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Zethriel/Ketress beast hissed, and turned his attention from Aleta and Rafeal to Brig, while the Lightbringer went around to look at his back. There was a tail, she saw its bony spine on its back. Hm... Aleta decided to climb up the tail, and onto its back, and she shoved the tip of her blade in between 2 vertabre.

The beast howled, and tried to reach behind itself while Aleta jumped away and watched. The wound she created healed right up, she decided to launch a ball of light at it, remembering that fight at Kagura's old house. Light had an effect on Zethriel's wounds. I'll try it next time... She ran to face it again, "Show me what you can do! I'm not some little insect you can just swat away!"

Ketress/Zethriel grinned savagely as shadows crept toward her. "I could kill you easily, but that wouldn't be much fun!"

The Shadows writhed around them, it was almost as if they were trying to grab them, strangle them. But that was way to easy. This was a last resort of the beast.

Rafeal was studying the head, I wonder... its almost as if the weak point is always somewhere on or near the head... He let an arrow fly to the most obvious part, and it found its mark.

The eye. The beast howled, and reached for its face, plucking the arrow's shaft from its now dead, black eyeball.

"Thats it! The eyes!" He proclaimed. Then, a pillar of shadows came straight at him, he dodged, but now he knew his brother was out for his life, not just Aleta's.

Thats it! I'll blind him! Aleta ran out in front again, and faced him, "Hey you! Over here! Come on, I'm the one you're after, idiot!"

There was to much going on at once.

"They'll blind us..." said a voice.

"It won't do anything to damageing."

"Let them

GET ALETA! Ignore the rest!" It was strange, the skitzo voices still buzzed within Zethriel's consiousness, and he still listened, not careing wheather or not they were demons, or his own sick brain.

It turned toward Aleta, ignoreingthe blows from the others. The bullets didn't hit his eyes when they were closed, just bounced off...

He opened them again to see Aleta, almost face to face with him. Her hands were glowing, her body giving off light like a flikering flame.

Ketress/Zethriel let out another beastly rawr, she could feel the heat of its putrid breath, the yellow teeth gnashed together at the point where Aleta was supposedly standing.

Supposedly. In the last second, She jumped up, and caused a brilliant flash of light. The beast shut its eyes, even though the damage was done, and howled.

"Do you want some more, blind rat?"

The creature hissed, and swung at the sound of her voice.

"Now what?" Aleta yelled at rafeal from accros the cavern. He ran up to her, "I don't know."

But she had an idea. "Try to inflict as much damage as possible!" Her hand rifed through her bag as she dodged another blow, she clutched a small bottle in her hands. This should work... it should give my powers a boost, like it always has. What Aleta discovered in that particular fight in Veil was valuable indeed...

She would destroy him from the inside-out, just as what he had done to her brother.

((Its like +50 offense points or whatever they're called. xD Power-ups! I told you this part was going to be totally videogame-like.))

((Me to...I barely slept at all... I remember a few wierd dreams that sort of melded into reality, that didn't make any sense. ._____. I hate Mondays...))

Aleta ran back to the fray, Rafeal began to fire his gun, blowing holes through it here and there, the monster barely reacted. The half-drow jumped up again, blade in hand, and slashed the beast accross the chest.

"You're so slow!" She taunted as it tried to grab her again. This is easy... way to easy... Aleta remained on her toes, she knew now not to underestimate the enemy.

Ketress/Zethriel screeched as multiple projectiles, as well as the hacking of blades penatrated his skin, wounds appeared as fast as they could heal.

In a deep, distorted, angry voice, "Face me alone, Aleta!"

"I don't think so!" She yelled, "Not yet!"

He let a frustrated growl, and launched his attack. Shadows came to life, and came together as a wave of darkness, shoving everyone off thier feet, throwing them against the wall. Aleta flinched as it approached her, but it flowed around her as the demon yelled again, and made a strike at Aleta once more.

She dodged, rolling away, then jumping to her feet. Remembering the bottle in her hand. She dangled it between two fingers, smileing smugly, then remembering the monster couldn't see her. "Guess what I got?"

It was somewhat comedic, seeing this beast look puzzled, caught off guard by this odd comment.

Her hand closed around it, she squeezed it until the glass gave way. The glass pierced her skin, the luminous fluid, like liquid light, mixed with her blood.

The monster's ears twitched to the sound of broken glass, then launched a more aggressive attack, using the power of the shadows again.

The shadows were alive, darting, moving, almost running toward her, closing in on her.

Aleta closed her eyes, concentrating, conjoureing her power, all of her strenght to the surface.

Her body was irredeccant, shimmering with light like some creature of Heaven. Her eyes glowed in the dark when she opened them, she shadows closed distance on her.

"Ya!" A burst of light emminated from her, pushing the shadows back. Zethriel/Ketress appeared to be regaining his sight, and glowered at her. She returned a smirk, and with yell, she rand toward the monster once more.

Feeling more powerful than she ever had before, strength courseing throgh her muscles, her hands glowing like white flames, she leaped into the air, and landed on the beast's forearm.

It struck at her, but she was to quick, and it ended up wounding itself, much to its chargrin.

She remembered Zethriel's weakness she discovered in Veil. The Lightbringer knew how to kill him.

Her blade flashed in the half-light, and she made a leap for the heart of the beast. Revenge would be hers for the taking.

The tip of the weapon sunk into the beast's chest, red-black blood gushed forth, making Aleta's hands slick. That didn't matter, she held on as it thrashed back in forth, trying to throw her off.

Aleta widened the hole in the beast's chest, enough room for her hands, by wiggleing the blade, cutting its flesh.

((Yeah, well... you could fight if you wanted to. :/ I would've liked to have an ally in battle, instead of going at it alone.

Climax time! biggrin ))

The beast roared, but it was to un coordinated to pluck Aleta from its chest with its large, clunky hands without tearing itself to shreds. A weakness she spotted.

There it was. She could see its beating heart, feel the blood pulse with it. Her blade clattered to the cave floor as she reached into the wound, and felt the heart beat in her hands.

"No!" Ketress/Zethriel bellowed.

"Yes!" Aleta grinned savagely.

She gripped it, the creature screamed. Then, using up the vestiges of her energy, and the extra power from the potion, she put forth a burst of light, channeling from her hands directly into the beast.

It shrieked as the flesh burned, crumbleing away in her hand. As soon as pieces fell away, they turned to smoke. The best thrashed and siezed in its death throes, but Aleta held on.

Then it fell, Aleta's feet sank into the disoving flesh as it crumbled away.

The cavern was filled with light now, Aleta hoped Duri wouldn't be harmed by it, "There! You're dead! I have my revenge!" She said fiercely as the beast answered with a final yell, and the last of the remains crumbled.

The Lightbringer was left gasping on her hands and knees, she passed out momentairily.

"Aleta!" Rafeal approached, trying to see Aleta through the smoke.

"I-I'm okay..." She got to her feet, she was covered in demon blood, but it burned on her skin, and evaporated in thin tendrills of vapor.

"... is he dead?"

The answer came from mere feet away, "No." Followed by the cackle of a madman.