Waking up to the sound of screams and growls, San had finally regained consciousness to see his own brothers raping the one he loved. There was blood, as bright and orange as a burning ember, everywhere. The screeches were like knives, stabbing the dragon right through the heart. Feeling a sense of protectiveness, he grabbed Rodan by his crest and pulled him away, out of reach of both Ichi and Ni. Putting himself in between his older siblings and the wounded Fire Demon, the left head hissed angrily, "What is wrong with you two?!" Ichi seemed surprised by how fast he had reacted while Ni snarled, "What's wrong with you?! You've fallen in love with this traitor!"

"Just kill me already..." Rodan whimpered, squeezing his yellow eyes tightly shut as he sobbed.

"You stay out of this! You brought this all on yourself you treacherous little son of a-"

"Ni, language," Ichi cautioned.

"Don't you dare insult my true love! Unless you want to be missing a tongue!"

"I'll just grow it back!"

"I'll just keep ripping it out of your filthy mouth!"

"I'd like to see you try!"

"ENOUGH!" Ichi roared, finally able to get his brothers to stop arguing. Sighing heavily with relief as he rubbed his head with one of their tails, the eldest turned their ice cold gaze upon the youngest. His tongue flickering in and out to clean the orange blood from his muzzle and fangs, the middle head ordered firmly, "San, get out of the way. The traitor needs to learn a lesson. You do too." Growling while his throat glowed with the threat of unleashing a Gravity Beam, San retorted, "I will not let you touch him. I'm through with this whole revenge idea! I don't even undersatnd why we wanted revenge in the first place!"

"You don't understand ANYTHING!" Ni snapped, adding, "For example, you don't understand that this pathetic excuse of a Titan betrayed us! You can't fall in love with him, let alone call him your true love!"

"What do you know about love?! All you know is how to destroy!"

"Last I checked, you don't know anything about love either!"

"San, listen to me-" Ichi began to say but San whipped his head around to face his older brother and interrupted with the harshest tone ever heard from him, "YOU LISTEN TO ME!" Shocked by the ferocity in their little brother's voice, both Ichi and Ni kept their mouths shut and listened as he continued, "All my life, all we ever did was destroy worlds and other people's lives. We slaughtered HUNDREDS of innocents! And we dreamed about ruling over all! Don't get me wrong, it would've been nice being a king. But I don't want that kind of life anymore! I may seem like I'm happy all the time. But I'm not! You two have always bulied me! And everyone looked at us with fear. But Rodan here..." San gestured to the wounded King of the Skies cowering behind him, "Rodan had showed us loyalty after we defeated the True King. Yet we put him through pain and suffering and made him do all our dirty work! And after we were defeated, how do you think everyone else treated him when the battle was done? He told me that they shunned him, lost their respect in him. Exactly what you guys do to me! I hated my life just as much as he hates his! But when I'm with him, I feel... happy and... appreciated." Tears in his eyes by now, the left head whimpered, "Please, I really do love him. Hate us all you want but I just want him to be happy." Turning away from his brothers, San pulled Rodan close to him and started licking the wounds on his face and chest, healing them. Ichi and Ni watched in dead silence.

"Let's just kill them both now," Ni snarled, about to lunge forward. Stopping him, Ichi hissed, "How bout you go to bed?" It wasn't a suggestion, it was an order. Hufing, the right head did what he was told. Sighing softly, the middle glanced over at the left. San had covered Rodan with their left wing as he tried to soothe the Titan's pain. Ichi had never seen San so willing to fight his brothers just to protect something or someone. Watching as the youngest healed the Fire Demon's amny injuries, the eldest couldn't help but feel guilty. Laying his head down, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.