{Betty}
Finally, I finished bringing back the last remaining escapees from the prison in the Middle Ground. I decided to take a break from everything, Death Walker training and homework from school, because now I'm on the homeschooling program for the School of Friendship.
Dae and I were sitting on the couch talking about nothing, when Fluttershy entered the room with a panicked look on her face.
I frowned. "What is it, Fluttershy?"
Fluttershy gulped and fetched me a letter from her right saddlebag with her mouth. When I saw that the letter was from mom, my anger hit the roof, "Seriously? Why, she has some nerve sending me a letter! Okay, fine, I'll read it and then it's going in the trash!"
The letter from mom read like this:
Dear my little halfbreed daughter,
I hope you're enjoying your time away from me. But know this halfbreed, I will kill you myself one of these days. I brought you into this world and sooner or later, I'm going to take you out of it. Although you're a Death Walker now, so it won't be much of a loss anyway. Be watching out for me, my little halfbreed.
Sincerely,
Your reluctant mother
I was livid with anger after I read it. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "Okay fine, if that's the game she wants to play, then challenge accepted!"
Fluttershy's jaw dropped. "Are you sure about that Betty? I mean-"
I cut her off, "I'm sure she's not strong like that stupid criminal Grogar and it's time I got the last laugh with that witch! Trust me, I will! She's a threat and I'm taking her down!"
Fluttershy went from being shocked to overjoyed when I said that, "Well, if you say so, Hankle's right, you're not a child anymore. You are a pre-adult and a Death Walker. And might I add-"
I rolled my eyes. "If you say, I'm the Child of Prophecy-"
"Oh come on Betty," said Dae, "honestly, what's so bad about being a super powerful entity? I'm the King of Hell and I'm not the least bit bothered by my power! Lucifer was twice as strong as I was, and you put him in the abyss!"
"What?" Fluttershy gasped. "You put Lucifer into the abyss Betty? I didn't think that was possible!"
"That makes two of us." Dae said.
"Wait, you said I beat you to it." I said.
Dae nodded. "Yeah that's right and it's true. Before you came along and did it, I had been trying to do some research to see if that was even possible. I came up with nothing, so I just had to go with the flow of things."
"Huh," I said, "well, so much for taking a break."
"What do you mean by that?" Fluttershy asked.
"If mom wants to kill me so badly," I said, "then I'm going to have to make sure I'm ready for her."
"Well, if you say so," Fluttershy said with a nervous frown.
Dae grinned.
"What?" I said.
"I was wondering," said Dae, "we haven't sparred against each other... How about a quick match?"
"Okay, you're the King of Hell and that's a fair fight because?" I said.
Dae rolled his eyes. "Seriously Betty? Do I really have to answer that question?"
Fluttershy snorted. "No kidding! You two are more or less evenly matched! Dae's the perfect sparring partner for you! I'm not partial to fighting myself, unless I have to. So, you two have fun."
"And I won't stall the match like that jerk Marble did, before you two fought," Dae said.
"Yeah," I said, "I think he was out of shape or had too many candy bars before that."
Dae, Fluttershy and I laughed at the thought.
"Alright," said Dae, "what do you say?"
I nodded. "Sure why not?"
* * *
Dae and I stood out in the training area. I smiled when I saw Dae take his sword out that looked like it was made up of two black flames connected with a handle. The handle looked normal however, despite the ornate scary designs of the blade.
He chuckled, "You already seem impressed by me."
"Well, don't go easy on me because I'm your girlfriend," I said.
"Don't worry," said Dae, "I won't."
I had a feeling that since Dae could hear my thoughts, he'll be able to figure out what my next move would be. That didn't bother me, as it only made things more interesting.
Dae snorted. "Yeah, I don't think I'll use that ability in this fight."
I tilted my head. "Why not?"
"Because, that's not what I prefer to use it for," Dae answered. "And yes if I were you, I'd use all of your Death Walker abilities that you have so far."
"Well, okay then," I said.
Before I could take out my staff, Dae threw his sword at me and I took my staff out, just in time to deflect it with a resounding clink! His attacks were certainly more of a challenge than I anticipated, although how he wasn't able to send Lucifer into the abyss himself puzzles me. Dae smiled and I could only assume he heard my thoughts about this fight.
Dae's favorite attack seemed to be splitting the flames of his sword in two and attacking from two separate angles with them. This made the fight go even faster and I had to admit it was a good workout too.
Well they do say fight fire with fire, I thought, but I think, I can fight fire better with wind and glass.
I took a deep breath and let my wind and glass powers develop within me. I then concentrated my powers to my hands. My fire power I sent to my left hand and my glass powers I sent to my right hand. By this time I had put my staff away and was getting ready to fight with only my Death Walker abilities.
Once one of the flames came at me from the left, I opened the palm of my hand and out of it came a blast of fire. It canceled out Dae's flame, and when the other flame came at me from my right, bits of glass shot out to deflect.
Dae smiled. "Not bad, not bad at all Betty! See? You are right for the job of taking down Grogar!"
"Yeah, yeah," I said, rolling my eyes, "let's keep going! This is actually kind of fun. Well, taking down threats isn't supposed to be fun, but okay whatever."
"So, that's how you can defeat your enemy so easily!" Dae teased. "You were just having too much fun with it!"
While Dae talked, I felt that was the perfect time to strike. So this time, I combined my darkness powers and my glass powers and out of my mouth came tiny bullets. Dae put up his arm and his sword to try and block most of the bullets, but he wasn’t fast enough to deflect every one. And even though it didn't really hurt him that much, he screamed in surprise when it happened as I watched the flying projectiles rip his shirt up a bit. After that, he just dusted himself off like nothing happened.
"I didn't think it was going to be a fight to the death Betty! Geez, woman." Dae smirked. "But I'm already dead, so uh, not like it matters!"
I avoided Dae's next attack by doing a barrel roll. The attack clipped my right wing and I crashed. Dae came up to me and helped me get to my feet.
"You okay Betty?" Dae asked.
I dusted myself off, "Yeah I'm fine."
"But your wing," said Dae, "it's clipped, it's-"
I tilted my head, I thought it was strange that Dae would make such a fuss about my wing being clipped. I wasn't in any pain at the moment and I've had worse.
Dae paused while staring wide-eyed, "Well I'll be! Your wing is already healed!"
"Okay," I said, "interesting, that's what happened back at the Castle of the Two Sisters when I got all of that glass in me."
"Yeah, that's interesting alright," Dae said.
I smiled. "Well, I think you win this one Dae."
Dae shook his head. "Nope, I don't consider that a win just because you crashed."
"But it came from one of your attacks," I said, "so yeah, you win."
Dae smirked. "Nah, I don't think so. I want a rematch!"
I chuckled, "And I thought I was the one that doesn't know when to take a break."
"And if you crash, get right back up and fight just like you did with Lucifer," Dae instructed.
"Okay then," I said, "I would say it's your funeral, but seeing that you're the King of Hell, you've already been dead for some time now, so."
Dae laughed and we started the fight again. We had no idea that Norman and Fluttershy were watching us.
* * *
{Norman}
"What are those two doing?" I asked.
Fluttershy, Discord and I were sitting on the bleachers watching Dae and Betty fight each other.
"Oh, didn't you hear the bad news?" Discord said.
I sighed while rolling my eyes, "Yeah, mom's little death threat to Betty."
I balled my hands into fists just thinking about what the letter said. Mom called Betty a halfbreed. That's all the more reason why I'm glad Betty got away from her. There's no way I'm going back to live with mom anytime soon.
I calmed down and smiled when I saw what Dae's weapon was. Two black flames connected to a sword handle.
Discord smiled, "Yeah I do like watching The Black Flaming Sword in action, although I haven't seen it used after Lucifer stepped down from the throne. Huh, it makes sense that Lucifer would give that sword to Dae considering Lucifer handed Dae the throne. Only a King of Hell can handle that sword."
"Huh," I said, "interesting."
"It seems Betty's favorite attack is a combination of light, darkness and glass," said Fluttershy, "look, she's only used her weapon in between attacks so she can recover and block Dae's attacks."
"Whoa!" I heard Mystic's voice from behind me. "Just look at them go!"
Mystic whistled at the fight as she cheered Betty and Dae on. I couldn't help but watch the fight in awe myself. At one point in the fight, we felt the heat from a couple of Betty and Dae's attacks. Betty used her fire power a couple of times to cancel out Dae's black flames from his sword.
At one point in the fight, Betty shot tiny bullets out of her mouth and Dae tried to block it, to no avail. He got pretty banged up with that attack although he did get a couple of good hits on Betty. Every time Betty crashed or got knocked down, she just got right up and went back to fighting. Surprisingly, the fight ended when Dae could barely move. Betty seemed disappointed that the fight didn't last longer.
I went over to Betty and Dae once the fight ended. "That was awesome, you two!"
"Now that's what I call a fight." Dae smiled. "You win Betty."
Betty pouted and crossed her arms. "Yeah, only because you can't move much anymore!"
I snorted. "Wow, Betty, you really don't know when to take a break, do you?"
Betty nodded, "Nope, I don't take a break until-"
Betty didn't finish her sentence before she fell over and passed out.
"What happened to her?" I panicked.
"Calm down Norman," said Fluttershy, "she just wore herself out, that's all. She just needs to rest."
I let out a sigh of relief when Fluttershy said that. Fluttershy's a Death Walker, so she would know if Betty was having another power surge or not.
Dae smiled and teased. "That's cute, an overly concerned brother. Betty will be fine, even if she had another power surge. I mean, she put Lucifer into the abyss!"
Discord gasped, "What? She did? I didn't think that was possible! No wonder I haven't seen the guy around yet! Wow, and she thinks she's not the Child of Prophecy."
"Well, I need to get back to Hell now," said Dae, "I have some things to take care of.” He looked at me and pointed with his right index finger, “And, I know that look, Norman! Don't worry, Betty will be just fine."
Fluttershy nodded, "Let's get her cleaned up and put to bed."
Once we got Betty to bed, I couldn't help but feel guilty about not being there for Betty growing up. But, since she's a Death Walker now, there's not much I can do to help her.