Rotten Apples

Chapter 13: Pugna Infinita

Clouds are swirling. Everything is still and deserted. A code red blizzard has hit the city. Kriemhild is standing on top of the CCG tower. She grins as her Kakuja slowly crawls around her legs. The massive stilts errupt from below her dress and they start hacking away at the massive concrete building. She laughs as everyone inside meets a bloody demise. Suddenly, the god of death errupts from the rubble, wielding IXA. He jumps at the massive witch as Harmony closes in. Kriemhild errupts a massive body of RC as Arima activates the shield part of the quinque. The huge attack clashed with the shield, shattering it almost instantly. Arima was frozen in shock as the thing opened up and swallowed him.

"Go." Flame said and Arch and Scimta started attacking. They fended off the witch's attacks. Arch shot her kagune forth in a spiral. The witch stopped it and errupted more tendrils from her body. She was towering well above the CCG's height. She spread her Kakuja, swallowing everything in her path. Kazama jumped at her. The witch responded by firing interwoven tendrils at him. He pointed his golden kagune at it and sliced through it like butter. The witch was surprised as he burst through the attack unscathed. He managed to gash a wound on the witches face. She shrieked and enveloped her hands in her Kakuja, enlargening them and slamming them together over Kaz. He vigorously cut through it and rained shards down on her. She blocked them with her oversized palms and tossed them right back at him. Kazama dodged and went back to lower ground. Zyper and Qwitz are guarding Binky.

"Are they going to be allright?" She asked.

"Yeah.." Qwitz said. Flamezord bursted forward with 4 centipedes. He lashed viciously at the witch as she kept towering. As he was falling to the ground, he crossed his kagunes to form a massive cross and fired a giant lightning bolt. Kriemhild whipped the bolt and dissolved it. She was about to strike Flame down when Elsa Maria and Attila came to his aid. Attila summoned a kagune wall and Elsa Maria provided support to the wall. Attila then jumped up and started climbing up the mountain.  Every step he took was lucky. The witch kept pushing spikes and everything else she wanted outward. A massive snake-shaped tendril errupted from below him. He pummeled it away and saw Flame and Elsa approach too. Zyper, Arch and Scimta were closing in as well as Binky, Qwitz and Martras. They were all climbing the mountain. Suddenly, the witch gathered all her supports together and jumped high into the air, spreading her tendrils in the meantime. Everyone got knocked into the air. She multiplied them and pinned all of them back into the ground. Wolfy swooped in from below and stretched his centipede kakuja as far as he could, saving a bunch of people from a lethal strike as Flame did his best to do the same too. Elsa Maria summoned her Ukaku at last and fired away at the witch. She used her Rinkaku as claws to attack the base, but again, to no use. Binky was struggling to keep herself from losing it. She got knocked back into the ruins and everyone panicked. Zyper and Qwitz hastily made it to the little girl and helped her up.

"Binky I'm so sorry we shouldn't have left you alone.." Zyper pleaded as Binky looked upon her.

"I felt like... I felt like she tried talking to me..." She said. Qwitz activated her quinque and froze. Tears trickled from her eyes and she started panting and screaming.

"Oh god what's wrong??" Zyper panicked. Qwitz kneeled down on the ground and buried her fingers in her hair. Kriemhild let out a harrowing laughter that echoed through everyone.

"You're all adorable as you try to kill me..." She said and increased her hands' size, then swept the floor. Wolfy jumped up and sliced the hand off from its base. The witch roared up and the RC cells reconnected. He wrapped his centipede around his body and braced for impact. Flame whipped his Kakujas at the witch and charged them with electricity. The witch parried all the blows and started spreading her kakuja. The thin sticks started burrowing everywhere, thickening and forming a sort of network. She squealed and flexed her body, destroying everything around her.