Darkness.

It was the kind of darkness that soothed you as one slept. A caress of pure, unknown darkness encapsulated her entire being. There were no hateful hands ready to squeeze her throat or gouge her eyes out with sharp fingernails. It was like sleeping in a freshly cleaned and toasty blanket that smelt of linen and blood. If possible, Makima would've liked to have enjoyed this dark embrace a little while longer.

Was this what it was like to be consumed by him? Makima thought to herself. She found herself smiling and giggling at the idea. It was silly yet almost exactly what she wanted. Makima reached a hand out into the darkness, hoping that some part of him would hold her, embrace her, and love her.

Nothing happened. No one hugged her. Nobody spoke to her. Just pure nothing.

At least until everything came to a halt. She was suddenly thrust into a bright white light that blinded her and almost nothing could be seen except for her own hands trying to shield her eyes. A loud resounding boom erupted from all around and it rumbled the very dark haven she was in.

The boom Makima saw in this pitch-black abyss was seen off in the distance at last. A bright beacon of golden light slowly floated toward her. The ball itself no larger than a basketball sparked and jolted as it begrudgingly floated even closer.

All Makima saw next was an iridescent figure emerging from the small ball and embracing her slightly before the darkness encroached on her vision.

"Do you think she's dead?" A raspy voice asked warily.

A small nervous chuckle came soon afterward from a more husky voice, "Don't be daft, you dim-wit. 'Course not, don't you see her breathing?"

True to words, the light-red-headed lady was slowly breathing and seemed as though she was in a very good dream with that beautiful smile on her face.

Almost a shame to wake up a gorgeous woman like that. The raspy voice thought.

The two homeless individuals admittedly got more than a little spooked when a random lady suddenly dropped twenty feet from a weird circle of what one could only assume was a horrifying hell-like portal made up of flesh. All they did was just hang around a lonely alleyway that led off into downtown Musutafu drinking some cheap booze. Seeing a half-dead lady was not on their schedule at all.

They prodded her torso with a nearby twig, hoping to elicit some sort of response from the unconscious lady. She looked to be some sort of office assistant or something. Her white-long sleeved shirt and black pants certainly painted the picture of a high-end type of person. The two didn't notice a slight irritation in her brow as they poked her cheek with the uncomfortable end of the stick.

"Should we call the police?" The homeless man with the raspy voice and a bucket hat kept prodding her with the stick asked, still trying to not be too close to a potential victim of a crime.

The other, wearing a dirty yellow patch coat scoffed, "And do what? What do you think they'll say about two suspicious-looking homeless guys alone with a pretty lady that's unconscious?" He stepped away from the woman's sleeping body and pointed towards the busy area that's outside of the alleyway. "Just tell me one plausible reason."

"Uhh, not arrest us because we didn't do anything to her?"

"You're an idiot." He shook his head. "C'mon. I ain't trying to get caught up in a misunderstanding-"

Behind him, the woman was eerily standing up straight with eyes that seemed almost devilish.

"You interrupted a rather beautiful and satisfying dream." She said with a calm, soothing voice. "I was really enjoying it too." She raised a hand up to the man in a bucket hat and made direct eye contact with him. "You there, bite your fingers off and then your tongue." The man simply gazed at her and nodded. He proceeded to slowly put his thumb into his mouth and slowly bit down. He didn't scream. He didn't cry out in pain. He just obeyed while having a blank look on his face.

His friend could only watch in horror as blood was spurting down this man's mouth as he slowly bit off his own fingers. He got a good look at the woman's face and she was actually smiling at this cruel act. She just ordered an innocent man, a man he'd known almost all his life before they both went homeless, to eat his own fingers. It wasn't right. This wasn't human. This was... a villain. He didn't want to stay any longer; he had to run away as fast as possible from this woman. She was bad news.

The man quivered in fear in his yellow patch coat and made a beeline toward civilization as fast as he could. At least, that was what had supposed to happen. Instead, he came face to face with this woman. Her hands were behind her back as she looked disappointedly at him. She looked at him like he was nothing but a piece of inferior trash.

"I was really experiencing something out of this world, you know? I was in Nirvana for a brief moment and you and your fingerless friend had to ruin that." She glanced over back to the offending man, who has moved on to his left hand, ready to bite them off without a care in the world. "Now, it's your turn." This red-haired girl eyed him up and down, "Show me-"

Before she could inflict some sort of horrible torture on him, a loud shockwave overcame them all and shook the buildings around. There were screams of adoration and cheer from outside the alleyway. It was enough to capture the monstrous woman's attention as she walked out.

He was relieved... He was saved.

"Don't forget to swallow those glass shards from your bottle when you break it." She said as gave him a going-away command and casually walked away from the soon-to-be torture method.

"It's a villain! Oh my god, I have to record this!" Screamed a man with giant-insect like eyes.

"No way, it's Kamui Woods!" A blond-haired woman cried out.

Makima followed the source of the commotion and found herself in the middle of what appeared to be an altercation between a brutish-looking fiend and a wood-using devil. There was no other explanation. However, these people appeared to have been cheering for them all like it was a spectacle. Usually, there would be blood, viscera, etc., and traumatized civilians whenever the Devil Hunters finished up their missions. Were they local celebrities? Foreign visitors?

"Excuse me, ma'am." A fire-hydrant fiend pushed past her and the crowd and formed a water barricade. "Stay clear, everybody!"

Even more cheer came when a gigantic fiend wearing a very revealing body suit drop-kicked the brute.

It didn't help when more people with cameras with blushes came onto the scene and took pictures of that woman.

"I'm sorry, but what is going on?" Makima asked no one in particular, though she couldn't help but look at the boy in front of her. He kind of reminded her of Chainsaw Man's previous host - the one known as Denji in a way. He didn't seem particularly unique except for his green hair and adoring eyes. He sort of looked like a happy puppy.

"It's a villain trying to escape the laws of justice, young lady!" An old man next to the boy answered. "Why, I won't be surprised if All Might shows up for a surprise visit!" He laughed heartily and the green-haired boy almost gasped and looked around in hopes of seeing this 'All-Might' figure.

"I'm assuming that those are Devil-Hunters containing a rampant fiend?" She eyed the heroes as they cuffed the man-brute in lots of metal.

"Huh? If you're meaning Heroes, then sure! It's off to jail for that fiendish villain."

Heroes? Villains? What are these silly comic-book titles? Makima asked in her mind.

Just where exactly was she?

AN:

Always wanted to write a story about this, and I just had to bring this over to . Y'all were missing out.

Hope you enjoy and I can't wait to bring more of Makima's adventures in this world to you. I just need to get my other laptop working again. Most of my documents are saved in there. Bleh. Stupid technology. Most of what I wrote for Something Wicked Comes This Way is on it, so it's been on indefinite hold until I fix the darn thing. I miss Divinity so much! ARGH! Either way, I give you this. A gem that I've been working on for a while as I just LOVE Makima as a character. Enjoy more of what's to come.