Angel Monarch

The defense meeting ended. They made a plan that could actually yield victory with minimal loss. The only thing left was to execute.

Bea was surprised by Seraphine's leadership capabilities. She was like a born leader, even better then Bea herself.

'It' s good to have another reliable person here in case I die or something.'

That was one of Bea's biggest fears, because if she dies there is no other person who could lead. Yeah, there are the others and they would try their best, but they weren't like Seraphine or Bea herself.

The two of them were like magnets attracting everyone's attention. This was especially obvious during the planning. Seraphine thought out the main part of it, but Bea filled in the blanks and now they are going to execute it.

Everyone was in their place, they were only waiting for the enemy to arrive. They chose the place of engagement to be a wide street close to the police station. The enemy will definitely pass through this area and there was no cover in sight. The place was as good as it gets.

The sunrise is still 2 hours away which means it was still dark out. Bea didn't have optics on, in fact none of them had. The signal will be obvious without it anyway.

Bea was in a building on street level, while Seraphine was waiting on a roof. They didn't have to wait long for the enemy, in 10 minutes they were already coming towards the ambush site, judging by the sound of dozens of feet scraping against the ground.

'It's time!'

Indeed it was, in a couple of seconds the sounds the feet were making stopped and the priming of weapons started.

"Identify yourself!" Called a male voice from the crowd.

'That wasn't Deathbringer's voice. Something is not right here.'

But the realization came too late. In a moment suddenly the whole street became alight from a single source, Seraphine. She was in the middle of the street. Her wings were spread and the feeling it gave of can only be described as pure inspiration. Bea knew this would happen but was still surprised.

'It feels like, until she stays close to me I could fight forever. I actually feel sorry for the enemy. But why aren't they trying to cover their eyes? Their optics should be fried by the abrupt brightness change, unless their optics were turned off. Shit, they know our plan.'

"Seraphine, turn the light off, it's a trap!"

She didn't have to say it twice, the light immediately disappeared and then all hell broke loose. Every gun shot at the same time and at the same target.

'Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!' Is what Bea was thinking while putting on her optics. In a second she could finally see and help her allies. She didn't waste a second and summoned roots to grab at the enemy's feet to trip and strangle them.

In the meantime the rest of the team lead by Killshot, began their barrage on the enemy. They were making great progress at massacring the lot of them. But they were only successful because someone else took most of the hits.

In the middle of the street was a cocoon of white feather, it was the main target of the enemy. The feather's color slowly changed from white to red but they still couldn't get through. That wasn't the biggest issue though.

'Where is Deathbringer and all the Evolved?'

Yeah, they were all missing from the battlefield, until they finally appeared out of nowhere, near the white cocoon.

'Shit, they brought that shadowy asshole with them.'

Bea didn't know the name of that Evolved, the only thing she knew about his power was that it could make himself and others hardly noticeable in shadows. It was unfortunate that he was here.

Deathbringer approached Seraphine's cocoon and was about to use his sword to attack it when roots began growing under him. He cut them apart with ease and turned toward Bea who was standing next to Seraphine.

She didn't look too good, keeping the bullets from killing him took a lot out of her it seems.

'Her Essence is probably running low as well. It will make this pretty hard.'

The soldiers weren't shooting in their direction, instead there was a separate war between the two groups. Lucy and Will joined the fighting as well, they were running amok between the enemy, killing everyone they could. Which meant Bea and Seraphine were on their own.

"Ah, Bea. It's good of you to show up, I was starting to think you let your partner do all the heavy lifting. Who is this winged friend of yours anyway, she is even hotter than you."

The voice was an awful rasp, like the voice of death or the bringer of it.

"Deathbringer, you came out of hiding finally? The great killer of Nightmare hiding in someone else's shadow, literally."

Deathbringer didn't rose to her provocation.

"I wonder how your friend's wings will look above my fireplace, I will even be able to fuck you under it. Wouldn't that be romantic."

Bea knew he was just trying to get a rise out of her, but gods be damned it was working. She summoned her sword and was ready to attack any moment.

"Oh my, I'm so rude, not even introducing myself? Very unlike me, but allow me to correct that error. My name is Angel Monarch, the last survivor of Newber, the killer of the Archangel of Despair and the one who massacred your little patrol. I hope this elevates some confusion around me, and I also sorry for the killing that's about to go down, right about now."

Seraphine finishing her monologue moved attacking and killing one of the Evolved with her bloody glaive.

'Well, this is one way to end a conversation.'

"Kill the 'Angel Monarch' and only her! Bea is mine!" He said with a wicked smile.