"SHOOOOWEEEE, SHOOOOOWEEEE!!! HERE DEMON, DEMON, MOO MOO MOO, HERE DEMON, DEMON, SHOOOOWEEE-!"
"SOUS! Stop it!" Alana yelled as they stood back to back.
"What? Like I said, Princess, we don't know how long Imma have scissor hands so we need to nip this in the bud."
Alana rolled her eyes and sighed. "They're blades, Sous, no scissors."
Just like on level three, the demons were able to be smelt first by the girls and then Sous was soon able to pick up on their movements, her ears twitching from left to right trying to calculate just how many there could be. She nodded her head. It seemed this time, there weren't as many. Probably because many died before getting to this level. The bones on the ground they have to step over on their way to the fourth level made it evident.
Sous closed her eyes. She inhaled then exhaled. She opened her eyes-
Alana had no idea Sous had soared off until she turned around and saw Sous was gone.
Sous felt immortal with how fast her movements were. She wasn't even able to get a good feel at hoe strong the demons were on this level. This cut, that cut, she cut the demons that surrounded her. Their heads rolling, their hearts being pulled from their bodies.
She laughed with her tongue out in a frenzy. This was what the power of the seal was like! And it was just one seal she had opened. She could only imagine what would happen if she had opened both of the seals- AT ONCE!
Usually when Sous got emotional blue particles would surround her but this time, maybe because of the seal, the particles were orange and red. There was a soft emissive light that radiated from Sous as she made her way from demon to demon, killing them.
Alana was in a tree sitting on a branch as she watched Sous below. She analyzed the way Sous fought, she used her magic to try and keep tabs on Sous' movements. The two girls were already fast but it seemed the seal allowed for even more agility and more accuracy.
Something Alana noticed while watching Sous fight from the safety of her branch was Sous really enjoyed killing. It was strange to see. She was so nice, friendly, and loving. But she showed no mercy. She didn't talk to her enemies. She didn't try to negotiate with her enemies. She didn't try to forgive them and become their friends-no. She killed them. And that was it.
The fourth level ground went from a dark green terrain to a blood mud filled terrain. She laughed and and mocked the demons as she killed them, like a cat playing with a mouse before eating it. She juggled their heads on her foot, aiming for a goal. She spiked their heads on her blades and ran around the level. Sous acted like a complete child, a bloodthirsty Alpha child.
Alana jumped down the branch when it seemed like Sous killed all the demons on the fourth level. Her arms still that of blades. This meant they could continue on to the fifth level with the seal still on their side.
The princess looked up at the sky. The sun had already set a couple of hours ago and the night had a brisk chill to it. Probably because the seasons were starting to change and soon it would be autumno, followed by many festivals the nations had like the Island of Dimona had Samhain, and Nadia had VesperaOmniumSpiritus.
She walked to Sous who stood over a dead demon. Sous was using her blades and picking at the insides of the demon. She had already pulled the intestines out, the heart near its head, the four chambers opened. Alana placed a hand over her mouth, trying not to be sick. She looked at Sous. Sous stopped what she was doing and met Alana's eyes. They stood there looking at one another with concern upon Alana's face.
"What's wrong?" Sous asked.
Alana shook her head. Sous had a darkness to her but it was better to not mention it. Maybe not at all, not ever. It would be rude of her too.
"Let's go to level five then!" Sous took off running on the trail with Alana shortly behind her. Level five, the demons were completely different and though there were bones on the ground, not as many as the bones on level three and four. Alana wondered if any of the bones she had come across belonged to her siblings.
It was Alana who first noticed the demons on level five looked, well, looked like them. As in looked human and magae.
Alana's hand began to shake with her staff but Sous paid her no mind. She didn't care if the demons looked liked them. If they looked human or magae. At the end of the day, they were demons.
"Tsk," Sous let out, disappointed Alana let something so little stop her from her mission.
"You know they're not real!" Sous yelled back to her.
For this fight, they didn't stand back to back. Sous was too impatient.
"I know but still, its just..." The demons, they looked like they could be her classmates, her friends, her family. But Sous was right, she needed to continue what they started.
Alana confronted one demon who wore a business suit, all black. She slashed at him with her staff but he was quick. He was going to take aim at her but Sous came by in a dash and took off its head, and went onward to the next demon. It was Alana who looked into the dead eyes of the demon that looked human. She stepped back and shook her head, blinking a few times.
It was easy to kill evil when they looked like monsters. It was harder to kill demons when they looked like you. She was mentally weak. Sous wasn't.
Alana didn't know much of Sous' story but she knew enough to know that her history allowed her to grow strong mentally, physically, and emotionally. Thats what made her a good spellcaster, a good magae.
Sous killed the demons that looked like young men, young women, girls, boys, the elderly, she knew what they were. They were demons. It was all an illusion. One she was able to cut past.
The seal on Sous' neck began to burn and she knew time was running up. There was only one more level to go. Sous reached out and cut the head off of the last demon. Her blades turning back to her regular arms. She looked at them, clinched and opened her hands.
Alana came up to her. "Just in time," she said.
"Yeah, but what now?" Sous asked.
"Back on level three, we talked about you using those advanced spells. Its time to lock into those."
Sous collapsed to her knees. She was exhausted. She laid back with her arms and legs spread apart.
"Do we know what time it is?" She wouldn't be able to use the other seal. She didn't have the magic for it, not when she was so depleted. And of course, that meant she wasn't going to tap into her dad's power.
She felt little baby basilisk making its way back to her neck.
Alana looked up at the sky once more. If she had to guess, maybe it was around 9 in the evening.
"We missed twilight," Alana said. It was her favorite time of the evening just when the sun went below the horizon, it casted some of the most beautiful colors. When she looked back down to Sous, she saw that the younger girl was sleeping peacefully.
Alana sat down next to her in the battle field that smelt of death, blood, and urine. How could Sous sleep in this shit, she didn't know. She brought her knees up to her chin and rested herself on them. Besides, it was hard for her to go to sleep when they were hours away from going to the place where her eldest brother died. And with the power of the seal gone, Alana had no idea what was going to happen.