The Talon Family
Bloody Snow
January
Draft_2
By: Chase L. Currie
Gabriel watched the sword in Aries’s hand creak against her brother’s armor. The blade didn’t break, and his armor would not give away. They fought like lions over a deer trying to stay alive for the next day. They beat each other while everyone who was left standing watched in awe. Aries was faster and stronger than Raphael, but nothing was breaking through his armor. He could take the hits because it didn’t matter to him until his body gave out from the stress.
The foes around them didn’t know that keeping the armor around his body took a lot out of him. It was like running for ten miles uphill in the middle of winter; he could only go so far for so long before everything gave out. He was pushing himself now, and Gabriel knew it.
Gabriel knew it because they had been on so many missions with each other and she was doing the same thing. She was using her powers to the limits trying to think of somehow to end this fight, to stop Aries.
Once, Raphael passed out from exhaustion his armor would pour back into his body and Aries would cut his head off.
“I can do this all day,” Aries hoarse voice growled.
Raphael said nothing trying to punch him in the side of the head, but Aries stepped out of the way of the attack. He was getting slower now and trying to fight back the consuming dread.
Gabriel fire a shot at Aries but the bolt did nothing to him. He stopped for a moment looking around the room trying to see her, but he could not. He chuckles, “This armor makes me invincible, your weapons will do nothing to me.”
“Good to know,” Raphael said landing a fist right into his nose. “I don’t have to hold back anymore then.”
Aries stumble back a little gaining his footing and turn back to face him. “And after I kill you. I’m going to do so much worst to your sister,” Aries told him swinging his sword at the boy.
Don’t fall for it, Gabriel told herself. He was trying to get Raphael angry to overexert himself, but her brother didn’t fall for the trick.
Gabriel glanced back at the runes wondering if they were doing more for Aries than he let on. Of course, she knew their magic was affecting everyone in the room and the base, but there had to be more to it. There had to be more to the runes for Aries than the magic touching everyone’s mind.
“Rogan,” Gabriel said blinking back into the room.
He turns to face her while all the men were not sure what to do. They waited for orders, and some of them stepped away from the girl. Raphael stopped for a moment staring at his sister trying to understand the plan she had, but it seems lost on him what she was about to do.
“Made you look,” She said showing him detonator.
“The runes,” he screamed running for him and kicked himself for being overtaken by his bloodlust. “Stop her.” But the order came too late, and the bombs send the runes into every corner of the room. The blast deafens everyone while blinding them with the small suns being born where the runes once stood, and then the suns disintegrate into smoke.
“Damn you both,” he hissed turning back to where Raphael no longer stood. He glanced around the room looking for them, but he couldn’t find either one of them. They were gone or at least out of sight.
“What is going on?” A soldier asked shaking his head.
“Man, my head is killing me,” another said.
“Oh, god what did we do?” Someone asked remembering everything about the last few weeks.
Arise watched the magic over his men quickly fade as they came back from the haze of the bloodlust losing control over them all. He stood tall walking over to the nearest men he could find to look down at him.
“Sir?” He asked slowly rising his weapon.
“No point in waiting for all of you to lose faith in me,” he snarls cutting the man down. He turns facing the gunfight and rushing off to feed his sword the blood it longed for to make him live forever.
“What we do?” Raphael asked watching the men fall faster than they could run. “He’s killing them all.”
“I know, I know,” Gabriel panicky said.
“Let me go,” Raphael order, “and I’ll help.”
“No,” she shot back at him. “No, point in you dying foolishly.”
“Then come up with something.”
“We can’t beat him to death or shot him with that armor on,” Gabriel told him.
They watched him take around to the head. The bullet tossed his skill back, and for a moment he stopped moving and then the hole in his head healed up. He cut the man down like a dog yelling at them all, “I cannot die.”
“So, what then?” Raphael asked. “We have to get that armor off of him.”
“Maybe, we don’t,” she said staring at the open hole in the docking bay. The hole ran about kilometer to the icy waters below. “Maybe, we can give him the same fate he was going to give you.”
“Please, sir,” A young boy begged, crawling back from Aries. “Don’t kill me.”
“Coward can’t die with dignity,” He said holding his sword up over his head.
“I’m not ready to di---” The young warrior cried out, but it wasn’t the sword which came crashing down on him. Raphael along with Gabriel rushed Arise; she dropped off letting her brother tackled the newborn demon with all the might he had left.
It was enough to do what they had planned. It knocks Arise off his footing making him stumble toward the hole. Arise took a moment trying to get his standing back to keep fighting but Raphael then front foot kick him into the halo wishing he had the energy to make some joke but it was all he had left. Arise trip into the hole with Raphael dropping to the ground, nude and out cold.
Gabriel raced passed him snatching a grenade from the soldier’s belt and pulling the pin. She stopped at the edge of the hole looking down at Arise holding on for dear life. He was a few yards down with his sword acting like a hook keeping him from falling into the water.
“This won’t kill me,” he yelled at her.
She nodded and said, “Might not, but it will get you out of my life for a while.” She dropped the grenade jumping away from the hole. The grenade popped off with her waiting for him to come crawling out of the hole like horror movie villain, but he never did.
She sat beside her brother hurting from her ribs and arm. “I need a bath,” she said, “and you need clothes.”
~
The home was always a nice place to be, and the hot bath Gabriel sat in for the last two hours was even better. She never wanted to be cold again or see snow either. Afterward, she climbed out of the bath found clothes in her pigsty of a room and went downstairs to hang out with her best friends, her family.
The report of her mission had come in a while her bones were being warm from the water and she read over it. From what the soldiers had said they found the armor Rogan was wearing and the runes at the same time. They brought the armor back to the base, and it took over his mind and their minds. Rogan became a different person once the armor was on and he started to kill everyone in the base who wouldn’t bow to his demand. Some of the more level-headed soldiers fought back but couldn’t kill him; it was as if the armor kept him alive.
The report also read they couldn’t find his body under the ice, but the water went far deeper than they could go, and the current could have easily taken him miles away. All she knew was she wasn’t ready to fight him again anytime soon.
She headed for the living room where the shouts of games where being played and found all of her family sitting there. She smiled at Raphael overjoy to see him on the couch playing with everyone. He came back to the family for the time being which made her happy. She looked over the faces stopping on Sesily who was staring at her in fear. She smirked a little ordering her, “Come Ses; you can help me get some food.”
“Okay,” Sesily squeak.
“Good luck,” Raphael said biting back a laugh as Helbis started to chuckle.
“Not funny guys,” Michael said as they walked out of the room.
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