d Shrike. She stood, bought up her sword and climbed to the top of the mound.
"Xero Abrasax, the men you betrayed took your head," she shouted, "And I, Alizarin Katya Ryu, the woman you betrayed, is here to take it again!"
"Tell im, girl," shouted Lulu. She and Spyder both ran from the mound as the few first few soldiers from Xeros army reached them. Shrike was already in the air, doing a perfect somersault and slashing the throats of three demons as she landed. As Spyder slashed away with the black knife, he saw that Shrikes left arm was streaked with blood. Shed called up some kind of magic before leaping into the fray. It must have been heavy because her own blood splattered on the ground with the demons as she split them open with her sword.
Spyder slashed his way through the battle, picking up a fallen demons shield to defend himself as he went. Souls came apart when cut by the Apollyons blade, but demons seemed to be burned by it, their eyes popping and their skin crisping as if heated from the inside. Lulu was pumping her shotgun to Spyders right. It didnt seem to kill the demons, but it exploded heads, arms and torsos, leaving them nicely crippled.
Things suddenly went very quiet. Spyder lunged at a hyena-headed demon, but slashed empty air when the thing backed away and knelt down. Shrike and Lulus opponents mimicked the move. Spyder looked around and saw a slave-drawn chariot rolling slowly toward them. Behind it, Xeros men were mopping up the remnants of the Hell army, most of whom were sprawled on the ground, slaughtered or twitching like broken wind-up toys.
The chariot stopped a few yards from Shrike. "My eyes and ears did not deceive me. It is you, Alizarin," said the man in the golden h
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