Sparda awoke with an apathetic face, he did not look forward to wakeing up and did not look forward to work, but didn't look forward to sleep or expanding the kingdom of darkness. He stood up and looked out the old broken window, the town was in ruins just as it always was, some people ran screaming down the street and were killed or turned themselves it just depended on what they had done.

"These other demons... How idiotic they are." said Sparda as he picked up his sword 'Sparda' and left his room. It was eeriely quiet, he hated that, and it was an empty street no lesser apparitions or weaker demons nothing. It seemed like they were all wiped out, like as if heaven shown through and it's light devoured their bodies, Sparda walked slowly as to not show his curiousity.

"Well well if it isn't Sparda!" said an annoying voice, Sparda turned around to see a purple joker standing before him, bowing like as if he were a king.

"... And who the hell are you?" asked Sparda.

"Oh just a mere wanderer are you over protective about your territory?"

"..." replied Sparda to the strange being.

"I'm heading to the Northern area of here." he cackled. Sparda just stared at him blankly with an urge to make him shut up.

"Really what lies North of here in that barren waste land Mundus has created for us?" asked Sparda.

"Oh nothing to extravigant!" said the joker.

"Really? Then I'd like to see it for myself." said Sparda.

"Fine, fine let's go!" said the joker as he ran off way ahead, as Sparda headed out he was confronted by Phantom.

"Where are you going?" asked Phantom as he stepped infront of him.

"I'm going to go look at something." said Sparda.

"Really? Well then report back here as soon as you find what your looking for or else your rank will fall." laughed Phantom knowing then he'd be a higher rank than Sparda.

"Fine then." said Sparda as he walked out of town. He glanced back at Phantom knowing that back stabbing spider would be glad to tell mundus that Sparda was leaveing for good and that he was going to rebel against him.

"Oh and Phantom, play any of your tricks while I'm gone, and I'll make sure your punishment is worse than eternal damnation." threatend Sparda as he walked away, Phantom just stood there, glareing at Sparda as his shadow disappeared from his sight.

It was quiet a walk, barren waste land left and right, a few human corpses, and a ghost town. It was rather lonely, him all alone without a pleasent thing to talk to, just demons, no minded demons, and their petty grumbles and growls and laughs as he walked past them. He hoped maybe to find something anything where this joker was going to, but then again it is a joker or at least he thought, for all he knows he could be lead into a trap, but then again Hell probably wasn't as bad as this place he was stuck in, for all he knew he was in Hell.

He then came across something, it was a laughing face, painted in blood, with an arrow pointing straight in front of him telling him to go forward. Sparda smirked it seemed like he was going to be there after all, just then Sparda transformed into his demon form and flew forward, the joker was in a town that was like the last over run by demons and humans, it was a wreck as always.

"Ho ho ho! I'm here, I'm here!" laughed the joker as he ran to a huge tower in the town, it was so tall it almost completely blocked out the sun on that town. As Sparda arrived at the town his eyes sharpend it was a tower, a tower of evil, built to worship Mundus and all the evil in the world. How many of these has he seen but this one at least was still standing apparently Mundus took a likeing to it.

"... A... Ahh!" said a woman as she was standing behind him realizeing that this was Mundus's right hand man, Sparda, but why was he here? Sparda turned to see a beautiful blonde haired woman, fall on the ground cowering before him.

"..." he said as he approached her, "You need not fear the wicked blade of darkness lest you be light shineing from the darkness." He said as he held her chin up for her to gaze into his eyes. He trembled and he sat her down, she had a weapon, a staff of electricity. His eyes widen as he saw that, only those appointed with Mundus's weapons of power are allowed to hold those.

"Yea... Yes sir, bl... Black knight!" said the woman gazeing down on the floor and at his feet. He looked at her terrified face, she was trying not to sob but it wasn't working she was to terrified by his presence to even mutter a word more than what she had.

"What is that you have there?" he asked her, she looked into his eyes, her innocence showed, he was surprised it was rare to see one with an innocent face, and to be terrified like this.

"I... I don't know... M... My father to... Told me to bring it to the tower.. He... He passed away a fe.. Few days ago." she said.

"I see..., " said Sparda, 'Do you by chance know how the inside of that tower looks like?" asked Sparda.

"Yea... Yes." she said.

"Then if you can tell me while we're in there what to expect... I think you might live." said Sparda.

"Ngh... Yes... O knight of darkness... I... I shall do... Your bidding." she said still trembleing knowing, if she refused him, he could easily smite her and leave her body to rot on the streets.

"Then let's go." said Sparda as he lead her off. His hand held on to her tightly, and she felt something odd, a pulse, not hers, but his? How could a demon have a pulse? She looked at him, and then she thought.

'Maybe, he's our only hope.' She thought as she was lead into the Tem-ni-gru.