Snap 23.5: "Their" Dreams.

The year is 1939 and World War 2 has started with Germany invading Poland. The world shook as perhaps the bloodiest war in history raged on, and the civilians saw much of the bloodshed. Some time has passed and the war still rages on and, in one particular town in Poland, two children will face the troubles of war head on. Many of the minute details of the war would be lost to history, including what led to these two children becoming a threat to the world over 70 years later.

"Run [BLANK]! Before they catch us!" A young girl said to her friend. The boy was always very weak, and had little stamina. Why weren't the names being said? Well, they wouldn't keep them for long.

"I'm trying [BLANK]! *Huff huff* Go... without me... I can't..." The boy said.

"NO!" The girl shouted. "We've lost everyone else we loved! We only have each other now. I can't lose you too." Their relationship was an old one. And, unlike them, it would never die.

They ran and ran for hours on end, in a fruitless attempt to stay alive.

Eventually, the German Soldiers caught them and they were swiftly shot, and left for dead.

Bleeding out, they spoke their last words to each other.

"It's the end of the line, isn't it?" The girl said.

"So it would seem." The boy responded.

The two held each others hands as their last moments trailed by. Love for each other and Hate for the world were the only thoughts in their minds.

Their Souls, filled with hate for the world, would Drift in the aether before being found by a mysterious woman.

The woman, many years after the war, stepped onto the same field the two children died. It seems she was there to find them.

The woman looked at the Drifting Souls. When a Soul Drifts due to a lasting will of some sort, it becomes bound in the place it was set free. The feelings that left it to Drift grow stronger. Until that is all there is left.

However, for those two children, what remained was indeed hate. But more so than that, their love lasted.

But the woman did not care for the love. She cared for what strength harnessing their hate would bring. And so she communed with the Souls. An easy task for one such as her.

"O' Drifting Souls. O' why do you Drift? What plants you here?" She said.

"Hate." They said. "Hate for the world, who left us for dead."

"Yes, I see. But I feel there is more than that. Souls of Hate become the Ghosts who haunt and torture Man. But not you two. You Drift. You stay. Why?"

"Is it not obvious?" The boy said.

"Is it too simple?" Said the girl.

"Love." They both said.

The woman looked a little surprised, or rather, bemused.

"So your love for each other is greater than your hate for the world? How interesting."

She sat down.

"I had no one to love. I'm interested in how you humans feel love."

And so the three talked for hours. Whether the woman actually intended to learn anything, or if she even did learn love, who knows.

"I have a proposition." The woman said.

"Become my children. I shall be your Mother. And you shall be my Demons."

"What does that entail?" They asked.

"Fight my enemies. Fight those who left you for dead. Fight those who let the war who took your lives happen."

It took little time for them to agree. What did they have to lose, but each other? And the woman promised they would keep that.

"Then you need new names." The woman said, looking at the girl.

"You shall be Myne, my Demon of War."

The girl immediately transformed. She became taller and muscular, with short black hair. She took a knee in respect.

She looked at the boy. He perfectly fit the last vacant position she needed.

"You shall be Journ, my Demon of Strategy."

The boy immediately transformed, He became taller and lean, with short grey hair. He took a knee in respect.

The final aspect of their transformation was a diamond crystal with spider's legs on each side. two on each, totaling eight. But where they differed was the symbol behind the diamond. Myne's was four swords crossed on each other and Journ's was four staffs crossed. The white of their eyes became black and their irises gold. Their pupils were replaced by a single red slit on each eye, like a snake's.

"You shall be the bringers of my conquest. In a short time, you will start your takeover of Earth." The woman said.

"But what do we call you, my liege?" The two asked.

"My name is not important. But I am The Queen of the Underworld. That is all you need to know." She said.

In time. The world would know the all of the Demons of the Underworld . But shortly after that, the Demons would know defeat.