Although on the outside, Oliver couldn't have had the faintest idea of what was going, inside of his head was a different story.
He found himself inside of a dark, decorated hallway, the only light coming in through the windows that cast a pale blue light into the eerily decorated hallway, that had a door at the end in the shape of devil horns.
"Wh-Where am I?" He wondered aloud, looking around. "Mr. Drippy ! Esther! ... Swaine!? Harmony!?" He tried calling for them, but they weren't there. He was truly all alone this time. "What is this place?" He looked behind him. There was no door out, so he headed in the only direction he could. Forward, towards the devil horned door.
As he walked forward, the door opened, and he found himself in a room with the Dark Djinn himself! But the man wasn't alone.
"That..." Oliver could hardly speak. "That's Shadar!" Then he remembered. "Wait! I've been here before. In that dream I had!"
"It is time you met your end... Great Sage and Songstress Descendant." Shadar spoke to the people before him, and Alicia stepped forward.
"You are wrong Shadar! I have found another way to defeat you!"
"...What?"
"I will travel to another world, leaving Harmony in charge. She will protect this world from any harm you may cause in my absence." Oliver could hardly believe what he saw. That woman, that was Alicia. That was the soulmate of his mother, standing beside a younger Harmony. He wondered why Harmony had never said anything about this. "Somewhere out there, in a parallel dimension, there exists one who shares your soul. If I can save this soul mate of yours, then you too will be-" Shadar cut her off, chuckling.
"Hm hm hm hm hm! So this is your plan? Your grand design? Then I am afraid I must disappoint you. You see... I have no soul mate." Young Harmony gasped, but Alicia caught his bluff.
"N-no... No, that's not possible! Without a soul mate... how could you exist?"
"I took the precaution of severing all ties with he who shared my soul, so that this weakness could not be used against me."
"This cannot be!" Harmony shouted, both she and Oliver watching to see what Alicia would do. Alicia herself looked as though she couldn't quite believe it either.
"Hm hm hm hm hm hm!" Shadar chuckled. "You see now that every path is closed to you. Every path...save that which leads to death." But this time, Harmony stepped up to face Shadar, and Oliver saw a look on her face. A look he wouldn't expect from her when it came to battling Shadar. A look of determination.
"No, another yet remains." She told the Dark Djinn, standing tall before him. "Souls are reborn after a time."
"What do you mean by this?" Shadar inquired. Alicia stood next to Harmony.
"Though you robbed him of life, he will be born again... Perhaps many years hence... but he shall be reborn!"
"Madness... You cannot speak in earnest!" Shadar shouted. Harmony stepped up and hit him with an Arrow of Light, making him shout.
"I'm not going anywhere, Dark Djinn." The young Songstress to be told him as Alicia began to create a pattern familiar to Oliver, her hand held protectively over her stomach.
"Surely not!" Shadar shouted. "You know you will never return! Not to this time..." He said. Alicia stared at him.
"I am well aware of that." Then she looked to Harmony, who nodded. "I am ready."
"Damn you!" Shouted Shadar, waving his own staff, as if to cast a spell.
"Today, tomorrow, yesterday!" Alicia shouted. Shadar cast a wicked spell over Alicia, but Harmony was the only one who had been injured by the blow. Alicia had disappeared, to where, Oliver could not have known.
But the battle wasn't over yet.
"I may not be able to get that Sage, but I can end your life, you miserable wretch!" Shadar shouted at Harmony, who staggered to her feet. She wasn't going down so easily.
"As the Songstress, I can see into your past Shadar. Please, allow me to help you." Shadar laughed, then blew her back with a powerful wind spell, her shouting in pain as she landed. She still struggled to get back onto her feet, glaring right into the eyes of the Dark Djinn, seeing deeply into his soul and pulling out his deepest memories.
"Shadar... Lucien..." Shadar yelled, and hit her with another powerful spell, knocking her all the way back by Oliver.
"Don't you dare say that name! You don't know anything!" She stood to her feet once more, looking battered, and heartbroken at her inability to help him.
"I see you have no desire to see me. But I would like to see you, defeated."
"You shall perish!" she waved her staff in the way as Alicia had.
"Today, tomorrow yesterday!" She shouted, just before she vanished, and was hit by another horrible spell.
Meanwhile, Oliver could hardly believe what he had watched. It explained so much about Harmony, but left him far more confused than ever on Alicia.
"That was Breach Time..." He said to himself in shock. "That means Alicia traveled to the past..."
"No. You are mistaken." Oliver jumped at the voice of Shadar, but it was not the one that stood before him. This voice responded to him, and came from behind his back. "Alicia traveled forward in time." Oliver turned to him, unafraid, but completely confuddled on what he had just witnessed.
"I-I don't get it!" He admitted to the Dark Djinn. "What does this all mean!?"
"The truth still eludes you, boy?" Shadar was shocked by Oliver's ignorance. "That which was captured in the Soulsnare was not Alicia's soul. It was but her memory. The memory of a battle we fought many years ago..." That still didn't answer Oliver's question.
"But where is Alicia now?" Shadar let out a small chuckle.
"You know that better than I..." Those simple words made Oliver's mind blank.
"Huh?" Suddenly, a bright light burned his eyes, and he could see Alicia, sitting on the curb outside of Miss Leila's Milk Bar back in Motorville. She was talking to Miss Leila herself, looking as though she was in much pain.
"I'm from... somewhere far away." She panted to Leila, who looked very concerned for her. It then changed, and it was a more familiar sight. His mother, holding a small infant swaddled in blankets, and Oliver somehow knew that it was him. "I'm going to take care of you, sweetie."
Then he saw the scene that made his heart weep. His mother, lying on her deathbed the day she rescued him from drowning in the lake, and the final words she ever said to him.
"You'll be okay.I know you will... Be good now... for me." And the bright light vanished, bringing Oliver back before Shadar.
"Mom!?" He exclaimed, trying to put the pieces together in his head. 'What does my mom have to do with this?" Shadar sighed.
"You disappoint me, Oliver." He admitted. "This is Alicia's memory. It was she who traveled to the future. It was she who escaped to your world. And it was she who gave birth to the savior of this world." And it all suddenly clicked
"You mean..." Oliver could hardly get the words out. "You mean Alicia was..."
"Yes." Shadar answered the unspoken question. "The Great Sage Alicia... was your mother." He let out another soft sigh. "Poor Allie." This left another whole set of questions for Oliver.
"B-But- But if my mom is from this world... where's her soul mate!?" Shadar chuckled as though it were a silly question.
"She has no soul mate, in that world or this. This is the price she paid for tampering with time. And she gave her one and only life to save you. You cannot save your mother, boy... You have no mother to save. Do you see now? You never had a chance. There was never any hope." Oliver put his hands to his head, trying to pull it together as his head spin, fighting back tears.
"No... It can't be true! It can't be true!" He fell to his knees, punching the ground. "Nooo! Mom!"