Broken Angel

by I LIKE FEAR 1-2

What happens when you anger a God? What happens when something once pure, turns wicked and angry? What is left of someone who has been alone so long? How do you ask forgiveness for being so wrong? How do you apologize for breaking someone's heart? This is the story of Slytherin House's Angel of Carnage. Posted on Wattpad and RoyalRoad

73. 65: Daughter of the Lamb

Time for Rapture. Hope you enjoy, and sorry it's taken me so long to get this out. I haven't been gone, I've actually been going back and cleaning up the first few chapters. That has been why this has taken me so long. I hope you all enjoy and I hope those of you that enjoy rereading this story from the beginning find the chapters much easier to follow and much cleaner on the eyes. Anyway, time to begin.

Broken Angel

Chapter 65

Everything was dark and a pungent odor filled the air. As the two young woman stepped off the submersible, they found themselves in a decrepit and run down area. The place looked like it had been run down for years. The scent of rotting wood and stagnant water, filled the air. There was a cold humidity in the air, that lent a kind of graveyard-like feeling to the underwater city. It honestly felt like they were walking into a tomb.

"This is exactly what I wanted to see on a hunt for our missing child. A rundown and decrepit city." Katie noted as she scanned the room. Katie found the whole concept to be both amazing and depressing. Amazing because it was a fucking city under the ocean, and it was massive, probably home to over four million people, maybe more. Though the sight was also depressing, since this amazing concept, this idea, had completely collapsed in on itself. This city was on it's last legs. If it wasn't for the torpedo that tried to end them, Katie would have assumed the city was long abandoned.

"Gods this place is loud. I know you can't hear it, but with my senses I can hear whispers echoing all over the place. Make no mistake… we are not alone." Riley replied. Hearing that, Katie nodded and gripped her wand tighter. Riley also allowed her demonic features to show, seeing how decrepit this place was, and feeling all of the malice and chaos emanating from whatever lived here, gave Riley the feeling that once again, she'd probably need to enact a purge.

"How the hell does someone even do this? I mean… a city this big? Underwater?" Katie inquired as the two moved forward.

"I've seen this place. You remember the guy who made the vigors, Fink? He'd taken the idea from something he had seen through one of Elizabeth's tears. I think this was the place. It seems so familiar to me, and I can only envision it, through Fink's eyes. I think this was the city he'd seen through the tears, this is where he got the ideas for the Vigors and his machines. He created them using some sort of sea slug that possessed a kind of substance in it's body that allowed a person to alter their genetic sequence, giving them the ability to use magic even if they weren't born with it." Riley explained as they entered into a hallway.

"Wow… that's… that's pretty amazing. So you think we might find some of those slugs down here? They could be incredibly valuable if we could get our hands on some." Katie noted as they continued to walk.

"I agree. First though, we need to locate our child, then we'll sack the city." Riley replied. Just then, the sound of a speaker turning on, echoed through the hall, and both girls dropped to a knee.

"This is Doctor Sofia Lamb, with a message to the people. Remember, Big Sister is always watching, To steal Adam, is to steal from the Rapture Family, your Family." They both heard echo over the speakers.

"That was foreboding." Katie noted.

"Indeed." Riley agreed. Right then, the two exited from the hallway they were in, and into a large open room. Written on one of the walls was a message in white paint. It said 'Believe in the Daughter of the Lamb. Believe in Salvation.'

The two stared at the message for a moment, Katie found it odd, but Riley, was getting different vibes from it. To her… it sounded like a clue.

"What are you thinking?" Katie inquired when she noticed her lover staring at the message intently.

"Elizabeth was a child referred to by the people of Columbia as the 'Lamb'. I'm wondering if this 'Daughter of the lamb' could be who we're looking for." Riley responded.

"It might also be whomever 'Big Sister' is." Katie offered up, earning a nod of agreement from Riley.

The two were silent for a moment before Riley let out a loud sigh. "Standing around here wont bring us closer to finding answers. Let's go."

Katie nodded in agreement and the two proceeded into another hallway. This one had a glass exterior showing the ocean around them. Katie took a moment to stop and stare out at the surrounding buildings and sea life.

"I don't know what happened here to leave this place so run down but at it's peak, I bet this place was a sight to behold." Katie stated as she stared at a passing school of jellyfish.

"I'm not sure what led to this city becoming what it is. All I can feel emanating from it is insanity, chaos, and fanatic devotion to something. There are many strong beings present in the city, and on the opposite side is something immensely powerful. I think that might be the 'Child of the Lamb'." Riley stated in reply as she extended her senses to blanket the city.

Just from what Riley could feel, this place was worse then Columbia or Konoha. Death and Carnage were a way of life for whatever lived here.

"You said that the power on the opposite side of the city was stronger then the rest? Is it demonic, like... could it be our child?" Katie inquired.

"It's powerful. It has as much Chakra as an Elite Jonin but... I can't sense any demonic essence to it. Older Elizabeth did say though that without them using any of their Youki, they'll appear as regular humans. So the chances are good that the Child of the Lamb, is actually our child." Riley answered.

Katie looked thoughtful for several moments while Riley let out a growl. She absolutely did not like the feel of this place. Not so much for her being here, but this was the last place she would ever want to bring her mate or one of her children.

After a few more seconds of silence, Riley released five of the nine wraiths from her shadow. A sixth was hiding in Katie's shadow.

"Go." Riley commanded and the five that appeared raced ahead of them, vanishing from sight.

Katie didn't even need to ask. Riley's paranoia when it came to the protection of her mates was well known and understood at this point.

With that done the two continued. They were greeted to more insane bable written on the walls.

"What happened here?" Katie found herself asking.

"A lot." Riley answered. Right about then she felt one of her wraiths send her a message. It was a warning about a group of people in the next room.

"Company." Riley warned aloud as she gestured to the room ahead. Katie nodded and took a deep breath. With how bad this place felt, along with the insane bable written all over the place, she knew that the chances were good that this encounter would end in a fight.

The two entered the next room, wands drawn. They stalked silently through the room until they came upon an interesting sight. Three men were standing over a corpse. They looked to be looting the body.

"Hurry up! Take back what that thief took!" One of the men shouted.

Riley and Katie moved closer, both perfectly silent. Once closer they got a better look at the group. Katie had to cover her mouth to avoid letting out a startled gasp. The group of men were horribly disfigured. It was obvious they had once been human but now they looked awful.

Their bodies were thin and gangly. Many of them had bloated welts adorning their flesh, speaking of which, their flesh was pale and murky, almost translucent in some areas. Their lips were swollen and many of them were completely hairless. Their clothes were ratty and unkempt and even from a distance, they smelled awful. Katie had to supress a gag as the smell of rotting fish filled her nose.

"Fuck." Riley swore, her heightened sense of smell more assaulted by the rotting scent.

Her voice caused all three men to spin towards her.

"Look what we got 'ere two pretty little fishes wen' and got themselves lost." One of the fish faced fuckers stated as he raised a crowbar and took a step towards them.

"I wonder if these pretty little fishes have any Adam on them?" Another wondered aloud.

"Well, let's find out." The last of the trio growled before charging at them with a knife. One of Riley's tails shot forward at lightning fast speed, spearing the man through the chest. The other two swore loudly as Katie fired a banishing charm at the closest sending him flying back into a pillar.

The last of the trio was bisected by a wraith that emerged from the shadows behind it.

"What happened to them?" Katie asked as she knelt over one of the bodies. Riley quickly ripped her tail from the one she had speared and knelt next to Katie.

"If I had to guess, it was that genetic substance I was referring to earlier. Whatever it is, it's genetically altering their bodies and minds to grant them increased abilities or access to certain magic. The amount of magic they possess is much higher then a muggle but not quite at the level of a muggleborn. I'm guessing, the mutations are due to the fact that they lack bodies capable of withstanding immense physical alterations, like those of magicals. A person born with a high amount of magic, is much more adaptable then someone without. They're mutating their bodies beyond their ability to maintain it." Riley guessed as she used medical chakra to scan the body of the man Katie was crouching over. After a few moments, Riley drank in the man's soul and got a fuller picture.

Through his memories she learned more about Adam and Rapture. She learned of Andrew Ryan and his utopia. She learned of Sofia Lamb and her Altruistic belief and most importantly, she learned a bit more about the Daughter of the Lamb. Eleanor. Their Savior. Eleanor was meant to become the worlds first Utopian. She was meant to be completely selfless, helping others and society without any thought to her own benefit.

Riley felt her fists clench involuntarily, as she pictured this young woman being subjected to who knows what kind of mental and physical trauma to turn her into this Utopian. If this Eleanor Lamb was the child they were looking for, Riley would be sure to have words with Doctor Sofia Lamb.

Letting out a sigh, Riley searched more through his mind.

The biggest problem she encountered as she looked at the man's memories was how broken and disjointed they were. Adam had not only destroyed his body but also his mind. While she now knew more about where they were, it brought up more questions then answers. It also seemed that by consuming Adam taken from the body of someone else, they would gain some of that person's memories. This caused many people in the city to develop mental disorders as they were forced to deal with memories that didn't belong to them.

After a few moments of looking through the rest of the man's memories Riley moved on to the other two. Their memories added a bit more to the picture. A civil war. An attack on new years day and the Little Sisters.

Riley let out an audible snarl.

"What?" Katie asked as she heard the animalistic snarl escape from Riley's lips.

"Children. Little Girls. That's how they harvest Adam. The substance I was talking about earlier... they place those sea slugs into the girls bodies and turn them into factories that produce Adam. The girls drink blood to retrieve and create Adam from it." Riley replied, her eyes now glowing red with anger.

"That's... monstrous. Who could do such a thing?" Katie muttered out in shock as she glanced back down at the deformed bodies.

"People... desperate for power. They went and turned little girls into monsters. Dammit." Riley muttered in reply.

"You don't think our own child is one of these children, do you?" Katie inquired after a moment of thought.

"I'm starting to suspect." Riley replied as she rose to her feet. Katie was quick to follow as Riley headed towards the nearest door.

"What are you planning?" Katie asked as she noticed the focused look on her lover's face.

"I'm planning on killing every single person in this city, over four feet tall. That's what I'm planning on doing." Riley replied with an almost animalistic snarl.

"Were all of them in on this?" Katie inquired as they entered another hallway.

"Yes. The people of this city became addicted to Adam. The ability to genetically modify themselves and become better then they were before. They became so transfixed on this addiction that when the Little Sisters started to appear en masse, no one said a word. They all wanted Adam. The few who rejected Adam, were quickly killed off by the overwhelming number of addicts. Splicers. These people... they're just like the people of Columbia. They have no idea the power they are fucking with. Adam... from Fink's memories, I can discern that it's a magical substance that allows for alterations in the bodies of organics. The slugs use it to adapt to the hostile conditions of the sea floor. People... can use it to do anything. Make themselves stronger. Faster. Smarter. It can give them the ability to perform magic... " Riley answered as they entered another room.

"So... if you got ahold of it... could you use it to give muggles magical power? Could you make them like us?" Katie inquired curiously.

"Yes. I could. In fact... I'm already sort of doing it. Fink's grasp of the uses of Adam is at once, better then the people of Rapture, and yet at the same time, it's much more limited. When I left Columbia, I ensured that the people would keep using the Vigors and Salts. Those in power kept the people from becoming too addicted to the stuff, and with constant exposure, that magical power of their society rose to a level where almost all of them would be considered squibs without the use of Vigors. I'd say in another one maybe two hundred years of use, they'll have the power to do basic level magic." Riley replied.

Katie looked to be deep in thought as Riley answered her question. The possibility of giving muggles the ability to use magic, it was quite an interesting thought. Technology could do an immense amount, and Katie was often blown away by the things muggles could do without magic, but magic, without any doubt, was the ultimate force in the universe. It predated life and death, it had existed since the dawn of existence. Hell, magic may have even existed before time came into being, that was how grand magic's power was. To be able to use such power was a great gift, and to bestow the ability on those without, there was no greater gift in all the world, from Katie's point of view.

She was brought out of her musings when she heard someone speaking to themselves, not that far away. Her head shot right, just in time to see a Splicer digging through trash. She moved to raise her wand, only to stop as a wraith emerged from the shadows and impaled the man with it's sword.

"I think I might just hate this place more then Konoha." Riley muttered as she took in the surrounding street. The place was run down and desolate. The two young women stood now on a deserted ruined street with buildings on either side. All of the buildings were deteriorating and the mere thought of anyone living in them, let alone children, was quite unnerving.

"This place used to be so full of life. Now look at it. I can't possibly imagine why anyone would want to remain in such a place. The sheer isolation from anyone sane would cause any reasonable person to leave as quickly as humanly possible." Riley stated as her eyes drifted over the destitution.

"To think... our own child lives in this place. I don't exactly know what I would have wanted for our child, but this certainly isn't it." Katie remarked as she heard a scream echo out from somewhere in the distance.

"I can only hope that the fates aren't as cruel as I fear them to be. I hope our child hasn't had to endure this place for long. I don't know how I'll feel if their life was as bad as this place is." Riley muttered out angrilly.

"Don't pretend you don't already plan on leveling this place. I know you Riley. If a single hair on our child's head has been touched, you're going to level this city to it's foundation. And I can't say I wouldn't join you." Katie stated, after hearing what Riley had muttered.

"You know me too well my love." Riley said with a chuckle. Moments afterwards, the two heard someone come running towards them from the end of the street.

They both glanced over as a splicer came running towards them armed with a pistol. He started firing at them, his shots flying high of their mark.

In a burst of speed Riley fired three small bone darts from her palm. All three sped through the air and pierced the charging man in the torso, all three bones hitting his heart.

"Where the hell do these guys keep coming from?" Katie inquired as the splicer fell to the ground and ceased to move.

"Let's move before more show up." Riley stated after a moment of silence.

Katie nodded and the two quickly moved down the street. As they moved past the man's body, Riley knelt down and picked up his revolver, after Columbia, Riley was starting to get the hang of using firearms and she was very interested in what could be done with them, when magic was involved. She already knew she could infuse bullets with magic, but what about the gun itself? It warranted looking into.

Meanwhile, Katie quickly cast a protective shield around herself. It was the same one, that the Legion had developed when preparing to assault the Hellsing mansion.

After that was done, the two began moving forward. Riley had a general idea of where she was through the memories of the dead splicers but even so, their minds had deteriorated so badly that most of what they knew was literal facts. Andrew Ryan, bad. Big Daddy, bad. Do not touch little Sisters if you value your life. Little Sisters have Adam. You want Adam. These were the simplistic thoughts that the splicers seemed to know. Anything other then that, was their shattered memories and what little psyche they had left.

"How are you feeling?" Riley inquired as she heard Katie let out a loud sigh.

Katie didn't respond immediately. Her attention was directed towards a small porcelain doll that lay discarded in the corner. It took Riley placing a hand on her shoulder to break her out of her stupor. When she finally did she spoke. "I'm worried Riley. What if our child is one of these pschopaths? What are we going to do if they've been driven insane by this place?"

"If our child has been affected by this place, we'll take care of them. If they've been hurt we'll help heal them. It'll be alright my love. Everything will be alright." Riley replied, offering her mate a smile as she did.

"I hope you're right. This place is just giving me such a bad feeling. I can't help but expect the worst." Katie stated with another sigh. She was deeply worried that her child could have lived a horrible life.

"Expect the worst. Hope for the best. It's a good code to live by." Riley stated.

Katie nodded in agreement and the two continued forward. They entered into a large open room, where ten splicers stood gathered around a vent in the wall, they were bowing to it, worshiping it like it was some sort of holy relic. The sound of the door closing behind Riley and Katie, alerted the splicers to their presence.

"Hey!" One shouted as he spotted the two. In a flash, Riley sent out a cutting curse which bisected eight out of the ten splicers, whom had risen to their feet. The other two who were still on their knees, let out startled cries and curses, they were quickly silenced as they caught shuriken to the face, courtesy of Katie.

"That was easy." Katie noted as they approached the vent.

"Remember, they're just humans, and crazy ones at that. Just because they look like deformed fish faced fuckers, doesn't mean they're any less fragile." Riley replied as she examined the vent that the splicers were worshipping.

She heard someone breathing within the vent and quickly activated her Byakugan. Hidden just out of sight in the vent was a small child. Activating Kamui Riley reached through the vent and plucked the child from it. This drew a startled cry from what was revealed to be a little girl. This girl couldn't have been older then six or seven, her skin was pale and sickly, her eyes a bright glowing yellow, and her clothes a simple tattered dress, no shoes.

Riley set the child onto the floor, as she realized what she had found, a little sister.

The child's eyes shot to Riley and for a second, Riley expected her to scream and draw in one of the Big Daddies to protect her, but instead the child cocked her head, and then smiled. "Mommy!" The girl shouted happily as she hugged Riley's legs.

"What?" Was the first question that shot out of Katie's mouth. Riley meanwhile was stunned for several seconds before she knelt down in front of the smiling little girl.

She found that the child had no demonic blood, what so ever. This couldn't have been her and Katie's child, but then why would the child call her mommy? Was it because she was a woman? That didn't sound right, as from the knowledge she had gained from the dead splicers, the children saw pretty much everyone who wasn't a big daddy as a stranger.

Staring into the child's eyes, Riley entered into her mind. What she found was a garbled mess of conditioning and psychological manipulations. The thought made her blood boil, but before she could dwell on it for too long, she found a link, into the girl's mind, leading to somewhere else. She followed the Link back to it's source and came upon a very powerful mind. One infused with the knowledge of hundreds of people, perhaps even thousands.

"Hello?" Riley heard, as whomever's head she was in, detected her presence.

"Hello." Riley responded as she encountered a physical representation of whomever this was. The person was a teenage girl, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen. She had dark hair, pale skin, and wore a white dress. Her face reminded Riley a lot of Katie's, but her eyes were unmistakable they were a light blue color, but their size and shape was almost exactly like Riley's.

Riley allowed her mental probe to take on her own physical appearance and the young girl let out a startled gasp.

It took Riley a moment to remember that she was sporting her demonic appendages and thus didn't look human. She was about to correct that when the young woman muttered out something. "Mother?"

"You've seen me before?" Riley asked as she grew more suspicious that this was her child.

"Yes. I've seen you in my dreams. I've heard your voice, whispering at the edge of my mind. And those wings..." The young woman replied as she glanced down at her hand, revealing a pitch black feather in her palm. Riley's eyes widened and she mentally slapped herself, she had completely forgotten that each of her children had been given one of her feathers and that she could locate them through it.

"You... you're the one from my dream? You're my mother. My real mother." The young woman stated as her mental projection approached Riley's.

"Your real mother? ... ... Eleanor Lamb, I presume." Riley guessed after a moment.

"Yes..." The now revealed Eleanor replied.

"My name is Riley. How did you know Sofia wasn't your real mother?" Riley inquired as she now stood no more then a foot away from her daughter's projection.

"I've never felt that bond. I've known since I was a child that the person I've seen in my dreams was my real parent. Whenever I saw you, I knew you were my mother. When I was a teenager, I heard one of the doctors who examined my blood say something about me having none of the same characteristics as Sofia Lamb." Eleanor replied as she reached out to touch Riley's cheek. The contact wasn't a physical one, merely the joining of two minds. Seeing the feather and feeling Eleanor's mind proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Eleanor was her child. Riley took this opportunity to Link their two minds, forming a bond between them.

"Follow me." Riley stated, she then quickly retreated back into the mind of the little Sister and then back into her own.

It took only a moment but she felt Eleanor follow her through the new bond and into Riley's mind.

The two now stood in Riley's mindscape, Eleanor stared at Riley, amazed by her features and otherworldly beauty, while Riley stared at her daughter, memorizing every detail of her daughter's appearance.

"You look so much like Katie." Riley noted.

"Who?" Eleanor asked in reply.

In response to her question, Riley created an image of Katie in her mindscape.

"Wow. She's really beautiful. Who is she?" Eleanor inquired with a curious look.

"Your mother." Riley replied.

"My mother? But I thought..." Eleanor began but Riley cut her off.

"I am the mother that sired you. Katie is the one that carried or might carry you one day." Riley responded.

"How is that possible?" Eleanor inquired. She held the knowledge of countless individuals through the massive amount of Adam that was given to her by The Rapture Family and yet, she had never heard of something like that before.

"Magic." Riley answered with a grin.

"Magic? Magic doesn't exist." Eleanor replied with a shake of her head.

"Then how are we speaking?" Riley responded with an amuses smile.

"I hold a mental link to the little sisters. I was able to form this connection by interacting with them. I'm... not sure of the exact mechanics behind it. But I assume that you were able to access my mental link to them and reach out to me." Eleanor replied.

"Logical." Riley noted with a nod, "But then how do you explain Adam giving people the ability to create fire from their fingertips? Or allow them to generate lightning from their bodies? Or what about the ability to freeze things? Adam allows for one to genetically manipulate their bodies, but how does it allow for these things? How does programing your genetics to give you the ability to shoot a blast of freezing cold air from your hands, actually allow you to do it? What is the physical process behind it? The answer is magic."

"And how do you come to that conclusion?" Eleanor inquired as she eyed Riley curiously.

"I am a creature of magic. Just look at me. How many people do you know with razor sharp teeth, wings, tails, and fire burning through their veins?" Riley inquired with a chuckle. At that Eleanor offered a nod, as Riley's demonic visage wasn't exactly what you would call a normal sight.

"But how do you 'know' magic is real? I grew up learning that fact, and things that are observable, are to be believed. Magic is just..." Eleanor still found it difficult to believe that Riley was telling the truth. Her whole life had been an overabundance of scientific research and fact. It's not that she didn't want to believe in the concept of magic, it's just that throughout her life, she had found that it was safer to hedge your bets on things that you could actually interact with. Things that were scientifically possible and explainable.

"I've lived with magic my whole life. It's hard to just explain to a person without being able to show them, so... you're just gonna have to take it on a bit of faith." Riley stated after a moment.

Eleanor offered a nod and the two were quiet for a moment before Eleanor gave her a curious look and then started to take in the surroundings of Riley's mindscape.

"What is this place?" She asked as she stared around in wonderment.

"My mindscape. A physical projection of my mind. I can show you how to make one if you want." Riley offered in reply. She didn't get an answer as Eleanor stared up at the sky and the clouds, she seemed almost mesmerized.

Riley eyed her for a moment, then glanced up at the sky. After a moment she realized just why the sight was so astounding for Eleanor and offered the girl a smile. "Is this your first time seeing it? The sky I mean?"

"Yes. I've never seen something so... beautiful. I've only ever read about the sky in books." Eleanor replied.

"Do you want to be free?" Riley asked.

"Yes. I'd been planning my escape for months now. I came close to having a way out... but Sofia caught me and destroyed any hope I had." Eleanor replied sadly.

"I never wanted any of my children to live the life I did when I was a child. I will free you from this prison. I'll take you to the surface and I'll let you experience life as it was meant to be experienced, with nothing but your own will to guide your actions and choices in life. I'll take you home." Riley stated, her eyes locked with Eleanor's.

"I have so many questions. How did I end up here? Where is home? Do I have other family? There's so much I want to know. I've seen you in my dreams since I was old enough to have dreams. I don't know if magic is real or not, but if it helps you to free me from this place, then I hope it's real." Eleanor stated after a moment.

"When we meet, I will answer all of your questions. But until then... have faith. I'll see you soon, my dear." Riley replied to her child.

"I'll be waiting... You're my only hope of escape now." Eleanor stated as her eyes fell to the ground.

"What happened? What did Sofia destroy?" Riley inquired when she noticed the crestfallen look on Eleanor's face.

"Subject Delta. I was bonded to him, when I became a Little Sister. Sofia had him killed, ten year ago. I've been trying to bring him back to life. I came so close, before Sofia caught me. She destroyed any chance I had at reviving the one person who could have helped me." Eleanor replied sounding angry and cheated.

"Who was he?" Riley inquired.

In response, an image appeared next to Eleanor, it was a Big Daddy. This one wasn't hunched over, and didn't look nearly as mutated as the others she'd seen from the minds of the splicers.

Riley focused on the image of the Big Daddy. She felt anger in her heart at hearing of her daughter's loneliness, as it reminded her so much of her own childhood. And then... for her to lose her only friend. It reminded Riley of Shisui. Riley quite literally had to stop herself from letting out an animalistic snarl. She no longer held any reservations. She would find Eleanor and slaughter every single person that had ever done her harm.

"I will make them pay for you loss, my dear. I will show you that magic does exist, and in freeing you from your prison, I will ensure every person that has ever brought you harm, dies a most terrible death." Riley replied, Eleanor could only stare back, mesmerized by Riley demonic features and the glow of fire within her mother's veins.

"You were lost to this place, because of an accident. I will repay that failure, and ensure that the rest of your life, is filled with happiness. Hold on for just a little longer. We will meet in person, soon." Riley told her. Eleanor offered up a nod of agreement and the two separated, returning to the waking world.

Riley opened her eyes to find Katie standing next to her staring at her with a curious look.

"Riley?" Katie inquired as she glanced between Riley and the giggling Little Sister in front of her.

"Eleanor has missed you mommy. Find her and we can all go home." The child stated happily. Riley offered a nod and reached out to touch the back of the little girl's hand. A seal appeared there, which then quickly changed shape into a butterfly. The Child looked at the seal before letting out a giggle and darting off back towards the vent. Within a moment the giggling child was gone, and Riley was left staring out into space.

"Are you going to tell me what that was about?" Katie inquired.

"Eleanor Lamb is our daughter. She has a bond with all of the Little Sisters. I just spoke to her through that bond." Riley replied as she rose to her feet.

"You did? So... you know where she is?" Katie inquired with a hopeful look.

"Yes. I used the bond she had with the little sisters to form one of my own with her. I can feel her presence. It wont be hard to find her. However, there is something we need to do first." Riley responded as she rose to her feet and started to head towards the nearest door.

"What's that?" Katie asked as she followed.

"Kill every fucking splicer in this goddamn city." Riley replied with a snarl.

-Elsewhere-

Eleanor sat on a medical table in the Persephone penal colony. Nearby a group of doctors were going over her blood work. It had been nearly two hours since she had first met her true mother, or perhaps sire was a better word. In that time she had been thinking of all that she had learned recently. She had two mothers, which made having to call someone other then Delta, father a much less trying task. To her, Delta would always be her father, even if her hope of resurrecting him, had been dashed, she would always see him as such. But now she had family, Two mothers whom at this very moment, were fighting their way to her. Every few minutes or so, she would peek through the bond she now shared with Riley and see through her eyes. Her presence was always greeted with warmth from her real parent. Warmth she had never known under Sofia's cold 'caregiving'.

Every time she peaked through Riley's eyes, she witnessed the deaths of countless splicers. Her two mothers fought with unbelievable power and brutality. The splicers had no hope of stopping them. Eleanor watched as Riley speared three splicers with her tails, and then slammed them into a nearby wall. She watched through Riley's eyes, as Katie used magic to slice the leg off an advancing splicer, only to turn and draw a kunai, to block a pipe swing from another Splicer. She quickly engaged the man in a bout of physical strikes, demolishing him with her speed and strength.

She then watched as a Brute splicer charged at Riley and went to punch her with one of it's massive hands. Riley caught the fist without any difficulty at all, she then delivered her own strike to the end of the Splicer's fist causing his whole arm to explode in a shower of blood and bone. She then finished the Brute off when a bone burst from her palm and she drove it into the massive man's throat.

Occasionally beings draped in dark cloaks would emerge from the shadows armed with swords, and in a flash of steel a splicer would find his head removed, only for the wraith to vanish back into the shadows.

Eleanor allowed herself to return to the waking world, she could hear a splicer whispering to Sofia not far from where she sat.

"Mum, Gracie's calling." The splicer whispered.

Sofia nodded and walked over to a nearby terminal. It sprung to life as Grace Holloway's image appeared on the monitor.

"What is it, Grace?" Sofia Lamb softly inquired.

"Doctor Lamb, you know I wouldn't've called if there wasn't an issue. I've got two women down here in Pauper's Drop, and they're causing one heck of a racket. I don't know who they are, or where they came from. They just showed up about an hour ago and have been slaughtering my people left and right. They're tearing the Drop apart. And I've been hearing whispers of people hiding in shadows, killin' everyone." Grace replied sounding agitated and somewhat concerned.

"What do we know of these people, Grace?" Sofia inquired. All attention in the room was on the monitors, even the doctors were listening in to the conversation. Because of this, no one noticed the smirk that appeared on Eleanor's face. While Eleanor would admit that she liked Grace, the woman was one of Sofia's biggest supporters and Grace cared more for Sofia then she did Eleanor. Eleanor had stopped feeling anything positive about that woman the moment she destroyed any chance of bringing Delta back. With that in mind, anything that ruined Sofia Lamb's day was alright in Eleanor's book.

"I don't know much about the one's hiding in the shadows but the other two I've seen with my own eyes. There's two of them Doctor Lamb. One is a young woman, no older then Eleanor. Dark hair, dark eyes, and mighty pissed off about somethin'. The other... I don't even know how to describe. She's got wings, and tails. Eye's a fiery red, and her hair is dark, dark as the blackness of the sea. At first I thought they were from the surface, but they're throwing around plasmids like they're Big Sisters on an adrenaline rush." Grace replied.

Sofia stood in silent contemplation for several moments before her eyes drifted over to Eleanor whom now held a passive, submissive look on her face. Sofia stared at Eleanor for several moments almost as if she knew something. After another moment of silence she turned back to the monitor.

"Grace, I'm sending a big sister to deal with the issue. Let me know when she finishes with her work." Sofia stated.

"Yes doctor Lamb. Thank you." Grace replied and with that her image faded.

Sofia then turned to stare at Eleanor again, this time though she seemed to almost be studying her.

For several moments the room was silent, Sofia then turned to the doctors and ordered them to continue with their work. She then quickly departed.

Eleanor stared after her as those within the room returned to their duties, she couldn't help but wonder just what Sofia was thinking as she departed but for some reason it bothered Eleanor.

-Meanwhile-

Another splicer fell as Riley drove her fist through it's stomach. These splicers stood little chance against two fully realized and highly trained magical warriors and half a dozen wraiths hiding amongst them. The fact that Katie was draped in a dementor cloak and Riley was invincible didn't hurt their chances either.

The sound of gunfire filled the air as another three splicers started firing at them from a platform above Riley and Katie. Riley quickly loosed a Reducto at the platform, blasting it and those on it, away.

Another splicer jumped out from around a nearby building, he was armed with a machine gun and was prepared to loose round after round at the two women. Katie however, was reaching her wits end with the fighting. The two had been under attack for nearly an hour now, and while Riley was having the time of her life, fighting off each wave of attacking splicers and the occasional machine, Katie was becoming more and more enraged. After hearing from Riley how her daughter had been turned into a factory for production of Adam, only to form a bond with her protector, and then lose that protector to the woman who was supposed to be raising her. Now her daughter was being held against her will and experimented on. Each one of these splicers was standing in the way of Katie's daughter's freedom and it was seriously agitating her.

With that in mind, Katie whipped her arm back and fired a kunai right at the machinegun wielding splicer with all of her might. The blade hit the splicer so hard that he flew back almost ten feet.

"Damn..." Riley muttered as she watched the man go flying from her lover's strike.

Katie let out a huff as she wiped some sweat from her brow.

"You gonna be alright?" Riley inquired with a smirk as Katie gave her a look that said she did not want to play games right now. She was too pissed off and these splicers were just making it worse by not ceasing in their attacks.

"Fuck this place." Katie growled out as she drew her wand and fired a blasting curse at a nearby pillar. The pillar explode sending a female splicer that was hiding behind it, flying.

Suddenly a loud screech tore through the area. All nearby splicers turned and fled at the sound of the approaching Big Sister.

"Someone seems a little pissed." Riley noted with a chuckle as another screech filled the air.

"I couldn't give less of a shit who's pissed. I just want to find Eleanor and free her from this place." Katie replied, wand in one hand, kunai in the other.

A final screech filled the air and then something burst from a nearby door. The two women were greeted to the sight of a thin woman, covered in a metal diving suit. She sported an air tank on her back, and was sporting a large hypodermic needle from the gauntlet on her right hand. This was a Big Sister.

She let out a screech as lightning poured out of her body, over a dozen objects flew towards the enraged Big Sister, and began to circle above her head. She then let out a scream of rage and all of the objects, which included a few chairs, pieces of ruble, firearms, and a few bodies, fired towards the two at alarming speed.

Riley deflected the incoming objects with Shinra Tensei. The telekinetically fired objects slammed hard against the incoming attack, many of which shattered into pieces when caught between a telekinetic blast and a wall of gravity. With an opening now made Katie dashed towards the metal warrior.

Riley hung back and watched with keen interest as her mate abandoned all restraint and launched an all out attack on the Big Sister.

Katie quickly closed the gap and delivered a chakra enhanced punch to the Big Sister's face.

The Sister let out a screech of anger and pain as it slid back several feet from the power of the blow.

In retaliation the Big Sister blasted a barrage of fireballs at Katie. Katie was quick to dive away from the incoming attack, and aimed her wand at the Sister, a quick mutter and Katie banished the Sister away from her.

It landed twenty feet away where it raised a gloved fist towards Katie. It was only a second before Katie felt herself lift off the ground and fly towards the Sister whom had raised her dagger like needle and prepared to skewer Katie with it.

Thinking quickly, Katie Apparated fifteen feet away, appearing on top of the column she had blasted earlier. As soon as she found her feet she fired a Reducto at the Big Sister. The impact of the spell ripped a chunk of the Sister's armor off along with a portion of her diving suit.

The result was that now Katie could see some of the Sister's skin. It was a sickly grayish-green color and looked a bit translucent.

The Big Sister let out an ear splitting screech and charged at Katie. In response Katie readied a kunai and met the Sister's opening strike. The two traded blows with blade and needle, both moving faster then any normal human could hope to manage.

Meanwhile, Riley watched almost entranced by Katie's fighting resolve. She wasnt having any of this, for the second time in Riley's memory Katie was fighting with nothing but rage and Righteous fury in her heart. The only other time being after her father had died. Right about then, a bullet impacted Riley's shoulder as a group of Splicers charged at her, She had full faith in Katie's abilities and quickly charged them, knowing full well the Wraith's would step in, if Katie looked to be about to die.

Another scream of rage echoed from the Big Sister as she swiped at Katie's face with her needle, only for Katie to duck the strike and deliver and solid kick to the chest sending the sister sliding ten feet back.

Katie instantly focused her attention on the Big sister, whom had just used some form of Telekinesis to rip a large metal door off of it's hinges from nearby. It then launched the giant hunk of metal at Katie whom spun away to avoid it. Sadly she misjudged it's size and how fast the jagged hunk of metal was spinning and caught the edge of it in her side. She let out a pained gasp as she was knocked to the ground. The Dementor's cloak she wore, protected her from being sliced open by the door, but it didn't stop the bone crushing force the door had hit her with.

Katie was now on her back gasping for air, when suddenly the Big Sister let out a battle cry and dove into the air. It's aim was to drop down, right on top of Katie and drive it's needle into her neck. Just barely, Katie was able to shift her head out of the way, only getting grazed by the sharp needle.

Now pinned beneath the armored Sister, Katie did the only thing she could think of and started to stab at the opening in it's armor with the kunai she still held in her hand.

The Sister let out a screech of pain as Katie's blade sliced through it's stomach. One of it's hands quickly shot to her own but this action allowed Katie to use her other free hand to drive a fist hard into the Sister's face, sending her helmet flying. Katie was met by the sight of a woman with dark hair and yellow eyes. She looked sickly almost like she had been dead from disease for some time.

The punch had also managed to free Katie's hand that held the kunai, and in a moment of extreme clarity she brought her kunai to bare on the Sister's throat. The Strike was flawless, as blood erupted from the deep wound that the Sister now adorned on her neck. One of the Sister's hands shot to her throat to try and stop the massive blood flow, the other, armed with the needle, stabbed at Katie as the Sister thrashed about.

Katie tried to crawl out from under the Sister's thrashing body, she managed to get all but her legs out from under the Sister, when suddenly the Big Sister drove it's needle up under Katie's cloak and into her stomach. Katie let out a scream of pain as the Sister convulsed and jerked the needle free, tearing a large chunk of flesh away from Katie's stomach.

By now The Sister's blood had poured down it's body and was mixing with Katie's own, unhindered by the porous cloak Katie was adorned with.

Katie had her hands on her stomach, trying desperately to stem the bleeding, she found her eyes drifting towards the Sister's own stomach where some of it's organs were already spilling out of the massive hole Katie had cut into it with her earlier stabbing. She tried to tear her eyes away from the gruesome sight, only for them to be transfixed on something glowing inside the Sister's wound.

The glowing yellow light drifted closer and then began to exit the Sister's body revealing itself to be the body of some form of slug like creature. It almost slid out of the Sister's body, obviously dying and adorned with multiple deep lacerations, probably from Katie's earlier assault.

It fell onto Katie's open wound where it lay dying, Katie found her eyes locked with the little slug, it was still moving slightly, almost like it was breathing, greenish murky fluid exited from the wounds on it's body and into Katie's wound. Right about then, the Big Sister's body was ripped off of her by a wraith, but even then Katie couldn't take her eyes off the little slug. Even when the flaming body of a splicer flew by overhead and a blood covered Riley stepped into her peripheral, she couldn't look away.

"Katie!" Riley yelled as she pushed the slug off of Katie's body and began to run a medical scan. She had felt the echoes of pain, through her bond with Katie, and knew she had been hurt.

Meanwhile Katie's eyes just followed the little slug, she just stared at it's body almost as if contemplating something about it, she then realized what it was that drove her to stare... this thing, this little tiny thing... had destroyed an entire city merely by existing. This little slug was the cause of all of the problems here in Rapture, the mere thought had been so astounding and yet... to see it with her own eyes... It was obvious the slug held powerful magic. She could clearly feel it's power. It was then she realized something else. She wasn't in any pain any longer. Her eyes drifted to Riley whom was giving her a confused look.

"What?" Katie found herself asking as she locked eyes with her lover.

"Are you hurt? I felt your pain over the bond, but you seem fine." Riley stated, staring down at her.

"My stomach..." Katie began as her hand drifted to her stomach. She expected to feel blood pouring out of her wound, and she most definitely expected to feel more pain, but she didn't feel either of those things. In fact... she felt fine, great even. She shot to a sitting position and lifted her cloak, she was still covered in blood and greenish ooze but her stomach was fully healed.

"How is that possible?" Katie questioned aloud as she inspected her fully healed flesh.

Riley was glancing between her lover, the dead sea slug at her side, and the greenish ooze that covered her stomach. It only took Riley a moment to piece together what had happened.

"It was Adam." Riley replied as she picked up the dead slug and examined it's body. Some of the greenish goo got on her hand so she quickly used medical chakra to try and scan it. It only took a few moments for her to fully scan the substance and realize just the level of power it held.

"Adam? This goop is Adam?" Katie inquired as she studied the substance on her stomach.

"Yes. It bled out of the sea slug and into your wound. The substance itself is comprised of Stem cells, programmable stem cells. And when it entered into your body, your body took it and used it for what it needed." Riley explained as she sealed the dead slug away for future study and the glanced as Katie.

"So it healed me?' Katie inquired as she ran her hands over where the cut on her face had been only to find that it two, had fully healed.

"Yes, quite an amazing substance. We'll have to be on the lookout for more." Riley stated as she pulled Katie to her feet.

"Thanks. So... I'm not gonna end up addicted to this stuff am I? And I'm not gonna grow fish gills or something right?" Katie inquired nervously after remembering just what had happened to the denizens of Rapture.

"No... You'll be fine. The addiction to Adam comes from it quite literally being able to repair any damage done to the human body, as well as it being programmable to mutate the human body in nearly any way. It's basically pure power. Any person could become addicted to something like that, but a muggle, someone who's ability to change themselves is quite limited compared to our own abilities, is going to find Adam a much more tempting option. Not to mention the fact that it grants power to those without, in ways that aren't normally possible." Riley answered.

"So I'm good?" Katie asked.

"Yeah. We should keep our eyes open for more Adam. I'm curious to see how it would react in a magical body, one that's much more adaptable to change and alteration." Riley stated as the two continued through Pauper's Drop. Riley was glad that Katie was alright, but her natural curiosity in what could be done with Adam was starting to fill her mind with ideas. Magicals had the ability to alter their bodies transfigure themselves or other things, some could shape shift, some could alter their own form, all in all, Magicals could take alterations to their bodies much better then muggles could. So Riley was curious to see what Adam would do when introduced into the body of a magical. She also didn't tell Katie that there was something different about her. While Riley had been scanning Katie's body for a wound she had come across something odd. Katie seemed fully rejuvenated. Not only was she in perfect health, but her magical reserves were at their peak, and her stamina was at an all time high. Basically, Katie was healthier then she had ever been.

With that in mind, the two continued towards the location of the local Governor, Grace Holloway. Their only reason for coming here was to kill Grace and move on to the next of Sofia's lieutenants.

Throughout their trip, they would occasionally spot a Little Sister and her Big Daddy protector, the small sisters would always smile and wave at Riley, often pointing her out to their protectors and calling her 'mommy'. It seems Eleanor's connection to them was stronger than it appeared. The only stop Riley and Katie made along their journey was at a Gatherer's Garden in the main area of Pauper's Drop, where Riley reached into the machine using Kamui and removed as many of the Plasmids and Gene Tonics as she could.

She started to seal them away before glancing at Katie, "You want one?" Riley inquired with a smirk.

"Uh... I don't think so." Katie replied.

"You sure, I think some of these would be quite useful." Riley offered.

"I... Eh... maybe one." Katie relented, as Riley wouldn't have offered if she knew it would cause her harm. And she also remembered that Riley had given a few of those Vigors to Luna, saying they were alright to use for magicals. She wasn't wrong in that fact either, where a normal persons body was rather stagnate to change, and would react poorly to sudden changes, a magical person's body was altered and changed a lot. In Katie's case it was almost daily. She increased her strength and speed using chakra every time she trained. The Akimichi clan could increase their size exponentially, the Aburame had hives in insects living in their skin, magical bodies were highly adaptable and with Occlumency any mental problems could be easily rectified.

"Cool... How about Sports Boost and Armored Shell? They'll make you faster and tougher." Riley offered.

"Isn't that sort of redundant?" Katie inquired, as she was already fast and tough.

"One can never be too fast or tough. Besides, both of these fit in line with your skill sets." Riley replied as she held up two needles one with a dark greenish liquid and the other with a bluish liquid inside.

After a moment of thought, Katie relented and stuck her arm out. Riley injected her with both serums and watched with interest as Katie flexed her muscles uncomfortably and shifted nervously about.

It took only about six minutes for the Serum to fully run it's course, Katie spent most of that time, leaning against a wall breathing heavily. Riley watched with keen interest as she occasionally ran her fingers over Katie's arms feeling the muscles flexing and unflexing beneath her skin. When it was finished, Katie seemed to be fine.

"How do you feel?" Riley inquired, as Katie looked down at her arms and flexed her hands.

"Great. Like I could outrun you." Katie replied as she glanced at Riley.

Riley offered a nod and then immediately gave Katie a look, one that spoke of danger, Katie's eyes widened a bit but she was unprepared for when Riley slapped her across the face. She knew the strike had been coming but she was so close and Riley and struck out faster then normal so she wasn't able to block it.

"Did that hurt?" Riley inquired.

Katie was about to respond with yes, when she actually ran her hand over her cheek. The slap had been loud, the sound resonating throughout the room they were in, but it hadn't hurt at all.

"Seems like those tonics did the trick." Riley noted as she kissed Katie on the cheek and offered an apologetic smile.

"Scared the crap out of me." Katie noted as she gave Riley an unamused look. This hadn't been the first time Riley had lashed out and struck her, but that had always been during training or as a test to see if she was learning to keep her guard up. Katie learned not to take it personal a long time ago, as Riley was only ever trying to help her, as pain was one of the best teachers there was. Still didn't stop that slap from being an immensely surprising one.

"My turn?" Riley inquired as she tilted her head to offer Katie a chance to strike at her if she wanted too.

Katie gave her a look before cupping Riley's face and kissing her. They held the kiss for several seconds before parting, offering each other smiles.

"Are you going to use any?" Katie inquired as Riley began to seal most of the plasmids and tonics away.

"Only one." Riley responded as she fished out the Plasmid for Electro Bolt. She quickly injected it into her skin and felt the serum break down and dissipate in her poisonous, fiery blood. However, the magical components of the plasmid carried over. She felt Lightning begin to course through her veins alongside the fire and poison. Where Raw unrefined Adam was useless to her as her body was purely magical and thus didn't have any need for stem cells, Adam that had been refined into plasmids were useful since she could absorb their magical properties.

Riley allowed a monstrous grin to stretch across her face as Lightning began to arc off her body. It built up more and more, damaging every piece of electrical equipment for a dozen yards, before finally fading. Meanwhile Katie had just stared at her, enraptured by the electrical show she had just seen.

Riley clenched her fists several times, staring at the veins in her wrists and the lightning that now danced within, it took only a few moments before the blue lightning began to change to a red color. She then smirked and fired a massive bolt of lightning across the large main area of Pauper's Drop. The lightning tore through the diner in the center of the large open room, and barreled through the wall opposite from them. Riley let out a chuckle as she and Katie turned to head further into the Drop.

They made it about ten yards before Riley let out a chuckle and gave Katie a look.

"What?" Katie inquired.

"Let's speed this up, shall we?" Riley stated as she glanced a few feet in front of herself and opened a wormhole using Kamui, out of it burst tens of thousands of Kyrll, Riley's little demonic bird familiars.

-Meanwhile-

Grace Holloway sat in her office staring into a series of monitors. All throughout the Drop, the denizens were being ripped to shreds by swarms of what sounded like crows. Men and women were torn to pieces as the swarm tore through each room and every street. She had no clue where all of the little bastards had come from but nothing could stop them. It seems the only things that weren't being attacked were the Big Daddies and the Little Sisters. It had only been a half hour since the Big Sister had entered the Drop, and Grace hadn't heard back from it.

Suddenly she heard gunfire and cawing from outside of her office as the swarm burst into the hotel where she had set up shop. She felt sweat trickle down her cheek as the sound of gunfire quickly faded, replaced only by cawing and screams. Nothing could be done to stop the swarm of avian terrors. The defense turrets and security bots were getting absolutely shredded by the swarm and now, Gracie began to feel the cold fingers of death encroach on her soul.

In a bizarre moment of silence, Gracie could hear humming coming from outside her office door, the sound of cawing had vanished and low melodic humming drifted through the air.

Gracie stared at the door for several moments, she felt fear building in her chest and backed away towards the secret passage out of her office. Then, suddenly, her office door exploded off it's hinges, flying across the room, just barely missing her as it fell against the far wall. Riley and Katie quickly stalked inside both marching towards her with dark looks on their faces.

"It's you two. I should of known you were the cause of this." Gracie stated as she glanced past the two and out into the hotel. She spotted small black creatures perched on some railing outside her office. They were looking in at her, almost hungrily, and she suddenly felt very afraid. Her eyes then drifted back to Riley's wings and tails, and then to her eyes, her monstrous red eyes.

"Say your peace my love, then we can move on." Riley stated to Katie as she turned towards the monitors that showed all of the Drop.

"I wanted to see for myself. See what one of the few sane people left in this city looked like. You kidnap little girls and turn them into monsters... Know that I take great pleasure in freeing every single one of them from your twisted control." Katie stated and with that she turned and marched to the door. Riley offered Grace a smirk before turning to follow.

"You came here lookin' for one of the little girls right? Tell me which one it is, and I can get her back to you. No one else needs to die." Gracie offered as the two made it to the door. She had a feeling that even though they were leaving, she wouldn't be leaving this room alive.

"Eleanor. We're here for Eleanor. This city turned her into one of the Sisters. Now Sofia Lamb seeks to turn her into a slave to the people. That is something we will not allow. You'll die for what you did to her. Sofia will die for what she did to her. All of Rapture will die for what they did to her. And when the ashes have settled, we will take her to the surface where she will be free. Free to do whatever she wants in this life. Free to love whomever she wants. Free to hate whomever she wants. Free to indulge herself in whatever way that satisfies her. She will be free. As will every other child you have taken." Riley replied, and before Grace Holloway could respond, she made a motion and a wraith stepped out of the shadows beside Grace and cleaved her head off with it's sword.

"Onto the next." Riley noted as they marched out of the hotel.

"Who's next on the hit-list?" Katie inquired, not at all disturbed by Grace's beheading.

"Father Wales." Riley replied. She had compiled her hit-list from the memories of splicers. She knew where Sofia's biggest supporters were, and she was going to slaughter the woman's power structure.

Thirty minutes later, the two found themselves in Siren Alley. They were only there for a few minutes before they spotted their first splicer. It stood praying at a small shrine on the side of one of the streets. Faster then she had ever managed Katie fired a Reducto at the back of the unsuspecting splicer. The result was a shower of blood and organs.

"Nice shot." Riley offered, while Katie smiled at her lover's praise.

"Now we just need to find Father Wales." Katie stated. Riley nodded and right then a splicer ran around the corner.

"Holy Fuck! They Killed Father Wales!" He shouted.

"You Bastards!" A female splicer shouted as she ran out of the darkness.

"Oh... guess that was him. Well..." Riley stated as she fired two killing curses at the emerging splicers.

Once again, Riley unleashed the Kryll, and they tore through Siren Alley, leaving only the little Sisters and Big Daddies unharmed. There was only one person in Rapture, other then Eleanor and the Little Sisters, that the Kryll knew not to kill, and that was Brigid Tenenbaum. She was one of the people responsible for the Little Sister's creation, but she was now trying to free them and she had been working to try and help Eleanor as well. The woman was willing to repent for her crimes and at the very least, she fought Sofia. As long as she stayed out of Riley's way and continued to try and help the Little Sisters, Riley would allow her to live.

"Hey Riley, do you think there are any magicals here in Rapture?" Katie inquired.

"Why do you ask?" Riley questioned in reply, their conversation uninterrupted, even as the swarm of Kryll ripped through the alley and screams erupted from the nearby buildings.

"Well, if magicals are much more resistant to Adam's affects, I was wondering where they all are?" Katie clarified.

"Probably dead. Remember, most magicals don't leave magical society so chances are good only a few magicals would be present here, and I can guarantee most if not all of those magicals are muggleborn. My guess is that they were killed or they fled the city long ago, when shit started to fall apart." Riley replied earning a nod of agreement from Katie.

The two stood in silence for several moments before Riley gestured for them to continue.

After clearing out Siren's Alley, Riley led Katie out of one of the airlocks and onto the ocean floor. She used Kamui to keep her lover from being crushed by ocean pressure and the two enjoyed a nice stroll across the murky depths. Katie, for her part, was absolutely dazzled by the whole experience. She was utterly blown away by the sights of the underwater depths, yet she maintained a very firm grasp on her lover as the two walked through the water. Katie knew that if Riley let go of her, she'd be crushed instantly by the weight of the ocean.

The only time the two stopped was for Riley to scoop up one of the Adam producing Slugs that lay resting on the sediment. She held onto it, as they made their way to Dionysus Park where their next target lay waiting.

The park itself was flooded but it's one inhabitant stayed alive, sealed in an airtight chamber. That person, was Stanley Poole, a reporter whom sold Eleanor to the people that turned her into a Little Sister. He thought that Sofia and her splicers were unaware of his betrayal, but he was wrong, they knew, and Sofia had chosen not to kill him for it. All of her splicers knew not to kill Stanley should he choose to ever show himself. Riley and Katie had other ideas however.

-Meanwhile, Ten minutes later-

"Wow." Eleanor muttered as she watched through Riley's eyes, as she beat the life out of Stanley Poole, the one whom was responsible for turning her into a Little Sister.

She had watched as her two mothers killed their way too her and instead of feeling sickened by the acts, she found herself excited. Everyone that had ever hurt her, was being put to death by her mothers, they killed them because of what they did to Eleanor. This was true justice. The innocent, Like the Little Sisters and their protectors were spared, but all those that were guilty were put to the sword.

Eleanor couldn't help the smile that spread across her face. As her mothers drew closer, she peaked more and more into Riley's head. Riley didn't seem to mind Eleanor nosing about. And Riley even taught her a few things by giving Eleanor a look at memories that Riley brought to the forefront of her mind, for her to view.

By now, she knew what Riley was, and any doubt about magic, had faded with Riley's and Katie's displays of power. Even now, the genius that was Eleanor, sat in her room drawing up her own Youki, allowing it to flow to the surface for the first time in her life. Knowing that she was a half demon, and seeing and feeling how to use the power through Riley, allowed her to quickly learn to manipulate it within herself. It was raw and unrefined, but she was learning at an incredible rate. After all she had the collective minds of hundreds of people in rapture, some of the best minds in the world.

It had come as quite a shocker to Eleanor when she learned about her reason for being in Rapture. The accident with her half sister, Elizabeth and the fact that Riley and Katie weren't her real birth mothers. It was all quite surprising, and yet... to learn that they still wanted her, that they still saw her as their child even though she was just a possibility for them... it brought a smile to her face. They chose her. That was all that mattered.

Eleanor glanced up from her hands and allowed the swirling red power that was her Youki to return to her body, she could see outside of her chamber, that Sofia was arguing with a handful of splicers. It seems they hadn't yet heard back from dearest Gracie, and now Siren Alley had gone silent. Eleanor shook her head, and allowed her mind to drift back towards Riley's. For weeks now, Eleanor had all but given up hope of ever being free from this place. After Sofia destroyed the last few samples of Delta's DNA, Eleanor had given up on ever seeing her protector again. But now... after learning a bit from Riley's memories, her hope began to return. If all she needed was Delta's soul, to bring him back... then perhaps there was still a way for Eleanor to get all that she wanted in life. Her freedom, her true family, and her father.

-Thirty Minutes Later-

Riley and Katie soon found themselves in Persephone. Being able to walk through walls ensured that nothing could hinder their advance. Later on, Riley would send her familiars to deal with Gilbert Alexander but in his current, insane state, he wasn't much of a threat or even much of a nuisance. His influence didn't extend beyond Fontaine Futuristics, so neither one of them felt a need to pursue the man when Eleanor was so close by.

-Meanwhile-

Eleanor sat on her bed, humming to herself as she watched through Riley's eyes as she got closer and closer. It would only be a few minutes before they finally met in person and Eleanor couldn't be happier. It was then that her chamber door opened and Sofia strolled in. With Riley and Katie so close, Eleanor didn't even bother to hide the scowl that crossed her face.

"Yes?" Eleanor inquired giving Sofia a look as the woman, whom was the cause of all of her life's miseries stood before her.

Sofia was quiet as she glanced between Eleanor and a few sheets of paper in her hands.

It was a quiet, tense moment before Sofia stepped forward and offered the papers to Eleanor. "Do you remember these?" Sofia inquired, staring down at Eleanor, her sharp, cold, analyzing eyes, revealing nothing of her intentions.

Eleanor took the sheets and glanced at them, she found that they were drawings. Old drawings that Eleanor had made long ago. She remembered these, they depicted Eleanor holding hands with an angel with dark wings. She now knew that, that angel was Riley, a small smile appeared on her face as she looked through the handful of drawings. The last one showed a younger Eleanor holding hands with a Big daddy, Delta, and Riley. She allowed herself a few moments to remember those times, her time with Delta and when she felt so free.

After a few moments, she allowed the smile to fade and looked up to lock eyes with Sofia.

"I remember. I remember making all of these." Eleanor replied.

"The winged woman..." Sofia began, but Eleanor cut her off, unwilling to play Sofia's games, and being entirely fed up with her confinement.

"My mother." Eleanor corrected sharply.

Sofia's response told Eleanor all she needed to know. The very minute twitch of Sofia's lips, the narrowing of her eyes.

"You found me once upon a time, and raised me to be your perfect little utopian, now my real mothers are here... and they're going to kill you." Eleanor snarled as she shot to her feet, her eyes becoming slitted as anger washed over her.

Sofia found herself taking a step back at the murderous look in Eleanor's eyes. How could she have known? No one in all of Rapture knew that Eleanor wasn't her real child. All of the doctors were either killed or loyal to her, and her alone. No one knew Eleanor wasn't born from her.

Long ago, Sofia Lamb had found a baby girl crawling on the beach. The child couldn't be more then a year old. She had taken the child in and raised it as her own. Brought it with her to Rapture, and taught the baby to be just like her. She couldn't fathom how Eleanor had learned the truth.

Suddenly, shouting filled the room outside of the chamber, Sofia spun around right as something burst into the area outside of Eleanor's bed chambers. A team of splicers opened fire, at whatever it was only for their bullets to stop short of their marks.

There, standing in the center of the room, were two women. One was adorned in a ghastly black cloak, she had dark hair and her dark eyes were alight with righteous fury. The other was an Angel. She was also adorned in a dark cloak, her Pitch black wings, glowed with fire and lightning dancing through them. This woman's eyes were glowing red and filled with a mesmerizing pattern. Around her feet swayed six tails, all with their scales flexed and ready to shred anyone unfortunate enough to be struck with them.

Suddenly, Lightning wrapped around Riley's body, arcing between her wings. It then blasted outward towards her opponents, delivering lethal doses of electricity to the team of splicers, killing all twelve of them instantly.

Riley and Katie started to advance as two Big Sisters, fell from the ceiling rafters and took up battle positions. They both began to charge up attacks, but neither was fast enough to dodge as Riley lashed out. She rushed forward and seized one by the throat, while one of her tails shot forward, the tentacles at it's end unfurling to ensnare the other Sister's head.

With little resistance, Riley punched her hand through the body of the Big Sister that she held, while the other was killed instantly as a bone burst out from where her tail separated into the tendrils, and speared through the other sister's face.

After that, Riley casually tossed the two corpses aside and released the Kryll for a third time. They swarmed into the vent shafts and flooded Persephone, killing every splicer they came across.

With that done, Riley and Katie stormed into Eleanor's bed chambers and confronted the one that had made their daughter's life hell.

"Hello, Sofia." Riley greeted as one of her tails shot forward and grabbed Sofia Lamb by the throat.

Meanwhile, Eleanor and Katie were staring at each other. Eleanor looked a lot like Katie, her dark hair and her face were very similar to her birth mother's though Eleanor's blue eyes were something unique. Then again, she did use to be a Little Sister, so the pale blue eyes, weren't all that shocking.

"Hello Eleanor, My name is Katie Bell, Riley says you've been watching us, it's nice to finally meet face to face." Katie offered in greeting, only slightly nervous as she stood before her child. Katie didn't exactly know how to feel at this moment. When watching Luna and Elizabeth interact, it was obvious that the two had a bond. You could tell that they were related in some way with how they acted around one another. So when it was Katie's turn to go hunting for her own child, she jumped at the chance. Elizabeth was such a sweetheart. She was kind, inquisitive, a bit snarky like Riley, and all in all, Elizabeth was just someone whom seemed so in love with the concept of life. Katie wanted to know what her own child would be like, and now she had the chance. Now she stood before her daughter, and she hoped that they could be friends like Luna and Elizabeth were. After all, it was obvious that Eleanor was basically an adult, she was probably older then Katie by now.

"It's nice to meet you Katie. Mama Riley has such beautiful thoughts about you." Eleanor replied. Her response drew a bit of a blush from Katie as she glanced over at Riley whom was currently staring down Sofia with a monstrous glare.

"So... you're my birth mother... or well... you could be..." Eleanor stated, not quite sure how to address that fact.

"Oh, uh... you know about that?" Katie inquired as she shot another glance at Riley whom tapped the side of her head and gave Katie a knowing look.

"Yes. I looked into some of Mama Riley's memories while you journeyed here. I know about Elizabeth, and her abilities. And I know you two haven't actually had me yet. But you could." Eleanor replied, earning a nod of understanding from Katie.

"This reunion is a beautiful thing, and as much as I'd like to enjoy it, a piece of filth needs to be dealt with first." Riley stated drawing both of the woman's attention to her and Sofia.

"Yes, what shall we do with her?" Katie inquired as she and Eleanor stepped up next to Riley, whom still had her tail clasped around Sofia's throat.

"Let's hear from her, shall we?" Riley suggested as she released Sofia whom fell to the floor gasping for air. The three women stared down at her for several moments as she recovered and crawled to her feet.

"Eleanor, I only ever did what I thought was best for everyone..." Sofia began but Eleanor cut her off.

"Except for me!" Eleanor snapped, years of hurt and pain, echoing through her voice.

"Sacrifice..." Sofia began but Eleanor cut her off again.

"My Sacrifice! Not yours! I never had a choice. I never got the chance to live my life. From the day you took me in, I was your tool. Nothing but a chess piece for you to maneuver and manipulate. All I ever wanted in my life was the ability to choose. I always enjoyed helping people. I always thought it was better to help other's and uplift the downtrodden. You taught me these things... but then you went and twisted it. Helping people was just something done because I felt like it. Then you had to go and make it my duty! You had to make me hate helping people! Make me hate putting others before myself! After all these years, the only person I want to help right now is me!" Eleanor screamed in Sofia's face. Once upon a time, Eleanor would have had no problem calling Sofia mother. The ideology of helping other's and putting other's before yourself wasn't a bad thing, but when it was forced onto Eleanor and it became her whole life, that was when it drove the two of them apart.

"You took the one person I ever cared for, away from me. And when I tried to bring him back, you destroyed my only hope of ever seeing him again. Call me selfish, call me naïve, call me whatever you want... but I hate you. I hate you with all of my heart. If I never help another person in my life, it'll be because of you." Eleanor finished her tirade as she wiped a few tears from her eyes.

During all of this, Sofia stood quietly. It was obvious to Katie and Riley, despite what she had done, Sofia was not an 'evil' person. She was wrong, and she had done wrong. But it was obvious that she cared for Eleanor. After a few moments, Riley let out a sigh. She then stood in front of Sofia and locked eyes with the woman.

"You don't know me. And I sure as shit don't wanna know you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to take Eleanor to the surface, and I'm going to let her be free. I'll spend the rest of my life encouraging her to do whatever the fuck she wants with her life. If she becomes a killer, I'll teach her how to hone her skills. If she becomes a philosopher, then I'll speak with her on the meanings of life and love. And if she just wants to laze about and stroll through life fucking whomever she wants, fighting whomever she wants, doing whatever fancies her in that moment, then I'll stand by her side and enjoy the party as well. The point is... it'll be her choice, and I... as her parent, will support her. I'll offer my wisdom, and I'll help guide her away from trouble... but I'll let her choose her life. To me... that is your biggest failing. That is why I'm going to kill you. You tried to take that from her. You did take that from her. For every year of her life, that you took away her right to choose... It's for those years that I'm going to kill you." Riley stated very clearly and very plainly. She didn't mince words and in a rare showing, she didn't try to instill fear into Sofia. Riley spoke the god honest truth of how she felt.

"I don't know you. I don't know what led to that baby being abandoned on that beach, but I took her in, and I raised her as my own. Say whatever you wish, and think whatever you wish, but I love my daughter." Sofia stated. She too, was very bold and very straightforward. Which was surprising considering the fact that she was literally standing before death incarnate.

"Make no mistake, Sofia Lamb... I know you love Eleanor. And it's because of that... that I'm going to make your death painless. You were wrong. You were terribly wrong. You kidnapped children from the surface to feed your army of sycophants and fanatics. You helped cause the fall of this city, and instead of rebuilding it, you chose to let it and it's denizens die, just so you could create your perfect Utopian. You sacrificed Eleanor's love. You gave away the love of a child, to try and save the rest of the world. Some may call that noble... I am not one of those people. To me, family is everything." Riley replied as she drew her wand and placed it to Sofia's chest. Eleanor stood nearby with tears streaming down her face. A part of her, deep down, still cared for Sofia, but as she had witnessed through Riley, the guilty needed to be punished. Sofia was guilty. She needed to face judgment.

"And what about the innocent people? What about all of those that could benefit from your power? You fought your way through this entire city... imagine the good you could have done if you used that power to help others. What about those that need your help?" Sofia stated, her eyes never leaving Riley's.

"Fuck 'em. That's my response. I'll help those in need, but I'm not giving up my life for the poor and downtrodden in the world. I'm no hero, and I never claimed to be. I'm a monster. A manipulative, corrupt, devious monster, and I take great pleasure in hurting my enemies. I use my power to help those I care for. I'll use all of my abilities to benefit my allies and friends. But I wont be the world's bitch. I lived on those streets... I know what it's like to go hungry, I know what it's like to suffer. I'll fight for those, that fight for themselves. I'm no Utopian, and I'll never claim to be. I'm the monster, that hides in the shadows. The thing all men fear. I am judgment." And with that a green bolt of energy burst from the tip of Riley's wand and Sofia fell to the ground, lifeless.

There was a moment of silence as the three woman stared down at Sofia Lamb's lifeless body. Finally, Riley turned to Eleanor and placed a hand on her shoulder, "Are you alright?"

"Yes. I thought it would be harder, seeing her die. But it wasn't. Like a passing dream." Eleanor replied as she wiped away the remainder of the tears in her eyes.

"If you need to talk, we're here for you. I know we don't know each other very well, but I'd like to change that." Katie offered, earning a smile of gratitude from Eleanor.

Meanwhile, Riley was absorbing Sofia's soul. She looked through the woman's mind, seeing all of the actions of her life, she was searching for something in specific, something that she could give Eleanor to make her feel better. After a moment, Riley smirked.

A few moments passed by, when a single Kryll flew into the room, carrying with it, a vial of red liquid.

"What's that?" Katie inquired as both of the woman turned their attention to the Kryll, Eleanor more interested in the murky black, avian demon, and it's fascinating appearance.

"What is probably that last bit of Subject Delta's DNA." Riley replied as she took the vial.

"What?!" Eleanor nearly shouted.

"Sofia gathered this up after she destroyed the sample you had found. She figured she could use it as a bargaining chip if you started to rebel again." Riley replied as she handed the vial to Eleanor whom stared at it with reverence.

"Thank you! Thank you so much, I can never thank you enough for this." Eleanor yipped with glee as she hugged Riley tightly, earning a smile from Katie.

"No need to thank me. I knew how much he meant to you, I didn't expect to find anything, but I figured I might as well check." Riley replied with a shrug as Eleanor darted out of the room to find one of Rapture's most insane technological advancements, A Vita Chamber. To the denizens of Rapture, they were rejuvenation centers. But Riley had just learned through Sofia's memories, that they had another use. Each Vita Chamber was keyed into the genetic signature of one Andrew Ryan, and they all had the ability to bring him back from the dead, if he were killed within a certain radius of the chamber.

Rapture had many technological marvels, and now that Eleanor had been found, Riley was certainly interested in plundering the sunken city of it's treasures, especially those Vita Chambers.

It was about two hours later, when Eleanor finished her work. Riley and Katie had just sat back and watched as Eleanor tinkered with and worked on a Vita Chamber. She was busy Calibrating it to Subject Delta's genetic frequency. Riley could feel her daughter's excitement grow as she grew closer and closer to getting the Chamber to work.

Finally she took a step back, and let out a content sigh. She then took the vial of Delta's blood and placed it in the chamber, before turning it on. The three woman watched in amazement as the chamber lit up and let out a loud cracking noise. It only took a few moments but the chamber finally split open, spitting out a massive figure covered in a diving suit.

Eleanor's face was one of utter joy as Subject Delta stepped out of the chamber.

"Father... do you remember me?" Eleanor inquired as she reached out to him. There was a tense moment before a loud bellow could be heard from the metal man. He then reached his large hand out to her. Eleanor placed her hand in his, it was tiny by comparison, but the massive figure was very gentle with her.

"Father, I would like you meet Mama Riley and Mama Katie. Ladies, this is my father, Subject Delta." Eleanor introduced the three.

"That would be an interesting three way." Riley commented with a chuckle.

"You couldn't resist, could you?" Katie asked as she scoldingly slapped Riley's arm.

"You know me." Riley replied with another chuckle.

Katie just shook her head, while Eleanor beamed at all of them, happy to have her family whole and together.

"And the family grows even larger." Kurama noted.

"Hey, Kurama, You've been awfully quiet in there. What are you three up too?" Riley inquired as she heard the Fox speak for the first time in hours.

"We've been busy playing Monopoly in here, we just finished our game. So... everything done?" The Fox replied.

Riley stood in silence for several moments as she envisioned Kurama, Hashirama, and Madara sitting around a table playing Monopoly. Suddenly she fell to the ground, laughing wildly, causing the other three in the room to stare at her dumbfounded.

"Is she always like that?" Eleanor inquired.

"Oh, you have no idea." Katie replied with a chuckle. Their trip to Rapture was coming to a close, and while it had been short, the things Katie had seen here would stay with her for years to come. She looked forward to getting to know her daughter and to enjoying the rest of her summer. There was still a wedding to enjoy, and Katie was sure it was going to be eventful.

To be Continued-

Alright, so that was a long ass chapter. Again I apologize for this taking so long, but I have started going through my earlier chapter and correcting some minor mistakes and also adjusting a few sentence here or there for better flow. For those who enjoy rereading, I hope you find it easier on the eyes. Next chapter, we'll finish up with rapture, shouldn't be more then a couple paragraph. We'll get Eleanor and Delta to Britain, and we'll enjoy Riley and Daphne's wedding. Afterwards, it's time to start move to the elemental nations and meet up with Gaia again. Hope you all enjoy and no it wont take me as long to update this time i promise. expect another one within a week. There I said it, now I have to follow through, otherwise I'm a liar.

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