The Book of Blood

Chapter N I N E T E E N:

For the past three days, I've been getting watched by Amelia and let me just say, it's quite weird. She's so invested in what I'm doing. I haven't shown her any of my abilities. She's been watching the others too. Yesterday, she was hanging out with Belle, which surprised me seeing as she got kidnapped and beat by witches before she got here. Belle showed her some of her powers as well as Micro. They didn't show their scepters though. Everyone knows that would be stupid of a witch or a magic user to show their scepters. The scepter is their magical source and what holds their energy. It can grow and decrease with the amount of magic that is used. For Belle and Micro, their scepters are half the size of the Louvre. That's just how powerful they are. 
Amelia doesn't really get along with Olivia. Apparently, she doesn't like how she eats innocent souls just for the fun of it, which is understandable. She was once helpless too and had no harness to any powers. She would've been eaten a long time ago if it wasn't for Belle. Olivia basically teases Amelia by dropping heavy things on her, making Amelia cautious of everything around her. I asked Olivia why she continues to do that to her. She said, "I mean, if she's going to be here, she needs to be aware of her surroundings." After saying that, she floated through the ceiling. It sounded like an excuse to me. 

Today, we were going to see what Amelia could actually do. I gather the whole team and our descendants out in the backyard. Jannelle arrives late. Before I ask, she says, "I actually slept a whole eight hours. I don't want to hear it." I rolled my eyes and direct my attention with everyone else. We were in a circle around Amelia, who was sitting criss-crossed in the middle. She got comfortable around us quickly and she let her tail out and showed her teeth whenever she ate. It was almost unnerving. When she felt my gaze on her skin, she made eye contact with me and stood up. "So, what are we doing today?" I smile and say, "It's a surprise. For now, I want you to pick one of the people you like to spar with first." Her eyes go wide and her expression changes from excitement to a playful bored look. "This shouldn't be hard. I had to fight a lot to get out of Hell without permission. I pick....." She looks around the whole circle and her eyes set on Olivia. "Olivia, I pick you. This is payback for all the shit you've put me through since I've been here." Olivia smiles and let her feet touch the ground. She walks in front of Amelia and smiles. "It's only right. You do need to get your licks back. I don't blame you." Belle walks to the two facing each other and separate them. "You know the drill. First one to hit the ground loses. No blood shall be drawn. No weapons used. For your sake Olivia, you can't use your fellow spirits to help you out." Olivia nods her head but her eyes don't leave Amelia's face. Belle backs away from the two and starts to count down from ten. Before she gets to five, Amelia and Olivia turn their backs to one another and Olivia says, "Don't blink." Belle says one and the fight begins.

Olivia teleports from her position and reappears behind Amelia's head. By the time Amelia could turn around, Olivia had put her whole foot in the back of her throat. When Amelia hit the ground, her figure broke into a million pieces like glass. I was shocked but it was only for a second when I saw Amelia's form come back together like everything was put in reverse. Something catches my eye on the ground and I see that everyone in the circle's shadows were gone, except Olivia's shadow. Another shadow appeared but it wasn't linked to anyone..... A female-shaped shadow zoomed in front Olivia and rapidly punched Olivia's shadow. Then everyone's shadows returned and Olivia doubled over in pain and collapsed on the ground. Amelia's glass figure went back to normal and she walked over to Olivia and started to laughed. Belle goes to Olivia and starts the healing process instantly. Amelia smiles mischievously, "I bet all of you wonder what my abilities are. Not a lot of demons have it, only the high ranked ones are able to do it." Me and Artemis share the same look of nonchalance. I say, "You fight using shadows. You used all of our shadows and combined all of our shadows into yours. That wasn't fair but then again we weren't aware of what you could do so we'll excuse this. Anyways, the next-"

CRACK

It starts to pour from the sky but the water had blue tint to it. I look around to see Artemis, Athena, Hera, Lexi, Celeste, and Trixi are writhing in pain. Micro quickly makes a covering over them and looks to me. "We have an unexpected guest. I didn't think it would be so soon though. I suggest you draw your weapons. We don't know what they could be capable of." Jannelle drew her daggers, Olivia goes into spirit form, Micro and Belle eyes begin to glow, and I pull my rapier. 

CRACK

Lightning strikes in the forest area near the back of the backyard. All attention switches there. Where the lightning struck, stood a woman. She had dark ebony skin and her eyes glowed white. Her hair was put up in a bun and she wore dark blue clothing. Her body seemed to glow a white light and she held a caduceus. 
She's a valkyrie.
Jannelle looks at me with a "duh" look. 
Obviously. She's one of the high ranked ones too.
Everyone didn't lower the weapons at all as she began to walk towards us. She got about 15 feet away from us when Micro stiffened out of the corner of my eye. His eyes stop glowing and he says, "What are you doing here?" The valkyrie's emotionless face changed as her eyes lay on Micro. She smiles and says, "I knew you would be here."