TBATE - Not Bound By Fate

Part 6

After the talk with Alduin, Merial and Virion going very similar to the original timeline, Tess and I were walking to the garden waiting for gramps to come and test me. As we reached the door leading to the outside area I felt a small amount of killing intent from behind us. Spinning around to position myself I pushed Tess behind me and caught the toy that was thrown at us.

"What the hell! Why are you attacking your own granddaughter!?"

"Oh please, you can stop pretending brat, you knew it was coming. This isn't the first time we're doing this. I thought I was going insane after waking up in my room and not in Darv. Now follow me so we can talk." He finished with a serious expression.

What is he talking about and how did he know I was expecting him? The only way he could have known was for him to... of course he did. I looked over to Tess and she looked at me. It seems we reached the same conclusion and so followed Virion to his office.

As we were taking our seats a maid came in and served tea for us. The next few minutes we simply stared at each other until gramps finally spoke.

"So, what date are you thinking about for the wedding?" He said with a smirk and Tess did a spit take drenching him in tee.

"GRANDPA! We thought you had something serious to discuss!"

"I do, I just couldn't help myself there little one. I'm happy to see you two again after everything that happened. Now tell me Arthur, how did you reverse time?" He said while pulling out a handkerchief to dry himself.

"Well I didn't, technically it was a Djinn relic and as far as I know, only I was supposed to regress so imagine my surprise when Tess told me she did as well."

"I see. Any ideas as to why more people came back?"

"Not a clue. Tess, you said that the Archivist baited Agron into sending Cecilia to the Relictombs, did he say anything about bringing other people?" I looked over to her as I asked.

"He actually did. He said the spell would use my soul to look for other people that could help you and send their memories back, but it wasn't guaranteed to happen." I deadpanned at her.

"And you didn't tell me until now because?"

"Teehee."

"You just forgot, got it. Anyways, now that we know there could be others, how should we search for them?" I turned to Virion as I asked. "Any ideas, gramps?"

"Just leave that to me, and since they are people that could help you, a list of who you think might have regressed as well would help."

"Hmm, I can only think of a few outside you two. I'll give you the list later, right now there is something I want to show you." I pulled out Agrona's journal from my storage rune and slid it across the table. "Guess who this belongs to."

Gramps picked up and skimmed through the journal.

"How the hell did you get your hands on this!?" Shock was all over his face.

"Regis found it after we killed Agrona." I replied nonchalantly.

"I'll have to thank him later for it, now we have a realistic chance of winning this war without depending on those damn Asura." He paused for a moment before continuing. "Now that we know where to begin, what's your plan for the war? I'm sure you already figured something out."

"Sort of. There's not much we can do on a big scale before the attack on Xyrus other than to prepare supplies, safehouses and map out the dungeons on the beast glades which we can ask Alea and Aya for help. For now I was thinking of working on my aether arts, specifically on one that would help purify a mana core. On my way here I studied how the aether purified mine on its own and I'm pretty close on figuring out how to replicate the effect for someone else. Once that is done I'll start unlocking the third keystone I got from the Djinn while helping with Tessia's training. That's all I can do for now."