[M] White Night: the Heart of the Demoness | ElizabethStark & 커비 | (IC)

[ElizabethStark]

The Demoness smirked. Of course, White Night would go for saving his friend and Anakee was strong enough to hold their own against the two, or so she believed. As the blast came toward Anakee they, in no time at all, switched heads and fortified a shield from nowhere. The explosive power of White Night hit the defense with no obvious effect, however, it did cause Anakee to take a couple of steps back. They switched heads again and the shield dissipated but along came a sword of immense power. In one swift cut, Anakee's weapon caused a glowing rift to appear of dark rainbow colors and it quickly attempted to attack White Night and Unbreakable.

This allowed the twenty seconds she needed to heal from her broken ankle and concussion. The Demoness could think straight and immediately with her free hand drew a circle in the air that glowed a bright blue and placed her palm in the center. She spoke unknown words as she did so but when the circle disappeared there was no clear outcome of what she had done. Another smirk came across the Demoness' face, her next move would be soon to come as she watched Anakee's rift come hurdling at the superheroes.

[커비]

The two superheroes watched in near awe as Anakee's heads moved around as another took command. At first it formed a shield to absorb the blast from White Night, something not many beings could do. The second time it swapped heads, it materialized a sword this time, a sword touched in sinister energy. In one swift stroke, the creature aimed at the two superheroes, but White Night was at least half a step ahead as he ducked under the dark rift created from the swing of the sword and parried the hilt of the weapon from the creature's hand using the back of his wrist. As much as he had protected his comrade, behind Anakee he could see that the Demoness had fully recovered already and had enchanted something. White Night could not see what she had done, but he could not let her get away with it. By now, Unbreakable had regained most of his strength back, stumbling back onto his feet. He stretched his shoulders, fixing his cape also in the process.

"I can take care of this, thing, White Night. Take care of the Demoness, ja?" Unbreakable suggested as he started to hop on his toes with ease for someone so muscular. White Night nodded at the plan as he bolted in a blink of an eye towards the Demoness, reassured that Unbreakable was able to recover speedily and White Night could fight without holding back. In the process of launching himself at her, White Night had concentrated his chi into his right palm, attempting to aim for her ribcage, also in hopes that whatever she had chanted did not work. Meanwhile, Unbreakable leaped high into the air with his immense strength before launching himself back down like a meteor, his body even igniting as he came nosediving back down to the Earth exactly where Anakee stood, attempting to crush Anakee in one crush.

[ElizabethStark]

Anakee dodged the oncoming assault, looking to their liege to make sure she was not in harm's way, but she was. They witnessed as White Night attempted to strike her but suddenly Unbreakable went for another attack and distracted Anakee. Meanwhile, the Demoness attempted to create a summoning sigil but was interrupted by White Night appearing before her in a flash. She teleported directly to his side and tried to take Yjorn and strike his arm, attempting to slice it clean off. The circle she had created simply sucked up a few creatures from wherever they were because she used every monster at her disposal and needed more to her aid pronto. However, she needed to summon them here. She noted which ones she wanted, and they were powerful indeed, but with White Night and his incredible speed, there was no summoning them to her location.

[커비]

Initially, White Night was able to halt the progression of the Demoness's portal. Shortly after White Night had distracted her, the Demoness was not lounging around either as she teleported to her weapon's side, using it to try and cut his arm clean off to which she was very close had he not formed a force field with his chi a split second before the scythe slashed. As much as he had countered the attack, this was the first time his force field was broken in one blow. With this, he realized the larger threat the pair posed when they were together and knew he had to end it soon before they cause any further damage.

All in all, the entirety of the fight was only a few minutes, but with how fast both sides were moving, their fight was equivalent to a few days in real time. Fortunately for White Night, his power only grew stronger the longer the fight, and as of now, he was only getting warmed up. Even so, he could see that his opponent was just as powerful as he was, able to withstand everything he had thrown at her thus far. He had to figure out a way to divide her and the weapon, or he had to hit them with so much power that neither of them combined would be able to withstand. Yes. That was the only way. He had to do it now.

Swiftly, White Night gained some distance between him and the Demoness, about a couple of hundred feet out, far enough for either sides to charge up their power. White Night did just that as gathered tremendous amount of his chi into his right hand, all towards the tip of his fingertips. To do this meant White Night would be like a double-edged sword. In return for incredible amount of strength, he would be sacrificing all of his defense as all of his chi would be focused on one singular point of his body, meaning that he had to move faster than her and her weapon. With one swift move, he hoped to finish her. Once White Night had finished charging his chi, he wasted no second longer, dashing towards the Demoness. Were she to blink, she would miss it. Upon approaching the Demoness, White Night drew his arm back, launching it forward even faster than his body was moving, where the tips of his fingertips would attempt to penetrate her heart.

[ElizabethStark]

The Demoness began writing her summoning sigil as White Night powered up and just as the sigil was finished, her five most powerful entities appeared behind her. White Night's attack, however, scarcely missed the Demoness' heart but it punctured her lung instead, sending her to the ground and all of her entities disappeared in a bright red beam like lightning at that very moment. Her lung collapsed and her blood hemorrhaged out like a stream as she lay there for just a split second before vanishing.

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Amelia was teleported to her apartment floor, she slowly lifted herself onto her knees and hands. Her breathing was short and fast and she started coughing up blood, "I c-can't breathe-".

She was immediately cut off by Yjorn who laid at her side, "Take ahold of me, try to get to the couch, and stop talking." And so Amelia unsteadily, with the help of Yjorn; used him as a sort of staff to clumsily make it to her couch. She plopped herself down and groaned in pain.

Tears began forming in her tear ducts. She truly felt she had failed even though Anchorage was still in turmoil, just without her and her entities. Amelia was sure she did an immense amount of damage but it wasn't enough. It didn't spread to other areas. She could, however, hear the screams of people outside her apartment building.

An abrupt and hurried knocking came at her door and panic nearly set it, until she heard a voice, " Amelia! Amelia!" It was the sweet voice of her acquaintance, Ruby. Although Ruby would call them friends, Amelia felt otherwise. She didn't need friends... and so she ignored the knocking and cries from Ruby and allowed Yjorn to heal her. It would take up to a month... Amelia whispered, "Fuck..."

[커비]

Were this fight to last any longer, White Night would have reached the next step in his chi power that would allow him to channel the chi into projectiles and the like, much more effectively and lethally. However, thankfully for the Demoness, she had managed to teleport herself out of the situation in a blink of an eye. Realizing White Night could not follow her movements right before her disappearance, he presumed her teleportation worked similarly to the summoning of her monsters; in any case, they had to be somewhat channel or chanted. White Night would remember this for his next encounter with the Demoness, the only foe of White Night who had stood long enough to make him try harder.

Following her disappearance, Anakee disappeared, as well as the rest of her demons, and White Night flew over to the injured Unbreakable, helping him back to the headquarters. For now, it seemed that the chaos was over. Within a span of three hours, the entire city of Anchorage was aflame but somehow alive. Upon realizing that the commotion had ended, there were many survivors that popped themselves out from under rubbles or from still standing structures. Many had been covered in blood but nonetheless safe, but the same could not be said for others. On this Halloween day, among the forty million residents that lived here, eleven million of them were slaughtered in just a few short hours, having the world remember this day as the grimmest night in the history of mankind.

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About two weeks had passed since the incident with the Demoness, and it seemed like just about everyone had forgotten about the whole ordeal. Soon after following the event, a mass funeral was held for everyone that had been confirmed to be deceased. Unfortunately due to the amount of bodies that were found dead or mutilated, just about every one of them had to be incinerated, especially for the sake of the smell that stunk up the entire streets. Thankfully, water-powered superheroes were able to hose down a lot of the stench away. Millions were still noted to be missing, but by this point, many assumed them to be dead as well. With the whole city having witnessed a near cataclysm, the aftermath was nothing short of a miracle.

The death of several members of the League of Superheroes left a large, temporary power gap between the heroes and the villains. With the loss of key heroes, villains and as well as ex-heroes rose in great numbers following the end of the Demoness's campaign to try and over take the city. Simply, their efforts proved to be none the wiser as heroes like Faith Summers and White Night proved to be more than enough to handle the small-time goons, especially more so since they had just fought off an entire alien invasion.

That was what the world began to call the incident, an alien invasion. Hell-iens as some people came to dub the monsters. While the Demoness was wrecking havoc on Halloween night, the International Space Station reported that the entire city was visibly red for about a couple of hours with the amount of blood that was spilled, even pointing out an enormous anomaly floating above the stratosphere. The entire United States military must had been deployed to Anchorage as by the week after the incident, there were military convoys on every single block in the city.

People from all across the globe had also collaborated to assist in the reconstruction of the city. Superheroes were the largest contributors to the reconstruction project by far. However, contractors predict that the city would still take about a couple of years before it is fully functionable again. Sadistically speaking, one of them pointed out the amount of jobs that would technically open up. Strangely enough, many months following the invasion, a large influx of people would migrate to Anchorage.

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White Night had contributed the most in the recent week following the aftermath of the Demoness. By the league, he was given some time off, which Justin desperately desired. During the entire duration of the time during and after the battle, his mask had never come off, sleeping less than two hours a night. With the entire city still in shambles, White Night had no time for rest. Faith Summers and her team were in charge of recovery of any personnel while White Night and his team were responsible for the clearing of obstruction from debris and as well as assistance in the reconstruction. With the amount of destruction that were caused by the Demoness and her minions, constructions crew struggled to get their equipment through, so White Night and his team would ease them by doing the heavy lifting himself.

Finally, Justin was able to return to his apartment . He took a much, much, much needed shower the first thing. His body was covered in blood and sweat, his suit even worse; he would need to take it to his special laundromat. Once he was washed, he decided that he would grab a coffee at the new café that opened up on his block.

Following the best shower of his life, Justin got dressed in plain clothes, ordinary clothes, normal clothes for a normal man: gray sweats and black hoodie and zebra colored pair of Yeezy Boost 350 V2. Justin wasn't much for socializing, but today felt different, especially after two weeks of nonstop cleaning up of the city. It was much deserved after all. Justin made his way to the new café calling itself, Coffee from Hell. Intrigued by their choice in name, Justin assumed it was probably fitting since Hell-oween, as many people had come to dub the event as.

The inside of the café itself was already packed, Justin having had to squeeze through a crowd of 'influencers' taking photos for the Gram for drinks they didn't even enjoy. The line itself was long, but it moved fairly quickly, likely because most employees are eager to work on grand opening weeks. Justin ordered himself a simple medium size black iced coffee, with light ice. Light ice, because that way there would be more room for coffee and less room for dilution from the ice. Justin wasn't cheap. He just wanted more coffee!! As he waited for his order, Justin heard his order being called, but upon doing so, he would see another person try and grab his drink?!

[ElizabethStark]

The following two weeks were tiring and excruciating, not even one week in and Ruby had the authorities do a welfare check on her but Amelia ignored them and they did not return. She was surprised they didn't just break the door down to see if she was okay. However, during that time she was sure Ruby could hear her moving around and taking showers as she lived right next door, so why she got the police involved was a mystery. Moving around was tough and Amelia did it a little too often despite Yjorn's protests for her to rest. He made sure no infections continued to grow and slowly started closing her lung. The death scythe mimicked her current blood and had it travel to the area of her lung to stop the hemorrhaging; all the while providing oxygen.

After two weeks of healing, Amelia was better enough to step outside of her apartment but once she did she was immediately greeted by Ruby with a very unwanted hug, "Amelia! I was so worried about you! Why didn't you answer the door at all these past couple weeks?!" Amelia grunted in pain from the embrace and Ruby hurriedly said, "Oh God, are you okay?" Checking her over to make sure she wasn't harmed while having her hands on each shoulder.

Amelia sighed and with a somewhat hoarse voice replied, "Yeah, just... a collapsed lung," she paused before quickly adding, "I've already been to the hospital, it's minor."

"I can tell by your voice, but why aren't you on oxygen?" Ruby crossed her arms.

"As I said, it's minor."

Ruby pouted, "One of those monsters hurt you, didn't they?"

Amelia remained silent for a moment before responding, "Uh, yeah..." She trailed off.

The two stood there for a minute before Ruby spoke up again, "I've gotta get going, doing some volunteer work. I'll see you later?"

"Sure," she said with no enthusiasm. And with that, Ruby left. Amelia found herself wearing grey jogging pants and a grey hoodie with no obvious brand name, along with solid black running shoes. Thankfully her daytime job was put on hold as the company made an announcement stating everyone will receive paid time off due to the unforeseen ordeal.

Amelia began her journey to truly see the kind of havoc she caused. Her blue eyes were not used to the sun's rays as she put on a pair of plain black shades. She scrolled through her phone for places to go and found a most interesting coffee shop.

Coffee from Hell... how poorly timed.

Amelia traveled for the next five minutes to the coffee shop. A lot of the carnage was cleaned up and she didn't even see a spec of blood. She supposed that was one of the first things they did - clean up the blood and guts.

As soon as she arrived there was a myriad of people taking photos of the shop and the line was rather long. She could've scoffed at the number of people who thought this was a cool thing to call something, considering how many were killed. Although Amelia had caused the massacre, most of the ones who died were eviler... but some of the good ones were killed as well. It was necessary, however.

Amelia waited in line with patience and when it was her time to order she requested a black iced coffee with light ice and medium-sized. She still wasn't feeling well and needed something bland rather than sweet. And now she waited, looking at the end of where the finished coffees were being set. She had an aloof demeanor, not bothering to look up at the others around her. Amelia's drink was called out and she promptly went to go grab it, and without much other thought, she began to leave the store.

[커비]

Justin was left baffled as he watched another person snatch his drink faster than he could. His hand was merely inches away from it when the woman had grabbed it before him. For a few seconds, he did not say anything, wondering if he was the one that had made the mistake, but there was no doubt about it. It had to be his drink. He chased after the female, weaving back through the same crowd of 'influencers' before exiting the café. "Excuse me!" Justin called out to her, attempting to grab her attention and tell her about the mishap. If she were to not turn, he would approach her and tap her on the shoulder, trying again.

[ElizabethStark]

Amelia kept walking, staying aloof and not paying attention to much around her but she maneuvered through the crowd with grace, then someone touched her shoulder and she immediately turned to face whoever would dare touch her. She was now in alert mode and she could almost glare at the man before her, but instead, her gaze was simply indifferent and unkind as Amelia stated with a little bit of hostility, "Excuse me?"

[커비]

Justin tilted his head upon her reaction. She at all did not seem interested in having this conversation, and neither did Justin. All he wanted was his coffee and go to the laundromat. Yet here she was being an obstacle. He gestured to her calmly, signaling that he meant no threat to her. "I just want my drink," he said politely, "please."