As the demonic war machines pulled away and the four hell lords reunited, spirits were actually high.

"Heh, they worked better than I thought..maybe you can be of use to us" commented Brine, looking at Firefly.

Firefly rolled her eyes and said, "you're welcome."

"now, now children-we still kicked their asses and we shall do so again!" stated the queen of swords.

Kisiragi merely chuckled.

"We should head back, we need to discuss our next move, " stated Firefly as the other three Hell-lords nodded in response.

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Sometime later, they reached Firefly's fortress and Firefly began to speak up.

"We need to regroup and rethink our plans..if he tries that again we need to be ready," she stated but to her confusion no-one responded.

"hey-uh-guys-?" she began but was shushed by Kisiragi as Brine muttered to her.

"Do you normally have strange, pale, non-demons outside your fortress gate?" he asked looking at her.

Firefly was confused as to what he meant as she pushed past Brine and gazed at the apparent non-demon in question.

And just as Brine stated, by the frontal most gate of the fortress, stood a girl.

The girl stood roughly equal in terms of height to Firefly (and most likely Frost) which was about five-foot-since inches, and had deathly white skin, virtually the same color as Frost's hair, brilliant blue eyes that seemed to glow, decorated her face accompanied by her was a massive shield that somewhat resembled a cross, that emitted a sparkling pink mist, that to Firefly felt as if it had the powers of the stars itself within it.

The skirt the girl wore ended in what seemed to be sword-shaped crystals-which too glowed in pink energy, and above that she simply wore a very light grey tank top.

As Firefly took a couple of extra steps forward, the girl muttered, not even looking at the female Hell-lord.

"Well there ya are..wondered when you'd show up.."

Firefly narrowed her eyes and retorted, "And I wonder what you're doing here..who are you and state your business, you may have-if not leave, now"

To her surprise and slight irritation, the girl merely pushed off of the stone wall and nonchalantly stretched her back and arms.

"Oh straight to business...I like it..now onto MY business-oh I got a reason to be here," she stated turning to fix Firefly with a stare with her brilliant blue eyes.

"Then what is it?-that's my fortress you know," stated Firefly placing a hand on the hilt of her hip, mounted, over-sized Katana.

The girl chuckled, "So I've been made aware..apologies where are my manners, we haven't been properly introduced yet, my name is Nerozika-you may know me as the Queen of the void and the Wrath of the endless." She bowed slightly for dramatic effect.

Firefly tilted her head drawing a blank at the name-which Nerozika caught sight of and scowled in irritation, not enjoying being forgotten.

Kisiragi however, had a different reaction.

"waiaiaiaiaiattttt-..your Nerozika-THE Nerozika!?" she asked incredulously.

Nerozika turned and smirked, clearly enjoying being remembered as she said, "Yep, it's me-surprised you remember me."

Kisiragi nodded, "I've been around longer than most others here..also I've read and even translated books made by the endless, that's how I found out about your existence," she explained

Said girl in question narrowed her eyes in grudging respect as she said.

"Take's a lot of power to translate one of their books," she commented

Kisiragi smirked, "I ain't one of the strongest demons in terms of magical knowledge in this Hell-plain for no reason."

"So who might you be?" she replied slyly.

"I'm Kisiragi-More known as the Queen of blood, beside me is the crab demon Brine, My sister the Queen of swords Axerina, and of course the one who owns this fortress-the fire demon Firefly," she replied

"So you are some of the main players in this little war eh?" asked the void queen.

"Seems so, the time-turner made it especially prevalent that he is out to get me," said Firefly.

"heh, lucky you," Nerozika said and raised a brow.

"Oh, yeah very lucky," Firefly replied with a chuckle.

"So back to business here for a second..who sent you again?" asked Brine suddenly.

"The endless, in all their..mostly incompetent glory...I was sleeping for millennia before one of the few respectable endless awoke me and explained the situation, I'm half ways aware of whats going on even when I'm asleep, but that usually only covers the smaller aspects, the major events such as the..oh I don't know the majority of the gods being killed by some overly homicidal demigod with some overly compensating weapons in a guilt-induced rage," she stated.

The assembled Hell-lords chuckled as Akure and the four shadows walked into the room, nodding respectfully as Firefly glanced at them.

"Nerozika, this is Akure-my second in command, and the four shadows, Amerenx, Scàth, Sombra, and Scià, some of my generals," she introduced the five.

"Akure..you used to serve under Vivitullus before didn't you?" asked Nerozika.

Akure nodded, "yes I did, before Frost scattered him once down in his home element, and then again in a mortal realm while he wore the skin of a mortal priest."

"After all the eons he lived..his demise was brought on him by none other than himself.." mused Nerozika.

Axerina nodded "That ol'scamp crossed the line and Frost-his very own former heir to the throne, even though he never had any interest in giving up his throne anyway, went to war-a war which he was unable to beat her."

Nerozika looked thoughtful then asked her, "This Frost friend..she seemed to be quite infamous around here..just how powerful is she here now?"

Kisiragi spoke this time, "She is powerful enough to hold her own against two legions worth of demons by herself, and the first time around, while she had help fighting Vivitullus she was the one to-both times as well, deal the killing blow against the Hell lord, she also managed to unlock her blood-rage form at the ripe age of merely three thousand years old."

Nerozika gave an impressive whistle.

"Damn, no slouch in combat is she?-why'd she never assume Vivitullus's land? ain't that the tradition around here?, kill or best the previous Hell-lord in any way shape, or form and you can become the next Hell-lord?" she asked.

"She initially was, for a few minutes, but it wasn't for her-she had gained a large sense of independence, and decided that she wanted to explore the other realms-both mortal and immortal, before meeting vivitullus again, and now she's caught up in yet another wild adventure of hers," replied Firefly.

Nerozika nodded as the air began to ripple as a familiar dark form appeared.

Azhecke had reappeared and he seemed to be briefly at a loss for words as he laid eyes on Nerozika.

"Well I'll be fucking damned.. you're here to ya old bat!?" asked Nerozika smiling actually somewhat happily.

Azhecke quickly shook himself out of his stupor and nodded, "Yes I've been informing the demons here of any circumstances that unfold in the other worlds, I'm their informant per-say."

"you haven't done more than-rightttttttt" she remembered that the creators of fate wouldn't let him tell too much about certain events.

Azhecke sighed and nodded sadly.

"Wonder when they'll remove that ban.." mused Nerozika.

"if ever" replied Azhecke dryly.

"You two know each other eh?" asked Kisiragi.

Nerozika nodded, "Yep, he is the physical manifestation of the abyss-an extension of the void, and I am the Queen of the void."

Firefly tilted her head and began to speak, "so wait..are you too-"

"oh, no it's nothing like that we've merely become very close..allies for lack of better words," cut off Nerozika.

Azhecke nodded.

"With that out of the way, we need to discuss battle plans-Nerozika can you tell us anything on our little time-turner issue?" he asked her.

"Yes, of course as you've probably already experienced first hand what his personality is like, he is egotistical, self-centered narcissistic, loud-mouthed, rude, condescending, you know the typical five-year-old brat," replied the void queen.

"oh yeah, that's been made VERY apparent so far," commented Brine.

"He also has a thing for being overly dramatic..however never underestimate him-he has virtually no true moral values other than him being out on top, and he has no TRUE loyalty to anyone other then himself, but he is still a time-turner- he could simply reverse the time-line if he wished, however he first would at least attempt to, utterly crush his opponents beneath his "vast and great armies"...when he just kidnaps them," continued Nerozika.

"Anything he dislikes in particular?" asked Amerenx.

"probably having his robes dirtied," commented Kisiragi.

"Oh while granted he does hate that, his least favorite thing in all of existence..is cheese," stated Nerozika.

".." cheese?".." repeated Brine.

Axerina, bowled over herself in laughter.

Kisragi just deadpanned.

Firefly made an "of all things" face as Akure chuckled and the four shadows face-palmed.

Azheckle chuckled and landed onto the ground, folding his wings behind his back now, and nodded.

"yes he despises it," he stated.

Once the other Hell-lords had calmed themselves down Firefly then asked.

"Okay, so..any ideas on how we should make an attack on him of our own?".

Axerina chuckled darkly and said, "Oh I do."