"Master left me, that he did yes!" The wise king cried, his tone a panicked one no one would have expected from such a ferocious beast.

The beast paced back and forth. Neph led him to the village. And left him at the village.

"Master doesn't like me! He doesn't!" His eyes were now large beads of almost tears.

Enri had no idea what to do. Having been one of two people from the village to come back with the beast, it was decided she was to look over it. Now she was sitting outside her home, late at night, trying to comfort this insecure beast.

"There there... Ah... Wise King, I'm sure he will be back for you!" She said half heartedly.

"Will he? He hasn't given me a name yet, he has not!" The giant furry creature burrowed his large head into is all too small arms.

"Ahhh... This is gonna be a long night..." Enri sighed.

The first sound the twins heard inside their Lord's mind, was that of waves crashing on the shores. Specifically, the lighthouse they were on. It was a simple, old fashioned lighthouse, standing upon a flat, circular base. This base, stood barely a few heads above the ocean, just high enough that the crashing waves would only send vapors and droplets at one standing on it. They stood there, awe at every direction possible.

The water was black. It wasn't that the water itself was pure black, but rather, it was simply just that dark in the mindscape. The only light sources being the lighthouse's sweeping light, and an oddly shaped moon. The moon is a sort of ghostly white, but it seemed to shimmer in a way that would not be possible if the moon was it's true distance away from the lighthouse. The moon itself, was an odd crescent, but in the missing core's place were shards, or rather, pieces of the moon. These shone fractured light in multiple directions down on the sea.

With this light, one could see that the lighthouse was the only thing around. There was nothing in sight as far as the eye can see save the mirror-like reflections of the waves. The waves, were restless to say the least. They strode in directions that would seem impossible to tidal logic. In fact, it was more that a huge object was being dropped at irregular intervals and irregular locations into the ocean that caused these waves.

Like going to the beach at night, rather than exuding a somber and despairing feeling, the sight of this lone lighthouse would instill many with a quiet sort of hope. The type of which found between silver linings and golden edges. It was a hope so quiet one might break it like they would silence should they try to speak of it. Because of this, the two sat down and merely absorbed the surroundings. It was tranquil. The water splashes akin to arrhythmiatic heartbeats, and each vapor from the waves that touched them washed them over with a sense of cold not frostbitten, but just enough to be a reprieve.

"You two really like it in here?" Neph spoke, breaking the silence.

"O-Of course! This is your world after all, Lord Neph!" They replied in unison.

Neph chuckled a bit. The sat down with them near the edge of the lighthouse's base.

It is quite calming in here. Mindscapes were either memories or something one, with weeks of practice, can design. I never thought that I would subconsciously choose here as my mindscape. I guess I'm not in tune with myself as I thought. Nevertheless, this was a cherished memory, so it's fine. I don't need to design one.

The last time he had used a mindscape was before Viqtoria had passed. After that, Neph had just been too afraid to look into himself to use it again. The twins and their Lord sat there for what seemed like days. Time passed at one's discretion in one's mind.

Ahh. Maybe I don't have to be as anxious as I am to tell them.

"Alright, I think it's time we head inside." Neph spoke. He got up as the two stood up to follow.

The door to the interior of the ligthouse was on the other side of where they were, thus, they needed to walk around the edge of the lighthouse's base to get to it.

"Lord Neph? I've once overheard you speak with Lady Alekszara that a mindscape was either something dear to you or it was something one with skill can make. Which one is this?" Verdandi asked.

"This is... Well, where I proposed to her." He replied after a moment's hesitation.

"It's a memory?" Diyandi asked.

"Yes".

"To her... To Lady Alekszara?!" They both came to the realization at the same time.

"Yes." Neph spoke again. It seemed that's going to be most of what he's going to say now. In a way, he was glad that they were capable of connecting dots quite quickly. He heard them well up with excitement, the way two best friends would when they had found something amazing. He heard them shower him with praise and congratulations like "As expected of Lord Neph!" Or "Lady Alekszara must have been delighted beyond belief!". It kind of annoyed him, but he just kept quiet and walked along.

They followed, and he took a quick glance backwards at them. He could remember the time he was here in actuality. He could remember the time where he was just as happy as they were. In the 22nd Century, most forms of transportation by sea utilized the world's internet field to navigate connecting to ever present satellites and subnet sonars. As such, most lighthouses were decommissioned and deconstructed. The one the twins and Neph were on now, was one that was preserved for historical purposes.

It was located on the edge of a town called Haven, on the coast of Maine. It was Viqtoria's hometown. She told him of the legends surrounding the lighthouse.

How there was a sailor who was lost at sea and the sailor's love stood atop the lighthouse every day and night to wait for him to come home.

How there was a sea serpent that washed ashore at its base.

How there were people who believed that if one stood atop the lighthouse and wished with their soul and hopes in their hearts, that the wish would come true when the lighthouse's light sweeped the same day next year.

All these legends and stories led the townfolk to name the lighthouse, God's Old Ivory. He'd had always wanted to see this mythical lighthouse, and so on Viqtoria's twenty second birthday, the took her here. And it was here that he kneeled on one knee and rose to Cherry colored lipstick. This was the memory that cemented God's Old Ivory as Neph's mindscape. Albeit, it was alone out at sea and not at the edge of a town, but at the time he proposed, it really was just him, her, and it. Nothing else could break this magical fragment of time to them.

They had reached the door. Neph put one hand on the handle and with a sigh, opened. Their eyes met the bottom of a staircase that ran spiraling up the lighthouse. The entire interior of the lighthouse was illuminated by faint reflections of the light at the top. The kind one would find when lighting a candle in a room. Visibility was just high enough that they would not stumble, but also low enough that the rigid concrete staircase and tower seemed soft.

They started up the stairs in a uniform fashion, with Neph at the front and the two following behind, standing side by side. The staircase was quite wide, thus it could accommodate the twins and their wings without much discomfort. As they walked up, Neph was staring at the light above, while the twins were mesmerized by the seemingly spiral eye that formed when looking up a spiral staircase.

"What is this place, Lord Neph?" Diyandi asked.

"This is something in our world- The Supreme Being's worlds that was called a Lighthouse. It's used to signal danger in the sea, or used as a beacon to return home. Unfortunately this one was one of the very few remaining, preserved for historical purposes." He told them. It was a truth with just a pinch of misinformation.

"This is a piece of your higher dimension?!" They both gasped. Standing on the world of the Supreme Being to them was something tantamount to desecrating a sacred shrine.

"We are unworthy!" They both kneeled.

"It's alright, keep walking, this is merely a replication. You're not on the real thing." He spoke while moving up the staircase. He noticed the twins were now taking careful steps, as if not to disturb the concrete.

"But- what does this have to do with Lady Alekszara?" Diyandi asked. Neph knew it was coming.

"Because this is one of the places where Lady Alekszara grew up. She was the one who told me what this tower was called. It was called God's Old Ivory." Neph spoke. He relayed the stories he heard from Alekszara to them. They were now almost at the top.

Neph paused a step, then continued. They now stood at the apex of the lighthouse, the room where the beacon light shone at the sea. The windows circling this room were all glass, as to allow the beacon light to shine through. Here, they could see in every direction.

Neph walked towards the beacon, and he put a hand on it. He could make it do things it normally can't. The twins merely assumed a sitting posture, sensing their Lord's intentions.

With his hand on the beacon light, it stopped moving. The light now shone on a particular part of the sea near the lighthouse, where many waves fought over who gets to be reflective. The light flickered, and it changed to something else.

A picture.

"Who are they?" The twins both asked at the same time. They were looking at a picture of two children. Specifically-

"That's me and Lady Alekszara. It was when we were kids." Neph replied.

"But aren't you a Pure Thought Entity and Lady Alekszara an angel?" Verdandi questioned.

"Yes. But Pure Thought Entity is an end state. That is to say, we were not born to be Pure Thought Entities, but we had ascended into that form. Likewise, with Angels, the younger they are, the smaller their wings. Lady Alekszara was different, in that her wings did not appear until later on. That is why we both looked human. Because I was and because she wasn't true." That was Neph's reply. He had to come up with a reason to convince them. He wasn't lying though, Viqtoria was a bit shorter than most people for most of her life, barely growing to Neph's height.

"Ohh" The twins sighed in unison. The light flickered again and the picture changed to a small projected movie.

It depicted the life that they both led. The moment that the two had first played music together. The first kiss they had ever known. The time where they stood under this tower in moonlight and Neph had proposed at this very lighthouse. Then the time where they had held a celebration in YGGDRASIL.

"Lady Alekszara and you were meant to be together." The twins both said in unison.

"But why did your lives resemble human lives?" Verdandi asked.

Crap. I have to come up with something. Please, this is hard enough for me as it is, you two.

"Because we existed on a higher plane. We Supreme Beings had professions which would dictate the creation of entire worlds. YGGDRASIL, the home of you two, were one of many that we had created." A half truth. Humans made games. Humans made worlds. The eyes of the Gemini Twins widened.

"We exist on the highest plane of existence, but at some point, we can choose to descend to a lower plane. This is where Lady Alekszara and I descended into YGGDRASIL, and it is where we became the selves that you see us as today." Neph flickered the beacon light and it changed to the first time that he and Viqtoria had created their YGGDRASIL characters. And again, it was a half truth.

The eyes of the twins were almost popping out at this point. This was revelation to them akin to deciphering the word of God directly from his mouth. This was hallowed and sacred knowledge to them. In this vein, he was a bit glad that their awe stopped them from seeing any holes in his story.

"But... Why isn't Lady Alekszara here?" Diyandi asked.

This was it.

"Because..." Neph spoke with a heavy heart.

The die is cast.

"Because she had passed on." He finally got the words out.

Silence. For what seemed like centuries. Only the sounds of waves crashing and rowing were heard. Even the lighthouse's sweep light, which could make small creaking sounds, was now silenced as Neph held it.

"What do you mean, Lord Neph?" Diyandi asked.

"I mean, that she had perished." Neph replied, eyes low to the ground.

"But! How could that be possible?!" Diyandi asked again, her voice louder.

"We Supreme Beings are vulnerable in our home of the higher plane. There, we are effectively mortal to the machinations of... Of life. Things such as celestial storms, and crashes. Viqtoria was a victim of one of these crashes. She died protecting other Supreme Beings." Neph could barely speak these words. He was petrified. But again, it was a half truth. Although Viqtoria was merely a victim of circumstance, he could say that in a way, she died so others would not, thus, she did die for others. It was a way of thinking that Neph could appreciate, that she had done one last good deed.

He looked at the twins. First at Diyandi. Her eyes were full of tears, and they streamed down her face. She fell to her knees and held her visage in her hands, crying.

Then he looked at Verdandi. She was completely silent. He could not see her face as she was looking down.

"Verdandi, are you-"

A white flash of light. Suddenly, they were all now in their original bodies. Neph was in his Arch Devil, and the twins were in their respective Edenborn bodies. Neph realized what had happened.

A emotional breakdown!

A forceful way of breaking out of a mindscape, was to have a surge of emotional change within one's mind. This destroys one's perception of another's mindscape, and thus, would forcibly exit.

"Verda!-" Neph yelled. His hand grasping for the air where her shoulder would have been. She had flown up.

"She broke the barrier!" Diyandi cried. Her eyes were crying here now too. Neph was at least glad that she was cooperative, even if he did not know what she was thinking of him now. He looked and saw that she was right. The barrier she had set up before was not broken from the inside, but rather, from Verdandi's ascent in to the skies at extreme speed and force.

"Verdandi! Please come back to me! Please listen!" Neph yelled at the top of his lungs, his very hopes ached like the back of his throat.

Verdandi did not acknowledge him. She screamed a wail that shook everything in the forest. It was midnight and every single bird here flapped out their homes to escape the sorrowful murderous intent that spread throughout from Verdandi. She remained afloat in the air. Then, suddenly, Neph saw her eyes start to glow.

She was crying, and her glowing sky blue eyes now spread the light to the two trails of tears on her face. Neph could sense a massive power surging within her.

"Lady Alekszara!" Verdandi screamed again. The two master and servant on the ground looked up to see a wave travelling out from Verdandi. That wave froze the pond that they had slept near yesterday night, and took the leaves of every tree that it hit.

Then the faintest of light fell from Verdandi. Squinting his eyes, Neph could see that it was a teardrop. That teardrop fell, and the moment it hit the ground a mere three yards from where Diyandi and Neph stood, spears of ice erupted from the flash frozen ground in every direction, forcing Neph to grab Diyandi and jump out of the way.

"Lord Neph!" Diyandi yelled.

"I know!" Neph was holding Diyandi, they were both in the air from Neph's hasty activation of [Fallen Heathen Wings].

He knew. Neph knew what was happening. Verdandi was now going to go into her High Avatar form. Verdandi and her sister had classes that were based around manipulating elements. Verdandi was the Avatar Of The Crackling Light, a class based on lightning, and Avatar Of The Frostbitten Waters, a class based on ice. These two were the basis of her [Solid Lightning] signature spell. And the High Avatar form that she was going in to would combine the two. Specifically, the High Avatar Of Glacial Tempests.

Neph knew that it was a moderate power boost in YGGDRASIL, but here, considering the strength of the people he had witnessed, Neph knew it would give her power to wipe out most of the light in a large area here without even trying. And if left alone, then maybe in a month, all life on this world, assuming everyone was as weak as Neph had first seen.

He had to stop her. He can't let her hurt anyone, and he can't let her be hurt if there were forces here stronger than her.

"We have to do something!" Neph spoke to Diyandi. They flew a short distance away to land and gather themselves.

"Diyandi! Please! The only way to get through to her now is you! She won't listen to me!" He spoke. He clutched both of Diyandi's shoulders and stared right into her crying red eyes.

All he saw was hurt. Pain. He knew this must be hard on her. He was asking her to fight one of the people that she loves most. Her sister. And now, learning that her direct creator, Viqtoria, was dead. If Verdandi was in this much pain to activate her High Avatar form, then Neph could barely imagine what it was like for Diyandi.

A crackling sound erupted. Several trees in Verdandi's vicinity shattered like the Sunlight Scripture had been shattered.

Neph turned for a split second to see that a ring of energy was building above Verdandi. Her wings were now in full Seraphim form, spreading to six total wings. Crackling [Solid Lightning] circled around the halo above her. And her entire body radiated a blue-white aura. She was now starting to become pure energy.

Neph turned back to Diyandi. With a heart of remorse and guilt. He looked into her crying eyes one last time and said.

"Please."

Diyandi was a bit taken aback. She sniffed, and with a large sweep of her hand wiped away her tears, which returned momentarily later in smaller amounts.

"As you will, Lord Neph." She said, her voice barely audible. She backed away from Neph's grasp and started activating her own High Avatar form, a fusion of Avatar Of The Titanic Terra [Earth], and Avatar of The Dancing Heat [Fire]. He looked into her now amber orange glowing eyes and said again.

"I'm sorry."

As those words reached her ears, she soared up. Neph saw Diyandi having the same Seraphim wings, totaling six. She was now in full High Avatar Of Tectonic Inferno form, and her body, like her sister, radiated an energy aura. This time, it was one that was orange near her body and tapered out to green as it got further from her skin.

"Verdandi, please stop." Diyandi spoke. She started floating towards her sister.

Neph on the ground looked up to the two divine powers above him, high in the skies, a light of blue and a light of green. He had to help Diyandi calm Verdandi down somehow. Then he realized. He hastily reached in to his item bag and pulled out a piano. One made of Ebonwood so dark one could not distinguish the wood from night. His immense strength in the Arch Devil body allowed him to put it down single handedly without much effort. He sat down on it, and started playing a tune. A tune that Viqtoria once played for him in game with the twins around. It was an ancient tune in their time. Ludovico Einaudi's Nuvole Bianche.

Up in the sky, Diyandi tried again.

"Verdandi, please calm down." Diyandi moved closer to her. They both looked down to see their Lord playing a tune familiar to them. They knew what it was. It was something that She had played.

"She's gone!" Verandi screamed. She looked at her sister with a gaze of dejected fury.

"[Solid Lightning]!" Verdandi fired a bolt from the energy halo above her. It soared in the blink of an eye to Diyandi. Verdandi did not mean to kill, but rather, she was aiming for Diyandi's wings.

The bolt however, was rendered null by Diyandi activating [Firebloom Robe] just in time to block it. Fire based defenses were the most effective against Verdandi's [Solid Lightning], which was a physical damage spell. Seeing this, Verdandi switched to a barrage of pure energy attacks, regular [Tempest Lightning].

But Diyandi paid no heed. She let the bolts hit her as she advanced towards her sister. Each bolt searing a red scar on her body. But she did not mind. She had to help her sister.

"Stop!" Verdandi yelled. Diyandi was now practically next to her. Verdandi backed away for a bit, bracing for an incoming attack of [Density Fire], but nothing came. Instead, Diyandi merely rushed forward, and-

Hugged her sister. Diyandi stroked Verdandi's hair as they embraced in the moonless sky above the Forest Of Tob. The younger sister, one with hair like falling snow, sobbed into her elder sister's chest.

The energy ring above Verdandi slowly dissipated, and the aura of energy slowly disappeared from their bodies. They landed a few meters behind of Neph. He placed a small amount of magic into the Piano to keep a small loop of music going, then slowly walked towards the two.

He took heavy steps as he could see the two were still crying. He saw the wounds from Verdandi on Diyandi's arm and most of her body. Seared red streaks of flesh. Being an Avatar Of The Titanic Terra, Diyandi would have possessed immense regenerative abilities. The fact that the wounds still lingered showed how much impact the attacks had. He knew they were not out of malice. But a pained child lashing out with uncontrolled power.

Neph kneeled to them.

"I am sorry. But I did not want to keep the truth from you two." There was no response.

"It pains me too. That she's not here. We would have been a completed family." Now he too, started tearing.

"But there is something I must show you." Neph spoke. The twins stopped and looked at him, eyes still wet around the corners.

He slowly approached them on his knees, and attempted to hug them. At first they were hesitant, but then they allowed it.

Once again, they were inside Neph's mindscape. The waves were even more restless. He could barely hear himself speak, so he teleported the two inside the top of the tower, where they were before Verdandi's tantrum.

The Twins knew what Neph was going to do, and paid attention to the beacon's light as it was reflected in the sea.

There it flashed to a memory of Viqtoria.

"Lady Alekszara!" Verdandi blurted out, reaching for the image. She calmed down after this outburst.

The memory was from Neph's point of view.

He was looking at Viqtoria as she was tending to two identical shrines. Each one an ornate basin, from which beautiful rainbow colored water swirled. Floating above both of the shrines, were the Grand Soulstones.

A slight movement from the twins as they realized what the two stones were. It was what they were made from. They realized, that this was the moment that they were being created.

"It's quite a slow process." Viqtoria spoke. She splashed her hand in the rainbow colored water.

"They're not absorbing the [Prismatic Essence] as fast as I want them to."

[Prismatic Essence] was what the rainbow colored water was called. A substance in YGGDRASIL that was dense in energy, as well as being able to be infused with Experience points. It was quite expensive in the game to buy from others, but Neph and Viqtoria had a lot of money lying around. They were fully geared and had no upkeep for a guild base, as they had none.

"Relax dear. The shitty devs even said that there was an activation time. We can just wait it out." Neph of the memory spoke. The twins shook a bit, having heard that very same voice moments earlier.

Viqtoria and Neph walked outside the shack that they had placed the Grand Soulstones in. They knew it was dangerous. But it was a extremely remote location that required many to pass multiple labyrinths and trials to get to, so it was fine to them.

No one would go through all that trouble just to try and take the Grand Soulstones, especially if the journey would make them weaker to fight. They laid on the grass outside the shack, looking at the indigo purple sky. They were on a isolated field of Svartálfaheimr, the land of the Dark Elves.

"So. What are we going to make them to?" Neph said. He was lying down, his arms behind his head as a pillow. Thus, as there were no trees around, the point of view of the twins watching was of the splendid indigo purple sky.

"Well, I don't know." Viqtoria spoke. She was also lying down, but she nudged against Neph.

"My mother's wish was to have grandkids early so that she could be there for most of their lives." Viqtoria chuckled a bit.

"Are you saying that the two Soulstones in there are our children?" Neph asked. He chuckled.

"I guess so, in a way." Viqtoria giggled.

Then the memory shifted. The skies seemed to fast forward as the purple and indigo shifted and shifted. The twins watching the memory were now looking at their younger selves. Sleeping. Fresh out of creation.

Verdandi's snow white hair was barely shoulder length, not waist length as it is now. Diyandi was the same, her peridot colored hair was shoulder length. At this age, the two were nearly indistinguishable, being twins and having young features. The only way to tell who was who, was their hair colors.

"There they are. Our children." Viqtoria spoke. At this, Neph looked back at the twins watching the memory, and saw tears streaming down their eyes again. But he could tell that this was a different sort of tear. It was gratitude.

"Why do both of them have to be elemental based?" Neph of the memory groaned.

"Oh come on, I'm the mother here." Viqtoria snarked. She chuckled and they both laughed full of heart.

"Well. Your mother's wish was sort of fulfilled." Neph said.

"What is yours?" He asked.

"I don't know. I don't know what a mother should wish." She said. The ran her fingers through both of the twin's hairs. They were lying next to each other in a small child's bed. A rather plain one for YGGDRASIL standards but it made due.

Silence came over the memory for a moment. Before someone spoke again.

"A mother's wish huh."

"I wish for you two to be good." Viqtoria spoke in the most gentle voice she can to the fragile twins.

This was where the memory stopped.

Neph and the twins exited the mindscape, having finished watching the memory he wanted to share.

They were still in their embrace from before entering the mindscape, and just stayed like that.

The last words they heard echoing throughout their souls.

"I wish for you two to be good."