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Before the mysterious woman had the chance to reply to Zeruel, another event, this time far more noticeable for everyone around Arcadia happened. A star, or rather, many brilliant golden shooting stars fell from the skies, producing a sound not unlike that of a mirror shattering into tiny million pieces. They seemed to tear a hole into reality itself as they entered the skies overhead and scattered themselves all across the flying lands. Curiously, the meteors seemed to hit mostly the lakes, launching millions of tons of water to the infinity of the skies, in the form of a glistening mist.

The biggest of the golden lumps would fall not too far from the position where Zeruel was, revealing that something was clearly wrong with it. There was no way that could be a natural phenomenon, the only ones who could control such power where Ciel and some of the most powerful Celestial Spirits, yet none of them was supposed to be at this battle so, who could have done it?

The answer would come shortly as the dust began to settle, unveiling a figure of yet another [url=http://i.imgur.com/ukombbt.jpg][b]mysterious female[/b][/url], while she didn't have a really imposing height, the aura of raw power emanating from her... and certain other attributes, more than made up for it.

"You Celestials really like your dynamic entries, hmm? Just like that Dumb Snake," The vampire-like girl said to the bull, who was currently busy, dusting off her cape. "Anyway, that's not important. I finished what I came to do here. Are the rest of the... preparations on schedule?"

"Oh yeah, they are... kinda," the horned girl said, letting out a terse laugh while scratching the back of her head.

"Kinda?" The vampire-like girl, which seemed to be the one in command between the two of them, said, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, it's not my fault that Drasil won't stop complaining about what happened at the Alchemist's Laboratory, y'know? Anyway, it's better that you come and see it for yourself," the horned girl said. Only now she seemed to notice Zeruel crawling on the ground nearby and spare a moment to throw a suspicious glance at her vampiric leader. "Making new friends, eh? And here I thought that you were the antisocial type."

"Oh, you're still here? Some people really don't know when to give up," the vampire turned back to Zeruel, regarding him with even less interest than before. Obviously, she didn't ignore his foghorn of a call, replying with, "Well, I really do have to go now. It's not like I enjoy watching bugs crawling in the dirty. By the way, shouldn't you be more worried about being nearly dead in the middle of a wildfire?"

Following that, the vampire girl opened a portal and disappeared along with her companion, leaving Zeruel in the middle of the destructive inferno created by Bonesword's carelessness.

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[center][h3][b][color=crimson][u]     Victoire Bordeaux, the Bloody Countess     [/u]
[sup]Arcadia's  ⚜ Engaging Hildr[/sup][/color][/b][/h3][/center]
While Syphax's efforts to grab Victoire weren't wasted, his ultimate attempt to take the vampire along with him would be thwarted by nothing but Hildr's own attack, bludgeoning Victoire away from Syphax. Though, before he would be consumed by it, the harpy knight would notice that at least he succeeded in ripping off one of Victoire's arms. In the place of the stump, a blob of burning blood. Though, Victoire didn't even seem fazed by the loss of a limb.

[color=crimson]"Tsc, that was a good try,"[/color] she said, throwing the burning blood aside. [color=crimson]"If only this was like Caroline's flames, you might really have doomed me. Sadly, it's not."[/color] As Victoire said so, she willed the blood that was once her Hellhound, to form a new arm, giving it a few testing twirls before turning to Hildr as the mass of shadow bats coalesced into many orbs swirling around Victoire.

[color=crimson]"Now that I'm properly fed,"[/color] Victoire said, as the cloud of water began to vaporize thanks to the heat from bellow, turning Arcadia into an open-air sauna, saturated with corrosive, crimson death by her roses. [color=crimson]"I guess it's only right if I make you pay for hurting my child like that."[/color] As Victoire said so, she shot the Elder Valkyrie with all she had, literally trying to overwhelm Hildr with a Bullet Hell made of blood bullets, shadow lances and petal blades.

More than nothing else, Victoire hoped this would buy time for Ira to recompose herself. If they could take down Hildr, the chances of the Demons winning this battle would increase substantially.

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