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The worst of all thirsts, the greatest of all temptations. Lust for power, a deadly game.

Chapter 37: battle of power

Killer grunted as he tore Wyvern free of the corpse of a Centaur he had just took down, and Alexis looked over to him with a flat look as she balanced Blue Vixen on her shoulder, unfazed by the blood and goo that dripped from the blade and onto her thick leather jacket.

They were both soaked in blood anyway... Demons and soldiers had kept coming at them, flooding into the corridors like they came off a production plant, seeming destined to never end as more and more came to fill the holes that the two ligers and the Berserkers tore through their ranks.

Regina was trying in any way to slow them down and to drain their energies away, no matter how many assets such a tactic required.

Killer nodded briefly, then shock his head a bit to get a few reddened, plastered bangs of his long mane out of the way of his eyes as he huffed a bit and brought the blade of Wyvern up to rest over his broad shoulders. He was tired, of course... but the plan wasn't going to change at all, and he wasn't going to back out. No one was going to... But especially not him.

They stood in front of a massive wooden door flanked by two burning torches that threw a shaky light on the surrounding walls... Effect of whatever crappy magic she's used... Apparently, walls of concrete and enormous security doors of steel didn't have a gloomy enough look to her. She has to make this a crappy fantasy-movie set.

Just tell me this is the last door to go... or we'll never be there soon enough to find some of the prisoners still alive...

Nigel quickly sheathed his bloody cleaver on his back and walked forwards rapidly, his hand going back to search for something in one of the ammo-pouches at his belt as the other Berserkers reloaded and checked their weapons, their features stony as they all wrestled back the awareness that there was almost no ammunitions left and the sinking feeling in one's guts that such awareness carried. No one, though, said a single out of place word, and when the wide variety of firearms was checked over and prepared, finger pulled on the trigger already to the First Pressure, needing only an imperceptible, additional pull to fire of, thumb ready on the safety selector to push it forwards on firing mode, they silently checked the exact position of the handle of their huge cleavers over their shoulders.

Almost all of them also carried several Commando Knifes and Launch Knifes... everyone of them had at least one into one of the boots and one at ready in a sheath secured to the chest of the body armour, high enough that they could draw it out with the teeth, if needed.

"This should be the last door." Nigel said in a reassuring tone as he approached the lock and slammed over it what looked like an innocent, thin sheet of paper and quickly stepping to the side of the door as Kari advanced with the auto-shotgun loaded with the last drum they had.

"You said it already two times." The female observed idly, giving him a flat look, and he kept his eyes more focused than it was effectively required over his rifle as he checked how many HE-Anti tank rounds in depleted uranium were left.

"Did I...?" He asked idly, and then he shrugged a bit as he prepared himself. "Deal you with this fucking magic. This looks like evil's dragon's castle in fucking fairy tales by now. She made the place far uglier than how I reminded it to be." He rose his eyes up to meet Alexis's cold commanding glance and he shouted a ready before clicking a small button on the pen-sized remote control in his hand.

Everyone turned instinctively away from the door as the adhesive paper exploded with surprising power, shattering the lock and sending the door swinging open violently inwards as a blazing light and an echoing thunder resounded in the bunkers.

Flash-Bang strips... the most popular anti-terrorism device. You could use it to blow open a door and blind the enemies inside at the same time, or slid the strip under a door or across any creak. Or use it like a normal flash-bang bomb, but with a great saving of weight and sizes compared to the usual cylindrical grenade. And weight and bulk are never welcomed when you are running and fighting for your life.

Nigel and Kari immediately turned on their heels and aimed past the corners of the door, firing a few rounds over the stunned enemies in sight inside, before slipping into the room quickly and spreading out in opposite directions, trying to gain the corner positions and secure under aim the whole area as Killer and Alexis stormed inside past them, the Berserkers following and gaining the first available covers as arrows and bullets stormed furiously towards them, pounding into the walls and lashing into the floor all around them.

You could easily spot the stunned ones... either they weren't firing, or they were pounding rounds in the roof or in the wrong direction, on panic as their senses were blinded and confused and a loud, painful whistle seemed to crack their ears and brains in two... But not everyone had been blinded, and anyway, the enemies were still dangerous enough: when you are hit, after all, is not important if the bullet was effectively aimed at you or was just hissing by. It hurts in the same way.

Killer reached a hand to his side and snagged Cobra, pulling the enormous rifles up as six RA soldiers charged across a curtain of smoke, wearing anti-gas masks and protective visors under their helmets, the barrels of their assault rifles flashing with the bursts, bullets pounding in the floor around him as he charged forwards, leaping over what looked absurdly like the altar of stone of an ancient church... But he had no time to investigate as he gritted his fangs and pulled the trigger, firing with the weapon at the side as his visor showed directly in front of his eye the images downloaded from Cobra's sight.

The burst did not miss, and one of the soldiers fell forwards as his head exploded in a thick splatter of gore, another falling backwards and crashing away at several feet of distance as two bullets shattered his armour and blew a huge hole in his chest, and the other rounds sent down the leftover even before Killer landed on his feet on the floor past the altar.

He had still a couple of grenades stacked in the launcher mounted under the barrel of the rifle, and he didn't even need to think to fire one forwards when another group of enemies appeared from the smoke and the darkness, grinning at the well-known fuup noise of the grenade leaving the barrel and feeling the smirk grew wider as the round exploded in midair and torn the enemies to shreds in the same moment he slashed Wyvern in an horizontal arc around himself with the other hand, cutting a minotaur in two and sending five more demons scattering backwards with missing limbs.

From somewhere, a lucky shot smashed into his muscular, bare chest, but the soldier that had fired all but threw the rifle away and fled with shouts of terror as the bullet bounced off the huge liger, leaving little more than a bruise on him.

Several more paled at the sight as Killer straightened and glared over them, advancing with Wyvern at the ready and quickly turned to flee before a grenade smashed in the middle of their group, and they were all terminated.

Cold, emotionless word of the military protocol... but an effective term, at least.

"Frontal area safe!" A Berserker communicated on the radio, and from the corners of the room there were other confirmations as the last shots were fired and the noise of the bursts ceased echoing down the dark room.

"It's huge... Impossibly wide. There must be some kind of enlarging magic..." Alexis observed with cold, slightly-irritated voice as she glared at the bloody blade of her sword, and Killer nodded with a bit of a grimace. He understood her irritation, and he shared it... after all, they knew nothing of magic, and it was unnerving to see all the chances and possibilities that magic offered, especially since they were going to fight a demoness that was also an unmatched mage, and her powers were something they couldn't even try to prepare themselves for. Never before they had stepped into fight so entirely blind about the range of possibilities of the rival to face, and their military professionalism all but blamed their impulsive, battle-lustful sides for always charging into things without hesitations.

Killer nodded silently, and then he turned towards the altar he had jumped over, and he stared at this with a grimace of horror as he took in the details: it was a table of stone with thick manacles of still, thought and designed to imprison an unfortunate tortured... And to add to the torture itself, he noticed, since the inside of the manacles and of an equal belt that could be closed around the waist of the prisoner was covered in jutting, sharp and curving spikes of metal.

The thought of the long spikes of the belt being closed on one's crotch was so horrible that Killer almost felt a chilling sharp pain in his loins himself.

The table at the moment did not host prisoners... but the blood and the splatters of other organics fluids over the stone were guarantees that it wasn't empty from too long.

"I saw it." Alexis said with cold voice when he turned towards her, the blond femme fatale looking away from the altar, and frowning as she looked with attention back and forth from a corner to the other of the immense, dark, cave-looking room.

"Doesn't it seem a little bit empty...?" Alexis observed calmly, and Killer blinked, realizing that she was right... and he had barely enough time to consider the possible implications and tighten his hold on the handle of Wyvern that a beautiful, young tigress clad only in tattered, dirty and bloody cloths ran out of the darkness, charging towards him and crying hard, her bare, mostly-exposed body covered in small cuts and in several nastier looking wounds.

Rifles turned on her as the Berserkers nervously valued the situation, the same Alexis frowning in a suspect, but not managing to pierce into the newcomer's mind. Normally, she would easily read all of the feelings and thoughts of anyone in a wide range all around herself, but now the femme fatale strangely did not even manage to sense the presence of the crying tigress.

Considering that she was by now used to see everything in her mind, from the enemies hidden behind the corners to what was going to happen in a few seconds time, Alexis was unnerved by the incapacity of reading into the female's mind. It's... like a solid wall of frenzied thoughts keeping me out of her mind, out of her feelings... I can't figure it out...

Killer, anyway, made a quick step forwards and sheathed Wyvern on his back as the crying tigress all but threw herself at him, and he welcomed her in his arms as she curled up against his broad, thick chest, her arms wrapping around his waist as best as she can manage to, standing at ten feet against his colossal 18-plus-foot frame, her face pocking into his abdomen as she cried hard.

"You came! You came! You come to save me!" She said between her tears, and Killer awkwardly looked down at her, blushing a bit at the unexpected assault even as he wrapped his own huge arms around her and smiled reassuringly.

Hell, to be a tortured prisoner looking for salvation, she has quite impertinent and quick hands...! Killer thought as she squeezed him needingly and let her hands stroke down the muscular, rippled profile of his steel-hard abdominals, her muzzle rubbing just above his navel as her fingers found the gigantic bulge in his pants and followed it slowly, amazedly, rubbing slowly down every inch of flaccid, concealed huge member before squeezing on it almost roughly.

The tigress all but let out a deep, impressed moan, that Killer didn't miss even as she still cried in a mix of desperation and boundless relief, sobbing hard in his gentle hold and continuing to exclaim "You came!" even as he slowly rocked her from side to side.

Alexis's frown deepened even more, and her fingers played impatiently and nervously on the handle of Blue Vixen as she glared over the young female and tried hard to pierce into her mind... She was engaging a true mental battle with the unknown figure, and it was puzzling her more and more not to be able to see in the depths of her soul.

Desperate and shocked as she looked, it should have been even easier for Alexis's powers to feel clearly her sorrow and sadness and to read her thoughts like an open book... No one, apart from Vera, had ever managed to seal Alexis out and deny her "All-Seeing" sense to scan them across and find every smallest feeling, every concealed thought.

I don't feel desperation at all... no sadness...

"Please, Lord Wyvern... can... can I kiss you...? Please...?" The young tigress finally asked, looking pleadingly up to Killer, her eyes still gleaming with her tears. The huge male hesitated for a short moment, duelling with his own instinct telling him that something was wrong...

But what if I'm wrong...? What if she's just... shocked...? With what she had to see and survive to...

"Sure." He said softly, smiling gently as he bent down, and she hungrily pushed her muzzle against his, her lips greedily meeting his, trying to suckle over his lips, her arms reaching up to wrap tightly around his thick neck, fingers ruffling his bloodstained mane as her tongue pushed out to lap at his lips lovingly, and he let his mouth part open to welcome her, his own larger tongue wrestling her with gentleness but firmness at the same time...

But the kiss rapidly grew wilder, hungrier, almost ferocious as she pushed her tongue into his mouth with surprising courage â€" Surprising experience, too... â€" and he found his own tongue pinned, his eyes opening in surprise before he murred in amused agreement of her challenge as he squeezed her closer to him in his arms and immediately wrestled her tongue back, gaining the top and fighting her firmly, ferociously backwards as she fought with deep, incredible hunger, a bit of drool escaping their joined muzzles as they kissed, battled, manoeuvred and wrestled with incredible, lustful ferociousness, his eyes widening in surprise at just how skilled and strong her tongue was at the game.

He fought hard back, grinning despite himself, despite the fact his suspects were growing stronger, and he growled lowly from the deep of his throat as he forcefully shoved his tongue over hers, murring hungrily as he squeezed her with playful roughness against his chest, flexing his enormous, powerful musculature against her as she let out a deep moan and her eyes opened wide to stare at his own.

And then, as his grin grew wider even as their drooling mouths staid connected, he was roughly shoving her tongue back in her own mouth, chasing after her as he hungrily, insolently invaded her mouth and pushed into her throat, dominating her and pinning her tongue down to impotence under his own as she moaned loudly and stared at him with eyes wide in amazement, her hands clutching hard at his muscular body, her irises widened like she was under the effect of drugs as she stared into his grinning eyes.

"You fucking better get your filthy hands off him, bitch." Alexis snapped, growling as she gritted her ivory fangs as she drew out her Desert Storm and fired three rounds in the time that most others would spent just to think of drawing out the gun. You could never make a western movie with her as main character. She'd end it a couple seconds of slaughter...

Killer didn't move, nor did he show surprise at all... by now, it was clear that the tigress he was kissing wasn't what she looked like...

But as the Berserkers followed the example of their queen without hesitation, pounding bullets and anti-tank rounds out in ferocious bursts, he snarled at the sudden, burning feeling of power radiating off the false-tigress as a tremendous force washed over him in waves, his eyes darting to the side to see the tens of bullets aimed at the female just stopping awkwardly in midair at arm distance from her as she slowly departed from the kiss and looked up at him with a burning lust in her eyes that gleamed so evident and hungry that he could say to have seen a comparable one only into Alexis's insatiable ones...

Killer stared back at her with rising rage, instead, his eyes growing colder and colder as he glared over her fake features, almost like his furious and admittedly curious gaze could see past her magic and on her true look...

And she satiated his curiosity with a grin, closing her eyes with a lustful sigh before a swirling hurricane of dark, jet-black fog wrapped around her, rising from feet to hair in a second, and then, even as to Killer seemed like a whole age had passed, the magic fog vanished, and Killer was left staring over Regina herself as she stood in front of him, looking over his body with a greedy, hungry look that was at one time awed and lustful. He could finally look over the feared demoness he was going to face, and the first thing he noticed, forcedly, was the immense amount of power radiating off her in burning waves. Her powers went way beyond anything he had before faced, and he hadn't felt such energy and such danger in a rival from the day when he had first faced the Suicide Maker. But Regina is far worse... with this amount of energy in her, the extent of her abilities is fearsome...

"So rude, Alexis... jealous, huh, are you...?" Regina said softly, turning slowly to grin teasingly towards the blond ligeress as she reached up for one of the bullets absurdly motionless in the air all around her, taking it idly between index and thumb to give it a brief, patronizing glance before crushing it effortlessly. "But oh, how I understand ya...!" The demoness added in a seductive murr, turning one gleaming emerald eye to look up at Killer. "Such a gorgeous male... If he was mine, I'd want him to stick around me all the time, to be sure he STAYS mine..."

"That's because you are ugly and got fuckin' petty boobs and a big tough girl like me would steal your boy in no time." Alexis countered with a wide, jeering grin, and the demoness's eye twitched in rage as Regina turned to glare towards the ligeress.

Damn... It's true... look at her breasts...! Regina felt ridiculously hurt by such awareness. She had always been the most beautiful and taunting of all creatures, and her enormous, perfect breasts had been her pride â€" quite normal, for a demoness of Lust -, yet now her sumptuous swells almost paled compared to the ligeress's chest as the blond femme fatale proudly stood with her black leather jacket open over a bikini top also of thick, dark leather that tightly wrapped around awesome, huge breasts that defied gravity and that seemed to be stretching the fabric almost to breaking point.

Killer grinned himself, snorting a bit in amusement even as the rage of Regina melted the bullets in the air all the way to a puff of vapour. Actually, Regina was drop-dead beautiful, her body a shapely sculpture of feminine beauty, her long legs seductive and her thighs all but calling for him to squeeze her taunt, muscular flesh... And she was formidable in every sector, with no chances of rivalling with her. But, admittedly, Alexis was a little bit taller, and amazingly, in the titanic contest for the most-divine pair of boobs between them, the ligeress was visibly victorious, although not by much.

The demoness was a cobra, no less, her body covered by smooth, teardrop-shaped scales of a dark but lucid green that shined in the soft light, her scales turning almost to white on her chest, neck and on the whole of her inner body, while scales of a much darker green drew a series of V stripes along her back and down her thick tail, the last stripe being on top of her head, above her emerald eyes, two glowing pits of pure lust. Her features were beautiful, attractive in a predatory, demonic way, and carried sign of all of her lust, of all of her seduction power.

Two tall, sky-pointing curving horns topped her head, and a single, long horn jutted out of her forehead as well, while a series of piercings and rings framed her face, attached to the edges of her hood of cobra, and most of her body was bare... Her breath-catching feminine curves were almost completely exposed, with gigantic, sumptuous breasts pressing heavily against her small bikini top of black leather, making it look far too small for her, impression reinforced by how much her hard nipples tented the thick leather, hard and long enough to seem about to poke an hole through the fabric.

Chiselled, powerful abs were left exposed in all of their glory, only thick laces of black, lucid leather crisscrossing her abdomen down to tiny G-string also of leather that she wore, and that was kept together not by strings but by fine chains of steel at the sides. Her arms were also muscular, perfect complement to her strong abdominals, muscles toned to an amazing levels and built so powerfully to put to shame most of the Gigataurs that Killer had faced. Tight spiked laces were wrapped around her thick biceps, and Killer had no doubt at all that she could snap the leather to pieces just by flexing her arm, if she wanted to...

And Killer noticed with a grin that Regina wore spiked bracelets at the wrists, every spike dangerously long and deadly sharp, shaped like the fin of a shark... and ankle-bracelets of identical style were tied over the black, spiked combat boots she wore.

Killer's grin all but doubled as he noticed the incredible high heels of steel, pointed and sharp as weapons... Alexis's boots are... the twins of hers. I don't think anyone else could ever even just dream to fight with those on...

"We'll see about that." Regina said venomously, glaring towards Alexis even as her muzzle crested in a grin. "I can put you to shame at any moment. We'll see who'll get the big prize here, at the end of the day..."

Regina grinned as Alexis snarled at her menacingly, her ivory fangs gritted and uncovered, icy blue eyes glaring into the demoness's emerald as the two females engaged briefly in a mind battle... And Killer winced at the sudden explosion of energy that blackened his vision for a moment, deafening him with a loud, impossible rumble as an unbelievable force washed over him, blasts of energy surging from the contact between the female's eyes and all but crumbling to dust the altars all around them as the thick slabs of stone that made up the floor cracked loudly and somehow fluctuated up , rising into the air as the tremendous force lifted them effortlessly and crumbled them in the same time in smaller and smaller fragments as electricity crackled deafeningly into the room.

It was a battle of force that lasted mere seconds, but the amount of energy put into the game sent lightnings cracking out from the glowing eyes of the two femme fatales as the Berserkers were all but sent falling to the ground with screams of mental agony as Killer bit his lower lip and growled in the same unbelievable pain.

It finally was over, the rumble of a thunder echoing into the dark room as Regina grinned and Alexis panted but stared with unchanged determination up at her rival, slightly bent forwards and unfazed by the rain of dust and pebbles coming down between her and the demoness: the enormous slabs of stone of the floor had been mostly pulverized by their immense, clashing energies. The Berserkers, astonished, were shakily trying to stand back up to their feet from where they had been shoved like toys, against the back wall of the room, groaning as an enormous sledgehammer still seemed to batter their brains savagely, eyes fixed on the two females and the huge male, Nigel staring at Alexis's back even as a small rivulet of blood came down from his forehead and into his eye.

"Impressive as you are, Alexis... I fear he'll be mine..." Regina purred, smiling patronizingly to the rival and ignoring completely the powerless Berserkers as she turned back to Killer with a hungry, lustful look, her long tongue darting out to lick at her own muzzle slowly as the giant male flatly looked at her.

Thick, long, serpentine tongue... She must be awesome at blowjobs... And I'm definitely gonna find out about it.

That's why I expected to hear from you. Crush the bitch... Black Killer grinned from the depths of his mind, where he had tried to seal him, and Killer made a bit of a face, closing his eyes for an instant as he forced his darkness away, back into the abyss of his soul as he snarled to himself: I did not ask for your opinion.

Regina slid forwards with a teasing look, reaching up to slid her arms around Killer's thick neck, and she moved to push her body lightly against his muscular, enormous form, craving for the contact with his formidable, chiselled body... And she snarled in surprise, eyes opening wide as her body suddenly spasmed like she had been hit and she was sent staggering a few backwards a couple of steps, the demoness glaring up at him in surprise and amazement.

Not only did he survive my kiss... not only did he invaded my mouth and showed me how a dominant male acts... he... he is the one... Why can't I touch him...?

Regina reached forwards again as Killer frowned at her, crossing his arms and tilting his head a bit to the side as he arched his eyebrow with curiosity, and the cobra slowly lifted up her hand, reaching forwards reverently to try and touch the liger's enormous bicep, looking like she was just about to lay her hand on a god...

But she could not brush him, as she was once more repealed violently backwards, her vision blurring with flashes of light and a curtain of darkness for an instant as she fell backwards and onto an altar, her hands grabbing at her temples as she moaned in agony at the sharp stab of pain in her mind, eyes looking up at him even as she shook her head slowly from side to side and her breath quickened, the Incarnation trying to deny what had just happened, and at the same time feeling her lust for him doubling, increasing tenfold, thousandfold, her mouth watering and her loins burning.

"You..." She managed to whisper, and Killer frowned a bit, not truly understanding what was happening, but determined not to let it out... At least, not too evidently.

"YOU, bitch. I didn't say you could touch me." He calmly countered, and the strength of his dominant glare felt overwhelming over the demoness as she repressed a shiver and glared back at him, even if her eyes filled with the sight of his grin.

"You'll beg me for my touch on your knees!" Regina snapped ferociously back up at him, and her eyes glowed emerald as she looked into the depths of his chillingly-icy sapphire ones, using all of the energy she could find inside herself to use Dominate over him, to use her demonic, irresistible charms to take control of him.

I feel his lust... He wants me... He wants to use me... Why can't I use his exterminate lusts against him...? It should be easier than with anyone else to make of him a drooling, hungry beast... It's impossible... He can't resist to my domination, he ... he can't! Goddamnit, it's impossible to resist it!

Killer stared at her glowing eyes, unnerved but determinate, worried of what kind of magic she was trying to use over him, but facing her proudly and glaring back at her with cold dominance, even as he felt the noise of hungry, greedy sucking breaths from behind.

He allowed himself to take a peek with the corner of his eyes, and he saw Nigel and the other Berserkers, both males and females, walking rapidly towards the demoness, their mouths hanging open and drooling, their eyes reduced to expressionless pits of white light, leaving him staring agape as lust transformed those disciplined, courageous soldiers in beasts moved only by the crushing lust for her. Luckily, Alexis was resisting well to the allure of Dominate, and her eyes cleared up even more as they met his own ones, the ligeress nodding reassuringly to him

At the same time, he could feel her terrible power and her irresistible allure press at his mind with crushing strength, his own loins heated up by growing lust, but no matter how many and how strong the mental hooks she threw at him, they bounced off his mind like bullets would bounce off his impenetrable muscles, and he felt his own grin growing wider as he kept his lusts under the tight control that he had learned in the years, but at the same time let it focalize enough to create a clear movie in his mind.

A movie where he was savagely banging Regina's mouth with his immense cock, shattering her jaws like a puzzle as his thrusts, his hard pistons rammed her head against a wall hard enough to crack it. I know you can see it, bitch... this is what I've in store for ya.

Regina twitched, her body shivering in a way that Killer knew all too well, a way he had seen so many times in Alexis and in countless others when the lust was striking, and he grinned teasingly as their eyes remained locked, and he let his mind anticipate the way he was gonna fill her up with his seed until it came out of her nostrils and inflated her belly like a balloon, only to blast into her even more... He smirked as he watched her snarl spread wider over her face, and he felt another more insistent assault trying to take over his mind, feeling it bouncing off once more.

Stop it, you showoff! You can't be that huge, and you can't cum that much either! She angrily snarled in his mind, and Killer grinned down at her, and then shook his head slowly as he patronizingly smiled. "You sure...? Ask Alexis, then, come on. No one knows it better than her."

"Why don't you show me instead...?" She countered with a grin, her eyes glowing once more as the Berserkers all but advanced towards her like mindless zombies, the demoness ignoring them entirely as she licked slowly at her muzzle, filling her eyes with his presence and his towering, powerful body...

"You wish, bitch." Killer countered with a grin, his voice a cold essence of domination. "You'll have to beg me just to get a peek of it... And then you'll beg me to rape you until I rip you apart and kill you. Because I won't even rape you without you begging like the slut you are."

It was like a blast of psychic force surging from him, the demoness snarling as her eyes went wide in surprise and horror before Regina was thrown staggering backwards a couple of steps before she fell heavily down to her knees, panting harshly as drool surged to her mouth and she stared wordlessly up at him. I couldn't suck his energy out of the kiss... He dominated me all the time... and even Dominate has no grip at all over him... He's... It... it cannot be... not even the gods resist me...

"I can't... I can't take on you... you... you can't be dominated..." she breathed softly, her long tongue slithering out to lick at her muzzle hungrily, her eyes flashing with ecstatic amazement, and perhaps even fear at the same time, her hands trembling as a shiver rolled down her spine.

"You know, I think I'm seeing juices glinting on your thighs." Killer observed, smirking playfully as he walked a step towards her, towering over her like the mountain of muscle that he was, and Regina looked away from him, shutting her eyes and biting at her lip nervously, trying to deny what was happening... "I did not even show you one flex... get a grip on yourself!" Killer teased, smirking down over her.

Alexis traded a grin with Killer from where she stood a few feet behind him as he turned briefly to wink at her, her tongue darting out to slowly lick at her muzzle, before she rolled her eyes with a huff as a voice murred stupidly: "Regina... I'm coming..."

Alexis turned to the side and roughly grabbed Nigel by the shoulders as he staggered zombie-like by her side, his empty voice stupidly babbling about how he craved the demoness and the contact with her. Alexis rattled him like a small tree loaded with fruits to make fall, but it was useless... and then she snorted and bent slightly down to wrap her lips over his own, kissing him hungrily and easily dominating him as her tongue pinned his own down effortlessly, toying with him like he was a pet.

"I... I crave you, Alexis..." Nigel said stupidly as his eyes regained their expression and stared at her with lust that, despite the effect of Regina's Dominate having been broken, seemed to have only increased at the contact with the blond ligeress as she held him close. And indeed, he rapidly flushed, staring hopefully upwards and hoping to get another kiss as he stretched his lips forwards hungrily...

"Huhm, and don't I know it...?" Alexis grinned, licking teasingly at his cheek before letting him go and pushing the bulky, muscular male effortlessly back like he was a cub, slapping playfully a hand on his strong abdominals. Her playful attitude was still strong enough to make him bend over with a grunt as the air whooshed out of him, but she had already turned and walked away with a playful wink.

"Use your upstairs brain once in a while, instead of wearing out your dick all the time!" Alexis teasingly exclaimed, grinning widely, as he embarrassedly mumbled some nonsense and touched at his cheek dreamingly.

Regina opened her eyes suddenly, and she found the other drooling Berserkers coming at her from all sides, her features taking on a distinct expression of distaste as fury mounted in her rapidly, her lip all but trembling a bit before she snarled, her eyes meeting Killer's dominant, patronizing ones as he stood tall in front of her. It made her fury increase tenfold, black crackling energy appearing around her body as her body burned with terrible, glowing darkness and she leaped back up to her feet, lashing out with an arm glowing with terrible energy.

"It's not you that I want, worthless scum!" Regina snarled, and a blast of tremendous force crackled like thunder in the air, sending the Berserkers flying into the air like dolls, the bulky soldiers crashing against the walls at the bottom of the immense cave as their thick bullet-proof vests shattered and were torn to shreds, deep wounds appearing across their chests as they howled in agony and smashed into the floor, Dominate ceasing its effect.

"You... It is you that I want." Regina stated clearly, grinning as she gracefully walked forwards to Killer, looking up to his eyes with her own burning with raging flames of lust. "So much energy... so much lust and sheer dominance... Such great power... You just make me so excited, so goddamn hungry, just with your presence here." Regina grinned widely, licking at her muzzle with a low murr, almost like she could already taste him on her lips. "You are the one, I feel it... The one that can manage to accomplish the task the gods failed miserably to achieve... The one that will show me what a powerful, dominant male truly feels like..."

"That's what you want of him...?" Alexis asked, snorting laughter as she grinned widely. "You want him to shove you down and fuck your guts out of your mouth, bitch...? He could do that with hands tied to his tail, on a bad day and using only a quarter of his cock."

Regina's eyes flashed a bit at the comment, even through the demoness apparently ignored it, but Killer couldn't just decide if the flash had been one of rage or of lust. Probably a mix of both...

The serpent glanced up to Killer again, daring to meet his gaze and feeling her breath catch, almost quailing under the cold grin of the huge male... and loving that feeling of a whole different brand of fear than any terror that had been inspired in her in the past, as he said softly: "Then, you shiver that way because you want to suck my cock that bad, don't you, bitch?"

Regina felt a bit of an internal struggle... being called bitch in that way, her, the greatest mistress of Hell! The dominatrix that could shove down even the gods and suck their energy out until they were only dust... But it is what I always wanted, at the same time... a male this powerful... a merciless dominator...

Regina closed her eyes for a moment, almost dreamingly, then she finally raggedly whispered: "Yes... I want to... oh yes, I do... I want to know how potent you taste..." The cobra licked her lips hungrily, shivering a bit as she half-consciously squeezed at her enormous breasts, rubbing at the underswells of her sumptuous bosom gently. "But you know... I'm not going to suck out only your delicious seed... I'll feast over all of your immense energy, I'll suck out your life force and suck you down to a husk..." Regina grinned widely, turning to Alexis and licking at her lips hungrily. "And then I'll eat up your nice wife over there and turn her into dust as well... But never worry, I'll become the queen of all Hell... the queen of this whole universe, and you'll gain new life in Hell, you'll both be immensely powerful... so much to crush anything and anyone under your feet like they were bugs, the most powerful creatures ever to exist after me... I'll be your sovereign then... but we'll have so much fun together..." Regina grinned, looking back to Killer suggestively. "And I'll let you dominate me as hard as you want... and in Hell you'll become an Incarnation of Lust... and you'll probably grow tentacle-cocks too... you'll be able to rape thousands of girls at once, filling all of their holes up and pumping out so much seed to pop them like balloons."

Regina grinned, walking forwards towards Killer as he stared at her coldly, his arms crossed on his chest, the demoness smiling alluringly as she quickly paced towards the immense bulge in his pants... But instead of being welcomed as she dreamed, instead of being forced down to her knees and have her mouth crammed full of powerful, delicious male, she was shoved back by a blast of force irradiating from the giant liger.

Regina staggered backwards once more, almost falling as she snarled at him, her eyes burning with rage... but Killer only tilted his head slightly to the side with contempt and grinned patronizingly, making a deep flush rise to her cheeks as he calmly stated: "We'll see if you can manage that feat with me, bitch... I may just be a bit too much for you. And anyway, I'm not going to let a little slut like you get even just a peek of my cock. You'll have to show me what you can do in battle, you whore. If you can show me you're worthwhile, I'll let you do." Killer paused, grinning widely as he turned to trade a look with Alexis. "Don't you think...?"

"I'll never let a slut like her get a taste of me either." Alexis confirmed, grinning herself as her eyes flashed with dark amusement and ferocious hungers that went from the wish of revenge to pure blood-lust to craving need for hard, rough sex.

"I figured." Killer said in agreeable tone before turning back to Regina with a smirk of pure dominance. "My cock will be your prize if you do well in battle. If you win, you'll get to suck it, bitch... And you better do it hard and nice for me, hard as you can. And we'll see if your tricks work with me, slut... But from how soaked and shivering you are, I could rape you until you pass out without breaking a sweat." Killer paused, grinning widely as Alexis smirked with merciless amusement. "But be aware that if I win..." The huge male continued. "I'll rape you into a bloody mush."

Regina glared at him, her hands trembling a bit as her fury mounted rapidly, black flames raging around her body as her eyes glowed black, waves of tremendous power irradiating out of her now, strong enough that the stone slabs of the floor all around her cracked down to pebbles, the nearest altars of rock shattering to fragments as well as the whole room shock like an earthquake was raging under their feet.

"Fine..." Regina snarled, bringing her hands up. "You choose to go the hard way, you arrogant fucker... AND HARD IT'LL BE!"

Alexis and Killer quickly drew Wyvern and Blue Vixen out, springing into ready stances as the Berserkers took cover behind the altars and fired furiously towards the demoness... but it was entirely useless, as the bullets all but turned around her, battered out of the air by the waves of force radiating from her as Regina ignored the gunfire completely, instead lashing her hands upwards towards the roof of the immense cave, grinning venomously as a snake of dancing black fog wrapped around her and shot upwards with an incredible blast of power, strong enough to make Killer shiver down the spine as his body was crossed by a wave of energy that felt incandescent.

"You think you can toy with me...?" Regina snarled, her grin widening and becoming vicious. "Then witness how I toyed with your lives and with your pathetic mortal world!"

An explosion followed, a thick curtain of darkness in the form of dancing, thick smoke wrapped around the whole cave, and the room immediately changed its appearances, taking on a whole new look as immense columns of stone and marbles pushed out in two rows, delimiting a wide nave in the middle as the stone fell of the walls, which for a moment were left looking like they should be, of plain concrete, before they took on the appearance of monumental walls of a gothic cathedral.

Killer couldn't help but stare in amazement as somewhere, perhaps two hundred feet above, the roof of the cave changed into the arches and bold sculptured roof of a gothic church... and he was left agape at the sheer sizes of it, the roof growing and growing, higher and higher, until it felt hundreds of feet away above him, the nave stretching at incredible distance... And this room used to be only a small ammunitions-depot with thick walls of concrete... Laws of physics and reality itself have no meaning at all for her powers... it's unbelievable...

but then his attention shifted entirely to the hundreds of altars that littered the ground in ordered rows all along the nave, and to the horrible display of cruelty on the side walls as he heard Alexis holding her breath in horror and fury, a new energy crackling in the air as the rage of Alexis summoned all of the ligeress's immense power for revenge.

Every altar, that had first been empty, now was occupied by a pinned, agonizing prisoner. Blood dripped down the tables as the spikes of the manacles bit deep into flesh and muscle, making every moment an unbearable torture... And yet, that was probably the last worry of the poor guys pinned on the tables, since they all had evidently endured the worst possible forms of torture and â€" Killer hated to use such definition but couldn't come up with another one fitting â€" experimentations.

Some of the prisoners had been planted with demonic parts, and weird claws and tentacles slapped at the air from the agonizing, writhing bodies pinned to the marble. Others, somehow, had been melted by some sort of acid until the skeleton and the still weakly-pumping heart were visible and exposed... And Killer found his horror rising to unbearable levels at the sight of prisoners that had been used to experiment all sorts of demonic viruses and diseases, and others that were reduced to hosting-organisms for horrendous sorts of parasite beings.

One of the prisoners had the ribcage exposed, and somehow, trapped inside the ribs, huge fanged creatures and worms were biting angrily at his innards, trying to claw themselves a way out.

On the sides of the cathedral, other horribly tortured prisoners were crucified to the wall, hanging from even crueler spiked manacles, or from strings of steel that had bitted deep into flesh and muscle and were all but slowly tearing even the bones as the weight of the bodies pulled the victims inexorably downwards.

Others had had their genitals brutally eviscerated, and Killer found his eyes wondering over pains and wounds that he didn't even understand... No mortal torturer could have kept alive his victims while causing such tremendous damages to their bodies, but somehow, Regina could. They were all alive... But for them all, it isn't a relief: life at the moment is their condemn... they all must be wishing only to die...

Tell me it's an illusion... please tell me...

It is not, Lord Wyvern... Lady Alexis... this is your people. Turned into toys and pets for my personal amusement... Killer snarled as the demoness's voice came into his mind, invading his soul even if he attempted to concentrate at the best of his capacities to seal her out of himself... And the huge male powerlessly glared around the room, gripping tightly on the handle of Wyvern and searching for a sign of her presence... but she was just vanished into thin air...

I'll so make you pay for this monstrosity, bitch! Killer snarled into his mind, and he had a brief vision of himself, standing in the darkness of his own mind and facing a laughing Regina... before Alexis leapt into the image and lashed out a fist towards the demoness's muzzle, forcing the serpent to retreat.

Keep high your guard, she is incredibly dangerous! The Alexis in his mind commanded... and Killer realized that it wasn't a fantasy at all... somehow, it was happening inside his mind. Regina had been there... and he nodded with a grimace he did not manage to completely hide. He hated being incapable to protect his mind and soul effectively...

"Nice display of pets, huh...?" Regina purred from behind him, over his shoulder, and he turned with a snarl of fury towards her, lashing out a tremendous punch... that only whizzed across dark smoke, through, as Regina's laughter echoed down the nave and she reappeared forty feet ahead of him out of solidifying black fog. "I originally planned to end their pathetic lives and absorb that little shitty energy they have to offer before you could get here... But you have been a lot faster at crushing my army out of existence than I had forecasted, so I couldn't take care of these ones." Regina explained quietly, looking over a shrieking prisoner with a horrible, tender smile.

Alexis glared at her with a fury so incredible that Killer felt shivers down his back as a tremendous blast of force crackled in the air past him, shooting at Regina before the demoness sent it crashing to the side with a monstrous explosion with a mere slapping gesture of her hand.

Anyone else, Killer was sure, would have simply dropped down dead from such solid, sharp hatred.

Regina's grin died away immediately, however, as a boom echoed down the cathedral as Nigel stood up with a snarl and fired an anti-tank round straight to her face. The enormous bullet stopped in midair in front of the cobra, and the demoness melted it away with a glare and a snort of derision, but Alexis took the moment to charge forwards from her position.

"Stay out of this!" Alexis snarled, glaring for an instant towards Nigel. "Get them all free. Pull them down from the walls, aid them as you can. And let me handle it." Alexis all but ferociously snarled the last words, her fury frightening as sapphire flames raged around her form and her eyes burned with murderous cruelty, and Nigel and the Berserkers didn't hesitate, every soldier sprinting forwards to a different altar or crucified prisoner to tear them free of their bounds of agony.

In the same time, Alexis charged forwards with a rapidity that left Killer astonished as he looked after her, the ligeress's body becoming only a glowing, vaguely-shaped sapphire gleam as she shot across the room, leapt over the altar and the bleeding prisoner upon it to slash Blue Vixen ferociously out at head level.

Regina grinned and vanished again in thick black smoke, however, the fog rising in a column that brushed the high roof before rocketing down towards the ground even as the Berserkers fired uselessly at it, the rounds whizzing across the smoke without effect...

The fog slammed into the floor with the strength of an explosion, sending lightnings into the air as the stone floor collapsed in a deep crater, and the demoness reappeared in the middle of this, straightening up halfway between Killer and Alexis as the two ligers glared at her in fury from over the edge of their huge swords.

"So... let's see if YOU two are worthwhile in battle, shall we...?" Regina teasingly called, and she lifted her hands up, black fog snaking from her palms and taking on the shape of a weapon before it solidified in a massive, double ended spear: a thick pole of black metal in the middle, and two enormous, spiked curved swords as blades at the two ends.

Regina idly spun the pole in her hand, then windmilled the weapon gracefully over her head and moved in a ready stance, one hand holding the polearm balanced behind her back and the other hand stretched outwards towards Killer, fingers beckoning for him to advance.

"Come, big boy. Show me what a male with your delicious power can do."

Killer charged forwards with a snarl, Wyvern raised and ready to strike out at her as Alexis leapt forwards from her own corner, her tremendous sapphire energy clashing with Regina's own to send lightnings crackling in the air as the ground trembled violently, cracks spreading into the floor, up the walls and breaking apart a nearby column from base to top as the two females engaged in a tremendous duel of psychic force and telekinesis, even before entering in physical contact.

Killer lashed out with Wyvern in a head-level cut, but Regina easily ducked this and stabbed forwards with the spear, even as the huge liger sidestepped and twisted his wrist to send his crimson blade lashing towards the demoness's legs.

Regina immediately grabbed the pole of her spear with both hands and quickly brought the weapon in front of her form to intercept the blow, before passing the pole into the left hand and stabbing backwards and upwards, aiming to Alexis's throat as she leapt at her from behind.

Alexis saw the attack coming a good three seconds earlier, shadow images showing in her mind what was going to happen, and he hand shot rapidly out to grasp the neck of the pole, just below the huge blade of the hybrid weapon, shoving it aside far from her as she swung Blue Vixen down with a roar of rage as Wyvern came down in a slash from the other side.

Killer had enough time to see a grin cresting the demoness's muzzle before she dropped down in an awesome split, ducking under the lash of Wyvern as her legs opened completely, her inner thighs touching the floor as she flung hard forwards with her double-ended spear, throwing Alexis forwards and over Killer's head, swinging the pole down in a lightning move to windmill it around herself, aiming at the male's legs.

The huge liger grunted and barely managed to leap over the blow, kicking one booted foot out towards Regina's taunting, beautiful features.

The demoness vanished in black smoke once more, the dark fog shooting upwards and knocking Wyvern down on his back with a blast of force as Alexis flipped gracefully once in midair and rose Blue Vixen quickly up, firing a burst of rounds from the machine gun in the handle, snarling as the enormous rounds uselessly tore through the darkness as she fired round after round into the dancing snake of fog.

Alexis landed gracefully against the side of one of the enormous columns of the cathedral, slamming her booted feet into the marble hard enough to crack it, before her eyes widened with a snarl as she saw the spectral image of an enormous energy blasted towards her... And the ligeress immediately kicked off the column and flied high up into the air, as a blast of psychic force smashed into the immense pillar and sent it exploding in pieces, breaking the enormous column in half as the top section, big as a tower, fell down into the nave.

Killer grunted as the immense structure fell down over him, a menacing shadow suddenly cast over him and several of the tortured and of the Berserkers intent in freeing them... and the huge male shot forwards with a snarl, eyes following the fall of the column as he slammed Wyvern point-down into the floor and shot his hands up.

Killer grunted as his eyes went wide and his legs bent under the tremendous impact, nearly sent kneeling as he sustained the immense structure, and Alexis shot forwards through the air, her eyes following the trail of darkness as it arched high under the roof and then dived ferociously down for Killer, the ligeress slamming her feet out to the side, stomping down on the narrow edge of a chiseled capital to leap straight down over the snake of smoke that Regina had turned into.

Alexis roared as she swung Blue Vixen hard to the right, then back to the left in a flash-fast X cut across the smoke, but it proved useless as she flew across it and immediately flipped to land on her feet on top of the column that Killer was holding up, grunting with a glare to the marble beneath her feet even as she spun on her heels and grabbed Blue Vixen's handle with both hands, lashing out in an upwards arc that met the downwards slash of Regina's spear, the two weapons clashing together loudly as the smoke solidified back into the grinning figure of the demoness.

"Mortals... nothing more than shadows and dust!" Regina cackled, pushing forwards on the pole of her double-spear as she swung the lower half of the pole forwards in a rising arc aimed at Alexis's crotch.

"Demonesses... nothing more than sluts looking for big balled males!" Alexis ferociously snarled back, spinning on her left heel to slide out of the way of the blow before she shot a hand out lightning-fast and seized Regina's shoulder with all of her force.

Both females let out grunts of agony as Alexis's hand was immediately enveloped by black flames and Regina's bones creaked noisily, the ligeress gritting her fangs in a snarling grin even as she resisted the searing pain at her fingers, fighting the urge to let go as she forcefully dragged the rival in front of Blue Vixen's blade, the blond femme fatale squeezing the trigger in the handle with fury and grinning wider with each bullet that was fired, the black flames dying away to nothingness as she hit the rival over and over again.

The burst of rounds slammed into Regina's muscular abdomen, sending the demoness crashing backwards with her back skidding onto the column for several feet, her powerful abdominals barely scratched by the rounds even as she let out a cry of pain, her eyes widening as she saw Alexis leaping straight up high into the air, her grin even wider.

And the column beneath her back suddenly shot upwards, so rapidly to pin her to the surface of marble for a moment as a masculine roar of rage filled the air and seemed to rattle even the walls as the pillar made a full arc and crashed down like a godly hammer into the floor of stone as Killer's muscles bulged explosively, the male turning to glare with a savage grin of satisfaction towards the cloud of dust and fragments of stone that exploded up from the strength of the impact.

"YES! That's what I call STRENGHT!" Regina's voice cackled in an almost orgasm-shaken voice, making Killer snarl as he looked around himself and snapped a hand over the handle of Wyvern, tearing the sword out of the floor and swinging it quickly to a ready position.

He quickly glared behind himself and immediately after he glared upwards, but the serpent of darkness this time shot out from the solid floor of stone beneath his feet, sending him crashing back into a wall with a grunt of pain, his back creaking as he snarled and kicked himself back forwards immediately as the comet of darkness came at him with the speed of a bullet.

The enormous, massive altars of stone in the two rows on the sides of the black smoke suddenly were broken away from the floor, an immense force lifting them into the air like gravity itself had ceased to exist, and in a instant the tens of immense blocks of stone shot forwards towards Killer in a hurricane of psychic force and four-tons boulders.

Killer leapt forwards under the first altar, hearing it crashing into the wall in an explosion of stone bits, Wyvern cutting straight across the second and sending the two halves smashing to the sides as he swung the crimson blade upwards and to the right, cutting across another massive boulder and battering another aside like a pebble as he punched his other hand straight into another one massive altar, smashing it to bits as fragments of stone hailed like punches against his muscular chest, gritting his fangs and half-closing his eyes with a snarl...

And Regina appeared, grinning viciously as she charged across the hurricane of power and stone, stabbing forwards with her spear.

Killer swung Wyvern out and knocked the weapon to the side, but the demoness merely pushed on the other extremity to send the other blade of the double-spear swinging forwards in a horizontal cut.

Killer ducked under this, his eyes widening as another altar shot at him, the huge male turning slightly to smash into the stone with his shoulder, grunting loudly in pain as the stone cracked in pieces against him and he stumbled through, stomping down a foot and spinning on his heel quickly, rising Wyvern back up in front of himself even as his eyes dazed over a bit, knocking two more blocks of stone away with the sword before Regina came roaring forwards with a tempest of stabs and slashes of her double-spear, the huge male grunting as he was forced backwards, barely able to repeal the vicious rain of stone and her assaults as he swung his enormous blade back and forth in lightning fast moves-

Alexis roared somewhere above, coming down like an avenging angel as her eyes flashed, and all the flying altars were crushed down into the floor and smashed to bits like a giant's hand had slapped them from above, the ligeress stomping down her feet towards Regina's neck with a contemptuous snort.

The demoness vanished once more into thin air, however, and laughter resounded down the nave as a wall of flames appeared from nothingness in midair, Alexis diving through this with a cry of pain and quickly going into a roll to turn off the fire as it attacked her fur and her black jacket.

"Should we play some fancy, shiny trick, then...?" Regina's voice teased, seeming to come from every direction at once as Killer glared back and forth, snarling as his hand clenched hard on Wyvern's handle and Alexis easily went in a handspring to exit the roll and land on her feet, her hands quickly reaching up to tear the remains of her leathery jacket away from her wonderful, powerful body.

"Where?" Killer asked, but Alexis shock her head with a grimace this time.

"Impossible to tell. Her energy is everywhere in this room. This room is MADE of her energy. No telling from where she comes, right now." The femme fatale grumbled irritably, glaring around the whole, enormous cathedral, her concentration evident as she tried to sense a glitch, a difference in the energy of the immense magical trap they were inside... to tell where Regina was.

"Right." Regina's voice said agreeably, teasing them. "You mortals and your mortal world are only dust... Dust I can shape into anything I want. You can nothing against me..."

"Bring it on, you wanna-be slut, and stop running around!" Killer growled, glaring to the air from over the edge of Wyvern as he slowly walked in a circle, trying to keep all of the area under control, much as he knew it was useless. Alexis walked up to him and pressed back to back, facing the opposite direction.

"So dominant, so powerful, even when you are losing." The demoness's voice sighed adoringly. "You are just making me so excited, you master, you."

Killer snorted, but immediately after, he felt his breath catching in horror as he felt a delicate, almost immaterial hand brushing lovingly over the bulge of his pants, another adoring palm cupping the heavy underside of one of his gigantic testicles across the fabric... and he glanced down to see nothing but air, even as he kicked forwards furiously with a roar of rage.

"You are just so awesome. Fearsomely huge, by the feel of it." Regina said sweetly, and she suddenly reappeared in midair from solidifying black smoke, hugging herself and licking her lips hungrily as she glanced longingly down at him. "You'll hurt me with that thing... and I'll love every second of it..."

"I'll hurt you too much for you to enjoy, bitch!" Killer roared, shooting a hand up and firing a blast of his golden, burning energy out of his palm, a hurricane of light and fire rising up towards her with such radiating energy that the temperature in the cathedral rose almost unbearable.

Regina vanished into thick black smog once more, through, and the blast only exploded in a massive ball of fire and destruction that turned half of the nave to dust and ruins even as streams of darkness danced their way up to the roof and changed into an obscure, menacing storm-laden sky.

Regina reappeared in the middle of it, floating in midair and grinning widely as she lashed out with her arms, cackling as she sent out two tremendous waves of energy.

Killer felt himself thrown off his feet, Wyvern flying out of his hand as he crashed heavily through a couple of altars before he managed to shove a hand down into the floor and he skidded to a violent stop, his claws drawing deep trenches in the stone, rolling into a crouch and glaring upwards just in time to see a lighting of dark electricity roar down towards him from the clouds above.

He rolled off to the side as the lightning pounded into the floor where he had been crouching, pulverizing the stone in a massive explosion and sending slivers of rock and dust raining down all around as a deep crater opened up, the liger kicking back up to his feet and leaping over an altar as he caught a gleam of obsidian light on the floor, the huge male jumping straight towards it.

Killer landed with a grunt over his muscular chest as a blast of psychic force sent the column nearby exploding in a hail of stone fragments that pounded nastily into his strong form, but still his muzzle crested in a grin as his hand closed around the handle of the Wyvern, the blade gleaming crimson almost like it had recognized him as he slammed his other hand into the stone floor hard enough to crack it, propelling himself into a roll to land on his feet and spin rapidly on his heel, sword at the ready.

Alexis was blasted off her feet herself, flying across the cathedral before her eyes flashed and she stopped in midair, arms held out to either side and glowing with sapphire flames as she glared towards Regina as the demoness grinned and charged forwards, spinning her polearm and windmilling it above her heart before leaping straight up into the air, flying higher than Alexis and then diving down with a downwards slash of the spear.

Alexis met the blow with a hard cut of Blue Vixen, the two weapons clashing together with an explosion of sparkles as lightnings of sapphire and black energy crackled in the air from the impact, the two females glaring in each other's eyes as their snarling, beautiful features almost touched...

And Regina pushed forwards her spear, spinning the lower end in a rising cut, forcing Alexis to spin in midair, twisting to the side rapidly. The ligeress grunted as she slipped to the left, the blade of the rival whizzing in the air at her side as she lashed out at head level with Blue Vixen, Regina ducking and then spinning her polearm to stab straight forwards towards Alexis's chest, grinning ferociously.

The ligeress snarled as the blade cut a gash in her shoulder even as she twisted out of the way, letting herself fall backwards as she kicked her booted feet up with a growl. Regina leapt up and slammed her own feet into her soles, through, kicking herself high up into the air and sending Alexis rocketing downward towards the floor tens of feet below.

The ligeress' eyes flashed sapphire as she concentrated her energy to float in midair, but Regina grinned from above and her emerald eyes glowed dangerously, sending out a tremendous blast of force that smashed into Alexis like a truck, sending the female falling like a meteor as she let out a howl of fury and agony.

Alexis gritted her fangs as a rivulet of blood escaped her lips and rolled down her muzzle, but she still had enough energy to flip gracefully in midair to land on her feet, her boots smashing into an altar and crumbling it to pebbles as she stared upwards with a snarl as Killer engaged Regina in a furious exchange of deadly slashes after leaping up into the air with agility absolutely unexpected from a behemoth like him.

Alexis grinned and quickly wiped the back of her fist over her muzzle, draining the blood before charging forwards and leaping straight up into the air, shooting at Regina's side and lashing Blue Vixen out to the hip of the demoness while she grunted and blocked a hard downwards cut of Wyvern, the immense strength of the male sending the cobra rocking backwards like she had been blasted off her feet by an explosion.

Regina spun rapidly the pole around her hip, though, and she clashed one end of her spear into the sapphire blade of Alexis even as she used the other extremity to stop another lash of Wyvern, before the demoness shot upwards and windmilled her spear around her waist, forcing both ligers to parry, Killer falling back to land on his feet on the floor below, glaring up at her as Alexis kept herself floating with her own incredible energy.

"Why you resist...?" Regina asked, her voice seductive and teasing in a taunting, irresistible way. "Let me do... let me make of you a demon, and you'll rule with me over everything!" The cobra cackled, throwing out her arms and unleashing a massive shockwave of dark energy that sent all the immense columns of stone exploding in a hail of pebbles that smashed into the floor and walls like slivers of grenades as the two ligers were thrown off their feet to smash into the walls.

Killer crashed with her back across one of the sidewalls of the nave with a howl of pain, gritting his teeth as his back shot across the stump of a column of marble and he was slammed into the floor and against one of the altars, feeling his bones creaking as his vision faded for a moment as he let out a groan of agony and tried to get back up to his feet...

"Majesty!" Someone called, and a strong hand grasped his wrist, helping him standing up... And Killer blinked rapidly as the worried, wounded face of Nigel emerged from the darkness in front of him, looking at his face with concern.

Nigel's muzzle was covered in wounds and ragged cuts, and Killer frowned at this and grunted a question, the muscular Berserker shrugging and pointing at something behind the liger's back.

"The tentacles on one of the guys didn't really want us to open the manacles." Nigel snorted, and Killer looked over the other Berserkers as they struggled to help their comrades: the prisoners cried across indescribable agonies, pleading for help... but the demonic appendages and parasites that Regina had planted on many of them wouldn't let the Berserkers come to open the manacles without fighting. Luckily, most of the prisoners now had been freed... and they were quivering in a corner of the vast cathedral as the soldiers of the Special Forces tried to save the ones still crucified on the walls.

"Good work." Killer stated lamely as he stood and quickly glared past Nigel, his eyes darting from side to side to find Regina... But the cathedral was filled with snakes of darkness that twisted and danced tauntingly in the air, shooting at Alexis with ferocity as the ligeress roared and charged out of the pile of ruins of the column she had painfully crashed into.

"Get off!" Killer roared in warning, pushing Nigel roughly to the side and sending the huge, muscular male flying across the nave like a doll a moment before the snakes of darkness shot at him, solidifying into one only image of Regina made of fog that would have pierced across the Berserker like a gigantic bullet...

And Killer was slammed backwards into the ruins of the altar, smashing in the floor with a grunt of pain as Regina appeared above him, straddling his enormous form with a look of hungry lust in her eyes.

"You can't even imagine how powerful you'll get!" The demoness suggested, grinning viciously as she opened her mouth and aimed at his throat, revealing terrible, curved ivory fangs that could have torn apart a slab of steel. "Join me, be my master!"

"Get off me, bitch!" He roared back, twisting his neck away from her before he managed to kick both of his feet upwards and into her stomach, sending her flying high into the air with a shriek of agony, blood bursting from her muzzle.

Alexis grinned widely at this, leaping high up herself and shooting Blue Vixen up towards the back of the demoness in a deadly stab... But Regina had a capability to see in the future that dwarfed even Alexis's, and her polearm spun backwards gracefully to parry the finishing blow. The ligeress shot her other arm out, however, and grabbed Regina by the wrist with a roar of fury and victory as the tigress spun on herself in midair and threw the demoness down into the floor.

Regina crashed into the slabs of stone like a meteor, digging a deep crater in the floor as cracks spread along the whole cathedral, the demoness howling in agony as she bounced up to crash down again a couple of times, such was the tremendous strength of Alexis.

No... no mortal could ever be so strong... She's... way too strong...

But Regina's eyes opened ever wider as shock coupled with the pain as her precognition kicked in and showed her what was about to happen...

Yet she had no chance to react as she bounded up another time, her bones cracking loudly and blood flowing out of several nasty wounds along her whole body as her eyes looked up to see Alexis diving over her with a wicked grin on her beautiful features.

"Magic or not, whore, I can still kick your saggy ass at any time!" Alexis snarled, grinning viciously as she grabbed Regina's neck with her hand and stomped her booted feet into the demoness's muscular abdomen, smashing her down into the floor with tremendous violence and forcing her spine to bend to an extreme as she jumped off her.

"You wish you could!" Regina roared back at her even as she smashed with a booming impact into the stones of the floor, one of her hands shooting up and firing off a lightning of blue, crackling electricity that hit Alexis and made the ligeress cry in agony as she gritted her teeth and shut her eyes, her body writhing out of control.

The female barely managed to straighten, snarling as her muscles contracted painfully, out of her control as her fingers twitched, but Alexis was still able to land on her feet and spin back to face the rival before the current suddenly vanished as Killer charged forwards and punched straight forwards to the demoness's face, roaring in fury and slashing Wyvern down at the same time.

Regina spun up her double-spear up, knocking the lash of the enormous blade to the side even as she ducked the fist and kicked off the floor to headbutt the huge male in the chest.

Killer spun on his heel and twisted out of the way with a grunt, pulling Wyvern backwards and engaging the spear of the demoness into the spikes of his crimson blade, growling as he jerked hard forwards, forcing the polearm out of the way and immediately lashing out at head level.

Again Regina avoided the lethal blow, going down on the floor in a slide and grinning as the huge male rammed down his deadly-spiked elbow to hit only air, the demoness jerking her weapon free and immediately kicking up on her feet again to windmill the pole around herself, knocking back both Blue Vixen and Wyvern as the two massive blades came simultaneously from the two sides.

Alexis snarled and swung her sword in an upwards cut to hit past her defense, but Regina was incredibly fast and her precognition kicked in again, her polearm stabbing into the flat of Wyvern to deviate Killer's attack before the spear came hammering down over Blue Vixen to send the sword missing.

Alexis growled, but her muzzle crested in a grin as she let herself follow the sword to the side, until her hand touched the ground and she kicked her feet up in a lightning-fast double turning kick that sailed at head level, just above Wyvern as the enormous blade came in a lash from the opposite direction at waist height.

Alexis landed in a crouch, through, snarling and glaring upwards as Regina vanished once more into black fog that shot skywards in an endless, twisting snake of darkness, Killer quickly going again into a ready position and grasping Wyvern's handle with both hands, following the trail of smoke with cold, focused eyes.

It spun once in the air, twisting just below the impossibly-tall roof of the cathedral, and then it seemed to explode as tens of equally sized snakes of darkness twisted in every direction, wrapping around the cracked columns and shooting across the nave as the two ligers snarled and glared back and forth, their senses in maximum alert.

"Left!" Alexis roared, and Killer immediately spun to the side, lashing out Wyvern with a snarl as a trail of fog shot at him, solidifying into an arm holding half of Regina's double-spear. He knocked the attack to the side and turned immediately to the opposite side, but not fast enough to avoid the other half of the weapon stabbing at his shoulder before he could knock this arm too flying away with a grunt.

Both arms vanished again into smoke as he winced and drew Wyvern back up in front of himself, ignoring the bleeding wound in his chorded, muscular shoulder as the laughter of Regina boomed like thunder into the cathedral and Alexis ducked under a lightning-fast turning kick of a leg, flipping into a handspring immediately after as the other leg of Regina appeared out of air and kicked up towards her chest.

"You don't like magic, huh...?" Regina teasingly called, and Killer turned rapidly to lash uselessly across a trail of thick black smoke, before growling in shock and surprise as the fog solidified into the grinning face of Regina, the floating head shooting at him, mouth open wide and terrible, poisoned curving fangs ready to kill.

He ducked under this, and it vanished again before he could strike, making him snarl in frustration and fury.

"That's so bad, because I love magic!" Regina cackled. "I'm a goddess to mortals and demons alike... And you'll all kneel before me!"

Killer snarled at her claim, and then he winced and his eyes went wide as an unbearable force smashed into his back, slamming him down and forcing him to bend forwards, his spine creaking as he tried to resist to the tremendous force that forced him to his knees.

"Give in! Give in and be my master in Hell, owner of all beings!"

"Fuck you." Killer grunted back at the voice, snarling and gritting his fangs as he forced back against her psychic force, countering her endless energy with his brutal physical power as every muscle in his body bulged explosively, his bones creaking, before he forced up and stood with a roar of fury, Regina grunting in surprise as she was repealed.

"You'll kneel before me, it's only a matter of time!" The demoness's voice claimed in a howl of fury that badly hid the shock for his tremendous strength... But Killer didn't even had the time to grin for it before a furious wind sharp and cutting like a well-cared blade surged from the calm air around him and angrily whipped at his body in a raging whirlwind.

"Give in!"

Killer snarled back, shutting his eyes as he tried to shield his body with the thick blade of Wyvern, as he tried to escape from the vicious wind, but it was useless as the air cut gashes in his chest and on his thick muscles, ripping tears in his pants and drawing gashes down his face as he bit his lower lip and snarled loudly, hiding the agony with the fury, the only feeling that at the moment overcame even the pain.

"Give in! You are powerless against me! I'm your Goddess!"

"Killer!" Alexis called out loudly, glancing to the huge male in horror as he was whipped savagely, bleeding gashes covering his body even as he stubbornly refused to voice his pain, and the ligeress smashed furiously a fist into the leg of Regina that appeared from nothingness and kicked at her, slamming Blue Vixen into the spear of the demoness as two body-less arms stabbed the weapon at her, and the femme fatale charged forwards towards the male.

"End of the journey, queen bitch!" Regina snarled, finally appearing back in one piece in front of her, stabbing forwards lighting fast with her spear. Alexis growled in rage and spun to the side, lashing Blue Vixen forwards only to clash against two lightning-shaped curving swords handled by a couple of extra arms jutting out from the demoness's sides.

"You won't be of any help anyway." Regina grinned, and Alexis glared at her with venomous fury, blasting her tremendous force out, putting as much energy as she could into the blow.

Regina grinned, but her eyes glared with equal fury, her body glowing with darkness as her own force exploded forth and clashed with the liger's one, the whole cathedral trembling at the impact as the column around them exploded in fragments that rained viciously outwards as the floor cracked and the thick slabs of stone were turned to dust in one second, rising a thick cloud of dirt as lightnings crackled loudly in the air.

Alexis was slammed backwards with a howl of fury and agony, the ligeress shutting her eyes for a moment as pain shot through her, and she heard Killer's voice screaming her name...

And Regina was suddenly in front of her, grinning viciously and shooting her hands up.

Spikes of sharp stone shot out of the floor, rising to the sky like gargantuan thorns, growing to tear across Alexis's back as she was hammered out of the air...

The tigress saw the rock rising, saw the immense energy unleashed behind her back with her mind, and she grunted in a painful effort to flip in midair, kicking her legs out and into the first spike of rock, smashing across the stone like it was glass, even as she let out a strangled grunt of agony. She kicked out in a hook to tear in half another enormous thorn of rock before it could pierce across her like a blade, and then slashed Blue Vixen to cut her way across three more, before finally landing on her feet on the floor and falling to her knees with a breathless pant.

She immediately rose her head up, though, to stare in shock at an immense cloud of metallic spikes that appeared out of thin air and rained ferociously towards her, forcing Alexis to leap backwards as deadly thorns sunk deeply into the floor, the cloud following her with the ferocious hunger of a starving wolf.

She flipped and slammed her hands down into the floor, going into a handspring, then into another, until she spun while flying in midair and slid behind one of the enormous columns.

She had enough time to feel the tremendous impact of the thorns into the pillar of marble, feeling the stone crack like glass behind her back, and Regina flashed into existence in front of her with a vicious flying kick.

Alexis dropped to the floor just as the booted foot of the demoness smashed into the column and neatly broke it in half, and the ligeress rose lightning fast her sword to fire a whole burst of armor-piercing rounds into the cobra... And as always, her aim was perfect, with all the bullets smashing across the target.

But she already turned into smoke, the bitch...

Alexis snarled in rage, staring at the snake of darkness as it arched in the air once more... and then her eyes bulged as she let out a sound of horror at what she saw in her mind... But there was nothing she could do against it as black flames erupted over her, the searing pain making her fall to a kneel with a cry of pain, her eyes closing even as she tried to keep at least one open...

And Regina dived down at her with a victorious grin, spear ready to stab across her.

"End your games!" Killer's voice commanded, and it made Alexis grin even as she trembled in agony, her vision faded and clouded but her ears greedily drinking up the sound of his potent voice, his tone carrying an authority that made a shiver roll down her spine, such was the power behind it. She could almost feel the hair on every arm rising, the shriveling of every testicle in fear into the enormous cathedral.

She forced her head up, a grin cresting her muzzle at the feeling of his power, and here he was, leaping forwards from the side and smashing his fist into Regina in midair, sending the demoness crashing across the stump of a column, breaking across the stone and smashing into the side wall as he landed in front of Alexis, Wyvern out at the ready, panting harshly as blood rolled slowly down his muzzle from his wounds, but more imposing and frightening that he had ever been.

The flames vanished as they had come, and Alexis forced herself back up to her feet with a wince, quickly gaining her position, back to back with Killer as Regina vanished into darkness once more.

Alexis looked over him in amazement for a moment as she realized that the cutting wind of blades was still savagely whipping at him... but to no effect now as his tremendous energy burned around him like an armor of light and darkness. The left part of his body glowed with jet-black darkness, the right side shined in angelic, Sun-like golden light. Alexis almost gaped as she felt his energy wash over her in waves... power rolling over her in such amounts that she felt her own energy returning rapidly.

"Thanks, lover. I owe you a big one." Alexis said calmly, looking out from over Blue Vixen as she shook her head to get her long bangs of golden hair out of her eyes.

"We so need to learn magic if we are to fight crazy bitches like this one..." Killer stated back in answer, as they both darted looks from side to side as tens of snakes of darkness twisted in the air.

"It's in my to-do list." Alexis agreed, and she glared upwards to the darkness that was Regina as she leaned against his reassuring presence, his massive, muscular back touching hers and making her feel that everything was possible, that everything was at reach, as his radiating power all but feed her own energies to rampage greater than ever.

"From where...?" Killer asked calmly as they both glared upwards as all the snakes dived like meteors at them, Regina's shout of fury booming down the nave.

Alexis glared from side to the side, concentrating as she aimed Blue Vixen at one, then another, and yet a different one of the snakes of darkness in the air, focusing as much as she could to sense the different amount of Regina's energy... to feel where she was...

"Right!" Alexis shouted as she finally spun on her heel, lashing upwards with Blue Vixen in a vicious cut as Killer leaned in with complete confidence in her word and cut hard up with Wyvern.

Regina appeared in that same instant out of solidifying black fog, snarling in surprise as her spear clashed with the ligers' blades and she was slammed backwards, flying into the air like a doll as the polearm flied out of her fingers and spun wildly into the air.

Killer grinned and charged forwards immediately, his energy bursting into flame-like, burning aura as he pulled Wyvern up and prepared a finishing strike.

Alexis all but leaped forwards, stomping onto the flat of the enormous crimson blade and shooting forwards like a bullet as Killer further propelled her with a powerful lashout, sending the femme fatale flying over Regina like a raging angel of retribution.

Regina arched her back with a growl, her eyes flashing with rage and power as she hovered high up into the air, and the spinning spear vanished in a puff of smoke to reappear in her hands, just in time for the demoness to stab hard forwards the blade towards Alexis as her additional arms pushed viciously forwards the two long, lightning-shaped silvery swords as the ligeress approached rapidly.

A wall of fire burst in place in front of her, but Alexis's eyes glowed sapphire as her own immense energy solidified into a circular shield in front of her form, cutting her way straight across the flames even as she twisted in midair to arch her back above the stabbing spear, her sumptuous bosom only millimeters away from the lightning-swords as her eyes met the shocked demoness's ones, sapphire reflecting into emerald for a moment as Blue Vixen neatly chopped one of the surplus arms off and Alexis's free hand snagged around the other, the ligeress letting out a roar as she flung the demoness down towards Killer with all of enormous strength, strong, steely muscles flexing powerfully.

Regina shrieked at the agony of her arm being severed, and she lost the control long enough to smash into the floor of the cathedral just as Killer reached her and swung Wyvern down with a roar: the demoness attempted to cover herself with her spear and the remaining sword, but the gigantic crimson blade smashed down with enough power that the thick pole was severed in half, together with the remaining surplus arm, making her howl out in agony and shock, just as Killer slammed his foot out and kicked her violently into the stomach, sending her flying again up into the air with a shriek of pain and fury... which died away to incomprehensible sounds of agony as Alexis came down from above like an eagle and grabbed her by the head, stomping down on her spine with her booted feet as she smashed the cobra's face down into the floor of stone, crushing the demoness into the rock as they rocketed forwards for more than thirty feet before Alexis kicked off of her.

The ligeress landed on her feet and panted hard, but she grinned to Killer and quickly straightened as the Berserkers shouted victoriously from the other end of the cathedral, crazy with joy...

But Killer understood that something was wrong from the way the expression on Alexis's face changed all of a sudden, and the ligeress turned back with a snarl just as Regina leaped out of the deep trench she had dug in the stone with her body and sprinted towards the end of the Cathedral, were a gigantic, arched door twisted into existence taking form from a cloud of darkness.

"Follow me, if you dare, mortals." Regina coldly stated, turning to them briefly and glaring over her bloody muzzle at Killer as he and Alexis charged forwards.

"Majesty, NO!" Nigel shouted from behind in a desperate call. "You beat the bitch up, don't go risking uselessly, you'll finish her another day! You did already more than anyone else could dream to!"

"We have to finish her NOW!" Alexis snarled back as she run towards the immense door, ignoring the pleas of the Berserkers that run towards them to try and stop their charge. "She'll always be a threat until we erase her!"

Alexis charged inside the portal, and Killer followed immediately after, even as Nigel called them back once more... and then there was only darkness.

It was only a second or so, though, before he emerged on a dock of stone facing a circular lake of magma, with a chessboard-like square hovering over the centre, connected to the long dock by a long arching bridge.

Killer had enough time to notice the impossible height of the cave, the tremendous heat and the gigantic statues of cobras rearing up and ready to bite that were lined up along the parapets of the bridge and all around the square, before turning back to stare briefly, without no true surprise, as the door vanished, leaving back only a plain wall of gigantic blocks of dark stone.

"You are not even original..." Killer snorted, and Regina only glared at him from where she stood in the middle of the square. "That is typical in any movie and game, bitch."

"Where are we, by the way...?" Alexis asked idly as the two ligers walked up the bridge.

"In Hell." Regina answered simply, grinning slyly. "This is a little corner that I always loved... My own den, you may say."

"No problems believing it..." Alexis snorted, looking around a bit with a grimace. "The terrible taste of the furniture all but shouts that this is your home." The ligeress teasingly stated, grinning a bit as she stepped into the chessboard, followed by Killer a second later as he glared a bit around suspiciously, almost surprised of having had none of the gigantic statues roaring into life or breathing fire at their passage or something else as much nasty.

When he stepped on the square himself, though, the bridge suddenly vanished behind him, and he looked back in horror as the dock and the shore of the lake of incandescent magma grew farer and farer, becoming thinner and thinner to his eyes until he could see nothing else than lava, as far as the eye could go, around the whole horizon.

"It's no illusion, Wyvern." Regina said with a wide grin, answering to the question that was coming up into his mind, making him snort with a grimace of distaste.

She may be lying, but... how to find it out...? Sure as hell, I'm not going to jump off the square aiming for an invisible-and-perhaps-inexistent dock and risk landing into boiling magma. That's a no-no.

"Let's make a game." Killer said calmly, his eyes narrowing as he looked at her with coldness. "Let's say that I believe you. How we leave this flying chessboard...?"

"I thought it was obvious." Regina grinned widely, looking amused as she looked hungrily back at him. "The bridge expects a tribute of blood: it will reappear only when one of us is defeated. Either one of us submits to the other, or is killed."

"You are just giving me another incentive to make of you my newest bitch, in other words." The liger replied, letting out a snort-laughter as he tilted his head to the side with a taunting grin.

Regina couldn't help but shiver a bit, in an awesome mix of pleasure and fear. It was a feeling without precedents, something she had never tried before meeting him... She had tried what fear felt like, yes. The gods that commanded her were even crueler than her, and far stronger than she could dream to become, and they were all more than capable to make her tremble with fear for their wickedness and for their power, their darkness... But Killer was a whole different thing.

Regina loved the whole different kind of fear he inspired into her... a fear caused by the feeling that he could force himself over her, literally rape her... Something that not even the Gods can do to me...

"Make me a bitch..." Regina murred teasingly, almost savoring the idea as she grinned enticingly as she shivered lustfully down her spine. Oh, yes... make me your bitch... I can't resist... Regina licked her lips hungrily, and then closed her eyes with a smirk as she crossed her arms. But I can't just give in to you... not yet...

Killer's eyes narrowed as he traded a nervous nod with Alexis, keeping an eye on Regina as she was suddenly enveloped by burning flames of black, terrible demonic energy, her grin promising nothing good, and yet her last words making him wonder... Killer honestly couldn't tell if it was supposed to be an ironic question or an honest invitation.

It sounds more like the second hypothesis, by her tone...

Regina all but vanished into raging flames of a glowing black that hurt the eyes and that absurdly lightened up the immense cave, a blinding black light that was impossible, and yet so tangible and powerful and scary...

And the only scariest factor was that, as she seemed to explode in a gout of furious flames that forced Killer and Alexis to rapidly leap backwards and close their eyes, all that light, even reaching miles away, did not brought off the darkness the coast and the dock, nor the roof.

This cave... it may even be the middle of Earth itself, for how borderless it looks... I can't even understand her power. Illusion... or Reality...?

"Stop your games, Regina!" Killer snarled, peering over the edge of Wyvern as he held the thick blade in front of his body as a shield, hating the fact that the light, the pure energy irradiating into the air was almost wounding his eyes, even across the tactical visor, that was all but designed to protect from even laser and nuclear-flash blinding. The force rumbling in the air was tremendous, and the whole cave seemed to pulse with each fearsome wave of power, beating rhythmically like a heart as the magma below the shaking chessboard boiled and crested in concentric waves.

"No games between us, Wyvern!" Regina's voice boomed. "You may be a god for the mortals, but I'm a goddess among demons, and you don't stand a chance against my power! And in my truest form, I'm afraid I'll suck you both down to dust!"

Alexis snarled as her eyes widened, looking over the edge of Blue Vixen in shock as she saw that the flames were now taking on a solid figure... a gigantic creature that promised to be definitely different from the Regina they had faced so far, and the ligeress traded a glance with Killer as the two automatically spaced themselves out, leaping to the opposite corners of their side of the chessboard as they witnessed the rise of the demoness in her most glorious incarnation.

Of the Regina they had known, was left the torso and the face... but even that was far greater: she had grown in size of many feet, and now her naked breasts were truly enormous, yet of a godlike firmness over her taunt, fairly muscular abdomen. Her arms were powerful and muscular, with strong, huge biceps that suggested a strength that had all but grown tenfold over her already frightening force... Her horns had grown massive as well, and now her curving horns protruded forwards like deadly, curved spears, with her middle horn almost taking on the shape of a mortal battle knife.

Her sensual legs were gone, leaving her torso towering above a strong, colossal serpentine body: her muscular snake-form was covered in invulnerable scales the size of shovels, and she had to be no less than 60 feet long, with her body slithering mendaciously along the chessboard, surrounding Alexis and Killed on all sides.

Regina's torso looked down at them from an height of perhaps forty feet as she reared up and stretched idly, laughing loudly before grinning down at Alexis with ivory, deadly poisoned fangs.

"Who has petty breasts now, kitten...?" The demoness cheerfully teased, and Alexis snarled menacingly up towards her as her hands squeezed Blue Vixen almost with violence.

Don't look to the serpents on her back. NEVER. I fear they might make of you a statue.

Killer heard Alexis's voice in his mind, and almost turned in shocked surprise towards her... but he didn't, nodding imperceptibly instead, as it looked like Regina had missed to intercept that telepathic warning.

He immediately lowered his glance, ignoring the challenging hisses coming from the two enormous cobras that arched menacingly from where their body connected to the back of Regina, one looking to either liger.

Like Hell I'm gonna meet its eyes. I've read the Gorgon's legends myself.

The temptation of looking up was strong, however. The demoness was beautiful and seductive in a special, magical way... Her fascination was demonic and irresistible... and wasn't it for the two frightening serpents jutting out of her spine, she would have been probably the most beautiful creature he had ever seen...

Now, what the hell are you saying...? You'd prefer a fucking creepy snake over Alexis...? Wake the fuck up, dude!

Sure. Sure... The most beautiful after Alexis...

"Let's set the world on fire." Alexis growled, grinning a bit despite herself, despite even the gigantic demon facing them on a small floating square above a lake of magma... despite being trapped in a deep pit of Hell itself.

"You delude yourself, mortal." Regina countered, grinning widely. "You don't stand a chance to leave this place alive!"

The demoness's upper body shot forwards with all the deadly rapidity of a cobra that attacks, forcing Alexis to leap to the side and go into a roll as the enormous tail of the serpent-demoness shot up from below the edge of the chessboard and arched in the air, coming down like a whip.

Alexis grunted as she slammed her hands into the floor and threw herself up in a graceful handspring, just as the enormous tail smashed into the stone with a booming rumble... giving her enough time to stare as the rock cracked and a deep crater formed for the immense pressure, while the tremendous, curved spikes that jutted out the snake's tail pierced the square from side to side like it was made of butter.

Killer leapt forwards even as the enormous body of the serpent arched in the air and moved to wrap around him, the huge male liger snarling as he chopped down Wyvern with both hands, aiming for the deadly tail.

He was sure to have the point as the enormous blade came down with a hiss of death... but his eyes widened in horror as the sword crashed into an invisible barrier of energy and he was slammed backwards, battered away like a giant had just slapped him.

Killer crashed on his back onto the stone, grunting and rolling on his side to immediately leap back up to his feet, glaring to the serpent's body in time to see a fading amaranth-light blurring in the air. A barrier protects her whole body... how do we hurt her...?

"You cannot." Regina cackled, looking down at him with a grin even as Alexis leaped high up into the air and kicked at her face with violence, only to be ferociously repealed as the divine barrier shined again into view with a shadow of pulsing, bright amaranth light. "The Gods themselves granted me the same protection of the monarchs of Hell themselves! The Scribes and Scholars of Hell keep me shielded by any threat with their magic... and you pathetic mortals have no hope at all to get past this protection!"

"Incurable optimist." Killer snorted, making a grimace even as he charged forwards and slashed Wyvern in a rapid, furious X cut, roaring in rage and shock as the enormous sword was violently bounced backwards... and smashing a fist forwards in frustration, only to hammer it against a solid wall... but differently from the usual, it did not crumble, not even against his monstrous strength.

Regina laughed loudly, and Killer sensed an immense force incoming in the air, but it was too late to avoid it, as a blast of psychic force of incredible violence smashed into him like a train, sending him crashing onto his back and rolling with a grunt over the edge of the chessboard.

He had just enough time to grab the edge of the stone with his hand, hanging over the lake of magma below and staring downwards with a grimace of horror as he immediately begun to pull himself up, sweating for the tremendous heat that arose from beneath and panting harshly as his body screamed in pain for the tremendous blow received...

And it took him some time to realize that his hearing was temporarily gone as well: he barely perceived Alexis screaming his name... and he missed the warning that followed, grunting in surprise as the chessboard violently swung like a trapdoor, and he almost fell off it as he was left hanging barely feet away from the surface of the lake of magma as the platform now hovered vertically in midair.

Regina's body was wrapped all around the chessboard, and she towered above, grinning mercilessly even as Alexis attacked her over and over, throwing a barrage of spheres of her enormous energy, that hid the enormous cobra in a cloud of smoke and sapphire flames as they exploded in a massive detonation that crumbled the statues along the sides of the square.

Regina emerged from the smoke with a vicious grin of victory on her features, her untouched body shooting forwards in a deadly attack as she opened her deadly fangs wide, Alexis leaping away and firing another blast of energy at the demoness, but everything was useless against the barrier that defended her from any threat.

Killer quickly pulled himself up, snarling a bit as he climbed the now-vertical chessboard, before a splashing sound from below made him turn his head to stare as horrendous creature jumped out the boiling magma and leapt up towards him and Alexis. They looked like statues sculptured into black, lucid brimstone... and sculptured badly, by someone that barely had any knowledge in the use of hammer and chisel. They had no real features, but yellow pits as eyes and a large, horrible mouth lined with countless cruel jaws made of stone, they had small curved legs that propelled them in amazing leaps and thin but absurdly strong arms that were disproportionately long, going all the way to the floor and making the monster look a bit like gorillas in their stance... But gorillas don't have foot-long claws in place of hands...

Killer sunk his deadly claws into the stone, keeping himself anchored to the chessboard as he kicked both feet hard backwards, smashing his boots in the head of the first monster, sending it crashing back down into the magma with a cry of agony.

Killer himself snarled in pain, however, as the abnormally long and thin arms of the creature clawed ferociously at his back even as the monster fell away... And admittedly, he felt pain even in his legs. The monster did not just look like it was made of brimstone: it WAS made of brimstone.

He was left with no time to curse for not preparing himself for that event as other monsters leapt at him and even the one he had just hit emerged back from the magma with a furious hiss: he swung Wyvern out with a growl, cutting a couple of monsters in half and battering backwards three more...

Before the chessboard suddenly swung again, and he grunted as he suddenly found himself laying on his abdomen over a floor that had finally moved back to horizontal.

Killer immediately scrambled up to his feet, only to be forced to leap to the side as the enormous body of Regina moved to try and wrap around him to strangle him like a little mice, and he sprinted to the side, towards Alexis as she pounded bullets into one of the Brimstone monsters until it crashed in pieces in the magma below, leaving her swinging Blue Vixen in a horizontal, head-level cut to chop another in half.

Regina cackled loudly as she looked over them, ignoring their useless attempts to overcome the barrier that protected her and lashing out at them with her tail and with her strong body as her minions of stone continued to torture the two ligers, coming from all side just to be sent crashing back into the magma crumbled in pieces.

"Surrender, Wyvern..." Regina teased with seductive, sweet voice. "We can end this battle in a much nicer way... and afterwards, we'll be good friends in Hell. I'll be the Goddess of everything and everyone, and you my most powerful weapon and lord... but I'll let you dominate me every night in my bed... and you can have all and every bitch you want for your fun..."

"I could never be your friend after what you've done, Regina!" Killer snarled in fury and frustration. "I want to erase a monster like you forever. You should have never existed!"

"So rude." Regina counted coldly. "You are just like me, Wyvern, much as you'd want not to be. Aren't you a monster just like me...? Who destroyed all those towns, all those lives, years ago...? Who raped pregnant females just for the thrill of taking two lives at once by ripping the victims inside out with his cock...? Was it me, maybe...?" Regina grinned, lapping at his muzzle hungrily and looking lustfully down to Killer as he closed his eyes and gritted his fangs painfully, looking away in shame and guilt. "I know everything you have done, Legend... and I see the unmatched glory that you'll have becoming a demon... You'll be a giant, and nowhere like in Hell, sizes mean power... And you'll be huger and stronger than anyone else... you'll crush the gods under your toe like they were bugs... Your power will be limitless..." Regina sighed lustfully, bringing her hands up to rub slowly at her huge, sumptuous breasts, squeezing the immense swells in her hands and purring in delight as she seductively lidded her eyes and looked down at Killer enticingly. "I can see your demonic form... and it makes me just so hot to think about it... Let me suck you off, Legend... let me suck your energy... let me suck your immense force out your cock, let me feast on your energy that way... And the power and the pleasure you'll have in exchange will dwarf every imagination..."

Accept! Accept her offer! The stupid bitch doesn't realize how powerful we truly are... We'll crush her too under our feet! I'll make sure that you shatter her like a toy, just accept! Do one smart thing once in your life, accept!

NO.

Accept!

NO. Whatever makes you so excited, Black Killer, can only be something horrible. I'll not get more monstrous than I already am. I will not stain my hands with further blood of innocents. No. I will not...

"No, Regina." Killer stated coldly, and he couldn't believe how hard it was to say that simple word. His lust for power raged like an arson inside him, and the monster, the darkness of his being that he used to call Black Killer was all but roaring in his mind to accept the offer... to get the power... And countless loud "yes" echoed like explosions inside him even as he forced his tongue to express his refusal, even as he forced disgust and coldness in his eyes. "No."

"Stupid mortal!" Regina snarled. "I'll just have it in the hard way, then. Don't you understand yet that you are powerless against me...? This is Hell, and I make the rules here!"

"I don't care." Killer countered coldly, leveling Wyvern in front of himself one more time as Alexis stood at his side with her own huge sword at the ready. "Come and take me, if you dare, Regina."

Regina roared furiously, arching her back and throwing her arms out in ferocious rage, and tens of brimstone monsters leapt up from the magma on all sides, like a rising, black tsunami wave that surrounded the square and aimed at the two ligers.

"I'll keep the brimstones off you. Fuck her up good and loud!" Alexis quickly stated, and she leapt up into the air with the speed of lightning as Killer charged forwards with Wyvern and gathered up all the force he could find inside him...

Regina glared down at him and opened her mouth, and he leapt to the side with a shocked grunt as an enormous beam of darkness shot out of her jaws, like a massive laser that effortlessly cut the chessboard in two, melting like butter at least twelve of the brimstone monsters before the ray smashed into the lake of magma and all but separated the boiling sea as two gigantic waves raised to the opposite sides of the ray.

It was just gone, that Regina shot forwards and smashed a fist towards Killer, slamming into the floor as he ducked under the blow and shattering most of the platform like it was made of glass, sending blocks of stone raining down into the magma...

And Killer closed his eyes on instinct as he felt something shot at him, knowing that it was none other than the two snakes with the petrifying glance that jutted out of Regina's back, the liger slashing his enormous sword in front of himself and feeling it collide with the target, hearing loud hisses of agony and a shout of outraged fury coming from Regina...

He chopped three brimstone monsters in two with a hard slash of Wyvern, and saw a fourth one explode in pieces nearby as Alexis sent a blast of psychic force smashing into it, and the liger now felt his own energy rise in burning waves of warm, soothing power. Golden flames appeared around his form and Wyvern glowed bloodthirstily as he summoned all the energy left inside him for a last attempt...

And he felt his energy double, treble, grow tenfold as he managed to repeal Black Killer in the deepest pits of his mind, managed to shut his protests out, managed to overcome the lust for power that roared inside him to concentrate on one much nobler target:

Defeat her. Get revenge on her for all she did to your people. All she did to make Alexis suffer and feel guilty...

"Stay back!" Regina shrieked, and there was something different now... something that frightened her horribly as she stared in terror down at the flames of golden energy that now raged around Killer's charging form... and Regina swung her arms out to the sides, a whole set of spears made of darkness appearing in front of her and shooting at Killer in wave after wave...

But as he leapt high up into the air, he battered each spear away with slashed of Wyvern that were ten times faster and stronger, and he grinned as the demoness stumbled backwards and bellowed more to herself than to him: "The divine barrier can't be overcome!"

"We'll find out!" Killer roared, smashing Wyvern down in a vicious cut and hammering into the barrier with all of his brutal strength.

The barrier glowed in deep amaranth and pulsed once, now fully visible... and cracks spread over the whole surface of it, like it was made of glass as Regina shook her head in denial and shrieked in terror. "Impossible! You can't break it!"

Wyvern trembled in his hands, forced backwards, but Killer snarled and pressed down hard into the barrier, and it shattered in pieces that exploded in every direction as the crimson blade flied out of Killer's hands...

But it did not matter as the huge male liger smashed his feet into the chest of the demoness, knocking her flat down on the floor and straddling her as he grinned viciously, ferociously pounding earth-shaking fists into her form as she shrieked in agony, bursts of blood coming out of her mouth and blasting out of the wounds he opened with his blows.

Regina shrieked as he smashed blow after blow into her, feeling her energies sapped as agony shot through her form with the obscene power of his punches, feeling her bones cracking under the pressure, even as she fought back as hard as she could, trying to push him back, to throw him off her as she punched at his muscular chest over and over... But he seemed made of titanium. He wouldn't back an inch under her blows, and just hit her harder instead... And as he smashed a fist into her temple, Regina felt an explosion of searing pain in her head, seeing one of her horns flying in the air in pieces and immediately after seeing only flashes of light and darkness at intervals as her vision faded away rapidly...

And she furiously arched her back even as he punched her down, shooting forwards with her last strength to bite him... and she growled in triumph when her fangs pierced across the hard, formidable muscles of his shoulder, and she felt her deadly poison leak inside him in pints...

Killer roared in agony, but did not cease to hit her with animal fury, slamming another fist on her head to send her crashing backwards, releasing his shoulder... even as he felt with horror his wounded arm stop answering to his commands, becoming a dead appendage of his body... and soon he fell backwards on his back, his own vision fading rapidly to darkness, his body feeling distant and useless, almost like he was physically separated from it...

"You may be invincible for mortal poisons... but mine... is another story... entirely..." Regina spat out between gouts of dark blood and choking coughs from where she agonized on the floor a few feet away... and Killer barely managed to crest his lips in a snarl as he glared at her and felt with horror that his body had already entirely ceased to answer to his brain.

His vision faded to darkness for a moment... and then he saw Alexis staring at him with tears in her eyes, bending down to suck the poison out of the wound... but knowing all too well that it wouldn't have worked...

I can't hear you... He thought, and he thought it with rage, because he wanted to hear her wonderful voice one more time, hear her taunting calls again... don't cry...

And then, there was only darkness.

"Let me do, Alexis."

"Save him. Save him. You have to save him!"

"Her poison acts too fast... I... I don't know..."

"DO IT!"

I can... hear again...? Am I just dreaming...?

A slow, low chant filled his hears, and he couldn't help but abandon himself to it, to the wonderful soothing effect of each verse. He couldn't understand a word of that strange, melodic language... but it was beautiful, far more than words could express, and it relieved his pain and pushed his feelings of loss away...

And there was Alexis's voice too... Loved... adored Alexis...

The songs he felt were Heaven. The chant of Angels. The voice of Alexis.

"D... Diana...?" He asked weakly, and he was amazed of hearing his own voice.

"Never do it again, Killer, never!" Diana cried from above. "I was dead-scared... A few more seconds, and you would have gone forever... I was so scared!"

"Just image how scared I was myself..." He mumbled, trying to smile as he opened his eyes and grunted at the absurd effort it took him to do so...

And the first thing he saw was a blur of golden hair cascading over his face as Alexis dived over him and wrapped her lips over his, kissing him like they had been separated from a million years... And he couldn't deny he felt the same way. One moment more, and we would have been separated forever...

"Never do it again!" Alexis commanded firmly when their lips finally departed of a few millimeters. "I'll suicide and come with you if you go. No matter what. Know it."

"Don't talk like that..." Killer gently implored, but he knew he would have done the same for her... admittedly, he felt ashamed for feeling, in the deep, relieved of her promise. The idea of being separated from her was unbearable... "I want you to live, my love... And we have our children, too. You can't abandon them for following me and my stupidity."

Alexis smiled lovingly, straightening a bit as she rested on her knees... And Diana smiled down at the huge male as she continued to chant softly, healing his wounds and calling back to life all of his energy.

"Thank you, Diana..." He said gently, smiling lovingly up to her, and the Angel smiled between tears of relief and love as she traced her hands over his chest slowly... Until she finally finished, and abandoned herself into his arms, clinging to him as he kissed her and rocked her gently in his hold, letting her listen to his heartbeat and breath, and listening her sweet voice calling his name over and over again in relief, love and need.

And Killer finally turned towards the demoness on the floor, who was looking at him between rivulets of blood covering her face, who was staring at him in disbelief and terror...

And the huge male coldly looked into her eyes, grinning menacingly, mercilessly, and smirking as he saw that the bridge was back in place over the lake of magma. "I've made you my bitch, slut... and now it's time for you to fulfill your role..."

"And pay your debt." Alexis coldly added, grinning with equal merciless ferociousness.