"Ready to go, Adalyn? We'll let them celebrate in peace."
"What about us?"
"For now, you all can stay here. We'll call you dragons if we need anything but right now, you need your rest. Us three will go alone."
"Where are we going, Star?"
"Summer says she smells a rat from a distant planet and wants to check it out."
"We're taking directions from her nose, now?"
"The Israelites took orders from strange stuff as well, and it turned out good."
"I'm sure none were as weird as a nose."
"Come on, where's your Faith?"
"She's back where I left her?"
"Are you sure of that?"
"What do you...let's go!!!"
"Get your hands off of me. I did as you asked. I told you everything and got you out. The deal was after you got everything you wanted from me then you would let me go. Are you not a man of your word like you said you were?"
"I'll let you go, but the timing is not right. I have one last thing to trade you for…uhh…I mean barter for. Look up there in the sky. You see those two dots breaking through the ozone? Those are your girls coming to save you. Thank you for telling Summer to come here. Tell me, how did you convince her to come?"
"I told her I smelt a rat and that she needs to come clean it up."
"Get over there and stay down!! Here they come."
"Summer, where have you taken us? Are we to search this whole entire planet for one dismal rat?"
"This rat is anything but small. I can smell it. He's close by."
"Close by? I am looking around and see nothing but rocks and grass for miles."
"STICK EM UP, GIRLS!!!"
"I can see now why you said the rat was big."
"Back for another round two, Shadow? This time I'll give you a tattoo on your other cheek!!"
"Ha!! You're really funny. As much as I would love to bout with you in the ring, there are bigger matters at hand that I must attend to first. Now, you will do as I say, or I will shoot you."
"Your threats do not scare us. We have all already lived our lives in the past, present and future. Our aim is to change the future, and a future without us in it…we have seen."
*click*
"So has she."
"Wait, wait, wait. Don't shoot her. She has not lived her life. Spare her."
"You wouldn't spare me!! In wanting none of my events to play out, I won't let any of yours play out either!! Now hand me the kid."
"What kid?"
"Summer, do you really believe that your child is lost? Adel and I have found him. The thing is, I have Dandelion in me and need help getting her out before I can put him in. Or…. just use one of your healing stones to bring me back. You will accompany and raise him up. Adel has told me how you brough Agnes to life, so I ask; would you really watch one rise as you see the other fall?"
"How do I know you will give us Adel?"
"It's okay girls. He promised it to me."
"Yes. Yes, I did. A life for a life!!! If you want her then you need to sacrifice."
"You sound just like your dad."
"My dad? How do you know my dad? My dad is dead. I was there. There was an explosion and then an invasion and then a kaboom. You know nothing of who I am."
"Xavier, we know everything. We have met you, your mother, and your father."
"YOU KNOW NOTHING!! THEY'RE ALL DEAD!!"
"No! Not all of them. We were there when you had your ideas for Dreamworld. You wanted to make the world perfect with no more sorrows and suffering. Must you have to kill her to keep the peace? You already have a demon as a father. Don't kill the angel."
"So, she is an angel!!
That doesn't change matters. You will give me what I ask or else."
"Don't give them any…. SHUT UP!!"
"Noooo!!"
"Next time, I'll whack her with the hard end. Now quite stalling. Where is the stone?"
"We don't have it."
"You lie!!"
"We speak the truth. Adalyn dropped it during our last warp."
"Then who has it?"
"You have it!!!"
"Then teleport back and get it."
"We can't. The only reason we could teleport back is because a Dragon was there. Summer can only teleport to a place a Dragon is, not where they aren't."
"Where's the Dragon?"
"We uh…..we…um….killed her."
"Of course, you did. You killed her but then dropped the stone which means I could potentially revive her back to life."
"Not likely."
"And why not?"
"We took her heart."
"And you say I'm the bad guy. I advocate for peace and only trouble, if first troubled upon. I'm not some bounty hunter going around to collect people's hearts as some sort of trophy you think you deserve. Summer's kid is also a Dragon. Whose to stop her from killing him and taking his heart? She may have killed him, but his heart still beats in his trapped state. Adalyn, you and I both know how dangerous the Dragon can be. They appear as nice innocent mothers but once they turn, nobody can stop their wrath from killing all their kids and loved ones. She's already started. Give him to me so that I may protect him from the day that his mother eventually does go dark. You know what is right?"
"Summer, we won't let him have him."
"You have to."
"Glad we could come to terms!!"
"Summer, what are you saying? We can't just give your kid to your enemy who is another king. Your kid is already the future king and the previous one had him killed because of it. The fact that he was a dragon just furthered his fire."
"Do it and do it quickly. Adalyn, go with Shadow."
"No! I will not have any more bloodshed. Shadow can kill any of us, but he can't kill me.
SHADOW, RELEASE OUR ANGEL and you shall receive your stone?"
"Where? I don't see a stone. All I see is a star."
"Exactly!!! I…am…. the stone!!!