Misery sat there, on the throne, with a scowl plastered on her face.
It had been three weeks since that incident. When that enigmatic robot Quote had defeated the Doctor and also killed her uncle.
It had been three interesting weeks since then. Firstly Balrog had opted to leave with them and really hadn't told her a thing about it until a few days later. Not that she was all that angry about it, he wasn't really great company at times and it would be nice to have some space from that oaf. On the other hand he was one of the few people on the island that wasn't really convinced that she was still evil.
She groaned at the thought. While she certainly had a mean and mischievous streak in her, she didn't think she was evil, or at least evil in comparison to some of the other figures that had been on the island. Sure she did some bad things, but most of it could be chalked up to the curse she had inadvertently inflicted upon herself by making that demon crown. The irony in trying to make an artifact to make you powerful yet you were cursed not to wear it but to obey whoever was wearing it. But that didn't make a difference to the Mimiga population on the island. Sure she wasn't really interested in being "friends" with them, but it did make it rather hard to interact with them at all. She wouldn't be doing that normally, but her mother decided to add some salt to that metaphorical wound.
Her mother, Jenka, had decided that the natural repercussions of coercing Ballos into making a very powerful magical artifact wasn't enough of a punishment for doing that. She was told not to interact with him at all, which was understandable. He was hate and insanity made flesh(Or the closest you could get). Jenka had her try and help those Mimiga rebuild after all of that was done. That wasn't going as well as it could have, and at this particular moment she had decided to take "a break" just to get away from them. Dislike wasn't a strong enough word to describe the feelings she had towards them, but she called it that anyways. She disliked the attitude the Mimiga's would give her whenever she would try to help, whether it be sarcastically or legitimately trying to help. They would come up with some excuse and then start whispering to each other when the thought she was out of the vicinity.
Today was no different. Or at least it started out that way. Aside from trying to help the Mimiga's and doing whatever other chores Jenka would give her(Out of boredom and not wanting to interact with the Mimigas), she really didn't have much to do. This had been almost routine for a while, with the occasional dose of excitement(or drama) popping up every once in a while. Sure she seemed to stir up something whenever she showed up but she also found it entertaining whenever these things happened on their own.
Like the one time Mahin stole Jack's lunch. A tight smile had formed on her face upon remembering that. She did technically incite that, by teleporting the lunch next to Mahin's several other "snacks", but it was inconspicuous enough that the Mimigas didn't try to pin it on her simply being there. It was funny watching Mahin run as fast as he could away from Jack, who really wasn't having a good day that day. The chase went all the way to the pier, in which Mahin tripped and fell into the reservoir.
But then a thought hit her.
"I wonder what that human family is up to?"
She could leave the island at this point. That demon crown wasn't acting as a magical tether anymore. She remembered how frustrated she was when she first found that out. The thought was fleeting, and she started thinking about that human family that was part of that research team. While most of the humans that came were single, a small family had showed up. A mother, and her son and daughter. She had turned the girl into a Mimiga, along with that other human that was on the research team. The engineer, or at least that was what she thought he was. She didn't really care about what positions they had besides the Doctor.
It was a rather interesting idea, hypothetically visiting that family. She certainly couldn't do it now, but she could probably track them down. A slightly bigger smile appeared on her face. She could just see the shocked faces as she showed up and spooked them. Was it mean, sure, but on the other hand she just loved scaring people like that.
That train of thought was interrupted and derailed as she heard somebody approaching the throne room. It was probably somebody who had decided to try and brave the trip to the balcony and retrieve her from her "break". She groaned as she hopped off of the top of the throne. It was probably Jenka or Booster. It was surprising to her that he even survived getting hurled into the labyrinth the way he was, given his age. It was probably either one of them. The Mimiga weren't keen on going to the island's exterior, either due to not having the general strength or power needed to get to the balcony or just simply not wanting to. She sat back down in the throne and tried to block out the intruder, who did turn out to be booster, if only to get a few more moments of calm before she had to go back to those bratty Mimigas.
Since he apparently stuck around, and had taken to sticking by Jenka, she picked up his name pretty quickly. He had become a royal pain in Misery's opinion. He would sometimes try to keep an eye on her and comment on whatever she was doing. That became annoying to Misery really quickly, and the two would bicker and fight sometimes. Granted a lot of interactions she had with humans seemed to go that way. She didn't really interact with the other crown bearers positively either, but that was when she could. The Doctor was one of the only ones that was marginally not annoying to put up with out of all of them, and that was partially due to science.
She remembered how all of the crown bearers would try to get her more involved with their plans in varying ways. Halda didn't do much besides strategy and magic ability, so she didn't gain much besides how to come up with strategies(which was stupid in her opinion). Annachponae taught her how to use an assortment of weapons, but like with Halda she didn't see very much use of this knowledge. Miakid taught her all about "The wonders of Technology" and while that was useful then, she didn't really benefit from that either now days. Granted that was partially how she got roped into helping the Mimigas rebuild in the first place, her general amount of knowledge she had gained over the many years had made her rather knowledgeable on many topics, despite her lack of interest in the topics themselves. The Doctor on the other hand, had actually given her some interesting information.
Besides being a Doctor, The last crown bearer was also knowledgeable on many topics relating to Biology and chemistry. A "scientist" in his pass time, and apparently quite the accomplished one in biology as well as being a doctor.
Science was interesting. Magic was about simply waving a wand or staff and having your problems disappear with almost no questions asked. Sure there was a lot to learn about magic, and that was also interesting to her, but science was about explaining why and how things happen naturally. Maybe it was just her outlook but science was a very interesting topic to her. Granted she was in charge of the Doctor's secret back up plan(Which thankfully didn't make it to fruition). That entailed cleaning up the wind fortress made by Miakid originally and turning it into a lab proper. Then it was making the G-CLONE; that was fun to do. It wasn't hard to figure out the plans for fixing up the prototype cloning device already there, and with magic she improved it tenfold. She had managed to make it a great replicator, which could clone up to a hundred copies of something(Anything, Living or robotic) before it would inadvertently destroy the original item that was placed into it. She figured it was a fault in the great machine she had created, that either it was pulling too much out of items to make copies or that simply items could only be cloned so many times before enough natural magic and DNA had been pulled out of them for them to get killed.
A cough and a voice had managed to break Misery out of her train of thoughts again. She had really tried to block out booster coming out and criticizing her about whatever happened to be going on at that time.
"Misery, it's been half an hour. Are you done "having a break"?"
"Yes. Y'know, you really should try talking to those Mimigas. I don't think they appreciated your great idea to have me help them rebuild their villages."
The witch stared icily at Booster. Her eyes were red still. She hated how the demon crown had stained her eyes red when she was cursed. Her eyes still went back and fourth between their original brown and the bright red that was normal for the last several years, and she hated that. She really hated that, the fact that her eyes would seemingly go back and fourth between two colors. "Can't my eyes just stick to being one color?" she thought bitterly to herself when it started to become noticeable, and that was a day after the ordeal. It had seemed like several years to her but it was probably closer to a hundred. That crown would always put her into a stasis between Crown bearers, not to mention had her stinted in physical and magical limitations. She had been stuck with the same physique for a long time and her power had plateaued after a while during the curse. She had quite the growth spurt after Quote had destroyed Ballos, in terms of height, physique, and magical powers. It wasn't a big change, she had grown several inches and her body was now more akin to a late teenagers than that of a young child just hitting 13.
"Maybe if you didn't do so many horrible things to them they would be nicer to you."
"Like I really had a choice when I was under the Demon Crown's curse."
There was a pause then. Misery now had a tight yet malicious smile on her face. She had managed to hit a chord with Booster about the situation with the Demon Crown. She knew he felt bad for her about that but she just loved bringing that up anyways, just to make him uncomfortable about calling her out on the things she did under the Demon Crown's curse. She knew that wasn't a good excuse for everything but it was a good enough excuse for most of it. Jenka could care less at times about whether or not she had free will during the existence of the demon crown, but it seemed booster was slightly more sympathetic about that at times.
After a while she frowned again, before letting out a sigh and then teleporting the pair to the sand zone. That pause had become a very long and uncomfortable one, and had she been out there for much longer she assumed he would start getting upset and throw a fit. She had the unfortunate experience(in her opinion) of having to be booster's "assistant" in setting up more teleporters across the island so possibly the Mimigas would get around the island easier, and it wasn't going to bad when they weren't bickering with each other about how to set up said teleporters. She knew it was probably her mother's doing, because under normal circumstances Booster would have been avoiding her like the plague.
A plan to sneak off had been sitting in the back of her mind though. Sometime soon, she would sneak off and go bother those humans. Maybe even visit balrog for once(Since usually it was him visiting her for the past three weeks).