A wall of red energy. Unstoppable power meeting immovable object.
It bounces.
The wall of air knocks the helicopter about like a leaf in the storm. Blue Sky is torn from it, metal rending as her grip tears through the framing, and she is tossed free.
You watch as she falls away, hand outstretched in a futile attempt to save herself...
A sliver of light crosses her torso, and she is sliced in half. But before she can scream, a torrent of light washes her away.
You pour more into the red wall holding back the End. Everything you have, and then some, but inexorably it inches closer, micrometer by micrometer. And though it only lasts for a split second, it feels as if eternity passes you by.
And as the light fades, a wasteland greets you.
"Nep-?" You feel despair rise in the pit of your stomach. The cute girl you had claimed as yours was nowhere to be seen. The soldiers meant to guard her more than likely dead and gone, along with the Knight that you had entrusted with her safety. "Land! Now!"
The pilot looks at you like your crazy, but you silence him with a glare that had given Dark Generals heart attacks. Properly cowed the useless mongrel quickly brings the machine around to rest where the cemetery once stood, and you leap off. Power to your legs, you sprint across the ground faster than you could ever remember running. And there, in the center...
Anastasia lies on the ground in two separate locations. Her blood leaks slowly, dyeing the black glass she rests on red. A small orb of light shines weakly halfway between the two halves of her body, and as you watch bits and pieces of her break off into light to be drawn in by the tiny little orb.
"Nepgear!" You run to her side, gathering what's left of her torso into your arms. "Nep...?" Your heart hurts. Your limbs are heavy, and your throat sore from constricting. "Nep, can you hear me?" Her eyes are dull and lifeless: the vibrancy that marked her existence as unique was faded to nothing. Her hair is almost black from the dirt and ash.
"Anastasia, come on. Say something." You refuse. You refuse to lose something else precious so soon after having found it. Not after losing everything else for this useless title of 'Hero' that your sisters wasted their existences on. "Please Anastasia. Don't leave me!" You can feel her weight slipping away, already her lower body is gone, taken away by the little light that was drawing her in.
Her arms are gone as well.
"You can't leave me! Please! I... I've got nothing. Everything I own amounts to nothing compared to you! Please!" You beg. You beg her not to go, not to leave you again with useless trinkets to keep you company, and a cold bed to greet you at night. Empty praises from the merely human soldiers, or the weak girls around you.
Not to leave you alone with the knowledge that you would have to kill your sisters.
"Please..." The last of her body breaks away from you, and you limply reach after it, your soul breaking to pieces as you watch. You stare as the light darkens even more, before the orb slowly changes shape.
It elongates and bends, hard angles, and a cruel edge forming from the remains of a kind heart.
The dark purple, almost black, blade of the sword hurts to look at. Red lines of fresh blood leak slowly to pool onto the ground. And from where you kneel in the dirt you can feel it's hunger.
Rei's eyes snap open and she rockets up into a sitting position with a gasp.