A blinding light cascaded over Celene's hideout, a light that pierced through every shadow and gave a gentle warmth to all those it touched, a divine light. But the light didn't stay forever, the light swirled around the room it revolved and orbited around the center of the room. A cocoon of light hovered in the center of the room, the light started to crack and a roar filled the room. The large brute of a man spasmed wildly, his jaw unhinged as the ground beneath him crated and he dashed at the cocoon. The logs he called arms slamming against the cocoon and bouncing off.
The woman clicked her teeth as she watched on in agitation, her teeth chattered and chattered as she gripped and clawed at her own hair until she was drawing blood from her own lip. " So there's chaos in you.... who even are you!?" She screamed.As if in response that cocoon of light shattered in a violent burst of light, the man skidding back as the force of the explosion sent him reeling back. A pair of pure white feathered wings outstretched from the falling remnants of the cocoon. A cradled woman unfurling and standing midst the air. Long sky blue hair ran down to the middle of the tall woman's back, a prism shaped halo was hovering around the crown of her head, a silver armor adorned her forelimbs over top of a plated bodysuit, her crystalline purple gaze looked down upon the two interlopers as she swung her wings and a gust of wind sent debris whirling around the room.
" I am Sarah, Archangel of the goddess of love, there is no chaos in me as I know me and love me and none shall die under my protection. " Her voice was soft yet demanding, loving but overbearing.
As she spoke she rose her palm and a feathered quill pen shimmered into existence. She clutched it as it fell into her hand writing midst the air runes were being written upon the air, they glowed with the same divine light that once encapsulated her, it spiraled around the air the runes outlined the shape of a large staff tipped with what looked like an axe along with a pointed spear, a halberd. The runes shimmered and condensed transforming into a long ornate halberd that Sarah gripped in her left hand the pen still gripped in her right. Her wings flapped and made her jump in the air before a second flap made her barrel through the air towards the woman, her legs sliced and kicked through the air as she spun and brought her halberd down splitting the air as it went to cleave her in two.
The halberd was brought down on her but the brute rushed into the path, he pushed the woman out of the way and left the halberd's swing to cut right through his arm. His severed arm dropped to the ground, the lone limb squirmed and flailed against the ground and yet the brute himself didn't grimace. A growl came from him as it swung its remaining arm, it slammed into Sarah's side sending her reeling slightly back into the air her wings flapped to stabilize her. The woman staggered after being pushed out of the way, her gaze fixated on the severed arm that lay against the floor. Her eyes widened and her mind raced her head twitched, her eyes convulsed.
"Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, how dare-"
" Combust" Sarah's voice reverberated in the air as her hand finished writing a series of runes and in the next moment that arm burst into flames, bubbling and festering into ash.
She watched in utter helplessness as that arm got reduced to ashes. Tears ran down her masked face.
" I'll kill you! I'll hang you by your entrails and let the crows have their way with you!" She screamed as the artificial talons on her fingers oozed an assortment of green, brown and even purple liquids as she darted off the ground.
Like a feral animal she clawed and lashed out, the liquids that coated her talons flinging off the cool metal, Sarah deftly avoided slash after slash like a graceful dance she spiraled through the air avoiding each blow. Their dance increased in tempo and ferocity the mad woman practically foaming at the mouth as she set her feet against the ground. Stabbing one of the vials that dangled off of her hip her talons became coated in a red fluid, she raised her hand before she grabbed her own neck, as if choking herself her talons pierced her skin. As her claws sank into her skin her veins began to throb, her neck pulsing red as the strange liquid invaded her body, tunneling through her veins her eyes began to roll back. Soon every vein in her body was surging red and her eyes were glossed over. Sarah watched on as the woman injected herself, a dejected frown appeared on her face.
" You poor thing, you put all that love into that thing and left known for yourself. Pathetic." She somberly lectured as her quill began to scribble, writing midst the air but as she wrote it multiplied. The air around her became filled with countless glowing runes each growing in length the more she wrote. "Crash." The word echoed throughout the room, all the runes shining brightly before they suddenly cracked.
The runes shuddered, cracks formed in the runes, individual lines fell out of order and dissipated, their luster became dull as they fell out of orbit. Blood trickled out of Sarah's mouth, her eyes widened and her quill fell from her hand as she covered her mouth to cough. Her blood painted her palm but it wasn't alone, along with it a strange black and purple slime festered and bubbled against her hand. She tried to grab her quill once more but as she reached down the feral woman bolted through the air towards her, she raised her halberd and blocked the laced slash, but her movements had slowed, the feathers on her wings wilted as the woman's pace picked up. Slash after slash her claws ripped and lacerated her halberd swipe after swipe from her rabid pace left Sarah's halberd covered in acidic liquids. The metal handle started to dissolve, the ornate metal became brittle and fragile. With a deranged scream and a feral lunge the woman drooled, her mouth hung open and she brought her claws slashing down splitting Sarah's halberd and bits of the armor that sat upon her chest. The blow sent Sarah crashing into the ground her armor and halberd in pieces around her.
" Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill. " The woman repeated over and over, her heels clacked against the ground as she stomped towards the angel.
Her arms hung limp at her side, a slow march towards the fallen angel. Those poisons dripped off her blood soaked talons the ground beneath her dissolved along her path, each step made her body saunter to the side resulting in a heavy sway.
Sarah's own labored breathing filled her ears, looking up to see the woman sauntering towards her she stretched out her hand. Runes spiraled around the two broken halves of her halberd they coalesced and repaired the broken handle as it reformed back into one. She took firm hold of her weapon and jammed it into the ground, she pushed her weight onto it and brought herself to her feet. Her wings flapped and stretched out behind her, they had lost their luster, as if they had been plucked they were in tatters and many of her remaining feathers bubbled and festered with that same slime she had coughed up.
The two women locked eyes with each other, their feet planted firmly in the ground as they both dashed at the other. Claws slashed against Sarah's halberd, a flurry of blows being thrown back and forth. A claw swiped down at Sarah slicing towards her face, she brought her wing down to shield herself, the laced talon tore into her feathers as she spun on her back foot yanking the claw out of her and planting her heel into the woman's stomach kicking her back and dashing after her. She jabbed her halberd into the air and launched herself into the air, her hand ran up the handle before she grabbed the blade and threw it into the air above her, the halberd flicked into the air. It spun time and time again as it ascended above Sarah until she matched its form, she grabbed the handle and spun with it bringing it and herself barreling back towards the ground in a powerful slash. Her slash was met with lashes of green toxins being slashed at her, the imprint of two powerful slashes shot towards her. She braced herself and slashed through the attack her face and body singed from the decision to not dodge such an attack but the path of her halberd remained unchanged, it came crashing down onto the woman... or it should have.
A heavy thick weight was felt instead of what should have been flesh, her halberd had slammed down onto a large black wispy mass. It cracked and skittered and took the vague shape of a massive paw, gripping and tugging on the blade of the halberd it was attached to the brute of a man. Where his severed arm should have been was instead a large black mass, it seemed to be in constant motion, it swirled and crackled as it began to surge forward. The dark recreated arm climbed onto the halberd as if infecting it, it ran down the blade to the handle of Sarah's halberd and into her hands. The darkness grabbed onto her, she tried to pull her hands away but they were tugged right back in. The substance started to run up her arms, it was like millions of ants were invading her body, crawling and skittering under her skin her eyes went wide. Pulling and tugging a violent scream erupted from her as she felt her skin itching, her body being invaded by millions of foreign elements biting and ripping beneath her skin. As if she was being eaten alive from the inside the feeling ran further up it started to reach her forearms when a voice broke through the fear that was coursing through her body." It's done! Do it now!" A familiar voice echoed from the opposing wall.Looking over Celene was sweating as she stood next to a pink shimmering door, Sarah's eyes widened but the escape from the feeling of terror and fear was short lived. Being tugged further into that black mess her skin crawled and popped when suddenly a bolt of purple light crashed into her, it ripped her hand away from her halberd and the black mass that had started to infect her arms and carried her barreling through the air straight through the newly formed door.