Prideful

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Word count: 1098
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Roman sat on his new throne staring at the ceiling. Everything in the castle was a lot darker than he'd expected. Even his clothes were too villainy. Roman understood this was all an act and he would never be an actual villain, but it was a strange change even if he was acting.

Damion walked into the throne room and bowed before addressing Roman. He was wearing a frown that contrasted harshly with his usual smile, "I have upsetting news, your majesty."

"What news do you have Damion?"

Damion cleared his throat, "Me and Virgil went to the light sides to inform them of our separation, and unfortunately, they seemed to be conspiring with your wretched brother."

Roman immediately frowned, "I was already aware of this. My brother has Logan literally sucking his dick, and I suppose with Patton's new traitorous ways he would accept that rat." Roman was surprised that Virgil had accepted to do that, but he didn't dwell on it.

"I'd also like you to know, Deceit plans of changing the whole morality system, and has Patton clinging to his every word."

This was pushing Roman over the edge. He clenched his fists and felt his fingernails digging into his palms. He wanted to shout a plethora of nasty words, but he kept his anger in. Roman took a deep breath before saying, "Thank you for this news Damion, your dismissed." Damion bowed again before leaving the room.
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Everyone was in different states of panic. Logan was trying to figure out what was happening. Remus had gone surprisingly quiet and appeared to be shaking. Patton was just pacing back and forth muttering to himself having a meltdown.

Then he burst out really loud, "Janus will know what to do!" The other two looked over to see Patton try and summon Janus.

Janus appeared right behind Patton, "What do you need?" Patton screamed and jumped forward a bit before turning back to Janus.

"Virgiljustshowedupandhesaidhewasleavingandsowasromanandhementionedthisdamionguyandivegotnoideawhothatisandimscared!"

"Well you seem totally calm," Janus put his hand on Patton's back and directed the moral side to sit on the couch. Patton began trying to breathe normally again using Virgil's technique.

"Could one of you explain what happened?"

"Well Virgil showed up and was acting strange, then he told us he a Roman are forming the New Light sides," Logan began.

"And then he said this Damion guy is back," Remus finished. Janus tensed at the mention of Damion. He'd been trying to track Damion before he caused any trouble, he should've seen that he would go for Roman and Virgil.

Logan raised his eyebrow at Janus' reaction to the mentioning of Damion, "Janus, you wouldn't happen to know who Damion is?"

Janus wanted to lie and pretended nothing had happened, but he knew that wasn't an option anymore, "I do know him. Years ago when Thomas was maybe six we were all united, along with another side called apathy. He wasn't really aside, but a creature that planed on ruining Thomas' mental health. He was becoming a lot more dangerous, so I tampered with memories and erased everything anyone knew about him. Though one time he got out, and he split Creativity. That took a lot of damage control to 'fix', but it still left everyone hating each other," Janus paused before continuing, "That's not everything he's done. I've had him hidden for years until recently. And I'm assuming he's made some sort of deal with Virgil and Roman."

Logan pondered this before asking, "Could you restore our memories, so we have a better understanding of him?"

Janus sighed, "I could-"

"Wait what memories of mine did you erase?" Remus asked.

"Mainly ones about your brother..."

Remus felt something snap, "Well then you better fucking bring them back!" Remus would've continued screaming if it weren't for a sniffle that came from the couch. They all turned to see Patton had begun cry and was rubbing at his eyes. All three of them were immediately by the moral side trying to calm him down.

"I can't believe this! For all these years I thought I was the reason for the split and it was actually just some guy!"

Janus felt the words sting. He genuinely cared about Patton and knowing that he was the cause of this sadness made him upset. "I think giving us back our memories would be the best course of action right now Janus," Logan said in a flat tone.

Janus nodded, "alright you three hold still."
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Patton opened his eyes to a forest he had never seen before. Although somehow he knew it was the pre-split forest. Patton looked down at himself and realized he was see-through. He put his hand on a tree trunk only for the hand to phase through the tree.

Patton stopped just as he noticed a scene begin to play out. Two little boys walked out from behind some bushes. One was wearing a black cloak with the hood down. He wore an eyepatch that didn't do much to hide some green scales poking out from underneath. A green frog sat on his shoulder that felt familiar. The other boy wore a prince outfit similar to Roman's except this one was gray and had no sash.

The boys stopped before the one that appeared to be Janus picked the frog up in his hands. "Morality, you going to need to change back now," he said. Patton's eyes widened as he realized to the frog as himself. The little frog seemed town, and Janus sighed.

"If you aren't going to do this yourself I'm going to have to force you." Then little Janus leaned down and kissed to frog on the head. The little frog began to glow blue before shifting into a young Patton.

"Gross you two," said the other little boy.

"Can it creativity, we still have to get home," said the little Janus.

Then the memory began to fade away and was replaced by another. Then slowly the memories began to speed up, coming one after the other, until he reached one.

Another Patton sat crying on his bed as another figure stood staring down at him. "Your such a disappointment Patton. Deceit hates you and you are the reason Romulus is gone."

"Please stop Apathy!"

"Why should I, I'm just stating facts!"

This memory faded away as more extremely similar to this one began to flood in. This left grown-up Patton to cry as he saw his younger self be hurt by Damion over and over only to have the memory abolished.
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