What is it about fire, all calm and peaceful, but inside all power and destruction, it's hiding something as all people do, sometimes you have to get close to find out what's inside, sometimes you have to get burned.
It had been a few minutes, since the rest of the Digidestined, were imprisoned in a very clean barred room that was supposed to be a cell, but the only view from the window was a platform that was made from the same material as all the buildings they have seen, but it was stained black likely from the blood spilled from all the executions that have been performed on it, which they would likely be heading there tomorrow to die.
"Why didn't you digivolve your partner?" Mikuni said as she hard-slapped Huang across the face, leaving a red handprint on his skin. "Don't you even think about taking that crown, or I'll kill you myself"
"I wasn't even considering it, I was confused I didn't know what was going on, I didn't want my Digimon partner to be taken over too, if I lost him I don't know if I could ever live," Huang said, stopping himself "from retaliating with a slap of his own on Mikuni.
"You two stop it, this isn't helping deal with our current situation," Takajin said grabbing Mikuni's hand in case she was going to slap Huang again.
"Your situation is very bleak, why couldn't you have listened to me, and gone back to your own homes, this isn't your concern," a voice said, straining with each word, a man chained up at the back of the cell. It was General Gemini Kane, covered in bruises. "I was trying to prevent you from coming here, once she kills you, She'll become the monster, she believes she is"
"Didn't she murder her parents to get the throne?" Juniko asked, curiously looking in the direction of Kane.
"That was an accident, her powers awakened when her parents argued with her about going to the swamp, they demanded that she relinquish the glove she uses to open the gate so she couldn't go back there again, and she freaked lashing out with the powers she didn't know she had," Kane said, before coughing up a pair of teeth. "but when she kills you, it will blacken her soul, and Mitsuko will be forever gone"
"We did nothing to her, why does she want us dead," Juniko said, getting closer to Kane to examine his restraints, so she could release him from them, as she didn't like his labored breathing.
"Look she doesn't exactly blame you directly, she is going to kill to take revenge against the great old ones, that gave her powers and then let her kill her parents with them, you are their proxies since you are their chosen as Digidestined," Kane said, before coughing again, before continuing "You will not convince her you aren't guilty by association"
"Another question she lied to us about her attendants being killed, because that was Trinia in there, that woman that we met when we arrived at the throne room, I am guessing Saekona is fine and dandy somewhere too," Mikuni asked, looking annoyed being tricked into having sympathy for Mitsuko, and watched as Kane did a labored nod to confirm her question true.
"Why do you follow her, she's not a good person," Juniko asked, cutting off Mikuni before she couldn't continue her questioning.
"She is not a bad person, in my eyes, she is my light, a shining child, she is my inspiration, she's my northern star, I love her unlike any other when I look into her eyes and I see the sky and universe spread out into forever," Kane said, managing to pull strength say that, before slumping weakly down, but the intenseness still remaining in his eyes.
"I'm now convinced this guy is a complete nutter, so deluded, I think he believes what he just said," Mikuni said, waving a hand in Kane's face. "But I do admire his devotion, even though it's very misplaced and likely to get him killed"
Something just dawned on Takajin, he just remembered something they were told on the way there "Gemini, do you think your queen could be in reality this Trisiras, we were told about In one of your fairy tales, the calamity that came from the stars" he asked, looking at General Gemini Kane.
"Those are just stories to scare children, into not disrespecting their creator, even though how flawed that being ended up," Kane said, now locking eyes with Juniko, like he was disappointed in what he was looking at. "My queen is not a monster like you, how could you do that to a child, give her powers, and not warn her about them?"
"What do you mean not a monster?" a voice said outside the cell, which caused the Digidestined and Kane to look to see who had just spoken, and it turned out to be Queen Anarchy flanked by Trinia and Saekona, the advisers that were supposed to be dead, now that obviously had all been a lie. "I killed my parents as they told me not to go into the swamp, they shouldn't ever have commanded me to do anything, especially someone with powers like I do, but I didn't know I had them, Lilithmon, but she is no longer around, and reincarnation doesn't at the moment count as her, and I can't kill her either for a reason you already know, so I'm going to take my revenge by making her watch as I take out her friends and fellow Digidestined, I know she's not the one that's responsible but she will do right now…maybe I should declare war on Lilithia as well, and turn that kingdom into ashes, but not till later"
Juniko glared at Queen Anarchy "Let them go I'll stay, if you want revenge I'll be your scapegoat, they have nothing to do with this" she said, through clenched teeth.
"Nope, not going to happen, only one of your friends I'll even consider sparing, but that depends on if they come to my side," Queen Anarchy said, as she extended her hand once again, to Huang "Be my King at my side, I don't want you dead, please don't make me have to kill you as well"
"Will he or won't he?" Trinia said as she eyed Huang with curiosity
"Won't or Will won't or will" Saekona said timidly, not making eye contact with anyone.
Both of the companions just started repeating what they just said, like a pair of playground bullies, getting more and more childish as they did so before Queen Anarchy halted them with a gesture as she was beginning to get annoyed with their antics.
"Why aren't you giving me an answer?" Queen Anarchy continued, not taking her eyes off of Huang, and visibly now getting frustrated with him.
"Is this the real you, was the princess in the swamp just a lie, I fell for her, not the evil queen I'm seeing right now, if it was her that was asking now, I would most likely say yes, she was sweet and beautiful, and a strong ruler of the people, the person before me now is mean and horrible, I wouldn't give the time of day to the current you!" Huang said, finally breaking his silence "So is this Princess Mitsuko asking, or Queen Anarchy asking?"
"I take that as a No, be happy with no future, you, sad little boy, you should have grown up and stood by my side, now die with the rest of the Digidestined, relics of the past, that should have remained dead," Queen Anarchy said, sighing audibly, and sounding very nonplus, as she now turned her back to the cell, her companions still looking at it, pretending to wipe tears from their eyes.
"I would say put your affairs in order, but I don't think you can do that in that cell, so just give your heartfelt goodbyes to Juniko, the more emotional the better, so it hurts more when she watches you die," Trinia said, before leaving too, running to catch up with Queen Anarchy.
Saekona just stood there for a few minutes, just staring at the ground, just quivering like a scared animal, being stared at by a hungry predator, when she finally looked at the digidestined, ran up to the cell and tapped Juniko on the nose playfully, then took off to catch up with Queen Anarchy too.
Not much time had passed since Queen Anarchy and her advisers had left, and the digidestined settled in complete silence, as they tried to figure out how to escape imprisonment, when the silence was broken by the sound of scratching noises, and the only thing visibly outside the cell was a white cat tail going up the wall, the tail reached out with the key and unlocked the cell door, and swung it open, Gatomon somersaulted to the ground in front of the open cell door.
"Why should we trust you that you would betray your human partner and free us, that this isn't a trap," Mikuni said, taking a measure of Gatomon.
"I'm not betraying her, she was never my human partner, she was my family, a sister to me, but she stopped even being that, but I still love her enough to stop her, from becoming the monster she believes she is presently" Gatomon said, tears flowing out of her cat eyes. "Now get out of here"
-Throne Room-
Queen Anarchy entered the room and took a seat on the throne, shadows cloaked her eyes, and she sighed audibly, things had gone completely to plan, and everything was looking promising, but something felt off and she didn't know what that was, was it because it wasn't exactly Lilithmon she was punishing but her chosen. She started looking over the room before her attention was drawn to a burn mark on the floor, and a silhouette of what appeared to be people burned into the wall near it, this was where she had killed her parents, it was now a monument to her evilness, the Digidestined will soon follow in their footsteps, but to avenge their deaths, this was her destiny.
"How are you holding your highness?" Trinia said, startling Queen Anarchy, she didn't even hear them coming into the room.
"I'm doing fine," Queen Anarchy said, after composing herself and noticing Saekona had just arrived, she was just hovering there, not a care in the world, she let out a sigh of envy.
"How long do you plan to hold that child who will one day become the Great Old One?" Trinia said, Studying Queen Anarchy's expression.
"Forever, as long as I draw breath in this world, she will remain my prisoner" Queen Anarchy replied, with determination, clutching the arm of her throne making scratching it slightly as she did so.
"Do you really think you could keep her here, when she becomes Lilithmon, the all-powerful creator of this world, she probably just waves her hand and kill everyone here, your entire kingdom turned to dust in an instant, revenge at what you are about to do?" Saekona said, finally speaking up, but looking at something that was probably not there.
"or do you think the power you currently possess is enough; I can say it's not a sliver of the power you should have," Trinia said, extending her hand to Queen Anarchy.
"What do you mean I should have, what aren't you telling me?" Queen Anarchy demanded, glaring at Trinia.
"I, I mean we practically raised you, we even were there when you were born, So we know how special you actually are, we sang that point to you when you were a child, you are now close to playing your part in this world," Trinia said, walking towards Queen Anarchy "and it's not as a Queen, but to become one of the greatest and most powerful beings on the planet"
"You have lost me, what are you talking about?" Queen Anarchy said, now exacerbated, getting tired of this person talking to her, and very confused at what was being said.
"The fairy tale they were speaking of was true, Trisiras from the stars, it was a tragedy that might end up with a happy ending, which depends on you," Trinia said, as she rubbed two of her fingers together You are a piece of this being, me and Saekona being the other two pieces, don't you feel our connection, it would be a weird feeling in your stomach.
"But that makes sense with you, you two don't have Digimon partners, but I do, I was born with her" Queen Anarchy said, looking for Gatomon, who was nowhere to be seen.
"We had Digimon partners, we were born with them too, but when we remembered who we were, we killed them, smearing their remains in the past, you should kill yours too, she is a creation of Lilithmon, you don't need that beast of a thing," Trinia said, as Saekona did a throat-slitting gesture behind her "I'll show you why you don't need it" her right finger began to glow, and she touched it to Queen Anarchy's forehead.
-Throne Room-
Now everything in the room cleared and it was complete darkness, only stars surrounded them, a girl was floating in the void, her clothes were in tatters, she was as pale as a sheet, and her hair was three colors sectioned off like a flag, Green, white, and gold.
"waking in the vacuum of space, no memory of anything previous to that moment, except our real name," Trinia said, as everything being shown freeze-framed" We are fragments of this being"
The girl with the tri-colored hair, looked around like something was missing, but she didn't seem to know what that actually was when she reacted like she had felt something familiar, and looked off in the distance.
"That's when I felt this world being created and started to head towards it, it seemingly took forever to get to there, then it suddenly felt like we were needed, to keep something out of balance," Saekona said, like she was bored and uninterested in the story being shown.
Trisiras had landed on the planet, having spent many of a century, she had seen so many things on the way there but nothing could have prepared her for this, she looked at everything wide-eyed.
"Everything seemed breathtaking, but something also felt off, like it was familiar, and yet not, something was missing," Trinia said as a disembodied voice, echoing around Trisiras, as they looked around
"If you are wondering what's the point and why we hate Lilithmon, you are about to see it," Saekona said, her voice momentarily replacing Trinia's
"I will let this history lesson speak for itself, as the impact should be felt not told," Trinia said, going back to being the only disembodied voice in what was being shown.
Trisiras felt three familiar presences, the third being very faint, it was straight, it had, been hours since her arrival and didn't know why she didn't feel them right away, she kept going forward, she soon came to a clearing, and there was the first of the three presences, a girl who fiery red hair, she was very familiar in appearance, she was singing a song to a flower, the sun reflecting off its blossom as she did so, looking like it should burn, but wasn't.
"Who are you, a newcomer to this world?" The girl said, pulling a hood away from the rest of her hair "I am Lorrimon, one of the three creators of this world, you are welcome here, even in this time, and mood" She had just wiped a single tear off her cheek, and didn't acknowledge doing so.
"You mean the imbalance I feel; I knew something felt off about this place," Trisiras said before she realized she forgot to do something "I forgot to introduce myself before speaking, My name is Trisiras and I came here, which I now know is to help you fix this planet"
"It must be…Because we imprisoned…Never mind I don't want to talk about it, it's too soon" Lorrimon said, giving pause, before looking at Trisiras, like she was worried for her safety "Please do not talk or mention anything about Erebusmon to my sister, she is taking this more to heart, my older sister Lilithmon is not in the best frame of mind to listen to anyone or hear about what we did to him" she then vanished seemingly into a puddle of water that had a reflection of the sun in it.
Trisiras took several moments to put the pieces together of what just happened and continued to the two other presences, but more warily than before, she entered a forest, one of the presences she felt in it was way more powerful than that Lorrimon girl, it was like the life of the entire forest was resonating, same with all the creatures in it, but it didn't feel one bit threatening, but an edge came apparent the closer she got to it, she felt like it was going to slice her to ribbons if she didn't stop, but she kept going. Regardless, until she finally reached a clearing again.
in that clearing was an obelisk, a woman not much older than Lorrimon in appearance, was pressing her in it, and one of her hands, she wore a purple and green cloak, she didn't acknowledge Trisiras at all, she appeared to be crying on the obelisks obsidian surface
"I'm so so sorry, I shouldn't have done this to you, we overreacted, but don't know when to free you, or if we should since you would be so mad at us," Lilithmon said, wiping the tears from her eyes. "This is partly your world; I don't know how you would feel it having moved forward without you"
"You must be Lilithmon?" Trisiras said, stepping towards the crying young woman, ignoring the feeling that tension had just spiked when she had spoken to the crying person.
Before turning around Lilithmon, had taken a deep breath, and there was a smile on her face "Newcomer, welcome to my world, where did you come from?" she said, taking a measure of Trisiras without being obvious that was what she was doing.
"I don't know I just woke up floating in the void," Trisiras said, sheepishly tugging at her clothing.
"That sounds like what happened to me and my siblings, but we woke up screaming, and couldn't remember why, or what we were screaming about," Lilithmon said, as her eyes turned darker as she spoke.
"Look haven't you noticed this world isn't stable, there's an imbalance, it needs to be fixed?" Trisiras said looking at the obelisk, taking a measure of it. "it could be because of that, is that the third presence, if they are important to the world's function, maybe I could take their place… Imagine me taking my place as Lord of Chaos of the Great Old Ones, me belonging with you and Lorrimon?" she now had a sick grin on her face and ignored the fact she was clearly upsetting Lilithmon.
"You don't know what you are talking about, how dare you, think you can replace one of my family," Lilithmon said, raising a hand now golden with long claws." Nazar's nail" she screamed unleashing an attack that Trisiras barely dodged, that could have sliced her head off, it impacted the tree across, which began to corrode.
"Why did you do that?" Trisiras said, before dodging another attack from Lilithmon.
"Because I don't want to know you, the only one you want to help is yourself," Lilithmon said, letting the Nazar nail fall away
"You don't understand my pain, I don't know who or what I am," Trisiras said, before unleashing furious strikes at Lilithmon, which were making zero contact, then an explosion knocked her to the ground, blood streaming from a freshly broken nose, she wiped it off causing crimson droplets fly from her face turning the ground red, she then went back to trying to punch Lilithmon, still no harm or even no threat of even blemishing her opponent's fair features, like she was fighting a literal ghost, and again she was brutally knocked to the ground, this time landing into a giant version of the Nazar nail on what appeared to be grotesque horror version of Lilithmon's hand, it pinned Trisiras in it, the hand's nails started cutting into Trisiras.
"Why should I understand your pain when you don't seem to notice mine?" Lilithmon said, hovering face to face with Trisiras, that they were almost touching each other's noses.
"Sorry I wanted…wanted… was to…be," Trisiras said, before being cut off by Lilithmon's hand, on her face
"Be dust!" Lilithmon screamed as the monstrous Nazar nail exploded, three streams of energy shooting from it, and dust poured to the ground before it vanished as well.
-present day-
The vision faded, as Trinia pulled her finger away from Queen Anarchy, but they were no longer in the throne room, they stood in the swamp, in front of a cave "I transported us to where we needed to go next, to claim the heart, follow me" she said, gesturing for the queen and Saekona to follow her. They entered the cave, and the walls of the cave began to glow and hum with life, Queen Anarchy felt this before, every time she had entered the swamp, it was the feeling that kept calling her to the swamp altogether, this calling that had been around since as far as she could remember, going towards it now was like going to reunion with a family member that she hadn't seen in seemingly forever. On the walls were intricate hieroglyphs depicting the creation of life on the planet, that kept going till they reached a stairwell. The stairwell only had a few flights before exiting into an antechamber, in the center of it was a sphere with what appeared to be a window that vanished and appeared in random intervolves, on further inspection, the window seemed to be broken with shards of glass reflecting the spheres light.
"Now the pieces of Trisiras, are in front of the heart, we now place our hands on it, in the reverse order of separating, once we all have touched we will unlock it, and become one again" Trinia said taking Queen Anarchy by the hand and making her raise it to the sphere, till her palm made contact, causing something to shimmer away instantly, showing a barrier was now gone, she then smiled at Queen Anarchy "Thank you, for releasing the power of the Heart of Digivolution" she then shoved Queen Anarchy to the ground "A creature like you, with the stink of a child of Lilithmon, could ever be a fragment Trisiras"
"Heart of Digivolution, you lied to me?" Queen Anarchy said, looking confused now, the smirk of contempt had left her face.
"it was easy to manipulate things; your whole family was used to get you to this point, who do you think told your parents to forbid you from coming here, you killed them creating your hate for Lilithmon, we just pushed you towards that," Trinia said, as a sinister smile spread across her face and Saekona's. "you are going to ask who Is the real third piece of Trisiras, just ask her for yourself" Queen Anarchy turned to see Gatomon, who was also smiling sinisterly at her, walking into view.
"Yes I was with you this whole time," Gatomon said, as she transformed into a girl with long white hair, and pale skin as the other two, her voice changing as she did so "We knew what you were and needed someone to keep an eye on you, let me reintroduce myself my name is Rashael"
"As in Trinia, Saekona, Rashael, get it Tri, Si, and Ras, soon to be one being again," Saekona said chuckling at her cleverness, but the other two audibly groaned.
"Suggest staying where you are, I will get to you as soon as possible," said Trinia said, before joining hands with Saekona and Rashael in front of the Heart of Digivolution, they all began to glow, and pulse with energy, then all three embraced in a hug, one last huge flash of light and there was only one person, who was now hovering in the air, tri-colored hair and all. But she had jagged black lines on her face that pulsed red.
"I am back, you can take this as a thank you as well, that I end your life quickly, I am just sick of looking at your face," Trisiras said, cracking her knuckles, and turning to face Queen Anarchy, as she launched herself at red bolts of electricity in her hands that formed into two balls of sparking heat before it could touch Queen Anarchy, tower shield intercepted it, revealed to be held by General Gemini Kane, soon to be joined by his Digimon partner. SkullMeramon charged towards Trisiras, knocking her briefly back, but his eyes suddenly flickered red, and he turned, and in one strike shattered Kane's shield and one swipe from Trisiras, and he was launched towards the wall of the antechamber, leaving a big red smear on it when he pitched forward after impacting its hard humming surface.
"TAICHI!" Queen Anarchy screamed, running to General Gemini Kane, and putting him in her lap "Brother wake up, please wake up brother"
SkullMeramon was about to go in for another attack, but Trisiras stopped him in his tracks, with a wave of her hand, and summoned him to her "Let her wallow in his last moments or whatever, we will kill her if she dares to show her face again later" she said, before pausing for a moment, then walking over to Queen Anarchy, and leaning to come face to face with her still cradling General Gemini Kane "You said You killed your parents we did too, but without being made to, we are the monster, not you, you are pathetic, and need to fade from memory" she then stood up and walked away followed by SkullMeramon.
