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There was a distant sound of sirens, and Amora dashed through alleyways, seemingly recovering the previous speed she had lost during her pregnancy.

She found a homeless man lying on the ground of an alleyway. He lay there, unmoving, but still slightly alive.

Amora could sense that he was an elemental because the power leaking from him was immense, almost too much. The old man was dying and he reached up to Amora, his hand landing on her shoe, he begged to be killed.

"Are you sure that's what you want?" She asked.

The man nodded weakly, his hand still on her shoe.

Amora held her head and began grunting, she shook her head in frustration and snapped out of the violent version of herself. She told the man she couldn't possibly kill him, but then she felt a strange deep burning feeling, and when she came to, her blade was through the man's chest.

The innocent, old, homeless man was now dead.

Amora saw the blood leaking from his body, and fell to her knees. She began drinking the blood in huge gulps. She felt her Energy increasing, her strength growing, and her elements evolving. Once she had drank the blood, she stood back up and wiped her mouth of any leftover blood. The blood had tasted strange but had a sweet aftertaste that tickled the back of her throat.

"My my, what a show!" A familiar voice spoke, to which Amora's eyes flashed a deep red for a second, she rushed at the figure, who jumped out of the way of her attack and drew their own blade. "Oh, right for the attack?" Shogeki asked, slicing toward Amora, but the same tactic as before didn't work. She had vanished and managed a quick jab on him, but the wound she caused had healed within seconds. He smirked and turned around, knocking her to the ground and approaching her quickly, but once again she was gone.

"You just don't bleed, do you?" Amora asked, the Darkness on her arm beginning to expand on her body. "I just need a small inkling of your blood. So won't you spare some?" She laughed, hoping off of the wall she was on and landing on him, she began stabbing in quick succession but he was able to dodge even when being put on the ground.

"Oh-ho-ho! This is exciting! Amora finally stepped up her game! Not only that, but she's batshit crazy! You've really snapped now! Haven't you?" He taunted.

"The crazy one is you," Amora said, throwing her blade at Shogeki, who blocked it with his blade, Amora caught her blade mid-air and began slicing at him, but none seemed to hit him either.

"Hm... fun, but not as fun as I want. I want a full-on battle. Perhaps if I poke your kids a little, I'll get more of a reaction."

After saying that, Amora seemed to simply appear next to him, her blade cutting into him many times. Before she could grasp any of the blood, it simply pulled itself back into his body. She instead just continued cutting and cutting and cutting until he started laughing. All the blood she attempted to get would just slip through her fingers and float to his body, cuts would heal within seconds. Amora was fed up.

"DIE!" She screamed, but someone grabbed onto her, pulling her away just as Shogeki turned around, slicing into the air where Amora's neck just was.

"Shogeki!" Cole screamed. "Stay back!"

"Oh Cole... my sweet sweet brother. What a surprise it is to see you." Shogeki replied confidently.

Amora spent no time trying to lunge at Shogeki, but Cole held her back.

"Amora-sweetie, come back to me when you can make the fight last longer. To give everyone a show." Shogeki taunted once again, leaving the alleyway with just Amora and Cole.

Amora gave up on struggling as if she knew Shogeki had already gotten away. Amora instead pulled out of Cole's grasp and shoved him out of the way.

"I wanted to tell you." Cole tried to explain, but Amora walked right past him, slightly bumping into him as she did. She left him there, alone.

At the warehouse, she was with her children, who had to be around ten years old, and it seemed that they weren't aging any higher without Elizabeth using her elements.

Cole entered and questioned Amora.

"Why didn't you call for help right away?!"

"Because I had it. If it weren't for you, I could have easily ended all of this right then and there."

"No! You were going to die right there!

"Considering you and him are related, I wouldn't doubt that you too, have some malicious intent." She replied coldly. She pushed him aside and walked past, looking around for Shogeki.

Cole sat there silently. Seeing Shogeki made his heart drop and now getting into a fight with Amora... he needed rest. So he left the area and chose to rest in an abandoned shipping crate in the warehouse. He lay there, hoping tomorrow would be better.