Nightmare's End (Dmitry, Lexa)

Lexa caught up to Dmitry and gave a gentle tug at his trench coat. She held out the needle and a very insignificant amount of thread to return to him. "S-sorry big bro, but we- I ended up using almost all of it." She said with a somewhat sad expression. Lexa showed Dmitry her hand, revealing that Taranis did a near flawless job at sewing her up, and at the same time, it showed that her nails cut a straight line across her hand as opposed to several small holes. Lexa gently put away her hand, and showed Dmitry the rope she had over her shoulder. "I figured killing the girl would do no justice, and the order was to bring her alive if possible. It's too dangerous to bring her to the magic council with her power, so if we can knock her out somehow, or get her to exhaust every drop of power she has I can tie her up. After that I can take her back to the guild hall." She said with a mixed expression. Her face pretty much screamed she was confident, but also begged the question of if Dmitry would approve of the idea. "At the hall, Taranis and I were working on a way to suppress magic power. We noticed that when I get mad my circuits go a bit... you know... But unfortunately what we made was something that canceled out magic entirely. Which is bad, but in this case is good!" Lexa added, she didn't want to bring up her getting mad, but it was necessary. She then had a fairly puzzled look on her face. "Then again... I'd be stripping someone of their right to call them self a mage." She said under her breath. The small girl's eyes turned rather sullen at the though of being stripped of her magic entirely, unable to cast the most basic of her spells and then put on trial and possible locked away. 'Bear in mind, a mage's crime deserves a mage's punishment.' Gabriel's voice boomed loud and clear in Lexa's head. She took the opinion to heart, but continued debating whether or not killing the girl was such a bad option.

Lexa heard Dmitry out, smiling as he exposed the 'flaw' in her little plot. With a friendly, nonchalant, child-like voice she replied to the man "You're a big, strong guy. You can take a few hits!" before giving a bit of a giggle. "On a more serious note" she said in her adult voice, cutting off her own laughter. "She only has to waste her magic power AT us, not on us. From my understanding of mind magic, you can't move much. Which means she'd have to have a secondary magic that allows her to focus, like summoning. Also, with mind magics like illusions, you need to have a visual on your targets, so if she's gonna be blasting power it'd be from a place we can see her as well. As for wiping this entire place out at once, according to the intel on her power, she's not strong enough to do it in one shot. For her level of magic, it's more like she took down small sections at once. So if we can keep enough a distance from the runt, only one of us has to put up with her shit. Also, she'd have a hell of a time trying to focus on me, the speeds I move would make that little brat dizzy." her voice was painfully calm, considering she was taking on someone stronger than herself. "Also, there's three of us. Taranis has a spell that'd make it too dark for her to see. Using that as a distraction, one of us could move around since she won't be able to see us... the explosive after effect is nice too." Lexa added, letting Dmitry know Taranis wasn't just for show. "If push comes to shove, I can just level this damn place and make it so the piss ant can't hide without being torched." she said, smiling at the idea of barbecue'd brat.

Lexa felt the ground shaking, causing her to take a knee for fear of losing her balance. "Nope. I hear it too." Lexa said, her adult voice still in use. All of a sudden, she heard the screaming of projectiles overhead. It was so loud it nearly washed out the laughter. "This bitch loves spears..." Lexa said as she forced herself to get up. The ground still trembled slightly, making it hard to keep upright for the small mage. She jumped, activating her magic circuits and focusing on her wings. A second or two later, a pair of white feathered wings appeared on Lexa's back with blue markings resembling a circuit board pattern glowing in blue. She quickly moved herself above Dmitry, making sure he'd was protected. Taranis calmly walked next to the slightly taller being, making sure he too was under Lexa's protection. Lexa placed her hand upward with a smile on her face as the scream of the wind being torn wide open by the falling spears grew louder. "Throw all the spears you got sweetheart..." Lexa said under her breath. The thousands of spears from overhead crashed down where Lexa was, however, several spears would have manage to hit Lexa had it not been for her Gloves of Perdition. The exact second the first spear came within a millimeter of Lexa's hand, the Perdition Barrier effect of her gloves activated creating a barrier that reflected all damage for a 6 foot radius in all direction. As Dmitry and Taranis were directly under her, around them laid a forest of spears, and at their feet laid a bed of wooden splinters. "If you're gonna be a meat shield, make up your mind quick." She said with a smile, her circuits glowed brightly with the promise of a fun fight.

Lexa watched in amazement as a small, plushy toy turned into some lady with bunny ears. She saw in shock as her partner rammed his fist into her stomach. 'Must be someone he knew?' Lexa thought to herself briefly. 'Wait, now's my chance!' she snapped to. Lexa threw her arm in the air and shouted "Stargazer Armour!" with vigor. A light enveloped her body, engulfing her, and then vanished revealing Lexa to be wearing an old oriental assailant suit. She then drew her sword "Gabriel, I need your daughter again." she said in a cal voice. Lexa then slashed the air, causing a winged woman to appear. She wielded two blades, and wore a black outfit. The top was blatantly armour, and the bottom was an elegant dress. "Go out thirty meters and then smite the darkness!" she ordered the woman. "It shall be done Miss Grimoire." the woman replied in a soothing, soft voice before flying in the proper direction. "Taranis, stay where you are and blast this place. The shadows should give big brother some protection from those illusions." She said to her alien looking friend. Taranis bowed and lifted his arm up with his open palm to the sky and began his chant "Seeping crest of turbidity, arrogant vessel of lunacy. Boil forth and deny, grow numb and flicker, disrupting sleep..."

Meanwhile, Lexa quickly ran out thirty meters or so herself, making sure to also be thirty meters from Gabriella. She looked at the angel and nodded. Gabriella's sword glowed brightly as she flicked the right one upwards, sending a light to the skies. Lexa's stargazer armour began glowing with while outlines on the seams. Moments later, she balled up a cosmic light in her hand, as if she were holding a tiny white dwarf, and then threw it in the air as well. Around Taranis, who was positioned close to Dmitry, the world had grown completely dark and would block his line of sight between the teddy bear and the wizard. Such conditions would leave the wizard immune to the illusions, but require him to follow instinct since the light was fading as Taranis finished his chant. "Crawling queen of iron, eternally self-destructing doll of mud. Unite, repulse. Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness."

"Meteor Storm!"
"Smite!"
"Kuro-Hitsugi."

The three entities called their attacks simultaneously. Taranis's attack, which had been lit up by the glow of Dmitry's lunar affiliated armour, was pierced by dark spears. Not even a second later, the world was illuminated by the glow of the attack erupting into a grand fireball that specifically targeted the teddy bear, falsely shown as Dmitry's friend. Around Lexa, a massive shower of flaming rocks from orbit obliterated all the houses for 90 feet, lighting them on fire. Gabriella has caused a blast of light to vaporize the homes near her, finally revealing a small child hiding between two of them. Lexa saw her, accidentally looking the child in the eyes and immediately felt her heart sinking. 'Dammit!' She thought to herself. Gabriella had shot off towards Dmitry, having spotted the bunny girl preparing to finish him of, and put herself between the converted plush toy, and Dmitry. The angel flew back, a smile on her face as she disappeared saying "I have served my purpose." with a calm, joyous voice that faded as she did. The teddy bear, disguised as a girl, looked at its fist and then went back to take on Dmitry. Lexa ran a few feet further before pressing her palm to the ground, then disappearing. The spot where her hand pressed on revealed a small pillar, signifying Lexa was within the boundaries of her Trick House. She reappeared between the woman and Dmitry with her hand held out, and a big smile on her face. The girl rammed her fist into Lexa's out stretched palm, and then it flew several feet back from the Gloves of Perdition reflecting the attack. "Keikatsu." Taranis said, covering Dmitry in dark magic that focused on regenerating his life force. Lexa balled light in her hand, and put the healing energy on the injured mage as well. "I'll take the bear, I need you to get the brat. I- I can't force myself to fight her..." Lexa said, her face becoming slightly sad at the admitting to her weakness. She turned around, and got ready to face her opponent. Taranis's spell already activated on Dmitry, it would continue its effect wherever the wizard went.

Lexa watched as the woman tried to follow after Dmitry as he went for Lillith. Moments later, Lexa said the words "Requip!" causing a pair of massive black chains to materialize, slamming the ground in front the girl with rabbit ears. "Hey, don't you know sharing is caring?" Lexa said using her high pitch, sweet and loving childish voice. "So it's my turn now." She said, her voice much deeper and more mature sounding. The chains began closing in on the bunny girl, she didn't flinch at all. Lexa put on an annoyed face as the girl made no attempt at dodging the chains coming towards her, and it turned to shock as she saw the girl pull a weapon from a hole in her chest. 'What!?' Lexa thought after seeing it, not knowing where it came from. Taranis ran past Lexa, grabbing Gabriel's Blade and charging directly for the rabbit lady. 'Distract. Lexa, kill.' Taranis said using his telepathic bond with Lexa. The large blade began glowing as Taranis approached, getting ready to use an Angelic Strike on the woman. The girl parried one of Lexa chains, and then used the dagger to block the next, leaving her wide open. Taranis's hit sent clean through the girl, cutting her completely in half and forcing her to revert back to bear form. The bear's legs got up, walking to its body and then bending over. The seams fixed them selves and the bear stood back up, looking Lexa in the eyes it linked with her past. It began changing forms, morphing to match the exact image of her father. A large man who wore a bear's pelt over his back with his torso showing. Wrapped around his waist was another pelt, lighter in color with dark stripes on it. "D-dad?" Lexa said with a weak voice, her eyes wide open. The warm feeling ended when the man disappeared, and Lexa felt the sharp sting of something poking at the back of her left lung. The man put on a smirk, and immediately a terrified expression as two chains poked out of his chest. The expression changed to agony as they tore him in half, sending each half clear across the scorched sands.

At this time, Lexa saw a cluster of chains heading directly for Dmitry from multiple angles. She ran forward, and then teleported using her Trick House to get in front him. As she did this, Lexa sparked her circuits with a painfully bright flash that caused Lillith to avert her eyes momentarily, thinking the attack would blind her. The tips of the chains slammed into the ground, except two. One was stuck inside Lexa's leg, which she used one of her own chains to keep a hold of, and the other inside Lexa's right side, near her kidney. Lexa used her other chain to keep that one stuck in place as well. The knife sticking out of her back, and a pained expression on her face Lexa smiled and looked at Dmitry. "Common bro... Let's kick her ass." she said, straining not to scream from the pain. Her stargazer armour prevented the chains from going in deep, but they didn't prevent them from going in all together before disappearing. Lexa slowly pulled the chains out of her, making an attempt not to scream while doing so. A tear formed in the corners of her eyes as he pain exploded through her body. It only took a few seconds to remove Lillith's chains, but it felt like years to Lexa. The small blonde took her fighting stance as Taranis caught up and took his own, still wielding Gabriel's Blade. "I'll... defend. You take... that knife from my back... and attack." Lexa said hesitantly, not wanting to feel the pain of more things being ripped from her. "Taranis... you... help too." she ordered the alien looking man. Taranis nodded and got ready to fight the lone little girl.

Lexa relaxed her body when she saw the man grabbing for the knife sticking out of her back, knowing if she tensed up that knife would literally shred her. "1..." she counted, letting her partner know when she was ready. "2..." she said, part nervous. "3!" she said, immediately feeling the blade fly out of her back. She bit her lip, forcing the tears not to flow, but it couldn't stop a few from breaking free as she fell to her knees. 'I'm gonna enjoy making this bitch cry!' Lexa thought to herself. She saw Dmitry and his massive wolf partner charging ahead, giving her some time to regain her thoughts. "I'm good, go help them!" Lexa ordered Taranis as he reached a hand out to help Lexa up.

As ordered, Taranis charged forwards without any other words needed. He quickly caught up to Dmitry, his lack of clothing and muscular build promoted faster run speed. Matching Dmitry's speed, Taranis parried any incoming chains that would hit Dmitry's left side. Having got in nice and close, Taranis slammed Gabriel's Blade into the barrier Lillith set up, and then immediately jumped aside as a chain tried to hit him. He saw as the chain hit the barrier, causing a crack in the side. However, on the other side of the barrier a chain was moving freely within. Soon, a blast came from the crack that sent Taranis several meters back. He relayed that information to Lexa, letting her decode the meaning while he focused on fighting.

Lexa's eyes flew open as she realized how the barrier worked. 'Taranis, the barrier seems to work like a door. It opens to let the chains in, and closes to keep attacks out. But there's a small transition period where the door opens, and no transition where it closes. I've got a plan, keep her busy.' Lexa said to Taranis in his head. He looked at Dmitry who had landed right next to him "Master has plan. We become fodder. Never easy, no?" He said with a pained voice as he got up.

Taranis charged at Lillith, keeping her eyes focus on him and only him while Lexa hobbled in closer. The chains seemed to be different from her own. They attacked from a direct link to Lillith, her being their controller. Lexa's had a partial link, but acted of their own will only protecting Lexa or following orders when they saw fit. A good minute passed, and Taranis had taken a few minor hits but his speed and battle knowledge served to keep the major damage to a minimum. That still didn't help the OTHER hole in his chest from one of those chains. "Hey kid." Lexa said with a cocky voice. "You know, you got talent... but you're still a dumbass brat with no experience. I bet you couldn't take me if you tried!" she said arrogantly, making Taranis nervous considering her condition. "Oh really? You seem pretty battered..." Lillith responded, also sounding a bit full of herself. Taranis realized what Lexa was doing, he immediately began linking his vision with Lexa's, allowing her to see what was behind her.

Five chains rose from the air, pointing at Lexa directly without making a sound. "You really should bite your tongue lady..." Lillith said. "OR I'LL RIP IT OUT!" she screamed as the five chains launched towards Lexa's head. Lexa let off a quick smirk, and just as the chains were a few inches from her head she used her Dark Evade to appear in front the barrier, while hitting it with her own chains. The action cause the 'door' to shut. Lillith, knowing her own spell like a book, made the chains keep going, knowing the chains wouldn't break the barrier, and instead it would reflect that damage and tear Lexa apart. The chains closed the few feet of distance Lexa put in an instant, but Lexa teleported backwards using her Trick House, causing the chains to slam into the barrier. The blonde mage let go of her requip, causing them to dissipate, and placed her hands in the air, as if she were a hero stopping a train. She watched as the damage from the attack was reflected back in her direction and said with a smile "Reflect!" causing an invisible barrier to appear between her and the attack. Lexa struggled, going beyond her limits and forcing the barrier to remain as long as needed to send the damage back. Lexa felt the ground slipping beneath her feet, the force from the reflected attack being far too great. The two colliding forces resonated, creating a bright light where they connected and sending a massive shockwave out as each spell tried to overcome the other. Letting out a high-pitch, adorable roar, Lexa went even further beyond her limits and forced the reflected attack to be re-reflected back to the barrier. The force slammed into the barrier, making it so only a few more attacks were necessary, but Lexa was too exhausted to keep going, and used almost all her remaining magic power to activate Shadow Burst, and escape as her reflected attack was sent back to her after hitting that barrier. The tiny wizard fell asleep, leaning on the ashes of one the homes her Meteor Storm destroyed earlier. "You got this... Nii-san..." she said as the world faded to black.

Taranis looked at Lillith who'd been knocked out by the force of her barrier backfiring on her, and laid motionless in the ash that spread from the burning debris. Walking over to Lexa, he remembered how she was as a child. How she would never talk, how she was always afraid, and never once tried to protect anyone, herself included. He realized that his friend, that tiny blonde girl sleeping against a pile of ashes, was growing up and would eventually have to be told the truth. He kneeled over her, prioritizing the list of things to be done. First was to tie up Lillith, second was to treat Lexa's wounds and make sure Lillith stays knocked out, third was to go home and strip Lillith of her power, last was to bring the child to the magic council. Taranis pulled the coil of rope from Lexa, making sure not to wake her up, and took it to Lillith. The small, young child began to stir, and Taranis got ready to choke her out by placing his hand at her neck. She didn't open her eyes, so Taranis relaxed and began carefully tying her up. He made sure the ropes were too tight for Lillith to wriggle them loose, but not so tight they'd snap the girl's bones. He picked the girl up by holding onto the ropes, carrying her like a purse, and walked her over to Lexa so he could tend to his master's wounds and make sure Lillith slept like a baby.

Lexa's wounds took a few hours to treat. The bleeding was stopped, but they wouldn't be fully healed until she got real help from the guild's doctor. Taranis slung his master over one shoulder, and picked up Lillith like a purse again, and began walking towards the shore. From there, he'd signal for a ship to transport them back to Silver Island, and Lillith to the brig for her surgery.

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