(Mephiles POV, Empire Jail, Nato Diseraya 2012)

I am locked up. He let Avira go as I saw her leave. I hope she will break me out. I know she will return. If not, I'll break myself out. I am alone and have no one to talk to. My sanity as Prince of Darkness is untouched as will not ever go nuts. I will find my own way out. Before I do, I want to do something good for once.

Alexis is the only girl that I have made broken hearted. When I was in the sceptre, the last thing I ever heard of her voice is her talking to the sceptre. She was to deliver the sceptre to Soleanna Kingdom Republic in East Mobius. The last words she said before handing me over were:

"I'd love you, Connor, but you are a hedgehog and I, a human. Someday, I want you to hold me in your arms. Someday, we will be reunited and if you don't return in a year, I'd never forgive you. Goodbye, Connor Crest or Mephiles the Dark Prince."

She and I were the only kids in the base, except her step-brother, Conned, who has mental retardation. He was murdered when Alexis killed him in her initiation. She had taken the traditional evil empire way to be initiated. She had pulled out his heart with her sword. She has no regrets; however as she is now a cold-hearted killed with a heart of golden blackness.

What I know from her records is that she was initiated and made general when she was 11. That was two years after I was sealed away. I read all the reports of terror and chaos that she had caused leading up to the most recent events. She is a very evil young woman now.

The Anavatoia (which is her real name, before he "changed" it to Alexis) I knew was a sweet and almost honourable evil apprentice. She would never be like the Dark Side of Katherine-Maria Robotnik, a mindless killer who follows orders and conforms. What has he done to you, Anavatoia? What did he do to you?

(Avira POV, Natava Cano, Midora, 2212)

I am running through Natava with fear and horror. Why did he let me go? I am running to tell Sifora of what happened. She is like an over-passive aggressive mother to me and I accept that. She cannot ever take the place of my real mother, since she is dead. As I run, my feet ache as I was running from last night onward. He only wanted Mephiles, probably why he let me go after I was reincarnated. Cathryn 1 would never let me die, but what about Connor? He needs all the help he can get. I have been careless not to cure his darkness... Oh no! That is why he wants Con, his DARKNESS! Oh goddess, what have I let him get into? This is my entire fault!

Why have you let this happen?

"Sifora! Sifora!" I call as I run through the large palace

"Avira!" She calls back from her office.

"Sifora, thank the goddess I had found you." I reply as I walk over

"What is it, Mai Jav'li" Sifora replies (That means "Goddess of the Honour")

"It is Mephiles! He is had been captured by Jonathan Reliagh, AKA Eggman Nega!" I yell

"Why did you say that...? Connor has been kidnapped?" she yells

"Not exactly "kidnapped", more likely "taken prisoner". I forgot to treat his darkness and I know why Nega wants him. To unleash is darkness! You have to help. If I tell John, he will kill him! Sifora, please. He is your nephew. Please, Sifora!" I beg

"He won't do that. John isn't the type of man that will kill because of title. He is a guardian of the Secret Order too. What is the pledge of the Secret Order again?" Sifora replies and asks

"To unite the powers with honour and integrity and to save the worlds." I reply

"Just go tell him what is going on and he'll understand. Just if he hasn't lost Blaze before to the empire when they kidnap her." She suggests.

"I guess. He is the leader of the Ferian Freedom Fighters and a fellow guardian. I will go and see if he'll help." I reply

"Good luck!" She says while I walk through a portal.

(Mephiles POV, Back in the Ferian Empire Base's Jail)

I am losing my patience. Avira is taking too long. She had told me in my dreams that she is coming to free me. How long will she take? Avira, Hurry.

I hear a noise at the entrance. I hear a familiar female voice along with Nega's. I don't know who the female is, but it is not Milena Sajava, she has a sweeter sounding voice than this one. There is clattering of shoes on the stone flooring and when I look back from the window, Nega and a hooded figure (quite probably the owner of the female voice) at the cell door. I would have tried to blast down the door, but escaping here is like an empire fugitive from the Citadel, very impossible either way.

"Looks like Connor are trying not to lose, my lord. Shall I go?" the figure asks

"You can go. He mustn't see your face anyway, Jalee." Nega replies to the figure

Jalee? That name sounds so familiar... That is someone's middle name, but I can't quite figure it out. It sounds like something I have heard before and stuff. I'll know it when I figure it out.

"Connor, you miscreant. How could you escape the sceptre in the first place?" He asks

"Still as annoying as ever. No wonder Sifora got her powers back from you. They were stolen, were they not?" I ask

"Shut up, apprentice. You are not to talk back!" he orders

"I am not your apprentice anymore, Nega. I am not your toy! I am the Dark Prince of the Night, not Mephiles the Dark or Connor Crest the Destroyer. You may have raised me like your child those 9 years, but I will never conform to the darkness. Never!" I yell back

"It was Avira, wasn't it? She cannot love you. You, Connor, are impure and evil inside. She couldn't love the Prince of Darkness. She is the Princess of Light. She would more likely destroy you than be your lover." he states the lies that are clearly untrue.

"She would never think of that! Avira would never destroy me. She loves me no matter what you say." I angularly reply until I notice my hands are lit up with my Dark Powers

"It is working. You are getting mad." He replies

"No... I am not... You can't make me... unleash my... darkness!" I yell as I am fighting the darkness

"Fine then. I cannot unleash this now. That blonde would get the Ferian Freedoms onto us. Besides that, John will kill you anyway. I would find a way to get the damn darkness out someday and somehow." He announces before leaving and locking the cage.

I am able to hold it all back, somehow, as he leaves. I am left alone and I look out the window. I watch the army passing by and their training. Cars go past and they have supplies. For a base in the desert are definitely runs smoothly. I wonder where Anavatoia is. How come she hasn't come to see me? Does she hate me? Dear goddess... What did I do to...? Oh right... That.

It is after midnight and the patrols are operating. Then I hear boots clattering against the stone and I wonder who it is. It is the hooded figure again. She opens the door and comes in. I raise my hand, about to shoot and she lowers her hood.

"Anavatoia Jalee Vane?" I ask

"Hello, Connor." She addresses me

"What are you doing? Why are you here? Ana, what are you here for?" I ask

She slaps me then sternly says "Never ask me a question that you already know the answer to."

"Anavatoia. Alexis. Whatever you call yourself. What the hell?" I reply

"6 Years ago. Remember then? You betrayed him. Got trapped in the sceptre. Broke my heart!" She yells as she hits me again

"Alexis. I realised something then and I didn't break your heart by doing that. He is evil and he used me for evil. Just if my powers weren't bad enough, he was hunting down a girl of the same age as us back then. You don't see that I am right and follow his orders like a fangirl to her hero on Twitter." I explain

"I never asked you to learn his weaknesses or anything, Con. He is your master and you ambushed him. I was in love with you; we were kids growing up too fast in the empire society. You left me on my own and my heart ached for all the time. I ended up killing all my raw emotion and becoming the hard-ass I am. Thanks to you, I will never love another until I find it. I will never sing of love, Connor. It does not exist anyway." She announces

"If you hate me so much, why are you talking to me?" I reply

"You... I don't... I DON'T KNOW!" She screams before leaving in anger, leaving the gate open and her AK-47 behind.

This is your chance! Go now!

I take the gun and escape. I run out the courtyard and the alarm sounds. Empire troops plie out and try to take me down. I start shooting and running. They begin to close the gate and I am running as fast as I can. I drop the gun and slide under the closing gate. I make a run for it and steal a hover board that was left outside. They chase me and I shoot my powers at them. They fall off hover boards and motorbikes and stuff. I am heading for the Ferian Freedom Fighter Base, Swaxox Provence, which is over the border. I sense Avira there and I have never been wrong in my senses.

As I fly there, they shoot at the empire and I dodge the gunfire. I hear a quite familiar voice over their PA system.

"Mephiles, get inside now! King John and I will take care of this." the voice (which could be Avira) yells.

I land in the base and they fire heavy artillery and the empire is running away. Avira runs up to me and latches herself to my chest. I wrap my arms around her and she is jabbering all these things that I can't make out. I kiss her on the head and she calms down.

"Avira, you are alive and I am thankful for that. Calm down, I know you would be worried. I know you like I know weapons. From a lot of time, patience and discipline." I console her

"I love you and I was so scared. He would have unleashed your darkness. How could I not fix this?" She announces

"Avira, it is ok. I know you forgot, but I resisted." I ask

"Thank the goddess. Oh Mephiles..." She says before we kiss.

We go to dinner; I am on my best behaviour from last time. We talk and she tells me what I was missing when I was locked up and all about how much panic and trouble she went through. When I enter before Avira, Sifora puts a cage on me. I don't know what is going on and this is nuts. Avira enters and she is going mad.

"What the hell, Sifora? What is this for?" She asks

"He caused the biggest panic and he let you get into trouble. We cannot afford losing you, Avira. You are the Goddess of Light, if an imbalance happens... They'll have the upper hand!" Sifora tells her.

"Let him out this instant, Sifora!" Avira demands

"Yeah! LET ME OUT!" I holler and it echoes around the palace.

"No! Not until he learns a lesion or is turned good." She implies

"I am getting him out..." Avira states except she fails to open the door

"I sealed it with my powers. Now be a good girl and answer the call. King John had put out that he is having a tactical response meeting and he is letting Mephiles get some rest. Now be a good girl and listen to the boss. Off you go, bye now." Sifora says while pushing her into a portal and shutting it

Sifora starts slapping me and yelling in Ferian. She is trying to force a message into my mind as she is one of the control freaks in society that want their own way. As Sifora is a 40-something year old she sits down from exhaustion and falls asleep. As she never gets a moment's peace in Midora. I pick the lock using my powers and it comes open. I drop from the rafters as she had put me there when she took rest and I fall a long way. I stop at the ground and let myself down as I was hovering in the air. Then I run.

I run then open a portal. I am going to the one place they don't judge me. The Resistance Base. The other members may not know that I am alive, and good, but Sonic, Sally and Katherine know. I am not looking where I am going and I land on my face with a thud. I am covered in mud and scrape it all off. I walk up to the gate and it opens. On the other side is Sonic and he knows why I am here as I Tweeted that I was stuck in a cage, earlier on.

"Hi, Con. Finally escape the cage?" Sonic asks

"Sifora was being a nut that time. I think one too many nights without sleep has screwed her brain up something bad." I reply

"You're going to have to be quiet. If one, especially Shadow, finds out that you're alive, they'll flip and try and execute you somehow. According to them, you were killed ages ago in 2006. The only people that don't know are Katherine, Mary, Vandit and Elias." Sonic explains.

"Got ya." I whisper

We walk through and I sense something is amiss. The base is quiet, too quiet and usually there would still be some sort of chaos or pandemonium going on at 10pm at night. Especially Amy, seeing as she is trying to grow up too quickly and she already goes partying. That is what I have been told, seeing as an intervention will be planned ASAP.

I sense a gun being pointed at me at an undetermined direction, as of yet. A shot is fired and it misses as it is fired into the Infirmary window and the glass around it shatters. The gunshot wakes up the resistance and the ones that know are trying to capture me.

They grab my limbs and hog tie me as Sonic and Sally are trying to stop their hate on me. They all point their guns and I close my eyes and pray to the goddess Cathryn 1, to stop this. Then I hear a noise and they have turned to ice. I look to see the person who did that. It is Katherine. Sally uses a hunting knife to cut the ropes as Katherine helps with her ice blades. The ones that don't know are staring dumbstruck and it will take a while to explain.

"Are you alright, Mephiles?" Katherine asks

"I'm fine. Thank you for doing that." I reply

"What the hell is going on here, Sal? If that was the start of an uprising, I'm getting my sword." Elias (what I presume is her brother) asks

"Eli, chill. If you don't I will freeze you too." Katherine tells him in joking tone

"They just hate me. I did some bad stuff, but I have changed. They just don't know that." I announce

"How dare you judge him because of one simple flaw? You do not judge me because of my faults or anything like that. If I unfreeze you, I will find it in your hearts to forgive him. Avira had tried to fix him and it had worked. Will you forgive him?" Katherine yells at them

They mumble noises and she unfreezes them. They are all taken to the infirmary for severe hyperthermia. They all have hot water bottles and are shivering. Katherine makes a quick apology then she takes my hand and asks me to follow her. We go to her room and she hands me a small notepad and a pencil.

"Take down notes. I am about to tell you something you shall not forget. I am going to teach you the basics." She orders

"Ok. What is this about really? After I yelled at you and called you names, you helped me. I don't understand you." I reply.

"We are both judged. They think you are still evil and they think I, also, am evil. They think I am a spy for the empire. They think you are still an evil bastard. They think I am evil because of my father and that I am his daughter. They think that you are evil because of your past. We are practically the same." She explains.

She is right, Con.

"Mephiles, this is what you should know. Honour is not just a stupid term for "praise" and "overachiever". Hell no! Honour is actually putting in the hard yards and showing people that you actually give a flying fuck about something and did something about it! Discipline, that means you are behaving and not being arrogant, annoying, stupid… Blah. Discipline means you keep your mouth shut, follow orders and straighten up and fly right. We'd better praise C1 for making this get through your thick head! I'm sorry for yelling, but this is how I was taught and it really worked… though I did shit myself, come to think of it." Katherine explains as I take notes.

"Dear goddess… You are right." I exclaim

"I have never been referred to "right" before. Connor Crest, take what you have learnt and, for the love of Cathryn, show them the real you." She orders

"Yes ma'am." I reply

We hug and I go home. I am going to prove to the people that I, Connor "Mephiles" Crest, have a heart. I first then do volunteer work. I help out in rebuilding projects with my powers. Building a house in less than three hours. Then I visit kids in the hospital. I do tricks and give out teddy bears to the sickly children. I play a charity concert where I play my guitar and perform songs with Blaze on piano, Silver on guitar, Avira on flute and Katherine on violin. We raise $12 000 Sun, (equivalent to $1 200 in Euro, US and Australian dollars) and most was from the Calibre, for the upgrading of the CBD in the middle of Natava Cano to have more functioning businesses for more work opportunities.

Word gets out and everyone is beginning to like me. Instead of glaring eyes staring me down and judging my every move, the people have changed their opinion and accepted me. I feel awestruck as they greet me and I wave. I have never been adored by others before. Avira adores me, and now, they see the true me. I decide to go to the ruins with Avira, to take her on a date alone.

We have a lantern lit picnic under the moonlight. Avira and I are wearing our capes and the warm yellow cape drapes off her shoulders as she fixes her hair. I stole a bottle of wine and I open it with my teeth. I hand Avira a glass and we stare in the sky as we drink and chat. The rest of the night is a blur and I wake up with Avira laying on me. I don't care really what happened. I really don't. Now it is time to get ready for the crappy fundraiser we have to attend in two days. Boring!