101 The bright star (1/2)
Part 1
Evlin was inside Dalla's old cabin looking at her caretaker with watery eyes as she was being told by the person that had taken care of her for so long that soon she would be leaving this world.
Evlin couldn't stop crying and hugging her. She wanted to just stay there forever and never let her go, but Dalla simply looked at her a whispered a few words to remind her that her story was not over yet.
”...If you put your mind into it, there is nothing you can't do! You are a shining star! Your place is in the sky, shining so everyone can enjoy how bright you are!”
”But... But...”
”When you see your mother again, give her a big hug for me ok? Tell her she is lucky to have such a sweet kid as her daughter!”
”Dalla... I... ”
”I love you Evlin!! With all my heart!”
”I love you too Dalla!!”
Part 2
Evlin didn't want to let her friend go. Her best friend, the woman who had taken care of her when she couldn't walk or even move. But she also didn't want to disappoint her. Dalla expected great things from her, and she was determined to prove her right.
Her words kept ringing inside her mind.
”...You are a shining star! Your place is in the sky, shining so everyone can enjoy how bright you are!”
Evlin then took a deep breath and came out of her memory to return to the present reality.
Right now, she was staring at the leader of all demons who was glaring at her with its three dragon heads composed of thousands of demons merged together.
”I made a mistake... You are too dangerous... I thought I could control your power for myself but you are too dangerous of an existence to be controlled...”
Evlin glared as the demon leader continued to ramble. She noticed that he was raising his claws to squash her body using his massive weight of several creatures.
”Something like you is too dangerous to exist... If left alone you will throw the world into chaos... I MUST END YOU NOW!!!”
The triple-headed dragon brought down his claws and smashed the ground where Evlin was standing in, completely releveling the terrain.
”Evlin!!!”
Her sister Ashley and the rest of her friends could only look in horror as their leader was buried under that pile of demons and monsters. But suddenly, a small light started to glow inside the pile and all of the demons that were making up the dragon's hand were blown away in an explosion of energy.
After the smoke was gone Evlin looked at Ashley and released a smile towards her.
”You called?”
She stared at the dragon's mouth that was about to release a beam of dark energy at her and aimed her arm at him. She created a crossbow out of diamonds and started to gather energy on its tip.
”My turn!”
She released a diamond bullet surrounded by raw magic energy, blessed energy, and cursed energy.
Right now Evlin was bursting with so much power that she felt like she could release thousands of these bullets, but she was focusing so hard to keep all her powers in harmony that just making one made her arm felt like it was going to explode. She needed to focus or the energy inside of her would take over her being.
The bullet clashed with the dragon's beam and completely pierced it until it entered the dragon's mouth and opened a hole in it.
”Gaaaaaahhhhh!!!!”
The whole group assumed that the demon leader would simply start gathering more demons to close the wound but something was wrong.
”It's not closing... Why isn't it closing???”
The leader started to panic as he realized that even the power of his black sword was unable to repair the damage Evlin had created.
He turned his attention around and saw that the golden-winged silver-haired girl was now flying inches away from his face. Her fists were covered in diamonds and surrounded by three kinds of energy.
”Who knows... Maybe you forgot to say please.”
She punched the dragon's head with all her strength and completely blew it off into pieces. And much like the damage she had made before, the head was not regenerating.
The remaining two heads started to charge their dark energy into their mouths and tried to blast her from both sides.
Evlin opened her arms on both directions and created a pair of diamond energy-shields to block both attacks.
Once the two blasts of energy were fully depleted, she changed her shields into crossbows and released a rain of energy bullets into the dragon's entire body.
”Guaaaahhhh!!!!”
The demon leader was being pierced by bullets all over his body and since these bullets were covered in all three forms of energy, none of the wounds were regenerating.
”No... No!!! I can't die here!!! I came too far to be defeated now!!!”
The leader started to rampage in despair trying to blast Evlin with his mouth's cannon or smacking her with his tail, but every time he tried to do so, she simply repelled it with a combination of diamond constructions surrounded by energy.
”I can't be stopped now by a mere servant of the gods!! I will be the one to rule all!!!!”
”... I'm sorry... What did you just call me??”
Evlin flew towards the dragon head while flapping her gigantic golden wings and releasing raw energy from her boots to gain speed and started to grab it while speeding towards the sky carrying the entire creature's body with her. Thanks to her boosted strength provided by her combination of energies, the dragon weighted as a feather.
There was something that Evlin wanted to make it very clear with the demon leader. Ever since she entered this new world people have been coming at her non-stop trying to use her in one way or another with complete disregard about her own opinion.
People tried to capture her all the time. To use her power, to make her their lover, to find out where Marcus was, to take advantage of her situation. No matter when, where, who, or why, she was always treated as something anyone could just try to take possession of.
And now the demon leader just dared call her a servant of the gods. Once again she was being treated like she just a tool. The leader was fighting Evlin, but at the end of the day he wasn't even looking at her, he was looking at who he assumed she belonged to.
”Listen to me now Chuck...”
”Huh!!??”
Evlin glared at the leader with her multi-colored eyes and raised her voice so he could not miss a word she said.
”I. DO. NOT. BELONG. TO. ANYONE!!!”
”Wh- What!!??”
”I do not belong to the gods, my sister doesn't belong to you, my friends don't belong to West, and Marcus doesn't belong to East!!”
”What are you talking about??”
The demon leader was finally properly looking at Evlin.
”We are not tools, we are not weapons, we are not something that people can just come and try to take possession of as if we do not have free will! We. Are. Alive!!”
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She kept rising towards the sky while carrying the massive monster with her.
”We are people with feelings! We have our own goals, our own desires, our own plans on how we want to live our lives...”
”Let me go!!! I'm going to kill you!!! I'm going to kill you!!!!”
”So try to put something into that thick-headed skull of yours...”
She started to spin the dragon in the sky over and over again until she reached a certain amount of speed. And once she finally felt she had reached enough, she launched the beast towards the ground.
”Stop trying to decide who I belong to!! I belong to myself!! Now, and forever!!”
She created the biggest crossbow she has ever created, a large object made of diamonds that was twice her own size. She took target of the falling demon and released the largest diamond bullet that all of her combined power could create.
”I am the crossbow magician, the queen of recreation, defender of free-will, professional face-puncher, aspiring future teacher, my life and goals are too big for anyone to just try and hold me down! And starting from now on... I declare that anyone who tries to steal the freedom of others... WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO ME!!”
She released her giant bullet alongside all of the power from her body. The object flew at an absurd speed towards the dragon completely covered in energy, looking like a shooting star with all the different types of light surrounding it, and once it touched its body an explosion of magic energy, blessed energy, and cursed energy started to spread all over the sky.
”GUAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
The crossbow family who was watching the explosion from the ground noticed all of the demons from the leader's body being spread out all over the air due to the impact until the only thing remaining was a humanoid creature covered in dark energy carrying a black sword.
[”It's the demon leader's true body!! And that's the sword!! Evlin!!!”]
”I got it Marcus!!”
Evlin changed her crossbow into a giant fist of diamonds and started to fall from the sky like a missile.
The demon leader could only watch as a girl with massive wings charging at him with an enormous gauntlet kept coming closer and closer.
”Stay back... STAY BACK!!! Don't come any closer!!”
”What's wrong Chuck? Didn't you want my power? WELL HERE IT IS!! ALL OF IT!!!”
Evlin smashed the leader into the ground and raised a colossal pile of snow into the air from the impact.
”AAAAAAAARGHHHHHHH!!!!”
The demon leader, as well as the sword of nightmares, were completely destroyed by Evlin and her full combined power of three different types of energy as she engulfed him in an explosive pillar of light.
The pile started to disappear and the rest of the group observed as the girl emerged victorious from the smoke and walked towards them with a huge smile on her face.
Ashley couldn't help but release tears from her eyes at the sight of her hero coming out victorious from the biggest battle of her life.