Chapter 1 - Terra Shattered
Location: London â€" England â€" Earth
Munchy arose from the rain storm, he was confused and dazed as he watched over the grey pavement. He wondered just for second if he was actually alive or not but somehow the feeling of the rain reassured him that he was still alive. He grunted as he rose to his feet, completely unaware of what had happened.
When he came to his senses, the full extent of his ordeal was shown. His face was tired and blood was dripping from his muzzle. One of his tails had a large gash in it but somehow he was still alive.
It made no sense... Levantine said that he would cease to exist when Yggdrasil was destroyed.
Why was he still alive and not in oblivion!?
He got up as he heard something moving past him, he looked up from the pavement to see a car drive past him, splashing a puddle in his face.
"Naaaaar!" he exclaimed as the water splashed all over him. "Where the hell am I?"
He looked around. He was outside of tall tower-like building that was the strangest architecture he had ever seen. The building seemed to be a completely grey, concrete block which was built out with a few windows.
"What the fuck..." said Munchy, he felt slightly ill from wherever he had come from. He quickly looked up to see someone coming and dashed behind some bins in order to get a better look.
The two people walking past were human. "Dammit... Asgard" he said to himself, looking about himself for a weapon that he could use. Where was it? He had nothing on him so he crouched down.
The humans were two females that laughed and shouted as they moved down the street. They were wearing increasingly provocative outfits that would be considered as "slutty" and looked more like prostitutes then would-be "gods".
Munchy waited until they had passed, he had never been in this city before and with Asgard everywhere it was going to be difficult to make do unnoticed. What the hell was he going to do?
Location: The Sword of the Stars â€" Altia Galaxy
Levantine sat at the table in front of the strangest beings ever seen. They looked like swirls of light that seemed to have absolutely no physical form. The beings had transported her away from certain annihilation when Yggdrasil had been destroyed.
"She can't be alive!?" shouted Levantine. "I saw what happened to her!"
She had been having a conversation with these strange beings as soon as she arrived. These beings, calling themselves the Asaruu claimed that they had been the original creators of Yggdrasil and all life that stemmed from it. Levantine remained very sceptical even after she had seen how massive and advanced that their vessel was.
The Asaruu's vessel was called poetically "The Sword of the Stars", it was an absolutely wondrous ship. As large of a planet, this vessel housed a massive colony for the Asaruu since according to them, they were driven from their realm outside of the space-time continuum and now lived on this massive vessel.
Levantine could not believe that she was talking to wisps of light but they had certainly proved to be kind and powerful, healing her wounds as soon as she arrived on the ship.
"Our universe..." droned one of the beings who was hovering on the table. So bright was the light that Levantine could hardly look at them for long. "Has been destroyed... we created life to be our legacy in the event that we were eradicated."
Levantine found this quite difficult to accept. In fact, she found the whole thing completely preposterous to believe. She was sat here being told by a wisp of light that they had created all life, everything that stemmed from Yggdrasil. "Well forgive me for being cynical but why did you not get involved?"
The energy being fluttered. "The nature of our existence means that we cannot enter the solid universe. However we were only awakened from our rest aboard this ship when Yggdrasil had been destroyed..." The voice of the Asaruu was low and droning but also strangely calming, like a soothing melody that made Levantine feel at ease.
Levantine straightened up her armour and continued to speak, her fur-less tail twitched slightly as she still found a lot these days hard to believe. "And you mean to tell me that Galladia is still alive..."
"Yes... she has grown beyond our control. But because of the destruction of Yggdrasil and your attempt to replant a new one, you have corrupted the time-line and merged the Altia Galaxy with a new Galaxy called the "Milky Way"."
Levantine could not help but giggle at the term "Milky Way" but when she heard next soon made her stop smiling.
"Your friend Munchy is trapped inside the Milky Way. If he is discovered, it will pollute another series of events. We have brought you here to answer for your crimes."
Levantine was extremely insulted, she got up slamming her hands into the table. "CRIMES!" she shouted. "I was trying to stop EXISTANCE from being erased..."
"And in doing so... you have caused irreparable damage to our time-lines. If you had no attempted that, Galladia would have been annihilated and we could have started again."
"And so would have we!" shouted Levantine, not quite believing what she was hearing.
The wisp of light flickered before her. "All life in the universe goes through an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth. Your selfish actions have disrupted the cycle and prevented us from salvaging the situation. With both universes trying to occupy a single point, you have created the risk of a temporal explosion from which their will be nothing left."
Levantine sighed and sat down. She had already been through so much already, why put her through anymore.
"So what do we do?" she asked.