It didn't take but two quick flickers of light for Kairo Tensei, a glowing crystalline flame resembling the form of a man with long hair 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...
It was a tower that pierced through the heavens, and barely looked tangible. Hovering slightly over the ground, hovering translucent silverish platforms ascending into the doorway. A golden gate lay sealed shut before it, and its body leaned to one side slightly. The building, a silverish teal, was as translucent as its stairway, and with internal disembodied gears floating about. Some of these gears spilled out into the ground, which was something like glass and rolling with puffy, white clouds. Many gears protruded from the ground, and the true height of the tower could not be presently seen.
"... 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. In Kairo Tensei's 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..."
In no more than half a nanosecond, 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, babbling on about many of the incomprehensible Tensei Family matters. Tigen was just too hyped right now. That was all. "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!!!" For Tigen and his child-like demeanor, this was like, the best day ever. "IT'S LIKE INFINITE BIRTHDAAAAYS!!!"
"Oh damn..." Kairo Tensei 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 Kairo Tensei was the head, which existed in the 11th Restriction, Tigen was the free will that existed in the 12th. That made it absolutely crucial for the two of them to be on the same accord.
"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 gobbled down the chocolate cake like a monster, 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~! (Let's Combine)" Tigen always wanted to say that, especially at a perfect point in time where he and his siblings all came back together and fused into one being, as they used to be, in a new form. 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," Kairo Tensei muttered fondly, slowly extending his hand to his brother, now able to do so without any form of regret or frustration. "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. "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 Kairo Tensei had been the Pumpkinghead, since getting the Tensei Curse under control and purifying it 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 Kairo Tensei the power to feel and create on a level that was far more heightened than simply he by himself. The Pumpkinghead, Kairo Tensei, overflowed with thought and creativity backed by the spiritual power of Tigen, which would create the Life Energy, or Souzenryoku, between the both of them that would soon be the completed power source for the Veritas in its entirety. This energy, known as 'Souzenryoku,' was a purifying and cleansing energy that also breaks the Tensei Curse. It only comes from the Veritas and the Tensei and cannot be found anywhere else, and is the actual Life Energy that courses through all the Veritas.
"Come Forth!! NIGHTMAREGENESIS; SLEIPNIR!!!"
As Kairo Tensei called for his personal steed, 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 were beautiful feathered wings that released fire like that of a phoenix or seraph'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.
"Ikuyo, kyoudai! (Let's go, brother!)" Kairo Tensei 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 sharp 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. "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 of light to the form of the crystal flame's trail of Souzenryoku behind it, already beginning the true purification and cleansing process, now that the Creator was ready for it, himself. With this, the Mind of the Creator, Pumpkinghead Kairo Tensei, and the Soul of the Creator, Pumpking Kairo Tigen, could save the Body of the Creator who had been dying trying to save the Tensei from both The Lost World, the Tensei Curse and all such affiliation with them. When these two finally recognized that this is what their Creator was doing, they acted with the utmost haste to save He and the Veritas.
"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 Lost World in the Village of the Nightmare, where all of this began. "Hey, Aniki," Tigen questioned Tensei as he slashed and hacked at 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 The Lost World? Do ya think that before this place was the Veritas... It was Dimensia~?"
Dimensia is the realm that Tigen and all beings like Tigen, which are Free Wills known as 'Lanterns' or 'Flames of Eternity,' come from and once lived in before it was nearly swallowed whole by the interdimensional Void; a gaping chasm between all the dimensions. Tigen couldn't help but be reminded of the whole synchronicity of it all... oh, the irony. First, he was coming into these other dimensions from Dimensia, warping across the giant gaping Void and into each dimension, searching for the answers to learn how to save his own all the while he was 'resting' on The Lost World... And then, when it's restored through the Veritas, 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 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!" he chastised, as he frequently did, being the elder brother and all, guiding the Maregenesis down the correct pathway. "Remember, we have a storyline to follow!" He didn't want Tigen to take this story to some random dimension just warping around haphazardly; especially since this was open space and time whilst they were within the Eternalism Hill. They needed to stay on track, for their time here was short, even with as much power as they had. Kairo Tensei, the Pumpkinghead, was the sound mind of the both of them and Tigen was their spirit. That meant, therethen, that the Great Mind and the Freed Will were back on the same accord. "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 darkness of the Void just as it was about to swallow up the Veritas. 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.
"TINA!!!" Kairo Tensei called out to his daughter, the Veritas, by her true name, "THE CRYSTAL THREADS!!!" As a conscious and living being, she, as both a planet and a reality of her own, was able to act intelligently and coherently when called to by someone she was familiar with; namely, her father, Kairo Tensei.
"ABSOLUTE FINAL WONDERLAND!!!"
At his command would he extend his hands, and the remainder of his other 8 arms would sprout from his form, beginning to spin their crystallized threads extending from the Veritas and out into the far reaches of space and time. At that moment, all Eight of the Arms of Tabrith would become active in order to weave together the dimensions. As he called for the Eight Arms, they and their Tensei Moons that they carried would Rise all at once, harboring the powers of the Veritas, herself as a whole, Tinasanti. The realm of the Veritas as a whole, with the planet inclusive, took on the shape of a Cosmic Spider. "We are reborn... Yes... Connection Complete." The body was like a woman's, yet was nothing but the outline of an atmosphere with the planet itself hovering in a sustained form within this womanly outer frame carved of space and time. Her eight arms looked like the many layers of the planet's atmosphere, and in the palm of her hands upon each of the Eight Arms were Eight of the Thirteen Tensei Moons that she had actively under her command. Now, it was about time to begin the weaving.
"Absolute Final Wonderland."
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