--- Minor Time Skip ---

After the engagement with the Corrupt Shinsanity of Darkness as well as within the Battle for the Crown, Thanytoz appeared in a flurry of shadowy bats back at the starting point, where he would be awaiting the Time of Alignment.

"My... That took a while..." he muttered, pulling the Black Grimoire out of the shadow of his robe, "... But it looks like we're going to make it just in time." He smiled, letting the Light take over the Book, beginning the Alignment of the Shinsanities and Shinsangels.

"We're in Position."

After a certain point in time, the book stopped glowing and it came to a close in Thanytoz' palm. He smiled grimly with eyes that cut through the shadows, his eternally open third eye piercing into the mind of the Great Fae, "... It's about that time, you know."

Appearing literally out of thin air once she was penetrated by the piercing red third eye, Shintsuki would gently land upon the tip of her foot and softly lower to the ground completely until standing straight up. She stared at the man wrapped in shadows with concern.

"... I suppose it's... Still pretty dark down here, huh...?" She chuckled dryly, looking off to the side and grasping her arm nervously.

He sighed heavily, plastering his palm upon his face over a single eye, the other peeping out between his pinky. "No shit, Sherlock. >>; " His head slide lucidly from his palm and slumped down in what seemed to be a disgruntled manner. "We do need to... Finish the job, right? >>; " He tapped his foot a little impatiently, wondering why they just couldn't seem to get everything done in one fell swoop, like they were all just supposed to be doing in the first place. He knew she wanted to rest and was doing her best, but until the Dream had been brought back from Above and into the Shadows that was supposed to belong, their work wasn't yet done. But this was the home stretch, and he would just be patient with her about these sorts of things. Friday wasn't born a Tensei, so just like they had to learn the secrets of the Fae and Malfortuna, the Malfortuna had to learn about the Tensei and the Shinsangels. The Curse may have been broken, which allowed them to continue to resolve things, but the remnants of the Curse would still remain until Tsuki had fully undergo the removal and full awakening of herself. It would help the both of them understand each other much better.

"... Why not start with the Witch Province...?" he said through yet another exasperated sigh.

He looked like he was pretty upset. She didn't really know why... And even still, somehow, he found a way to disturb her. She didn't just understand why she couldn't hold her peace for just a little while. Maybe it was because of the remnants of the curse still working their effects on her. She didn't mean to keep having these things happen that messed up everything, but it was definitely out of her control. Honestly, knowing the story, that's exactly why she needed to do it, and why she was going to continue and see it all through until she was done.

"Hey, don't look like that..." she said, kinda rolling her eyes to the other side, but still keeping a face of concern, "... We're almost done. Things are going alright. Right?" Quite honestly, she was really lost about a lot of things, but she could see that it was having a lot of beneficial effects on herself, her family and his, as well as everyone and everything else around her, for whatever reason that was. Perhaps because of the lessening of Malfortuna coming from her very existence.

Though she still remained sorta puzzled about everything, yet held some sort of ambiguous hazy grasp of it all enough to keep up and help out, she'd just trust in the Kurogami right now, since he was the only one of the Shinsangels with a Third Eye that remained open at all times.

"Um. So what do I have to... Do?"

That's when it hit him. "What?" He raised his head up slowly at the revelation, turning his head curiously as he gazed at her with a puzzled expression, "... You mean, you don't know?" His eyes darted left and right, as if putting things together at a high speed. "Hmmm... That makes... Yeeess..." Now Thanytoz could see why things weren't falling into place. "All this time, I thought you knew... I thought you knew what you were doing..." The girl knew her place, but just didn't know what to do with it when she was in it. The same as the boy when he was coming into it...

"It all makes sense now!!" He hopped up, smiling with a fiendish ambition, "COME, LASS!!! You must be swallowed by your darkness!!!" There was something that she was missing, probably because she wasn't facing it, which she needed to do in order to move forward. The longer she denied her Darkness, the more it would swallow her without her knowing from the unknown.

For some reason, as he said that, the vivid memory of a giant black hole with a monstrous galactic face and sharp, vampiric teeth sucking out her soul came to mind, widening her eyes and suddenly blackening her mind. She couldn't even think of how to respond correctly. "Ex... Excuse me?!" she exclaimed, both confused and partially wondering if she should be concerned. "What do you mean?!"

He chuckled, now finally having found the answer that would lead them to the path of restoration for all Mysteria, "It means, very simply, my dear..." He closed his eyes and his eternally open third eye gleamed again with a thin concentrated red light so bright that its very shine blinded one to all other lights around it.

"SINK INTO DARKNESS!!!!"

He cracked open the Black Book, calling out its name,

"BAHAMUT!!!"

And called forth the second greatest of the Tensei Guardian Spirits...

At the beckon of the prisonous name of which he was concealed by the confines of the Book, the great wings of a dark and overbearing presence burst forth and blew aback all things in the area at the time with merely the gentle spread of those black wings of darkness, robing every fragment of light in their wake with their greatness. It was here;

The Black Dragon; Grimnyzmal the Abyzmal.

"TO THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR!!!"

The same way it came over Khrona in his time and wrap around his heart did it indeed need to restrict that of his wife in this form and filter out the image of her own Darkness so that she could see what it looked like for her own eyes... That which would be the image of the Great Fae that would rule over the Dream World from which Friday and the Malfortuna hail.

"Until your People come to Light in this World... So too will We remain in the Darkness with them... As the Shadow of the Light..."

His wings would sweep her from the ground and embrace her gently, like a dark phoenix, yet aggressively like a black hole. It was just the same as the image she'd seen in her dream; down to even the white fangs. Even the Malfortuna Family as a whole had a 'Worst Nightmare,' and that was Grimnyzmal the Abyzmal. Eventually, the Robe of Despair would swallow her whole and strip her of her luster whilst donning the Darkness to Contain her Light.

"Itadakimaaaaaasuuu..."

Right before her eyes, she saw it happening to her, exactly as she had it in a dream before. Her premonition had become a reality and the image that haunted her dreams steadily crept its way closer to her. She wasn't sure why this was happening, but she was utterly mortified and how it kept coming back to get her. "No..." she uttered in horror, lip quivering a bit, "... No, it... It can't be...!!!" And as soon as it opened its mouth to speak, just as it had been in the dream, was she swallowed up whole by it and consumed by a vacuous vortex vacuum that trapped her inside of the infinite abysmal darkness of her own heart and soul.

"DON'T PUT ME BACK IN THERE!!! DON'T LEAVE ME IN THE DARKNESS!!! THE DARKNESS WHERE THERE IS NO CREATION!!!"

As a Fae, and one that thrived specifically on the dreams of others, if there was emptiness, she was completely and utterly powerless, trapped and stripped dry of her power. It was every Malfortuna's worst nightmare; not being able to use their Unbound Influence to influence whatever they wanted at any given time. To them, it was known as the Black Swamp. To others, The Void. To the Tensei, the Zero World. But it would always be as it is... Absolute Zero. Shintsuki, as she was, was no more.

Thanytoz shook his head and signed. "And you call us melodramatic..." He wasn't aware of how terrifying he and the things he did looked to others because he already knew what the outcome of them was regardless of how he acted about them. It was easy to throw people off that way, and it made his presence sometimes very off putting if he got carried away, but he always knew what the end result was at all times as soon as he put anything in motion. That was his best quality in the darkness. However, he wanted to make sure of something as she was being consumed by the Black Dragon as its little snack.

"... Girl..." he muttered, stepping closer to her with head hung low and overpowering eyes baring down upon her a stern, serious and striking gaze that could shatter her soul in a moment's notice, eyes affixed securely on her as her body continues to slip further down into the prison of the pitch black pit of the Black Swamp that bound her down, soon to gag her if she slid in too deep, "... Do You Trust Me?"

"I..." after witnessing her worst fear come true before her very eyes, being betrayed by the dark shadow of a being that could destroy her and make her at her most vulnerable, she sank deeper and deeper into the black cesspool of the Dark One's shadow as it loomed over her ominously, furthering her fear and her inability to answer.

"I..." she tried again, finding the same emptiness and unknowing in her mind as she tried to collect an answer. She knew that Thanytoz was Tymon's Dark side... But, was this truly part of him? How he was in the shadows? Would he truly betray her and consume her so haphazardly on a whim? These questions... They were racing through her, yet she had no time to sort through them. Time was up, it seemed.

"I...!!" she tried one last time, yet this time, when she was about to give an answer, the darkness gagged her and swallowed her up, dragging her back into the darkness. She gazed up with a woeful expression, remembering that this was the same way she died as Titania... Being consumed by the Black Swamp. Why did this keep happening? When would history stop repeating itself.

'I don't understand...'

she thought, her vision fading to black,

'... Where we... went wrong...'

... When he saw that she had no words for him, but every one for herself, he did nothing but turn his head away with sadness, pain and scorn all wrapped up and veiled behind his turning head and dark robe. "Just like Friday the 11th..." he muttered to himself, a single Crystal Tear rolling down his cheek from the side she could not see, shimmering in the darkness. The last thing she'd see before she was swallowed up whole was Thanytoz turning to look at her from the corner of his eyes, sharply and sternly, with a sting that could pierce her soul in a heartbeat. "Right by the throat..." He shook his head, clenching his fists with a suppressed pain and anguish like no other. "Take her away..." she'd hear as he closed his eyes and turned his back completely on her. "... Out of my Sight." He would close his eyes and shake his head again, returning to the darkness whilst the Living Shadow handled things from here.

"... It's hopeless..." he muttered, the sole sound of his voice resounding throughout the cavernous underground, followed by one final *sigh* before all went to complete black.