Chapter 3 - More than we Bargained for!

Thunder rolls overhead as a flash of lightning lights the sky ahead of us. And here's the rain, wonderful. I shake my head to get back in the zone.

Trish moves in front of me and heads straight on, while Lady takes her place on the right and I mine on the left.

I jump up into a demolished buildings upper floor, the city is sadly so much easier to get around now it has holes and things I can use. I use my vantage point to signal Lady on the other side of the street to fire her guns from where she is as Trish sparks and slices through demons on the ground, alternating between her new sword since the devil sword Sparda is gone and her lightning.

Lady nods once, barely noticeable from this distance as she begins covering Trish, firing just in time to stop a big ass empusa from getting Trish from a rear blind spot.

"Thanks Lady!" Trish yells as she jumps back from another attack and flashes electricity at the nearest horde.

I drop from my spot near the back of the large group of demons Lady and Trish are now facing.

So far the storm has done us a favour in boosting the effectiveness of Trish's powers and hiding our scent and movements from the demons with the rain, but the rain stops and a whole new problem begins.

Pain begins to blossom in the tips of my fingers and my ears begin burning as I start to stress over the overwhelming number of demons still surrounding us. Fuck! This is not good. I move quickly from behind the horde working my way to where Trish is at the front Lady attacking from the side, still covering us when needed.

I slash and stab in repeated practiced motions, knowing each move so well that they fall together into a sort of deadly dance, Trish weaving herself around my movements, as we reach one another no where near done with the batch we'd taken on.

After what feels like days of constant fighting and building stress in my head, Lady appears by my side, raising KalinaAnn2.

"She's all I have girls, once she's done that's it" well shit! That isn't good, if Lady has run out of amo all she can do is slash with the blade on the end of that damned gun of hers.

"Safe to say we need to finish this quickly then. Huh?" Trish flashes a bolt at an empusa queen behind me as I drop spin one from Lady's blind spot, pain shoots through my feet as I stand back straight, I begin panicking as the pain spreads and worsens.

" I hate to admit it Mel but I think we could use a hand here!" Lady fires a rocket into a group headed straight to us and we back into close quarters.

"No! Not yet, if you need to regroup then go Trish and I can handle this while you get more amo!" I pull Trish back just in time to miss a slash of claws by a fraction of an inch. Nodding a thanks I notice her eyes widen as she sees something I don't behind us.

"Err, Mel, I think we may need a new strategy or like, 6 more hands 4 paws and a pain in the ass bird!" I spin around on the spot, taking out a green empusa trying to revive a Queen at the same time with a dagger.

Oh SHIT! Not only are we now surrounded by demons that don't seem to be going down at all, we have a group of Behemaths headed our way. Great!

SNAP! Pain fires through my limbs as a wave of nausea slams my gut and I hit the ground on hands and knees. 

"Mel! We can't handle this on our own I have two rockets left and Trish is getting tired!" I sense the panic in her voice, she's the only one who knows what happeneing to me and even we don't fully know what can happen if this goes further, like it did in the tower.

I try and focus on making the pain ease and I go back to stinging in my fingers and burning ears. My strength returns and I stand, rolling my shoulders and pulling out my blades, feeling the stress decrease steadily as I regain my composure.

"Go!" I shout as we barrel forward...away from the Behemaths I may add. I begin moving into my deadly attack pattern again, losing myself in the rhythm I have in my head to which moves to use and when.

"Almost there, how you holding up?" Lady asks as the building I knocked down earlier to stop the boys from following us comes into view. I nod in confirmation that I'm doing ok. I didn't realise we'd moved so far ahead.

Lady runs and vaults the wall without breaking her stride, Trish uses her hand and side vaults over as I bring up the rear.

I stop for a second and look back, instantly regretting it as I see the demons barreling toward us.

I put my hands on the wall and try to lift myself up onto it so I can get over.

SNAP!

I wince in pain as I feel my wrist crack, I don't know if it's broken and I don't have time to find out. I freeze for a second as I try and think of a way to get over the wall before the ever approaching demons get to me. I don't stand a chance on my own with this set of numbers.

"Hang on girl, I got ya!" I feel something grab me from behind and lift me up over the wall. I look over my shoulder to see who has me, expecting Nero or Dante.

"Griffon!" Never have I been so happy to be near this god forsaken bird.

"Yep! You're lucky I saw ya girl, V didn't even notice me leave!" He gently puts me on the ground and lands on my bent knees and presses his head to mine. I smile and run my fingers through his feathers.

"Thanks Griff, I ... owe ... ya" I pant as I calm down, he just ruffles a bit at the comment and stays there keeping an eye on me.

"How's your arm?" He asks quietly as I cradle and test my wrist, "it's fine just cracked it is all, I'm fine."

"Hey girl!" Nico shouts as I climb gingerly into the truck, flopping down on the side of the arm chair V and I had been on earlier.

I smile at her, too exhausted to do much else.

I feel a rough hand on my arm as I turn to see Nero, concern clear on his face. "You doin ok? you don't look so good Mel"

I nod, sensing the eyes on me as I look about the truck.

"Just more than we bargained for is all"

"Damn straight!" Is the chimed response and everyone laughs.