Leaving the last 2 golden warriors to Kat and Claire. One was armed with a rapier, the other had a Flamberge Zeihander, both had an arrogance to them that went beyond pride, they stood shoulder to shoulder, braced for the coming fight. Kat circled around, aimed her gauntlet at the warrior with the rapier.
"Rapid shots," she called as a quick fire series of purple arrowheads punched into the golden warrior, most of them dented the chest plate, one punctured it, and it's black blood oozed out. It looked puzzled at the damage, then roared at Kat, swinging the sword in a wide swing, she blocked it with the heft of her hammer, rolling under the blow, she dropped her left hand from the heft and punched it into the creatures wrist, "wide beam!" she shouted, the blast severed the creatures sword hand, it howled again this time in pain, the creatures black blood sizzled as it hit Kat's armour and its sword crashed to the floor. Kat stepped away, and the Golden Warrior stumbled and picked the sword up with its off hand, it's face worried, all arrogance drained away. It looked for its companion but had moved to far away to get any help there. It made several practiced swings with it's sword, forcing Kat back, blocking with her hammer as it sort an opening. Kat was running out of options, the creature was a very good with its sword, leaving nothing Kat could do to force an opening in it's defense, until she remembered a tactic from the army base. She deflected its next thrust, and went low, punching it in the kneecap, she shouted "wide beam!" and took its leg out, it toppled over howling in pain and defeat. Kat looked down at it, "Rapid blast!" the shots punched into it's face, ending it.
Claire faced the second one armed with a great sword, it sprang forward, sword used like a lance, she smacked it aside with her sword, and slammed the buckler into it's face, "Rainbow dazzle!" she called, the light hit it in the face, blinding it temporarily, it swung wildly with it's sword to make some space for itself. Claire stepped back to avoid the Flamberge, she swung the shield in at it's elbow, connecting with a dull clang, "Rainbow shield enbiggen!" she called, the segments lengthened and cut the arm off that held the sword, before the creature could react, she powered her sword into the gap at the creatures arm pit. She shrieked in triumph and pulled her sword out with twist, turning around she saw Kat busy with her opponent, the Romans starting on the first of the red creatures, and the 2 green things at the scar. "shield smaller," she called as she flicked some of the blood off her sword. "Rainbow blaze" she called out and the light spilled forth, washing over the green things, one was down and dissolving, the other was advancing on Angel and the red coats, she watched Angel fire a beam of bright orange at the creature that left a hole in its chest. Major Beckham moved around the group and headed towards the Romans. The Royal Guard reloaded, and dispatched one of the Troopers to get more ammunition from the back of the Land Rover, Angel came over to Claire.
"Healing Light" they both called out and watched as rainbow and orange light flowed into the scar. They didn't notice the green creature getting up, they did hear Kat shouting,
"Concussion Strike!" and felt the draft as her hammer windmilled close behind them. As the heft connected with the creature, there was a thunder clap and an arc of purple lightning. In the background they could hear several sharp fizzes and vwooppps and flashes of light and clatter of an SA 80 as the 7 people in armour fought the red creatures. Kat stompped behind them and grasped the hammer head, "If anyone asks, the head hit first." The Creature moved and groaned, Kat slammed the hammer into its head, picking it up she drew her wand and joined her friends and used her own healing power and a wave of purple healing light joined the the orange and rainbow light healing the scar, as they layered light on the Rift, they all saw a point of blue appear, it formed a hand, then a shoulder and finally a figure, that faded as the scar was healed. Angel asked first,
"You saw that as well?" Kat and Claire both replied with yes, "Does that mean Morven is still alive? Trapped over there all this time?"
"I don't know, " Claire looked at the point they'd seen the figure, "but next time I'm going through and finding her." Both Kat and Angel argued that they all should go, Claire's counter argument was simple, she held up 5 fingers, and counted down, 1 finger down with each name, "Valentine, Raul, Gabriel, Amy and Thea. They need you here, you cannot cross over and risk being stranded," she pointed at the place the scar had been, searching for the word but couldn't find one, "... There, with no way back." Kat and Angel looked at each other both thinking the same thing, that as much as they both wanted to bring Morven back, but didn't want to leave their kids alone, "you 2 will need to decide who takes the cats if I don't make it back though."
"Okay" said Angel
"Sure", agreed Kat.
Far away, but just feet from them on the other side of a wall that wasn't there, surrounded by dead creatures of different types a woman in patched up armour of various shades of blue paint, slumped to the floor and cried, a very large hand rested on her shoulder, a great axe crashed to the ground next to her. She looked up at a face of a minotaur, the familiar metal plates that the healer that had saved her life had used to fix her face after they'd escaped the army looked back at and huffed and pulled her in for a hug, hair that had once been a a vibrant auburn, but was now sliver moved over her shoulders as she hugged her friend. Tawny eyes looked at the point where she had been so close to getting home.
"Get up kiddo, we have a long way to go if we are to reach the next site before they can fix it and shut you off again." The minotaur huffed.
"We'll need something that flies to ge us there." Morven's accent was a strange mix of So Cal and Lancashire, " what Warlord around here owes us a favour, Trix?" The Minotaur, Beatrice, reached into her bag and brought out a ledger and thumbed threw the pages, then brought out a map and compared the 2.
" None near enough, but we do have one, Goleyingh Eater of Flesh that we've been asked to have words with." Morven sniffed, wiped her nose on the back of her gauntlet and stood up.
"Let's go kill us a Warlord and steal his stuff, check around here there might be some things we can trade with on these dead arse holes." Morven went through the pockets of one of the green creatures they'd killed, she pulled out a clam shell out of ones pouch and looked at it. It sparked a memory in her, she fumbled in a pouch on her belt and brought out her communicator and cracked it open. It glowed like she remembered, "Angel, Claire, Kat can you hear me?" she spoke into it, "Come on answer me, Angel, Claire, Kat can you hear me?"
Claire's voice came out of the speaker "Morven is, is that you?"
"Yes! Oh my god yes! Oh it's so good to hear your voice." she walked around, tears in her eyes again. "Listen we're making our way to the where the next breach is going to be, we need you to hold it open for as long as you can so we can get across."
Behind the Claire's voice Morven could hear the sounds of battle, with Kat shouting "Concussive strike", and Angel calling "Beam blast" and well as the ringing of metal on metal
"We don't know how long it will be before it goes off on our side, but when it does we will be tbere, I'm going to come over and help get you back." Claire told her
"If you do, you'll be fighting your way through an army. I'll have a friend with me and possibly some others but there's going to be far more of the demons than there will be of us."
"Okay, but we are not going to leave you over there, we want to get you home, we miss you."
"I know. I'll see you soon, one last thing when I get home I want to watch The Lord Of The Rings, get a dvd sorted."
Tears fell from Claire as she replied "I'll borrow my cousins special editions on blu Ray."
She could hear the smile in Morven's voice as she came back over the communicatior, "I'll try to reach you when we get our rides sorted. Tell my parents I love them and miss them. Speak soon." she clicked of and smiled, for the first time in 2 decades Morven felt hope.
Claire closed her communicator and looked around several new holes and a dozen fires had sprung up, the Romans, duplicates, Kat and Angel had finished off the red creatures/demons. As Claire caught up, Kat was dispelling the duplicates, they desolved once again into smoke and glitter and went back into the hammer..
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