had left to do after that... Was to seek out the pieces of an artifact... The very one that was used to free me; the chrono cross..."
"And identify the changes that were made to the sequence of elements it needed to work..."
"To destroy Emnity, before it was created... And put an end to this disaster... Once and for all..."
Then there was silence... A defeaning silence that seemed to go on for an eternity... Until somewhere in the distance, directly in front of everyone, one could faintly hear the sound of a blade cleaving through a thick, viscious substance... Before their journey through space and time came to an abrupt halt, and they arrived in a somewhat familiar place...
...
Like before, everyone was dumped into what seemed to be an endless void, but this time... The place was considerably better lit, with some sort of bright light, emanating from a spot in the middle, where the carcass of a ginormous, shelled creature that appeared to be turning into a thick cloud of black smoke...
It seemed like Emnity had been defeated shortly after everyone had arrived, sparing them the grueling pain of yet another battle.
Though, it seemed that for once, they weren't alone here; a somewhat familiar looking blue haired woman, who had the artifact the group had seen shortly before they were sent through some sort of red tinted timegate in her hands... The "Chrono Cross" they had mentioned during their expositional journey through time and space.
However, before there was much of a chance to approach her, someone else popped into the scene, someone with cat ears... And a tail, and quite frankly, looked pretty out of place...
"Recognize me?" She asked eagerly.
Then she sort of pouted, upon realizing something, and she touched a device that had been clipped onto a spot on her hip... Causing her appearance to change into the young woman they had met who had that strange grappling gear on her... Before it changed once more, with a touch of another button, to "Amelia" the woman they had met in what looked to have been a warzone, and last but not least... "Emily", the black haired woman that had met them in the last place they had visited..
"It's a disguise generator! Crude but... With a little... Convincing, it lets you blend right in! We couldn't afford to reveal who we were... We only had one shot!" She explained, rubbing the back of her neck.
There was another pause as she thought for a moment, her ears drooping before she perked up.
"Oh! Yeah! I'm Yulia... And she's...-" Yulia began, but was suddenly cut off by the blue haired woman, who had approached the group since then.
"Schala... Zeal..." She said quietly, smiling a little as she looked over the group gathered before her.
A sad expression seemed to fall upon Schala's face, which Yulia shared, when they noticed a few missing members from the group... It looks like not everyone made it...
"I... Apologise for the trouble you have endured... But... With Emnity gone... I am free to send you home..." She said quietly.
Taking a brief moment to survey her surroundings, she closed her eyes and thrust her hands over... Causing one last tear throughout space and time to occur...
It was a blue "timegate", not unlike the one that had brought everyone here in the first place... But something about it felt alot more ominous, and it didn't look like it was going to close up anymore soon.
"Once you step through this gate... It will return you from whence you came... Wherever Emnity might have taken you from..." Schala said.
"Or... If you're feeling attatched to someone... You can also choose to follow them to their own world... If you so choose..." Yulia added, with a little wink.
"But remember... Once you step through that portal... There is no going back. We can not help you once you go wherever you plan to go..." Schala warned.
"We still have... Work to do, to repair the damage Emnity has wrought; most will not remember our... Interference, but there are some events that can not be undone..." Yulia added.
"What influence we have over all the places Emnity has invaded... Will fade once the repairs are done... And this will seem nothing more like a dream..." Schala said, closing her eyes as she sighed a little... In relief this time.
"Buuut, that's just work for us to do! You're free to go... Whenever you'd like!... In fact... If you'd like... You could even choose to forget your experiences here... And once you return to your world... It'll all just seem like nothing more... But a dream..." Yulia said, tilting her head to the side for a moment as she said this.
And so... Ends this disorganized mess of an Murder Game... For whatever it was worth...
It looked like everyone was able to return to their own worlds, or whatever they chose to go just by stepping through one last timegate... And alas... Once they returned, this event might as well have been a long, grueling fever dream... One that might even be forgotten in a week, at the most...
The end?
(Well, minus some epilogue stuff I'll try and pump out as time goes on, but yeah...)
Cast:
Yoichi Saotome from
Owari No Seraph, and
Link from
LoZ: BotW played by
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Wes, and
Rui from
Pokemon Colesseum played by
@Midnight Maiden
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Tsukiko (Moonchild), OC played by
@Voidwarrior
Character(s) Status:
MIA (Lost in Battle at Beacon) Role:
Unknown
Sidon from
LoZ: BotW played by
@Bomb
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Johnny Cage from
Mortal Kombat played by
@The Myrmidon
Character(s) Status:
Deceased! Role:
Vagrant
A2 from
NieR: Automata played by
@Gummi Bunnies
Character(s) Status:
Alive (Revived!) Role:
Sentinel!
Mipha from
LoZ: BotW played by
@Mason Moretti
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Birdie and
Noembelu from
Street Fighter played by
@Yun Lee
Character(s) Status:
Alive (Revived!) Role:
Harbinger!
Blaze the Cat from
Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) played by
@Archmage Jeremiah
Character(s) Status:
Alive (Revived!) Role:
Vagrant
Shichika Yasuri (α) from
Katanagatari played by
@Verite
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Dorian Pavus from
Dragon Age played by
@Atomyk
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Rosa Joanna Farrell from
Final Fantasy IV played by
@Minerva
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Seisa Mikagura from
Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku played by
@Kaykay
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Ben Tennyson from
Ben 10, and
Eevee from
Pokemon played by
@Crow
Character(s) Status:
Alive (Revived!) Role:
Vagrant
Connor Walsh from
How to Get Away with Murder and
Kara Danvers from
Supergirl played by
@LuckycoolHawk9
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Eygon of Carim from
Dark Souls III played by
@Otto
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Giorno Giovanna from
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure played by
@CrunchyCHEEZIT
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Sonic the Hedgehog from
Sonic the Hedgehog played by
@thatguyinthestore
Character(s) Status:
Alive (Revived!) Role:
Harbinger!
Shichika Yasuri (β) and
Houou Maniwa from
Katanagatari played by
@Sen
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Shion from
No. 6 (AU), and
Jason Dean from
Heathers the Musical played by
@Takumi
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Togame from
Katanagatari played by
@Hana
Character(s) Status:
MIA (Lost In A Time Gate!) Role:
Unknown
Clemont from
Pokemon X and Y played by
@Lissamel
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Deadpool from
Deadpool (The Movie) played by
@Gwazi Magnum
Character(s) Status:
Deceased! Role:
Vagrant
James Howlett from
Marvel Comics (Earth 12025), and
Danielle Cage from
Marvel Comics (Earth 15061) played by
@Jeremi
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Alexandra Kalomoira (The Huntress), OC (
DC Alt. Universe) played by
@Gands
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Guido Mista from
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure played by
@penguin055
Character(s) Status:
Deceased! Role:
Vagrant
Selene from
Marvel Comics played by
@Josh M
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Aleksandra Zaryanova (Zarya) from
Overwatch played by
@Nater Taters
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role: Unknown
Wheatley from
Portal 2 played by
@Yang Lee
Character(s) Status:
Alive (Revived!) Role:
Vagrant
Constanza Richards from
The Disunited States of America (OC) played by
@Krieg
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Chara Dreemurr (Chestnut) from
Undertale (AU/OCish thing) played by
@Fallen Hope
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Azuma Shinonome from
Sekaioni played by
@MetalNova
Character(s) Status:
Alive Role:
Unknown
Dio Brando from
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure played by
@BarrenThin
Character(s) Status:
Alive (Revived!) Role:
Vagrant