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Chapter 2 - Entropic-Fiend

O Telefteos raises an eyebrow,

"... what..?" O Telefteos asks the Entropic-Fiend.

"How could you be so calm?!" Alya asks O Telefteos, shocked at how chill he is.

"I said..." The Fiend answered, slightly annoyed, "I am the Entropic-Fiend!" The fiend yells, her voice echoes and rings throughout this plane.

O Telefteos scratches the back of his neck closes his eyes for a minute.

"Hm... I see..." O Telefteos exclaims and in a chill tone he continues, "Cool."

"Are you high?" The Fiend asks.

"I mean, before I met this goofball," O Telefteos says as he points to Alya.

"Hey!" Alya yells in anger.

"And before I killed a Munt... I was just, like, smoking..." O Telefteos says, his eyes half-lidded.

The Entropic-Fiend just looks at him with an expression that says "Are you serious right now?"

"Who the hell is this guy?" The Fiend asks herself in her mind, "How can he be so cool in this situation?"

"Ah, too hell with it!" The Entropic-Fiend says as she grins with malice, her evil nature projecting into reality like a shadow on a wall, "I'm bored, so I brought you here to torture!" She continues as she is surrounded in a dark aura and starts shaking violently, some would say she is 'tweaking'.

She attacks the two and Alya is scared but O Telefteos just kicks her in the jaw, cracking in but she catches his foot and slams him into the glass ground, causing a violent earthquake, making Alya stumble and fall to the ground.

"Ah, shit..." O Telefteos quietly says, still sounding chill.

O Telefteos then taps his other foot on the ground and the earthquake stops.

"Strong, still weak." The Fiend says with a chuckle.

The Entropic-Fiend then warps reality itself, flipping the world upside down having the three of them stand on nothingness, then the glass plane starts fall fast to the point its burning in black fire. The Fiend phases through the glass, showing it won't affect her, but when it is just half a centimeter away from Contour and Elpis. Elpis only side eyes Contour, knowing what is coming. Contour then gets so scared she yells, the glass breaks instantly. Contour opens her eyes and she sees the Entropic-Fiend looking shocked and Elpis has no reaction.

"I knew it." Elpis says, "The Contour family that left Earth for another reality and became a grand bloodline. One that can use their voices break anything, if not that then they're master martial artists." He continues.

The Entropic-Fiend's shocked face then disappears and she smirks.

"Haha, doesn't matter." The Entropic-Fiend says as she waves her hand and Alya is erased from existence.

O Telefteos sighs and then says, "That won't do..." He then brings her back without even moving.

Alya comes back, shocked and scared, "What happened?" she says.

"I have business with someone in your family." O Telefteos responds, "I finalize that business if they're dead." Elpis continues through his red scarf.

The Fiend then gets angry and is transforming into her ultimate form but is cut off when Elpis rips her head off.

"This isn't an anime, I'm not just gonna let you transform." O Telefteos says.

Contour is shaking in fear, "Oh, my god..." She then vomits at the sight, "I d-didn't sign up for this."

"Yeah, me neither." Elpis responds, "But realistically, who gives a shit." He then exclaims.

Then, the Entropic-Fiend brings herself back to life by simply imagining she never 'died'.

"Wait, she can do that?" O Telefteos asks.

"What, did you think I died?" The Entropic-Fiend asks.

"Hold on, the math isn't mathing, I killed you." O Telefteos responds, his eyebrow raised.

"No you didn't, Fiends can't die, or be erased, or just be gotten rid of." The Fiend says, "EVER!" She continues.

The Entropic-Fiend then punches the ever living hell out of O Telefteos. O Telefteos then looks to Contour.

"Alya, come on, do something!" Elpis says.

Meanwhile, Alya is shaking in fear but she then gains the confidence from Elpis yelling at her and she then yells at the Fiend and she blocks it. O Telefteos then Liu Kang bicycle kicks the Entropic-Fiend then drop kicks her but the Fiend stops her self mid air with a snap and appears in front of Contours face out no where and she then strangles her with one hand and drags her across the infinite plane but Contour tries to yell but her throat bleeds as she's worn it out. But here comes Elpis, pulling the Fiend by her hair then headbutts her, cracking her skull then kicks her away.

"Damn it, I wanna be useful, but my stamina is out!" Alya says in her head but she then has an idea. If she can't be in battle, she'll help with strategy, "O Telefteos!" She yells to Elpis, "If you knock her out we could find a way to leave!" She presents.

"Damn, good idea. Why didn't I think of that one." Elpis says.

O Telefteos then continues fighting the Fiend and the Fiend then points a finger gun at him and then shoots a metaphysical bullet right at Elpis' existence. The shot hits but does nothing and O Telefteos is still fighting her, she starts kicking the hell out of her, roundhouses all across the board.

"What the hell, that didn't work?" The Entropic-Fiend yells, "There's no way, could he be a-" Her thoughts her cut off by Elpis's knee coming in contact with her rib cage, shattering it.

She coughs up blood but then chops O Telefteos on the head, splitting him in half from his head to his waist, but Elpis heals himself and elongates his hair to choke the Fiend and then swing her in the air like a lasso. The Fiend breaks out and then moves at the speed of infinity, beyond what the mortal eye can perceive, and punch Elpis but someone steps in front of him, its Alya Contour, with a hole blown through her stomach, she coughs up blood and then punches the Entropic-Fiend in the head, knocking her out. But as she does this... suddenly... ANOTHER VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE! THE INFINITE PLANE AND THE PHEONIX IS COLLAPSING AND IMPLODING IN ON ITSELF, WITH A LARGE VORTEX IN THE MIDDLE. ALYA AND ELPIS ARE BEING SUCKED IN BY IT AND FALL UNCONSCIOUS...

Elpis and Contour wake up in a void, the ground is a rocky plain, the sky is grey and warping around them. In front of them they see an unnaturally tall, possibly 10ft or higher, mature womanly like figure wrapped in a white cloth. She, if it is a true female in the first place, does not breathe, her heart beat nonexistent.

"Who are you?" Contour asks.

"..." The figure stands their... saying nothing, until, "Alya Contour, O Telefteos Elpis. I believe I must introduce myself, I am... the Quintessence. A pleasure to meet you." The figure known as 'Quintessence' says, "For I am the almighty source of Creation, at your service."

O Telefteos and Alya are confused, but decide to ask her some questions on what is going on.

Chapter End: A Message

Lo, they have met fair Quintessence bright,Yet still they stray from my veiled sight.Though near they tread, the path is long,Ere they shall hear my distant song.

But time doth weave its endless thread,And fate's own hand shall see them led.For now, I wait, as shadows crest,To watch their tale unfold the rest.