Shades of Time

Chapter Sixteen: In the End It was Broken

Shades gave a sigh as they were hustled by mama into the family room, it hadn't changed at all in the time he was gone which was a relief in many ways.

If it had changed...

He just knew that he was glad his home was the same.

Sure they were linked to the anti-void, and part of there code read them as part of it... but it was never home not even when it drove them insane.

He wondered if they did free themselves from there Fate as Error, would they till be linked to the anti-void?

The smaller local Goth found himself situated on the love seat with Ser, his other settled beside him. He rolled his eye at seeing him pull out his scarves, clearly Ser was out of his comfort zone.

Sometimes Ser was such a shy bean.

He gently places a hand on Ser, he could just see him start to tremble.

"Ser... we need to start," he said quietly, gently tugging on the others sleeve.

"I know." The taller Goth said, looking at Shades when he felt him tugging on his sleeve. "Just give a minute to calm down okay?"

He took a deep breath in and he exhaled, smelling the scent of Palette from his scarf. It helped him to calm down. He looked at Reaper and Geno. "So... Here we are, what do you guys want to know?"

"Explain to me the Error part, since Error has been around since the beginning, long before you were even born." Geno asked, rubbing in between his eyes.

"Well, do you remember when Shades was taken right in front of you two years ago?" Searcher asked. "Because that is when Fate took us, but the story behind why Fate took us actually begins with Ink.... A long time ago... When he had a Soul."

"Ink... had a soul?" Reaper said in surprise.

"Yes he did, and it still exists." Shades replied, and carefully, he pulled out the two pieces of soul that he'd managed to retrieve. It was definitely a Monster Soul, but it glimmered with a beautiful array of colors that shimmered with a gentle light. "These are the pieces of Inky's Soul that I have retrieved so far."

"I haven't found the Soul of my Ink, but I am finding pieces of a key that should open wherever it is." He carefully pulled out the key piece from his first temple. "I think that I know where the next piece of the key is."

"That's great Searcher, oh! I have carvings from the ice temple to show you! It might tell me where Ink's soul essence is!" Shades said, ever cheerfully.

"Boys, focus.. back to explaining." Geno pointed out, Shades blushed purple.

Searcher blushed as well, he had been about to start asking Shades to show him the carvings from the ice temple.

"Well, Dream isn't the first time that Ink has been in love..."

"Don't you mean obsessed with Dream?" Shades snickered.

"Boys..." Geno said, tapping a foot.

"Okay, basically, as a Child of Fate, Ink had a powerful Soul and his First Love, only wanted his Soul for his power." Searcher said.

"This is where it gets awkward..." Shades moaned. "We call this love, the False Lover, I won't say his true name, since it might bring their attention to you. You already know resets... what we have here is a divergent timeline caused because there was only two ways that it could have ended. But instead of creating a new AU... it literally shattered the Multiverse into two new Multiverses, with each one based on one of the two endings."