Okay so I know I said I wasn't going to write anymore, about how I was going on break, but I wrote this before I made that comment and I wanted to post it. It's the follow-up to answer some questions and hopefully tease some of you with a cliff hanger lol.


HONKAI LEVELS AT 5000 hW

The two Herrscher's blades clashed once more releasing a wave of heat around the area.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

HONKAI SURGE DETECTED!

Gold and blue eyes glowed with power as they glared at each other.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

HONKAI LEVELS CRITICAL!

Neither party was willing to yield to the other's will.

HONKAI LEVELS 10000 hW AND RISING!

Flames erupted on the moon's surface while the area around it began to distort and bends. Honkai energy erupted in practical pillars as the battle between the two Herrschers raged on. They traded everything from void lances, to miniature black holes to even sword strikes. Each one countering the other and never letting the other gain the advantage. After what felt like hours, the two Herrschers both leapt away from each other, a momentary retreat to recover what little strength they could.

Kiana glanced at the Herrscher of the Void warily. Her eyes always focused on the blade her opponent wielded, Shamash. That was meant to be her father's sword. The Kaslana family heirloom that he had held on for years. She recalled how World Serpent had acquired it, kidnapping, and imprisoning her father. So how and why would the Herrscher of the Void even have it. It was supposed to be in the hands of World Serpent's sire, Kevin Kaslana, and she doubted he'd hand over the weapon so easily.

Kiana had hoped Sirin would tell her when she asked for the weapon back. Her dark side always had a nasty habit of gloating and making a big scene out of everything. She made it very clear about Himeko's life being engraved on the Gem of Haste and how Kiana had been responsible for her suffering. So why now, was Sirin being quiet about Shamash?

As Kiana observed Sirin, she noted how the Herrscher moved differently this time. Gone was her usual style of floating and simply launching lances. Now Sirin fought much like Kiana herself did. She was being more direct while simply supplementing her strikes with her projectiles. Yet there was still something that differentiated them that Kiana couldn't quite tell yet. Something that was off.

Kiana prepared herself once more and launched right at Sirin, the Herrscher mimicking her movements. The two once again began mirroring and countering each other's hits. If Kiana used her sword, Sirin used Shamash. If Kiana used her flame core, Sirin used the gem of haste. If Kiana used the Void core, Sirin used hers as well. Last but not least, if either of them sustained damage, they repaired themselves with the gem of Serenity just the same.

"How did she even get these powers and how do I beat her?" Kiana thought to herself. She had been freaked out by Sirin's return. She should not be in the real world, not while Kiana was still in control. Yet here they were. This was not a dream, or an illusion, Kiana could tell that much. So why was she here? Was this merely a clone of her or something?

"Are you ready to give up?" Sirin questioned. Kiana looked up at the Herrscher of the Void. Did she really just ask that?

"Never," Kiana answered. She would never give in to the Void Herrscher. She was not going to lose to her.

"Should have expected as much." The Herrscher of the Void sighed before smirking at her. "Guess I should finally get serious now," Sirin told her.

Kiana looked at the Herrscher in confusion. What did she mean to get serious now? Was Sirin just toying with her before? Keeping her eyes focused on the Herrscher, Kiana prepared to get serious herself.

Sirin once again launched herself at Kiana. The Herrscher of Flamescion managed to block her strike with her blade. Kiana thought that was it as she watched her other half as they crossed blades. Sirin smiled much to Kiana's horror as she phased right through the sword and Kiana. Kiana quickly turned around and then.

Poke!

Two fingers went straight into Kiana's eyes. Flamescion jumped back in pain as she closed her eyes and began to try and soothe the pain. Still sensing the Herrscher in front of her, she determined to not give her an opening, Kiana quickly created a barrier around herself to avoid any follow-up attacks while she was staggered.

In her mind's eyes, Kiana saw Sirin ready her sword. The Herrscher leapt at her again, this time with the intention to slam her with Shamash. As predicted, her barrier managed to hold. Kiana was able to open her eyes once more to see Sirin's golden ones sparkling as she crashed Shamash into her. However, it didn't stop there, Sirin had taken a page out of Senti's book and started to repeatedly strike her barrier. Kiana held firm, not giving Sirin even an inch.

Eventually, the Herrscher exhausted herself and when she did, Kiana made her move. Sirin was put on the defensive as Kiana started to hack away at her. The Herrscher of the Void was eventually pushed to the ground. However just as Kiana was about to strike her down, her sword phased right through once more. Realizing what happened last time, Kiana quickly decided to put some distance and not let her opponent get another opening. Sirin shot her in the back with Shamash this time. As Kiana got back up from the ground, she could see Sirin blowing the barrel of Shamash, practically mocking her.

"You're going to have to do a lot better than that," Sirin said smugly as she pointed Shamash at Kiana once more. Various portals opened behind her as several lances were sent at Kiana. The Herrscher of Flamescion tried to evade…except.

"Not so fast." Sirin spoke as she clenched one of her guns. Kiana felt a tug on the ground. Staring down, she found her feet encased in Honkai cubes. On instinct Kiana switched from attempting to evade the lances to blocking them. Swinging her sword, Kiana managed to deflect all of the attacks until Sirin fired a lone lance.

Kiana blocked the Void lance once more, expecting it to shatter against her sword. It didn't. Just like the Herrscher before, the lance phased right through Kiana, she didn't even have a chance to register what happened when Sirin smirked at her.

Kiana felt it. It had been sudden; it had been without warning, but she felt it. The lance had turned solid right within her body. The sensation was unreal. One moment she had felt normal, albeit as normal as one might expect in battle, but the next moment. She felt like a huge chunk of her body had suddenly stopped existing. All she could feel in the area where her stomach used to be, was the solid cold touch of the void lance.

Void stared at the Herrscher as she fell to her knees. She grimaced internally at the sight. Perhaps she had gone a bit overboard. She was originally supposed to subdue the Herrscher but of course, things didn't go out as planned. Her temper had gotten the best of her. The Herrscher had demanded she hand over Shamash and Void wouldn't accept that.

If anyone wanted Shamash, they'd need to rip it from her cold dead hands. This was the last gift from her father and as such, it was to stay with her till she felt it right to let it go. Watching… 'Kiana' Void disintegrated the lance from her abdomen. The girl fell to the ground with blood pouring out of the hole Void had made.

Sighing, the Herrscher of the Void began taking a few steps away as she waited for the next round. Flamescion was still in her view and despite her state, Void could feel the gem of serenity within the girl begin to work. It wasn't working as fast as her own, but it was working. Theresea had managed to impale her with Judah's spears in her past life, and while momentarily dead, it didn't take long for Sirin to revive. Void had a hunch Kiana wasn't going to take so long either, especially if the hole in her flesh was knitting itself back together as her organs regenerated.

"Wow, look at that." Void 'gloated' to her opponent. "Just another washed-up Herrscher wannabe. At least try and put up a fight, you have multiple cores for crying aloud." She said to Kiana. Void had her back purposefully turned to her opponent. "Oh well, guess that's it huh." Void noted as she felt Kiana standing up, the Honkai levels rising within her.

"Are you done talking?" Kiana's voice echoed.

Void glanced to the side as she saw the Herrscher standing up.

"It's my turn now, I hope you're fine with that!" Kiana growled as her eyes glowered. The sword tightening in her grip.

This time, she managed to elicit a response from the Herrscher of the Void. The words she spoke had been spoken to the Void Herrscher before, by a woman who was both a source of inspiration and a source of trauma. Void huffed as she turned to face her counterpart.

"Quoting the Major, you know how her story ended right?" Void questioned as she tightened her own grip on Shamash.

"Her story ended on her own terms." Kiana spat. "And I'll write this story on my terms as well.

"I suppose you're right." Void answered. "Her end was on her terms, but right here, right now. This isn't your story Flamescion. This is mine. So, if anyone's going to end it…it's going to me." Void told her counterpart as she returned Shamash to the empty space and summoned her Domain of the Void instead.

Flamescion's body erupted into flames as she engaged with the Herrscher of the Void. The fires from her body began to spread and grow, turning from red to blue as the heat increased. She strung her sword at her opponent, but the Herrscher of the Void kept intercepting each strike with her own. Whether it be with her guns, her lances, or the cubes, Kiana couldn't land a blow on her counterpart.

Still, she would not give in. She had beaten Sirin before she could do it again. The Herrscher of the Void teleported away once more putting far more distance between the two. Realizing the opening she had, Kiana began to focus all of her strength. Fu Hua's technique never failed her before, it wasn't going to fail her now.

"What is she doing?" Void thought as she took note of Kiana's form. She could feel the disturbance in the Honkai as Kiana started to do something. As she observed the other Herrscher more, pieces began to click into place. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me." Void realized. She was using the Edge of Taixuan. Of all the things to use it had to be that.

"If that's your game then fine." Void said as she began to concentrate on her own technique. She could hear Zhongli's voice guiding her as she began to focus on the energy flow of her chakras. As each of her chakras was rapidly cleared, Void could feel the energy begin to flow more freely. The Honkai in her body was no longer stagnating in pools but rather it began to flow like a rushing river.

Void could make out the orb of flames Kiana had created. It was similar, just like the technique the Herrscher of Sentience and Fu Hua had used before. Steadying herself, Void prepared for the attack. She mocked Kiana further using her hand to gesture at Kiana to come at her. She could make out the angry scowl on Kiana's face, very clearly.

"Eminence," Kiana said as the orb turned into a great sword of fire that was launched at the Herrscher of the Void. The attack was stronger than Senti and Fu's version, but it was still on a similar principle.

Focusing all her might, Void brought up both of her hands and took the blast head on. To Kiana, she was blocking it with a barrier, but Void was doing far more than the girl realized. Void took it in, took it all in. The full power of the Honkai that Kiana had used alongside the technique was being blocked and absorbed by the Herrscher.

Void could feel the surge of power in her body as she took all the Honkai inside of herself. She had underestimated how much Kiana had. The girl may not have been as skilled as Void in some aspects, but she definitely had the same amount of raw power the Herrscher of Void wielded. Purple veins began to crawl along Void's body as she took more and more power in. The dam was beginning to overflow as she could feel an all too familiar burning sensation enter her body.

"In hindsight, this was not my best idea." Void told herself in an attempt to distract from the pain. She winced as she felt the burning sensation of the Honkai as it began to claw at her being. Her blood became like magma as she felt her insides start to boil and liquidate under the influence of the power.

"Just a little more." Void told herself as felt Flamescion's power begin to dwindle. She just needed to hold a little longer. She had one final trump card left to finish it. One that needed to work, or else she wasn't going to be able to take her little sisters to Homu land as she promised.

Eventually, after what felt like an eternity in hell, Kiana's attack started to die down as her power started to wane. The Herrscher of Flamescion had exhausted all of her power, but it was worth it. Kiana saw HoV's body standing still. She had been surprised when the Herrscher took the brunt of it.

"I'm not finished, not after struggling for so long." Void whispered to herself.

Smiling at her victory, Kiana watched as the Herrscher dropped her guns. The weapons clattered on the floor as the Herrscher's hands still trembled. "You lose Sirin," Kiana told her dark half. Kiana saw Sirin stare up at her. Her golden eyes still glared at her as her teeth chattered. Kiana was expecting her to fire out some last round of insults or denial about her loss. Instead, Sirin did something different. Kiana watched as the Herrscher took a deep breath despite there being no air on the moon.

Sirin screamed. Sirin screamed very loudly. She shouted into the void of space.

Kiana felt her organs begin to vibrate as Sirin continued to howl. Her organs started to shake uncontrollably within her being. It wasn't just her ear drums that felt they were being ruptured; it was her whole body that was being torn apart by the Herrscher's voice. She could barely even open her eyes as the sound waves dug into her eyelids.

Kiana tried to stop it. She tried covering her ears to block out the sound. She tried curling into a ball to shield herself from the soundwave. No barrier she could make, no object she could create, not even her own cores could withstand the shaking of Sirin's cry.

Kiana tried to keep herself in the fight, but it was next to impossible. The world began to spin around her. Any portals she made dissipated before they even materialized fully. She wasn't escaping this. She tried to stay standing, tried to keep the visions of her friends beside her alive, but even then, those visions started to fade as did the world around.

The last thing Kiana saw before passing out was the feet of the Herrscher, walking slowly towards her.

Void nearly choked as she puked up blood. Her voice was gone for the moment. Her vocal cords had been destroyed in that last attack and her body had been drained of Honkai. Yet in the end, she had won, if barely, she had beaten Flamescion.

"Why are you here?" Void wondered as she walked over to the unconscious girl. She was a K-423 who addressed herself as Kiana. From Void's experience, K-423 Kiana's weren't looking to go traveling through time and space. They were overrighteous protectors who'd sacrifice themselves for the world without a second thought. Void vividly recalled being looked down on or being seen as a 'bad' outcome by many Kiana's she met on her travels, simply because Void didn't care to abide by the Kaslana oath. Void cared for herself, her family, and her friends, and that was it.

A Kiana that was here though, raised many questions. Questions that Void was going to get one way or another.