Chapter 26: Sins of the Fathers
"Where are you Mephiles!" Breezy yelled loudly over the rain.
"I highly doubt that he's going to respond to that," Jewels said.
"The Chao Ruins is a big place," Cream reminded. "He could be anywhere."
"So then what do we have to do?" Moana asked, frowning, "Comb the whole place?"
"If we have to then we must," Skylark said indefinably.
"In this rain storm?" Marisa growled, blowing her wet bangs from her eyes, "I don't think so!"
The rain continued to pour as the thunder and lighting flashed in the dark sky. After escaping Mephiles' hideout, the new generation found themselves on a cliff over an aging labyrinth. There was no one sign of the demon anywhere, not as far as the eye could see.
Larcen sighed and looked below the cliff. If the where going to scan the place anywhere, they may as well look from her. Turning to his left, he saw a dark figure slowly walking forward, almost as if he was waiting for something.
"Look! There he is!" Larcen pointed. Breezy ran up next to him and saw Mephiles still walking off. A sharp frown appeared on her face as she cracked her knuckles.
"It's now or never," she muttered. She turned to Maria and Athena, who nodded at her. All three girls turned to the cliff and jump off into the air.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Charmy shouted after them.
"Guys!" Gadget gasped.
Breezy flipped through the air and land some feet away in front of Mephiles. Her emerald eyes glared at him. "This is as far as you go Mephiles!"
Athena and Maria landed on either side of her. "You've caused way too much trouble, Mephiles!" Athena declared.
"Today, we put an end to this!" Maria finished.
"Hm. You three look more upset then when I last saw you," Mephiles remarked, looking at the angry girls with a critical eye. "What's your beef? I haven't done anything to you yet."
"It's not what you did us!" Athena growled at him, "It's what you did to our parents!"
"Oh?" Mephiles said, laughing cruelly as he began to realize why they were ticked off so. "Do tell."
"My father was nearly betrayed because of your lies!" Maria lashed.
"My mom was trapped in that stupid void because of you!" Athena yelled.
Mephiles simply cackled, "Oh, so you found out about that did you? And what about you, hedgehog? What grievance do you have against me?"
"You killed my Pops, you crystallized weasel!" Breezy shouted. "You did it to make a girl cry! She became friends with him and you took him away from her just like that! You coward!"
"What did you say!" Mephiles demanded angrily.
"I said that you're a coward!" Breezy repeated. "Shooting someone behind the back is something that I would call a cowardly move! You must a' been too afraid to face him head-to-head, so you had to sneak up behind him. You could a' faced him like a man but didn't! Sure you fought Uncle Shadow but the fact remains that you had to do something so cowardly to do what you did!"
Now Mephiles was a lot of things. He was a cheater, a manipulator, a liar, a thief and a murderer. But the one thing that he hated to be classified as was a coward. It vexed him that anyone would dare to call him that.
"I see," Mephiles said slowly, "So I am a coward, am I? In that case…" he raised his hand as it glowed with dark energy. "I'll show what this coward can do!" and he slammed it down, making a huge explosion. Breezy, Maria and Athena were forced to shield their eyes from the dust as it flew into their faces.
Up on the cliff, everyone saw the brut power that Mephiles displayed. "What is he doing?" Sunseed wondered. "Is he trying to show off?"
"More like he's showing off his power!" Kera gasped. "They must have said something to piss him off! I have a bad feeling about this!"
"We have to help them!" Marisa shouted as she ran to jump of the cliff. But Elise held out her hand to keep her from moving. The sage looked at her, wanting to know why.
"This is their fight," the queen told her.
"I can use this Reverse Speaker to catch everything that's going on!" Moana said as she brought out what looked like and inside-out projector.
"I hope they didn't do something stupid," Zed muttered while Moana placed up the Reverse Speaker for all to hear.
The dust slowly cleared up, reveling Mephiles glaring up from the crater he levitated up from it and landed just behind the big hole. "So I am a coward, am I? I'm too afraid to go in head-to-head combat, am I? In that case, why don't we have a battle of our own?"
"Oh really?" Maria pressed.
"I will not be using the five Chaos Emeralds that I have in my position, but know this: the last time we fought, I was merely going easy on you. This time I will unleash my full power!"
The girls suddenly paled. They had difficulties trying to put down Mephiles last time. Now they've gotten themselves in a deep hole.
"Good, you get it now," Mephiles smiled (so to speak), "And now, Breezy Merlina Hedgehog, Maria Geraldine Echidna, Athena Alexandra Cat … prepare yourselves!" Mephiles threw his hands forward, and dark energy beams shot out at the girls.
"Come on, let's bust and groove!" Breezy shouted. With the lighting reflexes, the trio dashed away from the beams. Maria tried to counter with her Chaos Bloom, but Mephiles slapped it aside.
"You will have to do better than that," Mephiles taunted.
"If that's the way you want it," Athena smirked ominously.
"Then we'll give it to you!" Breezy added. Focusing on her Chaos Emerald, she used her connection to it to form purple energy on her left leg. "Boomer Breeze!" Breezy shouted as she sent the distant kick out for the attack. Mephiles arched himself, letting the attack miss him and explode behind him.
"How sloppy," he mocked.
"Oh, shut up! Flame Whirl!" Athena yelled as she charged forward in a ball of flames. Mephiles managed to garb hold of her and got pushed back with his feet being buried along the wet dirt. He threw her aside, but she quickly straightened herself and charged back at him. She started to throw a series of kicks and punches that Mephiles effortlessly blocked.
"Is this the best you can do?" Mephiles taunted as he continued to block the close combat, "Pathetic. You aren't all that up to par with your mother!"
"Quiet!" Athena yelled. Mephiles sent a blunt fist at her chest, sending her backwards. Gathering up her momentum, Athena launched herself back at him with her two fists at his chest. A thunderous crash erupted from the blow while Mephiles was sent tumbling backwards before he got back up to his feet.
"So you finally managed to hit me," he said, rubbing his chest. "Not bad, not bad at all. But can you handle this?" Mephiles summoned a crystal spear, the same one he used to threaten Kera, and hurled it at Athena. The cat made a jump for it. The spear hit her former position and exploded in a bright green flash.
Up in the air, Athena released a verity of Psycho Balls and Scorch Tosses. Mephiles summoned up his crystal wall to block all of the attacks that were sent at him. Each attack exploded against the wall. When the attacks ceased, the wall was left battered. Mephiles punched his shield, destroying it into itty-bitty shards, and leapt after her. The two met and engaged in short mid-air combat. Grabbing his neck, Athena redirected his back to the ground and bounced off with her feet. While the cat flipped in mid-air, Mephiles landed dramatically.
Maria and Breezy zipped to his corner and got into stance. "You won't get away!" Maria shouted as she threw out her hands forward. "Chaos Sniper!"
Mephiles began to zip around, seemingly avoiding the blue beams that came after him. After moments avoiding the beams, Mephiles watched as they all streaked into the air above him before coming down on him all at once.
"What?" Mephiles demanded as he saw it happen. Having no time to summon his shield, he crossed his arms in front of his face and took all of the blows. The blue explosion flashed as all of the beams collided with the demonic hedgehog. When the light and dust cleared, Mephiles slowly removed his arms from his face and panted. Steam was pouring out from his scales, "You truly have your father's drive; I will say that much about you, Maria Geraldine Echidna," he panted.
"And we aren't done yet! Tornado Hold!" Breezy shouted as she summoned two tornados in front of her and sent them to chase Mephiles.
Mephiles started to zip around the arena floor as the tornados chased after him. Mephiles was fast, but the tornados were catching up to him very quickly. One of the tornados managed to close enough to suck him in and exploded instantly. Without a single noise uttering from him, Mephiles fell to the ground and rolled on his side. Getting back up, he saw the second tornado gaining up on him. This time he was prepared.
"Hah!" Mephiles grunted as he lunged at the tornado. He flipped forward and delivered multiple overhead spinning slashes from his claws. Purple cutting beams appeared all over the tornado before it vanished in a whisper.
"Ah! No good!" Breezy gasped. Athena ran next to Breezy and rejoined the fight.
"We have to keep trying!" Maria said. "Tombstone!"
Mephiles watched as the stone wall approached him. Just as it came upon him, he jumped up and delivered a double horizontal backhand slash followed by an axe kick, slicing a cross shape into the wall. It fell apart in four pieces.
"My turn!" Athena frowned as she raised her hands. "Fire Psycho Crash!"
The balls of fire filled psychic power rushed at Mephiles. He went into a frenzy and rapidly scratched out in front of him, slashing at the balls. As he crouched into the landing, the balls flashed with scratch marks before they exploded.
"No… way!" Athena gulped.
"And that is not all I can do!" Mephiles sneered. "Behold!" He jumped up high into the air, vanishing in the clouds, and then came back down in a ball of power. He was aiming to do a dive bomb on them. The girls separated just as he slammed into the earth. Once he did that, a powerful shockwave spread out in a blue flash, ripping the ground around him and blowing the girls off their feet. Each one of them crashed into the walls of the ruins, breaking them apart. Slowly, the girls moaned as they pulled themselves out.
"What's the matter? I'm just getting warmed up!" Mephiles laughed as he continued his dive bomb shockwave attack. The girls managed to elude every shockwave that came their direction. As this was going on, Maria noticed something.
"Breezy! Athena!" she called out, grabbing their attention. "His back is exposed once he comes down! We can attack on the next phase!"
"Got it!" Both girls shouted.
Mephiles came back down into another shockwave attack. This time they were ready for him. Maria bolted behind him just as he landed with another crash. Wordlessly, she launched her Chaos Bloom at Mephiles' back. The attack hit and pushed him forward as he grunted in pain.
"Now! Hit him!" Maria beckoned. Her friends got on either side of her as they prepared their attacks.
"Boomer Breeze!"
"Psycho Ball!"
The two attacks streaked through the air before the hit their mark. A short explosion occurred and he was sent flipping through the air before landing back on his feet and in front of the girls.
"So, you discovered my Achilles' heel," the time demon commented as he stood up. "Most impressive. But let's see you try and stop this! Stalagmite Spiker!" he yelled as he dug his glowing hands into the ground. All of a sudden, the ground beneath him started to glow and crystal stalagmites jutted out of the ground and infested the whole area.
"Move!" Athena shouted. Move was the only thing that the girls could do as the wave of stalagmites rushed toward them. With their speed and quick reflexes, the girls jumped and dodged the spikes that attempted to skewer them. When it all stopped, the girls panted as they found themselves in a field of crystal stalagmites. To them, it was like a twisted house of mirrors. Before them, Mephiles laughed.
"How splendid, you three are definitely the mirror images of your fathers. You have the privilege of facing one of my most deadly abilities!" He began to curl up into a ball, very much the same way Sonic and Shadow would. The only difference was that purple blades were manifesting around him and spinning along with him. "Genocide Cutter!" He roared as he shot himself forward at deadly speeds.
"Watch out!" Breezy shouted. The girls flipped out of the way of the deadly pinball as it sped past them. The Genocide Cutter crashed and cut through the stalagmites as it made a U-turn. This time the girls didn't get off without injures. Breezy gasped as she ended up with a cut on her arm. Maria winced as she got one on her leg. Athena made a sharp yelp as she also got one on the leg. This went on for almost seven seconds. Mephiles skid into a halt and looked at his opponents. They all had cuts on their bodies and were doing their best to ignore them.
"Your stubbornness continues impresses me," Mephiles complemented, standing up, legs bent, "Your resolutions burn bright within you. However, your efforts are in vain, for you cannot destroy me... for I am a shadow."
"That I doubt," Maria said plainly. Then she stood straight, wincing in pain, "The measure of a person is not measured up by his or her own shadow; the shadow is nothing more than a distorted silhouette of a person. The shadow never bigger then the person itself! To that end, Mephiles, a shadow is indeed capable of being beaten, and we shall do the same to you!"
"We shall see about that," raising his hand in front of his face, Mephiles growled as he forced a neon black ball into his palm.
"Not good!" Breezy cautioned, "If we're hit with that, we're done for!"
"What will you do now?" Mephiles challenged as he threw out the ball with great force. The trio quickly moved out of the way and let the ball pass them. The ball hit another untouched stalagmite behind them and exploded like a bomb.
"You are fast like your fathers as well," Mephiles said, holding two more balls. "But I will not miss this time!" He threw the two balls up into the air. Gravity took back their hold as they dive bombed at the girls.
Thinking quickly, Maria rushed in with her fist reared back and yellow energy glowing out of it. "Chaos Megaton!" she yelled as she punched the balls as soon as they reached them. Breezy and Athena shielded their eyes from the growing surge. Grueling seconds passed as the opposing forces fought for dominance. In the end, the balls vanished in a silent flash and Maria fell to her knees, worn out from her counter move.
"Maria!" Athena gasped as she and Breezy ran to help her back on her feet. "Are you alright?"
"Yes… that took so much power…." Maria panted.
Mephiles could only laugh at what happened. "Very interesting. For someone such as you to be capable of rebelling against my Blitz Strike is most intriguing. I never thought I would have to use the second most powerful attack that I have in my arsenal!" With a shout, Mephiles outstretched his arms sharply, and Negative Chaos Energy began to pour into his arms. As each second passed, his arms glowed bright.
"What is…" Breezy whimpered with wide eyes.
"So much power…" Athena gulped.
"Do not worry," Mephiles said, "Your dear parents will join you soon. Kaiser Wave!" He threw his arms forward and a red blast of negative energy rushed forward.
"No way!" Breezy yelled as he eyes flashed blue, "Hailstorm Hurricane!" Slamming her fist into the ground, a huge wind gust rushed out of the earth and rushed forward. The two opposing forces met in a large explosion that covered the whole arena. The remaining stalagmites and ruin walls were blown away from the trembling. The purple light was so bright, it could be seen from a distance. As quickly as the light came, it soon died down.
"Ah! What happened!" Eli cried as she looked down below.
"Whatever it was, it sure gave out a lot of power," Larcen said, eyes widen from the fight.
"Ugh! I can't believe this is all happening!" Violet gaped, her cool demeanor breaking.
"Where did they disappear off to?" Molly whispered.
Elise's eyes scanned the area, looking for any sign of movement. Then she found something, and her blues widened. "There!"
They followed her movement and gasped. There they all saw the trio of girls struggling to get up from the ground. Their clothing looking completely torn and battered and they were very dirty. Its amazing how something like that wasn't enough to keep them down.
Breezy panted as she looked at Maria, "Did we… win…?"
"I'm… not sure…" she answered.
"Guys….?" Athena stuttered as she pointed forward. Looking at her direction, the two other girls gasped.
There they could see Mephiles, walking out of the smoke, looking no worse than them. If he was in any pain at all, he did a good job of hiding it. "Heh! Did you really think that attack would be the end of me?" he laughed. "If I said it once, I will say it again! You cannot destroy me! Still, I must commend your strength and persistence, for you presented a harder fight then I had anticipated. You even landed a MORTAL blow, but alas in vanity. Such a shame to kill such fine opponents."
"No way! We can't go out like this!" Athena gasped.
"Ah… we can't… just die…" Breezy whimpered. Suddenly, her eyes widened sharply as something started to well up in her. Her head moved down as she began to tremble.
Mephiles took noticed and stopped walking. "Ah, so you finally realized that your efforts a futile. Good, it appears that we now know who the real coward is."
Breezy's fist closed up on the dirt. "You… that's right… you killed… my…"
"That's right, I killed your daddy," Mephiles sneered. "And it was quite easy, I must say. Would you like me to tell once again of how I did it before I send you to the promise land?"
"You…. You… YOU…" Breezy growled. If one could look closely, they could see a dark aura appearing around her.
"Breezy…?" Athena squeaked, sensing a new dark power from within her.
"Hm…?" Mephiles wondered. And then it happened. He could see the five Chaos Emeralds in his possession suddenly being drained of their color. Mephiles' eyes widened as he saw the Emeralds becoming gray husks. "The Emeralds! Their Dark Energy was drained?"
KRACK!
Before he realized it, he was blown head over heals backwards, and smacked right into what was left of a ruin wall, winding him. Stunned, he slumped to the ground and couldn't concentrate on anything for a few seconds. When he re-gathered his mind, he looked up... to see Breezy standing over him in a completely different form. Her fur was jet black and her battered clothing gain dark tints. Her quills and jacket were floating from her aura, which was glowing in dark blue. Spikes appeared on the straps of her sneakers. Her teeth formed into frightening fangs and the pupils of her eyes turned into cat-eye-slits.
"You… you drained the Dark Chaos Energy from the seven Chaos Emeralds?" Mephiles gaped. He struggled up to his feet, but he didn't get the opportunity as she grabbed him by the throat and hoisted him up. Mephiles struggled to escape from the hedgehog's grip, but it was like a vice. As he was taller than the girl, his feet just nearly touched the ground.
"You…" Dark Super Breezy snarled in a mature, poisonous voice. "You killed my father! Just to make a girl cry!" She slammed her fist into his chest, making him cry out as he was sent flying backwards. He ended up crashing several feet away.
"Athena! What happened?" Maria asked her, expressing concern for her friend.
"I think she subconsciously absorbed the negative power of the Chaos Emeralds once Mephiles got too close!" Athena answered. "She must have been so frightened and angry at the same time that it all happened so fast!"
"My god!" Maria gasped.
Meanwhile, the sudden change did not go unnoticed by those on the cliff. "So Breezy absorbed the negative power of the Emeralds?" Shade gasped. "I didn't think that was possible!"
"What's happening to Breezy?" Starla asked.
"Right now, she's being blinded by rage, she would either need to let her aggression out or she needs to be calmed down. For now, the best thing we can do is continue watching," Shade sighed.
"Breezy…" Gadget muttered. Kera continued to watch silently with wide eyes.
Mephiles tried to get back on his feet, but once again met by a powerful blow when Dark Super Breezy Chaos Controlled behind him and sent a sharp kick behind his back. "Did you really enjoy taking his life!" she demanded as she continued to pound him. Mephiles was unable to make a witty comment as he was too busy getting the air beaten out of his lungs, or at lest what he had for lungs.
"Well? Did you, you worthless piece of crap?" Dark Super Breezy continued, sending her knee at his stomach. Mephiles made a hurling noise and his eyes budged out of his sockets in response. Yes, he is very powerful, but not nearly as powerful as a Super Transformation. In short, Mephiles was getting the beatdown of a lifetime.
"I'll bet you even popped some kid's balloon or stole candy from a baby while you were at it!" she grabbed him by the by the chest hair (if you could call it that) and repeatedly slapped his face with a super charged fist. Then she sent a kick at his chin, sending him soaring in the distance. Dark Super Breezy snarled lowly as she raised her hands above her head, thunder flashing brighter than normal as she did.
"Go to Hell!" she roared as she brought her hands down sharply. In an instant, a thunderbolt slammed into the still flying Mephiles with a bright flash, slamming him into the ground. The earth shook from the impact and wind blew through slightly. Dark Super Breezy slowly began to calm down as the tension was removed from her shoulders. Slowly but surly, she reverted back to her purple furred self.
"Ugh… what did I do?..." Breezy moaned as she shook her head and rubbed her emerald eyes.
"Breezy?" Breezy turned around and found her two best friends walking up to her slowly.
"What happened?" Breezy asked them.
"You beat the crap out of Mephiles! That's what happened!" Athena exclaimed.
"But it seems that you don't remember after the Dark Chaos Energy left your body," Maria said. "At any rate, we're glad that you're back to normal."
"Well, I still don't know what really happened… but thanks," Breezy smiled slowly.
"Let's go. The deed is done," Maria nodded. But she said this too soon. The ground began to shake again, this time taking the girls off their feet. Looking over the distance, they gasped at what they saw. It was Mephiles rising out of the crater that Breezy sent him in. He was brimming with an intensity of negative power. He was enraged.
"You were a fool to think that you could defeat me so easily!" Mephiles bellowed as he continued to rise. "I cannot be defeated, nor can I die! I am darkness itself, nothingness! Everything comes from nothingness, and in the end, everything returns to DARKNESS! CHAOS BLAST!" He burned bright with power as he rushed at the trio, aiming to end them once and for all.
"Hissatsu attack number two!" Breezy shouted.
"On the double!"
Athena began to engulf herself in fire. Maria started to glow with Neutral Chaos Energy. Breezy took the hands of her friends and began to spin around, her speed increasing as she did. Soon, the girls began turning into a multi-colored whirlwind. The whirlwind soon turned into a huge fire tornado, brimming with purple power. Mephiles' eyes widened again as he saw what he was getting himself into and tried to fly back, canceling his Chaos Blast. However, he found himself getting drawn in from the vacuum force being created. He sent a jade spear to the ground anchoring him down. But it looked like the spear was starting to loosen up.
"Wow! Look at that!" Moana gasped as she saw the tornado.
"Hm?" Eggman Nega wondered.
"What is it?" Kera asked.
"It's the combined force of the girls' true powers," Jam whispered.
"Now, here's our Atomic Twister!" the girls bellowed from the tornado in unison, "Part 2!"
The spear finally lost its grip and Mephiles screamed as he was sucked into the chaotic firestorm. The firestorm continued to spin for a moment before it exploded in a flash of light, before dieing down. In the amidst of the storm, three girls were down on the backs, lying in triangular positions. They were winded, but happy. Happy that they "avenged" their parents.
"We did it," Athena smiled, looking at Breezy, "We finally got him."
"Yeah, he won't bother our family anymore," Breezy smiled back. Both held hands together. Breezy looked at Maria, who smiled back and also held her hand. The three girls stood up from the dirt.
"Man, Mephiles was so hard. But at least he's gone." Breezy sighed. She looked down at herself and frowned. "Though we still have these cuts. Mom is gonna flip when she sees me like this."
"A big group hug can fix our wounds," Maria said. She grabbed her two younger friends in a huge glomp. In an instant green light, all of their cuts that the got from the Genocide Cutter as well as other bruises vanished from the bodies.
"Hey, guys!" Daisy called as she, Gadget, Jewels, Larcen, Molly, Marisa and Eli ran up to them. "You did it! You stopped Mephiles!"
"You three were awesome!" Eli cheered, showing a double thumbs up. "Mephiles didn't know what hit him!"
"I'm just glad that we stopped him before it was too late," Maria said.
"That's it? I'm glad we got back at him for what he did to our parents!" Athena said.
"That too."
Breezy giggled as she watched the two playing with each other. Then she saw Gadget walking up to her. "What's up?"
"You were amazing, Breezy," Gadget smiled slightly, "You really got him this time."
"Gimmie five!" Breezy grinned. Gadget grinned back and was more than happy to high five her.
"Glad you finally got him," Violet smiled. "Now is a good time to find the rest of the Emeralds."
"Sure. Just let me get mine," Breezy nodded. She went a dug her left pocket. Finding nothing in their, she stiffened, and went for the other pocket. Then she checked her jacket pockets. And then the pockets that were hidden from the untrained eye. "Something's wrong! I can't find my Emerald!"
"My Emerald is missing too!" Maria panicked.
"What?" Skylark blinked. "That doesn't sound right…"
"Yeah… it almost seems as if…" Kera began. Then she got an idea of what just happened and her eyes widened. Everyone seemed to get the same idea as her when they did the same. Breezy made it all clear.
"That cheater! He tricked us and stole our Emeralds!"
In an undisclosed location, Mephiles limped his way to a glowing pool. Stopping briefly, he checked his surroundings. It was pretty much nothing more than a mere cave.
"I never anticipated for those girls to be that powerful," Mephiles whispered, still wincing in pain slightly, "But at least I finally have all that I need." Slowly standing up, he spread his arms out and all seven Chaos Emeralds appeared around him. He levitated over the lake and it started glow brighter, as if it were reacting with him and the Emeralds.
"The servers are the Seven Chaos! Chaos is power; power enriched by the heart! The user is the one who unifies the Chaos! Now the time has come! The time has come for me… TOO RISE!" Mephiles laughed madly as the blue glow of the lake engulfed the whole cave with light.
The whole ground started to rumble and shake. Everyone struggled to keep their balance. Anyone with the ability of flight started to hover.
"What's with this vibration?" Snively questioned.
"Something tells me that we could already be too late!" Radian shouted as he struggled on his knees.
"Ah!" Charmy pointed. "Over there!"
Everyone looked up at where he was looking. Up on a small temple, blue light began to glow with intensity. Then it exploded, forcing all to cover their eyes. As the light faded, everyone looked on in shook and awe as something else took its place.
It was a wyvern, a wyvern that reminded Elise so much of the Egg Wyvern. However, this one was blue and had waterish skin. On the back was a red symbol that resembled the sun and various other markings ran from it to the tip of the wings. It had a total of fire lizard-like tails. It also had solid red eyes, an imposable amount of fangs in its mouth and a green crystal on its head. The head itself was clear enough for a brain to be seen. The monstrous wyvern reared its head up and let lose a haunting shriek into the air. Thunder and lighting flashed as the roar echoed.
"KYAAAA!" Eli screamed.
"What is it?" Larcen gawked.
"Oh my God…" Maria whispered, eyes wide and her mouth covered. "It's… Chaos!"