Wednesday, February 28, 2003 - Morning 8:00 AM

The story continues as it shifts towards Paradox. They leave their house, walking around Metro City, as people all around pay no heed to him, seeing as they all have an uneasy feeling about him.

The people feel that if they get too close to Paradox, then something terrible may befall them, which they would not be too far off seeing as trouble always finds its way toward him.

This leads to an incoming blur that is heading towards Paradox's location at high speeds. This blur is none other than Clea, heading in his direction.

As she flies, her long silver hair whips and flows in the wind, making it hard for her to see, but even then she can sense everything in front of her as if she were looking at it with her eyes.

Within seconds, Clea appears right above Paradox, hovering over the town, and with a smirk and no concern for human lives, she creates multiple orbs, launching them at great speeds down into the city, destroying buildings and injuring many, some even losing their lives.

But for Clea, that is menial as their lives are worthless, just like insects. She really despises humans, besides her creator and father, Paradox.

As the dust settles from the now-destroyed city, you can see Paradox still standing there unfazed, seemingly as the orbs pass right through them.

“I see you are still doing that trick, Father. Good to see you have not changed,” Clea says, amused that her father still uses the same tricks.

Paradox looks up at her, not recognizing who she is, but upon taking a closer look, he sees nine tails and the energy signal seems familiar.

“Clea, is that you? I see you have taken a new form,” Paradox says, slightly surprised. “But are you any stronger is the question,” he finishes before appearing right in front of her, landing a punch to her gut before launching her away with a Roundhouse kick, launching her into a building.

Clea stands up as if nothing happened, and as you look closer, you see barriers in the areas where Paradox attacked her, showing that she was able to react in time.

“Hmm, you have gotten better, and I see you’ve learned some new attacks as well. I’m quite impressed,” Paradox praised her for her new power.

“Why thank you, Father. I have trained very hard to gain this level of power,” she gives a bow before pulling out her sword. It glistens. With a swing, she sends multiple crescent beams at Paradox.

Paradox, seeing the attack, is surprised at the speed at which they are traveling and tries to dodge them, but is not fast enough as some manage to hit him, dealing quite some damage.

‘That was quite the powerful attack,’ Paradox thinks to themselves, before pulling out their own sword. The moment it is in their hand, they begin slowing down time, causing Clea to freeze, as the tides of the battle change in Paradox's favor.

He swings his sword at the now-frozen Clea as it strikes true, but just as it hits her, she vanishes, signifying that it was a clone the whole time. Just then, Paradox senses that she is behind him, and with swiftness he spins around, shooting beams of energy out of his hand at her.

But Clea, once again with a show of great speed, creates a barrier around herself, protecting her from the barrage of attacks.

Not only did she protect herself from the attacks, but she captured the beams inside her barrier and released them back at Paradox, turning his own attack against him.

Paradox sees his attack hurling back at him and smacks it away with his hand, sending it flying into a building that is already crumbling.

Paradox snaps his fingers, distorting space around Clea, making it as if she is right in front of him. He punches the air, and that punch connects directly with her stomach, leaving an imprint and sending her flying away.

The force of the punch is enough to have her reeling as it takes her some time to regain her balance. But as she does, she wipes some blood from the corner of her mouth, smirking, as if she is having fun.

With that, she summons forth her “Death Flames” and this time not only does she launch it at Paradox, but she covers the whole town in it, causing all of the remaining humans to instantly turn to ash.

These black flames prompt Paradox to jump high into the air to get away from them as they never did like fire or hot things, and he knows that this attack would do some serious damage to him if it were to hit.

Paradox, for the first time, brings out their final weapon: their [Paradox Dagger], which is a short, all-black jagged dagger with an unusual design. The blade is covered in small, intricate patterns that seem to shift and change. There's a small, glowing red gemstone set into the hilt, and the handle is made of dark, polished wood.

Paradox, in their head, goes over what this dagger can do. Not only is it very sharp, but it can also create black holes, which they use to launch at his opponents.

Paradox creates a black hole and imagines that it only absorbs the flames, putting them out and freeing the now-vacant City of its heat.

Paradox then sends a black hole the size of a small meteor at Clea, who retaliates by swinging her sword, cutting it in half, and destroying it easily.

After she does that, Clea sends a barrage of beams at Paradox, who with impressive speed dodges them, but just as he dodges the last one, the orb that Clea always carries around comes bursting out of the ground and strikes him in the face, sending Paradox hurling into a building, causing it to collapse in on him.

Paradox, slightly annoyed, snaps their fingers, causing the rubble to go flying outward at high speed with some hitting Clea, but once again, that one turns out to have been a clone.

“You really love those clones and illusions, don't you?” Paradox says, getting tired of fighting this tricky vixen.

“Oh ho, don’t get mad, Father. It's not my fault you can't get out of my illusions,” snickering, she sends a volley of her “Death Flames” at Paradox.

Upon seeing this, Paradox knows he cannot just phase through it, so he takes off running, but just behind them, the flaming balls of death are tracking him via her mind, making it harder to dodge.

Paradox does not look back, focusing on running as he runs up and inside the building, making the flaming death balls strike it, cutting off how many are following after him.

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After he manages to get rid of all of the flame balls of death, Paradox uses his omnipotent sense, sensing the location of Clea and imagining that she is enclosed with a barrier that suppresses her powers.

Just as the barrier closes and Paradox gives a sigh of relief, the Clea that was inside vanishes, showing that once again, it was a clone.

Paradox groans as this battle is just dragging on and figures that the only way to defeat Clea is to get around her illusions, but how can he do that when the illusions defy logic themselves?

That’s when an idea struck him, and with a smirk, snaps his fingers, creating a paradox, but not an ordinary one. This paradox forbids the usage of illusions and erases them from existence.

“Now let's see how good you are without your illusions, Clea.” Paradox, finally free of the tormenting illusion mistress Clea, can fight how he wants.

With that, he pulls out his [Omni Scythe], appearing right in front of Clea and striking her several times with his scythe, but Clea is ready for this as she does not even pull out her [Lunar Star], only pulling it out of its sheath and instantly putting it back, blocking all of Paradox’s slashes, causing him to jump back.

Clea then proceeds to swing her blade, shooting out star-shaped blasts, all of which are moving at the speed of light at Paradox, who does not have enough time to dodge and just turns his body intangible. The blasts fly right through him, hitting the ground and causing massive explosions.

Paradox can tell that the longer this battle goes on, the more of a disadvantage he will be in, as Clea’s new form is far stronger than he anticipated.

Paradox tries something that he has not done in many years, which he does not know if it will work but it's worth a try.

He proceeds to imagine Clea as a child, just like when he first created her. In doing so, he pumps as much power into his Omni-Watch as he can, snapping his fingers and causing reality around Clea to warp, transforming her into a child. She shrinks to 4 feet tall and her outfit shrinks along with her.

Paradox has used a lot of power, seeing as Clea was on an equal level with him, which leaves him exhausted. But this change in appearance does not deter Clea, as she creates more “Death Flames” in both her hands and on the tips of her tails, launching them at Paradox, who is not able to dodge.

Getting hit by those attacks would leave anyone screaming out in agony, so it is reasonable to see that Clea was surprised when Paradox did not scream or show any signs of being burned while inside the flames. Instead, he walked out looking radiant, with his skin turning white like a beam of light, with the already black markings that lined his body, but now also having a red and black crown on his head.

Knowing that he could not escape the flame balls of death, Paradox, with what little strength he had, transformed into his omnipotent form right before they struck him. Now, with his new power unleashed, he walks through the flames that burn one hundred times hotter than that of the sun, as if it was a cool breeze.

“W-w-what is this form?” Clea asks, backing up, shocked and a little scared of this form that Paradox has taken, as she has never seen him use it.

“This form,” Paradox cuts off, speaking very calmly, “This is my [Omnipotent Form], my final form, and my strongest form.” He adds before waving his hand, grabbing the space around Clea and crushing her under it as she struggles to free herself.

“There is no use struggling. You alone cannot defeat me in this form,” he quips before adding, “And besides, none of your attacks will harm me. Not even erasing me from existence will work.” He thrusts his hand forward, launching her into a building and knocking her out before returning her to her original size.

Paradox looks around Metro City at the destruction that ensued during their fight, with not a care in the world. But he figures that the least he can do is fix it, so he snaps his fingers, rewriting time and restoring the city as if it never was destroyed, with ease.

He begins walking over to Clea, picking her up in his arms and carrying her to his humble abode, laying her onto his bed for her to rest.

Before Paradox can even rest, he senses a familiar presence, and this presence causes his blood to boil, as it can only be one person, and that is Death. So with swiftness, he appears inside the mountain range in front of her within a split second, showing incredible speed.

Wednesday, February 28, 2003 - Morning 8:45 AM

He looks at Death only to see that she looks different from the last time they fought.

This time she is a beautiful and powerful angel, with wings as white as snow and eyes that shine like the brightest star, with the same flowing silver hair as before.

Paradox scans her with his Omni-Watch only to be shocked by what he learns. He learns that Death is not just a name she uses for herself and that she is truly Death, the embodiment of the concept. She is a concept at its finest.

But even with this, Paradox believes that he can defeat her, even if he cannot kill her, because she does not have Omnicore, which is the only thing that can harm him in this form.

But Paradox will be in for a rude awakening as Death is Death; in any way a person or being can die, she has that method, showing that nothing can outlive her.

“I see you are back, 'Death,' came to finish your job?” Paradox taunts, seeing as she failed to kill him fully.

Death does not lose her cool, keeping a calm facade. “Why yes, I did come back to finish my job, seeing as you have defied all forms of logic and are still alive today.”

“Of course I defy logic. I am a living Paradox, the “Paradox of Imagination” to be precise. As long as my mind is intact and I can think, you can never truly get rid of me,” he says before instantly appearing in front of Death. “I will always come back,” he strikes her in the face, sending her reeling through a mountain, destroying it instantly.

Death, for the most part, stood up without any sign of an injury, dusting herself off. Then she grins, which sends a shiver down Paradox's spine knowing that he may not die in this battle but, boy, was he in for a lot of pain.

Death immediately appears behind Paradox, teleporting, pulling out her scythe, and swinging it at Paradox, who sensed something was off and prompted to dodge the strike, which was the right call seeing as when Death's scythe struck the ground, it created a giant hole in the ground with the land itself evaporating instead of being destroyed.

Paradox, surprised by this, gets the idea that they cannot get hit by her scythe, as it would destroy him at a cellular level. So he opts to shoot beams of energy at Death, who in turn snaps her fingers, causing the beams to fizzle out.

‘What, how did she do that? Does she have the ability to destroy matter in this form of hers? If so, I'll need to be careful,’ Paradox thinks to himself.

Before he can act, Death creates massive planet-sized balls of fire, water, and lightning, launching them from outer space at Paradox at high speeds, and the pressure of the attack begins to crush the Earth, almost forcing Paradox to his knees.

Paradox barely manages to regain a sense of balance, which is enough for him to swing his scythe. He manipulates space, making the strike instantly hit the balls of fire, water, and lightning, respectively, and erasing them.

With that, Paradox punches the ground, causing it to split, leading all the way under Death's feet, causing her to fall. But she just flies up with her white wings flapping, hovering in the air.

In the air, Death releases a volley of energy beams at Paradox, who dodges them before coming face-to-face with an angel and demon. The angels and demons are made of pure energy, the angels of light and the demons of darkness.

The angels and demons pull out their weapons and with surprising speed, all of them attack Paradox, moving faster than he can react, launching him all over the place, into mountain after mountain.

The attack does no damage, but Paradox is being rag-dolled before he catches himself, snapping his hand, causing the angels and demons to explode in a shower of blood.

With that, Paradox is about to attack Death, but before he can do anything, Death stretches forward her hand, grabbing literal space and pulling Paradox over towards her while swinging her scythe down and taking his right arm off.

Death follows this up by punching Paradox in the stomach while ripping a hole through reality, sending Paradox to an alternate timeline.

With that, Death decides to end the fight, so she just flies off to continue her job of collecting souls, knowing she will never get Paradox’s soul.

In the end, all you can see is Clea waking up in a cold sweat, sensing Paradox’s disappearance.