Arle & Ecolo's Bizarre Adventure

The Death of Another World

"Well, we're here~" Ecolo said.

Arle took a good look at her surrondings. "Soooooooooo where exactly is 'here'?"

Ecolo realised they were standing in a white void. There was absolutely nothing. "Uhhh... I swear I remember someone here talking about some orb... actually, they were talking about the Seraphim Orb!"

"There are people living here?" Arle asked. "How?"

"No idea!" Ecolo said. "Actually, I don't even remember who was living here, it's been a while!"

"Well, that's reassuring," Arle sarcastically said.

"I think I might've last been here before I met all you~" Ecolo said.

"I don't know if I wanna know the friends you made when you were plotting to drown planets..." Arle said. "But, if it's for the orb, then I guess we gotta..."

"Okay, we've been walking for 3 hours. How long is this gonna take?" Arle said.

"It's been 3 minutes," Ecolo said.

"It feels like 3 hours!" Arle complained. "There's nothing here! How could anything live in a world full of nothing?!"

"Pure hatred," a female voice said back.

"Wait, what?" Arle said. "An inhabitant?"

"See? I wasn't lying~" Ecolo said.

"It's been a while, Ecolo," the girl said. "Did you bring someone to keep me company in suffering?"

"You... don't like it here?" Arle asked.

"Why would I like it here?!" the girl snapped. "Trapped, because Ecolo says I'm "too powerful", or "that world has another Arle Nadja!" How can every goddamn world have an Arle Nadja?! How can I-"

"Wait, Arle Nadja?!" Arle said. "But I'm Arle!"

The girl immediately fell silent, and slowly turned around. Sure enough, she was the spitting image of Arle, but looked like she was around 20 years old. She wore crimson red instead of blue and white, and looked incredibly similar to the other Arle she and Ringo had met at that one fake Primp Town.

"So... you claim you're Arle Nadja?"

"I AM Arle!" Arle said. "Who are you?"

"Arle Nadja," the doppelganger said, sounding like she was trying to contain all her rage. "The real Arle Nadja."

"Let's just talk this out," Arle said. "I've seen doppelgangers bef-"

"DO NOT CALL ME THAT," the doppelganger said, then yelled "ABYSS!" A wave of dark magic hit the three of them, doing significant damage.

"I... didn't mean you," Arle said. "I... ugh... just meant in general! We don't have to fight!"

"Too bad, other half," the doppelganger said. "I don't care what reason Ecolo had to bring you here, today is the day you die."

"Ecolo, get us outta here!" Arle begged Ecolo. "This can't be the place the orb is!"Ecolo attempted to teleport, but where they landed was still a white void.

"I meant to another dimension!" Arle said.

"I did!" Ecolo told her.

"Too bad, doppelganger," the doppelganger said, "I closed this dimension off the second you tried to get away. I don't know where you went, but you can't hide forever, mortal."

"What's happening? WHO IS THAT??" Arle asked Ecolo.

"From what I remember, there was this thing called the creator, it was like the god of everything, the Arle in this dimension was born to fight them, when she turned 20, the Creator wanted to destroy her universe or something, Arle got into a 500 year long battle with it, Arle won but the world was destroyed and her soul ripped in half, and the Arle that's fighting us is half of that Arle~"