Philip returned to his wife's side after exploring the castle for a while. The castle was very well preserved, and there were no damages present. It was as if time froze, but the residents of the island disappeared.
He gets back to the hospital where his wife resides and sees she is awake.
"Welcome back," Isabella said smiling gently at him.
Philip walks to her and kisses her cheek. "Thank you," he replies.
"Where did you go?" Isabella asked when Philip stood upright.
Philip sat in the seat next to her. "An island popped out of nowhere, so I went to check it out."
Isabella's eyes brightened. "Really?" she said in excitement. "Did you take pictures?"
Philip nodded and gave Isabella his holopad. She goes to his albums to see the pictures. She looks at the pictures intensely and then looks at Philip. "I saw this in my dream," she said. She continued to scroll to look at the other pictures when she saw the picture of Lucifer.
"Demon King Lucifer."
This was in a whisper so Philip could barely hear her. He did hear her say Lucifer though. "Who's that?" he acting oblivious.
Isabella's head began to ache a bit. "I can't remember, but I feel like I've met this person before," she said.
"Really?" Philip continued to act oblivious.
"Yeah," Isabella says. "My conscience is screaming danger." She looks at her husband with worry. "Is that weird?"
Philip hugs his wife. "No, it isn't," he said. However, he needs to start planning on how to stop this threat. This is quite frustrating. How is he going to do this when terrorists are attacking the kingdom?
"Nice to see you accepted my invitation, Davis."
A middle-aged average looking brunette woman with emerald green eyes sneered at Gideon disdainfully. "You never call me for anything unless you need help with something," she said sounding a bit angry. "What do you want?"
Gideon chuckles a bit. "Evelyn," he called her name light-heartedly. "How is S-2506J?" he asked.
"Engaged, according to Henry's wishes," Evelyn replies. "Another failed experiment, maybe we should just move on and accept that we can't make our ultimate weapon of destruction."
Gideon laughs a bit at Evelyn. "Don't give up just yet, we may get what we seek very soon," he said as they both walked to the lab where the obelisk was located. Evelyn was surprised to see the obelisk. She walks to it and touches the artifact.
"Is this what you want me to see? " she asked looking at Gideon with disappointment.
"Show her the translations," Gideon commanded some other scientists.
Soon a large holographic screen popped up and Evelyn slowly read the contents. Her face had this huge frown on her face. "If what this says is true then..."
"S-2506J's body has become the perfect host for a primordial being who is said to be powerful enough to end the universe."
Evelyn shook her head and raised her hands in surrender. "No, no, no... There's no way I'm helping you on a death mission."
"Don't waste this opportunity, Evelyn," Gideon said, having a manic smile on his face. "Imagine the amount of knowledge we can get from this being," he goes to hold her hands, cupping it within his own. "He might know how this universe works and how to extract the power from it..."
Evelyn looks at the omega man in disdain. "You are still the same power-hungry maniac from five years ago," she said shaking her head tiredly. She knows what Gideon can do to obtain what he wants, This almost landed him in prison several times, but because of his impact on the scientific world, he was pardoned.
She sighed. "Even if you want to capture him we have several problems. One, he's not just engaged to anybody, he's engaged to Prince Augustus, the renowned prince of hell, and two, what makes you think this being would just accept to come with us?"
"That's why I called you here, You will see the process unfold and soon the power we desire will be at our fingertips."
Evelyn felt herself getting drained by this man. Despite not seeing each other for three years when they deemed the experiment, she called Phoenix a failure and asked her to abandon it, he hasn't changed one bit.
She has no other choice but to do as Gideon says, after all this might benefit her as well. Being able to harness the power of the universe seems like a dream too good to be true. "You'd better not make me regret this Gideon, " she said pointing at him.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure you will be rewarded beautifully."
Lucifer was not happy with Augustus, he promised them dinner, but he also seemed to have forgotten to mention to him that he also invited Xavier slash Aiden as well as his pretty fiance slash ex-bestfriend.
He glares intensely at his enemy and the thorn in his back while growling a bit.
Xavier or Aiden wasn't happy either to see the Demon King sitting opposite him. If not because he threatened to do something to Hiro, he would have battled him right here right now.
Hiro was very uncomfortable with the atmosphere around them. Since when did Xavier and Phoenix become enemies? Did this happen before he left? Is this his fault?
Augustus, although he was amused by this, knew that if this went on, his darling fiance and business partner would jump across the table with a knife in his hand and go for the throat. So he bends down to whisper in Lucifer's ear, "Behave yourself."
Like a curse, a magic circle appears on Lucifer's hand where he had made the contract, forcing him to comply with Augustus' wishes. He turns to look at Augustus, his mouth is agape in disbelief.
Augustus could hear him whine in a hurt voice, "How could you?" He then turns to his friend and glares at him asking him to behave as well.
Xavier stops immediately and Lucifer buffs. The Hero is afraid of a mere human. How pathetic.
Their dinner came in when the waiters were no longer shaking in fear by the atmosphere emitted by the enemies and Lucifer rubbed his hand in excitement.
Just as he was about to start eating, he saw Rosetta holding hands with a man he had never before seen. The aura around them was friendly. But the man was obviously having romantic feelings towards Rosetta.
Is he courting her?