"He's still not fucking dead!" Radney watched as his wounds healed and his magic started to grow from the steadily draining Vat.
"What the hell is this place." Kairo asked more focused on the teens strapped to chairs being drained at a constant.
"It's a Blood Farm Vampyrs used them as ways to live and sustain themselves outside of needing to integrate with human society, but it was outlawed generations ago..." Radney's anger grew this was the effect of leaving people like Polirodi walking the earth a mistake he hoped to rectify. He searched the bottom floor to find Polidori drinking deep from the Vats darkened flesh healing and to his horror losing wrinkles as it seemed Polidori was aging in reverse. Soon what was a charcoal old man was replaced by the image of youth from earlier.
"He de-aged by drinking blood?" Kairo asked frantically.
"No that's the plasma from magical beings... Referred to by humans as ambrosia, but put simply it's just our plasma when humans drink it. It can force a sort of pseudo-Magical Saturation in humans who normally couldn't experience MS at all, but for our kind, it's similar to what happens to Salem's people." This made Kairo remember the hunger of Salem people the WildaBeast turned Windego and couldn't imagine the monsters that liquid would create until he remembered those things that crawled from the basement after the alarm.
"We have to vote we have to kill him before he becom-
-Don't you fucking move kid!" Kairo dazed by Radney's tone turned to look him in the face and saw nothing less than dread etched across it.
"I'm sure you don't feel it, but that's not Rose or Willow down there..." Radney said not taking his eyes off Willow. Kairo turned back to the edge to find Willow slowly making her way over to Polidori. He didn't feel anything coming from her at all, not an ounce of Magic or Killing Intent.
"She's not even building Magic we have to help her." Kairo replied still unsure why he was told not to move.
"For your training, you've kept Sense Magic on at all times now try to tap into Sense Acrane." Kairo listened to Radney's instructions focusing on Willow plunging his senses deeper into Magic until he felt a darkness that made him recoil from the edge. It was almost as bad as facing Joker and on top of that he could sense Polidori now as well and he was just as terrifying. Two monsters faced each other below in a forbidden garden and Radney could tell they were posed to attack.
Polidori summoned his rapier aimed it for Willow's center mass and fired three gaseous orbs that on contact set off three mini explosions the clap of which even made Radney flinch, but it only seem to push Willow back a few feet before she started her slow walk towards him. Kairo and Radney could only see Willows back as she lumbered toward Polidori they could see frustration growing on his brow. He fires five more shots again center mass this time the explosions were slightly bigger sending her flush on her back. They could now see what was frustrating Polidori Willow was giggling to herself as if tickled by the explosions she quickly snaps to her feet and begins her slow crawl towards him again.
"STOP LAUGHING!!!" Polidori screams gathering an obscene amount of Magic and forming it into a bowling ball-sized gaseous orb. Kairo grabs Emily and quickly ports away to the outside of the building Radney watches as Willow charges Polidori before he can let off the attack and with a single swing splits the orb Radney though in disbelief formed a barrier with a few of the sigils from earlier and a few new ones protecting him from the destabilized spells backfire. The resulting explosion was much bigger than Polidori wanted forcing him to aim upward destroying the rest of the upper level of the facility.
From the outside Kairo shot at the debris that flew at them protecting an unconscious Emily and unsuspecting citizens startled that were passing by. He realized this was going to be a bigger battle than he thought he pulled his phone out unlocked it and opened the Pulse application and quickly hit a red triangle picking the number five on a list of one to ten. His phone then began sending out a pulse alerting everyone within a mile radius to evacuate immediately. The citizens of the Velvet District within the radius received the message and began evacuating homes quickly making their way to the safest areas outside of the designated battle zone. Most of the people near the explosion were already running Kairo watched people flee apartments children in tow away from the smoldering building that was slowly appearing in the once-empty lot.
Out of the smoke plume funneling from the building comes Polidori sliding against the sky until he stands on air as if it were solid. He was followed by Radney who took a spot in the air on the other side of the plume of smoke both of their focus on something Kairo couldn't see inside. All of sudden something burst out of the top of the plume down towards Polidori forcing him to block with his rapier once the smoke cleared he could tell what he was seeing was Willow with a rapier blade of her own. She was chasing him through the air swinging her blade wildly putting Polidori on the defensive as they danced through the air.
Kairo could make out now Willow's usual reddish hair had turned an inky black and a small protruding lump above her right eye had begun to form. He watched as Polidori coated his blade in his gaseous magic allowing Willow to strike causing an explosive blowback that sends her upward flames engulfing her left side. She slows her accent by gripping the air Polidori shoots three orbs aimed for her flaming side fully engulfing her in flames. Kairo and Radney watched in horror as she disappeared into this mass of flame in the sky.
The flames slowly died to reveal Willow standing there covered in jet-black sigils similar to Radney's barrier earlier. He was sure she couldn't have seen but a second of them before the explosion and yet she recreated them even altered them and created some new ones by mixing others. She laughed historically as she gathered magic at the tip of her blade superheating it.
Radney noticed some of the speed sigils from earlier were added Willow blinked from the spot she was in and reappeared charging at Polidori who had time to block, but that seemed to be what she was aiming for when the superheated tip made contact with his gaseous Magic it ignited with a vicious explosion sending Polirodi careening onto a nearby rooftop.
The blast broke through the sigils on Willow's right arm turning it a charcoal black that was quickly healing and reforming the sigils Kairo and Radney noticed the surrounding building began to break down and turn into pure Magic. Willow was siphoning the surrounding Magic at a dangerous rate Polidori was once again destroyed by an attack lying in shambles on a rooftop below her watched as she lifted her blade creating mini explosions that she set off contained within an orb that slowly grew to fifty meters with no sign of stopping if it went off it would take out half the block.
Polidori was still stunned by the blast Radney was standing above it all he didn't have the strength to safely disrupt an already unstable spell like that. He had mear moments to run through the possibilities in his mind he could use the rest of the Magic he had to grab Kairo and Emily and run he was sure he could make it out of the blast radius at top speed, but all the workers and people trapped in the blood farm would be devastated in the blast then the thought of taking out Willow crossed his mind. Before he could decide though the strings of Fate took hold his muscles froze as his eyes glowed with a golden tinge.
Kairo who was now running on fumes was sure he could grab Emily for one more jump since she was going through transference she was gaining a level of Magic that was as heavy as Willow making moving her tougher and if he didn't move her soon she would become too heavy, but that meant leaving Radney and everyone else then the thought of just taking him and the Orb somewhere to safely detonate crossed his mind.
Before he could decide a sturring behind him took his attention Emily had woken up her transference had ended all of her hair was completely white and her fangs had grown in. She was too heavy to carry now and he wished she didn't have to wake up just to be threatened with death again. He turned to face the obscene orb growing above Willow Kairo now stood right above it his eyes a full golden glow. Kairo was made hopeless by the image in front of him.
~End of Chapter 7