White knuckles wrapped around staff made from pure diamond, amber coloured eyes glared at the monster that had nearly destroyed an entire town singlehandedly. She gritted her teeth in anger and her want for retribution for the suffering that the population of this outlying town is currently experiencing all because of this one monster. She needed to end this now lest she wanted another town wiped off the map of Remnant, leaving hundreds homeless and vulnerable to the Grimm.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She looked deep inside herself; she searched for that one power that stood above both Aura and Semblance: Magic. When she found that power, she grabbed it and brought it to the light. Her eyes snapped open, this time her amber eyes glowed a vibrant orange, trails of ethereal fire surrounded the side of her eyes. The presence of her Maiden Magic answered her call to Nature; winds kicked up nearly uprooting trees, clouds darkened with the sound of rumbling and the earth quaked. All of this power at her beck and call. She was done holding back.
She needed to finish this fight before it does more damage.
The Eye of Cthulhu on the other hand, saw Amber's transformation as nothing threatening but more of a challenge. It gave her a guttural roar which seemed to create a small shockwave of its own before rapidly closed the distance between them with its mouth chomping along the way. Amber's response to this was a snarl and a call to nature to strike the monster down. The skies complied to Amber's wishes. A loud crack was heard, and a bolt of lightning struck the giant eyeball, there was a visible flinch coming from the eye, but its charge didn't lose momentum.
Amber called for another lightning to strike it down. Unfortunately, the strike missed because the eye started to zigzag towards her. She quickly realized that singular strikes won't work and decided to call up another power. She tried to aim her diamond staff at the speeding eye, a rune appeared at the tip of the stall followed by a concentrated jet of red fire. For the most part, her attacked worked in her favour with the eye sometimes running into the stream but then her next problem surfaced; the stream of fire was draining her magic quickly along with the two bolts of lightning earlier, which consumed a large pool of her magic.
She ducked her head just in time to avoid the eye from completely taking of her entire head and torso, after successfully dodging that attack she started running from roof to roof but since the fight has been going on for a while now, the number of roofs to jump on were getting scarce unless she wanted to risk jumping on the roof of a burning building which may or may not collapse upon her weight. Amber looked behind her to see the eye charging at her again with reckless abandon, destroying the roofs that she had been on a second earlier.
Using her Maiden magic, she commanded the strong winds to take her up to the air. Once she was up she turned to face the charging monster and called upon another lightning strike, while that skies were waiting for her go, she pointed her staff at the monster again fired a gout of fire, as soon as the fire licked the eye, lightning also struck. She smirked when she noticed the monster gutturally yelp in pain. Unfortunately for her though, the monster pushed past the pain once more and charged at Amber with a burst of speed. Amber tried to avoid the attack but the drawback of using two strong magic attacks at once finally kicked in making her slightly sluggish; not enough to completely slow her down, but enough for the eye to finally score a mortal hit.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Amber's scream could be heard across the town, she lost concentration of her wind magic which made her fall to the ground with a painful thud. Aside from the pain of falling from a high place she was also experiencing the pain one could relate to when they were missing a limb. Her breathing was ragged as she looked at the stump that was once her left arm, blood gushed out from the open wound like a water fountain. Amber heard a loud roar from above making her look up and also temporarily forgetting the fact that she just lost her arm, she could see that damned eye gloating at her while it chews on her arm.
Its front teeth turned to face her again, its jaws opening wide and shutting abruptly, it took its sweet time eating her arm which further brought fear into the Fall Maiden but at the same time she was also livid. When the monster has just finished eating her arm it shook left and right before charging at her one final time. To Amber, time seemed to run slower as the jaw opened wide for her whole body to enter. She wanted to give up then and there, fighting this monster and expecting to win was impossible. Perhaps… perhaps, she thought, that this was her punishment for mocking a god. Divine intervention from one of the gods that created the world that she lived in. She wanted to accept her final fate and just give in.
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…
"LIKE HELL I'M GOING TO DIE HERE WITHOUT TAKING YOU WITH ME!"
With her one remaining arm, she pointed it at the charging monster and conjured up all of her magic in one concentrated point. Unknown to her however, the magic that she was accessing at this point was an otherworldly magic, magic that can only be used by those that she claimed as gods: Terrarian Magic. The diamond staff fired a bright bolt that collided with the Eye of Cthulhu.
Funnily enough, that last bolt that she fired as a last hurrah was all that she needed. The Eye of Cthulhu's health went down to zero. Amber watched the Eye of Cthulhu freeze up just mere inches to her face and turn to stone, when the entire monster was finally petrified, it started crumbling down to dust. Amber gave a tired smile; she had succeeded in saving the village.
Perhaps, this time, she would be forgiven.
The sweet light at the end of the tunnel was getting brighter and brighter, she could see four figures, one she completely recognized, it was the god that has been with her.
The other three though, she didn't. One wore armour that was a bright and hot as the sun. Another wore armour that twinkled like stardust accompanying this person was a ghostly figure that seemed to be in colour with the stardust like armour. And the last one wore futuristic armour, one that not even Atlas could replicate.
As Death slowly embraced her, a set of words and numbers appeared in front of her eyes before she lost consciousness.
Amber Autumn
0.00000000001/100
0/200
0/100
Cue the Coffin Dance music because Amber just died! Also…
Amber: *Uses Maiden Powers*
Pre-Hardmode bosses: Haha that's adorable
