Once again, Zalrotho found himself alone at his throne to silently mull over Natzuki and co's response.

"Even though they enjoy something new, they'd prefer their original lives over their new ones...". Zalrotho glanced at his hand as he held The Cradle of Fate in it. Zalrotho placed his free hand on his chin and hummed as a thought occurred to him.

"Maybe... that's why I feel this un- relenting hollowness... right?" Zalrotho pondered before he briefly glanced at [YOU]. Zalroth shook his head and snapped his pink keither-covered finger before five floatings relics shot out from behind the throne and hovered around him.

(The Crescent Moon Staff: a staff the height of Zalrotho made out of opaque azure-coloured gems with a crescent moon protrusion at the top of the staff)

(The Hakai-no-Michi: a long golden katana with glowing pink runes on the blade. It has a pale yellow handle wrapped with pale blue strips and is stored in a white sheath)

(The Valley of Hymns: a golden tower shield covered in silver plating with six large holes in it organised like the six dots seen on dice and each hole has a thin translucent membrane in it)

(The Reality Collider: a black diamond-shaped bell with a fleur-de-lys-shaped handle)

(The Chronicle Codex: A purple magical book with black spikes and an octagon lavender gem on the front cover)

Zalrotho gave each relic a plentiful inspection before he waved his hand and ordered The Chronicle Codex to float in front of him. The Chronicle Codex fluttered up to Zalrotho before opening itself and flicking through an endless rotation of pages until it landed on a double page titled Magic Avatars/Vessels. With his eyes closed, Zalrotho inspected the contents of the page before shaking his head.

"Let's try something less hands-off on my part.". The spikes of T.C.C. flickered before the pages spun again until landing on a page titled Xiavion's Azure Ability: Binding Seal. Zalrotho nodded his head, making T.C.C. happily bounce around as it closed itself.

"Vivo, which option would you suggest?" Zalrotho asked mentally.

"I believe it depends on your intentions, My Lord," an adult male voice inside Zalrotho's mind stated.

"Well, I think, Master should do both if he can't decide," a young-sounding female voice inside Zalrotho's mind stated. Zalrotho placed a hand on his chin and hummed as he took in the female voice's suggestion.

"Perhaps I shall, Mimi," Zalrotho stated aloud before he rose from his throne. The six relics around Zalrotho flew above him before diving into his kitsune tails. Zalrotho mentally sighed before raising his hand and unleashing a wave of green keither from it. The wave severed itself in three before swirling into humanoid shapes. The keither fizzled off the humanoids showing the three vessels within.

(A tall male human teen version of Zalrotho; he has slightly spikey dark silver hair, cyan eyes, lean muscles, and fair skin)

(A slightly tall female human teen version of Zalrotho; she has elbow-low black hair with black grey ends, grey eyes, faint muscles, slightly wide hip, fair skin, and firm legs)

(A short female human kid version of Zalrotho; she has extremely long curly white hair with dark grey roots, black eyes, and fair skin)

"Why three?" A different female voice asked in Zalrotho's mind.

"Why not, Ina?" Zalrotho asked, eliciting bitter grumbles from Zalina.

"Lynea for the teen and Nasia for the kid," Zalrotho uttered as his body became encased in green, red and pink keither before separating into three bundles of white, cyan, and black energies. The white energy swirled into the kid vessel, the black for the female vessel, and the cyan into the male vessel. The energies seeped into the vessels as clothing materialized on them.

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(Vessel Zalrotho is wearing a black tank top, baggy black sports trousers with three pale cyan lines on the sides of each leg, black hiking boots, and a long pale cyan scalf)

(Lynea is wearing a white sleeveless shirt, black cargo trousers, a long grey hoodless fur coat, and grey hiking boots)

(Nasia is wearing an oversized white hoodie with panda ears on the hood, a black frilly dress, black and white striped leggings, silverwood getas)

The light in the vessels' eyes flickered to life before the trio sprung to life. Lynea gazed at their surroundings before strolling over to a marble pillar and placing a hand on it. A glowing magic crest sprawled out from under her hand and coated a section of the pillar.

"It appears I inherited the Azure Abilities," Lynea stated with a soothingly lax feminine voice. As she turned to the other vessels, the pillar behind her quivered before dislodging itself from the ground/ceiling and flinging itself across the room. The pillar crashed into the wall, crumbling into pieces with the only part left intact being the part directly covered by the magic crest, but that part too crumbled once the magic crest faded.

"But it seems the previous finesse wasn't transferred besides the basic knowledge of how to use it," Teen Zalrotho remarked with a reassuringly stern masculine voice.

"Thanks for the obvious remark, me," Lynea crumbled playfully as she glared at her male counterpart. As the duo glared at each other, a red blur zipped past them, diverting their attention from what they were doing before they heard a loud crash. The duo shook their heads in amusement as they watched the red qi boat lodged in a marble pillar burst apart and watched a dazed Nasia flop to the floor like a wet fish, wet slap included as the red qi washed over her.

"I... got the... key...zes'," Nasia managed to mumble before she conked out.

"I suppose that leaves me... with the keither abilities of the Heavenly Heroes," Zalrotho muttered as he raised a hand above him. Black keither gathered around his hand before he snapped it, unleashing a wave of keither around the room and culminating in front of him into a tall male donning a feather cloak.

"I'm honoured You'd chose me to represent your temporary replacement, My Lord," the voice of Vivo stated inside Zalrotho's mind, while Lynea suddenly flinched.

"How unexpected," Lynea remarked.

"?" Zalrotho uttered.

"No... need... to thank me, Advisor Birdy," Nasia mumbled in her sleep, making Zalrotho understand what Lynea meant.

"Hampter," Nasia's voice muttered through Lynea and Zalrotho's minds. Zalrotho shook his head amusedly before he turned his head to Lynea.

"I'll be right back," Zalrotho uttered before he used pink keither to teleport to the pond containing Chroniana's statue. Zalrotho's face contorted into an uncontrollable smirk at seeing the Chroniana statue poutfully sticking its tongue out at him. Zalrotho raised his hand and punched the smirk off his own face. Zalrotho clicked his neck before turning his attention to the now silent snickering statue.

"Always have to have things planned out in advance don't you?" Zalrotho asked rhetorically as he sat down next to the statue. He placed the back of his head against the statue before closing his eyes. He briefly breathed in before he contently hummed the faint melody emanating from inside the statue, making sure to intentionally be off-key with the statue.

A few minutes later in the throne room, Zalrotho returned from a flash of pink keither and found Lynea carrying a sleeping Nasia on her back.

"So, I've returned," Lynea said with a neutral tone oozing from her voice.

"You've gotta stop referring to us in the first person," Zalrotho stated unamusedly. Lynea rolled her eyes at Zalrotho before Zalrotho raised a hand to his side as he gathered pink and teal/lime keither into his palm. The pink keither shot out from his hand and morphed into a portal.

"Now which reality should we go to-". Zalrotho was mid-thought before a large red qi fist smacked him in the back and caused him to lose his balance. The red qi fist exploded and the force of the explosion sent Zalrotho flying into the keither portal. Lynea blankly stared at the sleeping Nasia in her arms before shaking her head dismissively and tossing her into the portal.

"Make sure to only use ten percent of your power against anyone who makes it here," Lynea ordered to the Vivo shadow keither clone. The clone bowed before Lynea jumped into the keither portal right as it closed. The Vivo shadow clone emotionlessly stared at the spot where the keither portal once stood before slowly arching its head forward as the sound of people storming to the throne room drew near.