Red Twilight: Worldwalker

Act 3

Fate Reforged

Chapter 24

Whim of Chaos

Lous-DayO sits atop the wall that divides the Glass City of Zion from the Forest of Eden. Chaos waltz over having discarded the skin of Charlie Belmond that she had worn as armor retaken her more natural shape, that of a three-horned dragoness with mercury scales and a gold stripe running form nose to tail. Chaos rest her body on the wall like a dog sitting on a windowsill.

"I don't get it, what was this all about?" Chaos ask. "Charlie was only human, you knew well he couldn't fight Mammon."

Lous turns his body looking out into the forest "he certainly could fight, now winning, that was something he never could have done. But he was never meant to 'win' he was meant to play for time."

"play for time?"

"the time loop. It was a closed loop, only Mammon and Charlie where every aware of it. I kept those two running in circles for a decade. At the same time I speed up time on the worlds next on Cravixs menu."

"why?"

"to give Sa-la-day-namO time to prepare. Time to find a cure for Mammon."

"did he?"

"if he didn't there is nothing more I can do to help out. Chaos, I am tired. Keeping that loop stable was by far the most draining thing I have ever had to do."

"so, then what are you going to do next?"

"you have been asleep for the last 4 thousand something years, I think I'm going to go to sleep till the turn of the next millennium. Sa-la-day-namO will have to handle things from here on out."

"what are we going to do with Charlie and the others"

"I can reset time one more time for him. I will let him have all the memories I had kept back. I will do the same for everyone that he had touched during this campaign. What about you Chaos?"

"the universe has change shape so dramatically. I think I will start jumping across planets with my kids pretending to be whatever animal we come across on the way."

DayO stands up and takes Chaos in his arms hugging the dragoness, Chaos places a lone hand on his back returning the embrace.