Chapter 7: The Beginning Of Despair

Ambrosia was standing in front of a few dozen slayer's as they waited just outside of vale. They were waiting for an army of dark vampire's. She had dozens of mini puppet's all over with her big puppets at the back of them. "This is a shitty plan." She said flipping a setting on her bow before loading flame dust into it. She also grabbed a purple lump and placed it against her metal arm. Tendrils of metal dragged it into the arm and purple electricity started to sparked randomly.

The vampires finally came into view looking a bit worse for ware. The slayer's rained anti vampire bomb's and gun fire on them. But there were so many that they just kept sprinting at them. When the first one reached the puppet's he was immediately swarmed by them as they cut and tore at his body. But they quickly started to tear through the mini puppet's. They the big puppet's engaged and the two super puppets were both crushing, tearing, cutting and cleaving through vampires as they tried to over power them.

But some just sped right past all of them to the waiting slayer's. Ambrosia opened fire letting loose flaming bolts that splintered into a hail of fire. Vampires were screaming all over as they were shredded. But they just kept coming eventually taking out all but the two super puppet's. Next slayer's started to go down as Ambrosia used her arm to tear through a vampires throat. Then it shot out grabbing another one and delivering a fatal shock of purple lightning.

Eventually Ambrosia and her two super puppet's were the last one's left against the vampires. Then Madeline and Cedar dropped in. Madeline let loose and blasted anything that got close. While Cedar worked on taking out any that tried to run for the city. But the vampires eventually all started to back off then retreat into a gate. They all collapsed to the ground exhausted even Madeline. The second battle for beacon seemed to be over.


Ambrosia and the slayer's got picked up by bullheads and atlesian transports. They set down in the wreckage of beacon. But Ambrosia immediately realized something was off. Madeline was avoiding her like the plague and Ingrid was standing next to a robed figure. But it all became clear when the figure turned around. It was her father who was smirking at her. A couple of slayer's came up alongside her weapons at the ready. "On your knee's." One of them said as she was forced to comply.

She fought to move her body or her puppet's at first. But then she just looked down giving up. They put a collar on her and attached hand cuff's to it. Then they bound her feet with another set of cuffs. All while she was forced to comply by her father. But then everyone's attention was drawn when someone came leaping down. It was Velvet who immediately knocked the two guards next to Ambrosia out.

Then she used her weapon to make a replica mini gun. She quickly opened fire at anyone who approached. But when the robed man shouted everyone halted. "Enough! You are that rodent that tried to interfere last time. You must really love her. How amusingly childish." He said as he seized control of Ambrosia's metal arm. "But I wont let you delay this any further. It is time you are removed. Kill her Ambrosia." He said as the arm broke free of the restraint like it was nothing. Then it reached out as Velvet turned around.

She was shocked when it grabbed her by the throat. It immediately cut off her air supply as stared wide eyed in horror. But she noticed Velvet was still holding the weapon. "Velvet shoot me!" She screamed as tears started to stream down her face. Velvet started to raise the weapon but she quickly let go as she struggled against the arm. "You have to kill me!" Ambrosia screamed as she fought with all her might to stop the arm. Velvet looked to be trying to speak as her complexion started to change.

Ambrosia's father just laughed though as he watched. "Such a fool to choose your life over her own even as you choke the life out of her." He said voice full of mirth as most of the people present watch looking a bit disturbed. Velvet was starting to go limp as Ambrosia sobbed. The arm then threw her into a pile of rubble. As she was forcefully made to move her hands balled up into fists. "That filthy little fool should have kept there nose to themselves." He said spitting in there direction.

Ambrosia's sorrow quickly gave way to pure rage. Suddenly her arm lashed out smashing the puppet's and cleaving through several slayer's. All while she screamed her anguish to the world. Suddenly ghoul's formed climbing out of the rubble from the puppet's. They immediate vanished showing up behind slayer's. Then all hell truly broke loose as they tore through the slayer's throwing blood and flesh all over as they greedily devoured chunks.

Ambrosia's father watched in shock as she tore the restraints off immediately charging at him. But he quickly started dodging the wild rage filled attacks from the metal arm. But it kept getting faster as it moved in jerking imprecise movements. "How the hell are you overriding my control?!" He asked barely dodging the vicious onslaught. Madeline suddenly sent her back with the orb. But she used the claw to stop herself and stay standing.

Ambrosia looked at them her eyes filled with pure rage as the purple glow was rapidly intensifying. "I will kill you if you don't stand down." Madeline said looking completely serious for once. But Ambrosia responding by charging her swinging the arm around in a rage fueled flurry. The ghouls kept the slayer's busy as they gorged themselves. Ambrosia's father started to fall back as Madeline used her orb to fend off Ambrosia.

With her body super charged Madeline let loose a massive bolt of lightning. But the arm just blocked it before shooting it back but this time purple. Madeline was sent through what remained of a pillar. Then Ambrosia chased after her father using the arm to fling herself after him. She quickly cut him off before shooting her arm out at him. But someone fired at her back. The silver bullet's burned through her gut from her back.

As she stumbled forward her father ran around her. As she turned to give chase again she saw Ironwood standing with a dozen elite slayer's. "What the hell is going on here?" He demanded all the weapons aimed at Ambrosia. "A friend of her's tried to interfere. So I got rid of the fool. But now Ambrosia has broke free of my hold." He said when suddenly Ambrosia started charging forward again.

The slayer's all opened fire but her arm became a large shield. Ironwood quickly grabbed her father and started to flee. But Ambrosia crashed into a few of the slayer'. But they were ready for her using there melee weapons to force her back. But the scream of ghouls was getting closer as they seemed to have finished with the other slayer's. They charged straight past Ambrosia as they ran straight into the firing slayer's.

The melee slayer's immediately tried to disengage but Ambrosia just impaled one on a spike made from her arm. Then she threw them into another slayer before cleaving through another as she started to sprint through them. She continued to fling herself after her father as they headed for a airship. But she launched the glowing purple dust lump into the ship. It immediately started to shoot lightning everywhere causing the ship to explode.

Her father and Ironwood leapt to sides landing face down as a stray lightning bolt came flying at them. "I am going to kill you!" She screamed as she shot her arm out nearly impaling her father. But he rolled out of the way and started throwing flasks at her. They exploded sending all kinds of blasts and flashes at her. But she just ducked under a mini dome made with her arm. He kept throwing more and more vials and bombs till all he could see was a cloud of poison.

But Ambrosia came flying out of it covered in burns with patches of skin that seemed to be melting or turning nasty color's. She immediately punched through a flask her father was holding hitting him in the chest. He was slammed into the ground a couple of ribs shattering. Ironwood opened fire on her with dual pistol's. he got her in a leg, her side and the left side of her chest. She fell to the ground hand over the hole in her chest.

But that only lasted a moment as she lashed out backhanding Ironwood. He was sent flying back onto the ground deep gashes on his face. Her father though had slipped into the school building while she was distracted. She pursued him inside as slayer's and atlesian troops swarmed all over the school grounds. The ghoul's were still devouring the elite slayer's when the reinforcements all opened fire with all they had. The ghouls for all there strength were no match for that much firepower.

Ambrosia was suddenly blasted from behind by a squad of atlesian knights. She fell to the ground as they approached guns at the ready. Suddenly her arm swiped tearing through them. She climbed to her feet and started to limp after him her arm dragging behind her. Then Cedar jumped in through a window and opened fire on her. But the arm shot forward knocking all the bullet's off course. Then it hit her knocking her off her feet. But before she landed it grabbed her by the throat and started to squeeze as it slammed her around randomly. "Why the hell are all of you defending him?!" She yelled as she finally snapped Cedar's neck and threw her aside.

Ironwoods forces were surrounding the building and entering from all every entrance. Ambrosia's arm formed into a large blade as she hacked through a slayer. There squad all dead or dying already. She kept stumbling through the hall as she could barely see straight anymore. And her kept clawing at her chest with her left hand. Her entire body felt empty and cold yet on fire with pain. Tears started to fall again as she struggled to keep moving. But her father showed up behind her and forced her to turn around. "You no longer have the strength to resist me do you?" He asked as he made her fall to the ground.

Velvet's body laid on the pile of rubble splattered with blood and shredded human. Coco, Yatsuhashi, Fox, Ruby, Simone and the rest of the gang all looked around in horror at the scene. When Coco saw Velvet she rushed over only to screamed when she checked her pulse. Everyone immediately rushed to her and stared down at Velvet in shock and horror. "How did this happen?" Coco asked as tears started to run down her cheeks. "We need to go..." Simone said gently picking Velvet up and forming a gate.

Ambrosia just sat there staring emptily into the ground. "You were to be my masterpiece but look at you falling apart because of some filthy vermin. Tell me did you love her as much as she loved you? Or were you just using her? Well I guess the answer is obvious given your present state. Such a pity though seeing you get so angry over some filthy pest." He said grabbing Ambrosia's hair as more of Ironwood's forces arrived. They watched weapons at the ready as he kneed her in the face. "That is for defying me." He said before kneeing her again. "And that is for attacking me." And again. "And that for making me waste resources." And again even harder. "And that is for punching me into the ground." He said when suddenly her arm impaled him in the gut.

He released her hair and grabbed the metal spike. "You should be to tired to-" He said to say when he noticed her face healing at a very accelerated rate. She had a shimmering purple aura surrounding her. Her injuries were healing as she kept staring down at the ground. Then her father stumbled back off the spike and to the wall. The forces opened fire on her but her arm formed a thin metal wall blocking the hall.

Ambrosia struggled to her feet as she started to walk down the hall aimlessly. The wall was holding for now but it would not last much longer. Holes were already forming in it as Ingrid came out of a room pointing her silver pistol at Ambrosia. "I wish I had never met you." She said with a shaky voice as her whole body shook and tears ran down her face. "You ruined everything!" She yelled firing at her getting her in the leg.

But Ambrosia barely even blinked before she looked up at Ingrid. "You really are a blind fool you know that? Your organization has had me as there slave for decades. Torturing and beating me till I complied with there horrible requests. They forced me to kill innocent vampires who simply wished to be left alone. They forced me to lure kind vampires into ambushes. They even forced me to torture them for information. And I did it all as my only other choice was death. And when I finally find someone who genuinely accepts me you force me to choke the life out of her." Ambrosia said her voice and eyes dull and devoid of any emotion. The only sign of her feelings a solitary tear that ran down her left cheek. Ingrid shot her again this time the bullet hit her in the chest.

Ambrosia fell backwards going limp on her way down. And Ingrid just stood there sobbing and mumbling something about Cedar. But Ambrosia gasped as the bullet was pushed back out of her chest the injury rapidly healing. "Why am I still alive?" She asked sounding defeated. Ingrid though dropped to her knee's. But her father came up behind her and kicked her shoulder. "You really suck at following though don't you?" He asked as he tried to take control but her body just stayed there unmoving. "Just forget about useless piece of trash. I have experiment's to conduct." He said stomping on her face a few times.

But she grabbed his foot and threw him off her. She then jumped to her feet and opened a gate. Clay balls poured out of it scattering throughout the hall. Her father immediately turned to run as they started to go off. In moments that entire area was reduced to a smoldering smoking crater filled with rubble. Ironwood with bandages over his face stared into it as his forces moved in to search the rubble. Ambrosia's father climbed out arm broken and injuries all over his body. He stumbled from the rubble as a couple of medics moved in to give him some blood immediately.

They searched and searched through the rubble uncovering countless body parts. "This is a serious mess perhaps we should leave." One of General Ironwoods 'specialists' suggested to him. "Give the order to pack up double time. We need to return to-" He was saying till Madeline stumbled into from where the ghouls were unleashed. She was covered in burns and her arm was shattered and twisted the skin burned away completely. Medics immediately rushed to her as she collapsed to the ground losing consciousness. "Get her aboard my ship." Ironwood said as he headed for one of the many atlesian shuttles. landed in the area.