Is the third chapter of this movie finished? No. Will I be able to finish it sometime before December? Probably not, especially if life keeps kicking my chances to do it in the probability.

Will I still update this? Heck yeah!

There's not much else I want to add to this author's note, you guys probably want to see what happens next in the story, so let's do that... after I reply some reviews!:

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Now, to the chapter!

Back where we left off, Lily kept staring at the energy beings as they exchanged raised eyebrows.

"I feel like this reaction has gone on for a little bit longer than I expected," Lisa remarked, scratching her chin. "Perhaps a week, maybe even longer."

"Well, we can't blame Lily; last time she saw us was ten years ago, and closing the portal was supposed to mean we wouldn't be able to return," Lincoln sighed sadly. "Of course, maybe we could've been a little bit more subtle in our return-"

And then Lily finally spoke:

"If you're here, then who's keeping Tetherby and his group in control? Who's keeping Dawning Dusk in control?! Every second you remain here is another second that they could potentially escape from the Twilight World! I mean, if you can get out, then they certainly can get out as well!"

"Calm down, Lily, freaking out isn't going to help anybody," Lincoln said as he lead Lily to the couch and helped her sit down. "We understand your concerns, but don't worry about them; they're still caged back in the other world."

"And besides, considering the anomalies that have been appearing more and more frequently around this world, we had to get here as soon as we could," Lisa responded as she walked up to Lily. "Now tell me, younger sister, have you by any chance seen any glowing cracks on the walls of... well, anywhere in Royal Woods?"

"Yeah, there was one on the second floor of Royal Woods School, but it was the only one I saw this entire morning," Lily answered, rubbing her arm. "According to Clyde, who could also see it, he said that not only could it only be seen by those who "bonded" with you and Lincoln ten years ago, but that it was a crack that lead to the Twilight World."

"Great, that saves us a lot of explanation, then," Lisa remarked, giving a nod of approval. "In that case, the only thing left to tell you is that those cracks are the result of magic instability in both worlds."

"Magic instability? But that can't be right," Lily scratched her chin and looked at the ground. "I mean, it's been, as I feel like it's been pointed out repeatedly somehow, ten years since the portal to the Twilight World were closed, and with it the magic that created the Auras and Squires was taken away as well. Why would there be a magical instability now?"

"Not everything happens right away, Lily," Lincoln answered sadly. Something gave the girl the impression he was speaking from experience. "Some things take a little longer before they blow up in your face."

"That sounds like something Lisa would have experience with," Lily quipped, earning a disapproving look from the bespectacled energy being. Not that she cared; if it convinced her to go back and watch the twilight inmates, then good.

"Anyway, the reason we bring this up is because, thanks to the magical instability occurring right now, those glowing cracks we've mentioned are starting to appear," Lisa answered as she got off the couch and began walking back and forth. "They grow bigger if touched by those who "bonded" with us ten years ago, as you probably know, and if they reach a certain point, they'll outright break and create a portal to the Twilight World."

"Well, what are you waiting for then?" Lily folded her arms, keeping the pace with Lisa. "Do something about them! It's not like I know what I can do that won't cause those things to turn into portals!"

"Yeah, that's when a little problem comes in: we can't really do that," Lincoln replied, earning a look of disbelief from Lily. "While we know of one creature capable of fixing the cracks, I'm afraid we're not the same type of creature."

"And again I must ask, what are you waiting for?" Lily got off the couch and walked up to her energy brother. "If you know there's a creature that can seal those cracks, then the logical thing to do is find it and convince them to fix the cracks!"

"It's not as easy as you make it sound, Lily!" Lisa complained, rubbing her forehead. "If the creature we were looking for was an actual creature, then yeah, it would be that easy, but instead of a creature it's more of a concept!"

"Okay, I can't believe I'm saying this to you, Lisa, but you're not making any sense," Lily replied, expecting pigs to fly at any minute now. Sure, Lisa was known for saying some strange stuff, but nothing to this extent. "How can a creature be a concept but not a creature?"

"We had a very hard time figuring out the best way to explain this, and it looks like we needed ro think about it a little bit more," Lincoln remarked. "Anyhow, the point is that the creature that can fix the cracks could be in this world."

"We already looked in The Twilight World and we found nothing," Lisa added. "So the question now is, would you help us look for it?"

Without any hesitation, Lily nodded and flashed a thumbs up to her energy siblings. And she did this just as a voice spoke:

"Oh, you're already back from school?"

Lily turned around and saw none other Lola standing nearby, prompting her to run up to her and hug her.

"Lola! You're here!" she chirped moments before realizing something, "But wait, if you're here, then where's the rest of our sisters?"

"Luan's off to work, and Lynn convinced the rest to go on a wild goose chase for a creature she belieces she saw at the park," Lola explained, rubbing Lily's head. "It's apparently some kind of supernatural creature."

Hearing that, Lily separated from Lana and asked in unison with Lincoln and Lisa:

"Supernatural?"

"Yeah, you know, something out of this world!" Lynn answered as she, Luna, Lori, Lana, and Lucy searched the public park. "I saw it somewhere around here!"

"Lynn, you ate, drank, and slept properly yesterday, right?" Lori asked as she searched some bushes. "You have a bad habit of not doing that, and that can give you hallucinations."

Lynn lowered her eyelids. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that for all we know, heck, for all you know, what you saw could've been a hallucination," Luna translated, leaning against a tree. "Or maybe some normal animal that wound up looking weird during said hallucination."

Lynn gave a thought to that statement, before she spotted something and smiled. "Well, if you insist that what I saw was a hallucination..."

Lynn parted the bushes open, her sisters turning to look at her as she added:

"Mind explaining this?"

The sisters walked towards the spot that Lynn pointed at, and what they saw inside the bush shocked them.

It was a pitch white creature resembling some kind of canine animal, with black eyes and white pupils as well as black paws. It was currently scratching its head, not even pausing to look at te girls.

"It looks like one of the creatures from the Twilight World!" Lori scratched her chin as she thought about it out loud. "But that can't be possible, right? There's no way a creature from the world could be running around our world. I mean, if they had escaped just before the portal was closed-"

"It would've been dragged back into the Twilight World anyway, assuming it wasn't destroyed in the process," Lynn pointed out, folding her arms. "I mean, it's already kinda hard to believe a creature from the Twilight World would escape the world before its portal closed. That they would manage to stay out of the radar for a decade is simply impossible."

"Lynn has a point there, though the other option she implies isn't that much better," Luna said, scratching the back of her head. "This creature could've found another mean of entering this dimension."

And as Luna and Lori pondered what that could mean, Lana looked back and saw the glowing creature looking at the sisters with a tilted head. "Hey, has anybody noticed that this thing hasn't really left since we appeared? From what I know, small animals usually run away when they see a human."

"Yeah, but most small animals aren't glowing entities from another dimension," Lucy answered, glancing at the creature with a curious look. "Although, perhaps the reason it hasn't run away is because it's not afraid of us?"

Just then, the creature's head turned back to normal before it nodded, then moved around before pointing at a spot with its head.

"I think they want us to follow it," Lucy said.

"Yeah, not sure I trust this thing," Lynn spoke, giving the creature a stern look. "There's the chance it could be leading us into a trap."

"But there's also the chance that it simply wants to show us something," Lana sighed. "Whatever the case, we're not getting answers standing here talking about it."

Lynn growled and folded her arms. "Fine, we'll follow it, but if this turns out to be a trap, just remember I warned you!"

With that said, the sisters chased after the creature, just in time for a shadowy figure to enter the park just as they left. Not that it had to take a long time to chase them, since they stopped at the park square, where a familiar crack could be seen by the girls on the statue of a fountain.

"The Twilight World is on the other side!" Lori turned back to the fox-like creature. "So that's how this critter entered this world..."

The creature nodded, then cowered behind Lori as Lynn cracked her knuckles. "Alright then, you've shown us where you came from, now tell us how to get rid of it!"

"Lynn, please, be more considerate!" Lana said, getting in between Lynn and the creature. "You're scaring the poor little thing! And it hasn't even showed any desire to hurt us!"

"I'm sorry, but I don't feel comfortable with anything from that other world having free access to our world," Lynn responded sternly. "Besides, Lincoln and Lisa could speak telepathically in their creature forms, surely this thing has the same ability."

"It doesn't."

The women turned around to see Clyde adjusting his glasses as he approached them. "I'm afraid this creature is basically just an ordinary animal... Well, as ordinary as an inhabitant of the Twilight World can be."

"Clyde, it's been a while," Lori remarked, gaining a little smile. "What brings you here?"

"Well," Clyde adjusted his glasses and took a deep breath. "I'm not going to pull any punches with you."

The sisters all looked confused for a second, before they shared a look of horror as Clyde explained:

"The Twilight World is trying to open itself once more."

Darcy paced back and forth in her room, trying to figure out what to do with her discovery of the cracks.

"I can't just ignore the fact that there was a crack on the wall, but if what Professor Clyde said is true, there's little to nobody I can tell about it without getting weird looks! And even if everybody in the school had been a Lux Aura, it's been ten years: they could be anywhere right now, maybe even somewhere far away from Royal Woods!"

Darcy plopped to her bed. "What am I supposed to do?!"

"You could give me a hand!"

Dsrcy stood up and ran to her window, where Lily waved hello while two familiar creatures stood near her

"Oh hey, you're Lisa's sister, right?" Darcy asked, leaning forward. "How did you know this was my house?"

Lily glanced at Gemini and Divisu. "I got a little help."

The furry creatures promptly transformed into Lincoln and Lisa, with actual physical bodies rather than their usual energy ones. They looked the same as before: Lincoln donning a white suit while Lisa wore all black.

But what mattered the most, at least to Darcy, was that Lisa was there at all.

"Lisa!" Darcy chirped as she got ready to jump.

Mere seconds before she took a leap of faith, though, Darcy was pushed back by Lisa and Lincoln flying into the window with Lily in tow. Luckily, Darcy wasn't hurt.

"I'm happy to see you again after so long too, Darcy," Lisa stated as she dusted herself and helped Darcy stand up. "But that's no excuse to risk injury by jumping through your freaking window!"

"Right, sorry," Darcy smiled sheepishly as she scratched the back of her head. "I'm just so happy to see you again!"

"I'm happy too," Lisa replied as she and Lincoln and Lily down to the street. "But we need your help with something."

"We're searching for a creature that can close the cracks we saw at the school!" Lily answered, clenching her fist with determination. "Getting someone to come with us would be a big help!"

"There's a creature that can close the cracks? That definitely sounds like something I should look for," Darcy raised an eyebrow. "But why not ask Girl Jordan for help? You two were a team before, right?"

"Girl Jordan's now a woman with a busy schedule," Lincoln answered with a shrug. "And besides, Lisa told me you have nothing better to do most of the time."

"Including right now," Darcy chirped and shook hands with Lily. "So count me in! Let's find this creature together!"

"Find what creature, exactly?"

The quartet turned around and saw a pair of shadowy figures standing on top of lampposts, looking down at the group. They sported hooded cloaks hiding their identity, the only difference between them being one was shorter than the other.

"Lily, do you know these people?" Darcy asked.

"I don't think so," Lily said, scratching her head. "I mean, I think I would remember befriending two hooded figures."

"I can't believe what I'm seeing!" the shorter hooded figure chirped. "It really is you! Lily Loud, one of the legendary duo who sealed The Twilight World years ago!"

"Wait, you know who I am?!" Lily asked.

"And wait, you know what happened ten years ago?!" Darcy exclaimed.

"Of course I do, why wouldn't I? It was such a spectacle, even far away with the rest of the civillians," the figure lowered her head. "Alas, I'm afraid your actions flipped my life upside down, and that's not something I can forgive."

The figure reached for her back and took out a pair of swords, one pitch white, one pitch black.

"No way..." Lily's eyes widened. "The Lux and Umbra Swords?!"

"Kinda, but not quite," the figure turned to the taller figure. "Hey, Sentinel, which sword would you like to use?"

The figure said nothing.

"I'll take that as a dusk," the shorter figure handed the pitch black sword to the larger figure. "Now, Sentinel... Attack Lily."

"What?!"

The larger hooded figure leaped from their spot and lunged at Lily, who backed away before her eyes turned black with white pupils again, prompting her to put both arms forward as a small piece of light emerged from them.

Once the Sentinel swung their sword, Lily summoned her mace and stood her ground, her eyes remaining black and white as she seemingly returned to reality.

"W-Wait, what just happened?!"

"Ohoho, interesting," the smaller hooded figure chuckled. "Looks like this is going to be fun after all!"