Genesis let his right arm get shot off, grinning moments later as it reformed. Looking into the sky, he chuckled, as he sent a flying copy of himself up into the sky to attack Arron, while he let Chastity burn him. "Oh, I can't wait to make you use those holy flames upon your loved one, it will be so.....biblical!"

Genesis moved forward and grabbed her by the throat, nearly crushing it with one hand. "Burn me all you like, it won't stop me from killing you, then resurrecting you....but first.....while you live......" He placed the lifeblade up against her temple, attempting to corrupt her while she lived.

Inferno was so caught up in his own anger that his body was radiating flares of energy, furious bolts of flame. One of these bolts, surging out at random in every direction, crashed into Nusquam's blade, knocking it off course. Another hit her directly in the face with a terrible explosion which the angry Inferno didn't even notice.

She reappeared, and had perhaps two seconds to absorb what was happening.
Inferno fighting, Chastity being held by Genesis, Mawthrough nowhere to be seen.
She saw Genesis attempt to corrupt Chastity, rolled her eyes as if amazed by her own intent, and leapt on top of Genesis, claws slicing off the arms that held Chastity in their grip.
Unfortunately, the attacks by the Balor had taken their toll, and she was unable to maintain a grip.
Still amazed at herself for choosing to help the daughter of her husband's killer, she fell off Genesis onto the ground, almost too weak to rise again.

An instant later, Genesis was almost completely obscured from view in a cloud of dust as he was now at the base of a crater.
The reason for this was that Mawthrough had just crashed into him from terminal velocity like a furious demonic meteorite.
"How much do I bet? Huh?! How much do I bet!?"
He was driving Genesis into the ground, no longer slashing, just punching as hard as he could, his own anger so intense that Kiadred could sense it from Hell itself.
"My life. You hear me? My life, that's what I bet - now you DON'T, TOUCH HER, AGAIN!"
At this point they were now almost a full mile into the ground, the crater becoming so vast hellknights were starting to fall into it.
"I don't care I can't kill you. I don't care I can't stop you. I don't care that you're doing everything on purpose, because I'm happy to follow your plans, I'm happy to let this world burn, I'm even happy to die, as long as YOU, DON'T, TOUCH, HER, EVER, EVER, AGAIN!!"
A great plume of dark energy rocked the crater as Mawthrough just unleashed his raw power on the target of his wrath...

Genesis' body vanished, leaving what appeared to be a purified lifeblade, though a massive number of hellknights still ran toward them.

Nusquam's skin was melted off her face, and a huge hole remained in her torso, though as she was hit, her other blade swung into Inferno's side, blade side first.

Several hours later...

Nijuu fell to her knees, her mark glowing upon the floor, as she panted.
Tynan dropped his stance and holstered his gun.
"Was that better?" Nijuu asked, as she looked up at Tynan.
Tynan nodded his head once, as blood seeped from a wound on his face. "Much." He replied.
"Good." Nijuu said at length, as she fell on the floor...exhausted.
Tynan walked over to Nijuu, rolled her over, then scooped her up in his arms. "We're done for now." He whispered.

Kye sat within Velcana with Cereza, sighing heavily. "The battle is still raging......my brother's getting hurt badly.........."

Cereza looked at Kye. "I won't stop you from going to him, if that is what you wished." She said, as she rose to her feet, her ears moving forward.

Kye's muscles, underneath his skin, seemed to convulse heavily. "I want to go.....but all I'd do is end up dying and making it worse.........if Genesis kills you with that blade, he can resurrect you and use you against your friends.........."

"Then you would sit here and do nothing instead?" Cereza asked as she raised her brow. "What would you rather do?"

Kye closed his eyes for a moment as his muscles went back to normal. "I'm going to the battlefield......but I need you to come with me......if I die........and am resurrected, I need you to destroy me.........."

Cereza's ears twitched, as she nodded her head. "Fair enough." She said.

Kye created a flame a portal, and jumped through it, the portal remaining afterward. He crashed into the back of a hellknight, and snapped its neck with ease, all the while swinging his sword around him.

Cereza followed Kye through the portal. Though one of her swords was damaged, she carried the other with her..though it really wasn't much better. 'I really should have fixed these.' She thought to herself.

Kye jammed his blade through two hellknight's necks as he shot forward..

One hellknight approached Cereza and grinned, holding its blade close to its chest as it charged.

Cereza's ears twitched...alerting her to the attacker behind her. She spun around, kicking her attacker across the face, as her eyes began to glow a soft yellow.

Arron grinned as he sent a three round burst at Genesis, his eys glowing green as the power inside of him felt it's polar opposite getting closer.
"Someone really wants you dead, you know that right?"

Inferno felt the blade, felt every excruciating inch of it's progress through his side, and let out a cry of agony, dropping to his knees.

Mawthrough collapsed on top of the lifeblade, his fingers closing around the hilt.
He used it to prop himself up, coughing slightly.
"A-are you alright?" he wheezed, his body flickering faintly as it tried to recover from using all that power in one fell instant.
He noticed the hellknights approaching, and tried to move off the lifeblade, falling, rising again, and then almost having to lean on Chastity for support.
Upon contact, weak black lightning fizzled, and Mawthrough started firing it in concentrated shots in one hand while withdrawing Regret and firing it with the other while leaning on her...

Deus sat on the windowsill of a small wooden hut located deep within one of the many forests of the small island he often spent his time at. All over the island was the noises of daily life as catgirls wondered around; working and relaxing. This island was the only paradise Deus had known in his long life and he kept it that way with a multitude of seals and protective magics. On the north side of the island stood a relatively tall mountain from which extended a white stone castle. A town extended from around the castle and next to that was the port. On the south side of the island was mostly forests and meadows where as the west was open plains. The east was filled with various villages among scattered woods. Fishing villages spread among the shores of the island, after all, fish was a popular dish here.

The small catgirl appeared behind Deus and looked down at him for a few moments before following his gaze out of the window and then up to the sky,
"It truly is beautiful, isn't it?",
She smiled as her eyes glistened from the light of day as she looked up.

Deus let out a small noise, similar to a grunt but more passive. He then looked back at the catgirl,
"Beauty is only soil deep here..."

The small catgirl looked back down at Deus,
"I know... But that doesn't change my statement..."

Numerous hellknights were blasted back by Chastity's flame.

Ignis continued clashing with Pyro, both of them nearly exhausted.

Grimm and Reap were at a stand still with Nihil, none of them capable of injuring the other.

The lifeblade seemed pure for but a moment, however, the second Mawthough touched the blade, a dark hue began to develop around it. Moments later, the blade began to radiate, and while Mawthough's head was turned, black threads of darkness shot out of it and latched onto Mawthough. A voice rang out in their heads, "That was a very good try, you almost completely dispersed me, had I been without Dageroth's power, and this Lifeblade, you would have easily destroyed me there.........."

The flying version of himself lost an arm due to Arron's attacks, but continued upward toward him, dodging his remaining shots.

The beast-like version of Genesis formed beside Mawthough, as did the normal version, whom simply walked by while grinning. "You see, this blade, when put back together, it binds the one who recreated it to the weapon, so you'd have to destroy an ancient weapon, forged by the strongest arch angels, in order to beat me.........ever notice that you can't break an arch angels weapon, imagine one forged by all of them!!!" He picked up the blade, the dark threads still wrapped around Mawthough's body. Dozens of hellknights closed in to attack the group of warriors, when a solid stream of gold energy, as well as a massive balista flew through the area, wiping out nearly fifty hellknights within mere moments. Approaching the area, was a man sealed in armor, with golden eyes, radiating with power, and at his side, was a man just as tall, wearing the furs and scales of some of the most ancient of creatures, monsters thought to be invincible. In his hands, was a balista launcher, a sign of his brute strength.

Nusqam fell over, leaving Caelestis' blade within Inferno, just before it hit his spine, the hybrid bleeding heavily, her eyes returning to normal. She spoke for the first time, this time, speaking to Inferno, "It looks like....you freed me......I can't heal anymore........so.....you must have broken his hold.......old celestial.........thank you.......now......I can be free.....I'm sorry.....that I cannot aid you in this battle......or heal you..........." With that, she breathed her breathe, and her soul left her body, as it began to fade away.

Caelestis walked over toward Inferno, and pulled her blade from his side, just as she called forth a plume of deadly, holy energy with her hand. However, Ezekiel slammed his shoulder into her head, sending her flying away from them as he landed at his brother's side, still heavily wounded. "You okay brother?"

Grey finally stood up, out of the rubble, despite the intense pain, then spoke, "That enough pain for you Oblivion?"

Oblivion bellowed, "Yes, you should have some energy to spare now!"

Grey grinned, "Glad to hear it!!!" As he spoke, black bio armor appeared on his body once again, and purple flame and energy seemed to surround his body. Next, he charged forward, leaving a wall of purple flame behind him, as he tore through hellknight troops.

The hellknight quickly leaped forward with its broadsword, aiming to stab Cereza, only for it to be consumed by Grey's flame of Oblivion as he charged by.

Kye stopped fighting for a moment. "I see.........so that's what he was doing.........."

Mawthrough gave an almost agonized snarl as the dark threads latching onto him proved the icing on the cake of this pain roller coaster.
The sight of the cavalry arriving however gave him enough strength to turn, wincing as the threads pulled at his body.
"Have fun explaining all that again while they're stomping you into the ground," he snarled, putting several explosive rounds from Regret into the bestial Genesis while shielding Chastity as best he could.

Inferno was teetering on the brink of unconsciousness when Nusquam's message came through.
At Ezekiel's voice, he forced himself back to awareness - and almost instantly later, wished he hadn't.
Where Chastity had been was a colossal crater, deeper than he could see.
And no father in the world would have seen that and not assumed the worst.
Pain seemingly vanishing in an instant, he kicked himself back up, shoved past Ezekiel and, operating on pure fatherly instinct and rage, charged.
He blew through every hellknight in his way, managing to make it down the crater before finally giving out at the bottom, mere feet from the pair.

Kiadred managed to stand, and she was stunned to see what had happened since she'd hit the floor.
She managed to fly, wonkily, down to the action before she too nearly succumbed there and then, barely able to stand but by no means willing to surrender, even with her one arm.

Ezekiel felt a tap on his shoulder, and Friend looked down at him.
"Do you mind if I take your blade for a moment? I think in your current state it would be better used by someone fresh for battle. I am not on Genesis's side, before you start asking, and I merely wish to aid you in what little way I can..."

Deus shook his head and looked back out the window,
"Your too positive...".

The catgirl grabbed Deus and pulled him against her, stroking the soft fur on his head,
"And you Mr.Grumpy are too negative",
She spoke slightly condescending but similar to how a parent speaks to a young child to cheer them up in a silly sort of way.

"Agh, let go of me, will ya!",
Deus squirmed around in an attempt to get free

"Nooooo",
The catgirl spoke similar to a child who had something threatened to be taken away from them for a moment before switching back to her usual method of talking,
"Besides I remember someone saying you do as we tell you to, master".

Deus shook his head again and twitch his ear before letting out a sigh,
"Then why do you insist on called me master",

The catgirl did a small excited jump,
"That's easy, master!", she paused momentarily,
"Because you are our master, master!"

Deus let out another sigh, this was more exasperated than anything else though,
"There's no reasoning with you, is there?",

"Nope!",
The catgirl smiled and sat down with Deus on her lap, still stroking him

The bestial Genesis smacked the explosive rounds away surprisingly, and charged, tearing through the ground as he did.

Genesis split again, this time, a regal version of himself was made, wielding a black rapier. It quickly charged towards Hunter and Radoc, the members of the Knight's Council whom had arrived.

Grey charged through innumerable hellknights, Oblivion's flame destroying all enemies around him as he yelled.

Ezekiel drew True Death from its case and handed it to Friend. "Use it well.....I'm afraid I wasn't much use after fighting off three fellow Arch Angels..........."