The Strong Survive
As Teresa loomed over Priscilla with her sword raised about to strike the out of control warrior her eyes went from gold to silver relieving her guard believing it was over. Then like a flash Priscilla grabs her sword and severs Teresa's arms and the claymore clangs to the ground along with her arms and Priscilla comes around with a quick slash to sever the head and end the fight. But out of nowhere Irene intervenes holding the foul beast back.
"Teresa you fool letting your guard down at a time like this. You're the only one who can stop her, SO DO IT!" Irene says as there blades cross only long enough for Teresa to get a safe distance away when Irene was sent flying back from the force of Priscilla's strike. While Irene flies back Priscilla flashes to her and severs her arm while slashing her to the ground ending her part of the fight. During this time Teresa has enough time to reattach her severed sword arm and grab her claymore but as she tries to reattach the other arm Priscilla shoots her tentacle like fingers at Teresa who unlike Noel and Sophia dodged around them causing her to drop her arm. When she landed after dodging Priscilla's attack she looks upon Priscilla who becomes engulfed with a purple aura, her yoki exploding with so much force it shakes the surrounding area, pulsating with a powerful shockwave that knocks the dead bodies of the claymore enforcers into the air. Priscilla's body is changing as the purple aura surrounds her, her skin turns much more purple and her claymore clothes completely rip off from the expanding muscles and scaly skin with wings that protrude from her back and a single horn comes out of her forehead. Clare hid behind a rock shielding herself from the shockwave while Teresa stood there in awe of the great power exploding from Priscilla who just moments ago was at her mercy. Then her eyes went from surprise to calculating as she saw an opening and immediately she took it, like lightning she appeared right over Priscilla and slashed at her head ready to take it clean off. The aura around her disperses and Priscilla quickly raises her claymore above her head as if reflex and clashes against Teresa's. Teresa puts all her strength into her arm as she tries to overpower Priscilla who holds it back as if it's nothing; the claymore's grinding against each other making the sound of scraping metal. Then as if tired of holding that position she overpowers Teresa breaking the clash between the claymores easily knocking her off balance in the air and slashes at her with quick precision, Teresa quickly spins out of the way of the slash which barely misses her head cutting some of her hair. Before her feet could even touch the ground Priscilla once again shot her fingers at Teresa who is caught by surprise, she lands a second before they reach her and ducks under them. Then sensing another attack coming she looks up and another set of fingers come shooting towards her only this time she doesn't react fast enough to dodge and a crash is heard as they impact causing dust to veil the warriors fate.
Clare who is watching from a safe distance is struck with a horrible sensation as tears begin to well up in her eyes but as the dust settles her face returns to one of hope that they can still walk away from this battle. Once the dust is gone we see that Teresa is fine her claymore is shielding her from the claws as each one is grinding against the claymore like drills but it holds strong. Then missing their target they begin to retract and as the other above her do as well, Teresa who is tired of being the one being attacked releases her yoki power changing her eyes to gold indicating the battle is far from over as she grabs the fingers retracting above her and flies with them to Priscilla. Pulling her in closer until Teresa is within range enough to where she slashes at her with renewed strength meeting Priscilla's claymore once again they clash with Priscilla having to put force into holding back Teresa's swing this time both expanding all their strength. Teresa then eases up on her strength letting Priscilla over power her but ducking in time to miss the slash and she slashes Priscilla's body leaving a gash with purple blood seeping from it. Priscilla quickly slashes down hitting into Teresa's claymore as she raises it to stop her blade from striking down on her. Teresa's strength is cut in half since she doesn't have her other arm and it has already been too long since it was cut off to reattach so she has to make do with what she has as she holds back Priscilla's swing. Knowing she can no longer match her strength she relies on speed as she dodge rolls to the side and slashes at her only to have her blade caught by Priscilla's other arm holding it back. Teresa then puts her speed to good use appearing on the other side while Priscilla blocks Teresa's slash again with her claymore but with god like speed once again she's on the move appearing behind slashing almost catching Priscilla who ducks missing her slash by mere seconds. Then Teresa appears to the left slashes, appears to the right slashes, and keeps disappearing and reappearing all around Priscilla each of her slashes being either dodged or blocked but her speed keeps increasing and the margin of time that Priscilla has to dodge or block her attacks are becoming smaller as she continues her onslaught. Then finally Teresa lands a hit leaving a gash on her left arm and then matching her speed all of a sudden Priscilla swings at Teresa who jumps back in time to miss is and dashes away from Priscilla. Priscilla spreads her wings and takes off after her; she stretches her arm with the claymore immediately catching up to Teresa who smirks and then as Priscilla thrusts at Teresa who moves to the side an inch having the blade miss hitting her body, so it goes between her body and her arm as she squeezes them together trapping the arm. Then she spins around and around swinging Priscilla into a rock formation making a horrendous crash then Teresa takes her claymore and severs Priscilla arm which immediately after being cut reattaches surprising Teresa as she lets go of the arm which retracts but slashes at her on the way back. Teresa doesn't have enough time to dodge so the blade digs into what's left of her severed arm causing her to grimace in pain while she quickly knocks the sword away before it goes deeper, the claymore stained with blood retracts to Priscilla who is standing and moves the claymore closer to her mouth and licks it.
"I thought your blood would taste better, oh well."
"Better savor it because it's going to be the last blood you ever taste!" Teresa yells flashing over to her clashing claymores with her once again then breaking it off and they clash again and again. Once again their claymores meet and Teresa is being pushed back to the edge of a cliff putting all her strength into holding Priscilla back while Priscilla forces her closer and closer to the edge. Teresa then volts over Priscilla and slashes her back but Priscilla foresaw this and her wings launch towards Teresa and expand around her while not having enough time to react they wrap around her capturing her in a constricting bind. Teresa struggles to break free but is unable to under the wings vice like grip then she is thrown out over the opening between the cliff and the other ledge then Priscilla takes flight after her and slashes at her head, Teresa cannot dodge in time but she changes the target of the slash by moving her body up more so instead she slashes her side leaving a gash as she falls down into the deep dark ravine. Her consciousness fading as she falls she sees Clare running towards her with outstretched arms and tears in her eyes and her thoughts before she leaves the conscious plain are.
"Clare you must live, though we may become separated for a while I shall find you again." With those thoughts she smiles at Clare as she falls down into the ravine. Priscilla seeing that the deed is done flies off in search of food leaving Clare who is now on the edge of the cliff crying uncontrollably and clutching Teresa's arm which is all that remains of her beloved.
Clare is now walking through town looking as if her soul were sucked from her, clutching Teresa's arm as the towns people look on with disgust and surprise when Clare see's a man in black from the organization. She runs up to him as fast as she can and holds out Teresa's arm demanding that he implant it in her and make her a claymore so she may avenge her fallen beloved who gave her the life she always wanted but was now taken away.