AN: HEY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, I WILL BE TAKING THE NEXT FEW DAYS OFF AND WILL BE REPOSING AGAIN ON MONDAY I HOPE THIS CHAPTER CLEARS UP SOME CONFUSION PEOPLE HAD ABOUT THE LAST 2 CHAPTERS AND ALSO I AM CALLING MY FIRST STARSHIP THE ATLAS.

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Chapter 12

“Where is my daughter?” Leo asked in a panicked frenzy.

“She is safe I swear upon the primordial powers. She is safe.” Chaos said to him raising a hand to try and calm Leo down.

Taking in deep breaths he asked the God, “What do you want?”

“Your help.” He answered plainly.

Leo was now confused, what would cause the primordial god, the ruler of all; to kidnap his daughter?

“Nox and Erebus have been… preoccupied so to speak.”

“What do you mean? I thought they gave me wishes to entertain them, then all of a sudden they have something else?”

With a difficult expression Chaos just said, “I guess preoccupied isn’t the right word. The correct word is…working, they working but beyond this realm of existence.”

“What? Why would they work, but not in this realm of existence?” Leo asked in disbelief.

In a deep depressing sigh Chaos considered his options. The universe would need a future champion and in telling him now, he would have to rise to that challenge. The fate of not only his children, but the entire multiverse could collapse and be changed from existence. If he didn’t tell him but used Sara as a hostage instead then he’d do it anyway, to give him a choice or not. That was the question.

Chaos tapped his chin and stared into Leo’s mind. Not the first time he’d done it but he had done it multiple times in order to attain a grasp on Leo’s character. He’d been doing it all year and finally got what he needed. An answer.

“It’s a long explanation but let’s deal with this first. If you agree to help me, I will give you your daughter back. However by agreeing you are making a deal with me, deals with me don’t get broken. So I will ask you, how much do you love your daughter?” Chaos asked him.

“I’ll do it, I agree just let her go!” Leo pleaded.

“As you wish.” Chaos said with a wave of his hand Sara appeared in front him with a flashing light. She was floating in mid-air with a look of serenity on her face.

“She’s sleeping and doesn’t remember anything about me holding her for the last few days. All she’ll remember is the fact I took her and brought her to you. She’ll remain that way until you hear your duty now.” Chaos declared.

Leo could only nod as he looked at his daughter floating peacefully.

“Good. Take a seat.” Chaos said with a wave of his hand allowing a table and chairs to appear.

Struggling to sit down Leo wanted to do nothing more than to take his daughter away and hold her. Yet he knew that wouldn’t work. As Chaos sat down he began to explain.

“You know the multi-verse is true and so you know there are other universes out there. The multiverse is like a tree, all with a single origin point, what you humans call the big bang. All is in a way is correct from your human understanding. Gods are sort of the creatures that inhabit the tree, we take some essence and in return we protect and maintain the tree. Understand me so far?”

“Yes.”

“Good, well what other people don’t know is that there are things… how would you say… other trees? Their existence is similar to ours but not as vibrant. If our tree gets taken over it’s sort of like a sale to get rid of stock to make space for the new stock. Everything must go…. Understand?”

Leo understood. If new gods came in and look over their multiverse, then all life would be removed in order to make space for the new life. The new gods would destroy everything that remembered the old gods. Then install a new society that believed only in them. Which begged to questiong…

“Is that what you were? You take over this tree?” Leo asked.

“Ah no. I am the original tender to this tree. When I spoke of taking over, did you think we were the only tree? Oh no there are other trees Leo. What we call the multiverse is but a single tree in the existence of the forest.”

“So what do you want me to do? How can I help you if I can’t even fight them?”

“Ah yes, your role. When multiverses are invaded the gods can only battle on their level. So mortals can only battle other mortals, gods can only fight other gods. We didn’t make that rule the Origin did. So in this case a god will normally raise empires and armies, and bring them into the tree to attack.”

“How long does out multiverse have?”

“About 100 years.”

“And how am I supposed to help? I can’t turn earth into a space faring civilization, galactic empire, and build a super fleet in 100 years. That’ll take that long just to get them unified.”

With a one sided frown Chaos sighed.

“That is true, but I don’t need you to lift earth into a space empire. I have a better idea, an idea I think you’ll agree with. All that time when you were a kid, when you watched those tv shows, read those books, and played those games. I know you wanted to change the story your way, a way for you to be the hero. Leo, I can give you the chance to visit your favorite worlds and let you do just that. I can grant you the ability to travel the multiverse in that way you can build your empire. Now as for other motivation -and I’m not talking about your daughter-. I will give you the chance to bring all you care about into immortality. I will grant you and your family godhood.” Chaos offered.

Leo looked at Chaos and inside felt a conflicting struggle. Should he do it? Was there a reason for him to do it? Of course. Would he want godhood? Yeah of course, assuming he survived. Did he want to see all the worlds he’d had a deep longing for? The answer to that was hell yeah. Leo wanted this except he had to think about his daughter and Sadia as well.

“Would I be alone? If I travel the multiverse. Will I have to do it alone?” Leo asked.

“Of course not” Chaos smiled.

“Ok then, you have yourself a champion. Now give me my daughter.” Leo said.