Umbra opens the door to the supposed abode of Kutakahra, seeing what looks like another abandoned home, on the floor is an unfinished magical symbol
Umbra: Wait…I know this symbol
Umbra remembers where she knows it from and moves to complete the circle, when she completes it, it creates a familiar aura, pulling her back into memories and moments that had faded away but now have come back in full force.
Kutakahra (Gastly): Hello Umbra, welcome back to your family
Umbra: You…you…show yourself…you OWE ME answers!!
Kutakahra (Gastly): In due time Umbra, but first, what do you think of your brother, I worked so hard to craft him…
Umbra: Dye…that’s his name right?
Kutakahra (Gastly): You get it, you get the picture
Umbra: SHOW ME, SHOW ME WHY YOU MADE ANOTHER ONE, ANOTHER ONE LIKE ME!!
Kutakahra (Gastly): If that’s your wish
The room around Umbra morphed, and as it did, Dye began to wake up from unconsciousness, in the memory circle Umbra was in, seeing those memories as Dye was in her shadow.
Kutakahra (Gastly): Here we are, the day I decided I needed to create Dye
The room was full of torn up notebooks, knocked over constructs and the Kutakahra in this memory looked miserable
Dye: What the?
Kutakahra (Gastly): Hello my son, sorry about lying to you earlier, I wanted it to be a surprise, when we were all happily reunited as a family
Umbra: Cut your crap and get right to the fucking point
Dye: What is-
Kutakahra (Gastly): I was thinking about you Umbra, how I had to leave you behind
Umbra: What….
Kutakahra (Gastly): If Vaniel found you in my lab, he would have ripped you apart with his sword into a million pieces
Dye: What are you talking about
Kutakahra (Gastly): Want me to to show you Dye
The room changed again, to the night Umbra roasted in her casket, and Dye saw everything, and Umbra began to cry as she watched those events unfold again
Umbra (Memory): Dad, you’ll come back for me right…
Dye: What…what the fuck is this…
Kutakahra (Gastly): This was the tragic night we lost contact
Umbra now saw the events with new clarity, she saw how her father just destroyed his lab to save himself, and that she was just another piece of evidence he destroyed…
Umbra: What…the…hell IS WRONG WITH YOU
Dye: You just…lit her on fire…and ran away
Kutakahra (Gastly): You don’t understand, it was mercy
Umbra: Mercy…YOU LEFT IN A CASKET, YOU LOCKED IT SO I WOULD SUFFOCATE ON SMOKE
Kutakahra (Gastly): Would you have rather lived a life locked behind a cell you could never escape or be no longer breathing to experience it, it was an act of love, my final goodbye
Umbra: HOW WAS THAT LOVE, YOU PUT ME IN A PRISON I COULDN’T BREAK FREE FROM AND RAN AWAY AS I WAS BURNING ALIVE
Dye: Father…why…WHY…would you treat my sister this way
Kutakahra (Gastly): Oh Dye, don’t you want me to finish the story of your birth?
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Dye: I…
Umbra: No, let’s see your twisted mind
The room began to change back, Kutakahra was now sitting in his lab, making plans for something…
Kutakahra (Memory): Don’t worry, Dye
Kutakahra is looking at a test tube child, growing in the tube, head filled with false memories
Kutakahra (Memory): With the fake memories I’ve implanted, the motor functions I imbued with, and the love for me I’ve programmed into you, all I need is the fragments of Iris to make you my ultimate child..
Kutakahra hesitates for a momment
Kutakahra (Memory): I messed up with Umbra, hopefully I get a better start this time
Umbra: What the actual hell is wrong with you!
Dye: You…just…see me as…
Kutakahra (Gastly): Call it whatever you want, but we’re a family, you, me and Umbra, we’re just twisted bells, playing along in a chorus of tortured souls
Umbra: You…
Umbra finally begins to completely breakdown
Umbra: YOU MONSTER…I had been searching for you for SEVEN YEARS, wondering why you just left me to die in a coffin, I thought you had a good reason, thought since you we’re my dad you must have cared about you, but all I know now about you now, is that, you’re a MONSTER, a complete and utter MONSTER is what you are, you didn’t care if I lived or died, you didn’t care about what happened to me, you only cared about if you could use me as a tool, you only cared about how I could be useful to you, you NEVER CARED AT ALL.
Umbra’s breakdown continues as Dye begins to look on
Dye: Why was all I meant to be…just your sick weapon…a tool, you’d throw away after I showed any sign of wavering or breaking.
Finally, Umbra came to her senses
Umbra: Wait…where are the Century Corps?
Kutakahra (Gastly): Hehehe
Umbra: Where are they!
Kutakahra (Gastly): BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Umbra: WHERE ARE THEY YOU SICK TWISTED MONSTER
Kutakhara (Gastly:: You are under my memory spell, remember, you completed the circle and now…they can’t hear you…
Umbra: NO…how could I be so stupid
Kutakhara finally shows his true form in front of Umbra
Kutakahra: Consider this time out, and I’ll let you and Dye out as soon as you promise to be an obedient little family
Umbra begins loudly banging against the world she’s in
Umbra: NO NO NO NO
Kutakahra: Goodbye…I’ll see you soon
Dye: Sis…
As Umbra’s screams reach a fever pitch, the memory world fades into a void
Outside The House
Our Party has been waiting outside for Umbra and Dye to come out
Vaniel: How long have they been in there?
Olivia: No clue, but we can’t rush their confrontation, we just have to wait for Kutakahra to leave the house to seize him
Euke: Man, all this waiting sucks
Qiinu: Tell us all about it kid
Kutok: Wait guys…I sense someone approaching
The Party gets ready to fight off a powerful and strong opponent potentially nearby
Olivia: I see them
Over the ridge, The Party sees “Mosshead” rallying what’s left of The Army of K to the shack
“Mosshead”: And once again, The Century Corps are in my way
Vaniel: “Mosshead”, you will not obstruct our efforts once again, we WILL defeat you here, we WILL defeat you now
Euke: I agree sir, no more of your obtrusions from this point onward…
“Mosshead”: Fine, I’ll fight till I’m no longer alive
Fight against “Mosshead” for the final time
When “Mosshead” is at 75%
Kutok: Why do you continue to defend that man, after all he has done?
“Mosshead”: It’s simple, sometimes great men, need great soldiers, willing to live and die on the frontlines for them
Vaniel: Kutakahra ain’t a saint
“Mosshead”: Who my glorious leader is does not matter, as long as I give them glory on the battlefield and do what I must always do.
Resume
When “Mosshead” is at 50%
Qiinu: We do not see the logic in continuing this fight even though you know you will die?
Vaniel: Give up the fight and surrender “Mosshead”, we don’t want to kill you
“Mosshead”: I wouldn’t wanna kill me either
“Mosshead” unleashes a powerful energy wave but it is blocked by Olivia’s mirror
Resume
When “Mosshead” is at 25%
Euke: Listen Mossy, I respect that you’re making us work hard for this victory, but why so stubborn, why so loyal, what did he do to deserve that…
“Mosshead”: It’s something…you will never know…
Qiinu: Well…we have no choice but to delay no longer, let’s end this once and for all
Olivia: “Mosshead”, just remember that these were the choices you made, not me nor anyone else.
“Mosshead”: I wouldn’t have it any other way?
When “Mosshead” is at 5%
“Mosshead”: It’s over…I lost
Vaniel: Alright now we can back to gu-
The door of the house suddenly throws itself open…
Kutakahra: Hello Gentlemen
“Mosshead”: Kutakahra…
Kutakhara: Hello commander, thank you for your valuable service
“Mosshead”: Thank you your excellency
Vaniel: Kutakahra, how dare you show your face 7 years later, how dare you still cause suffering and misery, and how DARE you still even exist in this world
Olivia: And where are Umbra and Dye
Kutakahra cackles deeply to himself
Kutakahra: I’ve put those spoiled brats in a nightmare world of their own memories, until they’re ready to talk to papa as the little obedient children he wanted…
“Mosshead”: Huh, what do you mean by that chief?
Kutakahra: It is none of your concern
Euke: No…you wouldn’t?
Kutakahra: I would, child
Vaniel: I’ve HAD ENOUGH OF YOU
Vaniel leaps through the air to slice at Kutakahra but he deflects his sword, Kutakahra then responds with a powerful voidfire attack
Olivia: Everybody get down!!
Olivia deflects most of the fire with her mirror, but “Mosshead’ is caught in the voidfire and instantly dies
Kutakahra: Oh and what a shame, she was such a skilled commander
Qiinu: She was willing to die for you, you ungrateful bastard
Qiinu unleashes a powerful soul beam and Kutakahra but he defects it with his ring hand before grabbing Qiinu by the neck and chokeslamming them
Kutakahra: I am Kutakahra, I am above that which is moral and just
Vaniel: I’m going to kill you
Olivia: And I will assist
Kutakahra: Bring it on
As the three of them begin to fight and Kutok and Euke defend the injured Qiinu from the remnants of the Army of K as they begin to fight a losing battle