Of Angels and Demons: A New Generation

The Hunt: Part 2

After several minutes I hear her footsteps slowly creaking above me. "I've played along with your game, but mostly to give you false hope." She says as her blade rips through the ground and cuts my cheek. "Shit." I say as she pulls her blade out, bringing the floorboard with it. "Let me ask you something." She says as she stares down at me. "Why do you struggle so much and have these thoughts that you can win, but immediately beg for your life when you're proven wrong? Or better yet, why pretend to have power when in reality, you often need others to step in for you? Just curious?" She asks as she tilts her head. "I-." I grit my teeth and sigh. "I'm weak. I know I'm weak." I say as she laughs. "Are you kidding me?" She continues laughing as she grabs my throat and lifts me out of the ground. "Oop." She says as she straight arm throws me through several buildings. I wince with pain from cuts and tears in my skin. "A normal person would've died from me touching them, a weak demon would died from me lifting them. A moderately powerful being would've died from me clenching their throat. But you survived all that, and me actually throwing you." She says as I stare up at her. "Don't you even try to lie to me. We both know you've been blessed with incredible power from your parents and I." She says as she stares at me. "The only part of you that's weak is your willpower. You have so much strength and durability but your willpower is unbelievably weak, one of the weakest in recent memory. Here. I'll prove it." She says as she touches my forehead. As she does both my arms grow purple and blue bones around them. The bones also grow around my feet and twist on my forehead into horns. "Now let's try to fight again." She says as I feel anger overtake me suddenly. As I stand up, I level the city. She jams her sword into the ground to stay stationary. "Look at this power. This is the true power hidden behind your mental barrier." She says as I teleport behind her unwillingly and swing. She blocks my arm with her pinky finger. "That's more like it." She says as I jump away. As I blink I no longer see anything. "You can't control it yet." She says behind me as her hand presses against my back. "What just happened?" I ask as she laughs. "Well since in this world we can draw out your absolute maximum power without consequences, and you don't know how to control it, you jumped around three hundred thousand miles away." She says as my eyes widen. "Wait, what?!" I yell as she laughs. "And to think you're in base, if you weren't restrained by your mental state, you'd be someone to fear." She says as I reappear in the town, now completely fixed. She appears in front of me and scratches her head. "By the way, before I get serious, who was it that attacked me?" She asks as I shake my head. "She said her name was Debra." I reply as she laughs. "Interesting." She replies as she teleports to me and swings. "Shit." I say as I pull up my arms and block her attack. I get pushed back several feet and don't feel even the slightest bit of pain. "Isn't that power nice?" She asks as I look at the claws of bone on my hands. I wonder what would happen if I entered my first release. I think as I close my eyes and release my energy. As I open my eyes I see her smiling crazily. "Now that's more like it." She says as she lunges towards me. I barely block her sword with my right hand. Out of reflex, I pull the sword down and pull her into a heavy left punch. As it connects with her face, she gets pushed back a few inches. As she look back to me, I see a small cut on her cheek. "That's more like it." She says as we both lunge towards each other. For several hours we trade blows back and forth, both of us healing almost as fast as we get injured. She'll cut me with her sword, I'll gash her with my claws. Trading blows repeatedly as she laughs. Suddenly she jumps away and throws her sword away. "I think you've got enough of a hang on your energy to let me play seriously." She says as a white and blue spear appears beside her and she grows a pair of blue and black wings. She floats off the ground and giggles. "So let's play seriously." She says as both of my arms suddenly get ripped off. I scream in pain as I fall to my knees. My arms heal quickly and I get back to my feet. I see both my arms on the end of her spear. "Allow me to explain, I've been fighting in a suppressed form." She says as I shake my head. "I'm not sure I'm understanding you properly, so let me make sure. Are you saying you've been holding back this entire time?" I ask as she laughs. "This entire time? I'm still holding back. If I went all out then almost no fight in all ten trillion universes would be remotely a challenge." She says as I take a step. And to think I had a glimmer of hope when I was standing up against her. I think as I smile nervously. "But yes, in my suppressed form I'm only at about a millionth of a percent of my base strength. I like to enjoy my prey before dismantling it." She says as she giggles cutely. "You make be cute, you make have an adorable voice, you may seem innocent, but you are by far the scariest and most intimidating thing I've ever met." I say as sweat rolls down my cheek. "Awh, thank you! That's so sweet." She says as she smiles and disintegrates the arms at the end of her spear. Run.