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Chapter Thirty-Two: Everything I Am To You

Withdrawing his blades, Sean snapped back at Archie. "If you've killed him. You will regret it." Archie's lips curled into a devilish grin, causing fresh blood to leak from his mouth, Mark's blood, as he shot back. "I don't regret the taste of him. He was wasted on the likes of you." Slamming the handles of his blades together, Sean clicked them into his bow and retorted darkly. "That's it, Fucker!" Bringing his bow up, Sean pulled the string back and quickly released a glinting golden arrow. Archie rolled across the floor in a blur, dashing low around the furniture. The arrow struck the wall, bursting into shards of light, but Sean was already pulling the string back to aim at where Archie was going. Archie leapt off the floor to avoid the next arrow, jumping to the wall before lunging off toward Sean. Barely dodging him, Sean whirled around to aim the next arrow at him. Archie flinched as the arrow whizzed inches over his shoulder. Sean cursed, trying to pull the string back, but Archie dashed straight for him.

Archie slammed into him, tackling him down onto the coffee table. The table broke beneath them, knocking the wind from Sean's lungs. Archie slashed his claws at Sean's throat, but Sean raised his bow to block it in time. His bow was sent flying from the power behind Archie's hit, forcing Sean to think quickly. Grabbing a table leg, Sean hit Archie upside the head. In the brief moment that Archie was stunned, Sean sat up enough to give his wings room to move. Then grabbing Archie's throat, Sean yelled as his wings launched him off the ground. Slamming Archie up against the ceiling, he used Archie's weight to roll and threw him toward the windows. Archie hit the curtains, the glass behind them shattering from the impact. Falling to all fours, Archie rubbed his neck and hissed up at him. Unable to control himself, Sean arched his back and let out an aggressive hiss of his own that made his wings vibrate violently. Staggering to his feet, Archie flashed his fangs up at him, yelling out. "Alright, Fairy-boy! Let's do this!"

From Archie's back a set of thick bat wings ripped through his shirt and splattered the curtains behind him in blood. Leaping into the air, he came at Sean with his claws and teeth bared. Sean hissed again, then turned over in the air. The second Archie flew over him, Sean kicked his legs up to slam Archie into the ceiling again. This time though, Archie grabbed his leg and lashed Sean into a wall. Sean watched his health bar take a hit and tried to break free of him as reality set in. However, Archie had too good of a grip on him. Flying away from the wall, Archie swung him back into the wall with more force. Sean yelped as his health fell to half. Keeping him pinned against the wall with a hand that darted out to his throat, Archie moved in to hiss menacingly. "With your blood. I will be able to walk in the daylight. I'll surpass my father! And it will be ME that takes Mira from this place!" Growing frustrated, Sean gripped Archie's wrist at his throat and adjusted his free leg to kick him as he yelled out. "YOU CAN HAVE HER!"

Archie spit blood, releasing Sean as he was knocked back. Bracing his feet and hands on the wall in his best spider-man pose, Sean watched for his stamina to recover, before launching off the wall and directly at Archie. Slamming into him, Sean smashed him against the floor to stun him. Then placing his hands on him, he tried to use the Light of Alfheim on him, but nothing happened. How had he done it before? Archie flinched like he knew what was coming, but when nothing happened, he chuckled out smugly. "Can't get it up? Shame. I can." Archie swatted Sean's hands away from him, jerking upright to sink his teeth into Sean's neck. Sean let out an ear-piercing scream. He could feel every inch of the thick fangs as they sank into his skin. Grabbing Archie's shoulders in a death grip, he tried to push him away as he watched his health bar begin to steadily drain away. Archie's arms wrapped tightly around him, pinning him against him as he tried to drain him faster.

Just as his health was dipping into the yellow, Sean pressed his hands to the sides of Archie's head and screamed out. "YOU WANT IT?! TAKE IT!" From the core of his avatar, he felt the power surge and explode out from his palms and wings. Filling the room with blinding light. Archie began to shake, jerking his head back to reveal that Sean's blood had turned to liquid silver! Archie screamed as his fangs disintegrated. Rising slowly to his feet as Archie's grip loosened, Sean didn't release Archie from his cupping hands. Archie thrashed, his body burning from both the inside and outside. Anger flooded Sean and he refused to stop until Archie was nothing but a pile of ash upon the floor. With little more than ash coating his hands, Sean lowered his hands and the light coming off him dimmed. His anger faded, but he took a minute to look at his hands. When had his nails grew out to sharp points? The nails slowly shrank and curled his fingers feeling a little scared of his own avatar.