Arc 2 Chapter 176 A Stop Along The Way, Home At Last

"Tell me, where is he, bring him to me and no one has to get hurt!" Time Ragnar said and threatened both versions of Ragnar with a boxing stance. Several weird light floated around him, threatening to launch at Ragnar.

"He's dead!" Ragnar said, not giving any other details.

"Serves him right, that bastard, he should be tortured!" Time said, while clenching his fist. In response to his words Ragnar punched him in the face and sent him flying, while blocking the lights that hurled at him.

"You bastard, I knew you were up to something! Tell me, are you in alliance with Chaos!" Time Ragnar said and counterattack with more lights.

"I'm not in alliance with Chaos, I'm the one who killed him, but that doesn't give you the right to bad mouth him!" Ragnar said and morphed a sword into his hand, before jumping at Time Ragnar.

"If you killed him, why are you attacking, are you planing to kill me too? Is that your plan, clever I give you that, but I won't fall so easily." Time Ragnar said and blocked all Ragnar's sword slashes and threw lights at him. One of the orbs of light hit Ragnar's ribs and made them disappear.

"I have no plans to kill you, only discipline you, you bastard." Ragnar yelled and healed his wound after he slashed at Time Ragnar again.

The two continued to fight for a good time, until Sun Ragnar interfered with the fight and stopped them. By teaming up with Ragnar and defeating Time Ragnar and binding him to a tree they imagined to be there.

"You assholes, do you have no shame, teaming up on me in an honorable duel?!" Time screamed at them while struggling to escape his bindings.

"Oh shut up, we didn't ask your opinion. When you've calmed down we'll talk with you, till then have fun being trapped to the tree." Ragnar said, ready to leave his mind-scape and say hi to Ratri again.

"Now now, no need fir that, can't you see I'm calm, very calm and reasonable. Yes, I'm reasonable." Time Ragnar said and stayed still, not fighting against his bindings anymore.

"Well that's good, now tell me, can you teach me to control time, mister Time me, or are you going to be a pain in the ass for a while?" Ragnar asked.

"I don't know, depends, are you going to betray me like that bastard Chaos?" He asked Ragnar and a tick mark appeared on Ragnar's forehead.

"He's not a bastard! You have the right to be angry, but not the right to curse the dead!" Ragnar told Time Ragnar, who seemed irritated by his resolve to not allow him to curse Chaos Ragnar.

"Yeah yeah, shut up, just tell me, how long was I out?" He asked and Ragnar grew stiff.

"Well, millions of years, if not tens of millions of years and if we count the time we were at other places very, very long!" Ragnar said, while fidgeting with his fingers.

"So I was gone for more than thousand times my life? God fucking damnit, I'll kill that ugly piece of shit bastard, he should be in pain for all eternity. He should suffer the worst feelings and pain he could ever imagine!" Time Ragnar stated and got kicked in his stomach.

"Shut the fuck up, stay there and do nothing, I'm leaving!" Ragnar said and left.

In the realm he made quickly, to be able to enter his mind, Ratri was meditating. Her ability to grow, that had come to an end, all of a sudden appeared again and she could surpass her limits. She was now working on getting even stronger. Same could be said for Ragnar. Even though he was depressed right now,he was still meditating and working as hard as possible. The reason being that he didn't want time to think and he didn't want to morn for the ones that died long long ago. So all that was left was not thinking about it and that he did. For days he meditated and meditated, leaving the Time Raptor of himself trapped to a tree, while Sun was playing around.

Ragnar had greeted Ratri when he returned, but nothing else. There was no reason to do more, it's not like he was gone for long.

The process of condensing ones energy was a long and painful one. But Ragnar used his perfect memory to replay the worlds fighting evil over and over again. The worlds Justice had shown them really contained wisdom and just remembering them while meditating increased the speed of condensing by hundreds of times.

Years passed and Ragnar had forgotten the time version of him. He was focused fully on meditation and since the people they sent out hadn't returned he had no reason to stop.

But Ratri changed that fact when she got up and stretched slightly. Then she walked over to Ragnar and said. "Well, are we going to help then recruit or stay here all the time?"

"You can join them if you want, I'm staying here!" Ragnar said and jumped up all of a sudden. "Shit I forgot about him! Hey Ratri, do as you want, I'm not your master, I'm your friend!" Ragnar said and sat down, closing his eyes and entering the mind-scape.

"Sure I'll meditate a bit, then join them." She said and walked back to her side. But Ragnar didn't hear her, as he already had other things to deal with.

"Hi, how you've been?" Ragnar asked, as he nervously approached the tree.

"Good, great, awesome. Would be better though, if you didn't forget I was trapped to a fucking tree!" Time Ragnar yelled at Ragnar, who could do nothing but smile awkwardly at himself.

"What, pfft, I would never forget myself in such a spot, I mean look at you!" Ragnar said, trying to lie.

"Dude, just stop and let my of, I promise not to curse the evil version of us!" Time Ragnar promised and Ragnar jumped at the opportunity.

He quickly untied the knot that held Time Ragnar in place and walked towards the Sun version of him. Time Ragnar followed him without voicing a word, waiting for Ragnar to start the conversation.

As he arrived at Sun Ragnar's sleeping spot he stopped and turned to Time Ragnar.

"So, can you teach me how to travel time with control?" He asked, as he sat down next to the Sun version of himself.

"Off course I can! You asked the right man for the job, come on, get up. Let's get started already, no lazing!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'll get up!" Ragnar said and stood up, he waited for the instructions of his current teacher.

"Okey first up, we need an anchor!" Time Ragnar said, with excitement evident in his voice.

"What's a time anchor?" Ragnar asked.

"I'm glad you asked my good friend. A time anchor is a constant, a medium for your travels. With it you will have an up and down when you travel. Right now you simply just jump into the chaotic ever changing stream of infinite timelines. But with the anchor you will be able to travel the timeline, not enter the timelines. What I mean by that is that you will be able to walk through the timelines, instead of just entering a random timeline, after letting your power go out of control. That weird spec of light and darkness you see, as you disappear and appear in a new place, that's where you want to go and you need an anchor for that!" Time Ragnar said.

"Can I have more then one anchor?"

"No, no you can't, if you don't want to trap yourself in a timeline until you remove one of your anchors. Not a very beneficial act, if I do say so!"

"Okey, then how do I get home and make that my timeline?" Ragnar asked.

"Well, is it your original timeline, that you refer as home?"

"Yes?" Ragnar asked with a voice that begged for answers.

"Then it's fine. All beings have an anchor to their original timeline until they create an anchor, so you can get back home, but the other benefits from an anchor will not be given until you make it an anchor intensionally!"

"Then how do I return home? Can you teach me, I have to get home, before I travel again!" Ragnar asked.

"Fine come, sit down. To return home, is really simple. Imagine a light, that light is your home. The very day, the very hour the very minute and the very second you left. Reach out to this light, not with your hands, but with your powers over time, the lights that represent that very concept. Now make your lights circle them like you usually make it circle yourself and done! Now gather your friends and get going, we have much to do when we get back to your home!"

"Sure but I'll wait a bit!" Ragnar said and left his mind-scape. He started meditating the second he got up and waited and waited. Millions of years passed and he finally reached 35 layer, just on time for them to return. With them was every single sixth dimensional being of this timeline, something that stunned Ragnar for some seconds. But he regained his cool quickly and said.

"Great job, with all this time I figured out to get home, so let's go!" Ragnar said and Ratri smiled in excitement and said "finally let's go baby!" She said all exited.

Ragnar smiled at her antics and embraced everyone in his Nightwater to be sure they came with him and started to use his powers seriously. His light surrounded everyone and grasped to the light Ragnar was imagining in his head. Soon it started ti rotate and circle the light, before a different color was born and puff, gone.

230 sixth dimensional beings appeared inside Cronus realm. Thanks to his powers, no one could feel Ragnar's return. Cronus stood there and smiled at Ragnar. "It seems you succeeded at getting some friends and finding your way home. But you lost something on the way it seems!" Cronus said and walked up to Ragnar and hugged him. "I know it's hard to lose someone that you saw as yourself, but your struggle and pain is yet over. So face it with honor and courage. Do it for Chaos, or yourself, whatever suits your needs. Now, would you like to intrude me to your friends?" Cronus asked and waved his hand over all 230 sixth dimensional being watching them. 200 of them not even familiar with any of the two.

Ratri stepped forward and said. "Allow me to do it, after all I recruited them while Ragnar trained sir!" Ratri said, with respect in her voice. She could tell he was way above everyone here and was most likely not even sixth dimensional. While the rest just thought he was in the 70layer, as that was how he appeared to the rest.

"Very well please tell me!" Cronus said and stopped mid sentence. He turned to Ragnar in slow motion and Ragnar who noticed where Cronus was looking before turned stiff and became very awkward.

"Ragnar, did you just recruit all of norse mythology?" He asked as he looked back at the one eyed man and all his followers and enemies within his pantheon.

"Oh, does our reputation proceed us? I am flattered you know us!" Odin said to Cronus while Cronus smiled at him and turned to Ragnar again.

"I admit Ragnar recruiting a whole replica of your enemies pantheon to fight them is a very good strategy, a fucked up one, but good!" Cronus said and Ragnar looked away.

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