Wow, what a major glare and wide smile, from Ms.brown eyed barmaid here. I should’ve guessed, antagonists always hide right under your nose. Like how I’m hiding from Samudra, under a magic tarp, in the rain. Possessing a rat. Hiding behind a pile of trash.

And there's the ominous lightning strike! How does he even do that? It's not even under his domain. Oh Dear Creator, I’m terrified he’ll walk through that door.

“You gotta be shitting me.”

Oop. Mr.Hero really is going through it, huh? First the double commandeering, losing his crew, and now he has to babysit a merc’s target!

“Nope. Sorry, but I need princy's head. I’m a little cut back on money, and time, so let's make this quick, yeah?”

HA! I knew it! He really is a runaway noble! And a prince at that!

“Listen, we can talk this out peac-”

“Go ahead and take him.-”

“ARI!”

FUCK! OH SHIT! NO! NO! DUDE, JUST FUCK OFF! THIS IS SO UNNECESSARY!

“YOU LITTLE FUCK! WHAT DO YOU EVEN THINK YOUR DOING? YOUR GONNA FUCK EVERYTHING UP HERE!”

“YOU’RE ONE TO TALK, YOUR RUINING MY FUN! WHY DO YOU EVEN CARE IF I MESS WITH THINGS? JUST FUCK OFF!”

“Is that guy yelling at a rat?”

“I mean- It's responding?”

“THAT'S IT! GET OUT OF THE RAT! RIGHT NOW!”

Is he trying to stomp on me!? This asshole! Come on little rat body keep jumping!

“FUCK YOU! NO!”

“What the hell?” x 3

I’ll just run away asshole! How ‘bout that! You can’t keep up with that physical form of yours! Those muscles make it too big for you to get around anywhere! Hah! Weave! In and out and around the merchant stalls! You're the weird one here! Chasing a rat! You don’t even have any of your little animals here to possess! Hah ha! Away and away in circles! You can’t do shit! Up, up, and away!

“ARI! I SWEAR TO THE CREATOR GET DOWN FROM THE TARP!”

“NO!”

I’ll just run across the rooftops! Oh! I can get a good view of the boys from up here! Come on just a little closer! Yes! Oh damn! The girl is kicking their asses! Princey’s been flattened! Mr.Hero seems to be doing alright, but those daggers are definitely gonna get him, pretty shade of red too, just a matter of time! I could even jum- SHIT!

“Dammit Ari. Stop wiggling! Do you even know what you’ve done?”

“Let me go! And if the Creator hasn’t come down to smite me themselves, then fuck off! This is none of your business!” Why do you even care!

“LET GO OF MY HAIR! YOU LITTLE-! THAT’S IT!”

DID HE JUST THROW ME? That asshole! I’m taking the hair I pulled out and making it into a damn victory bracelet! OW!

“AH! RAT!”

Yeah, that’s right lady! I clawed ya’ on the face! Now leave my boys alone!

“ALRIGHT! WIZARD, LET’S GO!”

“You're in charge, sailor.”

And back to running with the wizard under his arm, like a sack of potatoes! And- Dammit, she’s chasing us! Is the rain coming down harder?

“LISTEN, UH, MS. COULD WE DO THIS LATER? WHEN IT'S NOT RAINING?”

The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

“SO SORRY~, BUT I’M ON A TIME CRUNCH! NOT MUCH WIGGLE ROOM.”

Ah, shit, Samudra is definitely gonna do something! How is our wizard doi- Oh shit! A dagger almost cut off a whisker! You know what, since waterboys abusing his power I can just do the same! Now, how do I want to do it? We’re running past a bunch of stalls, are we headed deeper into the city or back to the por- Oh, I see a castle in the distance! If we get close enough I can speed up the rate of weathering on the bottom of the wall and send it crashing! I can use his tricks against him, and the mercenary while I’m at it!

“Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit-”

Is the hero boy alright? He seems a bit panicked.

“Come on now, Red! You don’t need him! You were so willing to give him up earlier!”

“Oh fuck off! Mercenaries, wizards! A horrible mix that always seems to come in the rain.”

What kind of saying is that?

“Oh, just throw me to the wolves already. We don’t even know eachothers names.”

“Yeah, well, nice to meet you, name's Aidren. Yours?”

“We’re getting chased by a mercenary, and now we’re doing introductions? No need to exchange pleasantries at death's door.”

Oh, cute saying. Definitely stealing that.

“If I end up killing you, I at least want to know your name.”

“It- wait, you kill me? We’re the ones getting chased!”

Yeah, what do you mean by that?

“Careful there! Compared to the royal guards, I’m a walk in the meadow babes!”

Oh please. Forget whatever she's saying, the water is coming down harder and we’re almost close enough to the stone wall! Just one more moment of running!

“Hey, try not to curse me in death, alright wizard?”

And there! Wait- is that electricity in the air?

The wall bursts down on all of us.

He fried my rat. He- I- this is. He Fried. My. Rat.

Now, not only do I not have a physical form to possess right now, Samudra is glaring at me, also in his incorporeal form. This is just great.

“Great job.”

“Fuck you.” I don’t even want to talk to you right now. I don’t even know how to get my boys out of this. Not to mention, red headed hero decided not to share the fact he had magic, the type in which does that much damage to himself.

“I’m- I am sorry, about, the fight, we had back up there.”

Hm?

“Oh no, don’t worry about that, it’s fine.”

“But Az said that you did something, because of me? Because of the argument?”

Really?

“He said that? I just did it out of boredom, I just used the fight as an excuse for him not to question me.”

“You-?”

And there’s the royal guards. I’m not helping move the rubble, the idiots can be without my help for a while.

“Then all of this. All of this, fucking around with the mortals perception of fate, along with their destinies. All of this, is because you were bored as well?”

As well?

“What? You possess war generals all the time in other stories, what’s wrong with me doing the same here?”

“You are literally the manifestation of TIME. You messing around with mortals, means messing around with the entirety of their story's world.”

“So what? As if they don’t like the fun. And, why shouldn’t I try to change their destinies, huh? What’s so wrong with that?”

“Have you even seen what their destinies are yet?”

“...No. And I already know that the story is supposed to be some kind of found family trope. I’m not changing that, I’m just messing around to see if I can wildly change the ending. That’s all.”

The guards are starting to move them, better follow.

“You're insane. Of course meddling with the story changes the outcome.-”

“I know that! I just- I got bored.”

“Bored? Really?’

“OH COME ON! You try wasting away in that damn library! All I have is a frog and books! The only thing that moves in there are the butterflies! And they rarely stick around!”

“What about the nerd trio? They stay in there with you don’t they?”

“Yeah, in their lab on the second floor! I haven’t seen them in what feels like forever!”

Those three assholes rarely leave their room! Constantly doing experiments on what should even be possible. We are literally manifestations of laws of nature, thought up by the Creator, and they decide to play scientist, so they can see what should be mortally possible! None of us even bow to the predisposed opinions of mortals! So what if mortals can’t comprehend us. Why would they even need to know all the intricacies of Space, Mass, and Gravity. Others get off their planets through simple misconceptions of what should be possible and make it work.

“Seriously? Why didn’t you just tell Seraphin? He would have dragged them out.”

“Well, yeah, but they just ignore me or try to get me to join in on their little projects. They see me as nothing more than a variable in their own schemes.”

“I- You said that you haven’t seen their destinies yet, right? So why are you following them?”

“Well- because, they seem to be the main characters?”

“Are you kidding me?”

“I came here because I was bored! Of course I looked for adventure.”

“What do you mean, main characters? Wh- You didn’t.”

Ah shit. Don't look at me like that!

“So what!”

“You took a draft!? This is a draft?!”

“You say that like it’s a big deal!”

“CAUSE IT IS! AR- Do you realize how fragile this world is?”

“Yeah, perfect place for me to mess around with.”

“That no- You could rip this whole thing apart. This whole place is a damn gray area for both of us.”

“Exactly why I said that if the Creator doesn’t come down here and smite me themselves, then it's free game. And how did you even get in here without thinking it was a draft?”

“Hm, lets see. One, I’ve never seen a draft, and Two, your damn frog kept trying to jump down my throat.”

Good job Mr.Frog.

“Too bad. So are you going to stay and mess with the story with me~?”

“Absolutely not.”

Phooey.

"You mind not snitching?"

"As long as you tell me what you did."

"What I did?"

"Yeah? To get back at me for the argument?"

"Oh I didn't do anything, this is all I did."

"You litt-"