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1076048 No. 1076048 ID: c4908b

You go by Vex. You are an ARMS DEALER by trade and you've been at this for a couple of years now.

At the moment, you're having a smoke to try and calm down the adrenaline rush from almost (successfully) being SET UP.

R18. nsfw/gore/body horror potential. heavy themes including self harm may be explored (but not explicitly). Toxic Yuri Guaranteed.
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No. 1125638 ID: 1704f7

*suck, that typo certainly sucks, and I don't mean girlcock this time
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No. 1126096 ID: 9cd6c3
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1126096


>Taunt
>Frot

You grind down onto Haze, the skin-to-skin friction causing sweet heatbursts in your mind. "When's that gonna happen exactly? You should've been cast down already." You sink the blade in, then out, timing it with the frotting. "You've tarnished yourself."

Haze whines and churns. Her complexion starting to lose its pink. All torn up and tearing up.

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No. 1126097 ID: 9cd6c3
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1126097

>Bite

Suddenly, everything feels too hot. Your clothes too restraining. A hunger coils all around and thuds in your mind. You can't help yourself now. You lean down and sink your teeth into the flesh of her shoulder. All her sounds drown into noise as you taste sweat. Then copper.

When you tear away-- meat comes with you-- punctuated by more and more noise that your mind can barely parse out, either screaming or moaning, as your hunger is clarified. There's more movement. More pleasure.

You chew. Then swallow.

[+3 STAMINA]

That's better.

You wipe your face as Haze whirs. Vague recollections come back to you.

"This is why it doesn't talk to you anymore." Something she whispered to you when she thought you were asleep. "If it ever did."

"Shut up." Haze strains, voice high, and overwhelmed by sensations. She's gotten paler. As white as her wings.

"Another failure."

"S-shut up."

"Another dirty filthy sinner."

Haze cries out as she climaxes.

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No. 1126098 ID: 9cd6c3
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1126098

>Pull the knife and open up her guts

Your body, still coming down from your own climactic bliss, moves. Another string pulled taut. Another easy motion that's practically muscle memory. Your knife, to hand, to arm, elbow and shoulder; synapses calling from the brain and down, to move, to cleave, against the struggling meat of Haze's body as it blooms for you in beautiful pink and red sinew.

Warmth radiates from within, as if calling for you to climb inside.

You stare mesmerized...

>No @#$%ing around.

Haze thrashes earnestly now as the both of you spill onto her yawning torso. If only she would accept you. She wouldn't have to struggle like this.

Now. Just move your knife up further. Explode her heart. Stab it. Do it.

Do it...

....

Why aren't you?


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No. 1126099 ID: 9cd6c3
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1126099

Haze pulls you in, unexpectedly, for a kiss. Her lips are wet from a few tears that fell. Your hand stills.

When did her hands get to your face?

She wastes no time.
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No. 1126100 ID: 9cd6c3
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1126100

Haze snaps your neck.

Your body goes limp.
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No. 1126102 ID: 9cd6c3
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1126102

When you come to, you feel pressure on all sides.... Ah. Your skull's being crushed. Instinctively, your body flexes, then relaxes, so Haze doesn't know you're awake. If only you could turn your head and suck bite her dick for snapping your neck.

"Angel Ti'triel..... I can hear your impetuous flailing from here....."

Haze's words are hard to make out with your head being squeezed to death.

"Get a grip... come down there...-el with the problem you created myself."

Your eyes dart around, attempting to focus as oxygen struggles to circulate in your brain. You hear the distinct clink of glass and swallowing. She's downing a potion.

"Good..... Zir is ...."
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No. 1126103 ID: 9cd6c3
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1126103

The shattered window is only a few steps away.

Your cards are within reach. Your spells. The detonator for the marble mine...

The explosive must've rolled off somewhere in the safe room.

Options:
>A) Grab and Use Detonator
>B) Draw Spell Card (majority vote will decide what spell is drawn)
>C) Flail Around
>D) _____

[SPELLS KNOWN: FIREBALL, HYSTERIA, SHATTER, ANTI-GRAVITY, ??]
[STAMINA: 6/24]
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No. 1126109 ID: 89e385

D. Cast anti-gravity to buy some time and assess.the shock will equalize the playing field.
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No. 1126110 ID: d30887

A) You came here to destroy the gang, sabotage the angels' resources, and your C4 is right where you need it. She's oathbound to protect the people stupid enough to sell their souls to her - so make her work for them.
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No. 1126113 ID: 847683

Between someones legs, in fire and victory?
Im not sure if you believe in valhalla but thats the recipe to see if it believes in you.
Detonate!
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No. 1126115 ID: d5b69a

Grab the detonator and activate it with your dick!
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No. 1126596 ID: 16b713

Give a little kiss of passion before the explosion abruptly ends it. The quintessential blue balls of death, give them heaven before condemning them to hell.
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No. 1126946 ID: 9f3801
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1126946

>Between someones legs, in fire and victory?
>Im not sure if you believe in valhalla but thats the recipe to see if it believes in you.
>Detonate!

In the small second where your oxygen-deprived mind could think, you consider this being your true death. Not a bad way to go, besides suffocation via pile of money.

Without hesitation, your hand grips the card, and the remote materializes a second later. You flex and smash your fingers down onto it, eyes closing in anticipation.

Seconds pass...

Nothing happens.

What the fuck.
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No. 1126947 ID: 9f3801
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1126947

Haze's thighs jerk and your mind blacks out, hands twitching as the detonator flies to the side. SHIT. Ah well. Let's hit it again.

You kick your leg upward, using the momentum to spin-flip your bodies. You both slam face-first onto the floor. Glass breaks. Haze's grip weakens from the impact as she squeaks. You grab onto her calves and flip-tumble again before she can catch her bearings.

For a brief moment, you glimpse each others faces. Haze's eyes are familiarly teary, her emotions finally leaking through after her lecture. You blow her a kiss right as your dick slams on the detonator.
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No. 1126948 ID: 9f3801
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1126948

......
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No. 1126949 ID: 9f3801
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1126949

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!

Glass shatters. Steel and brick rends. You're both sent flying into the walls from the blast.
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No. 1126950 ID: 9f3801
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1126950

You come to quickly as you find yourself flat on your stomach, arm retwisting itself back into place as you fly onto your feet, not checking Haze's status as the building groans and shifts underneath.

Not your problem.

You dive for the things you can spot not under rubble and vault out the empty hole of a window on pure instinct alone.
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No. 1126951 ID: 9f3801
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1126951

Wind rushes past. Your duster crackles behind you as the outside world comes into focus.

Wings. Eiko. Shots. Wolves.

Adrenaline courses through you like fire to kindling.

You heave your lungs as you draw a spell card and yell. "FFFUUUUUCCCKKKK OFFFFFFF HERRR!!!"
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No. 1126952 ID: 9f3801
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1126952

[The nature of beings that gain agency, that traverse outside their dimension, is one of unpredictability. When the factors align just right, what has been determined need not apply.

What has been spoken can be changed.

And all events that follow.]
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No. 1126953 ID: 9f3801
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1126953

"Y-you! Vile thing!" the angel yells, a tremble to their voice as they stumble in the air and turn.

"Me!" you taunt back, "Little bird bitch!"

"Demon!!"

You catch Eiko try to get her bearings, her hands tightly gripping the angel's spear to try and aim. Looks like she's been through hell.

It will take a few seconds before the anti-gravity spell dies.

>Guide Vex
>Speak to Eiko

------

[VEX STAMINA: 4/24]
[EIKO STAMINA: 7/18]
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No. 1126959 ID: 70f58a

>>1126953
Eiko: New timeline who dis? Brace with the spear, see if you can impale the angel with it with Vex's help once gravity resumes.

Vex: Engage the angel, try to pressure them to be above Eiko for a gravity-assisted strike.
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No. 1126970 ID: 9fe662

Time to go God of War on this angels ass!
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No. 1126988 ID: 70f58a

note: I'd support pretty much any plan of attack so long as Eiko doesn't try to throw the spear in a way that risks the angel grabbing it out of the air. After all we went through to get it away from them, I do not want to let them have it again.

If the fight isn't over very quickly, Eiko could try teaming up with her GF again and do the dance but more offensively this time since she'll have the spear.
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No. 1126995 ID: d30887

You don't have much time left. Attack the wings, rip them off before Haze calls for reinforcements!
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No. 1127011 ID: 4ee17d

>>1126959
This is a good plan, but do NOT let the angel grab the spear. We need to talk to Eiko and get her head back in the game too.
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No. 1127015 ID: fd169b

Keep his rage focused on you Vex. Step on his face
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No. 1127035 ID: 847683

>>1127015
Agreed. Keep him mad.
Time to live up to your name V.
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No. 1127552 ID: 9f3801
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1127552

>Keep rage focused
>Engage

You screw your expression into a shit-eating grin. Predictably, their feathers fluff up, hands clenching into fists to pound in your direction.

"You--"

"Blah, blah, blah! Say something original! You're boring me to death!" you fake a yawn, waiting for the seconds to pass as you raise your legs into position. Anti-gravity isn't a spell that comes often, but you've dealt with enough zero G's in the more sci-fi-like worlds you've visited.

Eiko ducks down in the corner of your eye, her grip more secure on the spear as she readies herself into a better position. She must know what you're doing.

When you look back to the angel, they're practically rattling in their tin-can of a helmet.

"Sumere et immergere in profunda lucis sanctae," the angel starts to chant in a low tone, "Dilaceran--

Strings of light start to form around you. Can't have that.

"I just finished your boss!" you yell.

They continue without pause as a tendril of light shoots out to grab your arm.

You snap your arm back-- the light missing-- as you bring your fingers to your lips, splitting them as you stick your tongue out. "You want some too?!"

The spell flickers-- then dispels-- their tongue caught in disbelief, before exploding into gong-like chitters and clacks. Their limbs fling about wildly, as if to run at you on all fours. Their halo shield drives forward to bash you as the only semblance of action they can still muster.

You dive backward, the shield's momentum spinning you in the air as it flies past. It attempts to correct, the divine metal shimmering as it turns harshly, then right into position as you stomp and launch yourself off of it.

Gravity kicks back in.
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No. 1127553 ID: 9f3801
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1127553

With a laugh, you straighten your feet forward and dropkick the angel right on the face, silencing them for good.

Ting!

Their head disconnects from their body, now helpless to gravity's reach.

Eiko blurs to take advantage.
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No. 1127555 ID: 9f3801
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1127555

Eiko surges forward, the burning spear now hers to plunge straight into the angel's back. It pierces through-- in a gush of broken chitin and limey blood, the momentum of the fall driving the body even deeper to make a perfect kebab.

YES. Eiko thinks.YES! YESSS-

The euphoria of her victory cushions her as she meets the ground.

Hard.
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No. 1127556 ID: 9f3801
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1127556

Your ankle bones shatter as you send that angel's head through the dirt. When you hop out of the hole, ignoring the wailing in your nerves, to land on your feet, they're as good as new. You kick your legs around to get rid of the staticky prickles.

You're fine. Refreshed, even. You turn back to look at the body and find a pile of feathers and a spear expelling blood at a rate that vampires would grow mad at. Tingles crawl along your arms and chest as you absorb bare hints of the angel's power.

Above, the Wolf Bites' base is swallowed by a large portal. Haze's doing, no doubt. That'll keep her occupied for now.

Other bodies rain down all around you. Groaning and blowing and rolling. They'll get finished off once you figure out the status of your ward.

You focus your gaze on the pile of feathers, searching for movement.

"... Eiko? You good?" you say with blinding confidence in her.
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No. 1127557 ID: 9f3801
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1127557

[VESSEL FOUND]

[CHANGING VIEWPOINT TO NEW VESSEL]

There, upon the dirt, leg fractured from the fall, Eiko awakens.

Imperceptibly, the angel's body drains, and Eiko's is filled.

I did it. Eiko thinks. We did it.

It's mine.

>______


------
[POV may be changed to Vex at any time]

[EIKO STAMINA: 5/18]
[INVOCATIONS: RANMA 1/2, COMPULSION]
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No. 1127558 ID: d30887

Say your goodbyes to Vi, then harvest a wing alongside Vex. Have the remaining pack make sure he doesn't pull something at the last minute.

Your final orders to the wolves will be to do as you do; leave this city. It's no longer... wild. More angels will come, using this city as a deployment zone, and they'll try to convert whoever they can. You proved this day that they're not absolute. They can be killed, they can be outwitted. But that was just the intern. The wolves will have to spend the rest of their lives travelling the rest of the planet, rallying who they can and building as many power bases as they can muster, just to hold them back. You and Vex will keep looking for a sewer entrance into Heaven. Might take decades. Centuries, even. But even if you fail, someone else will succeed. It's only a matter of time.

Port out, and the other angels will be too busy to deal with the remaining wolves to catch them fleeing into the woods.
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No. 1127563 ID: 89e385

Don't be complacent! Secure the kill!
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No. 1127565 ID: 89e385

Also wag your tail a LOT and snuffle around all happy like. Broken leg, who cares? We got this!

VERY HAPPY WAG
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No. 1127570 ID: 70f58a

>>1127557
Blood! BLOOOOOOD!
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No. 1127571 ID: 6c4313

>>1127558
This sounds like a good idea, but before doing it piss on the body of the defeated enemy.
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No. 1127574 ID: fd169b

tear the wings off this turkey
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No. 1127585 ID: 847683

>>1127558
Sounds good.
But, tell them, form packs.
Smaller ones.
Families, like it was meant to be.
Disperse, survive, prosper.

Not this big pack shaped thing the angels wanted you all to be.

Oh, and like the others say.
Big proud happy tail wags.
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No. 1127632 ID: 748e7d

>>1127558

This.
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No. 1128049 ID: 9f3801
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1128049

Blood pours down from the spear and starts to coat Eiko's numb hands. Her heart is pounding from exhaustion. Her fractured leg aches. But what does that matter?

>Big proud happy tail wags.
>VERY HAPPY WAG

More importantly, her tail wags. Wag! Wag! Wag! She feels like a puppy again, half embarrassed at not keeping it all inside. She can't control the elation, the relief, the literal blanket proof of her success as it envelops her. She deserves some success to chew on.

>Don't be complacent! Secure the kill!
>Blood! BLOOOOOOD!
>piss on the body of the defeated enemy.

Thanks... And no thanks... Eiko snorts and looks above her, the dredges of Life Sense still allowing her to see some light. Above, there is none. Just darkness and the faint aura around her own body.

To make sure, she twists the spear and attempts to rise, the weight of the body finally pressing down. Pain grips her leg in a vice and she gasps, nearly keeling over. Okay. Nope. Let's take a breath.

=== FOOLISH GAMBIT ===
Goal: Survive encounter with the Angel.
Challenge: Successful. False Acceleration granted.

There's the nice cherry on top.
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No. 1128050 ID: 9f3801
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1128050

A moment later, the body lifts off of her. Her head darts in its direction as it gets sucked into one of Vex's magic cards. She stares up at them. They look back with an easy air. The moments after Vex crashed through the window and fell down the sky comes back to her mind.

They were worried about her.

>tear the wings off this turkey

"Shouldn't we harvest the wings?" is what comes out.

Vex's eyebrow raises, amusement clear in the quirk of their smile. "Here? You'll end up like me. No, my Modder's going to do it, she's better at dissection anyway." They tap the card, a vague symbol of a spiral on its front. "I'll keep it in here, so it's preserved. Except now I'm out of weight. So no more bodies."

Eiko finds herself.. oddly disappointed. She should be relieved not to dirty her hands anymore. Shouldn't she? Even if she did imagine herself sawing at the body with Vex's help alongside her. As morbid as that is.

Vex grins. "Good job by the way. Looks like you didn't need my help after all."

"Maybe I would've liked some help, if you didn't take forever." Eiko snarks.

"Ah, y'know, busy keeping the peace up there."

"Is that why you reek of sex?" She smelled it as soon as Vex got close. It kind of pisses her off. Was it really that important while she was fighting down here?

Vex has the gall to look cheeky. "Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to."

Eiko's face scrunches. Ew. Before her temper can fully flare, Eiko's gaze wanders, searching for Julien's body. It's nowhere in sight. There's a few bodies on the ground that aren't moving, which dampens Eiko's mood since they did fight alongside her.

Wait. Bodies. Not body. A thought comes to mind. Her eyes jump around--body-to-body-- until she spots Vi laid out on her back. Grey outline. Not black. Vi sits up, rubbing at her head as if waking up from a long nap. Alive. Breathing.

Eiko exhales. Thank fuck.
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No. 1128051 ID: 9f3801
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1128051

As the wolves scrabble to their feet, as if to surround them again, Eiko sees and feels it. She looks back at Vex. Vex had followed her gaze, pupils hopping from person to person.

Their eyes, at rest, are an unnaturally bright crimson. Like heart-shaped lollipops. Vividly, she can imagine holding one up to her face and seeing the distortion of everything passed its awful cherrybound taste. There, now, in the reds, she sees the glint of something she caught only once before.

On their first encounter, their first level of eye-contact, a sick feeling had creeped in her stomach. She mistook it as distate at first. Pity. Even now, looking at Vex feels like looking at a grimy and greying corpse. A chuuni cosplayer with acrid menthol breath. Could someone like this actually be dangerous?

It's all in the body language. The straightening of their back. The shift of their feet into a bladed stance. The tension and slight rise of their arms. The way their eyes lazily flit, then fix, slightly widening, dilating, the intake of breath, as if they're... They're excited. Expectant. Finally. They must be thinking. I can clean up the rest of this.

All of this comes in fast, fast, waves. How would Vex have known about the past hour? She can almost hear it happen. The bang, bang, bang of their gun going off in quick succession, before anyone can blink, or the first body can fall. Vex would run out of ammo, but that wouldn't matter. The few standing would run away. Make it a few steps.

Bang, bang, bang.

Vex's duster pocket distends with something underneath.

"Don't--" Eiko says quickly, authoritatively, as she imagines the click of the safety. "They'--withme--now."

When Vex looks back at her, the hairs on her body stand stiff. There's a voiding, careful, almost brutal calculation behind their eyes. A vortex that sucks Eiko in. Chews. Consumes.

Then it all dissipates.

"Huh.. Yeah, alright." Vex carelessly tosses it all aside. The glint goes away. As if it never happened at all.

"Uhh." Eiko scrambles for the words.

"Let's talk more later." Vex cuts cheerfully.

They turn and walk away to pick at the debris on the ground.
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No. 1128052 ID: 9f3801
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1128052

"Hey, new boss? Or old boss?" someone says.

Eiko rubs at her arm, then pushes her own thoughts aside, turning to address the crowd. She has to deal with them first.

They're careful to give Vex space, parting around to form an audience in front of her. It's kinda funny. There's a general air of disbelief around them, as if reality has yet to sink in. A magic that still lingers in the air.

"You all saw what happened." Eiko straightens her stance, using the spear as a crutch and a symbol, "Those angels. The cultists. They can be killed. They're not all-powerful divine beings. They're just like you and me. They want to use us for whatever agendas they have up there, but we're not gonna take that!"

There's barks of agreement.

Eiko continues, explaining how the gang will have to disband and form smaller packs.
She can't be their pack leader. They'll have to go at it on their own, find their own families, knit something realer than this. There's a tension now, but Eiko presses on, taking the guiding words given to her to translate into reality; emphasizing the real, otherworldly threat trying to burrow into theirs. Her grasp on the world outside her own is still shaky, but that fear is all they need.

At the end of the day, it's just another gang they have to fight off. Together.
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No. 1128053 ID: 9f3801
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1128053

As the remaining wolves sit down to marinate on their new lives, Eiko turns her gaze to Vi, who looks back. All the exhaustion seems to hit her at once. She nearly stumbles, shaky on her one good foot and spear. Vi slumps and steps forward, as if to dive and catch her.

Fuuuck. Why does Vi have to be so nice?

>Say your goodbyes to Vi...

The rational, logical, part of Eiko's mind agrees. The part of her that saw Vi, a new threat in her apartment, as something she could use. That use has paid off now, so she should let it go. And yet...

The dark, selfish, part of her wants to ask Vi to join them. To suffer with her, if only so she wouldn't be alone with all these unfamiliar entities.

No offense.

But what if she dies? What if Eiko's selfish wish gets Vi killed? Them both killed? What if Vi says no? Why does that thought feel even heavier?

Would it hurt to ask?
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No. 1128054 ID: 8b5ab3

There is no point in crying over spilled milk. What is done is done, nowhere next to move but forward.
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No. 1128056 ID: 70f58a

>>1128053
Communicate. She's got a good ability in that future-sight, so she won't be a burden. It'll still be dangerous, but she deserves the chance to make that choice, rather than you making it for her.

Speaking of danger, everyone make a note here-- only ask for something via Foolish Gambit if the backlash won't completely cripple us. Anything that involves the senses is a no-go; losing our senses penalizes US as well as our host.
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No. 1128057 ID: 101e93

Uh... you should keep an eye on Vex. Make sure he doesn't just screw you over at the end and bolt with the loot.

Tell Vi that... well, you're not happy with how you turned out. Even if your inner darkness helped you find love. All this hatred, this rage... and now this envy. It's eating at you. And it won't stop eating until you remove what's fueling it.

Because right now, you wish Vi could have seen the girl you once were. You wish Kenji could have seen you and Vi together as that girl. And you'll never find a way to be that girl again while the angelic fucks continue to mold people into things they aren't. Like Kenji. Kinda like Julien. And of course, how they want to mold you from not-dead to dead.

Bye, Vi. Keep the packs loosely united, and you'll do okay.
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No. 1128058 ID: 847683

>>1128056
>>1128057

A combination of sorts.
The words in
>>1128057
Need to be heard by vi.
But
The choice should be hers as
>>1128056
Highlights.

So much cost to break free of people who would control you...
The only way to honour that is allowing the same freedom for others, even if it scares you to do so.

She truly would make a good pack mother, keeping them all connected. A hub of a great wheel of families that could keep the peace and unify the pavks to respond to danger...
But, that isnt a burden you can hang on her with a word.
She has to choose to pick it up.
And it is possible what she wants, needs, isnt to be found here, but with you.
Even if part of you fears the consequences, thinks itd be a mistake...
She deserves to choose.

If she does come, suggest the idea of a pack mother to the families anyway.
Not an authority, but an intermediary. Messenger, advisor and arbiter between the packs, but not a ruler. Never a ruler.
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No. 1128072 ID: 7fe6f3

She would do in a leadership role, agreed. Future sight is not a front liner.
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No. 1128074 ID: ce8213

Leaving is already a gamble on the unknown, so why not double down? Give her the offer, no false promises or equivocation, just straight up your leaving for dangerous adventure and there's room for her if she wants in.
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No. 1128214 ID: 9f3801
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1128214

>Communicate...
>Give her the offer, no false promises or equivocation, just straight up your leaving for dangerous adventure and there's room for her if she wants in.
>So much cost to break free of people who would control you...
>The only way to honour that is allowing the same freedom for others, even if it scares you to do so.
>... she deserves the chance to make that choice, rather than you making it for her.

You're right. Eiko thinks, looking down at the ground.

"I..." Eiko starts then stops, a weak smile creeping onto her face. "We did it."

Vi nods repeatedly, her own tail swaying behind her. Eiko feels her mind soften at the sight.

"You did it. I was just here." Vi playfully shrugs.

Eiko snorts, recalling how Vi did a lot more than just stand there. "You already know what I'm going to ask, right?"

"No," Vi looks at her calmly, "But I have a feeling."

"....." Eiko thinks, what's the best way to word it? Please come with me? No. Too manipulative. Would you want to join us? Ugh. Too simple.

"Make another deal with me." Vi interrupts.

"... What do you mean?"

"You kept your end of the bargain."

Eiko feels a sinking in her gut. "You asked for security." She thinks over their night together. What may be their only night together. "I barely gave you that."

"You killed him. That's what I wanted."

Eiko rounds, her memory as sharp as a knife. "You asked for safety too."

There is no true safety now. Not after what Eiko did.

"Now we're all doomed because of me." It all comes flooding out of her, a hiss of breath that hopefully wont be overheard, "Those angels will come back. Sure, I said some rallying words for our crowd of like five people. But what's that really mean? You saw what that one angel could do. They have everything they need to destroy this place if they wanted. All it would've taken is my brother at their feet. So what can you really do, except wait for the end?"

>... It's eating at you. And it won't stop eating until you remove what's fueling it.

Eiko huffs and sucks in a breath. "Doomed if you stay. Doomed if you're with me. Which would you prefer?"

"No." Vi says it as if it's easy, the word alone rocks Eiko to her core. "Don't talk about it like that. We're not doomed. You did it."

Vi pokes at her chest. "You're here. You're alive. You have your wings now. That's real freedom. Don't waste that."

"And what about you?"

Vi's ears go up, eyes shifting slowly off towards the gang.

"... I'm going to stay. After everything, I realized that these guys matter too. As shitty as they can be sometimes, I'm not going to leave them to fight alone. You said it yourself in your speech, this world deserves a chance too."

"......."

>She truly would make a good pack mother, keeping them all connected. A hub of a great wheel of families that could keep the peace and unify the pavks...

Don't cry. Don't cry.

>She would do in a leadership role, agreed. Future sight is not a front liner.

Don't cry. Damnit.

>There is no point in crying over spilled milk. What is done is done, nowhere next to move but forward.

Damnit... Hearing it doesn't make it any easier. Eiko lets the words wash over her, guide her, chest all tangled up as her feelings show in her voice. "You said... That..."

"I know. Turns out, I don't have what you have." Vi looks at Eiko sheepishly. "I don't think I'm anywhere ready for it."

Eiko's breath hitches.

"Make a deal with me." Vi says again.
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Eiko stays silent, afraid of what else will come out.

"You're going to need somewhere to come back to. It's not just a big grand unknown adventure out there. I'd love to be out there, but after our talk last night... After today. I-- Well. This place needs the work too. Someone's got to do it."

>She has to choose to pick it up.

Suddenly, a path opens up before Eiko that she had not considered before. Could she really come back after everything? Leaving sounds so easy, feels easy, just walk away and never look back. It's different to know that if she turned around, there would be someone there to look back at her.

Vi leans and presses her forehead against Eiko's. Vi's fur is warm and soft, matted a bit around the edges. Eyes a rich purple. It's the sky as the orange hues escape into the horizon and the cool tones of space filters through. As she looks in, she thinks of the last time someone's gotten this close. The last person that did this to her is gone. This one will be too. For now.

A part of her commits this to memory.

"Someone's got to do it." Vi repeats. "So, don't worry about me. Go out there and do whatever you want, then tell me all about it after. You'll miss me and come back anyway."

Eiko steps back, a bit baffled, eyes blinking away tears that were not going to fall. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"I've got a smell for these things." Vi says with a humor. "Besides, I can live a while without you. Can you live without me?"

Eiko stares at her sudden boldness. "Are you serious? We got close like yesterday."

"We did."
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Eiko's hands clench, knowing she's right. "Fine!" She feels like a teenager again. How embarrassing. "I'll do whatever I want!"

Vi snorts and does a fist pump. "Ganbare, Eiko."

Eiko sighs in defeat. "Ganbare, Violet." Eiko says back. "Please try to keep this place all in one piece."

"Will do, Boss."

"Not a boss."

"Master, then?"

Eiko's heart flusters. "I'm walking away."

She doesn't.

>Uh... you should keep an eye on Vex. Make sure he doesn't just screw you over at the end and bolt with the loot.

She looks over at Vex as they kick over a chunk of concrete. They bend down to inspect whatever was crushed underneath. She should be cautious about them pulling something at the last minute...

Is there anything else to say? To do?
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No. 1128217 ID: 70f58a

Feed me angel blood.
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No. 1128218 ID: 101e93

Time to ride off into the sunset or something.

Steel yourself. Like Vex said, with only a single angel wing as your loot, your teleportation powers will be on a cooldown. You need to play things carefully. Be the Jaguar in the night. Be the rabbit sprinting faster than sight. Be the bear mauling the unjust. Be the rabid dog feasting on their pretentious vocal cords.

Be everything worth being and bring everyone together to kill what isn't.
That's what it means to be the best wolf.
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No. 1128219 ID: f5c4b7

Time to become the final form of a girl boss, that you were always meant to be.
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No. 1128221 ID: 847683

>>1128216
Shes given you something valuable.
A home to come back to.
Without that, you'd end up like vex,
Just drifting.
Not you though.
Youll roam, wander, explore and have adventures.
And if you find something that would help your people, help vi, against the angels or just in general...
you could bring it back.
Then stay a while till your paws start itching again.
Until that time they stop and you can stay.

Big waggy tails.
And hug her.
Now.
You -will- regret not doing it later if you dont.
Get as big a noseful of her scent as you can.
To strengthen the memory youll carry with you
When you go.
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No. 1128225 ID: ce8213

better not to drag this goodbye out. You've made your promise
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No. 1128243 ID: c9178d

End your farewell with an arm wrestling. Just to establish who is stronger between the two of you.
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No. 1128566 ID: 546545
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1128566

>Shes given you something valuable.
>A home to come back to...
>Hug her...
>You -will- regret not doing it later if you dont.
>Get as big a noseful of her scent as you can.
>To strengthen the memory youll carry with you
>When you go.

Eiko's tail wags before she launches forward into Vi, arms clumsily wrapping around her torso with the spear still in hand. Vi boofs in surprise and easily hugs back.

"What happened to walking away?"

Eiko sighs and takes a deep breath, so Vi's scent imprints into her memory.

Smells like roasted vanilla.

"I lied." Eiko gruffs.
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No. 1128567 ID: 546545
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>End your farewell with an arm wrestling.

Eiko moves to follow the compulsion, not minding a bit of sillyness as she grins up at Vi and pulls away. "Let's arm wrestle."

She's recovered enough to partially transform at least the upper body. When she does so, Vi's eyes widen, her tail starting to wag back.

"Alright." Vi clasps her paw as they both flex, testing each others strength with a few snide growls.

They're both not at their best at all. Eiko still wins out, on account of her natural bulk and some calculated squeezes. It feeds her ego a bit, especially with the submissive look Vi gives after.

>better not to drag this goodbye out. You've made your promise

Okay... Okay... Maybe she's dragging her heels a bit here. She's only listening and having fun! She swears!

She gives Vi's paw one last squeeze before letting go.

They stare at each other for what feels like an eternity. Vi turns away first. Back to the pack.
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>Feed me angel blood.

"Uhhhh... Sure." Eiko glances down at the ring then over at the spear. It's cleaned itself up for the most part, a natural property within keeping the point shiny and gleaming. She isn't sure where the other points went. Maybe they dislodged in the angel's body.

Eiko squints before putting the ring up to the bit of sticky blood still at the handle. She waits. When nothing visibly changes, she switches hands and lightly bonks the ring's gem against it.

"Did you get that?" she asks skeptically.

>Time to become the final form of a girl boss, that you were always meant to be.

Eiko chuckles to herself. Like the final boss in a video game? She ponders over her transformations in the past few fights. Could this really be her final form?

"Boss." a voice interrupts her.
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1128569

When Eiko looks up, she sees the coward once more, and an entourage behind her. A part of her is surprised to see her conscious, especially approaching her so directly. As she takes her in, a strange feeling overcomes her.

The coward looks worse for wear, fur matted with a makeshift bandage tied around the torso, dyed dark from the bullet wound she tanked for her. There's a ragged intake of breath. Slow limping steps. The coward looks her in the eye and Eiko meets her head on. She wont feel guilty for what she did. In fact, a part of her feels vindicated.

"You don't have to forgive me." the coward's voice comes out tired, yet light, "I just...."

"I don't think I will." Eiko speaks with jagged conviction. She may have just laid her brother's spirit to rest, but everything else is still buzzing with flies. "What do you want?"

She holds her hands out. "I wanted to.. thank you."

Eiko's brain goes blank. "What?"

The coward sighs. "I carried that guilt for years. I never thought that I would do something... But helping you. It took some of the guilt away too." She exhales another ragged breath, "There's a lot of things I've wanted to tell you that I never got to. Doesn't matter now, I guess."

"....."

"And before you left... We wanted to thank you for saving us."

"I didn't save you guys..." Confliction curdles in Eiko's gut.

The coward shakes her head and her paws open, revealing two expertly rolled blunts.

.... Hah?

Eiko tilts her head, as if it will help with her vision. The objects remain the same, paper a bit scuffed, yet still tightly coiled. Well... No reason to refuse. She dazedly takes the offerings, the blunts rolling against her palm before she closes her fingers around them. She has a guess about who rolled them. Despite the reputation, she's never smoked with any of the pack. Always needed to keep her mind sharp like that.
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"This is all we could scrounge that might help you out there, Scary Boss." The one to her right says.

The others nod behind her.

Scary Boss? Eiko almost starts to laugh.

"We all would've died at some point without knowing the truth." Another chimes in. "Who knew we were all part of some grand conspiracy, aye?"

"We're gonna be heroes because of you."

"Yeah!"

"That's a bit..." Eiko pauses sheepishly at the looks of admiration they give her.

"You'll save the universe, right?" They all bow in unison. "Ganbatte, Scary Boss!"

Whatever protests Eiko had, they fly away in the breeze of their blinding conviction. Despite knowing that they're just mirroring her earlier fire, Eiko feels her eyes moisten once again. There's a feeling that takes over, one hard to describe. It feels so... Large. Big. Maybe, now, she starts to understand what Vi sees.

"Thank you." Eiko says back.
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>Steel yourself...
>Be everything worth being and bring everyone together to kill what isn't.
>That's what it means to be the best wolf.

Eiko steels herself for an uncertain future as the pack disperses for good. Her past self would never have expected the path she's now walking on.... And yet.

Speaking of walking, she needs to take care of this leg. The spear won't be the best crutch if she needs to run and now she'd feel bad asking the others. Maybe she should ask Vex to spare something? They have that supernatural healing ability after all.

Eiko looks over at where she saw him last. The debris' still there and some stains on the ground. She spots Vex as they slink over, hands in their pockets. They seem to be chewing something Eiko cannot discern, their scent still warped with tones of sweaty meat and smoke. Her nose wrinkles distastefully.

"You ready to go?" Vex asks.
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Vex's eyes fall to the ring on Eiko's finger, as if noticing it now.

"Oh, hey, you ended up using it." Vex's eyes visibly search Eiko's person. "Did you find out what it does?"

-------

[Next Update May Be The Last]
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No. 1128574 ID: 44fae0

Well it was fun while it lasted. Now that you accomplish everything that you everything that you ever wanted, it is time to settle down and become a productive member of society.....Just kidding time to end this adventure with a celebratory orgy.
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No. 1128575 ID: 847683

>>1128572
Now, i regret being put on your middle finger because that was the perfect set up for
Saying "it does this" and flipping him the bird.
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No. 1128576 ID: 70f58a

>>1128568
>did you get that?
...no. I remain unfulfilled.

>>1128572
Hahaha. Tell him yeah, it's a powerful cursed artifact called a God Caller, and he's linked to it too whether he realizes it or not.
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No. 1128586 ID: 08ebee

Time to make the world a better place with your leadership, and maybe for an orphanage. To save the new genaration form going down the wrong path in their life.
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No. 1128590 ID: ce8213

Tell him it talks to the gods and they say he's a dick.

but in all seriousness you both did good
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No. 1128598 ID: 101e93

Tell him it made you a few friends.
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No. 1128601 ID: 89e385

Awwwwww mannnnnnn we’re gonna save the universsssssssse!!!

The ring isn’t for using, or talking about, lightly. I’m kind of afraid of going into detail. Let’s just say it gave us all hope.

I’m gonna miss you all! Try not to tear up!
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No. 1128602 ID: b83cad

>>1128572
It's opened up a whole lot of new possibilities.

We (and I in particular) will be waiting for you to do some very interesting things.
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No. 1129941 ID: 43c2d7
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>...no. I remain unfulfilled.

Eiko mentally notes to try again later. The last thing she needs is a hungry hungry ring.

>The ring isn’t for using, or talking about, lightly. I’m kind of afraid of going into detail...
>Tell him...

Eiko finds herself hesitating to say the truth. She vividly recalls how Vex feels about beings like YOU up there, and it's not good. Even then, can she trust Vex to not do something about the ring, if it's more valuable than they expected?

"Oh, yeah, I did." Eiko moves to switch the ring to her middle finger as Vex watches expectantly.
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No. 1129942 ID: 43c2d7
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1129942

"It does this!"
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No. 1129943 ID: 43c2d7
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1129943

"It's also cursed and says you're a dick."

A feeling of vindication washes over her that's as sweet as defeating the angel.

Vex rubs at their cheek, eyes squinting at her. "Fine, fine, keep your secrets. I'll find out eventually."

"Not lying." Not fully.

"Suuure. No go on the girlfriend?"

"No."

Vex takes the hint. "No celebratory orgies?"

"Uh, no? My leg hurts. Do we have time for that?" Eiko's not exactly opposed, but the thought of hearing some of these guys try to dirty talk already turns her off.

"Ha. Nah, let's go."
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1129944

Vex starts to pull their sleeve down, revealing their wing tattoo, the lines bold with little shading, the ink itself plain and slightly filled in gray. She wonders how the wing functions, the concept still alien to her when looking at it like this. Based on the angel she saw, they must be real, but how does that work if it's on their arm? Does it go to their back? How awkward is it to use if there's only one?

Excitement buzzes as she thinks about wings like those on her back.

"By the way, could you help me with my leg?"

".. Huh?"
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"Hghka--"

In a blink, the world start to spin, an eye-watering impact bursting in her injured leg as she's swept off her feet.

As Eiko thumps against the ground, Vex's form blurred, she thinks, This ass--
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1129946

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No. 1129947 ID: 43c2d7
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1129947

...........
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No. 1129948 ID: 43c2d7
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1129948

".... Vex?"

Eiko leaps forward, hands grabbing onto Vex.

Vex's body is dark, according to Life Sense.

"...."

Their head rolls along the ground. Blood gushes from the stem of their neck and arm.

.... Can she fix this?
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Eiko imagines her own head falling off of her body from absorbing the wound. She shivers.

"I can fix this."

She wills the magic down. Only some of it.

[-2 STAMINA]

Eiko furiously pushes the life power into Vex, trying to will some of the wounds away. Vex can't be dead. They can't.

"Get up."

Vex's body stays dark as Eiko's left arm and neck starts to bleed. Don't panic. Her fingers come up to touch her neck and a sense of deja vu whispers in her mind. Her breath starts to quicken.

Get a hold of yourself. Assess.
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She turns furiously towards the source of Vex's state.

There, suspended in the air, is a mass of beautiful white wings, glowing swords circulating around the figure in a secondy halo. In the angel's hands is a broadsword, a coat tied around her waist, bleach bone hair fluttering in the breeze.

Eiko feels chills run down her body. Where the other angel commanded an alien-like reverence, this one is ethereal, wrapped in a cold fury.
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"Zir, our holy savior, the Servant of Above, the incarnate of Humility, I cast your light into this Verse to purge the word of demons." The angel prays, the words striking through Eiko's mind and digging in as if to crawl even deeper. "The path of the Divine is absolute and will not stand rebellion. I, as Judgement, purge corruption."

Something acidic rises in her throat, the taste of bile on the back of her tongue. In the shadow of her peripherals, the remaining gang members hold their heads, some coughing.

What the fuck.
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This is different.

The other angel seems juvenile now. It's as if her insides are turning out as she grits her teeth. Is this who that angel was answering to? The Archangel? Yes, this has to be, she recalls it now from the flashback. The same one that was ordering Julien around. Vex treated her so lightly, but seeing her now is something else.

The Archangel's listless gaze casts down onto her.

"... Apostle, you dare aid that demon?" The words plunge into Eiko's mind, sounding measured, even, unworthy of needing to raise her voice, yet a heavy pressure weighs down on her as if she was on the executioner's block, the eyes of thousands of people now seeing her with that same gut-wrenching judgement.

"...."

"Where is Angel Ti'triel?"

"...." Eiko knows a bomb of a question when she hears one.

"Is your god aware the Verse has changed again?"

"....." How is she supposed to know that?

"Where is the dog?"

".... Bite me."

There's a pause, the pressure coming down onto her like lead. Eiko has to look away. The Archangel's gaze turns.

"You should have stayed dead."
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1129954

What the hell's her problem?
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Cough "Haaah."

Eiko turns at the gasp as Vex's head reattaches to their neck. With a spit, the color returns to their eyes.

"You asshole!"

Blood dribbles down their lips. "Gwotta gwo."

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Vex sweeps down and hauls Eiko fireman-style over their shoulders, dodging another sword as it strikes the ground and shatters.
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A barrage of magical swords follow as Vex runs in zigzags, clearly experienced in dodging the spell as the swords shatter along the pavement, and Eiko holds on for dear life.

"What did you do to make her so pissed off?!" Eiko yells over the noise.

"Be alive!"

Eiko feels a headache coming on. She must be suffering blood loss.

"Are we going to make it?!"

"Yeah, watch this!"

Vex's Angel Wing starts to glow, red lines crawling up along their arm as if powering on circuits, the tattoo itself starting to unwind into real feathers.
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No. 1129958 ID: 43c2d7
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1129958

"Ho- shit!"
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Vex swings their arm back, unfurling their wing into its full span. The feathers are the same pearly white as the other angels and sharper at the edges.

It should be heavy, Eiko thinks, but Vex swings their arm down as if it doesn't matter.
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There's a boom. The Archangel's hot on their heels, diving down, a bird of prey.

"Here we go!"

Vex' wing slices the air in a downward arch, the geometries of reality surging forth as if trying to correct itself. Eiko glimpses through that hole for a moment, a kaleidoscope of window panes, all intersecting into different views; rocky, scorching, green, chrome, flooding, gold, red.

Red.
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1129961

With a leap, Vex launches them both into the portal as Eiko screams, excited and afraid.

The Archangel swings--

"See you later, Babe!"
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1129962

Reality blinks.

They're gone.




[End of Part One.]
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No. 1129968 ID: 101e93

>Bonus Scene: Vi is pregnant
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No. 1129975 ID: 70f58a

Let's make sure to shield her mind since she's not fully prepped for the jump and we've been warned about that.
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No. 1130168 ID: ee5baa

>>1129962
Absolutely brilliant
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