Lady Death got to work with Cremator on the real training, far beyond Lucifer's eyes to watch and no longer does she have to look behind her shoulder. She begins her training with Cremator in a round pit to increase her skills in swordsmanship and slowly building up her powers to unlock more of her gifts. While she trains, she also begins to grow her hair back and changes colour to white, as the more she trains with her powers, the more her hair changes to white. As for her outfit, she does remain wearing her regular black skimpy clothes, with long stockings and sleeves, a belt to hold her sword around her waist and a few gold skulls attach to her outfit.

For a long time of hard training, the two continues clashing swords and Cremator got to witness more of her powers getting much stronger, such as using the powers of levitation. She manage to bring all of the swords that was held against the walls, pulled them towards her and left them floating through the air above her head. She could use them all to offensive and defensive against her enemies, but the more power she uses, the more the swords fail to hold up to the pressure and just break apart. She was left satisfy that her training is doing so well to her, so she continues with what she got and continues her swordsmanship with Cremator.

The next phase was going into her destructive side, by testing her power out on mannequins and try to destroy them in seconds. Her rage increases when thinking of Lucifer, thanks to the helmets with long horns that closely resembles the head of Lucifer. She also thought about her father, remembered that he brought more pain to her than Lucifer did, but it was truly Lucifer's fault in the first place and she lets that rage into her on destroying all the mannequin bodies to nothing.

After her destructive power, she begins to use the controls by dominating the Demons that Cremator brought to her. It was difficult at first to control the powers, since it was hard to switch between controlling and destroying. She went through a few trials, killed several Imps and a single Prowler because of this, but in the end she manage to finally pull off a control over a single Hell Knight and finally was getting the hang of mastering her powers. This was a slow preparation, but was enough for her to control more Demons, destroy those that are against her and actually succeeds when she places her full power to the test by trying to dominate a Baron of Hell. She would use her Demons to handle it first and finally unleash her blue energy to the Baron, which finally brought the Baron to a halt on attacking its new allies.

After the hard training, she got outside to take a break, inhales deeply and feels the warm air that blows through her soft body. While the atmosphere is hard to breathe by normal people, she got the hang of it the more she remain here in Hell.

"You're strength is growing the more you stay here in Hell." Cremator calls to her from behind and approaches her with a cape for her to wear. "I know you don't want to hear it, but in Hell, you do gain an increase of power here."

"I noticed." Death replies and raise her hand up to make it glow in blue energy "I feel my powers have gone so much, but I feel like my destructive power is the one I can't control."

"Then perhaps you need the right tool to use it as a conduit of your power."

"What do you mean?" Lady Death looks to Cremator

"There are tools in Hell that can help increase your strength. Some of these items are difficult to find, but I have heard of someone that can help you."

"Can he be trusted?"

"Yes." Cremator turns away from her, takes a few steps away from her and turns his head to the side to look back at her "After I lost my privileges as a forge master, someone else help create weapons for the Dark Lord and he betrayed him too. He can become a powerful ally to us, as well as the location of one of the weapons that I forged."

"Your weapons hasn't helped me that much lately." Lady Death says to him "What makes this weapon any better?"

"I created a sword that can match any weapon that you have ever wielded in the armoury, a sword that could hold out on its own against your power. That sword is called Darkness. It is the key to defeat Lucifer."

"Where can we find this man you speak of?"

"He is a Demon that cannot be named, but everyone now calls him the Wretch. I know exactly where he is, but the problem is by reaching him."

"Very well then, it's decided." Lady Death turns her back on Cremator and replies "Alert the troops. We'll bring reckoning to the ones that guards the Wretch." But as she walks away from him, she had to stop again when she felt his hand touching her shoulder.

"A moment, milady."

"What is it now?"

"Your troops may be ready to spill blood for you, but they are not ready for open war with Lucifer's allies. We should consider using stealth to achieve this to deliver the element of surprise."

She sighs and looks away for a moment, but back to Cremator to give him an answer "Very well then. Tonight we will bring the first strike to one of my enemies."

And so the plan was done and Lady Death joins Cremator on a stealth mission with only Prowlers to attack one of the fortresses of Hell. The fortress did hold many Demons, but most of the Demons that remain inside the complex are humanoid Demons, mostly Hell Razers with different skin colour for the harden skin they wear, as well as signs of Hell Knights and some Barons of Hell that remain guarding the main gates of this fortress.

A party of seven was made with Lady Death leading the five Prowlers inside the complex through one of the nearby balconies. Cremator threw a hook with rope attach to it over to the balcony to allow the two to climb up and enter the interior as quiet as they can. Lady Death did engage some nearby Demons that could smell her presence, but quickly taken out when the Prowlers appear nearby to finish them off and move ahead to clear a path for the two.

Inside the main room where an Archdemon lies, a large brute with tan skin and a powerful built body. He was seven feet tall and wearing just armour to protect his lower body, while keeping his upper body expose to show his red skin appearance. He would sit there on his throne and watch victim after victim come to the room, watch them get torn to shreds by the Imps and Hell Knights that drag them through. As they undergo through different tortures, the Archdemon enjoys it and spills such blood over the floor, while sometimes he spills their blood inside a large chalice of his and drinks it whole.

"Disgusting… Who is he?"

"He's an Archdemon." Cremator replies "He's one of the highest generals to the Dark Lord. Killing him would prove to be difficult."

"Let's put that to the test, shall we?" She stands up straight and descends down to the floor to reveal herself to them all.

"Huh? What's this?" The Archdemon responds and remains sitting on his iron throne "Another pet to please me?"

"I'm not here for that. I'm here for your head." Lady Death drew her sword and charges into battle with her Demons following her.

The Prowlers under her control engage the two Hell Knights that charge towards her, they use their quick speed on vanishing before the Hell Knight could grab them and strike them when they saw an opening. The distraction was enough for Lady Death to drive her sword through the chest of a Hell Knight and uses her demonic power to blast the second Hell Knight away from her.

The Archdemon rose up off his throne, angered by this insolent, he picks up the Hell Knight she sent close to him and threw the Hell Knight straight back at her. She collapses to the floor when she tries to avoid the incoming Hell Knight, while also losing a Prowler in the process and left the others to continue attacking the two Hell Knights until they remain dead.

Cremator steps forward to support on attacking the Demons and target the Archdemon, but Lady Death refuses his help and decides to face this Archdemon herself. It was a chance to test her strength and use her powers to defeat a stronger opponent by herself. She charges in first, swings her sword and fails to land a blow to his body. He grabs onto her arm, threw her across the room and then finishes off her Prowlers that came to support her. They were no match against the Archdemon, so he tore them all a part until all that was left was Lady Death.

"You can't hope to escape this place alive. Your death will satisfy me." The Archdemon replies

"The only thing who death shall take is you alone."

And with an attack from her destructive power, she aims both her hands towards the Archdemon and fires her bluish demonic blast towards him. The attack was dangerous and was enough to send the Archdemon sliding back against his throne. She would also use levitation to control her sword and the sword Cremator wields in his hand, which he gladly allows her to use, sends both of them straight to the Archdemon to pierce his flesh. Lady Death charges in to grab a hold of both the swords that remain in his body, the Archdemon would grab her by the neck when he saw the chance, but before he could choke the life out of her, she unleashes her destructive power within the blades, causing more pain from inside of him and cause an explosion that ends up tearing his body apart. The explosion was enough to send her collapsing back to the floor, covered in the blood of the Archdemon and finds him still alive, just with his whole chest completely blown apart.

Cremator approaches her and helps her up off the ground "Are you alright my lady?"

"Yes…" She stands back up and walks back to whatever is left of the Archdemon that remains sitting on his throne. "Death has come to claim your head. I am Lady Death." And with that she annihilates the Archdemon with one more blast of her power to finally rid of him of his existence.

With the Archdemon no longer in charge, this was a chance for her to unleash her power upon the Demons inside this place and manage to dominate many of them under her control. There are those that quickly become hostile, but they were torn to shreds by the overwhelming numbers of those that now serve her and not the fallen Archdemon. Time and time again, she continues to increase her powers and saw a chance to dominate the rest of them by claiming a powerful Buff Totem that was found. The Buff Totem can increase the Demon's strength and speed, but if she was to place her power inside of it, the rest of the horde would suddenly fall completely under her control.

And with that, she now owns a fortress of Demons under her command. With them now in her control, she merges her army with this new one and begins the search for the Wretch who cannot be named. While Cremator searches for the golden sword, called Darkness, Lady Death searches through the dungeons to find the Wretch. Just like Cremator, the Wretch was a humanoid Demon with great intelligence, but would always be remember as the Wretch and would take an appearance similar to that of a Marauder, except without wearing any armour protection on his upper body and did left his mask protecting half the bottom of his face.

Lady Death checks every cell until she stops at one to see someone sitting in the shadows. She asks "Are you the Wretch who cannot be named?"

The Demon exhales deeply from hearing that name and leans his head forward to show his face to her. He shows to have the same head appearance like the Marauder, except his skin was darker with orange fire lines spreading across his body "Are you my executioner?"

"The Archdemon is dead. I killed him myself."

"Really? You defeated him? The Dark Lord is not going to like that. You're all going to die."

"Not if I kill him first. Lucifer will die by my hand."

He scoffs and rises up off his seat "It's not the first time someone said that. And you will certainly be the last fool to challenge Lucifer."

"Why do they call you the Wretch?" She asks

"I helped the destroyer reach Lucifer and he failed to achieve his task. The Slayer was a fool in the end and now I'm left here to rot."

"That name again. The Slayer. Who is he?"

"He's a Destroyer." He replies "The Unchained Predator, the Hell Walker and the only thing they fear is him."

"Sounds like a perfect Demon to help us."

"He's no Demon. He's a human in an indestructible suit that I created. I expected him to defeat Lucifer, but failed and was now finally sealed away, never again will he be awakened."

"The Slayer fought Lucifer in a one on one battle on top of a mighty tower." Cremator appears before Lady Death and explains the story "But Lucifer tricked the Slayer and dropped the entire building down on top of him. Lucifer remains alive and the Slayer was left inside a sarcophagus to forever remain inside."

Lady Death turn her eyes to the sword that Cremator left leaning against his shoulder "That sword…"

"Indeed." He moves the blade in front of him, placed his other hand against the blade and offers it to her "This is the blade I mentioned. It will prove to be quite powerful and be perfect for you, my lady."

She grabs the handle of the sword, pulls it out of his hands and gets a look at this golden blade "For a blacksmith, you sure know how to create such art."

The Wretch was left laughing at that and replies "You haven't seen my work."

"Then perhaps you should join us." She replies to him "You can be a powerful ally for my army, and perhaps an ally of the Slayer. Can the Slayer help us?"

"The Slayer is a powerful enemy." He replies "He'll kill you and everyone else that tries to get in his way."

"He wants Lucifer dead and I want the same thing. He chose to spare you, so there is a chance that he can spare me. I want to know where he is."

"You are a fool to think he'll spare your life. But I still wish for him to destroy Lucifer with my blade."

Lady Death smiles and finally shatters the cell to set the Wretch free from his prison. He takes his time by walking out of there and looks back to Lady Death "One thing. His tomb continues to move freely across Hell, so finding it will be such troublesome with the army you have."

"I may have an idea of how you could find the tomb." Cremator replies then walks away "Follow me, my lady."

The two travels somewhere else below the fortress and left the Wretch to join the surface. Cremator brings Lady Death to a place where another prisoner can be set free by her alone. Down below they find a large white horse that has fallen into demonic and has become derange to attack anyone that tries to get closer to it. The horse had a set of horns across the front and sides of the head, as well as glowing red eyes.

"A horse?"

"The beast is a troublesome creature." Cremator replies "We could leave it here to its madness or put it out of its misery. I'm leaving this up to you."

"Hmmm." She uses her powers of levitation to float in the air and flies over the edge in front of her to land on the other side to stand in front of the horse. When she got closer, the horns on the sides would return into its body and left the shorter ones that remain against the front of its head. She steps closer to lend her hand out to the horse, which made it hostile for a moment until it finally calms down. "You are perfect."

It did not take long for Lady Death to ascend back to the surface and finds her army surrounding the fortress. She came flying across the sky with her horse, unchained and willing to serve the one who slain its former master. This horse ignites all four of its feet in flames and can easily ride across the air to give her the chance to fly high in the sky to see everything across Hell.

Cremator and the Wretch witness her flying through the sky and only Cremator was left amaze to see her progress quite well. He replies to the Wretch "I have hope that she can be the one who can defeat Lucifer."

"Things can change." The Wretch turns away and walks back inside the building "I'll only believe in those words when Lucifer is dead."

And so over time, Lady Death continues the search on her horse and not knowing of the ever watchful eyes from Lucifer and her father that continues to be curious to see how she progress. While she focuses on what she seeks, this would take such a long time until it finally comes to an end when she finally finds the Titan with the building stuck on the back. It was left walking through the plains of Hell, ever walking and never taking a break. What lies inside was the Slayer himself, trapped and asleep inside a sarcophagus where he will remain there for the rest of his life until someone is stupid enough to release him.

"He's in there." Lady Death stands on the edge with her horse and her army nearby "Lucifer is going to hate what I'm about to do today."

"I'm more concern on what he'll do if we awaken him." Cremator replies "He is an instrument of death that loves only to kill Demons."

"Have you ever met the man?"

"Never. I only heard stories of this man. He wears the mark of the Night Sentinels."

"Night Sentinels?" Lady Death turns her head back towards the Titan and mentions her husband "My husband was a Night Sentinel." And for a moment she hesitates when she was thinking back of her life before she became what she is today. She would finally return back to reality and draws her sword "The more we wait here, the more that Titan leaves the area. We leave, now!"

And so she sets out on her horse through the air and rides straight towards the Titan. She got a Summoner to reappear on top of the building to spawn some Demons and leave the rest of her army to remain just around the Titan. She had hope to stop the Titan from moving and to leave her forces around the Titan in case enemy Demons should appear to stop them. As she rises high above the Titan, she jumps off her horse, lands on the building and works her way down to reach the back head of the Titan. It was here she draws her sword, charges enough power within her sword and finally stabs her sword just through the nape of the Titan to discharge her power to stop the Titan. Her sword manage to punch at halfway through, caused the Titan to stop and groan from this painful surge that was flowing across its upper body. While she tries to at least dominate the Titan, she ends up overloading her power inside the Titan and causes the whole thing to fall forward onto the ground. Lady Death expects this to happen, so she quickly jumps off the Titan with her sword still with her and has her horse fly just underneath her to catch her on time.

With the Titan down, the Demons on her side storm the interior and engages the humanoid Demons that are equip with demonic weapons that shoot out red energy blasters. A Summoner already began creating Demons inside to fight them, only spawning a few Imps and some Prowlers and have them all torn to shreds by the opposing forces. Cremator did storm the interior, ignited his hands in flames and sends two fireballs to knock two of the soldiers to the ground and allow the Imps to help tear them to shreds. As he proceeds further within, another foe would stand in their way and it happens to be a Marauder. The Marauder steps forth and destroys the incoming Imps with his Crucible Axe, as well as switching to his Super Shotgun to annihilate the Prowler that thought of reappearing behind him.

"You cannot let him escape his prison." The Marauder replies when looking back towards Cremator "He will kill us all."

Cremator ignites his hands in the yellow flames and replies "You won't be alive to witness him destroy Lucifer." He then threw both his fireballs at the Marauder, but he creates a red energy shield on time to redirect those projectiles into the ceiling.

An orange wolf came from behind the Marauder and runs across the room to attack Cremator. He shot the creature with one fireball, while leaving the Marauder to rush straight at him and swings his axe with both hands down at him. As he tries to avoid the axe by moving back, he takes a blow across his chest and also takes a hit against his right arm by his Super Shotgun. The blast was enough to force Cremator back against the wall, then swings his axe once again through the air and sends a red energy wave straight at him. But of course, he got out of there on time by moving to the right and throws one fireball straight at the Marauder, but blocks it yet again by the shield.

Finally, Lady Death shows up through the window and lands nearby to witness the fight between the two. She draws her sword, brings the Marauder to turn his attention towards her and fires bluish blast from her sword straight at him. He quickly activates his shield yet again, blocked the attack and left dragging himself away from the serious strength of this power of her. While her power continues redirecting all over the place, she continues unleashing more power and leave the Marauder to continue blocking. Cremator would move along the side, charges a stronger fireball at the ready, while the Marauder summons a wolf to help counter, but fails when the two wolves shows up that easily destroys the spirit wolf. The opportunity came when Cremator throws that fireball to the side of the Marauder, damaged him enough to drop his shields and give Lady Death the shot to annihilate him with her powers that easily tore his whole body apart.

With the Marauder dead, nobody was stopping them from reaching the room where the Doom Slayer lies. Lady Death was the first to enter the room, noticed the sarcophagus in the middle, dozens of pentagrams on the walls and a handful of burnt out candles that suddenly remain around the sarcophagus. There was another sarcophagus nearby against the wall and left open for them to find a suit of armour that lays inside of it, while the man himself was in the other one.

"At last, the Slayer's tomb." Lady Death comes closer to the sarcophagus, placed her right hand against the side and walks along the side of it.

"Are you sure it is wise to awaken him?" Cremator asks and starts to feel worry of the situation "Do you truly believe he can be used like this?"

"As much as I want to destroy Lucifer, I need him in this war. Whatever happens and if I cannot control him… I'll take care of it myself."

"Allow me to open the sarcophagus for you then." Cremator steps closer to the side, grabs onto the top of the sarcophagus and waits for Lady Death's approval of opening it up.

With the signal being a nod, Cremator pushes his hands forward and begins slowly pushing the top off it onto the floor. With the top gone, both got to see what he really looks like and only Lady Death would be the one to be startle with surprise. She gasps and takes two steps back, shakes her head in denial of what was laying before her.

"It… Can't be him…"

"My lady?" Cremator was left confuse at this, but her expression shows that she recognises him. "You know him?"

She cannot believe what she sees inside the sarcophagus, believing that her eyes are now deceiving her and ends up refusing that her husband is actually the Doom Slayer. He was laying there, chained up inside, remaining asleep and left naked without his suit on.

"Leave us." Lady Death replies and kept her eyes to the Slayer's face

"My lady –"

She looks back at him and raises her voice "Now!"

And after that they leave her alone with the Slayer. She steps closer to the Slayer, wrapped her arms around her belly for a moment until she soon moves her right hand against his chest to feel his heart still beating. She sighs in relief, but also start to worry now that the moment he sees who she really is, it will be very much awkward between the two.

"How did you become like this…" Lady Death keeps her hand against his chest and soon steps away from him "How can this be…"

While the Slayer remains in a deep sleep, the power that kept him inside this sarcophagus was beginning to fade away and will take a while before he finally opens his eyes to rip and tear once more. Before he does, a voice can be heard, as well as the mark of the Night Sentinels that begins to appear in the darkness. The voice says to him "They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you. You will be worse. Rip and tear, until it is done."

And just like that, he opens his eyes and looks up at the ceiling. He looks to the right at his right hand to see it chain down then turn his eyes to Lady Death that steps forward to get his attention. "Y-You're awake."

Enrage of where he was and easily tell that she is a Demon, he forces himself out of the chains, broke the chain off his right hand and lands a hard hit across her face to knock her back. He breaks the other chain that held his left hand then jumps off the sarcophagus and sprints straight at her.

"Wait, my love, don –" She stops talking when he grabs her by the neck and held her against the wall. She was left gasping for air and remains with her hands against his arms. Her eyes look with fear and refuse to unleash her powers to stop him, but with no choice, she finally unleashes a small burst of power that forces the Slayer off of her. While this only temporarily, this only stops him for a few seconds and was ready to finish her off with his hands.

This was her change to stop him by calling out to him "S-Stop! It's me… It's Hope!"

And by hearing that her name was Hope suddenly forces him to miss his right punch against her face and left it hit against the wall behind her. While he stops, he looks clearly at her and realise that she was completely not like Hope and ends up attacking her again by the neck. He grabs her neck with his left hand, lifted her up in the air and beginning to slowly choke the life out of her until he finally breaks her neck. With little air left in her, she would try to say something that only Hope knows about him.

"Daisy… She found me… She found me to be yours. You found me. It's really me. It's Hope."

And from that he finally drops her down, but his hand remains against her neck and left not choking her. The moment of thought did make him remember the day when he saw Daisy jump off his shoulders, ran into Hope when she was walking on the road and stops to find the lucky rabbit that came up to her. She crouches down to lend her hand out to offer to pat it, which Daisy allows her and was enjoying her soft hands patting her fur. Hope was to be the first person beside the Slayer to actually get close to Daisy and even this surprises him.

"Hope?" Slayer shakes his head and keeps his grip against her neck when saying "No!"

"Yes… It's me…" She sighs quietly to him and touches the side of his face "My Doom Marine… You have to believe me."

"Demons… Must… Die."

"You weren't there at what my father did… He summoned the Demons… He slaughtered everyone and turned me into…. This…" She then decides to lower her arms down and remains staring back at him with sadden look on her face. She would also hesitate to reply to this, as she had to come clean at what happen to Daisy and says to him "He killed her… He sacrificed Daisy."

". . . . ." Slayer got tense and his hands shaken from this truth. While he had no idea about Daisy and what really happen back at home, he was left unsure what to make of all of this. While he does wish to strike at her, something would suddenly stop him from harming her and actually let's go of the grip on her neck.

Lady Death lowers her eyes down and shakes her head when saying "I'm sorry… But you weren't there at what he did… What he did to me." And just the thought of remembering the past, caused her to feel angry at thinking about Lucifer and her father. She would also turn her attention back to the mark she had across her face, as Doomguy did deliver a pretty hard blow across her face.

"Hope…" Slayer finally calms down and touches the side of her face to make her look back at him. "It can't be you… They did this to you?"

"They did this to the both of us, my love. But they'll pay dearly for everything they have ever done for us." She gently places her right hand against his chest and replies softly to him "I've really missed you. I thought you were dead."

Doom Slayer remains where he was, left leaning his forehead against hers and feels her left hand touching the side of his face. Of course, it will not be long until she finally comes closer to press her lips against his. It was just a soft kiss to him, but ends up with him kissing her back and she ends up moving back against the wall with her arms around him. She keeps her arms around his neck and he keeps his arms around her waist. While they remain like this, both are forgetting the fact that Lady Death was wearing her skimpy black outfit and the Doom Slayer was naked.

For a while later, Lady Death comes out the door first and finds her wolves waiting for her, as well as Cremator that was waiting patiently until his lady returns from that room. He notice her smiling for a bit and left with no rage in her for the time being, since now she could finally team up with her husband in his fight with the Demons. The Slayer was gearing up with his suit, checks his helmet when he was done putting the suit on and finally places it over his head. Ready to leave, he looks back at the sarcophagus once more then takes his leave from the room and meets with Lady Death again. The wolves did show some hostile towards him, as well as Cremator and the rest of the lessor Demons that remain at the back. Slayer presses his hands together to start cracking them, which forces Cremator to step back and have Lady Death to step forward to handle the situation.

"Lucifer and my father will pay deeply for what they've done for us." Lady Death replies "On this day, we will have our vengeance against those who have wronged us. We go to war against Lucifer!"