From Chaos Comes

Solomon stepped out of the void, the vast nothingness behind him as he entered a familiar place, his home dimension. Looking at the crystal that lead him here he couldn't help but smirk. This was far before inter dimensional travel was a thing to them, so it made sense James landed in their universe. Solomon thought he had searched everywhere though. Guess not. He looked around and spotted his home planet, quickly disappearing and reappearing in The Barren, the aftermath of James.

His feet planted on solid ground and around him all was destruction. In the distance a castle that was nearly leveled by the blast, and then more so with time and everywhere was the stench of death. Even now plants would not grow and no one wanted to rebuild. His ear twitched when he heard a noise. He spun around to face a large creature that seemed to be the lower half of a human and an extremely over sized upper half of a lizard that was lunging at his face. A Sub-Human. It was mid-air with jaws wide open ready to attack but with a flick of his wrist Solomon impaled the beast on a spike of earth.

In it's dying throws the beast called out and dozens more were answered. They began to come out of the woodwork, in all shapes and sizes. Monstrous deformed creatures. Solomon raised his hand and three to his left were sent flying miles into the air, he glanced to his left to see a troll bringing down a tree on his head. The tree struck true, but left not a scratch on Solomon who drew his long sword and nonchalantly swung in it's direction. The Troll silently falling to pieces. He tensed his legs and launched into the air, overseeing his surrounding. He quickly counted forty, and pointed at a large mass of them, a large thunderclap and a bolt of electricity struck the group. He landed next to their corpses and cut the neck of the sole survivor. "You bore me." He said as the rest surrounded him completely.

As they charged, Solomon calmly began to sheath his blade. The monsters grew closer and closer, the first wave lunged and as they were a mere foot away the guard of his blade clicked into the sheath. Every monster being eradicated and blown away as if merely dust. He ran a hand through his hair and looked back to the crystal. "Where to now." The crystal hummed with a strange energy and Solomon somehow understood, but was halted by something that pricked his brain. A power source, one extremely powerful and strangely unstable, constantly changing.

The Mercenary furrowed his brow, and raised a hand, manipulating space and dimensions to forcefully pull the source of the power to him. Having it be dropped in front of him. This was no simple task, the other one was powerful and could fight, but no one understood this place better than Solomon and right now no one could stop his will. It was a painless experience, like one stepped outside of their home to suddenly find themselves in a desert. Or a barren wasteland.

Ezrion lay snoring on top of an inn, hands behind his head. He randomly jerked upright, front flipping up and off of the building, landing in a run, heading out of the small village, towards the woods nearby. He twisted past trees, whispering "I can small you, Fishy Fishy." under his breath. HE dove over a rock, rolling back to his feet in time to leap over a stream. However he overshot his jump, and his torso smashed into a tree branch, winding him and knocking him onto his back. The Lunatic lay there a moment, dazed and confused, before bouncing right back up to his feet, once more running towards the river further in the woods.

Arriving at the river Ezrion hopped out on a rock protruding from the water, shutting his eyes, chanting steadily under his breath one word, over and over: "Fishy." He spread his arms out to either side, slowly lowering himself into a crouch. The mans breathing became more controlled and shallow, silent next to the rush of the river. He lay his hands on the surface of the river, palms touching the water. He slowly opened his eyes, and smiled. Suddenly the man's hands rushed into the water, reaching for a passing fish, wrapping around its entire body. Ezrion squealed in victory, and pulled on it. Just then he felt a strange tugging snesation, and the fish slipped through his grasp, as the Chaos within him fought against the pull.

Ezrions power fought against the tug, but ultimately didn't have enough time to disrupt the powers at work on him. Suddenly he was tugged through space and dimensions to stand before a black haired man. Ezrion stood straight, and a black and red mist seemed from him. "You made me lose the Fishy."

Chaos energy rippled through the air around him, disrtorting anything seen through it, much like a heat wave. Ezrion bared his teeth, but didn't actually attack the man, he just fumed.

Solomon tightened his grip on the crystal and placed it in his pocket, taking that hand and pulling a pistol from underneath his coat and pointing it at the Chaos beings head. He used his thumb to pull back the hammer and his eyes pointed into daggers. He was currently at 1/4567 of his power, and in the few seconds before he spoke the light around him began to ripple and dozens upon dozens of steaks of color began flying at and becoming one with the mercenary as hundreds of his copies returned to join into a singular being again.

He was now at half of his power. The only Solomon left was the only one with a solid lead, in Tedranog looking up Soul Magic with his lover Surina. Even the idea of a relationship with someone so young still amused him but his mind needed to stay focused on the task at hand.

"You are too powerful to belong here. Explain yourself, then leave." He observed the beings aura of a red and black mist and decided to put his gun away. Placing it back in his holster. He wanted this creature gone before he could do any damage, but most of all he wanted to make sure this place would be safe and to do that he needed to take him far away.

Ezrion cocked his head as the man aimed a gun at his head, mimicking his hand position, however in his hand was a much larger weapon, looking more like a cannon, made of pure chaotic energy. He cackled evilly as the coloured beams connected with Solomon, Unleashing a devastating barrage of shots from the cannon. The chaotic being did not know what this would do to the man himself, but he knew what it would do to the area around him. Destroy it utterly, down to the molecular level. "Rainbow man must die! He stole the Fishy!"

Suddenly tendrils of power shot from Ezrion's body into the ground, ripping chunks out of it, and animating them into a small army of golems. Smiling unnaturally widely Ezrion pointed them at Solomon, and unleashed them upon him, though he didn't expect them to survive, though that was intentional.

Ezrion raised his hands above his head and shrieked, building up power between his palms, a large orb appearing between his outstretched fingers. The man threw his head back and shut his eyes. The orb changed shape, becoming a giant fish, which swam through the air towards Solomon. Suddenly Ezrion was calm again, swaying side to side gently, eyes glazed over.

"Shit."

Luckily they were in the barren, otherwise Solomon would have had to work much harder on protecting this world. Still, Solomon did not trust this mans chaotic energy. He allowed himself to be hit by the blast but instead of the blast going outwards it imploded inwards on Solomon. Forcing the energy to be absorbed by his body, it began to rupture and his skin began to split but quickly became under control and Solomon released the energy into the Void. When it came to the golems however, the mercenary almost had to laugh when he scattered the earth particles into dust.

Lastly was the fish. This man seem strangely obsessed with it. As it swam towards him, Solomon took a look at it and from behind the mercenary came a wolf made out of pure white light that came down and caught the fish in it's jaws. Tossing it's head back and swallowing it whole before howling and dissipating. Solomon took a last look at the strange man who seemed distant and out of it now, but he cared not.

Without any movement or time passing Solomon stood in front of the man, "You did not answer my question." Next thing they knew, they stood on a barren asteroid in the depths of space. Solomon looked up as where they stood was crushed by another asteroid crashing into the one they stood upon, right where they stood.

He floated far away and watched it happen.

Ezrion watched with rapt attention as Solomon absorbed his energy, eyes following the haphazard patterns in his flesh as the chaos energy strived to destroy him. That attack had come closer to its goal than the Golems had, being blown apart almost immediately after creation. Ezrion pouted, and stomped his foot. All the energy swirled around where the Golems had once been, coalescing into one, and returning to Ezrion himself.

Ezrions eyes widened with joy upon seeing the giant white wolf. Then changed to horror as he watched it devour his fishy whole. Ezrion was about to send his power at it, when it dissipated like it had never been there in the first place. Ezrion slumped, depressed suddenly.

The Lunatic looked up as Solomon appeared in front of him, and Ezrion lay his hand on the center of the mans chest. just then they were suddenly no longer on the planet, but an asteroid being collided with by another. Ezrion looked at the approaching space rock, cocked his head, and blinked.

The two asteroids collided, and standing on nothingness was Solomon, with Ezrion sitting on his shoulders. swinging his legs back and forth. "Whatcha watching rainbow man?"

"Answer my question."

Solomon grabbed Ezrion's ankle and tossed him away, the rubble from the destroyed asteroids flying by them at breakneck speeds. Hopefully the guy would hit one and knock some sense into that completely illogical head. Solomon began weaving a trap, he did not expect it to hold long, but hopefully long enough. The forces of gravity locked down on each of Ezrion's limbs, effectively trapping each one in a Black hole that was frozen.

The more he fought this man however, the more he realized he was less of a threat and more of just a man that liked to screw around. Solomon still could not tolerate this, but it was much easier to deal with and it made him much less urgent. The mercenary began to search throughout the beings head, hoping for at least some reason, but he found none. The immense amount of chaos and illogical facilities were incredible and almost too much. This man was chaos, not figuratively but literally chaos. Solomon was amazed such a thing existed, but not surprised. This only made dealing with him a more urgent issue.

Once he realized this he locked down his prison even more, focusing a wall around them, making a small but infinite bubble of space that neither could leave until Solomon tore down the wall. The pocket space was also highly unstable and only meant to be temporary, but it was smart. No matter where Ezrion went, he would be five feet away from Solomon. The entire universe was centered around him. "Just answer me and you can be on your way. I can't end you, I know that now."

"Weeeeeeeee!'

Ezrion crashed through a few pieces of Asteroid, but they didn't do any damage to him, in fact they came away blackened, deteriorated, and decomposing. He stopped before Solomon could blackhole him, and flipped him off. At just the right moment, as the trap Solomon was weaving took effect. His limbs stopped moving, and as such his finger stayed flipping off Solomon.

He cocked his head to the side, feeling Solomon inside his head, and pushing images back into Solomon's brain, mostly from Ezrion's own childhood, before he changed into a vessel of pure chaos. Ezrion didn't stop Solomon from being inside his head, as he didn't care. Through once the bubble of dimensional matter was formed, and he was effectively trapped twice.

Focusing power to his extremities Ezrion sucked the four blackholes into himself and sat them out in rapid succession at Solomon. Cocking his head to one side Ezrion finally answered Solomon's question. "I was fishing, then you puleed me away from the fishy."

(I have Solomon's permission for this)

As soon as the words left his mouth, the bubble vanished and Solomon turned. "Now leave this place, and don't come back."

Ezrion scowled, and ran at Solomon, jumping onto his back, wrapping his arms around him. "If I leave I'm taking rainbow man with me, see how you like being pulled around."

And with that statement uttered the two men disappeared.

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