Magnadramon slowly raised her head from her paws when a dark figure entered the room.
Riley grinned. "Hello, Mother dear!" she said as she stepped in front of the cell.
Magnadramon frowned. "Sometimes I wonder whatever your father and I did wrong while raising you, honey... For a while, I thought it might be the influence of the humans that have made you this way... but then again, I couldn't see any such changes on your sister."
"Don't start that again!" the LadyDevimon snapped. "It's always Tally this, Tally that! I know she's your true Momma's girl, you don't have to rub it in every time we talk!"
"This isn't about Tally," Magnadramon shook her head. "Why have you joined the Demon Lords, Riley?"
"Didn't you hear what Doumon said?" Riley asked. "I have been the incarnation of Lust ever since my birth. It's my DESTINY to be like this!"
Magnadramon sighed. How was she supposed to make her daughter understand that every person had the ability of taking his or her destiny in his own hands?
"Riley, you might carry Lilithmon's legacy within you, but... it's still up to you to decide if you want to make use of these powers or not. Look at what happened to Beelzemon! Look at the new incarnation of Lucemon! If they can accept their roles alongside humanity, why can't you?"
"Silence!" Riley snarled. "I know what you're trying to do, but it won't work! If Yamacus doesn't want my love, he shall suffer!" She smirked. "I will give him the choice... either he chooses me or I'll crush him!" She tightened her claws into a firm grip.
"And about Gluttony and Pride... they will see the error of their way soon enough. The little girl is already on her way to corruption, and it's just a matter of time until she accepts her role as our leader..."
"You will never be able to corrupt someone as pure as her," Magnadramon said in a sad voice. "Don't you know that children carry our future's hope?"
"Spare me that sentimental nonsense!" Riley huffed. "I made my decision, mother, at the very day I left your home. You and father might believe that our sins are the path to doom... but the only thing it will lead me to is power... and revenge!"
She gestured at the empty cell next to her. "Soon enough, father will join you... and then your days of ruling the Digital World will be over, and the Seven Demon Lords will be the ruler of both worlds." She narrowed her eyes. "Be thankful that we didn't kill you yet. Only because you are my parents have Doumon and MegaSeadramon decided to spare you for now. But as for the rest of the pathetic Souvereigns... they shall know the meaning of terror if they get in our way!"
Magnadramon looked down at the prison floor in desperation. "Honey..."
"Don't call me that!" Riley snapped.
Her mother managed to give her a sad smile. "You will always be my little girl, Riley, no matter whatever you will do. And I won't stop believing in you until the very end."
"You're a fool if you believe that will change my mind!"
"I know my hope might be in vain... but as long as there is still the slightest bit of hope, I won't give you up. You know that Tally only joined Yamacus' forces to keep an eye on you, right?"
"Now why doesn't that surprise me?" the LadyDevimon huffed. "That bitch should know better and worry about her own problems."
"And what about your other sister?" Magnadramon asked. "Are you feeling the same about her?"
"I don't HAVE another sister!" Riley shouted in rage.
"Well, she might not be your biological sister, but as far as I am concerned, she is part of the family. You know how your father took her in after realizing she had nowhere to go, right?"
"Why should I care?" Riley snapped. "At that time, I was already working for Yamacus."
"Now don't lie to me, Riley!" Magnadramon looked fiercely into her daughter's eyes. "At that time, you still have come for a visit regularly, and the way you acted around her made it clear to me that she was the kind of little sister you never had with Tally. But I can guess it must have been a surprise, having found out that she decided to work for your employer as well, right?"
"I know that Yamacus would show his interest in her some time," Riley grumbled. "But I never believed she would actually be part of a mercenary group, alongside the other two volunteers of the Prof.'s experiment." She giggled. "I never knew the runt had it in her..."
"Alice might still be working for Yamacus, but at least she has shown signs of doubt... and I don't think she will ever join your side willingly."
"Why should she?" Riley shrugged. "I'm not working for Yamacus anymore, so why should I care about her or any other Hybrid?"
"Maybe because your main worries will be the Hybrid Tamers?" Magnadramon replied with a raised eyebrow.
"Enough of this!" Riley shouted angrily. "I really have better things to do than to listen to your absurd assumptions! Why can't you just leave me alone?"
With an angry scowl on her face, she turned around and left. "I don't know why I came down here in the first place..." she muttered.
Magnadramon winced when Riley slammed the door behind her, then she smiled to herself.
"Maybe because you aren't as happy to see me behind bars as you would like to make yourself believe?" she whispered before putting her head back down on her paws.
In the dark corridor of the Demon Lord Fortress, Riley almost bumped into Doumon when she came out of the dungeon stairway.
Doumon smirked. "Well, you had a nice talk with your mother, huh? Well, how did it go?"
Riley crossed her arms. "Much better than your own talk with your granddaughter, I presume."
Doumon scowled. "Fine! You won't bother me with my own family problems, I won't bother you with yours!"
"Fine with me!" Riley smirked. "Let's see how far the others are with our little Cupimon, shall we?"
"I'm afraid we don't have time for that tonight..." Doumon frowned. "I just learned that Yamacus managed to acquire Prof. McCoy's MCT."
Riley raised an eyebrow. "You mean the Mind Control Thin..."
"I refuse to say the long version of its ridiculous name!" Doumon shouted. "You know very well what I mean. But you also know what it means if he figures out how to use it, right?"
Riley grumbled. "Yes, he might be able to control Belphemon."
"There's still the chance it might not be sufficient to control a Demon Lord, but I don't want to take any chances. You and MegaSeadramon will go back to the excavation site and make sure that nothing will interfere with our plans."
She frowned. "Why do I have to go? Why don't you go yourself?"
"Because I have another important matter to take care of, and because you know both Yamacus and the female leader of his Hybrid mercenaries better than anyone else of us."
"Fine," she snapped. "I'll do it!"
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