Clenching his teeth and praying to the "All Holy" he rose to his feet and spun around. With he left hand over the gushing wound on the right side of his chest, and his right hand clutching his sword, he strained to see where his attacker had went. An evil laugh made him spin around, sword ready, only to see the demoness holding her blood covered sword. Slowly a grin spread across her lips as she lifted her blade to them and her tongue darted out, licking some of the blood from the blade. The angel had to fight the urge to turn away in disgust so he wouldn't loose track of the demoness.
As the demoness lowered her blade and herself into an attack stance she licked her lips trying to break the angel's concentration as he too lowered into his stance. The angel's wound now fully heal allowed him to give is full attention to the demoness and her movements. The duo circled each other for what seemed like an eternity studying the other, hoping to see a weakness to exploit. When none came the over eager demoness sprang forward, slashing and hacking at the angel hoping to use brute force to make an opening. The angel however was not going to be pushed back anymore than an ant would hope to push a mountain. He stood his ground blocking every attack the demoness launched at him. The angel decided it was time to end this and began counter attacking using all the speed and grace he could muster and till block the attacks. Several counters found a home on the demoness, and after several minutes of sword play retreated back a few feet to rethink her strategy. The angel took this time to rest himself and check over the wounds he inflicted.
To his complete and utter shock he looked over the demoness and saw not so much as a scratch. The demoness grinned with pleasure as the gawking angel looked over her. The angel realize that he wasn't the only one in this fight with a quick healing rate. He knew before he even acted that his strike would have to be for the kill. The demoness not expecting an attack so soon after their last melee was caught off guard as the angel released a fury of energy balls at her. She screamed as she raised her arms and closed her eyes to block the first ball expecting it to hit her dead on only to be surprised as the ball hit the ground at her feet sending up thousands of shards of rock in her direction. More than half were harmlessly batted away by the demoness but the ones that were left made deep cuts as they passed by her. The second ball however hit her square and began to push her backwards as she used her hands to keep the energy balls from exploding. As she was being pushed back by the second bolt, the third exploded into the second added to it's force and momentum, pushing hard at the now straining demoness. The demoness dug her feet into the solid earth to get a better footing and to keep from being pushed back. As she held off the bolt she began to lift it up into the air over her head, she had the bolt almost completely diverted over her head when a fourth even stronger bolt hit her added to the already forceful bolt she was holding off.
The force of the combined bolts was too much for the ground to support and it began to concave under the demoness. The angel now up in the air looked down in to the expanding crater the energy ball was making and thought he had let this drag out long enough, he ready his sword and mind as he dove toward the energy ball. With his sword straight in front of him, he pierced through the energy ball and aimed his sword's tip at the demoness' heart. The demoness' eyes went wide and took a tint of fear as she saw the angel suddenly come through the energy ball. Time again slowed to almost a complete stop as the angel blade tip touched the demoness' armor. The blade began to force it's way through the armor under the angel's force as the demoness' eyes looked from angel to blade and back at the angel. She looked into his eyes with a look he would never expect...it looked like she was pleading with her eyes.
The angel felt sorry for her and began to pull back at the blade, but it was too late the blade had already cut through the armor and made it's way into her chest and out the other side. The demoness' facial expressions changed drastically as seconds seemed to roll by like years. Her eyes changed from pleading to pain and she opened her mouth to let out a silent scream as the tears filled her eyes and ran down her cheeks. A few drops fell on the angel's hand for it still held fast to the hilt of the sword, the angel not knowing what to do just held tight to the hilt like it he let it go it would be the end of the world. Suddenly time sped back up as the energy ball turned bright red and exploded, enveloping both angel and demoness with bright light. Then there was the black nothingness....
(To Be Continued)
