[center][h3][i][color=ed1c24]~Victoire Bordeaux~[/color][/i][/h3][/center] [color=ed1c24]"What? How dare they burn my roses like some wretched weed?"[/color] Victoire snarled as the Angels came down on them, burning her garden before she could even try to collect her bounty only to be joined by the Machina's indiscriminate bombardment that also killed most of her familiars that weren't already inside the Elicitor. It was humiliating, it infuriating and caused the vampire to want to growl out in rage, which is exactly what Victoire did, creases appearing on her face as she unveiled her fury. [b][color=ed1c24]"GRRRRRR! You will pay for your insolence, mortal pests!"[/color][/b] Victoire's growl of pure anger echoed, silencing even the cannons of the Elicitor, or the thunderous blasts of the Heavenly hosts for a brief moment. Victoire had been trying to apply little pressure to this battle and remain hidden as she planned every move to counter the Elicitor's advance, well aware that the machine should have at least a trick or two that she didn't knew the exact nature of. But, the Angels ruined it all, a sweet easy victory for the Countess, turned into naught but humiliation and shame as Victoire's plans collapsed. At that instant, every living being on the valley, human, angel and demon alike would feel their heart skipping a beat, literally as the blood stopped flowing for a moment, reacting to Victoire's sudden change of mood. [color=ed1c24]"I'll end this battle in one fell swoop."[/color] Victoire said as she extended her hand to the sky, revealing her hiding spot for the first time as she collected every drop of blood shed on this battle in a gigantic orb above her head. What could the Primordial Vampire/Succubus be planning to do with that much blood? [center][h3][i][color=daa520]~Diana~[/color][/i][/h3][/center] [color=daa520]"Hmm... that was a bad move."[/color] Diana commented on the fact that she had just been cornered by a duo humans, one alive and the other... not so much, even if Victoire couldn't be certain of what Shizuka was, other than the fact that she wasn't really evil. [color=daa520]"You guys are seriously going to point your guns at an unarmed girl? A human such as you, even? That's sick."[/color] Diana kind of growled, when faced with such a cold blooded behavior. Even if death here on the Nexus is cheap, it doesn't mean that they have the right to kill for fun, especially someone such as Bastion, who seemed perfectly ignorant of the nature of this War. To her luck, Diana's ears just noticed the sound of the oncoming horde of vampiric bats, that would likely reduce the two maids to dry husks (or one of them, at least), while actually doing the same to her and Bastion, if they didn't find a way out of here, fast. [color=daa520]"I don't know about you two, Nuts and Screw but, if someone stole a [i]precious thing[/i] from me, I would go looking for a ring. Aren't you supposed to give it only to the one you love the most?"[/color] Diana replied with an innuendo heavy reply, certain that the humans would get what she meant as precious thing, the only thing every woman has and can only be given once. All of this was just a distraction tactic, to say the truth, to gain time until the bats arrived and, once they did Diana took a deep breath, letting her lungs be filled with air that was soon converted in over charged plasma, the very air around Diana crackled with power as she growled in a voice that wasn't human, for sure. [color=daa520]"Both of you, to the ground, now!"[/color] [center][color=daa520]"Plasma Roar!"[/color][/center] What followed was a deluge of energy, a beam of concentrated plasma that (while being but a mere flashlight, compared to the termonuclear nightmare that was her true form's breath attack) torched everything in front of Diana, opening a straight path to the Elicitor's hull, while killing all the bats that could have killed the human girls as well as them. Diana hoped that they had heard her and dropped out of the beam's path (and that it didn't killed any other live humans) but, didn't stayed behind to check. [color=daa520]"We can escape through there. Hold to me, Bastion-chan!"[/color] Diana said reassuringly as she tightened her hold on Bastion, while doing her best to not touch the other girl in any strange places, before she made a run for it. The outside of the Elicitor was still a good way away, but if nothing got in their way they could make it. At least Diana thought in her earnest naivete as she ran away, not even caring to watch for any counter attacks that might come from behind.