𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙩𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧. - 𝙍𝙌/𝙎𝙇 𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚 ✔︎

☠︎︎ 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲: 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧 ☠︎︎

𝙄, *𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣,* 𝙖𝙢 𝙪𝙥 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩, 𝙨𝙤 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 :𝘿

𝘼𝙡𝙨𝙤, 𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙄'𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮-

𝙄'𝙢 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩-

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱: 𝟭𝟬/𝟯/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘄 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁

𝗔𝗨: 𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗲

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 (𝘄/ 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸)

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁: 𝟰𝟯𝟳

『••✎••』

Some days everything felt free and perfect.

Others made Time feel as though he were playing a deadly game of ocelot and parrot.

Time was the parrot, the prey, and Elemental, his own brother, the ocelot, the predator.

The former hated it.

No matter where he went, Elemental could track his energy across the Overworld. Time knew that. The one disadvantage of having him as a brother.

An insane, possessive brother.

They would never have taken up Galaxy's way if they knew it would bring them to this:

Elemental holding the Green Village Leader hostage, with Time forced to make the choice of going with his brother, or watching the innocent green steve be destroyed in front of him, Sabre and Dark.

To say this wasn't a little conflicting for Time was an understatement. He didn't want to go back to his dimension with Elemental, then let him break him down further. But at the same time, he couldn't let a steve who had no part in his and his brother's conflict die because of his refusal to comply.

Little did the time controller know how his brother felt about the situation.

Elemental, like his brother, was also conflicted, but not in the same way. On one hand, he didn't want to hurt his brother, especially after everything they've been through. However, they both took up their creator's way of watching but not interfering, yet Time went against that more than once. Elemental felt as though Time needed to be taught a lesson on keeping his word, and realize his actions had consequences.

So that's what Elemental attempted to do.

However, what happened next came unexpectedly:

"I disavow."

Time spoke boldly, taking a step forward.

"You are not my brother, Elemental."

The words came as a shock for Elemental. However, he had learned to hide many of his emotions. Said emotions being shock, sadness and joy, as each would take him off his guard.

Something he could not afford to lose, especially not in this situation.

After the initial surprise faded, another emotion kicked in: sadness. His brother, the other half of Galaxy, had just disowned him. That was unexpected, Elemental would give him that, but also disappointing.

Maybe he'd gone too far to regain Time. Maybe he shouldn't have weakened him so much. Maybe-

No.

Elemental shook his head to clear away the traitorous thoughts. He couldn't think like that, not now at least. He had to remain strong, then take Time back and away from everyone. His goal couldn't change now.

He was too far set in his new ways for anything else to occur.