It didn't take but two quick flickers of light for Tensei to appear before the great Clock Tower, Tempora Aeterna, where Time was moving forward, backward and staying the same all at the same time. He remembered this place fondly from long ago...
"... Mm... Brings back memories..." he muttered to himself, reminiscing about the times. "... But. That's beside the point. If we're going to get them, we need Tigen here, too." Though it seemed like it was something difficult to do, considering how that Freed Will tended to wander... It was actually remarkably easy to get him to appear...
So, in his hand, he manifested a chocolate cake from the rainbow flames, holding it out in front of him, as though offering it to the Eternalism Hill.
"Oiii, Tigen... Itadakimaaaasu..."
And, just like his big bro, Tigen warped in with a flicker of flames as though he'd been there the entire time. "YOUUUU DID IIIIIT!!!" he exclaimed joyously, warping to and fro, "TIGEN KNEW THAT YOU'D DO IT, PUMPKINHEAD!! NOW YOU'RE BACK TO NORMAL AND TIGEN IS HERE AND WE'RE HERE AND WE'RE BOTH THE PUMPKING AND DAD IS SO PROUD OF US!!"
Tigen was just too hyped right now. Everything was simply AMAZING!
"AREN'T YOU HAPPY, ANIKI!?!?" Even in his excitement, Tigen's eyes caught sight of that beautiful, glorious, sexy... Deliiiiiicious CHOCOLATE~!
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!! YOU BROUGHT TIGEN SOME CHOOOOCOOLAAAAATE!!!" This was like, the best day ever.
"IT'S LIKE INFINITE BIRTHDAAAAYS!!!"
"Oh damn..." he sighed, forgetting that Tigen was literally a bursting ball of energy... Not just any energy, but a collection of all forms of energy across the dimensions as one entity. The Pumpking. Rather, the remainder of the Pumpking. Where Tensei was the head, Tigen was the... Everything else.
"Okay, Tigen, I need something very important from you. You and I have to return to one being. Granted, we can still maintain our separate forms, but we need to be linked. I've already connected back to Pumki, but the only way to create the Seven Shinsanities is for us to connect and go through this tower. We're going to speed up time."
The two of them together could blaze through Eternalism Hill like it was nothing. They needed to get to the Crystal Garden all the way at the top.
"When we get to the top, we'll have to embed our power into Tinasanti and bring the Shinseigami and Shinmegami forth from Peace and back down here to the Veritas." It seemed simple enough, but usually, these things were never just as simple as they seemed...
Tigen completely smashed on that chocolate cake, letting the rainbow flames that made up his existence (or rather, that were his existence) consume the cake like a ravenous, yet controlled flame. "What?" he muttered, as though he hadn't been paying attention, "Oh, yeah, yeah! Tigen knows! Yeah! COME ON, BROBRO! GATTAI DA~!" He always wanted to say that... And to be one with Pumpkinhead and Pumki again. He extended his hand out to touch the other, slightly taller rainbow-flamed figure, waiting for his big bro to grab his hand in return so that they could finally reunite and become the True Pumpking together; the Shinseigami.
"Isn't this exciting~? This is what we've both been DREAMING of since like... FOREVER~!"
"Yeah," he muttered fondly, slowly extending his hand to his brother, now able to do so without any form of regret or frustration. The two of them had come a long way since their departure from Dimensia when it was fall apart. Tigen was the chosen one to save it, but without Pumpkinhead to help him rule, he could not do so properly. However, Pumpkinhead himself had to be levelheaded enough to be able to harness all of Tigen's power as well as his own... But now, he, his sister and his brother would become one under the divine right of their father, Shinsei. (3:33) It literally was all of their dreams coming true.
"Thanks, Father," he muttered, knowing that this was possibly thanks to his guidance. "We'll take care of the throne for you. That is an absolute promise." With that, he grabbed his brother's hand and allowed their energies to course through each other, almost uncontrollably. The sheer magnitude of the overflowing energies collected from every inch of every dimension (since Tigen had consumed and become one with every star and every light and energy source that existed and soon would) was enough to even make Pumpkinhead wince from the sheer power. "Gh...!!! Tigen... You had... This much power collected within you...!?"
Not to say that it wasn't expected, considering that he was indeed the Pumpking for far longer than Tensei had been the Pumpkinghead, since getting the Insanity under control and purifying it into Shinsanity was a harder and longer process than he actually thought.
"Alright, Tigen... I've received your Will... The Will of Tensei... the Will of Everything... And now, it's time for the both of us to shoot straight to the top. Together. Like we were meant to do..."
He grasped Tigen's hand tightly, letting his energy flow into his brother and Tigen's energy flow into him, exponentially increasing the both of their powers. Their flames would flicker brightly, seeming to want to engulf the entire Eternalism Hill.
"Let's fly away." For some reason, combining with Tigen gave Tensei the power to feel and create on a level that was far more heightened than simply he by himself. The Pumpkinghead overflowed with thought and creativity backed by the spiritual power of Tigen, which would create the Life Energy between the both of them that would soon be the completed power source for the Veritas in its entirety.
"Come Forth!! GALAXY PEGASUS; SLEIPNIR THE MAREGENESIS!!!"
He raised his other hand and high, taking strength from his brother to create a Sacred Beast up above them, made of their combined energies; a great cosmic horse equipped with a great, blade-like horn, six legs lit ablaze with six of the seven colors of the rainbow with the final taking the texture of its tail of pure colorful ember. Its mane was long and fluid, almost like 'Liquid Energy,' but undulated as though it were made of flame. On its back, beautiful feathered wings that released fire like that of a phoenix's wing, dispersing into a series of colors both known and unknown to the rainbow. In its eyes, it was apparent that the Heart of Battle was within this horse's soul, for this was the great Sacred Beast it was supposed that Odin himself rode off into battle during the times of the Ragnarok. Certainly so, but now 'twas something more than that; it was now the steed of the True Pumpking; all the two of them had to do was ride it all the way to the top of this tower and plow through anything that got in their way. There was no time to waste for this.
"Ikuyo, kyoudai!" he could say with a smile, for once, to his dear younger brother. How he always wished and longed for the chance to do so in the past; it seemed like it was his only passionate desire to simply protect his brother for this long, yet he couldn't due to his own inner turmoil. With no more of that within his life, he could finally...
... he looked down to his brother's hand, and his smile grew three times its normal size, now becoming a full fledged saw-toothed smirk.
It was like a dream come true... For every last one of them. And he was going to make sure it was the same way for everyone connected to this realm. That's why... they acquired this much power in the first place. They needed this much power... In order to change the flow of the entire dimensional complex. (4:25)
"LET'S RIDE!"
The beyond beautiful steed scooped the two of them up and bolted off as a shimmering slit of silver trailing with the slowed down vibrations that was this crystal flame's trail of Shinsanity behind it. It was time to erase the Insanity from All Time.
"Haaaai~!" Tigen's voice rang like a melodious bell, holding out his Lantern Sword and lighting it aglow with all of their flames together. He always did have a horse that he rode that looked just like this one, way back when he first came to the Nightmare.
"Hey, Aniki," he questioned, severing the bordering fabric of Imaginary Space between all Dimensions that kept them separate from each other with the light of his sword, "Isn't this what happened when we came from Dimensia to Vescrutia? Do ya think that before this place was the Veritas... It was Dimensia~?"
Tigen couldn't help but be reminded of the whole synchronicity of it all... oh, the irony. First, he was coming into this world from Dimensia to learn how to save his own... And then, he emerges from his saved world the exact same way as he left; only this time, out to save all the others.
"The Beginning and the End are the same, the Scenarios are just Different~!
BAAAHAHAHA~!"
Tigen cackled heartily, slashing his burning sword about like a deranged psychopath hacking things to bits with joy. His arm moved so fast, all that could be seen were the thin flaming slivers of consistently shifting colorful embers tearing away at this Spacio-Temporal barrier.
"BAHAHAHAHAHA!
TIGEN'S HAVING A BLAAAAAAAAST!~~
IN TIGEN'S ELEMEEEEEEENT!!!"
"Calm down, Tigen! Remember, we have a storyline to follow!" he chastised, as he frequently did, being the elder brother and all, guiding the Maregenesis down the correct pathway. Didn't want Tigen to take it to some random dimension just warping; especially since this was open space and time. They needed to stay on track, for their time here was short, even with as much power as they had. He was the sound mind of the both of them and Tigen was the spirit. That meant, therethen, that the Great Mind and the Freed Will were back on the same accord... Together as one again. The Tensei could be free... Reborn into this world cleansed of their own Insanity. (5:05)
"Don't forget that there is still Insanity in other worlds! We don't want to bring it into ours after we JUST got it all peaceful. This place is pure and without it any longer, because I purified myself. It doesn't exist here, but that doesn't mean that it cannot get back in. So please, try to be more careful about how much you tear apart... You never know what could be lurking beyond these dimensional barriers..."
Tensei would guide the trusty steed toward Victory, lighting the darkness of Space and Time around him so that all could see as a beacon of light that pulsated from the Dark Womb. Toward the Light... "This time, little brother... We're going to come out together... Like I intended in the first place." And that would be... the Birth of the Shinseigami...
"And to answer your question... Hell yeah. Remember, our Father lives within the three of us... You, Me and Pumki. That means, all three of us together are the True Pumpking..." And, where Tigen would start recklessly using his power to tear away at this fabric, as they spiraled, spun, bolted and jolted past the gears that moved time and the pillars that held up space, they'd travel what looked like a double helix structured constellation. They were gonna connect all the dots up this galactic cosmic DNA strand. Finally, Pumpkinhead had the power to Create as well...
"TINA!!! THE CRYSTAL THREADS!!!
ABSOLUTE FINAL WONDERLAND!!!"
At his command would he extend his hands, and all of the Eight Arms of Tabrith would sprout from his form, beginning to spin their crystallized threads as the Branches of the Crystal Tree of Life. At that moment, all Eight of the Arms of Tabrith would become active in order to weave together all of which that created a dimension.
This time, he would weave them all together as one... This time, the Tensei wouldn't fail this universe... nor their Father. He would make absolutely certain of that.
As he called for the Eight Arms, They and their Moons that they carried would Rise all at once, harboring the powers of the Octogod; the Cosmic Spider known as Tinasanti. The culmination of the Sacred Trinity's Power all combined into one, it merged each of their arms ( 6 ) and spawned two more birthed of their combined power ( 8 ) to form this magnificent being known as 'The Veritas.'
"We are reborn... Yes... Connection Complete."
Now, it was about time to begin the weaving.
"Absolute Final Wonderland."
As the two of them streamed off into the abyss, like a sperm in a womb, their trailing energy would spread outward like a glowing web in the darkness, ensnaring the entire Veritas behind them. All of that which it was connected to and each who were connected to it, would the Crystal Threads of the Nexus ensnare the minds and hearts of the universes around them. They would take the threads of every dimension and bind them together with the roots from the Crystal Lotus's petals.
"We are the Three Peaces of the Veritas; Tinasanti. We seek to bind all worlds together with Peace, Harmony and Prosperity. Through this Test of Time, we will traverse one thousand years... into a time where all Insanity has been lifted from all worlds. Even if we must do it on our own... We will show you... The Power of Peace."
The hands swirled about, their movements like a sinuous dream, in circles, and circles, and loops, into infinity and beyond. Each of the Eight Arms juggled the Eight Moons between their hands, allowing the elemental energies contained in each of them to branch off into infinitely growing power sources of purity known as 'Shinsanity.' In their trail, the First would be born from the flares of the Maregenesis... As though the arms were crawling up some sort of cosmic web.
"Hands of Fate, Will, Wishes, Dreams, Reality, Destiny, Chaos and Harmony, pull and weave together all things into the ultimate seal from the intricate web spun of all your divine splendor;"
"Tensei Seal; Ultra Badass.
Drawing strength from the Eight Arms of Tabrith and the Thirteen Restrictions at once, a slender crystalline light was formed as the hand signs were completed, creating a web-like seal all across the Thirteen Moons, which served as marking points to draw the seal to perfection. Twas the Tensei Seal, the mark of the family that would BRAND ANYTHING it touched as their bitch. The Family Rune.
"Kaihou. (Release)"
With the sound of the Voice and the numerous orbs in each of the Hands of Fate, numerous Kanji seals of each chakra and the elements bound to it would appear on the surface as they would glow with their respective energies and power. The Eight Hands completed the release with a confirming pattern they made by moving their arms into a certain position, each different from the other, yet still in a patterned synchronicity that looked balanced and beautiful. Each hand formed a different Mudra and a Mandala would appear on the Hand of Fate. The Seal was unlocked, unleashing the Will of Tensei from Shinsei and the Shinsanity, spreading through each and every one of the Crystal Threads and to each of its branches, where it would begin to pour life into the Veritas in its entirety. And, the First Hand was instructed to rise.
'First Hand of Fate; Second Shinsanity of Fun: Kazegami.'
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