p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"War had broken out. I could hardly believe it when the Lumen Kings and Elders had given the verdict. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The steep and growing hatred between the Umbra and Lumen had fully formed, and now it was the time for war. Are goal? To wipe the Umbra Witch Clan off the face of the earth and retrieve the Dark Witches treasured Left Eye. Together the Eyes of the World can resurrect the Creator Jubileus and a new world will be formed./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"That was the decree by which we Lumen Sages were bound. But often I would think to myself. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Is this was truly worth it? We, the protectors of the Eyes of the World now seek to destroy each other over the very treasures we swore to protect. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"But I had no say in the matter. At least not of yet. For now it was a time of battle. And so there I stood. On the front lines, with nothing but my guns and the light of heaven to guide me./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"*****/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The fires of war raged around me. I ran without end through the streets of Vigrid, the bodies of Sage's and Witches littered the streets. I had no idea that this was what War truly looked like. When I went out with my first battalion and I saw the damage I wanted to cry at how many we had lost. But now I knew that I had to press on, or I would just be another body added to the dead./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"A small gust of wind blew through the air and billowed around my divine robes, the cool wind was a slight reprieve from all that's been going on. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I would have enjoyed the breeze longer had it not been for the interrupting sounds of heels clacking against stones. My eyes widened as three Umbra Witches sprang forward, hellhounds at their sides. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Shit! /spanspan style="font-size: 16pt;"I thought internally./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""There! A Lumen!" One Witch cried out as she pointed at me. So much for subtly I guess. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""Tear her to shreds!" Another commanded the hellhounds viciously, no doubt craving to see my blood awash on the ancient hollow stones./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The demonic dogs charged forward as I held my ground. As the first hellhound leaped in the air towards me ready to pounce I was able to get a good look at it. It's skin a dark purple almost black, red eyes glossed over with bloodlust, and sharp serrated teeth looking to sink into my flesh. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I held no fear as I stared into it's eyes, it didn't scare me. I even had the bold audacity to smile at it. "Maybe next time Fido" I taunted./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"In a flash of light I had summoned my weapon of choice from my dimensional pocket. A long white musket rifle with golden accents. In the blink of an eye I aimed the gun at the hellhounds open jaws and pulled the trigger./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The bullet flew into it's mouth and shattered it's skull before combusting, the hellhound reduced to ash in mere moments. The three Umbra Witches were taken aback by my actions. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Not so tough as you thought now are you? /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"With the Witches temporarily shocked that gave me time to summon another musket rifle into my awaiting hands. And now my set of guns were complete, /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Seraphs Judgement /spanspan style="font-size: 16pt;"as I had named them with the script /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Credens Justitiam /spanspan style="font-size: 16pt;"written along the barrel in Latin underneath the guns name written in gold./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""I am not without mercy, surrender now and I shall spare your lives." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I had hoped they would have taken the offer, but they seemed to have detested the thought. The Umbra Witches summoned their guns as more hellhounds arrived from Inferno. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""We shall never surrender! As long as there is light, the shadow remains cast!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I inwardly sighed as I brought up my guns. It would seem I had no choice to fight. As the hellhounds cornered me from all sides they all charged thinking of me as nothing more than fair game. With grace and fury I twirled around to meet the demonic dogs of hell, firing bullets from both of my guns in different directions, like repetition./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Twirl. Fire. Twirl. Fire. Fire. Twirl./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Shell casings fell to the floor in bulk at the unnatural rate I fired my muskets, and in a matter of seconds the hellhounds were nothing more but ash floating in the wind. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I thought I would have time to try and broker peace with the Umbra but my train of thought was interrupted by the familiar 'shing' of an unsheathed dagger. Spinning on my heels I dodged the thrown dagger at the very last moment, magic and adrenaline mixed together as one of the Lumen's sacred magic techniques was triggered./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Light Speed./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"An ability exhibiting temporal control that allowed us Sage's to completely stop time, as opposed to the Umbra Witches Witch Time that only slows it down. As Light Speed activated the world came to a stop, the color from reality seemed to drain away to simple black and white, a small effect of Light Speed./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Having no choice I aimed my guns at two of the three Witches firing multiple bullets at different parts of their bodies. This was one of the advantages and drawbacks of being a Sage or a Witch. Both of our kinds are physically enhanced in both strength, speed, agility, and pain tolerance. One bullet wasn't going to take them out, hence why I shot multiple./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"As time began to resume and color slowly returned to the world the bullets I fired began to move towards the Witches before time fully snapped back into place, and the sound of tortured screams could be heard as the bullets collided with their bodies and killed them instantly./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I didn't want to kill them of course. But this was war, and if I have to choose between them or me? I choose me every time./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The last standing Witch looked at me horrified, a mix of anger and sadness was written visibly on her face. She looked at me before looking to her fallen sister Witches. "You killed them...I'll murder YOU!" She roared as she fired a flurry of bullets blindly./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Taping into my magic I threw up up a protective barrier of golden energy, the bullets bouncing off harmlessly. The Witch stopped her assault as she ran forward throwing her hand back and punching the air. My eyes widened with surprise and I had no time to dodge as a large demonic fist collided with my gut and knocked me off my feet and into the side of a building./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Pain flared up and lanced throughout all of my body, a small trickle of blood flowing from the side of my mouth. "I will end you...and avenge my fallen sisters! I will make sure you burn in Inferno you wretched Sage!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"As the Umbra Witch slowly walked towards me I managed to get to my feet once more, clutching my hand to my chest I used my magic to begin to heal me, a soft warm light spreading from my hands. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The sound of a cocked gun got my attention as I looked to see the Umbra Witch with her eyes filled with tears staring at me, her face full of anguish. "Tell me", I began to say./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""If you kill me right here right now, does it really change anything. I'm not the only Sage you know. More Sage's and Witches will kill each other and the carnage will continue. So tell me, are you truly trying to end this war, or are you just trying to prolong the inevitable?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"My words seemed to have gotten to the Witch as she faulted in her step. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Big mistake./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"As fast as lightning I roundhouse kicked the gun out of her hand, causing her to trip and start stumbling backwards./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The last thing the Umbra Witch saw was me, my eyes no doubt filled to the brim with remorse. And of course she saw the end of the barrel of my gun. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""Forgive me", I whispered./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"And then I squeezed the trigger./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16pt;"A/N: I thought I'd do something different with a Bayonetta fanfic as I'm always writing about an OC Umbra Witch I thought I'd make a Lumen Sage OC to shake things up. Hence why the Lumen Sage Serah was born/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16pt;"This is a little outside my comfort zone because I'm always writing about the Umbra and we don't know that much about the Lumen but I hope you like it./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The steep and growing hatred between the Umbra and Lumen had fully formed, and now it was the time for war. Are goal? To wipe the Umbra Witch Clan off the face of the earth and retrieve the Dark Witches treasured Left Eye. Together the Eyes of the World can resurrect the Creator Jubileus and a new world will be formed./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"That was the decree by which we Lumen Sages were bound. But often I would think to myself. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Is this was truly worth it? We, the protectors of the Eyes of the World now seek to destroy each other over the very treasures we swore to protect. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"But I had no say in the matter. At least not of yet. For now it was a time of battle. And so there I stood. On the front lines, with nothing but my guns and the light of heaven to guide me./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"*****/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The fires of war raged around me. I ran without end through the streets of Vigrid, the bodies of Sage's and Witches littered the streets. I had no idea that this was what War truly looked like. When I went out with my first battalion and I saw the damage I wanted to cry at how many we had lost. But now I knew that I had to press on, or I would just be another body added to the dead./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"A small gust of wind blew through the air and billowed around my divine robes, the cool wind was a slight reprieve from all that's been going on. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I would have enjoyed the breeze longer had it not been for the interrupting sounds of heels clacking against stones. My eyes widened as three Umbra Witches sprang forward, hellhounds at their sides. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Shit! /spanspan style="font-size: 16pt;"I thought internally./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""There! A Lumen!" One Witch cried out as she pointed at me. So much for subtly I guess. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""Tear her to shreds!" Another commanded the hellhounds viciously, no doubt craving to see my blood awash on the ancient hollow stones./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The demonic dogs charged forward as I held my ground. As the first hellhound leaped in the air towards me ready to pounce I was able to get a good look at it. It's skin a dark purple almost black, red eyes glossed over with bloodlust, and sharp serrated teeth looking to sink into my flesh. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I held no fear as I stared into it's eyes, it didn't scare me. I even had the bold audacity to smile at it. "Maybe next time Fido" I taunted./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"In a flash of light I had summoned my weapon of choice from my dimensional pocket. A long white musket rifle with golden accents. In the blink of an eye I aimed the gun at the hellhounds open jaws and pulled the trigger./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The bullet flew into it's mouth and shattered it's skull before combusting, the hellhound reduced to ash in mere moments. The three Umbra Witches were taken aback by my actions. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Not so tough as you thought now are you? /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"With the Witches temporarily shocked that gave me time to summon another musket rifle into my awaiting hands. And now my set of guns were complete, /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Seraphs Judgement /spanspan style="font-size: 16pt;"as I had named them with the script /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Credens Justitiam /spanspan style="font-size: 16pt;"written along the barrel in Latin underneath the guns name written in gold./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""I am not without mercy, surrender now and I shall spare your lives." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I had hoped they would have taken the offer, but they seemed to have detested the thought. The Umbra Witches summoned their guns as more hellhounds arrived from Inferno. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 18.2px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""We shall never surrender! As long as there is light, the shadow remains cast!"/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I inwardly sighed as I brought up my guns. It would seem I had no choice to fight. As the hellhounds cornered me from all sides they all charged thinking of me as nothing more than fair game. With grace and fury I twirled around to meet the demonic dogs of hell, firing bullets from both of my guns in different directions, like repetition./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Twirl. Fire. Twirl. Fire. Fire. Twirl./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Shell casings fell to the floor in bulk at the unnatural rate I fired my muskets, and in a matter of seconds the hellhounds were nothing more but ash floating in the wind. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I thought I would have time to try and broker peace with the Umbra but my train of thought was interrupted by the familiar 'shing' of an unsheathed dagger. Spinning on my heels I dodged the thrown dagger at the very last moment, magic and adrenaline mixed together as one of the Lumen's sacred magic techniques was triggered./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Light Speed./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"An ability exhibiting temporal control that allowed us Sage's to completely stop time, as opposed to the Umbra Witches Witch Time that only slows it down. As Light Speed activated the world came to a stop, the color from reality seemed to drain away to simple black and white, a small effect of Light Speed./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Having no choice I aimed my guns at two of the three Witches firing multiple bullets at different parts of their bodies. This was one of the advantages and drawbacks of being a Sage or a Witch. Both of our kinds are physically enhanced in both strength, speed, agility, and pain tolerance. One bullet wasn't going to take them out, hence why I shot multiple./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"As time began to resume and color slowly returned to the world the bullets I fired began to move towards the Witches before time fully snapped back into place, and the sound of tortured screams could be heard as the bullets collided with their bodies and killed them instantly./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"I didn't want to kill them of course. But this was war, and if I have to choose between them or me? I choose me every time./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The last standing Witch looked at me horrified, a mix of anger and sadness was written visibly on her face. She looked at me before looking to her fallen sister Witches. "You killed them...I'll murder YOU!" She roared as she fired a flurry of bullets blindly./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Taping into my magic I threw up up a protective barrier of golden energy, the bullets bouncing off harmlessly. The Witch stopped her assault as she ran forward throwing her hand back and punching the air. My eyes widened with surprise and I had no time to dodge as a large demonic fist collided with my gut and knocked me off my feet and into the side of a building./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"Pain flared up and lanced throughout all of my body, a small trickle of blood flowing from the side of my mouth. "I will end you...and avenge my fallen sisters! I will make sure you burn in Inferno you wretched Sage!" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"As the Umbra Witch slowly walked towards me I managed to get to my feet once more, clutching my hand to my chest I used my magic to begin to heal me, a soft warm light spreading from my hands. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The sound of a cocked gun got my attention as I looked to see the Umbra Witch with her eyes filled with tears staring at me, her face full of anguish. "Tell me", I began to say./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""If you kill me right here right now, does it really change anything. I'm not the only Sage you know. More Sage's and Witches will kill each other and the carnage will continue. So tell me, are you truly trying to end this war, or are you just trying to prolong the inevitable?"/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"My words seemed to have gotten to the Witch as she faulted in her step. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 16pt;"Big mistake./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"As fast as lightning I roundhouse kicked the gun out of her hand, causing her to trip and start stumbling backwards./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"The last thing the Umbra Witch saw was me, my eyes no doubt filled to the brim with remorse. And of course she saw the end of the barrel of my gun. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;""Forgive me", I whispered./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-size: 16pt;"And then I squeezed the trigger./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16pt;"A/N: I thought I'd do something different with a Bayonetta fanfic as I'm always writing about an OC Umbra Witch I thought I'd make a Lumen Sage OC to shake things up. Hence why the Lumen Sage Serah was born/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16pt;"This is a little outside my comfort zone because I'm always writing about the Umbra and we don't know that much about the Lumen but I hope you like it./span/p
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