Blessed by Night

The captain of the ship was a large man with two robotic eyes and a gleaming silver arm.

He was one of the first to see Malachi emerge from the strange silver box that seemed to be like nothing they had ever seen before.

"Get me a scan of that structure they just emerged from."

The man in the bridge responsible for the scanner arrays got to work punching in a set of keys into the ship's computer, and frowned deeply when a big red error message appeared on his display.

"Sir… it appears our scanners cannot penetrate the hull to give us a peek inside."

"What?!"

"I-In addition.. we cannot even tell what this is made of. It's not on record of any periodic table known to man."

This second revelation made the captain sit up in his chair and stare at the building even harder.

"These god loving sycophants… always pulling advantages and treasures out of the crack of their a-"

Suddenly, the captain noticed the way that Malachi was staring into the air.

The pure hatred in his eyes and unwavering weight of his gaze had confirmed one, impossible fact.

'He knows we're here..!'

"… Raise the deflectors to maximum, something's wro-"

*BOOOOOOM!*

At that moment, a beautiful black and silver spear was hurled through the floor of the ship itself.

The weapon sailed right between the eyes of the robotic captain; stapling his head to the back of his chair.

All remaining personnel inside of the bridge were stunned into complete and utter silence, even with the blaring alarms going off at every second.

None of them could believe what they were seeing.

However, they very quickly had to write themselves because their problems were about to become much worse.

While they were frozen into silence, a hand reached up through the opening in the floor of the ship. -verified

Malachi tore apart the metal that was several feet thick with complete and total ease, and pulled himself inside before Aisha came flying through after him.

"I was nice enough to hand out warnings last time... but this ain't that."

Malachi held out his hand and his spear came back into his hand as if it had it's own mind.

Once it reached his hands, it transformed into two dark blades connected to sinister looking metal chains.

"Just as well, Ares isn't exactly the most merciful god… Plus it hurt me to see Jo react like that too." Aisha shrugged.

Her lance began to glow and heat up with a light that was almost blinding, and increased the temperature in the room along with it.

Finally, one of the men on the bridge was able to scramble to his communicator at the last moment and screamed out a late but necessary update.

"F-Forced entry on the bridge! I repeat, f-"

A blade sailed into the neck of the whistle blower and cut his entire report short; though not before the entire bridge heard his message.

"Now you didn't have to do that. We would have went to go and get everyone on our own anyway." Malachi said with a hateful smile.

For the first time, Aisha felt like her best friend really had screw loose.

But when she thought for a second about how she would react if anything happened to Aubrey or Rose, she realized that she would have the exact same reaction.

No, she would likely be even worse.

"N-Neutralize them!"

"Weapons cleared hot!"

Finally, the soldiers in the bridge shook off their lingering rust and drew their weapons.

Before they could even be pointed at Malachi, he acted first.

Using his blades like instruments of his wrath, Malachi twirled the chains in the air at his sides before hurling them into enemies on opposite sides of the room.

The blades sailed right into the chests of two men who were killed instantly, and Malachi used their lifeless bodies like battering rams as he bashed them into other soldiers.

Aisha was a force of nature herself as she punched foot long holes into the chests of any who came close enough.

Despite the wild and furious nature of Malachi's weapons, he never once came close to cutting her or even grazing her with a chain.

This display proved the immense amount of trust that the two best friends had placed in each other, and the time they had spent working to improve themselves side by side.

It was no surprise that only a couple of moments were required to eliminate everyone on the bridge.

However, mere seconds after they finished they heard a loud explosion followed by a burst of shrapnel flying in from the doors to the bridge.

Finally, the reinforcements stormed in by the fistfuls; each of them bearing strange futuristic weapons or genetically altered physiques.

However, they had next to no idea just what kind of trouble they were running headfirst into.

-

While Malachi and Aisha had already begun reigning havoc inside one of the ships, Bianca, Luna, and Nadine were still looking to bring down their first.

They had successfully pinpointed where a warship was in the sky; but they didn't have enough firepower to break past its barrier.

Bianca was unable to reach that same level as desperation that turned her into a living warhead before, so she was unable to get the temperature of her flames past 300 degrees.

Luna was also attempting to use the power of the moon to create blades of moonlight that struck against the ship's barrier before shattering harmlessly.

"This isn't working!" Luna yelled.

Bianca was in total agreement.

"We need a new approach! Think of something!"

Nadine gritted her teeth silently as she looked back and forth between the two women she considered to be her family.

She thought back on the late night conversation she'd had with Malachi and how it'd healed the secret parts of her that had long been broken.

"Girls… get behind me please… and ask me no questions about what you are going to see."

Bianca and Luna weren't quite used to hearing Nadine sound serious about… well, anything.

They flew behind her back without putting up any resistance to her secret plan.

Gathering her courage, her sorrow, and her shame, she closed her eyes.

She inhaled so deeply that she thought her lungs would burst.

When she opened her eyes, they had an unusual reptilian slit in the middle of her purple irises.

She opened her mouth as wide as it would go, and revealed a mouth of razor sharp porcelain teeth.

Finally exhaling, she released a storm of cobalt blue flames from between her lips; the likes of which had enough power to level a city block.

The moment the breath attack struck the concealed ship, there was an explosion like none other before the entire carrier started to fall out of the sky.

But not before it crashed into another ship and started to bring it down with it.

Bianca: 'H-H-Hey… how strong is Nadine actually…?'

Luna: 'I… have absolutely no idea.'

While the two were floating around in wonder, Nadine's wings started to dip and she began to fall from the sky.

Luckily, the two of them were able to catch her just in time and supported her before she could hit the ground.

When they looked at her face, their hearts broke into two.

A line of blood was running from in between her lips and a river of tears were flowing out of her eyes.

'I'm so sorry Yrre… I'm so, so sorry..'