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Lily was shocked to her very core, more than any amount of electricity that could ever pass through her bloodstream; he saw how Helga brutally impaled Alex and almost smashed him through a brick wall.
[color=fff200]"No...It can't be...Alex..."[/color]
She fell to her knees, with her hands to her face; she had come to believe that Alex had died. She had seen civilians killed before when she was just a rookie, and was too late to save them from being killed by monsters, but this was different; she came to realize how empty her life would be if Alex was not there. She would never hear his sarcastic remarks to her energetic manners, his hesitation when she would take his hand and lead them on a new adventure...Would all those happy moments become but a memory? Tears flowed from Lily's cheeks as grief overcame her.

Meanwhile, Helga danced among Alicia's rain of arrows, keeping up her deft dodging as she did with Lily's arrows. However, she did not have time to avoid the very first explosion, causing one of her drill-shaped tails of hair to get burnt up. In response, she bellowed like a dinosaur. "Blockhead!" She adapted to the tactic used by the light magic user far quicker than was possible, even for a fast thinker. Even so, she realized she was going to be attacked by Penny who was charging in, and so once again opened the hatches on her palms, and fired a burst of psychic blasts at Alicia; they stunned her, and caused her to fall down into the street.

Right as she was done with the ranged attack, Helga contorted her spine, bending backwards to dodge the first punch thrown by Penny, and followed it up with a sweeping kick that the mechanical girl jumped. The two then engaged in a vicious and swift close combat, with one side throwing out punches and the other claw strikes at blinding speed; it seemed the two were almost identical when it came to fighting ability; Helga would avoid the punches by twisting her body at unnatural angles and feigning attacks, while Penny avoided direct strikes by parrying and defending with her arms, sending sparks through the air as Helga's sharp claws left scraped on her metallic body.

"You're a tough tincan, but nobody has survived a point-blank blast of my sound magic!" She drew in a breath, about to deliver a potentially deadly scream, when she was suddenly struck from the side; even Penny did not see what caused the attack until Helga flew from the impact and had to stop her momentum by anchoring herself with her claws, long scratch trails made as she slowed down. "What is that? I killed your buffer boyfriend, that's impossible!"

Then she saw it, alongside everybody else; an aura of crackling yellow energy emanated from Lily as she suddenly appeared on a rooftop; she was slouched down on all fours, her eyes a blank yellow color. Her skin was covered in fur, and from her forehead jutted out a long, sharp horn in the shape of a thunderbolt. A horse's neigh could be heard in the midst of her scream as she once again disappeared, only to appear again and kick Helga right in her face, causing her shark-like teeth to scatter into the air and the monster girl herself to be knocked back.
"Ughh, no, this can't!" Helga growled, sounding demonic as she stood up on shaky legs, her claws wide spread in menacing fashion as her mouth bled blood. "I'll kill you, you bitch!"

Lily did not answer, and instead lifted her staff up into the air. The air itself seemed to become static, and a black storm cloud formed above the hospital. Penny resumed attacking, and Helga stopped her by catching her fists with her clawed hands, and the two were locked in place as they struggle. "You'll kill your friend! Just like I killed him! AAAHAHHHAAAA!" Helga screamed maniacally, before a mighty lightning bolt from above struck, and the world turned white.

Lily's Killing Blow, [i]Wrath of Zeus[/i], left a black mark of charring on the roof. There, a single magical girl was still left standing; Penny. Due to her Specialization of Lightning and Metal, had survived the blast that left Helga as nothing more than a pile of ash before her. The surge of power was almost overwhelming, however, and Penny crackled with electricity from her body; she felt faster and stronger than ever before.
Alex, having focused on self-heal, was completely recovered, and stood up to see his friend had become a monster. Lily was still slouched, her arms on the ground before her, as she neighed at both the Beacon and the Beacon slayers. Tension was high in the air, with no side willing to make a move. Would this conflict end in further death, or could a truce-fire possibly be formed?


[u][b]TO BE CONTINUED...[/b][/u]