Razico quickly burst in through a door into the infirmary room in the villa, holding Kurumu in his arms while she was twitching and gasping hoarsely while in shock. He raced her over towards a bed while nurses in the room watched with surprise at seeing the girl with a bleeding stomach and back. From the doorway Rason ran in carrying Kurumu's wings, feeling a sense of horror at holding the severed limbs in his arms like that. After him Ruby and Fang Fang ran in, with the yasha pointing to the nurses.
"Bring us clean water and towels, lots of them, right now!" he ordered out. The nurses nodded then quickly scrambled around in a panic as Ceal and Complica walked into the room, the catalyst mage looking at the wounded succubus with a dull expression while Complica was watching her with extreme worry.
"Can you help her Ceal? Can you can you can you?" she asked looking up to him. He merely nodded as he walked over to the girl who was lying on the bed, her eyes straining to remain open while she choked and coughed out blood. Yukari and Ahakon ran in behind them and over to Kurumu, all of them gathering around the girl while nurses rolled over a cart with clean water in a basin along with fresh towels.
"Hang on Kurumu, hang on, Ceal's here," Ruby said with worried eyes.
"Please hurry, she's dying," Rason pleaded as he stood by his girl's side.
"How many times must I act as your medic?" Ceal asked flatly as he examined the wounded girl.
"Just heal her with your magic, please!" Yukari cried out.
From the doorway Sun and Ran walked in helping Dark by the shoulders, the demon looking down with a strained expression while his arm and leg were burnt and his clothing was singed. He pulled his arms free and waved the girls off, slowly walking over and sitting down on a chair while he kept his eyes locked downward. Sun and Ran looked to each other then over to Kurumu as Arial ran into the room and over to Dark.
"Dark? Are you ok?" she asked worriedly. He glanced to her, remaining silent as his breathing was slightly strained. After a moment he just looked down again, his arm twitching slightly as he remained quiet.
"Is she going to be ok?" Razico asked looking to Ceal.
"Please Ceal, please help her," Complica whimpered. Ceal rolled his eyes then held his reptilian hand to Kurumu's stomach. Kurumu shakily looked over to him as he glanced to her.
"Can't… breathe…" she coughed out.
"Don't speak," he said simply as his hand started to glow with a black hue. The group, except for Arial who was watching Dark with worried eyes while he was looking down with a distant gaze, watched as small wisps of light swirled around Kurumu's body. Slowly her ribs started to crack and snap back into place while her flesh and bones reformed. He moved his hand slightly as the open wound below his palm started closing up gradually; the group watching with wonder as Kurumu slowly stopped shaking while continuing to look at Ceal with a strained expression. Slowly her stomach's wound began to close up, the girl feeling a strange numbing sensation washing over her injury in waves while she still felt extreme pain from her back.
"Kurumu," Rason said softly with growing relief.
"Thank you Ceal, thank you so much," Ruby said gratefully.
"Where is Complica's other sister?" Ceal asked as he continued to work on rebuilding Kurumu's internal body. Complica looked around at the others as they exchanged worried glances. Ceal looked to them with narrowed eyes.
"I said, where is Complica's other sister?" he demanded.
"Were you able to retrieve her and Felucia from that other demon?" Fang Fang asked.
"Where is she, is she ok?" Complica asked urgently. Ruby's group looked to her with concern then to Kurumu.
"We had to break off from the chase after something else wounded Kurumu. She killed the monster that took away Luna and Felucia… then something else came after them from above. Something really big. Really really big," Ahakon said worriedly.
"It took down Kurumu without any trouble, even with all her demonic strength it… critically injured her like she was nothing. It flew off with Luna and Felucia in its grasp towards the nearby human city. The others chased after it while we brought Kurumu back to help her, we don't know what's happened to them since," Ruby explained.
"They still have my sister? You have to get her back! Please!" Complica cried out.
"The others are after her right now Complica, Gabriel included. They won't let those things take her away, I promise," Ruby assured gently, looking to the young chronofly. Fang Fang looked to the door then pointed to it while turning his sights onto a nearby nurse.
"You, please hurry and fetch us a TV, now!" he ordered. The woman nodded then ran out of the room quickly. Fang Fang proceeded to wet a towel with the clean water then used it to wipe the blood from Kurumu's mouth and cheeks.
"If that monster you spoke of is heading towards a human city, I believe we'll catch a sight of it on the human news networks," he said as Kurumu cringed and let out a hoarse cry as her shoulders twitched from the pain. She slowly looked over to Rason as he stood by her side, the angel holding her wings and watching her with worried eyes.
"Just hang on Kurumu, you're going to be ok," he said gently.
"Rason… go… after her… go…" Kurumu strained out while her arm flinched.
"I'm not leaving your side Kurumu, I'm staying right here with you," he said shaking his head.
"You're… her angel… too. She… needs… you…" Kurumu said quietly. Rason showed a remorseful expression and shook his head slowly.
"I'm your angel Kurumu, I'm not going to leave you here like this," he said gently.
"What does she mean you're her angel?" Complica asked looking at Rason.
"Rason is the one that saved your sister's life here on earth before Complica, she's always called Rason her angel because he guarded her from danger," Ruby explained gently. Rason nodded then looked down with remorse as Ceal glanced to him.
"Looks like you failed in being her guardian this time angel," Ceal said shaking his head.
"Hey, we tried to save her, and the others are still going after her as we speak," Ruby shot back at him.
"It only took two of us, myself and the yasha with his over destructive pet, to bring down one of those flying beings, yet with all of you chasing after one you failed in retrieving Complica's sister. Had I known that you wouldn't have been able to handle the situation I would have gone after her instead, at least then I would have gotten the job done," Ceal said coldly to the witch.
"You speak as if we've failed, Moka and the others are still going after Luna; they won't let her fall back into that dark monster's hands!" Ruby snapped back. Complica started whimpering then clung to Ceal's side, crying into his shirt as he looked down to her. Kurumu slowly looked down to the girl while Ceal continued to work his magic on her body.
"Please… don't let my sister be taken back into that place, please," Complica cried as she held onto Ceal.
"We won't Complica, Moka and the others won't let her go," Razico assured gently. Complica whimpered then looked to Kurumu, the succubus giving her a small smile while a few tears of pain came out of her eyes.
"The second… I'm able to move again, I'm… going back out there… I won't let Luna be taken… away again," she said with a few deep breaths. Complica sniffled then looked up to Ceal, the mage looking down at her then to Kurumu's injury.
"You're not going anywhere for a while succubus, you're lucky to be alive still," he said shaking his head. Kurumu looked to him worriedly then down at her wound with a painful cringe.
"We need to get back out there, we have to go after the others. They were heading in the direction of the human city, we should get going before they fly any further away," Yukari said looking to Ruby.
"What about them?" Ahakon asked looking to Kurumu then to Dark. Arial kept watching Dark with watery eyes as he remained silent while looking down.
"Dark? Are you ok?" Ruby asked. The demon didn't reply, his eyes continuing to stare down at the ground while he showed a slightly strained expression. Arial whimpered and held a hand out onto his.
"Dark… please… I…" she said shakily. Dark trembled slightly then glanced away, avoiding eye contact with the group.
"Dark?" Ahakon asked.
"Dark? Please… say something to me," Arial said budging the demon's hand. Dark continued to remain silent while looking away from the group, seeming to be in a daze as he didn't focus on anything.
"What's wrong with him?" Razico asked.
Before anyone could speak a nurse and guard ran in, rolling a TV on a cart into the room. They brought it over to the side and turned it on, with the group looking to it as Fang Fang quickly cycled through the channels. After a few clicks it turned to a station that showed a reporter talking franticly into the camera as the view showed people screaming and cars driving through a city street in a panic.
"We're coming to you live from the scene-" the man started before the video cut to static, with the group watching carefully before the feed restored to showing a blurred image of debris crashing down with what sounded like thunderous booms before the video cut out again.
"Ok… let's see if there's another news channel," Fang Fang said as he started cycling the channels again.
"Oh no, they must have made it into the city," Ruby said looking over to Razico.
"Great, as if they didn't hate us enough as it is," the warlock said shaking his head.
"Did they free my sister? What happened to her?" Complica asked urgently.
Fang Fang switched to another channel to show a female reporter standing near a news van, looking around in the air with an open mouth and wide eyes.
"Oh… my… god…" she said as she turned pale while the screams of people were heard all around. The video moved around then aimed up towards the sky, with the group watching with widening eyes as they saw a monster soaring over the city, the view of the beast only seen between the buildings above them without making out the monster in its entirety.
"What the hell is that?" Fang Fang said shaking his head.
"We told you, it's big. Very big," Ahakon said nervously.
"That thing was about as big as Alucard, not even Kurumu could damage it with all her demonic strength," Rason said while looking at the news report. The video showed the colossus moving about above the city, the cameraman trying to a get a good shot of it before a crowd of fleeing humans trampled through and knocked the man and woman down onto the ground. The video cut to static as the group stared at the TV.
"Well… third time's the charm," Fang Fang said nervously as he started cycling through the channels again.
"That thing has Complica's sister?" Arial asked looking to Ruby with fearful eyes. Ruby slowly nodded as Complica started breathing heavily and crying.
"No! You have to save her, please! Somebody, you have to help her!" she cried out looking around at everybody. Ran stepped closer to the TV and watched it with a careful eye.
"What was that thing?" she asked cautiously.
The channel switched to another news report, this one coming from a male reporter near the outskirts of the city.
"It's just unbelievable to see ladies and gentleman, but it seems monsters are attacking us yet again as another monstrosity of immense size has descended upon this helpless city," the man said as the camera moved over to the side, with the group staring with wide eyes at the sight. They saw the larger towers within the middle of the city, as well as the massive colossus that was flying around the central district.
"Holy… shit," Fang Fang said with disbelief. Complica screamed and pointed to the TV.
"That thing has my sister?" she cried out.
"What the hell is that thing?" Arial asked with fearful eyes.
"A rylo," Ran said with a hand over her mouth. The group looked to her as she stared at the video.
"What's a rylo?" Razico asked.
"That's one of my old master's monsters, one of the largest flyers in his possession. They're colossus class minions, ones that are massive in size and strength. Rylos are storm demons from another world, they can generate hurricane winds and deadly lightning storms with their monster energy, they can level entire cities into rubble singlehandedly," Ran said pointing to the TV with fright. Complica screamed and held onto Ceal tightly, the catalyst mage using his magic to heal Kurumu while glancing to the TV with a cautious expression.
"Luna!" Complica cried out while shaking her head.
"That thing's huge!" Arial cried out.
"We know, we saw it up close earlier," Yukari said fearfully.
"Just what kind of world does a monster like that come from?" Ruby asked in disbelief.
"I don't know; Ren was the one who brought them to our master. He sent her and only her to that place while Rin and I were sent elsewhere. We weren't always sent together on our missions to charm more monsters for our old master, if there was a prime target for him he would sometimes send just one of us to charm as many as we could and bring them back. Ren managed to bring back about 100 of those things in one trip, I don't know if my old master ever sent her back for more," Ran said shaking her head.
"100? He has 100 of those things?" Ruby cried out. Ran looked to her with fearful eyes and nodded.
"We told you we were sent out to collect powerful and dangerous monsters and warriors for our old master; he has thousands under his control, and the colossus class minions are the most dangerous of them all," she said nervously.
"Oh god, can Moka and the others stop that thing?" Razico asked while watching the TV with worried eyes.
"If the rylo were to use his storm magic it could annihilate that entire city," Ran answered with fright.
"It won't do that, it needs to take Luna alive," Ceal said shaking his head.
"He's right, it sounds like as long as your friend is in that area the rylo won't use any of its destructive magic, it can't afford to harm her after all," Fang Fang reasoned.
"We have to go save her! Please, you can't let that thing take my sister away!" Complica cried out.
"Ran, can you uncharm the rylo? Can you free it from its magical control?" Ruby asked. Ran shook her head quickly.
"I wouldn't dare try to uncharm that thing. If Luna being there is the only thing keeping that monster from using its magic because of my master's order, then it won't care at all if Luna is there if it were to be free. It'll go on a wild rampage if I uncharm it," she said fearfully.
"Can't you charm it onto our side?" Ahakon asked.
"It would take a while for me to sing to it and charm that large of a beast. Ren only managed to do so because in their home world they're at least peaceful around their nests, she wouldn't have had to hurry then. If it were to wake up in a strange new world with humans and monsters fighting around it it'll panic and use its magic to destroy everything around it. The whole city, our friends, and Luna would all be wiped out before I could charm that thing," Ran explained.
"What do we do then, that thing's trying to steal Luna away and it's in the middle of a human city," Yukari asked gripping her hat nervously.
"Can it be killed? Can they die?" Ruby asked urgently.
"Of course they can die, all living beings can die," Ran said with a shrug.
"Well what can kill that thing, because the Lord of Hell's daughter couldn't even scratch it," Razico asked. Ran looked around at the group nervously then down as she tried to think of an answer.
"Um… well… I mean they are strong, but they're not immortal. You just need to hit it with enough force," she reasoned.
"Besides using a nuclear missile what other choices do we have to hit it with enough force?" Rason asked. Ran looked back to the TV as she thought hard about how to stop the rylo.
"I don't know… I don't know what can kill them. That's why my old master wanted them; they're destructive, mobile, and extremely strong," she said shaking her head. Complica whimpered and shook her head then looked to Rason.
"Please, you're my sister's angel aren't you? You have to go save her, you have to!" she cried out. Rason looked to her with remorse then down to the wings of his girlfriend that he was holding.
"I'm sorry Complica, I… I don't know what we can do. I won't be able to fly to them from here fast enough, and even if I could I don't know what to do to stop that thing," he said with regret. Complica started crying as Rason looked to Kurumu with saddened eyes, the succubus watching Complica cry with remorse while trying to calm her breathing as the catalyst mage continued to work on healing her body.
"But you're her angel! You're her angel, if you don't save her who will?" Complica cried out.
"YOU MONSTER!" Gabriel roared as he raced towards Rathieal, his wings and eyes giving off a burst of light as his anger pushed him past his limits. He swooped low along the street towards the dark monster, with the two behemoths next to the man snarling and gearing back with their four arms to strike at the angel. Rathieal scoffed as a dark purplish light swirled around his hand which he aimed at the angel.
"Foolish bugs," he snapped as a dark light formed around his fingers. Gabriel flew towards him before Rathieal fired out a bright blast of purple and red light, the searing bolt of energy streaking towards the angel. Moka and her group watched as Gabriel spiraled around the attack, flying forward and racing towards Rathieal as he prepared another magical attack along his other hand. Moka and her group then jumped out of the way as the bolt raced past and struck into the street, blasting into a fiery crevice that carved through the pavement away from them with purple and red flames.
"I'm going to kill you!" Gabriel yelled as he raced up to the dark being, grabbing his arm and swinging it up as the magical shot fired out. The bolt struck the behemoth to their left, searing off the two right arms of the large monster as it howled in pain and stumbled back on its four legs. Gabriel then swung Rathieal around and threw him up, holding onto the arm and being lifted up as well before the other behemoth swung down with two of its fists and smashed in the pavement where the two were just at a moment ago. Gabriel then punched Rathieal in the face, the monster recoiling slightly before grabbing the angel by the neck and throwing him around and over behind him, the boy flying over and crashing through a window into the third floor of a building.
"You filthy bug, nobody touches me and gets away with it!" Rathieal yelled as he swung his hand around, throwing out a purplish and fiery spear that flew towards the broken window. It raced in then blasted the floor into a fiery explosion. A moment later Gabriel shot out of a window off to the side with red and purple flames flaring out behind him, racing through the air as his wings glowed with a soft light. He swung at Rathieal again, missing as the dark being ducked, then grabbed the monster's scarf and swung him around by the neck. With a mighty yell Gabriel flung the monster over and into the building at the fifth floor, the dark being crashing through the window and rolling into a large office where he crashed through tables and a large oak meeting table. As Gabriel flew in after the monster with fury Moka and the others were looking around to seeing the other dark monsters that had fallen from above turning their focus onto them. The two behemoths, one which was missing two of its four arms, roared at the group while the large dark spider demon hissed at them from the other side of the street. The towering brute brought over his broadsword with a dull groan as its red eyes fixated on Moka who was carrying Luna in her arms still.
"We need to get Luna out of here, now," Mizore said looking around.
"We'll hold them off, get her out of here however you can Moka," Gin said as he looked towards the spider demon while in his werewolf form. Render phased his swords out of the magical ether then held them at the ready while glaring at the brute which stood tall in the street.
"You want that girl? Then you're gonna have to go through me!" he yelled out. Leon glanced to where Gabriel had vanished then to the behemoths as a dark purple light swirled around his hand, and then glanced to Mizore.
"I've got a few minutes before I lose focus on the magic he used, I'll fry these guys up with what I can. Go with Moka and guard your friend, I'll be able to use my fire more freely and not worry about you," he reasoned. The snow maiden glanced to him then to Moka. Kokoa growled heavily as Kou popped up into the air and poofed into a large morning star, the weapon dropping back down into the vampire's hands as she glared at the behemoths.
"I'm fireproof, I'll take these guys on with him. Go with big sis Mizore, she needs an escort now more than ever," she ordered. Mizore nodded then backed up towards her friend. Moka looked around worriedly then up as the rylo in the sky squawked loudly. People around the streets were running away in a panic as a monster standoff was taking place while another massive demon was flying around above.
"But where can I take her? I can't drive, and that thing's watching her from above, it's going to follow us," Moka said shaking her head. Render glanced to the side then back to Moka.
"Cut through the shopping center to your right; it's indoors, try to find a way to move about while out of sight through the buildings," he called out. Moka looked over towards the side to seeing a small shopping center with people screaming while running out in a panic.
"Get going now!" Kokoa yelled before she ran towards the behemoths, her skin giving off a haze as she pushed her overcharge into motion. Leon aimed his hand out and fired out a purplish and fiery spear of light towards the large demons, the two monsters roaring before charging towards the group. At the same time Gin sprinted down the street towards the spider demon, the dark monster hissing as it spit out a stream of green acid. The werewolf dodged around it with blinding speed as he glared at his foe, the green liquid striking the street and melting away the pavement quickly. Running down the same street, although not nearly as fast as the werewolf, Render raced towards the giant brute with his two swords, his eyes fixated on the dark monster with the intent to flat-out destroy the evil minion with everything he had.
"Let's go Moka!" Mizore called out as she made a dash for the shopping center. Moka nodded and took off after her, carrying Luna in her arms while the chronofly continued to have a lifeless gaze in her eyes.
Up in a towering building four figures were watching the starting battle down below. Akasha watched as a girl with long pink hair carried Luna off along with another girl, the two racing into a building while their friends began to fight the dark minions in the streets.
"Looks like they're trying to sneak Luna out of here," Felucia said as she watched the girls vanish into the building. Akasha gripped her sword and looked up at the colossus as the monster veered around slowly while remaining overhead near the chronofly's location.
"You three, go assist with their escape, I'll aid your friends down below in their struggle," she ordered, then jumped out the opening and dropped down into the air. Apoch, Astreal, and Felucia looked down with shock as the vampire fell alongside the building.
"Ms. Akasha!" Apoch and Astreal cried out. Felucia watched the woman plummet down towards the ground with surprise then looked over towards where Moka had fled. She grunted with frustration then looked to the witch sisters.
"Well you heard her, let's go after Luna," she ordered.
"I need to catch her!" Astreal cried out as she moved towards the opening with her wings arching up behind her. Felucia grabbed her hand and stopped her, the witch looking back to her with surprise.
"Trust me, I've seen that bitch in action, she's as crazy as they come and can pull off shit like that just fine," she assured firmly. Apoch and Astreal stared at her with wide eyes then down with fright.
"But… she just jumped out of the building," Apoch said shaking her head.
"We must be at least forty stories high, how is she going to survive?" Astreal asked nervously. Felucia smirked then glanced down to where Akasha was freefalling down towards the battle.
"She managed to seal away Alucard, I think she can handle jumping off of a building," she reasoned with a shrug.
Akasha raced down towards the streets below, passing by the destroyed walls and windows that had sustained damaged from the falling debris earlier. She then started running along the side of the building, holding her sword back as she raced downward towards the fight. Her boots cracked and shattered some of the glass windows as she ran down along the building, her long pink hair flowing behind her as she held her blade back and ready.
"This is for Luna!" Kokoa yelled as she jumped up with her morning star held back over her head, lunging towards a behemoth as it charged towards her. She swung down as the monster reached one of its arms over across its face, blocking the hit as her weapon's spikes dug into its flesh. The monster then swatted her mace away then punched her with another of its arms, the massive fist knocking her back into a wild tumble in the air. As she flipped around and landed back on the ground, her shoes skidding across the pavement as she used her fingers to dig into the ground and slow down, a fiery spear of purple and red flames flew past her, striking into the behemoth's shoulder and piercing through with a fiery blast. The monster howled as one of its arms was sheared off while Leon swung his hand around again, throwing another fiery spear towards the second monster that was charging him. The demon flapped its wings, launching up over the attack before flying down towards him. Before the monster could hit him Kokoa dashed by and grabbed the boy by the hand, racing past as the demon swung down and slammed two of its fists into the ground with a roar. Kokoa stopped in place then spun the mage around, with Leon launching another spear out as he was brought around in a wide arc, the fiery projectile streaking through the monster's shoulder and taking off another of its arms. It roared while stumbling back, having only one arm now while the other demon ran towards them. Leon quickly swung his other hand down in front of himself and Kokoa, setting a wild firestorm of purple and red flames onto the pavement which flared into a wild arc around the mimic mage. Kokoa watched as the flames circled past Leon while washing over her left side, searing away half her shirt and skirt while her bow in her left pigtail burned off. Her hair dropped loose on the side of her head as she held a hand over her breast while holding onto the half of her shirt that remained. Her other hand held her remains of her skirt down over her lower region while the flames flared wildly against the concrete like liquid before flowing out towards the demon. It roared as it stumbled back, with the purple and red flames flaring up onto its front side.
"Stay down!" Leon yelled as he held his other hand back, a bright purple and red light swirling around it as Kokoa watched him with wonder. The boy then swung his hand forward, launching out a very large and detailed looking spear of flames that struck through the single armed demon, searing and scorching though its chest as fire flared around and engulfed its body. The other monster roared as the flames swirled around violently in front of it, backing up cautiously as it howled in pain while the flames on the pavement flowed around wildly. The charred behemoth dropped down with a loud thud as people around were screaming and running away in a panic. Leon stood boldly while glaring at the remaining behemoth.
"One down," he said coolly.
"Yeah, and all it took was nearly stripping me naked," Kokoa shot back before looking around embarrassed. People around the streets saw a large burning corpse of a demon, another behemoth roaring while missing an arm, bright purple and red flames running along the cracked street, a boy with poofy spiked hair who had purple and red lights swirling around one of his arms, and a half naked girl who was looking around while her rear was completely exposed. Leon glanced to her then jumped and looked away with a blush.
"Sorry, wasn't my intention," he said quickly. He blinked then looked to his hand as the lights swirled around then died off. He waved his hand around then looked to the remaining behemoth carefully.
"Uh oh, out of magic," he said shaking his head. Kokoa nodded then looked towards the monster as her skin gave off a deep haze, a small flame flaring along her back.
"I'll try to take it down, the least you could do is find something for me to cover myself with," she said while trying to hide her embarrassment of dozens of humans around that could be seeing her like this.
"But what are you going to do? You couldn't even stop one earlier," Leon asked. Kokoa growled as she focused all her might on her overcharge, her skin heating up as small flames licked around her arms and thighs. She slowly lowered her hands as her tattered and scorched clothing dropped down, glaring at the demon as she felt her monster energy skyrocket.
"I'll handle it, just be ready to cover me up when I pass out, it's the least you can do after exposing me like this," she said glancing to the mage. Leon jumped then looked to her with a nervous expression.
"What? But I didn't mean to-" he said before staring at the girl with wide eyes. She looked over to him with a dull glare as flames flared around her legs and body, the mage getting a full view of the naked vampire and her figure as she raised an eyebrow at him.
"See anything you like? Maybe Astreal would like to know," she said with a bite. Leon shook his head then looked away while shutting his eyes.
"I'm not looking!" he cried out. Kokoa nodded then dashed towards the behemoth, running through the flames that were still burning along the ground as if they were nothing. Her shoes and socks seared away, her bare feet running along the ground causing smoke and steam to come off of the pavement from the heated skin. With a powerful leap which cracked the pavement below her she lunged up towards the monster, the beast swinging its arm towards her again. Kokoa swung out with a kick, her foot hitting the large fist and shattering the bones inside as she followed through, the hand and lower arm of the monster being broken and pushed aside as Kokoa spun around with her airborne attack. With a loud yell she swung around with another kick, striking the arm near the shoulder and broke the bone and crushed in the limb with a loud crack. The monster howled as it swung around with two of its other arms, the vampire landing down then grabbing the beast's tail as it whipped at her. She then dug her feet into the ground, with Leon watching with wide eyes as the young vampire then swung the behemoth around by the tail as her feet dug into the pavement from her sheer strength. Kokoa roared as she swung the giant monster around a few times before letting it go, throwing it towards an empty bus on the road which it crashed into violently. Kokoa then looked back behind her towards Leon, the boy seeing the young petite vampire standing there with flames flaring up around her legs and arms while her other pigtail came loose from its bow searing away into ash.
"Clothes, stylish, pink, now!" she ordered before running towards the monster. Leon nodded slowly then looked down as he tried to fight back his blush.
"Right, on it," he said before looking around to seeing people still screaming and running away, with a few stopping to stare at the girl who was not only naked but fighting an extremely large monster with her bare hands.
During Kokoa and Leon's fight Gin and Render were racing towards their own targets on the other end of the street, with the werewolf quickly closing the distance and leaping into a powerful punch against the spider demon's head. The dark monster hissed as it recoiled before skittering back, spitting more of its acid at the wolf. Gin dodged to the side as the stream shot past him and scorched through a parked car, the steel melting and dissolving away quickly as the werewolf ran forward and jumped up over the demon. He struck down on the monster's back as people around were scrambling away from the scene while others were cowering near the buildings off to the sides as they stared at the fights with wide eyes. The spider demon dropped to the ground as Gin struck at the head repeatedly from on top of it with his fists.
"Just stay down! Fall down! Just fall down you overgrown bastard!" Gin yelled as he kept hitting the head, the monster's scaled body taking the strikes without breaking or bruising. The demon's legs flailed around before one swung up and knocked Gin off, sending him flying into a tumble onto the road.
While Gin groaned and got up while holding his side from the powerful hit he had taken Render raced towards the giant sword wielding demon with a loud yell, the towering brute swinging back with his large broadsword before slamming it down onto the ground where Render had jumped off to the side at the last moment. The pavement shattered and broke apart as a large crevice shot out from the strike, with Render then swinging down with one of his swords and slicing across the hand of the brute. The monster yanked its sword back up while dark red blood trickled down from its hand, then swung down with its sword towards the battlemage. Render rolled to the side as the powerful strike slammed into the pavement, causing dust and loose debris to fly out from the impact. Render regained his footing then leapt towards the brute's hand, swinging down both swords and striking them into the limb. They cut down to the bone, clacking against it before the brute roared and swung down at Render with his other hand. The mage jumped over the brute's hand holding the sword, razing his swords through it before landing back down on the other side and swiping them out. He swung down again and struck at the limb above the wrist, slicing through the flesh and again clacking against the bone before stopping in place.
"That's not fair, your hand is supposed to come off!" Render yelled before he was knocked away by the bleeding hand of the monster. The large brute grabbed his sword with his other hand, yanking it out of the ground while swinging towards Render. Chunks of the pavement flew out from the ground as the battlemage raised both of his swords up to block the attack, the larger broadsword striking against them and pushing the mage back quickly as his feet skidded on the ground. As Render was spun off to the side then thrown over across the street into a car, smashing into the windshield and crushing in the front part of the roof with a painful gasp, Gin charged at the spider demon again with a feral roar.
"Like hell some giant bug is going to take me down!" Gin yelled before leaping forward and striking against one of the legs of the spider demon, breaking it in half before he grabbed onto it while passing by and yanking it off with a loud snap. The demon screeched as blue blood sprayed from his severed limb before Gin struck the pointed foot up into the demon's body like a spear. The monster screeched loudly before skittering to the side off-balance, spraying its acidic spit around as Gin kept underneath it while trying to push the limb up into the monster's body. The demon skittered quickly to the side next to a building, with people scrambling around away from it as it sprayed acid around onto the nearby parked cars and wall of the building. The monster struck around with two of its legs, smacking Gin into a tumble away from it. The werewolf rolled through a bus stop, destroying the glass windows and bench, and then collapsed down with people stumbling to the side around him. Slowly Gin got up amidst the crowd of frightened humans who stared at him with wide eyes, glaring at the spider demon as it grabbed its severed limb and yanked it out with two of its feet. The werewolf looked around at the people then to the demon.
"Get out of here now; what the hell are you doing just sitting here for? Run!" he yelled before dashing forward, the spider demon attempting to skitter to the side near the building before Gin tackled it through the wall into a jewelry store. The concrete and glass windows blasted apart as people screamed before running off in fright. Inside the store the spider hissed as it scrambled around, its large legs destroying tables and glass displays with fine jewelry in them which flew about while people inside the store scrambled out of the door in a panic. Gin punched the monster in the face before it tried to snap at him with its mandibles, the werewolf grabbing them and jerking the monster's head up before a stream of acid flew up and hit the ceiling. Gin darted under the demon as it rained acid and sizzling debris from above, racing towards the open wound in the spider and jamming his hand up into it. He thrashed his hand around as he tried to carve deeper into the monster's insides with his claws, the spider screeching as it skittered around off-balance and trying to swipe at the werewolf with its legs.
Outside in the street Render shook his head to shake off the hit then quickly rolled to the side as a large broadsword struck down and through the car. It exploded into a flaming wreck as Render rolled over onto the sidewalk with people screaming and running away. The mage got back to his feet as the giant brute geared back with his blade.
"C'mon, is that all you got?" Render taunted loudly. The brute roared and swung down with the sword, with Render leaping to the side as the large blade swung down through the flaming wreckage and pavement with a fierce strike. The two halves of the flaming car flew off to the sides as the ground shattered from the powerful hit. Render braced from the impact then ran over and jumped onto the large blade, running up along it towards the brute with his swords geared back.
"This is for that girl you raped!" he yelled before he lunged past the brute's head, his blades slicing and razing across the monster's face as he passed by. The straight edged blade carved across the cheek and diced the ear while the angular blade razed across the monster's face and struck out an eye, the brute howling in pain as it stumbled to the side before swinging its large broadsword around wildly. Render dropped down and rolled onto the street as the large sword whizzed by overhead then spun around while readying his blades. The brute roared out in anger as it glared at the battlemage with one red eye then charged towards the boy while swinging its blade around from side to side. Render darted back and avoided a swing, then jumped back into a flip as the sword swiped by again, then jumped back further before the brute slammed down with his fist onto the pavement. Render leapt back near the other side of the street as the brute roared and charged towards him while gearing back his sword with both hands.
"I'm gonna strike you down like meteor buddy, nobody's better than me with a blade!" Render yelled as he got into a fighting stance. He blinked then looked up as he heard glass breaking above him. Alongside the building he was next to he saw a figure running downward towards the street, a gleam of light coming from the sunlight against it as a powerful vampiric aura suddenly boomed from the figure.
"Who the hell is that?" Render asked with a jump.
"Who the hell is that?" Gin asked looking over towards the broken wall in the jewelry store while struggling to take down the spider demon.
"Who the hell is that?" Leon asked looking towards the sudden spike of monster energy while he was next to a broken window for a clothing department store.
"Who the hell is that?" Kokoa asked looking over after she kicked the behemoth back in the stomach, the large monster keeling over with a hoarse howl as it wavered from the powerful blow to its gut.
Render watched as the figure ran down alongside the building then leapt off with a sudden surge of vampire energy that caused a red glow to trail behind it along with glass and bricks to blast off from the jump point. The giant brute looked up towards where Akasha was flying down towards it at high speed with her sword geared back. The brute roared and swung down with its blade towards her, the vampire striking back with her sword as she flew down towards it like a meteor. The blades clashed before a bright light and shockwave struck out from the impact, with dust and loose pieces of pavement flying off from the strike. The ground below the impact blasted apart furiously, with Render being thrown back into the air and crashing through a window into a bakery, the battlemage tumbling through a few tables and glass displays while cakes and pies flew about. Kokoa and Leon looked at the impact site with wonder while the behemoth near Kokoa growled and slowly stood back upright. The dust settled revealing Akasha standing with her blade held before her, the sword being angled downward after its swing while the vampire glared ahead of her. Render stumbled back to his feet with a pie dropping off of his shoulder while looking at the newcomer with surprise.
"Um… wow," he said with wonder as the vampire stood there amidst a destroyed street with rubble scattered around her from the fierce landing. Across from her there was a large gash torn through the street, leading up towards where the towering brute was groaning and lying back inside a now destroyed building. The demon slowly got up out of the rubble and ruined building while holding its sword, loose debris and steel fragments from the cars he had plowed through after his forceful trip back through the street from the hit took dropping down next to him off of his shoulders and body. The monster stumbled back to its feet and looked to its sword, seeing a large crack etched into the blade in the middle from the vampire's powerful strike.
"Who… who the hell are you lady?" Render asked as he slowly climbed out of the broken bakery window. Akasha glanced back to him and smirked as her long pink hair flowed gently behind her.
"My name is Akasha Bloodriver, I thought I would drop in and lend a hand, if that's alright with you," she said with a wink. Render looked at the woman clad in combat armor and holding a straightedge sword in hand, then over to the towering brute as it roared at them while gripping its large broadsword in hand. The battlemage smirked and got into a fighting stance as Akasha did the same.
"Sure, the more the merrier I always say," Render said with a cool glare at the brute. Akasha nodded and glanced to the side, seeing people fleeing away further from the battleground while sirens were heard of approaching police forces. In the crowd further away she saw a sudden explosion of debris and smoke from a building, the structure being on the same side of the street and block as the shopping center that Luna had been carried off into. Akasha watched as people started running away from the disturbance before a car crash occurred near it, with a small explosion of fire followed by black smoke billowing up into the air, obscuring the view of whether anything came out of or broke into the building in question.
'I hope the ones guarding Luna make their escape quickly.'
Running through the shopping center Mizore was leading the way for Moka, the snow maiden looking back towards the sounds of monsters and people screaming from out in the street while Moka was holding the catatonic Luna in her arms. All around people were screaming and scrambling away from the area where monsters were seen to be fighting, the frightened humans running through the long shopping center that stretched out into the block with stores lined along the sides in the one story building.
"That giant monster in the sky is going to be watching for us, where do we go?" Moka called out.
"I'm not sure, just keep moving before any of those other things catch up to us," Mizore said looking around quickly. People in the center looked towards Luna and pointed to her with wide eyes, seeing her butterfly wings while Moka looked down to her as she saw the looks she was getting.
"We need to vanish, now, everybody's going to see what she really is here," she called over to Mizore. The snow maiden looked around quickly for anywhere they could escape to before two policemen ran in front and aimed their guns at the girls.
"Stop! Stop right there!" one called out.
"That one has wings, she's a monster!" the other called out. Mizore waved her hand out in front of her quickly, sending out an arctic blast of wind that frosted over the ground in front of the girls all the way over to the policemen, the humans shielding their eyes from the wind and snow flurries. Before they could take aim again Mizore ran up and jumped into a kick at one, launching off him and kicking the other away as the first one was knocked off to the side into a tumble.
"Run!" Mizore called out as Moka ran behind her, the two fleeing through the center as the policemen aimed their guns at the girls.
"They're monsters! They're monsters too!" one called out before taking a shot. Moka felt the bullet whiz by her ear before the girls ducked down slightly and veered off to the left down a junction towards more stores further in the center. People around screamed and ran off in a panic while others pointed to the girls with fright.
"They're monsters! Run away!" a man cried out.
"They're everywhere in our city, call the HDA!" a woman cried out as she held her children back near the wall. Moka and Mizore looked around worriedly as people started running away from them down the large hall and ducking into stores for safety.
"This isn't good, everybody's seeing Luna and her wings," Mizore said looking back to the chronofly.
"Her wings aren't retracting, something's wrong," Moka said looking down to the girl with worried eyes. She looked to Luna's bracelet, seeing that the gems were all dark and void of energy.
"Her bracelet is dark, there's no reserve chrono magic in them. Mizore, something's really wrong with her," she called up ahead to the snow maiden. Mizore looked at her with growing concern then around as they ran down the large hall of the shopping center.
"Her bracelet is never void of any magic, even when she's asleep. Oh god, what happened to her?" Moka said shaking her head with growing fright for her friend. Mizore looked to the chronofly with worried eyes then back behind them as policemen were running after them from where they came.
"Stop them, shoot to kill!" a policeman yelled out as they aimed their guns at the monsters while people around the area screamed and got out of the way. Mizore halted and spun around, waving her arm fiercely as a cold arctic blast of air swirled around her. Right behind Moka a wall of ice erupted up from the stone tiles in the ground, just as four policemen fired their guns at the girls. The bullets cracked and splintered the ice as Moka and Mizore ran as fast as they could down the hall while people screamed from the gunshots. After a few more shots the wall of ice shattered and dropped to the ground in pieces, with the policemen seeing the two monster girls running into a sports equipment store.
"Don't let them get away!" one of them yelled out as they ran after the monsters. The four men ran over to the store's entrance and looked around inside quickly while people were scrambling out in fear.
"Everyone clear out of here, right now!" one of the men called out while waving the people out quickly. Another grabbed his radio as he kept a sharp eye out for the monster girls.
"We've got monsters running through the Willow Lane Galleria; get the HDA over here right now! …yes, I'm well aware there's a fucking monster flying over the city but we've got more of them in here with civilians, get me some goddamned backup!" he yelled out.
"Stay on guard and be ready to fire," one of them said before the men started walking into the store with their guns poised and ready to shoot. They split up into two groups of two as they started walking down a few of the aisles of sporting goods and apparel. Hiding behind one of the shelves holding sports shoes Moka was kneeling down and holding Luna close while Mizore was kneeling down near the edge of the shelf and peeking out.
"They're coming this way, we need to go through them to get out of here," Mizore said quietly.
"We can't kill them; we look horrible enough in the eyes of the humans after what we did yesterday. Just stop them without seriously injuring them," Moka reasoned. Mizore nodded and tensed up as the humans walked closer to them. She formed a bat of solid ice in her hands as she slowly stood up, readying herself as two of the policemen walked towards their shelf. The snow maiden blinked then glanced to Moka.
"Define 'seriously injure'," she said simply, and then darted out from behind the shelving in front of the men. Before they could move she swung her bat down and struck at one of their hands holding a gun, breaking the wrist with a loud crack before she swung around and whacked the other man on the side of the head with a sharp hit. The first man yelled out in pain while the other flew off to the side with blood coming from his ear before crashing into a shelf of sports balls, collapsing through it as the balls bounced around in the aisle. Mizore then spun around, swinging her bat and hitting the other man in the face which launched him to the side and toppling over his unconscious comrade. The other two policemen in the store looked over towards the disturbance while Moka quickly darted out from the shelving behind Mizore.
"I meant don't seriously hurt them!" Moka cried out.
"They're alive aren't they?" Mizore quipped before they started running through the aisle quickly.
"They're over here!" one of the policemen yelled as they ran towards the scene. They rounded a corner shelf and stumbled around on the rolling soccer and basketballs before dropping down onto the floor. Mizore ran ahead of Moka, the two girls sprinting towards the store exit before a policeman ran over with his gun poised.
"Hold it!" he ordered.
Mizore threw her bat towards him, knocking the gun out of his hand before the snow maiden leapt into a kick against his chest. The human saw a glimpse of her striped panties before she kicked him back and across the floor into the large hall of the shopping center. As the girls ran out Mizore waved her hand over towards the human, a trail of frost and ice etching out along the ground from her towards him before it encased one of his arms in ice to the floor. He yelled and thrashed about to free himself as the girls made haste down the shopping center again.
"Great, two of them might have a concussion and another could have frostbite," Moka said dryly.
"They were going to shoot us and Luna, I'd say they got off easy," Mizore replied with a shrug. Moka shook her head then looked over behind them as she stopped suddenly. Mizore stopped and looked back to her as the vampire seemed to be staring off into the distance.
"Moka? What is it?" she asked. She blinked then felt it as well, a powerful vampire aura radiating from nearby.
"Do you… feel that?" Moka asked carefully.
"Yeah, feels like Kokoa's turning up the heat out there," Mizore said with a cool smile. Moka slowly shook her head as she felt the extremely powerful aura pulsate through the area.
"No, that's not Kokoa. It's too much too soon, and… I think it's actually more than what her overcharge would exude," she said cautiously. Mizore looked in the direction of the vampire aura curiously. It was certainly a powerful boom of monster energy; however it was a huge spike out of nowhere, far more than what Kokoa's would produce in one moment.
"But then… who is that?" Mizore asked glancing to Moka.
"I'm not sure, but there's another vampire out there," Moka said cautiously. She looked around then to Mizore.
"We need to get out of here and back to Fang Fang's, it's the only remotely safe refuge we have for Luna," she said urgently. The two girls resumed running through the mall, with people around them screaming and scrambling away into nearby stores or cowering in fear against the walls. Moka and Mizore ran through the mall then into a door at the end of the hall, both of them then running into a block of the mall that was sectioned off and under construction. There were stone pillars set around the large concrete hall while scaffoldings and worktables for construction workers were spread about along with boxes and barrels of supplies. Sections where new stores were going to be built were marked off with steel frames and yellow construction streamers while there appeared to be nobody else in the empty hall. The area was very dark, with only sunlight coming in from several open skylights above where windows had yet to be installed while multiple construction lamps were set around the hall and turned off.
"C'mon, maybe we can sneak out through here," Mizore said as she led the way for them. Their footsteps echoed out inside the empty hall along with the sounds of screaming and sirens from outside. Another loud squawk was heard from the airborne colossus as the girls looked up towards the openings with worried eyes.
"What are we going to do about that thing, it's gigantic and airborne," Moka asked worriedly.
"Right now all we can do is try to get Luna as far away from it as possible, we'll deal with it later," Mizore reasoned while looking around quickly for any way out of the construction block. The two girls ran a ways through the large hall before a loud explosion blasted through the concrete and steel ahead of them to the side. The girls stopped and watched as a large figure ran through the wall and over into the center of the hall, being seen by sunlight from an open skylight above him. It was a larger muscular monster, its two thick legs having black and crimson obsidian armor plates and leggings while it wore leather sandals. It had pale blue skin while wearing black shoulder guards and metal braces on it arms that had small black spikes on them. The head resembled that of a troll's with its long gray hair and two protruding tusks from its lower jaw. Its red eyes glared at the girls while focusing on Luna as it flexed its hands, with one holding a spiked steel club while the other showed a swirl of dark purple and yellow lights circling around it. The dark monster stood nearly 12 feet high as it prepared to fight the girls to take Luna away, with Moka and Mizore backing up slightly while the snow maiden fashioned her frozen katanas.
"What is that thing?" Moka asked worriedly.
"Trouble, move!" Mizore yelled as the dark monster charged toward them with a vicious snarl. Mizore ran towards it before the monster swung its hand around, casting out flaring purple and yellow flames that bounced around erratically like lightning bolts towards the snow maiden. Mizore gasped and jumped off to the side while Moka leapt back, the bolts striking down and crackling with sparks and flames where the two girls were just at. The demon swung its club down towards Mizore, the snow girl rolling to the side just as the spiked weapon struck down and into the concrete with a powerful strike.
"Get Luna out of here!" Mizore called out before she swung her blade at the monster's arm, the frozen katana clashing against the metal braces and stopping in place. The demon swung its arm around and knocked Mizore back into a wild tumble, the girl crashing through a workbench as pails of bolts and screws dropped behind her. Moka tried to run off then gasped as the monster then swung its magical hand around towards her, casting out searing hot shards of light that razed through the ground in front of her, the vampire stopping as the attack sliced through the concrete while the bright lights from the shards illuminated the area brightly for a moment. Mizore stumbled back to her feet then ran towards the monster, the demon looking back to her before swinging its club around towards her head. She ducked and rolled under it, hopping back onto her feet and swinging her frozen blades across its stomach. She razed across its hardened flesh and drew some blood; however the monster didn't flinch or make a sound before it grabbed hold of Mizore's hair with its magical arm. The snow maiden screamed as she was lifted up by the hair while Moka stared with wide eyes.
"Mizore!" she screamed out as the dark monster geared back with its club to kill the snow girl. Mizore dropped one of her swords as she reached up to grab the hand that was holding her while swinging her other blade wildly at the monster. The demon geared back then swung with its spiked club, with Moka watching in horror. She saw the weapon swing around towards Mizore then collide with a flickering wall of light just an inch from hitting the girl. Mizore glanced to the barrier of yellowish light with a strained expression while the demon stared at it with surprise. Suddenly a streaking bolt of red magical energy shot down from above and pierced through the demon's magical arm, the monster howling as it dropped Mizore and stumbled back while shaking its hand around in pain with blood dripping from its searing wound. Mizore stumbled back and dropped onto her rear, holding her head with one hand and a snow katana in the other while she watched the demon howl with anger. Moka blinked then looked up to see two girls dropping down from the skylights above.
"Ms. Mizore!" Apoch and Astreal called out in unison as they dropped down in front of the snow maiden. Apoch held her barrier sword in hand while Astreal's glowing wings arched behind her, the blonde haired witch holding her hand out towards the demon as a red glow trailed around her arm towards her wrist.
"Apoch, Astreal," Moka said with relief.
From above another figure dropped down onto the demon, with Mizore and Moka watching with surprise to seeing Felucia striking down with a kick against the monster's face. Felucia grabbed hold of the two tusks as her feet pushed against the head, with her then launching off with a powerful kick and ripping out the tusks from the monster's jaw. The dark monster howled in pain as it staggered back with blood coming from its mouth while Felucia flew back and landed down in front of the other girls. She tossed the tusks to the side then glanced back to Mizore, the snow maiden staring at her with wonder while Moka was doing the same. Felucia winked at Mizore then looked back to the troll demon as it roared at the girls while readying its club and magic again. Apoch and Astreal kept on guard while Felucia cracked her knuckles, the doll demon giving the dark troll a cold glare.
"You lousy bastard, that's no way to treat a lady."