Anger

3rd Person Mode

"So, you were monitoring her," Daniel said to Dahlia.

"What makes you think I was?" Dahlia hissed.

"There is no way that those rooms would have reacted that way unless they were triggered by the Control Room. The Interrogation Rooms. Her brain waves control was activities that happen there."

"Perhaps," Dahlia said, turning from Daniel. "But you must be aware that the rooms don't expand as far as you and her traveled? Some of it had to do with the awakening of a Divinity."

"You mean Satan?" quipped Daniel.

"I mean God! God is coming closer, don't you see it? God is beckoning you," Dahlia cried. "The time is coming. The time for me to be sent from this world and you to carry out your mission to help that girl conceive our God."

"Wait, has that been your plan all along? You want me to get her..?"

"Pregnant? What else was there to assume?" Dahlia said calmly. "She is not pure. Claudia gave birth to that girl, which has made her half mortal." She turned to Daniel. "Because you are an incest child, born of Walter and I, you have powers of that of a Divinity."

"And you're admitting that the Divinity in this case is Satan?" questioned Daniel.

"In this case, yes, but God always wins in the struggle for power against Satan. The good will be brought out in her child."

"I'm not doing that to Unique," Daniel said. "Besides, she's too young."

"Nonsense. She's at legal age for that to become appropriate. Sixteen? A very appropriate time as she enters into adulthood. The age matters not. What matters is the time that we are consuming talking meaninglessly."

"I'm not going to do that," Daniel repeated. "What do you think I am? I may be a murderer, but I'm no rapist."

"I will help you, my weak minded son," Dahlia said, smiling. She turned away from him and towards the front of the alter, raising her hands, speaking in tongues.

Meanwhile, Daniel had walked along the wall of the Sanctuary, making his way for the Baptism sink. Here, he reached into the cabinet under and pulled a broad dagger from it's shelf.

"God said, 'Let there be light,'" Dahlia began. "And all as it should have been. Light entered this world, but entrusted within it's power were shadows that loomed within the purity. Since the beginning of time, there has been darkness over light, for there are no shadows without the source of rays.

"Thusly, began the Holy Sacraments of the Seven Sinners, following the Twenty One Apostles that prophesied the next Coming of our God. The first ten consisted of the original Apostles, omitting Jesus Christ and Peter, the traitor. These ten hearts were sacrificed, and then followed the eleven new prophets of the New Coming: Void, Darkness, Gloom, Despair, Temptation, Source, Watchfulness, Chaos, Mother, Wisdom.

"Following then, the sacrifices of the seven sinners:

"Revenge of the Paradox, where the evil mirage of God, Satan, is struck down.

Seeker of Envy, where God strikes down sinners of jealousy, which converges into anger, and then hatred, for the Omnipotent One.

Damnation of the Conceiver, where even the Virgin Mary must be sacrificed, for even as the mother of Jesus, she was merely mortal and born of sin.

Tribulation of Satan, where Lucifer is trialed against the battle of the Paradox.

Sacrifice of the Ancient, where as the elder of the human race is judged to represent the souls of the sinful.

Judgement of the Messenger, where Herald is damned as he turns his back on his God to save the sinful souls of humans.

And the Reaper of Paradise, the final human of purity to conceive our God of the New Coming.

"Hear my cries, O Holy One! Hear my.." Dahlia stopped. She could say no more. She looked down as she felt a sharp pain enter through her spine and into the flesh of the stomach. Blood trickled from her lips. All went blank.

All went dark.

Unique opened her eyes slowly to a dark room, in which all of the walls had been painted black. Across from her stood a mirror and she stepped forward to see that a message was scrawled across it in red. In blood?

Heather

Claudia

Unique

"The end of the tree," Unique whispered.

"Unique," Daniel called faintly. Unique looked around, as though she had heard his voice from the walls.

"Daniel? Where are you?"

"You're in an interrogation room," he said. "I'm standing behind that mirror in front of you." He paused. "Unique, get out of there now!"

"What's wrong?" Unique said, backing for the door behind her.

"I can't explain to you right now what's happened, but I need you to get out of there," he said.

"Where can I meet you?" Unique asked.

"Unique, I can't meet up with you again! Listen, you'll be able to get through the hallway now," Daniel explained. "You couldn't leave before because Dahlia led you through a string of mazes. You need to escape."

"But.." Unique began.

"Just go!" Daniel screamed.

Unique turned from the mirror and fled for the door. She heard a door several hundred feet down the hall, in the darkness, close when she had left the tainted room. Her heart pounding, she ran for the door at the end of the hallway.