She raised an eyebrow as she ran her tongue over her new found fangs...those were new...She didnt have a craving for blood at all...so she wasn't a vampire...though the purple sparks coming from her hand were dangerously close to sparkles....As Sophia and the others fed off her energy she could feel a steady but slight drain on her reserves. Valdis flashed a smile towards Sophia when she asked if she was ok.

"They showed up when I was doing something positive so I assume I am alright"

Valdis blinked when suddenly a vision of herself appeared before her and hurled a fire ball. She ducked and side stepped the oncoming attacks while quietly processing what the hell was going on. Scorpio had said something before this happened...he must have been talking about the dark kingdom.

"This explains their motivation now..."

She looked around, everything was dark...She looked back towards herself with a bored expression.

"Oh so powerful you keep missing yourself, what I say though intrigues me....by birth right? Meaning I was born with those abilities? Usually one has to be corrupted they're not born with such abilities."

This was an intriguing thought; if these powers were a natural part of her then no amount of purification was going to eliminate it....since it belonged there. Valdis stepped closer to herself, a sly smile on her face.

"Queen you say? Of this world...."

The world they were in was obviously the dark kingdom; the thought of her being queen here intrigued her. Although she wasn't much for stealing souls, she found when someone fallowed you freely it worked out so much better. She reached out and cupped her doubles face, a flash of fangs showed as she grinned at her from a tilted head.

"We will see if this power is truly as strong as you think it is. I accept my birth right and this new mystery"

She laughed as she absorbed the energy that her double has, her laughter slowly gaining a maniacal tone to it. Her purple energy gained a maroon tinge as it began to crackle around her. Her eyes blazed and gained the maroon tint the pupils dilating to slits. Her violet locks turned the pure white of her doubles growing down past her knees. Long sharp claws formed on her hands, purple striped marking forming on her wrists. The dark world fell apart around her as she came forth into reality.

Looking down at her knew form she grinned, the energy of hate and anger was invigorating. Her own energy seemed to feed off of it. Her whole body seemed invigorated, stronger, faster, this form it felt as though she was finally right in her skin. Valdis stretched her clawed hands, and with a leap she sprang into battle. Her speed was increased drastically as she came into the attack from behind. She wrapped her arms around the shadow mans neck and sunk her fangs into the fleshy part of his neck, her venom injecting itself into his neck.

He paled, he had oh so been hoping for a dogless fight for once. But there his nightmare stood....eating...he got sick right then and there. It was eating Val and Sophia......dear lord that was wrong. HOW ....how was that thing alive, when did it get Val and Sophia...Val had been buried most of that fight. His eyes bugged out as he froze in fear, Valdis was talking to him....Valdis's dead corpse was talking to him....that was too much...He turned around and ran screeching like the little girl he was.

"Dead bodies can't talk dead bodies can't talk"

He curled up in a little ball clutching his head, rocking back and forth. Slowly gathering himself together.

"Ok girls are zombies and the dog is eating them. This is isn't real, this has to be fake...sure as hell looks real though...

It made some good points tho, he was here cowering.....although the wolf eating the talking dead bodies could be a good thing...it would take care of the zombie problem...He took a deep breath and looked around, he could do this...he was all alone but he could do this. He stood up and turned back towards the beast. He ran towards it with a shout, staff raised above his head. With his full strength he brought his staff down upon the dog, as soon as it made contact, he turned and ran away shrieking once more.

The small girl stood in the darkness, a halo of crimson surrounding her as the weeping hole in her chest pumped blood with each heartbeat. No, she was supposed to be dead, wasn't she? She said she was, and he had seen that wound before all too often. No human could survive long enough to talk like that, not with a .50 caliber slug cutting right through them. Oh sure, if it were a hollow-point, maybe it would make sense after shredding most of her innards, but even a weak .223 Remington boat tail full metal jacket round zipping through would kill her faster.

David considered all of these thoughts, but it still didn't stop her from talking.

He wanted to say something, but what could he say? Yinko knew she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and had been turned by the Covenant. She was a traitor, and he couldn't risk the internal security of his cell soul searching for a misguided girl who had been abused and tainted until she became a compliant pet. No, this was a matter of classic Clausewitz theory: the nastier, the bloodier, and the more relentless he pursued his goal, the swifter the war would come to an end. The reason he had lost so many was because of this very honey trap, and that's precisely why the Covenant loved it so much.

But what about the Sandinista viewpoint? Guerrilla warfare demanded he consider politics in every action. That is why the Intifada were able to defeat the Israelis on the West Bank with nothing but rocks against the latest in reactive armor tanks. A bunch of Palestinian college kids that carried out their ideals through actions didn't have to consider Napoleonic tactics. The message itself, such a simple concept, really, backed up with force in the support role made all the difference. What was Yinko's message, really? Was it that mankind needed to fight this war to every tooth and nail until nothing was left, or that what humanity needed was something other than Covenant rule?

Either way, explaining would do nothing, not to the girl be she corpse or not. The girl continued to speak, staring him down, still trying to convince him, make him commit suicide. Why? What for? How would that solve anything? David could feel the girl's argument tugging at his heartstrings, and tried to shut it out.

Clenching his teeth, Yinko shut his eyes, his mind seeking out into the distant void. At first, there was nothing. Was David really alone? What happened to the others? Then, slowly, the muffled echo, the fringe of contact pushed past the fog. It was a voice he didn't recognize, someone from the battle, maybe? She was...rallying them against an illusion?

"You're dead," Yinko's haunting voice boomed in the void, rocking the girl ever so slightly on her feet. "You don't matter. The victor writes history, the victor passes their successes to the next generation. You're just worm food!" Dressed in his black fatigues, raising a pistol into a Chapman stance taking aim, Yinko snarled. "Circle of life and all that..."

Anyone who got in the way of his cell's operations and the political message of the resistance was a threat, and had to be dealt with accordingly: no questions asked, no prayers, no regrets. That's what David told himself as Yinko squeezed the trigger.

The white flash and resounding bang stirred David from the trance just in time to see a shadow man staggering, dealing with... a girl with fangs? Vampires, really? David didn't know whether to roll his eyes or stare in disbelief. Who was coming out of the woodwork next? Mormon bicycle gangs?

The fight was getting ugly, confusing. The shadow man was... was that Scorpio? He was certainly Covenant, but the vampire chick... was she also the enemy? This could have been an internal power struggle. But this raised other questions. Who were these others for him to trust? Could he even trust Sophia? This was a mess.

Turning his back to the battle, David went straight up to the Venus senshi, extending his right hand. "Rifle, now!" he barked.

Killian was going to follow up his rage induced attack with another one. But he was in the same blast raidius as Oni and Scropio. This did not harm Kail but woke him out of the fury he had. While trying to get to his senses he hears something screaming in and sees missiles coming. The armored hero jumps back a few times and just braces for the explosion. With a blast of force Exia was forced back and fell back. The knight gets back up but was tired, drained, and the poison was getting to him. There was a feeling of a slight shock as Scorpio still was kicking and unleash a powerful psychic attack on him and most of the others.

When he came to this vision though Killian felt the overwhelming feelings of disgust and hate on him. As the two shadows mocked him and struck his insecurities. Even more so it was coming from his parents and that hurt. Killian wanted to get away but to his horror his legs were incased in ice. He tried to keep calm "I....would reject all of that as its not truth. But....in reality perhaps it is true. Within each person there is always one thing that will topple every one. There own worst enemy them selves"he said to the two shadows. Trying to get himself a grip on what was going on. Not only that, his confidence was also rising.

"Perhaps I can not get a girlfriend now. As the time may not be right or my duty as a Knight may not give me a chance. My ideas can still be heard if one person listens to them....like throwing a stone into a lake. There will be small ripples...but they will slowly turn into waves" he said and then his eyes glared at the two and then laughed bitterly at the two shadows. "hahahahahaha you think joining the covenant will give you perfection,your perfect strength?That is not true strength, Everyone has weakness within them, if they can over come there weakness through studying, training, or even getting guidance for someone. That is true strength NOW BEGONE FROM MY MIND YOU DEMON" he roared and forced his mental energies back at Scorpio.

Before Yuki could figure out what was going on, her world suddenly seemed to go black. Out of the darkness emerged an image of Kousuke and for a brief moment Yuki’s heart almost skipped a beat. However, she quickly noticed that he was with a girl….one who had all the traits Yuki lacked and jealousy struck her like a knife.

You mean nothing to me….I wanted something more feminine….. His words hurt, but that last part made Yuki clench her fists, her hands shaking. All of a sudden she felt an intense anger towards Kousuke and resentment towards the faceless girl. And all at once, Yuki realized that she did in fact like Kousuke and also realized what a joke such an idea was. They were making fun of her and she wanted to hit them…wanted them to hurt.

However, an almost unnoticeable light slowly began to shine through and caused Yuki to pause and make her rethink the situation. It was painful to know that the person she realized she liked didn’t care for her….but what was being angry about it going to change? If she wasn’t even able to move on from this, then Yuki was a lot weaker than she thought. Slowly, her hands began to unclench.

”Fine then...I’ll just get over you. I have much larger goals I’m chasing after anyway.” There were still feelings of jealousy and resentment….but those feelings didn’t feel so overwhelming anymore.

Luna and Artemis finally arrived on the scene panting as they as usual cowered behind a bush on the fringe of the battlefield where most of the senshi and guardian knights were in some kind of a trance.

"...I really wish they would stop running off to these things while we're asleep." Artemis bemoans as he catches his breath and begins to look at the scene around them. A scene of devastation and a volume of Chaos energy that made his fur stand on edge. Luna glares as she sees the creature and then the couple of people still fending him off.

"We have to try to get them to snap out of it..." Luna murmurs as she runs up to Amarissa amid the firefight and pats and claws and pokes at her ankles to try to snap her out of the trance. Artemis runs across to where Sophia was and nudges her.

"Sophia, snap out of it!"" the white mau shouts to his partner.

As the backlash hits Kousuke his arm immediately seizes up and he feels power draining out of him. After a few moments he looks down to realize he had lost his transformation and was now in his mortal form. "Shit!" He grunts as he looks back up towards Scorpio. However, as he does his mind is suddenly invaded by a scene of extreme disappointment.

As Kousuke stands on the court staring up at Drake he does indeed feel anger. Losing the game was one thing, but Drake had done it again, gotten two of his friends, people whom he trusted to turn their backs on him. However, as his anger flares hotter and he prepares to shout at the pompous prick he realizes that this isn't the same as last time. Drake was not deceiving the girls, at least not obviously, Kousuke had lost and if his friends had abandon him for such a reason that was not Drake's fault.

Kousuke scoops an inflated ball off the ground and stares up with a look of challenge at his rival. This wasn't over, he'd play again he'd win next year. And until then he deserved to lose what he had lost. He was the ace, when the team lost a game it was his responsibility, he would bear with whatever the outcome was. However, he had to say one thing before he left. "Drake, I may have lost and I can accept your insults, but those are my friends you are messing with, and if you hurt either of them...I'll find you." He warns in a calm and dangerous voice. Then he turns and walks out of the gym...there was nothing more to say.

Though as he leaves memories of playing ball with Yuki and of Amarissa's confession flash through his mind and a small smile comes to his face. Then as he walks out the door he whispers "Their fake."

The beast screams. It burned, Oni feels power seap out of him as the ray of purifying light collides with him. All of the wounds that were still not fully healed come back in force and the poison from attacking Scorpio begins to destroy him from the inside as well. Lance's roar of anger was quickly turning into one of agony as the beast retreats back leaving only a battered and bruised mortal man to fight, and his injuries are only compounded as Scorpio throws him through a tree.

Lance hits the ground amidst a symphony of snapping sounds as several dozen bones break and his right arm contorts into a strange angle. He feel a warm liquid well up in his mouth, probably blood from one of his lungs or something. I'm pretty sure I heard that can happen when one of your ribs stabs a lung.

Lance looks back out at the battlefield and despite himself he smiles. It looks like his part of this fight was finally over. This is enough right? I've done well, I can finally sleep. He says as his eyes begin to close and he begins to die. However, the moment was suddenly interrupted by senshi with long green hair. She didn't seem like the others he had seen, but maybe she had just arrived late. He opens his mouth to tell her to leave him alone, but with as battered as he was speaking was impossible.

Her words slowly creep into his mind and through the haze of near death he manages to make out that she must be the original holder of this power. Well she can have it back then, I'm not going to need it. However as he closes his eyes again, expecting this to be the last time he suddenly feel a warm light envelope him. Strength floods into his body, he feels his bones snap back into place and most of his major injuries heal as the pain which had been drowning out everything else begins to abate.

As he gets to his feet he realizes that he is now dressed in a fight suit of black leather armor and the broken spear that Oni carries is whole in his hand. For some reason he understands what the spear is. The Singing Spear... Without fully realizing what he is doing Lance plants the spear into the ground and begins to sing the War Chant that always cycled through his mind as Oni. As the spear amplifies the sound allies who can hear it, those who seek to kill Youma and the Covenant are given enhanced physical abilities, and for any non-senshi/knights they are bestowed the power of Eris allowing them to harm youma and creatures like Scoprio.

Before she could register anything else she had been pulled into a hug by Sailor Venus and Valdis, "Wha are ye doin?" She said right before she could feel the wound on her back healing completely and feeling emotions she knew were not hers. She hadn't realized how much pain she was still in until the pain escaped her and she was healed. She sighed a breath of relief, but she didn't have a chance to say thank you because she was completely stunned by what she saw in front of her. "Oi Val...are ye feelin alright? Ye look a bit purple aroun tha gils..."

Keitha wouldn't hear the answer even if it was given. She saw black skinned human and caught a glimpse of her mother, but that couldn't be right her mom was dead. When could see that it was her, blood burst from her mothers stomach and her body crumpled to the ground. That's when she saw her siblings on the already dead, their lifeless eyes staring blankly at her. She held back a sob looking up to see those faceless covenant creatures with their disgusting grins. She ducked and flinched as they charged her, gritting her teeth. She wanted to cry, she wanted to break down and scream for her family, but she couldn't and she wouldn't. She had to much pride for that. "I will not give ye the satisfaction of seein me tears. I will fight to avenge me family, but I won't do it outta hate ya bloody bastard." She spit in the creature's face who held the knife to her. "An as fer me cuttin me self, sorry not happenin, I like me life jus tha way it is. Yer not real yer an illusion who's too weak ta fight so ye ave ta influence me mind to distract me. You should be tha one who's cryin mate not me."

As Keitha's confidence grew her hatred an need for revenge seemed to fade, even though she suspected she had help from all of the healing juju inside her still. The illusion around her melted and she found herself back in reality looking around as if just waking up. She felt kind of fuzzy because her mind wasn't registering everything, it did register Valdis's glowing form though. Someone would have to be blind, deaf, and dumb to miss it. Keitha wanted to do something, but she wasn't sure of what exactly, and she didn't want to send out Lightnings Blade again, that would be stupid.

As the transport arrives on the scene, the back door exits as Kurio followed by three others enter the battlefield. They see a number of young people in odd outfits in some kind of trance or fixation along with heavy destruction and decimation throughout the area. The obvious threat was the man that was radiating pure energy and dark energy.

"...So...how do you wanna handle this?" the bald squadmate says as he looks at the others. "Those kids are wanted by the brass, but they've also been able to damage that thing they say is a Zodiac..." he grumbles as he cocks his shotgun back and looks forward with a toothy grin. "Just think boss, we could be the first to bag a Zodiac..."

"...Yeah but it wouldn't be a legit kill if those juiced up kids beat him down. Of course if we capture them..." another armed with a heavy assault rifle and light blonde hair says.

"...But is it wise to make enemies with both sides at once? There is at least one obvious threat, they could have killed the first on scene easily if that was their goal." the third says, hoisting a shoulder mounted rocket launcher.

Kurio frowned as he stared out...but shakes his head.

"...Kill the Zodiac first, we'll subdue the rest as needed afterward." he says raising his sniper rifle and taking a position using the armored vehicle to mount his rifle, aiming at the head of Scorpio, but before he could get a clean shot a...white haired...vampire...jumped onto him. He wasn't sure what to make of this one, but a freak that resembled a Class III Covenant was less important than civilian lives nearby.

A shot rings out...skillfully aimed at Scorpio's neck. The other three squadmates close to get into range with their weapons.

As the newly empowered 'Vampire Valdis' lunges forth and strikes Scorpio in a berserker rush, some venom enters his bloodstream and while it doesn't have nearly the potent effect, it disrupts the concentration needed to maintain the spell that kept the others enthralled. He blows an intense, raw force after a mundane bullet his his neck. While it entered the body, there was no blood spray or instant death as would be the case had it struck a normal human. In anger, he grasps Valdis, forcefully pulls her off regardless of damage to his own body, and slams her into the ground with an intense burn of chaos power engulfing her in black flames.

Nazo would then teleport Valdis away, while Scorpio strikes him with the same type of attack, causing another large burst of flame, but this time with enough force to leave a lingering pillar of flame reaching into the sky. When the pillar of flame faded, Nazo would be nowhere to be found.

For all involved, the illusions would shatter, returning them to their normal state of being back in the real world. Their respective energies would be substantially drained, but they would be functioning. However a strange melody in the air would seem to empower them for the last push.

Meanwhile, the senshi that Lance had seen disappears, as if she was never there to begin with. Perhaps it was a ghost, or a delusion. Whatever it was, it was gone, with Lance alone to exert his influence.

As Scorpio began to realize that the others were becoming active again, he begins to howl, his red eyes aglow brightly as sparks begin to fly off everywhere within two hundred feet of him.

"RISE!"KIll. THEM. ALL." he screams as poisonous golems begin to rise from the Earth and lumber towards the senshi, while they are slow they are incredibly toxic and likely to be problematic if touched directly. The observant and supernaturally gifted would noticed that Scorpio's energy was fading, with this being an all or nothing drive. He begins to gather what energies he has left, and begins to emit an intense aura of black energy which would cause the Earth to begin to shatter and collapse around it, ground turning to dust and anything within the growing sphere rapidly decaying and disintegrating.

The sky begins to darken, heralding something disastrous to come should Scorpio be allowed to remain much longer.

The soldiers meanwhile whom were approaching Scoprio quickly duck back and reorganize their strategy, as they begin to open fire on the poisonous golems. Unknown to them, the influence of the War Chant was allowing the mundane projectiles to have a much greater effect than normal.

Sophia watches bizzaro Artemis fade away and reality return. The first thing she notices is the male singing voice. It was an empowering song, and shockingly, coming from Lance. A very not red demonic looking Lance on top of that. She wonders somewhat if this is still an illusion, but the angry Scorpio reminds her that it is not. She takes a quick headcount of the team. Valdis was missing. She’d figure out that bit when the fight was over. Eventually, she realizes that Yinko and Artemis are talking to her. She points on ground behind her to the rifle, somewhat absentmindedly.

“I’m here now,” she smiles at her feline companion. This one was far more preferable to the bizzaro Artemis of the illusion. However, would killing Scorpio be sentencing him to a world in which he lived in nothing but fear and self-doubt for eternity? Eternity was such a long time too. “So much pain… I don’t want to damn him to a world like that. Is there another way? I mean, I want to end this quickly, but I don’t want him to suffer forever.”

With some determination, she says, “I’ll do whatever it takes to save everyone.”

Having finally been broken from the illusion, Amarissa looks around at the scene. Then notices Luna clawing and biting at her ankles. "Ow! Luna Stop! I'm awake! I'm awake!" she yells, bending to examine the damage. Then she hears Sophia and turns, a look of dumbfounded-ness on her face. "Are you nuts?! You don't want him to suffer? Look at what he's done, Venus! He put both Kishin and your first knight into comas! He's killed probably hundreds of people, and injured that many more. And what's worse, he's not human anymore. If he ever even was, he did this to himself with the decisions he made," she yells at the other senshi. She understood that Venus was the guardian of love and everything but this was ridiculous.

Turning, Amarissa walks away a bit. "I have an idea, but it will require both you and Kishin. I'm too drained to do it on my own. We need another massive attack. If we can combine our energies together, I can dump it into my arrow. It should be enough to get rid of him, and with my power it'll probably purify him. Like the Youma from the ice storm," she says, somewhat reluctantly. "Would that be satisfactory to you, Venus?"

Valdis only sunk her teeth in deeper as the bullet penetrated her victims neck. Her jaws had an iron like grip even when she was forcefully yanked away. A chunk of his neck being pulled out in the process; one which she unceremoniously spit out onto the ground. Just moments before her body was engulfed in flames that were not her own. She barred her fangs in a snarl, the pain was intense but her regeneration was sped up in this form, healing the skin as fast as it was burned away.

Next thing she knew she was away from the battle field; Nazo had just ported her out of harm's way. Her eyes darted over to him, growing wide in alarm as a pillar of fire erupted. He had just ported her; a wrench of panic set deep in her bones. She was on her feet her skin paled.

"NAZO!"

Her eyes blazed as she whipped her attention back to Scorpio; an ugly snarl on her as she dashed forward with impressive speed. Purple fire began to gather around her hand quickly arching up to cover her whole body. The flamed hummed with growing power, Valdis jumped in the air gaining a good height above the battle ground, her attacked aimed for Scorpio. The flames burst around her form almost in the shape of a large bird before darting down in a fiery explosion. The attack knocked her back, and she landed skidding to a stop just by the group. Her attention turned towards the others; her teeth still bared in a snarl.

"DO SOMETHING! He can't freaking suffer if he's obliterated out of existence."

Valdis looked over at Ama and extended her hand; she seemed to be thinking clearer.

"It worked for her; use my energy I want this bastard ground into dust"

Kenny stopped and blinked, looking around confused when the wolf and the zombies suddenly disappeared. A scary sight awaited him as a white haired Valdis just erupted like a phoenix and blasted Scorpio. He could feel the heat and push back of the attack from here. He could only stare at Val warily as she turn to them with a snarl...he took a step back and pointed his staff at her. Unsure if she was on their side or Scorpios side at the moment. He lowered it only a second later after she declared that Scorpio would need to be obliterated...yep that sounded like the normal Val.

"She's right Sophia; Scorpio can't suffer if he doesn't exist. Those clouds kinda indicate we need to get him before he gets us. There is no time to think of another way; I get were you're coming from but we need to solve this right here right now. He's going all or nothing if we don't match it then us and the people around here are done for. its him or many more."

His tone was much kinder then either Ama's or Valdis, and he gave a reassuring squeeze to the girls shoulder with a small smile before looking over at Ama.

"I will help as well; I'm not too sure how to give energy but if you can take it feel free to use mine. It's not just Sophia and this kinshin fella, we're all here to support you."