Chapter 15: The Woman He Loved
Percy's POV
Meanwhile just outside of St James Cathedral….
"Why does Kian hate her?"
We were just a few meters from this Cathedral and both Nigel and V; who told us that it was short for Varahard had gone ahead to scout out. Harry, Mia and someone called Marcel were with me, Annabeth, Thalia and Nico, running to where Kian was.
"It's complicated to explain," Marcel said. "Did he tell you anything about her?"
"Just that we shouldn't let her get the Warp Gate."
Marcel half-smiled. "That makes sense, he's not trying to get you involved with this whole mess."
"What mess?" Annabeth asked.
"Guys," Harry commanded. "Wait here."
We stood near an empty street corner and waited for Harry to say something, He faced forward and displayed the back of his hand and Marcel nodded.
He turned back to us. "What did Empena say?"
"Say about what?" Annabeth asked.
"She told them about the Evian and Vorakian rampage," Mia answered Marcel. "That's what caused Kian to throw the plan away."
"I see. Of course, it's how she starts the story off."
"Who are these Vorakians and Evians?" Annabeth asked. "I'm sorry, I don't think I've heard of them before."
"A long time ago, they caused death and destruction as they tried to increase their ancient empires. Each one of them trying to wipe out the other." Marcel explained. "Every planet outside of the solar system knows how bad they are."
"And how is this important to Kian?"
"Kian's mother is an Evian, an angel and his father is a Vorakian, a demon."
"He never mentioned that!" I replied.
"And for good reason too," Mia explained. "He's been trying nearly all his life to make everyone see that they aren't the monsters that they once were."
"But wait, how are angels and demons involved in this?" Annabeth asked. "It's so confusing.
"A long time ago, and I mean a long time ago before even the first galaxies began to form, all angels before the rebellion couldn't appear in this universe without a vessel. Together, they created physical vessels, beings that were suitable to contain an angel without exploding into bits. After Lucifer rebelled, the vessels they created were shared between the fallen angels and the angels who remained with their father. Lucifer created his own set of vessels: the Vorakians and Michael his: Evians. Almost each of the 7 Archangels has a set of vessels for when they need to interact in this plane of existence."
"Why didn't he tell us that?!" Thalia complained. "We could have help-"
"I doubt it would have made a difference," Marcel said. "And you didn't need to know that information..until now."
"So why does he hate her?" Nico asked.
A look passed between Marcel, Mia and Harry. "There was a planet..a planet called Incini…after so many years of bloodshed and war, Kian's parents forged a peace treaty between the two sides, and it was fine for about a million years….until Empena blew it apart."
A gust of wind passed by us.
"What?!" I asked again. "How could she blow up an entire planet?!"
"She planned it for a long time, her revenge for ravaging her home world." Marcel grit his teeth as he spoke. "Any angel or demon she saw, she would slaughter, she didn't care if it was a child or an adult."
"Most of his life-even our lives have been about fighting Empena," Mia began. "She wants to rule over every planet in this universe and she'll kill anyone that gets in her way. All Celestials oppose her plan and we're the only ones who can stop her so it's why she's made it her mission to kill us all. If she kills all of the vessels for both sides… nothing is stopping her from conquering every planet."
"Then what are we waiting for?!" I uncapped Riptide. "Let's go help Kian!"
"Not so fast!" Harry turned to me sharply. "Do you want to go head first into a Grigori Assault Team?!"
"What's that?!"
"The Grigori are her army! Wait for my signal and then we'll proceed!"
"What signal?"
As if on cue, a flash of black and gold went up into the skies and I craned my head to look. Harry put his hand down. "That's the signal!"
"What does that mean?!" Annabeth asked him
"It means the area's clear of any Grigori, whether Kian and Empena are there…that's another story."
XxX
"V, Nigel, where are they?!"
"That's the problem," Varahard said. "They aren't here!"
"What about the Warp Gate?"
"Taken," Nigel said solemnly.
"DAMN IT!" Harry punched a nearby rock with his armoured hand and cracked it into pieces. He cursed at the empty air and walked around.
"I don't get it," I said. "You said they were here right?"
"They were.." Harry sighed and looked at the holographic display on his arm. "And now they are not. What could have happened here?"
"You don't think Kian's dead do you?" Annabeth said. "I mean-"
"No!" Marcel said sharply. "I would feel it if he was but….wait…-" Marcel closed his eyes and then opened them again. "Of course, that's what happened."
"What?"
"He's taken her far away from the Warp Gate," Marcel explained. "I can feel him but I don't know who's got the gate."
"What is this Warp Gate supposed to look like?" Annabeth asked.
"Like this." Harry showed us a holographic picture of something the size of a telephone pole but thicker.
"That has to be here somewhere!" I said. "It's massive!"
"It's built to be hidden. If it was seen by the people on Earth it would lead to…unfortunate situations. I'm tracking the Warp Gate right now."
"What should we do?" Annabeth asked him. "You can't expect us to just stay here and do nothing?!"
"You aren't. Nigel, V and Marcel, try and find Kian. Mia and I will try to hunt down the Warp Gate and make sure Empena doesn't get it. "
"Good luck," Marcel nodded. "If you find a Dark Moon-"
"-We'll beat them," Harry finished. "Find him and keep them safe."
"We will."
XxX
Third Person POV
Somewhere nearby…
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Kian blocked the woman in black's assault by grabbing her hands and standing strong. The newly appointed Dark Moon 1, someone even stronger than a god of Speed, tried to overpower Kian but he wasn't moving.
He grunted, the very ground beneath the pair breaking and cracking as the two powerful forces tried to overpower each other but found themselves evenly matched.
Kian slammed his head into her and earned an opening despite his vision becoming blurry for a moment. He kicked her and despite what he thought was a strong attack, she was only sent a few feet away from him.
Kian checked Empena and then back at his new target.
The lamp post was still conducting the bolt of lighting that he had called earlier so he could come back to her and finish her off.
So right now, his main priority was the target in front of her.
"Don't worry Empena," he chuckled darkly. "I'll come back for-"
He didn't get the chance to reply as the woman in black rushed forward and grabbed him. Without stopping her speed, she rushed forward and dragged him through the Seattle Streets, hitting him with lamposts, cars and even going through a parked lorry.
Kian could keep his eyes barely open with the high-speed winds in his eyes, he had to get out of this situation. If he could have used his Complete Archangel Mode to-
"Time's up Kaliel…"
Damn it, has it been 5 minutes already? He knew he couldn't keep this form up for too long. It was like running a marathon except instead of running out of energy, his body could only handle so much heavenforce from the first Archangel before his body collapsed.
Kian only went into Complete Archangel Mode a few times and this form was something he was still learning to master and that thing made fighting more complicated.
So he had to think of something.
Using the air around him, he created an air packet around the gap where the woman was pushing him and her hand. He did this unknown to his target and when it had enough air, he flicked his finger.
Just like he expected, he flew forwards and didn't feel the hands of the woman on his back. He turned around and before a millisecond of crashing into a parked Toyota, he used the air currents to roll to a standing stance not even touching the ground before his feet did.
He scanned the new place: A busy highway street that overlooked a body of water and there was a Ferris wheel. If Kian didn't know any better, he was in Downtown Seattle. He remembered this place well the last time he visited.
Kian didn't get to think any further as the woman in black advanced to his position. Kian went to defend himself but a liver shot jab reduced him to a coughing fit. He had felt it through his armour, armour that was strong enough to survive Empena's attack.
What was she made of?!
She grabbed him by the waist and threw him across the street and through a few buildings before he could think of what to do.
Kian rolled to a full stop in a busy street, cars beeping and pedestrians shouting at the figure in all blue and red at the commotion he caused. He got up with a bit of a cough, recovering from that liver shot pretty quickly.
"Please run far away from here, it's not safe!"
(Play this track: Captain America The Winter Soldier OST 13 The Causeway 1
theme from Captain America: Winter Soldier)
The nearby pedestrians did as they were commanded, running as quickly as they could away from the scene. Kian breathed a sigh of relief, no innocent people would be hurt in this battle.
Although that moment of peace was slowly broken when he felt the presence of the woman in black get closer and closer. Either she was walking super slowly or she had thrown him quite the distance but the warming presence was beginning to intensify, like feeling the morning sun first thing after it has risen.
The woman soon appeared in a flash of black lightning but her target was nowhere to be found. She carried with her a new weapon, an S17 jet black automatic rifle with a grenade launcher shell beneath the rifling. She had various weapons stuck to her back and on her belts, just like a soldier.
She heard the noise of a breath behind a car and aimed her rifle towards it. Slowly but surely she walked to it, cutting off both escape routes as she looked both ways. She had her target trapped
She picked up a small orb and rolled it behind the car.
BOOOOOM!
The car exploded in a fireball and she smirked underneath her visor. She expected Kian to try and find some new cover but there was no movement after the car was blown up. Hmm…That was odd.
Out of nowhere, Kian punched her in the back and sent her flying into the front of a car to her left and the impact crumpled it, making it almost flat with the impact force.
"I'll get you back for stopping me from killing Empena." Kian pointed a finger at her. He didn't bother using swords, only wanting to incapacitate her but if it did come to that….
The woman in black got up slowly and from how she was moving, Kian could see that it had hurt her a lot. She seemed to stop for a moment before looking Kian right in the eyes which unnerved him a little.
"הציל אותי…, קיאן!"
She…spoke?!
"What?!" Kian asked again, having no understanding of the noises she made. "What did you say?!"
She made a motion that seemed to suggest surrender but she froze and grabbed the rifle again. She jumped on top of the car and pulled the trigger pin of the weapon. She looked down at the scope and started firing.
Kian created a circular shield made from blue light instantly and blocked the barrage of bullets, all of them leaving ripples on the shield before they dropped to the floor. He ran forward, closing the distance between the pair as she kept firing.
The woman delivered a strong punch as Kian tried to ram her off the car. For a shield made just light from light created a sharp and powerful reverberating noise that ran out throughout the air around him. She batted the shield aside and front kicked him, creating a few meters of distance between them.
She aimed and resumed firing the rest of her magazine and Kian raised his shield to defend himself again, all of the silver bullets dropping to the floor again.
She fired the last bullet and the gun made an audible clicking noise. She quickly released the current magazine but as she went to reload, Kian threw his blue shield like a discuss and forced her to drop the gun. Kian moved with superhuman speed and vaulted over the car, delivering a clean drop kick that sent her back to the floor.
She dodged Kian's follow-up punch that created a crater on the ground and pulled out her submachine gun from her belt. She pulled back the trigger pin and started firing. Kian dodged the first 10 rounds before he grabbed his shield and defended himself again. She could fire her bullets as much as she wanted to, but it would do nothing against his shields.
The woman in black clenched her teeth in frustration. She grabbed a nearby car and kicked at him hoping to stop him in his tracks with the car. To her surprise, Kian front flipped over it and rammed into her hard, knocking her submachine gun off her.
In one smooth move, she pulled out her pistol from her belt and fired at Kian's legs, torso and head, knowing that the anti-angel bullets would pierce through his armour and kill her target if she managed to land a fatal shot.
Kian moved quickly and blocked all attempts with his shield and launched a wild cross at her head. She dodged his attack and blocked a shield strike to her head. She tried to fire a bullet into his chest but Kian grabbed the gun and slammed it to the ground with a strike to her hand. She punched him in the face and tore his shield from his hand before kicking him across the floor where he rolled to a stop.
She sighed under her mask and dropped the blue shield where it vanished in a flash of blue light. Finally, that little problem was gone.
Kian slowly stood up, waiting for her next move.
She pulled out a knife from her belt and pointed it at Kian.
He chuckled and psyched himself up again.
Both of them rushed forward and began the fight.
Both of them began this fight with different intentions: One to just incapacitate and one just to kill her target but none of them was getting what they wanted. The woman in black mixed in knife strikes and punches but Kian blocked them all and blocked her knife strikes too. Kian's bare-handed attacks and parries were getting blocked just like her attacks were. The two of them were at an even stalemate.
The woman threw a punch at Kian's face and he parried it with a sharp move to the side. With the knife in her right hand, she feinted a downwards strike before throwing the blade into the air and grabbing it in a reverse grip. She launched a strike at his head and then at his liver, both attempts blocked.
Kian grabbed her knife arm and tried to throw her to the ground. She pushed him off her and threw a couple of punches at his head, both moves being dodged as he went underneath them.
Kian punched her with a strong hook and as she reeled from the impact, Kian spun around and landed a strong back kick which sent her flying into a pillar which was holding up a piece of the highway.
Kian launched at her with a knee and almost sent her through the concrete structure with the impact. He went for a punch to the face but she blocked the attempt and pushed him back with a front kick of hers.
Kian increased his stance and when he thought was right, launched a kick to her head and a strong punch to his stomach. She blocked the attack at her head, blocked the punch and stepped into his stance, grabbing his waist and throwing him to the floor. She quickly straddled him and tried to stab him in the chest but despite this, he blocked each of her slashes with quick and strong arm movements.
She sped up and with a feint to his stomach, he slashed at her neck. The only problem was that the moment her blade hit his neck, it shattered into pieces.
She looked at the blade and then at Kian, his body covered with red lines. "Anti-Angel metal can't pierce through reinforced skin."
With a thrust of his right palm, the woman in black flew backwards and into the back of an empty van. Kian placed a hand behind him and kicked from the floor, swinging upwards back into a standing position.
He walked forward towards his target and noticed how she was breathing heavily. Despite this, she took a heavy step and charged in with a side kick.
Kian stepped back and delivered a turning kick to her head. She blocked and kicked him in the side and the chest. She followed it up with a tornado kick to his ribs and a kick to his head.
Kian dodged the tornado kick to his head and ducked under the head kick just as quickly as she threw them. He blocked another side kick and an impressive 540 kick which he felt in his forearms but he realised now how close his opponent had come to him.
Before she could reply, Kian stepped inside and launched his Hellforce reinforced left leg high, delivering a strong crescent kick which caught her flat in the face and made her audibly complain. Kian spun around on the spot and swung his second reinforced right leg around, launching a powerful reversal kick that created an arc of high-pressure air as it hit her and caused the windows around the empty cars to break.
Kian felt her visor breaking under his foot and her flying backwards with a sonic boom.
Kian smirked and put his right leg down. He turned back to his target and walked towards her, with no doubt that her target was incapacitated now.
Kian saw her get back up and brush her bright auburn red hair away from her face-wait, did she always have red hair?! It was long and was enough to fall over her back, that shade of red…
'No…this…this shouldn't be possible!'
Her emerald green eyes looked at her damaged clothes and then back at Kian, ignoring the blood that ran down her forehead. She grit her teeth and faced her target again but Kian knew that she was in no condition to fight.
Kian's eyes were on the verge of tearing up, his heart in his throat. "Who..are…you?"
Last year, his life was saved by his best friend, a fellow Nephilim like him. Kian respected and cared for her so much that he would do anything for her. He had promised her mother that he would protect her from anything. A promise that he couldn't keep.
It tore him up inside and he always replayed the scene of her death in his nightmares, always unable to do anything to save her, unable to save Bella, his Bella from dying.
That happened a year ago, just before his seventeenth birthday.
Kian saw her die, sacrificing her life to keep him alive. he had gone into a rage-fuelled rampage because of it, powerless as he watched her die.
So why….why was the woman he saw die, the woman he loved…why was she now standing in front of him?!
"...Bella?" Kian squeaked out.
"Who the hell is Bella?"
(Music End)
"Oh good, you've met."
Kian watched in horror as Empena casually walked up to the pair, standing just behind Bella. She had returned to normal and contained no wounds.
"What's the meaning of this Empena?!" Kian screamed at her. "Using someone with her likeness to attack me?!"
"It's the real person." Empena chuckled darkly. "Incredible isn't it? What she tried to do would have killed anyone..anyone except your kind."
"LIES!" Kian roared. He wanted it to be a lie but there was no aura flickering. It was the truth. "I saw her die in front of me…she died to destroy you!"
"She almost did. But you know what happened next, don't you…Reaper?" Empena said condescendingly. "I was inches from death, struggling to even breathe and even to just walk. Then I found her…barely alive but with the right training, I had a chance to make her one of my most powerful Dark Moons. You were so caught up in your rage, your blood lust, your greed for violence that you forgot to even check if she was alive didn't you?"
The truth tore his heart to pieces.
"I rescued her, I trained her into a Dark Moon even stronger than Rashomon!" Empena cackled. "You gave me the very thing I can use to destroy you all!"
Kian tried to telepathically talk to this woman but he felt a strong pulse in his head that forced him to stop.
"Don't you even think about trying to undo the brainwashing I've placed on her," Empena said condescendingly? "Nothing in this universe can undo it. This is how I beat you, this is how I bring peace."
Kian growled with rage, the ring that belonged to Bella burning deep inside his clenched fist as he let out a raw guttural scream. He charged forward with his swords surging into his hands from the other side of the city, his resolve for killing Empena strengthened even further.
"BLOOD STYLE: GOLDEN CRESCENT DIVINATION!"
Blood exploded from his body and Kian's brain was overwhelmed with the pain of the attack. Kian's whole body was cut with slashes of gold light and red liquid, stopping his flying assault and sending him crashing face-first into the floor. His armour was torn to pieces, his costume shredded to tatters, exposing parts of his
"Wh-what is this?!" Kian tried to get up. "What is this?!"
"Did you think that you could fight me?!" Empena laughed loudly. She moved in a flash and plucked him off the ground via his neck and looked at him in his eyes. "That whole fight was nothing but to give me time, Reaper. I could have killed you the moment I wanted to."
"Time for what?!"
"I've found it, Mistress!"
Kian saw a blue-haired man carrying something on his back and he knew what it was. He tried in vain to get free of Empena's grasp but he was powerless to stop her, his body lacking the energy and strength to fight.
"I see he knows now!" Rashomon laughed. "How does it feel to see her with me now?!"
Kian growled and found a new calling of strength from deep inside him. He created a blade of blue light on his right arm and sliced Empena's arm again. As he dropped to the floor, he rushed forward and attempted to stab Rashomon in the face but a double punch from nowhere
sent him backwards.
"You possibly can't hope to fight me!" Rashmon raised his fists. "Stay down, Reaper."
"Enough Rashomon," Empena commanded. "The Warp Gate is ours, there is no need to sully your hands with that creature anymore."
Rashomon handed her the Warp Gate and she inspected it with wide blood-red eyes. "Finally, it is time to finish this long war."
A blast of blue light cut her arm off and she turned to look at it.
"We…arent…done…yet!"
Kian breathed heavily as he stood up, his body nowhere near ready to fight but he was still willing to do what it took to stop Empena. Kian looked at Bella who showed no reaction to whatever was going on.
She sighed and handed the big cylinder-like structure to Rashomon. "You are proving difficult. I guess I'll kill you myself."
Kian expected her to try and attack her but she raised her hand and found his hand, his sword-carrying arm moving according to her command.
"What is this?!" Kian grunted and tried to stop her but it was not working.
"You have my blood inside you Reaper," Emepena answered. "Remember what Colborn did? That gas was for you, my blood weakens your fragment powers, you've noticed it haven't you? That uneasiness? That was all me!"
Kian's sword-carrying arm was moving to his chest and Kian tried his best to stop it, he even tried to let go of his sword but it was clamped shut.
"Now die!" Empena made the motion of thrusting through her chest but when Kian's blue made was a few centimetres away from his chest, the ring on his right hand glowed brightly and Kian's arm dropped down sharply, back under his control.
Empena's hand became hot from nowhere and she dropped it, having no idea what just caused it.
Kian breathed heavily, looked at the ring on his hand, and then back at Bella. She looked at the ring with a glassy look in his eyes. Kian suddenly remembered why it was glowing and a little spark of hope ignited an idea.
"I'll kill you myself." Empena's scythe was inches away from Kian's neck as she broke forward in an inhumane display of speed but a blast of crimson red and violet sent her backwards where she started from.
Kian turned and his eyes widened at the appearance of the two people. "What are you doing here?!"
"Saving your life!" Marcel said. "Your wel-WHO IS THAT?!" He gulped and spoke. "Is that-"
"Yeah."
"How?"
"She's been brainwashed to serve her."
"YOU BASTARD!" Marcel roared at Empena. He blasted her with red beams of light but Rashomon blocked it with his forearms.
"Mars, she has the Warp Gate, damage it and…we'll isolate all of Seattle and the whole district from Acochester!"
"Kill them both," Empena commanded Rashomon. "They can't possibly hope to win against me."
Rashomon went to attack but an arrow of orange flames and an arc of black stopped him from advancing.
Kian automatically knew who caused them. He turned back to the pair that caused it and grit his teeth. "Why in the hell are you guys here?!"
"Really?" Varahard raised his eyebrow as he aimed his gold and blue bow at Rashomon. His expression turned from humour to shock as he saw the red-haired woman next to Empena. "Wait…I thought she-"
"She did." Kian finished his sentence.
Kian heard footsteps running behind him and for a moment he could relax. Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and Nico were all safe and sound as they ran up to him. He could deal with the fact that his friends disobeyed an order. He turned back to Empena and waited for her next move.
"Wonderfull." Her blood-red eyes glinted. "We can kill all of you right now."
"With pleasure," Rashomon sparkled with electricity. He put a hand on Bella but she quickly pushed him off the moment he made contact. She coiled up and scowled at her opponents.
"This is why I didn't want to bring you along!" Kian tried to stand up but he collapsed immediately.
"What happened to you?!" Percy asked him.
"Kian…how long have you been fighting?" Nigel asked him, eyes only on Empena and her minions.
"Oh you know…only for about an hour." Kian sat on the floor, trying to activate his healing powers but finding it difficult.
"Mistress!"
Split and Nivan arrived behind Empena, Rashmon and Bella and scanned the scene. Split was the first to speak. "Mistress, have you-"
"Yes," Empena nodded. "I have the device. And we have a chance to wipe those annoying pests from existence."
"Excellent." Nivan clamped his hands together. "Finally, we shall achieve true peace."
"Oh and I see he knows about the girl doesn't he?" Split cackled and looked at Kian. "This is your fault! You let her die and you turned her into this! Imagine, if you weren't a bloodthirsty monster, you would have seen her alive, YOU DID THIS, REAPER!"
Kian was going to respond but something stopped him.
"EXCALIBUR!"
A bright beam of almost white light hit Empena and her Dark Moons creating a cloud of thick dust. The reason? Harry and Mia landed in front of Kian and his group. His armour showed little scratches and pieces of torn metal alongside his stomach. His dark brown eyes were wild and erratic, almost like a warrior waiting to fight. Mia's costume was torn in some places, the silver gauntlets on her arms and chest having some scratches.
In his hands Harry's hands, he gripped a sword only he could wield, a sword only described in legends. It was a beautifully decorated straight double-edged longsword that contained a gold hilt.
"What happened to you two?!" Kian asked the pair.
"Chasing after Rashomon," Harry grunted. "What happened to you?"
"That."
A dark black barrier had shielded Empena from the attack but a few cracks were running alongside the edges.
Harry's eyes were directly on Rashomon. "You aren't going to escape with that!"
"Yes, we are little Terran." Rashomon chuckled. "How can you possibly hope to stop me, a GOD OF SPEED?!"
"Wait…" Mia spoke, her eyes on the girl with shock. "Is that-"
"It is," Kian said sadly. "She's been brainwashed. It's the real Bella."
"How can you hope to stop me, stop the Dark Moons now?!" Rashomon cackled. "With one of your kind on our site, you have no hope!"
"MASTER CONTROL OVERRIDE, EMERGENCY GATE TERMINAL LOCK! ACTIVATE INVASION PROTOCOLS!" Harry screamed from where he stood.
"Voice recognised. Harrison Arthur Pendragon, Rank granted by the Celestial High Council: Honorary Throne. Warp Gate Locked for a maximum of 72 Earth hours. Invasion Protocols activating." The cylinder-like device beeped before it stopped.
"WHAT?!" Rashomon clenched his fists at Harry. "You-"
Harry smirked proudly. "Not bad for a Terran is it?"
"What happened?!" Empena demanded an answer from him. "WHAT HAPPENED!?"
"The gate has been locked from both sides, you can't access the wormhole to travel to Locus. Its defence systems have been activated," Harry explained. "You're finished, Empena."
"What's to stop me from killing you?!" she barked at him. "If you die then-"
"Then the gate will cease to work. If the command giver has been killed, the gate will permanently turn off. If that happens, the Warmind will seek out your destruction!"
She growled and then scanned her opponents. She could have killed Kian, a thorn in her side for the past 6 years. He had stopped her plan of bringing the ever-famous Eden Academy to ruin, an academy that created problems for her by manipulating her pawn, Phoenix to bring it down. Unfortunately, that creature in front of him had stopped it by exposing her pawn.
Since he had existed, Kian had always been messing up her plans to conquer this universe.
He had to die!
But he wasn't on his own….
His team, that annoying little team that always got in her way again stood in her path. Sure, she could kill them all to get to him but it would prove too much trouble. She had already spent her energy trying to keep Kian from killing her and it wasn't easy.
She sighed in frustration. "We got what we came here to get. Let's leave this planet."
"But mistress!" Rashomon complained. "We could kill them all here!"
"I said we're done here!" Empena repeated herself. She felt a wave of fatigue hit her and she hid it well. She may have been powerful but she too was at the mercy of the laws of nature. She needed incredible amounts of rest and energy to heal from surviving the Reaper's brutal attack. She hated how close he had got to killing her, his lightning, his flames, his strength. She should have been able to overpower him the moment they began fighting it but it wasn't the case.
"We'll see you later Reaper," Split smirked at Kian. "When we lay Locus to rampage again."
"Over my dead body," Kian said coldly.
Behind Empena, Split, Nivan, Bella and Rashmon a dark portal opened. Nivan and Split walked into it disappearing from Kian and co's vision. Bella turned around but she made eye contact with Kian, her emerald green eyes gazing at her once former teammate.
"I'll save you later Bella, that is my promise."
She turned around and vanished into the dark portal.
"Mistress…" Rashomon smiled eerily. "Can I kill them?"
"What?"
"They're weak right? Especially the Reaper? I can kill them all right?! Please let me do it!"
"I suppose." Empena waved it off, eyes only on the huge cylinder-like structure in front of her. "Just try not to destroy this Terran city. You know where we are right?"
She grabbed the War Gate and stepped past the portal. As she stepped through, both she and the portal vanished into nothingness.
"Eyes up and stay sharp!" Harry grabbed his sword and pointed it at him. "We're about to face Dark Moon 2!"
"How dangerous is he? Percy raised his two swords.
"Ever fought a god?"
"Yeah actually, a couple of Titans too."
Harry raised an eyebrow at him before looking at Rashmon again. "This one can move millions of miles in the blink of an eye. If we don't pay attention, we'll all be slaughtered!"
He stepped in front of an injured Kian and raised his sword. "On my command…"
Rashomon laughed loudly. "Why do you think you can even stand a chance against me?! I am a god of speed! I can kill you before you can even think!"
"Why haven't you, troll doll?!" Percy asked him, Rashomon's attitude reminding him of Kronos and his cruelty.
"It'll ruin the fun. So many girls here..so much fun to be had!" his blue eyes gleamed wickedly and his gaze unnerved Mia, Annabeth and Thalia. "Back on my planet, all the ladies loved me. If you don't…I'm sure you'll come to see me that way too! I can be very persuasive. Ask your leader over there, he'll tell you about how I made his woman mine!"
"Harry…" Kian stood up slowly and he walked forward and gently put a hand on his best friend's shoulder. "...I'll take care of this.."
"Are you sure?"
Kian chuckled with some distortion to his voice. "You trust me right?"
You shouldn't need me to answer that," Harry replied. He stepped aside to let Kian across.
Rashomon laughed at the injured Kian. "How can you hope to fight me?! You're on your last legs, Reaper! If you can't defeat Empena, how can you beat me?!"
Kian laughed and suddenly, all his injuries healed in a flash of scarlet red light, his wounds healing with red smoke. His hair started to spike up and turn brighter. "You underestimated me last time…you still haven't learned from your mistakes have you?!"
Kian's purple eyes became a bright scarlet red, a pentagram flashing in his pupils for a moment before it vanished. Behind him, a pair of pure metallic chrome black wings emerged in a flash of black light, just below his red and blue wings.
"What are you doing Kian?!" Harry shouted at him. "Don't do this!"
"I have to do this!" Kian said softly. "He'll slaughter you if I don't do this!"
"What's going on?!" Annabeth asked. "What's happening to him?!"
"You know how I said an angry Kian is hard to stop?" Harry turned to Annabeth.
"Yeah?
Harry looked at Kian with worry and fear, a look that knew what happened next. "You're about to see why…."
'Hey, Lucifer..' Kian mentally called out to the King of Hell in his domain. 'Wanna punish Rashomon?!'
~~" I have been waiting to punish him for so long Kalillel. Let us begin!"~~
Kian's black hair turned scarlet red and two strands stuck up in front of his face like a pair of horns. His aura turned black and red, complementing the red and black arcs of electricity around his body. He smiled widely, exposing his longer canines like a predator who had cornered its prey
"You've been calling me the Reaper all this time..so why don't I make an appearance?!"
DUN DUN DUN. Did anyone see that plot twist coming? Anyway did you know I've had this scene planned out from the moment this fic was in its development stage and after so long, I have finally written it!
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