Velvet was taking a nap in the bed since she was still exhausted from Sorey's birth, her hair was out of its ponytail once again as she rested peacefully. Simon, who now had a long ponytail under the three years together, comes up from downstairs and sees his wife with a smile before laying himself on the bed, kissing Velvet awake on her cheek.

"Selene, it's time to wake up if you're going to see Maotelus today." Simon said calmly as Velvet smiled as she opened her eyes.

"Yeah, I just needed to rest my body for a while." She confessed and Simon looks at her medallion she still had on her neck. The alchemist stroke away some of her long black hair from her neck and Velvet lays her head on his neck. "I love you so much."

Just then, the couple heard the familiar baby laugh. Velvet giggled silently before getting up to go to the crib, where a little baby boy with tufts of brown hair on his head and forest green eyes that was shining with happiness and purity.

"Hi, little buddy!" Velvet said, making Sorey laugh even more as she picked him up in her arms. "Don't think we forgot about you, you were sleeping and we didn't want you to wake up." Sorey managed to get his hands on some of his mother's hair and started to play with it.

"Glad he didn't start playing with your amulet." Simon pointed out as he was sitting upon the bed instead.

"For your information, Sorey was moving a lot so I couldn't even sit before he shifted side." Selene explained a little irritated as she managed to get back her hair and gives Sorey to Simon. "Can you hold him and fold him in a blanket while I fix my hair up?"

"Of course, but you look more beautiful with your hair down than up." The alchemist said while Velvet brushed her hair with a brush, grinning.

"Maybe I'll have it down once Sorey is a little older but right now, I need to keep it up so it doesn't get in my face." Velvet explained as she fixed the ponytail with a ribbon. Simon fixed Sorey in a blanket so he didn't get cold whenever they were outside.

"Do you think Sorey and Mikleo are going to be friends or rivals?" The father asked with a small chuckle.

"Both." Velvet replied simply as she goes to him to pick up her son. "If there's something I learned from boys, is that they're usually both best friends and rivals a the same time." Simon chuckled again because she was right as he follows his wife downstairs.

"Well, I hope you have a nice day." Simon said as Velvet was about to go out the door.

"You're not coming with us?" The therion asked and the human shakes his head as an answer.

"I have a job to finish and Michael is bringing someone to protect the village from the war, I just have a feeling I shouldn't get involved with that." Simon explained and Velvet sighed.

"Someday, you need to go out and get some sunshine. It's bad for your health to stay inside all the time." Velvet said and Simon nodded.

"I know." The Nephilim walks out with a smile as Simon closed the door for her.

Out in the village was really active this time, many of the kids was helping the grown ups with their chores except for those that is pregnant or taking care of their infants. Velvet greeted Muse, who was standing by an apple tree together with her son Mikleo. She and Velvet got pregnant by the same time but their sons were born days after each other. They thought the small boys would become best friends, just like Simon and Michael was. As Velvet was only a few meters away from the waterfall entrance, she heard something calling for her.

"Selene!" The familiar voice of Michael called out and the ex-Lord of Calamity sighed in irritation as she stopped before turning around to see Michael walking forwards her with a man she never seen before. At first sight, Velvet knew that this person was important as he was dressed in fancy but simple clothes, he has blonde hair and beard and purple eyes that were darker than Michael's. Velvet definitely didn't like him but it doesn't show on her face.

"Michael, who's that guy?" Selene asked as it takes a keen eye to know what she thought of the man.

"This is Georg Heldalf, he and I have come up with a promise that he would to protect the village and keep peace." Michael explained as Heldalf comes forwards and holds out a hand.

"An honor to make your acquaintance." Heldalf greeted and Velvet took his hand, even though she was a little hesitant.

"Selene. The same goes for you." Velvet said, shaking hands slightly before breaking up.

"Are you on your way to Maotelus?" Michael asked.

"Yeah, I want him to meet my son before nightfall since Simon have taken care of him these couple of days." Velvet explained as she looks at Sorey in her arms. "Why do you ask when you already know?"

"I want to show Heldalf." Michael said which shocked Selene.

"Are you serious? Showing a human Maotelus without resonance is really serious and I don't know if he wouldn't agree with it." She replies in disagreement and serious.

"Selene, I know what I'm doing." Michael said before going forwards the temple with Heldalf following him.

"You're as stubborn as ever." Velvet mumbled to herself before following them.

They goes up the stone stairs to see Maotelus already there waiting for them like he usually do, Velvet listened briefly on the conversation as she was more focused on Heldalf. She felt a bad vibe from him and it isn't good, Velvet have always right about these kind of people. They would act as trusting as possible before they get what they want, just like Artorius did and she had a feeling time would repeat itself if her hunch was correct as the two left.

"What's wrong, Velvet?" Laphicet asked once the humans were gone. "You were awfully quiet."

"I don't trust him." Velvet replied serious.

"Who?" Laphicet questioned.

"Heldalf. I get a bad vibe from him and I shouldn't complain but I just don't trust him." The therion replied turning to him. "When I shook hands with him, I could feel the strength inside him. Heldalf is a soldier which is more suspicious."

"Do you think we're in danger?"

"We have to wait and see, I have a feeling it'll happen soon." Velvet looks at the village worried that something dangerous will happen soon and she didn't like this feeling at all. Once she got home, she told Simon everything that happened and her hunch. Simon had his own suspicions over Heldalf but they have to find out in time.


The next day, Simon had been falling asleep on his writing desk and Velvet was running up from the stairs in a hurry with worry on her face. She looks around before finding Simon on the desk and hurried over to him to shake him awake.

"Simon, Simon!" Velvet repeated worried as her husband starts to wake up and sit up.

"Selene, what's wrong?" Simon asked a little groggy before he saw her face.

"You really need to see this! It's urgent!" Velvet exclaimed.

The couple hurried outside, leaving Sorey in his crib, sleeping. Once they got out, they were terrified of the sight in front of them. A few of the houses was lit on fire and many villagers was running for their lives, a few soldier of both Hyland and Rolance was fighting and killing the villagers. Velvet started to get flashbacks of when she was experiencing her first Scarlet Night at the Opening, this was like a true image of that very night.

"You were right all along." Simon pointed out terrified but also shocked over her hunch to not trust Heldalf, who was probably the reason why this is happening.

"I always am but this is far too much malevolence, it's going to be overflown." Velvet explained before remembering something. "You and Sorey need to get out of here, I'll follow you soon." Velvet was about to run away before Simon stopped her by placing a hand on her shoulder.

"What are you going to do?" He asked worried and Velvet glanced at him with a convincing look.

"I'm going to check on Maotelus, with all this malevolence he'll be infected and he'll turn into a dragon if I don't do something then our Empyrean will turn into a hellion." Velvet replied, staring right in Simon's eyes. "I need to make sure he comes out of this okay." Simon let go and nodded.

"Alright but be careful." The alchemist said before Velvet finally ran away to check on her very special friend.

Velvet closed her eyes as she got into her hunter mode before opening them again as Hyland soldiers saw her and prepared themselves to attack, the therion slides on the ground to avoid their spears as she takes out her gauntlet blade out. She slashes them dead before continuing on, she was really glad that her body still moves on its own since the sleep and still in top shape now that she trained it up for three years. Velvet looks up in the sky to see Maotelus flying above her and the two got sight of each other before Laphicet starts to fly down, but Velvet also caught sight on Michael as she stopped by him.

"Selene, you should be evacuating with the others!" Michael exclaimed, not knowing what she was doing.

"I'm going to check on Maotelus, can you search for Muse?" Velvet asked. "I haven't seen her anywhere."

"I'll go look for her, you make sure Maotelus is safe." Michael ordered before running away of the opposite way of Velvet's to find his sister.

"I'm a way ahead of you." The therion said to herself before continuing her way forwards, she didn't need to run for much longer as Laphicet landed in front of her. "Laphicet! Thank goodness you're okay." Velvet hugged him slightly before noticing that his silver scales have been tainted by the malevolence.

"I must leave or else, I'll become a hellion soon." Laphicet told her.

"I can open an earth pulse rift for you, while I was training I noticed I could slash open the earthpulse since I'm able to sense them now." Velvet explained, taking out her blade again before focusing her energy on her blade before slashing in the air. A black hole opened next to them.

"Thank you, Velvet. There's something I want to give you." Maotelus said as a silver flame appeared before the therion. "This flame will give you the power to fight hellions without killing them, you know how to use it."

Velvet took out her therion form taking the flame in her demonic hand, starting to devour it but she started to feel incredible pain as she was devouring the flame through her whole arm. This pain made it hard for Velvet but she tries her best before she finally consumed the flame, breathing heavily as her arm transformed back on its own. Before Maotelus went away, Velvet could see his malak form before he turned into a blue light and flew into the portal before it closed. Selene begins to run back to Simon and Sorey to help them escape from the Origin village while holding her demon arm in pain.

Meanwhile, Simon was helping a few of the villagers to escape but it was getting harder when many of them had turned into hellions and he had to fight them with his sword in one hand and Sorey in the other. He had just defeated a hellion when he saw Velvet coming to them.

"Simon, Maotelus has just escaped. We can go now!" Velvet told him and he noticed her holding her arm.

"Are you hurt?" Simon asked worried.

"No, I'm fine. I had to devour a few soldiers on my way back." Velvet explained and Simon is shocked.

"Why do you kill people? They deserve to live like we do, there's has to be a way to end this without killing them." Simon said, trying to reason with her by giving his wife Sorey before walking forwards to the middle of the village.

"Simon, what are you doing?!" Velvet called out as a big arte circle appeared underneath Simon's feet as he stared at the hellions of both soldiers and villagers.

"Buying everyone time to escape." Simon replied as the circle began to glow brightly around him. "The last arte I never thought I would use like this." The alchemist points his sword at the sky and lightning came forth that hits every hellion in the area, he collapses on his knee afterwards which got Velvet worried.

"Simon!" Selene called out as she ran over to him. As she arrived to check on him, Simon saw something behind her.

"Selene, look out!" Simon shouted before taking Velvet in his arms to turn around to shield her with his body, Velvet's eyes widen as she saw a Rolance soldier stabbing Simon in the back that was going to have been her if it wasn't for her husband protecting them.

Simon falls to the ground and Velvet just stares at the scene with fear before growling like an angry animal, she placed Sorey by the dying Simon as she stands up and takes out her therion arm even if she feels the side-effects from the silver flames. Velvet's eyes was burning with anger and grabbed the soldier's head, devouring him in the process before going for other people and hellions in pure anger. As she fought and devoured, at one time a Hyland soldier had thrown a dagger in her side before devouring him as well. Now greatly wounded, Velvet couldn't do much but to take the knife out as she starts to bleed a lot of blood which she couldn't stop and collapses onto the ground just a few inches away from Simon and Sorey. Velvet started to feel sleepy and weak as she looked at her little family.

It just was a few minutes before Zenrus and two of his seraph followers arrived at the scene, Muse had came to them and told everything that happened, suggesting that she would be used as a sacrifice to keep the malevolence from spreading to Elysia. Just then, one of the followers noticed Velvet was still alive and hurries over to her. The seraph carefully rolled Velvet onto her back to notice her wound.

"She's fatally injured, my healing artes won't be enough to heal it." The seraph said as he began to heal her and Zenrus came over to them. "She lost a lot of blood as well, it'll take time before she's recovered." Velvet had opened her eyes a little but weakened by the wound.

"Sorey…" Velvet breathe out before going completely unconscious. Zenrus looks at Simon's body to see Sorey in his blanket before he picked him up.

"We need to bring them to Elysia, where they can't get affected by the malevolence." The grand seraph said as the followers took Velvet up from the ground carefully before they all began to get to Elysia, the village of the seraphim.


Soon, you guys, will we go to the Zestiria timeline just one chapter left. See you in the next chapter!