Corrupted Timelines

The Ancient Ones

"Wh-What are you talking about?!" Ina questioned her former patron. The blob shifted, seeming to think about their next set of words.

"This place lacks perfection. We are going to restore that. Our offer is that you come with us to witness it," they said. Ina looked back at her friends. All of them had grimaces on their faces, not liking what the Ancient Ones were saying one bit.

'Listen to us!' AO-chan yelled in her head. Ina rubbed her temples, still adjusting to the new beings in her mind. 'They want to corrupt this timeline! Use that watch again and get out of here!' The Ancient Ones began to laugh, drawing Ina's attention away from the voices in her head.

"You really think that is all we are going to do here? Running to a different timeline will not save your Priestess," they boomed, somehow hearing AO-chan in Ina's head. Ina felt her jaw fall open slightly, completely at a loss for words.

"What the fuck do you mean by that?!!!" Calliope screamed from behind her. The Ancient Ones slowly stopped laughing.

"This is your last chance, Priestess. Accept our offer or face oblivion." Calliope lowered herself to the ground with Gura and Kiara following her movement. All three got ready to attack, but Ina put out her hand to stop them.

"You're going to destroy not only this timeline, but all of them?" Ina asked. The Ancient Ones again chuckled to themselves.

"We are not going to destroy this dimension. We are going to perfect it," they responded. Ina clenched her hand into a fist.

"Why?"

"It seems that even other versions of ourselves can not comprehend our reasoning, so you would not be able to either. Final chance." Ina balled both her hands into fists now and clenched her teeth. Her entire demeanor changed to one of unfiltered rage.

"FUCK YOU!!! YOU'RE NOT DESTROYING MY TIMELINE!!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. The Ancient Ones sighed.

"How naive..." Ina jumped at them, followed quickly by Gura, Calliope, and Kiara. All four of them only had one goal in mind: to kill the Ancient Ones.

None of them would get close enough. Thousands of magic circles opened in between them and their target. Spells of all varieties began to pour out towards them, Tentacles, Hands, Beams, Blasts, Barriers, you name it.

Kiara and Calliope dodged the best they could, but were hit multiple times and fired into the ground at high speed. Ina shielded herself and Gura, but the spells broke through and launched them too into the ground. Amelia ran over to where her friends had landed.

The Ancient Ones wound up a finishing attack, raising an enormous tentacle above them and driving it into the group of girls. It never made contact with the ground though, instead traveling straight through it.

Amelia Watson held both her hands high above her, trying to stay conscious through the ordeal. She Destabilized the tentacle the instant it touched her and made it pass through her and her friends. The Ancient Ones retracted their tentacle back into themselves.

"Even though it might not seem like it at first glance, you were always the most troublesome one, time traveler," they said before pushing themselves up into the air with more tentacles, "No matter, try as you might, there is no hope in stopping us now." They flew through the air and landed directly on top of the building housing the Crystal of Time.

The building crumbled underneath their weight. After a few moments of them sitting on top of it, a bright white dome formed around them. Within moments, they were completely hidden beneath this new veil. A low rumbling could be felt and heard from within. Amelia specifically could feel the intense energy emanating out of the dome.