A/N: This chapter takes place simultaneously and directly after Chapter 9 and will focus on Kat, Martin, and a new character: Cecily Aizawa. Warning: This chapter contains mentions of rape, sexual abuse, and torture. To answer a question from the last chapter: Vergil hasn't gained Beowulf though he is able to use his demon powers to mimic it, he will eventually get the full thing.

I Do Not Own Anything, Ninja Theory and Capcom does.

Chapter 10: Uprising

30 Feet below USP Tucson, Arizona…

She could feel it all around her cell; chaos. Normally this was a good thing for demons but not in this way.

'They're getting their asses kicked.' She thought watching the magic lock on her door dissolve. Every few minutes her cell would violently shake sending a thin layer of dust and mud onto the floor.

BOOM!

"It's now or never." Anger and hope swelled in her eyes like a tornado as she channeled her demonic energy into her hands. The energy orbs looked almost like miniature meteorites cooking the air around her arms. Her eyes turned to the look waiting for the last glyph to fade giving her a chance for escape. "Five…four…three…two…one!" The last glyph faded and the rag-covered girl flew through the door propelled by her own unholy power.

She caught both her jailors completely off guard, smashing her meteor orbs into both their chests, killing them on impact. In the hail of smoke and rubble she activated her Devil Trigger. Red sparks and black tendrils covered her body until she was completely shrouded in a bubble of dark energy. When the bubble disappeared she stepped out in her accursed demon form; black armored scales covered her body, two metal wings each sprouted from both sides of her back, her arms were covered with jagged black armor that seemed to transform into coal-colored bone towards her clawed finger tips, her feet were replaced with three razor sharp talons that dug deeply into the stone floor, her already obscured face was covered by a demonic helmet that only showed four glowing red eyes and a face plat covering her entire mouth and cheeks. (A/N: If it helps think of the Alto Angelo from DMC4)

CRINK! CRINK!

Over on one balcony a squad of demon guards noticed her. "It's prisoner T-36! Call for back up now!"

"Why should we? I say we kill the bitch no-" A demonic bullet split the demon's skull in half followed by its chest being cracked open by a hail of gunfire.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Every round that left the dual .45 caliber pistols sounded like a tank shell. She held one over the other watching her gunfire tear through both the demons and the prison walls behind them. Their bodies slopped to the ground or fell off the railings into the darkness below.

"It's payback time." She growled running with both her guns blazing at her sides shooting anything that came into her sights. It didn't matter if they were prisoners (human or demon) or guards, she made sure they all dropped dead with holes in their chests or heads.

The further she went the narrower the hallways got forcing her to turn herself sideways to keep her pistols aimed in both directions. Demonic guards kept coming in and out either to detain prisoners or make a run for their lives. The girl didn't give them any mind, she hated the demons with every ounce of her being but there were bigger things than exacting her vengeance.

"Shit, we can't hold them all here!" She heard one demon scream moments before another drove its blade arm into its throat.

"Who cares idiot? This whole place is fucked! Let's just get to the surface and scramble!" This demon was larger than the rest and wielded a massive broad-axe in one hand and a double barrel shotgun in the other.

"Great idea, sad you won't live to execute it." She forced her demonic power into the barrels of both pistols causing them to turn blood red in color. The resulting blast was about the size of a cannonball with all the force of a missile, completely destroying all the demons and blowing a hole in the hallway.

"Damn baby, that's was some nice shooting!" A demon prisoner remarked coming up behind her.

BANG!

The demon fell to the ground with blood sprouting from its sizzling neck.

The next room she entered looked like what would happen if a prison riot ever was crossed with a giant-monster battle royale; bloody, chaotic, and loud. Curses sailed across the chasm along with fire balls, lightning bolts, energy balls, goo, and any other projectile attack a demon could muster.

"Perfect." She whispered tucking away her guns. She'd been holding in her blood lust for years and now she had the perfect chance, even if she barely recognized any of the devils fighting for their survival. Flexing her clawed hands demonic energy crackled between them, behind her face plate she smiled.

She lost herself within the battle, one minute she was slamming her fist into one demon and the next she was ripping the eyeballs out of another. Normally this would have appalled her but ever since her transformation she'd learned to embrace her demonic nature.

'Your bastards did this to me.' She mentally cried ripping one demon's head clean off its shoulders. A look of pure horror flashed across the faces of the other demons beside her. She enjoyed seeing that look. 'Take a good look at the monster you've created!' Putting both her hands together she let loose a beam of red energy that cut through everything in its path, mid-way through she changed the beam into an orb then chucked it watching the explosion scatter limbs and stone everywhere. Throwing back her head in laughter she watched the remaining demons try to limp away, terrified out of their minds.

"Now, now Cecily…you're breaking the rules. If you don't stop we'll have to punish you again." A deep voice boomed from overhead.

The girl, Cecily's blood, once pumping now ran as cold and silent as ice. Turning her head she saw a group of winged demons descending from above the pit; leather like armor covered their bodies, their skin was a deep shade of green with patches of blood near the arms and necks, some had melee weapons such as swords or axes, others carried guns, some had black hand bands covering their eyes, and all wore a demonic emblem somewhere on their bodies.

"You're out of your cage whore," One of them spat holding up his hand, a magic seal appeared on it. "If you don't go back we'll have to drag you back kicking and screaming."

Cecily's voice was quiet and cold. "Go ahead. Just try it."

He concentrated expecting the bindings on her to activate and force the girl to drop to the ground in pain. Nothing happened. Some of the other demons joined in manifested similar seals but still nothing happened. Confusion quickly spread through their ranks as to why they couldn't power down the empowered demonic girl they had used as their slave.

"What in hell's name is-"

Cecily flew forward propelled by both her wings and her own demonic power like a rocket. She crashed into the demon and went straight through four or five walls before slamming him into a cell wall. While the demon tried to recover its senses Cecily plunged her hand into its stomach and ripped out one of its lungs. The demon didn't even have time to give a whizzed breathe as Cecily smashed her fist against its face. Outside the tunnel she'd saw more of the demons fly forward raising their guns to fire. Before the bullets could leave the muzzles she rocketed out with her left arm out stretched and covered in demonic energy, her arm cut right through one demon leaving it in two pieces. She banked using her feet then shot forward again catching another demon against the wall.

Growling she slammed her foot right between the demon's legs crushing its testicles like grapes. "Hey guys…do you…remember any of it?" Rage began to simmer in her red eyes that homed on one of the flying demons with an eye patch.

Sensing her rage the demon made a bee-line for the crumbling ceiling of the chasm but Cecily was faster. Just like the previous times she blasted herself at the demon using him as a battering ram to go through all the stone and earth until they were in a darken cell with a dead human corpse in a corner.

"P-Please…s-sh-show mercy." The demon weakly begged as it was thrown against the wall.

Cecily's eyes practically lit with hellfire. "Mercy? You mean the same kind you gave me when you plunged your…your…thing into my mouth and I begged you to stop?" Both her right index finger and middle finger crackled with red lightning. "Sure, I'll give it to you!" She plunged both fingers deep into the demon's eyes, including its empty eye socket earning a cry of pain so loud it sounded like an elephant. "So having fun honey?" She laughed evilly digging her fingers deeper until she felt them brush up against the half-dead demon's brain. "Here comes the splatter." Between her fingers she released a spark that completely fried the fidgeting demon's brain completely.

Pulling her fingers out she began laughing at the demon's corpse.

"H-Holy shit." A male voice surprised her.

Behind the broken bars two human prisoners stood petrified after seeing her brutal kill the demon. Cecily didn't have time to consider whether to kill them or not because she felt two demons coming straight for her from below.

Using her wings she flew out of the cell just as two demons burst through the floor tearing the humans apart. They both came at Cecily with their weapons raised, she raised a shield of red energy making the weapons bounce off. A blade made of demonic energy formed from her right arm and she swung it cutting the head off one demon and severing the arm of another. The remaining demon fell back as its comrades burst through not caring about the human prisoners who stopped to stare at them in fear.

"Give up Cecily," The lead demon said. "Just go back to your cell and I promise we won't have to…punish you. I'll even stand guard at your door myself."

For answer she created an explosion of demonic energy so powerful it knocked all the flying demons into the prison wall saved for one that Cecily gut-checked into another cell. While the demon groaned Cecily straddled it so tight she could hear its hip bones snap under the pressure.

"Brings back memories huh?" She impaled all ten of her claws into the demon's chest. "Those…Friday Night gifts…do you remember them?" Demonic lightning shot into the demon's body like poison making it howl in pain. "I think it's my turn for fun don't you think?" Slowly she began to channel more lightning into the demon's body while tightening her hips in the appearance of riding the demon.

CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!

A charred corpse was all that remained when Cecily sensed an axe heading straight for her next. The axe cut through the demon's body forcing Cecily to back out into the open where she felt a barrage of fireballs pelt her to the ground. For the first time her body ached all over, the pain was faded quickly enough but not before one of the demons had slammed down into her, straddling her in a position she knew all too well.

Leaning in low enough for her to smell its disgusting breathe Cecily winced. "You stupid little whore!" The demon grabbed her neck to make sure they were looking each other in the eye. "Every night we showed you pleasures very few humans has had the privilege to. That night I…you spat at me!" He slapped her across the face in anger. "You pathetic bitch, you otta be grateful I decided share my promotion with you!"

"Brother please calm down," One of the other demons chuckled while digging its clawed hands into the chest of a screaming human prisoner. "We all know how much you value your pride but let's face it; you stink when it comes to love making."

"Those ugly-ass toads were better than you." Cecily spat remembering when the masters of the frozen soil…visited her with anger.

"Is that so whore?" He tightened his grasp on her throat. "Then please give me a second chance, I promise you I'll make it much rougher this time." His arm morphed into a demonic drill that began spinning at rapid speed. "Now…open up and take your punishment like that good little bitch we've all come to love!"

Cecily's rage boiled over at making her Devil Trigger explode with demonic power. Her hands caught the drill before it could reach her face and crushed it. The situation quickly turned as Cecily's aura blew back all the other demons but only burned some of the skin off the one she had in a choke hold.

CRINK! CRINK!

The face plates covering her mouth sprung open to reveal a set of sharpen teeth that could have torn through the demon's skin easily and indeed they did. Slamming him up against the wall Cecily proceeded to drive her fists deeply into the demon's gut, every blow a rib crack or an organ rupturing was heard. "You said you liked it rough? Guess what; I like it rough too now!" She sped up her blows creating cracks all over the cell due to the superhuman pressure of her attacks. "Remember when you forced me into that stupid bunny outfit?" Her fist finally went straight through the demon's gut silencing it forever.

Her next target was fleeing down the tunnel she'd made fearful of her wrath. "Oh no we're not leaving so soon are we?" In one wing beat she brought her knee directly into the demon's face, knocking him onto a platform that stood overlooking the abyss Cecily had escaped from. "You're the one who liked the maid outfits right?"

The demon tried to scramble away but couldn't due to its broken wings and legs. Out of the corner of her eyes Cecily eyed a set of broken cell bars and broke into a devilish smile. "This really isn't a good day for you fuckers is it?" In her hands demonic energy morphed the broken rod into a sharpened spear that seemed to hum with killing intent.

Realizing what she was planning the guard demon screamed in protest. "PLEASE DON'T! I'M SORRY! I WAS JUST FOLLOWING THE OTHERS, I DIDN'T MEAN ANY OF IT!"

To Cecily it was all just meaningless noise. "You…you raped me five times, one of them you said I ought to be proud if I ended up carrying you're…your…" After rolling the wailing demon over on its backside she rammed the spear right in between its ass cheeks and continued driving the spear deeper. "HERE'S YOUR MERCY!"

She lost track of how long she tortured the rapist or how she killed every other living thing that tried to come near her. The only thing that pulled her away from her retribution was the low rumbling from abyss along with the blinding light that light up the chasm. Pushing the mangled corpse aside she watched waves of energy shift and churn forming a whirlpool that seemed to rock the entire prison.

"Time to go I guess." She kicked the corpse off the ledge into the whirlpool, it was torn to pieces by the waves of energy. As she flew she saw the last guard demon try to make its escape. 'On second thought maybe one more won't hurt.'

Surprisingly he sensed her incoming attack and knocked her back into the wall. "Even with this whole place collapsing you still want to kill me?" He asked baffled.

Picking herself up Cecily answered back with hatred oozing in her voice. "When you see your rapists for ten years leave themselves wide open you tend to take the chance for payback. Besides you guys taught me if you see an opening take it." A black medallion appeared in her right hand glowing with red demonic power. "Scelestus, Mode X." The medallion morphed into a jet black one-sided broadsword with an upside down cross for a guard, a motorcycle-like handle, and set of blacken metal feathers on the other end of the guard. She revved up the handle causing a small jet of flames to shot from the guard and the blade glow red like flames.

Their swords slashed against each other in the fading darkness, every strike sending sparks raining down. The guard demon had experience but in the face of Cecily's fury his blows began to pounce off while her sword swipes began to draw blood. After parrying an upward slash she thrust her demonic sword into his left shoulder all the way through. Before the demon could scream she gave a swift uppercut, sending him crashing through into a fleeing human prisoner.

While the guard was dazed he was able to respond fast enough to avoid Cecily's sword cutting him in half though she did end up cutting off his left arm at the shoulder. "Damn it what do you want from me!"

Tears poured from her eyes as she swung her sword across the demon's chest spraying blood all over her face-helmet. "I want my virginity back! I want my humanity back! My childhood! I want all the things you fucking assholes took from me!" Black and red energy wrapped around the sword just as Cecily brought it down on top of the demon's sword, breaking through it severing all his right wings.

Helplessly the demon fell to the cracked ground with the vengeful girl he'd sexually abused for so long hovering over him like an angel of vengeance. Desperately he tried to crawl over to a hole he knew lead back down into the abyss where the energy melt-down was happening, it would be better than the fury he knew was coming for him. Sadly just when he felt his hands touch the corners he was yanked back by a set of hot metal hands and slammed flat on the ground.

A sharpened knife manifested in Cecily's hand as she stopped on the wounded chest of the demon. "I've been waiting for this for too long." That was all she said before she rammed the knife into the demon's chest repeatedly, laughing at the demon's futile attempts to stop her. She stabbed him somewhere between twelve and twenty-five times before she got bored and just sliced his chest open to pull out the slow beating heart of the demon.

"…Cecily…I…beg…please…" His voice came out more as a hollow whisper but to Cecily it sounded like herself when she was held down and gang-raped.

"…What goes around comes around." Cecily stabbed the heart, nearly tearing it in half with all the force she forced into her hand. Standing up her Devil Trigger began to fade slowly but ignored it. Spreading out her wings she flew upward past the various corpses and battles.

Her flight ended when she saw came to the front desk of what she knew as the front part of the Tucson Prison office. Before she could take one step towards the door she sensed a familiar presence behind her. Fire balls manifested in both her hands as she spun around. "Forneus…I was hoping I'd get to at least cut one of your limbs off."

The demon that Cecily had known all her life was in his human form; outwardly handsome with slicked back brown hair, dark green eyes she knew weren't to be trusted, a pin-strapped suit, and a blue skull shaped ring on both middle fingers. At the disguised demon's side stood a few pissed off looking demons with blood pouring from various wounds or missing an entire arm or leg.

"Cecily I know you're probably getting some crazy ideas from all this…commotion but as your boss I'm going to have to ask you to remain calm, it's for your own safety." His voice was calm, steady and warming.

If Cecily had still been so blind, still human, she would have believed his words despite the mass of demonic beings all waiting patiently behind him. Forneus was that kind of demon; the kind that looked sweet, spoke with the passion and kindness of a saint, but behind the illusion was just like most other demons; vile and completely self-serving.

"What's going on out there?" Cecily was still mostly covered by her Devil Trigger's armor but with the armor fading her torn prison clothing could be seen. "I notice how I'm not in Limbo anymore so did something happen?"

"Unfortunately my beautiful doll, lord Mundus is dead and Limbo is collapsing into the human world." Anger flashed in his eyes but Forneus concealed it with false kindness. "I can take you out of here, help you find your pare-"

Cecily's enhanced bullets didn't kill him but they did knock him flat on his ass into the arms of his guards. As much as she wanted to stay and rip apart every demon in the prison she knew her freedom was a few steps away so she took it. "Next time I see you, I'm going to make you suffer, remember that!" Her Devil Trigger finally faded away (expect for her wings which just turned into darkened bird wings) revealing her face; short-cut blond hair that seemed so pale it could have passed for white and cold blue eyes that burrowed into the crowd of demons with enough hatred to melt a glacier.

Taking a running start she dodged the bullets ad blasts the demons threw at her never stopping in her quest to burst through the doors. Bright light assaulted her eyes but it was welcomed compared to the dim darkness she was used to. Spreading her wings Cecily sailed higher into the sky far away from the prison she'd practically grown-up.

Back inside Forneus rose back up in pain due to the bullets that penetrated his chest. At his side his second in command, Ferris helped him back-up. "Sorry boss but the shockwaves are going to rip the whole state apart."

"You mean Arizona's about to be wiped off the map?" He asked sensing the tremors rocking the federal prison.

"No boss," Ferris responded creating a map of the United States with a large crack starting in Arizona and ending in Louisiana of all places. "I mean the country's about to get a small but new fault line with everything close to it being demolished."

Rubbing his forehead the demon lord called for one of his warriors to bring him something ti drink, he vanished in a flash of light. "When Sparda said one day all of demon kind would get its bitch-slapping I didn't believe it. Now it looks like he might have attained clairvoyance." The demon reappeared holding a bottle of Russian vodka Forneus snatched and began drinking. "Okay Ferris, tell me who's dead and whose dying that I should know off."

In between Ferris's hands a crystal-like orb appeared showing an image of two smoking corpses of what… looked like were once toads impaled on top of one another on a radio tower. "Bael and Dagon are dead as you can see. Boss…it wasn't pretty."

Forneus's eyes twitched slightly at the sight of the two charred bodies of the ice demons he'd often employed. "Dead? Ferris they look like they were roasted by lightning! Who did the bastards in? Some chick with blond hair and lightning powers?"

Ferris shook his head changing the scene to Kyoto Japan where a bluish-yellow blur moved through the roof-tops killing demons in mass. "Not quite sir, it was a girl, a half-angel wielding a chain-scythe. She uh…cooked them good."

"Who else?"

"Argosax has been killed in London by a confirmed angel of death."

"Which one? Azazel? Samael?"

"Neither, some teenager just like with toad red and toad blue. Nevan's been defeated as well."

"Ah damn not her too." He downed the rest of the bottle. "She was one of the best partners a demon could have asked for."

"Actually boss she hasn't been killed, she just got her pretty ass kicked." Ferris said surprising Forneus before continuing. "Mammon's been killed as well, Raphael's kicked Berial's ass so bad he's had to cut a deal with Agares to escape the angels dragging his ass to the chamber. Baul and Modeus have cut all ties and gone rogue. Belphegor managed to make off with a few valuable items while he's left Vassago to be canned." Ferris continued listing names and events while Forneus summoned a cigar to take a smoke. "…And Hyperion's been sent after Sparda's boys."

Forneus nearly coughed on the smoke. "He's been what? Fuck!"

"Boss, if Bune gets the Nephilim we're screwed aren't we?" Ferris asked getting an annoyed look in his eyes.

"Yeah we will be but remember these are Sparda's brats." He took the cigar back into his mouth then waved his hand casually. The entire front part of the building blew away as if blown off by a tornado. "As much as it sucks to say this looks like Sparda was right," Forneus blew a puff of smoke looking at the clear skies. "He did get the last laugh on us after all."

Dante and Vergil stared at the fuzzy black disc that appeared before them.

"What the hell?" Dante asked about to poke it.

A second later Kat's fuzzy image appeared in the 'window' along with a boy with brown hair and golden-silted eyes.

"Dante! Vergil!" Kat's cried happily.

"Kat!" Both brothers said surprised.

The boy next to her babbled something in German before looking at the two of them with something of a sheepish smile. "Um…hello."

"I take it you're Martin?" Vergil asked noticing the German's obvious demonic nature.

"Ja, Martin Oberth. I uh…heard about you." It was clear he had no idea what to see but to Vergil that didn't matter.

"Kat what's going on up there? We've been seeing demon souls falling like rain down here." The youngest twin asked.

"Angels, after Limbo collapsed into the real world they came down and have started killing every demon in sight." Kat's answered surprised Vergil.

"Angels? How many a few hundred?"

"Try what looks like most of Heaven."

Before Vergil could answer Dante stepped in. "Kat are you alright? Are you hurt?" Concern was evident in his voice.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She gave him a small smile. "I'm glad to see both of you are…both of you are alright." Her smile faded replaced by a grim look the Nephilim knew meant bad news was coming. "Guys the barrier separating the supernatural world and the normal world…it's coming down."

"Is that bad?" Dante asked.

To answer his question Kat held up her hand and a fire ball appeared and the mark on her forehead glowed a faint blue color.

Vergil's quietness turned all three toward the white-haired youth. His face displayed the look of man currently trying to strategizing his next move like a chess player. "What's been the immediate affects?"

"All my senses have been increased beyond anything I thought possible. I didn't even know I could do some of this stuff." Kat played with the fireball in her hands, re-shaped into a star, dispersed it, created an orb of light then transformed it into ice. "I can sense almost everything, my field of vision, Vergil everywhere anyone who can fight is rising up and-"

"Demons are getting their asses kicked all over the world." Martin finished for her. "Basically shit is getting fucked up world-wide."

Upon hearing this Dante gave his brother a pat on the back. "Well I'd say we did it bro'. No more demon-controlled humanity."

The window stretched and warped like a pool of water being shaken.

"T-There's an earthquake ripping through the mid-west. It's being caused by the merging and that's not the only thing that's been altering, there's a snowstorm blowing through India, and Africa practically becoming a battlefield between the four seasons."

"Kat how can you sense things that far away?" Vergil asked bewildered. Kat had always been a strong medium but he never thought her abilities would grow to such a level.

Her forehead mark glowed even brighter illuminating the edges of the window. "Vergil with all the power overflowing into the world if I focus I can see and hear everything happening on the other side of the world. It's…it's unbelievable."

"Okay I Kat, I'm happy for ya but can you pull us out of here? I'm tired of running into evil albinos and really need a strawberry sundae after all this crap." Dante impatiently asked.

"Uh yeah Dante about that…we don't even know how to…" Kat's eyes moved back and forth between the twins uneasily.

"I can open a window for you two to go through." Martin spoke turning all attention on him. "I can see you two down there, I can see all the demons coming for you guys."

"How can you get us out?" Vergil asked.

"My windows, if I can get a lock on both of you and you can get to a place where that world and Earth on linked I can open a portal and pull both of you out." Martin explained.

"Why the hell are you helping us anyway?" Dante suddenly questioned still unsure of the boy.

He could tell Martin was visible unnerved but he had to know why he was doing all this.

"Because…it seemed like the right thing to do at the time and my vater asked me to seek out the sons of Sparda."

"Your what?"

"His father, okay we can talk about this later Kat can you sense a place we can do all this." Vergil asked his best friend.

A dark look came over her gray-green eyes making the boys slightly uneasy. "Y-Yeah, I've been sensing a lot of wired fluxes coming from your old home; Paradise."

At the mention of their childhood home the twin Nephilim faced each other with unreadable expressions.

"Seems like we're being fucked with huh?" Dante said crossing both hands over his chest.

Vergil simply nodded his head in agreement. "Okay Kat, Martin we'll be waiting for you at Paradise. Martin…" His gray-blue eyes locked with Martin's demonic gold eyes. "Protect her, verstehen?"

For a few seconds Martin seemed shocked but soon a determined look formed in his slit irises. "Mit meinem Leben."

The window slowly began to fade away into darkness leaving Dante and Vergil alone in the snow landscape.

"Are you sure we can trust that guy?" Dante asked looking at his twin with curiosity.

"Honestly; I don't know but we're just going to have to take a chance. Besides if Kat trusts him then that should count for something right?"

"Fine but answer me this; how do you know how to speak German?"

"I took a few foreign language classes when I was a kid and in school, I know about ten different human languages including Russian, Japanese, German, Spanish, and Latin just to name a few. Oh and don't worry, I don't think he's gonna try to put the moves on Kat." The blush on his brother's cheeks brought a smile to Vergil's face.

"I think I liked you better when you were still pissed off at me." He grumbled kicking the snow. ""How do we get out of here?"

"Like this." Vergil closed his eyes and focused his reassembled mind. 'Okay, I've learned my lesson, now it's time to go home.'

An oak-wood door appeared completely out of nowhere before the brothers. Shooting his brother a cheesy grin Dante rushed through the door first with Vergil in tow.

This isn't over ya' know. We're just getting started.

Vergil hesitated before stepping through the door leaving the snow covered landscape completely empty once more.

After the window disappeared Martin fixed Kat with a worried look. "How do we know they'll be able to make it to the mansion? They've got a lot of heat on their tail."

For the first time Martin noticed the brightness of Kat's smile. "They'll make it Martin, all we have to do is our part here."

CRASH!

Wasting no time both youths sprinted outside to see a horde of demons banging against the barrier Kat had created. Despite the cracks forming in the barrier most of the demons that touched it burst into flames moments after racking their claws across it.

"It's not going to hold for much longer." Kat realized fearful but looked down at her glowing palms. The currents of magical energy were still all around her meaning she could caste spells without limit. 'Or at least until I pass out.' "Martin, can you create those discs just like before?"

A Halbierende appeared in both Martin's heads. "I can throw them like boomerangs if it helps."

"Okay that'll work but can you create more than two?" Lightning now crackled between Kat's fingers exciting her and scaring her a little bit.

Martin multiplied his discs to four. "You got a plan?"

Through the horde Kat was able to see a mostly in tact of all things was a Bugatti Veyron with its driver lying dead just a few feet from the door.

"My favorite sports car in the middle of the apocalypse, it's like dream come true." Martin chuckled seeing the vehicle.

"On my say throw two of those things then once we're half-way through throw the other two, anything else let me handle it." The confidence in Kat's voice was iron.

The second layer of the barrier shattered and all the demons surged forward to break down the last one.

"NOW!"

Two of the four Halbierende cut clean paths through the masses then exploded into black orbs killing any demon that happened to be caught in them. Kat shot both her hands forward dismantling the last barrier but using its diamond-shaped pieces as battering rams. Both youths broke off into mad sprints with Martin waving both his chakrams in circular patterns as Kat blasted any demon that came to close with lightning. They were about ten feet from the car when a Ravager dodged one of Kat's lightning bolts and swung its chainsaw at her neck. Martin moved with inhuman speed towards her throwing one of his Halbierende at the incoming attack. The chainsaw vanished in a black globe leaving the demon open. Martin dug his remaining ring blade deep into its gut, killing it.

The lightning crackling in between Kat's fingers disappeared and in its place was a transparent blue orb that quickly expanded until Kat and Martin were standing inside a miniature barrier.

Moments before being able to grasp the keys in the dead driver's hands a powerful torrent of lightning smashed into Kat's force knocking both her and Martin back ten feet. Towering over them was a nine-foot tall hulking, black and green demon with no visible eyes on its face, just a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. An orb of dark lightening sparked in both of its clawed hands and only grew stronger with each step it took towards Kat and Martin.

"I knew it couldn't be easy." Martin's voice carried a slight echo and the golden glow in his eyes glowed brighter.

When the demon hurled a mass of lightning bolts at them Martin summoned portal, the lighting vanished into the darkness then reemerged directly above an oncoming wave of demons, frying all of them on the spot. The mark on Kat's forehead glowed as she slammed her palms into the ground causing a mountain of dirt to cover the demon's legs. It bucked and roared but with all the magic flowing in the air Kat was able to engulf the demon in an entire coffin of rock.

While the rest of the demons stood somewhat stunned the two quickly dashed towards the corpse, grabbed the keys then jumped into the Veyron. Marin hit the gas without even waiting for Kat to put on her seat-belt nearly knocking her into him. Back in front of the bar the demon broke free of its confinement and began chasing after the two, surprisingly keeping up with the sports car.

Kat peeked out of her window holding up her palm, two fireballs shot from her hand hitting the demon in the face but not stopping it. More demons began to join it forming a sick parade of devils chasing them.

SWOOSH!

Suddenly blood splayed from the forehead of the lead demon then the necks of several others as their heads hit the streets with shocked expressions.

"The hell?" Martin asked looking through his side-view mirror.

"It's the raven…" Kat caught one of the feathers the odd bird left as it flew through the crowd of demons.

Everywhere the raven went demons fell to the ground in severed pieces. The demons tried helplessly to kill the bird but with its small form and speed all they could hit was each other. In less than a minute all the demons were dead with only the one from before still standing. It roared loudly then took a swipe at the raven, all it hit was air. The raven rode the car before flying directly at the demon with speed that seemed impossible for a natural animal.

THUMP!

The raven flew through the demon's body leaving a two-foot wide hole in its abdomen. It staggered for a few more seconds then hit the ground with a loud thud. As they continued driving the raven flew right up to Kat and she could have sworn it winked at her before taking back to the skies.

"This has been a very odd day." Martin dead-pined stopping due to a ground spike that blocked the road. "Kat do you know how to get to this place, Paradise?"

"Yeah I do. Just follow my directions." Among the many trails of energy Kat noticed one in particular caught her sight; a purple trail that seemed to be made of both fire and lightning. "And try not to hit anything."

"Oh trust me, that won't be a problem." His grin was slightly unnerving.

Phineas watched the car speed off through the upturned street with a smile on his face. Using his power he made sure to remove most of the debris from their path giving them a mostly clear path through the city.

'Hey Phineas, can you hear me?'

"Ah Cecily," A smile graced the demon's face. "So glad to hear the sound of your voice. How's freedom taste?"

Translations:

Scelestus-Latin for wicked, accursed, or infamous

Vater-German for father

Verstehen-German for understand

Mit meinem Leben-German for with my life

Really just what big chapter of hints and teases. By the way there's all three chapters left for this story. Thank you, True Hyper Sonic for giving this story its second review and MetaSquid for following this story.