Gate of Memoirs/Escalating Conflict

A familiar face enters the fray.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Nothingness"	Music: "Nothingness"
 	
*The Naga press on, instruments of their goddess's will, in spite of their mounting casualties.
*Eventually, Sero-Anya manages to cut a swath through to that fateful pedestal where Tevarius had last clashed with the high priest.
*A dull shimmer of light scintillates along its surface as the goddess-girl scrambles up.
 	
*Sero-Anya: Tev! Tev, no!
*Sero-Anya: ...!
 	
*The Queen Mother, though injured from the previous assault, floats defiantly between the raging deep goddess and the dragon spirit.
*Raising an arm to shield Tevarius behind her, she glares silently at her adversary.
 	
*Tsovinar: Get out of my way.
 	
*N'an-Wang-Mu: I am your opponent now.
 	
*Tsovinar: I said, MOVE!
 	
*This time, the Queen Mother blocks off the assault that had knocked her out of the sky before.
*Jade green energy crackles across the tentacle, shattering it from the inside and crumbling in a shower of dust over the two goddesses.
 	
*N'an-Wang-Mu: You know nothing, wretched creature.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: The land we protect is more than just a land.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: It is the collective desire to survive...but more than that, to thrive.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: It was compassion that saved me from my fate, blind and shamed outside the gates of the Pagoda I now reside...
*N'an-Wang-Mu: ...and it was faith that made me Queen Mother. 
*N'an-Wang-Mu: That I would look after them as they did me.
*N'an-Wang-Mu: Faith is what ties us to this land!
 	
*Tsovinar: <Faith...>
 	
*Tsovinar: <Your faith won't save you here!>
 	
*Tevarius slips in and out of consciousness, and in his blurred vision he could barely make out Sero-Anya.
 	
*From his throat no sound came, and he merely watches the weeping girl with what little light remained in his golden eyes.
*A hundred, a thousand things he had wanted to say to the girl he looked after for this short time...
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Seabed Song"	Music: "Seabed Song"
 	
*Ever since Juno-Seto had awakened him, his purpose in life had been hazy at best.
*In a world so changed by the passage of time, only he remained unmoving—unaffected.
*Perhaps even ignorant.
*Returning thus to a land he claimed as his own was nothing more than self-assurance...
*...and deep down, that apathy, that weariness in making up for lost time, was more than Tevarius could bear.
*Darkness was beginning to sound like a welcome alternative...
 	
*...if not for the sudden appearance of Sero-Anya.
*From their first meeting, the dragon spirit knew from instinct this girl and Juno-Seto were linked by the same soul.
 	
*A being of pure light and radiance...
*An innocent child to protect.
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*Tevarius: Sero.
*Tevarius: ...Live.
*Tevarius: Be brave, and live.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Sero-Anya: Tev! No, don't leave me!
 	
*Sero-Anya: TEV!!
 	
*Tsovinar: ...!
 	
*Tsovinar turns her attention from her quarry, not that the husk of the Queen Mother—thoroughly blighted by her mark—posed any further danger to her.
*Something about the girl's grief stirred a familiar feeling in the deep goddess's alien mind—
*one she had experienced only moments ago.
 	
*Tsovinar: ... ...
*Tsovinar: What...What is this?
*Tsovinar: This feeling...I don't...
*Tsovinar: I don't understand.
 	
*Tsovinar: ?!
 	
*As Sero-Anya curls up around Tevarius, dark energy begins to coalesce around her tiny frame,
*the final result of an immense psychic stress.
 	
*A figure manifesting in purple shadow tears itself away and assumes the smiling visage of the Voidbringer.
*Ensa-Taya: Finally. I've waited long enough!
 	
*Ensa-Taya: And now...no one can stop me!