Chapter 24
In all honesty, I don't know if I'll ever have a meaningful author's note in these next few chapters...
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"What do you mean she isn't from our time period?" Esper asked.
"If she really isn't, then what time period did she come from?" Add wondered. (Y/n) didn't say a word. She was beyond shocked. First another Add shows up and now she's being told that she wasn't even from her Add's original time.
"Just listen. I went back in time and found out certain events. Apparently, when this all started, our very first self figured out the time travel equation and time traveled but he accidentally went too far," Time said.
"How far?" Esper asked the question they all wanted to know.
"Two hundred years too far," Time answered. Silence filled the air for a moment...well in the area that they were in. Only three others had gotten on the train besides them. "I'll start the story from the beginning...
[Excerpts of (Y/n)'s Past 1]
Add had finally gotten over the pain that his eye brought him and he had long since figured out how to time travel. The only problem now was finding the right time coordinates and the right timeline. Add had travelled to the wrong one and was now in some unknown forest that he didn't want to be in. "Damn it. Not again," he muttered as he took in his surroundings. He looked to his left and spotted something that he hadn't seen there just a moment ago. No, it was a someone, not a something. They saw that Add had seen them and slowly revealed themselves.
"Please don't kill me," the little girl said with tears in her eyes. She seemed no older than three. Add was shocked to see such a small child in the middle of a forest. Before he could say or do anything, voices could be heard along with the sound of footsteps. The little girl panicked and was about to run, but the people that had been heard appeared behind her.
One of them didn't hesitate to shoot the child and another didn't hesitate to shoot at Add. The shot missed, and Add didn't waste any time in taking down the five men that he saw. He looked back to the child finding that she was dead. Despite not knowing who this child was or where she had come from, he felt responsible for her death and the guilt weighed him down.
"This is so bothersome," he muttered as he set his dynamos to travel back in time to just a few minutes earlier. It was a short time jump so Add was able to set the coordinates correctly. When he appeared this time, he looked right at the little girl who wasn't surprised to see him there. She walked to him and instead of waiting for her to speak, Add immediately picked the girl up.
"No, don't kill me," she pleaded, attempting to break free of his hold.
"Quiet. I'm saving you," Add growled as he picked her up and took the child deeper into the forest. The sounds of the people who were supposed to kill the girl were now getting closer. Add didn't feel like running so he created a void and brought the little girl with him as he went in and closed it. She clung to his shirt as they floated, probably afraid of the void that they were in. Add felt somewhat uncomfortable with the small child in his arms, but he didn't mind since he hadn't just witnessed the child's death. When he left the void, the child's former pursuers were gone. He looked around just to be sure before attempting to put the child down. Yes, attempted. The little girl refused to let him go.
"Hey, they're gone now. You can go home," Add said as he tried to pull the child off of him again.
"There is no home. There is only them," the little girl quietly spoke. Add sighed.
"What the hell did I just get myself into?" he thought. "Where exactly did you come from?" Add asked the child. She looked at him with teary eyes.
"It's not where I come from. It's where they brought me. I don't want to die. They'll kill me just like they killed everyone else," the little girl said. She seemed smart for her age, understanding the concept of death already.
"Then where am I supposed to take you? You can't go with me," Add sighed.
"I won't then. I just want to live," the girl whispered and then buried her face into Add's shirt. Add flinched a bit, not used to close contact or children for that matter. There was no way to get out of the situation at the moment, so he would just have to explore the surrounding area a bit.
"Fine then. I'll take you somewhere else, but after that you're on your own," Add muttered as he stepped onto his dynamos. He flew them above the trees to get a better look at their surroundings but was met with a disturbing sight. The forest itself was burning, and there was a set if buildings in the distance that were slowly crumbling in the flames. Add could still see remnants of people burning in the fire attempting to escape even though they were already engulfed in the flames.
The little girl was about to lift her head from Add's shirt, but he gently put his hand into her hair and kept the child from doing so. He didn't know why, but he didn't want the little girl to see what was happening. "Close you eyes," Add instructed as he tore his own gaze away from the sickening sight. He would have to take her somewhere else. Wherever this place was, he couldn't leave the girl there without having a guilty conscious.
"Add, am I going to die here? Will you leave me behind and live with a guilty conscious?" the little girl asked. Add was startled at the girl's words.
"How did you...?" Add was saying, but he didn't get to finish his sentence since the little girl cut him off.
"It's my curse, the result of my immunity. I read your thoughts and saw one of your memories. You time travel," the little girl explained. Add looked down at the girl in curiosity.
"What else do you know?" he asked her.
"If you take me somewhere safe, I can tell you. I can't think properly while I'm unsafe. It doesn't end well for those around me." Add didn't question her anymore and started to think of somewhere he could take the girl.
"Any idea of what's out here?" he asked the child.
"Past the forest is a gate. Past that gate is a village. It's abandoned since they destroyed it. One of them was thinking about that destroyed village before I escaped," the girl said.
Add nodded. "Let's go then." He directed his dynamos back into the forest, but stayed near the canopy in case any of the members of that group were still lurking. He didn't want to be shot and he was sure that the child in his arms didn't want to be either. After a while, Add reached the gate and he could see the destroyed place that the child had mentioned. "There's no way you can survive here," Add muttered.
"I will. I bet I will," the little girl assured as she looked up at him now that he wasn't keeping her from doing so.
"What would you know about bets?" Add asked the child, no longer surprised by her intelligence.
"Enough to know how to make one," the girl replied.
"Is that so? Then what are you betting?" Add inquired.
"I bet that if you come back ten years in the future, I'll have completely created my own village," the girl bet. She seemed entirely serious, so Add considered it. If he were to actually do that and the girl wasn't there, he could simply come back.
"Deal," Add said as he made his way to the abandoned village. He found a decent looking abandoned building to leave the child in. When he put her down, he backed up from her a little. "I'm going to go ahead ten years on the future to this exact spot, and I bet that you'll have found somewhere else to go by the time I get here in ten years."
"This exact spot?" the girl asked just to be sure.
"Yes. I don't know how you're going to survive for ten years, but good luck with that. This was your bet not mine," Add said to the child.
"You'll see. I'll be right here waiting for you," the little girl said.
"Sure you will. You just better hope I get these time coordinates right," Add thought. He set his dynamo and disappeared.
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Odd turn of events huh but at least you get to know how this all started right? Until next time you awesome readers!
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