The recent encounter with the shady ‘Rising’ shinobi put Khrona, Misery and Despair on edge. There was something about them that was really off, but they couldn’t put their fingers on it at all. In this time, Khrona decided to, instead of going out in the open and undergoing ‘Deep Thought,’ to simply lock himself up in his own personal chambers inside of the Pit of Havoc, where he was sure all of these intruders wouldn’t be able to get to. He was fine with the Reality villagers being there, but didn’t trust all these new people coming in randomly… Especially not with how the Insanity was getting recently. He would seal himself in ‘Deep Thought,’ which he would call his ‘Solitary Alone Time.’

At the very moment, Khrona’s immediate pit has been sealed shut completely by the Rejection, Insanity, Despair, Condemnation and Fear souls that reside within him and his 2 weapons partners. Even getting near to the entrance is certain death. Khrona has locked himself down in the darkness of his abode for special purposes. There he sat, in the darkness… Misery and Despair being nowhere to be found. Just Khrona and an endless abyss of darkness, insanity… and fear. Khrona’s head was down and he was curled up in a ball on what was assumed to be the ground, motionless. For what reason? It was unclear… Soon, 3 huge vertical eyes opened up, gleaming in the darkness. They were green and merely outlines, but they provided a faint glow. The darkness was too thick for even them to glow correctly. Khrona raised his head, staring directly at all of them. The eyes spoke to him

3 Eyes: What is it you think that you are doing here, young one…?

Khrona: I’m hiding… in my house…

3 Eyes: From what are you hiding..?

Khrona: Everyone… Everything… They’re all bad for me… I don’t know how to deal with it…

3 Eyes: Aren’t you supposed to be running this village…?

Khrona: How can I run it when I can’t seem to stay stable…

3 Eyes: Stable? What do you mean…? Could you mean…

In unison: Insanity…? Yes… Insanity….

Khrona: I can’t help it… All that happens is insanity insanity insanity… I can’t control it… It won’t stay out of me…

3 Eyes: Then embrace insanity… Insanity is contagious, you know, and it spreads quite fast… Perhaps you could spread the insanity..?

Khrona: No, no… That would be bad… I can’t bear to spread the insanity about the village… The Kishin–

3 Eyes: The Kishin Asura.

Khrona: Yes… He is insanity… He’s insane… I think…

3 Eyes: Well, it isn’t hard… You’re already far gone.

Upon Khrona’s face now were the 3 eyes, seeming to be imprinted into his skin as his actual eyes, now. 3 vertical eyes embedded into his very head, and what else? A demented and crazed smile…

Khrona: Eheheheh… Yes… Lost within the insanity… Within the darkness…

A blast of energy from around Khrona returned him to normal “Eh.. Wait… Wait… Wait… Waitwaitwaitwaitwaiwaiwaiwaiwaiiit… I felt something not of me… I didn’t like it… But at the same time, I did… What was–”

3 Eyes: The Kishin Asura. Your body has been infected by the soul of the Kishin. Nay, I shan’t say infected… I should say… ‘influenced.’ Your insanity grows ever more like that of the Kishin’s… Soon yours and his motives will become one, combined, conjoined… You and him shall work together to spread this insanity throughout the land… And you will like it.

Khrona smiled, his mouth drooling… no, melting off of his face “Yes… I will like it… Serving the Kishin… No, BECOMING the Kishin…”

Everything was silent. Khrona. The Eyes. The Darkness. Silence befell them. Khrona suddenly started to scream. A blood curdling, resonating scream that echoed throughout the endless depths of his darkened pit of a home. It would carry out through the entire village… You wonder why? Khrona’s home is conneted to every single place under the village… Great for spreading insanity. Khrona continued to scream..

Khrona: PGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!! UWAAAHUWAAAAHUWAAAHUWWAAAHUWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!”

Khrona’s screams… his voice… it had become black, just like his blood. There was little he could do to escape now… But something about him just allowed him to break free of the grasp of total insanity time and time again. There was a loud breaking of glass heard, and it was Khrona returning… or losing the border between… sanity and insanity. Khrona stared blankly at the 3 eyes, mouth twitching.

3 Eyes: It seems as though you are unwillingly resisting… What is this?

Khrona: I’m not… I don’t… Perhaps… It could be… Weapons?

3 Eyes: Ah. I see. Tell me… Why do you have these weapons?

Khrona: To… Misery… Despair… Two… To defend myself… My fragile body… Of course?

3 Eyes: I see a different reason. You keep them out of… Fear.

Khrona twitched a bit “Fear…” His Fear soul became apparent… But what was wrong? He could not see it bordering himself… What was wrong with it…? No, wait, it was clear… His fear soul… His fear itself… It had covered every single crevice and crack of his home, a partial bit of the surface and then some. Khrona’s fear… And his insanity… Both of them were an astronomically large soul now.

The 3 Eyes focused on Khrona “You keep those weapons out of fear of your own death, right? But… Can you die, now? Or… Are you already dead? Your blood is blackened. Tainted. Tainted with my insanity. You are a part of me… Ironic, really, since your soul is what revived me.. You are part of me physically… and I am part of you spiritually. How very… very funny. Enjoy a laugh with me. A slight chuckle. Ahahahahaha..”

Khrona began to laugh “Ha..hahaha.. Ahahaha…Ha…ha..ha… AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” Khrona bent backwards, writhing about with his pelvis thrusted high into the air. He continued this crazed laughed, many needles protruding from his body in the process… His black blood was reacting. It pushed him up off of the floor, into the ceiling, into the walls and then back down to the floor. All Khrona could do was laugh.

3 Eyes: How deep you have fallen into the pit of insanity… Moreso, of fear… This is how I became a Kishin… It would be wonderful if you could do the same…

The 3 Eyes then slowly closed, staring intensely at Khrona, becoming 3 vertical lines before finally disappearing. Khrona had his hands to his face, peering out through the openings of his fingers… looking through one, no both… no, all 3 of his eyes. Khrona finally fell silent, lying completely on the ground, shuddering from the insanity and fear that he felt. Shuddering from the darkness… this abyss of his house… Shuddering from the coldness that he felt… the coldness of death, but at the same time, the brisk chill of life… Khrona lay flat in his own pool of insanity and fear.

In another part of Khrona’s house, there stood Misery on a wall. She, of course, heard the screams of Khrona, yet she did nothing to help him… Mostly because it was almost a normal thing for him to scream, though his scream was a bit.. off this time around. She paid it no mind.

Misery: Gaaaah… What’s this Khrona is doing? I can’t be trapped here for a long period of time. I need BLOODSHED! I need DESTRUCTION! I need to satisfying CONDEMNATION and INSANITY of my SOUL to ELIMINATE ALL WHO STAND IN MY WAY!

Misery fell silent. It was true that she was malicious and malevolent, but… Not to this extent. She was panting a bit hard, smiling in a fashion that revealed most of her teeth in a wide and insane smile. She ran her fingers through her hair “Aaaah, shit… What the hell is going on with me? I feel so… violent… And I’m not even sure why… Like I have to spill the blood and eat the flesh of all who oppose me…”

Just then, thousands of glowing, vertical eyes appeared everywhere around her, with a small bit of what looked like electricity coming from them, but it was actually insanity. Misery stared at all of them, her arms changing into their sword and scythe forms “Oho.. Someone’s here… And I don’t plan on letting them get away…”

Eyes: Really? If someone is here, would you care to elaborate on who?

Misery frowned “Shut up, smartass! Zero Sanity!” She slashed the air, releasing a large wave of her Insanity Soul to shatter these eyes. The eyes in the area closed, disappearing completely and having the attack miss. Then they opened back up, larger than before.

Eyes: You have no clue what we are… We are insanity. Insanity does not affect insanity. Insanity only makes us grow. Attack us however much you wish, but we will not disappear, for we are just the infected insanity that resides within yourself. Hehehe… Fun, isn’t it?

Misery snarled, her eyes narrowing “SHUT UP!” She tried to slash at them even more, this time with Condemnation Soul so that she could either rip out the souls of these things or kill them instantly with the instant death of her weapon.

The eyes closed once again, then opened when she was done, bigger than before “You don’t get it… You cannot destroy us. We are the Kishin. We are part of you now. Your insanity is within us. We are… Insane. Together.”

Misery shrieked out a cry of bloodlust and war. She continued to slash at them. This time, the eyes did not close, though they still continued to grow. And grow. And grow.

Eyes: More insanity… More insanity… The more rage you have, the more insane you become… You’ll become like him soon enough… Soon enough… the eyes disappear

Misery was starting to freak out. Everywhere, she saw nothing but eyes… And soon she began to see mouths… She tried to slash at them, but nothing worked. She continued her slashing assault, but again, nothing worked on them. Her movements became sloppy and destructive, also indiscriminate of what was around her. The eyes had long disappeared, though Misery still saw them… She had to keep slashing or else they would get her and destroy her… And she had to get off her bloodlust and war filled urges… Though eventually she came to a conclusion. They were inside of her. If she were to open herself up, she could get them quickly… Yes… Open herself up… She took her sword blade and stuck it straight into her chest, slashing down ward slowly to make a type of large incision going from the tip of her neck down to her vagina. From the hanging flesh shot out her scythe blades, which curled around her intestines and organs and muscle and tore them out, ripping each of them to millions of pieces. She shoved her sword into her bones, shattering them in their entirety “Where is the soul..? Where is the soul..? Where is the SOUL…?” She shoved her sword into the place of what used to be her ribcage and shoved it straight up her neck and into her skull, the sword coming up from the top of her head. She pulled it through her front, shredding her face and neck into nothingness as she did so, and her body fell down… Dead… “The soul… I can’t find the soul… My soul… Its soul… It’s inside of me… But where?” Everything that had just happened… a hallucination. Misery did indeed fall to the ground, and she lay flat on her back, her eyes darting about crazily, both of them looking in the opposite direction as the other at all time “WHERE IS THE SOUL!? WHERE DID MY SOUL GO!?!? WHERE IS IT!? MY SOUL!!! I WANT IT BACK! GIVE IT TO ME!!!! I WANT MY SOUL BACK, KISHIN! GIVE ME MY SOUUUUUUUULLLLLL!! AAAAAUUUUAAAAAAAAGH!!!” She then fell to silence, giggling a bit to herself “It’s already gone… I’m already lost… Heehee…”