Ready to Die(6)

A/n: This is going to be the longest chapter I ever made, roughly over 4000 words… oh boy.

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Objective:

Defeat Dark Aether Zorin.

Using her new dark aether powers, Zorin levitates in the air, followed by Alcina as she flaps her wings to hover a few feet from the ground and glare at Zorin in the distance.

For a moment, the immense hall was as silent as a grave. And then, with a blur and a rush of wind, it exploded into a chaotic swirl of lightning-fast movement with the two simultaneously clashing their weapons, generating a force that crumbled the floors and walls of the hallway.

"You'll die here!"

"Try me!"

Before Zorin could respond, Alcina grabbed her face and tossed her out the window, sending Zorin tumbling out into the grass fields of the manor. Zorin quickly rose up and saw Alcina flying towards her.

At first, Alcina was on the offensive, pressing her attack with startling ferocity. Her claws were like a whirlwind, slashing deep gouges into the stone whenever she managed to land a hit. She was taller and had a much greater reach, especially with the addition of her deadly talons, and she put that to good use, using her longer arms to keep Zorin from getting in close.

While she seemed to have an advantage in terms of physical strength, Zorin had the edge in speed and agility, in which she dodged and weaved through the whirlwind strikes of her claws until she suddenly vanished.

"What?!"

"Who knows where I'll come from?" Zorin suddenly whispered into Alcina's ears behind her.

Startled, Alcina immediately turned around and used her claws to block an attack from Zorin's scythe, Zorins teleported again and appeared above Alcina.

"Give it up, tall bitch!"

Alcina's golden eyes flashed, and she lunged. Zorin did the same, vicious snarls erupting from both vampires' throats as they sprang across the courtyard in an instant. Each of them threw a full-force attack in the same moment, their weapons colliding midway between them with a thunderclap and a shockwave so powerful that it shattered the soils underfoot.

Neither vampires fell back, both withstanding the colossal impact without budging an inch. Both of their teeth were bared, fury blazin in their eyes. Soon enough, Zorin dropped back a step and threw a second slash at Alcina's head to decapitate her, but the latter's other hand flashed up like a snake striking, her claws flicking back out and easily blocking the attack.

Both vampires burst into motion again an instant later, streaking back and forth across the grassfield with movements that would have been impossible for any human to imitate.

Alcina snarled in irritation as another swing of her claws narrowly missed her target, slicing a set of deep cuts into the grass floor instead.

"Enough of this!" she roared, her wings flicking out as she leapt into the air. She moved even faster in the air than she had on the ground, barreling across the grassfield in a blur of super-speed and lunging down towards Zorin like a diving hawk.

Retracting the claws of her other hand, she grabbed Zorin by the neck and launched herself into the air again, her wings beating strongly and carrying them several kilometers up in mere seconds.

"Let's see how you fare when you can't run around like that!" Alcina spat, flinging her higher into the air and spun around several times, building up momentum until-

BAM!

…A devastating punch from Zorin managed to strike Alcina in mid-air, forcing them to drop out of the sky. As they fell, Alcina released her grip on Zorin's throat and they hit the ground several yards apart with enough force to throw up a billowing cloud of dust.

After a few seconds of silence, both monsters began to regenerate. Their wounds healed, flesh and bone knitting back together, and both of their voices rose in soft chuckles as they sat up.

"Is that all you can do?" Alcina murmured, smiling as she rose back to her feet.

"Let's take this to the city."

With a sonic boom, Zorin flies towards the city at full speed, followed by Alcina as she flies after her.

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A Millennium soldier was sitting on a rooftop, feeling incredibly delighted and amused as more chaos was unfolding in his view of the destructive city while a few dozen of Reich Soldiers lay lifelessly behind him after he easily slaughtered them. That is until he noticed two people flying in the sky and approaching the city, he used his binoculars to see it was Alcina flying after Zorin.

"Lieutenant Zorin? Flying and purple? Huh."

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Zorin was still being chased by Alcina in the air as they had now entered the skies over the city of London.

"Take this!"

Shouting, Zorin builds up energy within the eye on the palm of her hand and releases it towards Alcina in a concentrated beam made out of the power of dark aether energy.

"!"

With her senses screaming, Alcina immediately barrel-rolled to the right and avoided the energy beam, but as a result, she lost sight of Zorin.

"Damn it."

Landing on the streets, Alcina scanned around to search her opponent until she found Zorin standing on the roof of a small building, glaring back at Alcina as her crystallized hand was glowing intensely.

"Now I'll show you the dark aether's power!"

Lifting her hand up, numerous cars and trucks started floating in the air and were directed towards Alcina, ready to strike her down.

"This one's on me!"

Hurling the floating cars at Alcina, the latter flaps her wings and swiftly avoids all of the cars. That is until she is confronted by a truck that was launched at her. However, Alcina fiercely swings her claws vertically, splitting the truck into two before it could hit her.

As the two pieces of the truck fly past Alcina and hit a building before exploding, Zorin leaps off the roof and lands on the street before approaching Alcina with a sinister grin on her face.

"You'll rot in this city."

Swinging her scythe in various angles, Zorin sends several purple-colored energy slashes towards her opponent. However, Alcina flies towards Zorin and effortlessly dodges all the energy slashes before catching hold of her by the throat and rams her through the walls of five different buildings. After that, he rams her through one more wall and throws her in the direction of a car, where she crashes with it.

"Ow," Zorin winces in pain and irritation as she stood up, only to suddenly see a shadow looming over her and was growing larger by the second, therefore she looked up to see Alcina heading towards her with a fucking bulldozer in her hands.

"...Son of a-"

Zorin's words were cut short when Alcina slams the entire bulldozer upon her with a loud crunching sound, crushing her beneath it before unleashes a barrage of punches on the bulldozer.

"Rahhhhhhh!"

Reeling her fist back, she roars like a dragon once again.

"I'll crush you to pieces!"

With all her might, Alcina punches the engine of the construction equipment and hastily leapt back just in time to avoid it exploding.

"It's done... about time."

As Alcina was about to leave, Zorin suddenly appeared right in front of her face, startling her. Before Alcina could react, Zorin spin kicked her in the face, but in response, Alcina slashed her chest wounding her and the two of them retreated a few steps back.

"I can teleport. Forgot about that?"

"No, I know."

With a roar, Zorin charged towards Alcina once more and used her scythe to strike with a flurry of slashes on. Alcina used her claws to parry and deflect the attacks but still in which Zorin was attacking was concerning.

'The dark aether has given her a great boost in speed and strength as well as given her new abilities. This Forsaken... he's something else.'

Until then, Alcina's thoughts were interrupted when Zorin sweeped her legs, making her stumble only for her face to be caught in Zorin's grasp. The dark aether vampire herself started accessing Alcina's memories to find any weaknesses, but Alcina punches Zorin in the face and sends her flying down the street and crashing into a lampost.

With a groan, Zorin rips the lampposts off its hinges with her own bare hands and throws it like a javelin at Alcina, but the latter catches the lamppost before it could impale her in the chest. Zorin uses her new telekinetic powers to hurl more vehicles towards Alcina.

"Right hand rule!"

Seeing the incoming cars, Alcina swung the lamppost like a baseball bat as fast as she could, knocking many of them out of the air before throwing it back at Zorin, who simply sliced the lampposts in half vertically with her scythe. However, that was merely a distraction by Alcina for her to reach close to Zorin, which she accomplished and punched her in the gut with tremendous force, causing her to cough out blood, so in response, she kicked Alcina in the chin and teleported away.

"Not again!"

Looking up, Alcina watches Zorin hover in the midst of the air and fires more energy beams from the eye on the palm. Alcina then launches herself into the air, maneuvering around as she avoids Zorin's laser attacks.

"Stay still!"

"How 'bout no?"

As Alcina was still dodging, she swung her claw horizontally and sent a wind slash in Zorin's direction, but she vanished and evaded it before reappearing on the roof of a building. More wind slashes are sent at Zorin by Alcina with her claws, but she continues to teleport from rooftop to rooftop of every building and avoid them, leaving the wind slashes to sliced the rooftops and buildings rather than herself.

"Are you that stupid?"

Mocking her deliberately, Zorin teleports once more and appears in front of Alcina, kneeing her in the face before she goes for a spin kick. Before the kick could connect, Alcina grabbed her leg and spun Zorin around and released, sending her crashing into a bar.

Zorin rises up and sees herself in a bar, "Well no drinks on me."

Shortly after, Zorin saw the door get kicked open by Alcina. Grabbing a circular table, Zorin throws it at Alcina but she effortlessly backhands the table away and shatters it before it could hit her and charged at Zorin, who backsteps and avoided a claw swipe from Alcina before swinging her scythe upward to hit her opponent's chin. Despite Alcina managed to dodge the attack, the blade did leave a scratch on her chin.

"Annoying bitch!" Both screamed.

Glancing down, Alcina fiercely stomped Zorin's foot with her shoe's heel.

"Ah!! You cheap whore!"

Finding an opening, Alcina grabs her by the throat and chokeslams her on top of a pool table and keeps punching Zorin repeatedly until the corrupted vampire reels both of her legs back and kicks Alcina in the gut with all her might, sending her crashing into a bottle cabinet.

Lifting the pool table like it was nothing, Zorin whacked Alcina with it and the table immediately shattered on impact. As a response from this Alcina delivered a punch on Zorin's face with tremendous force, sending her opponent flying out of a window of the bar and crashing into the streets.

Alcina was about to leave the bar when she noticed a body of a Millennium soldier lying on the floor next to a still-loaded Panzerfaust.

"Hmmm…"

With an idea in mind, Alcina grabs the Panzerfaust and takes it with her outside the bar and entered the streets but noticed that Zorin was nowhere to be seen.

"Now where the hell did she go?"

Just then, Alcina saw a car flying towards her but she swiftly caught it before noticing a huge load of furniture, metal shrapnels, rods and other items flying towards her by Zorin, who was hiding somewhere and sending all of these items at Alcina with her telekinetic powers.

Seeing this, Alcina placed the car she was holding in front of herself and used it as a shield to block the incoming debris.

"Quite a strategy... for a coward!"

Throwing the car away upon seeing the attack had stopped, Alcina soon heard Zorin's voice echoing from somewhere, which Alcina couldn't pinpoint her location exactly.

"Foolish dragon! I'm not being a coward! I'm being careful and strategic with what I'm doing! I'm not gonna take the same chances by underestimating my opponent like I did with Seras! Now back to the grave with you!"

At the next moment, Alcina noticed countless figures numbering at the hundreds walking out of alleyways and encircling her. And to her surprise, they were all Zorins.

"A hundred Zorins?! Which one is the real one?" Alcina wondered.

Zorin actually used her illusion powers to generate over a hundred illusion copies of herself, and combining it with the power of the dark aether makes it even deadlier.

"Ahahahahaha! Welcome to our utopia of war!"

All of the Zorin clones declared and rushed forward from all angles. With a ferocious roar, Alcina unleashed everything she got from decapitating a huge number of them at blinding speed to raining heavy punches, shattering bones, sending blood and bites of muscle in all directions.

Shing!

Alcina suddenly kneeled down as a Zorin clone managed to slash her leg with its scythe, even more showing up jumping on her, sending more attacks and injuries for Alcina. In absolute annoyance, Alcina growled as she unleashed a massive swarm of insects, enveloping the entire street, including the clones and herself.

After a vast amount of insects erupted from Alcina, she disappears into the swarm while the clones are being blinded by the billions of them.

"Where is she?!"

With a soft chuckle that seemed to come from everywhere, Alcina bellowed, "Fear the unseen much, Zorin?"

It was as though she was the swarm of flies themselves, Alcina suddenly materialized behind the clones and started cutting them down one by one with her claws. Since the swarm was blinding them, the clones were finding it difficult to even have a chance to attack.

Zorin, who had been hiding on a building's rooftop, witnessed the swarm engulfing the street as she came out.

"I'll make you taste oblivion instead!" The dark aether vampire roared as she unleashed another pillar of dark aether energy from the eye on the palm at full power, triggering a gigantic explosion that completely incinerated the swarm to oblivion.

However, out of the explosion came Alcina soaring into the air with her wings spread, who sustained some burns on her body but was otherwise unharmed

Zorin smirks, "You're lucky, but those clones weren't the only illusion I had ready."

Alcina, who was flying in the middle of the air, soon spots Zorin on a rooftop. With her golden eyes blazing like a sun, Alcina was about to charge at her when all of a sudden, a humongous shadow loomed over the area, prompting Alcina to turn around to see a massive entity rising behind her. The moment Alcina turned around, her eyes widened as she faced with the sight of a hundred-meter-tall Zorin standing in front of her, staring down at her with a menacing smile.

"Peek a boo! I see you!" The giant Zorin yells, grinning venomously as she lifts her scythe up, "I kill you!" she said in a hoarse voice that shook the surrounding space and swung her weapon down.

Boom!

The streets were split in two, and the countless buildings two kilometers ahead were split in two as well. Fortunately for Alcina, she was able to flew to the side and avoid the terrifying attack, but the giant Zorin still detects an opening, so she grabs Alcina and throws her back to the ground and punches her further deep into the earth, shattering the whole street and caused the surrounding buildings to collapsed.

"Crushed like the insect you were!"

Suddenly, her entire fist got cut into countless pieces to reveal an injured and bloody Alcina, who instantly flew straight towards Zorin, who was now staring at her in full disbelief.

"Impossible!"

Alcina, with all her might, flew past through the giant Zorin like a ray of light. In a blink of an eye, the giant Zorin's head was suddenly split into two, causing the giant illusion to disappear while Alcina landed safely on the ground with her injuries healed at a visible rate.

Now you might be wondering why the illusion harmed her for real this time rather than make her think she was hurt, and why she was able to see the illusion this time when she couldn't back at the manor? You see, the dark aether crystal modified Zorin's illusion power to some degree that allowed her illusions to able to interact with any tangible or physical objects, hence why this is happening.

"It felt like getting crushed by a mountain from that giant." Alcina commented on what had transpired for her, which even surprised her.

At that moment, the real Zorin landed back on the ground twenty meters away from Alcina and loudly declares.

"The Forsaken has already won this war!"

🎶And it will come! Like a flood of pain!🎶

Then Zorin launches her scythe in the direction of Alcina using her telekinetic abilities. The scythe started swinging on its own due to Zorin's telekinetic powers and begin attacking Alcina while the latter continued to resist the scythe's assaults by thwarting its strikes while Zorin controlled its movement from a distance.

'So long as I can keep her out of range and attack from a certain distance, I'll be fine,' Zorin contemplated as she continued controlling her scythe to attack Alcina, 'Just need to get close to her and give a killing blow when the opening arrives.'

While Alcina continued blocking the attacks from the scythe, Zorin snapped her fingers and two dark aether crystal spikes erupted from the ground and impaled Alcina's leg, causing her to grunt in pain but didn't leave her eyes when Zorin swings her scythe horizontally in an attempt to cut her head off, but Alcina was able to avoid it by ducking over it. Unfortunately, her wings were cut off instead, and with a cry of pain and anger, Alcina instantly snatches the scythe from Zorin's hands and snaps it two before tossing them aside.

Growling in anger, Zorin flies towards Alcina, and with full force, she delivers a hook, Alcina follows and both of their fists clashed with each other. Before Zorin could make a move, Alcina punch a hole right through Zorin's abdomen at full force, causing the latter to coughs out massive amount of blood and is sent flying across the street, but she stomped her feet to the ground and locking herself to it which prevented her from flying any further down the street as she holds her abdomen in pain.

"Damn!"

Looking up ahead to see Alcina approaching her, Zorin, without Alcina noticing used her telekinetic powers to send the blade part of the scythe flying towards Alcina and impaled her back, causing the towering woman to collapse on one knee and coughed out some blood.

"I'm ending this fight!"

With a finishing blow, Zorin jumps towards the Shard, the fourth-tallest building in the United Kingdom, and the one Zorin used her telekinetic power to rip it off from the ground and hovers it in front of her, pointing the entire structure right at Alcina with a sadistic laugh.

"Mwuhahahahahahaha!"

Watching as the massive structure aimed directly at her, if Alcina didn't pull back on her feet now she's good as dead. Just then, Alcina noticed the smoke clouds engulfing the city from the fires were beginning to gradually seperate from the sky, and through the cloud gaps, a glimpse of the sunlight can be seen gleaming, meaning that the sun was about to rise from the horizon.

Thinking for a brief moment, Alcina comes up an idea for a plan to take Zorin in one go. Standing up on her feet, Alcina donning on the sunglasses that Alucard gave her as a gift before looking at Zorin and bringing out her claws.

"Come on then! Hit me with your best shot!"

"Sure! I'll put you under, you insolent bug!" Zorin roared as she pointed her finger at Alcina and the building instantly shot across the clearing and into Alcina like a javelin, traveling at the speed invisible to the naked eye despite its enormous size.

🎶My dreams disappear!🎶

"Now what are you gonna do, Dragon of Castle Dimitrescu?"

As soon as the skyscraper closes the distance, Alcina immediately jumps up in the air and the structure impales the ground. She then lands on the side of the building and runs upward along the side before jumping off, but a car suddenly comes flying at her by Zorin but she simply cuts it in half before it could hit her.

Seeing the distance between them is close, Zorin jumps off the wall of a building and soars towards Alcina with a sadistic grin.

"Is that the best you've got!?"

As the world moves at a snail's pace, the rays of the sun strike Alcina's sunglasses and bounce off its reflective surface before reaching Zorin's eye, where they cause her to become blind temporarily. This was the plan Alcina had and it worked into her favor along with Zorin's arrogance.

"Myyy eyyyyys!"

As the slow motion ends, Alcina instantly regrows new wings. And with full might of her draconic wings, she flies towards Zorin at mach speed before kicking her chest with tremendous force, sending her flying into the side of the building. Crying out in pain, Zorin tries to stand up to fight, but Alcina brutally slams on her stomach, keeping Zorin pinned against the wall.

"S-Stop! It… hurts!"

Alcina, not giving two shits of what Zorin said, raised her claws and unleashed a flurry of slashes on Zorin's body at storm-like movements, slicing and dicing her body into thousands of pieces. And with a final swing, Alcina cleanly removes her head from her body.

However, Alcina was not done yet.

Jumping away from the wall, Alcina raised the Panzerfaust she had taken and fired a rocket from it, which instantly blew up Zorin's headless, sliced and diced body to oblivion, along with the entire building she was pinned to in a massive explosion.

As the humongous explosion rises into the air, Alcina lands on the ground, not looking back at the explosion as the entire building slowly collapses and Zorin's head falls on the ground behind her.

"It's over."

*Music Ends*

Objective Completed

Combat Rank: A

Tossing the Panzerfaust away, Alcina rests on the roof of a car, trying to catch her breath and fixing her injuries, especially the severe ones with her mutant regenerative powers.

'I dealt with Zorin at last, almost losing my life in the process. This is gonna be one of those days where I regret not having back up, but she's dead so we're good.' Alcina contemplated, heaving a deep breath and glanced at Zorin, who is now reduced to a mere head, and frowned as she had learned something, 'We've been underestimating the Forsaken. If he can give Zorin these types of capabilities, manipulate her that easily and use it in a tactical manner, he can turn the tide of this battle to his favor. Just what is he planning?'

Suddenly, she heard the sounds of motors from above and looked up to see over hundreds of helicopters soaring in the sky. Upon closer inspection, Alcina could see within it were Papal Knights, realizing Enrico and his army had arrived in London.

"This can be either good or bad for us, I need to meet up with Seras and my daughters. Hope they found Integra and the rest."

After addressing her wounds, Alcina proceeded to fly into the sky while avoiding the helicopters by using the buildings as cover.

Unbeknownst to Alcina, the moment she had left the scene...

"x_x .... O_O"

Zorin, who is reduced to nothing more than a head, opened her eyes and let out a loud gasp. She then took a quick look around and started to calm down.

"Phew, I'm still breathing, except I've been reduced to a head. Seems like the dark aether is still maintaining my life since it is still covering the right side of my face and still active, except my body has been destroyed, so I think I'm done, officially retired, out of vampire business, and all alone. Well, it can't get any worse than this."

"Bark!"

At that very moment, she heard a mechanical bark noise, she glanced to her right to see a Panzerhund, tilting its head and staring down on her.

"🐶?"

"...Shit."

The Panzerhund snatches Zorin's head with its jaws and takes her away.

"CURSE YOU ALCINA DIMETRESCUUUUUUUUUUU!"

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Name: Zorin Blitz

Status: Retired & Reduced to a Head and Taken Away by a Panzerhund.