author's note: comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

chapter 14 : Grand Skyfall

Today is a sad day. Although we only just met a few minutes ago, your grace, your voice, and your smile, has forever been engraved in my memory. The way you laugh never fails to send shivers on everyone that hears it, and when you enter a room you can be assured that all eyes will be set upon you. Every man becomes frozen stiff when you look at them with your ruby red eyes filled with overflowing murderous passion, and the way the blood spurts from your neck whenever you get excited makes me want to jump out from inside my owner's terminal and hide in a different land faraway. How I wish that I had a body, if I did, I would embrace you and reattach that head of yours back to its rightful place, only then will you become truly beautiful and I would be a little less freaked out when viewing your avatar, but alas my queen, I am but a series of numbers and electrical signals. All I can offer you is a moment of silence....

Okay, I guess the homicidal royal pain in the ass wielding a scythe and running around killing indiscriminately is going down for the count. Will everything be alright? a question that I want to ask my owner if only she wasn't preoccupied with other things. My owner is in a tight Pinch!!! how will she get out of this one!?

Ai~chan: " ahem... excuse me my dear owner, I was just wondering......

Wow!!! ( wistles ) your sweating so much and those cybergloves aren't really that heavy. the way that white thin cloth sticks to your wet skin, I can practically see everything! those soft developing snow white mounds and pink peaks that seemed non-existent when wearing your uniform, are now clearly bouncing with the slightest movement, and your...Hmmm.... (comes to a realization)

Help! Help!!! Police officer! you need to lock me up, I think i'm turning into a pervert!!!

<><><><><><>

Pov: Prim Valentine

Everywhere I look, I see the heads and guts of my men and their bodies mangled into an unrecognizable state. Chaos and terror are dominating their hearts and soul. The discipline that I engraved into them while training and fighting battles during these long years have completely vanished. They are now but a shadow of their former glory. I'm not sure whether i'd be disappointed or sad in their display. In the past, I looked up to the knights of our empire because of their status and battle prowess, the reason why I became a knight is because I wanted to be just like them. I wanted to be a hero, I wanted to be someone. unfortunately I was neither born a noble or as a man. Being born as a woman led me to be scourned by many because of my endeavor.

Constantly ridiculed by others, telling me that no woman will ever make it as a knight. That all I need to do is find a good man and marry into his name. Time and time again, I failed, but I stood up from the ground where I fell and looked straight to my goal. It gave me reason, this was my purpose in life, and I dont plan on living my life the way others tell me to.

My chance arrived in the most unprecedented way, defeating a magical beast that suddenly came down from the mountains and attacked our village was killed by me in an attempt to protect my friend Beatrice. I was slightly wounded, but I prevailed. The knight commander took notice of my abilities and was brought up as one of his own because he did not have a son to carry up his name.

Now, here I stand my dear father "Ignisius Von Valentine" the butcher of february. Not as a woman, Not as daughter, and Not as a mere Knight.

My Name, Prim Valentine "The White Flame Executioner" a member of the Sacred Blades!

I failed many times in the past but here I am standing in the peak of humanity and its glory.

You will Not Be the one that ends my Legacy. you will only serve as a stepping stone for my further growth.

Headless Queen: " Child, I will chop off your head and once I'm done, I'll reattach it to your neck with the help of your priest's healing magic, and I'll enjoy chopping it off once more until I'm satisfied!

Prim: " I sincerely doubt that Monster! I'll kill you here and take those high heel shoes for my own.

Headless Queen: " Over my Undead Body!!!!

I quickly unsheathed "White Rose" from my waist and ran towards the eight foot headless monster and lunged toward its chest, however the monster blocked my attack using the giant scythe that it wielded. Stepping back three meters, then running upto it once more. The monster attacked me by making a downward slash which I easily avoided by stepping to the side.

Seeing my chance I ran and lunged my blade towards its left leg, then pulling it and once more piercing its chest twice before I moved away into a safe distance. however it seemed to be ineffective. The monster then rushed towards me and flung its scythe into the direction of my head.

I narrowly escaped it by ducking down. Then I countered the monster with three slashes from my sword towards its body and it seemed to stagger for a moment before standing straight up as if nothing happed.

The headless monster then ran upto me before making a horizontal attack using the scythe. I jumped back to avoid it. but to my surprise it also followed me by jumping to my direction followed by a diagonal sweep using its weapon. I blocked it though using my blade but the force of the attack threw me off five meters.

In mid air I pierced the ground under me and used the strength in my arms to propel me back towards its direction. Then I raised my blade above my head before delivering five consecutive hits on different parts on its chest followed by a kick using my right feet, just in time before the scythe swung towards my body, narrowly missing me by a hairsbreadth.

When I landed on the ground I quickly pounced towards its lower body and pierced it three times, then I moved away again trying to check the damage I did.

The Monster fell on one leg, but after just two seconds, it stood up once more and charged towards me.

I lowered my body close to the ground and the monster passed me. then I turned quickly and slashed both its legs while I was at the same time evading the scythe.

the undead monster dropped down to the ground and I used the chance while it was unable to stand up. closing the distance immediately then jumping up above it, I proceed to give it ten piercing hits from my blade.

The monster swung its blade to me but I parried it easily, then I attacked its legs once more by slashing twenty times in a swift fluid motion.

The monster then punched my face using its left hand, throwing me away seven meters and I landed on the hard ground.

I quickly rolled away, just before the pointed part of the scythe penetrated the ground where I was once were. Standing up, I wiped the blood off from my lips before running towards the monster once again.

The monster swung its blade making a wide horizonal sweep. I dodge by ducking down and rolling towards it, When I was directly below it, I slashed its legs five times then moved towards its back. The monster fell forward with a thud.

Now I was directly behind the monster and it was down on the floor of the valley.

Seeing another chance, I jumped above the headless monster and used my Sacred Sword Arts!!!

The time slowed down, as I begin to deliver my first hit.

One, two, the impact of my pierce caused the ground to form cracks, then I attacked it once more! Three! and blood bursts from a hole that I created on the back of the monster and I pierced it again, Four! and again Five! Six! Seven!

The ground directly below us was slowly forming a crater and rocks from the side are begining to rise up.

Eight! Nine! Ten! My white rose begins to emit its flames as the attack rains down on the undead. Eleven!, Twelve! Thirteen!

I allowed all the strength in my body to flow towards my blade as I struck again! Fourteen! Fifteen!

Prim Valentine: " [ Impact Blazing Executioner!!! ]

Sixteen!

Seventeen!

Eighteen!

Nineteen!

Twenty!

The whole ground bursts into flames engulfing the undead monster as more attacks continued to rain down towards it! The crater getting bigger and bigger with every strike! and the ground shook while large chunks of earth gets thrown away from the epicenter of flames.

when my attack finished, I delivered all one hundred strikes filled with holy magic. The undead lay on the ground filled with holes and smoke coming from its burned flesh.

I stood there on its back panting hard, before bending downwards and proceeding to collect the high heel shoes from the undead's feet.

<><><><><><>

Pov: Aria

" I was flabbergasted! I cannot it anyway believe what I was seeing. The level 90 undead that I treasured was easily dealt with. All the time I spent collecting the essence from different monsters and crystals, the amount of gold that i used in order to pay overpriced magical runes have all been wasted in a mere twelve minutes.

" Seeing its demise was like accidentally dropping your favorite cake minutes after you bought it.

with a wave of my right hand, I motion a holographic screen to reveal the status of the battle, and numerous windows popped out, revealing all the information regarding the amount of enemy forces, their current equipment and strength. When It was finished loading, I was not pleased with what I saw.

Aria: " Not so good. There are still too many of them left. " I said this after I saw the remaining forces of the enemy.

The only saving grace that I have right now is the fact that the undead warriors and soldiers were still intact, but the question is for how long?

Aria: " I need a secondary opinion here...... Ai~chan! you there? " and with a *beep* sound, my terminal quickly replied.

Ai: " [ you called? ]

Aria: " Can you give me a quick simulation on the result of this battle with my current undead forces? "

Ai: " [ processing..... ]

[ notice! ]

battle results in your Loss

Dedneriv Army total remaining forces after combat would amount to 2,376

2,129 lightly wounded

247 seriously wounded with high chances of dying.

Hmm... I guess it all goes down to me getting my hands dirty. Like they say, if you want things done right you have to do it yourself. Sigh..... I really wish Barm was here. I could just shove this into his face no questions asked, I need more retainers, maybe I should try and tame some bunnies next, oh well.... I only need to stall for a little bit more time, how hard can it be?

Aria: " What if I was included in the vanguard and Gallus Athen provided support using long ranged offensive magic?

Ai: " [ Long Ranged Offensive Magic? are you perhaps pertaining to that spell? ]

Aria: " Yes. "

Ai: " [ What the Fuck!? ]

<><><><><><>

From high above the clockwork sky, a white haired girl descended, her soft flowing twin tails swayed in the wind like it was dancing. The surrounding Knights and other soldiers looked up at her with Awe. Enveloped in a sphere of light and two rings rotating around that looked like halo's, coupled by her angelic face and blue saphire eyes that can easily melt a man's heart just by looking at it, Left each and everyone of them speechless and the sweat that covered her entire body, caused the thin white fabric to stick to her skin, completely revealing what was underneath, Pure, Unblemished, Overwhelming Power!!!

" A goddess?

" An Oracle?

" None of the Knights, Guardians and Wizards surrounding her knew.

When she landed on the ground, both her left and right cybernetic glove began to light up in the color of Blue and Red. As the light starts to vanish, in her hands she held two weapons, one on each. It was a weapon that is completely Unavailable in this world ruled by swords and magic, but the shape was truly unmistakable.

she then pointed it towards their direction and soon enough a quick succession of explotions resounded in the air and one by one, Knights, Guardians, Mages, Wizards, Priest's and Acolytes fell on the ground.

That was when they realized what had descended upon them.

It was Death Itself!!!

*bang!* *bang!* *bang!*

the attack was merciless, and unforgiving, It claimed their lives faster than their ability to guess what was happening until they were sprawled on the ground lifeless.

<><><><><><><><><>

[ notice! ]

Ai~chan: "Help! Help!!! Police officer!

[ notice! ]

Ai~chan: " Somebody call an ambulance!!!

chapter end

"

"

"