Beijio Harbor

A place for international travel and fishing via boats.

Amidst the foggy and still waves enters a moderately sized wooden sailing ship. This boat enters the docks before being tied ashore. Minutes after becoming stationary, a bridge spans the side of the ship and then connects to the dock. After this occurs, a long leg steps onto the bridge from the deck of the ship. She descends the plank, long purple hair flowing behind her as she descends with three large bodied metallic men following close behind. Her large blue Beijionese eyes sparkled as she looked at the desolate place Beijio had become since her last visit almost eight years ago. "Huh... The Empress seems to be having trouble keeping the empire in one piece..." the purple haired woman starts, bringing up her fan to cover her mouth. "It only goes to show you, the state of one's capital city is the state of the entire empire. This city is a gangrenous limb, especially under her mediocre reign...and the only way to deal with a such a problem is to hack it off at the source..." her sharp gaze glistened in the light.

She turns her head to her subordinates. "Come along my darlings, we have to 'reacquaint' ourselves to the Noble houses, and of course her Lady Lordship." she says in a condescending tone. She waves her hand and then begins her walk to the palace, her ''men'' following steadily and silently behind her.

A woman shrouded by a dark red cloak walks almost drunkenly as she enters the city. The Scardian forces at the mouth of the city didn't look like they would let her in, so she had travelled further up the coast and hired a charter boat to take her to Beijio, but the journey had been rather perilous. She didn't know how far the arm of the New Republic of Fenira would extend, but she was very very cautious with everyone she met, hiding her face from everyone. She also had very little money, so for the past three days she'd hardly eaten a bite or had a proper nights rest, so it was no wonder why she was drunkenly moving about. "My journey... is almost finished..." she thought, standing at the harbor entrance. She looks up, noting the palace in the distance, perched upon the mountain side that also overlooked the prosperous city of Beijio. With a renewed effort, the rouge cloaked figure carried on.

"So this is what you've become?...How foolish."

Leland blinks, gasping. Around him the ship seemed vacant. He cautiously sat up, looking around in his blurry vision to the swinging door leading to the upper deck. The ship creaked, and rocked, the door swinging a few inches inward before falling back a few inches more. Leland stood up on his crooked feet, the ships rocking was quite apparent as he approached the door. "Hm...  where's Zevran? Is he not sailing the ship?" he thought, and slowly brought his way to the door. Cautiously, he pushed the door open, and entered into a moon lit nightscape. Though the ocean was as calm, almost as flat as glass, the ship seemed to rock with an unsteady hand. He lowered his head, grabbing his revolver from his belt and slowly crossed the main deck to the upper deck.

There was not a soul on board it seemed, to which Leland found disturbing. He made his way to the bridge, but to his dismay he found that Zevran had abandoned his post, no one was in sight. "What the?"

"You shouldn't be here."

Leland turned to face the man who spoke, but before he could he felt the fingers that gripped onto his neck and raised him high off the ground! "Hgggnn!" he exclaimed, looking down at his attacker with wide eyes. "I..it can't be!" he grunted, he had somehow dropped (or lost?) his grip on his gun in the process of being hoisted up high, still looking down in disbelief. "You... you're dead!" he exclaimed, looking down upon the 'man in blue', a man who shouldn't be alive... couldn't be alive....




...Everin Faust!

"...You look like you've seen a ghost. Did my 'death' assure you I was no longer a threat? Foolish boy." he spoke evenly and direct, his blue eyes piercing as he looked into Leland's.

He was still the same, blue duster and all, the only thing missing was Yamato...which couldn't exist any more since it was discarded into the Mako Reactor in Asrond, the planet deconstructed the cursed weapon, destroying it forever. Still, Everin needed not his sword to be a threat, he was just unstoppable with the accursed blade.

Everin seemed to have gripped tighter, and Leland could feel his neck begin to wane, he was crushing the Gunslinger's neck! "Wh-what do you want?!" he exclaimed, looking down at him with fierce but shaken eyes.

"You think I want something of you? A pitiful human? Don't make me laugh. I told you once before: if we should ever duel again, I shall kill you. Your death is the only thing that can appease me, for such a route you dare to take. Do you really think, that you can destroy my kin? My blood line has been tied to the house of Faust, centuries before your mortal plain was even survivable for primitive life. My father, brother and I forged the society that unites the Demonic kin. If you think they'd simply stand still and let you slaughter them? Hmp. You're sadly mistaken!" he ecxlaimed, swinging Leland's body like a rag doll, dragging his body against the console beside the wheel of the ship, and as the Gunslinger's body dragged across the hardware and electronics, it seemed like a slow motion blur, buttons wires and mechanical pieces hovered past Leland's face, before the demon threw him into the wall facing the ship's wheel.

Leland wheezed, the pain wracking his body. He turned to face the tall silver haired demon, reaching into his coat for his backup weapon when Everin stepped onto his the wrist that reached into the coat, and crushed it with his boot heel against Leland's chest. Leland grits his teeth, letting a exhale of pain through his teeth.

Everin then brought a light bluish blade, the tip of the blade was at Leland's eye level. Everin's summoned sword glowed brightly with demonic energy. "Foolish boy. Do you think a simple 'gun' can help you in your journey? Idiocy. You plan to invade my kingdom, and you don't even prepare properly. It's a disgrace. A total waste of effort."

"What else am I supposed to do?! The demons need to be killed! Your people killed her! They killed my Izuna! She, she was my everything!" Leland barked.

"You mean the girl from the tournament? The...silly girl whom you so desperately tried to protect? The one who I was forced to use Yamato to even out her match? The one whom I beseeched to you, told you that if you loved her, you'd have faith in her abilities? Huh... I guess I was wrong about her abilities. Then again, she was simply human... -"

"-you shut the fuck up!! You didn't know her! She was a powerful ninja! And even a skilled exorcist!"

"Obviously not if she was devoured and stripped of her soul,"

"-you son of a bitch, you take that back!"

Everin grinds his heel, the pain in Leland's wrist increasing. "How about you try. From this angle, you are as lowly as the worms that reside within the dirt. You don't even have the drive to push my boot off, and I'm not even applying pressure!" he exclaimed, forcing more power into his crushing boot, causing Leland to scream.

"The difference between you and myself? I have drive. And power. You have nothing but a vendetta, and the foolish notion that you'll win." he explained, calmly and evenly.

"...a man's gotta try..." Leland choked through the pain, glaring daggers at Everin. "...how else shall I be able to live with myself?! Who ever is running the Demon Realm has got to pay! They have let too many of their 'wayward' children run amok on the surface! If I have no power, then I will seek power! I will bring your kingdom to it's knees and I will shock them to their core! You're nothing, nothing but a ghost of my past who's come to haunt me!!" he exclaimed, spittle flying from his lips.

Everin stared at him for a moment, his blue eyes gleaming in the full moons bright light. "...I see. So let me clarify...you seek power. The power to 'shake my kingdom to it's core', huh? Well then...perhaps you'll find what you seek in Beijio..." he replied, releasing his weight from Leland's chest. He turned away from the Gunslinger, the summoned sword breaking into shards before vanishing.

Leland began to sit up, changing his position to gasp and fondle his wounds. He gasped and felt cold sweat roll down his head when Everin paused before the door, his back still turned away. "Our duel...is still not concluded. If it's my kingdom you want, then seek your power and train yourself before you attempt it. I shall not have your meaningless battle for vengeance dishonor what my Father and I have spent years building up." he then smoothly turned his head towards Leland, piercing gaze of glowing blue as he summoned the sword in his right hand once again. "But let it be known I shall be watching you boy... and that someday, I will kill you, Leland. Whether it be the land of the living...or the endless abyss of the dead!" he then let out a battle cry and quick stepped to where Leland sat, his sword plunging into Leland's--

--Leland blinks, gasping. Around him the ship seemed vacant. He cautiously sat up, looking around in his blurry vision to the swinging door leading to the upper deck. The ship creaked, and rocked, the door swinging a few inches inward before falling back a few inches more. Leland stood up on his crooked feet, the ships rocking was quite apparent as he approached the door. The overall setting of deja vu was kicking in, and he was prepared to grab his gun when Zevran appeared in the doorway, startled.

"Ah! Master McKelly, I see you have awoke! We are in port now. I know you said to awake you before we arrived, but you looked exhausted."

Leland grumbled, sighing heavily as he lowered the brim of his hat over his eyes. "...I feel exhausted." he says in response. He grabbed his things, and prepared to disembark. It was a dream after all it seemed.

"Excuse me my old friend...but what happened to your neck? It's bleeding." Zevran gravely stated, pointing at the trickle of blood that dribbled down Leland's neck.

Leland paled, bringing his hand to his neck, and brought it back to see Zevran was right.

Everin Faust wrote:But let it be known I shall be watching you boy... and that someday, I will kill you, Leland. Whether it be the land of the living...or the endless abyss of the dead!"

Leland closed his eyes and grumbled. "Cut myself shaving..." he says, brushing past Zevran, heading for a way off this ship. If Everin Faust, the former heir to the Demonic Realm was indeed haunting him, then he had no choice but to follow the long since dead demon's advice. He appeared before Beijio Harbor, a plank extending from the side of the ship onto the wide loading docks. He turned and bid his friend farewell, before disembarking. He needed to find Jack and Sakura's benefactors, Izuna's cousin, The Empress of Beijio: Sango.

The water beneath one of the docks began to bubble, and shortly after a feminine body surfaced, however her reptilian eyes glazed over. The film retracted, and she blinked, looking about under the dock. She had just swam all the way from the Silver Craft, and thought it was time for a change of scenery, and some Beijionese cuisine. But, mostly a change of scenery. She waded her way over to the edge of the docks, and watched as seamen walked back and forth across the deck. She waited, and when the coast was clear she leaped up, and quietly made her way over to the roof top of a building, leaping and jumping from roof to roof, smiling that she was no longer cooped up in the Casino, but that Alice sure was tasty!

(OOC: From This post.)

Rebecca Lee wrote:Rebecca didn't flinch, didn't get frightened or even alarmed. She fucking smiled! "BRING IT ON FUCKER!" She exclaimed, her lips pulled back, exposing her fang like teeth as she dove towards her left, both guns crossed in hand, firing them both in quick succession, evading the blast due to her dive! Once the explosion erupted, Becca rolled and strafed to the left of the charging minotarus, firing more shells into the sides of the giant! "C'mon baby! Give me something to chew on! Can't swallow ya in one bite!" she exclaimed, people around them who were fleeing but able to listen may have had a hard distinction between who was predator, and who was prey.

Becca lead the beast towards the harbor, peppering the woman's back and shoulder with rounds, as she back walked towards it's direction!

The Hell Knight smashed through several buildings and plowed into the stacks of cargo containers that lined the harbour, sending hundreds of tonnes of steel crashing on top of the enraged demoness, who seemingly shrugged the metal off of her form as she stalked around the rubble. her hands alight with that sickly green energy, her eyes turned from yellow to red with rage, and her fangs exposed and pulled back with anger.

Her body was pockpmarked with bruises from the 45. rounds that the strange red headed Beijionese woman had fired into her flanks.

"Gonna kill you slow... pull off your limbs and eat you alive..." the satyrus growled out as her hooves dug into the concrete with rage, kicking up concrete dust to add tot he tumult of debris from the broken shipping containers.

From the shadow of other shipping containers, Becca reloaded her custom pistols, ejecting the mags, and slipping fresh 9mm full metal jackets into the wells, yanking the slides back into place and then spun the weapons, twirling them in her hands. She smiled, biting her tongue slightly as it stuck out, her predatory eyes didn't take long in finding her oversized prey. She noticed there was a shipping crane that hadn't fallen or toppled over yet, and it was hovering its load precariously above the angry bitch.

Diving out she fires her weapons at the suspension cord which held the several tonnes of items, letting it fall while peppering the monster's back! "Cheat you out of a meal? Well SUCK IT BITCH! Suck it DRY!" she exclaimed, taking her aim from the demoness's back to the red barrels marked: "Flammable" which had toppled over in the bitches wake! She fired while running away, leading her further into the harbourage while shooting with her right hand behind her back, looking over her shoulder as she fired:

The demoness was buried beneath several fresh shipping containers that were doused in several gallon drums full of burning petroleum, and for several moments after the thunderous explosion and crash of heavy steel, everything was still. The broken spiderweb of cracks all around the crashed containers spoke of the weight that was dropped on the monster, and the power of the barrels full of fuel that went up. but then, after 30 seconds of nothing but crackling fire, the burning containers shuddered and shifted. The scraping and grinding of metal sliding against metal created a sickening screeching, before the metal could be heard bending and ripping as it was violently thrown from the center of the pile to land in the waters of the harbor.

The monster, who'se skin blazed with the flames that engulfed the containers, was ruffled, and extremely angry. With the power of her species, she wrenched up one of the shipping containers, before hurling it at the direction Revy had ran off to, before picking up another of the fallen containers and doing so again.

"Aw shit!" She exclaimed, sliding to avoid one of the thrown containers, as it nearly took off her head! When the next came, she rolled then slid into one of those long narrow tubing pipes made for pipelines, but it was part of a pile of piping that was apparently being ready to be shipped! The one end she slipped through got crunched close, and in the slightly compact tunnel, Revy cursed. "Fuuuck, I haven't had this much fun in a long time, but dammit I'm going to need a fucking rocket launcher!" she says, checking her ammunition again, taking a moment to breath as she loaded her loose rounds into the partial magazines.

The monsterous demoness continued to hurl another two containers, the last was marked "Allied Defence Military Surplus", which broke open on impact with the ground, spilling contents around the area where Revy had taken improptu cover in large concrete piping used for sewers, storm drains, underground mass water pipes, and tunnel bracing.

The Hell knight began her slow approach up the lip of the remaining rubble she had been buried in, before stalking towards the partially crushed piping stack, her hands alight with lime fire, and her rage smouldered like the flames that licked her skin still.

Revy clicked the last round into the chamber when she saw and felt guns and weaponry rain down ahead of her from the other opening of the tunnel. She blinked, then smiled. "Fucking A! There is a God!" She exclaimed, sliding her way down the length of the pipe, and then at the mouth of the pipe, rolled out. With both weapons at the ready, she scanned the weaponry which had spilled all over the place, mostly rifles and the like, but she did see an RPG... however, it was close to the purple haired bitch's hooves. She holstered her pistols, grabbing one of the rifles, a Barracuda Assault LMG* and cocked it. Once she was sure it was loaded, she fired the weapon at the creature's face, the weapon jolting in her grasp as she strafed, figuring a way to get to that recoilless rifle... With the 45 round mag of 5.56 drained, she dropped the LMG, and drew her old reliable's hanging from under her pits. "Well then, I guess this is a game of chicken..." she says, twirling her weapons before catching them again. She then charged towards the woman, both guns blazing in her hands, aiming towards the creature's face as she charged, screaming as she emptied her guns!

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The beast had her prey cornered, right up until the strange little woman opened up with an LMG. Normally, such a weapon wouldn't even make a Hell Knight flinch for a solid half minute of sustained fire, but the accumulated damage she had sustained was beginning to take it's toll, and she raied her left arm to protect her eyes with her forarm. After a few more moments, she lost patience again, and with her right hand she kicked up a gout of green flame. It wasn't a cohesive ball of plasma like before, but was rather a large plume, a tongue of lime green fire.

Darkstorm Zero wrote:The beast had her prey cornered, right up until the strange little woman opened up with an LMG. Normally, such a weapon wouldn't even make a Hell Knight flinch for a solid half minute of sustained fire, but the accumulated damage she had sustained was beginning to take it's toll, and she raied her left arm to protect her eyes with her forarm. After a few more moments, she lost patience again, and with her right hand she kicked up a gout of green flame. It wasn't a cohesive ball of plasma like before, but was rather a large plume, a tongue of lime green fire.

Revy gradually began to slam her heels to keep her from her advance, the intense green flames appearing before her looking incredibly hot and in an attempt to avoid them tried to change direction! "OH FUUUUCK!" she screamed in anxious anger, diving as she slipped, and fell, tucking her body and rolling as the flames seemed to engulf her as she screamed out in what could be perceived as extreme pain!

Once the flame settled, the area of the plumage was completely charred, however... laying on the ground, with soot and semi-charred clothing tattered by her movements lay the gunslinger. She coughed, wincing, her flesh somewhat red from the flames. She slowly got to her knee, feeling sapped of strength, for the flames had felt like she had been stepping through a volcano! "F...fuck..." she wheezed, still holding her handguns despite the searing pain from the heat they now radiated. She needed another moment to breathe.

The demon saw her attack was effective at halting the little rat of a human, angrily threw her arm aside, scattering the bullets and bullet fragments from her forearm.

Quickly stomping up to Revy's position, she grabbed the human by her ponytail first, then her heck, lifting her up to eye level with the towering creature. "I told you what I was going to do... You miserable little gutter rat." growled out the Hell Knight as she cemented her grip on Revy's neck, before reaching over with her other hand and grabbed two hand's arm and began to twist and pull at it.

The monster's anger filled face became a sickening sneer as she licked her lips. "Gonna pull your limbs off like a little fly..."

Darkstorm Zero wrote:The demon saw her attack was effective at halting the little rat of a human, angrily threw her arm aside, scattering the bullets and bullet fragments from her forearm.

Quickly stomping up to Revy's position, she grabbed the human by her ponytail first, then her heck, lifting her up to eye level with the towering creature. "I told you what I was going to do... You miserable little gutter rat." growled out the Hell Knight as she cemented her grip on Revy's neck, before reaching over with her other hand and grabbed two hand's arm and began to twist and pull at it.

The monster's anger filled face became a sickening sneer as she licked her lips. "Gonna pull your limbs off like a little fly..."

Revy cringed, one eye half closed, the other wide open as she was yanked up by her ponytail, allowing a slight yelp as she was yanked then grabbed by her neck. Hoisted there, she squirmed, feeling her throat closing. "What... your mouth not big enough... to do me whole?" She says, with a strained voice, chuckling before feeling her one arm going numb, and caused her to shriek in pain as she slowly turned twisted the arm, making her drop the gun in that hand! "Suck...my...cock!" She exclaimed, raising her free hand, firing at the creature point blank! She wasn't going to be this thing's insect, and sure as hell wasn't going to let her tear off her limbs!

The Hell knight flinched back as the shot rang out. With a wet pop and a dull thud, her head kipped backward slightly, and in reflex, both her hands let Revy go, dropping the woman.

"Ah.... AAAAH! AAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!" the Minotaurus screamed, clutching her burst eye socket. The hot lead of the bullet burned in her sensitive optic nerve.

Stumbling around in literal blinding pain, and now frothing at the mouth in mind bending anger, the beast woman held her flapping eyelids open as she reached in with her claws, prying the smouldering bullet out of her bleeding hollow socket, flinging the bullet away with a mumbling growl as she held the socket until the pain subsided and her regenerative power began the process of repairing her physical injury.

Now with no reason left to stop, the hell Knight let loose, her body let several bolts of energy emit from her flaring aura, blasting several rows of containers apart.

She started looking about for her prey, but Revy had retreated from her view in the interrim.

"I'll find you.... and then I'll cook you alive first!"

"What's taking you so long little sister?" came a new voice. The flames parted, revealing a slightly larger demon, a Bruiser Demon female that looked very similar to the Hell Knight, yet her different coloration and larger size made the differences distinct.



"Ramiel....." the smaller purple Hell Knight asked with a growl. "What are you doing here?"

"You know the Empress sent out a call to cease attacking mortals. The Prince is on the planet! If you do that and he senses it, it could jepoardise everything the Empress is trying to do! Besides, you are embarassing all Hell nobles, taking this long to kill and eat one human woman, nevermind two."

"Oh fuck off Ramiel! I marked them both before the Empress sent that signal! They are mine by the law of 'go fuck yourself!'" growled out the Hell Knight in a complete rage, much to the chagrin of the orange, blazing newcomer, if the look on her face was anything to go by. So much so, that the elder sister backhanded the younger, sending blazing sparks flying over the battlefield, and sending the purple aired anger blinded demoness careening into another pile of cargo containers filled with fresh fruit and fresh water.

"Have you cooled off now Keriel? You won't be catching and eating a damn thing if you can't see three feet in front of your face thanks to a blood rage. Calm down."

Darkstorm Zero wrote:The Hell knight flinched back as the shot rang out. With a wet pop and a dull thud, her head kipped backward slightly, and in reflex, both her hands let Revy go, dropping the woman.

"Ah.... AAAAH! AAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!" the Minotaurus screamed, clutching her burst eye socket. The hot lead of the bullet burned in her sensitive optic nerve.

Stumbling around in literal blinding pain, and now frothing at the mouth in mind bending anger, the beast woman held her flapping eyelids open as she reached in with her claws, prying the smouldering bullet out of her bleeding hollow socket, flinging the bullet away with a mumbling growl as she held the socket until the pain subsided and her regenerative power began the process of repairing her physical injury.

Now with no reason left to stop, the hell Knight let loose, her body let several bolts of energy emit from her flaring aura, blasting several rows of containers apart.

She started looking about for her prey, but Revy had retreated from her view in the interrim.

"I'll find you.... and then I'll cook you alive first!"

"What's taking you so long little sister?" came a new voice. The flames parted, revealing a slightly larger demon, a Bruiser Demon female that looked very similar to the Hell Knight, yet her different coloration and larger size made the differences distinct.



"Ramiel....." the smaller purple Hell Knight asked with a growl. "What are you doing here?"

"You know the Empress sent out a call to cease attacking mortals. The Prince is on the planet! If you do that and he senses it, it could jepoardise everything the Empress is trying to do! Besides, you are embarassing all Hell nobles, taking this long to kill and eat one human woman, nevermind two."

"Oh fuck off Ramiel! I marked them both before the Empress sent that signal! They are mine by the law of 'go fuck yourself!'" growled out the Hell Knight in a complete rage, much to the chagrin of the orange, blazing newcomer, if the look on her face was anything to go by. So much so, that the elder sister backhanded the younger, sending blazing sparks flying over the battlefield, and sending the purple aired anger blinded demoness careening into another pile of cargo containers filled with fresh fruit and fresh water.

"Have you cooled off now Keriel? You won't be catching and eating a damn thing if you can't see three feet in front of your face thanks to a blood rage. Calm down."

Rev stumbled, having grabbed her fallen gun upon hitting the ground. While the new arrival sassed the other out, she took to the shadows from one of the cargo containers the bitch had thrown earlier. Her breasts rose and fell with her panting chest, sweat running down her body as she reloaded her firearms. "Fuck....fuckfuckfuck!" she gasped, her raspy voice only a hair above a whisper as she rubbed her arm and slid the magazines and slides back. She partially listened to the banter in the background, unable to help chuckle at the comment the purple haired bitch had made which appealed to Rev's own twisted humour. She looked about for another weapon to use in the mean time, for as much she trusted her boys, they were still ill equipped for this endurance battle.

The elder sister, Ramiel, sighed and bent down to pick her younger sibling up out of the wrecked shipping containers and stood her upright. Keriel for her part snorted in rage but now also confusion. Especially when the elder demoness placed a hand over her injured eye and burning cheek.

In a moment, her eye had been healed, much faster than her own regeneration powers could accomplish on their own. and her cheeek stopped stinging from the blow her sister had just slapped her with.

"I can only cover up so much for so long sis... We're exposed out here, and the ADN will be all over this in minutes, nevermind what the higher ups will do once they discover how many of us actually broke ranks despite our Empress's order... Just hurry up and get your prey quickly or leave it be. We still have jobs we must do." Ramiel said as she lowered her hand from Keriel's healed face.

"Can I still have her?" Keriel asked, her voice normalised somewhat, no longer burning with sheer rage.

"Only if you're quick. We can use your blood rage as an excuse to cover you if it comes down to it, but not if you take too long." answered Ramiel.

Keriel turned her horned head towards the cargo containers Revy had disappeared behind. Sniffing the air, and having her hellish vision restored, she began to follow the trail. "Smells like cigarettes, booze and muggy storm drains. You really are gutter trash mortal."

After hearing more of the conversation, Rev, still burning with rage herself became quiet. "Yeah...I do. But it beats smelling of ass and brimstone." she says, rounding the corner with both guns blazing, strafing the yard towards her left. With the one rocket launcher a pool of smelted compounds now, she needed to look for another that was undamaged by the onslaught. Like before, she aimed for weak spots, and looked for objects in the environment to use to her advantage; the repetitive clangs of her twin pistols going off echoed and bounced off the ship hulls and cargo strewn about the dock, acting as their chorus for battle.

the purple haired demoness smiled savagely. "Well, I guess that makes us both products of our environments, doesn't it?" Kiriel said as she fired a beam of lime energy into the containers, piercing their hulls and several rows more of them, before exploding in a forth row some distance away.

"No matter what you do now, gutter rat, I can't let you leave here alive" Keriel spoke again as she stalked around the rows of containers.

"You've had a hard life anyways, Rebecca Lee... Beaten by daddy, raped by cops... used by people. Then you became what you hated, started killing, started to enjoy it... Killed, stole, and used people... Delicious. Humans are so very predictable. Many of you preach a holier than though attitude while you step all over eachother to get what you want, but not you... Oh no... Your open about your greivances. Your nihilistic views, knowing you are doing as little as possible to change anything." taunted the demon.

"Must have hurt you bad when the one guy who showed an interest, and acted as an anchor for something better than being a filthy gutter rat was taken from you. Rock is gone now Rev, and you may never find another like him..."

"Shut up!!" she exclaimed ducking behind some debris, firing another payload at this Keriel, before rushing to evade the creatures explosive blasts. She was losing stamina, and her weapons were getting hot, the barrels of her pistols were already glowing a bright orange. "Shit... you don't know anything about my past, bitch. Doesn't change the facts: only one of us gets to live that much longer!" She exclaimed, not giving in to her taunts about this supposed man who had taken a liking to her. She can't remember much about her past, now thinking of it... its like the morning haze Roan-

She froze her weapons drawn but her memories conflicting with her current reality. "Wait... what?" she blinked. Before she could deliberate much longer, she saw the creature turn to her and Revy did her best to get back into the shape of things! "FUCK!" She fired her handguns rapidly at the creature, trying to strafe the yard now that her mind began working against her. Somewhere in her gut, something about everything seemed off...

"You can't even remember his real name, can you?" Keriel stated, as she turned her head away from Revy's location, the shots ringing out and echoing.

"You loved him, yet you only ever knew the nickname he went by after you and your crew kidnapped him and dragged him into the gutter with you... Someone to warm your bed, light your smoke, take you out on some semblance of a normal life... You used him to light the darkness you called yours for so long. He gave you hope, and yet what did you give him? A nickname, a hawaiian shirt he hates, and several death threats, both from you, and the people around you..." the beasts taunts were accentuated by visions of everything Rock and Revy had gone through. All the times she threatened to kill him, all the times her antics nearly got him shot, all the teasing, and demands, and the times she had struck him.

"You've known him for a long time, and don't even remember his real name. I've never met him, and I know it. His name is Rokoro Okajima." the demoness said, in a sultry tone that set Revy right on edge.

"Hmm, Might pay the boy a visit back on Earth. Give him a taste of my ass and Brimstone. Might wash out the taste of cigarettes, booze and gutter trash..."

Darkstorm Zero wrote:"You can't even remember his real name, can you?" Keriel stated, as she turned her head away from Revy's location, the shots ringing out and echoing.

"You loved him, yet you only ever knew the nickname he went by after you and your crew kidnapped him and dragged him into the gutter with you... Someone to warm your bed, light your smoke, take you out on some semblance of a normal life... You used him to light the darkness you called yours for so long. He gave you hope, and yet what did you give him? A nickname, a hawaiian shirt he hates, and several death threats, both from you, and the people around you..." the beasts taunts were accentuated by visions of everything Rock and Revy had gone through. All the times she threatened to kill him, all the times her antics nearly got him shot, all the teasing, and demands, and the times she had struck him.

"You've known him for a long time, and don't even remember his real name. I've never met him, and I know it. His name is Rokoro Okajima." the demoness said, in a sultry tone that set Revy right on edge.

"Hmm, Might pay the boy a visit back on Earth. Give him a taste of my ass and Brimstone. Might wash out the taste of cigarettes, booze and gutter trash..."

"S-sh-shut-" she paused as memories which conflicted with her situation, her current location. She half remembered the man in the images, his Goddamn irritating personality like if he was some damn super hero, but in the next moment felt like she never laid eyes on him before! She stumbled gripping the side of her head with her hands still holding her guns, the cutlass and skull emblems on the ivory grips digging into her temple's flesh.

Where... am I? Who am I?! What, When, HOW?! Why...? her mind seemed to go erratic and she listened to the patronizing, slutty tone of the beast which made her seem angrier all of a sudden. She remained still though, erect and with her hands now falling at her sides, weapons still loaded and smoking. She turned, with the life removed from her eyes as she looked, no, scanned for her prey. Brimstone, the smell of brimstone would lead her to an opening. She raised her weapons, with still as the dead limbs, her body rigid as the corpses she's left behind, if that was her at all. "I said..." she started, leveling the pair of pistols at the creature, then swiftly towards the munitions crates which hadn't exploded from the demon's antics yet. "...die." She pulled the triggers of her dual guns in rapid succession.

The explosion engulfed the Hell Knight in continual munition detonations, sending bullets, shell casings, shrapnel and other volatiles shredding through the demoness.

"YAAAAH!" Keriel's shriek momentarily sounded over the explosions. her smouldering, shreaded body crashed into the last remaining stack of containers, where she slumped in a bloody heap. Her left arm was torn off at the shoulder, as was her left leg at the hock knee joint.

"Blaaaa..." her voice guttered out as she regurgitated a considerable amount of her green blood and bile. "Well played..... But it won't change your situation..... Rebecca...." she taunted between shattered teeth. "You died.... on Earth.... Thats why youre here.... Your boyfriend and your friends are beyond your reach now..... Only way back..... is via dimension gate..... and nobody here can build one....." Keriel sighted with a twisted smile as she leaned back, and went slack. "Me on the other hand..... As a demon...... I can go anywhere..... when I revive...." she said, her voice loing to a whisper, before embers and sparks began to lift gently off her skin, which started to glow orange and burn up, like she was being immolated from the inside out.

"See you soon..... Revy....."