Shades of Time

Chapter Fourteen: Ice and Snow

This chappy got scarily long, thought of splitting it in two. then went nah, enjoy <3

"Maybe I should have put these on after I left the library." Shades sighed as he pulled on the thick winter parka and other winter gear, sure they were skeletons but that AU was so cold it could freeze even the Error to death.

And that was saying something, as he was the Error.

He slipped his cellphone into his pocket, knowing that it now had his counterpart's phone number. As of yet, they had no clue if it would cross the boundaries between the two linked multiverses.

"Are you going to be okay while I'm hitting the temple Ser?" Shades asked his counterpart.

"I'll stay here and look up the AUs with fire and lava." Searcher told him. "And practise with these a bit more." He carefully flapped his fluffy wings.

"Are you sure that the library is the best area to practice? I don't want you to get banned from this place because you kept on flying into the bookshelves..." Shades said worriedly, he'd seen some weird reasons to ban someone from this library because he was here more often.

"I don't want my Uncle Grim or Mom turning up and ambushing me if they can sense Dad's scythe being used, and I don't want to be in the Anti-Void, unless I really have to go there."

"If you're sure about this, then I'll try to keep in touch." Shades said.

"Good luck."

"I'll need it." Shades said, before he slipped back through the codes to his multiverse.

OoOoO

Ice and snow crunched under his boots, he was glad for the goggles blocking out the sun this time as he didn't need to add snow blindness to his list of issues.

The ice temple entrance was twenty feet away, taking a deep breath he walked forward then sighed. Slowly he got down and started crawling, his only light was magic frozen in ice and snow. He could feel the ice through his thick gloves, the only reason the jagged ice wasn't ripping what he was wearing was due to the fact he had sewn his only strings into the fabrics.

He was glad he wasn't Claustrophobic, it was bad enough he was Haphephobic in his Error form before he woke. As Error he still didn't like touch, as the Error's on his body made it hurt.

Suddenly a small sound same to him.

"Oh... please no.." he begged.

Crack!!!

He gave a cry as the tunnel broke below him, and he was falling into darkness.

OoOoO

Goth slowly woke up.

His head hurt, his eyes flickered open to darkness and carefully he examined his skull and was relieved to find to damage.

Skull damage was hard to heal, and often fatal.

He didn't want to find out if he could survive a skull break like Horror, as Error yet he'd heal.. as Goth no clue.

The fall has been cushioned somehow by some snow, that hadn't frozen through as yet.

Slowly he got up, wincing a bit.

He pulled out a small bit of food and nibbled on it, he had to be in top form for a temple.

The small skeleton focused magic into his eye, his eye light glowed a fierce purple as he gained Night vision; now and then code appeared in it then vanaished. He idly wondered if Ser had learned this trick.