Vikki had been watching the mayhem unfolding in the square below here in relative peace from her hotel room...until she noticed a swarm of demons bashing down the doors on the ground floor of her hotel.
"Time to go!" she said to herself as she quickly gathered her weapons and headed for the door. Before she could even reach the door, however, a demon broke it down.
"Oh, so we're going to play this way," she muttered, and shot the demon a few times with her Lugers until it went down. As she ran out the door, she pulled out one of her katanas.
It was time for a stair run.
As Vikki reached the top of the stairs she met two demons and jumped straight over them in a front flip, bringing her katana down clean through the middle of one of the demons' skulls. The other demon turned to give chase after she flew over it and landed on the stair landing, but Vikki was not interested and vaulted off the drop in the middle of the staircase. Once she had cleared the railing she sheathed her katana and produced two modified TEC-9 auto pistols, holding them facing 180 degrees from one another - one for each set of stairs on either side of her. As she fell she held the triggers and unloaded a dizzying number of rounds into her surroundings, taking out several handfuls of demons as she did so. When the clips emptied simultaneously she tossed the guns without care and prepared to land, tossing a rope on a banister near the bottom and using the trajectory it provided as she passed to bleed speed and gain a shallower angle of approach, allowing her to successfully roll out of the fall.
Once she had come to a stop she observed her surroundings. She was in the lobby - she had successfully made it to the ground. However, she was not out of the woods yet. As some of the corpses from her work on the stairs slumped into view, many more live demons approached her from every side.
"Doable," she said as she assessed the situation. She wished she had her bullpup or some other automatic rifle on her, but her Lugers and katanas would suffice.
She began by dispatching several of the oncoming demons with her pistols, making an attempt to stay out of reach for as long as possible. Once that was no longer an option, she grabbed both of her katanas this time and got to work.
Dark clouds began to rapidly form.
This made Carmen worried, but not for the same reasons it made everyone else worried.
"My merchandise! I can't let any of that get wet!" she exclaimed as she ran back to her booth. Fortunately she had sold nearly everything she brought so she only had to fill her purse, but that didn't make her any less exasperated about it.
"The forecast was completely clear! Ugh...Koran weather is always so unreliable!!!" The skylark frantically packed everything of hers into her purse.
"Thank goodness it all fit...I just hope none of it wrinkles...!" Sarastrea's queen of drama swiftly exited the square. However, she didn't make it very far before she heard screams. Her head snapped around and she beheld a scene of mayhem: everyone was running for their lives from the square while spiraling red clouds circled a skyscraper.
"Oh. Uh oh."Then the red thunder came.
Up until this point Carmen had been thinking maybe she hadn't needed to bring her trumpet. Now she was very glad she had.
She placed the bell on the ground as quickly as possible and blew into it, erupting a spherical force field that enveloped her seconds before the thunder reached her. Fortunately it bounced off the shield and Carmen was safe...for about three seconds, at which point the demons began to show up.
"Well," she said to herself,
"a minute ago I remarked that it's been quite a long time since I played this trumpet in anger. I suppose it's time to see if I still can." She picked up the instrument, pointed the bell at the demons, and delivered three Kicks in rapid succession. They hit their targets in center mass, violently slamming the demons back and compressing their abdomens. They each slowly got up only to be met with a second volley that caught them in the head, ending them. A couple of demons reached Carmen, but were dispatched with excessive blunt force trauma via trumpet bell.
I guess some things never change, thought Carmen.
People trying to destroy the world is apparently one of those things.Nearby, the unmistakable sights and sounds of demons getting burnt to a crisp by a certain hot-tempered kitsune's fox-fire could be experienced.
Eris heard screams. She turned and saw people frantically running. She looked up and saw the red swirling clouds.
"What's this?" she said to no one in particular.
She walked outside. People were running for their lives, and Eris ignored them. Military and police were trying to get her to run, and she ignored them too. She paced back and forth in the street, watching the clouds and the top of the skyscraper they seemed to be focused on. Then, the red thunder came, and Eris brushed it aside as those around her turned to ash.
Someone was causing industrial-grade chaos and Eris wanted to know who. Her turf was being impeded on...who could produce an attack like this? It was very distinctive and not at all like Eris' dark events.
Then Eris saw the demons and any doubt in her mind was removed.
"Duatos."She saw throngs of demons begin to appear, chasing anyone still alive. Throngs that soon turned to her. The Goddess of Chaos grinned.
"More," she beckoned. Ten, 20, 30 demons came into view and were headed straight for her as everyone else had fled. As the demons got close she stomped her left foot hard into the ground and it sheared apart, sending a massive, jagged wave through the ground in all directions. She was almost disappointed when none of the demon batch survived.
She looked up and easily found what she assumed to be Duatos descending from the skyscraper with a red halo. She continued to track the diety as it descended, not even looking down as she took out another batch of demons coming for her with another stamp of the foot. She was determined to deduce the diety's motives.
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