A week has passed since the painful incident. Kira lost two precious individuals in her life, her Mum and Leonardo. Nyxx as well, after so many years she finally found her little brother but it was too late. Jonathan got away thanks to the regenerative abilities his special serum granted him.

One of the "Penter" Corporation's huge skyscrapers blew up like it was shot down by a missile.

One of the high ranked officials was on his side on the pavement, trying to desperately get up and run but then.

Footsteps from behind

Nyxx grabbed him by his collar and pulled him up on his feet.

"Where is Jonathan MacMillan?"

"Please. I'll tell you everything. We're supposed to have a meeting this evening, you'll find the message on my phone, here take it but please just spare me, I have two daughters please!!"

Nyxx took the phone as she replied, "I used to have a family too. I'd have spared you but you're not wearing a ring, shaaaaame, little liar!!"

Zap!

He screamed as electricity ran through Nyxx's arm, shocking him to his death

Nyxx surfed through his phone as she walked back to her car and drove back home.

"One down, one more to go," Nyxx mumbled to herself with a displeased look on her face.

As for Kira, she kept herself isolated. She goes to school, comes back home, barely eats anything then heads up to her room, sits by the window, and stares at the sky until she falls asleep. It's so rare for her to talk to anyone even her friends at school are starting to get worried, especially Mira.

Every time Smith passed by her room all he could hear was sobs, he couldn't confront his daughter, he feared that it might make things worse so he decided that he should give her some time.

Smith turned on the TV to watch the news. "One of the main "Penter"Corporation's buildings was blown up this evening, what's even weirder is that up to five lightning strikes hit the building prior to the explosion, stay tuned, New York's news!"

That's when Smith remembered the conversation he had with Nyxx by the graveyard when he overheard her promise to Leo's grave that she'll make them all pay. When he confronted her, all he could see was the spark in her eyes and the hatred she's holding within.

"Goddammit, Nyxx!" he got up, put on his coat, and left the house, heading to where she's living.

20 minutes later he arrived at Nyxx's mansion. He saw Nyxx walking out to her car in a red dress.

"Not now, Smith. I'm busy." without even looking at him, she tried to open the car's door but he closed the door, preventing her from entering the car.

Smith grabbed Nyxx by her arm, "You've got to stop this or you'll end up dead too!"

Nyxx stares at him in the eyes with rage and fury.

"Let go of my arm right now or else...-"

"Or else wha-..." before he could finish he got shocked by electricity and got tossed backward.

"Don't worry. I've disabled your nerve system temporarily. You'll stay paralyzed for like twenty minutes. Sorry but I can't waste any more time." And with that, she got into her car and drove off. Smith was helpless he couldn't move at all to chase after her.

Thirty minutes later Nyxx reached a wide parking lot. It started to rain. Nyxx stepped out of her car and scanned the area. That's when she saw Jonathan standing there, holding a gem, and surrounded by his armed men.

Nyxx was already exhausted, she's been using her magic without taking a break and used up almost half of it.

"Ah, Avril, you're finally here!!!" Said Jonathan in excitement.

"I knew rats like you don't die so easily."

"You look exhausted, dear, perhaps Infamous Lightning Empress requires a little bit of rest is before we continue this family conversation?"

"An Empress does not rest," Nyxx's eyes flicker with blue electricity "Not until she takes her enemies deep down to the Abyss"

Nyxx's hair rose up and her lightning flickers around her arms.

But then, a portal from the world of Utopia opened and five squads of the utopian Royal Army, led by Alexander The first Lieutenant of Royal Utopian Army and the strongest of all the Queen's Lietenants. Chloe, The Ice second Lieutenant after Alexander and the second strongest and Arthas, the third Lieutenant of the queen and his student, Zara.

Chloe possesses a mastery of Ice and winter, she was also Nyxx's best friend in Utopia.

Alexander has brute strength and the most powerful defense of all.

(The ranking system of the queen's Lieutenants goes from ten to one, Ten is the least powerful of them while one is the most powerful of them all)

Arthas is known to have a mastery of the art of light while Zara was just good at the art of earth.

"Uh, great!" Jonathan rolled his eyes.

"Well well, if it's not the two most wanted criminals in Utopia. Jonathan MacMillan who brutally murdered his wife, and his daughter who misused the magic she's learned in Utopia to commit mass murder, add to the list, disobeying direct orders from the queen. My lucky day!! But, wanna know what's even more fabulous? Is that you've finally reconnected with your magic which made it easier to locate you!" Said Arthas in excitement "I've gotta admit, getting rid of your magic and sealing it for the past two years was quite the smart move, but re-using it was the most stupid one of all!"

"What're you doing here?" Nyxx got even more irritated.

Arthas appeared to her right in a flash with light speed and swung his sword towards her neck, trying to slash her but Nyxx only stared at him as her electricity produced an electromagnetic field. The field prevented Arthas's sword from passing through towards Nyxx's neck.

"My my, aren't you a naughty one?" Nyxx smirked as she generated an electrical current and directed it towards Arthas, the electric currents were chasing after him but he kept jumping backward, right and left, dodging it.

"Wow, you look so pissed, Avril, are you on your period? haha!" He started mocking her until he noticed Chloe and Alexander standing aside.

Arthas sighed as he looked at Chloe, "You're not gonna help us out? Oh wait, you don't want to fight your best friend, I get it. Worry not I can take her on myself easily, just try not to get hit"

"Yeah, good luck with that." Chloe shook her head.

"Arthas, don't provoke her, there's a reason why the queen assigned the three of us to capture Avril" Alexander warned him.

A lightning strike came down on one of the SUV's, blowing it up completely

"Take me on? Watch your words, BOY!" Now Nyxx is pissed.

Her hair rose up and her eyes flickered with electricity even more. All the cars in the parking lot started to levitate behind Nyxx with Electricity currents slithering between them like snakes, it was like electricity was linking them all

"I was the first Lieutenant two years ago at the age of sixteen while you were still studying the basics of magic, boy. You still need a thousand years to catch up to ME!!"

And then, Nyxx dropped all the cars around them in the shape of a circle.

Electricity passed through all the cars, making direct lines of electricity between them all until they have formed the shape of Solomon's star.

"Begone!" Nyxx frowned as she stomped the floor as the star exploded with massive electricity current, reaching up to the sky like some pillar of explosions, killing everyone inside of it, however. Arthas slipped away with his super-fast light speed. Alexander used his golden shield to protect both Jonathan and Zara while half of Jonathan's men were fried by the electricity.

(Instead of red, it's a blue lightning explosion, enjoy)

Nyxx gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, "Why . . . . WHY ARE YOU PROTECTING HIM, ALEXANDER?!!"

"ENOUGH!" Chloe yelled at Nyxx.

"Enough, Avril. I know it's hard to lose someone but get it together for God's sake. No need for all of this, ok? Please, just come back with us and let the court decide, the judges might consider your situation, after all, there's no need to lose everything like that." Chloe was hoping that Nyxx might listen to her and consider their old friendship.

Nyxx stared at the ground for a moment and mumbled, "There's . . . . nowhere to go back to . . . . My sister was murdered, my mum was murdered, my brother was murdered by my own father." she looked back at Chloe with a shocked look on her face as her body started to glow in green, "I'VE ALREADY LOST EVERYTHING!"

"Avril, DON'T!"

Nyxx vanished as she transformed into a lightning charge going up to the sky until she reached the clouds. A spear of lightning was shaping into her right hand, it was glowing with massive electricity.

She aimed at them, about to throw the spear with all of her strength.

"What in the hell is she doing?" Asked Zara, Arthas's student.

"She's using her own life force to fuel her next attack, this is bad." Chloe had a shocked look on her face.

"AVRIL, STOP! YOU'RE GONNA GET YOURSELF KILLED, PLEASE!"

"I'm ok with dying, but first, I'm gonna kill every single one of you!!" she threw the spear with all of her might.

The spear whooshed until it reached the ground, its size decreased and it vanished, scattering into small blue light particles, filling the entire parking lot.

"Shit, GET DOWN... Chloe, deploy all your magick for defense!" Alexander instructed them as he charged his shield with all his magic to protect Zara.

Chloe initiated a large ice umbrella above them while Alexander supported it with the golden light flickering from his shield.

And so, The Lightning Empress shouted, commanding the sky, for Lightning to hear her words for it shall obey her authority and fury, "LIGHTNING RAIN!!!"

The blue light particles glowed as the sky directed all of its furies towards the group, all of them, Alexander, Zara, Jonathan, Arthas, 5 Royal knights squads and Jonathan's men.

And so, lightning was raining on Chloe's Ice Umbrella like a machinegun until it started to shatter and broke even though Chloe directed all of her magic to it but it wasn't strong enough against Nyxx's fury.

The sky was roaring, lightning was falling down on them like rain, it was the scariest moment they have ever had, to see so much power facing them solo, to see the true power of the Lightning Empress if not a Lightning Goddess they're facing.

However, the attack halted as Nyxx was panting, breathing heavily as she was too exhausted while flickering with electricity in the sky. And there was the shock.

Alexander focused all of his magic to protect Chloe, Zara, and Jonathan in a small radius which barely saved them from the attack. Arthas slipped through and dodged with his light speed. As for the rest. They were all wiped out, the ground was all black, cracked, all the cars blew up, the whole area was messed up with fire all around them.

"You . . . . saved him . . . . again?" Nyxx clinched her fist and slowly started to generate another lightning spear, but barely able to focus, her hands were shaking, her body couldn't take it for long.

"Avril, PLEAS-. " Chloe tried to shout but she couldn't finish it when she saw a laser launched towards Nyxx's right shoulder, piercing it like a bullet.

Nyxx took the hit and slowly lost her attitude, falling towards the ground.

"NO!" Chloe casted an ice wall, sliding to the ground curved from the top for Nyxx's body to slide on it and land safely. Nyxx's body hit the wall's top and started rolling but Chloe caught her in her arms, she then stared at Arthas with eyes full of rage.

"Was that really NECESSARY?!!"

"I'm sorry, did you see what she's done so far? She's DANGEROUS!"

"Enough!" Alexander shouted, "We need to return back, our objective was to capture Avril, now we have her, she'll get treated in the prison until her court, as for yo-..", oh yeah, looks like Jonathan is long gone, again.

Alexander sighed, "We'll get him another day, let's move out."

And so, the group took Nyxx through the portal to Utopia.

Jonathan returned back to his underground hideout in the forest while holding a gem. The gem was flickering with blue energy. It was holding compressed magic after he used it to absorb Nyxx's lightning strikes. He stared at the gem and grit his teeth, "Damn those Utopian assholes" He then smashed his fist on his table. He stared down at an old photo of him, his wife, Alexandra, Avril, and, Leo. He clenched his fist and walked off "DAMN IT!".

*End of Chapter 18*

What will happen to Nyxx now? What will happen to the Lightning Empress? And where did Jonathan go?

That's what chapter 19 will reveal.