This is it.

Hello followers! Sorry for my long break. A little thing called Downton Abbey obsession happened. But now im back. And like I said, this is it. The chapter you have been waiting for.

We finally find out the whole story, what makes this universe different. Why Phoenix is evil.

This is my longest chapter yet. I hope you all enjoy it, it was a hard one to write. Tell me what you think!

-Maya-
Alternate Universe

Maya stepped out of the train and looked around her.

(Hazakura Temple...this place has so many memories for me. And none of them good. I have a feeling that's not about to change.)

She sucked in a deep breath and let it out forcefully.

(Let's do this! For me, for alternate universes, for the Steel Samurai, for Nick, and especially for burgers!)

Maya smiled at her own joke and then started her journey to the Main Hall. Fifteen minutes later she arrived, exhausted and out of breath.

A small lady opened the door and smiled widely.

"Hello? Who-Oh! Mystic Maya! You haven't been here in a while

"Sister Bikini!" Maya beamed, but her smile quickly turned into a frown. "Wait...I haven't? But I was here for training less than a year ago, during that case with Ni..."

Maya trailed off as she remembered her situation. "Oh, um yeah. I should come up here more often. My bad."

Bikini beamed. "Oh, no worries. The Fey family must always be busy with official Kurain business. I understand. Now what are you here for?"

"Oh, right. Well I have recently undergone...selective memory loss. I remember the basics of me and who I am, but some important details have been erased from my mind."

"Oh, how horrible!" Bikini gasped.

"Yes, it was, um, incredibly painful. But anyway, I have forgotten about Phoenix Wright and how he is connected to our family. I was hoping you would be able to explain to me exactly how we knew him?"

Bikini's face suddenly froze and her lips twisted upward in disgust. "That is a memory you might want to leave forgotten."

Maya shook her head and dropped her usual playful attitude, becoming serious and adult-like.

"If I lived through it once, then I can live through it again. It's time for me to know the truth."

(Technically I haven't lived through this yet...but I have lived through some horrible things. There's no way this could be worse than my mom and sister dying. Right?)

"Alright. If you truly feel the need to know, I will tell all," Bikini put a hand on Maya's shoulder. "But I am sorry for everything you are about to hear."

O O O

"So, what exactly makes me so evil in your universe?"

Phoenix looked intently at 'Maya', this doppelgänger of the girl he knew. They sat on the train together with Pearl, all impatient to reach Hazakurain and try to fix this whole mess.

Maya opened her mouth as if to answer his question, but then closed it and made a noise like a muffled gurgle in her throat.

"Maya, I know you don't like me. But we agreed to tell each other vital information despite your...problems with me. Ok?"

Maya sat quietly and looked through the window of the train at the passing scenery. Finally she nodded her head.

Phoenix grinned. "Great! Ok. So what made me turn so evil?"

"So, in my universe you grew up with the Feys," Maya said bluntly.

"P-Pardon?"

Maya sighed. "Our family, the Feys, adopted you. Your parents abandoned you as a baby, and my mom found you by the gates of Hazakurain wrapped in a blanket as an infant. You were holding a blue magatama, and she took that as a sign and so she took you back to Kurain and let you grow up with us. You became very close with Mia and me."

Phoenix stared at Maya blankly. "B-But, I, W-Wh..how...huh?"

Maya ignored him and continued. "Then one night your missing mother came to Kurain Village. And then everything changed."

O O O

-11 Years Ago-

The Day Phoenix Turned Evil

Maya tugged at the boy's blue shirt. "Finn! Come on! Let's play burger tag again!"

The boy rolled his eyes. "Maya. I'm not going to chase around pieces of lettuce and meat again. For the last time, you can't chase something that doesn't move."

Maya sighed dramatically and walked away, pouting.

The boy bit his lip and groaned. "Fiiine. But this is the last time."

Maya beamed. "Yay! Finn is the best!"

"Phoenix!"

Maya rolled her eyes when she saw her Aunt Morgan. Ever since Maya's mom had disappeared Aunt Morgan had been taking care of the Fey children. That had started when Finn was nine and she was two. Now she was nine and Finn was sixteen, so Aunt Morgan had been like their mother for seven years.

But Finn or "Phoenix" as Morgan called him (Maya liked his nickname better and had pretty much forgotten he had another name), was Morgan's favorite. Maya didn't trust her aunt, and she had never really been anything but cruel to Maya anyway.

Phoenix stood up abruptly, hearing his aunt's call. "Yes?"

Morgan smiled. "There is someone very special here to see you."

Morgan gestured towards the side room past the Winding Way. Phoenix shrugged and waved to Maya, mouthing "Sorry," to her.

As Phoenix left, Maya angrily kicked at the small pieces of lettuce and hamburger strewn across the room. It was no fair that Finn got to meet someone important and she didn't!

Suddenly Maya got an idea, and her lips curved upwards into a smile. She ran up into her big sister Mia's room.

"Mia!" she shouted, "Aunt Morgan says she needs your dirty training clothes in the side room right now for laundry!"

Mia looked up from her book and sighed. "Alright. Let me go get them."

Mia was training to be a lawyer in the big city, but was off for the holidays and had come home to Kurain for a few days, much to Maya and Phoenix's delight.

She stepped into her closet and came out with a long yellowish-white box. "Alright, I'll take these down to her."

Maya looked down at the floor. "Mia...can I...?"

Mia laughed. "Alright. I'll let you sit in the box."

Maya grinned. "Yay! And this time, I'm a secret agent so don't tell Aunt Morgan I'm in the box."

"She'll find out when she does the laundry," Mia pointed out. "But okay."

Mia carried the box down to the side room and knocked on the door. "You needed my laundry...?"

Morgan opened the door and Maya could hear the impatient tone in her voice.

"Hmm? Oh yes, yes. Thank you. Go now."

"Right. Love you too, Aunt Morgan." Mia's voice dripped with sarcasm.

Mia leaned down by the box. "Good luck, secret agent. Is there any way you could take Aunt Morgan to a different village far, far away as part of your mission?"

Maya giggled to herself quietly. She listened to the noise of her sister's sandals clicking on the pavement for a few seconds when out of nowhere the box was lifted up and Maya slid helplessly to the back of it. Luckily her aunt was so preoccupied she seemed not to notice the extra weight.

Maya and the box were set down in the corner of the side room and she sat quietly and began to listen.

"Hello." Maya heard a soft chirping voice she didn't recognize.

"Umm...who are you?"

"Phoenix! What a rude question!" Maya could hear the anger in her aunt's voice.

"It's fine," the unknown voice spoke again. "It's not his fault he doesn't know me. I almost feel like it's mine sometimes."

"There, there, Ma'am. Now why don't we tell Phoenix the whole story from the beginning?"

There was a brief silence and Maya heard someone inhale sharply.

"I am your mother."

There was the sound of wood breaking, and then of someone gasping.

"Phoenix! Are you alright?"

"Y-Yea. I just fell off and...erm...broke my chair. I'll be alright. You're my...?"

"Yes. I am your mother. For the past sixteen years I've been searching for you...and, and...oh Phoenix!"

Maya gathered from the noises she heard that Finn and his mother were hugging and crying. Maya sat there in shock. Finn had a mother? Was he going to leave the village?

"But that is not all that she has come here to tell you."

Phoenix's mother sniffled and stood up. "Ah, yes. I am here to save you. To tell you why I haven't seen you in sixteen years, and warn you of the danger that may lie ahead of you."

"It all started sixteen years ago, on the night of your birth. You weren't due for another three weeks. I was getting too stressed out between my work and the pregnancy, so your father took me up into a mountain cabin with him for a week. But three days into our vacation, I started to feel very sick. I suddenly and unexpectedly gave birth to you. You were born very prematurely, so much so that we were worried for your health. Your father remembered that there was a local hospital nearby, and so we bundled you up to keep you warm and set off for the hospital."

"It was the middle of winter, and a raging blizzard was in our area. We had been very close to the village as it was not a long walk, but when the blizzard started we became hopelessly lost. Your father and I feared for our family's safety, so we decided to stay put until the storm was over. And that's when..."

The lady stopped suddenly and began to sob. Maya heard her aunt pat her back and soothe her gently.

"There, there now. Your son has to know. He has to know the truth."

"A-Alright. For Phoenix."

"O-Out of nowhere, a bright blue light shone, into the blizzard, shaped exactly like the number nine. And then...your father...he screamed this awful scream a-and in the blue glow I-I-I saw..."

There was a long pause.

"A knife," she whispered. "A knife sticking out of your father's chest. I screamed and reached for him. That's the last thing I remember before I blacked out."
"The next morning I woke up in the mountain cabin by myself, holding the knife that had killed your father. The only other thing I remember is that when your father was killed...there was this awful voice. It said something about a sacrifice...one now and one at the Martyr's awakening."

No one spoke for a long time. Finally Phoenix stood up.

"What...? My father? The knife...the voice...a magatama?"

"Well, Phoenix, your mother held on to that knife. That's how she found you after all these years."

"How could a knife show her where I am?" Phoenix sounded dazed and confused.

Maya heard the sound of something clattering onto the table.

"That knife...it has the Master's seal!"

"That is correct. The seal engraved on the handle makes this knife a very important heirloom for the Fey family. We have been searching for it for sixteen years."

"But only the Master can handle such talismans."

"Quite an impressive deduction, Phoenix! You have a knack for piecing things together! Let's see what else you can figure out. If only the Master can handle such a knife, then...?"

"M-Master Misty stabbed my father?!"

"I'm afraid so, Phoenix."

"But she would never...!"

"Phoenix. The last time you saw Mystic Misty you were nine. You are in no place nor state of mind to recall any details about our missing Master. And although you no doubt remember her fondly, my sister was in reality a very wicked woman."

Maya clenched her fist. Her mother was not evil! From the little she could remember of her, she certainly knew her mother was not evil!

"But why would she want to hurt my father?" Phoenix's voice trembled as he spoke, no doubt still adjusting to the bittersweet shock of meeting his mother and losing his father.

"Ah. The question I've been waiting for. Read these scrolls for me."

Maya heard the sound of crinkly old paper, and deduced that Finn was most likely reading from one of the ancient Scrolls of Kurain.

"On one night, before Master's first offspring hath e'er spoke
Blood must be shed to ensure her title.
Blood of a man, grown, of a knife."

"Mia...she killed my father so Mia could one day be Master?!"

"That's why my husband was killed? For a silly title?"

Phoenix's mother burst into tears.

"As much as I hate to bring any more pain upon you, I'm afraid there is one more prophecy I need you to read."

Phoenix sucked in his breath sharply and Maya heard the sound of more crinkling paper.

"When the Master's first offspring reaches nineteen,
A young man's blood shall keep her clean.
To make her Master, bring about his death,
Kill him with poison, watch his last breath."

"As you know, Mia's nineteenth birthday is a mere two weeks away. I suspect you would not have had a very enjoyable time on her birthday."

"It wasn't the Martyr's awakening I heard on that night...that voice said the Master's awakening!"

"T-They knew? Maya and Mia and Misty were planning...to kill me?!"

"I'm afraid so." To Maya, Morgan sounded anything but remorseful.

"No we weren't! I would never hurt Finn!"

Maya hadn't been able to take it any longer. She knew Aunt Morgan was lying. However, she had forgotten that she was hiding and had unthinkingly just blown her cover.

"You..."

Maya looked over at Phoenix. "She's lying, Finn! I promise!"

He didn't hear her. "You knew? You planned to kill me?"

"N-No! Finn-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGG HHHHHHHHH!"

The boy ran out of the room screaming.

O O O

"You-he wouldn't listen to anything. Mia and I tried to explain that she was lying but he wouldn't even talk to us. You left that night and only left behind a note swearing revenge on the Fey Family."

Phoenix stared at Maya in shock. "That's nothing like what happened in our world. I think we may have found the root of the problem; the point where everything started to change. The person whose lies changed everything."

Maya locked eyes with Phoenix, and suddenly it all made sense.

"Morgan Fey."