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Steven vs Kaylee: Heaven is brought to its knees
Kaylee smiled and dropped the wounded Angel off the ledge, and Steven narrowed his eyes at her. "You'll regret that, bitch." "Will I? Does the Lemurian care about what happens here today? Heaven never cared what happened to Lemuria." Kaylee let her large, black wings spread wide, and Steven noticed she had two holes in her cloak for them. "I never thought I'd be fighting another of your kind." She stared in realization. "Novelek's son. This will be a treat. If you get by me, you may follow Celosia."
Steven ignited Shadow Wrath and his Shoto, the former transforming into its spirit form, becoming solid. A piece of demon scales grew from the side of the hilt, growing and flexing to cover Steven's right forearm to just below his elbow. His demonic aura flared up after his cloak disappeared, and his eyes turned demonic yellow. But then he went a step further and his Shoto turned solid, becoming slightly longer and wider. Electricity crackled through his aura, and it intensified. This was the first time Steven had used his Dual Channelling ability in a real battle, though he had trained with it for a solid month before he was satisfied. Then he spoke and smiled as Kaylee's eyes widened, "Your move, Kaylee."
Kaylee smirked and raised her Dawn Shredder, firing the minigun at full power. The bullets of dark energy flew at Steven, and he was forced to block with Shadow Wrath's flat. He lunged at Kaylee and swung, batting her weapon aside only to have her release the weapon and in her hand appeared a sword. She blocked his follow-up swing and gasped as the force of the blow sent her stumbling back a couple steps. "I see how Leah and my other sisters fell to you. You've become strong in a very short amount of time."
Steven was about to respond when his danger sense screamed in his mind to move. He threw himself backwards and watched as blasts of dark energy flew past him. Kaylee's Dawn Shredder was still very much active, moving to hover off to her side. He caught Kaylee's swing on his blades and shoved her back hard, swinging again to force her back further. Down the long, golden hallway, they battled. Steven spun on his heel and swung Shadow Wrath, pulling back quickly then reversed his grip on his Shoto, stabbing downwards to stab at Kaylee's shoulder only to have her spin on her heel before flipping away.
Steven flashed forward in the blink of an eye to meet her, staying on her and continued his barrage of swings, slashes, feints and occasional kicks. All in an effort to keep Kaylee on the defensive. His aura was doing its job of deflecting the blasts that came from the Dawn Shredder as it flew about ten feet above Kaylee, switching to the left or right sides of the road seemingly on its own.
He kicked Kaylee in the chin hard and brought Shadow Wrath up to finish her off. Kaylee roared and punched him across the face, sending him stumbling back. Both let loose a blast of demonic and dark energy at the other. The resulting explosion was small, but sent them to the ground ten meters away from one another. Both combatants panted softly and looked at the other. "One minute." Steven said as he rose to his feet. Kaylee nodded, returning to her feet as well. "Take it then."
Kaylee looked at him. "You're going to be our end, Celosia doesn't see it. But then, she hasn't fought you yet. We should have killed you when we had the chance." Steven looked at her. "Why? You act like we started this war." Kaylee chuckled bitterly. "It's in our nature to kill each other. But we were never meant to win." "You act like our fates are all preconceived and all I'm doing is going through the motions." Kaylee shook her head. "That's my point. You, Linnea. You make your own fate. That's why you will win, and the Ing will lose. We will fight you to the bitter end, just as your people fought us to the bitter end. But an end nonetheless."
A minute later the battle commenced and Steven was again on the offensive, only breaking his concentration to follow Kaylee up to the next level. He blocked her swing from behind and kicked her back and swung again, driving her back to the wall when their blades locked. In a flash his dual bladed scythe was in his hand and he pivoted sideways, swinging high then low at Kaylee, repeating the pattern again and again as she flew back and forth in time, swinging and thrusting in an effort to break the vicious cycle and kill the Lemurian that was giving her the fight of her life.
Steven flipped away from Kaylee, landing 20 meters from her. In a flash, Shadow Wrath was in his hand and his scythe disappeared. He blocked her swing and leaped backwards again, and Kaylee wondered why he wasn't taking the offensive. Perhaps he was tiring. She realized, too late, that he wasn't done yet. His grenade launcher was in his left hand a second later, and he fired as the muzzle snapped up to aim at her. He knew she'd try to dodge, so he focused his telekinesis onto the grenade round, corkscrewing it towards Kaylee. The resulting explosion of demonic energy sent Kaylee to the floor in a heap, skidding a few meters away. Steven leapt at her and drove Shadow Wrath through her chest with both hands, letting himself fall to his knees as the blade burned through her.
With demonic strength, Steven ripped his blade free of her twitching, dying body and stepped into a two-handed swing, slashing Kaylee's Ing soul in half when it emerged. The expected explosion he expected never came, and instead he saw Kaylee standing there in spectral form. She smiled. "Thank you."
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