'Diamonds in the sky'

"Huff-Hhh

Huff-Hhh

Huff-Hhh"

Panting through the thick layer of smoke building up on the plastic beach, Apollo and Himari

Desperately try to make it to Lyra.

"You don't look so good Apollo," stops Himari, holding in to the man concernedly

His face has come cold and pale due the blood loss from Kiefer's bullet

"I've been through worse,

Let's focus on getting to Lyra" he nods her off

"I can take you to them right now," an unfamiliar voice calls from behind the pair

"You!?" Himari already begins to form her weapons at the sight of the man

"We can fight right here and now if you want," he removes his shotgun from underneath his long trench coat, pointing it at the pair

"But as you can see, I'm here to assist you, otherwise you two would be dead right,"

"Is this your elaborate way of trapping us somewhere?" presses Apollo, distrusting the man who wears a fedora tipped in a way that it covers most of his face

"I just want to see this fight between siblings," the man–Danté, removes his hat showing his robotically perfect face

But even more so, his face perfectly resembles that of the late Mayor of Furlheim Ozymandias,

From the straight matted to hair to the sturdy nose and caramel skin

"You really are the mayor's son," Apollo comments upon seeing the mans face

"Do you know him?

And no,

I am not at all related to that man, I am a perfect human similar to Alexander from the first ring,

This face is the one I chose after obtaining my perfect body,"

"I don't understand what any of that means, or even why you are trying to help us right now," Apollo shakes his head

"I am not trying to help you, my loyalty is with the Supreme leader of the first ring, and he has ordered me to watch over Brandon,

I am offering to teleport you two the siblings battle, if you do try to interfere, I will kill you,"

…..

...

*****

CRRAASSHH!

Lyra's body goes flying into an apartment building, all the people within the structure already scrambling to escape

"To be more specific, my power is balance," Brandon cheerfully explains to the downed girl

If looks could kill, he would be dead one million times over by how hard Lyra scowled at him, stumbling back up to her feet.

Every attack she made would get parried or countered then followed up by mocking laughter by Satan

"I don't care, just die already," growls Lyra charging at him once more

"The way that balance works is by increasing my strength, speed, skill, intelligence, influence, raw power, anything really, it just depends on the level of people opposing me," Ignoring Lyra's attacks Satan continues to ramble on

"If one hundred thousand men stand against me, then I also gain the combined strength, speed intelligence from those men,

Can't you see my sibling?

I am not someone that can beat I've ascended regular humans,

I am the constant that you must measure against on a scale,"

"You….

You are just a dumbass like me," sighs Lyra

"You are just being used by someone else on the first ring or whatever

I do not care about that shit however,

I've already made-up mind to kill you so that is what I'll do,"

"Shut up." Satan's demeanor suddenly switches as he retorts immaturely

…..

"Lyra!?" calls Apollo, warping in between the siblings, along with Himari and Danté,

"No," Danté shakes his head, and the three warp further away from the fight

"As I said before do not interfere just observe, I want to see how Brandon kills his sister,"

"And if I do interfere?" asks Apollo challengingly

"Are you faster than a bullet?"

....

"Lyra, finish that fool quickly!" Apollo ignoring Danté's attempt at intimidation, shouts words of encouragement to Lyra,

…..

"Chhh, if Alexander didn't tell me that boy was a person of interest, I would have killed him for those words," Satan grunts in annoyance

"Yeah well, the only one dying here is you!"

Freezing the ground below her Lyra uses the lack of friction to skate under the legs of Satan, sweeping his legs over

Thud!

As the man goes down Lyra immediately capitalizes on the opening

"aggek!"

She tries to drive her claws into his chest,

"aghhh!" Brandon grabs her hand tightly, pushing it away from himself

"Get away!" he roars an icy blue flame at point blank range to Lyra,

Despite this she still manages to get her hands up, shielding herself from the chilling damage

"I was planning to keep you alive so that you will continue to oppose me," Satan takes out a chain with a sharp dagger at it's end

"You are fucking dead now!"

Fwang!

He swings the knifed chain at Lyra which she easily dodges

No,

"Aghnn!" she winces, as her left pinky finger severs off from her hand

"Assassin's Dagger, and Masochist's chain,

These are two requiem's I acquired from the third ring, the only things I own from there," Satan speaks in a cold tone but his burning rage is still felt

"As long as this dagger is near you, you will be cut, with or without contact, and this chain can extend itself infinitely"

*swing*

Satan answers with another inaccurate swing, this one slicing the girl's triceps

"Do you understand your situation now!?"

*swing*

"I came here to create more opposition for myself, not to scrap with a child who does not even know the anything about the rings, about the gods"

"Using requiems, won't be enough to stop me!" Lyra freezes her bleeding cuts, defiantly standing her ground

*swing*

"Nnmgh!"

Lyra losses another finger despite the dagger not touching her

"Make as much distance between us as you'd like, my blade will always reach you,"

*swing*

*swing*

*swing*

*swing*

*swing*

*swing*

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

With each swing another cut opens up on Lyra, and more blood begins to leave her body.

"That's it I have to step in!" cries Apollo, from the look on his face you would think he was the one being cut

"Do not interfere," Danté intimidates by sticking his shotgun to Himari's skull

"Danté, I am going to warn you right now,

Move that gun away from Himari, and make yourself scarce," Apollo breathes these words slowly in a dark tone

"You rather I send you somewhere else right now?" Danté beginning to get annoyed by the mans defiance

"God–

"Wh—"

–Speed"

From the time it took Himari to blink Danté had disappeared, Apollo still remains in the same place he was before

"Are you ok Himari?" his fists dripping in blood

"What did you just do?" she asks in confusion

….

Whaump!

Satan's face buries into the ground under the weight of Apollo's fist

In under a millisecond since Himari's question had this happened

"That's enough from you Brandon,

I'm sorry Lyra I couldn't stay out of you fight,"

"Your…

Strength.." groans Brandon semiconsciously

"It's now mine!"

Thumd!

Like a human rocket, Satan springs up–ramming his head into Apollo's chin

The young man crashes to floor unconscious,

"Alexander!" Satan now calls out

"I know you're lurking around here, keep this–"

–Doof!

A shiny gem rockets out of the sky impaling Satan in the shoulder

"Ha-ha-ha-ha!" cackles Lyra

"Did you think I was attacking you for so long without a plan?

I was preparing a spell this whole time,

Look up 'brother', see that?" Lyra points up to sky above the plastic beach

It gleams enchantingly one would think that a portal heaven had opened in the sky,

Fheww!

Another gem rockets from above landing near Satan,

The ground partial crystalizes on impact

"This is your downfall 'Satan'

My ultimate spell,

I name it,

Diamonds in the sky.