The Old Days...

Even though Khrona PROBABLY is somewhere else doing something else with someone else, that's PROBABLY not the TRUE Khrona. Might just be another DNA copy or holographic copy or some shit. The REAL Khrona is ACTUALLY here in THIS pit. I'm going to stop putting emphasis on words now.

Well. He was all alone with his two weapons. Khrona, Misery and Despair. Chroma was out god knows where... Drast was out with Khrona... And Megaera was... Elsewhere as well. Kupo was always tending to Khrona's office, even though he is part of this family, too. Even Khrona's Digimon... Not here. They were off having fun. Tabris... No one could ever truly know where that presenceless being is at any time unless they see him with their own two eyes... Even Khrona couldn't track him. But for the greater good, the assumption was that Khrona, Misery and Despair were alone...

Walking and thinking to himself, Khrona paced up and down the intricately made corridors of the Pit of Havoc. Because he couldn't keep his thoughts to himself, he was muttering words to himself. Misery and Despair could hear the woes of Khrona's mind resonate throughout the cave and their own minds...

Khrona: ... We're so alone... All alone... Just us 3 in our cave that we made so long ago... It's even soaked with our own soul wavelengths... My, it has been some time, it seems... Many years... I made this cave even before meeting Maze.. Before I was a Kage... Before we decided to make this village... When we were all alone...

Opening an eye and looking up from a slightly reclined position, Misery got her attention focused on Khrona. "... Eh? You're thinking about those days, Khrona? Why the hell is that?"

Khrona continued to pace, barely bothering to even lift his head more than an inch "... I'm not sure, myself... I just... I liked those days... Reminiscing is fun... Essential, even. If you continuously live in the present... You'll forget your past... And then, it will not exist. If someone does something and no one who witnessed remembers... Then who is to say that it really happened?"

Misery scrunched up her face, closing her eye "Whatever, Khrona. You can't forget anything, anyway without outside help or actually forcing yourself. Shut up."

Khrona shook his head, pacing even faster now. "But Misery... I enjoyed those days... Even though I was FAR less stable than I am now.. No, but I'm not stable, still... I'm only stable because I've gotten accustomed to the people around here... Just like I did with you two... I'm still the same... I could see it when I met Hakku..."

Misery started to grind her teeth "Ugh, I HATE Hakku. Why must she be our partner anyway? Can't ol' Misery put her out of her misery..?"

Khrona shook his head "No, Misery. I like her now. We cannot run this village alone... She's nice... She was scary at first, but she's there for me... That's all I think I want in people who are my friends..."

Misery clenched her teeth, standing up abruptly, starting to shout "KHRONA! Where the hell did all this talk of 'FRIENSHIP' come from, huh? Your only 'friends' should be me and Despair! And Maze and his weapons, cuz we're cool like that. And family members, like our daughter, your sister... Yeah. BUT OTHERWISE, none of those jerks should be your friend! They're either peons or ripe souls for the taking, and you know DAMN well I'm fucking hungry!!!"

Khrona's eyes gleamed, a brightness able to be seen in even this cave, where light had never existed and never will. In a flash, Khrona was looming over Misery, seeming to be rather angry. "Watch.. Your damn... Mouth. We've got more 'family' now. Those people are there for me... In a way. They've come through... Or, at least these specific people that I can respect. Hakku... Father X... Aeon... Drast... Jace... These people are our friends... I don't like not having friends... Isn't that the reason why we joined each other in the first place?"

Speechless. Misery couldn't say a damn thing... She knew good and well that so long ago that when she met Khrona... She was looking for someone to relate to.. or, a 'friend.' Before she was a Deathscythe... When she was just a violent, partnerless weapon on the verge of becoming a Kishin... "Ah... How I remember it well..."

The reality of the cave started to morph. A flashback induced by both Misery and Khrona at the same time caused some sort of... Cinematic Replay, one could say... Where they would see their flashbacks just as they happened, clear as day...

Before Khrona was a Kage... Before he was a meister... Before he had a friend or family in the world... He was nothing but a weird, gray-skinned, insane, experimental psychic DNA mutant with unsightly dragon wings arching out of his back... His clothes were skin-tight... Black. Except for his face, there wasn't an exposed piece of flesh on his body... He hated it when things touched him. Anything.

For a long time, after escaping the laboratory he was sold to, Khrona sought out a place where he could sit and be alone... Contemplating revenge on those who murdered his family... He was forced out wherever he went for his odd appearance and his great disdain for all living things. Khrona was utterly alone. He found himself sitting under a single tree day in and day out, unmoving for months at a time, through rain and snow, curled up in his wings... Alone. His body could provide everything it needed... And it didn't need much.

Then one day, there came a woman clad in black and white... There was no love in her eyes... No mercy in her smile... All of her features screamed 'misery.' She had been walking for days... Restless. She wanted to kill something.. Anything. She was dead-set on becoming a Deathscythe... No matter what. She lusted for souls. Her no-bullshit attitude and her violent approach to anyone and everyone got her hated everywhere she went... Not like she gave a damn about those powerless bitches. She had been walking for days after leaving the other town, not even close to any civilization... When she saw this one tree in the middle of nowhere... And something under it. Naturally, she went to go look at it... And to her surprise, it had a soul. Her Soul Perception allowed her to see that... It was rather unstable... Insane, in fact... Just like hers. She only gave a slight smile, but it quickly snapped back into a scowl of disgust.

"You. Creature. Your soul looks mighty tasty... But your body looks pathetic. You don't deserve that delicious morsel inside of you. Come and take death like a man and let me slaughter you like a bitch..."

Misery walked closer to Khrona, examining his curled up wings up and down...

Khrona was silent. He didn't move from his spot... Not one inch. It didn't seem like he was even breathing... But his soul, on the otherhand.. It was flickering uncontrollably. His instability and insecurity was very apparent to Misery... She saw big potential in this kid.... His soul seemed to resonate perfectly with hers... A feat that was damn near unimaginable. Yet, she still wanted to fight.

"Get up." She walked toward him, only to be blocked by a powerful psychic force. She smiled "Ah, a psychic... Ha. You are perfect.. Get up NOW. Or I'll make you..." a sword blade jutted out of Misery's right hand and a scythe blade out of the back of her left, both glowng. She dashed in, easily breaking through the psychic barrier somehow and swiftly slashing at Khrona violently with her weapons.

Khrona, however, only opened his wings once she trespassed that barrier, exposing his tiny, frail body that sported the massive, monstrous wings. The force of them opening toppled over the mighty tree, threw Misery back and sent off wings all the way into the neighboring cities... Which were all monstrously far apart. Khrona stared at Misery with scared, insane eyes, not even bothering to speak a word.

Once Misery saw his eyes, she knew that he was the one. "It's time, boy... Show me what you've got!" Then again, Misery wasn't too much older than Khrona, so she couldn't really call him 'boy...' but whatever. She dashed at him once again, becoming a blur, and from all angles tried to close in on him, slashing him with her own soul wavelength of insanity.

Unknown to Khrona, his own insanity would absorb and merge with hers, for their wavelengths were on the same accord... They were meant to be. Khrona only felt his power grow stronger when she attacked... And he really did not know why. So before he attacked, he stopped her with his psychic power, then brought her close... "... What are you?"

Misery struggled and pulled against Khrona's psychic power, but she was not moving. She was trapped by Khrona for good, it would seem. With a sneer, she answered him.

"I am a weapon... A living weapon...Then again, you should be able to read my mind, psychic boy! What the hell are you?

While saying that, she once again broke free from Khrona's psychic hold, jumping high into the sky and readying her blades to impale the hell out of Khrona,,,

Khrona flapped his wings, causing Misery to be caught in a massive, powerful wind storm. It would cause her not only to lose all of her air so that she couldn't breathe, but the force of the wind storm would slice and rip at her, trying to crush her and destroy her. It ended quickly, however Misery didn't seem to be too affected by it... In fact, she fell onto her feet with rather tattered clothes. She was panting hard, trying to catch her breath. This whole time, she was looking at Khrona's soul... Seems as though it was a soul she couldn't beat. She caught her breath, dusted herself off and asked Khrona...

"... Wanna be my partner?"

This was definitely shocking to Khrona. Not only was Misery asking a question that was rather foreign to him, but she was suggesting that she... Stayed with him? She wasn't afraid? She didn't ridicule? She wanted his company... It was so odd that Khrona couldn't decide at that very moment... In fact, he curled back up and started to cry to himself... It was too much for him... too confusing... What was her reasoning behind this..?

Misery's eyes dimmed and her weapons retracted into her body. At that moment, she felt something strange for this kid... And for the first time in her life, there was a tiny sparkle of compassion. She could feel the pain of his soul... It was very similar to her own. So similar that it actually hurt her, something that no one in life was able to do. She walked over to Khrona, knelt down beside him and began to hug and pet him gently, embracing him and his soul.

"... From this day forward, you are my partner. We're gonna do everything together. You got it? I like this feeling... This connection... And together we can destroy everything we want. Fuck the world. We'll show them what we can do by ourselves, ya know?" And with those words said, Khrona looked up and slowly wrapped his arms around Misery... They were partners for life. That was the first time Khrona felt the soul of another person... And the first time he achieved a Soul Resonance...

After seeing that, the reality started to change back to normal, Khrona and Misery now viewing their pit once more. Misery was in tears, as was Khrona. That was a powerful moment for the both of them... And Misery needed to be reminded of what it's like to find people who you want to be your family forever.

Misery: ... Khrona... I got you, now... That's what you were feeling when you met with these people... Something similar to what we felt when we first met, right? Ha. Alright. I still hate those fuckers... Except Aeon and Drast... They're cool peoples... But I'll accept that you want them as a part of your life and shit...

She wiped her eyes, quickly changing her facial expression back to how it was before the flashback.. Filled with malice and joy. But for the most part, genuine joy.. That was something she hadn't felt in a while.

Misery: Yeah, thanks, Khrona. That was... Nice to remember that, ya know?

Khrona nodded his head, smiling "Ah yes, anytime, Misery... You're the main reason why I've changed... Why I've been able to embrace my insanity and use it to its full potential... Teeheeeheee~! We're such a good team... But we're nothing without Despair, ya know." Khrona turned his head to Despair, who hadn't said anything this whole time. "... It was only a few weeks after meeting you that we met her. And you remember that we both felt that connection with her... In fact, we agreed that the town she was in... Had to be destroyed. Remember, Despair?"

Despair opened her eyes, filling with gloom and woe, but the smile on her face was made of pure happiness "Oh, yes... Dreadfully fun... Though I wish we didn't have to hurt those people... You two were the only ones that accepted me after so long, so I was alright with such morbidly fun destruction... Aaah... I remember it well..."

Just as it did with Misery, the area around the pit began to distort and change... This time, the setting was outside of a small town with Khrona and Misery heading toward it to look for some souls. Despair could now remember how it all happened... And where she was at the time... As did Khrona and Misery.

Khrona and Misery were heading elsewhere after a little bit of soul hunting... Khrona was still getting used to interaction with other living things and being a Meister... And Misery was getting used to being wielded after never having to be wielded before... It was an odd feeling for the both of them, but they were getting used to each other, which was the most important part.

Misery: Yo, Khrona... I can see a town up ahead... You think there are some tasty souls up there for us to devour?

Khrona: ... If It makes you happy... We will destroy... And we will kill...

Misery snickered "Heh heh... Sweet. Just wait until you get the hang of soul abilities... Your soul is extremely powerful... Far more powerful than I've seen... And more souls won't just make me stronger, but you stronger as well... Heh heh."

Khrona was silent.

Eventually, they came up to the entrance of the town... But it would seem that no one was there. But Misery could feel their souls in the town... They were all gathered in one place... And seemed to be avoiding something... Or someone. "Eh? Why are they all the way over there? Heheheheh. They must have sensed me coming and cowered in fear. Little pussies. Let's go give them something to fear, huh, Khrona?"

Khrona nodded his head "... I want them to feel... Fear... And I want them to experience... Death... Kill... Kill... Kill..."

Misery laughed maniacally "That's the spirit! Let's go!" and with that, they started to move into the town... Though, soon, they felt a powerful force pushing them away a bit, but they didn't mind it, for it didn't affect them too much.

Misery: Ugh, what the hell is that? I can feel it forcing away everything else... like it's just rejecting everything. It feels like a wavelength...

Khrona lowered his head "... I feel it..."

The both of them would look in the direction it was coming from... And they would see a girl sitting by herself... Crying. It was coming from her.

Misery could immediately tell that there was a wavelength coming from this girl... The powerful rejecting force was her wavelength. "Oooh... I get it... This girl is the one rejecting all of those people and forcing them to congregate at the borders of the town... Heh. Her soul should be mighty tasty."

Khrona looked at the girl, as her emotions flowed to him. They felt very similar to his... Filled with nothing but pain. Sorrow. Rejection. Despair. This made Khrona act on his own will to walk toward the girl.

Misery: Oh, we're gonna go harvest her now? Sweet.

Khrona shook his head "... She's just like me... She cannot be left alone... I feel it... We need her... Like me... If she is like me... She will know... She will be part of our... Family..."

Misery scoffed "Huh. Like you, huh? If you say that, then I guess I can deal with her. It would explain why we don't really feel the effects of her repulsive wavelength, right? Heh heh. We can use that power, you know..."

Khrona nodded, now standing in front of the girl. It took all of his courage for him to utter the words "... Hello.."

The girl looked up at him with a smile of hidden pain and sorrow, and gloomy, tearful eyes filled with misery and despair... The girl was rather shocked that someone actually was able to get near her and not feel the effects of her 'power,' but she was grateful.

"Hello there..." she said with a sweet, yet grim tone "... I am Despair a la Discord... I am happy to meet your acquaintance..."

Khrona and Misery quickly introduced themselves, as well.

Misery: The name's Misery Des Gloomi.

Khrona: ... Khrona....

Despair stood, still smiling, but at the same time, still crying "... I am dreadfully happy that someone has come to see me... It has been so long since I have had contact with anyone... My power... It only brings despair to those around me... And if not that, it rejects them... So I have been alone for quite some time... So having people talk to me unaffected brings me dark joy..."

Khrona moved closer to her, starting to talk a little bit more "... Despair... I like you... You are like me... I don't want you to suffer... You have suffered like I have... That is not good... Misery and I... We could use more friends..." Khrona extended his hand out to Despair, awaiting to see what she would do.

Despair was stunned, but was not reluctant to grab Khrona's hand. She was overjoyed at meeting someone who was not rejected... Who actually wanted her company. Years had gone by since she had contact with anyone... And now, she finally had it. At that moment, Khrona and Despair had a sort of Soul Resonance with each other. Misery and Khrona could tell that Despair was a weapon... and once Khrona grabbed her hand and embraced her wavelength, she changed into her weapon form.

Despair: ... My... And you can wield me... This must mean that this was our grim destiny... For us 3 to meet... Yes, I like it... I love it... You two make me so happy... Unlike the people in this town... Who have made me sad... But it's okay...

Khrona and Misery had the same thought at that point. Kill.

Misery started to laugh slowly... Then it started to pick up as Khrona walked toward the townspeople.

Despair: ... What is about to happen, you two...? Aren't we going to leave...?

Misery: Not until you get some payback. We're gonna reap this town of all its souls and give them to you... Of course, I'm gonna have some, too, but... Yeah. The majority goes to you, hun!

Despair: ... Oh, no... That isn't necessary... We can leave the townspeople to be happy by themselves... Without me...

Khrona: No... I feel your pain... Now, so must they...

Despair was overjoyed at how much they were going through just to make her feel better. What wonderful new friends she had met... "... If you two really want to... Then yes, go and kill them..!"

Khrona extended his wings, flying high into the air. Misery got a lock on every soul in the village... Khrona raised Misery, who was in Scythe form, and raised her above his head, shouting "GRIM SLASHER!!" In a moment's notice, the entire town was swept through, all of the souls harvested in less than a second. All of the bodies were torn and maimed, like they had been sliced several times. Such amazing power and speed for such a very inexperienced meister. It could only mean that they were meant to be. Misery and Despair would absorb the souls of the village, and Khrona would fly off.

Despair: ... Thank you for accepting me...


After that moment, the reality in the pit began to reform back to normal, and Despair was seen smiling and crying... There was no gloom on her face for this moment. She was very happy, as Misery had been.

Despair: ... And since that moment, we have been the very best team ever... I am so very grateful..

Misery smirked "You and me both, hun."

Khrona couldn't help but smile as well. "Remembering our past brings us closer together... Can you feel our souls? They're strong now... Stronger than before... The more we remember, the stronger we get..."

Misery: YO, I just thought about it... Wasn't it great when we both first became Deathscythes? I could feel the overwhelming power of that DAMNED witch inside of me... And my own power skyrocketing... Mmm... How I LOVED that day...

Khrona chuckled "Yes... Though, we don't usually use the power of the witch we absorbed, do we...? Or the power of anyone we've devoured... We can, but we don't..."

Misery: Hmph. We'd better start, ya know. Besides, I bet the witch's soul that I ate would be very VERY useful... Wouldn't you agree?

Khrona: Yes... I remember it well...

Once again, reality started to distort and the realm changed to that of an odd scene... It was that of a mystical castle. It was very dark and grim looking... The lair of the witch they were hunting at the time.



This was the lair of Malojos of the Evil Eye... She was, of course, the Evil Eye witch. How Khrona came across her was that she threatened to curse them with the Evil Eye magic that bypassed all logical means... It could penetrate Khrona's mind, see everything, place illogical curses... It was very powerful. And so, when Khrona was plagued with such a curse... There was only one way to cease it.

Finally, at the final room in the castle of the witch of the Evil Eye... Malojos. She was a tricky witch and was very feared because of the Evil Eye... Not only was this magic widespread throughout the planet, but it caused the worst kinds of curses and bad luck, and could see anyone at any time. Even untold powers that Khrona didn't know of... But all that mattered was that he was going to fight her.

Khrona gazed at the evil witch with a look of malice, very much unhappy about the curse and the seal on his mind.

"... Malojos... Witch of the Evil Eye... I want you dead... You've cursed me with such a plague that I cannot accept..." Khrona's eyes began to dart around angrily. He couldn't focus on his target because of raging insanity.

A large slit appeared in front of Khrona, and opened up in an eye-shape... It was a portal made by the witch... It allowed her to move throughout the universe instantly. The witch stepped out of the portal gracefully, her long, flowing red dress fluttering a bit. Her wings were extended and had eyes on them, but at the moment, those eyes were closed. Her hat had a rose on it, which had an eye hidden within it... There was also a slim line on her forehead, but it was barely noticeable... She held a spear made of some unknown energy with numerous eyes on it, as well. She stood before Khrona as the portal behind her closed, smirking.



"Well, well, well... Look who we have here... Khrona... Heh heh. The eye told me that you were coming... And my eye never lies."

Khrona gave an insane sneer at the witch, his head twitching. She looked as if she were his age...

"... I am going to kill you... Your death will be on my hands... Kill... Death... I want your disgusting soul... Hahahaha.. huuuuh.."

Khrona's head rotated rather crotchety-like around one time, and his eyes were now focused. "Kill..."


Malojos smiled, narrowing her eyes "Oh, Khrona... What big eyes you have... I'll rip them out of your head for you... I want them. I want your eyes." She snapped her fingers and 3 long slits appeared above her, opening to reveal giant, demonic eyes. The eyes began to rotate in place, looking directly at Khrona. The way they looked, it seemed to be that they were about to attack. Once they were ready to attack, there was a gleam, and less than a second afterward, an explosion of untold proportions, covering a majority of the area in front of Malojos. Everything had been disintegrated, even the air. In fact, the air was replaced with pure Evil Eye magic, which created a sort of distorted form of reality with all places it covered. It seemed to be rather consumptive of everything.

Khrona was already behind her, however, for he knew that the attack was coming. He was wielding Misery in sword form, aiming for Malojos' head. With a mighty and swift slash, and thousands of extremely fast, invisible after-slashes, Khrona tried to decapitate Malojos.

Malojos laughed, as the attack totally did not affect her. In fact, it seemed to do everything EXCEPT harm and hit her. It went through her, it missed her, it bent around her... etc. She was immune to attacks.

"Hahahaha. Feeling bad, Khrona? Well, allow me to let you feel worse." She turned around, snapping her fingers, causing the curse put on Khrona to intensity and causing his mind to lock up even more. An eye was then imprinted on his head... He was out, now.

Misery and Despair, however, were not cursed by Malojos' Evil Eye. As Khrona lost his strength and mind, Misery and Despair stood forth. They reverted to their human forms and glared at Malojos with eyes of malice and hate... And hunger. They wanted her soul. They were both so close to becoming Death Scythes... There was no stopping them.

Malojos couldn't help but laugh at the two, for their power was nothing without their technician. "You must really want to die, don't you? Heh. Little weapons can't fight on their own... Without your partner, you're worthless." Malojos snapped her fingers, many flaming eyeballs appearing around her. She pointed to Misery and Despair and the eyeballs would fly at them at a high speed. Whatever the eyeballs touched would cause them to not only be cursed, but be lit on fire... But it was a cursed fire.... With properties that were devastating.

Misery and Despair weren't fearful, however. Once the eyes came, Despair put up a wall of her Rejection, causing them to be repelled and shot off in different direction. That's when Misery went in for an attack. With her Scythe blade, she ran toward Malojos and tried to slash her repeatedly with the Grim Slasher, her Condemnation soul harboring the powers of death, thus it should be able to kill her instantly upon contact.

... As before, Malojos was unaffected by the onslaught of attacks. Even the Condemnation soul did nothing to her, not even causing her to to die a little. Malojos snickered, smacking Misery away with the lance in her hand "Must I tell you again? I am INVULNERABLE. No attacks can harm me! I dare you to give me your best shot... See if it affects me. Destroy reality. Reject existence. Cause me despair. Condemn me. All of it will fail... There is no attack that can harm my body!" Malojos waggled her finger, causing the flaming eyeballs to converge together into one gigantic flaming eye. She launched it at Misery, and if it touched her, it would explode on impact, causing lots of damage...

Despair instinctively jumped in the way of the eye, coating herself with Rejection to combat it. She would protect Misery from it flying at her while she was vulnerable, then reflect it elsewhere. Misery got up soon after and ran near Despair....

Misery: ... Did you see that?! I cut off her head! I used Condemnation on her! This witch can't DIE, no matter what we do... Literally NOTHING affects her... What the hell kind of witch is she?

Despair: ... I don't know... This is a difficult battle... But everything has a weakness... She cannot be completely invulnerable to anything and everything... And if she is, she has to have one place where she can be hurt...

Misery grit her teeth, on the defensive now to see just what place on Malojos seemed to be vulnerable...

Malojos couldn't stop laughing. She was having the time of her life... But it was time to kick it up a notch. "Ha. Alright, I'm done playing nicely..." She snapped her fingers, and Khrona began to wail. She was intensifying his curse. "If you don't do something soon, your beloved partner will die~. Isn't that just... Brilliant~?" Malojos raised a hand and numerous slits opened up on the surface of walls, the ceiling and floor to reveal numerous eyes looking at Misery, Despair and Khrona. Each of them shot out concentrated, powerful, extremely fast beams of some sort of energy at them, making it almost impossible to dodge them since they were coming from literally every angle and could converge literally anywhere in the room at all times. Malojos only had to sit back and relax...

"Son of a--" Misery was quickly cut off by Despair, who had grabbed Khrona and Misery with her dress and let them share the Rejection so that they all could reject the powerful beams. It was obvious that most of Malojos' attacks could erase the air and space and replace it instantly with some of her Evil Eye crap.. Or it could be used to curse them or something. How could they hit her...?

Misery: Tch, SCREW THIS, I'm just gonna stab the bitch straight in the face. Even if I CAN'T kill her, I still wanna mess her FUCKING face up.

Despair: ... But how will you get in close with all of these eyes coming at us, Misery...?

Misery: Well, I have a plan. You are the only one who can protect me, you and Khrona at the same time. Ergo, you are the ultimate defense. Now me, on the otherhand... I don't have many defensive capabilities... Especially none that stand up to Malojos' attacks. I'm all about the offense, baby! So if you use that stretchy dress you've got, you can feed me Rejection and move me close to her so I can get her in the face! Sound good?

Despair nodded "It's a wonderfully horrid plan, Misery... I am so glad you thought of it... I just hope it hurts her..." Despair knew that, even with her own power, if she kept getting onslaught with attacks and protected Khrona and Misery as well, her power would run out soon enough... So she had to get this done quick, or else they would all be doomed. She was the key to making Misery's plan work...

Malojos could see that her latest attack didn't do anything because of Despair, and that made her rather angry. "Huh. Are you all too scared to face me head on, huh? I'll MAKE you all fight me, you know.." An eye appeared above her, the pupil glowing ferociously. It began to shoot out thousands of rounds of what seemed to be bullets in seconds, hoping to totally overwhelm Despair in just a few seconds flat... Firing off thousands of rounds a second? No one could handle that.

Luckily, the bullets meant nothing to Misery since Despair was protecting her, but Despair could feel the strain of holding up her own Rejection. She extended Misery as fast as she could toward Malojos' face. The very moment Misery was close, she smirked and stabbed Malojos right in her left eye. It seemed to do some damage to her.

"HA. BITCH!!"

Malojos screeched and screamed, for her weakness had been found out... Her eyes were totally vulnerable to physical attacks... And upon being stabbed, the eye above stopped firing bullets and closed. In fact, all of the eyes closed that were around her. With a bloodied eye, she panted, looking up at Misery with disgust. "... How... Did you find out my weakness...? My Evil Eye... How did it not see this coming? It sees EVERYTHING!!"

Misery snickered "Oh, you saw me coming, bitch. You just didn't do anything about it. Were you really paying attention to what your eyes were telling you, hmmm~?"

Malojos sneered... Even though she was still totally invincible to everything... Her power was now cut in half because of losing one eye. This wasn't good at all. She didn't care, though. She felt as though she still had enough power to get rid of them. 3 slits appeared above her, opening up to be eyes once more. They began to rotate, getting a little gleam in them once more, and less than a second that the twinkle was seen, there was a massive explosion, less large than the first one, but still rather large, aimed for Misery, Despair and Khrona. Malojos contemplated on how to fix her eye.. For she had no type of regenerative abilities. "Khh... My beautiful eye..."

Again, the explosion would do nothing thanks to Despair's Rejection, but the power of the explosion would cause Despair to give out. She was at her limit as of now. So once the explosion cleared, all that could be seen was Misery, unprotected, going in for the attack. While Malojos was distracted, Misery would stab her AGAIN in her right eye this time, smiling, and then jump back just in case she could retaliate.

Malojos screeched again, now holding both of her bloodied eyes. She was extremely angry now... Beyond angry. She lowered her hands and the slit in the middle of her forehead opened up, revealing one more eye... her third eye. "I still have one more, bitches.. And this eye is the eye of Invulnerability. So as long as I have this one, you still can't hurt me... And I am NOT going to let you get this eye..." She knew that without her other two eyes, she couldn't create any of the eyes in the air or use most of the properties of the Evil Eye... She couldn't fire projectiles, nothing. At least she still had that curse on Khrona, and her spear... Maybe, if she got the other two to look into her eye...

Misery couldn't help but snicker at Malojos. "Awwww, you have no power without your precious little eyes? Don't worry, I'll gouge the last one out nice and swift so that you don't have to watch me kill you.. It's my personal gift to you. Hee hee." Misery raised her sword hand to mouth, licking off the blood that dripped down the edges of the blade and gave a moan of pure satisfaction. "Licking your blood off of my blade just tastes soooo sweet... Maybe when I'm done with your eye, I'll shove my blade down your throat and let you taste your own delicious blood, too~."

Malojos growled at Misery, twirling her spear in her hand "Don't get fresh with me! You're hundreds of years too early to think you've won against me!!" Malojos gripped her spear tightly, extended her extremely large (though not at large as Khrona's) wings which had an eye on each of them, and then pointed her spear, having 2 eyes on it, at Misery. "I've got my eye on you, bitch..."

Misery nodded her head, narrowing her eyes and increasing her smirk, and then in a blur, she was off, already surrounding Malojos with her own speed. She made slashes at Malojos from all around, and yet even still, they were aimed at her eye, since Misery knew that attacking her anywhere else was basically useless. She was also attacking with both her scythe and sword blades for double the effectiveness. It was in high hopes that Malojos couldn't track Misery while she was moving so fast.

To Misery's dismay, however, Malojos actually COULD see anything and everything she wanted so long as she focused... And she was focused on Misery to the fullest. Misery was as clear as day to her, and with every strike she tried to do, Malojos could and would parry it with her own spear as if it were nothing. It would seem as though Malojos wasn't only just skilled in magical combat, but in close quarter weapon combat, as well. In fact, she was so good that when Misery came in for her next strike, instead of parrying it, Malojos stopped it completely with her spear, which should leave Misery ass-out for an attack if she didn't retaliate quickly. Too bad Malojos felt she could attack faster than Misery could retaliate. "Look into my eyes and tell me you don't see defeat!!" Once that was said, Malojos' own eye twinkled, as did the ones on the spear and on her wings. They were trying to place a curse on Misery... Plague her with sickness, cause her death, petrify her, make her go to sleep, drain her energy, WHATEVER, so long as she got off of Malojos' ass.

Misery wasn't prepared for the eyes, but she knew something was up when she stopped moving. So she quickly kicked off of Malojos once she stopped her and flew back quite a few feet. "Huh. You STILL have shit up your sleeves? I can't even look at you? Heh. I guess you did me a favor, then." Misery promptly shut her eyes and got ready to go into the fray once more, using her Soul Perception to guide her to Malojos... To let her see without using her eyes. As long as she could see Malojos' soul, Misery didn't have to look at her eyes or watch her attacks. Her soul would tell Misery everything.

Misery rushed in for another attack, eyes closed and everything, and this time went dead in, trying to stab at her eye with her scythe and sword blades. She wanted Malojos dead with a burning hot passion. Those eyes were annoying. Misery even incorporated some kicks into her fighting to try to catch Malojos off guard.

The attacks were indeed swift and powerful, but Malojos could still deflect them all easily with her spear. Her only hope was to stab Misery while she couldn't see her... But that made Malojos wonder.. How was she aiming at her eye so accurately with her eyes closed? She must have another way. And that's why Malojos didn't let her guard down. However... Perhaps if Misery were too distracted with Khrona, Malojos could kill her now and take Khrona at the same time. Ingenious. Malojos smiled, still fending off attacks and said "Oh, Misery... You're such a bad partner. Can't you see... Your meister needs you right now? He looks ever so terrible..." Malojos' eye twinkled, as her focus went to Khrona to make him get a lot worse with that curse...

Though the moment Misery saw an opening in Malojos, she took it. Her eye was focused on Khrona instead of her. Malojos' soul told Misery that, because it flickered for a moment and the wavelength started to decrease on Misery, thus meaning Malojos had to be focused on another target. So with expert skill and agility, Misery curved her scythe blade around the spear while Malojos wasn't looking, in one swift motion put a hell of a lot of force in it to force it out of her hands, and like clockwork, stabbed her directly in her final eye... The eye of Invulnerability.

With a scream thrice as loud as the first two, Malojos fell to her knees. She was disarmed, she was blind, she was powerless and she was vulnerable. There was no stopping her death as of now. Misery shook her head, an evil grin about a mile wide all over her face. She was going to enjoy seeing this witch die.

"Hey. Malojos. Before you die, I have a question..."

Malojos tilted her head up, streams of blood flowing down her face "... Yeah, what...?"

Misery pointed her sword at Malojos, the tip pointed right at her heart, and Misery asked her;

"... Did you see this coming, bitch?" A swift stab through the heart would be the end of Malojos. Misery twisted and turned her blade inside of Malojos, shredding her heart into nothingness. Misery would then slowly pull out her blade, lick off the blood on her sword and when that glorious, awesome witch's soul popped out of the body... Misery kicked the body away, drenched the soul in the blood of Malojos and grabbed it by its little soul tail, looking at the little eye that was on her soul...

"Bon Appétit."

And she consumed the soul. The curse was lifted from Khrona, Despair was clapping vigorously for Misery, and finally... Misery had become a Death scythe. Power surged from her body as numerous blades of scythes and swords jutted out of her... A sort of insanity pulsated throughout the area, only to be accompanied by condemnation... The new power of Misery's wavelength... Her soul... Her overall abilities... Beyond recognition. It was nice... So nice.

At that moment, the flashback started to end, Reality retorting to its original form of being inside of Khrona's pit.

Khrona: ... Oh yeah, I WAS unconscious for most of that battle... Damn that curse. Hey wait, Misery, we can use the power of that witch, right? Once you collect the soul of a witch to become a Deathscythe, you get to use her magic.

Misery: Yeah, so?

Khrona: ... How come we never use the Evil Eye?

Misery: ... I dunno. How come Despair never uses the ability of the witch she ate?

Khrona: Hm... That's a good point. Huh. I remember that witch... Because I was actually BATTLING that time around... Don't you remember, Despair? We let Misery sit that battle out because we felt like we had to do that battle on our own.. Since we didn't assist much in the battle against Malojos.

Despair nodded "Yes... I do very much remember... The witch I fought was nice... She was really respectful, despite being very evil... It would be horridly nice to fight her again..."

Once again, the reality started to distort to a Flashback...This time around, there was a rather tranquil scene. Everything was nice and surrounded by water... A nice sight to behold, indeed.



Khrona, wielding Misery and Despair, were in a sort of grand hall, one would say, seeming to be accompanied by 4 females.

3 of them stood in the front looking rather menacing. It seemed as though Khrona and these girls had been fighting for quite a while now.



Behind them was a woman clad in all blue, who looked extremely elegant and serene, though at the same time, had a determined look on her face.



Khrona: Serulenia, the witch of Animation... You have been trapping people in suspended animation around here... I cannot harvest the soul of something that cannot be harmed... Take them out right now, and I will spare you and your animated goons...

Serulenia: ... Many apologies, young boy... But I do not want them to regain their animation... They are extremely noisy beings... They wish to destroy my home... And if I let them do as they please, I will have nowhere to go... I enjoy tranquility and peace... I did not want to kill them, so I simply kept them in suspended animation and threw them into the depths of the waters surrounding my palace. Isn't that the best thing to do?

Khrona: ... I don't want to have to kill you... You are a nice person. I wish to leave you in peace and just devour the souls of the others... But unfortunately, you are also the only witch around here... And my weapon partner needs a witch's soul to become a Death scythe... And as such, I must kill you... I am sorry...

Serulenia: It is perfectly understandable, and I will accept your challenge.. However, at the same time, I cannot simply allow you to kill me so easily.. Not only would that bring shame to my name, but also to yours... And so if I win, I will trap you in suspended animation, alright? I do not wish to kill you...

Khrona nodded his head. This was going to be hard to do... He actually LIKED this woman because of her kindness... She reminded him of his weapon, Despair... And as such, he would fight using her. But before he got to Serulenia... He was going to have to get through her lackeys, first.

Serulenia raised her massively large sword and pointed it at Khrona, and that was the signal for her 3 lackeys to attack him. The first one had the ability to make an infinite amount of swords and knives appear and float around her, and she would use them as weapons and change her body into blades. Her name was Echo. The second one had the ability to make feathers into any sharpness or hardness and use them as her own weapon, as noted by the lance in her hand made of extremely hard, sharpened feathers which could pierce through most substances. Her name was Lavis. The last one had the powers of energy itself (mostly in the form of elements) and could absorb and use each one in the floating spiked coil behind her. She also had a sword in which she could charge with any of said energies. Her name was Rynoh. The 3 of them quickly rushed at Khrona; knives swirling in front of Echo, feathered spear outstretched in front of Lavis, and the element of fire charged into Rynoh's sword.

Khrona held up Despair, not wanting to use Misery because she was already a Death scythe, so that wouldn't be fair. He put up a barrier of Rejection in front of him, then said to Serulenia "... Hey. This weapon right here; I'm not using her... So do not attack her..." Misery would change out of her weapon form and scoff, knowing just the reason why. "Hmph."

Serulenia nodded, and quickly made sure Misery couldn't be harmed or move by placing her in suspended animation where she stood. "I will release her when the battle is finished."

Khrona accepted this, and then made a powerful force with the Rejection to force away the 3 women so that he could have space to think...

As the 3 were forced away, they scowled at Khrona and his tiny straight-razor weapon... They weren't fully sure of what it could do, but they knew it had powerful repulsive force. That wasn't good. It would seem that a different approach to this was necessary.

Echo, being the fastest and most agile, would dash in many different directions in a blur, hoping to confuse the hell out of Khrona. Her speed matched that of Misery, so she was damn fast. In a flash, she was right next to Khrona, slashing wildly at him with a crapload of swords at the same time from numerous angles, and as a surprise attack, also made a gigantic sword blade jut straight up from the ground where Khrona stood, trying to impale him where he was.

Lavis, being the most defensively inclined, wasn't exactly going to attack directly, either. Instead, she spread her wings and took flight into the air, hovering over Khrona. She didn't attack yet, but she made hundreds of very large arrows of her extremely sharp and hard feathers form above, so that if Khrona had an opening, she could quickly launch any one of them down upon him and hopefully harm him severely.

Rynoh, being the most offensively inclined, made the coil of elemental spikes behind her into a sphere that floated directly behind her head. The top one was red, meaning she was set to using fire. This quickly changed to white, which would be usage of Light. Rynoh's sword accordingly started to glow white, being charged with the energy of pure light. She ran in headfirst at Khrona. She swung her sword, the power of the swing causing the light to get extremely bright, making an incredibly blinding flash of light to hopefully throw Khrona off whilst she also would be able to hit him with her gigantic, powerful sword.

Indeed, the 3 girls working together from different angles was overwhelming to Khrona. He was still just a scared little boy... When he finally saw Echo coming in from the side, he instinctively raised Despair to block each and every one of the swords, which he did successfully, but then the sword from the bottom came up, which he wasn't prepared for... Though once it made contact with Khrona's body, his Black Blood kicked in and stopped it from penetrating at all. Good shit. With a powerful force of Rejection, Khrona pushed Echo away and quickly started to combat Rynoh, who was coming in next. He was first blinded by the light, instinctively raising his mighty, powerful wings to keep it from shining at him, and his wing was so durable and strong that it could take a hit directly from that sword and Khrona wouldn't feel it. With a swift push, Khrona would knock Rynoh away as well.. FAAAR away. His wings were his strongest bodypart. Though, he had no clue where Lavis was... For at this point in time, Khrona wasn't completely in tune with his psychic ability... Out of curiosity, he looked up, noticing the hundreds of arrows aimed at him. He domed himself with Rejection for security and sighed.

"... Despair... Do you have a plan...? I can't... My mind... They're too fast.. They are coming at me too fast... I don't know how to deal with them..."

Despair sighed as well, trying to comfort Khrona "Hush up, Khrona... I will make this battle wonderfully horrid for them... But for this to work, I am going to need you to fully open your mind and soul to me... And listen to me... Alright?"

Khrona nodded his head, feeling a bit more composed over himself.

Being forced back, Echo regained composure of herself by stopping herself with a flying sword. She landed on it and rode it gracefully through the air like a surfboard. Lavis, who knew that her attack definitely wouldn't pierce through that barrier, dispersed her feathers, which would quickly disintegrate into nothingness. Echo flew up next to her on her sword. Finally, Rynoh, who had also been taken back by Khrona's power, joined the girls up in the air by making a jet of fire spew out of the center of her circle of spikes behind her, allowing her to float up to them.

Echo: He's rather unorthodox.

Lavis: But he seems to have great power.

Rynoh: He could easily defeat us individually, and our combined attacks have done nothing for the length of our fight...

Echo: So if this is how it is, how do we defeat him?

Lavis: Simple, dears...

Rynoh: We overwhelm him.

As the 3 collaborated, they knew exactly what had to be done. After fighting Khrona for so long, even with the long pause in between so that he could talk to Serulenia, they were running out of power. It was time for a big one from each of them. Echo created a large amount of swords in the air... Giant swords, Lavis made many gigantic feathers, and finally, Rynoh's circle of elements began to spin in front of her. The 3 of them fired off their attacks, respectively being a nonstop barrage of superfast swords, bullet-like shots of these gigantic feathers continuously, and firing off all of the elements on the ring simultaneously in one focused, massive blast.

The instant they launched their attacks, Despair would say to Khrona "Now!" And Khrona would point to the 3 of them with Despair, focusing his mind and his soul wavelength along with hers to create a sphere of Rejection around the 3 of them entirely. This Rejection was powerful enough to not only withstand all of their attacks, but to reject them back at them inside of the dome, thus causing the swords, elemental blast and feathers to shoot around at insane speed and hopefully destroy the 3 without question... For they shouldn't have had any time to react to such a thing.