[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/uurhDHh.jpg[/img][/center] [img]http://i.imgur.com/HtvPRRx.png[/img] The area around them continued to be froth with destruction. The entire Abyssal Floor was looking more like a wasteland with each passing second as the world shook and turned. Even the threat of Death itself was forgotten in these new turn of events that threatened to engulf every life present. But these thoughts were empty to the Bastion possessed Katie, who looked up her target up high as another Runa placated herself on a platform. Once more Katie stepped forward and once again she was upon the demoness in a flash, a blade not her own flickering in a downwards strike up high with two hands to bisect Runa where she stood. [color=red][b]"......."[/b][/color] Runa smiled as she looked over the ruinous landscape around them - and more importantly what was to expose from under these ruins; the reality itself began to shatter and fall apart with the twisting and twitching motion, spasming with the glitching convulses. Flickering shapes of the structure, the reflections leaking out and dripping down out of the shards floating in the air amidst the crater, even the light itself started to lose its stable form. It was all just like Runa wanted, but it was still not enough. And there was more to that - an incoming slashing attack aimed right at her; as Katie with the power of Bastion aimed to crush onto the demoness - who was to evade the attack just in time. She flickered again, preparing her spear once again for the attack. [color=FireBrick]“These eyes of yours speak of no reason to remain in your head. No matter. But I wish we could appreciate the fruits of our efforts here”.[/color] Indeed, the scenery and landscape were all quite beautiful in Runa's eyes, a testament to her plans coming together perfectly. It was all too unfortunate her data would be erased far before she would realize her ambitions. A hand flashed outwards and gripped the end of Runa's spear just as it manifested. Katie was already in front of Runa as a heavy shroud of pure energy densely sparked around Katie's body. But that was neither here nor there. Katie yanked forward to pull the demoness along with her before spinning around and tossing both demoness and spear into the nearest ruin, slamming Runa harshly like a ragdoll before her body crackled in fizzling data as Katie's blade was already lodged in her chest. Words were no more between the two fighters, as with the spear manifested, Katie once again launched her attack at the demoness - gripping at the handle and spinning it around with a flash of energy exploding in colors around the raven and the thrown demoness. Launched into a nearby structure of a ruin with a clutter of stones and dust rising in the air and a loud cracking sound of the hard rocks shattering in the impact, a light flicker appeared on the spot of Runa’s shape, a flicker causing her appearance to change for a second - right before Katie’s blade pierced through Runa’s chest, leaving her essence to leak out in all the forms Tower had given her. Runa did not say anything - a smile was still shaped on her lips in never changing form, and her eyes aimed directly at Katie’s as she looked into them, with a hint of curiosity; even though in general two blue eyes remained completely unfazed and emotionless, they reflected deepness with no actual bottom. A slashing flickering was to appear again, once the air around Katie was to shiver in exposing a hole, a hole through which more holes appeared, a hole followed a hole, cracking through them a spear’s blade was to push through, in its copied multitude; the holes moved and appeared everywhere in the tight spot of the ruin, creating a deformed and ever changing web of sharp blades aiming to entrap Katie within and grind her in cuts. Katie wrenched the hilt of her blade tighter into Runa's chest, dispersing the data immediately and erasing more and more of the demoness. Guided by the Bastion card, there lay only one objective in her mind and that was the desire to kill. She was gone by the time the blades appeared, much too slow compared to pure living energy itself. A flash of dark blue like a bolt of lightning zipped and sped around the different blades, dancing along up the curvature of each spear as it dove into the hole from which they came. Like a line of code tracing back to its source the bolt crept through the Tower's data in a shocking display before tracing the spears back to the source. Regardless Runa's insane plan to destroy the Floor, she was still only data; data that could be changed and copied, manipulated and altered. This same data led Katie to the next Runa, appearing once more as a flicker of electricity before a knee slammed into Runa's head as Katie's body took shape once more. She spun around, dragging the demoness off her feet from sheer momentum and throwing her like a bowling ball to the other Runas as if they were pins. The source code surrounded Katie's environment as dragged digits and numbers along the "walls" of the world as she moved, slashing away at any that approached her. One by one with each destroyed Runa the source code that made up her existence in the Tower faltered. Perhaps the true one would have danced with time to avoid her, though even time was subject to energy. But as data, each destroyed version left a bigger and bigger hole into the main file that was Runa. It was only a matter of time before Katie's Volunta would erase the demoness completely. Katie moved as a flash, flash too fast to capture, flash too fast to squeeze down or cut through. Her shape too lost its stability in the jumping around as she aimed to find every single copy of Runa she was to feel - tracing them down by a code they bled out. All connected into the array of data that Runa was; all to be further found and slashed by a numb and unworded rage of Katie’s. Slashed and kicked, grabbed and thrown - one thrown into the group of others was caught up and petted on the head before they scattered away from the attacking raven, keeping their defense. They flickered and shifted their position, changing each other on different spots to confuse the berserk. They bent time and moved through it, launching counter attacks ahead of time, the spear slashing through forward in time, and from the future it attacked backwards, leaving flickering shapes and shards of the corrupted Abyss to fly out and cut with their paradoxical density. The fallen bodies laying in the crater flicker before disappearing, as if lost in the haze of the fight. Runa observed it from a distance. One of them at least. She kept herself away on one of the peaks and watched with her never changing smile, sitting on the edge with her head resting on her hand. She flickered every once in a while as she was tracing herself away from Katie’s narrow rage. She knew that something like that were to happen. The growing hole in the essence of her being in the Abyss was making the cold of the death getting closer to her, but it was also opening some new possibilities. She did try doing [i]that thing[/i] a few times once, but never on such a scale - after all, it demanded a lot and was a last resort. Frankly the time here and now was exactly asking for that. Emptiness of her hollowing data was to be filled. And the lingering pattern of erosion and entropy was Katie’s gift to the demoness. Flickers of metal scraped off digital coding as splinters of time and data came loose from Volunta's rending. Like a reaper of Death, Katie manuevered her way through each and every copy thrown at her. She jumped around, slamming the fortunate ones with physical blows that broke horns and shattered bones. The unlucky ones were felled by her blade, erased forever within the Tower. One by one the fragments of blue dwindled as only black remained. A hand lashed outwards and grasped one Runa by the horns, violently slamming her into the ground with enough force to crack the Floor's floor; no sooner was she spinning around to send another Runa flying with a foot to the cheek, the demoness spinning near-comedically midair as she was struck. Another leaked out bluish coding from a horizontal strike above her chest while yet another was missing limbs and a tail. None of them were the original as far as Katie's one track mind was concerned; only the one that held the final batch of core data would prove to be the last. It was no different to sniffing her out, Katie appearing above the one hiding from the others. Standing above her peak, Katie slashed once with enough force to send any approaching others flying, a density sharp enough to cut this Runa's horn clean off. She thrust downwards, both hands on her Volunta as the tip burst through Runa's chest and reamed right through her to embed itself into the stone. The demoness remained there pinned and fauxly crucified as Katie loomed over her with an empty expression. The both of them could feel it; the last of Runa's existence as a digital frame seeping away into nothingness. Runa waited and watched still as the numerous copies of her were to fade away one after another in that chase of pure killing energy. If the world she was trapped in was to fall, it was only fair that she was to fall with it, one way or another. She was after all, just about to cancel time itself, space itself, and break free from this limiting existence; and the sacrifices were many, and her own existence being put at risk was of course necessary and unavoidable. She accepted that. Even though it brought her onto the edge. Finally Katie was to find her, [i]the[/i] one, and in that cold methodical rage she was to find her way onto the cliff and push herself through the attacks. The spears of many pushed away, the launched attacks, flickering dashes and shards cutting through the reality itself, the temporal traps and patterns, twisting turns of the ruins and attacks coming from all directions and all times were not to stop Katie from approaching the demoness and slashing through, once again piercing her body and pinning it to the stone behind her, leaving her to dangle on the edge of a blade. Runa’s hands resting on the weapon, clutching at it and bleeding out, the face frozen in a grimace of fading, the blood and code in unison flowed down Runa’s wounded body and collected into a flickering puddle on the ground underneath her feet dangling over the ground and unable to reach it. Just lightly swinging left and right as her weight rested on the sword in her. She was put against the wall, literally and figuratively - and even then her eyes did not expose anything of an emotion. Empty stare of Katie’s was to be met with as empty stare of Runa’s: two bottomless pits staring at each other, reflecting in each other in their incomprehensible density of reflecting the lack, rather than anything else. The demoness leaned closer to the raven, smile still on these lips. [color=FireBrick]“Let me show you a trick..”[/color], Runa said, still holding at the blade with her hands, [color=FireBrick]“...It is worth remembering”[/color]. A shape of hers flickered again, but this time it did not do it like a broken frequency; it turned into a ghostly shape split from its form and a second later, disappeared from the view, leaving a ghostly shape of a body behind. One last split Runa pulled in order to escape Katie; demoness’s data forcibly relocated elsewhere. But that was not the trick Runa spoke of. Katie's eyes sharply flicked to the fleeing essence that was Runa's code, lurching Volunta out of the stone and rearing back just about to hurly it like a javelin. But just as she made to let it go a sharp pain spiked through her own chest and she stumbled. No sooner did a blackened discharge of electricity crackle out from her back that brought her to stumble to her knees. Hands on the ground and staring at the floor, expression finally colored itself back to her face. Volunta dropped from her fingers as Bastion's card slowly slid out from her back in ejection, the strain too much and the power used to its limit on her body. Some manner of curse was brought to her lips as she gazed on the fading image of Runa's essence, her vision faltered before black became her landcape and the Bastion card burned completely in its own energy. [hr]