Hardly 20 minutes into the story, all the children fell asleep. The Nun, Erika, then came rushing down after changing into her habit, as some people were banging the door, violently. Erika came down and opened the door, the moment she opened people from the outside started to rush forward inside the Patriarchaty, as to seek refuge there. The Panic amoung the civilians made Erika worry aswell so she inquired.
"O Blessed Souls! What trouble has made you all tremble in such distress?"
"O Dear Mother! Protect us! O Dear Heavens, Protect us! Please, Protect us from the wrath descended upon us!"
They all sobbed in some sort of prayer.
This worried Erika even more so she took all of them inside from the lobby to the Nave.
They all sat in the pews of the nave, dread in all of their faces was vivid. The children from the flock of refugees cried and so the older men and women silenced them.
"Shhhhhh.... Dont speak or the calamity will come!"
Upon their requests, Erika immediately lit up some candles, put them in a petri dish and went up the stage to the back wall, where the picture of a giant ring is, in every big or small church, and started to move them round while reciting some prayers.
All the ruckus downstairs woke Riley up. Who in search of her mother, started to come down aswell.
"Mama... Mama!!"
He called her as he headed towards the stairs.
Meanwhile, the man clad in Black and Golden rushed towards the Patriarchaty. He broke the main door of the Patriarchaty with a single, tornado enforced kick. The kick was so intense that the door flew back and hit the door to the Nave, that also broke in result.
Distress increased as the door crushed down and the refugees stood from their pews, started to scream loudly, crying and begging to Erika for her help. All of them rallied behind Erika, who was also scared. Yet she held her ground, even though the dish in her hands fell down and the fire form the candles started to burn the carpet, creating some sort of barrier between the refugges and the calamity.
Through the creeping fog and smoke, the man clad in Black and Golden came inside. He stood ontop of the crushed metal door, strictly hooded he was as nobody could see his face.
A dozing off Riley stood on the turning landing, rubbing his eyes while half asleep.
"Mama.... Mama..."
He called Erika, which she heard but so did the man in Golden and Black. He heard and went ahead to grab the helpless child. The grin on his face showed his slaughtering intent.
Erika sensed that, and came rushing to protect her child. She quickly created an Air Blade and a bloodthirsty look in his eyes, she launched a powerful attack. The attack was so powerful that it sliced the Patriarchaty. The man dodged it, effortlessly and immediately equiped himself with mini tornadoes in both his hands.
Erika's gaze sharpened, as if the loving mother was now dead.
"You are finally showing your true colors! Erika Sinclair!"
The man said.
"Well of course, It is a mother's duty to protect her child!"
She exclaimed.
"Heh.. So you are still trying to disguise it are you? Well not for long!"
He said, as he attacked Erika with his tornado fists.
Erika crouched down, yet immediate shifted her weight on her arm and threw a tornado enforced kick at him. The man blocked yet was thrown outside of the church.
"You guys.... Run from this place! As far as you can!!"
She shouted then immediately went after the man clad in black and golden.
Erika went after him blitzing, as fast as she could, watching the horror of massacre that had took place in the Golden City of Feldia. All of that rage added to Erika's thirst of blood. So as soon as that man attacked Erika again, she dodged, effortlessly and said,
"Tempestrike"
Which immediately launched a giant tornado of blades at his face. The man was caught into that attack as blades, refined enough to cut space itself, pierced him through inside of a raging storm that Erika herself controlled.
The man then unleashed some wave of air pressure that ended his agony inside of that hellish storm as he landed down on his two feet, gasping and bruised. The blood that Erika was thirsty for, the man was covered in it. Yet Erika remained calm.
"You know... They say.... As you sow, so shall you reap. The blood you splattered all across this city, The cries you heard, the misery! The hopeless faces of the people, the terror, You will pay!"
Erika told him.
The man clenched his fists and bit his lips in frustration.
Meanwhile inside the church the people started to evacuate out of the city. The children that were sleeping above, also woke up because of all that chaos and started to cover. Sophia, who herself was scared to death, calmed them and made them belive in their Mama.
"Do not fret... You know we have a Super Mama! She can fight of anyone! We just need to stay put and believe in her!"
She said which neutralized their nerves abit. Yet that chaotic warlike situation, still had those innocent children in despair.
Riley who was stood half asleep at the turning landing between the staircase, was now crying loudly as he could. So Sophia rushed to him and hugged him tightly. She decided to take all the children and leave the Patriarchaty at once.
Outside, Erika had engaged with that man in an extreme battle of combat. Erikas dominated, she blocked and deflected all of his attacks, as her name, The Queen of Deflection, she only used blades, yet pierced through his heart, slashed his neck and left slashes all over his body. Erika, ofcourse was damaged, yet the man was so defeated that he was barely able to stand after their close encounter. Then the bruised man clad in Black and Golden, created giant thunderstorm bullets and shot them at her, She dodged but as she did she got closer and closer to the Patriarchaty, so she stopped amd the bullet hit right at her torso. Erika crouched down in pain, for she couldn't show him even a second of opening, as she knew that if that man got an opening to attack her, within one single blow, Erika and her little kingdom would be one with rubble. The man was also bruied heavily, the blood thirsty queen had fullfilled her lust of blood as that man was completely covered in blood. Yet that man then used some sort of power, that healed him instantly. All of the slashes and the hardwork she put, had gone to waste with that power.
Erika was surprised and enraged as she saw that man heal himself.
"So you are one of them?"
She thought to herself and attacked him again immediately.
The space cutting attacks that sliced through the man, one moment, now seemed useless against him. The expressions on that man's face also turned pale, almost still, devoid of any emotion. On the contrary, Erika grew fearful, scared that she might not be able to see her children ever again. So Erika went back and started to devise ways to get as far away from the Patriarchaty as she could, so that it may not be her, but her children, the flickering hope of hers, could live on.
Yet the man clad in Black and Golden, now emotionless, scrapped all of Erika's tactics. As he immediately went behind him and tore her gut with an air blade
She coughed out blood, and started to gasp. Fatigue had built up, and she went to her knees. That cruel man picked her from her hair, created a visible air blade, as if to mock Erika before her inevitable death, as she got scared and tears filled her eyes, that man shoved that blade through her heart and out from the other. Blood came out of her mouth again. Her black her, turned red from all that blood she coughed, her body had gone frail, no strength left in her, yet she couldn't give up. For her dire state was nothing to her infront of her children. She stretched out her arms, trying her hardest to grab onto that man's face, in an attempt to launch an attack. In an instant they both were inaide the Patriarchaty, infront of the children, that were about to escape.
Dread and panic engulfed them as soon as they saw her Super Mama at her worst, they all screamed and started to cry. Riley's eyes were wide open as that man tore her mother's limbs and legs apart one by one, without any mercy.
An extreme semse of rage and irk, gripped him as he watched the life of his mother being thrown apart.
"MOVEEE! MOVVVEE!!
YOU FRAIL BODYYYY!! MOVEEE! DAMMN ITTT!! THAT MAN IS GONNA MURDER HER!!!"
He thought to himself, yet the fragile and weak little body of his, didn't move muscle. His expressions were frowning so hard that blood started to some out of his red face.
Meamwhile Sophia threw a weak fireball at that man, with all her little might. It had no effect on him, yet it did got his attention. Sophia was scared, yet she stood firm. Fire engulfed both her hands, as she moved her fidgeting body and ran towards that man.
Sophia threw gatling pumches at him only to divert his attention, For she knew she stood no chance, yet all she wanted was to provide an escape route for the fellow children.
The man threw Sophia by his hand, shattering every single bone in her right side as she was sent flying away, coughing out blood. The man then instantly got behind all the children one by one, and split thier throats apart.
Erika screamed loudly as she could. For she saw her world crumble before her eyes. Riley on the contrary, was in an extreme state of shock, as all he could do was watch and not move a muscle.
Then he got infront of Erika, he picked her up again, in the fountains of splattering blood, Erika's eyes were lifeless. Her body drenched im blood, her limbs and legs torn apart, all she had left was her frame and head. Yet that man, created a sharp blade and sliced her throat apart aswell.
Sophia screamed and sttacked that man, with all her might. The attack was so powerful that it blew the back wall of the Patriarchaty, yet the man was unharmed, unfazed from that attack. He simply gave a chop at her neck and made her unconscious.
The only one left in that river of blood, was a little Riley, who was so scared that not even emotions were coming out of her eyes.
The man, picked the cut head of Erika and slowly walked towards Riley, he put her mother's head in his lap and pat his head. Riley looked at her mother's head and finally tears started to come out of his eyes. His body was surprisingly calm. That man left that river of blood, picking up a fainted Sophia in her arms, whilst only leaving Riley behind in that Golden City.
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Tips:
The criminals are ranked on tbree standards.
1. The Wanted list Criminals.
2. The Yellow list Criminals.
3. The Red list Criminals.
Riley's father is a Yellow list Criminal.