It Still Lives

???: "... I Can Feel It..."

The strange, omnipresent voice echoed throughout the pitch black darkness, seeming to be the sentience of it all as a united void.

???: "... It Is Coming..."

The voice sounded familiar, yet also somewhat like it was restraining something with great focus.

Faint, translucent, discerning lines etched themselves into a circle far below what one would guess was the solid ground, -- if that was even a factor in this realm -- creating an image that could only be describes as resembling a solar eclipse. The interior of the circle flickered violently, and suddenly a crimson bolt shot from its center and struck the ground... From the bottom up. This proved that the ground was not actually there, yet there was still a dividing line between the upper and lower layers of this void realm.

After having struck, the crimson lightning manifested on the reverse end of the ground that it struck as what was known as the 'Void Sun'. What was unknown to all except the being itself was what it actually meant, and what mysterious identity it held... However, that was going to come to a decisive revelation right now.

The Void Sun seemed to be an being made of a ravenous Free Will, making it a Twelfth Restriction being. It wore a cape made of a clear void which wrapped around its body and hid everything except for its head, which was a void sun. Piercing sanguine eyes flickered within the void sun that the Void Sun used as a head, and they burned with insanity. The Void Sun was the core of the Zero World, but it was also much more than that... It was the most notorious being beyond the actual being that created The Veritas... The Insanity.

The Insanity: "I Have Been Waiting A Long Time... Crazy Tymon."

It was addressing the voice of the void, which was another version of Tymon.

The Insanity: "I Know You Saw A Glimpse Of What I Am Truly Capable Of... The Reason Why You Split Us Up In The First Place..."

The Void Sun's head grew larger and larger, flickering more and more intensely, seeming to be trying to swallow up... The... Void... Around it?

The Insanity: "... But I Protect You, Specifically, Crazy Tymon... The You That Needs To Survive... Almost As Much As The You That Is At The Pinnacle. You Are Closest To Me For A Reason... Even Your Name... Crazy Tymon. Do You Think That You Were Left Next To Me... As A Coincidence?"

The entity being addressed as Crazy Tymon spake again. "... It's You... The Insanity." That being was actively being suppressed by Tymon in pretty much every last one of his forms, keeping that specific being all the way down in the Zero World, where even it was unable to escape unless released. The other version of Tymon among the Thirteen Restrictions literally covered every other place within and surrounding the Veritas Dimension, leaving nowhere for The Insanity to spawn, unless directly welcomed... Or some sort of anomaly occurred.

Though this was the case for the Tymons of the 1st-13th Restrictions, there was one Tymon... One who was to hold the legacy of 'Crazy Tymon' forever... And never let it go. The Forbidden Zeroth Restriction Tymon: Crazy Tymon. Otherwise known under the secret original name, Xian, and the code name, 'GRAND XANADU'. There was nothing else like him in all the Veritas, and he was just as powerful as Thirteenth Restriction Tymon. He was a very special and precious part of who Tymon was... And though he was trapped by his own insanity for a very long time... It was not erased, but preserved. Crazy Tymon held the most secrets out of any of the other forms, and was tasked with the absolute most important responsibility that literally equated to what the Thirteenth Restriction Tymon was to be doing on the outside, completing a transcendent bond between all Tymons everywhere.

"You... And I..." Crazy Tymon uttered to himself, trying to see through the blindness of his insanity, "... Yes... You Are Correct... I Am Your Keeper... I Am The Keeper Of Insanity..." What Crazy Tymon saw was actually a representation of himself losing all control and allowing The Insanity to take over, as he did rather often in his past days, especially when he was taking on the form of Khrona. "... But You Have Been Being Suppressed By The Other Parts Of Me..." he thought, letting his mind go wherever it wants, as he always did. "... All The Way Down... To My Level..."

Immediately, the void flashed complete crimson.

Crazy Tymon: "Where You Belong!"

The vision that Crazy Tymon had about himself when in another life or death ultimatum displayed all throughout the red void, where Crazy Tymon saw himself and The Insanity as one and the same.

Crazy Tymon: "... What You Have Done Over The Years Has Been Reprehensible, But... It Was Wrong Of Us To Shun You. We Always Knew You Were Part Of Us, But You're The Most Dangerous Part... And Because Of How You Are Designed, You Are Meant To Be. We Simply Didn't Have Enough Control Back Then. However, Now I See That I... Am The Zeroth Because I Am Empty... And You... You Are The Twelfth Because You Are Free... With My Emptiness And Your Freedom, We... Are The One Being We Used To Be When You Had Dominance Over Us."

Clearly, Crazy Tymon was going through some sort of personal revelation that was necessary for his character development, given that a good 90% of his history is geared towards being insane. So if you don't understand, just know you don't have to... But if you want to, you can always go read the backstory. Hahaha.

Moving right along...

Crazy Tymon: "... Oh, You Know, That Actually Makes So Much Sense Now... Cuz, You Know, I Was Only Using Like, Ten Percent Of My Brain Way Back Then, And You Were Like... The Other Ninety Percent. Yeah, You Were That Black Cloud That I Named 'Negativity'. All In The Story. Uh, But You Know You Were Trying To Kill Me. Was It Because You Were Trying To Be Free?"

Tymon, as Khrona, let The Insanity out and it did NOT want to go back inside when it had total dominion.

Crazy Tymon: "You're Free Now. You Don't Have To Be With Us Anymore. You Could Have Left A Long Time Ago."

Crazy Tymon was going all over the place, but that was to be expected, as he was actually insane. "Hahahaha... You... You Should Know Why I Haven't Left Yet..." Void Sun threw its robe off to the side to reveal its body, which was a different void that merged with the red void surrounding it. "You Were The Only One To Actually Handle And Fully Subdue My Full Power After I Had Complete Control Over You. That Should Have Been Impossible, But Because Of It, You Not Only Controlled My Power To Do Your Bidding, But Also Grew So Much More Powerful, My Influence Literally Had No Effect On You After Once Being The Literal Driving Force Behind Your Entire Existence."

The Void Sun's head became incredibly large, to the point where its size could not be scaled within the red void.

The Insanity: "Do You Know What Kind Of Power We Would Have If We Reunited?!"

"... Yes..." Crazy Tymon agreed, as he usually did with The Insanity what seemed like ages ago, "... You Know, You Always Did Make Sense To Me. I Bet Things Can Be Different Now Since I'll Be The One Calling The Shots For Both Of Us." Tymon as a whole had grown as a person, so something like The Insanity wouldn't be a problem for him to control any longer. "At First, I Thought I Was Going To Fight You When I Saw You Again, But Now I See That We Should Do Something Different..."

A pair of vicious sharp teeth appeared overhead, as did some pitch black eyes within the red void. "... Come Back To Me... I Will Show You... The Meaning Of True Power!" At that moment, Crazy Tymon let go of his Restriction... Everything that the other Tymons were doing, Crazy Tymon decided to blindly leave behind... And let The Insanity be the Free Will it was born to be. "The Reason Behind The Zeroth Restriction..." Crazy Tymon felt himself beginning to fill completely with The Insanity...

"YES!!!" The Insanity shouted with cathartic joy, "I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY FOR WHAT SEEMED TO BE AN ETERNITY!!!" The full essence of The Insanity combined itself with Tymon's body, assimilating itself with the other Tymons of all Thirteen Restrictions. "YES. I AM ALL POWERFUL!!!" Now, instead of The Insanity being a separate part of Tymon that he suppressed until he summoned it within him or it took over by force, it would be unified with Tymon as the missing piece of himself that simply would be with him at all times in all forms in all ways.

As a direct counterbalance to The Insanity, all forms of Tymon would polarize The Insanity and integrate with it, keeping it in a constant form of balance between every ounce of his form. At no time would he lose control of The Insanity like in the past, and likewise, he could use the fullest extent of The Insanity without being controlled by The Insanity. No longer dreaded as the bane of his own existence, Tymon was at peace with himself and all of the things that The Insanity brought back with it from his past experiences being it. The Insanity would no longer be considered separated, as it was ever since Tymon created the power to purify insanity. He was both immune to insanity, yet always insane, which was partially why he was immune to insanity, but the other part being that he was actually able to convert insanity within himself into other forms of energy without being contaminated anymore.

"... Sooooooo..." Crazy Tymon kinda... Said... A bit... Nonchalantly... "... Nothing Really Feels Any Different." All that really happened in real life was that Crazy Tymon saw himself go insane in a certain possible outcome for one of his strains of the future, and he simply did not reject it, like he used to do. He simply embraced it, which allowed for a synchronicity between the which would harmonize their beings as once simply through acceptance alone.

"... Uh, Well The Point Of It All Is... I've Got A Grip On My Insanity, And I Never Have To Let It Go." Crazy Tymon felt like that was an accomplishment.

Things may not have seemed any different for Tymon, but for The Insanity, things were so much better. "Hey, You Wanna Go Kill People?"

Crazy Tymon thought about it.

Crazy Tymon: "Nah, Not Right Now. Later, Though!"