As much as Angel hated the idea of Maker leaving her side she didn’t have much choice. A quick assessment of her surroundings she knew what she wanted to do. The arrows had stopped and the assailants were now rushing their position. “Amphy, mana potion please.” Angel backed up a few steps towards Amphy and Flash. The pink Ampharos quickly took out a round glass bottle roughly the size of an orange filled with a glowing light blue liquid, sealed with a cork covered by wax. Angel took the potion and pulled off a hanging tab that broke the wax seal and removed the cork and proceeded to chug its contents at an alarming rate.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Agnes was already fighting the ninjas, she shot at them as they neared aiming for their eyes and knees, and blinding several of them causing them to collapse and tumble onto the ground. “Damn it.” Agnes cursed as she continued firing, her aim was not an issue, and it was making ammo that would be lethal per shot. She could feel that she was already charging the gun’s mana crystal core to its maximum and the bullets were only strong concussive shots. “Can these things actually kill someone?” Agnes asked.
Finishing the potion and throwing the empty bottle aside Angel flicked her hands and her pistols slipped into her hands. “Probably not, try bashing them to death with it. I am not going to give you a gun that can go lethal right after you tried to kill Maker. So either support me, or go make sure Maker is safe….” Angel said as she walked forward towards the charging ninjas with her head down and hand behind her back. Her long white hair was obscuring her face, blowing gently in the slight breeze.
Agnes grumbled and turned around, “Come on Flash, let’s get to the others.” Amphy nodded and followed running a head of Agnes as Agnes walked backwards, guns out and hot. Each shot was not taking much mana but they were weak and could only stun.
Angel was smiling as the ninjas neared. The pistol in her right hand was glowing a neon red, and left was a neon green. “I offer these souls as tribute to the Dark Queen. May she grant me the majesty of her gaze….” Angel stepped to right as the first ninja leapt at her. She stepped just enough to the side to turn slightly to face her attacker, bring her left arm out from behind, she shot the gun upward into the ninja’s heart and an immediate second shot into its stomach. Her movements were unnaturally quick, made even faster by Ino’s song. The ninja flew past her and landed on the ground and rolled, already dead. The skin and cloth on his torso was glowing green around the bullet holes like cracked glass. The Leviathan’s Cross above her forehead exploded with renewed light as several more ninjas converged on her location. Turning around in a circle she quickly popped off a series of double shots from the right pistol, each bullet only appeared as a line of red exiting the barrel for less than fractions of a second.
The three ninjas that she fired at fell dead, with a combination of a shot though the head and heart, head and stomach, or chest and stomach. And the same glowing cracked glass pattern was around each wound, this time glowing blood red.
Amphy stood her ground as a large amount of electricity began surging across her body and her entire body eventually began to glow a bright yellow as she unleashed a huge Discharge zapping and paralyzing a few ninjas nearby. The ground beneath her began to shake and she leapt out of the way just in time as a large earth spike erupted from below her. Amphy roared in anger as she unleased a devastating Thunderbolt at the earth user, but the attack was blocked as the ninja erected a dirt wall.
BAM! BAM!
The earth ninja’s wall suddenly collapsed as the ninja fell though it a glowing red bullet hole on the back of its head and a green one on its back where its heart would have been.
Agnes looked towards where Angel was and smirked slightly. It was just as she had remembered but even better now.
Angel was now being attacked by quite a large number of the ninjas, having drawn their attention to her as she was causing a huge problem for them. Those engaged in melee combat with her were missing most of their attacks. The attacks that did hit were deliberate and had their impact reduced as Angel would move with the motion of the strike and seamlessly use the same momentum to acquire a new target with either of her guns or to finish a previous target that she had injured. Every time either of her guns fired they served a purpose, to cripple and have a second shot to finish the target off within a few seconds, to simply kill a target outright, or to reposition herself using the recoil.
Despite being swarmed Angel was in constant motion repositioning, twisting around, flipping, turning, and spinning around at high speeds, the flashes of red and green light made for a rather spectacular light show. Angle out ranged most of the ninja’s elemental attacks, and often shot those dead as a priority target before they could finish their spell. The Leviathan’s Cross helping her see the surge in magic in their bodies when they try to use magic. The spells that manage to get off, Angel dodged with the perfect angle missing her by inches as she would counter, often with a lethal shot or a 2-shot combo that still resulted in death.
As Flash ran he eventually ran by Yozu and Eli slowly moving. He stopped running and backed up to them awkwardly searching through his bag. He eventually took out a roll of bandages and gauze and offered it to the two.
“Angel, we’re pulling back, let them chase us!” Agnes was basically running backwards now with her arms out shooting at anything the best she can mainly aiming for eyes, knees, or groins. She managed to drop several ninjas but still missing quite a few.
With a final series of shots Angel disengaged and took off running. Her guns changed color from Red to violet and green to yellow. “Woah…” Angel suddenly leaned back like she was playing limbo as a sword flew over her inches away from her face. While still leaning back as she ran by the attacker she fired her left weapon and a shotgun blast of yellow light shredded the ninja’s torso to the bone.
Blam!
Angel was suddenly knocked off her feet from a pillar of dirt that shot out of the ground and hit the side of her thigh. As she flew through the air, a perfect ball of yellow and blue electricity surrounded by wisps of electricity shot past her.
The explosion from the Zap Cannon behind Angel propelled further and she landed hard in the grass rolling several times before she stopped. Amphy was chasing after her.
“Thanks….” Angel said as Amphy helped her back onto her feet. Her thigh was severely sore and bruised from where she was hit. The Zap Cannon explosion was enough to disorient her attackers enough for them to get away.
“Well, that doesn’t look good.” Agnes remarked seeing the wound on Angel’s leg as Agnes made her way to meet Angel half way.
“Yea, it’s not as bad as it looks.” Angel took another mana potion from Amphy and began to drink it, “There’s a lot of them… this kind of fight would be right up Ada’s alley. but it seems like they're not coming this way any more” Angel laughed and finished the potion. “Here, take these for now.” Angel offered Agnes her right pistol.
“Umm… ok?” Agnes took the glowing weapon.
Angel took out the left gun and handed it to Agnes as well, “These are a pair of pistols called, Mercy and Malice. When you charge one pistol with mana the other will be charge with the exact opposite polarity with no cost of extra mana. Efficient right? You essentially have two guns that use the mana a single gun. The polarities of the guns are interchangeable but make sure you keep track which is which.”
“Huh?” Agnes tried to understand the crash course. She charged the right gun with her own mana causing it to glow a red orange color, and the left gun began to glow with a blueish green glow on its own. “You want these?” Agnes offered the stun pistols that she had holstered.
Angel shook her head, “No, I still have this.” Angel pulled out the revolver from behind her, and the weapon began to glow vibrant baby blue. Amphy was performing first aid on Angel’s leg with her own first aid supplies from her bag. “It seems like they’ve redirected their attention elsewhere, we need to get back to Maker.”
As Agnes held the weapons in her hands, they felt familiar to her, so fitting, and comfortable. The inverted pentagram on her forehead ignited as she began to fire through the smoke, the symbol allowing her to see though the smoke and darkness with ease. Her Sharpshooter training made her much more accurate with the weapons at a longer range than Angel. The shots from the right pistol were hitting their targets and piercing perfectly though their skulls, while the shots from the left seemed to cause a small explosion upon impact. The three of them moved together, Angel was leading the way with Amphy, and Agnes was covering the flank headed towards Avery and Maker, the Leviathan’s Cross showing her where they had gone.
Agnes kept firing into the settling smoke and she eventually figured out what the guns were doing. The right pistol with unmodified mana fired piercing rounds, so the left was firing powerful concussive high impact shots. Well this is going to take some getting used to….