13. Visita

POV MC - SHADOW DIMENSION

While my experimental body sleeps, I can come back here, and see this landscape once again. It is always something that fills me with expectation, but now it also brings me concern.

Keeping my mind in my experimental body, or Swan Dim, I have received a visit from an extremely powerful being, but it seems that for the time being it has come in peace. So it is time to return the visit, and find out what is going on.

I get up from my armchair, and walk towards the exit to the Marvel Multiverse, taking 'road' 19999. This one in my world was known as the MCU. At least it is less messy than the others.

As I pass through the entrance, I find myself in a peculiar structure, where people dressed as monks stood in sync, with one arm outstretched and the other spinning in the air. Looking a little more closely, I realize what it is.

Sure enough, they stopped as soon as I appeared, and three of the well-known characters from this universe were standing in front of me, staring at me. Their features were hard and tense, and their hands already had spells ready.

"Sorry to disturb your training, but I would like to have a word with the Elder," I say, trying to sound as calm and civil as possible.

When one of the three Masters of the Mystic Arts went to answer me, and that was Mordo, the Elder appears, drawing everyone's attention. She teleported without the use of a portal, a rather complicated technique.

"To what do I owe the visit, sir?" she asks, while signaling for the apprentices and masters to lower their hands.

"Um~" I kind of blank out on what to answer for a while. But then I get right to the point. "I sensed your arrival at my place, so I came to find out if you needed any help or anything like that." I say half-heartedly.

"Oh, I see, shadow dimension." she says, and the three masters tense up on the spot. "Relax, I said shadow dimension, not dark, there's quite a difference between them. I think it's time for you guys to review the book on sub-dimensions."

She says, it just looked like she made a comment, but this was actually her giving her students a lesson and assignment. Even masters now, they still tend to listen to the teachings of the Elder.

"Sorry, I was looking for something, when I came across your house. Sorry to disturb your rest." she says, very calmly.

"If it's not too much, I'd like the Elder to accompany me to my dimension, I think I can help you with a little annoying problem you're carrying." I say, opening a portal, which was nothing else, the same way I came.

"Interesting, a road leading to the protected grounds of Kamar-Taj. Well, I accept the invitation." she says, and before her students could protest, she says. "Wong, Mordo, Caecilius, you will be in charge for a while. I'll be back soon."

Then she walks toward the portal. She passes, and I follow her, closing the portal behind me. We walk for a while, until we reach where I normally stand.

"I would offer you some tea, but unfortunately, this dimension has nothing to please your palate. But that's not what I invited you to do," I say, and the Elder continues my words.

"You just want to make sure that your arrival in my universe doesn't cause turmoil and complications, and that I know when that will be." she says, and I was standing there with my mouth open.

That wasn't it.

"Actually, I wanted to ask if it is not in your interest, to replace the dark energy with shadow energy. I agree that it would be a little weaker, but since it's just to keep you out of time counting, I guess it'll do.

It also doesn't keep that heartbreak in your head, putting pressure on you every second waiting for you to break. And no, I'm not asking for anything in return, maybe a blind eye when I'm your reality, but it's still a long way off, at least for me."

"Why help me? I've never done anything to deserve the help of a dimensional lord, quite the opposite, I've always kept them away." she asks.

"Well, you won't be able to see with that green stone of yours, but I was once a human being. From a distant and different reality, yes, but still, I wanted to know what the Ancient One was like, being able to relax and have fun without the constant headache.

Not to mention that as much as I went today, with my original body to his universe, I could only because, first, I was not attacking him and second, because I would be there for no more than a few minutes. More than that, the walls of reality would break down, and everything would come to an end.

This is exactly why I have only a drop of my being traveling through the vast multiverse. So I can live the life that the worlds have to offer me, as well as not get into the madness that is staying here," I explain.

She stares at me for a while, until a smile appears on her face.

"I fully understand how suffocating immortality can be. That's why I used the dark dimension to keep me alive. That way, I would have the constant reminder of what I am protecting, keeping me focused.

But I accept to connect to this dimension. But it will have to be at another time, the time has not yet come, and your help will be most welcome when that time comes," she says, and begins to make her way back.

I follow her in silence, until I open the portal, connecting my dimension to Kamar-Taj. Before I pass through, she faces me once again.

"I've always been good at reading people. I can see that you don't want to be at the center of the messes of these universes you visit. You just want to help out here and there. Your ambition is to live a life your way, and I respect that.

You, or your drop, as you like to call it, will be welcome when you decide it is time to visit us. I hope it will be soon. Pass well, Allucard the forgetful." she goes through the portal, and I return to my usual spot.

But why, Allucard the forgotten? That is something I will ask when the time comes to live in that crazy universe.