Location: Abyss

Julia groaned, Hollow was trying to convince her that she was in fact void, for the 3rd time in a row. It was getting obnoxious, she had nearly given up trying to convince him otherwise, as whatever she said just seemed to go over his head. He had started doing this shortly after she had managed to send her transmission. He would just walk up to her side, sit down, and start lecturing at her, while also attempting to use shows of physical affection to try and punctuate certain points.

"There is a significant amount of void in your soul, quite a bit more than most siblings in fact. It just so happens that there are other elements diluting your soul" Hollow said.

Here he was, talking about souls again, like that meant anything to her. Souls aren't even proven to exist, and yet here was Hollow, using it like it was scientific fact, to the point where he claims that he knows the composition of her soul. Though this did raise a question, and she actually decided to speak up this time.

Julia gulped down the roasted 'tik tik' that Hollow had gotten for her, she was thankful that he at least understood that she needed food.

"If void is only a part of my soul, couldn't that mean that the void is diluting-" Hollow cut her off.

"No!" Hollow said suddenly, almost offended, how could his sibling say something so horrible?

"No?" Julia said questioningly "What makes you so sure?" she asked

Hollow looked… legitimately angry, his sibling was again denying they were family. It did not matter if the void was there first or not. After all, the sibling's eggs had been taken over by the void, the Lord had saved them from the king. The void was an integral part of Julia's being, and anything made of void was a child of the Lord, and through that connection, his sibling.

"It just sounds like you're making a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid the fact that you made a mistak-"

"NO! No we did not!" Hollow yelled, this alerted many of the siblings who came over to where they were sitting. Julia was clearly damaged, every single sibling could feel the void with in her. How was she not able to feel it, how was she not able to connect two and two together that void, equaled a child of the Lord. It was infuriating, no matter what they told her, no matter what evidence they showed, she just denied this basic truth.

Julia sighed, that had been the expected reaction. She would provide evidence against her being a void thing, and Hollow would just ignore it. No matter how much evidence she provided to the contrary, they would just keep calling her their sibling. It was getting very infuriating that they refused to accept the basic truth that she wasn't one of them.

Suddenly Hollow stood up, and looked over to the large steel doors that blocked the opening to the Abyss. "Another sibling" Hollow thought to himself, he had barely noticed this new sibling's void signature, he had been preoccupied with making sure Julia didn't escape, as well as trying to convince her that they were family.

The steel doors were suddenly flung open, and what Julia saw shocked her, It was a gene trooper, it's helmet's eyes glowing a hellish red. 7 feet of muscle, metal, and firepower, they were very destructive, and highly feared.

"Well, at least rescue is here" Julia thought to herself.

The trooper scanned the area for his objective, there were many strange life forms surrounding him, no hostile intention yet shown, that was good at least. The trooper walked farther into the dark room, the red glow from his helmet helping illuminate it somewhat.

One of floating black things came over to it, and surprisingly, spoke in english.

"Sibling!" It said in a happy tone, the trooper paid it no mind.

The trooper continued looking, and he did not have to look long, as he saw his objective running towards him. The trooper began sprinting towards her as well. The speed at which the trooper moved seemed to surprise the various strange creatures, but that really did not matter.

Hollow looked at this new sibling with great interest, it was massive, it was taller than him by a lot, even including his horns. It also appeared to be running in his general direction, why was that? He looked over, and noticed that Julia wasn't next to him any more, but was running towards the new sibling.

Hollow wondered if these two had a history, it wasn't until the new sibling scooped Julia up, put her on her shoulder, and began running to the door that he realized something was wrong.

"STOP! LEAVING THE ABYSS ISN'T SAFE!" Hollow shouted, teleporting in front of the new sibling, hoping to stop it.

The sibling merely backhanded him, and Hollow went flying, landing on his face two meters away. His shell was cracked, that really hurt. Other siblings appeared to try and dog pile the new large sibling, but few were able to even catch up to it. Greeny was one of the few that did, and it latched to the giant siblings arm.

The large sibling roughly tore Greeny from its arm, and to Hollow's dismay, slammed him to the ground, shattering his shell. The other sibling's cried out, why would their own family do this, why? Greeny didn't do anything wrong, he was just trying to keep his sibling safe.

The crying alerted the Shade Lord, who quickly shot out of the sea of void at the bottom of the abyss.

"Children, whats wron- Oh no" The Shade Lord looked sadly at Greeny's broken shell, and then noticed the giant giving off a void signature, who was running away with Julia.

The Shade Lord reached out, and grabbed the large sibling by the waist.

"What were you thinking?!" The Shade Lord shouted

"Do you have any idea how dangerous what your doing is!? Poor Greeny just had his shell shattered, Hollow had his cracked, and now I find you trying to take your sibling from the Abyss?!

The Lord continued to berate the new sibling, he had to learn that this behavior wasn't ok, it was the only way he would learn. It was what any responsible parent would do.

The trooper struggled in the colossus's grib, and managed to get one of his arms free, along with his magnetic grenade launcher.

"I am not telling you this to make you feel bad, I am simply trying to-"

The trooper fired three air fuel bombs directly at the colossus's face, they all hit their mark, the bright flashes of the explosions lit up the darkness.

The Shade Lord recoiled and dropped the large sibling, along with Julia. The sibling hit the ground running with Julia in tow, the Shade Lord recovered just in time to see them run out of the Abyss, and climb into the Ancient Basin.

This wasn't good, he would need to go after them, and bring them back. But first, he had injured children to attend to.

Greeny's shade finally emerged, and looked at his destroyed shell with sadness, and began crying.

"My Shell!" Greeny sobbed, the Shade Lord did his best to comfort him.

"Shh, shh, its ok, I can fix it, shh, its ok, ill make it all better" The Shade Lord said, stroking Greeny's shade.

Hollow felt terrible, this felt like his fault, the Lord seemed to pick up on this. The Lord picked him up, and brought him over to where Greeny was, after all, what kind of parent would he be if he did not comfort his children.

Other sibling's joined in to help comfort the two. As this was happening, the Lord was developing a plan to get his morbidly misinformed children back.