Hollow Time (A Hat in Time X HollowKnight AU)

Chapter 16 (A Vessel in Time)

Born of God and Void. A vessel, Children; hundreds of thousands created by The Pale King and The White Lady have been discarded, for the Pale King was in search of a pure vessel that would be able to stop the infection that spread across Hallownest. The Abyss, located in the deepest parts of Hallownest is where the Pale King discards his unneeded children. He had finally found this pure vessel he was looking for and so he left the rest of his children to die in the Abyss, for he had found... The Hollow Knight... or so he thought.

One little vessel in particular had also made the climb to the top but was left hanging on to the metal platform that would allow it freedom from the dark abyss. After seeing its father and sibling leave it to die, the vessel's grip begins to fail it and it begins falling; only to have some girl use it to jump up higher. The vessel is pushed aside even farther and lands on a small ledge. A bright yellow rift materializes in the darkness before the vessel. The silent vessel reaches to it and is whisked away through time and space.

The vessel appears in the bright realm similar to where the dreamer's spirits stayed. It makes its way across the sky platforms in search of something, anything. The vessel comes across a gently floating hourglass and hears a loud roar from the sky. The vessel wastes no time seeing what creature comes for it and grabs the timepiece, whisking it away once more.

The vessel pops into a world with a bright blue sky with the hourglass in hand.

"Ah, ghost!" A voice screams. "Oh wait, you're not a ghost... What are you? I think ghost fits you though so I'm going to refer to you as such."

Ghost looks up to see a blonde red-hooded girl with a mustache. "You give me an eerie vibe, little guy."

Ghost looks around to see what his thoughts tell him to do.

"Either way, welcome to my cave side home. I'm Mustache Girl but you can call me Mu... if you talk that is. What is it with me and meeting people who don't talk?" Mustache Girl takes the timepiece out of Ghost's hands but they don't seem to care. "A timepiece! Where did you get such a marvelous thing?"

Ghost stares at the Mustache Girl. "That Hat Kid doesn't like talking either, and after our little indiscretion with a timepiece; seems to have gone off the radar. That was about a few weeks ago. I haven't found any timepieces myself you know, but this will change everything. I'll make this single timepiece work like a hundred 100." She cackles maniacally.

Ghost leaves to find and explore what there is to explore. Ghost starts to explore town to see many mafia men who look pretty much the exact same. Ghost isn't confused by this though and continues walking.

Walking up to a mafia man, Ghost is curious to inspect him. "Hm, what can you do, little fellow?" The mafia man asks.

Ghost doesn't say anything, because he can't, you already knew that. Ghost is picked up by one of his horns and tossed into the water fountain. Ghost gets out of the water and onto the ledge of the fountain with his wet cloak. The mafia man laughs at the drenched vessel. Ghost spots a purple parasol on the ground and picks it up, eyeing the mafia man. Ghost shuts him up with a swing of the parasol to his jaw. "Ouch my face!" Ghost takes the parasol with him and heads down the docks.

Seeing the large sea in front of them, Ghost hops onto a boat to see what exactly a boat is. The floor beneath them rumbles and the boat begins sailing away. Ghost looks as the island they were just on drifts farther away or rather, they are drifting away from the island. Ghost has no choice but to sit and wait for wherever they're going. As Ghost is carried by the boat across the gentle crystal water for a mildly short while, they think about what it is their supposed to be doing. Something to do with fighting it's ancient enemy it thinks.