“Curse’s Lullaby”

Morell dashed forth into the air, slamming the figure into the grounf before landing in front of them. She dropped her knife as the figure got up.

She began throwing pure hands, delivering blow after blow to their face with no mercy, and no time for recovery.

"Is she really that scary..? There's no technique in her punches, she doesn't seem very skillful.."

Nico asked, glancing to Bennett, who smiled and shook his head.

"You show skill to assert dominance, but Morell plays with emotions, she asserts fear. Sure, she could use her powers, but does it look like she needs..?"

Nico looked back to the fight, it was merely Morell beating up the figure with a smile on ber face, it was almost pathetic to watch.

"I guess that's true.. I'm just curious. If we struggled to fight them 3 on 1, what would an unchained Morell look like.."

Morell delivered the last punch, the figure falling to the ground just like that, as she held her palm out to them, a dark aura forming in her hand.

"Now you perish.."

The wind began spiraling around Morell's hand, an orb of black forming in her grasp, as light itself circled around it. Morell had a formed a black hole every so casually, the ground beginning to tear apart.

"What the fuck is that..!?"

Nico yelled, everyone trying to keep their ground as Morell's smile grew, she raised her hand up in the air, the figure frozen in fear as she then slammed the black hole into them.

"You thought it'd be that easy..!?"

A voice could be heard, Morell suddenly gasping in surprise as the figure pulled a strange object out of the ground, swinging it at her as she was launched away.

The figure stood back up, lauging. The object they were carrying was a large canister, wrapped up in vines. They started tearing the vines off as someone was revealed.

The canister was filled with a strange clear liquid, a young brown haired woman floating in it, unconscious. Nico's eyes widened to the sight.

"Kiara..!?"

It was indeed Kiara in the canister, the figure's laugh increasing as their hand transformed into a tube-like shape, which they'd put into the canister.

"This girl carries an absurd amount of dark energy. I'd be unstoppable with it..!"

Kiara could be seen visibly in pain as the figure began sucking away her dark energy. Through the figure pitch black darkness, glowing eyes of purple could be seen.

Morell quickly ran back to the scene, charging a dark energy in her hands as she went to swing at the figure once more.

Before her attack could land, they sent off a giant shockwave of dark energy, knocking everyone back. The figure gained giant black horns and claws, a menacing aura forming.

"Give up..! This is all the power I need..!"

Nico and Morell got back up, before getting knocked right back down, the figure forming an earthquake, the area splitting into multiple sections.

Morell gritted her teeth as she ran back towards the figure, who formed hundreds of sharp tendrils out their back, sending them forth towards Morell.

The tendrils came down rapidly, as Morell took a deep breath, closing her eyes and entering a calm state. She began dodging each tendril with many high speed movements, moving in a flowing state.

She opened her eyes with a calm expression, as she slowly lifted her hand, tapping one of the tendrils with two fingerd as the figure was sent flying into the air.

"You're doing baby attacks.. Use the true capabilities of that ring."

She kept her two fingers raised, a small aura forming at her fingertips as she shot out a thin beam. The figure laughed at such an attack, expecting to dodge easily.

Morell frowned and tilted her head as the beam suddenly speeded up, blitzing the figure as they were left in surprise, their mouth agape.

"Repeat."

The beam suddenly increased in size, the figure sent high into the sky as it screamed, before forming a dark energy of it's own, blocking the beam.

The figure raised one hand before forming a giant orb of energy, flinging it down at Morell. The orb began firing out individual beams that'd following her around.

She giggled, dodging the beams with easy before pointing her hand up, her hand boming pitch black before sucking the orb in like a vacuum.

"What..- Grahh..!!!"

The figure began getting upset as it quickly returned to the surface. Morell priched her finger, a drip of her black blood forming as she flicked it towards the figure.

Their eyes widened as the mere drop of blood formed a giant explosion in their face. Morell was still unfinished as she appeared in front of them in an instant.

She followed by raising her hand to their face, snapping her fingers as a shockwave was formed, the figure barely standing ground as they were pushed back.

"Morell's kind of.. disrespectful. Surely she could end this already, but she refuses to..?"

Evan stood back up, sighing as he walked to Nico and Bennett, placing his hands in his pockets.

"Morell's not trying to kill them, she's trying to save them."

Nico seemed confused, looking back at the fight. The figure yelled out, charging up energy as it began forming giant wings in pairs of 3, two large rings formed floating around their head, as eyes opened upon them.

"I'm an angel, damn it..! I'm the superior one here, you lowly devil..!!!"

Their aura increased as even Morell was starting to feel the powerful gusts of wind, though she merely smiled, followed by a giggle.

"You don't know what an angel is."

Morell suddenly walked out of existence, as if entering an invisible door, everyone looking around in confusion, as a loud voice was heard echoing through the area.

"They say a caged bird longs for freedom, I'll make you plead to be free."

Morell's giggle could then be heard once more, as the moment the figure blinked, they were suddenly in a large birdcage, the cage being lifted off the ground as they grabbed onto the bars.

"What is this..!? Let me out."

Morell stood at the size of a giant, standing within the surface's gap as she was lifting the birdcage up, smiling as she swayed the birdcage slightly, the figure holding on tightly.

"Hush…"

Morell reached down with her free hand, gently grasping their wing, before plucking it off. A scream of agony was heard, causing anyone to gain a sick feeling, black blood spraying out where their wing once was.

"You have 5 more wings."

The figure's eyes widened, before tearing, banging on the cage's bars and screaming for help, and for Mercy. Even Nico and the others couldn't bare watching this, it was completely cruel, though well deserved.

Morell truly dragged out the experience, being very slowly at pulling off the wings, well taking long breaks to let the pain truly linger.

Morell began singing a soft lullaby, though it only came off as creepy, leaving the figure more terrorized.

"Tear, tear, the feathers fall,

Echoes of sorrow, a haunting call.

Scream, scream, the night it brings,

As we pluck the feathers from fragile wings."