Khrona’s encounter with Maze was short, but it was very powerful to him. It was strange how aware he was of Khrona’s recent awakening, and what had occurred throughout all the Reality, including with Khrona’s own self. He wasn’t prepared for the effects and almost couldn’t believe them, but, lo’ and behold, everything was literally doing everything the way he had it thought out in his head. He was starting to question whether what he’d done was right or not, considering that constantly breaking these sorts of boundaries was indeed dangerous, even if he always found a way to make things better in the end. Things were starting to get to him and he was definitely feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders now, and was a little upset that it was also on Misery and Despair as well just because he loved them so much. He didn’t want this kind of pressure on them nor anyone, but it simply was because of he, himself. He always said he was the burden of everyone… and he truly felt that way for clear and obvious reasons.

Khrona sits curled up in an expansive field, Misery and Despair leaning on his shoulders and looking up to the sky. Khrona’s wings were folded quite a bit, despite their great size. A slight wind blew…

*i walk in, fairly displeased with something. who knows… *

So…

i call Oathkeeper to my right hand

Khrona raised his head as Misery and Despair slowly turned their heads to look at ZK. Khrona’s eyes twitched “His soul is… quite strong… He must be another Kage?” Khrona stood up slowly “Hi, I’m Khrona… I’m the um… One of the Kage of this village…” Misery and Despair stood in front of him now “What a nice weapon that is… But I sense no soul in it…”

If you want souls… Take a peep into my head. A whole clan of them… But getting off of that.

i twirl Oathkeeper around a couple times, slashing the tip across the ground a few times

Show me your strength.

i crack my neck and lightning crackles around me with the snap

Khrona grabs Misery and Despair by their necks, standing up “Eeeh…” His eyes dart off into different directions as Misery and Despair take their DualSwordScythe and Straight razor forms respectively. Khrona’s wings unfolded, his wingspan taking up a great distance. He flapped a few times very lightly, but even then his wings created a massive wind. They needed to stretch. Khrona’s soul expanded outward, though it was doubtful that ZK could see it… It was expanding so that Khrona’s power could awaken…

i inhale deeply

G–

at a hypersonic speed, i rush in, eyes ablaze, and thrust Oathkeeper at Khrona’s chest

o…

Khrona’s blood stiffens, preventing Oathkeeper from making more than a small wound, though Khrona himself was not aware of how fast he was “How di– GYAAAH!!” Despair’s Rejection Soul expanded as a dome around him, forcing ZK and anything else around him away. Khrona’s head began to twitch violently “How can I deal with him being so fast… Keh.. Keh… Keeeeh…?” Khrona planted his feet onto the ground, swirling Misery between his fingers. He aimed Despair at ZK and a hole opened up on her tip, shooting out a flurry of missiles.

i slide backwards across the ground, balancing with my left hand skating across the earth. i then jump forward and slash through the missiles in a blaze of light, cutting them right up the middle each one, letting the explosions happen behind me. with that, i disappear, leaving a deep crater and a loud, deafening shockwave ringing through the battlefield. i appear behind Khrona before the shockwave meets his front, bringing Oathkeeper down on Khrona just as fast

Khrona’s wings begin to flap at a moderate power, making an incredible wind that will hopefully force ZK away once again and defend against Oathkeeper, but the force of the flaps and the wind send Khrona flying high into the sky. Khrona encases himself in his own wings and crashes down with an impressive speed. Inside of his wings, he merges with both Misery and Despair, making them one with his body. Khrona’s wings suddenly have numerous scythe and sword blades jutting out of them, making him look like some sort of hedgehog porcupine… He does not emerge from the protection of his wings.

i land on the ground and look up at Khrona, my eyes glowing a fierce yellow

Heh. No escape!

i open my mouth and sharp fangs begin to develop along with a swirling chakra mass. in the next moment, my Rasengan Infinity is formed in my jaws, swirling intensely. i roar and unleash the Infinity Burst on Khrona, the blast itself breaking the sound barrier adding to the force of impact

Khrona could hear on the outside and a wicked smile drew across his face “That’s it, huh…” All of the swords on his wings began to glow and as ZK was about to make impact.. “Zero Sanity!” Khrona opened his wings to block the rasengan, only to be backed up by the crazy strong wind behind it, and not only that, the Zero Sanity would distort and shatter the rasengan within seconds, leaving only ZK for them afterwards… Though Khrona kept spinning, making a huge tempest in a short time made completely of these Zero Sanity insanity soul shockwaves.

the shockwaves hit me, although i know not their location. i know their direction, so i jump backwards and keep going until i can’t feel them hitting me

Hm…

i pull Epiphany from my hat, now completely chakra, and it glows a deep blue

Let’s see…

i slash at Khrona with Epiphany at a supersonic speed, lashing a stringy web of chakra at him, still connected to Epiphany

Khrona.. does something with his wings to block it, I guess?

the strings attach to Khrona, Misery, and Despair, latching on to their chakra network and stretch behind him held firmly by a field of stopped time, thus trapping him successfully

Here we go!

i rush at Khrona, Epiphany ready in its chakra blade state, at some blinding speed and begin hacking away at Khrona maliciously. the slashes don’t physically hurt him, but they cut at his chakra network, flinging his chakra from his body and into the air. the slashing does the same for Misery and Despair, also splashing their chakra away with every cut. the cuts continue at them until i wind up for one final strike and float back slightly

Spatial Rend!

i send a devastating blast of wind and chakra to Khrona point blank that shatters the chakra binds connected to him and sends him and his weapons back horrifically far, now depleted of chakra. i land on the ground and wait

It would seem that Khrona had been shot back at such a far range… but what was this? His body, it was gone! It was good that ZK knew nothing of Khrona’s special soul ability… His Insanity Soul. Since Khrona had sent so much of it around earlier with his Zero Sanity, his Insanity Soul had basically expanded about the entire area… meaning that it was now his domain. Khrona’s face appeared all around ZK, smiling, eyes darting about “That was… This is… All of it… A hallucination? Yes… Hee hee hee… Welcome to my soul…” You’re probably wondering how you could hallucinate if you were actually cutting something, right? Well, Khrona’s soul is able to manifest the hallucinatory things that happen as actual mass, but they still are not real, making whatever that they do or what happens to them all fake. Where was the real Khrona now? Ho ho ho… He could be anywhere. ZK just had to press through the hallucinations. Hee hee.

Oh well.

i snap my fingers and a bolt of lightning strikes the field in a radius wide enough to engulf the Reality Village many times over. the electricity is called down by my own electrical current meaning, hallucinating or not, it was still drawn to me and could still very well hit anything i can’t see

Khrona was zapped by this lightning, dissipating the hallucinations that had devoured the area… But even the electricity did not stop him, for he just absorbed it into his body, making him immune to it after a short period of being zapped by it… In fact, more electricity just became energy for him. Khrona’s head twitched again “Do you like… what I can do?” Khrona clenched his bladed hand into a fist and a dome of Rejection surrounded him “Tamashii no Kyoumei… Chain Resonance… (Soul Resonance).” An energy surrounded Khrona, making his soul swell up again… Though this time it was not only his, but Misery’s and Despair’s, too. This created an ominous wind around them and their souls. As the resonance got stronger, so did their souls… and so did the Rejection Barrier around Khrona. Their souls were all connected as one soul, now, enabling the effects throughout each other instantaneously. It would most likely be useful for this battle.

i shake the electricity away from my body and laugh, stretching my shoulders

Time to throw him off balance

i take one step forward and disappear. then many copies of me begin running around Khrona in an erratic fashion, flipping and spinning, adding sparks of flame to the mix. eventually, they all away Oathkeeper and shove Epiphany back into their hats. the real me is uncertain, as is the function of these mirages

Khrona looked at all of them “Oh no… copies… how do I deal with them?” As they all circled Khrona, his eyes lost focus “Many… Many of them… Is it an illusion… or are they all real…? I don’t know…” His soul became less stable and it expanded more rapidly, flaring about in a crazed fashion. If Khrona was focused, he’d easily be able to find ZK by using the Soul Perception to lock in on his soul… But he was getting lost in his insanity. Insanity was infectious, contagious, meaning it could spread quite fast through him… His soul. Khrona screamed, the Rejection Barrier shattering. Khrona again wrapped himself in his wings, only now in a dome and began to spin. The swords sticking out of his wings extended to a great length, farther than the radius of the ZK clones, trying to cut them up like some sort of spike dome thing. If he couldn’t find the real one, he’d just slice up the fakes. The scythes on his wings began to curl about, some facing Khrona, some curling outward like really big and long hooks. “Grim… Slasher…” He muttered. To the normal eye, these slashes were so fast that they could not be seen, perceived, known to exist until someone got close enough to be slashed by them. It was a mystery within itself how they moved that freakin fast and how no one could notice. It’s not like they made a sound. Oh well. Khrona began to sweat, breathing heavily in his protective wing.. encasement… thing.

the mirages seem to be moving of each their own accord, each jumping and spinning to dodge the maelstrom of blades coming forth. it’s quite simple for my eyes to see things that normally wouldn’t be seen by other eyes. i can see at lightspeed, a testament to my eye strength. the wind picks up drastically and begins to form a tornado at the edge of the blade dome thing action while the mirages keep up the act

Khrona peeks through his wings “It’s.. It’s not working… What do I do…? Should I… Maybe… Yes.. No… It could…” Khrona’s insane soul flares about, expanding still. “Tears of.. Despair..” From Khrona’s soul comes a huge dark gray ball of soul energy which explodes into the sky, turning the sky in the area utterly gray, almost black. Khrona’s entire body was glowing with Rejection energy now and he stopped spinning. The blades did not retract, however. He just stood there, glowing a pale red color. It soon began to rain very hard. It was not normal rain, for the raindrops were gray… Gray like the exploded soul energy that had devoured the skies. Khrona had powerful and compressed rejection around him for a reason. This rain would deteriorate whatever was in it for too long, compliments of the Despair Soul. You may think that it should also deteriorate the Rejection Soul, but the Rejection Soul does not allow anything to actually touch it, for no matter how close you attempt to get, the rejection will always be pushing back at you. As the rain fell upon Khrona, it was rejected in random directions. Khrona figured that if he could not touch the clones with his blades, he’d touch them with his soul…

the visions of myself each smile as one by one, they disappear from sight. some even laugh slightly, only to fade into the air as if they were never there

Khrona opens his wings and sees nothing. He figures that ZK had gone from this place– No. Wait. His soul.. Khrona could still sense it nearby… He finally used his Soul Perception to pinpoint ZK. Out of a crazy fit, however, Khrona spread his wings extremely wide and all of the swords on his wings resonated, glowing brightly through the pale red rejection. Khrona was getting ready for something bigger than before, now…

the sky begins to spark as clouds form overhead, dark and insidious. a thunderstorm brews, rain falling heavily on the battlefield. i walk from some arbitrary direction with Judgment in hand. its glowing blade cuts through the rain and illuminates the area

This is the power, eh?

as i speak those words, a large ring of white flame, hottest of all, burns from the mud produced in the rain. the fire picks up into a roaring blaze and i step through, doing handsigns

Let’s see!

Khrona held his hand on his chest “Go, Despair… Despair and Pain.” Despair’s soul suddenly began to expand from around Khrona, eating away at the powers of everything around him. Of course, his shield of rejection was gone, too. Despair’s soul would continue to expand. The effects of Despair’s ‘Despair and Pain’ was that anything within the vicinity of her soul besides Khrona would have its power devoured by her Despair Soul, and if they had the capacity to think, their thoughts would become woeful and sorrowful, making the will to fight very slim. This was a spit second reaction, so if ZK tried to enter this soul, it would be bad for him. Very bad. Khrona spread his wings again, now using one of Misery’s moves “Insanity Impact!” about 4 Insanity Soul energy blades manifested in the sky over ZK, stabbing down with a great force. Their power was to deplete the power of whatever they touched. The best part about them was that they would explode if they did not hit their target, and the explosion had the same effect as the blades… To drain ZK of his energies completely. Khrona mainly focused on Despair’s soul right now, which he had to continue to expand… slowly, but surely.

i raise my hand and a shield of Mirror Mirror force appears above me. it doesn’t reflect the blades since their intention is to deplete energy, but their effectiveness is all dependent on the amount of energy the item contains. an underestimation on Khrona’s part. i begin constantly feeding the Mirror Force, keeping the blades at bay and widening to block the ensuing explosion. inside the ring, the flames kick up fiercely, now stretching high into the sky. the wall of fire begins spewing white needles at Khrona from every side at an invisible speed, ready to do intense damage. i keep the Mirror Force up for a time until i remember one of my strengths, so i open a portal to the Yin Yang World and let them fall in, closing the portal behind them.