38 : You Are Alive

Karen watched baffled.

The woman who was sweet, kind, and could not hurt a fly was now cutting the witches in half! Without blinking an eye!

But then again, there were a lot of witches and they were not particularly sitting with their hands tied. One had managed to strangle Xena but Xena was also fast and had sliced the other woman's feet from under.

Brutal.

When Karen saw another dozen, she decided it was best if she helped her too. With that thought in mind, Karen jumped out from the tree, and with one powerful blast, she had pushed the witches off of Xena and created a shield between the both of them.

What Karen didn't realize was the fact that Xena was killing any and everyone close to her - she didn't remember anyone, recognize was a fare fetched idea- and so just like that, Xena had charged towards Karen in means to slice her throat open.

Karen's eyes bulged and the wheels in her brain started turning. Karen was smart.

She levitated herself into the air, just out of reach, and focused on the shield that separated them and the witches.

Below her, Xena was shouting and flailing the sword around like a maniac until Karen's sister walked closer to the shield from the other side and Xena's focus shifted to her.

Xena tried to hit her with the sword but was unsuccessful because of the shield but she kept trying.

"Sister," Karen said unfazed by Xena's attempt, and glared at her sister.

"What are you doing here?"

"To kill you of course." Karen shrugged at her sister and looked down at Xena who glared at Karen's sister like a zombie.

"I will leave her to you." And just like that, the shield was dropped and before Karen's sister could do anything, Xena had already swiped her sword and separated the head from the shoulders.

Karen looked away immediately.

"It was for the best." She tried to comfort herself. Whereas Xena just went in on another killing rampage until only one witch was left.

Xena was drained out of her energy but she still didn't stop.

The last witch was smarter than the others who died and using her magic, she somehow snatched the sword out of Xena's calloused fingers and tossed it into somewhere deep in the forest.

That was when Xena came back to her senses - intending to piss her pants after looking at the scowling witch in front of her - and knew that it was time she better ran because she no longer has her weapon which controlled her.

Just like her, Stephen and Cassius tried to get lord Christopher but it was literally impossible!

"You Mutts! I will annihilate you from your existence! Do you think you can defeat me? Think again." Lord Christopher grabbed Stephen by his gold wings and threw him multiple yards away.

Stephen's wings were almost ripped apart.

Cassius watched his brother fly out of sight and then glared at lord Christopher.

"Ah, I am going to have so much fun killing you. Limb by limb." Lord Christopher mocked and Cassius bared his sharp canines at him.

It was only the two of them.

Cassius's warriors were on the ground, some were sent back to the kingdom due to their critical condition and some hadn't come back from Lord Christopher's kingdom.

Cassius hoped that Christopher's people were all dead by now and after he had his revenge, he would take revenge for Xena who Cassius still didn't know was very well alive. Yet.

"What? Cat got your tongue?" Lord Christopher said when Cassius straight out ignored the guy in front of him.

Once again, Cassius did not reply, and that angered Lord Christopher.

"You little." Lord Christopher charged towards him when Cassius had decided to use his old trick and with one powerful swish of his wings, caused lord Christopher to fly back.

Cassius smirked and in an instant was over Lord Christopher. Big mistake. It seemed like he had forgotten that lord Christopher had the strength of 70 swifters.

Lord Christopher was up in a second and with one slight push had caused Cassius to tumble back and fly a few feet away.

Slammed into the tree causing it to break.

This time, the roles were reversed and Lord Christopher stood over Cassius with a menacing smile over his face as he watched poor Cassius trying to move.

Where was Stephen when his brother was about to die? Oh yeah, Stephen's was somewhere far away with one broken wing.

His wings had newly come out and due to rough handling - decided to break. Stephen was now stuck in the middle of the woods with a lot of pain.

While Lord Christopher was fast enough to wrap his two large palms around Cassius's pulsating neck and Cassius did fail attempts to remove his hands.

Lord Christopher enjoyed watching Cassius struggle so he started to increase his pressure very slowly.

"Never imagined that you would be so easy to defeat." Cassius only grunted but then his eyes wandered over to his side.

What the fuck!? Was literally the first thing that skimmed his mind while being strangled to death.

How could he have forgotten about this? About the most powerful weapon beside him? And how in the hell did it manage to get beside him?

It was pure luck.

In an instant, Cassius managed to grab the sword, and with an evil smile and a blue face, he muttered,

"All hail Lord Christopher." And just like that, Cassius felt a burst of energy Inside his body as his fingers tightened their grip around the weapon and separated Lord Christopher's head clean off his shoulders.

The head rolled away as the blood splattered on Cassius and Cassius sighed.

Tasty.

Cassius decided it was best if he laid down on the ground for a while, catching his breath. His blue face returned back to its color.

"Never thought it would be this easy to defeat you," Cassius muttered and pushed Lord Christopher's body off of him.

He grunted as pain made itself known in his body. He was too dissolved in the fight that he did not acknowledge the pain he was in.

He had several gashes on his body and they were beginning to make themselves known. Cassius turned his face around to see his guards passed out.

He closed his eyes and took a sigh of calmness. A big problem was off his shoulders. His eyes were tightly shut but snapped open when he heard a high-pitched scream.

"The fuck." Cassius muttered. He was ready to rip the woman's head off but then the familiar scent reached his nose.

"The fuck." This time he said with realization. How could he smell her if she was dead?

In an instant, he was on his feet and grunted by the pain. This was the only time in his life that Cassius had been tossed like a rag doll this much.

Just then, a woman with a probable face filled with red marks just like her hair and hands flailing like a crazy woman - that she was - came into view and Cassius's eyes widened even more.

How was that possible?

"Thank god I found you! Save me! That Witch will kill me." The redhead screamed as she threw her arms around Cassius who was still baffled.

"You are still alive." He whispered to himself but Xena heard him.

"Not for long." Cassius tightened his arms around the woman and looked over her neck. Just as she said, another woman was running towards them but from somewhere, Karen managed to come just in time to pull the woman's head off.

Cassius was frozen and Xena pulled away. She analyzed his face which had several gashes decorating it.

"You are hurt," Xena whispered to herself and Cassius looked up in her eyes.

Just then, another realization hit Cassius.

"Well, shit."

"What happened?" Xena asked as she pulled away from his body.

"Oh, nothing, just that humans are probably on the verge of extinction because I thought you were dead."

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Edit: A miracle happened. I got an A in maths. Lol

Lol, I was in such a rush that I produced this ugly chapter.
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