Blinded by the uncontrollable rage to know what she hasn't kept her agreement and that her obsession with him, has finally reached a level he won't tolerate anymore.

"I am coming for you, mother." the God of Water hisses in the air, sending the threat to the ears of the Great Goddess of Evil and Death. His eyes glinting in pure fury as his crystal blue turns into icy cold.

To turn him in something so cold and malevolent like herself the Great Goddess has reached a limit that Axl is not willing to oversee. For pride and ambition, she has managed to make an innocent girl go through so much pain only to make him a replica of herself.

Ready to face his mother, the destructive God of Water makes his way to the majestic castle of Dark Crystals in the Sacred Kingdom. Thunder, and tornadoes lashing out against the walls, announcing the God's unhappy presence. The power of every lightning bolt, every gusty wind that only the Gods World can survive from.

With a blasting rumble a water dragon of long fins, growls in full radiance. A mystical creature that only appears when the God has lost control of his reason and his need to negotiate with anyone. For his bad luck the only one that has ever pushed him to his limits to show this scary side of him, it's her. The Great Goddess of Evil and Death. Someone who takes pride in her actions to get a reaction like this one from her son.

Landing right at the platinum gates of his mother's sanctuary, a place so beautiful to the eyes of every world. Where everything is made of shiny Sapphires, in a mystic black and a current of red glow from within, every crystal shines to life like burning coals. Although, in the same way, that it feels magical it also feels deadly.

The smell of rotten flesh is dense and revolting to everyone except the spectrums. Dry leaves on burnt out trees seem to carry lava inside, from the tiniest branch to the root, the smell brimstone overtakes the oxygen. Particles of dust mix in the air with a touch of magical glitter.

Lady Eirene sits on her altar of sharp thorns and dead roses, the rotten smell of death produced by the Amphophiles titanium and Wake-Robins plants overwhelm the senses to full unconsciousness. Plants that never die in her hands because what reeks to others, to the Great Goddess is the sweetest scent of all.

Beldurra one of her favorite Goddesses plays a sorrowful melody, filling the infinite darkness of grief and pain. Like bats, the dark fairies dance around, showering the Great Goddess with a mysterious ebony color, a dust that has been abstracted from the lost souls in her caves of laments. The Great Goddess smirks with pleasure as her empty eyes shine with triumph to feel the anger in her son's energy.

Axl forces her way into his mother's tower, His eyes white just like Zerrat's but brighter and deadly. Expressionless, he stands before the being that gave him life.

"Get your specters out of here!" he warns with a menacing tone that even the dark angels flinch to hear. Beldurra Goddess of Fear, stand on guard as she feels the menacing force the God is holding within. The shadows wallow around their master in the form of barrier.

"Specter...?" the Great Goddess repeats in a mocking tone. Tapping the ground with her mighty spear, signing to her servants to leave her alone with her son. Her giant halos shine brighter everyone disappears.

"Were you not willing to save one of my spectrums, not so long ago..." she reminds him with evident pleasure. Seeing him fight his own urge to take a shot at her. Lady Eirene smirks with fierce stone-cold eyes.

"Have you forgotten?" she pushes for more, shoving down a sharp truth into her son's throat. She grins ecstatically by his emotions.

Deep down Axl is aware of his mother's motives to keep pushing him to the point he's losing reason and notion. Being the son of two of the Great Gods, Axl holds an unreachable power that can potentially make him the supreme emperor of the Gods. Although for that, Axl needs to recognize who his mother is and let her side take over his soul, something he's not willing to do, not for her, and not after he found someone like Camille.

Someone pure and genuinely good, someone that can't be stain with her evilness, no hatred or wickedness can overshine her purity. Axl has finally realized that for Camille, he's willing to risk facing his mother's fury if it means saving Camille from pain.

"Why do you underestimate me, mother?" he questions her in an impending tone. His eyes struggling not to shoot her with blasting bolts.

"I warned you... stay away from her!" he struggles, but he knows that taking a hit on her would mean defeat for him. Thinking of Camille's violet eyes, Axl takes a deep breath and forces his anger down.

In his eyes, Camille deserves to live in peace; to finally know what it's to be protected and loved by someone reliable. For that, he needs to stop his mother, force her to refrain her cynical ideology of making him the maximum authority on her side.

"My Axl, seeing you writhing in hatred for me..." her eyes start to burn up, like the real magma from hell.

From the hell, she has seen for being who she is, for being someone she never chose to be. To see her son, the only one she cares about talking to her in a tone so cold and emotionless and feels nothing at all it's a curse to the Great Goddess. To see her son losing his respect all thanks to a human, a human that reminds her of someone she's willing to destroy all over again.

"I wish for a second that you could feel this, to instigate your anger until I see those eyes..." she admits, slowly taking off the golden coat that covers her heartless body.

Exposing the hole in her chest that it's where her heart is supposed to be. That space expands every time she's rejected for being who she is. A hollow body with no heart or soul, someone who lives by the pain of every soul burning in hell. Axl shows no reaction at his mother's display.

"Those beautiful blue eyes that hold something I could never see," she confesses letting the fabric drop to the floor, the Great Goddess reveals herself to her son, a perfect God in body and soul.

His eyes slowly turning back to normal. Although he's shocked to see the beautiful creature that looks more like a golden statue, a frightening flaw overshadows the perfection her body is, her heart has been ripped out of her chest, leaving behind nothing but an open wound that looks empty and rotten. Something that grows deeper and cold with the time. Dead and broken, the Great Goddess' body is nothing but a shell.

"I can see you suffer great pains. Cry endless grief, die even, still..." Lady Eirene opens up her arms letting him see the darkness she holds inside. Nothing. Nothing but an empty cave.

"I cannot feel a damn thing," she says with a disembodied tone. Speechless Axl realizes that his mother has never felt the beautiful heartbeat when meeting the one she loves. She has been a forever companion of his father but she's felt nothing for him.

"I am the evil that takes over, that is what gives me life can you see how my desperation would disappear if you submit to me? " she sounds cold and emotionless, Axl still manages to perceive the loneliness she goes through for centuries to come.

"Giving life to you is the only act of mercy I have done, or perhaps an act of revenge..." she takes a cautious step forward. Axl doesn't move at all.

"Revenge against the ones that turned me into what I am." she reaches her cold hand to touch his gorgeous face.

"But now my darkness is taking over. I am getting stronger, while they become weaker," she says as the wind carries feathers over to cover her body. The Great Goddess takes a deep breath and stands with unbreakable confidence. A Goddess at her best, she peers into her son's eyes and grins.

"That girl's destiny is to suffer for who she is, and for your choice..."

"I have not decided to fight against you," he clarifies, but the Great Goddess can see beyond his resolution. Saving Camille from Steve's hands is going against her in every way.

"Without realizing it, you already have my son. By bringing her back you are taking her side and to save her you are willing to face me, you have done it twice already..." she reminds him. Filling herself with pride and power, the Great Goddess smiles turning back to her altar of thorns.

"As a God, you can see it and feel it as well. Do not fool yourself son. To think that child was brought here for you, she came here because of you... and because of you she will have to face her miserable destiny." she reveals to him with sharply cold eyes.

Axl can hide his surprised to hear the truth. The connection he feels with Camille is something he never felt with anyone, but she's not an offering, then what is she? How did he manage to bring her to his sanctuary without him knowing it?

"You have seen the Book of Life. But you only saw what you wanted to see. Now once again you have tempted with the notion of destiny, Axl..." she says with an evil smirk,

"The past can not help the future that awaits for her, you may bring her back if you want, but bringing her here is actually bringing her to her death," the Great Goddess warns him with her condescending tone, a pleasurable smile plays in her voice.

Axl knows and has seen the Book of Life. He knows that there is death in Camille's destiny, but if he chooses her, the Great God of Destiny and Life has to change his mind. To haggle with his father, someone who can see the opposite of his mother might be the best option in the end.

"You might be right, mother." Axl takes on her bait again, but this time with more confidence and determination.

"But between you and him, I rather take my chances with him and not a soulless shell with nothing but this," Axl says knowing that although they're his parents, for being the opposing forces that keep the balance in the world, they are always against each other.

"Very well, your majesty. Bring her back... make your deals with the Great Arima. But remember, I choose who dies in the end." she reminds him of her power. Already scheming her next move, waiting for the day the dark falls completely as the weak source of light fades.

"Bringing her back will only mean the darkness is taking over." the heartless Goddess says with a tone full of pleasure and evilness.

"We will see," Axl answers matching her menacing tone.

"We will see." she tastes the threat in his tone and grins.