Dimension of All Time
'Do you think she's awake yet?' a sound whispered. Hana groaned in pain at the little voice whispering. Her whole body was protesting in pain. She was confused at the pain throbbing in her body, as she remembered that it was only her head that had been hit. 'I think she's coming to.' Another voice chimed in gleefully. Hana slowly opened her eyes and came in contact with a sharp, glaring white light. She closed her eyes in sudden pain and muttered an expletive under her breath. 'Oooh, what did she say?' a curious voice asked in awe 'You don't want to know.' For the first time after coming to awareness, Hana heard a mature adult voice answer the child. Hana breathed a sigh of relief at the voice; ever since she had regained consciousness, she had been afraid that her brother and mother had carried her to a quack illegal hospital instead of her grandfather's hospital at the sound of the children present. 'Why, why, tell us why,' another child voice asked the man in curiosity. Hana's brow furrowed confused; she knew that she wasn't in the daycare, but she was confused at the numerous children voices she could hear in the room she was occupying. 'Get up, you're obviously awake,' another male voice commanded. Hana frowned at the sound of this man voice. The throbbing pain in her body suddenly vanished as if it wasn't there. Hana opened her eyes again, encountered the glaring light once more, but now felt no pain. She slowly sat up and looked around to come face-to-face with the obvious form of two naked figures standing before her. She screamed in shock and was thrown backwards, her breath knocked out of her as she went backwards. The glaring light she had first thought was one of the hospital lights suddenly dissipated to her astonishment at her scream, and she finally noticed that what she had originally thought was a hospital ward was actually an infinite space filled with nothingness. As the light dissipated, Hana saw that the men were glittering, glowing in the dark, their naked forms glowing in obvious glory for her eyes to see, their long silky hair flowing smoothly behind them, and their red eyes in contrast to their black hair. 'Would you put on some clothes?' was the second word and first sentence that came out of Hana's mouth as soon as she got her breath. One of the men present smirked, 'It looks like we don't have to worry, Aro; she isn't broken,' he said to the man beside him. 'Broken?' Hana gasped, confused, and immediately patted her body to find out if any part of her body was scarred or broken. It was then she noticed the bandage of different colors on her body. Hana looked at her body in shock and then at the two men standing before her. The second man, addressed as Aro, noticed her look of confusion.
'We had to wrap you in Father's time light to keep your soul from bursting,' he gave in explanation. Hana's mouth fell open, her brain slowly trying to understand the words she heard, 'Bursting?' She sputtered out in fear. The man standing beside Aro bent down at her one-word fearful questions, a frown on his fair face. 'Maybe I was wrong. I think she's broken,' he stated. Aro sighed and turned away from both of them when the glaring light Hana had seen earlier appeared again in the infinite space. Hana shrieked and moved back at the sudden display of Aro's bare backside.
The man beside her smiled when he noticed her discomfort. 'Oh, oh, so that what got you in disarray, you humans and your useless sense of decency,' he said. Hana turned to look at the bent man regarding her in shock, unable to reply, as she didn't know if he was insulting her or her species in general, her brain waves only transmitting one glaring piece of information to her. 'Humans?' she asked again in a quiet voice. The man frowned and looked up at Aro. 'I think this one is stupid,' he stated. Hana bristled in anger at his words. She was about to reply when Aro replied to the man, 'Stupid or not, we don't have much time as the time portal continues to suck various departing souls from Earth towards Mari.' Aro replied and turned back to face them and strode purposefully towards Hana. Hana shifted back uncomfortably at the look on his face as he stopped beside the other man's bent figure and stared determinedly straight at her.
'Hello, forgive my brother's rude words and the children shock wave, but we don't have much time, and Father is growing impatient.' He began, 'For your information, you're dead,' he added briskly when Hana continued to look at him without understanding. Those grim words snapped her attention to him. As Hana grasped the meaning of those words, truthfully, she had forgotten about the children's voices when she came face-to-face with two handsome, contrasting men standing before her and had failed to understand the little bits of info gotten from the other man's rude remarks about her, but the news of her death had immediately grabbed her attention like nothing ever would. Hana felt a sudden pain grip her heart as she tried to determine if what Aro said was the truth. She remembered the searing pain she felt at the impact of the flower vase at her head but had felt hope when she regained consciousness and heard the voices of both the children and men. The look in Aro eyes was clear, with no deception, as he returned her searching gaze, and Hana immediately broke down in tears as the memory of her dying grandma came to mind. Aro's brother shifted back from her in shock and patted her uncomfortably, trying to console her. His discomfort and confusion showed at her sudden burst into tears. 'Look what you did, Aro, you broke her, she's leaking,' he accused. 'Shut up, Ado,' Aro answered in anger and sighed when the children voices began to chant out of the glaring light.' 'You broke her; she's leaking. The son of Aerion broke her.' Hana tears ceased at the chanting, her attention focusing on the voices coming out of the light. Aro sighed again when he noticed her curiosity at the phenomenon happening and said, 'Look, I'm sorry, I know you want answers, but we don't have time for that right now; I can only give you the basics.'
Ado patted her one last time and stood up to stand beside his brother. 'I can; these voices are the children of Maro,' he told her, proud of himself at his quick answer to Hana's curious look. Hana's look turned into that of confusion at the information handed out by the bronze-muscled Ado. Aro sighed for the third time and gave Hana an apologetic smile.
'Allow me to introduce ourselves. My name is Aro, and this empty brain right here is my twin brother Ado. We are the sons of Aerion, the dragon time god,' he said. 'These specks of light whispering and chanting after us are iridescence, children of Maro the priestess, goddess of light,' he continued at Hana's growing confusion. Hana raised her hands to signal him to stop, but he ignored her, and suddenly the infinite space they occupied began to change and warp, shaking Hana to her core. 'I know it might sound confusing when you hear one of the children of the god of time say we don't have much time, but truly we don't have much time,' he emphasized. Hana looked at him in disbelief; the thought hadn't even crossed her mind. All she had registered was her death. 'Dead souls from your world are being pulled into a time portal leading to Mari from their path to reincarnation, and unfortunately all of them except you are being shredded to unrecognizable pieces by the time portal,' he explained in a grim voice. Once again Hana's mouth fell open in shock; her grandmother soul would be among them if her half-brother's plan came to fruition. 'Fortunately, we managed to stop your brother from ending the life of your grandmother for now; we don't want her soul to come into contact with the time portal,' he added after reading the look of distress in her expression. 'Why?' she asked, perplexed. 'Why don't you want her soul to come into contact with the portal?'
'That would be disastrous,' Ado suddenly interjected as the glaring light stilled at her question. 'For Leverage,' Aro suddenly cut in when he noticed the fear in the atmosphere. 'We need you to do something for us.' Hana frowned; this was almost like most of the reincarnation and Isekai mangas her friends read in school. She took her time to reply, absently touching her chest. As her hand came in contact with her chest, she sat up straight again, ignoring the change in the space around her and the fearful atmosphere coming from the lights. The only thing now presiding in her mind was. 'What is this tight time light bandage covering my body?' She asked them.