A.S.E. Act III: Retribution

[Ultrawolf]

Rosy reappeared deep in the Twilight Forest and Ultrawolf stood waiting for her at the door to his small home. They walk inside together.

"How did it go?"
"...."
"They're stronger than you give them credit for Rosy."
"I know. I just don't want a repeat of my world's events."
"Over here..."

Ultrawolf moves towards a chart attached to a tact board and He points to a time line.

"This was the original world. Right about here my family is killed and I'm orphaned. I don't know who killed my family in the original world. For now it doesn't matter. I escaped from the attack heavily damaged and near death. The only thing on my mind is hellbent revenge on the murderer. I don't know if I killed him or her. If I did, it wasn't enough. Everyone must feel my pain. Jump to the future, I'm the overlord of much of the known world. Any resistance is futile, I've become some sort of Shadow Demon or something. I've learned how to travel through time and space. Something fights back. A group of rebels raid my floating castle. They are dispatched but their mission succeeds. One of the rebels obtains a scroll on how to travel through time. His name was Raven Coalwing."

Rosy continues the story, "Raven goes back in time to change the past. The first Ultrawolf, whom we call Darkwolf, fears that he will cease to exist and follows Raven back to your world. Raven did something to prevent the original murderer from attacking your family and your family's lives are saved."

Ultrawolf continues again, "It's only temporary. Darkwolf himself wasn't sure who the original assasin was...and he tried to use that to his advantage. He murdered my family believing that i would still grow to become him. I remember the attack. My brother sacrificed himself so that I could get away. I ran away in fear and it took several years before Raven found me again. Darkwolf prematurely returned to what he BELIEVED was the future."

"He only returned to the future of his own reality. Leading him to believe he had succeeded for a great many years. However I don't think Darkwolf knew the nature of time travel's effects. Instead of changing his future, Tampering with the past only created a different reality. This was your reality. Your brother's sacrifice and Raven's guidance changed who you were to become. Instead of a murderer you became a hero."

"I was a murderer still. I had gained the ability of Lycanthropy as a side effect of the attack by Darkwolf. He left a scar over my eye. After that day I would turn into a werewolf at night and kill, I had no self control but I blamed myself. On my adventuring across the world I was attacked by a mob of villagers who feared me. They banded together and hunted me down across the country. I ran, but they caught up with me at the wrong time. It was night and I lost control. My fear took over and I transformed. I murdered them all. That's when Raven found me again and gave me another chance. He helped me overcome my fear and gain control of my powers. This was the time I met you. Raven had adopted a child, my age. You were beautiful. You trained along side of me and I fell in love with you. All was not well however. I was haunted by visions and terrible nightmares. I dreamed of the Apocalyptic alternate reality. I dreamed of my father's scimitar, a magic gem, and a laser blade. I didn't know what they meant. I was living here by then. Raven showed me where here was though Im not even sure HE knows exactly where this place is, although i have my suspicions as to the truth of the forest. Anyway on one of my supply runs into town, you could tell I was shocked when I ran into none other then Darkwolf. He told me that his world was fading away and that I was not supposed to exist. He manipulated me. He tricked me into believing that I was the one who killed my family. In a way he was right since we were both the same person. He told me that he was the true Ultrawolf and that I was the result of tampering with time. He left out the whole murdering legions part of his past. He told me that I would grow to become a murderer and basically told me his future and said it was to be mine. He said he had came as an agent of a being known as The Keeper and that he had come to exterminate the menace that I was. You were there. You were nearby and heard everything."

"I was coming to tell you that I loved you and i wanted to be with you."

"We fought. I used my father's Scimitar and he used his shadow magic. Darkwolf was about to strike me down when you jumped from the brush and slashed him across the face with the claw weapons you used to be so fond of. He killed you with one attack and with your dying breath you told me how you felt. He saw the rage and despair in my eyes as you died in my arms and knew I would hunt him down with a passion. I think he felt pity for me that one time. He gave me three days to run. In my fear I did exactly that. On the third day I came across a gypsy circus, and I found a mysterious fortune teller who offered to tell my fortune. I hesitantly agreed and the teller waved her arms and threw a purple dust into my eyes. When next I opened them, I found myself in a place that seemed strange to me. That's when I found myself in Miniopia. This reality. In this world my family, Raven and I never existed. I tried locating Raven but I had no success. There was however an entrance to the Twilight Forest in this reality as well which led me to believe what I had always suspected. The Twilight Forest was a pocket dimension of it's own. I could access it from any world. It never aged. The sun never set and the moon never rose. It was the only place I was safe from Darkwolf. None With Tainted Hearts Can Ever Enter the Forest of Twilight. That was something Raven told me once. I forged a sword from Twilight materials. I inscribed my oath into the sword."

"Why don't we get back on topic shall we? Darkwolf tracked you to this world eventually. Hell he was the gypsy who read your fortune and sent you here. He's a sadist. He controlled you while you were at your weakest and forced you to attack one of this worlds heros. Rivaoni i believe. You would eventually break free and befriend the denizens of this world. They would ally themselves with you on your quest to fight back. There was something you didn't know though. He was using his dark powers to make a duplicate army for himself. He make mirror versions of those heros. He even went so far as to create a clone of your brother to fight against you. You took the fight to his castle but were captured. Your brother's will became free again and he was flung through time for resisting the Darkwolf's orders. You sacrificed yourself and destroyed the Darkwolf with you."

"Temporary. Diablo would set things into motion again. Raven found this world and somehow learned of the events that had passed. He meant well. He sent Diablo and some other heros to retrieve the members of Twilight Division from this world."

Rosy chuckles.
"He told the heros they were there to clean up his gadgets"

"However Darkwolf had captured nearly all of this worlds versions of TD and made sure to leave traps behind in case something were to happen to him. Raven used his special doorway to do this. However Diablo was sent to an unknown place where he was tricked by an evil relic into undoing the past and my sacrifice. Darkwolf was free again. He made the appearance that he had escaped but he hid inside of my shadow while we reassembled Twilight Division to defeat him. This is where my dream came into play. Each hero had been given a gift as a reward for helping Raven. The laser edge and the gem were two of them. I used the power Raven taught me of synthesis to combine them with my scimitar. This is what my dream was about. My dream however was telling me not to assemble the three together otherwise it would lead to the end of the world. The three combined to form a weapon that could adapt itself to the user's imagination. In the original world Darkwolf used the relic to conquer the world. He escaped from my shadow as i realized what I had done and seized it for himself. He didn't need me anymore and tossed me deep inside of his mind. It was a labyrinth."

"Azurel went after you but became lost in the mind of darkness as well. This is where I came in. I came from The Keeper's Realm and I saved the heros by plucking them out of time and putting them back in my father Raven's lab. In my reality you had died fighting Darkwolf and in my arms you told me you loved me. I did everything you did in this world however in my world we had failed when Darkwolf possesed the ancient weapon. Something strange happened though. Before Darkwolf struck me down, I was ejected from my reality. I found myself at the nexus of realities."

"I've heard of this. They call it The Keeper's Realm. The Keeper in short is like a dimensional watchdog. He makes sure nobody tampers with other realities and to destroy any realities that are a threat to the other realities. So you met the Keeper?"

"Yep. The Keeper was blinded by a mysterious figure in order to keep him from knowing of any reality tampering. Somehow I was brought to his realm. He doesn't know who brought me there but he gave me the mission to fix what was going on. Naturally the only reality tampering monster I know is Darkwolf. There are only three realities Darkwolf has had an influence. The original time line which has since ceased to exist completely. And both of our realities. My reality was destroyed by something but I was pulled out of it before that happened. So that only leaves one Darkwolf since the original was destroyed by the Keeper as one of the last things he did before he was blinded."

"Wait, what happened to Darkwolf after you returned the heros? Doesn't he still have the ancient weapon?"

"Yep, It's not as bad as you think though. The Keeper granted me the ability to seal off areas into pocket dimensions which Is exactly what I did. Then I put a lock on the dimension. It's one way. Anything that goes In, can't come back out. We don't have a lot of time. Darkwolf found a way to the Keeper's Realm from his own world so getting out of a pocket dimension might not be too much harder."

"Right. We need to get those Heros trained and informed. We need to tell them everything If we're going to win this thing... Rosy, bring them here. The final chapter is about to begin."

[Diablo]

OOC: Strider will go by Diablo to hide his past.

Diablo is running after the dark figure, leaving behind him the Shelves of Knowledge.

"Damn, damn! I bet that was Darkwolf!"

[Azurel]

"I wonder where he's going."

Azurel was perched on the roof of The Shelves, watching Diablo run off into the distance.

Who cares?
I know you feel that dark energy he's chasing.
I do.
Well?
What?
You aren't going to chase them down and prove that you're stronger? Beat down Diablo and make an ally with that dark energy?
...Whatever.

Rayne let out a mental sigh as Azurel dropped off the roof. He opened his wings and pulled up, gliding only a foot above the ground. He was following Diablo, but not at a fast pace.

[Ultrawolf]

The cloaked figure stops walking and turns around to face Diablo.
"Give it up already. I'm not your enemy, no matter how much you want to believe it."

He senses Azurel's darkness heading his way and smiles.
"I'm sure you have other problems to deal with."

[Diablo]

Diablo snaped his fingers and Agammnon jumps out of woods and lands behind the cloaked figure. "You won't be leaving. Wait, whats that?" Diablo sniffs the air.

"Azurel, You should of stayed down wind."

Diablo turns around to see the winged demon following.

"I have a good hunch of what you want from this but now is NOT the time!"

Diablo glances back at Agamemnon and he nods to Diablo. Diablo turns around to face the unknown man again and walks up closer.

"I want a name and show your face."

[Azurel]

ooc: what's an Agamemnon?

[Ultrawolf]

"....No"
In a blur the cloaked figure moves behind diablo and one hand holds him by the neck and the other grabs one of Diablo's wings.
"Now call of your dog or I'll rip this wing off of you."

[Minosheep]

(OOC: I'll join up in a bit, don't mind me taking my time. )

[Diablo]

OOC: Teh only brother of diablo.


Diablo struggles for a bit and sighs. "I don't want to do this."

Diablo nods to Agamemnon,

Agamemnon- "I will not back off."

The brother charges, a clap of thunder is heard and he vanished. Agamemnon reappeared. He was backed by copies of himself. Agamemnon pointed forward and they attacked going for the figure.

Diablo- *cough* "I tryed to call him off but it seems rage has controlled him."

[Ultrawolf]

"Then I guess you can kiss your wing goodbye."
The man rips Diablo's right wing off and throws Diablo aside.

"As for you my friend. I think you need to take a time out."
The man's eyes flash and he opens a portal in front of him through which Agamemnon runs though.
He then looks down at the fallen Diablo.
"You may be asking yourself where I sent your brother. Don't worry You'll join him soon. I'm going to have my fun with you first. I told you to back off. I gave you a chance to be safe with your brother. Yes that's right. I know everything Strider. It's a shame the united brothers won't be able to rise against me now."