Blessed by Night

Chapter 163  Seafood Menu

In a remarkably short amount of time, the streets began to fill up with dark murky water. In the blink of an eye, it had reached ankle level, and was steadily rising with no real sign of it slowing down.

It was clear that this entire area was going to flood within a matter of minutes. Malachi could see some people driving like mad trying to get away, and others were running frantically into buildings as if they were hoping to get to safety. "B, I'm going to send you home alright? When you get there I need you to give Joanne a call and tell her to meet me out here." Malachi said. "W-Wait, I can help!" Bianca tried to get to her feet but her legs were utterly useless after everything she and Mal had done earlier, so she quickly went down. Luckily, her boyfriend was there to catch her before she hit the ground and he gave her a pitying look. "I know you want to help, but you're not really in the best condition for that right now. Just go home and sit tight, and I'll meet you there later."

Without giving her room to argue, Malachi gave her a short and sweet kiss before dropping her into the shadows beneath them, sending her right to their bedroom at the nightfall base. His body armor became glued to his body a few moments later, and he leapt out of the window into the watery streets below. As soon as he made the decision to appear, so did they. Out of the portal in the sky, amphibious creatures began to fall out one by one. Some stood on two legs, with mottled green skin and fish-like heads with bulbous black eyes. Others were more alarming looking, like miniature leviathans around forty feet long and with bodies as thick as cement pillars. Their gaping mouths hung open two reveal fangs as long as swords; all dripping with what seemed like a potent venom. Malachi realized that it had been quite a while since he'd gotten to eat any dungeon monsters, so he elected to have a bit of a feast today. 'I don't remember liking fish that much before … I wonder if this is a part of Bast's blessing?'

Recent dietary interests aside, he would still have to be careful about how he subjugated the monsters. His powers over lightning were completely off limits, since there were likely still civilians in the nearby area and he didn't want to be responsible for accidentally electrocuting someone. Therefore, Mal sprouted three pairs of wings from his back as he decided to engage from the air.

However, there was something different about his wings since he'd last seen them.

The left were a mesmerizing white, while the right were a deep and enchanting black.

'That's... new..?'

 Malachi would have spent more time analyzing his body's latests development but the sea creatures seemed like they were more than a little tired of waiting. With the ten of his daggers sitting between his knuckles, Malachi hurled them at the approaching fishermen as his wings carried him into the sky. As always, they flew from his grasp like guided projectiles with minds of their own and soared towards the assailants; piercing their eyes, brains and hearts like they were made of warm tofu. "HISSS!!"

Two of the leviathans lunged at Malachi while he was airborne. He raised a brow in surprise when he saw their alarming quickness, as well as the fact that they seemed to be growing somehow. Unsheathing his iklwha from his back, he avoided one of the creatures by shifting his position around and performing a somersault in midair. His body landed gracefully atop the head of the other Leviathan, and he immediately stabbed it in the top of it's skull. Letting his body be pulled by gravity, Malachi carved the serpent all the way down it's spiked spine, causing it to let out a screech of pain. Dark blood splashed out and threatened to soil Malachi's pristine white wings, but he quickly disappeared in a flurry of shadows before any of it could reach him. He reappeared on top of a nearby building, and he held out his hands to recall his knives back to his grip. "Malachi!"

"Yo!"

"Babe!"

Looking up, Mal found three very familiar women flying towards him. In what might have been the oddest pairing he'd ever seen, Joanne was flying with two full grown women in her arms. One was his lovely girlfriend Anna, and the other was his friendly visitor from another world; Nadine.

"Funny seeing you three together..." Mal said. Joanne landed on the rooftop beside him and took in the sight of his wings; the white and black combination not only seeing off alarms in her head, but also stupefying her. This shouldn't be possible! n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Cassiel had specifically told her that there was no chance for one blessed by an archangel to become a fallen one, and she had personally seen evidence of their supposed failsafes. So why was this boy still alive?!

Why did everything about her daughter's boyfriend seem to be so far out of the ordinary!?

Anna gave her boyfriend a reassuring hug as she gestured to their unwelcome guest with a flick of her head. "That one wouldn't leave us alone when she heard we were coming to help you. She just started whining about being bored and making a fuss."

"That's true, I did!" Nadine said happily. Malachi smiled wryly and prepared to offer up a response when a loud scream interrupted his thoughts. "KYYYYAAAA, HELP MEEE!!"

Whirling around, Mal could see a few of the fishermen beginning to climb buildings above them and punch in the windows. One of them had actually succeeded in grabbing onto a woman, and it opened it's horrifying mouth wide as it prepared to bite through her with it's dull yellow teeth. Malachi immediately flew towards the monster while leaving behind his three reinforcements. Clenching his fist, he punched the fisherman hard without even allowing it to notice his presence, obliterating it's head and forcing it to drop the woman. Before she could fall freely from her building into the dangerous water below, she was caught by a young man in black body armor with a skull mask and long dreadlocks. When the two of their eyes met, the both of them raised their brows in surprise as they called out each other's name. "M-Malachi?!"

"Celeste??"