Consta quickly retreats as Sorano reaches out her hand to grab her by the neck. The hand of Sorano was within centimeters of grabbing Consta by her neck. Consta while trying to retreat points a sniper rifle she had at Sorano from the hip and fires. "Take this!" The shot flew straight into her body. Then Consta was shocked as Sorano suddenly deflected the bullet off into space the moment it collided with Sorano's body. "What the!" Consta knew that it rocked her head earlier when it hit her in the head.
Sorano prepares a shotgun blast of energy with visible blue orbs appearing beside her at Consta then the lasers disappear and a bunch of diamonds spawn in the center of the stage. She fired a volley at Consta and it cut Consta and caught a single particle of the attack that ripped a small hole in the side of her rib. It wasn't lethal but it hurt for sure that it causes Consta to lose attention a bit when she flinch.
Meanwhile, Consta took the attention of Sorano. Tiger, Deyla, and Dartz quickly made their way to the center to take better aim at the diamonds or collect them. They all have an instinct in them to do this like they have done it before.
Shaman quickly ran past the center to get to Consta near the edge of the stage. "Come on, hang in there!" She suddenly slid onto the stage to stop herself and took aim at Sorano and fired her assault rifle and fired a burst at Sorano. Sorano quickly turns to block and deflect the shots from Shaman and her attention snaps onto Shaman. It is like she was taking aggro on one individual at a time. "Over here..." She looked at Sorano, and her eyes were glaring at her. Then, Sorano suddenly charged a giant ball of energy that quickly fired a laser from it at Shaman.
With that Shaman dodged out of the way and it was scary since it was charged time was in a split second before she fired and a slower reaction would have killed her. Then the lasers turns towards her location to follow Shaman. She quickly ran away from the laser beam attacking Sorano as the laser followed her location as the beam was fired off into space. The rest quickly took care of the diamond-shaped transparent objects that spawned in the center. Meanwhile, Consta quickly got away from Sorano and tried to patch herself up by quickly taking off her blue sweater and wrapping it around her wound while no stage attacks were happening beside Sorano's. Shaman managed to keep out of the way of the laser when it was done firing and avoided making the laser run into anyone else by being slow enough for the rest to move out of the way by rotating themselves around the circle edge. Then all of a sudden the laser stopped and Sorano had a red circle under her. They were all suddenly teleported into the air again, this time they were more prepared and not in a rush since there were no spinning lasers under them anymore. They were teleported again for a second and third time at different spots nearby where they were standing. Then all landed back on the ground with Tiger being closest to Sorano. Then Sorano let out a yell a blue straight light appeared on top of her and suddenly expanded from her location out in a large ring of the wall, which spelled danger for anyone who would be caught up in it. Tiger quickly retreated away from the attack and got out of the range of the attack. The blue light expanded to nearly take all of the stages but the edge of attack fell short of a couple of meters from the edge where the rest of the Heroes were just out of reach. Then right when the attack stops, a sudden blue giant laser that was 3 times the height of them rips through the center of the stage from one side to the other side. Setting them on one half of the circular platform then it began to rotate on from the center causing all of them to move. Suddenly more diamonds spawn on both sides of the laser in the middle and without a doubt their body reacted. They began shooting at the diamonds on both sides of the laser as the bullet cleanly flew through the laser and hit the diamonds. While that was happening they all were teleported again although this wasn't off-putting for them as they landed on their feet again but Shaman was under pressure. She was being targeted by Sorano, and then several orbs of bullets flew straight at her making her run then dodging the next set of attacks right after Sorano was done shooting bullets of orbs at her. Sorano set up a shotgun attack right after she fired orbs at Shaman then fired her shotgun-like attacks at Shaman across the platform. She felt like she had done this before despite not ever remembering how she knew. Meanwhile, the rest continue to focus on what they should be doing and prepare themselves for the next thing on their plates.
Sorano chased after Shaman and personally attacked. "Why can't you stand still!" She suddenly cloaked her hands in horizon energy and swung at Shaman. Shaman quickly ducked under her attack then sliced attack rip through the air above her. Sorano quickly lunged to grab Shaman and tried to catch her. "You so damn't sneaky!" Shaman pushed off the ground away from her grasp. Then Sorano quickly ready fire a ball of Horizon. Shaman was not going to react in time to get out of the way. Suddenly a shot rang out and her hand was smacked away by a bullet colliding with her. A sniper round was fired from Deyla.
Deyla yelled out. "Look over here!" She was not too far from Sorano and Shaman. Sorano slammed the ground suddenly then spun in a circle very quickly and fired a whole bunch of feathers in all directions from her wings that cut both Shaman and Deyla. She suddenly lunged at Deyla to grab her. Deyla quickly held her gun up and blocked her. Sorano grabbed the gun and swung Deyla with the gun at Shaman at full force making them collide with each other. They both tumble onto the ground when they both hit each other from being thrown. Sorano suddenly summoned a blue light on top of her then it suddenly moved over to Shaman and Deyla.
Tiger quickly approached them and grabbed them both then with her sheer strength she pulled them up by the shirt. "Get up! We got no time before her attack unleashed on us!"
The light suddenly expanded rapidly to try to engulf anything too slow. Tiger dragged them both and tossed them both out of the attack then Tiger tried to get out herself and got caught by the attack. The light ate her entire left arm as she barely escaped it as a whole. A red circle began to appear around Sorano to indicate a teleportation. The heroes expected it to be another teleport into the air. Sorano then all of a sudden teleported them all in front of her. All of them were caught off guard. Sorano made gestures in her voice that she was going to attack.
Dartz quickly steps forward in front of them and activates the shield to block the attack. The shield opens up as it opens up a transparent shield of energy then Dartz braced for the attack from Sorano. Sorano fired balls of blue orbs that were so much more chaotic than before but it was being deflected even so it shook and pushed Dartz back while she holding the shield. Suddenly Consta helps Dartz by pressing up against the shield to prevent Dartz from falling over while everyone hid behind the shield. Sorano suddenly turned herself into a missile charged straight on into the shield and sent both Dartz and Consta into the distance causing them to land roughly on the platform. She had her eyes on Deyla and was ready for a laser attack that would catch both Tiger and Shaman along with Deyla. Then while that was about to happen several new lasers fired out from the center of the stage and began rotating four in clockwise and counterclockwise.
Deyla quickly pushes both Tiger and Shaman out of the way before leading the laser beam attack away from both of them. She managed to get out of the way but the laser caught her backside and burned her causing significant pain. "AH!!!" She welp in pain as she tries to focus on now dodging two different types of laser attacks that will catch her if she fails to pay attention.
Sorano didn't expect them to be so tough to kill, her anger was through the roof. "You demons such just accept your death!" She does another teleportation to throw them off their footing. Yet that didn't catch them off guard. She trying everything she can to kill the Heroes of the Horizon. "Why can't you just die!!!" She was firing more and more bullets of many types at Deyla. Then suddenly getting shot by Shaman causing her to turn to look at Shaman only to see a small grin on her face. It ticked off Sorano even more and she screamed in anger. The world began to shake, "I'm not playing around you all anymore!!" She got rid of the center laser attack and suddenly had three lights appear on her. She screamed with all her wrath and two of the three lights were sent toward to side of the stage. All three blue lights expanded nearly covering the entire platform which pushed all the Heroes to cuddle up together in one area of the stage which is on the opposite side of her. She suddenly active red circle below her but this time she wasn't teleporting them. She appeared right behind them all to blast them with a horizon blast attack.
Dartz barely had any time to react to turn around behind them, to activate her shield. The shield only managed to open up fully to protect herself and Deyla. Consta quickly told them. "The diamond we have been collecting or destroying is what is protecting her!" The others felt a blast of the attack which suddenly cut and ripped parts of their body. Shaman felt her fox ears get cut off, she felt a massive cut on her rib, and felt like she had air knocked out of her lung, as she flung straight into the ground on her back. Tiger was somewhat protected by the shield but the blast itself shook her head hard and knocked her down causing damage to her head. Consta tried to block it with her hands to shield her body and the blast attack ripped through her right hand and caused massive burns and bleeding to both her arms and legs.
Sorano without a second of hesitation suddenly lung and grabbed Dartz by the neck. The energy part of the shield only protects them from Horizon energy attack but not physical. She suddenly lifted Dartz off her feet while tightening her grip on her. "Shinee!!" Dartz quickly struggles against the sheer powerful strength of Sorano.
Dartz couldn't breathe and felt the death gripped of Sorano, and it was quickly snuffing her life out. She felt immense pain like her neck was going to break. She tried to hit her arms with all her might but Sorano flew up higher while tightening her grip to kill. Her vision quickly faded then she felt her neck let go. She collapsed onto the ground with a tump.
Deyla quickly aimed at Sorano's head and fired. It hit her in the frontal lobe of her head causing her to let go of Dartz. Deyla watched as Sorano fell onto the ground from the air. She watched Sorano crash land on the platform. "...Did She-"
Suddenly Sorano put her hand on the ground push off the ground, with blood dripping from her head. "You dared! You dared to cause me to bleed!" She suddenly floated up slowly while holding her head with her left hand where the shot from Deyla hit her. The red liquid drips down her head down onto her left arm. She stares at her hand, the blood covering her left arm. She suddenly began to laugh. "Heh...heh...ha! Haha! ha!"
All the Heroes were severely injured in one way or another. Tiger was on the ground on her rear and slowly got up on one arm she had left. Tiger was severely injury in the head, the attack rocked her head hard and caused a concussion in her head. Shaman felt severe pain in her rib, she slowly got up on all fours from the ground after she was knocked straight down onto the ground and knocked air out of her lungs. Consta was on their knee as they couldn't handle the heavy burn and damage on their arms and legs rendering them unable to hold a single object. Dartz felt like her body had given out on her due to damage she suffered from Sorano, her neck felt like it ripped in two from the sheer strength of Sorano's. Dartz couldn't feel like getting back up on her feet. Deyla was the only one who was standing there with her weapon, with only a damaged back which she received from the earlier attacks.
Sorano suddenly glared at Deyla that could kill with her sight. "To think you all last this long..." Then she raised her right arm from her side. "I will make sure you will pay the price!" She turned herself into a missile and flew straight at Deyla. Deyla raised her gun and used it to block the attack. Sorano slams against the gun and breaks the gun in one go slamming into Deyla and carrying her across the half-way through field with the attack she did. It sends Deyla to the opposite side of the stage from where she last stands, leaving a massive wound in the middle of her body.
Deyla was gasping for air before managing to look up to see Sorano floating over to her. "I can't believe... I thought it'd be over now..."
Sorano smiled with such sinister. "Oh, please. You think that shooting me in the head like that will stop me." Suddenly red circle appears below her. "Shall we end this dance now~" A blue light appeared on top of her. "Shinee!" Everyone was dragged to her location by teleportation to unleash her massive blue light attack. Sorano then took notice of the one in blue and yellow that she teleported.
Consta despite having damage on her hands and arms managed to grip the gun with the use of the underside of her armpit Tiger's shotgun weapon on her right side. "Take this!!!" She used 3 fingers to pull the trigger of the gun because she couldn't use a single finger to pull. The shotgun blast fired directly at Sorano.
Sorano immediately stopped her attack and blocked the shotgun with her wings and bracing her arms to block too. It punches through her wings and damages Sorano. She quickly retaliated by flinging her wings open, the wings sent out sharp feathers that punctured Consta's chest. Consta fell over onto the ground and Sorano had been too focused on Consta. Then she felt a force slam into her side. Tiger then body slams into Sorano not letting her the chance to react to anyone else. She turned to grab Tiger by the hair and pulled her off. "Die!" She quickly flips Tiger over herself with the momentum of the attack straight into the ground of the platform. She then slammed into Tiger's body with a Horizon energy-manifested hand sword and punched through Tiger's flesh. Tiger screamed in pain unlike any other before. Sorano smiled before getting kicked in the face. It blooded her nose and mouth, then she looked up to see Dartz who had kicked her, and she had her scarf wrapped around her neck tightly. "Hahaha! It seems your neck wasn't in good condition!" Dartz had her neck broken but she managed to get it stabilized by tightening her scarf around her neck then she tried to aim the assault rifle at Sorano. She lung at Dartz but felt a tug on her wings. Then turn to look and saw that Shaman grabbed a hold of one of her wings. "Why you!" She hears a click of a trigger being pulled. She quickly snatched Shaman and used her as a shield. It was too late as 2 of the 3 bursts hit Sorano in the shoulder which finally punched a hole into her while one of the other bullets hit Shaman in the back. Sorano dropped Shaman onto the ground as she began to scream. A sudden appearance of a giant bubble appears around Sorano that has everyone engulfed inside of it. She was planning to blow everyone in this bubble, suddenly in the middle of her scream. It was cut short by the loud bang of a single gunshot. Sorano felt an intense pain in her chest then She suddenly stumbled backward and blood spilled onto the floor.
"What..."
"What is this..."
"I'm feeling..."
"..."
She was gripping her chest where she was shot.
Deyla was holding a sniper in her hand and was aiming down sight. Her hand began to shake then suddenly her arm felt extremely tired. Then she dropped the gun onto the ground. "Did I kill Sam?" Suddenly she covered her mouth and began throwing up her inside in shock.
Dartz turned to look at Deyla with confusion. "Sam? What do you mean Sam?" Then she suddenly saw Deyla throw up onto the ground. This was the first time she saw someone throwing up in this reality. "Deyla!" She ran over to her to comfort her.
Shaman slowly picked herself up from the ground holding her most recent wound that she received. She held it over her shoulder, where it hit the back side of her left shoulder. "Sam? You're talking about Sorano?" She turns to look at Sorano with confusion.
Sorano couldn't keep herself on her feet and then fell over on her back. Slowly the blood began to pool on the floor below her.
Deyla suddenly pushes away Dartz who tries to comfort her. She ran over to Sorano and leaned over Sorano's body. "I didn't mean to hurt you!" She picked Sorano's body up a bit and held her. "I didn't know!" She began to cry as tears streamed began to go down her cheek, she became extremely distressed and lost at what she had just done. "I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to kill you..." She kept repeating herself over and over in her denial of what she did. "I didn't mean to murder you, Sam."
Sorano looks at Deyla. "Who...are...you talking...about..." She had a soft smile as she reached her hands out to touch the cheek of Deyla.
"...Why...do you...look so...sad..."
"Sam... isn't...my...name..."
"...Deyla..."
-End of Chapter-