King Grambi sat in his temple, watching The Void grow to an astronomical size. The tremors of this massive threat were enough to make a God fearful. The Nimbi citizens of The Overthere also felt this fear, and were all prepared to leave their underworldly homes behind. Naturally none of them wanted to; they had all seen what The Underwhere was like before they were judged by Jaydes. They didn't like it one bit. If this Void were to be stopped by the Heroes of Light as predicted in the Light Prognosticus, then his daughter's sacrifice will have saved the universe. But if Count Bleck were to succeed, then Luvbi would be gone for nothing, and all those in The Overthere would become Shaydes in The Underwhere.

Grambi knew this, and after a meeting with his closest advisors (Whibbi, Rebbi and Yebbi – Blubi still had a concussion), came up with a plan. They decided that he and his wife would turn half of The Underwhere into paradise, at least as close to paradise as they could get it. All those Nimbis about to fall were given a white ticket proving that they had already been judged and approved to be Nimbis. This way, they would be instantly teleported by Grambi and Jaydes to their new angelic home in The Underwhere, saving his wife the pain of judging millions of souls a second time. Yebbi already had the experience of judging souls in the past, so he would judge the souls of those from the worlds of the living who had died during this massive shift.

The Nimbis awaited their forced departure, but Grambi was about to leave anyway. He needed to tell Jaydes that The Void would probably devour The Overthere, and they would have to use their plan. He sighed, and called over Dorguy the Third, the bridge between his and the Jaydes Temple. The king commanded,

"Taketh me to The Underwhere…and away from this doomed paradise." Dorguy the Third replied,

"Sure…but one thing first. I know this is a bad time with the Nimbis about to die and all, but can I be promoted to Dorguy the First? 'Dorguy the First' just sounds cooler, ya know?"

"Out of my way, Dorguy!"

Grambi attempted to go through the disappointed Dorguy, but before he could, a blinding white light shined through his temple. Grambi stopped in his tracks and looked around, trying to figure out this phenomenon. He couldn't see anything unusual once the light faded, nor hear anything unusual, nor feel anything unusual – including the tremors. After a brief silent pause, the air was filled with the sounds of bells, ringing through the worlds of the living and dead. Dorguy the Third closed itself with Grambi still in his temple, listening to the wondrous sounds echoing through the skies.

Eventually, the bells stopped, and some Nimbis disappeared (like some of the Shaydes in The Underwhere). The sounds of the bells, once faded, was quickly replaced by the sounds of joy and cheer. The Void had vanished! Mario had succeeded! Grambi stepped outside to see the Nimbis celebrating, hugging each other and ripping up their tickets. After this, one more white light flashed through Grambi's Temple – but Grambi's Temple alone. When Grambi turned around, he saw that his daughter Luvbi had magically appeared. She looked just as confused as him. The King went to her and stuttered,

"L-Luvbi?"

"Father?"

The two ran to each other and embraced, both of them tearful. Grambi asked his daughter,

"H-How didst thou return?"

"I knoweth not! The last thing in my memory was giving my Nimbi form to become the Pure Heart…and then I saw a white light. When yonder light faded…I hath returned!"

"Incredible! That white light must hath returned normalcy, the way things should be." After he said that, they looked outside to see the clear blue sky. He continued,

"Yes, 'twas the Heroes of Light. Count Bleck hath been stopped."

"…Thanketh thee, Mario…he wasn't as stupid as he looked." Grambi suddenly stopped dead, looked up, and realized,

"Wait a minute! Thy mother does not know that thou hath returned! Hold on, I shall give her a call!" Grambi pulled out his cell phone and contacted Jaydes. Grambi put it on speaker so that Luvbi heard her mother ask,

"Hello? It's me, Grambi. Oh, hi Grams. I'm kinda busy with-Listen, Jaydes, Luvbi hath returned! What? Luvbi returned? How did this happen?I'm not entirely sure, do you know? I have no idea either! Well, tell her I'm coming up! It's on speaker, Jaydes. Oh, this is on speaker? Well then, I'M COMING UP, LUVBI!"

Jaydes hung up the phone on her end, and Dorguy the Third suddenly teleported away. But, Jaydes soon replaced him, and the queen embraced her daughter. Jaydes started to cry (Luvbi crying a second time), as she tried to say through tears,

"My daughter is back…I've missed you so much."

"I missed thee as well, mom."

"You didn't even have a conscience when you were gone!"

"I still missed thee!"

"That's my baby girl, so considerate!"

"I am not a baby; thou hath created me many years ago!"

"Oh, whatever! I'm still glad you're back!"

"And I as well." They embraced again, but the cheerful moment was broken by Grambi's phone ringing. He said,

"Sorry, I have to take this. Hello? Hello, Grambi. It's Whibbi. Whibbi! How art thou? I suppose I'm doing well since the Void disappeared! I called about the void disappearing, actually! Well I hath bigger news! Bigger than all worlds and lives being saved? Definitely! My world hath been saved because Luvbi hath returned! LUVBI returned?" Grambi heard some noise in the background, and Whibbi continued,

"That's great! The Three Sages are with me right now, and they heard you talking! This is on speaker!" The three color-coordinated Sages of the Overthere shouted from the background,

"Welcome back, Luvbi!"

"We're so happy you're back!"

"Who's Luvbi?" Grambi ignored the concussion-ridden Blubi and said,

"Come over hither! Let us celebrate!"

Grambi hung up the phone as Whibbi, Rebbi, Yebbi and Blubi headed over towards the temple. Before that, Dorguy the Third appeared and asked,

"King Grambi, Queen Jaydes, I'm serious about my promotion! …Oh, hi Luvbi, welcome back. Anyway, I have excelled in my field of work! My Underchomp servant is very powerful!" Jaydes answered, still too amused by her daughter's return,

"Except that your Underchomp falls asleep whenever music plays. When I was examining the Underchomp for the first time, my cell phone rang and the ring tone knocked him out cold!"

"But few heroes have the newer design like you!"

Before Dorguy the Third could continue his losing battle, Whibbi and the sages ran into the temple. All four of them greeted Luvbi and were ecstatic to see her again. Luvbi, however, was already tired of people ecstatic to see her again. Her parents were fussing over her, the sages were wondering how she returned and Dorguy was saying how great she was in hopes of promotion. Whibbi asked her parents,

"How did she return, anyway?"

"I knoweth not! That blinding white light flashed, and when it was gone, she returned!" Whibbi thought,

"But that doesn't make any sense. The Heroes of Light must have returned the white Pure Heart after using it!" The pessimistic Rebbi concluded,

"No, the heroes would have kept the Pure Heart after they defeated Count Bleck! The Pure Hearts must have failed! Count Bleck could have destroyed them, and Luvbi happened to return because of that!" Yebbi asked,

"Then why is The Void gone, genius?" Blubi asked,

"What Void?" Rebbi continued,

"Anyways, even if the Heroes of Light DID stop Count Bleck, why did Luvbi return?" The optimistic Yebbi answered,

"Because they used the power of love, and that power returned all things to normal!" Jaydes added,

"Besides, the Shaydes that were destroyed by The Void got an automatic continue." Grambi added,

"As did the Nimbis! You probably noticed that the population of the Overthere is suddenly lessened." Dorguy the Third added,

"I think that the Heroes stopped Count Bleck! They got past the Underchomp, so they must be very powerful!" Jaydes said,

"Dorguy, my cell phone got past the Underchomp!"

"Whatever!" Whibbi stated,

"I'm still not so sure…"

While the six of them were arguing over how Luvbi returned and how weak the Underchomp is (you really can't include Blubi), Luvbi just sat there, bored out of her mind. She had just returned, and already her parents were annoying the heck out of her. She didn't have any interest in how she returned; all she cared about was that she had life again. And she had a life to start living.

Now that Luvbi knew the secret of the Pure Heart, she realized something. Her parents were protecting her not just because she was their daughter, but also because she was the key to saving all worlds. If she fell into the hands of evil, like Bonechill, the Void would have destroyed them all by now. But, the Void had vanished, and the Pure Hearts are no longer needed. In other words…her parents didn't have to be so overprotective!

But that logic didn't stop them. They were stuck in a rut of protecting her too much. And now, they were protecting her in a court of Parents v. Sages. The gloomy Luvbi went to Dorguy the Third, the only one besides Blubi not heavily involved in the case of the century. She whispered to him,

"I wisheth my parents would not smother me so much." Dorguy answered,

"I wish they would smother me more! If they would, I wouldn't be stuck with my low-paying job!"

"They payeth thou?"

"In respect! Which is significantly lower than the respect Dorguy the First gets!"

"Why doseth Dorguy the First get higher respect?"

"Because he's the first one! He's number one, and I'm number three! I'm bronze, and he's gold!"

"…So?"

"So?"

Luvbi was confused by the talking door, but she came up with a plan using the door's peculiarity to escape (which teenagers are famous for).

"Say Dorguy…I can helpeth thee with thy promotion."

"Really?"

"Yes! My parents will do anything I ask of them, except give me some space! Let me go to the Underwhere and get some personal time, and when I return, I will telleth them how good thou art!"

"Really?"

"Totally! Thou scratcheth my back and I'll scratcheth thine!"

"Sounds good!"

Dorguy quickly opened himself up, and Luvbi went inside to visit The Underwhere. Dorguy then closed and went into dormant mode, optimistic about his promotion. Meanwhile, Luvbi was free from her parents, and was free to explore.

"Where are we?"

Beldam and Marilyn, like most creatures new to the Underworld, were confused as to where they were.

"Guh?"

"Wait…that explosion…I think that explosion killed us! We're dead!"

"Guh? Guh!"

"I know!"

"Guh?"

"Hmm…well, I was using the gas oven at the time. Vivian was probably using her fire magic…Vivian! I told you stop playing with fire when the gas oven is on! …Vivian?"

It took both of the sisters a while, but they finally realized that Vivian was not there. Beldam remembered,

"Oh, wait! She was shopping at the Twilight Town Market for some Life Shrooms when the explosion happened! Great! She's alive with three expensive Life Shrooms - paid for with my money - and we're dead!"

"Guh?" Beldam continued in an unusually cruel demeanor,

"I don't know how the explosion happened, then! Maybe she came back with the Life Shrooms, used one of her weak fire tricks before we saw her and blew up the house! Then, one of the Life Shrooms saved her-a Life Shroom paid for with my money!" Beldam hadn't have sounded this mean since before the Shadow Queen was defeated.

"…Guh?"

"It makes sense! Anyway, no matter how it happened, Vivian is alive and we are not! …We need a third member in our group."

"Guh?"

"Well we always have a third member! Vivian, Doopliss…wait, why are you questioning me? Whatever. Let's just think of a third person to join us."

Marilyn was startled by Beldam's behavior. Ever since Mario stopped the Shadow Queen, Beldam was nice to both of her sisters. And the Shadow Queen was stopped three years ago! Marilyn figured that death was making her cranky (as most people would be after dying in an explosion), and thought that she would eventually turn nice again. 'Hoped' is a better word for it.

While the two dead Shadow Sirens were talking to each other, Dimentio was listening in on their conversation. Dimentio wanted to make sure that these two were the servants that Doopliss sent him. He opened up the telecommunication chat, turning on the mysterious blue light, and asked,

"Doopliss? Doopliss, can you hear me?"

"Dimentio, sir! Boss! …How's it hanging?"

"Well, I suppose I'm hanging just fine. Listen, I see two shadowy creatures that have had their game end. Is this your doing?"

"Yep! I killed them single-handedly with a Superbombomb! What do you think?"

"The blue-hatted one seems cruel enough. And they mentioned a sister with fire magic, so I presume they have magic of their own."

"Yeah, they do! The yellow-hatted one controls lightning and the jerk controls ice!"

"Wait…wait, I remember them now! Remember when I secretly followed Mario around after he battled you in Creepy Steeple to see if he could be the Man in Red? Later, Mario fought the two of them…with you!"

"Oh yeah!"

"I learned that he was the Man in Red after meeting his green-clothed brother in Rougeport, battling an Evil King and saving a fair maiden. In the Palace of Shadows, I believe it was."

"Yeah, you met the sirens when Mario kicked our butts! Wait…if you were following him invisibly, why didn't you help me out?"

"…I couldn't reveal my identity..."

"True enough. Say, I was kinda in the middle of touring for my show before this whole thing started, so could I go back and finish that up first?"

"Touring?"

"Yeah, the play I starred in! With Madame Flurry? I told you all about it; you even said you saw it!"

"…Oh, right, I remember now! …It was sold out, so I had to turn invisible and sneak in. But I definitely saw it!"

"So can I finish it up?"

"Doopliss, this task is far more important than any theatrical production, despite how important theatre is to this old jester. I still created you, and I am still in need of your service."

"Fine…" After Doopliss's regretful decision, Dimentio heard a roaring in the background of the telecommunication. He asked,

"What was that, Doopliss?"

"Oh, shoot, that was Bowser! The Heroes of Light, their pixls and two others I don't recognize are chasing after me!"

"Two others…O'Chunks and Mimi?"

"Who?"

"The two that you don't recognize…is one of them a shapeshifting girl and the other a strong Scottish idiot?"

"I dunno about the girl, but the man definitely fits your description!"

"Alright, so they have teamed up with the heroes…not too surprising. Anyway, get the other Prognosticus and make sure they don't take them back."

"On it, boss!" After Doopliss told Dimentio that, Dimentio heard Beldam tell Marilyn that they should search for a third member. Dimentio said,

"I have to go! Goodbye, Doopliss!" Dimentio quickly teleported to the two sirens before they would leave the area they were at. Doopliss said,

"Goodbye, Dimentio!"

The telecommunication ended as Beldam asked the strange jester,

"Was that…Doopliss' voice?" Dimentio answered,

"Yes, that was him."

"I know that freak-in-a-sheet!"

"That freak-in-a-sheet is my minion. Wait, where are my manners? I should introduce myself first! I am Dimentio, master of dimensions, pleaser of crowds! What are your names?"

"I am Beldam, master of morons…at least that was when we were with our idiot sister, Vivian. But, Vivian didn't die with me and my other sister, Marilyn."

"Guh!"

"Greetings, Beldam and Marilyn! It is nice to have met two such beautiful women like yourselves!" Beldam whispered to Marilyn,

"I like this guy!" Dimentio continued in his formal-yet-informal way of speaking,

"I happened to have overheard you saying that you needed a third member to your group. I possess several magical abilities that could prove to be useful!" Beldam though and responded,

"Well…you're the first person we've seen in this place. There are millions of others that must be here, and some must be more powerful than you!"

"Trust me. My magical feats are incomparable."

To prove his point, Dimentio suddenly multiplied into five versions of himself before Beldam's eyes. The five Dimentios each put a compact magic field around a nearby tree, followed by snapping their fingers in unison. Several explosions boomed inside these magic fields, and the tree was completely obliterated. Ten leaves fell from the demolished tree, but before they reached the ground, three of the jesters shot three energy spheres at them. All nine energy spheres hit, and all nine were obliterated. Dimentio turned back into one form again as a single leaf was still falling. Dimentio teleported to it, grabbed it, and used the energy sphere magic to make it burn instantly. After this, Beldam stuttered,

"…Welcome aboard!"

Dimentio was now a welcome member of the Shadow Sirens – despite being a man, but he didn't mind the title too much. He was greeted with praise from Beldam, but Dimentio knew how she treated Vivian and Doopliss, so he didn't expect the praise to last. Beldam said,

"Great…well…what do we do now?" Dimentio answered,

"Well, truth be told, I have been planning an escape attempt ever since I arrived here."

"An escape plan?"

"Guh?"

"How can you escape death?" Dimentio assured her,

"There are ways. You see, I have managed to obtain five Floro Sprouts from my good friend King Croacus. You plant them inside of people's minds, and after a few hours of growth, they can brainwash their victim."

"That's incredible! …How is that useful?"

"You see, the underworlds are ruled by two people: Queen Jaydes and King Grambi. Queen Jaydes runs this underworld, and judges the sins of those who come here. If the deceased are good, they go to the Overthere paradise, ruled by King Grambi. These two rulers have the power over life and death…in other words; controlling them is the key out of here." Beldam thought of a brilliant idea and said,

"Then plant those sprouts inside of them!" Dimentio said,

"It's not that easy. They could sense the Floro Sprouts growing, and kill them before they grow to the proper size. They ARE the rulers of death, after all."

"Oh…then how do we escape?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out."

Beldam became frustrated (as she so often was before her master was obliterated), but before she could yell at Dimentio, they heard a rustling behind them. The sirens used veil to hide underground as Dimentio turned invisible. Beldam whispered to Marilyn,

"Well she does have cool powers."

Marilyn hushed her sister as the source of that rustling approached. It was Luvbi, wandering through the Underwhere as she had wanted. But she didn't look like she wanted to do what she was doing. She stopped, and thought aloud,

"I should not be doing this. Mine parents are probably worried sick about me! …If they art not still blabbering on about me. They spend so much time trying to protect their daughter that they do not even knoweth what she wants! I just want parents that giveth me some space, lots of money and unlimited freedom! That's not so hard to do! Still, they art mine parents…maybe I should return and apologize. And tell them how great Dorguy the Third is, I suppose."

Marilyn saw Beldam suddenly grin wide with a new idea, and glided to go behind Luvbi. Luvbi was turning to go back home, but as she stepped above Beldam, ice spiked up from the spot she was hiding under. The ice froze Luvbi solid, encasing every part of her body. Beldam's spell lost some of its power as it got further away from her, so the ice around Luvbi's head broke off easily. She yelled,

"WHO ART THOU? What dost thou wanteth with me?" The three Shadow Sirens revealed themselves, and Dimentio said,

"She's got such a hot head that the ice around it melted!" Luvbi yelled,

"That's NOT funny…Dimentio?" Dimentio said,

"Keep her frozen…wait, you know me?" Luvbi answered,

"My mother hath told me stories about what thou hath done! You're that evil jester that destroyed two ancient tribes!" Dimentio told her,

"I didn't destroy them! The Pixl Queen destroyed the Tribe of Ancients and Count Bleck destroyed the Tribe of Darkness! To be fair, the Pixl Queen didn't even destroy the tribe – it just weakened it and let it decline to a point of destruction." Luvbi shot back,

"Mother told me that THINE brother createth the Pixl Queen after reading the Dark Prognosticus THOU wrote! Also, she hath told me that THOU convinced Count Bleck's father to curseth Timpani to wander dimensions forever, which is what made Count Bleck destroy the Tribe of Darkness!"

"That may be true, but I saved a few people from the Tribe of Darkness before they were destroyed! Also, I was the one who killed the Pixl Queen, that evil causing the downfall of the Tribe of Ancients!"

"My mother still sayeth that thou art the essence of evil!"

"Such strong words from a teenage girl like you! Today's youth is becoming so vulgar." Beldam asked,

"Not to interrupt your petty conversation, but who is this mother she keeps obsessing over?" Dimentio answered,

"This child's mother, Beldam, is none other than Queen Jaydes." Beldam asked,

"Queen Jaydes? The one we need to-" Dimentio interrupted, still with his signature grin,

"Don't say it in front of the daughter!" Luvbi asked,

"Don't say what? Don't do what?" Dimentio instructed to Beldam,

"I'll teleport the three of you to a cave I found before joining your side. I need to spy on this girl's parents and figure out how to do…our plan."

Dimentio teleported the others to a hidden underground lair he had found earlier. Rocks covered the entrance, so it was secluded from the rest of The Underwhere. Marilyn put the frozen Luvbi on a rock away from the entrance while Beldam froze her to it. Beldam didn't bother to freeze her head because the siren enjoyed hearing her scream. While the two sisters endured Luvbi's loud teenage complaining, Dimentio went to Grambi's Temple while invisible.

The King, Queen, sages and Dorguy were still there, but the mood had changed significantly. As they realized Luvbi had run away yet again, a feeling of despair replaced the exhilaration. The only one who wasn't 'upset' was Jaydes, because she was filled with anger towards Dorguy the Third. Dorguy (upset for obvious reasons) pleaded,

"But it wasn't my fault! You were smothering her so much that she had to flee the premises!" Jaydes shouted,

"Don't talk back to me like that! I am the Queen of Death, and even though you are just a door, I could STILL send you to the Labyrinth of Eternity!"

"…Luvbi WAS acting a little immature…" Whibbi interrupted her scolding by asking,

"Well, what should we do?" Grambi answered,

"T'would be a waste to try and locate her. A girl like her would do anything to hide from her parents. But she knoweth the way back, and when she is ready to return home, she will." Jaydes responded miserably,

"So she's like a runaway cat. Great."

"What else couldst we do?"

"I suppose you're right. Still…I can't believe she left already. She JUST returned from her Pure Heart form, and now she's gone again…we're horrible parents." Grambi went over to his melancholy wife and said,

"We art not horrible parents! We were just delighted to have her return, and we were lost in the moment! Luvbi was probably just as confused as we were-I mean, she hath just came back to life and everything! It shall be alright, thou'll see!" Jaydes gave a soft smile and responded to her husband,

"I hope you're right. Dorguy, go to the Underwhere and wait for Luvbi to come back."

"Alright, boss! I won't let you down! I'll do anything my masters need me to-"

"Just go already!"

The ticked-off Dorguy left, leaving the parents and sages waiting. Yebbi said,

"This is not necessarily a bad thing! Maybe this journey will teacheth Luvbi a valuable life lesson!" Meanwhile, in the cave, Luvbi shouted,

"Unfreeze me now or my parents will find you and give you true hell – followed by sending you to the most hellish hell there is!" Beldam responded,

"Maybe I should freeze your head, you insolent rat." Luvbi screeched back,

"I shall NOT be held back by a crone like thou, Beldam!"

"CRONE? Who are you to call me a crone, you pug-ugly creature!"

"PUG-UGLY?" Marilyn sighed as Luvbi continued, "Thou art the one who is pug-ugly around hither!"

"I am not! Dimentio called me beautiful, and I'm sure he'd have plenty of words to describe you!" Dimentio teleported in as Luvbi said,

"Dimentio calleth thou beautiful? Why doth that matter? He weareth a dress, for crying out loud!" Dimentio answered, barely a smile remaining on his face,

"It's not a dress; it's a jester's uniform." Dead silence. Dimentio continued, grin returning,

"Maybe you should freeze her head." Luvbi asked smugly,

"What, canst thou not handle my insults?" Dimentio answered,

"No; a D-Man could hear your high-pitched squealing and find us."

"Guh?" Dimentio explained,

"D-Men are the servants of Queen Jaydes." Beldam asked,

"Speaking of Queen Jaydes, did you learn anything of value from her?"

"Not much. Just that she loves her daughter to death and is heartbroken to not know where she is." Luvbi asked,

"…Really? My mother was heartbroken?" Dimentio answered,

"Like two star-crossed lovers with heart transplant failures! Jaydes couldn't believe that you left as soon as you arrived. She called herself a horrible parent."

"She is not horrible! She is a GREAT mother! I loveth her!"

"And she loves you. Which is why she is so upset."

"Mom…dad…I hath let them down."

"But that's all behind us! They may be upset, but don't worry about that now! Worry about US instead!"

"Why art thou holding me hither, anyway?" Dimentio answered,

"You see, the three of us have all been killed in our prime. We are looking for a way to escape death. The key factor of our plan is your parents."

"They shall not give thee a Continue! Not after thou held their daughter hostage!"

"I know they won't give us a Continue…voluntarily. That's why we must force them to."

"Thou canst not overpower them; they control life and death!"

"That's what is making our plan so difficult. But I think you are part of that plan…possibly the answer."

"I shall not help thee forceth my parents into freeing thou! I loveth them too much for that to happen!"

"That's right. You DO love them too much. But I'm tired of talking, even if the topic of discussion is the overrated subject of love. Marilyn, use your lightning to knock this Nimbi girl out." Beldam commanded,

"You heard him, Marilyn! Zap her!"

Marilyn was charging her lightning, but before it could strike, a tear ran down Luvbi's cheek as she said,

"I love my mommy and daddy…"

As she said that, a blinding white light emerged from her. The light flashed repeatedly, faster and faster, until a shape was starting to become recognizable from her. The shape, which was the source of the white light, was the Pure Heart. It started to beat, and as it did, the ice freezing Luvbi melted away.

Luvbi was bewildered but glad that the Pure Heart was beating from within her. She thought that when she had returned to normal, the Pure Heart was gone. But there it was, blinding the three foes that had trapped her. Eventually, the light turned into an unstoppable force, knocking Beldam, Marilyn and Dimentio to the ground. In one final beat, the light absorbed back into the heart, and Luvbi was teleported to Grambi's Temple.

The three Shadow Sirens got up from their state of pain and confusion. When they realized what had happened, Luvbi had already teleported away. The dazed Beldam asked,

"Where did she go? What happened?" Dimentio answered,

"I think that the Pure Heart is still a part of her. The power of love will protect her from harm, including the harm Marilyn was about to inflict." Beldam continued,

"Well that's just GREAT! Dimentio, if you hadn't of gone on and on about how much her parents missed her, that Pure Heart thing wouldn't have saved her!"

"I think it would have, actually."

"But you don't know for sure!"

Marilyn sighed, realizing that whenever Beldam was confused, she was angry. The angered sister continued,

"And why did you tell her that she's part of our plan, which by the way you still haven't though of?"

"I needed to see if the Pure Heart was still with her, and this was the experiment to find out."

"You're insane! Dimentio, as the leader of the Shadow Sirens, I am ordering you to tidy up this cave!"

"But you can't really clean a cave-"

"Then find a way! Since you're new, I'll explain something to you. The third member listens to me and does every command I give them! So clean up this cave while Marilyn and I go by that orange Fountain of Health. We deserve to heal up the wounds that you caused!"

The two sisters teleported away, leaving Dimentio to clean up their new lair. The jester was not angry at Beldam's punishment or Luvbi's escape; on the contrary, he started to laugh after they were gone. He thought aloud,

"Luvbi seems to love her parents dearly, and her parents to Luvbi. They can't think clearly without her gone, and Luvbi tends to leave often…escaping death might not be so difficult!"