Despair had been sent to capture the fiery demon, Ifrit. She was sent to the morbidly hot regions of the Volcanic Plains to find out where the hellfire beast's gem resided.

"What a beautifully destructive hue of red, orange and yellow this is... Ah, it reminds me of obliteration... What a nice sight to behold..."

Despair randomly warped to the top of a Volcano, staring down into it. "... I'm sure he's in the bottom... Alright... Let's go... What dreadful fun." She wrapped herself in her elementally resistant cloak/dress and plunged into the fiery depths of the volcano's lava.

As Despair fell into the depths, she noticed that she had come quite close to the center of the earth... Oh dear, how dreadfully hot it was. Though, the Rejection surging throughout Despair's body and soul allowed her to be unaffected by the heat. She rejected the excess heat and regulated her own, so she was fine.

"Oh, dear... What is that in the distance...?"

Out on a somehow hardened piece of rock (though all things should have been melted into molten lava by this point, so it must be an awesomely heat resistant rock) was a large beetle of some kind, about 10 feet high. Twas the Blazer Beetle.



The Blazer Beetle was immense and its horn was just as threatening as its size. It turned to Despair and glared at her with destructive eyes. Despair glared back with eyes of gloom and serenity, smiling drearily "Hello... My name is Despair..."

The Blazer Beetle snorted, pointing its horn to Despair. It charged at her, jumping over the lava that separated the two rocks that they stood on and came down with a massive crash, then continued to run with the same amount of speed as if it had never stopped to jump. It aimed to ram straight into Despair with its terrifying horn.

Despair merely closed her eyes and let her Rejection take over, a barrier between herself and the beetle appearing and taking the attack. Though, the beetle's horn never touched the barrier. The repulsive force of it was so great that nothing other than Despair and those she wished could touch it. The repulsive force it had on anything and everything made sure that nothing touched it. Due to the force that the beetle was running at, its horn should have been shattered right then and there. "... Would you care to see why my name is Despair...?"

The horn snapping and shattering before the beetle, it would fall to the ground for a moment to intake all of the repelled force it had just got sent coursing back through it. It was panting heavily, however it had a backup plan. It condensed a massive amount of heat and flames behind Despair, creating an instantaneous fiery explosion via the power of magic; Fira. It was hoping to incinerate her if it couldn't directly hit her.

Despair's cloak flared up and wrapped around the condensed fire and heat, and as it exploded, it would be subdued by her elementally resistant dimensional dress. ".. What a pitiful attempt... I'm glad you tried your best..." Suddenly, the barrier became a box around the Blazer Beetle "... However, unfortunately, it wasn't enough... See you in Hell~... Or, wait... Are we already there? Hm... Maybe you are..." The box would instantly compress into a tiny cube, crushing the beetle instantly and sucking out his soul as well, giving another one to Despair's Soul Count.

"... Delicious~! Maybe there are more guys like that... I like the taste of their willful souls..." Despair pressed forward, floating over these awesome rocks that could withstand this lava and heat.

Humming songs of despair to herself, Despair lost her focus and continued to float deeper in an arbitrary direction. There, she came upon a nest of 50 Hedgehog Pies, which seemed to be all feeding on the lava at the same time.



"Awww... How disgustingly cute... Look at them all feed!" She would float down to the rock they resided on, landing and watching them closely.

Each and every one of the Hedgehog Pies turned around and glared at Despair, looking rather pissed off. It seems as though they hated when other beings came onto their territory, and their bad attitudes made them prone to attack out of anger. Each of them began to grunt and snort, casting the Fire spell numerous times to make hundreds of small explosions happen around Despair constantly.

Again, just like before, Despair wrapped herself in her own cloak, as it seems that these monsters can only attack with weak fire spells. It was more than useless against Despair. "... My. All of you are persistent, but also, very futile..." Despair locked on to each and every one of the Hedgehog Pies, pointing her hand at them. Holes opened up all over her hand, and numerous missiles shot out, more than enough to wipe out all of them in one fell swoop.

Each of the Hedgehog Pies, being extremely stupid and weak, would run into the missiles in an attempt to get past them and to Despair. Each and every one of them would explode, leaving nothing but their own souls.

Despair shook her head "... Again, these guys were willful... But extremely stupid... How sad... I almost feel bad for taking their souls..." She outstretched her dress, which would consume all 50 souls, and Despair would bow her head.

Despair had noticed, however, that there was something odd about how the monsters had gathered... it seemed as though all of them were gathered there for a reason. "... Ooooh... I see something... It shines bright in the lava..." Despair walked over to the gleaming item, and found that it was the Topaz, floating right there in the lava, SOMEHOW unscathed by it, though it was basically right in the center of the planet, where nothing should be able to survive the heat...



"Gloriously... wretched..." She said in amazement. She walked over to it, about to pick it up... When suddenly she saw something else pop up behind it.

From the lava emerged a massive demon, a red hot burning Stilva.



The Stilva hissed as it let the lava drip off of it, walking onto the platform that Despair was on. It screeched violently, being the guardian of the Topaz. It would immediately start by casting a massive Firaga on Despair, making a huge explosion of pure fire and force.

Despair was slightly caught off guard by the massive explosion of fire, thus she only had time to wrap herself up with her own cloak. She was sent flying backward at a high speed, but caught herself in the air and regained her composure. "My... You sure are powerful... I wonder how your soul tastes...? It must be delicious..." A large hole opened up on one of her hands and she pointed it at the Stilva, firing a massive explosive at it in an attempt to blow it to smithereens.

The Stilva, having incredible speed, dashed off before the explosive hit, and was already behind the floating Despair. The explosive would do nothing but fall into the lava and explode in a grand way, causing lots of lava to spew up into the air and hopefully all over Despair. The Stilva also tried to use its ability Magic Breath, which was a mixture of the 3 magical elements, Fire, Ice and Lightning into one rainbow colored beam of destructiveness. If it hit, the foe would be constantly frozen, then thawed and frozen and thawed whilst being electrocuted all at the same time.

This was becoming a most repetitive act. Misery could defy all of the elemental attacks of the Stilva quite simply by using her cloak, so it basically had no purpose in fighting anymore. "... Ah... There is no more reason for you to resist. Just let me obliterate you, please..." Despair unleashed yet another flurry of missiles at the Stilva, this time hoping to blow it up.

The Stilva still resisted its death, even so much as to hide in the lava and use Firaga from there. It was protecting this jewel with all of its might. There was no clue as to why... It just was. Numerous Firaga's were cast at Despair, though it seemed to be useless.

Despair sighed. Enough was enough. "... The conviction you have that you can win this fight is ever so admirable..." She wrapped herself in her dress to block the Firaga "... But it is a pitiful attempt to delay what is inevitable..." Her eyes became gloomy and her smile now became a slight frown of sorrow. A strong sense of despair rained over her. For normal people, this would hinder their hearts and souls, but this actually made Despair's that much stronger. The heady feeling of despair that overcame her that she felt for that soon-to-be-dead Stilva was so incredibly great that she could feel pieces of herself shattering.

"Just... Give up..."

A black light engulfed her body just as her dress did, and her dress indeed began to change. The dress itself started to break apart and form into broken space that floated around Despair... The dress itself becoming empty and broken space. The broken space hovered around Despair, who seemed to have no legs now, resembling a ghost. Her eyes were now blood red, filling with an overall grim despair that would fill anything she looked at. Her wings were now anti-matter and her hair had grown longer slightly. There was a ribbon around her waist now, and the strands of this ribbon could cut through all forms of energy. This was Despair's Trance Mode.



"You cannot even fathom how much woe I feel for you... Now that you are about to be eliminated..."

Just then, an endless amount of strands of her ribbon shot out and plummeted straight into the lava, seeming to pierce the very lava as it went through. Using a tiiiiny bit of rejection, she was able to contain all of the lava in the area in a massively condensed ball. That's where she saw the Stilva. It was cowered in fear as of now. Despair raised her hand "... Oh.. Woe is you..." She would close her hand, destroying the very space that the Stilva resided in, destroying every aspect of it... Except the soul, mind you. Always gotta get that soul. Despair would absorb the soul and then notice the Topaz on the ground.

"... Ah... The Eidolon of Hell... The massive beast of hellfire only known as... Ifrit... Your power is mine, now..."

With that, Despair was off to her next location, warping away instantaneously.