She stood up. The ashes sliding down her arm as she looked back down the path.
"Are you okay?" Francois asked.
"I'll be fine. That was just harder than expected," Hirune said as her sadness turned to hatred. "Namulenza! Remove my damn limiters or I'll make you remove them!"
'And just how would you make me remove your limiters?'
'I'll kill myself over and over, even if it means angering Vereta. And before you try to play smart and say you just won't bring me back, we both know way too damn well that no matter what you eventually will in order to continue being entertained. So, I promise you, if you remove these limiters no matter how harsh the power is on me once I'm done here, I'll give you the spectacle of a lifetime,' Hirune answered as a black orb split open like jaws and spit her out at the edge of the roulette again. She was already surrounded.
'Fine, you win. But this better be as entertaining as you claim it to be,' Namulenza answered. 'Oh, by the way, that means it's done. You won't feel the effects until after you're done.'
"I don't have time for you lackies. I'm going straight to your boss once I get my friends so scram," Hirune said as a garden of devouring marigolds bloomed all around her and infested the area around her, the mist causing everything and everyone around her and Francois to fall apart.
She quickly devoured the distance into another gate just to find nothing down that gates path. She tried again and nothing, again, and again, and again, and again. She finally found herself standing face to face with Mr. Comedian and Kala after way too many attempts.
"Wait Kala is here too?" Hirune asked as she kicked the bars off allowing them to leave the cell.
Francois went into her human form again and hugged Mr. Comedian tightly, nearly causing them to fall into the void. As for Hirune and Kala they just stared at each other. Direct eye contact, no words, just a frown on each of their faces.
"Where did you go after you tried getting that fake ID?" Kala asked while sighing, there was no point being angry at Hirune anymore. Though Ellen was going to be pissed when she found out about what happened.
"Got kidnapped by him, we made up, nearly died, well I did die once, then we fought, then I came to save him for Francois. Well, where have you been?"
"I was in jail for you, escaped with my cellmate, my cellmate betrayed me and put me in here-- Wait you died?"
Hirune suddenly hugged her while laughing, "Why are we pretending to be angry again?"
Kala hugged her back, "I don't know! Glad to see you seem to have been doing just fine though."
suddenly two cloaked figures dropped down from above. One of them instantly swung their fan in an attempt to blow them off the small platform, but to no avail as Hirune caught them with the devourer's jaws.
"I don't have time for you two again," Hirune said as she swung her arm and devoured the lighting one of the two whole.
"Brother!" The hooded figure with the fan said as they dropped down to the spot the other figure had stood.
Hirune raised her arm and swung it down on the other figure leaving no traces of them.
***
"Sir, she dealt with both elites. How shall we continue?" Someone said from the shadows in a dimly and darkly lit room.
"Hm... Send in Glykos."
"But sir! That's the witch of sweets and--"
"She'll do. I'd prefer someone that would cause less destruction, but she'll do just fine."
A high pitched yet smooth voice echoed throughout the room, "I'm right here you know. You didn't even let him finish his statement about me! So rude, but yes! Alas, it is I, Glykos, the witch of sweets and killjoy."
A light suddenly shone on her and she bowed, her caramel brown hair contrasting against her deep blue eyes. Her white suit reflected the light into the servant's eyes blinding him for a moment, then she turned to him and closed the distance between them in a flash. A trail of sprinkles and blood trailing behind her feet.
"Now what are we waiting for, take me to my fellow witch. I have some personal affairs with her above all."
***
'Hirune, make a net out of the Sharp-V: Devouring Jaws, someone's dropping, someone strong,' Namulenza warned.
Hirune nodded and made a huge net made out of the devouring jaw above them, each knot in the grid being sharper than the edge of a diamond.
A Khopesh with a sharp red edge struck against the net and managed to cut through it, but not without a struggle.
Hirune quickly layered the net in response stopping the white-suited woman in her tracks. Before getting diced though, she made a large chocolate cake bellow herself stopping her fall.
Thinking ahead, Hirune encaged the caramel-haired lady by closing the nets in a ball around her.
"'Neraida'," the lady chanted causing a bunch of bright lights to appear out of thin air and fly around her cage. After a good second the little spirit-like lights found all of the most fragile spots in the nets and shattered them. She quickly rushed at Hirune and slashed at her with her blade, trying to get a clear strike on her.
'Exquisite Aroma,' Hirune mumbled as she moved slightly, a shallow veil creating an after image and concealing her real self as she put her hand on the lady's face, 'Sleep.'
"Sugar-Rush," she said before falling asleep fully waking her up again. "You're a clever witch aren't you."
She slashed at Hirune as Hirune devoured backwards, "Who even are you?" Hirune asked glaring, she didn't like being called a witch by her for some reason.
"Oh-ho? Did you really forget about me? I'm Glykos, the witch of sweets and killjoy. A pleasure to make your acquaintance homebody incarnate."
"Homebody incarnate? Do I look like a homebody to you? Well, I guess some homebodies to manage to stay fit, but you know what I mean. Also, sweets and killjoy? Aren't those like... a bit of an oxymoron?"
"Oh-ho, you'll understand my abilities in a moment. After all we are quite the fair match in battle. Now then about your homebody question, isn't it obvious? You're the witch of gluttony and sloth, a hand in hand combination. Speaking of, where's your dear Axia? Did'ya finally throw her away dear old Lenza?"
'You know her?' Hirune asked Namulenza.
'Yes, she considered me a rival witch, although I beat her with a basic attack each time. She is a large threat for you at your current level though,' she answered.
'Weeping Garden,' Hirune muttered as the flowers puffed out from beneath her cloak. Simultaneously she surrounded herself and Glykos with a tunnel made out of the devouring jaws, directing the devouring mist towards her.
"Aporri, I'll leave this to you," Glykos said throwing the shard of an abstract mask shaped like a jackalope.
The jackalope mask grew into an abstract wolf like shape with the head of a jackalope and sucked in the bog before returning back to its mask.
"Oh-ho? Are you saying that the witch isn't worthy of seeing your true form anymore? She must've become really pathetic for you to decide that.'
Hirune scowled and rushed at her. Glykos slashed at her but just cut her after image as Hirune suddenly devouring her arm off, grabbed her blade in midair and sliced her head clean off.
Blood poured all over her suit as she caught her head midair, "Such a shame! You really thought decapitating me would kill me?"
"No, that's why... Ugh..." Hirune shoved her hand deep into Glykos body through her neck, "Dismantling Jaws."
Glykos's stomach and ribs blew open throwing blood and guts all over the place.
"Oh-ho! You're pretty bright, but not quite bright enough!" Glykos said as she repaired her guts with icing, batter, and many other things you make sweets out of and find out sweets.
"Now what was it again," Glykos said with her eyes closed trying to remember something. "That's right! 'Killjoy!'" Her head reattached itself as she turned around and struck Hirune in the chest right around her heart.
Hirune stood there for a moment not feeling the blow, yet unable to move. Then she suddenly got sent flying back with blood gushing out of either side of her chest, sending her flying onto the street.
She rolled until she crashed into the base of a statue which proceeded to fall on her. Soon she was staring at Glykos feet while she was still recovering.
"Killjoy Stack: Mental! Stack Conception: Baku, The Mare, Nocnitsa, Alp, Phobetor, Dreamlands Monsters, Liderc!" A bunch of shadowy spirits appeared around her in various colors and flew into Hirune's body.
She didn't feel anything, not even after a moment. Yet when she tried to get up she couldn't. Though she felt fine, her body refused to listen to her.
"Let me explain, I destroyed your dreams! All of them! There's none left at all! And even if you don't have dreams, you'll be stuck in place until you get one or until you overpower all of those dream destroying beings I just listed!"
Hirune wrapped her body in the essence of the devourer and stood up, "Well then let me explain this to you, the devourer doesn't just consist of jaws, it's something I can manipulate into any shape. So, unlike your dear old Namulenza I don't have the devourer's jaws, I have its essence."
"Repeat Killjoy Ten-Fold," she said as she put on the jackalope mask.
Hirune's body froze up and she became unable to move again.
"Welp, I'm going to go kill everyone on this block now! See ya' in a bit!" Glykos said as she started to walk off.