(A/N: Late on this, but I've been busy with a group presentation. I'm not saying anything, but I understand why some people commit murder. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. I'm working with mentally challenged animals.)
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It was a terrible scene. Multiple craters, the occasional earth-shaking impact, and the light show in the sky with yellow and white light. Artoria wasn't letting up in the slightest. She was pushing as many magicules as she could into all of her actions. Her dragon heart was putting in work.
Guy, on the other hand, wasn't taking it lying down, but he was on the defensive. It wasn't that he was purely defensive, but it was more like no attack he threw worked on Artoria. And he was very cautious around her sword and lance. It wouldn't be an instant kill, but it might as well be close to it.
Artoria was working in tandem with Excalibur and Rhongomyniad. She wasn't holding them both at the same time, but the way she was fighting was almost unpredictable. She took advantage of the fact that she could summon and de-summon her weapons at will. A swing from Excalibur? Suddenly followed up by a thrust from Rhongomyniad immediately after, fresh motes of light came off from its summoning, only to disappear again.
"Enough!" Guy shouted as everything around him suddenly stopped. Even Artoria. This was his moment. He had had enough, but it was time to stop playing.
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'I was waiting for this, but not yet. Not yet. Get closer, you red-skinned, sulfur-ridden, horned bastard.'
Artoria thought to herself as she stayed completely still while watching Guy get closer to her. She "shut" herself off completely, stopping any trace of magicules leaking from her. It's not that she needed it, since she could just move instantly with no build-up using Torrent of Light, but anything to make him drop his guard by the tiniest bit.
Guy got closer and closer, but stopped just a bit away. There was no risk of getting closer; he could do it right here. Since she was frozen, she couldn't counter anything he did. Guy raised his hand, and a black flame appeared. He crushed it instantly, sending a wave of black light across his surroundings and heading towards Artoria.
'Alright, he wants to play like that? Fine. Let's use the element of surprise.'
Artoria's eyes and head moved to look at Guy.
"Too late," Guy muttered as he noticed her movement. There was a slight suspicion, but he had already made his move.
The black light hit Artoria, but she stood there, unfazed.
"So, what was that supposed to do?"
Artoria asked, and for just a moment, the battle temporarily stopped as they looked at each other. Guy narrowed his eyes as he saw that nothing happened to her. Around them, everything died, but luckily, this was mostly a barren field of rock, so what little life there was was gone.
"Ah, I see, an instant death ability, right? So, you think an instant death ability is enough to kill me? You might need to reexamine your mental capabilities and judgment."
Guy said nothing as he unleashed massive, infernal flames shaped like dragons towards Artoria. All this was still in stopped time, but it didn't matter to them. It lit up the area for miles in a red-orange glow.
The flames hit Artoria, but she simply walked through them all, heading towards Guy. Not even burn marks were appearing on her. As she walked, she summoned Rhongomyniad.
"Sacred Lance, release your anchor."
Instantly, from the flames, a bright, white light broke through. The timestop effect was shattered, and the flames ceased to be. A domain set up by Avalon was instantly set up around them, stopping anything from interfering and locking them in place.
Guy resorted to trying to get out by using his spatial motion, but nothing worked. He was trapped, and the only thing he could do was defend.
A column of light descended from the sky, the clouds parting to make way for it.
"This is perfect for a demon like you, Guy. Holy Judgement," Artoria said as she disappeared in a burst and headed towards Guy. While it was coming down, she would make him focus on two things: her and the smite from the sky.
With his movement restricted by the barrier, Artoria was able to hold him in place with her strength being boosted by her magicules. It was an intense struggle, with both her and Guy's auras colliding and smashing against each other as they faced off, sending sparks and transparent, wave-like leaks of magicules all around them. Web-like cracks spread on the ground.
As the Holy Judgement descended, Atoria put Guy directly in its path. She would be fine, but not so much Guy. With one last struggle, Guy poured all he could, but Artoria was able to keep up. The sheer amount of magicules they were radiating, along with their aura, would've killed almost anyone just by being there.
Holy Judgement finally descended, hitting both of them, but Guy took it all head-on. The barrier kept up, making sure everything was contained in this small area, which only made it more dangerous, since all the focus was more focused on that area.
What felt like forever was only a few moments before everything subsided. Artoria was standing fine, but Guy was pinned to the ground. Excalibur was driven straight through his chest all the way to the hilt. It not only pierced Guy, but also embedded into the earth below. Even with the blade not visible, its intense glow was shining through from below the ground and through Guy.
In Artoria's hand, she held Rhongomyniad again. She calmly walked forward to where Guy was still struggling to move. Rhongoymiad split apart, and slowly, the area around them started to change. Reality was slowly being torn apart, with the center being Rhongomyniad. As she got closer, reality was also being torn apart.
First, it was Guy's feet, then his legs, then his waist, then his chest, then his neck, and finally, his head. Artoria simply stared him down as he was slowly erased, with the same glare back. Nothing was said, not that Artoria would've cared. To her, he was nothing more than a loose end and a threat to her family, something to get rid of as soon as possible. And now, she did. This world was better off without Rouge anyway, in her opinion.
Once he was gone, she stopped Rhongomyniad, and everything was slowly put back together. She unsummoned Excalibur and Rhongomyniad and finally deactivated the barrier.
She looked around at the aftermath and destruction of her battle, and nodded, satisfied that she had set up the barrier when she did. Who knows what would've happened? And though it may have been a rocky landscape, there was still beauty in nature. Something like the Grand Canyon.
With a weight off her shoulders, she could finally go back home.
"What did you do?"
An icy voice resounded across the land. This only made Artoria sigh in frustration and annoyance.
"Velzard, I will not hesitate to put another True Dragon in their place. I did it with Velgrynd, and I'll do it with you. As for what I did, I made Rouge disappear. He will never appear again," Artoria told Velzard before she looked away and went home. Or at least tried.
The temperature dropped drastically, and ice spread over the landscape rapidly.
"So, you killed him?"
The same icy voice resounded, dripping with threat and held-back aggression.
"No, I didn't kill him, I erased him, there's a big difference. To get to the point, there are only six primordial demons now," Artoria said as she kept walking away, not caring about Velzard.
The temperature dropped even further.
"Oh my…fine, what's going on? Were you that close to him, or something? What I know is that you're just friends with him and close partners. Well, you were close friends and partners, but not anymore. You wouldn't get this mad and emotional unless you've developed romantic feelings for him, and by how you're acting, you have," Artoria exclaimed as she turned around, only to see Velzard shaking and radiating icy mist. She turned around and ignored her. She'd calm down eventually. She was only clouded by her emotions. Once she calms down, she'd realize that Artoria is not one to pick a fight with after she realizes what happened to Guy.
Unfortunately, she underestimated her emotions.
Velzard clenched her fists. "I'll do the same to you. You took away Guy; I'll take away someone from you."
Artoria stopped and fully straightened her posture. She turned her head to look back, her eyes glaring and changed, filled with barely restrained fury.
"You're married to that mystic oni, right? I'll make you feel what I do."
Artoria instantly used Avalon to set up a barrier around them.
"You're not leaving this place. I'll take my time with you. You're older brother is gone, so what's one less True Dragon in this world?"
For the tiniest moment, a small, red spark appeared on her gauntlets as she glared at Velzard, aggressively and tightly gripping Excalibur.