{MCYT} •Mini Stories• <Book 2>

{The Overseers}

Karl didn't find himself in The In-between or The Other Side.
But rather. . .
In a huge area surrounded by clouds and a floor of a clock.
Karl was amazed by how peaceful it looked and the beauty, he walked around it and jumped up on one of the hands of the clock and nearly falling off as it moved, so it was telling the time?
"Welcome."
Karl looked up and saw XD, confused he walked over,"Um. . . Hello? Who are you??", "I'm. . . XD, I'm God.", Karl nods slowly, looking at the two portals,"Uh huh. . . Um, where am I. . .?", "You're in. . . Well, in my place.", Karl was confused, but XD waved his arm around,"This is, the portals to both The Other Side and The Inbetween. Areas you remember?", Karl nods,"Yes but. . . What about a portal home? Can I go home??", XD looked at Karl,"Uh, nope. You can't, not until you finish.","Finish?", XD walked to a portal,"Each time you come from an adventure, you end up in these two places and only return home after you find a book. It's like, slowly finding what you're looking for.", Karl shoved his hands into his pockets,"Well, how do you know I'm a Time Traveller?", "Simple: Your Family.", Karl frowned, admittedly his adopted parents didn't know anything about his actual parents but he never had to ask as they were just as nice.
"Family?"
"Well, not your father-but your mother? She was a Time Traveller, a Time Goddess if you would prefer.", Karl nods, taking in what information he could but there was this bad feeling in his gut as XD walked back to him,"And let me tell you Karl, I have never seen a better Time Traveller like you or your mother in years. Last Time Traveller I met? Well, he forgot he was even a Time Traveller. Had to, get rid of him.", Karl gulped,"Get rid of him? Will that happen to. . .?","Oh no, I don't think so. Unlike him, you have Time Travelling in your blood and he well, he just had a device that would allow him to travel.", Karl nods slowly,"And. . .?", "Oh yes, and the presence you've been feeling. It's the Overseers. They're the Gods of these worlds, their Life & Death.", Karl slowly nods, remembering Ran being in The Other Side a lot, does that mean he was. . .?
"So Karl."
Karl turned to XD, who looked at him,"Now you have a choice, you can discover more and do what you have to do.", "But I don't even know why I'm Travelling in time.", XD walked awalked away, Karl unable to see his dark smirk but Karl could feel the radiation of bad news from him.
"You'll find your answer."
And with that, XD was gone.
. . .
Karl stood there, confused and scared of him as something was flickering in his mind.
Rain.
Muck.
Scream.
Blood.
. . .
His Scream.
"Karl?"
Karl jumped and turned, seeing Ran come out of the portal and with no hesitation Karl hugged Ran, who hugged him back,"You're doing good, you've made it far, just hang in there a little while longer.", Karl nods, Ran knew how much pressure Karl was under and what was going on back in his time so he knew he had to patient with Karl, he learned this after so many Time Travellers died, went insane or worse.
Stuck in time.
Ran wasn't going to let it happen to Karl though, no one out of the people he's met and saved were going to let Karl fall down that dark hole.
Ran glared at the direction XD left in, he knew what that mother fucker was hiding but had no way to prove it.
. . .
And he forgot Ran was part Enderman.
"I heard what you said."
"What do you mean?"
"I'll explain soon Karl, let's get you inside and give you time to rest."