DBZ X-Readers

S!Whis x Reader x S!Beerus Pt. 6 'Prisoner of Time' (LEMON)

Author's Note: This ended up super freaking long and pretty darn dark toward the end. I apologize.

AN2: How dark, you might ask? Well if you open the dictionary to "screwed", you'll find a picture of the Reader.

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It'd been gods only knew how many years--past forty, you were sure--and things had gone on about as much as they ever had. You'd begun to feel that Whis was all there was to talk to, all you'd ever see again. It was hard to bear, but you did...somehow.

It was late one morning when you'd actually been allowed to have breakfast after you woke up instead of being pounced on. Though it was awkward, eating in what was mostly silence with the occasional question about how you were enjoying the food.

When the meal was over, Whis stood and turned to leave--but stopped as he reached the door. "I thought you should know, (y/n)...Lord Beerus will be awake in about a week."

"He...sure sleeps a long time."

"Now you see why I stopped you from aging," he said with a smile. "I've got a few things to make sure of before he wakes up...I'll be gone for a couple days. Do try not to get into trouble."

"I won't." Not that you ever did.

With that he left. For the next day you did the usual--enjoyed being alone and unbothered. The second day brought you into a flurry of restlessness and aches, and you were easing the tension by having a walk around the temple as you'd come to do whenever Whis was away.

Usually you stuck to paths you could remember, but today was different. Today you elected to go down a hallway you could remember passing many times before but had never explored. And for the first few rooms, there was nothing of note. One appeared to be a sort of secondary kitchen, another was what appeared to be a study, the third was a round, empty room...

The fourth you were expecting to be equally dull...but such was not the case.

Inside was completely bare, except for some stairs leading down into a small circular area with a pedestal, on which something lay beneath a sheet. You moved towards it, silent, and were struck with the thought that maybe you should leave, Whis could come back early. If he caught you out of your usual area, there could be consequences.

But you went on down the stairs anyway, and pulled the sheet off the pedestal.

"That's weird," you said, looking down on the item. It looked like that ringed ball on top of Whis's staff, only a lot bigger--the thing was bigger than your head! You reached out, touched it...and immediately bolted back, tripping, as it rose into the air, turned on its side--and began to project images in front of you. There were all kinds of things. People you'd never met before, planets you'd never seen. You reached out to touch the projection and realized that your hand was going through the image, but not coming out the other side.

What?

You stepped closer, and leaned into it just as an image of an empty red world came up. You emerged...

On that planet.

Behind you was...what looked like an opening into the room you'd just left. Before it closed, you jumped back through--and that was when you felt a wild, rising hope. Maybe...if this thing really could send you to other worlds, you could find one and settle on it. You could get away from Whis, and Beerus.

You could be free.

So you sat watching, as the images continued to scroll by, one by one...and then it stopped on a scene you found comfortably familiar. A path near a forest, lined on its other side with bushes. You'd often gotten yourself lost in the woods as a child--you knew how to survive in one, your power had kept you safe, and in any case, it was a better choice than continuing to stay here. You'd rather face all the wild animals in the universe than have to stay there as the plaything of a couple of bored gods.