XV

"Son of a bitch…" Noriko grunted as a cut tore into her flesh as hundreds of monsters clamped down on her like a colony of ants on a dead animal. Tossing the icy blade up in the air, Noriko tighten her grip on the fiery sword borrowing its power and in turn igniting herself into blazing flame. Purging all that had attached to her, she's a burning giant wolf and with a single swung from her sword, flames licked the monsters and undead alike.

"You… have… no… idea…" Hannah grunted as she struck her weapon down at Baldur's sword. With each stroke, Baldur felt like his weapon moaned in pain like it will shatter at any moment. "How angry… I am… right… now!" she finished and struck his sword with her guan dao for the last time, shattering it into a million pieces.

"Foolish child, did you forget who you're dealing with? No weapons could kill me," Baldur replied smugly as he summoned a huge glaive and started the attack upon Hannah. "Then I will kill you with my bare hands!" Noriko roared as her fist collided with Baldur's weapon instantly melted it. "Sachiko, watch my back," Noriko said as Baldur summoned another weapon to attack her.

"Don't worry, we got you…" Yumi and Shimako said in unison as both leaping out from nowhere. Yumi stomped on the ground and quickly the earth covered her up turning her into an earth golem, while Shimako got into her fluid fighting stance and Sachiko would gape at them but the waves of enemies just wouldn't stop coming. Shimako fought with grace, Sachiko cut down her enemies with her weapon, and Yumi crushed her enemies with her earth covered hands while Hannah froze her enemies with her guan dao.

With a ear splitting howl, Noriko changed from a flaming wolf into a crystallized wolf that Baldur's weapon bounced right off of her no matter how hard he tried to hit her with his weapon. Her ear cuff was missing and Hannah was the only person to take notice of such small detail, but Noriko didn't care about it since right now her target would be the rip Baldur to shreds for being an ungrateful arrogant bastard. Her anger continued to climb and it started to cloud Noriko's judgment and she was consumed by hatred so much that she drove Baldur back to the point he had to turn tail and run back to his brother. While the other three wiped out the rest of the armies left behind by Baldur's hasty retreat, Yumi was the first to notice that Noriko still haven't turned back to her human form but instead she went and clipped the roof of the house.

MgM

"Looks like they passed the test," Hel said taking a sip of the spring water. "Shall I stop them or do you want your daughter to do it?" Dante asked looking out at the vast darkness outside. "Stop them, neither of them could control the full extent of their power," Hel said. "As you wish," Dante said bowing slightly at the ruler of Hel and vanished as though she was never there in the first place.

Back at the house, Hannah was sent smashed into the house, Sachiko leave an imprint of herself on the large tree nearby, Yumi crushed into the ground under Noriko's paw, and Shimako dangling from Noriko's hand that held onto her head like she's a ragged doll. Growling and drooling, Noriko's eyes but the color of whiteness as she was consumed by madness and Yumi even with the earth as her armor she's slowly feeling the pressure building up into a crushing weight. Grunting, Yumi could only hope for some kind of miracle to happen, because there's no way she could reach for her ear to remove the ear cuff without being crush to death first.

"How many times have I told you to never take it off?" a muffled voice asked, maybe it sounded muffle because Yumi was trapped between her cousin giant paw/foot and the earth. "I'm not going easy on you this time Noriko," there was a hint of anger within that voice, it sounded so familiar to Yumi but she couldn't tell who it was from until finally she could breathe again. With a booming sound, Yumi sat straight up and looked around her, her cousin's head stuck in the ground with a pile of dirt over it while her feet pointed upward into the sky above.

"Sensei, I can take care of her…" Yumi grunted as she got up and to her surprise Sachiko and Hannah sat next to each other silently watching with wounds and scrapes fresh on their body still. "No, I don't need another berserk demi," Dante replied hold Shimako in her arms who all but fainted sometimes ago.

"Grrrr…" Noriko flipped and shook her head and clear herself of the dirt while growling at Dante. "I will take you down without the need to use my hands," Dante said in return baring her sharp canine fangs at Noriko. True to her words, every attack Noriko made, Dante blocked it with the uses of her foot. Every time she kicked at Noriko, Yumi could've sworn she saw black waves moving outward from Dante's foot hitting Noriko with powerful impact. Yumi could tell that this isn't a truly serious Ito Dante, but someone who was just trying to knock her cousin out to put the ear cuff back on to contain the demi's full power. Well, at least that's what Yumi hoped for and not thinking about her teacher going after her cousin's life.

Grabbing onto the biggest boulder Noriko could find, she lifted it up and tossed at Dante. "Child's play," Dante said as she stomped the ground with her right foot, causing the earth to tremor and a sharp earth spike shot out from the ground piercing the boulder stopping it in its track completely. "Let me show you how it's done!" Dante said as she leaped up and landed onto the same spot with such an impact that it created a crater around her and pieces of the ground itself flew upward and remain suspended in the air surrounding her. Effortlessly, she started the kick the small rocks straight at Noriko, who the attempted to block and countered it were fruitless. Dante continued her attack, and when the rocks started to run low, she stomped one of her feet onto the ground to summoned more rocks. Noriko could only focused on crushing all the rocks coming her way until something unexpected hit her so hard that for a moment her vision went black on her.

When her vision returned to her, Noriko realized she's lying in a huge crater in her human form with her clothes all torn up and Dante floating a few inches above her feet looking down at her. "You all did a great job and beating back Baldur," Dante started and paused as Shimako roused. "And I am very proud of all of you," she paused yet again narrowing her eyes on Noriko as the girl clumsily got up on her feet. "But you, Noriko who let anger clouded her judgment, will be punish for having disobeying my order for the second time." Dante finished and her words made the cousins shivered.

A/N: To the delite of things, my creativeness seemed to just broke this morning when I was trying to think about what happen next. Ah well, one could only wait and see. Not really, hope my classes aren't too painful to handle and woot! Persona 3 for PSP (means I will be gluing to my PSP for some times). Hope y'all enjoy~