156 Fifth Comes Death.

A/N:....I might have gotten a bit carried away... I was listening to anime fight music...

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I don't even get to finish admiring the scenery of pandemonium before a man in white robes suddenly appears before me. His skin, like the girls earlier, is covered in cracks that glow with an eldritch blue energy, like his soul is too much for his flesh to handle.

Faster than I can properly react to, he swings an uppercut straight at my chin, and I only just manage to form my armour around my jaw right before the blow lands.

Even then, my head snaps back and my body is sent flying through the roof of the church, my momentum not fading until I am hundreds of metres up in the night sky.

As I reach the peak of my arc, in that brief moment of weightlessness as I look upon the stars shining in the sky, I feel a momentary peace.

No matter how fucked it is, this world? This world is a beautiful place.

𝘚𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘭𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦.

Twisting my body around, I look down on the walled in area of Freedom, about two miles in diameter worth of city locked away from the world.

And directly below me, is a gathering of men and woman of varying ages, all of them wearing robes of pure white, and more importantly, all of them glowing and falling apart, staring up at me with pure loathing.

Oh how I have 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 this.~

A hundred metres from the ground, and an orb of energy starts forming beneath me, and, remembering the force contained in the punch earlier, I decide against holding back too much.

Blood 𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 out of my flesh by the gallon, warping and hardening until I am covered in enough armour that I've probably doubled in size, but I don't stop there.

My claws grow longer and sharper until it's as if I have a whole sword sticking out of each of my fingers, enormous wings 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘵 out of my back, each as large as my entire new body by themselves, only matched by the half dozen writhing ribbons that follow, and the tail as thick as my chest.

My blood mask melds into my flesh, a dozen eyes flicking between the people below me, and right as the orb of energy below me reaches it's apex, shrinking in on itself for an instant, the final piece of my transformation takes place.

A crack starts to spread across the lower half of my blood mask, growing, growing, and growing until it suddenly splits apart, cracked lips showing rows of jagged black fangs and a coiled, far too long tongue.

The orb abruptly expands into a blinding blue light, and from one instant to the next, I am engulfed in a beam of pure energy shooting up into the sky and lighting up the night.

I feel my armour starting to melt and erode, and when I wrap my wings in front of me, they quickly start withering all the same.

It takes a whole minute for the beam to stop, and by then, half the front of my armour is wasted and my wings seem desiccated.

And finally, I 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦.

In less time than it takes to blink, more blood pours out of my body and fixes all the damage, and a single flap of my wings causes a sonic boom from the sheer speed at which they move, sending my body 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 towards the earth.

Right before I reach the few dozen parahumans below me, a barrier of transparent blue energy appears, and I impact it with a thundering 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘮 before the same man from before appears by my side and punches me once more.

This time however, I simply allow his fist to bury itself in my gut, and my smile only grows wider at the expression he makes, of anger turning to shock.

"HahahaHA!~ Try harder!~" I yell as my blood locks his hand in place, preventing him from being able to pull back as I send my own fist for his face.

But another barrier appears in front of my strike, the one we were standing on disappearing at the same time. As we fall, I try again with my other fist, while my ribbons lash out around me, but right before the strike lands he glows with blue energy and disappears, causing me to hit nothing but air.

A teleporter huh?

My eyes all scan the crowd until I spot a woman, pointing one hand in my direction and the other at the man besides her.

Found you.~

A sudden impact hits my side, sending me crashing through the ground, a long crater forming in my wake and before I can recover from the blow, an implosion of that same energy appears above me, dragging me forward right into a rope of energy that wraps around my bulk and launches me through a nearby building.

It only takes a small amount of effort to push my arms free of the restraints, but before I can do anything, there is another burst of energy right in front of me which spawns a boy, arm already raised.

Dang, a Striker.

Almost immediately after he appears, his hand makes contact with my body and I suddenly freeze in place, only for the boy to disappear again in another flash, showing another man who was standing behind him.

This guy only makes a simple gesture of drawing a vertical line in my direction and the next instant, a thin, string like crescent blade of energy speeds forward.

Flexing all of my considerable might, I manage to break free of the boy's power, but not in time to avoid the blade that cuts clean through me, not stopping until it has carved a trench hundreds of metres long.

But these losers clearly don't know my powers, or they'd know that cutting me in half is pointless.

Almost as fast as my body splits, it re-joins itself together, and as I tower over the angry cultist beneath me, I allow my sadistic joy to wash over me.

My turn.

Wanting to guarantee a kill this time, I attack the man with both hands, and extend my tail to strike him from the back, while my ribbons continue to cause interference.

Predictably, a barrier appears before him, but clearly there are some limitations as the barrier only protects in front of him, rather than making a sphere, which is why another man appears behind him, the punching one, who goes to block the tail.

Unfortunately for him, my tail can split, and it does, turning into hundreds of individual fibres that move around him to strike the cutter's back, only to be stopped by a wave of energy that causes my blood to turn to ash wherever it hits.

𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵.

With a simple flex, my wings suddenly burst into motion, and right as the cutting man starts to glow with he shine of teleportation, a spike of bone is launched at supersonic speeds, piercing straight through the teleporting girl's face, the size of the spike leaving little left of her head.

Heh, they might have a lot of powers, but they spend all their time doing stupid cultist shit, so even if they know how to use them, they have no actual combat experience.

"SISTER MARY!" Some nobody shouts as the ground around me suddenly starts to glow blue.

Ah shit.

𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘮!

My body is sent careening through multiple buildings, only stopping in it's flight when that rope guy grabs hold of me again, where he promptly smashes me through another few buildings.

Not liking being used as a wrecking ball, I shoot some more blood out of my legs, and dig into the earth, slowing myself to a halt just in time for tens of glowing blue balls to suddenly rain down from the sky like a cluster bomb.

The resulting explosions blow up an enormous cloud of dust, and before I can even think about using it as cover, all of the dust simply disappears and I have to raise my once more free arms to block a spear of energy.

the impact pushes me back a few feet and digs into my arms a little, but it runs out of juice before becoming a problem and I waste no time in charging the first person I see, my ribbons and wings shooting in every direction at any life I sense.

The girl's eyes widen in panic as I reach her in an instant, my towering form sparking with electricity.

"Die."

My claws, shining with distortion, thrust for her chest. She tries to defend herself, opening her mouth and shooting a cone of energy at me, but that does nothing more than take away my hearing, yet right before my claws meet flesh, another barrier appears.

Except this time, the barrier simply 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 under my blow, allowing me to impale the girl, lifting her entire body in the air like I'm Vlad the Impaler.

You know something that trips up inexperienced fighters? Moral.

With a savage grin on my face, I open my mouth wide, my jaw stretching and unhinging as I bite her head off in one go, before ripping what's left ti pieces, showering me in blood and gore.

A momentary lull takes over the street as they all stare in shock, while I simply lick the blood from my lips.

"Mmm,~ tastes like strawberries.~"

With a sudden vengeance, the skies 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 out in 𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘺 as thunderclouds start to form from nothing, 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 power.

"Yes," I mutter as a bolt of lightning, as thick as a building, 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 down on me, taking me down to a knee and ruining my right shoulder, but it doesn't matter and I rush another one, a boy, only to receive a kick to the side of the head that reminds me of when Alexandria punched me, "yes.~"

As my momentum carries me across the street, another beam of energy crashes into me, parting around my body and melting holes through everything in a cone behind me.

The beam, crashing against my momentum brings me to a stop right as the floor starts glowing again, exploding and launching me into a net in the sky with incredible speeds.

A set of implosions take place on the other side of the net, adding even more speed to my ascent, and when I hit it, the net does not give. Instead, I find myself cut into hundreds of separate pieces.

But on the other side, my body reforms instantly, the only change being the size of my smile.

"YESSS!! THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN MISSING!! 𝙂𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙈𝙀 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀𝙀𝙀!!!"

My wings abruptly shift and mutate, forming a sort of exhaust on their backs that shoots out a violent stream of blue energy, launching me back to the ground like a jet.

The earth melts under my feet as I land, a gigantic crater forming beneath me right as a thousand balls and spears of energy surround me, charging forward like missiles.

𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘔!!

The resulting explosion of blue fire rises thousands of metres into the sky, annihilating everything around me and turning Freedom into little more than a barren wasteland.

Inside of the dust cloud that follows, my body stands, battered and broken, missing an arm, both of my wings and half my torso.

Flesh bubbles, expands and washes over the cracks, and I am once more whole again.

Like last time, the dust simple disappears, no gust of wind or light show, one moment it's there, the next it is not, and all around me, there are about two dozen men and women, each of them glowing with a faint blue aura as the cracks decorating their flesh starts to expand, covering more of their body as if they are falling apart.

My flesh cracks and shifts as joy fills my veins.

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬!

The sound echoes down the street, and I actually look down at my hand in mild shock, observing the broken finger.

It's been a while since I did that.

However, before we can get back to fighting, I notice something in the sky. A robot, hovering with a pair of thrusters.

Well hello Dragon. I'm sorry but this is a single player game, you're not invited.

Raising a single finger up to the robot, I simply wag it back and forth, telling her no, before launching a spike at her, piercing the robot and sending it crashing to the ground.

Message delivered, I turn back to the game in question.

"Now then,~ what do you get, when you cross a clergyman and a Clown?" I ask, but they clearly don't want to talk, as their response is to simply continue attacking me, but I jump over the beam of energy rushing at me and shout out the answer as I fall back down, "YOU GET A 𝘊𝘖𝘙𝘗𝘚𝘌! HAHAHAHAHAHAA!~"

The world is engulfed in blue.

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A/N: He~llo! Dear readers!

This is what happens when I get creative liberty, bullshit op powers getting flung around and fucking up the landscape. Suffice to say, Freedom won't be standing much longer lol

So, I was watching an amv, and I thought, hey, these always hype me up to write fight scenes, maybe I should just listen to the music they use as I write?

This is the result.

Also, Lusia is in a strange point of power where she's stronger than all the strong capes, such as Butcher, but she's still weaker than the strongest, such as endbringers and eidolon, so imma be making a powerful oc or two for her to fight later :)

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