Shades of Time

Chapter Twenty-Two: Light and Shadows

The multiverse was still refreshingly new.

He'd yet to come across a negative AU.

Umbra knew why, this was before the False Lover and the shattering of one into two.

He knew the event was soon, and that he had to hurry.

Yet... he couldn't stop it.

It was a set event.

If he stopped it, it would cause a paradox causing neither Ser or himself from existing as they were which would cause destructive ripples in this multiverse.

Lets not have that.

He was in an AU he didn't recognize when he felt Ink, he took a deep breath when he felt the edge of another magic.

Fear was there.

"I'm sure its just your mother worrying you," a male voice said.

"Mother wishes for us to depart from one another, she says your not what you seem. That they promise my soulmate will come into being soon," another voice said softly.

"Hey, just because she's Fate doesn't make her choices yours," the first voice said.

He had to get closer, he had to see what face Fear wore.

"Crap.." he swore.

It was happening, that split. Suddenly he was that inbetween place, but it was around his body like a second skin.

He ran towards the voices, the multiverse coding going insane.

"Skully... I..." Ink said,

"Shuuuu..." Skull Sans or rather Fear said gently, Fear was using a mafia Sans face of all things!

"Stay with me," Skull begged.

"I..." Ink began as a choice was made.

The Multiverse shivered.

And suddenly there were two in front of him, both wavering and unstable from the split.

The coding re-configuring and rewriting made him feel ill.

"I love you Skully," Ink said, "your everything I want"
"I'm glad," Skull/Fear said kissing him.

"..." Ink said, eyelights mere pricks of white.
"It made this rather easy," Fear laughed as Ink collapsed, like a puppet without strings.

"I can't, I'm sorry Skully..." Ink said sadly, tears dripping down his face as he backed away from Skull/Fear. "But I have to obey my Mother..."

"Inky... no! Stay with me, please!" Skull begged.

"Mother loves me... they promised me that someone will be born just for me, I love you... but a soulmate is what I want." Ink whispered. "But, we can still be friends, if that would make you happy..."

And with that, Ink portalled away.

Skull/Fear screamed with Rage.

Suddenly Umbra could move, not in Ser's timeline as Inks soul was still there but in his own.

Fear had ripped Inks soul apart into three parts, a horrible thing to see.

Well...

This explained to many things.

Like why neither Searcher or himself could find any hints to Ink's essence.

"Who are you!" Fear snarled, as Umbra was just suddenly there in front of him.