Chapter 201 – Third Universe
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Natasha woke up in the morning, turning when she was stopped by the soft body behind her. She turned to her side, hugging her daughter (dressed), sitting up.

Her head fell on her husband's shoulder, "Morning, Love."

Sephiroth opened his closed eyes, tilting his head until it touched hers, "Morning."

Illyana moved under the blanket, putting her head on Sephiroth's lap, "Mothing, Mom...Dad."

Natasha stroked Illyana's head, "You two need to stop this...wait, did you go..."

"No, no," Sephiroth shook his head, "Just kissing."

"Just kissing," Natasha covered her face, "I want to go back to sleep."

Wanda stretched her body, lying in bed, "Just tell us from the beginning about what happened."

Illyana raised her body, lying against Sephiroth's chest as he put his hands on her waist, "From the beginning?"

"Don't tell her to start from the beginning," Lavena opened her eyes.

Illyana curled her lips, becoming upset, "Well...I got kidnapped when I was barely six...raped by men in the smiley mask...and wished for all it to be over every day. Until...one day Dad just barges in, sundering the world apart, killing one of my captives in front of me."

Sephiroth gently smiled, kissing her head, "Their souls still burn in their fires of hell. Personally created by me at the center of Limbo."

"Really?" Illyana looked up in surprise when Natasha, Wanda, and Lavena raised their body, "Really?"

Gali trembled, hiding in the blanket, "I am going to burn in the fires of hell."

Sephiroth raised his eyebrows, "What? Did you guys expect any less? A group of men, keeping a five or six-year-old little girl prisoner and taking turns to rape her? The word Sin is not enough for it."

"Aw, thank you, Dad," Illyana kissed his cheek, smiling.

"No, no, no. No, Thank you, there are laws-" Natasha stopped when she saw Illyana's eyes, "Ugh...moving on."

Illyana sweetly smiled when Lavena covered her eyes, "She's manipulating you."

Wanda pulled Illyana's cheek, "We know."

Illyana grinned, "Ok, so...after that. Both of you came to pick me...and I saw you with him, but since Dad saved me, I kept my mouth shut."

"Still, I didn't know he was Dad...and Dad was so nice. He made me forget about everything that happened...and he was always so careful...so nice...so loving," Illyana sniffled.

Her eyes become red, "And...he made... I feel like I had a family."

She took a deep, shuddering breath, holding her tears back, "And ever since then, I started becoming conflicted. Dad didn't deserve you two going behind his back...and I couldn't tell him...I felt it would have broken his heart. So more and more, I started disliking the guy that actually saved me...which again filled me with conflict. Then Lavena leaving was the last straw."

"Now that I think about it...it was around that time I started having nightmares about Dad finding out the truth. The family would be broken...and me becoming a prisoner again. The only thing I could think of was...killing Sephiroth...or die trying...so both of you...and Lavena...you know."

Wanda kissed her cheek, doting on her, "Sorry for putting all that on you, sweetheart."

"That's just bad parenting," Lavena shot a chiding look at them.

Sephiroth rubbed his chin, "I have never had a child in 25000 years."

"I-I," Natasha thought for an excuse, looking at Sephiroth, "You had to go first? How am I supposed to compete with that?"

Wanda bit her lips, "I...read all his memories, so I have the same excuse."

"Now....that's just..." Natasha looked towards Lavena when Illyana started laughing, chuckling, wiping tears off her eyes.

"I just didn't want to lose this," Illyana's kept crying more and more, burying her face in Sephiroth's chest.

Wanda, Sephiroth, and Natasha turned their heads towards Lavena, "You made her cry."

Lavena let out a smile, turning on her back, grinning, "Good."

Sephiroth rubbed Illyana's back, kissing her head, "So...Mephisto has appeared in my dreams and Illyana's dreams. Lavena is just being a teenager...and the only other signs I have found of Mephisto's activities are with the Watchdogs."

"He's still on the early parts of his plan," Natasha thought for a moment, "We can still stop him."

Gali came out of a blanket for a moment, "You still have to deal with living cells of the Celestial taken by someone powers."

"Oh, that's probably Thanos."

"That...sounds bad...like really bad," Gali gulped, "That guy already has two Infinity Stones, the help of Death, and...and now cells of Celestial."

Natasha glanced towards Gali, hesitating, glancing over to Lavena, "How long have you been into girls?"

"Mom!!!" Lavena whined, "Not the time!"

"Right, Right, you are right...still, how long?" Natasha tucked her hair behind her ear, waiting for the answer.

"Natasha," Wanda light said, making Natasha puff out air from between her lips.

"Ok, fine. How bad are these livings cells of Celestials?"

Sephiroth hesitated, "Celestials are...for the lack of better words generators. They are the reason behind the infinite expansion of the universe. Once they are born, they join other Celestials and create more stars, planets, and so on. Since they are Immortals, they possess infinite energy and work infinitely, until someone kills them."

"Like you?" Natasha raised her eyebrows.

"Yes and no...my body isn't on the same level as them. I do possess strange immortalities."

"That's because you are incomplete," Gali involuntarily spoke up, covering her mouth with her hands, widening her eyes.

Sephiroth nodded, "Probably things would be different if I had my soul but not that much."

Gali let out a breath of relief, "Yup...I was totally talking about your soul."

Suddenly, five pairs of eyes landed on Gali, "What are you really talking about? Dad is still incomplete with his soul?"

Gali shook her head, "No! I didn't say anything!"

She tried to run away when Wanda raised her hand, using her energy to catch Gali, holding her in place.

Gali struggled, using all her energy, but couldn't get away from Wanda. She gave up, pressing her lips, "Ok, how about this...I will just tell you one thing, and you will never force me to tell you anything, ever. Deal?"

"Ok, deal," Sephiroth gently said, leaning forward.

Wanda let her go, and Gali sat on the bed, turning towards them, "When...you were born...31 years ago...everyone knew. And I mean everyone because a single universe was not enough to hold your existence. Your existence and powers were divided between a thousand and twenty-four universes...and then...and only then were you able to be born."

"No, but then all of his counterparts disappeared, so he is whole," Natasha said. Since she couldn't process the fact about how a person's existence couldn't be handled by the universe, she grabbed onto the facts.

Gali shook her head, pressing her lips. Without saying anything when Lavena sat up, "Are you trying to say that his counterparts might have disappeared, but they haven't merged with Dad?"

"They can't," Wanda furrowed her brows, "The whole reason why his existence was divided was that the universe couldn't take it. So they might have disappeared; they haven't become one with him..."

Natasha spoke without thinking, "That was before, right? Now with the Convergence, he could-"

Her words stopped when she came to the same realization as the others in the room, "Convergence...and Jay...are these two related?"

She seemed to be asking Gali for an answer. But didn't even get a hint when Sephiroth stood up, waving his hand to break the roof of his room, staring at the sky being encroached by the darkness.

Soon, the room started shaking, and with that, the scarlet sea started expanding as he whispered, "My will covers the Multiverse. Without my will...no two entities connected by causality could cross into the same universe. Yet...the whole of the universe was able to cross and merge with this one. It shouldn't have been possible...unless it was my will."

Natasha raised her hand, covering her eyes as Wanda covered her mouth, "Oh no."

Sephiroth took a deep breath, closing his eyes, "My desire to become one...I...my existence...is the source of Convergence. And the next universe...is upon us."

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