The Old Days...

The dome of Rejection would fade, showing the 3 girls fall to the ground, totally motionless. Their own attacks were too much for them, it seemed.

Serulenia looked at Khrona, noticing his power that her 3 lackeys seemed to notice as well. "... That 'Rejection,' you call it, is very powerful, it seems. I shall make sure not to take it lightly. Come back to me, my pieces, and allow me access into my full battle-ready mode."

She extended her hand, and the 3 lackeys became nothingness, being returned back to Serulenia's body, which they seemed to be made from. She was using her power to keep them animated, but in reality, they were just fragments of herself. As they came back, Serulenia would be able to go to her full power... Which was shown by the change in her armor and weapon. She would begin to glow a translucent blue color, and her armor changed slightly, but noticeable, as her sword became larger and more blue.



The hue was rather beautiful and serene, reflecting Serulenia, herself. She held her sword, awaiting Khrona for battle "... I do hope you try your best..."

With a look of determination, Khrona nodded to her, stretched his wings, and ran in at Serulenia.

As Khrona ran in, Serulenia created a slick of water in front of him, and when he stepped in it, it would freeze over his foot instantly and cause him to be unable to move.

"My element lies in Water... Which is the liquid state of Ice. Animation is not my only forte, you know."

With great agility, she leapt from her throne, wielding the massive sword and swiped at Khrona, the sheer force of the swipe not only making a vacuum where she slashed, but also making an extremely powerful blast of pure force from where the two were, easily able to knock down this entire palace if it weren't enchanted with Serulenia's magic.

Acting fast, Khrona's frozen foot would absorb the ice, making him both immune to water attacks and ice attacks so long as he kept the ice in his DNA, but at the swing of that sword, Khrona immediately had himself coated with Rejection, which would parry the force of the slash between the both of them, which would cause Khrona to probably fly deeeeeep into the earth if this palace weren't enchanted.

Serulenia knew he was going to use such an attack, so she didn't put her full force into the swing. She wasn't even knocked back by the rejection's force. She was so very stable and so very strong that such a force being reflected back at her did nothing. This new battle form was top notch. "Good..." she said, and almost instantly after being rejection swiping her sword very swiftly at Khrona's side. She seemed to wield such a heavy and powerful weapon with no trouble whatsoever. The force of this smack would be of the same power as the sword swipe before, and thus, if Khrona was still coated in rejection and didn't dodge, would easily just fly directly into a wall.

Unprepared for such swift retaliation, Khrona indeed flew into a wall, the rejection fading as he hit it. She was way too strong, even for a normal witch... And this wasn't even the strength of her magic, but her own physical strength that was unenhanced by magic. Weird..

Khrona: ... Despair.. She is very.. Agile... And very... Strong... What do we do? How do we defeat her...?

Despair: ... I am not sure... Let's ask her about her armor. Miss Serulenia?

Serulenia turned to Khrona, looking at the straight razor in his hand "Yes? Is there something the matter?"

Despair: ... What are the enhancements granted to you with your new armor...?

Serulenia smiled... If they weren't so cute, perhaps she wouldn't have told them. Oh well. ".. You are adorable. Well, first, it gives me immunities to all of the elements and its durability is higher than the strongest diamond you will ever know... In my boots and on my back are powerful water jets used for flying and maneuvering in the air, but I'm not much of a flier, anyway... My sword has been enhanced to become any hardness, size or density, and has the ability to pass through solids at will, and finally, it is able to absorb forces for storage and for more power. It cannot absorb my own, however, so I had to keep myself incredibly sturdy to keep myself from being taken back by my own force when you reflected it. Is that sufficient information?"

Khrona nodded "Yes, ma'am... Thank you..."

Serulenia smiled, closing her eyes "Oh, don't mention it." After that, she took off, jumping into the air as high as Khrona was on the wall and was ready to deliver a powerful, earth-shattering kick directly to his face.

Out of instinct, Khrona ducked his head, letting her miss just by a hair. Khrona was about to flap his wings to get her out of the immediate area, but she absorbed forces, she said, so that would just bring her more power. So instead, Khrona dropped down to the ground himself... Rejection would only work for so long...

Khrona: ... Despair, what about your other wavelength?

Despair: ... My... Despair wavelength? Are you suggesting that we use that to try to weaken her?

Khrona: Yes, exactly. We'll have to fight her in close quarters, but... I can take whatever punishment she gives me...

Despair: ... If you say so, Khrona... We shall do so, then!

Just as they made such a decision, Serulenia came down with yet another powerful strike from her sword, threatening to crush Khrona where he stood.

Khrona jumped out of the way just a bit, flapping his wings backward to keep himself from flying back from the force. With a Despair Wavelength charged blade, he slashed at Serulenia, which it would seem to do nothing to her damn near impenetrable armor.

Serulenia, not even noticing the attack, would punch Khrona with her free hand, which should send him flying at an insane speed across the grand hall, all the way to the other side.

Khrona crashed into yet another wall, using his wings to cushion a lot of the impact. It was insane how physically powerful this witch was... With no help from her armor at all. "How many times do you suspect we'll have to do this, Despair...?"

Despair: ... I can assess her power with my wavelength, since I have hit her once... I would say a good 10 times, Khrona....

Khrona nodded, his determination to hit Serulenia 10 times was set. He just needed a way to catch her off guard... He dashed at Serulenia, but oddly enough, wrapped in Rejection

Serulena figured that he had something planned, so instead of actually hitting Khrona, she simply moved out of the way of his attack, then brought her sword down on him when he was in range.

Khrona, however, using a bit of his psychic power, had anticipated her movements and had Despair outstretched in his hand. So one he passed by, even though he would take the hit from the sword, he would have still cut Serulenia, weakening her once more with Despair's wavelength. There were only 8 more times to go.. Being hit with the sword, though, brought Khrona straight into the ground with the earth-shattering force... His Black Blood and Despair's rejection absorbing the hit so that it wouldn't physically hurt Khrona. His regenerative abilities weren't exactly all that fine-tuned yet.

Once the sword was brought down on Khrona, it started to glow a bit more. Without warning, it started to drive Khrona into the ground with explosive and immense force repeatedly, once again, that would probably destroy the entire palace if it weren't enchanted. She didn't seem to want him to get up from that.

It was time for Khrona to try mastering his DNA skills... This was something he hadn't done many times before, but he could at least try it now. Khrona separated his body into two parts, moved out of the way quickly, and reconnected himself before the strain was too much on him. "Eh.. Despair... If only your Rejection were stronger... I'm sure she wouldn't be able to get by it so easily..." Khrona also noticed something about Serulenia... She mainly used physical attacks against Khrona. All Khrona had to do was make sure that she touched Despair's blade if this plan were to go off without a hitch.

"Despair... I have an idea..."

Khrona gripped Despair tightly, then rushed off at Serulenia once again, however this time, he was using his wings as fists.... As they had taken the form of fists. Cough.

Serulenia quirked a brow "... Oh my. Such a straight-forward attack. I truly wish you would learn to avoid punishment...." She swung her sword at the wings, hoping to cut them clean off with just one strike. Her other hand was naturally balled into a fist, for if Khrona was just using his wings as a feint, she'd merely punch him.

No matter what Serulenia did, if she responded with physical contact, then she had already fallen for Khrona's trap. His wings were powerful enough to even take a hit from her sword without being affected, which he didn't really think about until just that very moment, so once she swung for them, Khrona grabbed the sword with the wings, took it from her and flung it elsewhere. And then, once she tried to punch him in the face, He'd grab her fist with his other wing-hand, and let razor blades jut out of them, which would cut her a third time. With Razor blades on his feet, he'd deliver a kick to Serulenia's chest, and then fling her off with the awesome power of his wings. That would be 4 hits.

Even though Serulenia could easily take a kick to the chest from Khrona, those wings were rather troublesome... Not only that, she started to feel a little weaker. Not to mention, she didn't have her sword now. But she could always get that back any time she wanted. Magic, you know. She skidded across the ground with her feet, using her water jets on her back to keep her from going to far, and then regained her composure.

"Mmmm.. So you do have a little more fight in you... I am glad. I didn't want this fight to be too one-sided.." She raised her hand, her sword manifesting back into it, and she prepared herself for another attack.

Khrona raised his wing-hands once more, and they split into 4 now instead of two. Khrona pushed himself off of them, flying directly at Serulenia. He was completely focused on all aspects of her movement, in fact... Very focused. He did not even blink.

Serulenia was slightly confused as to why Khrona kept rushing in, but it must be some sort of trap, she thought. Through his absorption of her water/ice magic, it was presumed that he had gained an immunity to it... So there was no using that... Her current 3 pieces, Echo, Lavis and Rynoh, were incapacitated... He was slowly whittling her down to her most basic powers. Soon she might have to start using her powers over Animation... Which she didn't want to use in this fight... But it might have to be done. She was running out of things and she didn't even notice until now.. He was smarter than he looked. Instead of actually attacking him again, she started up her water jets on her boots and on her back and jetted off. She had traps of her own, you know.

Determined, Khrona followed her religiously. If she made a turn, Khrona would turn on the dime. No matter where she went, Khrona would follow, just waiting for his opening. Nothing more.

Glancing over her shoulder, Serulenia realized that she just couldn't lose Khrona. Hm. Perhaps his plan was to wear her out? Not likely. But if he was so focused on following her, perhaps he wouldn't notice anything else... Her sword would suddenly dissipate, reappearing directly above Khrona, trying to strike him from above and slam him into the ground, as it did before. Serulenia watched the entire process, seeing how Khrona would react.

There was a sharp gleam in Khrona's eye the moment the blade appeared above him. A sheet of rejection hovered over him as he flew now, making sure that the blade hit it, stopping it from going to Khrona. Swiftly, Khrona grabbed the sword and threw it at Serulenia. She would only have 2 options; Avoid it or catch it. Either way, Khrona had her set. He would extend his wings to cover a very large area, arcing them around Serulenia's general area, knowing that if she were to avoid it, she would just fly into one of his 4 wings. Regardless, he was going to smash all of his wings down on her in that one spot.

Serulenia caught her sword, but then realized that though Khrona was behind her.. She was completely surrounded by him. His wings were marvelous. She did not, in fact, have enough time to do anything once his wings came down on her, and as such, she was hit with the 4 bladed wings.

Khrona smiled. That was 8 hits with the blades now. The final two would surely be the end of Serulenia's armor, and her power should be weakened severely by now because of the Despair Wavelength's effects. Khrona immediately descended to the ground on Serulenia was in his grasp and smashed her on the ground repeatedly with his wings. He only did so to make sure she did not escape him and would also be harmed in the process. Finally, he opened his wings, but immediately afterward, would rush directly at her while she was hopefully dazed and kick her with both bladed feet directly in the chest for his final 10.

With nothing being able to be done by the attacks, Serulenia simply had to take it. She tried to break free of his wings, but... her power... It was weakened severely for some odd reason.. She did notice that Khrona had been touching her a lot lately... That must be it. He must be using some odd power which weakens her more and more as he touched her. It was the only possibility. But, because of the jarring slams to the ground, Serulenia could not avoid Khrona's kicks, which actually did a little bit of damage she could feel. That was proof enough that her armor was weakened and her power had dropped. She could only help but smile...

Khrona released her from his winged prison, readying Despair for the final strike. He needed a LOT of power if he were going to break through her armor (though it was weakened) AND slice through her to take her soul. It was going to take some force, he presumed. So, reverting his 4 wings to normal, he flapped as hard as he could, exceeding mach 3 speed with just one flap from all four, and tried to slash directly through her armor and body, slicing them both clean in two, and leaving the witch's soul for Despair to devour...

Though to Khrona's dismay, once Despair's blade tip touched Serulenia's armor, not only would the armor snap off, turning Serulenia back to normal... But Khrona would have been trapped in Suspended Animation.

"I did not want to have to do that... But I guess I was left with no choice. Now you may witness the full potential of my magic... The power to give motion to the motionless... Life to the lifeless... Though, in your case, I would have taken your motion away, right? Deeply sorry..."

Serulenia snapped her fingers, and her enchanted palace began to rumble. It was rising from the ground... The water level decreased outside, and the vines all over it began to swirl in unison. From the depths of the oasis came two massive hands, which would soon be show to be connected to the palace itself. It also seemed to have extremely long legs. The palace started to moan, which sounded like a roar that echoed throughout the lands, and finally, 2 gleaming eyes appeared on the front of it, completing its menacing appearance.

"This..." Serulenia said, now releasing Khrona from his suspended animation "... Is the fruit of my power. No matter how large or how small.. If it has no movement, if it has no life... I may grant it that however I please."

The building forcefully ejected Khrona and his still suspended weapon, Misery, out into the water, then glared at them with its menacing eyes. Serulenia was seen floating out of the top, and standing on the building's head. "Come, Khrona. We aren't finished here...."

Once ejected, Khrona quickly regained control and landed on top of the water as if it were a solid ground. He was utilizing the power he had absorbed from Serulenia. It was lucky that he absorbed it when he did... Anyway. The next thing was to take down Serulenia, since Khrona was wiped from fighting her already... And he surely knew he didn't have enough power to take down this gigantic creature as quickly as he needed to... So this would have to be the last attack... It MUST be planned carefully.

Khrona: ... Despair, it is time... To use your power to the fullest...

Despair: ... As long as you are the one wielding me.. There is no despair within me...

Khrona nodded gripping her tightly ".. Tamashii no Kyoumei (Soul Resonance.)" He stepped off of the water lightly, though it launched him extremely fast directly at the beast, the force being so great that the waters would rise up to the sky. Khrona was moving so fast that he was actually flickering, it seemed.

Serulenia sensed a new sort of power manifesting inside of Khrona... No, wait.. Their souls were combined now. The Soul Resonance had taken place, it seemed.

"Oh.. Are they going hard?"

The palace beast raised its arms, punching swiftly and violently at Khrona in a mad attempt to knock him out of the sky and out of this land, and probably knock him out in the process.

Khrona was not going, however. He coated his 4 wings in an intense Rejection, slapping away any punch that came to him with nice precision. The power of the slaps should even be able to throw this behemoth off balance for a moment or two. Anything he didn't have time to slap, he surely did avoid speedily. He was already almost at Serulenia...

Serulenia: ... He can even do this much? What is that Soul Resonance... What is this child? No one should have even been able to last this long with me...

So, because Khrona was now too close for the giant to pummel with fists, and because that didn't seem to be effective... It was time for the vines to attack. They shot swiftly at Khrona in the millions, sharp and strong, ready to hang him by his neck if one were to latch on to him. The number alone should be enough to stop him.

But no, Khrona continued, this time utilizing Despair as a weapon. In swift and blurred motions, Khrona sliced through every single vine that came in his way with Despair. There wasn't a one that wasn't hacked in two, slowly making the way for Khrona to fly directly up to Serulenia. Once the path was clear, Khrona had her dead in his sights. With one swift slash, that would end it all.

Serulenia closed her eyes, holding her hand up in Khrona's direction once he got past the vines "... I don't think it is my time just yet, Khrona... I am sorry for your trouble..." She would trap the flickering Khrona in Suspended Animation once more, noting that she would not let him out this time... But wait... Something was amiss... Khrona wasn't in the bubble of suspended animation in front of her. But... how could that be? He was right there... At his speed, there was no way he could have dodged it. But a drop of water fell on Serulenia's face, and that's when she turned around and looked up to the sky. She would see Khrona's face imprinted in the waves of the water. Khrona had anticipated Serulania's use of the suspended animation once more. Once he thought Serulenia was about to use it, he combined himself with the water, which would then be tipped with overly large razor blades, all of which came crashing down on Serulenia. The waterfall turned red the moment the blades passed over Serulenia, and the once tranquil and serene oasis became a lake of red.

Once the now red water calmed, Khrona appeared from the depths of it, Misery and Despair by his side. The gigantic, monstrous palace would lose its animation, thus falling back into the water with a powerful crash, and becoming dormant as it once was before.

The soul of Serulenia, noted by a sort of cinematic reel imprinted on it, would float over to Despair. She could already feel its power flowing even before consumption. With a doubtful look to Khrona and Misery, but quickly gaining confidence from their presence and looks of assurance, she consumed the soul of the witch.

With that done, the reality of the area started to return to normal, back to the way the pit was before.

Despair sighed, a tear in her eye and a smile on her face. "How I do miss Serulenia... She was a good witch, I tell you.. And I am dreadfully grateful that memory is now fresh in my mind again... It was beautiful, to say the least... Ah, Khrona..."

Khrona nodded, as he felt the same way. Misery, Despair and Khrona were all feeling closer than ever. They all moved in close to each other and gave each other a big, loving, sexual hug, feeling each others dormant souls slightly resonating at that moment. It was a reeaaally good and indescribable feeling.

Misery pushed herself away after a while, dusting herself off "Eh, but enough of that mushy garbage. I'm gonna go out for a little while or somethin. Seeing those memories got me a bit hyped up, ya know. You two coming with or what?"

Despair: Oh, yes... It would be morbidly fun to join you in some sort of epic journey, Misery...

Khrona pondered for a moment, saying "Should I go..? Should I not...? Should I stay...? Should I go...?" And finally, when he thought of a decision, he said "... Sorry, Misery. I'll pass. I'm going to go and rest for a while. You two have fun, then." Khrona started to walk down a different corridor.

Misery and Despair shrugged their shoulders, both saying "Meh." and Despair would wrap her cloak around the both of them, allowing them to warp off elsewhere.

Once the two of them left, Khrona sat in a room by himself. He was thinking only of those two witches...

"Malojos, the witch of the Evil Eye... and Serulenia, the witch of Animation..."

Khrona looked off to his side, a bit in a daze. Though Khrona didn't need to sleep, his mind was a bit tired right now... Retrocognition. It was an ability that could only be used well whilst he was Fully Sane, and thus using it when he had insanity in his mind was actually rather stressful. Using powers that were supposed to be only accessible to his Fully Sane self always took a deep toll on his mind... It weakened it, in fact. This is why he stuck to what powers worked for each of his forms. Oh well. Nothing a little rest wouldn't cure.

"Malojos... and Serulenia..."

Khrona started to slowly nod off, his mind entering a state as if he were asleep, but his eyes were still open. Still, his mind was asleep.

Some time after his brain entered a sleep-like state, Khrona continued to mumble.

"Malojos... cmmmdmfjcdikmmm... Serulenia... mmgklprmmm..."

He had been thinking about them ever since he brought up those memories. Why? Nobody know. But in the end, it would be the worst thing for him. Because Khrona couldn't keep his thoughts to himself, since Khrona normally didn't sleep and his brain was normally always protected from inside and out, this shouldn't happen. But since his mind was using its Theta Waves, which going on when those who are asleep start to dream, and Khrona was thinking about the two witches... His inability to keep his thoughts to himself ended up manifesting itself as the two witches.. They were both recreated right then and there, next to each other, made fully and completely as they were before...

Once she manifested, Malojos opened her eyes shocked to see herself alive.. She was killed by Misery, last she remembered... She checked her body... No wounds. She checked her eyes.. All able to see. Huh. It seems like she is spick and span... But then she noticed Khrona sitting right beside her. She jumped, as he was looking right at her.. And he looked different than last she remembered. Out of pure fear, she rushed out, pushing the other witch out of the way and quickly exiting this pit via one of her Eye portals.

Once manifested, just as Malojos did, she remembered only the moment right after her death... So if she died out elsewhere, how was she here? Before she could come to any conclusions, she was pushed out of the way by another witch who seemed to be in a rush. Hmph. Serulenia was also feeling EXTREMELY weakened in power.

"... She was quite rude..."

After that, Serulenia looked down, noticing Khrona. He looked different... Older, in fact... And he seemed to be in some sort of trance-like state. She thought about it, wondering what this meant.

"Hmmm... Did he... Bring me back to life?"

It was the only possibility. He must have those sorts of powers, she assumed. He was in such a trance-like state, it must have taken a lot of power to revive her, she thought. She knew Khrona was a good kid... And even when they fought, she didn't want to kill him or to die, herself. He must have known that and revived her. Though, she must not have been to completion yet. She didn't have all of her power... Oh well. She'd get it eventually. She smiled at Khrona, patting him on the head.

"... You are a good child..."

And with that, walked out, finding a way out of the pit. She only hoped that after the time period she was gone, her palace was still in good shape...

After resting for a long period of time, or at least long enough to recover, Khrona awoke, his mind being as sharp as ever... Though he couldn't help but feel as though something was amiss... He had a weird dream about Malojos and Serulenia... But that didn't matter.

"... I wonder what Misery and Despair are doing... Oh well. Might as well go find them."

Khrona stood up, brushed himself off, and wrapped himself in his judgemaster jacket, warping elsewhere like Meta Knight.