"I will take pride in defeating you, Zero..." Serif said

"Why can't we just be friends, you seem cool" Zero said

"Friendship? is pointless.." Serif said

"Shadow trap" Serif said sinking into his own shadow

"What? Did he just sink into the ground?" Zero said

"Your own shadow will be the end of you" Serif said rising from behind Zero

"Shadow Thrust" Serif said forming his hand blade charging at Zero from under him

"Time Stop" Zero said stopping time

"1000 rendering punches" Zero said rapid pinching Serif

"Time Resume" Zero said

Serif was blown away after receiving the after effect of the punches

"Agh" Serif said hitting against a iceberg passing out

"Serifs all knocked out :(" Arial said

"Feel like giving up?" Hercules said taunting Arial

"Steam blinding :)" Arial said releasing Steam onto Hercules eyes

"Prides Roar!" Hercules yelled releasing Fire around him

"Water shackles :)" Arial said attempting to bind Hercules

"Fire Palm!" Hercules yelled charging at Arial blasting him away

"Shit.. :(" Arial said landing next to Serif

"Ice Cage" Frost said trapping anti in a cage made of Ice

"Shatter" Frost said as the cage collapsed on Anti

"And here's the third" Frost said tossing anti next to serif and Arial

"I can't let.. this.. happen..." Serif thought

"All of my work.. my pain.." Serif thought

(Flashback)

"Serif!" A child shouted

"Oh, yes?" A young serif said

"Do you want to play with us?" The child asked

"Yeah!" Serif said running to the child

"Wait you want Serif to play with us?" A child said

"Isn't he like super creepy?" Another child said

"Come on guys let's give him a chance" the child said

Serif made friends with the boy who asked him to play with the group of friends they grew up together becoming very close, as people still antagonized Serif the boy did not care for what they thought about Serif the boys name was Vincent

"Hey this is the kid who keeps hanging out with that creep" a group of children said

"Hey.. hey guys what's the matter?" Vincent said

"You're a weirdo, how could you even like Serif" one of the children said

"He's really nice! You should get to know him!" Vincent said

"Shut up" one of the children said

"We should beat him up, nobody cares about him anyway" another child said

"Wha.. hey guys stop it calm down" Vincent said

One of the children punched Vincent

"No! You're weird just like him you shouldn't even exist" The child said

The rest of the children proceeded to kick Vincent severely injuring him

"Get away from him" Serif scowled

"Oh look it's mister creepy, we should beat you up too" The child said

Serif formed a hand blade

"I'll make you pay for what you did" Serif said

"Oh look it's his scary magic, guys let's show him what real magic is" The child said

"Right!" The children said forming different spells

The children proceeded to attack serif while serif couldn't keep up with them

"We should just kill you here.. nobody cares about you" the child said

"Bye bye cree-" the child tried to say before being stabbed through the chest by Serif

"Mommy.." the child said with tears in his eyes

"Look! It's the evil boy! And he's attacking one of the children!" A man yelled

"Wait but" Serif tried to say

"Kill that monster! Save that child!" The man yelled with a mob following him

"Oh my baby! Are someone help!" The mother of the child screamed running to the child

"A devil! He's a devil!" The woman cried

"Kill him!" The mob yelled

"Serif.. escape and.. get strong enough to stand up to whoever tries to be mean to you.. okay?" Vincent said passing out

Serif ran away as fast as he could

"Shadow escape!" Serif screamed disappearing into a shadow

Serif was walking alone in a forest hungry, sad, and alone

"Hey kid" A man said

"No, don't kill me!" Serif cried

"I'm not gonna kill ya, I saw what happened and kid, you're badass" the man said

It was a very tall and buff man who spoke to serif

"Why don't you come with me, I'll take you under my wing" the man said

"What is your name mister.." Serif said

"It's sigmund, and don't you forget it, your gonna get strong and take out anyone who gets in your way starting today" Sigmund said walking with Serif

(End of flashback)

"I have to do this, I have to go by what The Boss said, and take out anyone who gets in my way.." Serif thought

Serif quickly rose up and slashed Hercules' chest

"Mon.. ster" Hercules said as blood spilled out from him

"FROST! Freeze Hercules' wound now!" Zero yelled

"Right!" Frost shouted rushing to Hercules sealing his wound

"I can't let anyone beat me.. Arial thank you for buying time" Serif said

(Flashback)

"Alright kid this is what I call home" Sigmund said patting a young Serifs back showing him an abandoned building

"I have a couple of other troubled kids who I've also taken in" Sigmund said

"This little guy right here is Dread, the first kid I ever came across I named him myself, and this is Arial" Sigmund said

"Hi..." Dread said shyly

"Hey there, I'm Arial nice to meet you :)" Arial said

"I'm.. Serif" Serif said

10 years later

"Arial did you clean up the left side" Serif said

"Of course I did :)" Arial said

Serif and Arial walked over the pile of unconscious bodies and took a dark gem

"So this is what the boss wanted so bad" Serif said

"It's aura is giving me chills :(" Arial said

"But we've finally gotten it, after all we've been through, Arial" Serif said

"Yeah, we did! :)" Arial shouted

(End of flashback)

"After everything me and Arial have gone through, I won't let these idiots beat us just like that!" Serif thought

"Dark, Scythe" Serif said forming a Scythe on his arm

"Body chopper" Serif said swinging the scythe across the area

"Get down, quickly!" Zero yelled as everyone ducked down

"This guys power really shot up" Zero thought

"Psychotic Frenzy" Serif said slashing the scythe in every direction

"There's no way we can get past that guy!" Frost shouted

Zero touched the scythe in every direction in slashed

"Agile counter" Zero said as the scythe burst with magic blasting Serif back

-Zero-

Subclass ability: Counter

"Why can't you just die!" Serif yelled

"Scythe, killer style" Serif said forming 2 four blades scythes on both of his arms

"Rippers Graveyard!" Serif shouted spinning at a rapid pace having the scythes slice everything in its path

"Machine gun Blasts!" Zero shouted firing multiple energy blasts at serif

"Serif, it's time to leave, we can get them next time :(" Arial said

"Silence! The pain I have gone through is screaming at me, screaming that I need to kill this man!" Serif yelled

"Thi.. this guys insane.." Frost said

"He got a lucky hit on me, a fatal one as well, Zero finish this" Hercules said

"Ultima style, Cosmic burst!" Zero shouted firing a giant beam of energy at Serif

"Steam travel! Smoke deception! :(" Arial yelled making him, serif and anti disappear

"Damn it, I almost had him" Zero said

"I'm sure that you we will cross paths with them again, for now we must recover" Hercules said

"Hercules, summon your bird thing" Zero said

"6th labor, stymphalian flight" Hercules said summoning the bronze eagle

The group flew to the green time base

"Iyasu!" Zero yelled rushing into the base

"Yes?" Iyasu said

"Get down here quick, I need you to heal someone" Zero said

Iyasu ran down to help Hercules

"This wound is horrible, what could have done this to you?" Iyasu said healing Hercules

"We encountered a group of dark magic users, one of them caught him off guard" Zero said

"Who is this man?" Iyasu asked

"This is Hercules, I thought you might have known him" Zero said

"What's all the fuss about" Nova said

"Nova sir, we ran into a group of guys who call themselves Cloud 9, do you have any idea who they are?" Frost asked

"I do not have an idea on what this Cloud 9 is" Nova said

"Nova.." Hercules said

"Why hello.. Hercules" Nova said

"Do you guys know each other?" Frost said

"Of course I know this guy.." Hercules said standing up

"Hercules!" Nova shouted happily

"How have you been man!" Hercules shouted shaking novas hand

"I haven't seen Nova this excited before" Frost said

"Yeah I know Nova, me and him go way back" Hercules said

"What a small world" Nova said

-Night-

"Hey I haven't seen you in a bit" Zero said

"This is because there was no need for our communication" The Void said

"What do you want this time?" Zero said

"Cloud 9" The void said

"What about those guys? one of them was crazy strong" Zero said

"The Leader Sigmund, his power is unimaginable.. even I cannot comprehend it" The Void said

"He is one of the few to ever wield Death Magic" The Void said

"Death Magic? I thought that was just some fairytale parents told their kids so they wouldn't misbehave" Zero said

"It is no fairytale, for he knows this magic and could cause the death of this world" The Void said

"So we really have to prepare for these guys huh" Zero said

"I'm certain your power could be enough to defeat almost all of the group... except for Sigmund" The Void said

"Wait, He's someone who might be stronger than me?" Zero said

"Yes so you must be on gu-" The Void tried to say

"ALRIGHT! I WANNA FIGHT THAT GUY AS SOON AS I CAN!" Zero yelled excitedly

"Silence, this is no time to get excited" The Void said

"Sigmund is a ruthless killer who should not be taken lightly" The Void said

"Train, like you've never trained before" The Void said

"I haven't actually trained before" Zero said

"What? But the power you have..." The Void said

"I don't know, when I was a kid I was super weak but all of a sudden I just got strong as hell" Zero said