The multiverse was at war.

There were three sides, the 'good side', the 'bad side', and the 'neutrals'.

The war wasn't like most, you know, some sides gang up on the others and try to conflict as much damage as possible until one or more side gives up, sometimes thus ending the war. This war was much more 'stop-start, stop-start' of a war, peace treaties being signed, and then broken soon after. Some people in sides moving to the other, trying to pick the one most likely to win.

Said war has been going on for over a dreaded five hundred years, neither side backing down in defeat. None willing to give up, though some willing to stop. There's a difference between stopping, and giving up. 

There were two major groups, these two being the 'good side', and the 'bad side'. They had both formed large colonies, empires if you may call them, of followers of both leaders. The Empire of Les ombres, translated to The Empire of The Shadows, and The Empire of Les étoiles, translated to The Empire of The Stars. The leader of The Empire of Les ombres, is Nightmare Sans, King of Darkness and Guardian of Negativity, also known as the leader of the 'bad side'. The leader of The Empire of Les étoiles, is Ink Sans, Protector of Alternate Universes, Guardian of Creativity, also known as the leader of the 'good side'.

These two sides are, luckily for them, quite a way apart from each other, being on either side of the multiverse in their own little pocket-universes that the opposition can't access.

You may be wondering about the 'neutrals'. They don't have an empire, or a leader they follow strictly behind, and are happy that way. They just want peace within the chess game that is the multiverse. But of course a game of chess can't be over until one side gives up, or until they are defeated, and someone says checkmate. One side wins. The other looses. Its just a fact of life in this world, they have learnt to cope with it.

Oh would it be so lovely to go back just a bit over five hundred years ago, when all was perfect. No big wars between two colonies. No having to sign more than seventy pieces of paperwork an hour. Just peace and quiet, for the most part that is. Back when the two Princes of Dreamtale were sitting by the tree, reading books in the extensive library of their castle, enjoying pie made by the 'servants' who worked there on free will.

But, oh how times have changed, new technology being found, new battles here and there, an endless war between those who think they are doing bad, and those who think they are doing good . . .



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-Bean