Journey to a Better End II

Chapter 8

I actually managed to update this quickly so of course this is going to be a good chapter. You guys better hope my ideas keep flowing.
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        Paradox wasn't too heavy which Add was grateful for, but his dynamos were rather annoying. Since he was cerrying Paradox, the two different sets of dynamos sometimes made slight contact and caused tiny electrical surges. Add wasn't sure if Paradox carred but he certainly did care if his dynamos were harmed in the process. "How much further is it Elsword?" Ara asked. "Not too far. We're close so don't worry. If anything ambushes us, I'll protect all of you," Elsword said with a rather endearing grin.

        Even Add found himself believing the boy even though he knew it was impossible for him to pull off such a feat no matter how much Elsword might have wanted to. "I never did get your names though. I heard Paradox when you two adressed him but I don't know what to call you three," Elsword said. "Three? There's only two of us," Ara muttered. "Your fox friend payed me a visit the first time we met. I'm assuming she didn't tell you who I was before switching back to you," Elsword nonchalantly said.

        "How do you even know all of that?" Ara asled in disbelief. "It's called intuition and apparently I've got lots of it...or so I've been told," Elsword said. "You're too perceptive for your own good. I suppose that isn't really a bad thing though. My name's Add and this is Ara. Her fox friend that you mentioned is Eun," Add said. "Well it's nice to meet you guys. We can now be friends now that I know your names," Elsword said with a bit too much enthusiasm but who was Add to judge how happy the boy could be.

        "There aren't many traps around here," Add noticed as they crept past an open area to reenter the forest on the other side. "That's because we aren't very far from Ruben. I don't doubt that there are scouts or even assassins out here searching for anything that lives, moves, and breathes," Elsword said, lowering his voice a bit. "Assassins? Don't you think that's a bit much?" Add muttered with an eye roll. "Time traveling to save an idiot is a bit much isn't it?" Elsword said.

        "You aren't an idiot though," Add said. "Got any proof? If not, then you came back in time to save an idiot," Elsword stated glancing back at Add with an almost mocking smile but then the boy suddenly froze and reached for his head, wincing in pain as he did. "Hey are you alright?" Ara asked but Elsword didn't answer and instead whimpered in pain as he used his sword to help him continue standing. Add recognized Elsword's pain for he had gone through the same thing back in Altera.

         "I think he's getting memories from the alternate timeline that we just left," Add concluded. "That shouldn't be possible. He didn't go back in time with us. I thought stuff like that only happened to those who travel back in time," Ara said. Add felt Paradox shift in his sleep and whine as if he was afraid of something and suddenly realized that Paradox was causing Elsword's painful memory gain.  "Paradox, wake up!" Add said as he attmlted to pry Pardox off of him.

        Ara gave him a confused glance before helping Elsword sit against a tree as he held his head doing his best not to cry out in pain. "I don't want anyone else to die....please don't," Paradox muttered, still asleep and obviously having a...daymare? Ara seemed to get an idea and left Elsword's side, lifting Paradox's cat hood off of his head and putting her hand to his forhead. "I'll let Eun do the rest," Ara muttered as she waited. Soon enough, Paradox woke up looking around in fright but calmed down when he realized her was with Add and Ara.

         Just as Add assumed, Elsword's migraine stopped but Elsword still looked like he was on the verge of tears. "Elsword are you okay now?" Add asked as he put Paradox down, figuring that he could walk on his own now. Elsword didn't answer but he did look at Add with fear letting him know that it wasn't just the moment he died that he saw. "What happened to Elsword?" Paradox asked. "You might have accidentally caused him to remember the events leading up to his death back in the other timeline that we just came from," Add explained.