"And so, you've brought this one before for her final moments!"
Mia stood in a room filled with about 30 people and with it being somewhat tightly packed, this would be a cakewalk to clear.
The door, the only way leading in and out of this room was kicked open and off the hinges. The blasted metal flown and literally pressed one of the executioners standing next to Mia into the wall leaving them nothing but crushed person under it.
Thanks to this interruption, Mia and Ame decide to kick off their plan just a bit earlier than wanted...
Ame swiftly grabbed the pistol off Mia's hip and multiple shots were heard from behind her as the being who kicked the door clean off the hinges made themselves known.
A simple dress shirt, shorts with tights, and a keychain with five different pins on it. Her hair was black but the inside was a colored crimson red, she seemed overly normal and suited for an office job but here she lays with a katana on her hip.
She said nothing as she tossed a belt of grenades onto each side of the room with the bombs all exploding soon after landing.
Mia reached over and melted the head of the exectioner on her left while staring down this new assailant before her. Of course, the time for talking isn't coming as she is also dressed like an executioner so more than likely, anyone looking like this is on this person's hit list.
"Ame, stay behind me." Mia threw her hand in a wave and nothing but fire filled her gaze in front of her, what she didn't expect was for the new woman to cut through her flames and come charging right at her.
She slammed her right hand down and ice shot from the center stabbing forward but, like the flames, the magic was simply cut through and the woman jumped from the ice coming right for Mia's neck.
Her katana a deep red but that light coming for her was one she needed to get out of the way for.
She leaned her head back as the weapon came slashing forward. It avoided her face but the mask she was wearing wasn't so lucky being completely cut through as if it was air.
Mia swiftly raised her arm to block the person's arm from coming back for round two of Mia's head. Mia sent her left hand in and cracked the woman in the face with all her strength but it seemed as if Mia had met her match again in here in terms of strength...
By no means was the hit simply shrugged off but it certainly wasn't extremely damaging in any way to the woman.
Ame slipped by and pointed her own pistol at the woman and fired a single bullet, the bullet simply vanished before it made contact with the sword wielder and now Ame had a sword coming swinging towards her.
Of course, Mia pushed Ame back but that didn't come without having her hand cleanly sliced through like paper.
Her boot came flying around and cracked the girl in the face sending her skidding back into a pillar of ice that hadn't been destroyed.
A blade of ice had been made on Mia's remaining hand and she dashed forward and tried to stab the only for the ice to vanish before it could impale her.
And before that, she tried to activate her reflect before getting her hand cut off so it's safe to say, this woman can cancel magic, she's insanely strong, and her sword is razor sharp and can also probably cut through magic.
Mia's ice may have been broken but that's not to say her fist didn't come into contact with the woman's chest. She was punched right through the ice and left with more than a few cuts and bruises as she rolled on the ground.
She had gotten to her knees coughing but getting her chest hit like that but she remained strong from the hit.
"...She's immune to magic... meaning my bullets are no help here." Ame said while taking her guns back from Mia.
"Yeah, I'm gonna have to fist fight her. You do it."
"Gotcha. I'm sure I can figure something out." Ame gave Mia back her hand which had a deep black tendril seeping out of it wildly wiggling around, "...You're so weird..."
Mia raised up her right arm and the black mass instantly sought each other out and rapidly attacked the limb back to Mia.
The extreme discomfort on Mia's face spelled out how painful this entire process was of getting her hand put back into action. She can't say how grateful she is to this demon but damn, it hurt like a bitch to heal...
"Just call me if you need help. Actually, you have the watch, you'll be fine. Wait, why do you have both of the pistols?"
Mia looked to see Ame had her gun and Mia's gun. Mia snatched back hers and put it back in the holster.
"What can I say?"
Ame nodded while running away and kicking through a door that had been damn near broken off the wall already. It was a heavy metal door but the grenades, fire, and ice weakened it to the point Ame gave one good kick and it fell down.
"So, what's your deal?" Mia asked as the opponent did just let Mia talk to Ame right there.
No attempt to chase her with that too.
"You seem familiar." The woman spun her sword around and got ready for combat once more, "But that doesn't matter. I'm here for one reason and one reason only and you seem to be in my way."
Mia grinned and threw off the dark cloak she was wearing. She cracked her knuckles, she noted the sword next to her and quickly sent a blast of fire towards the office worker then swiftly picked up the sword.
She ran forward and created ice under her feet to slide she went right by the woman who cut through the flames and was gunning for the spot Mia should've been.
She let out a small grunt as a cut appeared on her right leg from Mia's dashing cut.
She stabbed her blade into the ground and the ice vanished really proving the weapon disperses magic.
"...How do I use this thing..." Mia mumbled to herself as the woman walked over to Mia who prepared herself for the sword fight.
She took the preemptive strike with a downwards slash as the girl countered with her own blade. Her upwards slash cut right through the blade Mia was holding and she couldn't help but draw her eyes to the slashed sword.
It wasn't long of a stare as a fist collided with Mia's face. She didn't have the grip expected on her shoes and hit a 180 turn to where her back was hit with a sword in an upwards motion.
She was kicked over and landed face first on the ground. She swiftly looked back to see the woman standing over her with her sword in a reverse grip.
A black tendril shot from behind Mia and hit the sword wielder dead in the chest sending her skidding back.
Mia stood up once again and took a deep breath. She has a grip on her powers, her strength, and now her weapon, it's about time she can make a real fighting effort against her.
The woman fixed her glasses back on her face again and ran forward at Mia who did the same. Both doing nothing more than a bull charge at each other, it was obvious the one with a sword was going to prevail here.
And so, that's exactly what happened, Mia sound a sword going through her side after sending a stream of fire at the wielder in front of her.
What wasn't so expected was for the woman's shirt to be grabbed by Mia. She looked up for Mia to look in pain from the stab but her face spelled excitement more than the pain as she cocked back her fist.
She flew her weapons down like a hammer and the person who woefully had to take that punch was flung down to the floor like a bag of bricks. She crumbled like a piece of paper as she slid back even further.
"I hate..." Mia pushed through the pain and took the sword out of her.
She tossed the sword way behind her and ice barrier off the weapon as Mia went ahead and cracked her neck this time around.
the woman went ahead and stood back up and was obviously dazed at such an attack as the strength was even further off the chart than anticipated.
"...You're looking a bit pale there..." The worker coughed and threw her broken glasses to the ground.
"What can I say, I've been losing blood all day, gotten bit, stabbed, punched, and tossed, it's been a day for me, you know?" Mia bragged at the fact she was still walking even all after that.
Even though her demon was helping out with this increased resilience, this was still nothing even to Mia before. Though she's taking many more hits than she'd rather like even now.
Her blood stopped pouring out of the wound while the woman in front of her cracked her knuckles.
"Fine, I can play by your game."
The two girls start inching toward each other again with their fists up about to throw down once more.
The instant one of them was about to throw a punch, their eyes burst open as they remembered something about themselves and something about the other.
Mia remembered that her gun was loaded with completely normal bullets and the woman realized she had a knife on her belt.
They had both taken more than a few shots to the head so forgetting something important wasn't even out of the question.
Mia whipped out her gun while the woman popped out a knife from behind her. She closed the already extremely small gap in no time and stabbed Mia in the same spot she had stabbed with her sword.
Mia instantly drained of color as she swept the woman's legs. She slammed against the floor and Mia shot her once in the chest damn near point-blank but yet, she was still moving.
Before another trigger pull could even be found, Mia found a knife in her thigh making her leg buckle instantly and she soon fell down to the ground with the woman.
Both of them roll away from each other and Mia pointed her gun only to find it empty. The realization that Amelia had used her pistol instead of her own was obvious since she didn't bother to reload the gun.
She had no idea why Ame decided to take both of their weapons earlier just that it royally fucked her over here.
She threw the gun forward at the worker in front of her and she smacked the thing out of the air and started to run at Mia once again.
Mia reached out on the ground and grabbed the top of the blade that the woman cut off earlier from Mia's stolen sword.
She flipped it upside down and put her hand up. The next thing she knew, a knife was shoved through her hand coming right for her face but was still more than far enough to not really do anything.
She retaliated the attack and ripping through the air with her broken blade, it was coming right towards the woman's neck but she threw up her forearm just in time to to take the blade instead.
Mia moved her hand just enough just so she could see the woman she was fighting.
"Mia, office worker lady!!" Ame walked back into the room to see both of the girls still in the same position, "I... stop fighting already. It's obvious you're both pretty equal. Besides, there's a door that'll probably need both of your powers to get open..."
Both of them agreed that this was pointless at the moment and quickly got off each other.
Once standing, they look to each other to inspect how the hell the other was still moving.
Mia was barely healing anymore but was simply moving by sheer force of will now.
"Lady, why are you a walking tank?"
She took a few punches, a few kicks, a few singes while cutting through fire, and a bullet to the chest and yet was still moving. Hell, Mia was confident enough in her strength to sever a spine with an uppercut so the fact she took that more than once was impressive.
"...I guess you can say I was blessed by the one that employees me." She made a pained expression as she went over to get her sword.
Mia snapped and the ice vanished leading to the weapon.
"What the hell, Mia, you look like trash again." Amelia looked her over while Mia just didn't seem very pleased at the fact she said that.
"I feel like it too. Let's hurry this up." She held her stomach.
"...You're pretty tough, too." The woman said as she let her stabbed arm dangle down.
The girl's limp behind Amelia who walked with a stride in her step. She led them through a hallway that was pretty dark and those creatures from earlier lay dead in here along with a few cultist.
Of course, all of them were dead from bullet wounds.
It was obvious she had somewhat depleted her ammo from how she walked but a few magazines and shells remained along with her pistol.
"...Here!" Ame pointed to the big iron door that was certainly gonna be a problem, "I can't possibly get through this thing but you two certainly can." She threw her fist to her hips as she stared at them.
The two girls looked to each other and nodded.
"Ame, watch out." Mia walked over and placed her right hand on the door, it took just a bit longer than usual but, the entire through had been frozen through.
From the front to the back, even to the wall, it was staying on meaning all it was going to take was one good hit to break through the somewhat brittle structure.
The office worker unsheathed her sword and sliced the door twice. She moved back again as there was no way she was gonna punch it or kick it and neither was Mia.
Ame grew a smile and jumped forward with a push kick. She broke down the entire door and frame just like that leaving nothing standing in their way anymore.
Well, this seemed like their last stop here, and with the rest of the members dead, it didn't really matter what laid behind this... unless it's something they need to kill, as much as the woman and Mia would hate to do it, they could quickly boost into overdrive and fight.
They were really just hoping it wouldn't come to that...
End of chapter 10