Blessed by Night

Bianca's eyes narrowed at the sight of a large, red skinned man riding on top of a mutated tiger.

At a glance, he appeared to be some sort of fire oni variant, with the usual staunch iron muscles and ashen grey hair.

Like the rest of the abominations, he wore a simple loincloth made from some sort of animal hide and what looked to be car parts.

However, the weapon in his hands was different.

He wielded an actual greatsword from the gates that had likely been recovered from the wastelands.

As his mount galloped toward Bianca, she could feel a distinct icy energy coming off the weapon in waves.

This guy was certainly different from all the rest of the rabble.

He was the first abomination who they'd come across who actually seemed like a dungeon boss.

"WHOREEESSS!!!"

Bianca felt her eyes narrow.

For some reason, it was like the abomination had a deteriorated mental capacity.

It was all the same to her though, since she wasn't in the habit of allowing monstrous beasts to belittle her subordinates.

Gathering up an absurd amount of flame in her hand, she sent forth a wave of flame that was even larger than her fist one and hoped that it would swallow the bastard whole.

While her attack did strike true, Bianca unfortunately felt her eyes widen as she watched her enemy leap through the wall of flame without showing so much as a scorch mark.

It would have been a seriously cool visual if it weren't so infuriating.

"Toasty!" Showing a smile full of oddly bent and sharp teeth, the abomination chief lunged at Bianca from atop his own mutated creature.

She was only barely able to avoid having her head chopped off by ducking underneath the blade before it could reach her neck.

However, she was caught by the back leg of the tiger and an assortment of claws ripped right through her right shoulder blade.

"Aaagggh!!"

A scream of pain escaped her lips and drew the attention of all of her subordinates.

"Squad leader needs help!"

"Beta formation, now!"

"No! Stay back, that's an order!"

Bianca gritted her teeth through the pain and threw up her hands.

A wall of flame arose around herself and the boss, protecting the rest of her soldiers from running in to do something foolish.

The abomination smiled at this, and pointed his blade at Bianca menacingly.

"Meat wants Obe all to herself! Meat will-"

"Ow..! This really sucks."

Bianca ignored the threatening demeanor of the abomination pointing a weapon at her and wiped away the blood running down her back.

"Damn it… I hope they didn't-"

Malachi : 'Babe! I felt you scream, are you alright?!'

Anna : 'I'm two miles out, I'm coming to meet you now! Just stay put till I get there!

Sei : 'My squad is rerouting and we're on our way to your location right now!'

Joanne : 'I-Is that what that was? Are you alright??'

Nadine : 'Somebody get to her please!'

Luna : 'Stay calm, Bianca. Everyone is going to-'

'I'm fine!' Bianca screamed mentally.

She was not only the youngest out of everyone in her family, but the one who had seen the least amount of trauma in her life.

They tended to want to keep it that way.

They handheld her a lot, just like they tended to do with Camille.

It was nice and it made her feel loved sometimes but she was competent too, you know?

'I'm fine, guys! I'll wrap things up here and meet you at the rendezvous point in just a couple of hours. NO ONE NEEDS TO COME HERE!' She said firmly.

A loud roar drew her attention and she found the abomination running at her for a second round.

Using the massive greatsword as a lance, Obe held it out in front of him with the goal of piercing his opponent to the ground.

Dark gauntlets with barbed knuckles appeared on Bianca's hands and she raised them to defend herself.

Catching the blade between her hands, the force of the collision started to push her back.

Even though her gauntlets, she could feel a cold, sinister energy trying to soak into her palms and freeze her from the inside out.

Generally it was impossible for her to get cold with Hephaestus' blessing, but she was certainly starting to feel chilly now.

However, she knew just how to warm herself up.

"Tell me something, you bastard…"

"Meat not talk!"

"Yea, yea, but I'm curious and this can't wait. Are you fire proof, or fire resistant?"

"Obe is conqueror of flame and ice!"

"Cool… let's test that..! MY SQUAD! If you can hear me, get clear immediately! This area is about to become uninhabitable!"

Suddenly, the temperature around Bianca started to get warmer and warmer.

The hair on top of her head caught fire, and became a mass of living orange flame.

Her eyes lost their pupils and became glowing orange lightbulbs that could illuminate an entire room with ease.

"My powers aren't really safe to play with like everyone else's so I almost never get to go all out! I'm excited to see just what I can do!"

The temperature within the air began to skyrocket.

100 degrees.

500.

1000.

2000.

4000.

5000.

The ground around Bianca began to melt into a mass of tar and the air around her was literally starting to cook.

Obe finally looked like he was starting to sweat, but it wasn't enough.

Letting out a determined roar, Bianca poured so much of her energy into her power that her body literally exploded.

Both Obe and his mount were practically vaporized in an instant, but they would never forget the image that they saw just before death.

A mass of flame in the figure of a woman, with glowing white eyes and fiery wings flowing from her back.

When things were all over, Bianca immediately turned back to normal before she did irreversible damage to the ecosystem. (As if she hadn't already likely put a hole in the ozone layer.)

Once she was back to normal and assured there was no longer any danger facing the world, her body just… collapsed.

She fell face down into the ground; utterly exhausted from expending so much of her energy all at once.

With her last thought, she sent her family a message of the utmost importance.

'You guys are going to be so mad at me, but… I swear I just did something really…cool…'