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"They're at it again Arius..."

"The hell are you talking about Myra?"

"Those stalker, fanboys, whatever you wanna call'em... Those weirdoes, they're at it again... Look at this."

"Flora & Fauna, greatest thing to happen to reaperdom since Alexis was spotted nu- The fuck is this shit?"

"Like I said, those stalkers are back. Apparently they didn't get the message the first time..."

"Doubt it. People don't usually forget that kind of experience. S'why they aren't showing their faces, near here or anywhere."

"They don't have to. They're spre-"

"Look, Myra. The kids are grown up; I don't have anything to do with this. Those two are more than capable of taking care of themselves, right?"

"Well..."

"And besides, even if they couldn't handle whatever kind of problem came around towards them, you'd be able to take care of it right?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right..."

"Of course I am. Remember what house this is, and remember how the kids are. Even if somebody did try something, which they won't, they'd be dead within by the hour and turned into wallpaper, or a throw rug."

"Yeah... Alright, alright I'll relax... I should go; work is starting to pile up."

"Alright, I'll see you later. Don't crush your fingers, Myra."

"Hey! I only did that once..." She muttered low swears, her tail flicking dejectedly against the floor before she skulked out the room, cradling her left hand, perpetually bandaged, against her stomach as she left the kitchen.

Arius, on the other hand, reached out and picked up the leaflet using one of his many tails, looking it over as he let out a low sighing noise, rubbing his chin softly. As the protrusion of prehensile bone flickered once, and the paper fluttered slightly, floating down to his hand as he took a sip of tea from the cup held in one of the other tails. Altogether, his tails numbered fifteen, five of which were nothing but bone mass that ended in long spear tips. The leaflet showcased a picture of his twin daughters, the two of them walking through the city, and the picture taken likely from a rooftop nearby. "Such a weird obsession... Stalking people without the intent to kill... Disgusting little vermin..." He muttered to himself, before flicking his wrist, the paper igniting as it floated towards the trash can, turning to ash that swirled and entered the can before he re-opened the book regarding sonic wavelengths and weaponizing them, taken from Quil's laboratory when she wasn't looking.

Nearly a week had passed since that encounter, and once more Arius and Myra were standing together, or rather; lying together, and talking. The two of them had gone to the roof to relax and talk after a long day of missions, for Arius, and repair orders, for Myra, and get a drink. "So, how're things as a smith? Arius asked, spinning an empty bottle on his claw as he looked out over the city, his feet propped up on the edge of the rooftop as his tails swished back and forth slowly, lazy rumbles escaping his lips as she purred out drunkenly for a moment, before shaking her fur out, creating a vibrant rainbow display. Both of them were naked, they preferred it, Arius very rarely wore clothes in his own home, and Myra had adopted the same habit, though that was mostly the fault of his children.

"It's umm... Well, it's actually kind of cool. I mean, I meet the occasional asshole, or a scumbag that tries to cop a feel while I'm working. OR they just sit there and ogle me, like you do with Alicia-"

"Oi! First, I'm married to her; I can ogle her if I want. Secondly, I didn't ogle her, I watched her work."

"Whatever..."

"Tch... Anyways, you were saying?"

"Wha? Yeah, right... I meet those kinds of guys occasionally, the ones who just watch are fine by me. But the guys who try to grab onto something they shouldn't, just catch a hammer to the face. Or I refuse to work on their weapons for a while."

"Yeah? I didn't know you could do that."

"A lot of people don't. Something about insane reapers and shit... Didn't that happen to you once?"

"Kind of. I didn't have my scythe worked on for a long time, I just forgot to go out and get him taken care of."

"What happened?"

"... I'd rather not remember that."

"It was that bad?"

"And worse..."

"Right, sorry I asked."

"S'good..." He sat up with a huff, before pausing and leaning forwards, placing his hands on the edge of the building as he shielded his eyes against the light of the setting sun before pointing out over the city. "Oi, when'd that building get there? Wasn't that place empty just yesterday?"

Myra let out a confused sound, rolling herself over onto her stomach before getting up, nearly toppling off the roof until Arius grabbed her tail and flipped her back onto the roof. "What building, where?" She leaned against him and the edge, trying to spot the building in question before he sighed, grabbing her chin and directing her gaze out towards the wastelands outside the city, where an oddly tall and tower-like building stood, the tip of which glinted in the light and cast off several reflections. "The hell...? That wasn't there before." She mused softly, before shrugging and staggering backwards, grabbing hold of a bottle as she flopped into her seat, kicking her feet up as she blew a small toxic gas cloud into the air from between her lips. "S'not like it matters anyways. It's just some stupid building, not doing anything."

Arius sighed a bit, scratching the side of his muzzle before shrugging a bit, sitting next to his younger sister. "Yeah, I suppose you're right about that... Just some stupid building." He huffed, before taking his seat beside her, flopped out in the seat as he let out a lazy sigh, and smoke wafted upwards, joining her toxic cloud as his tails swished about idly. The two of them fell into silence for a long moment, before the sound of snoring began to float through the air, and Arius turned his head to spot the unconscious Myra. "...Well balls." He groaned, rolling himself over before he grabbed hold of her, slinging her up over his shoulder as he turned his head, casting one last glance at the spire in the distance, and humming softly before he shrugged gently, and strode downstairs to deposit his drunken sibling on the bed with his daughters; her wives.

Meanwhile, standing atop the very spire that had piqued the interest of both Arius and Myra, two figures stood, their arms folded over their chest, one male who had his arms over a rather overly muscular chest. He looked as though he might be a bodybuilder of some kind, his body sculpted as though he spent every waking moment in the gym, or downing protein shakes. His companion on the other hand, had a body that screamed model, her body curved like an hourglass, and her hair down to her ass, though it wasn't quite easy to tell how far down her hair went as the wind had it billowing out behind her. "Are we ready?"

"Not yet, my friend... One more week, and we'll be ready to strike."

"And what of the wolf, this, Arius... Surely he'll be a problem?"

"No, he couldn't stop us if he tried."

"You've seen the reports though, and what he's capable of."

"Doesn't matter, does it? Even he isn't invincible. We'll get what we want, whether he tries to get in the way or not."

"Right... Heheh, I can hardly wait... Just one more week."

"Mhrm. Git, we have to finish preparations for our table guests... Besides, we should check on our guests of honor."

The male nods lightly, each of them letting out soft laughs before they opened up a hatch on the roof, and disappeared back into the building.

For the next few days, reports of reapers going missing, just up and disappearing, began to flow in from around the city. Most of them seemed to be of lord rating, ranging from low and barely heard of, to some of the more famous high lords who'd actually made a name for themselves around the city doing various feats, or managing strange magics. There were plenty of other reapers of course, those that weren't of Lord status, who had begun disappearing as well, upwards of four hundred reapers having gone missing without a trace by the time Friday had rolled around, leaving those remaining in a perpetual state of confusion.

Arius, on the other hand, wasn't too bothered by the knowledge of the missing reapers, and instead sat in his living room two of the women he was married to; Ziggy, and Saul, and relaxed against the massive dragoness that was Ziggy, propped up against one of the spines along her back, while Saul sat against one of the others, the two of them playing video games before the door flew open, and before anyone could begin to stand, Alex was standing in front of the trio, her eyes wide and a small tornado whirling through the area as her mouth moved, before she was gone again. It would seem she was moving fast enough that sound was struggling to keep up with her.

The three of them looked at one another before the sound boomed into the area with a sonic book on its heels. "Flora and Fauna have been kidnapped!"

Less than thirty seconds later, the entire house had been alerted, and in two minutes; everybody, including Quil and Kori, though Kori was speaking through a small portal so she wouldn't freeze the house over, as well as anybody within, per Arius' request, they had all gathered within the kitchen of the house, all of them clamoring or in what could only be killed a motherly rage. Arius seemed to be the only one at peace, which was more than strange considering he was their father. When the rest of the house finally began taking notice of the fact that he was the only one without a weapon out, or destroying something, the entire room slowly fell quiet to look at him, hands or weapons placed on the table. "Why aren't you freaking out?" It was one of the Tenshi who asked. There were roughly seventeen Tenshi within the room, working to keep the entire house from being destroyed by the enraged women as Sirius finally said, "We're go-"

"No, we aren't." Arius had his eyes closed, and he was idly sipping from a cup of tea. "We, aren't going anywhere."

"The fuck are you talking about?!"

"We've got to get them back!"

"We can't just leave them out there!"

A silence descended on the room, broken only by the occasional heavy breath, or the sound of metal from weaponry hitting either the ground or the table, or very occasionally, the sound of Arius sipping tea from his cup before he let out a lazy noise, then propped up his legs against the table. "We aren't going to do anything. You people, are going to go sit down, return to what you were doing."

"Arius..."

"What're you-"

He cut them off once more, his finger flexing slightly and completely shattering the porcelain of the teacup, sending the shards everywhere with that simple gesture as he placed both hands in his lap, his eyes opening to reveal a distinct lack of coloring. In place of pupils or irises, a shimmering blackness greeted the members of the house, and a slow breath escaped his lips, the table creaking under an imperceptible force that was slowly pouring off of Arius' body. "You. Will do. Nothing. You will go back to what you were doing, and I will get the kids back. Understood?"

Angry as they may be, and fearful as they may be for the wellbeing of the girls, there wasn't a single person in that room willing to talk back at this point. Slowly, the women dispelled their weapons, and left the room, shuffling out slowly, a few grumbling low swears or talking amongst themselves before they spread throughout the house, all of them except Quil, who took a seat across the table from him while he laced his fingers together beneath his muzzle. "What do you plan to do Arius? You can't really expect to do this on your own."

"I'm not going to do it alone."

"Then...?"

"You don't need to worry about it." He looked at her coldly, and for a moment she thought he might attack her, instead he stood up, placing his hands on the table as it began sinking into the ground, the wood letting out a painful creaking noise before part of it splintered, and he strode out the house, moving so that he phased straight through the wall instead of going through the entire house. An hour later, he was standing outside the house, two women in front of him, each standing with their arms folded and grim looks on their faces.

"So, you know where they are?" The taller of the women asked, her skin glowing a soft shade of gold. The other was a few inches shorter, her skin bearing a farmer's tan, even beneath her reaper cloak.

"I do now. Thanks for getting here so quick Valkyr, Ci."

"Dun worry about it. These are your kids Ari."

"Yeah Dog Breath, you think we'd just sit here and let you do this alone? Besides, I still owe you for saving my ass so many times, and you took good care of our scythe."

"Yeah well..."

"I heard about the shattering... You can't really blame yourself for that."

"Yeah, I suppose not."

"Precisely... Now c'mon. We've got children to rescue."

"You're right, ready Ci?"

"As I'll ever be... I've never taken on a lord before though, so I don't know much help I'll be if this place has a whole lot of those guys hanging around." The farmgirl shuffled slightly before Arius let out a light noise, an almost thrumming sound.

"Don't worry Ci, if there are a lot of them, I'll take care of them. They couldn't stop me if I tried." He growled out lowly, flexing his arms before the three of them nodded, adjusting their cloaks over their combat clothing before nodding to each other and striding along, moving through the empty wasteland, their cloaks fluttering against the ground as they approached the spire in the distance, Arius placing his hands together and masking them from view as they reached the building, and Valkyr wrapped her knuckles against the door.

There was no response, even when they waited for two minutes outside the door, and Valkyr banged her fist against it. The three of them looked amongst each other, sighing or growling in annoyance before Valkyr slammed her fist against the door again, and a small hatch slid open. "What the hell do you want?!" The person behind the door was definitely female; her eyes were a dark brown as she glared through the hatch, Arius pulling his hood up over his head to mask his face from view as Valkyr crossed her arms under her chest.

"We're going around doing some investigating, trying to find out what's happened to all the reapers that're going missing. Have you seen two reapers, Flora and Fau-"The door hatch slammed shut, but not before the trio took note of the expression of surprise and hatred that filled her eyes. The three of them looked to one another for a moment, sharing a quiet exchange before Valkyr stepped to the side, and Ci stepped up to the door.

She gently ran her fingers along it, humming gently before sighing faintly. "Soul metal. We can't break this thing..." She turned around, stepping to the side. "What do you think Arius?" She watched him walk up to it, gently knocking his fingers against the door before he drew his palm back, and drove into it. The door didn't break, it wasn't possible for him to break soul metal, at least not that he was aware of, but he could most certainly send a chunk of soul metal playing sailing through the air, decapitating a woman who'd turned around only to catch a split-second glimpse of a chunk of metal careening towards her before her head sailed upwards into the air, spinning around as her body slumped forwards, and hit the ground, blood gushing out of her stump of a neck like a small geyser as the trio strode into the building. "Only way is up, so shall we go, ladies?"

"We shall."

"I wonder when someone'll be worth hitting."

Almost as if in response, alarms began going off around the building, causing each of the fighters to grin before their cloaks fluttered behind them, flapping in a wind kicked up by the speed of their motions as they rapidly ascended the staircase. When they came out on the next floor, a group of reapers were busy clearing out, pausing for a second before going into double-time, shouting in terror as they ran from the trio and rushed up the stairs, leaving the area deserted and the three slightly crestfallen. "I was hoping at least someone would die..."

"C'mon, they're probably waiting for us."

The three made it across the room without a bother, going up to the third floor, the ground had fallen away there in many places, likely while they were climbing the stairs, and forced them to leap from one piece of the floor to the next until they reached the doorway, and ascended to the fourth floor, where they were greeted by a hailstorm of spells. They were all low level, barely enough to flutter their cloaks as Arius raised up one hand, and a large Heaven's Light Shield seal erupted in front of him, absorbing the attacks and taking in the entire onslaught without bending or cracking once.

When the barrage had ceased, Arius flicked two fingers, and the writing on the seal changed, creating a small array of smaller seals before he began his own onslaught, sending out a destructive wave that filled the room with light, enough so that the trio had to don sunglasses to avoid going blind as screams filled the air, only to be drowned out by the sounds of the light missiles exploding and the beams of light tearing through the owners of the voices, leaving nothing behind in their wake but a heavily charred landscape. There were no ashes, there were no bones, no bodies, there was simply a blackened room, the former inhabitants of the room obliterated under the combined power of their own attacks before he gestures lightly, leading them up the stairs once more. "How tall is this place?" Ci questioned after they'd cleared the fifth floor, which was a simple task of kicking the small creatures that were foolish enough to try and attack the trio.

Valkyr was the one who answered her. "Based on the number of windows I saw from the outside, and the height of the building, I'd say there are twenty five floors. However, I could be... Wrong." They had reached the sixth floor, but it was tall enough to take up floors six through ten. "What the ffffu-... Hey, look over there. Aren't those reaper lords?" Valkyr gestured to the other side of the room, which was currently large enough to fit an entire football field, where seventeen figures stood side by side.

"I think so, wonder what they're doing here?"

"Think those are some of the guys who went missing?"

Arius cut off the conversation, already beginning to walk forwards before pausing for a second, the floor undulating violently as parts of it began falling away to reveal highly caustic acid hissing and bubbling beneath them. The three of them had been separated several yards away, set up in a large delta with at least twenty yards between each of their platforms' edges, and leaving the three of them stuck in the very middle of the acid pit. "They do know that if we know air magic, we can just walk across, right?" Valkyr asked the two of them, speaking through a speaker just under her chin, Ci activating hers soon after.

"I don't know any air based magic, sorry. I do know a lot of Earth spells!" She declared, Arius on the other hand, just stood silently on his platform, watching the mass of lords that were approaching them, more and more streaming into the area by the second before he realized at least 9/10s of the massive force attacking them were clones.

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"These are just clones, ladies, so let's play." A grin played over his muzzle as both girls gave little cheers in their own way before Ci asked if they could lose the suits yet, and Arius shook his head, telling her not just yet, before the clone army reached them.

Arius held his hand out to the side as a long bo staff formed in his grip, spinning and twisting around his arm, hands, and waist before he stuck the end against the ground as Ci slammed her fists together, soul metal attaching itself to her at the elbow before it grew downwards in plate form until it had formed spiked gauntlets, while over on the third platform, Valkyr was spinning a rifle around on her shoulders, her head swiveling in a circle as the weapon danced around her neck before the three of them slipped into ready stances, and the clones descended.

Arius was the first to be attacked, his end of the delta being the closest to the other end of the room. The clones leaped onto his platform, making it tilt and wobble as he kicked the end of the staff upwards, slamming it into the chin of the nearest clone with enough force to send the faux fighter into the ceiling before he grabbed it, spinning it rapidly so that it created a helix in front of him, a wall of sorts that began intercepting others, slamming them aside or simply causing them to change course before the weapon began to shift and suddenly he was whirling a warhammer around, his feet up off the ground as he twisted, and slammed it into the chest of a clone hard enough that not only did the entire chest cavity explode backwards out the body of the figure, but his body itself was sent careening through the air, slamming into a clone that was trying to leap onto Ci from behind.

the cloaked country girl laughing as she spun around, sliding into a loose boxing stance as she jabbed one of the clones twice, sending him staggering backwards before she delivered a left hook to another, twisting and using the momentum to land a powerful whirling roundhouse that crushed a clone's head in against the floor. She backflipped off the body, her heel slamming into another of the clones and sending him flipping through the air backwards, only to be eliminated in the air mid-flip, his head exploding outwards into a shower of chunks as his body fell down into the acid.

Valkyr was whirling her rifle through the air at speeds so quick it was a wonder how she hadn't managed to miss a single of the nearly forty shots to come from the barrel of that weapon. The back end of it was heavyset, and it sported an axehead, just in case the wielder needed to make use of the rifle as a short range weapon for people who got to close, the stock was collapsible and the barrel itself was able to extend or expand, fitting a number of different types of rounds. At this moment, she seemed to be making use of .380 Magnum rounds, the rounds ripping through the air fast enough that they were striking their targets before the spent casing could even hit the floor.

Arius had been surrounded by this point, and was wielding two short swords, two Gladius, to be exact, and had them crossed behind him in an 'X' shape, his eyes and ears sweeping the crowd before his ear flickered, and at least five of the low lord clones rushed at him from his left side, another ten from the back, the rest holding their place before he whipped around, his left Gladius sailing from his hand with a chain attaching it to his palm. It stabbed through the chest of the closest of the clones, his legs knocked from beneath him as his upper body was made to stop suddenly, while the lower kept going, before he jerked his hand to the side and the blade tore free of the poor lord's chest cavity, cleaving its way through and slashing across the throat of another, the chain wrapping around two more and bringing the blade around so that it was brought to the throat of the closer one. He yanked his hand back inwards, and the blade tore the clone's throat out while the chain send the other spinning around, the chain sprouting a series of blades that made short work of the clone before the blade returned to Arius' hand in time to parry a strike from two separate clones, countering with a powerful push before a chain attack severed the two of them in half. He used the second Gladius to block a blow from a battleaxe. The large weapon would, on a battle of even proportions, have cleaved the Gladius in half, but Arius wasn't equal to these lords by a long shot, and he flexed his arm, sending the person with the axe sailing backwards before a chain strike shattered their focus, sending them crashing down into the acid and to their screaming doom as his blade changed once more, taking instead the form of twin katanas before a new wave of clones rushed him, forty at a time, this time around.

Ci on the other hand was having a ball, her gauntlets more than tripling her punching force as she grabbed hold of the leg of an attacking lord, whirling him around and using his body to send several others flying off course before she held tight to his ankle, crushing it as she spun around, bringing him in an arc over her head before slamming him down atop another clone, crushing the both of them into the platform and knocking it off balance, sending several other clones toppling into the acid with pained or terrified screams. She slid under a flying dropkick, delivering a devastating uppercut to the ribcage of the clone and knocking him upwards into the air before she spun, the back of her fist connecting with the head of another clone and sending him cartwheeling into several of his companions, before her fist connected with another's mouth, shattering his skull as her arm snapped back, elbowing another and flipping him over her shoulder, driving his head into the flooring before she jumped to meet another in midair with a hammer blow.

Valkyr had switched her rifle for a shotgun, reloading it using her soul energy as the buckshot tore through any clone unlucky enough to have the weapon pointed at them, usually taking out more than one at a time. Her shotgun was dancing around her arms and waist, whirling around her and seemingly pulling the trigger on its own every little while, blasting through any one foolish enough to try standing in the way of the deadly tool, ripping their bodies apart with every shotgun blast before she would slide or dance out of the way of anyone who managed to actually get close to her. On more than one occasion, her shotgun was used as a club, the stock caving in the heads of any lord unfortunate enough to be caught close enough to her and the whirling weapon. One lord in particular was unlucky enough to find himself with the shotgun pressing against the underside of his chin before the trigger was pulled, his head exploding upwards into a shower of gore and brain matter. She laughed when the bits of dead brain fell around her before she keyed her mic. "Y'know Arius, I gotta thank you for that training you had us do before we came out here. I don't think we'd have lived as long as we have without it."

Arius let out a faint chuckling noise against his mic, currently standing atop a platform coated completely by dead bodies, pulling his katana free of one of the dead lords, looking out over to the end of the field as he placed a hand against his brow, leaning forwards. His cloak was soaked completely in blood, and his blades looked like they might just have just been forged from the blood of his fallen enemies. Ci was pulling her fist free of a lord's chest cavity, flexing her fingers and shattering the rest of his ribs as he dropped backwards, and Valkyr blow smoke away from the tip of her sizzling barrel. "That was fun, whatcha think?" Ci asked, walking to the edge of the platform as Arius waved two fingers, and two seals lit up against his platform, two beams of light erupt from them in thin flat lines, connecting his platform to the other two. "What's this thing 'ere?"

"It's a Hardlight bridge, c'mon." He waved his finger again, a third beam appearing and creating a path to the other side of the arena, leaving the three to walk side by side to the end, where one last lord attempted to pull off a sneak attack, only to be tossed down into the acid by Ci.

"Sneaky rascal." She chimed as the three went up the stairs to the next floor, coming out into what appeared to be a dining area.

"Don't touch anything, right?" Valkyr murmured, shifting in her bloody cloak as Arius nodded lightly.

"Not a thing, c'mon." He pointed to the door on the other side of the room, and the trio slowly made their way around the single massive table set in the center in the room, taking up at least three-fourths of it, and had already reached the door when a creaking noise could be heard, prompting Ci to look over her shoulder and pause mid-step.

"Uhhh.... Fellas?" She turned around slowly, flexing her fingers as she looked at the moving table, the other two turning before Arius let out an annoyed sound.

"The fuck is this shit?" Valkyr questioned, watching as the table rose up, standing there and creaking, cracking, and shifting until it had formed an Ent, glaring down at the two of them through two empty sockets. "You've got to b-" She stopped, leaping to the left, Ci diving and rolling to the right as Arius went straight up, landing atop the fist before he took in a deep breath, and unleashed a drill of white flames from his mouth, only to watch as steam erupted in front of the Ent.

"What in the world...?" He murmured before diving to the side, landing on one hand before pushing off and flipping through the air, landing in a crouch as the steam cleared, revealing a swirling torrent of water that soon shifts, revealing a fairly humanoid, albeit female, body. A few moments later, a burst of fire filled the room, forcing the three fighters to close in on one another, their bodies facing outwards as the flames herded them backwards, towards the middle of the room. "Elementals... This is going to be a complete pain in our fucking ass." He growled, watching as the flame elemental formed, and was soon joined by one of lightning, light, and darkness.

"Where's the air element...?" Ci murmured softly, standing beside Arius and facing the Ent of earth, and the mermaid of the water, while Valkyr faced the dragon of fire, and the eagle of lightning, Arius standing there, facing the phoenix of light, and the colossus of the shade.

"Doesn't look like they brought one..."

"Lucky for us then."

"As though this weren't going to be annoying as hell anyways?" He muttered softly, the trio standing back-to-back-to-back, Arius wielding a double ended scythe, Ci with her gauntlets, and Valkyr with an assault rifle, all angled outwards. "Ready?"

"Always."

"Let's rock."

The first step was taken by the Ent, drawing his fist back as he lunged forwards and drove it where the three figures had been standing, all three launching outwards with weapons at the ready. Valkyr unleashed a hailstorm of bullets from her rifle, watching them ping off the dragon before she placed a foot down and leaped into the air, twisting as she went over the eagle and tucked herself in, sailing through the flames from the dragon before landing on its back, grabbing hold of its open muzzle and jamming her gun barrel down its nostril, pulling the trigger and unleashing a steady stream of gunfire. The dragon roared in agony, thrashing about as the bullet's tore through its skull, filling his head with the rounds before she jumped away in time to avoid catching a chest full of lightning, courtesy of the phoenix.

Meanwhile, Ci was having a little more trouble with her opponents of water and earth. While the water would dart from seemingly nowhere and knock any attacks she made off balance or off target, the Ent would strike with a powerful blow that sent her rolling backwards. A lesser reaper would've been crushed beneath the onslaught, but she took every blow, sliding back a few feet every strike before she drew her fist back and met the Ent's strike head-on, creating a rippling shockwave outwards before the beast let out a pained roar, his body shredding as it began exploding outwards from his fist, sending shards of bark outwards in every direction, and forcing the mermaid to dodge backwards, directly into the path of the phoenix.

The two of them collided full force, and the resulting combination of lightning and water, as well as the increasing energy the duo poured into their bodies in an attempt to peel free of their companion turned killer, only helped to speed up the imminent explosion, taking out the two of them at once.

The country girl and the soldier grinned at each other before turning, their jaws each dropping as they spotted Arius, completely unharmed, standing between the two elemental beasts, both of them nuzzling up against his hand and the colossus having changed bodies, making use of darkness' properties to bend and mold its body, instead taking up a black phoenix like it's lighter counterpart. He looked over at the two of them, tilting his head to the side curiously before the two beasts alighted on his shoulders, tucking their wings in against their sides as they rode the wolf up the stairs, Ci and Valkyr giving each other startled and confused looks before they quickly followed after.

"Arius... You... How did... You got.... I... The birds, Arius, the birds!" Ci flailed her arms in aggravation, neither her nor Valkyr able to think of a proper way to ask exactly what had happened, and why the elemental summons had suddenly changed sides, and were now riding on his shoulders.

He looked at her curiously from over his shoulder, seeing the confusion mirrored on Valkyr's face before he shrugged lightly. "It wasn't difficult. I just snuffed out the will of the person who summoned them, and replaced it with my own." The two paused, looking at each other in confusion before they jogged to catch up to Arius as he came out on the next floor, and stopped.

This room was similar to the one a few floors down, in that it was incredibly long, but the difference was while the other seemed like a football field, this room was more of one massive hallway, proceeding far enough away that it began to fade into the darkness long before any of them could see the doorway to the next floor. Arius pressed two fingers against his temple, leaning forwards as the implants zoomed in for him, first x5, then x10, then x50, before finally zooming to x500, and he let out a sharp grunt. "We're about to have company... I found the door, and there's things streaming out of it."

"Things like....?"

"Things like, we need guns and fast." He growled before holding out his hands, a line of weapons landing in front of them. Valkyr quickly grabbed a sniper rifle, settling into a kneeling position as she began opening fire, sending one round after another ripping down the hallway, tearing into the encroaching horde of beasts with great accuracy before Arius picked up an assault rifle, shouldering the weapon as he unloaded into the encroaching, but as of yet invisible, crowd, while Ci looked at the weapons before grabbing hold of two sub machine guns, placing them against each other before she pulled the trigger, bucking back from the recoil before she giggled slightly, getting beside Arius as she began firing into the crowd as well.

The hailstorm of bullets was well met, the screams of the dying creatures, those that were cut down or knocked down, only to be crushed beneath the stampeding feet of their comrades was like music to Arius, the recoil from his rifle only helping him to take out more of the creatures. Even under the combined assault, the horde was getting closer, and Valkyr dropped the sniper rifle in favor of a light machine gun, setting the bipod against the ground to steady the large weapon before she pulled the trigger, grunting slightly from the force of the kickback as the weapon began spitting out death at roughly 775 rounds per minute.

Ci could see that they were rapidly losing ground, even with the mass of bullets filling the hallway and tearing into the encroaching mass of beasts, they were still getting closer to the three, and within moments they would be on top of them. "Arius...?" She called over the boom of the gunfire, looking over at the leader of their little group curiously, knowing that he could see the horde coming. He just nodded slightly, mouthing something before the two birds took off from his shoulders, flapping upwards and ascending before they swooped down, their talons hooking around Ci and Valkyr's shoulders before they both took to the air, holding their 'prey' tightly as they ascended, and Arius dropped his assault rifle, letting the weapon hit the ground before he held both arms out to the side, and shifted his weight, while the girls were treated to the sight of metal growing down the length of one of his arms, while the other began coming apart at the seams until finally, his arm had transformed into one massive cannon, while his other hand became coated in what could only be described as one very large minigun.

He shifted his body around, placing the minigun in front of him as his tails lashed outwards, and they came back around, each one bearing a cannon on the end of it that glowed with power. The ten barrels of the minigun began spinning around, winding up slowly before moving quicker, and quicker, and unleashing a torrent of death akin to a tsunami; a rising wall of bullets that ripped through the horde with devastating results.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough, and the horde of creatures continued their charge into the bullets, uncaring for their lives or well-being, or even for their comrades. Indeed, they merely trampled their companions underfoot in their charge, using the rising wall of dead bodies as shielding for themselves while trying to overtake Arius, while Ci and Valkyr were made to watch from near the ceiling. Arius drew back his other hand, the one that had seemingly transformed into nothing but metal, before he made a slicing gesture, and five beams of energy erupted from his fingertips, cutting a wide and bloody swathe through the air and tearing through as many of the creatures as possible before he noticed how they seemed to be steering clear of the exact middle of the hallway, as though there were some invisible fault line running through it, or there were something that would make use of the middle of the hallway for its own purposes.

"Something's coming..." He muttered, before his tails arched and began opening fire, unleashing a storm of heavy-duty laser fire down the hallway and into the mass of creatures, letting out a faint hiss as he noticed how they were less than thirty yards away by this point. He began using the lasers to burn away dead bodies in an effort to force the creatures backwards before a deep roar ripped through the area, forcing Arius to pin his ears back against his skull, while the girls cried out in pain or aggravation, covering their own ears using their hands as they turned to look towards the exit to the next floor.

"Arius, run!" Ci shouted downwards, pointing and gesturing wildly, Valkyr just hanging there in the talons of the phoenix with her jaw hanging slack, watching as the creatures that were still attacking them were tossed to and fro by one massive beast, charging through the others and trampling, or throwing anyone who got in his way.

Arius rapidly shifted focus of his weapons, unloading on the beast that took up at least half the height of the hallway, his body forcing the hallway to expand around him as the walls cracked and bits of them fell down onto the horde, crushing parts of it while he shrugged off the bullets and lasers as though they weren't steadily boring through his body. "Arius, get out of there!" Valkyr shouted from her phoenix, before he roared something unintelligible, and the phoenixes let out deep caws before swooping over the horde, their wings sending shards of solidified dark magic, and small beams of light down into the breasts, skewering hundreds of them before they twisted, and went into a dive, their wings curling around the women they bore before they exploded through the horde of beasts, sending them flying in every direction in various states of dismemberment, just as the two of them erupted onto the other side of the doorway, where there didn't seem to be a single one of the strange creatures milling around, or trying to kill them.

Behind them, they could just barely make out the flashes of Arius and his weaponry before the beast let out a ground-shaking roar, and slammed his fists down, the flashes of light cutting off immediately, and forcing the girls to watch as the swarm of beasts overtook Arius' position. "No!"

"Arius!" Ci tried to take a step forwards, but the phoenix blocked her path, and pointed its beak, gesturing soundlessly forwards and towards the stairs. "But..."

Valkyr stepped forwards, her hood pulled low over her eyes as she placed her hand on Ci's shoulder. "C'mon... We need to keep moving, he wouldn't forgive us if we stopped just because he was killed."

"But, we're in a building with at least two High Lords, we don't have the training for that kind of thing!"

"Then we do the best we can, and we save his kids, no matter what! It's what he would want, and it's what we're going to do. Now c'mon Ci, we've got a job to do." She raised her head, revealing a look of grim determination before Ci let out a soft sigh, nodding slightly.

"For Ari."

"For Dog breath."

They looked at each other for a moment, then nodded quietly, Ci's gauntlets manifesting at the fingertips before building themselves up her arms, and to the middle of her biceps, acting like a sort of armor up her arms. "Hey Ci... Did your gauntlets get larger?"

"Huh? ... Yeah, I guess they did!" She looked them over curiously, tapping her fingers against her biceps for a few seconds before flexing, watching as the armor rippled with her, acting as though it were a second skin for her. "This is... Whoa."

"Yeah... Whoa." Valkyr murmured faintly before shaking her head. "C'mon!" She pulled her assault rifle from her back, shouldering the weapon before nodding gently at Ci as the farmgirl clanged her fists together, and the two of them advanced up the stairs, Ci moving to the front as Valkyr fell in step behind her, using the moving soulmetal warrior as shielding for anything that might show itself.

The two women advanced through the next floor easily, there didn't seem to be anyone on the floor, save for a few crabs scuttling around, and strangely large tortoises. Ci took a moment to pause and prod one of the larger ones, making it snap at her and use its shell to butt her, knocking her flat on her ass, while Valkyr sat atop the shell of another, trying not to laugh while watching the former farmer get knocked around in her wrestling match with a tortoise as tall as she was. She finally called Ci over after watching her lose seventeen rounds in a row against the large creature, the defeated woman slinking over and shooting dirty looks at the victorious tortoise before the two of them made their way to the stairs, pausing for a moment to glance over their shoulders at the relatively peaceful and watery room, before making their way up the stairs, slowly easing open the door and making their way in to the sweeping darkness.

------------------------------------------------With Valkyr------------------------------------------------------

"This darkness is starting to piss me off; I can't even see three feet in front of me... Ci, you okay?" She stopped walking, listening for the other woman before she stiffened, looking around in the murky blackness. "Ci? Ci can you hear me?" She turned around, expecting to see the other woman behind her, only to come face to face with Arius, but there was something strange about him. "A-Arius...?! I thou-"

She was cut off, Arius striding to her and shoving her backwards, making her topple backwards and fall down onto a bed. "Wait a second..." She murmured, looking around before she finally began taking in her surroundings. "This is...!" Her eyes widened, and she tried to scramble backwards and away from Arius, taking in the Arius he knew from so many eons ago. "Arius wa-"

"Oh shut up... We both know you want this, I've seen the way you look at me, commander." He had her trapped within the small burned out hotel that they'd been using as a command center in the final forward push in the Gotekai system, back when they were still of Anath's Fist, greatest of all the companies in their army. She remembered this day clearly, it was the first time they ever fucked, not made love, not had sex; this day was nothing more than a rough, sweaty, dirty fucking.

"Back off Dog Breath..." Valkyr hissed lowly, she could feel the familiar hum of energy that had always surrounded her body when she was alive; it was natural for her, as well as the energies that she held within her body. ~No... Wait, this battle... This battle happened ages ago, but... I was... I am...~ "What do you think you're doing soldier!?"

"I'm about to be doing you..." He growled lowly. Neither of them sported any armor, the heat on the planet made armor more of a liability than an asset, and her clothes had been shredded by Arius' claws during a training session. That was why she'd come up into this part of the training center, she was trying to find new clothing to wear, that could fit her, but he had followed her and trapped her on the top floor, away from the rest of her company, and from anyone who could hear her.

"I'm warning you, I'll- Mmph!" She was on her back once more, his hand over her mouth and his claws scraping against her cheeks as he pinned her against the mattress. She glared up at him, trying to kick him in his chest and stomach to get his grip on her to fail, but he just tilted and slid his body past her strikes until her legs were forcefully spread around her waist, keeping her from striking effectively against him as her arms were trapped up in one of his tails, and soon, he had her laying naked beneath him, her clothes completely shredded by well-placed claw slashes, tearing apart her clothes but only leaving two cut marks on her being.

"You'll do what, Commander?" He growled tauntingly, his claws rubbing gently over her chin as his tails removed his clothes, leaving the pair of them naked, and sweating against the natural heat of the planet. This was the lowest of the average heats on this planet, it was close enough to the sun that it was in a perpetual state of Summer, and the Summers of the planet created such intense temperatures, that the citizens retreated beneath the surface to a series of subterranean tunnels that ran through every part, of every city on the planet.

"I'm gonna... Gonna..." She let out a faint growl, her mind was scattered everywhere, she couldn't focus her thoughts, and every time she tried, it just fizzled out as he leaned down, biting her neck sharply before he reached down her body, two fingers running slowly along her womanhood, making her hiss angrily as her back arched an inch off the bedding. She couldn't deny that it was pleasurable, but to give herself up to him like this, so easily? "Ne-Nnnn~!!" She let out a sharp squealing sound, her eyes widened and bulging from her skull as he plunged two fingers into her, and used his claw to push on her clit, making her toes curl and her nails dig into the mattress. "F-Fffuuck!!"

He laughed out loudly, and one of his tails wrapped around her ankle, bringing it up slowly before he pulled away from her neck, using other tails to keep her pinned down as he held her feet up in the air, laughing at her tauntingly. "I've seen you paying so much attention to your feet, before and after battles... Even during them, you're always trying to watch out for your feet... I think, somebody has a fetish for them~"

Her eyes widened at how easily he'd been able to figure out her most guarded secret. never in all her years of serving in the military, had a single person been able to figure out what her fetish was, or even that she actually had a fetish. Many of the soldiers she worked with thought that she was completely frigid, that she had no sexual desires, no wants, no needs, but none of them ever actually tried to find out for themselves. He let out a lazy rumbling noise, then let his tongue drag lightly from her heel upwards to the base of her toes, causing her to let out a very uncharacteristic squeal as her back arched sharply, and her toes curled then splayed out, giving his tongue free reign to swirl between them, curling around her toes as she squirmed and writhed. "N-No! Let go you fu-furry bas-Bassaaahhh~!" Her back arched once more, the fingers he had buried within her had hit a weak point.

"Oh do shut up, Commander, and quit trying to fight what you know you want... Now, let me hear you say it~" He growled softly, rubbing the backside of his claw against her sweet spot, drawing ragged gasps and moans from Valkyr, her mind blank of anything regarding any manner of spire, anything regarding reapers, or being in any sort of danger. The only thing she could seem to focus on was the wolf towering over her, his tongue sweeping over her petite and well-kempt feet while taunting her with fingers buried inside of her, his shaft; thick, silver, and fully erect, bobbing just barely out of range, practically taunting her until she managed to get one of her feet free, growling up at him as she pushed her foot against his dick, pinning it against his stomach as he raised an eyebrow, a faint smirk on his lips as she began slowly sliding her foot up and down his length, trying and failing to keep her leg from shaking or jerking as he continued the assault using his tongue and fingers, before suddenly he pulled back, letting her feet go and allowing for them to drop to the ground before he knelt down. "Oh, I'm not done yet..." He growled softly at her as she let out a faint noise, her legs still made jelly from the fingering before she let out a squeal, her back arching sharply as her hands shot down, and her nails gripped Arius' head.

He had buried his tongue inside of her body, two fingers spreading apart her pussy lips as his tongue delved into her body, exploring within her in ragged and sharp lashes, as well as thrusts of his tongue into her body. She arched upwards, and down against the sheets, her head thrashing slightly before she buried her chin against her heaving chest, her legs jerking and twitching whenever his tongue struck against her g-spot, and it was often. He had not only quickly deduced her fetish, but he quickly found her sweet spot, and was abusing it with tongue lashings that left her unable to do anything in terms of fighting back against him, even if she truly did want to. Her voice escaped her in ragged pants of gibberish, broken sentences that made no sense and held no consistency, other than the high-pitched, pleasured voice that she spoke all of them in. Meanwhile, Arius just laughed from between her legs, his tails wagging back and forth rapidly as his tongue lashed about within her, switching his tactics so instead of just darting about aimlessly, his tongue would work in wide sweeping circles, dragging over her inner walls again and again, constantly dragging over her weak spot and drawing out sharp squeaks and squeals whenever her focused his attention on it.

Her legs wrapped tightly around his neck, and she pushed herself up into a sitting position, tightening the hold of her legs as she gripped his ears, and practically forced him further into her dripping cunny. Her body had begun glowing brightly, and her teeth had bit down onto her lower lip in an effort to silence any more noises unfitting for one of her ranking. Her body began to relax slightly, her fingers slowly kneading at his ears as her hips rocked and rolled before she growled, pushing from the bed and tackling his body down, crashing to the ground with her still riding his face. "C'mon Dog breath... C'mon, don't leave a girl waiting..." She panted lowly, a hint of a lustful growl in her voice as she grinded and rocked her hips roughly, keeping his tongue moving within her even when he paused it, glaring up at her In surprise and aggravation at the sudden burst of assertiveness, and tackling him to the floor.

She leaned her body backwards, and displayed her flexibility as she leaned herself back, her head dropping as she found his shaft just inches from her eyes. A faint laugh left her lips to mask the moan she felt coming on before her tongue darted out, swiping over the tip of his shaft. "Mmmm.... Not bad, Dog Breath~" She spoke in a silky voice, before taking the tip of his shaft into her mouth, suckling on it slowly and using the obstruction to muffle her own noises as her toes curled and uncurled, flexing rapidly in a display of just how skilled his tongue was within her body before her eyes bulged, and she was made to take in more of his shaft, enough so that it was pushing against her throat as he shoved against her, and let out a deep growl within her body, vibrating her inner walls wildly as his tongue vibrated within her, the pleasure skyrocketing faster than one of their R.R.S. missiles on a destroyer's fuel.

She flailed her arms, her legs beginning to kick and flail as she scrabbled for a hold on something, anything, her mind practically exploding with a new threshold of pleasure she never thought existed. She came right then and there, her femcum gushing out of her body and into his mouth as she let out a muffled, squealing scream of ecstasy, something that would cause her to blush bright enough that her face began glowing an electric yellow. Her body slowly slumped down against his chest, her asscheeks resting on his collarbone before he pushed her off, making her yelp in indignation and anger as she hit the floor face-first, unable to feel her legs as she tried to push herself up, only to feel Arius' hands around her waist and on her shoulder, pushing her chest back against the ground and raising up her waist. "W-What're you-"

"Can it Commander, now hold yourself up, like a good girl~" He growled lowly, and she didn't have much choice in the matter. Their position left her at a severe disadvantage, coupled with the fact that she couldn't feel her legs at the moment, left her at his will.

He slid in behind her, growling down at her before gripping a fistful of her hair, forcing her to keep her head up and look towards the shards of the mirror still hanging in their frame. She couldn't get a full view of what was happening, but she could easily make out the image of the tall ebony wolf behind her, his silver eyes gleaming as he looked down at his prize, and the way his hips were poised just behind her as she bit down on her hand, just as he slammed his hips forwards and practically skewered her on his manhood. She'd felt some pretty big ones before, back before she joined up with the force, but they had nothing on what she had inside of her body now.

It felt as though she were being stretched to her limits, and slowly past them, as though he wear tearing and sealing her all at the same time. She could feel a large bulbous bit of flesh pressing against her womanhood, making her tense in preparation, both trying to steel herself by flinching, and trying to relax her body and allow whatever it was to get inside of her body without putting up too much of a fight, and ripping herself up even more. The scream she'd let out had been a soundless one, and he had let her hair go, allowing her to slump forwards against the floor, resting her forehead against it as sweat began pooling beneath her, her body rapidly trying to adjust to this foreign intruder. "What...?" She groped backwards slowly with one hand, the other resting on her forehead and keeping her from kissing the floor, and slowly her fingers found their way to the large bulb of flesh before her wrist was grabbed, and pulled back, making it seem more like the right-side handle to a hovercycle.

"Surprised? It's called a knot, it's something us canines get." He growled tauntingly before pulling his hips back, driving into her once more, making her body jerk forwards as she let out a sharp grunt, pain and pleasure mingling together in the sound. "It inflates, when we're getting close to our climax..." Another powerful thrust rocked her forwards, making her back arch as she let out a sharp gasp, her nails digging into the ground as she kept her eyes on the mirror, making sure he could see that even though he had bested her, that he was in charge here, that this changed nothing, and she would make him pay for humiliating her like this, even if it was in private and she was beginning to enjoy the treatment. "And once we drive it into the one we're mating with..." He growled, another thrust driving into her body and drawing a gasp of pleasure, her back arching this time. "It seals us together... Locking us together in a post-coital state, and makes sure that our cum can't get free, and ensures that our mate gets pregnant...~" He growled into her ears, making her flinch sharply as she dug her nails against the ground, biting hard enough on her lower lip that a small trickle of blood ran out, dripping to the floor as he began thrusting in earnest, slamming his hips against her body and making her bounce forwards as gasps and grunts escaped her, soft growls or grunts leaving his lips, deep and throaty noises, every thrust resulting in a loud slapping noise that echoed across the room. "Of course... We don't have to worry about that... After all, our bodies aren't compatible... I couldn't get you pregnant if I wanted to!" He laughed, his hips picking up the thrusts into her body, making her bounce against the floor now as her eyes rolled back.

Her arms gave way, and she dropped onto her breasts on the floor, letting out a grunt of pain at the impact that was quickly drowned out by a long, loud moan of pleasure when Arius' shaft dragged over her g-spot on its way out. "C-C'mon Dog Breath... S'that really the best you can do?" She would growl defiantly, even as she let out a sharp squeal of pleasure, her eyes clenching shut as her nails bit into the flooring, her fists curling up as she left furrows in the ground before she twisted her body, tucking her leg in against her chest before she kicked out, wincing at the strain it put on her other leg as Arius let out a sharp bark, crashing to the floor, and had Valkyr on him before he could even retaliate, or recover.

She grinned down at him tauntingly, lifting her hips up before she sank down on his shaft, letting out a hissing groan of pleasure as her nails dug into his chest, her hips rocking back and forth slowly once she had bottomed out once more, sitting atop his knot like some manner of chair. "I'm setting the pace..." She growled huskily, pinning Arius' hands against the wall before she began to bounce slowly along his shaft, forcing him to feel and practically savor every last second of her rippling walls dragging along his cock, soaking them in her femcum, and occasionally pausing at the tip of his shaft, taunting him by swirling her hips around, drawing one pleasured hiss or groan from his lips after another before she slammed her hips down, her nails digging painfully into his chest as smoke began to arise from his chest where her powers had started going off without her paying any attention, due to the sexual assault on her body. "Sssssssss...~!" She drew in a hissing gasp, her back arching before she leaned over him, her face inches from his as she sneered down at him, and he returned the favor, her hips slamming down atop his before he retaliated in kind, driving his own hips upwards and into her body savagely, but the pace the two were going at was almost perfectly in sync with one another.

She leaned down over him, sinking her dull teeth into the flesh of his neck, unable to break anything but able to apply rather large amounts of pressure to his neck as her nails scratched down his chest, and his hips continued driving up into her body, making her bounce along his shaft with every powerful thrust, drawing grunts and squeaks from her lips, neither of them looking as though they were going to give in when suddenly, she gripped his head, and he gripped hers, and they jerked towards each other, mashing their lips together in a furious battle for oral supremacy.

Arius picked her body up, lifting her from the floor with the help of his tails before he turned and slammed her up against the wall. The wall crumbled and cracked and left a crater just big enough for Valkyr to sit in, and at the perfect height for Arius to continue his assault on her body unabated. His shaft began driving into her with enough force, that her labia was starting to spread apart under the assault by the knot at the base of his shaft, driving against her time and time again, trying to force entry into her body as she snarled at him, against his lips, her nails dragging down his chest. "Do it... Y-You fu-fuuuaaa fucking pussy!" She snarled, hitting him against the chest as they broke the kiss for a few moments. "Get that thick fucking knot inside me, or I swear to Anath, I'll cut of your dick and force-feed you your own ball saaaaaaAAAAAAAIIIII!!!" Her back arched, her sentence was destroyed, her balance was lost, and she nearly fell from the crater that she was sitting in before Arius caught her, his arms around her waist as he lifted her back up, bringing her into the room before pinning her down on the bed, her legs automatically wrapping around his waist. "Fuck... Fuck fucking fuckity fucker... Fuck! ..."

Arius on the other hand, let out a deep and rippling laugh, hiding the fact that he was both in incredible ecstasy from how tight his commander was, and in a great amount of pain just from how tight his commander was. His hips drew back until his knot gave a rather painful tug, a growl escaping his lips before he began pistoning his hips, drawing back his hips and sawing back into her body. His knot would tug and push at her walls, and it had begun swelling within her, stretching her further. "Get ready..." He growled lowly against her ear, and before she could figure out what he meant, he began to drive his hips against her with more force and speed than ever, and it was steadily mounting. She leaned up, biting on his neck hard as her nails dragged down his back, screwing her eyes shut as he jackhammered into her with enough force that she knew the bed would break if he kept it up for too long.

The bedframe creaked and protested loudly, her body was being bounced back and forth by the force of his thrusts, his fangs buried in her shoulder, drawing blood and leaving marks that would surely scar as she felt another climax coming on before she let out a muffled scream against his neck, her walls tightening like a vice and rippling, trying to milk his shaft as he slammed into her powerfully, his rhythm shattered as he let out his own muffled howl, erupting into her body and flooding her glowing, golden pussy with thick, heavy ropes of his spunk.

"Fu-fuck...." She muttered, her fingers dragging down his backside slowly as she slowly pulled her teeth from his neck, slumping backwards against the broken bed as Arius slumped over her, growling and panting softly, sweat glistening on both of their bodies as they relaxed there, both growling or hissing soft threats and insults at one another.

-------------------------------------------------With Ci----------------------------------------------------------

"Where the hell did that soldier girl get off to...? Valkyr, are you here?" She was lost, that much was obvious as she groped blindly in the dark before a faint laugh echoed behind her, making her whip around, and there he was. "Arius?! But you... I saw the, and the... You... How?" She blinked twice, then rubbed at her face slowly, wiping her eyes with her fists before she opened them, letting out a sharp, startled sound.

She was looking up at the barn doors of the farm she used to work on, her hands dropping to her sides. She could see in the distance, the radio tower that marked her old home, no not old her. "Home... No, wait... Home was destroyed... No, I... It..." She gripped her head while Arius walked up to her, holding a large bale of hay in his grip, balanced on his shoulder before he tilted his head curiously, kissing between her eyes.

"Hey, you okay Ci? You look like you just saw a ghost." He gave her a worried look before setting the hay bale down, using his claws to cut the bindings on it and letting the hay form a large pile on the ground, his tails sweeping it up and pushing it in with the rest of the hay pile sitting in one of the nearby stalls.

Ci was rubbing at her face, letting out soft groaning noises before she looked over at Arius. "Yeah... No, I don't know... I had this really weird dream. You were there, and the city was all burnt up... and... And I think I died, somebody was shooting..." She sat against the staircase to the barn's loft, placing her hands over her eyes before Arius walked over to her, kissing her cheek gently as he wrapped his arm around her waist.

"Hey, it's just a dream baby. You're fine, so's the city... Maybe you just need to stop sleeping on the job?" He grinned softly, giving her a teasing nudge as she rolled her eyes, and gave him a swat.

"Oh shut up... I wasn't asleep on the job, I was just..."

"Sleeping on the job?" He grinned at her as she growled indignantly, giving him a shove so he fell off the staircase and onto the dirt, letting out a barking laugh as he looked up at her, crossing his arms over his chest. "Awww, what's wrong? Mad because I know what you were doing~?" He taunted as she jumped down, trying to land on him as he rolled away quickly, laughing before letting out a startled bark, tackled around his chest and knocked to the floor beneath her.

She sat on his stomach, pinning his hands above his head as she glared down at her in a sort of silent defiance. "I wasn't sleeping on the job you furry asshole..."

He chuckled lowly, then leaned up and kissed her neck gently, making her shiver slightly. "Whatever you say, babe." He rumbled gently, his tails swishing back and forth beneath them as she glared, before hitting him on the chest.

"You're just an ass..." She muttered gently, before leaning down over him, placing her hands above his head as she smiled faintly, a soft and almost silky purr escaping the farm worker. "I can't believe I actually love you sometimes..." She leaned down over his face now, their lips inches apart as he grinned gently, then leaned up, letting his tongue swipe softly over her lips.

"Y'know something beautiful? Sometimes, I can't believe it myself." She grinned faintly before leaning down, pressing their lips together as his fingers ran over her body, exploring her curves while one of her hands slid down to his chest, fisting up and gripping a handful of his fur while she began to rock her hips lightly.

"Hey Arius, Dalia won't be back for at least another two hours, she's out at the market in the city... Meaning you and me have plenty of time to ourselves~" She grinned widely, and slowly slid her hips down until she was sitting in his lap, rocking and rolling her hips slowly as she straddled him, sitting upright while a grin split his muzzle.

"Is that so?"

"It is, indeed~"

"Well then, what'll we do with our free time?"

"I've got a few ideas..."

"Let me hear them~?"

"I'd rather show you~" Her purr grew deeper as she reached down between their legs, running her fingers slowly along the crotch of his pants, and drawing out a soft groan from the wolf, her fingers hooking under his waistline as the tip of his shaft poked free. She settled herself on his thighs as he laid beneath her on the dirt, his tails kicking up small storms of dust and dirt as she undid his jeans, letting his shaft free properly now before her fingers closed around it, stroking along it slowly as she giggled faintly. "You like that, huh big guy?"

Arius had shut his eyes, and a soft growl of pleasure escaped his lips as his hips rocked against her slightly. She slid further down until she was laying between his legs, her fingers gently running up and down his shaft, circling the tip before trailing a fingernail down his length and over his knot, leaning in and giving it a soft lick before she let her hand descend further, fondling the heavy orbs beneath. His hips rolled upwards, a groan of pleasure escaping his lips as she brought her mouth down, gently licking at his furry sack as her hips waved back and forth gently, waving her toned body out of his reach almost enticingly, trying to taunt him with it, knowing he could barely keep his hands off her on a regular day, and here with them by themselves she doubted he'd exercise any restraint on her.

She took one of his furry orbs into her mouth, suckling on it as she stroked along his shaft with one hand, the other sliding up to play with his stomach, teasing along the muscular figure. She gave his sack a slow tug, another purr rippling along his sack as he groaned out deeply, and her tongue swirled his heavy orb within her mouth before she pulled off, leaving it soaked in her saliva before she moved, working on the other one while she stroked quicker on his cock, drawing a hissing groan of pleasure as his hips bucked upwards against her.

She giggled faintly, then pulled away from that ball as well, leaving both of his nuts thoroughly coated in her saliva before she lifted up, dragging her tongue along his manhood before she swirled it around the tip of his shaft. His claws gently dug into the dirt, leaving behind small gouges as she closed her lips around his tip suckling on it gently as she tucked her legs beneath her breasts, reaching up and undoing the clasps on her overalls, shrugging out of them and lowering them down to her waist as she pulled her shirt up, then off, tossing it onto Arius' face as he let out a barking laugh, going to remove them onto to have her hands grab hold of his. "Ah-ah-ah~ Keep that right there." She moved up his body, taking her shirt and tying it together, using the arms of the shirt to bind it together behind his head and keep it in place as a blindfold.

"Kinky little..." He muttered faintly, a grin on his muzzle as she laughed, then leaned down, pecking his nose before she hopped off. "I'll show you kinky~" Within the next several seconds, he would find himself being bound rapidly, his arms tied together behind his back before they were tied together against a nearby post, keeping him sitting upright as a grin played over his muzzle, his legs tied so that they were spread apart, Ci knelt between the two of them and giggling lightly as she looked him over.

"You look good all bound up Ari~" She purred before tying his muzzle shut as well, keeping him from replying. "Don't worry, I'll only keep you tied up like that for a while, I wouldn't let Dalia come find you like this~" She leaned down over him, she had stripped after tying him up, and ran her fingers gently along his chin as sweat dripped down her back from the heat hanging in the air. It was a muggy heat, meaning Arius was definitely suffering thanks to all his black fur, but he never seemed to complain about it, at least not around her.

He let out a muffled growl up at her, and she just giggled gently before squatting down, rubbing along his meaty member once more, a riding crop spinning between two fingers on her free hand. "Awww, I'm sure you don't want me using the crop on you~" She purred gently, running it down his chest slowly as he shivered slightly, drawing a low giggle from her as she shifted her stance once more, laying between his legs with her own tucked beneath her stomach, her hand firmly clasping his balls and rolling them slowly around in her palm, and her tongue dragging up and down his manhood, rolling circles around the tip of his shaft before she took the tip back into her mouth, sucking along it enough so that her cheeks caved in slightly, creating a tighter hole for him before she began to slowly bob her head downwards, drawing faint and muffled groans of pleasure from him as his hips rolled and wriggled slightly against her ministrations.

She shifted her hand, and began to stroke the riding crop gently along his manhood, letting the tip of it slide up and down the sides of his shaft, while she continued to take in more of his length, her and the crop moving in sync with one another; whenever she descended on his shaft, the crop would as well, generally sliding down to tease at his knot, or slide along his furry orbs, each time drawing a renewed shudder from his body, and a long groan as he writhed beneath her. "Awww, c'mon big guy, surely you aren't losing it already~?"

His hips bucked upwards against her, a low groan escaping his lips as he flexed gently against his bindings, knowing that his claws couldn't reach them thanks to how she had him bound, she was too smart to leave the ropes in a place that he could simply saw his way out of them. She focused her efforts on the tip of his length, while letting the riding crop rub slowly over his sack, teasing the orbs while she reached down with her free hand, gently running two fingers along her pussy and letting out a faint moan, just loud enough for Arius to hear. "You want inside me, big guy? You want to bury this long, hard, cock inside me, don't you?" She purred faintly, pulling away from his shaft so she could speak clearly as he panted lowly through his bindings, his nostrils flaring as he writhed again.

She pressed a finger inside of her body, drawing out a low moan of pleasure before she leaned forwards once more, taking his shaft back into her mouth and bobbing along it slowly, her tongue swirling against the tip and toying with the slit atop it, a second finger sliding into her and making her moans grow louder while they pumped into her body, her head bobbing quicker along his shaft as he struggled to do anything against the ropes before finally resigning to his fate, panting lowly and growling muffledly through his bindings.

She took in a deep breath through her nose, her tongue wrapping around part of his shaft before she relaxed her throat, and thrust her head downwards, taking in most of his cock, enough so that her nose was pushing against his torso as he let out a loud groan through the ropes, unable to do much, even with his tails, her head pushing further down as she resisted her gag reflex, pushing it away as she kept her throat relaxed, taking in more and more of his length until finally, her lips were pressing against his knot. Her throat began closing up, and her breath escaped from her nose in sharp and ragged bursts as she began gagging around his shaft, the lining of her throat closing tightly around his length and undulating, trying to push his length out, but at the same time, she was trying to get it deeper, her crop sliding along the underside of his sack as tears began welling up in her eyes before finally, she jerked her head back, popping free of his shaft with a loud gasp, coughing and gasping for air as she rubbed at her neck. "Heheheh... Still need a bit of practice..." She wheezed before rolling her shoulders, then lowering back down, pausing after a second and giggling. "Hey Ari, your knot getting bigger?"

It was indeed, his knot had begun swelling under the auditory assault of her moans, and the deepthroating that she had just given him. She slid in closer to his body, kissing slowly along his neck and over his chest, letting her fingers knead the corded muscle beneath his chest fur, before both her fingers, and her lips, began to trek downwards. Her fingers slid down before her lips, tracing the lines of muscle on his body, and gathering moisture from his sweat, before her lips placed over his salty skin until finally, she made it back down to his crotch, her fingers curling around the base of his shaft, beneath his knot, while her lips caressed along his pelvis, drawing soft groans from his lips as his toed curled inwards, his knot pulsing gently against the side of her hand as it grew steadily larger. "C'mon Ari... Let all that nice, sticky spunk out. Don't hold back on my account~" She letting out a low purr, suckling on the tip of his cock once more as he let out a muffled whine of pleasure, his hips writhing as best they could against his bindings as his knot hit its full size, throbbing and pulsing as he did his best to hold back his climax.

She grinned, then drew the crop back before she hit him across the chest with it, the sharp pain shattering his concentration as he let out a muffled yelp, erupting into her mouth in thick, heavy ropes of his spunk, his hips bucking against her as a welt formed on his chest, her cheeks puffing outwards from the amount of cum he pumped into her mouth, before she began gulping it all down rather audibly, treating him to the sound of her guzzling down his spunk, trying to suck him dry.

She pulled off after a few seconds, panting and gasping rather loudly for air as the last few ropes of his seed splattered across her face, landing across her cheek, over her eye, as well as in her hair. She wiped her thumb across her cheek, licking up the cum that had sprayed across it before she undid a few of Arius' bindings, and tied his wrists together. "C'mon Ari, we aren't done yet~" She tugged him along by the make-shift leash, and he followed, a faint grin on his muzzle as he tried to open his jaw against the ropes currently tying his muzzle shut, failing that, and instead resigning to follow his dominating lover.

She wandered for a few seconds before she giggled softly, a sort of "Figured it out" giggle, before she turned to face him, and lowered herself own onto the large pile of hay, laying out as she spread her legs, and tugged the rope, dragging him down to his knees. "C'mon big guy, find your prize~" She purred lightly, her pussy glistening in the low light filtering into the barn, her scent wafting up to his nostrils as he followed the scent trail downwards to the slit between her legs, kissing along it slowly as his tails swished and wagged gently behind him. "Mmm, c'mon Ari...Let's get that tongue working~" She leaned forwards, undoing the ropes around his muzzle and tossing it up onto the side of the stall as she spread her legs wider, letting her crop trace gently along the top of his head, teasing at his ears and drawing a shiver from him as he let out a faint groan.

The moment she'd released his muzzle, he'd begun panting, and his tongue lolled out. "Fu-fucking..."

She just laughed at this, then leaned over, petting his head softly before she pulled him down against her crotch. "Get licking Ari, or don't you want your reward~?" She purred softly, making his ears prick up gently. He leaned forwards, taking in a few slow breaths before he let his tongue drag slowly over her labia, causing her toes to curl in slightly. "Sssssssss.... That's my good boy...~" She let her head tilt backwards, her eyes lidding halfway as she let out a soft sigh of pleasure, her hips rolling and rocking gently against his face as she ran her crop slowly along the top of his head.

He couldn't see past the blindfold, but he didn't need to see to know what he was doing as he pressed forwards, his tongue delving into her in short bursts, exploring her and dragging over her inner walls before it pulled free once more, making her writhe slightly beneath him. "Going to repay me, for what I did, huh?" She panted lightly before her eyes widened and she let out a loud gasp, her back arching sharply as his lips closed around her clit and he gave it a little tug, suckling on the small nub with his fangs gently slid against it. "B-Bad puppy~!" She hit the crop against his back, making him arch and let out a bark before she tugged the rope, sending him toppling back between her legs, his face buried against her crotch. "No focusing on my clit. I want you to make me cum without having to touch it."

He huffed up at her gently before nodding softly, leaning in once more as he began kissing up and down her labia, drawing a light moan from her lips before he let his tongue drag along her opening once more, her legs clenching and relaxing as she lay beneath him, gently petting the crop against his ears while his tongue dragged up and down her opening three times more.

She gently hooked a leg around the back of his neck, using it to pull him closer to her body as his tongue began pressing into her, sliding deep inside of her at first before drawing back, and just barely staying with her, flicking her inner walls slowly. Her toes curled inwards, gripping the fur along his back as his tongue slid deeper into her, trailing over her walls before finding one of her more sensitive points, making her hips buck up against his tongue and a squeaking noise to escape her lips. He grinned faintly, his blind eyes flicking up towards her before he began to lick her weak point, drawing a hissing moan from her lips before he let his tongue delve deeper into her, knowing that, that wasn't the only sensitive spot there was, nor was it the most sensitive.

His tongue pulled back slightly, then shot forwards, burying within her and exploring along her inner walls, tracing along her pink walls as she let out a loud moan at the sudden intrusion, both legs wrapping around his neck now as she swatted the crop against his ear. "Good boooooy~" She purred silkily, her hips rolling gently against his face as she tightened the hold of her legs, pulling him tighter against her crotch, making sure he couldn't get away, even if he wanted to. "C'mon boy, a little deeper... Fu-ffff to the left~!" She moaned out loudly, and he obliged willingly, his tongue darting to the left and dragging over her walls as she let out a loud, gasping moan and gripped his head, the riding crop clasped between her teeth to keep her from letting out a scream of pleasure as he found, and began assaulting, her g-spot. "A-Aaahhh right there Ari~!" She arched her back, crying out happily as he assaulted her sweetspot mercilessly.

His tongue dragged and flickered along her sweetest of spots, her back arching as she shut her eyes tightly, her tongue curled around the length of the crop as her legs tightened around his neck, and she gripped his head tightly, almost pulling his fur out from how tight her grip had become. "I forget how skilled you are with that tongue sometimes Ari..." She panted lowly around her 'gag', Arius taking in a deep breath through his nose as he took in her scent, and her eyes widened, knowing what was about to happen as she opened one eye before he let out a booming growl into her body, and she let out a rather loud squeal, her back arching in a large arc as her mouth hung open, her orgasm crashing over her like a tidal wave, femcum gushing out of her and into his waiting muzzle as he let out a second deep growl, drawing a scream of ecstasy from her lips as her eyes began to roll back before he pulled free, pulling powerfully against her legs until finally he pulled free, letting out a deep gasp as he toppled backwards onto the floor, barking in pain at how he both landed on his arms, and how hard he hit his head against the dirt.

He panted faintly, his muzzle's fur coated with her juices as Ci lay there in the hay, staring at the ceiling with hazy eyes as her pussy walls rippled and her juices continued leaking from her body, and into the hay pile. "Haaa....Haaaa.... Ffffuuuaa..... Fuck Ari... I didn't know you could do that!" She looked down at the blinded wolf, who was grinning widely as he worked to catch his breath after holding It while he worked her. "Okay big guy... I think it's time we moved to the main course~" She pushed herself up, sitting on the haystack before she undid the bindings on his arms, then removed the blindfold, peering into his bright silver eyes with a soft smile before she leaned in, kissing him gently and drawing a soft rumble from his chest, both of them able to taste their juices mixed together as her tongue darted out, slipping between his fangs and tracing along his much larger one.

She gave the ropes around his arms a final tug, letting them fall to the floor atop his calves before he leaned forwards, pushing her back down onto the hay, and spreading her legs around his waist, his tongue pressing against hers and slowly coaxing it into a battle for dominance.

Their tongues finally met in the middle ground, just between their lips, her legs wrapping around his waist and hooking around one another at the ankle as she battled against his large tongue, grinding her dripping pussy slowly against his shaft, once more hard as a rock, and the knot no longer swollen. She broke the kiss after a bit, panting as she grinned up at him, letting out a lusty purr, which he returned in the form of a deep growl as he pulled his hips back. She ran the broken riding crop, bitten straight through, down along the center of his chest, letting out another soft purr before she nodded slowly. "Go for it..." She murmured softly, and he nodded gently, slowly pushing forwards and parting her labia, then her inner walls, drawing a muffled hiss as she buried her face against his chest, gripping his back and digging her nails in tightly. "Fu-fucking big...." She let out a noise akin to a whimper, her nails biting painfully into his backside as he eased slowly deeper, until finally stopping about midway into her body.

"Ready, Cecilia?" He murmured gently against her ear, making her shiver slightly.

"Y-You know that I hate when people call me that..."

"Ahhh, but you know, I love that name~" He smiled at her softly as she looked away, not meeting his almost cheerful, and slightly lecherous, gaze before he began push deeper into her, making her face scrunch up as her mouth hung open, a gasping moan escaping her lips, and a growling groan, his.

He gave one final, sharp thrust, and sank in fully, his hips pushing against hers slightly as his knot rested against her lower lips, drawing another moan from her lips. "I will never... Get used... To how big, you are..."

"Haaahhh... Heheh, don't you think that's a good thing, Ci?" He grinned at her gently, rocking and rolling his hips, spreading her pussy wider around his shaft as she let out a long, keening moan of pleasure, before she hit him on his chest.

"St-Stop teasing me, you asshole! Hurry up and fuck me, before that annoying bitch gets back!" She snapped, her face as bright with blush as possible as he laughed out deeply, drawing his hips back before plunging forwards, driving into her powerfully and beginning to thrust into her roughly. Her legs locked tighter around his waist, and she bit down on his shoulder, making him wince slightly before he picked up the pace of his thrusts, panting gently as he took her.

"C'mon Cecilia... I want you to scream for me...~" He growled lustfully into her ear, making her shudder as her mouth opened, a low moan escaping her lips. He knew that she was weak when it came to his growls; whenever he growled around her, whether it be from anger, territorial defense, of her or his home, or arousal like right now. It was his lustful growls that always set her off, sending her inner walls quivering and her temperature rising.

The last time he'd given off a deep, angry growl, she'd nearly creamed herself on the spot. Her legs had turned to jelly, and palms began to sweat, and she wanted to put down the pipe she'd been ready to cave his head in with, and let him just fuck her up against the wall he'd been cornered against instead. And now here they were, her legs locked around his waist and her nails gouging up his back as he jackhammered into her. This wasn't a slow and loving display of tenderness; no this was a down and dirty, rough and passionate display of unleashed lust atop several broken bales of hay.

His knot drove against her opening, forcing her lower lips to part more, and more with every, body-rocking thrust, setting her body aflame with unpent need. His hips picked up the pace again, and her eyes clenched shut tightly, her left hand releasing his back and gripping the hay bed beneath her, her mouth hanging open in an almost continuous, and yet soundless, scream of ecstasy until her eyes widened, his shaft slamming against her g-spot on an inwards thrust, sliding past it before dragging along it on his way out, her breath catching in her throat in a sort of gurgling cry, her velvety walls clenching down on his manhood tightly, drawing sharp bark from Arius as his back arched slightly, and his rhythm broke, shattering like so many bits of stained glass. He pistoned into her savagely now, working to drive his knot into her as she struggled simply to hold her climax back.

She knew she had lost the battle for dominance, and didn't even put up a struggle for it at this point, just as she lost the battle to hold back her climax, just as Arius' knot was driven into her body, drawing a scream of ecstasy and pain from her, the pleasure easily overriding the pain at the sensation of being stretched so wide. He stopped thrusting, and instead began grinding, sweat dripping from the both of them onto the hay as she stared up into his eyes. She knew what was coming next, she knew about it from the sexual stories the two of them had shared with one another back when they were just friends, if you could call their relationship at the time, 'friends', and she wasn't entirely sure she was ready for it, but ready or not, he was already starting.

His hips pulled back until his knot was tugging at her pussy, it had swollen to the point where he couldn't pull free without hurting both of them. Once he felt the tug, he drove his hips forwards, bouncing her body slightly, then he began to repeat this, again and again, picking up the pace with every thrust into her body until soon enough, he was jackhammering away at her with enough speed and force that his hips had begun to blur, Cecilia's eyes rolling back in her skull as she let out a shriek of ecstasy and pain, knowing that she wasn't going to be walking right, if at all, for the next few hours as he went to town on her, the sound of their sweaty hips colliding against each other echoing in the barn, filling the air with not just the heady scent of their sex, but the noises as well. Arius' knot was swelling rapidly, stretching Ci's hole wider by the second until finally he had swollen to his full size, and Ci nearly blacked out.

She thought she could hold on, she'd spent part of the time being jackhammered, the time that she could piece words together either with her lips, or with her mind, egging herself on, daring her and taunting her, working to keep herself from passing out, but as Arius struck again and again against her g-spot, she knew she wouldn't be able to hold out, and indeed, as Arius' back arched, a deep howl rippling from his throat as the floodgates broke, and a torrent of seed came gushing forth into her body, her pussy convulsed and rippled, constricting like a glove around his shaft as she let out a gurgling scream, a few flecks of his seed flying from her lips as she arched, and her vision began to go dim before finally winking out.

"Lady Anath!"

"It's not possible!"

"The Lady herself..."

All around Valkyr, figures stood, shock and horror etched along their faces as Valkyr took one step forwards, then two backwards. Her eyes trekked downwards slowly, alighting on the haft of a blade, currently buried within her chest. It was a scythe, and not just any scythe, but it was the scythe that she had forged together with the wolf knelt over her with terror and misery etched all over his face. It was the look of someone who knew what was coming, but didn't want to accept it, no matter how much evidence was being stacked in front of him, or how it was pouring out onto his lap, and against his torso. "Valkyr... Get up..."

"Ar-Ariu-"

"Get up Valkyr!"

"I can-"

"You have too much left to do, now get your ass up!"

His hand drew back, and then drove forwards as her eyes widened, and his hand plunged into her forehead, drawing a sharp gasp from her lips as her body arched, and her vision shattered into shards of glass.

When the world came back into focus, a very different Arius was standing over her, a faint smirk on his face and his cloak lit up from behind by some strange, moving light source. "What in the...?"

"You got caught in a trap, but it's time to get up now." He murmured softly, petting her head before he stood and lashed out with one of his tails, earning a sharp 'Urk!' noise, before a heavy thud filled the room, and the sound of a liquid 'plipping' against the floor. "A high lord, some poisons, and some lanterns." He answered her unspoken question, striding across the room before he drew his palm back, and drove his hand not through, but into Ci's head. Her body jerked violently, thrashing back and forth before she arched towards him, letting out a loud and painful gasp before her own vision shattered as well, before reforming, allowing for Valkyr to watch a reflection of what her own expression must have looked like when Arius delved his hand into her body.

Slowly, Ci sat herself up, letting out a faint groan of pain as she rubbed her face. "What..."

Arius cut her off, explaining what happened to her in the same way that he'd explained it to Valkyr, before the three of them stood up, the lanterns no longer spinning due to Arius' tails grabbing hold of them, locking the track in place before he tightened his tails until finally, he crushed them inwards, destroying the track and shredding the lanterns. "This lord was pretty heavily magic based, that water from one floor down was completely soaked in poisons, and the turtles and crabs were the ones exuding the poison. You were going to be made into a duo of sleepers once you woke up from the poisons, and then used by the high lord as personal tools, for whatever he wanted."

"Wait... How do you know all that stuff? The stuff about how he was going to use us, and the brainwashing?"

"Because, it's exactly what I would've done." He dusts his feet off, his legs both soaked completely.

"Arius... Your legs are both-"

"Yeah, don't worry about it though. I'm immune to this stuff."

"H-how?!" This was Valkyr's turn to be shocked, staring at his legs.

"It's my blood. My blood is a mixture of a virus, and acid, it attacks poisons and foreign entities, unless I make a conscious effort not to have it do this. It also infects organics, destroys inorganics, and is basically a weapon flowing through my system." He explained, the three of them making their way up to the next floor.

"That's..."

"Incredible."

"I was going to say terrifying."

"Well yeah, that too! But I mean, that's pretty fucking amazing, don't you think?"

"Yeah, I suppose so."

"Hey, you two, quit talking about my blood. C'mon, let's get moving; we've got children to save."

"Right!" Both of them sounded off in almost perfect unison before all three of them rushed up the stairs, Arius taking to utilizing the walls while Ci and Valkyr rushed along the stairs, Ci taking those two at a time, but Valkyr easily keeping pace, even though she was moving one step at a time.

The three of them came out into a new room, this room was more like a massive sphere, and the three of them were standing on a platform jutting out over the rest of the room. "What the hell kind of place is this?" Ci chimed out, peering over the edge of the platform but unable to spot anything, Arius simply rubbing the back of his neck.

"Not a clue... This is just weird."

"It looks like it's supposed to be some kind of trap room."

"Do you think the floor is invisible?"

"Nahhh..." Ci reached over the edge of the platform, swiping her hand along it. "No floor, unless it's going to spring to life the moment one of us steps off this thing."

"Ahhh, nothing to worry about... One Hardlight bridge coming up." Arius stepped forwards, pressing his foot against the edge as a light seal formed, the runes spinning before the seal turned black, then gray, then red, then shattered with enough force that Arius was knocked back wards onto the ground, letting out a sharp grunt of pain.

"The hell was that?!" Valkyr snapped, her rifle out within seconds and was aiming around the area while she knelt beside Arius, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Some kind of seals.... They've got this area set. No magic, I can figure that much out already..." He muttered, pushing himself back to his feet as he rolled his shoulders, looking down to find his left hand completely coated in runes. "Shit, they're curse runes... Okay, whatever you do. No. Magic." He looked at them, making sure both of them understood what he was telling them as they nodded gently, Ci's gauntlets rolling into being as she hit her fists together, Valkyr pulling the slide back on her rifle, while Arius swung a claymore into being, wielding the massive dual-handed sword as if it were no more than a dagger, before the three of them begun advancing forwards slowly. "How do we get across?"

"Rope?"

"Can you use your tails Ari?"

"No, not here... I think it might trigger one of these damned traps."

"Can you feel your hand?"

"No, it's useless until we get out of this room... C'mon, I want my hand back, and I think the runes may be designed to spread, the longer the caster is in the area.

"You've got that insane strength, can you jump it?" Valkyr asked, looking over the gap before back at Arius, who shrugged slightly. "I'm going to try it, if not; I'll use my sword and claws, and climb."

Ci nodded slightly before she bumped Valkyr, giving her a few gestures before they both nodded, then stepped to be in front of Arius, facing each other as they laced their arms together, and squatted down. "Ready when you are Ari."

"C'mon Dog Breath, get flying."

He looked at the two of them before laughing, grinning gently as he nodded before backing up, sheathing the sword against his back before he sprinted forwards, starting from the top of the stairs before he placed a foot on their linked wrists, and shoved off with both feet as the two of them shoved their arms upwards and against him, sending Arius sailing through the air as he tucked his legs in, twisting until his eyes spotted the other platform. He twisted, knowing he'd just barely make it halfway along before he stabbed his blade into the ceiling, and his tails lashed out, grabbing hold of the hilt before he used it to swing his body forwards, and idea forming in his head as he began sending a series of blades whirling through the air, stabbing into the ceiling and the floors as well, forming a bridge of blades while his tails began acting as spider's legs, carrying him across until he dropped down onto the other side of the platform, grinning in victory before the walls began to light up, and he dropped to his knees, gripping at his arm and muffling a howl of agony.

"Arius!" Both of the women shouted across the room, Ci beginning to step forwards before she looked at Valkyr and nodded, grabbing hold of the smaller woman before she began whirling around, before planting one foot, and hammertossing the former military commander through the air, and with as much force as she could muster. Valkyr sailed through the air, before she felt herself beginning to descend, and grabbed hold of one of the hanging sword hilts, using it to send herself twisting through the air once more, making use of the blades to travel along the room before she dropped down next to Arius, grabbing for him, only to be knocked backwards by a surge of electrical energies from the nearby runes decorating the walls.

She crashed against the doorway, hugging her chest as she let out a low hissing sound before she shifted her stance, rolling her shoulders as Ci moved along the blades, gripping them and monkey-barring her way across before dropping beside the two of them. The runes had spread across Arius' body, travelling up his arm and now adorning his chest, as well as going over to his other arm, down to the crook of his elbow, as a pained roar rippled from his throat.

Both girls backed off slightly, not sure they wanted to try and grab him again, lest the traps spring to life and fry the both of them. "What do we do?"

"Can you use your- Shit, the fucking runes keep us from..."

"Right, the anti-magic shit..."

"What can we do?"

"What if you tackle him?"

"I can't, he's too close to the edge, and I'd just fall off before I could even lean forwards."

"Can you break the platform?"

"What good would that do?"

"If you can break off where he is, we might be able to get him through the door and out of the room."

"The platform won't budge..." The sounds of Ci's fists striking the platform, then attempting to move it, rang out through the air before the two woman watched, Arius letting out another roar as the runes glowed on his body, and began forcing themselves along more of his body, painting his torso and his back in the runes, smoke wafting upwards from the runes atop his body before he looked towards the ceiling, and Ci nodded shortly, sliding backwards before she lunged, grabbing hold of his tails in both hands before she yanked, whirling as he let out another roar, the runes adorning he walls beginning to light up to strike the interloper, while she sent Arius sailing past her body, and into the hallway, while Valkyr jumped up, and drove her feet into Ci's back, sending her flailing through the doorway, just as the lightning crashed down where she'd been standing.

The runes deactivated, the traps no longer had a target that they could reach, and Arius' blades had dispelled, along with the runes that caked his body. He collapsed to the ground, while Valkyr strode through the doorway, a triumphant grin on her lips while Ci knelt beside Arius, her gauntlets dispelled as his tongue lay against the ground, her fingers running gently through his hair. "That must've been some pretty bad shit..."

"It was."

Both women whipped around at the new voice, and came face to face with a man pulling himself from Arius' lower back, standing up and stretching. "Who the hell are you?" Valkyr snapped, her rifle aimed between the man's eyes.

"I'm Kashimi; the Bloody Jester, Arius' soul and partner." He was as tall as Arius was, and sported a mask over his face, blood dripping from the eyes sockets at a steady rate, flowing down to the bottom of the mask before simply disappearing. The mouth of the grin was pulled back into an insane smile, wider than any human jaw could stretch, and filled to the brim with fangs. His clothes were completely black, but they seemed to be a flowing, almost living material, dancing in silence, and moving as though in slow contemplation of the next step of their dance. When Valkyr looked into the eye sockets of his mask, she couldn't see anything but emptiness, the darkness within swirling as much as the blackness of his clothing. "What are you?"

"Don't worry about it. Right now, focus on Arius. Those runes drained a lot more than just his magic, they attacked me, they drained hi physical power, and they were putting him through more and more agony, the longer they had him. Over half of those were runes of suffering, so here's what you're going to do." The girl didn't seem to have any problem with the fact that he had manifested himself before them, and was now ordering them around, maybe because they could see how faded his body was and that he couldn't properly pull free of Arius' body, but they knew better than to waste time trying to argue with him.

Within ten minute, he was kneeling down, his mask having formed an expression of exhaustion as he rested an arm on his knee, and the other against the ground, his robe beginning to dim in coloration and his body wavering slightly, threatening to come apart as Ci and Valkyr stayed knelt on either side of Arius, their hands pressed down on his chest before Kashimi nodded shortly, and the girls pressed their hands down on Arius, runes lighting up like Christmas lights, exploding across his body rapidly and coating every inch of him in light as the girls closed their eyes against the light of their own magic.

When the light finally faded, and the hallway returned to its normal coloration, slightly bleached due to the magical light, Ci and Valkyr had slumped against the walls, both of them unconscious and breathing uneasily. Arius, on the other hand, was on his knees, looking at his hands and letting out soft, growling groans. Kashimi was sitting in front of him now, staring into Arius' bright silver eyes, and seeing the evil gleam that had defined the wolf before him, so very long ago. "Well? Is it time for us to stop playing around, to really get down to business and crush everyone who dares get in the way?" Kashimi questioned, watching as Arius rose to his feet, waving a hand as darkness surged over the hallway, swallowing both Ci and Valkyr before disappearing, transporting the duo out of the building, back to the house, and into the medical wing.

"It's time to get serious..."

"Took long enough." Another voice rang out, a second body peeling away from Arius'. This one sported no legs, in their place he had a body similar to a snake's, his eyes dancing with a white light and his chest in swirling patterns. "I was getting bored, not having anything to eat around here."

"You're always hungry, aren't you?"

"I'm a soul eater. You haven't found any worth eating since I snacked on Terxi."

"No, you just didn't want to eat any because you wanted more of hers, and wouldn't eat anyone else's for a while, then you complained."

He fell quiet for a while, and then snorted sharply before Arius shook his head, sighing in annoyance. "Let's get started... We have people to destroy." His voice changed, it was more of a purr now, a noise that sent shivers up and down both Kashimi's, as well as the soul eater's, backs before the three of them melded back together, and he made his way down the hallway.

"Based on what Valkyr told us, we should be reaching the last floor after this one."

"And with it, we find the kids, yeah?"

"If they aren't there, I wouldn't begin to know where to look."

"Then for the sake of this city, my kids better be up those stairs."

The others merely grunted, before Arius came out into a rather blank room. This one looked exactly like the room that had greeted them when he and the girls first entered the building. The only real difference, was that instead of there being a singular woman in the room with her head missing, there was a large group of them, all sitting at a table, arm folded one atop the other as they leaned forwards on their elbows, leaning onto the table and watching Arius. He didn't recognize a single one of them, but he did recognize the familiar power of a high lord, coming from the woman in the middle. Her violet hair swayed back and forth against a breeze that didn't exist, as did the rest of the women's hair. Their hair seemed to cover every aspect of the rainbow, and then some, and their hairs seemed done up in every possible fashion, ranging from fashions not seen on Earth, simply because hair was incapable of doing such things, to some of the more favorable hairstyles seen on Earth, ranging from ponytails, to pigtails, to bobs. At one point, he was sure he spotted a beehive hairdo amongst the group before she disappeared amongst the rest of the faces.

"Arius Deathsinger... A pleasure to meet the fabled Kami-killer at last."

"The honor is yours, I'm sure. I'm a little bit busy, so if you wouldn't mind moving your little fanclub out of my way, miss...?"

"You may call me Enrika."

"I'm calling you, 'in my way'. And I'm only asking nicely this one time... Move."

"Now, now... Is that anyway to talk to a lady?"

"The bulge in your robe, mingled with the boob in your throat, and the strained pitch... Along with the definitiveness of your jawline, your facial structuring, and the obviously fake cantaloupes within your shirt lead me to believe that you are no lady, and need to get out of my way. In fact, the only actual lady in this room is her, right there." He raised his hand, pointing to a woman sitting five seats to the left of the 'woman' in the center. Her eyes widened, and she leaned back slightly, her pigtails swaying as she did so.

"H-how did you...?"

"Men and women also smell different. It isn't a lot, but if you're trained to, you can easily detect the faint scents that differentiate men and women from each other. You can hide it beneath your cloak if you want, but I can see it. You have a b-cup pair of breast, before you came here, you tended to a garden, and reaped six souls; Feudal Japan, if I'm not mistaken. You tended to several Lilacs, you're the actual Enrika. You have a flower type soul, you're weak in magic, hardly any magical abilities at all, but you're skilled in hand to hand combat, as well as with a rapier." By this point Enrika's face had begun blushing furiously, her hands clasping together on the table as she stared at him wide-eyed.

"H-How do you know all this stuff...?"

"I'm not as dumb as I look. You don't need to be here, go on and leave. This isn't your kind of place anyways."

She blushed darker, but her gaze slid around the room. None of the others had moved, but all of them had a hateful glare on their faces, all directed at Arius, possibly at how he was treating them, or at how easily he had seen through disguises that all of them had adorned. Meanwhile, the faux Enrika was working 'her' jaw, before she slid her hands down her cloak, and threw the two melons onto the ground. "You scum... And here I thought you were actually kind of cute!" she snapped at him, while Arius just snorted disdainfully.

"Too bad, because you and the rest of your boys are ugly as shit. Enrika is the only person in here who's even remotely attractive." He crossed his arms over his chest, while the faux women let out warcries, their composure broken as they leaped over the tables to charge at Arius, only to be thrown backwards as his tail flickered, and a shockwave of sonic energy, lashed at them. Those closest to the energy were killed almost instantly, their insides turned into mush and their bodies sent sailing across the room to slam against the wall. Meanwhile, the two Enrikas sat at the table, simply watching this display of power.

"M-Mister Arius..." Enrika' jaw hung slack, staring at the wolf as his cloak fluttered from the rebound of energy.

The high lord, however, was much more livid. His face had turned red with anger, and his fists had balled up on top of the table before he slammed his fist down against the table, breaking it down the middle, before he shot forwards, a blur against the background as his fist went back, and impacted with Arius' open palm. The force of the impact resonated across the room, filling it with the sound of flesh striking against flesh, before the sound of bones crunching joined it, the feminine man letting out a scream of agony a Arius' fist closed around the other male's hand, and two of his tails wrapped around the man's waist, and his arm, keeping him from pulling away as five more tails slithered forwards, twining their way around his body until they suspended him in the air, one tail per limb. "Y'know, you might have actually made a decent trap if you weren't ugly as fuck."

~'And you haven't been living with one for the past couple trillion years...' Kashimi chimed in mentally, Arius just chuckling softly as his tails began to pull. The high lord was clearly not one for physical confrontation, likely more geared towards magic, or assassination, neither of which were going to happen as Arius jerked his tails outwards, and tore the lord's body into several chunks, silencing his cries in an instant as his head sailed through the air, landing on the shattered table as Arius sighed lowly, adjusting his cloak before looking down and frowning.

"The little bitch got my cloak bloody..." He muttered, Enrika letting out a faint noise at how easily a high lord had just been dispatched, before her eyes widened, her jaw nearly unhinging at how hard and fast it had dropped.

Arius undid the clasp of his cloak before he pulled his arm to the side, his cloak pulling free with ease and with a flourish, revealing a custom-made suit of ivory coloring, a tie around his neck that was a deep shade of crimson, like the blood that coated his cloak, and a body toned and tempered by innumerable years of war and training. "Much better..." He muttered, dusting an invisible speck of dusts from his pants leg before he looked up at Enrika, noting that she seems to have passed out in her seat, slumped down with her face so heated and red that steam was rising from it.

Hi head tilted curiously for a moment, before he shrugged gently, adjusting his tie before his face grew cold once more, and he strode forwards, pushing open the doorway and standing there, his silver eyes taking in the sight before him as the door swung shut behind him with an echoing 'clang'.

A solitary figure stood in the center of the room, and at the very back of the room were two more, both of them chained against the wall and surrounded by swirling runes. "So, you finally got here Mr. Deathsinger... I was beginning to wonder if those traps had done you in. You know, we designed them specifically to stop you. But here you are... I suppose you want your kids back, but you can't have them no matter how much you w-... Where'd he go?"

The cloaked figure paused in their monologue, realizing that Arius was no longer standing in front of the doorway, but instead he was behind him, his tails flickering back and forth as he looked over the runes. "Did you just... How the hell did you move that fast?" The cloaked figure snapped. The voice seemed to be a mixture of both male and female, and the cloak touched against the floor as he reached up, pulling down his hood to reveal a rather androgynous face, the eyes being a shade of sky blue, but the rest of the body being hidden beneath the cloak. "Hey, answer us!"

"I see; you're a fusion; two high lords that felt they needed to put their strength together in order to fight me... Correct?" Arius didn't turn, he didn't look over his shoulder, he didn't give any indication that he was talking to the figure in the middle of the room, which had begun seething with aggravation by this point. Before the fusion warrior could open their mouth, Arius spoke once more. "It won't work, did you know that? There's nothing you can do that will stop me, and nothing you attempt to do will save you."

The fused fidgeted, slowly growing uncomfortable. Neither of the figures that made up the fused being were used to being threatened, and to stand there, being so blatantly threatened by the wolf in front of the two trapped girls against the wall, was more than a little off-putting. "There is no Reaper Ultimate, there is no Kami, there is no magic, no amount of strength, no fusions, no army... There is nothing that will ever protect you, nothing that can save you, and nothing that can stop me. I'm going to tear the two of you back into two people, and I'm going to rip you into so many pieces, not even Quil will know where to get started on putting you two back together." He turned around slowly, revealing eyes of dark quicksilver. "I'm going to wipe you from the face of existence itself, and there's nothing that anyone can do to save you." Hi voice was calm, cold even, and his expression was the epitomy of hatred. "You couldn't have picked a worse duo to stalk, and a worse person to piss off, than us." The room had been growing darker and darker the more Arius spoke, until the fusion found it difficult to simply see three feet in front of itself.

The darkness began to lift, Arius laughing icily as the fusion lord shifted again, then blinked in surprise as Arius' fist appeared less than a foot from their face. The blink was the only reaction they had time to pull off as his fist connected with their face, and sent them sailing backwards with enough speed to create a sonic boom right before they slammed against the wall. The wall buckled, crackled, then ripped open, allowing for the fusion to sail through the open gash in the wall and into the previous room, slamming against the wall there while Enrika let out a startled scream, snapped awake from her slumber and greeted by her boss, formerly bosses, slamming against the wall that she, along with her companions, had been instructed to guard.

"Wh-what's going...?" She stopped talking the moment she saw Arius striding through the doorway, the doors bending and buckling under the force his body was exerting with every step. The ground was trying to cave beneath him, but the soul metal holding it together wasn't budging too far. The lord peeled itself from the wall just in time to avoid another Arius strike that shattered the walls, creating a gaping crater in the wall before he turned around, and delivered a devastating backhand strike that sent the fusion slamming through the table and into the other wall, this one not giving way, but drawing a pained shout from the fusion as they slammed against a wall made of six inch thick soulmetal.

The fusion picked itself up, rubbing its jaw with a soft sound of pain before it lunged forwards and to the side, dodging around Arius' next strike before driving its fist into his stomach, striking with enough force to lift his feet from the ground and buy it enough time that it was able to draw back and drive a magically charged fist into Arius' jaw, sending him sailing sideways and into the doorway, letting him slide backwards and against the wall where his children hung against the walls. He looked up at the two of them before he let out a short grunt, and jerked his fists to the sides, slamming them against the rune barriers, and watching as the runes that had been etched on his hands lit up, shattering the barriers and allowing for his children to drop to the ground, both gasping for air now as they collapsed against the floor, each hitting with a heavy 'thunk'.

Arius stood up, shifting his stance before looking down at the two of them, sidling them closer together and letting them lay together, against each other, before he looked outside the doorway, his tails flickering back and forth slowly. He began to draw in energy from around him, not touching on his children' power as a seal began to light up along his backside, slowly etching itself into existence. Invisible to the naked eye, a seal had begun forming along the back of Kashimi, rather than Soul Eater, as he was tempted to do.

Kashimi pulled himself from Arius' body, manifesting himself as the fusion entered the room, staring at Arius as well as the grinning Kashimi. "What is that thing?" It asked, before Arius and his partner smiled.

"You may be able to fuse with another person in the hopes of topping me, but you will never be able to defeat me, got it?" The wolf and his soul smiled icily before the seals completed their circuit, both of them meeting each other as a bright light filled the room, momentarily blinding the fused Lord.

When the light faded, Arius stood several feet taller than the fused Lord, ten feet at the very least, and causing the fused to step back slightly, growing very much apprehensive. Arius' skull had been revealed, the skin over his face was missing, leaving behind a wolf's skull with sockets completely devoid of anything. In place of his suit, there was a long, flowing cloak of slate gray coloring on the outside; the inside however was a swirling mixture of red and black, the cloak fluttering to reveal a body devoid of skin and organs. In their place was nothing but bone, but in place of his organs, a strange, swirling blackness that filled in the gaps, as well as flowing around the bone of his arms and legs.

Hi head tilted to the side, and a staccato rattle of crackle and pops issued from Arius' bone neck, and chest. The sleeves of the robe pulled up enough to reveal that his hands were just as much bone as the rest of his body, but they were tipped with jagged claws, and the ends of them danced with energy, a living and swirling white energy, dotted with black, and dancing its way up and down his finger, from tip to knuckle.

The Lord shifted its stance, letting out a short noise, clearly worried by the vast amounts of power that Arius' new body was putting off, and the hatred that radiated from his expression. He held his hand out to the side, and with a black and white swirl of energy, a long scythe formed in his grip. The haft was as tall as he was; it seemed to be a black shaft, with white energy travelling along it in a swirl, from the base of the haft, to the base of the blade. Small black dots decorated the white lines up and down the weapon, the blade itself gleamed with a vibrant silver coloration, and it glinted against the lighting. The haft rested now, against Arius' shoulder, the blade hanging over his shoulder, while the fused lord watched silently, before it shifted its cloak, and revealed four long arm, each one sinewy and rippling with untold strength.

The fused lord held its arms to the sides, before magic began swirling around, the air hissing and vibrating with power, before four disks formed in the grip of the lord. The disks turned into rings, and began to condense until the blade was barely half an inch thick, however the diameter of two of the rings was roughly fifteen inches across, while the other two were only five inches across, but dangerous none-the-less. The lord gripped each ring, flexing his fingers around the strange weapon, the occasional jutting, and curved blade forming to protrude along the length of the weapon so that it looked almost like a large saw blade. Each of the ring hummed with power, and as the lord spun them around its arms, it knew that it was going to win this battle, no matter how tall Arius might be, or how powerful he thought he may be.

Arius scythe began to spin slowly, then began picking up speed, while the lord leaned forwards, the two smaller blades, gripped in its lower pair of arms, began to pin slowly, his grip on them shifting so he was simply holding them by magic, its hand s hovering over the blades, while they spun rapidly beneath its open palms. The ground began to creak beneath the fused lords, and Arius hadn't deigned to move, but his scythe was spinning fast enough that it was giving the impression of being a singular, disk-shaped object, like a spinning shield.

They held their ground as the seconds ticked by, Flora and Fauna sitting up by this point, watching the towering figures facing off in silence before a drip of sweat trickled down Flora's face, and fell to the ground. The silence was so deep, that a the droplet splashed down on the ground, the noise echoed in the room, and as though it were starting pistol at a race; Arius and the lords were off. They each vanished, their bodies moving too fast to properly comprehend as the ground cracked, then shattered. Their blades met in the middle of the room, all four of the lords' blades were clashing against Arius' scythe as he tried to slash downwards. The lord was keeping him at bay, but not by much as the ground began shattering, the soul metal buckling and rending under the onslaught of exertion as the two girls cried out, covering their heads and expecting to be crushed, or sent to another floor, but when they opened their eyes, they came face-to-face with a barrier that had surrounded them, keeping them floating above the ground and protecting them from the energy, as well as the attacks that both combatants were pouring on.

The two smaller blades, identified a chakrams, were hurled out to the sides and guided by magic back towards Arius. One of them was alight with lightning, the other burned with crimson flames. Arius didn't seem too put off by the whirling disks, and instead he shoved forwards, sending the fusion staggering backwards before he whirled around, his blade whistling through the air as it spun, striking the blade coated in lightning and capturing it, his blade sliding through the opening as he continued on his upwards swing, letting the momentum carry him in an arc, so that the lightning blade struck against the fire one, his scythe sliding through the opening in the center of the blade, just like it had with the first one, before he continued his corkscrew, and stopped abruptly, sending the two weapons skittering across the floor and towards the lord, who had recovered in the .5 seconds it had taken for Arius to complete his maneuver, and was on the advance again when Arius appeared in front of the fused lord, his leg drawn back in a roundhouse that, once it connected, sent the High Lord sailing through the air with more than enough force to shatter the sound barrier, several times over.

The fused lords flared their arms out, and pumped out a large burst of magical energies, slowing, then stopping their path as they hovered several feet off the ground, their jaw cracked and hanging limply before they reached up, gripping their jaw and forcefully setting it back in place, healing it with a short burst of magical energies before charging forwards, vanishing into the smoky haze that had been kicked up by the lord's magical energy being exuded.

The two blades were the first thing Arius saw, coming in from separate angles and aiming to cut him into four parts, swinging into a large x-scissor. His boney jaw pulled back into a smile, as he stepped backward, swinging his blade upwards as he did so. His blade caught in the two attacking ones, deflecting them and sending the lord skidding towards the side, their attack's momentum passed on and sending them skidding forwards along the ground, before their feet found purchase and it whipped around, slashing out with a strike that sent Arius staggering to the side, his guard momentarily broken, and the fusion taking advantage of it, lunging in and unleashing a whirling attack, the blades lightning up with frozen magic, and the other creating a small hurricane within the circle of the blade, the blade itself becoming coated in a deadly razor-wind.

Arius, being too far off-balance to attempt to block, simply moved himself with the rest of his body, sending himself tumbling to the side and barely avoiding the twin blades lashing for his torso. He rolled once, then came back up to his feet, his blade spinning through the air now as he released it, sending the scythe flying through the air and whirling around before it flew just under the lords, as they leaped into the air, spinning in an attempt to come down into a corkscrew on Arius' head, only for him to drew his fist back, and drive it into their stomach, just below the ribcage, sending them flying through the air and into the wall, landing directly on top of Arius' scythe and balancing there for a while, shifting their footing about before they bounce, then jump and kick off the wall, rocketing at Arius and whirling through the air, their body blurring into the shape of a large drill as they approached Arius, before he narrowed his eyes, his mind picking up the pace in regards to his mental processing speed. He could see the blades whirling, and he could see the openings in their defenses, but the hard part would be landing a strike in those chinks.

He flexed the claws on his left hand, and then pushed off, sliding himself to the side as he drew back, and swung. As the whirling fusion came flying past, his fist driving upwards and slamming into the lords' ribs, cracking several and destroying their flight path. Instead of the path they had been on, they were sent flying upward, slamming into the ceiling before they fell back downwards, and were subjected to a devastating roundhouse, sending them twisting to the ide before slamming into a wall, the wall cracking and part of it shattering as they slumped to the ground, rubbing at their head before standing up and facing Arius again, who had picked up his scythe once more, whirling it around slowly before advancing on the fused warrior, his scythe's whirling beginning to create a screaming sound through the air.

As the lords looked closer, they could see that Arius' scythe had changed color, and the white had grown to encompass the entire haft, while the blade had becoming a bright silver, to match Arius' blood. "What the hell is going on?" The lords snapped, backing up slightly, only able to take one step back before their back pushed against the wall. "The hell happened to your scyt-"

"Soul Rend; Devastation." The lords had no time to react before Arius was on top of them, his scythe already in mid-swing and cleaving the air itself in two. His blade struck the fused lords' head, and time seemed to pause there for a few moments, everything going still; the wind stopped flowing, the breath hitched in the throat of the fused, the cloak froze in mid-flutter, and the blade ceased to move, giving the lords enough time to think about what was happening, to realize that it wasn't Arius who stood no chance of winning the fight, but them, before time resumed its normal flow, and Arius' blade cleaved through the lords, striking the ground and creating a condensed explosion. The radius grew until it had reached a few inches from the girl, from the lords' prizes, before it began to shrink down rapidly, condensing and growing more powerful, and more painful for the lord that was trapped within the explosion, while Arius' boney smile filled their vision, it flooded their minds, his cackle filled their ears, it flowed through their bones, and the agony of his attack tried, and failed, to blot out the knowledge of everything else as the weapon pulled from the ground, and the imploding explosion reached its zenith, the heat skyrocketing. "Solari festival." He flicked one finger, and the implosion suddenly shifted, becoming a supernova within the chest of the fused warrior.

When the light of the dying sun had faded, Arius was standing along, save for his daughters up in his barrier. The seal on his back lit up, then broke, bit by bit, until he was standing there once more, as a wolf in a suit. He turned on his heel, smiling gently as he shattered the barrier, then laughing as his children slammed into him, nearly crushing him as they hugged from both sides, and he hugged back just as tightly. "It's good to see you two, too... C'mon, let's ge-..." He stopped talking, the three of them turning to the site of one last high lord, and behind him, a small army of lower level lords.

"Did you think that you could get away with this?" The woman snarled. She didn't look anything out of the ordinary, except her hair looked like it was made of platinum, and her hands were coated in metal. "You tear in here... You kill hundreds, maybe thousands... You murder my partners, and you try to take my prize from me?! I'm going to see you dead at my feet, Arius Deathsinger... But first, I'm going to take your daughters, and I'm going to shove a nice, thick, metallic cock right up there... That's right, I'm going to fu-"

"Solari Festival, Triple." He held up his hand, and three suns ignited over him. Flora and Fauna sidled behind him as he spun the suns around, using magic to direct the heat of the suns away from his children before he placed two of his tails before him. "Heaven's Light." The seal erupted in front of him, a wide and golden circle with rune decorating the outsides, the magical spell absorbing the light cast off of the three suns, powering itself up very rapidly before he clenched his fist. The suns winked out, and the spell fired, unleashing a torrent of death that tore into the ranks of the lords, taking out at least seven hundred of the nearly 2000 lords currently filling the area.

The room's size had changed, it was growing more and more until it stretched until the eye could see no further. The spell's seal vanished, and Flora and Fauna stepped forwards to stand beside their father once more, holding his hands as they looked at the recovering lords. "Daddy..."

"Don't worry Fauna... Your old man still has some tricks up his sleeve."

"But... What can you do, against these kinds of odds?"

"Why... Kill them, of course." He grinned slightly, saying it as though it were the most obvious thing in the world before he leaned forwards, settling his body down on all fours, his tails flaring out behind him as the seal lit up on his back once more. The runes on the seal were different this time, they were etched in differently, as though they were spelling something in another, ancient language as a second pair of eyes opened, away from the naked eye, and a chilling laugh rippled through the air a Arius' eyes went from silver to black, then to violet.

Cracks began to form on his skin, and a pained snarl rippled from his throat, his muscles rippling and bulging as his body slowly grew larger, Flora and Fauna taking a step to the side to watch the transformation taking place. His claws grew longer, digging and dragging along the ground, cutting through it with ease, his body elongating, his tails lashing around in the air until five of them stood, sticking straight out behind him as the rets began to turn a deep shade of violet and melt away, leaving nothing behind but long, flowing bones that ended in spear-like tips, leaving him with five skeletal tails, his body more than quintupling in size as he snapped hi jaws at the air, his throat slowly gaining a violet glow to it as his shoulders crackled and popped, and slowly but surely, a second head forced its way free of his body, the base of their necks sitting roughly five inches from one another as their eyes crackled with energy. His fur began to grow outwards rapidly, and then it began to grow downwards, pushing down against his body until it seemed to form a second skin, rip forming along his body, each one glowing a bright shade of purple, and rippling the air around it with energy put off from the pulsations.

The lord backed away, the twin-headed Arius snapping his jaws and rumbling a deep laugh, his long bone tails whipping through the air, each of them coated in the purple energies as Flora and Fauna stood beside his legs, on either side, each one ready for a fight. They were rewarded when the high lord raised, and lowered her hand, a swarm of the lords charging forwards, surging with the intent to gain the glory of killing the infamous Arius Deathsinger, their weapons drawn, while yet another massive group drew back their bowstring weapons, or charged up magical spells.

The lips of the twin-headed beast pulled back, and one of the heads swiveled down, his mouth boiling with energy as Flora and Fauna looked into his eyes, before smiling widely and nodding. They stepped forwards just as the mass of spells and ranged attacks were launched, opening their palms and creating their own barrier, their shoulders touching and their magic working in tandem to create a powerful barrier, deflecting or absorbing the wide range of attacks, before Arius took a step forwards, the barrier breaking on the daughter's commands as they leaped backwards, and Arius drove his paw down, cracking the ground as he lowered his heads, and let out a deep and powerful roar. Those closest, and in the way of the auditory attack, went deaf immediately, before the force behind the sound waves pummeled their bodies into the ground, crushing each of them. Those further back were thrown, just like those in front of them, their bodies sending those further back, even farther back, before a new factor was added in.

The purple glow picked up around Arius' body, before it condensed around his mouth, the high lord's eyes narrowing as she leaned forwards, trying to see through the tornado of flying subordinates. The glow was the first thing she saw, and everything after that was a torrent of light, the violet energy surging forwards like ravenous flames, devouring everything in their path and destroying all the attacks, eating away at any organic matter, the reaper lords screaming in terror as their path rapidly went from 'charge' to 'run away' in the course of half of a second. The energy ripped through the crowd, and the lord could only let out a short "Shit." Before the wave struck her, engulfing her in what he had thought would be a glancing blow, but instead had carried enough force behind it to not only drive her off her feet, but to destroy her, devouring her in the energy of a soul eater.

The wolf closed both mouths, panting faintly and sagging, his body tiring out from the constant strain of today a he lowered his body down, looking to the two girls. "So... Ready to go home?" He grinned slightly, his eyes glinting in the light, and a laugh escaping his other head.

"You just... How did you... How are you?"

"I'll explain once we get home, okay? Now c'mon, get on up here. Dad's tired, and dad wants to sleep..." He nestled down on his stomach, one of his tails burning away. Apparently, those five tails acted like a marker of how much power he had, and how much longer he could hold his form as his children clambered on top of him, shivering at the energy that rippled from his body before he rear up, both gripping to the top of their respective mounted heads, before he set off, another wave of energy forming as he drew back, and unleashed it, destroying a massive chunk of the wall, his energy tearing through it with ease before the massive figure leaped free of the building, the girls glancing behind them to watch as the spire began to collapse in on itself. "The building was a soul, it was the soul of the two high lords that had fused together, and it was holding itself together by cycling on each other's energy after I killed them." Arius explained a his feet hit the ground, the girl jostled and bounced around on his back, both of them winding up laying down on top of his back as he began to lope slowly through the wasteland, outside of the main city.

"Hey dad?"

"Mrnnn?"

"Thank you, for coming for us..."

"You're my kids. I would've come for you, no matter who was holding you against your will."

"What about that time mom-Alicia held us against our will? You didn't do anything then!"

"...Totally different case."

"Because you were scared of her?"

"Like hell!"

"Then because you wanted in her panties?"

"It's because you two needed to learn to control your damned power, and Alicia was the best one to teach you that!"

"...Wuss."

"You wanted her."

"I will eat, both of you. Know what? No more talking until we get home, you're grounded from talking because you got kidnapped, and had the whole house up in arms."

"That's not fair!"

"Blow it out your ass. No talking now shut up."

"..." Both girls fell quiet then before, "... Pussy."

"That's it! I'm eating children!"