As everyone return back to the Thousand Year Door Hall, they all stared at the door.
"You all ready?" Mario asked.
"Yeah. Let's play along with his game." Ayato nodded as they all nodded in agreement.
Mario hopped onto the pedestal where they all watched the Crystal Stars appearing from the pedestals and then the images on the door lit up, and let out a pulse before there was a large rumbling and the walls near the door cracked before opening up a dark mist, and a vortex appeared when it was opened before vanished.
"Sooooo… who wants to go first?" Luigi asked. "Not it!"
Ayato let out a sigh before walking inside. "I don't sense any danger. Come along." He called out to them as they walked into the Palace of Shadow, although Tartaglia had to force Luigi in. However, Levi stop as he turn around, look around before giving a glare, then rejoining the others.
(Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories ost - Castle Oblivion)
"So... this is the Palace of Shadow." Ayaka said as they look around at the entrance.
"Hmm... it suit it's name well." Ayato nodded.
"Yeah..." Levi said as he notice Rean touch his chest. "Did you felt something just now?"
"Yeah... I sense... something within this place... something dark..." Rean answered
"You're not the only one. I sense great amount of darkness within this place... perhaps it is the perfect place to seal away the demon." Levi nodded as he look around. "I had a feeling it will go deeper as we go."
"Indeed. I can sense evil within this place... So the Thousand Year Door... was actually an entrance to the Palace of Shadow." Ningguang amused.
"It's little scarier." Luigi groaned.
"Stay on your guard everyone. There's no telling what's behind this palace of darkness." Kazuha advised as they walked through the large room before going through the first door where they walked down some long stairs where three Swoopulas came down to attack them, but Tartaglia quickly fired water arrows at them and take them out.
"I'm surprised there are bats still living here." Ayato said.
"As well as water below." Altina noted.
"For a place that's sealed a millennium... it's surprising that there are living things here... as well as water." Levi mused as they went into the next room where on the first floor they saw a Dry Bones and a Swoopula hanging around.
Kazuha and Aether slash through the Dry Bones to easily shatter it while Ningguang shoot gemstones on the Swoopula to knock it back. They went down a flight of stairs and found two more Dry Bones where Mario hammered one down, Bobberly blow them up and then Altina had Claiomh Solais crush their remains and they went down another flight of stairs when they saw Bombshell Bills coming at them.
"Ack! Bombshell Bills?!" Luigi exclaimed.
"What's a Bombshell Bill?" Tartaglia asked.
"Bombshell Bills are more powerful Bullet Bills. They're powerful enough to create a crater. But also hurt like a truck if you're not careful." Rean said.
"They're that strong? Well, maybe I should have one of those." Beidou said.
"Hmph. As if I would let you have them." Ningguang comment.
"I'll handle this." Tartaglia said as he readied his Blades and then walked through, cutting the Bombshell Bills in half before he initiated a battle with the Bombshell Bill Blasters, only to make a quick few slashes and then Tartaglia put his swords away, and then the Bill Blasters fell into pieces.
"Wow." Levi blicked.
"Incredible..." Rean agreed.
"You wanted to show of don'tcha?" Aether asked
"Nah, but they are really tough." Tartaglia chuckled as they walked to meet up with him and they walked into the next room, where spikes rose up from specific parts of the floor.
"Whoa!" Chongyun exclaimed.
"We need to be careful where we step." Xingqiu advised as they carefully went through the room, while three Swoopulas tried to make their lives miserable, but Mario ground pounded on one to squish it, Aether cut through the second, and Levi shoot a beam of light on the last one, then it fell to the ground and they carefully made their way through the room while Kazuha hit a red ? Block and got an All or Nothing badge and they walked into a corridor where firebars were circling around the floor.
"I advise you all to be caution." Altina cautioned as they walked carefully, dodging the fireballs until they got to the middle where they saw a Phantom Ember waiting for them and approached them to begin a battle, where Ayato send out water sword beams to finish it off, and then they kept going where they had to jump over some moving firebars while ducking over a few of them until they got to the next room where they saw a Dark Bones in front of a door.
"This feels familiar." Paimon said as they approached the Dark Bones.
(BGM paused)
"Glurgggghh... Bluuurgh! None shall pass by… let those who would disturb her sleep fall into the depths of endless darkness!" Dark Bones exclaimed as he got up, and then a whole wave of Dry Bones fell into the room.
(Trails of Cold Steel III ost -Toughness!)
"May the intruders never find the key to the next rooooom!" Dark Bones exclaimed.
"Oh, we'll see about that!" Levi exclaimed as they fought their way through to get to the Dark Bones, but it was surprisingly fast as the wave of Dry Bones was only slowing them down.
"Okay, enough of this!" Aether said and then summoned a tornado and sucking the Drybones to create a path, then more dry bones appears slowly until Aether summon another tornado to suck them in as everyone begin to hurry and surround the Dark Bone.
Dark Bones sweatdropped before throwing a few bones at Ayato who slice it, then use his Craft: Kyouka and let out several water slashes onto Dark Bone, destroying him with ease.
(BGM ended)
(Resume Castle Oblivion)
"Sorry undead guardian. But for the sake of this Peach, we must play along "his" game." Ayato said as he grabbed the key and unlocked the door. "Let's go." He said as they walked through and were greeted by Bombshell Bills which Ayato easily cut through and engaged the two Bill Blasters in another fight, only for the latter to be cut into shreds as they went down another flight of stairs where two Phantom Embers went after them, only for Ayaka to summon shard of ice to freeze them and Bobbery blowing them and then Luigi sucking them in with his own Poltergust.
They then went down a flight of stairs where Levi cut the Bombshell Bills and their Blasters to ribbons before they walked into a big room containing a set of three ? Blocks, the middle being red and two Dry Bones and one Phantom Ember. Luigi went to go suck up the Phantom Ember with his Poltergust while Altina and Xingqiu went to go deal with the Dry Bones while Ningguang shot up the both of them and then Mario disposed of their remains by launching fireballs at them, while Bobbery got himself the P-Up, D-Down P badge and they went into the next room where they saw some stairs and several unlit torches, although one torch was lit on the right, where Levi, Rean, Ayato, Tartaglia and Ningguang took a mental note on the torch and they went through it to reveal the same room.
"Huh, what gives?" Paimon asked as they went through the same door and entered the same room, this time the lit torch being on top. "Okay, what the heck is going on?"
"I'm not sure... But let's continue forward." Choungyun said as he went through the door with the unlit torch, and came out from the opposite side. "Huh? Okay, now what's going on?"
"Ah I see. Clever mechanism." Ayato said as they looked at him.
"You notice it too?" Rean asked.
"What do you guys mean?" Paimon asked
"It's always good to pay attention to your surrounding and areas." Tartaglia said. "Have you all noticed the lit torch on top? That's what's guiding us. If we continue through the corridors with that lit torch, then we'll keep going through."
"But that doesn't mean the pathway we just took is the same. We need to pay attention to which lit torch is light up. So long as we follow the lit torch. We can get out of the maze." Levi explained.
"So we just need to get through these torches and we'll eventually get out of here?" Beidou asked.
"That's correct. Clever little mechanism too." Ningguang nodded and then they followed the quintet through the passages with the lit torches, until they eventually reached the Tower of Riddles. "There we are." She chuckled
(BGM paused)
"Huh, where are we?" Mario asked.
"Good question. Let's explore and find out." Aether said as they walked through and ignored the Tower of Riddles, but first, they had to deal with two Chain Chomps where Paimon got their attention and tried to bite her and then Chongyun swing his Claymore at them and then Beidou electrical slash attack on them while Tartaglia and Ayato slash through them.
(Resuming Castle Oblivion)
Then they walked through another door and then saw a Dark Wizzerd.
"It's one of those annoying things from the 100 pit Trial." Chongyun grumbled.
"Let's take care of them before we move on." Xingqiu advised as they walked to the Dark Wizzerd and engaged it in battle where Vivian snap her fingers and burn the wizard, and giving Goombella the chance to head bonk him, finishing by Koops with his Shell Bash attack.
Which they return to Mario's pockets after. They walked through and into another hallway where they were greeted by one Chain Chomp where Alf gulped it up and spat it out and then Rean slashed through it and then Luigi hammered it to get rid of it and then they went into another hallway where nothing attacked them, but in the next hallway, two Phantom Embers went to attack them, only for Luigi collecting their spirits inside the Poltergust.
When they got into the next room, however…
(BGM paused)
"Who goes there?!"
"Uh oh!" Chongyou exclaimed as they saw a monstrous black dragon looking exactly like Hooktail and alive version of Bonetail.
(Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door ost - More Danger!)
The dragon roared. "No one's disturbed me here in Aeons! Who dares defile this sacred place?!" He said.
"Uh… what?! I thought we destroyed Hooktail!" Luigi exclaimed.
"Apparently, he's back for revenge!" Mario exclaimed.
"WHAAAAAT?! YOU DESTROYED MY PRESCIOUS YOUNGEST SISTER?! …I wondered why she wasn't responding to my letters…"
"Hooktail's a girl?!" Levi yelled.
"Huh… I imagine that deep voice of her was males." Altina said.
"Also, how is it possible to send letters out of a sealed place?" Paimon asked
"I guess that counts for that bone dragon Bonetail." Tartaglia smirked.
"You destroyed Bonetail too?!" He exclaimed. "Foolish mortals! You will rue the day you destroyed my sister, and my older brother, even though he's a pain in the ass, for I, Gloomtail, will avenge them by taking your lives and gnawing on your bones!" Gloomtail declared and thus began the battle.
(BGM ended)
(Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door ost - Hooktail's Battle)
"Okay, according to my tattle log, Gloomtail has 80 HP, an attack of 8 and a defense of 2! He'll bite, stomp or even poison you with his poisonous breath! When his HP gets low, he'll throw in some other attacks as well, but when he charges up, he'll unleash his Megabreath attack! Make sure to have Vivian on standby on use some epic move to slice the breath attack!" Goombella called out.
Gloomtail launch a breath attack onto everyone which they rolled out of the way and charge toward the Dragon. While Nungguang, Levi, Altina and Luigi support from the sidelines for now as Altina, Levi and Luigi cast Orbal Arts onto Gloomtail and Ningguang summoned several gemstones to attack Gloomtail's body. Gloomtail attempted to bite Ayato, but Ayato shift himself into water when Gloomtail bit.
"Blah! Water?!" Gloomtail exclaimed as Ayato use Kyouka's craft on him. "GUH!"
"Brace yourself!" Tartaglia smirked as he swirl his Double saber. "This is gonna hurt!" He let out a powerful wide slash on Gloomtail's body.
"Ugh! Why you!" Gloomtail growled and then stomp on them but Tartaglia and Ayato dodge in time while Mario Super Jump Punch Gloomtail's chin and Rean Helix slash on Gloomtail. "Hmm, you mortals are stronger than I thought." Gloomtail mused and then stomped on the ground to make a shockwave to hurt everyone.
"Take this!" Chongyun use his craft: Cloud-Parting Star on Gloomtail, follow up with Xingqiu swift water slashes and let out a whirlpool strike.
"Grrr… it's time to unleash my strongest attack." Gloomtail snarled and then charged up while Ayaka warp all over Gloomtail, then summon magic circles and four large shards of ice strike on him, then Beidou let out a lighting claymore downward slash on Gloomtail's foot. "MEGABREATH!"
"Everyone, with me!" Levi said, gathering together around Levi, who created a shield of light as Gloomtail unleashed his Megabreath attack, and see his mega breath didn't work.
"What! Grr! Curse that barrier!" Gloomtail growled.
"This is over for you I'm afraid." Aether said as he imbue his sword with a rainbow light.
Aether warp all over Gloomtail, dealing heavy damage all over his body, before he raise his sword, extended it and then slam Gloomtail down in a powerful explosion.
"AAAAAAAAARGH!" Gloomtail roared. "This… this can't be…! Can I… expire?" He wondered, causing Gloomtail to flip over on his back while letting out a defeated roar.
(BGM ended)
(Resume Castle Oblivion)
"Well, that was a fun fight." Xingqiu said.
"I guess that's about it." Ayaka said as they grabbed the treasure that Gloomtail spat out that contained a Star Key.
"A Star-shape Stone?" Paimon wondered.
"I wonder if it related to the building outside. Let's go." Rean said as they walked back to the Riddle Tower, where they destroyed the Chain Chomp statues by throwing Bobbery into the mouths, and then Mario and Rean went to hit the ! Switches open a pathway to the Riddle Tower.
"Oh, look at that!" Levi said.
"Let us investigate this tower." Altina said as they nodded and head inside.
(BGM ended)
(Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door ost - Riddle Tower)
"Okay... this is a weird place." Luigi said
"Four doors, which means for rooms, alright, let's split up into groups of four." Rean suggested as they nodded and went into each of the doors.
North-West Room - 1st Floor - Rean, Levi, Altina, and Ayato
The four walked into the room and saw four blocks. Two were stone, two were made out of metal.
"Fascinating." Levi said, referring to the metal blocks while Altina checked out the writing on the wall.
"Four stones, twin stones… Master of Shadow and Dark… Two are one, one is two." Altina read. "I don't understand this part of the riddle."
"Four stones, twin stones… Master of Shadow and Dark… Two are one, one is two..." Levi amused as he think for a moment.
"Have you thought of something?" Rean asked
"Honestly, this is a tough riddle..." Levi tap his chin as he think. "Hey Altina, can you see if Claiomh Solais can smash one of the blocks?"
"Very well." Altina said and then she approached the metal block, Claiomh Solais hit it. But nothing happened. "Huh?"
"It withstands Claiomh Solais?" Rean said in shock.
"Interesting... this metal high among of durability if it were to withstand Claiomh Solais."
"Indeed. Perhaps we can use this medal for other resources." Ayato amused
"Huh... doesn't this remind you of that time back in Lavalava island?" Rean asked.
"Oh yeah... Not even Airgetlam and Laura can smash it. Ahhh, good times." Levi chuckled. "Okay, hit the stone blocks." Levi said as Altina approach the Stone Block on the other side. Then break it. "Okay...So that one you can destroy. Hit the other stone block here." He pointed as Claiomh Solais floated to the other one and destroy it.
"What should we do now?" Rean asked. "Nothing happen."
"Hmm..." Levi rub his chin as he thinks. "I'm out of ideas... Let's go look upstairs."
"But what about the ! block by the metal?" Altina asked
"Do you think you have Claiomh Solais hit it?" Levi asked
"Is it worth a try." Altina said and then Claiomh Solais hit the ! blocked. And a shadow appeared in the center and appeared the treasure chest.
"I guess we should have done that first." Ayato said.
"Okay, let's head upstairs." Levi said.
North-East Room - 1st Floor - Mario Bros, Vivian, Beidou
"All you see isn't all there be… Stones Have Power of Stars… Touch it to pass through it…" Luigi read. "I don't get it."
"The middle part doesn't make sense." Beidou said.
"Hmm… so this riddle is saying that there's more than meets the eye!" Mario suggested.
"More than meets the eye?" Vivian tilt her head
"Coming from our experience and journey, the wall isn't a wall at all." Mario explained as Luigi went to go touch the wall, and his arm went through.
"Oh, hello!" Luigi exclaimed as he walked through the wall, catching the attention of the others and then walked into it where they discovered a chest that contained the Palace Key.
"Score! But what do we use it for?" Vivian wondered.
"I'm starting to think that this random tower is more in-depth than we realize…" Mario mused.
South-West Room - 1st Floor - Aether, Paimon, Kazuha, Tartaglia
"Beyond, beyond, beyond… Complete All Seven… Before, before." Paimon read. "…What does that mean?"
"What an... interesting riddle." Kazuha said.
Aether rubbed his chin in thought, looking at the red ! switches floating there. "Beyond… before…" He folded his arms, thinking about the riddle and then it hit him. "I got it!" He exclaimed, catching the attention of his friends. "The switch on the left, I believe it means hitting it three times while the switch on the right, you hit it two times!"
"Oh, now there's something to behold. Let's give it a shot." Tartaglia said, standing underneath the left switch and jumping, hitting it three times while Kazuha hit the right switch, and then a chest appeared, where Tartaglia pulled the key out of the chest.
"Amazing Aether!" Paimon praised.
"As expected of someone of your mind." Tartaglia chuckled.
"Hehe, thanks." Aether smiled while rubbing the back of his head and blushed.
South-East Room - 1st Floor - Xingqiu, Chongyun, Bobbery, Ayaka
"The unseen may yet be felt… So That We, The Great Ones… Be it here? Be it there?" Bobbery read. "Hmph! The middle line is utter nonsense!"
"Hmm. an unseen may yet be felt... Be it here? It be it there?" Xingyun asked, feeling for something while walking around. "Hmm?"
"Have you discovered something Mr. Xingyun?" Ayaka asked
"I believe I do. Let me see if my hypnosis is true." He said as he walk back, then felt something while walking around. "Ahh, clever."
"What is it boy?" Bobbery asked
"It would appear that there's an invisible object in the middle of the room. Though the problem is how can we touch it?"
"I have an idea." Ayaka said as she use her Craft: Soumetsu then created a icy wind where an invisible poster was blown away from the wind and revealed a treasure chest.
"All right! Thank you Lady Ayaka!" Chongyun cheered
"No need to thank me." Ayaka smiled while they grabbed the key.
North-West Room - 2nd Floor - Rean, Levi, and Altina, Ayato
"Oooh... now I get what that riddle means. Clever. It's like that what happens on one side trick Byleth talk about in the Crystal Palace." Levi said as they grab the second key after Altina hit it.
"So it's like that... So what happened at this room affects the room below." Rean amused.
"I'm curious how that works." Altina wondered.
"Honestly. I must agree." Ayato rub his chin.
North-East Room - 2nd Floor - Xingqiu, Chongyun, Bobbery, Ayaka
"Straight on, straight onward… We Know the Stars Spurn Us… Destroy all in your path…" Chongyun read. "Agh… what does the second one mean?"
"Ignore that, lad." Bobbery said and then walked up to the wall and blew himself up, destroying the wall and revealing the treasure chest.
"Yeah, I thought as much." Xingyun amused
"Are you okay Admiral?" Ayaka asked
"Yes, I'm fine!" Bobbery chuckled. "Blowing up doesn't harm me one bit."
"Thanks to you, we got what we came for." Xingqiu chuckled while grabbing the Palace Key.
South-West Room - 2nd Floor - Aether, Paimon, Kazuha, Tartaglia
"Let fall the weakest… And Thus the Skies Lie… Then build to the strongest…" Tartaglia read and then turned his head to see the Dull Bones, Red Bones, Dry Bones and then the Dark Bones. "Ah I see. Defeat the weak, then the strong. Ready?"
"By all means." Kazuha nodded where they easily took out the Dull and Red Bones, before they tackled the Dry Bones and then after defeating it, they went to destroy the Dark Bones.
"And here come our prize!" Paimon said as the chest appeared.
"Well, that was easy." Aether smiled while they grabbed the key from the chest.
South-East Room - 2nd Floor - Mario Bros, Vivian, Beidou
"The shy one hides his shape… But the Stars Bring Balance… the shy one hides his face." Beidou read. "Shy one?"
"Aaaand down we go!" Vivian said, pulling the trio down and then a ! switch popped up and then Vivian came back up with them.
"Oh, that's what it meant by "shy"." Luigi said as they hit the switch and grabbed the key from the chest as they all regrouped and went to the top floor to see some kind of planetarium.
"Whoa, what do we have here?" Tartaglia asked.
"A planetarium?" Levi asked.
"Pardon me, but what is this... planetarium?" Ayaka asked.
"It's a building which projects images of stars, planets, and constellations on the inner surface of a dome for public entertainment or education." Rean explained.
"My, it seems the western part of Zemuria had begin to evolve since the Orbal revolution." Ayato said.
"Well, most of it was from the Mushroom Kingdom." Rean said.
"Hey look. There's a keyhole with the Starshape." Tartaglia pointed.
"So that's what that stone is for." Paimon said as they put it in, and then eight pedestals popped up containing eight keyholes, so they inserted them into the keyholes where they felt a strong vibration, and in the first hallway outside, stairs were being formed.
"What was that?" Luigi asked.
"Let's go find out." Mario replied as they walked out of the Riddle Tower and started to walk to the right when they were unfortunately interrupted.
(BGM ended)
"Mwehehehehe! Sorry fellas, but this is where you'll meet your ends!"
(Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door ost - Theme of the Shadow Sirens)
Beldam and Marilyn popped up, along with Doopless.
"Hello!" Beldam smirked
"You!" Levi glared. "You certainly know how to be a thorn on our side."
"I could say the same to you. No doubt you're worthy adversaries."
"I take it you're going to be here standing in our way as usual?" Altina asked.
"Indeed little ugly girl. We're here to put a stop to you once and for all." Beldem answered
"You must be senile. There are a lot of us and three of you." Beidou said.
"Uh, Beldam, hate to break it to you, but she's right." Doopless said. "I mean, there's... a bunch of 'em. Plus I rather NOT deal with silver hair."
"Quiet, fool! It is time to put an end to your miserable lives once and for all!" Beldum declared.
"Funny. I was going to be the same thing." Levi said as he brought out his glaive. "I don't normally plan on spilling blood... but after the things you done, it's clear you already mark as those need to be punished."
Vivian clenched her fists. "You're right about that Levi. I'm going to enjoy this." She said.
"Mwehehehe! You think you can defeat your sisters?" Beldum amused
"I don't think I can. I know I can."
"And we'll be right with you Vivian." Rean nodded. "And we don't need our entire group to take these three on." He said as he and Mario join in on the fight.
"Yeah, you can do it Vivian!" Paimon cheered. "Teach that old hag a lesson!"
(BGM ended)
(Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door ost - Shadow Sirens)
Annoying Thorns
Twisted Hag - Beldum.
The Muscle - Marliyn
Mischief maker - Doopless
"This is for all those times you punished me over the simplest things." Vivian said.
"You're quite the chatty one! You're all talk and no bite, dearie." Beldum taught
"Oh, am I?" Vivian asked before snapping her fingers, unleashing a Fiery Jinx on the two sisters, burning the two alive while Levi and Rean form a combat link and charge toward Beldam and Marilyn and let out some slashes as Mario lunged himself toward Beldum and lunch a flurry of punches before a powerful once to knock Beldum back
"Urgh! You'll pay for that!" Beldam exclaimed, quickly unleashing a blizzard on the quartet, freezing up who dodged in time before powering Marilyn up who had charged up her power.
Doopliss launch a headbutt toward Rean and knock him back a few feet before he use Crimson Slash on the Shadow Sirens but they dodge in time. Marilyn unleashed powerful lightning bolts on them.
"Tch!" Levi growled as he cast his own magic with several beams of light striking the Shadow Sirens from above as payback.
"Hey slick, take this!" Doopliss said as he disappeared, scan Levi and then reappearing as him.
"Why you-" Levi said with a tick on his forehead.
Vivian went straight to Beldam and fire-punched her in the nose.
"OW! MY NOSE!" Beldam yelled
"Take this!" Mario let out some punches toward Marilyn who block most of his punches but then a fiery punch on her cheek.
"Guuh!"
Rean then use Gale on the Shadow Sirens and Levi follows up with Pentreate Throw. While Doopliss swirl the Glaive and then launch himself toward Vivian who went underground to avoid the attack.
"Hey!" Doopliss complain as Vivian reappeared and use Fiery Jinx to burn the Trio and then Mario brought out his hammer and then charge and an uppercut to knock Beldam up in the air, jumped up and swing his hammer own on Beldum on Doopliss.
"OOF!" He winched as he push Beldum off
Levi then lunged himself to Marilyn who avoided the upcoming attack, and reappeared behind Levi to deliver a lighting punch to knock him back. Then Rean use Hexil slash on Marilyn, which Levi got a little revenge by landing several slashes as he swirl his Glaive.
"Take this!" Beldum growled as she summon ice pillars toward the Quartet while Marilyn summoned lighting to combine their magic, and after that. Doopliss swing his Glaive onto Levi who block the attack in time. Mario launch a fireball to knock Doopliss back and then Vivian dive underground and reappeared on Beldum's face and punch her in the chin which toss her into the air, and Levi launch a sphere of light onto Beldum and crash her to the wall as she fell.
"Ugh… it's all up to you..." Beldam groaned as Mario punch Marilyn's face.
"Guh!" Marilyn proceeded to go straight up to Vivian and tried to slap her, but Vivian had ducked and then used a fiery uppercut to knock her back, before Vivian then jabbed her in the face and then Levi imbue his Glaive with light and let out a powerful large slash on Marilyn and then Rean use Crescent Clash craft to finish her off. "Guuuuuh!" She yelled before collapsing.
"Aaah! This isn't good!" Doopliss exclaimed.
"Yep. And!" Vivian smirked as she use fiery jinx on Doopliss as Mario launch a powerful punch on Doopliss's guts, change him back to his true form and collapse on the ground.
(BGM ended)
"Uuugh… how did we get beaten so quickly?" Beldam groaned. "At this rate… she'll…"
"She?" Levi raised an eyebrow until click. "Oh... you mean the demon inside the ancient treasure don't you?"
"All right Beldum, do you know how to stop her from waking up?" Rean asked
"I do not." Beldam said.
"I see..."
"I'm sure we'll find a way." Mario said.
"Yeah..." Rean nodded as Vivian approached Beldam.
"Vivian… what are you doing?" Beldram asked
"I'm only going to say this once. Beldum. I hated you after all the crap you put me through. I don't care what was your reason, you put me through hell. And I am sick and tired of being blame when something that was your own fault to begin with. I can't tell how many times I had to take the blame. I was so mad and helpless that I lost my own self-esteem. You never even saw my own potential and talked down to me so many times that I had self-esteem issues until I met these guys. I got stronger when I joined these guys. You want to know why? They treated me with love and respect, as an equal. They didn't look at me like a freak, they looked at me as if I was family. Something you fail to grasp after all these years. And despite all the things I said to you, I still love you as my sister." Vivian said as turn her back. "I hope one day you see the error of your ways, and show you the light. Just these guys have."
"Vivian..." Beldam quietly said.
"Come on everyone. Let's go." Vivian said as she and the others head to the door while Levi stayed for a little longer.
"You should consider yourself lucky. I would love you to end your disgusting life right now. But I had better things to do." Levi said as he approach the door. "I would think long and hard after what she said. Because you lost something precious. And that's enough to convince me to let you live." He said as he catch up with the others, leaving Beldam, Marilyn and Doopless alone.
"Guh...?" Marilyn turn to Beldam.
"Quiet Marilyn... I... I need a moment to think." Beldam quietly said.
Vivian finally told her how she felt. Beldum will think long and hard, won't she?