"Well, this is new" said Ravin. He was filled with a sense of holiness and zealotry, and felt much healthier than before. This was always a good thing. The fight between Angel and Demon raged on, but there was no way Ravin could hope to fight a demon king.

Not fairly at least

The King seemed to see all of Rae-Ala's movement before they happened, and could react far quicker. This was viewed as an unfavorable turn of events. Ravin sought to turn it the other way. Notching two arrows, he waited for the briefest of pauses in the clash before losing them right towards the Demon's eyes

The Demon King had completely neglected the presence of both Ravin and Jessica, focusing on Rae-Ala as their swords clashed against one another and the beautiful angel began to stumble backward. He smirked, not even giving the other two a second glance.

That would be one of his biggest blunders.

He heard the words of Jessica, and turned, only to find the woman clashing her swords together in an act of energy build up, before attempting to slash it at the Demon King's backside. He jumped to the side, leaving Jessica's slash to cut through the air, and kicked her harshly in the sternum. Because of his movements, the arrows wouldn't hit the intended target of the eyes, but it would get close. The arrowheads pierced the chest of the Demon King, however it didn't go extremely deep: only enough for him to notice. He glanced to Ravin and snarled.

Then, he saw a whizz of movement and instinctively jumped to the side. However, it did not save him from the deep, glowing white gash that formed on his abdomen from the sword of Rae-Ala. I told you I would make you pay

In rage, the Demon King thrust his hand forward. Out from it came a deep black beam, aimed toward the form of Ravin and going at super sonic speeds.

The wounds on her chest began to bleed again, the kick may have caused a rib to brake the woman coughed up a bit of blood and for the first time she saw the red color of her blood. The hit was far more powerful than expected, and she looked at her sword and Gabriel's once more, her eyes stood locked on her sword it was shining in a bright crimson red color, similar to her blood's. And then her eyes widened at an idea, she has never tried it before but it was worth the try. She glanced at the demon king's chest wound and saw him focused on Ravin. The woman stood up with great effort and clashed both swords once more, Jessica focused on the demon's wound "I hope this hurts a lot, you filthy creature" she thought as she threw Justice at amazing speeds as the demon threw his beam towards Ravin, hoping that her friend would be fast enough to dodge, Jessica took a step forward, taking a deep breathe and leting out a battle cry she gave a thrust right behind Gabriel's sword and released all the power stored on her sword but focused it on a small but concentrated beam of power, giving Justice even more speed and power aimed directly at the demon's chest.

Two things happened at once.

The first thing that happened was that Ravin didn't dodge in nearly enough time. He side stepped it in enough time for it to miss the heart. However, it went the base of Ravin's arm, the beam becoming large enough to cut it completely off. His black arm hit the floor as the beam collided with the ground and caused an explosion of black that went against his back, making him stumble forward.

The second thing that happened was, while the Demon King wasn't looking toward Jessica, she launched Justice at intense speeds toward his body. It went deep into his side, causing him to stagger back as he grunted in pain. Black blood spurted from the wound, along with the slash in his abdomen. However, he still refused to go down without a fight. Turning to Jessica, he slashed his gargantuan sword in her direction, I won't lose. I WON'T LOSE.

The obsidian sword drew close to her head, however just as it was about to make collision, the arm stopped completely. In a flash of holy white, The Demon King's sword arm was severed, falling to the ground next to Ravin (And the 10,000 other ones). Rae-Ala lunged forward, and before The Demon King could react, shoved her sword into the chest of the malicious being. His pitch black eyes widened as he coughed up his own-colored blood.

Rae-Ala drew in closer, the holy white aura around her moving around the two of them, and time almost seemed to stop. The holy white began to resonate within The Demon King himself, his entire body glowing as he began to claw at himself in pain. Your sins against humanity...will not go unpunished.

The glow brightened, and his body began to rip apart. His skin started to rip from the muscle, and his body was falling to pieces. Rae-Ala's eyes had gone from orange to a beady white. By the power of the Gods....I SEND YOU BACK TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL.

A bloodcurdling scream, and then an explosion followed. Only this time, it was concentrated, and didn't effect anybody else in the room. The explosion of white was from The Demon King, the holy power inside of him destroying him from the inside out. As the smoke cleared, Rae-Ala stood, panting. The Demon King was nothing but an obsidian sword lying down on the ground.

Jessica saw how her attack was a success, her legs couldn't move the woman was completly exhausted, she has surpassed her own limits after giving all her strenght in each hit dealt. The demon King was going towards her, but she saw Rae-Ala comming from the side. She simply smiled and stood still as the beast was about to hit her "You already lost" she said to himm right before the holy sword got through his skin.

When the demon completly vanished from her sight she placed the sword back to her scabbard. She looked at Gabriel, and she let out a deep sigh relieved that he was alright. Ravin managed to survive the attack but Marcus and Lissette were missing she wanted to look for them but when she started to walk she barely felt her legs. She started to walk towards Gabriel but she stumbled due to the lack of energy she had. Jessica fell to her knees and then lied on her back breathing with difficulties due to her broken rib and wounds on her chest.

She placed her hands on it focusing on her breathing trying to don't pass away she still has to look for the rest of her friends, even tho she had a frown on her face the woman managed to smile as she thought "It's finally over.... we did it..."

OOC: I have an interesting concept in my head, but it must wait. When it is acceptable to write a plot epilogue, you'll see it.

Slowly, Ravin used his remaining arm to attempt to stand, but after a moment, it gave out underneath him, leaving him lying on the floor of the throne room. Touching the wound, his left arm was separated at the shoulder, and now lay a few feet from him. Crawling weakly, he grabbed at it, but it crumbles at his touch.

" I was using that" he said weakly. He would live, but he didn't realize that pain tended to hurt so much. His spirit was still intact, so at least he had that going for him.

"Could you imagine? A world without my wit and charm. Admittedly it might be better for everyone else involved."

Flipping himself over onto his back, he lay facing the ceiling.

Shame about the arm. That was some of my best work
Oh, hello again. Didn't realize you were back. And it's not exactly a fun time for me either
I forged it once. I can forge it again
Look on the bright side. At least we're not dead. Yet
Words of inspiration and optimism that I shall take to heart

Rae-Ala let out a sigh, and her sword dematerialized, transforming into doves and butterflies around her arm. They all flew around the cave, each landing upon the body of one of the heroes, healing their wounds as warmth went through their bodies. The severed arms would simply be stumps, but everything else would be healed. One dove flew out to Marcus, fully healing him.

Rae-Ala walked over to the group, "I want to thank you all...for everything you've done. You have freed me from my cage, and allowed me to defeat the Demon King. If not for you, the world would have perished."

OOC: Ohhh snaps. Rae-la has been saved :D

Ravin pushed himself to his feet, and leaned on Cerulean like a cane.

"It was my pleasure. Except for the, ehm, not so pleasurable parts" he said, nodding at his left arm, or at least what was left of it. So what now? What does this mean for everything?"

The pain went again magically. She could breathe normally again, and then she got filled with joy. Jessica stood up and with a wide smile on ger face she yelled "WE WON!!!" She ran to Ravin and squeezed him in a hug, without saying amythimg else she took him by the arm and draged him with her, she heared footsteps of a lady, a demon priestess she looked at her and recognised her immediately, still draging Ravin with her she yelled "LISSETTE!!!!!". She ran towards her and huged her tightier than ever "I'm so glad you're ok!!!" She said looking at her hair and face "What's the name of your hair color????! I LOVE IT!". She was acting like a 8 years old girl looking at the rainbow for the first time, "OH! Look who's over there!!" not leting the woman answer Jessica took both Lissette and Ravin with her to were Gabriel was, Jessica let both of them go when she was near enough to literally jump on Gabriel and give him a kiss, she was feeling a joy that couldn't be described. It could be seen on her silver-sea blue eyes, "...You gotta teach me how to read and write now" she said to him still in a hug.

Above all else, Gabriel was tired. And happy. It filled him with joy to see that everything they had been through, all the pain and suffering that they had fought through together had meant something in the end. He was humbled by Rae-ala's presence, and ready to go home to live a life of peace.

But all of that paled in comparison to seeing Jessica, alive and simply full of childish joy that radiated from her like a physical thing. She was practically glowing, and upon seeing it he just couldn't help but to smile back, embracing her tightly, mind racing through dozens and dozens of different things he wanted her to see, different places he wanted to take her during their... Lives together.

The thought almost met him completely unexpected. He truly wanted to his life happily ever after with Jessica, like the ending of some great fairy tale, but part of him never actually believed something so wonderful could ever truly happen.

Except now it was.

He suddenly knew what the first thing he wanted to show Jessica was.

Gently placing his companion back on the ground, Gabriel went over and picked up Justice, wiping down the holy blade. it cleaned off easily, leaving its surface shining and reflective. And so he turned to blade so that the flat of it faced Jessica herself.

"Of all the beautiful sights I wish to show you in this world, I thought the first one you should see... is yourself." He smiled.

It had only been a few minutes since the attack that decimated the demonic general and left Marcus beaten and broken into the rain soaked earth. His fingers began to twitch as his body was healing itself at a rapid pace. Marcus gasped for air as both of his lungs had collapsed, but in a few seconds they were healed enough to sustain him. The angel laid on its back in pain as he endured the healing process. Moments later he began to rip his crushed armor off of his body as he sat up. His wings were practically destroyed by the blast as many feathers had been burned off, except for one brown feather that remained unharmed. His wings would heal along with the rest of his body.

For a few minutes the angel sat alone in the wake of all the carnage caused by his fury. He was an instrument of war, whose purpose was to bring devastation to his maker's enemies. The rain cleared soon after all of the blood of his enemies had been washed off his body, but war still stained the angel's heart.

Rae-Ala's bird had come just in time to keep Marcus company, but he sort of wished it was someone else. After everything he just needed to be alone for a few minutes to gather himself, and he had to think of a way to say goodbye to everyone. Would he say goodbye? He never was really good at farewells, he would usually just leave on his own without anyone noticing. Maybe it wouldn't be too bad if he just picked himself up and walked inside to see how everything had ended. Then he could fly off with Lissette in his arms to have the future he always wanted.

Marcus stood up slowly, keeping himself from falling over as he made his way inside of the cave to be with everyone else. He stood in the doorway without saying a word as he looked within to see everyone celebrating their victory today. Marcus turned around with a slight smile on his face as he began to walk away.

OOC: '"I shall love him and pet him and feed him and call him George."'