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Chapter 6: The Frozen Reaper

Tengu Park:
Frozen dead trees with spiky icicles, snowflakes made of blood raining down from the dark heaven, frozen corpses with a horrified and painful facial expressions, and frozen pools of blood. This once joyful park turned into a one nightmarish unforgiving place.
Ellen, the most powerful wizard in the world, landed gracefully over the dead grass. Her face remained emotionless despite the harsh atmosphere she is in. The frozen dead grass beneath her made a cracking sound with each steps she takes. As she went deeper into the icy field, the climate got colder and colder. Ellen just shrugged off the coldness of the breeze, and she activated the heater installed in her wizard suit, but it barely have any effect.
Everywhere she looks, there is an ice sculptures made of humans. This didn't bother her even for a one bit as she was given a harsh training to prepare her mentally for any traumatizing events.
Suddenly, she experienced a strong blizzard, forcing her to stop exploring even further. In the blizzard, a sweet humming voice of a woman filled the air and Ellen gave a surprised grunt when she felt something sharp and cold pierced her right arm. When she looks at it, it was an ice splinters. But thanks to her combat wiring suit, it increased her pain tolerance to almost not feeling any pain in her body, no matter how worst the wound is.
Without warning, a figure dashed out from the freezing fog. Ellen acted quickly, she puts up her territory (a green barrier that can protect the host or trap an enemy) and the cold silver steel of the attacker's blade collided with her barrier.
Ellen draws out her two swords, she called these swords, Murakumo. It is a twin laser swords that can cut through spirit armors effortlessly. Also, it has other uses, the swords have a long-range attack mode that turns the laser into multiple missiles or bombs that can raze a small town.
After drawing out her swords, she swings it at her attacker - - but the figure quickly disappeared within the blizzard.
"Show yourself!" Ellen demanded.
"Over here..." The voice echoed in the atmosphere, making Ellen glanced around all of her surroundings.
"I don't have time to play hide and seek with you." She flew higher than the trees, and she change the setting of her sword.
She pointed her weapons towards the ground and the blade of the two swords lit up very brightly before shooting two large lasers like missile. While flying all the way down, the two large lasers divided into multiple small destructive missiles that can target a large wide area. After the raining bombs collided at the ground, the park got rocked by multiple earth rattling explosions.
Entrance of the park:
Vergil stops on his track after he felt the earth shook, he looks up the sky and saw a bright flashing light similar to lightning.
"It's coming from the forest?"
When he's about to enter the park, black oozes suddenly arises from the ground and it started to develop into figures. After it develops, three samurais emerged and three onis with a steel leash on its neck. The samurais seems to treat this ogre like creature like some hunting dogs.
The samurais then let go of the leash and the onis roared before they sprinted like a tiger towards Vergil with readied claws. But before they could get to him, Vergil dashed towards them and slice them up so fast, that it looks like he just teleported pass them. The three onis remained unmoving, like time froze them in place.
The three samurais roared at Vergil, they draw out their katana and dashed at him - - but their speed is inferior against the son of Sparda. Before they could slice him, time already froze them in place like the onis. Vergil held out the Yamato's sheath in front of him and he withdraw his sword slowly while it made a blue spark while the blade enters it. After the opening of the sheath hits the guard of the sword with a "click!", the three onis and samurais had exploded into pieces; blood and flesh rains down over the cold ground and freezes up slowly because of the cold atmosphere that's emitting within the park.
"What a waste of time." Vergil commented. He sighed and flicked his hair back before venturing through the frozen hell scape.
Tengu Park:
After a series of bombing, the park got filled with multiple medium sized craters and all of the frozen trees got destroyed into branches and twigs while some of the frozen corpses crumbled into small pieces of ice. But still, the blizzard is endless. Ellen's dual swords returns back to normal after it cools down, regaining its energy back and glowing again.
"Very troublesome indeed, I thought fighting her is similar to the spirits." She thought.
Without warning, she felt a presence behind her and she quickly acted by blocking the attackers blade with her own.
The figure spoke in a grimly whisper. "Give me ice, give me hot water."
Ellen smirked and said. "So, you're that story that scared all the kids away? You feed on human blood by freezing them before consuming them."
The figure screamed at her, and cold breath instantly freezes Ellen's dual sword. And with one swing of the figure's katana, the two swords of the wizard shattered into shards of ice, but the swords regenerate itself very quickly. When the demoness predicted Ellen's next attack, she disappeared again by the blizzard, causing Ellen to grit her teeth out of frustration for the first time.
"Yuki Onna, fight me and stop cowering!"
Ellen puts up her barrier when the blizzard grew stronger, and medium to large hales and ices starts to attack everything insight. However, her barrier couldn't handle the barrage of ices and hales. The barrier slowly formed a crack before shattering like glass, forcing Ellen to shield her face by crossing her arms while she hold her ground against the power of the winter demoness.
After the blizzard calms down, she suddenly felt dizzy and her legs gave out.
"What the?!"
When she looks at her body, her eyes widened and she gasped slightly when she saw a long thick icicle penetrating her abdomen all the way to her back. This is the curse of the wingsuit, no pain, but it will never save the host from blood lost and death.
Out in the blizzard came a beautiful woman with a long silky black hair, pale smooth skin like marble, pale eyes like death itself is staring at her, and lips with dried bloodstain from drinking her victims blood. The Yuki Onna pointed her clawed index finger at the dying wizard, and Ellen immediately got covered by thick ice from her toes all the way up to her upper body, leaving only her head uncased.
Ellen's wingsuit finally shuts down, she suddenly felt a sharp pain at her abdomen and the cold ice encasing her caused her to trembled.
"I-I will never beg for my life... K-Kill me..." Ellen demanded in a weak shaky voice as vapors appeared out of her mouth.
While Yuki Onna came closer to her, she keeps a glaring eyes at the demoness and stares at the pale eyes of her executioner. Yuki Onna bended down and brought her face towards Ellen, she growled at the wizard before opening her mouth, showing rows of sharp razor teeth that can easily tear the flesh of a human being.
Ellen felt a searing pain all over her body, and she felt something warm drips down from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth... It was blood. Ellen couldn't help but to let out a horrified agonizing scream as the Yuki Onna starts to suck out her blood. All of Ellen's blood flew straight right into the demoness mouth like something is levitating them.
But then...
*Slash! *
The Yuki Onna withdraw from her feeding session and she jumped back, barely evading the sword that was about to decapitate her. She shrieked like a witch at the newcomer and said in a cold whispering voice... "Sparda!"
"You humans are too destructive, corrupt, and foolish." Vergil stated to Ellen who is suffering from blood loss. "No God, not even the devil will punish you all but yourselves."
"Now, thanks to your master, I have to deal with this pest that's standing before me."
Vergil pointed the tip of his sword at the demoness and mocked her, making her screamed in anger.
When the Yuki Onna began to summon her blizzard again, Vergil forcefully stabbed the ground with Yamato, releasing blue fiery demonic energy through the whole park and cutting the Yuki Onna's summoning power off. The blast turned the frozen wasteland into normal again, and the melted ice and blood watered all the dead plants while the once frozen corpses fall on the ground and turned limp. For Ellen though, she was laying over the dead grass gasping sharply, paralyzed, and waiting for her life to pass.
She thinks to herself. "I can't believe I failed."
Yukki Onna turned herself into a cold wind and she synced with the natural wind before heading straight towards Vergil, but the son of Sparda predicted this. Once the demoness appeared in front of Vergil, her sword is about to strike him down, but the one she sliced in half was just an after image of him.
With Vergil sudden disappearance, she glanced around her once owned hunting ground trying to find the invader. When she looks up the sky, she saw a barrage of mirage swords coming towards her like hale of large arrows.
Yuki Onna summoned a giant wall of ice, blocking the swords but the force of the bombardment was too strong and too much for the wall to handle and it crumbled into snow. The demoness was pressured to turn into a wind again and flew away deeper in the park's forest. The mirage swords, like a missile locked on to its target are in pursuit. Yuki Onna freezes the trees behind her, fortifying it so it won't get destroyed so easily as she retreated. The frozen trees barely work as a shield, making the swords stuck to it and some of the trees got destroyed. She transforms back again in her humanoid form and she put both palms at the direction of where all the sword chasing her are in before forming a large ice wall to protect herself from an incoming attack.
After doing so, she suddenly sensed the presence of the son of Sparda. But instead of killing her when Vergil had a chance, he appeared in front of her in a flash of blue light. Both of them had a few stare down before they dashed at each other at the same speed, both of their blades collided and locked while sparks are emitting.
The night got filled with a heavy sound of steels colliding and grinding. With a few series of clashing, Vergil overpowered the demoness. Her sword flew to the sky after the son of Sparda parried her with Yamato's sheath. He then shove his sword through the heart of Yuki Onna and she screamed out before disappearing in a gust of cold wind.
Vergil then shakes of the excess blood that's covering his sword, but suddenly...
"GRAAAAAA!!!"
A banshee like scream echoed after Yuki Onna appeared behind him. The demoness tries to put a hand on him to freeze him but Vergil suddenly vanished from sight and everything around them stops functioning, even the falling of dead leaves got stuck in mid-air. The space around the battlefield created a long blue cut - - scarring reality, and time and space followed by another until the area they fought got covered by it. Vergil suddenly appeared in front of Yuki Onna with one knee bended, and his after image soon followed and went back inside his body. His blade and sheath are right in front of him, creating spark while he put his sword back inside. Once the sword is inside with a sound of a click, the space around them shattered like glass while Yuki Onna got turned into ground meat.
Reality quickly fixed itself after Vergil's devastating attack. The son of Sparda just smirked in satisfaction before heading back to where he encounters the dying blonde girl.
After he returned, he saw another girl but with a darker blonde hair and this one is wearing a neon armor. The dying girl from before is now over the shoulder of this newcomer and in her right hand is the sword of Yuki Onna.
Vergil dashed with Yamato ready to cut them down while leaving a sharp bladed gust of wind behind him. But to his surprise, both of the girls teleported in a flash of yellow light and he lose sight of them.
"Damn it!" was all Vergil could muttered before forcefully sheathing his sword back.

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    John Ford Almanzor

    nice moment

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    Nero Secree

    cool

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