Chapter thirteen-a debt settled
As she was about to open the fourth door, she heard footsteps behind her. She summoned a sword as she swung around and nearly decapitated Firefly.
"Firefly what are you doing here-!?" She asked in shock.
Firefly shrugged as all of Frost’s minions entered and lined up around her in a semi-circle.
"We got bored and there was no action at all. We heard some parts of your battle as well,” Firefly replied.
Frost shrugged, "alright then. Well, I'm actually glad you're here. Behind me is the fourth general and then the throne room where hopefully, my father is."
Firefly nodded and listened intently to what Frost had to say, "So, what's the plan?"
Frost crossed her arms, "I'll deal with the spider demon. Don't interfere. I have a grudge to settle with her unless I'm about to die of course," Fost remembered the angels fighting outside and decided to ask Firefly about them, "The angels are still outside keeping his forces outside right?"
Firefly answered her question with a nod.
"Alright, at least we know they're still fighting. How are they holding up?" Frost asked.
Firefly replied quickly, "They've taken losses, but overall, they’re still holding strong. The majority of the forces under your father's control have been weakened by the sheer power of so many angelic warriors.”
Frost thought of her friends among the angels and asked about them with a hint of concern," Rose, Serena, and the Captain? How are they?
"Still kicking," Firefly confirmed, a hint of a smile curling her lips.
Frost sighed in relief. She was never the fondest of angels and other heavenly beings. Even now, she got along with only a few angels. Rose, the Captain, and Serena were the very first angels she had actually enjoyed being around.
She shook her head to clear her thoughts, "alright, here's the plan. I'll deal with the spider demon. After she's been killed, take the higher positions around him and wait for my signal,”
Firefly nodded and asked with a smile, "you absorbed crabby boy’s essence, didn't you?"
Frost nodded and smiled in confirmation.
Firefly chuckled, "he had it coming. That upper-class ahole,”
Frost shrugged then said, "Alright then, let's go."
Firefly nodded and split the group of knight minions into two groups. They moved to surround the rooms.
Frost murmured quietly, "Also, look out for those portals. You probably saw them already,"
Firefly nodded, "Trust me, I know. IT sent an imp into a fire pit.”
Frost chuckled and replied, "It sent me into a pile of crates and barrels,”
Firefly laughed, "pfft," then added, "alright, we need to move. See you," She said to Frost who received a nod as a reply.
As the group left her sight, Frost placed her hands on the door and breathed out an anxious sigh. This was it, the final general, and the one she hated the most out of the four.
She pushed the doors open and was immediately attacked by four spider demons. They were very similar to black widow spiders from the earth but bigger than an adult human. She jumped back and avoided their venomous dripping fangs.
She knew that one bite from those spiders could kill even immortals. She also knew Achkwa had modified them to her exact specifications.
Crafty bitch she was.
She sliced the first one in half vertically. It’'s blood was like acid and melted her icy sword, but that didn’t prove to be a problem as she simply remade it. She avoided a web shot from the second spider before it got the wall, creating a smaller crater in the wall.
*"damn that's some force behind those things!"* thought Frost as she jumped over another spider before grabbing it's hairy abdomen --ignoring it's putrid stink-- as she threw it onto an exposed shard of rock. The rock impaled and melted as the spider died.
*"What kinda acid is that-?"*thought Frost as she slammed an ice axe into the side of the third spider and chopped off its legs in one motion. It squealed as it died and melted into the floor.
The last Spider began to retreat as she froze it solid and smashed it into mist for good measure. However, the spiders started to twitch and regenerate before her eyes.
*"Oh for fucks sakes-!"* she thought and created an aura of ice around her. She froze all three remaining spiders and smashed them into mist afterward.
She then dashed and rolled into the next room. She quickly targeted the four guards --two being archers-- and each guard found an ice hatchet in their foreheads.
Walking into the center of the room and stopped when she picked up a presence above her. She looked upwards to see Achkwa diving down from above.
She rolled to the side and drew her sword. She slashed at Achkwa’s legs but to her surprise, her swords were harmlessly deflected.
*"What-!?"* she thought.
Achkwa smiled hideously and hissed, "that won't work this time my sweet. Their essences tasted sweet after all.”
*"their essences...she doesn't mean-!?"* She thought.
Achkwa let out her infamous laughter, which sounded like a tire being ripped to pieces at a constant rate.
"Yes, your thoughts exactly. That is why the other three were so easy to defeat. They gave me essences and I became that much stronger to defeat!" She snarled with a hint of joy in her voice.
A chill ran down her spine --quite literally-- as she realized what Achkwa had done.
By taking the portions of the other three generals essences, they became far weaker than normal while she became nearly three times as strong
*"Damn barbaric strategy.!"*
The spider queen didn't give her much time to think as she whipped out her legs. Frost brought up her two swords to protect herself from them, but on contact, her swords shattered into pieces.
"Fuck-!" She yelped and fired a few dozen icicles . They were easily deflected by a personal magical energy shield that she conjured, and a few even flew back at her though they didn't harm her.
*"Fuck she's too strong-!"* she thought as Achkwa suddenly lifted up her abdomen and fired a string of hot sticky web which slammed into Frost like a freight train.
"Ack-!", yelped Frost as the web pinned her to the wall.
The heat from the web was hot enough to sting as she struggled against the bonds that kept her in place. She could barely move her limbs in the constricting hold of the web.
The spider demon lowered her hideous face close to her and hissed, "Now this is quite the predicament for you isn't it...the legendary Frost, a prodigy of Vivitullus himself...caught and hopelessly trapped by a mere spider demon like me,”
Frost said nothing and continued to slowly struggle through the painful heat.
"Oh how strong I'll be once I'm finished with you...hours of torment and pain just for you..and then I'll kill you painfully and brutally and absorb all your essence. I use it to take over the throne for myself..hahahaa!" She let loose a batch of psychotic laughter,” And the look on your face will be nearly as good as your little adoptive family.." she hissed with false sympathy.
This however caused Frost to snap to attention, "..come again-?" She muttered quietly.
"Your reaction will be priceless..much like the faces of that foolish "blessed" family you had.. foolish mortals. The look of shock,..fear and terror on their faces as they faced me was beautiful especially the little one..." She replied and made a gargled noise.
Frost could hardly hear her as she snarled quietly, "you did WHAT to the little one now?"
"That's right Frost..I got the little one," She hissed as she faked a hurt smile
Blood roared within her as Frost felt the same anger she felt when she arrived at their house, except this time, ten times greater.
A red glow started to appear in the edges of her vision as she noticed red light starting to emit from her.
"You...ABOMINATION!" screamed Frost as glowing blood-red markings began to appear all over her skin.
When she reopened her eyes red lighting and energy flickered through them, turning her pupils red alongside her normal blue eye color.
The spider demon flinched with shock, "w-what-it cannot be-!"
The web wrapped around Frost melted away and she dropped to the ground before hovering a few feet into the air.
Red smoke seemed to be talking to her as ice formed around her, but this ice was the color of blood and flickered with red vortex filled electricity.
Frost was so pissed that she literally didn't care about how much pain she would go through, but she knew one thing she would kill this demon and make sure she suffered.
Suffered a lot.
"You haven't reached your ten thousand year mark yet how are you able to Bloodrage-!?", Arckwa asked with a hint of panic.
"Anger bitch..you pushed me far enough. I rage!" Frost creamed
A blood rage was a form only a few demons could handle at such a young age. The main reason she was able to access it, was due to her immense rage she felt at the spider demons words.
A blood rage in itself is a form where a demon loses all compassion, loses most conscious thoughts, would ignore all pain dealt to their bodies, and every power they possessed, no matter what it's limits, got increased tenfold.
By natural means, a demons' body cannot handle a blood rage form until they are at least 10.000 years old but, occasionally, a demon with enough skill and resolve --like Frost--- could enter one for short periods of time.
Achkwa stopped for a moment and then screeched in fury as she fired a dozen razor-sharp arrows of fire energy at her.
Bloodrage Frost snarled in rage as they entered her field of red light and evaporated instantly.
"...DIE!" she snarled and rushed at her with blinding speed.
Achkwa meant to stop Frost by raising her two front legs, but Frost grabbed both limbs and summoned two massive tornadoes of ice. Which skinned her two front legs down to the bone as the spider demon screamed in pain.
"You will suffer..as SHE SUFFERED!" Frost roared as her voice echoed with rage.
She flew up to Achkwa’s face and punched the spider demon hard enough to shatter her iron teeth. Frost then grabbed her left arm and tore it off as Achkwa tried to punch her back.
"You will suffer as I have suffered!" She screamed and flew backward.
Within her two hands she manifested a massive six-foot-long spear and threw it. It pierced her body and pinned her upper human body to her spider-like abdomen and even pinned her arm to her chest.
Slamming down on top of her, Frost smashed the legs of Achkwa as she started to slowly freeze her solid.
"This is what you get you bitch.." She snarled and walked away, not even bothering to look back as the spider demon froze completely solid and shattered into nothing.
Achkwa shared the same fate as the two other generals. Frost absorbed her essence into her body which would never allow her to reform unless Frost was destroyed. She noticed a hint of Akures essence within it and let it be. He deserved to reform after all, but Achkwa, on the other hand, didn't especially not after all the pain she had caused.
She turned and faced the final door as her blood rage markings faded. She finally felt avenged for a debt that she had tolled and that she had now settled and paid.
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