The Illusion Of Shadows

A Dangerous Game

Time traveller and Emperor of the Universe Sapphirus, his younger time-traveling self Blake, and their wife Ana are playing a dangerous game as it is.

Sapphirus is hiding a pregnant wife and a double life as Blake. He is told the Universal Government has discovered his secrets and changed the laws to accommodate for his strange half-life as a living dead grim reaper. Is it for real, or is too good to be true?

"Hello Morgan, what do you want?" asked Sapphirus smiling amiably.

"We have decided that you, remarry," said Morgan.

"I am happy as I am?" said the Emperor.

"We need to talk," Morgan said candidly.

Sapphirus thought he must be serious, hearing the ominous phrase we need to talk.

The Emperor's New Clothes

Time traveller and Emperor of the Universe Sapphirus, aka Fred, poses as Blake his sick younger self the dark emperor Mortimer the Grim Reaper at the Intergalactic Political Parliament. Will he be recognized as the galactic emperor or not?

"You must be the Emperor Mortimer," said the Prime Minister of the Universe Morganite Argent, seeing the reaper.

Fred wanted to laugh but didn't, he knew him as well as Fred.

"I am, you look like the prime minister of the Universe," said Fred.

"I am," said Morganite surprised he was recognized.

The Illusion Of Shadows

Fred as Mortimer must go to talk to a convention in human form, and masked, when Blake can't go he is sick. Fred is also sick, but, he's out of bed so he plays Mortimer even if Fred is suffering from a form of the flu, which robs Fred of his ability to die a turn into a reaper. Lance, his son, is posing as Fred the Emperor again, this time with permission to do so. They meet the most unexpected man who they already know.