Okay, here's the next chapter. I don't have much to say today so I'll just get on with the story. I do understand that there was a little too much Mary Sue stuff going on in the last chapter so I'll try to keep that to a minimum from now on. I have always tried to keep this story free of that. So, sorry... Anyway, here's the next chapter.

Chapter 10: In Her Eyes

Mithos had exactly what he wanted in front of him. He knew that he could find the children easy enough, but what he really wanted was to kill Sheena right in front of Lloyd. He had a feeling that if he killed her off he could get Origin's seal, get the Eternal Sword, and easily kill a depressed Lloyd off. What would be even more traumatic was that he would have Lloyd's own sister kill her off. He only had to wait for the Eternal Swordsman to show up for his plan to take effect. Storm was ready with the unconscious Sheena out of sight from where the group would arrive and Anna was watching for Lloyd's group with Mithos.

Not too long after defeating Sheena's group Anna and Mithos saw Lloyd's group rushing towards Altamira on their Rheiards. Mithos smiled as he watched his prey draw ever closer to him. Once the group arrived they landed their machines and walked over to where Mithos was standing. He was up on top of the destroyed hotel once again and the remaining members of Sheena's group were still unconscious on the ground. Lloyd stood strongly in front of Mithos after seeing that Sheena was no where to be found, or his children for that matter. Kratos, Yuan, and Zelos all tried to help out the others, making sure that they were actually still alive.

"Where is Sheena? What do you want from her?" Lloyd asked angrily as he pulled out his swords.

"Sheena's right here with us Lloyd. We wanted to make sure you were here to watch her die," he said as he ushered Storm over to him. Storm was holding Sheena's one arm, with her kneeling on the ground still knocked out. She held her arm up high as she pulled out her sword to kill her with.

"No, don't do it Storm! This isn't like you I know," Lloyd yelled at her.

Zelos looked up, seeing Storm and he didn't want to believe what he was seeing. This wasn't the same Storm he knew. He could see the dark look in her eyes, like she was ready to attack at any second. She showed no real emotions towards seeing any of them or from Lloyd's plea. She held her sword up higher ready to bring it down on the girl.

"Kill her now," Mithos ordered her.

"No Storm!" Zelos yelled as he watched her before she attacked Sheena, showing no feelings towards what she was about to do.

Suddenly, Storm had an arrow stuck in her shoulder where she was holding Sheena. She dropped Sheena and cried out in both pain and surprise. She fell down the building to the ground as Lloyd rushed over to her to help her out in any way he could. At least she was away from them. Storm had no idea where the arrow had come from, and neither did Mithos. They hadn't seen anyone else in the group who was ready to attack.

"Stop this now Storm!" Sutra screamed at the angel as she appeared from behind some more rubble. "It's all my fault that you're like this so you have to come back for me," she told her desperately.

Storm pulled out the arrow from her shoulder and threw it to the ground as she held onto her wound as it began to bleed.

"You dare to defy me Sutra! I thought that this is what you wanted?" he asked her angrily.

"No, this is what you want. I wanted a world without discrimination, and I thought that you could get that. All you're doing is getting revenge on those who stopped you before. Well, I think that you deserved to be defeated before. I never should have revived you," she told him.

"Well, if that's how you feel then you shall share the same fate as this pathetic group," Mithos told her as he looked to Anna and Storm. All three of them pulled out their wings as Storm and Anna went in first.

After seeing what this group had done Zelos and the others knew what needed to be done. Storm and Anna had to be stopped even if it meant fighting them. Of course, they didn't really want to kill them, but they could always fight them until they dropped.

Lloyd ran over to Anna as he decided to stop her first while the others went after Storm. Sutra also went over to fight Anna with Lloyd, she wasn't going to let him fight alone.

Storm began her fight with Kratos as they began to parry back and forth with their swords. The two of them seemed equally matched. Just as Storm would gain the upper hand, Kratos would gain more ground and back and forth. Finally, the parrying ended when Yuan came at her from the side and attacked her with his Lightning Blade attack. It was hard for him to attack her, but he knew that this wasn't his Storm. Zelos then came over and attacked her with his Sonic Thrust attack. Storm fell to her knees after receiving all these attacks. But what really did her in was when Kratos used his Grave attack as the spikes threw her into the air before landing hard on her back.

Anna wasn't fairing too well against the two powerful fighters. She tried to use her Leonasium attack against Lloyd, but he managed to block the attack well and came back with his own Beast attack. This knocked Anna backwards, but as she managed to land on her feet she was knocked to the ground by Sutra who fired a Lightning Arrow at her.

Storm managed to knock the large group around her away by using her Outburst attack, throwing them all over the place. Most of them managed to land on their feet as they came back at her. Mithos could see that their group was not a good enough match for these powerful fighters. He decided that he needed to gain an upper hand in the battle as he saw the blonde Chosen passed out in the field. He flew over to her and called Storm over who obeyed willingly. Storm got herself away from the battle by attacking them with her Rejection attack as she took the small moment to get away.

"Give us the pact maker or Storm will kill this Chosen right now," Mithos threatened as Storm pulled out her sword once again, holding it to Colette's throat.

"Storm, you can't," Zelos cried. "This isn't you. I know that the real you is in there somewhere, fighting to get out. You have to fight this," he yelled at her.

Storm was buried somewhere under her rage and was trying desperately to get out. She tried and tried but she was buried in the darkness and she wasn't even able to tell what she was doing or prevent what she was doing. Suddenly, a small light began to take form as Storm was able to see what she was doing, but just slightly. The light kept growing bigger as she heard Zelos' voice, he was calling to her, trying to get her to come out. What was she doing? His voice sounded so panicked.

Storm, you can fight this. You can overcome this, if you just believe in yourself, and in me..., a familiar woman's voice told her. Storm recognized it soon afterwards as her mother's, always helping her in her time of need. In her time of darkness, her mother was her light.

Storm looked rather lost as she held the sword to Colette's throat, but did nothing. She didn't move at all she just stared out at the others like she had temporarily forgotten where she was.

"Storm kill her now!" Mithos ordered angrily.

Kill her now..., came the dark voice as her light tried to dim once again, but Storm could still hear her mother, fighting to help her through this. The two voices began to battle for dominance as Storm tried to concentrate on what was going on. She could slowly feel herself building up enough will power to control herself once again.

"No...I...won't...," Storm struggled with the words as she tried to gain control of herself once again. It was easy to see that she was still fighting her rage, but she did seem to be winning against it. Zelos' group looked up happily as they saw Storm winning against the demons inside her. She was still in there somewhere and she was trying to get out. They had to help her fight it though.

"Come on Storm, you have to fight it," Yuan called to her.

"Show us your strength," Kratos told her.

Mithos saw what was going on as well and was going to stop it before it went too far. He punched Storm hard in the face, throwing her to the ground before he began to kick her. Storm cried out in pain as she immediately fell back into her rage, her light leaving her once again.

"Don't you dare show those types of emotions, that's what causes pain," Mithos warned her before kicking her in the back once more. "Now, get up and finish off that girl," he ordered her.

"How could you do that you bastard?" Lloyd screamed at him after witnessing the horrible act that Mithos had committed.

"Leave her alone!" Zelos cried as he watched his lover hit the floor as she screamed in pain.

"No, this can't be happening," Kratos said sadly as he tried to hide back the tears that were threatening to fall from his eyes at the sight of his daughter.

Anna watched in horror at what was happening to her mother, but she wasn't thinking about Storm, she was thinking of herself. Anna was worried that something like that to her. Of course, Storm's pain didn't even cross her mind, but the thought of her own pain did. Anna began to wonder if it was to her advantage to remain with Cruxis.

Storm picked herself up from the ground, prepared to kill Colette. There were no emotions to stop her this time, but something else did.

"Pyre Seal!" Sheena yelled as she knocked Storm and Mithos backwards while catching Colette. She then had everyone in the group take someone from her group as she threw down something on the ground, causing both groups to disappear in a flash of smoke.

"Dammit," Mithos said in frustration. "Well, I suppose we look for the children now," he decided as they all revealed their wings to begin their hunt.

Well, that's it for this chapter. What did you think? Well, thanks for the reviews and I hope that you like this chapter. Please review and tell me what you think. Thanks!