Miracle Box - an MLB rewrite

Book 3 - Perfectly Balanced. Hope and Loss.

Tikki shot through the heavens like a rageful bullet. She was mad. Angry, yes, but also mad with insanity. She rose over Paris like a dark angel. If she had wings they would swallow the city whole. She looked down upon it, a sort of malice in her eyes that could only belong to a woman who'd lived a million years and grew sick of the world.

From her hand, an unreasonably large blade magically formed. It was so large, there was no way any human could lift it. Yet she carried it at her side with ease. She eyedd the kaiju beast emerging from the earth and without hesitation, dove straight for it with her blade guiding her.

"Cursed monster born of hate!" she screamed. The blade sank deep into the monster's shoulder. She used her body to swing it downward, riding the blade as it sliced down the body of the monster like it was some sort of surfboard. "I send you back to your cursed womb!" (JJK reference anybody? No? Just me? Okay.)

Down, down, down, till finally the blade freed itself. She rearmed herself with it and made a vast slashing motion. The front arm of the beast exploded off of it cleanly, decimating the buildings around it with chunks of flesh reigning down. The arm formed a crater where it fell, but Tikki did not care. She just released her ladybugs relentlessly, a constant flow like a river of healing and repair to undo all the damage she'd done. However, even Tikki could not take back the lives of those who died.

Tikki shot back into the air and drove the sword into the beast's throat. Again, she dragged it down, releasing pools of flesh which burst out like a gory waterfall. The creature began to slump forward, but before it hit the ground, it vanished in a large plume of feathers. At the center of the feathers, the shape of Dusuu hovered over the city.

"DUSUU!" Tikki roared angrily. She had her weapon aimed at Dusuu, reforming it into a yoyo-like blade on a string. The blade soared the distance between them, nearly decapitating Dusuu. He moved away just barely in time, and charged her from the heaves.

"All this destruction around us, caused by the kwami of creation!" Dusuu cackled.

"You are out of your mind!" Tikki shouted through her grinding teeth. The blade returned to her, slicing through Dusuu's hair which instantly grew back to how it was. "Release these sentimonsters and we shall duel without magic!"

"The city must fall first!"

Feathers circled around him, each forming into massive cranes which swooped over the sky which had beaks as sharp as swords which pointed at Tikki. They all dove at her. Another kaiju was starting to form beneath them. That was the greater concern.

"So it shall," Tikki seethed. She was willing to sacrifice Paris.

Using her own magic, a giant palace formed over the kaiju. It sprouted up from the ground like a flower blooming. It uprooted all the streets and buildings beneath it as it rose, killing the kaiju in its wake. Tikki let herself fall, sliding into the Chinese palace through one of the upper windows. The cranes followed her.

She created this palace to be a maze. She could navigate it perfectly, racing through the halls, taking sharp corners that could pulverize the cranes due to the speed at which they flew. The palace rose higher, the maze developed deeper. Eventually, each crane had gotten lost, and she created something new.

She flew out of the palace and released all the explosives she'd crafted inside. Like a thousand bombs going off at once, the palace violently exploded, further propelling her into the sky where she came face to face with Dusuu.

"All that to kill some birds?"

Tikki was blind to the devastation she caused all around her. She was hot with anger, creating a new sword in her hand which she nearly drove through Dusuu's heart. He caught it between the metal skewers of his fan. He gave it a small twist, jerking the sword out of Tikki's hand. She was fast enough to create another, slashing at him again. But he'd created a snake around his waist, which caught the blade in its mouth and poisoned it. In a last effort, Tikki used both feet to harshly kick Dusuu and lunged high up in the sky.