(4 years and 3 months after Cleaved)
In a play room filled with fifteen demon babies, Meteora and Basil are stacking blocks together with two other demon babies. As this is going on, Wrathmelior is watching them in another room with a serious look on her face; Dave, Eclipsa, Globgor, and Belladonatrix are there with her.
"Does she always make that face when looking at the babies?" Globgor asked Belladonatrix and Dave.
Belladonatrix said "When it comes to soul evaluation and spirit count of demon children, my sister has always been focused like this. However, she is internally enjoying the sight of all the babies playing with each other."
Dave said "This almost reminds me of the time she gave Tom his evaluation; the only difference is she's looking for something specific."
Eclipsa asked "Do you think she'll find what we're looking for?"
"My sister is the best soul evaluator and spirit counter in all of the Underworld. If anyone can find any traces of Miss Heinous in your daughter it's her." Belladonatrix said as she looked up at Wrathmelior.
"Even with magic destroyed?"
"Since we never really relied on magic like Mewmans did it won't affect our natural abilities in the slightest. Only thing we can't do is resurrect the dead for pranks anymore and travel to other dimensions."
"Did she add the "you know what" into the mix?"
Dave said "We did but Wrathmelior insisted on adding a few others into the mix; didn't want to contaminate the normal procedure with only dolls of one person."
As Meteora is going through the doll chest with other demon babies, she comes across a doll that looks like Star. She gives it a hug but notices a demon girl holding dolls similar to her parents. She runs toward the demon girl and offers the Star doll in exchange for the Globgor and Eclipsa doll. Surprisingly, the demon girl accepted the trade and took the Star doll. She bumped into Basil, who was playing with a train, and decided to play with him. She put the dolls on the train and the two decided to gather passengers for the train. However, Meteora came across a doll that looked exactly like Marco and her eyes filled with anger. She immediately bit off the head of the doll and spit it out on the ground. Some of the other demon babies took a look at this action and they all started biting off the heads of some of the other dolls. Wrathmelior watched this action closely as she could to find anything
An hour later, Basil and Meteora were asleep in their mother's arms in the family room of Lucitor castle. Wrathmelior starts talking in trills and growling to explain what she found in Basil and Meteora; Dave translated for Globgor and Eclipsa's benefit.
Dave said to Belladonatrix as Wrathmelior is trilling "Basil has a surprising spirit count of 50; normally the spirit count of a baby his age would be 30 but having 20 more isn't a bad thing. There's a chance his personality soul will develop into a shy kind of demon but has inner strength that will make him strong and charismatic if neutered properly."
"Just like Walter." Belladonatrix said, stroking her son's hair.
In Meteora's case, she only has one soul, so her spirit count is one; that's normal for a non-demon to have one soul. However, given that she lived for over 300 years, her soul is slightly more "aged" for some her "age". That being said, her personality soul is developing into something very kind and protective but also rough and easy to anger when it comes to hurting those she loves.
"Just like her father." Eclipsa said looking at Globgor
"And her mother." Globgor said before giving a kiss on Eclipsa's forehead.
Now, getting to what you two are looking for in regard to traces of Miss Heinous. She(Wrathmelior) hasn't found any trace of Miss Henious's soul inside of Meteora.
"So, she's dead?" Eclipsa said.
"We wouldn't say that." Dave said before turning to Belladonatrix. He said to her "You're better at explaining this more than anyone.".
Belladonatrix explained "When someone dies, really dies, their souls are broken apart to the point that they can't be put back together by any means. It would be impossible to find all the pieces of that soul. Even when we bring someone back from the dead, we can't bring everything back; pieces of their souls will go missing, memories might not be all there, their flesh comes out rotting. Near death, the soul will start to break apart but they can come back if they manage to survive death itself.
Eclipsa said "I think I heard something about that when I was a kid.".
"But what does this have to do with Meteora?" Globgor asked.
Belladonatrix said "Meteora's soul was partly reincarnated. We say partly because soul reincarnation involves getting a new body and some of your memories in that new body; plus your soul tends to go to another dimension instead of being in the same dimension. We know your Black Velvet Inferno spell was intended to turn Meteora back into a baby and could have killed her if not careful but there appear to be no lasting effects but at the same time there might be effects that we don't know about yet; even those dolls that she tore up that looked like Marco showed no signs of her. If anything related to Miss Heinous is going to appear it's not gonna happen anytime soon. At the very least, you would need a stronger catalyst other than Marco would do anything."
"Alright." Eclipsa said while Globgor nodded in agreement
Dave asked them "If you don't mind me asking, what will you do if she starts to remember her life as Miss Heinous?"
Globgor said "Simple, we'll tell her the truth. We'll help her realize the circumstances that she was in and that life she lived does not define the person that she can be."
Eclipsa said "It's all we can do."
Wrathmelior trilled in agreement at what Eclipsa and Globgor were thinking in regard to Meteora. Unbeknownst to them, Relicor is watching them from a far and he's staring at Meteora with an angry look on his face. He left the area discreetly and went to his study. He pulled out a book that opened a secret compartment and grabbed another book titled "Celena's Cosmic Secrets". He opened the book to a page that had (Baby) Meteora in front but Miss Heinous in a ghostly form behind her.
Like my short explaining the rules of time travel, this one was meant to deal with the rules of death and how I'll apply them in the story. I know there is a spell in the book of spells that talks about it's something we know Tom and other demons can do. I added this rule as a means to not use resurrection of the dead as a final usage for facing the enemy along with an introduction to a certain plot point that I can't say because of spoilers. This also gives me a chance to update the story too.