Chapter 134 - The Big Boss PT 2

Purple Heart gritted her teeth as she switched her CPU Sword out for her Soul Calibur. The crystalline blue blade, the source of her Crystal-based abilities, appeared in her hands in a swirling misty vortex. The moment she felt the cold touch of its shaft in her two hands, Planeptune's CPU felt some of her rising fear ebb away through the familiarity of the weapon. Thanks to its PURIFIER ability, a power that she had thoroughly ABUSED throughout this invasion, she had had her blade absorb the souls of countless Lesser Demons to enhance Soul Calibur's power. Therefore, it would serve as the best weapon she could have chosen to fight such entities. Thinking back on it though, part of her wondered why she even used her CPU sword, to begin with. It was inferior to Soul Calibur in every way, with way less power and way fewer uses in comparison. Whelp, at least she could use it now, but even so, she couldn't help but note the resilience the Bloodthirster sported. "Ugh… this creature definitely has a tenacious side to it, doesn't it?"

On that, both Black Heart and Green Heart had to agree, alongside Lucy who had her Cleavers ready to strike at a moment's notice. The Bloodthirster didn't even look the tiniest bit affected by the attack that had just happened to it, not one bit and that disturbed them a whole hell lot. Since the attack wasn't a weak one, plus it did just leave a crater that seemed as large as a large City, so it SHOULD have done some damage to it, at least a little bit. However, nope, no dice, not even a single scratch had been left on the Bloodthirster's imposing frame. It just stood as tall as it had always done, it's gaze an ever-present look of demented bloodlust as it gave a loud roar, as if beckoning them to try and challenge its might. It showed no signs of fear of the four girls, not one bit, as if the previous battle had been it just merely measuring their powers. Such thoughts did NOT sit well with the four girls, which became even more apparent when the Bloodthirster gave a vicious, yet also mocking, snarl to them whilst bearing its Battleaxe and Whip in the 'come at me' gesture.

Obviously, a few reactions of the unsavory kind would be the expected response.

"Its mocking us…" Green Heart commented, gripping Gungnir's shaft. She didn't like being insulted, especially from a creature like this. It grinded her gears like never before, her eyes narrowing as her heart released a spike of rage and wrathful intent through the rest of her body. If that wasn't enough, the brilliantly glistening white aura made only possible with her Share Energy could be more visibly seen as more of it got drawn out by the woman's anger. Though, Green Heart wasn't the only one going through a myriad of different emotions, Gungnir was doing the same thing, too. The weapon itself felt her emotions pour through their link, experiencing them as it's own. Not to mention how it rattled in her grasp like it wanted to rip itself free from her grasp and impale this thing through its snout at full power. Around its form, brilliantly golden electricity sparked and danced along its frame, almost making it look like a bolt of lightning solidified into a weapon. The space around it slowly began to twist and warp from the energy it exerted, something the four girls and the Bloodthirster noticed about the weapon.

Even so, none of them cared too much, for their own personal reasons.

Though, Black Heart felt the most affected out of the four angry women at the moment, seeing as her own attack had been the one to cause so much damage to their surroundings, but against the enemy, she REALLY wanted to hurt it basically amounted to jack shit. No words could describe the boiling frustration she felt inside her gut right now, none at all. She so wanted to just push it into her hand and then punch the ground, though that would only be counterproductive since not only would it hurt her hand like hell, but it would limit how much she could hold Balmung. The said weapon also felt the frustration of its wielder and sent her waves of calmness through their link so she didn't lose it. Even though their link was a two-way street, so Black Heart also felt the waves of frustration growing within the sword as well.

Guess she wasn't the only one pissed off at their failed attack, huh?

There was also the fact that they wouldn't be able to escape this Dimension, not only because of MAGES. likely wouldn't let them, and for good reason, but also because if this thing escaped into the world of Gamindustri, they had no clue of how much damage that it would cause. No doubt it would be massive. Perhaps borderline cataclysmic level, and if that was the case then they HAD to fight it here. Since the Demons of Khorne, not to mention every other Demon the Goddesses have encountered so far, want to devour souls, they each had a very good idea of what would be at stake should they lose this battle. In a sense. This place was their cage, and this beast was here to try and take away their everything. They were quite LITERALLY fighting for not just theirs, but EVERYONE'S souls.

"We can debate later, guys." Lucy spoke, breaking the Goddesses out of their musings and bringing their attention to her. The redhead's eyes hardened to a harder state than steel itself, whilst she held her Cleavers in a ready stance. "Cause our friend here's getting restless."

True to her word, the Bloodthirster grew tired of waiting around, and gave a loud roar whilst launching its Whip at them in a sideways sweep. This prompted the girls to each fly/ jump high into the air, successfully avoiding the barbs the Whip possessed only by a hair. A second longer, and they would have lost their feet or legs thanks to the spiked Barbs tearing through flesh and bone like they were nothing but fragile specs of air to it.

Whilst in the air, Lucy responded first, her eyes narrowing towards her opponent as she dismissed her Cleavers, the weapons vanishing into Datastreams as the Weapons went into her Inventory. A second later, the redhead threw her arm to the side as she summoned her Beyblade, before she went and unleashed her following attack: the BEYBLADE ASSAULT. The woman twirled around a full 360 degrees, building up momentum before hurling the rapidly spinning weapon towards her opponent. Midway, it split into several smaller ones, ones that the creature batted away with its Battleaxe when they got close enough, only for each of them to A: circle behind it at high speeds, and B: reform into their default form to attack it from behind.

Unfortunately for them, the Bloodthirster simply shifted so that the Beyblade grinded against its brass Armour instead of its gore-covered hide, thus reducing It's attack effectiveness to nothing. Of course, Lucy expected something like this, so when she landed on the ground she instantly re-summoned her Cleavers and unleashed a JACK THE RIPPER attack on it, followed up by unleashing a POISON SLASH that was enhanced by her POLLEN DRIVE Skill. Whilst she didn't do early as much damage as she had hoped in her onslaught by the end of it, Lucy still noticed tiny scratches made by her weapons here and there. That alone filled her with a hope she didn't realize she had wanted whilst she jumped back to avoid the Battleaxe, then several times to avoid the Whip.

The Bloodthirster eyed Lucy for a moment, as if trying to evaluate her once more after previously deducing her to not be a threat. It too felt those scratches, however minor they may be, and they were caused by her, not that large-scale attack that white one did before. That meant that, while far from it's stature, this mortal had power significantly greater than this transforming mortal who boasted godly power. Though, Lucy didn't know any of this due to the way its eyes had no pupil, all she could see was the whiteness of its eyeballs, something that unnerved her more than she'd care to admit.

That was when it made to make a move on her, raising the arm that held the Whip for an attack only to notice something out of the corner of its eye.

"ATOMIC INFERNO – CALIBUR EDITION!"

Turning to face the three above it, the Bloodthirster saw the one with that demonic sword, Purple Heart, flying towards it with a clear intent in her eyes. The sword's edge coated in dark blue energy. The moment that she swung the mighty blade when she'd cleared about half the distance between them, Purple Heart unleashed an array of over 100 blue energy rays down on her opponent. Just like ATOMICINFERNO – PLANEPTUNE EDITION, this Skill was an offshoot of the original Skill Nico possessed, only Neptune had refined it with the Demonic Power of Soul Calibur. This new Skill had been the result of it, but because of it's wide range and destructive ability, she hadn't been able to use it up until now.

Flaring its wings, the Bloodthirster looked like it was about to move for the first time during this entire battle, and if that happened then it would be classed by the rest of them as an achievement in and of itself. The fact that they would have been able to force it to dodge one of their attacks meant that it saw that attack as a threat, so they would feel like they had a chance to defeat it if they could keep spamming that attack. It was a typical gamer's strategy, target the foe's weakness to strike at them 1 more time.

Sadly though, that would be proven impossible to happen, for the creature raises it's Whip and then unleashed a nigh-supersonic level of speed in it's following lashes, swinging the Whip about like the expert of combat it was to slash or knock away every energy ray coming towards it. Not even the ones that wouldn't have hit the Bloodthirster were spared, 100 energy rays and 0 of them managed to hit their target.

Even so, Purple Heart refused to let that be the end of it, as with a mighty war cry, she descended down towards the Bloodthirster with Soul Calibur shining from its dark blue aura, to the point where it almost seemed like an exact replica of Soul Edge itself. The Bloodthirster, seeing her unwavering determination to fight, howled with glee as it forewent using it's Whip on her, and went with its Battleaxe instead. Both blades met in overhead slashes, one significantly smaller than the other, though the power it emitted allowed it to go on even ground with the larger one.

SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH, SLASH!

They went, trading blows at speeds that, while not as fast as that whipping it had done before, nonetheless got difficult to track for the onlooker's eyes. Purple Heart swung like she had never swung before, with the Bloodthirster responding in kind. One of them had a furious snarl on their face, and the other had a ravenous gleeful expression twisted by the bloodlust and hatred that it manifested as the personification of. Both had equal footing in the clash, the ground got neither lost or gained between the two whilst nobody could get anywhere close to the two thanks to the shockwaves that each blow unleashed upon their surroundings.

Blocking a strike to her side, Neptune decided to showcase Soul Calibur's shapeshifting abilities, morphing its forms between blows into two blue crystalline Kodachi swords, each of them as long as a human forearm and curved near the ends. With each one, Purple Heart swung faster and faster with them, quickly activating several Skills at once: PLANEPTUNE DRIVE, and DEMONIC BLESSING. Yeah, apparently the latter also worked on the user itself, and also it stacked itself on top of her Drive Skill. Thus, her strikes came so fast it looked like she had dozens of arms swinging at the Bloodthirster, which responded by swinging its Battleaxe faster as well until they were going at it with the same speed as it's whipping earlier.

"Tch, looks like Neptune's going at it in full force…" Green Heart remarked, grimacing as she watched the two fight whilst circling to the left. She had a plan in mind, and it involved how long Purple Heart could keep the Bloodthirster off her back. So far, though, that didn't seem to be a problem with how she saw Purple Heart occupying the creature. She'd also told Black Heart what she wanted to do with the creature, which she agreed with and told the Leanbox CPU she'd provide support to Planeptune's CPU.

Thus, she didn't get surprised when Black Heart, having activated her Fafnir Armour, dashed into battle to help Purple Heart from the right flank. Purple Heart herself, however, she nearly lost her rhythm with how she swung her swords such was the surprise that filled her at seeing Black Heart already bouncing back from her previous failure. "Noire…?"

"Come on, Neptune, focus on the battle!"

Black Heart's shout quickly roused her from her stupor, just enough for a Battleaxe swing to be coming towards her in a diagonal manner. If one were to gauge the speed of the swing, they'd say it was so fast that it left afterimages in its wake. However, Neptune's instincts were sharper, as she reflexively activated her SHARD TRAVEL ability to split her body int many pieces of crystal Shards, avoiding the swing but only by a hair. Once she reformed, Purple Heart once again morphed Soul Calibur into a traditional Japanese-style Katana, but with an icy blue crystalline appearance. The main hilt was just big enough for two hands, with a cross guard that had the sphere of Soul Calibur, the core, embedded within. The blade itself was the same, but with lighter blue runic symbols carved in. The blade itself had a constant dark blue vapor around it like a cloak, giving off this intimidating yet divine appearance.

Meanwhile, Lucy scowled to herself as she saw the two Goddesses teaming up whilst Green Heart circled around to prepare her attack. The redhead quickly deduced what the Leanbox CPU had been planning, it had been evident by how Gungnir kept rattling in her hands like a child who learned that he was being taken to a candy store by her parents. Something any child would be excited about, if one asked her. However, Lucy feared that the plan wouldn't work, something that kept pounding away at her mind like that annoying little nagging sensation one always get when they were planning something, whilst she avoided these fiery kicks and thwacks the Bloodthirster kept launching her way or blocking a stray slash with her Cleavers. Normally she would have been able to do this without much effort, but thanks to POLLEN DRIVE, blocking that Battleaxe and Whip would be as easy as taking a piece of cake.

After she blocked a stray swing from the Bloodthirster's Whip, Lucy noticed that Green Heart looked about ready for her own attack, as her Gungnir was reared back like an Olympic medallist making a javelin throw whilst the Spear got covered in golden energy. The energy that spilled forth from the core at the very center of its being. The energy constantly created and released violent sparks into the atmosphere, and if the smoke had been flammable then the entire dimension would have become a sea of flames by now.

'Vert… I pray that your attack works…'

Back with Green Heart, the Leanbox CPU grinned in triumph as she felt Gungnir's power reach its maximum output. The amount of energy she could feel coursing through the weapon as well as herself felt almost orgasmic to her, reminding her of when she was at the pinnacle of her own power. Before attaining Gungnir, her power had been virtually non-existent in comparison to Noire's, she knew this just by sensing her energy and doing some quick calculations in her mind. However, now that she had it, she didn't feel so inferior anymore.

With this attack though, she may end up losing her connection to what allowed her to keep her HDD form active, at least for a brief moment. This was simply due to Gungnir no longer being in her hands to funnel the energy to keep her form maintained, but that shouldn't be a problem, since the time she would have to wait for Gungnir to return to her wasn't very long anyway, plus she could still use Beninuki.

That in mind, Green Heart widened her throwing stance, allowing her to throw Gungnir with all her might. "HAAA!" She yelled, quickly feeling her transformation cut out as she fell to the ground, now Vert once again. Even so, the woman still managed to keep her head raised to see the Spear flying towards its target: the back of the beast's head. Gungnir never missed it's target and would not be intercepted when thrown, so she basically felt like they had won already.

The Spear flew true, its shimmering golden glow making it look like a meteor from an outsider's perspective. From the front, Black Heart noticed the golden glow behind it, and quickly acted like she had told Vert she would. "Neptune come on! Fall back!" she called out, grasping Purple Heart by the shoulder and, before she could protest, flew up to the skies above at record speeds. She put a lot of energy into her wings to do this, not wanting to be caught up in what would happen next.

At that point, the Bloodthirster made to move at last… only, it sensed danger behind it, and when it turned to face it the Demonic beast saw Gungnir just a second away from impaling it's face, before…

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A huge explosion of golden energy, one that filled the entire area with its light and forced anyone and anything not tied down into the air. Vert herself cried out as she was sent flying from the blast, only for Gungnir to reappear in her right hand and allow her to transform once again. Now Green Heart, the CPU quickly flew upwards to meet the other two of her kind, hovering beside them over 400 feet in the air. The total height of the explosion that engulfed the Bloodthirster had been about 300 feet… so yeah, they barely escaped that one in time.

For a moment, both Purple Heart and Black Heart remained speechless, unable to process the golden explosion below them. That is, until one of them finally broke themselves out of their stupor as they turned to the Leanbox CPU with a sheepish look on their face. "I guess we have a lot of unexplained abilities at this point, don't we?" Purple Heart remarked, soon getting an agreeing nod from Lastation's CPU.

"Indeed, we do…" Green Heart admitted, though her tone also carried hints of nervousness behind it. There were many things that needed to be discussed, and a lot of them felt very personal to her. If this were someone she could trust like Nico, then Green Heart wouldn't feel so nervous. However, these two were her rival Goddesses from other Nations, so she felt more than a little uncertain about bringing them into her problems. It was both unbecoming of a leader, and a show of weakness to allow something like that to happen, yet it also just HAD to happen at this point. Too many things had been seen for her to keep the Mask on any longer. Thus, as much as she didn't want to admit it, the time had come to take that Mask off. "However, I do believe it would be best if we saved that discussion for later, we will have lots to do after-"

WHACK!

"GAH!"

Before she could finish whatever it was she was going to say, a large, dark shadow appeared behind her, looming over her like a creature of the night stalking its prey, waiting for the precise moment to pounce on them. Green Heart didn't even get a chance to scream as something large, metallic, sharp and round slammed into her from behind, knocking the wind out of her and sending her careening towards the ground faster than a meteor breaking through the planet's atmosphere. The moment she hit the ground, a loud BOOM sound reverberated throughout the entire pocket dimension, filling the remaining CPUs with shock that soon got replaced by horror and dread. They each saw what happened, but they almost couldn't believe it.

Apparently, the Bloodthirster was made of some sturdy stuff, for not only did it survive Vert's Gungnir attack, seemingly having taken the whole thing head on, but it also recovered in record time and flew up to them before they could even have noticed it's survival. It likely used the golden explosion below as a means of cover, no, they felt SURE that was what had gone down, the victorious, maddeningly gleeful impression they got from looking at it said so. Even then, it's final piece of 'fuck you' to Green Heart was to slam the Whip on top of her back, pretty much shattering her wings as well as her HDD form before smashing her into the ground with utmost brutality.

Thus, they had only one response:

"VERT!"


Luckily, she hadn't been killed from the impact, as when she bounced back into the air, a black and red blur showed that Lucy had managed to catch her in the nick of time with POLLEN DRIVE, and then had used the momentum she gained to slide to a halt. In the end, she caught the now unconscious blonde woman bridal style, a trail of dust being left in her wake.

Laying her down, Lucy gave her a look over, noting her injuries with a twisted grimace. Her front looked okay, but when she flipped the woman over and looked at her back, she saw just how bad that Whip had wrecked her. Not only did her back not have any flesh on it now, exposing the organs and bones inside, a lot of them looked to have been badly cracked and were on the verge of breaking into splinters completely. The only reason why Vert had avoided death from that blow would likely be because of her being in HDD form at the time, her endurance in that form being much greater than that of her human one. However, now that she was in human form, she didn't have the Share Energy left to heal herself, not to mention that Lucy doubted she even knew how to heal herself with Share Energy. It wasn't really a technique that Goddesses employed these days…

Quickly, she reached into her Inventory to pick out a Hero Drink, whilst Purple Heart and Black Heart once again re-engaged the Bloodthirster above her if the sounds of metal colliding against metal were any indication. Lucy didn't need to look up to sense just how angry those two were, they were releasing their energies all over the place trying to tear the Bloodthirster apart for what it did to Vert, even if they hadn't known each other for very long. Purple Heart she could get, as she got attached to people quickly plus she could somewhat see through to a person's real feelings as Nico could. Black Heart probably get angry at seeing one of her kind being treated like this, plus the fact that she worried for her safety meant she didn't view her as an antagonist unlike she did with Purple Heart back in the Console War.

Flipping Vert over, Lucy began the long process of treating the woman's wounds whilst being careful not to aggravate her back. Hero Drinks would be essential at this point, and if MAGES. had brought Compa into this she could have helped heal her with Gabriel and her own healing powers. However, time was of the essence, and Lucy didn't want to wait around to ask her either. Therefore, she would do it herself.

This had been the last straw anyways…

'Sorry, Ravey… but I'mma gonna break lose a bit…' she thought to herself once she finally finished treating Vert's wounds. The back had replaced the skin lost and her bones had been repaired through the use of the Hero Drinks… as well as some of her own measures that she wouldn't be talking about during this fight. Now though, Vert would likely be comatose for the duration of this battle, her body needed to recover from the shock of that attack Lucy sensed, therefore the task would fall onto herself to deal with this Bloodthirster in its place.

If she were to ask herself if she really felt ready to do this, to unveil her secret weapon which she'd kept under wraps for so long, Lucy would be lying if she said she didn't feel even the slightest bit nervous. Once she did this, there would be no going back, there would be many questions asks, revelations to be had, and things in Gamindustri would never be the same again. Although, on the other hand, that fact would remain so even if she DIDN'T do this, thanks to the return of the Demons and their chaotic masters. A secret like hers being revealed would likely be something relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, even so, she couldn't help but be nervous.

This could count as her interfering in Vert's affairs, no, it DEFINITELY counted.

It was something that she and Raven had argued about a countless number of times during their partnership, whether or not they should reveal they're true selves to the world, or to be more accurate to the CPUs of Gamindustri. If they were to reveal themselves, then so many things would have to change, not to mention they risked causing mass panic and anarchy amongst the zealous followers that revered the four CPUs. That had been Raven's argument, and Lucy had kept countering that if they did intervene, then so many tragedies that the world had suffered would have been able to have been prevented. When they became the way they were, they did swear to protect this world on top of the lands that they lived in, after all.

Looking upwards towards the Bloodthirster, Lucy's eyes glazed over as she recalled every memory of conflict she had with the leader of Team RAIL. Every argument revolving around every subject they quarreled over, all of it passed through her mind as one of those old movies being played from a recording camera. Afterward, her eyes returned to their calm, focused state before they gained a hard, steely look to them. Her fists clenched and her teeth gnashed together, veins starting to become visible across her body as she finally made her choice.

It was time.

The time for change had come…

No.

A change had already begun when Neptune fell from Celestia with amnesia and dragged two people along with her into an adventure that would affect everything in Gamindustri. Even the status quo amongst the CPUs.

If someone like Neptune could change, then there was no way Lucy herself couldn't change.

'Heh…' a small chuckle escaped her lips, her form calming down and relaxing all of a sudden when a flame of amusement lit up her chest. 'In the past, I could never have expected something like this to happen, nope not one bit. Here I thought that deities were never able to change… what a fool I've been for so many years…' she thought, before her eyes switched over to the two CPUs still in the air. 'Seeing them fight like this, seeing them fight so hard for a Nation that they should consider an antagonist to their own… it inspires me. It makes me want to do my best too. Even though this Nation is filled with corrupt, sick mortals I still feel the need to fight alongside them, to prove that I too can do something about this storm that is brewing across Gamindustri…'

"Whelp… the gig is up, I guess." Lucy remarked to herself, chuckling as a greenish yellow aura started to sweat itself out of her, covering her form like it was a cloak draping itself over her to shield the woman from the cold. Only, this was no cloak, nope it would be oh so much more. Lucy felt it deep within her being, the power she needed to take out once more to defeat this enemy before her. This power of which she had not used in many years, now would get the chance to return to history once more. The woman's eyes then closed, allowing the aura to become thicker and thicker…

Before they opened, and the aura erupted into a pillar the same size as those that accompanied a certain transformation.


Rage.

Pain, and rage.

Those were the things that completely flooded the systems of Black Heart and Purple Heart right now, from the moment they saw one of their comrades get struck down viciously by this Bloodthirster. It erupted within them like a vicious, merciless cancer spreading from their chests to the rest of their beings, filling their brains with nothing but the intent to maim and slaughter. Any thoughts of rationality were purged as if THEY were the disease, not the immensely intense rage coursing through their stems right this minute.

Neither of them could do it.

Neither of them could get it out of their heads.

That moment… that moment where they briefly saw the look of absolute shock like an animal which suddenly realized it was being attacked (fitting for the situation Green Heart got herself in, huh?), then to morbid horror as the realization of what happened sunk in like a pair of icy cold fangs from the jaws of death itself, and finally skull-splitting, inferno igniting agony etch itself onto Green Heart's face the instant that thing's whip fell onto her form and sent her down to the cold hard ground below. To them, it almost felt like a dream, especially when they heard the sounds of bones ruthlessly being broken apart and the sounds of organs being ruptured by those vicious barbs. If Green Heart did survive that attack, it would be a miracle, though this thought process didn't remain in their minds for very long. They didn't even think about the golden explosion anymore once that rage had settled in, nope no sir.

All they cared about could be best summarized in three simple words:

Rip.

This.

Bitch.

APART!

Indeed, the moment that Green Heart went down, a switch flipped inside of the two remaining CPUs. Like a spark igniting into a searing blaze, anger burst forth from deep within them like a dam finally erupting after hours upon hours of trying to contain an overflowing flood of water, that wouldn't be satisfied until the cause of their rage paid in full for the shit that it had done just then, the grave sin it had committed. Neither of them cared about the basics of knowing someone at this point, nope those things didn't register to them. They may not have known much about Green Heart at this time, but they had fought together, bled together throughout this invasion, and even before this invasion began they had been talking like they were old friends, truly getting to know each other through words and not their blades. Essentially, they had become almost like sisters in arms through this invasion, becoming all the closer for it. There had been immense potential for a brighter future for them, a future that this thing had jeopardized the moment that it interrupted their chat without mercy.

This thing showed their fellow CPU no restraint in that attack…

So, they'd have to simply respond in kind.

Thus, that was what the CPUs did.

Purple Heart's assault was as vicious as it was unrelenting, with how she constantly generated hordes of hundreds and hundreds of Crystal Shards to attack the Bloodthirster from all directions, manipulating them so that they were launched like riflemen firing actual bullets at the enemy rather than just simply launching them via mental command. She generated hundreds of constructs and other attacks that she launched at the Bloodthirster, arms, weapons, got in close with Shard Travel only to use it in rapid succession between a couple of attacks.

The thing was, as it had been said before about Soul Calibur, it had the qualities of both a Demonic and a Divine weapon, a Devil arm purified with Divine energy. This would be very important to the overall power Soul Calibur has, as it would have MULTIPLE sources to draw from due to its dual nature. On one side, it can draw power from the faith that others had in Purple Heart, due to her being a CPU, she relied on that stuff to exist. One could say that Soul Calibur was just like another CPU that way, the more faith people have in Purple Heart then the more power that Soul Calibur can draw from its divine nature. However, it also has a demonic side due to its origins. Its origins being that it came from a demonic sword by the name of Soul Edge, a demonic sword that formed as a manifestation of a DPU's soul. Because of this, hatred and rage were what fuelled its power, just like the DPUs themselves, and that power had been passed on to Soul Calibur when it was forged by Nico as a fragment. In essence, the greater Purple Heart's rage and hatred were, the more power Soul Calibur gained with its demonic nature.

Therefore, with the rage coursing through Purple Heart right now, Soul Calibur received a MASSIVE power boost.

Probably had enough power to rival the chaotic energies of a Bloodthirster at this point.

As for Black Heart… Well, does the phrase 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' mean anything to you readers? Originally its when a woman goes mad when her lover cheats on her and she punishes the man and the woman together. However, people have thus associated this as a woman's feminine fury reaching dangerous heights, and THAT was what could summarize Black Heart's emotional state in a nutshell right now. The white-haired woman flew about the Bloodthirster's airspace, her form bathed in her glittering white aura so that she merely looked like a simple blue whilst she bombarded the enemy with attacks. Her form also crackled with volatile energy, mimicking the form of electricity that danced around her, as if they were electronic vipers wildly hissing as they slithered through the air.

This woman's ferocity, well, it had been born in an instant, only fuelled by the familiarity she felt when seeing someone she'd considered a comrade thanks to this invasion, fall in such a brutal manner. Combined with the fact that she had the blood and animalistic instincts of an Abnormal flowing through her thanks to the Armour, increasing her physical abilities to a higher degree, and one could say that she could have enough destructive power to match a freaking titan. In her rage, Black Heart kept storing and channeling her energy into Balmung, sometimes switching over to Raijin to keep the electric and energy attacks coming from this blade. She wanted to make that thing pay, she wanted to utterly decimate it, to ensure it suffered horrendously for what it had just done.

'Kill… Kill… KILL!'

The word 'kill' constantly repeated itself through her mind, almost like a Mantra to the CPU. Though, she did not give it any thought, her goal here was but one: destroy this Bloodthirster. If Black Heart retained her rationality, then she would have figured that Purple Heart would have been on the same boat as her and they could have worked together. Unfortunately, that would not be the case, sadly enough. Both girls seemed too caught up in their emotions to do anything even remotely akin to co-operation… If Vert could see this from her position on the ground, she'd probably feel conflicted over this scenario. On one hand, she'd feel… well, more than a little flattered that they would get that pissed because she got hit for her foolishness, or be concerned for the girls' safety. After all, their rage would only last so long against the almost-infinitely longer not to mention LARGER bloodlust the Bloodthirster possessed. Even now, the Greater Demon of Khorne gave a loud how, the flames beneath its feet suddenly shooting outwards like an explosive wave that knocked the two CPUs more than 60 meters away.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Oh, shut up!" Black Heart yelled back after recovering mid-flight, swinging Balmung and launching a TWILIGHT WAVE at it. The Bloodthirster however, just smacked it aside with it's mighty Battleaxe, letting the wave smash through the ground and leave one of many long, jagged fissures in it's wake. After using that attack so many times combined with her ZANDATSU, Raijin and other techniques, the Lastation CPU began to feel the toll of using her divine blade, even though she was in HDD form. This little titbit didn't register completely within her rage-filled mind, but just a small part would be enough. If she were in human form, then she would have long since conked out by now due to over-exerting herself.

Purple Heart scowled, making to say something as well when she noticed something about her companion, something that snapped her out of her angry stupor. Black Heart looked like she had been drained dry like a bloodsucker or something, her shoulders constantly shifted and her breathing began to grow erratic. Not to mention how her sword constantly crackled with electricity like dying lights. These facts, along with a few other bits of hidden body language, quickly summed themselves up in her mind: Black Heart was nearing her limit, and if she were honest, Purple Heart felt the same way. Their anger had forced them, as a means of personal satisfaction to see this thing suffer, to exert way too much power in an assault that barely did any damage to the beast. There was some damage, but not NEARLY enough that their assault should have. Most of them had been deflected by it's Whip or in some cases like just now, it's Battleaxe. It wouldn't be long before they would be unable to maintain their HDD forms, and at that point it would be game over. 'We need a plan, if we keep going at it like this… we'll not last, and it'll be a game over for us.'

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

"?!"

Just a couple seconds after she thought that, both Goddesses and the Greater Demon's eyes shot open wide when a new, and absolutely COLOSSAL sized energy suddenly roared to life like the inferno that had been their rage… only thousands of times greater, coming straight from below them. Though she had already done it, this energy served to snap Black Heart of out her anger as well, replacing her angry look with one of complete and utter bafflement as she turned to her companion with a 'WTF?' look on her face. Purple Heart herself felt the same way if anyone asked, as she tried to feel the energy out. The energy itself felt… fresh, new, and full of life, like the beginning of the four seasons, the one known as spring. It honestly reminded Purple Heart of the season in Leanbox, if she were to put her finger on it.

"Well, well… what do we have here?"