"God? That is but a name given to someone stronger than themselves...",
Deus lowered his head as the catgirl continued to stroke him

Deus pulled away and bit his finger,
"Strength is meaningless in this world just as power... It is all decided by who has the stronger will and is more cunning"

"A simple 'no' isn't as fun...".

The catgirl placed one hand on her blade as she watched the man

Grey pushed forward, using his strength from the shadows, the power it gave him, instead of his entities, to push back Genesis.

Nusqam landed near Mawthough and Chastity, wielding two massive broadswords, both electrified, as if they were toothpicks. Looking at her eyes, they'd been severally burned by someone recently, though she could still see perfectly.

Nihil took a Scythe through the torso and the back, only to launch both Grimm and Reap backwards with a shot from the soul cannon.

Caelestis smirked, about to walk away from Ezekiel, she jammed his own sword, True Death, into his torso, and kicked him away before approaching Inferno, barely injured from her battle with that arch angel.

Ignis held his blade close, as the chains danced around his body, though he was near the point of exhaustion.

The hellknights backed away from the she demon, as they grinned, noticing one of the more powerful creatures that Genesis killed and resurrected approached, a Balor, one of the most deadly male demons of hell, enough to match, or at least hold back the she demon for now. Its fiery body melted the ground, as it approached with its flaming red sword. Minerva quickly ran toward where Ezekiel had fallen, wanting to aid the one she loved, only to be sliced up by numerous hellknights on the way. Quickly, Lamia came to her aid, blasting away at the hellknights, while Havoc, after recovering from a serious headache, continued on with his assault.

Inferno looked from one hybrid to the other.
Then he looked at Ezekiel. Then Minerva. Then back at them.
"That. Was. A terrible. Mistake."
He started forwards towards Caelestis, now so angry he could barely think straight...

She looked up at the Balor. "Oh goodie... more gunk to clean out my claws."

Mawthrough noted Nusquam's approach, and whispered in Chastity's ear.
"Focus on him with me, OK?"

"Yet in the face of a situation where something is happening which is not to your liking, surely it is best to try and speak before blades are drawn?" he said, with a pointed look at the prepared catgirl.
"And please, don't do anything stupid. Pretty please?"

Nusqam rose her blades up toward her neck, then down again, as a portal opened up behind her, and numerous metal rods rained down upon the air, filling the battlefield. Next thing she did was send a wave of electricity throughout all of them.

Caelestis grinned, then charged forward, ready to use Inferno's rage against him, while Ignis lined up a chain snipe.

Grey looked Genesis in the eye, then spoke, "Checkmate!!!" As he kicked him in the chest, and slashed his wrist off, causing Genesis to let go of the lifeblade. Grey grabbed ahold of the weapon with his left hand, thinking it would stop the battle, only for the blade to send him half a mile west as Genesis reformed around the weapon and took hold of it.

Inferno snarled, his swords .
"Pathetic PUPPETS!!"
He charged right back, stabbing forwards with one and slicing sideways with the other, his anger starting to peak...

Mawthrough recognized this trick and released his own dark lightning to counter, sparking off the metal rods and beginning to destroy them while Chastity's flames dissipated any bolts that came at them.

Friend raised an eyebrow.
"I'm insulted," he joked. Then he looked back at the battle and tutted gently.
"I'm almost tempted to just... kill them all, you know? No drama, no major explosions and whatnot. I'd be quick, painless even. What do you think?"

After resting, Nijuu and Tynan had gone back to the training room. Again, Tynan stood in the center of the room, and drew one of his guns. Nijuu grabbed her staff, and took her stance.
"I'm not going to go easy on you this time." Tynan warned her.
Nijuu nodded her head once. "I understand."

Caelestis sent two small spheres of light into Inferno's eyes as she jumped left to dodge his blade, while Ignis' chains were blocked by Inferno's other weapon.

Nusqam ran forward, the ground shaking as she charged, electricity surrounding her body as darkness also flowed into her.

Genesis slowly walked toward Mawthough, Grey out of the picture for now, his lifeblade ready to slay someone.

The Balor, without warning, slammed his blade down toward the she-demon, not confidently, but as precise as he could, wanting to finish her off as quickly as possible.

"What happened to settling with words?",
Deus raised his cat-brow and gave the man a questioning look.

The light blinded him, made him lose all sense of direction - and in the state he was in, that just made him even angrier.
Half-instinctively and half on purpose, he suddenly exuded a colossal pulse of heat, covering up to a meter of himself in flames, trying to buy himself time to recover.

She had a bit of an idea to make the fighting easier, and sprang back as it's blade descended.
Then, she leaped onto it's arm, climbed up it, and straddled it's neck, stabbing deep into it with her claws.
"Come on, big boy - let's have some fun..."

Mawthrough saw Genesis coming at him slowly. He also saw Nusquam coming at him very quickly, and he too had an idea.
With one hand, he took Chastity's wrist, and from the contact more lightning surged.
This lightning he directed at Nusquam as she charged closer and closer, and then flexed his other hand.
It formed a portal - which Nusquam ploughed headlong into.
A split second later, he reopened it - directly in front of Genesis, so Nusquam found herself about to trample Genesis into the ground...

He returned the cat's gaze.
"Words tried. Words failed. Genesis - no words will convince him other than his current chosen doomed path. Besides, I said almost tempted. Almost. Like you're almost tempted to lick yourself right now... or something like that."

Caelestis was knocked back toward Ignis as the heat pulsed outwards. Before she could move in for the kill again, a being, wielding a massive red broadsword stood alongside Inferno, his body forming into flesh as embers were blown away.

Pyro looked over to Inferno, not harmed by the heat or the flame. "Looks like you could use some assistance Scion of Flame!"

Instead of acting like creatures, the Balor, who's skin was exceptionally rough, turned its head and bit down into the she'd demon's arm as it used its spare arm to punch toward her body.

Genesis grabbed Nusqam by the neck and slammed her into the ground before jamming his blade into her head, grinning as he twisted it. "Thank you for the entertainment........" He grinned as he pulled the blade out. Dark energies from it began to revive her as he approached both Mawthough and Chastity.

His pride was overcome by anger, so he didn't tell Pyro to shove it.
Instead, the instant he could see again, he simply snarled.
"Take the boy - the girl is MINE..."
He hurtled out of the flames, bearing down on her with a vicious cross-slash.

She let out a slight gasp, and brought her other hand across to stab at it's eyes.
"Bad dog!"

Mawthrough snarled, and held Chastity closer than before.
"Hit him. Hard," he whispered to her.
His lightning focused in on one target - Genesis - and let rip, tearing across the air...

He raised an eyebrow.
"So you let others do your cleaning? Now that's a little lazy..."
He shrugged, then returned his attention to the fight.
"Ah... hello there..."
He looked at Deus again.
"If you don't mind, I need to speak with another here... by your leave?"

"Suit yourself",
They all disappeared in a flash of light and Deus's voice echoed,
"Jealous?"

The reappeared at the house with deus in the small catgirls arms,
"Come on master, time to get clean"

Genesis let the blast hit him head on, as it tore through much of his body, and his body slowly healed. "I can keep going for forever, how long till you all run out of energy eh?" He suddenly appeared in front of Chastity, and slashed toward her and Mawthough at the same time.

Pyro nodded, charging toward Ignis, whom summoned a legion of chains to fight with him, while Caelestis grinned, running forward to attack Inferno, summoning a sphere of light with her left hand and tossing it forward. When it was parallel to Inferno's face, a solid beam of light shot out and slammed into his cheek, as sort of a bitch slap. (excuse my language).

The Balor let her strike his eye, which was easily torn to shreds, as he bit harder into her arm, attempting to bite it off as the fingers from his other arm wrapped around her throat.

Ezekiel made it to his feet, and pulled True Death from his chest, though he struggled to maintain consciousness.

Perhaps it was the ease with which she had dealt with Ezekiel. Perhaps it was the fact that she had managed to paralyse him for a few seconds. Or perhaps it was her nature to be cocky, or part of Genesis's control.
But Caelestis was operating under one very poorly judged misconception.
And that was to think that in the current state he was in Inferno would even care about that kind of attack.
He rushed straight through it, taking the blow without flinching, and hammered her into the ground before hacking at her with his blades.

She let out an angry noise that was half-scream, half-snarl, and pulled her arm clean off, leaving it in the Balor's mouth.
"Gggrrraaaarr!!" she roared, her composure vanishing completely, and despite the fact she was being choked she rammed her hand squarely into and through the Balor's eye socket, attempting to claw it's brain out ignoring her wounds for now...

Mawthrough brought both hands together in a clap, locking the lifeblade between them.
"Depends, really... however long it takes to take you down sounds about right..." he remarked a tad shakily as he forced the lifeblade to stay where it was.

He appeared next to the lich.
"Hello there. You seem to be enjoying yourself."

Genesis grinned as another version of himself appeared, a more monstrous version, one which tackled Chastity while the real one fought off Mawthough. "Well, funny you should say that, I haven't a care in the world about my allies, but I wonder, if I slew your loved one, and forced her to fight you, how would you react?" He kicked forward, aiming to snap Mawthough's knee.

Once the demon's hand entered the Balor's body, its inner flame focused upon her flesh, toasting it before it could go further, the very heat inside the creature forcing her arm out, lest it be turned to ash by his fires.

Caelestis chuckled as she was slammed into the ground.

Pyro clashed, blade for blade with Ignis, taking cuts here and there as he continued.

Caelestis stabbed upward with the same blade she used to destroy Occidio's soul and body, aiming for Inferno's heart, despite her injuries.

Inferno was operating on pure instinct at this point - although a sudden glance up and seeing Chastity pinned under the monstrous Genesis copy sent him over the edge.
He vanished one blade and grabbed Caelestis's blade by the tip, stopping the stab, before stamping as hard as he could on her face again and again, now not even pretending to hold back at all...

She was now starting to lose air, and had to think of a way to get the Balor off her.
An idea struck again, and an instant later both she and the Balor vanished.

Down in her realm, they reappeared - with the Balor inside her special cage, with it's hand around her neck still.
But she was outside the cage, and the indestructible cage bars crushed the Balor's arm, forcing it to relinquish it's grip.
She staggered back, drawing in air - then staggered once more, as a powerful pulse of rage seared through her mind, rage that wasn't hers.
"Mawthrough," she whispered, before disappearing again leaving the Balor trapped in the cage...

Mawthrough's feet left the ground, taking flight, dragging Genesis with him.
The pair hurtled skyward, above the clouds - then Mawthrough looked Genesis in the eyes.
"Not. Going. To happen."
Then he twisted and released the last of his excess energy straight into Genesis's face, sending him - and regretfully the lifeblade - soaring across the sky.
Then he dived once again, straight back to the ground, back to help Chastity.

Caelestis was now heavily wounded, though this gave Nusquam the chance she needed, as she picked up her ally's blade, the one which slew Occidio, and stabbed toward Inferno's back, aiming for his heart.

The copy of Genesis stood up, laughing loudly as the lifeblade appeared in its hand. "Its so easy to manipulate you all.....you know that......."

Grey began to dig himself out of a series destroyed buildings.

The Balor couldn't escape, so it simply went on raging like a beast inside of its cage.

The original Genesis faded, and reformed inside of his copy, laughing heard all around. "Now, how much do you bet that I can't kill her, and then make her kill you, or force you to kill her?"

A couple of energy infused bullets came at genesis from the dark clouds above, the first one ripping through his arm.

Arron smiled as he looked through the scope of his barett 50 cal., waiting to see Genesis's reaction.