Morning came around fast, after what happened last night it was no doubt we'd be left too tired to stay awake and fall asleep as soon our eyes closed. I opened my eyes expecting to see Ruby there with me only to find the spot next to me empty, to which I let out a tired whine. It was a rarity that I would wake in bed alone, so my tired reaction was understandable. I let out another whine as I felt alone on the bed though eventually, I knew I had to get up if I wanted some Ruby snuggles. Groaning, I got out of bed and went off to find Ruby. I realised I was wearing an oversized shirt that I don't remember wearing.

I walked downstairs while tiredly calling out for Ruby, wanting to get my morning snuggles with her. When I reached downstairs and entered the living room, I heard someone going through the fridge in the kitchen and made way there while rubbing my eyes with a yawn. I blinked a few times until I found Ruby in her Tek armor with a lot of food in her arms.

“Here I thought I'm the one that supposed to be really hungry.” I said to her, getting her attention with a cookie in her mouth. I went over to the coffee maker and turned it on. “Hey, why are you in your armor already?” I asked her.

“Did you really forget about today?” Ruby asked me in a tone of disbelief. I blinked at her and arched a brow which earned me a groan from her. “Today we're putting an end to Rockwell once and for all. We've only got a few minutes to get ready.” She said.

“Oh… dang.” I said as my ears flattened on top of my head. “Here I thought I get some Ruby snuggles.” I pouted a bit. Ruby rolled her eyes before saying.

“You'll get them later, right now you have to get ready.” Ruby said, giving me a poke on the shoulder, eliciting a tired whine from me once she did that. She arched a brow at me before I went off to put on the armor. After a few minutes, we were walking to the meeting place with me munching on an odd sandwich; peanut butter and pickles.

Everyone had their tek armor on, even Rose which was surprising enough but the odd one out was Lana having shown up only in her skin tight tek suit. There was something off about it though and I couldn't really put my finger on it but I also could focus on the thought as I took another bite out of my sandwich.

“Is everyone ready?” Lana asked everyone. We all looked at one another, no doubt wondering the same thing. Rose was the only one not weirded out by Lana’s suit, judging by how she glances at Lana every now and again. We all looked at each other before nodding at Lana. “Before we begin… does anyone have any questions?” She asked wanting to get that out of the way. We looked at each other again and shook our heads. A few nos were heard as well while Rose looked at Lana in silence. Lana nodded and tapped the center of her chest, causing her suit to light blue before armor plating began to form around her. Soon enough after a brief moment, Lana was decked out in armor as well, hers being distinct than ours. Her armor even had wings, giving her a Valkyrie look. Rose simply stared at Lana’s armor and didn’t say anything for a few moments.

“Why the wings? And why didn’t I get any?!” Rose asked, even though her armor looks different from the others. Lana’s visor opened up, revealing a smirking Lana.

“Our Overseer friend suggested these additions to me.” Lana said before looking at Rose with a suggestive smile. “I'll work on your armor when we get back.” Lana said, tracing a finger over Rose’s chest plate.

“Oh yeah, that’s fun… more changes to a new set of armor…” Beta said in an annoyed tone. Rose looked up as he floated over her shoulder.

“Beta, chill.” Rose said to him. Beta looked at her before saying.

“This has been the second time some being took control of my shell and all my stuff has been moved around! It’s so annoying to re-organized everything.” Beta said before adding. “I even found out that our distress beacon been on for a long time, can’t believe no one came to find us.” Rose stared at him before looking at all of us.

“He’s just annoyed, don’t mind him.” Rose explained. Beta floated over everyone, seeing how everyone has changed over the years until floating over Lana, whose eyes were closed with an angered expression. As soon as he came into range, Lana swiped Beta off the air and simply held him in place. Rose opened her mouth to speak up but stopped when Lana opened her eyes, revealing that they're currently shining an electric blue color. She looked down at Beta with a blank expression, her anger vanishing within an instant. She stayed like that for almost a minute before finally letting Beta go and blinking. Her eyes returning back to their normal blue color. Beta shook himself before saying.

“Just to let you know that’s really… really disturbing.” Beta pointed out to her before disappearing. Rose gave Lana a questioning look once Beta vanished.

“That is your only warning, Beta, so don't test me.” Lana said with an annoyed tone. Rose simply stared at Lana but didn’t say anything.

“So… Are we going?” I asked, getting everyone's attention.

“Yeah, we’re going.” Rose said in a more flat tone voice, making Lana look at her. The latter looked at her lover before saying.

“Don't worry, that's the last time I'll ever do that to him… he was just getting on my nerves. He's been complaining non-stop since he returned…” Lana said, apologizing for having done whatever it was to Beta. Rose didn’t say anything for a moment.

“Come on, we need to get going.” Rose said before walking away from everyone. Lana watched her go with a confused look as we walked over to her.

“You… okay Lana?” Blake asked her. Lana’s shoulders sag with guilt before nodding at Blake's question.

“Do you need to talk to her before we go?” Ed asked her. I looked at him oddly which he saw. “What?”

“No… we're burning daylight as is, we need to move now.” Lana said before looking back at Rose and adding. “I'll talk to her after we're done killing Rockwell.” With that said we walked up to the sleeping form of the Golem Rockmond before his eyes shone bright and looked down at us. He needed no words to know what was going on, so with groan he scooped us all up and placed half of the group on one shoulder and the other half on his other shoulder. When everyone was firmly planted onto Rockmond's shoulders, he began to taxi us over to our destination.

“This is the first time we took Golem to where we’re going.” Ruby commented to me as we rode on Rockmond shoulder. I nodded as I looked at the rest of them.

“Hey Indigo, you’re keeping the arm?” I called out to him, seeing that the arm was still there. Indigo looked down at it, moved it around as one would move their arm before turning his hand in a three hundred and sixty degree spin.

“Yeah… Yeah I think I'm going to keep it.” Indigo said, just as his hand vibrated furiously surprising him and Blake. Though Blake soon blushed at a thought she soon had.

“Okay…” I said as I saw everyone else. Even though we’re a big group Weiss, Tak, Theodore, and Axycia weren’t here, mostly my aunt ask for those two to stay behind with them. I looked over and saw Rose and Lana standing beside each other and look like their talking. What they’re talking about I don’t know with the wind rushing past me. By the way Lana was moving, she was desperately trying to apologize to Rose for earlier. Rose lowered her head a bit before looking at Lana and give her an one arm hug.

Before I knew we had stopped and I quickly noticed why. Just a few feet ahead of us was the cliff edge that overlooked the abyss below. Edwards and the twins weren't looking forward of going down there, knowing all about what lies beneath.

“How do we go about getting down there?” Heaven asked out to everyone. Her answer was given in the form of a groan, which in turned reminded me of Rockmond's zipline.

“The Zipline.” I told them. Rockmond took a few minutes to put us down to the ground so we all could find the zipline down. Rockmond was the one that ultimately led us to his old camp, revealing the state of disarray he had left it in when he… changed. The torn hazmat suit was there as proof. Lana saw this and simply stared at it as Beta reformed and floated over to the suit and scanned it.

“I’m picking up high levels of this Element from this suit.” he informed us. Rockmond was quick to groan out a response, pointing at the suit before at himself. We all stared at him before Rose spoke.

“That… had to be rough.” she said before looking towards the ledge. Rockmond let out moan as if to tell that it was rough, or perhaps worse. It wasn't until Indigo called out for us that he found zipline that we were able to continue. When we got there I looked up to Rockmond before asking.

“So… how are you going to come down?” I asked him. Rockmond groaned before lowering himself onto the edge and pushing himself off but before quickly flipping himself over and grabbing the ledge with one hand and burying his other fist into the stoney cliff side. He then pounded his other fist onto cliff side and proceeding to scale down to the abyss.

“Okay… that was cool.” Ruby said as she looked over the edge, watching Rockmond climb down the wall. The rest of us took turns using the zipline to go down into the abyss. It took awhile but we all got down to the bottom without issue. We all waited until the large form of Rockmond climbed down to the bottom and joined us with a groan that echoed loudly through the area. Our helmets were on by the time we got down here and my visor showed the lethality of the air in this area, making me glad that no one tore their hazmat suits when we came down here. Rose looks around a bit as Beta floated over to her.

“You know where the place is?” Rose asked him.

“Yes, making a waypoint now.” he said as I heard a ding sound and saw a little map appear with a marking on it. I saw Beta look over at Lana. “You’re not the only one who can get into stuff Lana.” Lana flinched at this.

“Oi, be nice Beta.” Rose warned him.

“Sorry, that was rude.” he said before disappearing. Rose looked over at Lana before saying.

“Sorry…” she said before she gave Lana another hug. “He didn’t mean it.”

“It's fine, I deserved it.” Lana said before we all turned to see Rockmond leading the way. We followed him as well as keep an eye on the mini-maps we had as we walked down the tunnels. As we walked I overheard Rose and Lana talking.

“Hey, you okay Princess?” Rose asked Lana as they were a little away from the group. Lana seemed a little out of it and I was able to catch a glimpse of her normally blue eyes shining purple as the river beside us before shaking her head.

“I'm… fine.” Lana said with a sigh. Rose looked at her worryingly, sensing something wrong but kept quiet for now and kept a close eye on Lana. Rockmond was ahead of all us, and judging by the marker in my visor, he was heading the right way which made me wonder if this was a coincidence or did he knew were to go.

We continue on until we started to see exposed purple crystals around us, and the cave getting brighter as we continue on.

“I think we’re going on the right track.” Ruby said as both Qo and Iilah looked at the purple crystals. They were too distracted by the crystals that they were too slow to react when several Nameless jumped out from the ground around them. Both girls let screams of terror at the sudden appearance of the Nameless. Everyone turned to look back with weapons ready but it was Rockmond that gained the attention of the rabbid group of Nameless. Rockmond shone his light onto them, quickly changing it to red before suddenly… green? Upon being shined by the green light, the Nameless let out screeches of pain as their skins began to burn. Iilah was quick to recompose herself and rid the Nameless of their heads with a single swing.

“Ugh, how close are we?” Iilah asked, disgusted at blood of the Nameless that got onto her armor. Rockmond soon pointed over to the other side of the river, at the an area that contained many purple crystals and many Rock Drakes. Thanks to the tek visor, I was able to see through their camouflage.

“So… what’s the plan to deal with the Rock Drakes?” I asked Lana. I looked over at her who looks like she’s spacing out. “Lana?” Rose looked over to her and shook her.

“Lana!” Rose said loud enough to gain her attention. Lana quickly looked at Rose, looking spooked by the sudden raise of tone.

“Sorry… The Rock Drakes-” Lana was unable to begin her explanation when Rockmond let out a roar and charged towards the nest. He quickly got down on his knees and grabbed the nearest Rock Drake before pummeling into submission.

“Okay… that will work.” Rose said as a gun appeared in her hands and she ran over as well. The rest of us looked at eachother before doing the same. After a few minutes we either killed or scared off the Rock Drakes.

“... I have a feeling that there was a better way of handling that…” Rose said, making Lana stare at her. Rockmond groaned before pointing at the end of the Rock Drake nest. There was a ramp that led up to platform with a terminal at the center. We all headed towards it but I stopped and looked at Rockmond, seeing how he had to be on his knees to look into the now empty nest.

“You okay Rockmond?” I asked him as I walked over to him. Without a groan or a moan, Rockmond's eyes stopped shining their blue light. I looked at him in confusion before yelping in surprise when his arm fell apart which was soon followed by rest of his body. Everyone was quick to turn to look back, surprised by the sudden noise. I backed away as Rockmond continue to fall apart as Lana ran over to see what’s wrong. “I didn’t do it!” I yelled with my hands up.

“What happened!?” Lana yelled as Ruby ran up to me to see if I was fine.

“I don’t know, I just came over to see what’s wrong with Rockmond as he stared into a nest!” I yelled back to her. It just then that a few pieces of what was Rockmond rolled out from the large pile and began to smashed into one another, creating human like form but it wasn't quite there yet. Arms were then formed and then legs, some of the tek metal having been ripped apart and bend to create smaller legs. Finally the head was formed and it was like Rockmond's face carved into a rock. The eyes shone blue and the smaller Golem Rockwell stood up with a groan, the groan sounding almost human like and it was one of discomfort.

“He shrunk?” Indigo said in confusion at the sight. Ruby and I stared in silence and Lana looked as if she had countless questions. With another groan, Rockmond stood up to his full height, revealing him to be taller still by a few feet. Iilah and Qo were silent throughout all this, not knowing what to say.

“I don't think he was expecting that either.” Edward pointed out, noticing that Rockmond was looking down at his new body on confusion before looking up at the terminal. Seeing this, Lana nodded and motioned for Edward and the twins to go ahead as they were the ones with the Artifacts. When we all got onto the platform, the terminal shone and seemingly absorbed the Artifacts before a big red button appeared atop the terminal. Lana looked at all of us, silently asking if we were ready. Everyone nodded and grabbed their weapons or Indigo’s case summoned before Lana pressed the button, causing the platform to hum to life as it began the teleportation process. We watched as a dome started to form up around us before sealing and we were momentary blinded by a light. We I could see again I saw we were in some sort of arena place with a large pool of Element. Looking behind us we saw a forcefield blocking us off from the outside.

“So… this is it?” Qo asked, looking around. “Where’s this Rockwell guy?” No one answered as she looked at Lana who was staring at the pool with what looks like a dock or path way to the middle of the pool. It soon started to bubble before something large burst out of it and all I saw was what looked like a twisted up titan of a man with tentacles coming out of him. He glowed a pinkish purple colour as he seemed to look around a bit. Lana backed away from this, right into Rose.

“Lana?” Rose said to her in a worried tone.

“It's worse than I thought.” Lana said just loud enough for me to hear. This for some reason gained the attention of the monster as he turned to face us. As he stared I got the feeling he wasn’t looking at us, he was looking at Lana. His face twisted itself to look like a messed up grin as he made what sounds like a chuckle. “You know why we're here.” Lana said through gritted teeth at the abomination that is Rockwell. The hideous beast merely howled in laughter.

“You truly haven't changed one bit, my dear… sweet Lana.” The Abomination spoke, its voice deep and distorted. The way it spoke to Lana ticked Rose off. He looked at the rest of us before growling. “You're all foolish enough to challenge a god!”

“You know the last guy that I meet proclaimed that he's a god as well, guess what happened to him.” Rose said as a rocket launcher appeared and she fired it at Rockwell. It exploded on the warped face of it and Rockwell roared not out of pain, but out of annoyance.

“You insolent worms! You will all die like the rest!” Yelled the Abomination that is Rockwell before several tentacles rose up from the pool of Element.

“Move!” Rose yelled at all of us before sprinting off. Some of us did the same while the others ran off. I was with Ed, the twins, Lana, and Rockmond as the others were with Rose. We all opened fired at the monster but it seemed to have no real effect on him for some reason. I heard Rose curse in my helmet.

“Beta just got a scan off on this asshole-”

“Rose, language!” I heard Blake snapped at her.

“Not a good time!! Anyway it's skin is made out of hard stuff, nothing can get through it.” Rose explained as I heard Qo scream.

“Qo!” Both me and Ruby yelled.

“Ewewewewew~ one of its tentacles tried to touch me!” Qo whined as I saw said tentacle was pulled into the pool as the others were slamming down into the ground, making small shockwaves.

“Let's deal with them first then.” one of the twins said. We all started to fire into Rockwells tentacles, having a few of them pull back into the pool. Soon orbs of pinkish purple colour or red came at us slowly.

“Shoot the orbs, SHOOT THE ORBS!” Rose yelled which we did, making the orbs explode. Rockwell looked around before looking at Lana who's beside me.

“I've spent years gaining perfection, all I need is you… my love!” The monster yelled before slamming down another tentacle near Rose. “We can be finally be together… like you've always wanted!”

“Uhh, ewww.” Iilah said in disgust. “That's messed up.” She added.

Just as she said that Rockmond grabbed one of the tentacles and started to pull. There was a loud cracking sound and Rockwell roared before slumping over so we all can see the glowing heart of him.

“Weak point!” Rose yelled as I saw her run over to fire at it. I looked over at Lana who's staring at Rockwell.

“Please tell me you're not listening to him?” I asked her. Lana was quick to shake her head though from within her visor I could see her eyes briefly shining purple.

“No.” Was all Lana could say. There was a few explosions before Rockwell let out a roar.

“Oh come on! That was seven grenades! This guy’s tough.” We heard Rose say before adding. “Next time, Rocket launcher!” I tilted my head at how odd that sounded as I heard Lana snorted a bit from a laugh. It made me smile a bit before Rockwell seemed to notice.

“It seems that she’s the one you seem care the most about, I might have to change that…” Rockwell said as from where Rose is the ground started to shake as Nameless started to come up and some lights appeared, forming some large scally dinos that I haven’t seen before. Rockmond made what I could guess is a panicked groan as they all diverged on Rose.

“Whoa whoa whoa! Too much, too much!” she yelled as they all jumped her. “AHHHH!”

“Get away from her!” Lana yelled as she dashed over to Rose with incredible speed. The gauntlets of her armor formed Tek blades that she used to cut through the many Nameless and Dinos that attempted to harm Rose. As she made her way over a sigh was heard over the coms.

“Rose you always get into trouble.” A female voice said in an annoyed tone. I was going to ask who she is until a new voice came.

“HAMMER DROP!!!” a males voice yelled as I saw a bright blue sparking thing came down from… somewhere before a explosion sent the Nameless and Dinos flying off. I looked over and saw a man in green armor with a horned helmet and what looks like wolf like shoulder pads on. He had blue bolts of electricity coming off of him before he turned to rush after the other Nameless, bashing through them as if they were nothing.

“No… way… Hound? Ashe?” Rose’s voice said weakly as I saw another armored person came down, this one wearing dark blue robes and a visor like helmet. As soon she touched down a field formed around them.

“Yes, we picked up your distress signal. Have to say you’ve been having that going for quite a long time.” the woman explained before adding. “Have to save you again, as always.”

“Shut up.” Rose said as I saw Lana finally got over to them. Rose and the woman talked for a brief moment before the two ran in different directions as Rose was with Lana. “Okay so quick introductions; the one in the robes is Ashe.”

“Greetings.” The woman said as she fired at some Nameless.

“And Hound-04.”

“Yo!” the man said, slamming into a Dino.

“Those two are going to take care of the adds, we deal with the big guy.” Rose explained to us as I ran over to them. We all started to fire at Rockwell’s tentacles, knocking them down before he let out another roar and he slumped over again. We fired at his heart, I think, for some time before he came back up again. This time his tentacles started to shoot out lightning and electrocute the ground. At one point Qo was caught in the middle of one, but all she did was giggle.

“That tickles!” she yelled as she was now hyped up with power… oh great. Rockmond helped Hound and Ashe out as he took out some Nameless and Dinos who I was told to be Reapers. Rockwell growled as he looked over at Lana again.

“You know it to be true, we can finally spend our lives together… just like you've said!” Rockwell yelled as more and more Reapers crawled out from the element pool. Lana stared at Rockwell in silence. “Yes… I can see it in you, you want this happen… join me.” He said. Lana slowly began to walk towards him, each step was a struggle for her.

“Lana!” Rose’s voice yelled out. “Don’t listen to him! Remember what he did!” There was more shots coming out from her end before she continued. “He left you on that island for so long, he killed so many, he destroyed this Ark! Remember the Overseer we found? She was terrified of him. Don’t do this!” Rose’s voice sounded like pleas from her to Lana.

“I can't…” Lana’s body was enveloped in a purple aura, Rockwell smirked at this as it happened.

“Yes… there is no need to fight, my dear… let it take hold of you…” Rockwell said, pleased at the sight of Lana succumbing to his words. Rose yelled for Lana, who still struggled through whatever bonds Rockwell put her in. Rose tried to run to her but was stopped when a tentacle slammed down in her path. “You cannot stop this, creature. She will become my Queen and we will soon rule this Ark!” Lana was then lifted off the ground and brought closer to Rockwell’s gaze. The latter smirked at the submissive Lana in his grasp.

“Hey Vex breath!” a voice shouted. Rockwell turned just to see Hound coming at him and punched him in the face. I looked over to see Rockmond looking like he just threw someone. Hound somehow held on as he started to punch Rockwell’s face. Rockwell growled at this before something black and purple was launched at his back, exploding on him. Rockwell simply grabbed Hound and threw him at Ashe.

“You cannot harm me no matter how hard you try!” Rockwell yelled before smashing the ground where Ashe and Hound were only for them to dodge out of the way. I was starting to lose hope that we would win before Beta spoke.

“I’m sorry about this Lana.” Beta said as there was now a little blue in the purple aura around Lana. Rockwell started to look like he was in pain.

“What is the meaning of this!?” Rockwell yelled before looking down at all of us before several more tentacles rose up from the pool before slamming themselves onto the ground. “You will not stop me from getting what I desire!”

“Sorry pal, but sometimes we don’t get what we want.” Beta said as Rockwell roared. “Now, let’s see if you like this!”

Behind Lana Beta appeared and he shot out a blinding light at Rockwell, making him roar out in pain and Lana gasp.

“What is he doing?!” I yelled out.

“Beta… that’s the light of the Traveler…” Ashe said in awe. “You’re friend Lana and this… thing, is seeing the light of the Traveler!”

“And it looks like this thing doesn’t like it.” Hound added in. Before long the light dissipated and Beta disappeared.

“Okay… back to what I was doing.” Beta said as Rockwell looked to be blinded and in pain. Lana’s head hung limp for a second or two before she groaned. Lana soon realized she held up by Rockwell's hand and I could tell she was not happy, not one bit. Raising both her arms up, she brought them down and pounded them onto Rockwell's hand. They slammed hard, the noise echoed around while Rockwell slowly recomposed himself. She brought her fist up again before slamming them down harder and it loosened Rockwell’s grip enough for her to push his hand open much to Rockwell’s dismay.

“No!” Rockwell yelled before slamming his other hand down onto Lana. “You will be mine! Whether you do it yourself or not, you and I will be together once more.” He growled. A few more explosions went off as Rose fired round after round of rockets at her.

“GET OFF OF HER YOU ASSHOLE!” she screamed as she fired another rocket at Rockwell. The Abomination laughed at Rose’s attempts before looking at his hands in shock as they forced apart. Lana lifted up his hand, despite the pressure Rockwell was giving it.

“What is-”

“Shut it, you backstabbing piece of absolute shit!” Lana yelled angrily before the wings of her armor spread open before activating their small thrusters. To everyone's surprise, Lana lifted Rockwell's hand up before flying up behind him with his hand still in her grasp. A loud snap was heard and Rockwell roared in agony before his arm hung limp and Lana flew back over to us quickly, slicing and cutting every tentacle in her way. “Grah!” She yelled in anger before stabbing Rockwell's other hand. The blades detached before Rockwell slammed another tentacle onto his hand, causing the detached blades to sink deeper into his corrupted flesh. Lana soon landed beside us before grunting and quickly getting on her knees in exhaustion.

Rose ran over to her to check is she's alright as I sliced through a Reaper.

“Hold on.” She said before the same field formed around them. Lana let out a sigh as the wounds slowly closed.

“You deny your ascension!? Have you not wanted this for so long!? My dear Lana, why do you deny to be my Queen?!” Rockwell yelled through gritted teeth. Lana and Rose glared up at the monster. Rockwell saw their glares of hate and stayed silent for a moment. His frown deepened greatly before growling. “Repulsive… I would have never thought of my dear sweet Lana to be such a… such a whore!” Rockwell yelled, seemingly disgusted at the sight of Lana and Rose being so close. No one said anything after that before Rose stood up. Her helmet changed to her hawk shaped helmet before a blazing golden gun appeared in her hand. She turned and aimed her gun at Rockwell.

“Don't ever call Lana that.” Rose said as she fired one flaming bullet. The shot pierced through the corrupted flesh that guarded his beating heart, Rockwell held the wound, no doubt feeling the pain. He began to roar and curse out at Rose as his chest bursted into flames. We all watched as the struggled to put the flames out as his veins began to glow a bright orange color. His eyes began to pour out a blazing inferno of hot fire, every wound made by our attacks were soon pouring fire and spurts of elemental blood. Rockwell let out a final roar of pain before bursting into a cloud of corrupted organs and flesh, elemental blood splattered onto our armor and visors. Everyone reacted in disgust at the blood, Rose simply stood there still with the Golden Gun still in her hand. She was breathing heavily out of anger.

Soon the gun turned back to it's normal colour as Rose stared at the now dead Rockwell sink down into the pool. After a minute of staring she turned back to Lana and keeled down to her. Her helmet deformed around her head as she smiled.

“That guy was a bit of an ass.” She said with a half hearted laugh. Rockmond let a groan that caught everyone’s attention. We turned look at him, seeing the cracks around his body no doubt from the fight. He walked up to the center pool, where Rockwell was moments prior to his demise. I was going to question what was wrong but stared in shock and surprise when Rockmond jumped into the pool of Element.

“Rockmond!” Lana yelled in shock. We all rushed over to the pool and looked in it.

“Why did he jump in!?!” Iilah asked loudly as we all stared. Soon after Iilah asked this, Rockmond's hand grasped the platform before pulling himself up with something else in hand. It was the other half of the Overseer’s Obelisk, Rockmond placed it onto the metallic floor before pulling himself off the element pool with a groan.

“Uhh, what's that?” Hound asked as he and Ashe walked up to us. Rose looked at him for a moment before sighing.

“It's the core of the Overseer.” Lana said, walking up to Rose. No one dared to get closer, the liquid element still dripped from the piece.

“Neat!” Qo said before looking around. “So… how do we get out of here?”

Before anyone could say anything there was a bright light which blinded everyone. After a few moments I fell onto the ground that wasn't the arena. I saw we were in some kind of building with some beds in it. I looked around just to see Axycia in one of the beds holding something in her arms. She looks exhausted as she saw us and smiled.

“Hello…” she said tiredly. Everyone groaned a bit as we pushed ourselves up and looked around. Theodore walked in with Nyvu in hand before seeing us.

“Do be quiet and… wash up.” He said with a hushed tone. Nyvu looked at her mother excitedly but managed to keep herself calm and quiet. “I want none of you near her until you're washed up.” Theodore said before pointing out the door with a look that said that he wasn't kidding. I wanted to know why my aunt looked tired and what was in her hands but Theodore made it clear that we should probably get cleaned up. We all nodded and quietly made our way out the room before going our separate ways to get changed.

After everyone one their own way, no doubt to get cleaned up. Me, Ruby and Qo all headed home to shower. When we all felt squeaky clean, we redressed ourselves and while me and Ruby planned to head back to check on my aunt but Qo had collapsed on her bed and fell asleep without uttering a word.

By the time we got back to the medical building, it had gotten dark and most of the village was already asleep. We passed by the home of Weiss and Tak and saw them simply meditation on their porch. Me and Ruby noted Weiss lack of her usual clothing, she was simply meditation out there with Tak, only wearing the cloth rags that acted as her undergarments. The two of us looked at each other and shrugged as we continued on. When we arrived at the hospital and headed to my aunt's room. When we got there I saw Lana and Rose in their normal dress right outside of her door. They seemed to be talking about something before Lana noticed me.

“Ah you're here, I'd thought you two would be asleep in your home.” Lana said with Rose’s arm around her.

“No, just got here after cleaning up. How are you two?” I asked the two of them.

“Well I'm fine. Lana said she's fine but I don't don't believe her.” Rose said, earning a glare from Lana. “The guy got into your head Lana! I'm worried he did other stuff to you.” Rose explained in a worried tone. Lana rolled her eyes before saying.

“I'm fine, Rose… I'm fine.” Lana said before leaning her head forward, resting her forehead on Rose’s. “But thank you for asking.” She said with a smile that easily warmed Rose's heart. Rose smiled at this before giving Lana a kiss. Lana giggled into the kiss before pulling away and looking back at me and Ruby.

“I am to guess you're here to check on the new addition to your family?” Lana asked me, leaning onto Rose as she did. Rose hummed quietly at this, feeling Lana so close to her was bringing her to a state of bliss.

I smiled at this as the four of us quietly walked into the room. I saw Theodore sitting in a chair sleeping with Nyvu on his lap fast asleep. In the bed I saw my aunt still awake rocking a small bundle in her arms. She looked up at us with a smile and nodded us over. We walked quietly over and pulled some chairs over to sit next to the bed.

“Before anyone asks, it’s a boy.” Axycia whispered as she looked down at the child in her arms. She moved the bundle so we could see him; his hair was a jet black colour with a bit of indigo scales around his eyes. We all smiled at this as my aunt pulled him in.

“He's adorable.” Lana cooed at the little baby boy. Axycia smiled at this before looking at Lana.

“Want to name him?” Axycia asked, making Lana blink a few times in surprise. Lana opened her mouth a few times, shocked to have been offered such a task. She gave it some thought however, and smiled before uttering the words.

“Alder…” Lana said in a hushed tone, though it was enough for Axycia and the rest of us to hear. Axycia smiled at this as she looked down at the boy.

“My little Alder…” she said softly to him, which caused Alder to snuggle up to his mother. She sighed as she looked over to us. “So… one hell of a fight?” Lana and Rose winced at the mention of the fight but nodded anyway.

“Rockwell… isn’t like any other fight we’ve been through.” Rose said quietly. Axycia nodded at this.

“Mortals think creatures as monsters of their nature, but the true monsters are ones that we look in a mirror.” She said as she looked a little sad about this. She looked up at Lana before continuing. “It must’ve been hard for you my dear. To face once that you called friend.”

“The last time I ever considered him as a friend was before he left me behind… I'm glad to be rid of him once and for all.” Lana said with a frown as she crossed her arms looked off to the side. “And I have you and your friends to be thankful for helping me through all this.” Lana said, looked back to both me and Ruby before resting her head on Rose’s shoulder. “Thank you.” She said again, this time in a much quieter tone most likely directed to Rose. Rose smiled at this.

“Anything for you Princess.” Rose whispered to her. We all smiled at this before Axycia sighed.

“Well, don’t mind us sticking around a little longer, because of this one I’m a little out of it for almost a month…” Axycia said as she leaned back a bit. “Yay~...” We all chuckled at Axycia’s sarcasm before she yawned and shooed us out, wanting to get some sleep in finally. With one last look at the newborn boy, Ruby and I headed out the infirmary with Rose and Lana in tow.

“So… question.” Rose started as she looks over at Lana. “If you’re coming… who’s going to be the Overseer of here and this Island place?” Lana smiled at Rose’s question.

“I've had a long talk with our Overseer friend about that… she's taking my place as the new Overseer of the Island and will soon begin the reconstruction of her old platform to reactivate the atmospheric shield.” Lana answered before wrapping her arms around Rose’s neck with a loving smile. “As of now, you have me all to yourself.” Lana said. Rose smiled at this before she thought of something.

“So… if you’re not the Overseer… does that mean you can’t… come back? Like what happen to this body if something life threatening happens?” Rose asked, her smile disappearing with a worried one. Both Ruby and I looked at each other as she said that.

“While the thought isn't pleasing, I have already solved that problem once before.” Lana was quick to answer but this only brought confusion onto Rose.

“Don’t you mean the cloning?” Ruby asked her, making Rose look at her with surprise.

“Wait, cloning? What?” she asked Ruby in total confusion. Lana gave her sheepish smile, not saying anything to deny Ruby said.

“It's a long story which I will proceed to tell you in the morning.” Lana said before finally yawning. “I'm absolutely exhausted after the whole ordeal, it's a miracle I haven't collapsed.” Lana said with a tired chuckle. Rose smiled at this before picking Lana up and put her over her shoulder.

“Come on sleepy head, time to head home.” Rose said with a smile. Lana let out a tired giggle as both her and Rose headed off to their house. I smiled at them as I looked over at Ruby.

“You still owe me snuggles.” I told her with a smile. Ruby giggled at me before saying.

“Mind waiting a little longer?” Ruby asked, making me pout a little.

“Why tomorrow~” I whined. Ruby rolled her eyes at me before answering.

“Because you’ll get double the snuggles in the morning.” Ruby said before she started to walk away, leaving me dumbfounded.

“You planned this!” I said to her.

“Yup!” she said before she started running off as I chased her.

Author's Notes:

All I want to say is that Rockwell is an ass.

Also met Rose’s Fireteam!