Time void
Aerion was tired; unaffected by time, he was tired of the constant cycle of watching time pass before his eyes every single second. He opened his big-fanged mouth to roar out his frustration, but his roar only got absorbed in one of the time's dimensions. This was the very first time he had shown his frustration with the job the ruler of the worlds gave him since the beginning of the worlds. The nine worlds of Euira had been in constant turmoil because of their opposing power levels,until Andromil, their supreme ruler, had decided to bestow the gods blessing on nine virtuous individuals created from the union of man and the sacred celestial human beasts serving him. Aerion, a child dragon at the time, had been one of the chosen. A cracking sound caught his attention, and he turned his focus to the origin. To his shock, he saw that Mari, the water planet, was releasing a swirl of mana towards Earth, a dimension that was banned from ever owning mana since the beginning of time. Only a few individuals were counted worthy to be open to using their sixth and seventh senses. 'What is this?' he said to himself. This was the first time an anomaly such as this had happened, and he wondered what could have caused it. As he rose from his resting position to check the source of the disruption from his system of time, a bright shining light immediately blinded his vision, and out of it emerged a beautiful fair woman with two wings on each side of her back, clothed in the clouds. In a normal millisecond, Aerion always greeted anything of beauty with awe and sometimes lust in his eyes, but this time he couldn't, as he clearly saw the countenance on the woman's face wasn't one of cordiality but anger. 'You fool, what did you do?' she shouted at him in anger.
'Good day to you too, Lady Priestess,' he answered sarcastically. 'I would have added the time, but as you can see, I don't have the time to check it,' he added in a weak attempt to lighten the mood when he noticed her sour look. Lady Maro rolled her eyes at his lame attempt at a joke; she slowly descended into the time void Aerion resided. 'You think this is a joke?' she retorted. 'Mari is currently opening a time portal in Earth and leaking excessive mana, and here you are cracking stupid jokes.'
Aerion looked at her confused; he had noticed the leakage of mana but not the opening of a time portal. He was the only one in the whole world who could authorize the opening of a time portal except for the ruler, and he didn't remember giving any such authorization. Maro noticed his look of confusion and sighed in frustration. As the ruler of Ephemeral, the world of light, she had been one of the rulers who had shown great hope for the dragon ever since his birth, but his lack of enthusiasm and empathy concerning the affairs and people of Euira had dashed that hope to pieces. Yet she had never imagined, in all of her 5000 years of ruling, that he would be one of the gods that would cause such a disastrous event to happen; she only assigned such kinds of disasters to Lord Loki, the ruler of Castus, the world of everlasting prosperity. She rubbed her forehead in exhaustion. 'So let me get this straight, the dragon of time, the only one capable of opening and closing a time portal, didn't notice a time portal opening in another world, even though he's surrounded by time?' she quoted in disbelief. Aerion could feel his hackles rising at her sarcastic tone. 'That's impossible; no such thing could happen under my watch.'
Maro looked at him, her eyes speaking volumes. 'Aerion, Aerion, Aerion, oh my foolish dragon,' she whispered in a weary tone. Aerion began to growl in anger. 'I'm telling you no such thing happened,' he spoke threateningly, in a low tone. 'Then tell me, who in the world is causing Mari to leak mana from its habitat?' she shouted back at him. 'Ask Aster, he's their ruler,' he shouted back in anger, his patience snapping.
'He's not in Mari; he's taken a thousand-year cultivation mission in the Lord's temple. You would know that if you attended our yearly meetings,' she replied. Aerion recoiled in shock. 'Then who's watching Mari?'
'I am,' the priestess shouted back, her anger levels rising at his lack of awareness, her voice echoing throughout the time void. As soon as she shouted that, the cracking sound became louder, and Aerion turned his head to notice that the swirl coming out of the water planet had grown bigger. Maro's eyes reflected the fear suddenly growing in his eyes; she knew what punishment awaited them at the hands of Andromil if he found out about their mistakes, as he greatly treasured the planet of Earth. Earth was the only planet where Andromil could disguise his powerful aura and live as a normal human being on his resting days. Aerion transformed to his human form, ignoring the look of disgust that crossed Maro's eyes at his naked form. He stretched out his right hand before him, and suddenly a ball of interconnected, wiry lights appeared. 'Show me the time of Mari,' he commanded,
at his command, sparks shot out of the ball, and a thin, unstable light disconnected from the ball and rose to float before his presence. He touched it, and it immediately illuminated a transparent screen, showing the time before the disruption. To the shock of Aerion and rising anger of Maro, he saw that his tired roar, his roar that marked his first beginning of frustration, which had been absorbed earlier by a time dimension, had somehow crashed with the orb, maintaining Mari's mana level, and shifted to earth.
'Oh no,' he said, as Maro flew, charging at him. 'You doofus.'