Stormy was enjoying herself as she sat in a chair overlooking a steel cage arena where men fought in death matches. She always enjoyed the violence at gore. Her favourite part was when someone got impaled with of the many bladed implements of death that were used.
Stormy wasn't the only one who took pleasure from such gruesome spectatles. Darcy was watching as well through a mystic portal at Cloud Tower. She remained there in the event that Baltor needed her.
Two fighters were engaged in battle within the steel cage with about a dozen other warriors watching them when the crow landed on one of the cage's bars and cawed to get everyone's attention. The two guys in the cage stopped fighting.
"What the hell is that thing doing here?" Stormy asked irately.
"Probaply just passing through. Aren't we all," a voice said and everyone turned to see Bloom in her new transformed form.
"I don't know who you are, but you just made the biggest mistake of your life. Somebody kill her!" Stormy ordered and one of the warriors picked up a spear and threw it at Bloom. The spear hit her in the chest, but she just took it out and the wound instantly closed up.
"Baltor, there's something I think you should see," Darcy said as she witnessed what just happened through her mystic portal. Baltor then teleported next to Darcy.
"This had better be good," Baltor informed the dark witch.
"Just watch," Darcy said and the two of them focused their attention on the intruder.
"That's new," Stormy said in shock. She then regained her composure. "Well just don't stand there," She yelled to her warriors, "kill her!"
All of Stormy's warriors started charging Bloom as she held the spear that had struck her earlier and conjured up black flames that began spinning around the weapon. Bloom then thrusted her spear and unleashed a horizontal tornado of black flames at her enemies. 6 of the fighters were able to dodge the attack and split up to surrond Bloom on two sides.
A guy with three steel claws on his hands attacked Bloom from her right. He dug his blades into her flesh, but instead of moaning in pain Bloom implaled him with her spear.
Another guy swung a giant hammer from behind Bloom and hit her head, causing her neck to move in a way that would normally kill a person. Bloom then causaully popped her head into its prober place killed the guy with her spear.
A guy who was dual weilding sabers charged Bloom, who didn't even try to defend herself. She was slashed and quickly killed the swordsman before her wounds healed.
A fighter with an ax rushed Bloom from behind and swung his weapon into Bloom's back, who wasn't even phased by the blow. She sent her spear through her body and killed the ax weilder. She withdrew the blood soaked spear and her wounds healed.
Two warriors remained and decided to make a run for it rather than try their luck with Bloom. They both started running away.
"You yellow bastards, get back here and fight," Stormy bellowed, but the two just continued running. "Fine. I guess if you want to kill someone right you have to do it yourself."
Stormy moved to face Bloom and started charging lighting bolts in her hands. "Die!" she shouted after firing a bolt from her right hand that had no effect. "Die!" and she fired another bolt from her left hand with no effect as well. "Die!" and this time she fired a bolt from both hands, but that didn't do any good either. "Why won't you die?"
"Because I'm already dead. And judging from you stunned silence, I'm guessing it's my turn now," Bloom said and she sent a stream of black flames to attack Stormy. The foul tempered weather witch summoned a wall of wind to stop the attack. Bloom then threw her spear at Stormy.
Stormy saw the spear peirce the flames, but she didn't have enough time to evade or deflect the projectile. The spear hit her in her abdomen and she fell onto her back. Life faded from her eyes as blood seaped from her fatal wound and formed the shape of a crow.
Darcy and Baltor had seen Bloom's battle and were surprised at how easily she had killed Stormy and her warriors. After Stormy's death, Baltor let out a low chuckle. "So, Bloom was able to come back," he said.
"Wait, that was Bloom?" Darcy asked in astonishment. "But how is that possible? She died and no one has ever come up with a spell or other method to resurrect the dead. How could she have come back?"
"I've heard of this phenomon before. The dead can come back with proper motivation. Fortunatly, I know how to take away her newfound power."
"How's that?"
"It's the crow. It serves as her link between our world and the land of the dead. Kill the crow and she'll be mortal again," Baltor said as he began formulating a plan to get rid of Bloom.