+- Omni Archive (https://omni.zulenka.com)
+-- Forum: The Omniverse (https://omni.zulenka.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=4)
+--- Forum: The Tangled Green (https://omni.zulenka.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=19)
+--- Thread: [Closed] Hero's Tragedy (/showthread.php?tid=7752)
[Closed] Hero's Tragedy - Retane - 08-01-2018
Quote: This is a Fluid Time Dream that happened with Retane while I was away...Alex agreed to this and said it was fine.
"Is this it? Is this the place? Are we in the right Universe?" The green figure wore a red vest and loose black pants. His name was Dante. He looked towards the others as they all came out of the portal, hoping for confirmation.
"I- I don't know. I mean I think so. It feels right, but I can't sense him. We should be able to sense him right?" Reatus looked around, he was struggling to keep his posture, but he stood strong. He wore the same attire as his brother, but his was all dark grey.
"Of course, we should. We are his children. We use to be able to sense him, so we should be able to now." If there was a female of their kind, it was her. She wore a white cloak of her own design, to show that she meant harm to no one.
"So why aren't we able to then? Is it because we are in the wrong Universe?" It was Dante that asked the question.
"I still say we could have taken that guy. We never really needed father in the first place." He was the strongest of them all, always loving a fight, but too head strong to beat Dante in a one on one. He was named Triumpht and loved to live up his name. He wore the same colors as his brother but they were inverted.
"Triumpht, you just got your ass kicked. The only reason we are alive is because Reatus took the attack head on and Naturae shielded you both as well." Dante was mad and the veins close to his antennae showed it as they throbbed.
"Prove it!" Triumpht was the tallest of the group, barely when it came to Dante, and puffed his chest out trying to show off that he was the best they had.
"Hehehehe. If only he could see you guys now?" The fifth green sibling started to laugh at his brothers' trifles.
"Jack, is he reading your thoughts again?" Triumpht was the one that wanted to know.
"Did you really just ask Jack that?" Dante rolled his eyes as he spoke. They all could see Jack Frost looking away from them, but they all assumed that his face had a smirk on it.
"Maybe?" It was Krosst that answered.
"Will you guys focus?" Dante let out a low growl as he spoke. He realized he was part of the problem and hoped no one noticed.
"This is Earth, in his Universe. However, far off, I can feel his presence in other life forms. They are on other Planets. I cannot find his actual presence anywhere." The Guardian of Fun stared up unto the sky as he held his crooked staff that had a glowing orb in between it. His voice was solemn and pained, if one tried to take notice, but most were focused on their current situation.
The siblings all looked at the Guardian, but it was Naturae that spoke, "He is right. This feels like home to us, but there is also another planet that has our Kin. It is distant, but I can feel it. It's calling me, actually. I can feel our blood there, but I cannot feel our Father."
"Why not? Do you need us to lend you our energy to track him down?" Reatus was the one that spoke, and the other siblings, aside from Krosst looked at her hopefully.
"No. I don't think even with all our energy and Krosst doubling it, that we could find him." Naturae looked sad. "I should be able to notice him if he was here."
"Hmph." Jack Frost was the one that made the noise from his throat. "Retane is not here. He was once upon a time ago but, he isn't anymore."
The Namekians all looked at the Guardian, but it was Reatus that spoke, "Why not?"
"That is because he is gone." The group looked towards the direction of the voice, ready to strike. He hadn't been there a moment before. However, there he was now, clad in a dark orange and green attire.
"Ease yourselves, I am a friend." His name was Enroshia, and they recognized him from back from their own universe, Omniverse. He was a Mystic Elf, and the leader of the Lythians. He had once marked Retane because he believed Retane would be the one to become strong enough to be able to send them home. His belief became true. Retane, the God of Death actually managed to become strong enough to leave the Omniverse and return to his own universe, as well as send the Lythians to their own.
"What do you mean he is gone? And why are you here? What has happened? " Jack Frost, who knew Enroshia more closley, had to ask the question.
Enroshia took his time to note the battle worn crew and understood that they had just been roughed up badly. "He is gone, also known as no longer around. He was a God, but even they can perish." The Lythian furrowed his brow, "As for why I am here, even I am unsure. What has happened? And how and why are you guys here?"
The Omnians hesitated, still unsure as to what had happened and how to explain it. They all looked at each other as if trying to find the correct words that would explain what had transpired, without feeling foolish and explaining how they, the Descendants of Retane, had lost. Enroshia could feel their hesitation but felt that things were about to get a lot more dangerous, "I do not believe there is time to spare, so if one of you guys can lend me your hands please?"
The group looked at each other wondering who would be the one to step up, most looks ending up on Jack Frost, whom the Mystic had guessed would be the best option. "I need to hold both hands and need for you others to stand guard. I'm not the best at this and not only will it take all of my focus, it will also take time and energy. "
Jack looked away, hesitating for a moment, then made a step forward, it was Krosst however, that threw his hand out in protest, "Best for me to do it."
"Why you?" Dante and Triumpht looked at each other curiously then to Reatus, who was usually the one to offer himself up as a guinea pig, and finally towards Jack, who barely made an attempt to object.
"I see. That makes sense. Go ahead then!" Jack couldn't help but laugh, though it almost seemed forced.
"What's so funny? What did he say to you this time that no one else could hear?" It was Triumpht that had asked the question, while Dante squinted his eyes and shifted them to his brethren, thinking he may have figured the answer out.
"For the second question, Krosst would probably be the best to assist Enroshia in this endeavor because of his special talents. He can read minds, has probably seen all your thoughts, and might even be able to assist Enroshia in his technique making things faster. Strategically him being the terminal and me being free, puts us at a better position if we are attacked."
Triumpht shrugged conceding the logic, "And what was so funny about that?"
Frost tried to smirk and looked away, "He said he could even show our deepest most kept secrets."
-------------
Jack Frost and his significant other, Airyonna, laid against a tree, side by side. Three of Retane's children were close by, but far enough to give Jack, 'his space'. The other two were on their way. Airyonna, a female ninja of the Hidden Village of the Forest, had suggested the gathering. She knew it had been so long since they had all been together as a whole, and she wanted to try. Usually, Reatus would say he was busy with the Village; Triumpht and Dante were always out fighting and carrying on on their own; It was hard to call on Naturae, because when she wasn't around with the Ambrosia Kingdom, more people seemed to get hurt; Krosst was usually where ever Jack Frost was, so that was never the problem.
The five Nameks had only been together all at once, three times in their life. When they were in egg form with their brother, Probitas. When they joined the search to track down those that had kidnapped, tortured, and sadly killed Probitas. And when Retane left the Omniverse allowing his children to stay behind.
"I'm surprised you managed to make time for us." The Kunoichi laughed
"Time for us? You suggested this and we have ninja and Nameks tracking everything we do. I couldn't even throw a snow ball at you without interruption." The Guardian rolled his eyes and pointed off into the tree tops where a member of the Hidden Village stood on a limb, hugged close against the bark. In his second hand a ball of white fluff started to form.
The female ninja grinned. "You managed to do 'that' and more last time."
The Guardian shrugged his shoulders and dropped the small ball on the ground, giving up on his light threat, "And do you realize what drama that caused? Your father found out and now even Reatus can’t protect me from him."
"He's just worried because he doesn’t want things to be like what happened to him. You know, me losing you like he lost my mother."Airyonna looked away for a few moments and sighed, "I mean, I guess it couldn't have been easy raising the three of us alone after she passed."
Jack, the Guardian of Fun, Leader of the Horsemen, listened on and felt bad. Had Retane been there still, he would have been the one running the day to day business, as well as keeping an eye on the Namekian children, but it was Jack that now ran Horsemen and had to handle all the politics. This meant that his life was on the line, even more than Airyonna’s, at all times. He couldn’t find fault in the reasoning.
“Would you like me to retire? We could live in the village or go build our own place, maybe even use the old base…” Frost paused as he watched his betrothed shake her head.
“You can’t. You must not. I can’t allow you to. I refuse it!” Airyonna was flush red. “You agreed to watch after them, and swore to protect them. You can’t give that up.” The Kunochi's ethics and moral values were strong, especially when it came to keeping her word. She would never forgive herself if she let Jack Frost give up on his own, even if it was for her sake.
"Well", Jack chuckled, "It was a suggestion. Well more like a question, but you know what I meant."
Airyonna rolled her eyes and watched as the grass wavered as a cool wisp of wind swept across the clearing. She inhaled the fresh air and smiled at the tranquility of it all.
Jack watched her for a moment, watching her glow as if there was a different aura about her. He conceded that it was probably because it wasn't often that they actually got to spend time together without the threat of some preeminent battle, or some violent fight just ending. The Horsemen closed his eyes and pulled her closer, basking in the sun, glad that she had suggested the gathering, and happy that they had a few days of peace- There was a sudden crack and rip off into the distance as a tree top began to split and fall towards the floor of the forest.
"So, can I ask you something, " Jack offered, chuckling at the coincidence of the interruption from the sibling Namekians.
"Mhm." The Kunoichi never even flinched at the disruption of her peace. "But you already asked a question, so I assume you want another one, so go ahead."
"Well, what brought all this on? I mean, I get the location, and I know why kind of, but it's sudden and unusual for you isn't it? I mean, I think I know why, but I guess I really don't? I can't explain it but something seems a bit off." Jack lifted up on an elbow and rested on his side scratching at his head as he asked, trying to meet her eye to eye though her eyes remained shut.
"Off?" Airyonna cracked open an eyelid, all curious like then closed it and gave a huff. "I can't make a suggestion for us all to get together without things being 'off'?"
Jack let out a sigh as his hand slapped his own thigh as he searched for the words, "Maybe I've been in the Horsemen too long and I'm paranoid, but things are just off. You, for like the first time I've ever seen you out and about, aren't even wearing your ninja gear. You never let your guard down like this. It is a bit... Confusing? Interesting? Intriguing? I am not sure what word to use?"
The Kunochi opened her eyes slyly and raised a brow, “So you don't like how I'm dressed?" Airyonna, in fact, usually wore dark clothes with a belt as well as well as carried weapons of her trade. For once she was clad in loose light blue pants with a matching lightweight hoodie that zipped up. Both were made of silk and smooth to touch.
Jack shook his head and placed his hand on her stomach, "Absolutely not. It's just weird. Like I said, I've probably been a Horsemen for far to long. I'm sorry."
As Frost laid his hands on the silk, even though it was light, Airyonna shuddered lightly. The face she made was a twisted smile full of mixed emotion and Airyonna knew it. She wasn't sure if it was his own hand that was cool or if it was just the silk being lightly pressed against her skin and she squirmed a bit giggling softly. Jack raised his hand slightly confused then rested it back on her stomach again. The Kunoichi knew then, that she had even raised more questions in the Guardian's head because she was certain that this wasn't a time he had used his snowy powers on her.
She looked up at the clear blue sky and took a deep breath as her weird smile faded, "Ok, I'm going to tell you something, but I don't want you to have a big reaction or anything. I was wanting to wait until everyone got here so I could tell you all together."
The Leader of the Horsemen ran the possibilities through his head, figuring it to mean some promotion within the ranks and looked around at the tree tops for a few moments than looked back at her and nodded, "Deal."
Airyonna took in a deep breath and calmed her excitement, trying to alter her rehearsed speech just for him. " Well, I chose this spot because this is the clearing where we buried Probitas." Both their eyes glanced at the dark green mound in the center of the clearing before returning to each other and Jack nodded understanding that point.
"Well, before then, and even after, we've all been kind of a family in and out of each other’s lives. I don’t know when I realized this, but I guess it’s how Retane made all of us feel in the end. We've always had each other’s backs and everything, even after he left our universe to return to his own. Maybe it made us become even closer, and everything. I still fell guilt, just like many of my Village do, for the loss of Probitas..."
"Airyonna..." Jack muttered as he wiped away the tears that were forming in her eyes. He pulled her close, knowing that the subject had always been touchy for many people.
"We met here again, last time, to see Retane off, as he ascended in power and left us. Remember?" She watched as Frost nodded and she tried to continue, searching for the words, because she realized she was screwing up her prepared speech and babbling out of context almost. She calmed herself for a few seconds shaking her head and took in a deep breath.
"Jack, the time before he left, when we buried Probitas here, you remember that Retane looked at everyone and said that 'Innocence is dead'?" Airyonna saw Jack squint, trying to follow and she knew she just had to rush through it. "Well it isn't, is it? I mean every child born is still innocent right? You beleive that don't you? We are all a family, right? Me, you, Alaina, Krosst, Triumpht, Naturae, Dante, even Retane and Probitas if he was here? Right? Because I really need us to be! It's why I wanted everyone here so I could tell them all at the same time!"
Jack looked confused but nodded, "Yeah we are all family, what’s going on? Why is your voice so high? Are you sick?"
"Jack, I'm pregnant." Airyonna blurted the words hardly realizing she had said them.
"Congrats on the promo-" Jack was in mid hug expecting to be supportive of a promotion that she might be receiving but he paused mid action as if he had been hit with his own Ball of Fun.
He was flooded with emotions and feelings as he laid there for mere seconds trying to process what he had just learned, but it felt as if it was an eternity. She was pregnant. That meant that it was his. It meant that he was going to be a father. He would have a a boy or a girl of his own to take care of. The Prince or Princess of Fun. Wait, would she be okay because he was a Guardian? He was once human but was he technically human still? Would his ice and wind powers transfer over to their child? Would the child affect her during the pregnancy? Could she handle it if it did? And what of him being the Leader of The Horsemen? Sure, Retane had been able to do it as a father, but he wasn't Retane.
Jack Frost jumped to his feet, pulling Airyonna up with him, "You are serious about this right? You are going to be- I'm going to be- We are going to have a mphmh.."
The Kunoichi shoved a hand across the Guardian's mouth to muffle the end of the declaration, and in an attempt to calm him down, "You said you wouldn't have a big reaction!"
Jack paused for a few seconds and removed her hand, feigning his most serious stare, " I know. I know." Jack Frost took a deep breath and let out a sigh as he took a step back. "Honestly though that wasn't a big reaction. A big reaction would be something like THIS!"
Frost snapped his fingers as he kicked off into a back flip, putting a slight distance between himself and Airyonna. As he landed with a slight skid, his Crooked staff flew into his hand, the center of it glowing with a bright blue orb. Jack tapped the ground and within seconds the ground was rumbling and a huge pillar of ice shot up towards the sky. The pillar grew in thickness to double the radius of the surrounding grove of trees. The pillar itself stood much taller than the trees and branched out almost in an umbrella like fashion, but instead of leaves the Giant Frost Tree was covered in Snow Lilies.
"Oh wow!" Airyonna stood wide eyed looking at the ego-produced 'flora'.
"That's what she said!" Jack grinned.
"That's so big!" Airyonna exclaimed, not paying Frost any attention.
"Thats what she said", Jack repeated.
"It's beautiful!" The Konoichi was smiling ear to ear.
"That- err Yeah, sure! Thats what she said...?" Jack seemed confused on how that one would work.
"Oh my god, Jack!"Airyonna spun around with her hands reached into the air.
"That is definately what she s-" Jack paused as he saw the glare in his partner's eyes
"You are a fool." Airyonna gave up on her ruse of acting like she was impressed with his huge phylactic ego.
Jack Frost only grinned and scratched at the back of his head as an iced dome started to form up behind him from the roots of the Frost Tree, "Comes with the territory."
As the frozen dome completed and sealed the two inside, Jack dropped his staff and rushed towards Airyonna, grabbing her close and pressing his lips hard against hers. After a long pause of intimacy, the two separated from their embrace, both knowing a lot needed to be said but neither knowing where to start.
"You know they are going to start coming and knocking on your make shift ‘get a room' soon, right?" Airyonna was the one to break the silence.
"Yeah. And I can't keep you in here long anyways, it getting cold and all in here and everything." Jack looked down at the stomach area where his spawn now resides.
"I'm a ninja, Jack, and the Medical Officer I spoke with said there isn't any worry. Worst case scenario we wind up with a ninja that controls water and wind, element. Maybe more?" The Kunoichi rolled her eyes. "Besides, I'm semi-adapted to the cold hanging around you."
The Guardian still rose a brow, unsure how customs were exchanged, "Medical Officer? Just how many people know? Should I inform your father?"
Airyonna giggled as she saw Jack Frost blush with confusion and embarrassment. "The medical Officer was my sister, and other then you now, only my brother knows. Alaina insisted on telling him so that he could be a part of this too. After all he watched over ‘him‘ for a while till he was called away.”