(Silent Hill 4 - Room of Angel)
Iris came through the portal a minute after. The mirror shards that were around her before disappeared as they no longer existed in the real world. The starry vortex closed itself up and glimmered into air. Iris landed on the cold stone body of her mother, looking her straight in her dead glass eyes. She let out a long sigh of relief. The last part of her vengeance was complete. unexpected and unplanned yes, but this is exactly what she had needed. Sonic, Shadow, and Mephiles watched the scene before them.
Iris used one of her mother's claws to rip up her stomach. Her brother's bodies came tumbling out as she lay them in a row. Their souls found their respective bodies and rose off the ground.
In the background the princes could be heard.
"Well that sucked." Arrion said as he helped Ferris reconnect his leg to his body.
"Yes but now we worry no more. We will no longer be hunted down as prizes." Derilious said as the brothers collected themselves.
Iris looked at the scenes that were playing in her head. Like a grainy old movie, the pictures rolled by. All the balls she had attended, the garden with the balcony overhanging from her room, the sulfuric smell during carriage races. The whole lot of her memories, good and bad, she decided to lock away. Now it was time to remake her life as it should have been. This time, she was the queen.
The demonic powers came off of her mother in a pillar. Shooting towards the sky, the clouds grew red as the essence of the Flame Core itself took over. Kneeling besides her mother's body, she placed her hand just above the area where the power pillared from. What would happen if she did absorb it? She needed to before someone else tried to take it. The power pulled downwards from the sky, turning it blue again. The wisp like substance wrapped itself around her arms as she took it all in.
Winter and a couple orbs of bright light appeared. One of the lights threw a new and improved Scepter of Darkness down on the ground before Mephiles. Mephiles tried to push it away from himself just as one of the light orbs threw something that pierced into his body. He grunted in pain and fell over, his black soul being pulled into the scepter. As he was being imprisoned, he noticed what had went through him.
An ethereal blade..?What is...?
The strange light being then put a seal on the scepter as extra protection. It waited for the other.
Iris had absorbed most of the power by now and was fighting her own mental demons when a light shot into her. The bright light that filled her eyes was too much and she was pulled away from the corpse by the same light. The being then did the same as the other. It speared her through with a thin, almost air like blade. Iris, who had snapped back, glared at the burning light. She could see a slight form materialize, and quickly shut her eyes.
"Not you again. Last time wasn't enough for you? Forcing me to form a crystal over myself, just so I could be protected from this damn blade?!"
The being spoke in a soft voice.
"We weren't going to kill you."
"Yeah. But you were going to keep me as a prisoner for the rest of existence. So you could protect the filth of the world." Iris spat out as the being held her music box. "Put that back!"
"It is what is needed. I will seal you within and no harm will befall upon you. It is what is needed to save what's left of the world from demons like you. To rid this world of the poisonous evils you create." The being replied as it siphoned her soul off the blade into the music box.
When she was sealed away, the entity wrapped the box's lid closed with enchanted chains. A heart shaped padlock kept the whole thing locked up tight. The music box and scepter shook violently in the beings' arms. The demonic whispers that came from them were ignored. Winter looked at them in disbelief.
"what did you do to my parents?!"
The beings looked at one another and handed him the music box and scepter.
"You can carry them to Zone Jail. They have become way too powerful and dangerous to keep around on Mobius anymore. They are both considered threats to other parallel universes as well. It's good for the sake of humanity they go there ." The smaller light being said as Winter looked at the objects in his hands.
The bigger light being spoke afterwards, laying a hand on Winter's shoulder. "They have special containment chambers to put them in, too. You may not know this, but your father Mephiles has already messed with several timelines. (Sonic '06) He has also been a prisoner there before. (Archie Comics) Your mother... well we aren't sure if is she can access different timelines and dimensions. Since they are together though, Mephiles could have easily transported them around if he so wished. Thank goodness he didn't."
Winter held the objects that contained his parents tightly. Why did it have to be like this? He sighed. "That's fine."
What they didn't know about Iris gave her the upper hand. As long as she could escape to the Dream Dimension, she would have infinite power from its core. The Nexus.
What they didn't know would hurt them. All of them.