GASP

Icy's eyes shot open, gasping for breath, her lung burning each time she inhaled.

"About time." Bloom sighed turning her gaze from the still aging corpse of Faragonda, now nearing mummification sans the bandages. Icy looked round, blinking repeatedly as she stumbled to her feet and paling considerably as she stared at the being she had released with her blood standing naked before her, holding a severed arm in her hand, missing three fingers.

"Hope you don't mind but my mother did always insist on 'waste not want not.'" She stated, putting on a rather calm voice with a slight edge to it as she indicated to the arm she was holding. Icy slowly turned to look at her own arm, frowning to see it still there; she looked over herself, catching herself on how she hadn't realized that she healed; the memories of what the Guardian had done to her in this 'room.' She looked to the ground her blood was there along with half her severed leg.

"Is…that…?" She slowly turned back to the redhead.

CRACK

Icy went stiff as she watched the woman bite her thumb off her hand, chewing rather audibly, her teeth stained with drying blood.

"Your arm? Yeah, want some?" She extended the severed limb to her, Icy stumbling back, coving her mouth and nose to fight down the bile threatening to climb her throat, she squeezed her eyes shut and turned away from the limb.

"Pathetic." Bloom drawled, retracting her offer and biting off the remaining finger, fighting back a smirk at how the girl shivered at the sound. "Stop being a baby." That got her to open her eyes, now gawking at Bloom.

"A…baby?"

"So it can speak."

"Uh…" Bloom rolled her eyes; her patience was growing thin with this one.

"Forget it…just grab the leg and follow me, I've been in this cavern long enough." Bloom drawled turning her back to the girl and approached the tunnel that had led to the room, taking another bite out of Icy's hand, half her palm vanishing into her mouth.

Shaking a little Icy turned to look at where her leg lay in a small pool of blood, timidly she picked it up, grimacing with disgust as she felt the still cooling flesh in her hand; it was a little heavier than she had expected, it was still dribbling, she could feel the bile climbing her throat again, forcing herself to look away she followed after the woman she had revived…or freed?

She caught up to Bloom rather quickly.

"What's your name child?" She asked; Icy hesitated. "Your name." She flinched at the sudden sharpness to her tone.

"I-Icy."

"Icy?" She mimicked, as if tasting the name on her tongue. "You have my thanks…Icy…for providing me with the blood I needed to escape my prison and break the seal…and for providing a welcome snack."

CRACK

She flinched again.

"Don't mention it." She breathed; Bloom smirked, licking at the blood on her lips.

"My name was Bloom but you may call me Milady for now."

"Milady?" Icy questioned, frowning a little at the implication, no not implications the woman…Bloom was outright stating that she was the superior one even though she had released her.

"That is correct."

"But…"

CRACK

Bloom was down to her wrist now, Icy chose to silence her objections for now, something about arguing with an ancient demon while she slowly ate your severed limb was rather disturbing.

It wasn't long before they came to the next cavern, Icy hesitated as Bloom stepped out to it, she could hear slight groaning, fear gripped her heart, when she had fled down to that cavern she had left her sisters fighting the other guardians…no not fighting, they were been tortured…sadistic bastards.

Icy stepped into the room, her eyes widening at what she saw. Her two sisters were unconscious by one wall, covered in blood, the stench polluting the damp air of the caves while the guardians were…

Bloom approached Saladin, the once great sorcerer bracing himself against his staff like a tall cane, his silver hair now grey and splitting, like each hair was slowly dying, he was hunched over, his skin deathly pale and racking, his breathing audible, like his lungs were filled with dust.

"So…that's…why…" He stated; his voice thin and cracking as he focused a pitiful glare on Bloom. She stopped in front of him, towering his frail body arrogantly, a smirk of supremacy upon her red lips.

"You failed old man." Her hand moved in a blur of motion, snatching the sorcerer's staff, chuckling as he fell to the floor, sickening cracks echoing throughout the room as her legs snapped upon impact with the floor, his kneecaps shattering.

"Arrrghh!"

Icy could only watch, trembling for an entirely new reason, just what had she released?

Bloom slammed the staff on the ground, her smirk growing as the head of the staff shattered upon impact rendering it useless as a focusing tool for magic power, she dropped the implement, the sound clanging sound of wood on rock echoing.

"Just because…we're…beaten doesn't…"

Bloom silenced Saladin with a powerful kick to his head, his neck shattering and his head flying from his body and bouncing down one of the numerous tunnels as its momentum slowed, the headless corpse fell with a thud, his blood spewing over the ground list a busted fire hydrant, bathing Bloom's feet and lower legs in the warm, gooey liquid.

She turned to Griffin; the now ancient woman was laid against a wall, her eyes closed and her breath slowing as the life left her body.

"Wh-What happened to them?" Icy felt her heart skip a beat as she heard her own voice leave her throat, Bloom turned to face her, the lower half of her face covered in a thin layer of blood and the severed half eaten limb still in hand.

Bloom smiled; showing her bloody teeth.

"These three are the ones that sealed me two thousand years ago, using my mother's blood to bind me; soon after they started to channel my power…after all I didn't need it." Icy flinched as another edge slipped into Bloom's tone. "They used my power and immortality to their crusade against our kind…doing everything in their power to wipe out the demon bloodlines…when you used your blood to release their power started to fade along with their immortality…with every second after my seal was broken they began to age rapidly and will continue to do so until they fall into dust and of course without me they have lost most of their power."

Icy looked to Griffin, the former Guardian now looked more like a breathing corpse than the all-powerful witch she had been.

"I doubt she has long left." Icy jerked back to Bloom, the fiery haired demon was glaring at the breathing corpse again.

"W-Will you…leave…h-her t-to…"

"No." Icy stepped back. "While it would be satisfying to watch her crumble into dust I want to be the one to end her life." Bloom sent the woman one last smirk before taking a deep breath.

Griffin's eyes widened with fear, tears welling in her eyes.

"P-Please n-no…aiiieeeeee!"

Icy leapt back, biting back her own screams as flames erupted from between Bloom's lips and consumed the aged witch, her screams of agony quickly dying as the flames consumed her.

"What the hell!"

Bloom looked back at her, smoke still wafting from her lips, a sadistic glow to her eyes; the light of the flames giving her a more demonic look to her.

"Come now don't tell you didn't know what you were releasing." Bloom laughed as she began to approach the bloody bodies of Icy's sisters, the ice witch finding herself frozen in place, unable to bring herself to move only to breath a long breathe of relief as Bloom bit into her and proceeded to force feed them, vague memories flashing before Icy's mind of a disturbingly hot metallic taste filling her mouth.

"I'm one of the Original Demons." Bloom spoke slowly, her voice carrying an almost royal inflexion to it. "Half Vampire…Half Dragon."

FLOP

The severed leg fell from Icy's hand onto the floor.

A/N Hope you liked it, apologies for the length but not much planned yet so I am writing this one as I get the ideas, you want more chapters then review.