She emerges bathed in white light.

More a force of nature than anything else, raw power pouring from her body. She is a dragon through and through, a creature that exists at the apex. Tendrils like poisonous plants hang off her body, and a sickly sweet aroma fills the air that burns your throat. Just a touch could melt you down completely, and you relish that sort of power, the raw destructive aura she exudes.

There is not a bone in her body that resists your command, only for the fact that you have spoken to her corroded heart, her desire to melt down everything. You know that if you had given a command she did not approve of, she would rebel. And so, you don't even bother with pretense. You embrace destruction.

A screech fills the air like a whale's song, harbinger of her rampage.

And then she explodes forward.

The wall of ice does not impede her progress. The pain and the numbness only angers her further. Even as frost collects along her body, as tendrils like seaweed flake and break off under her tremendous speed, she advances. Into the deepest blizzard she would plunge, to sate that taste for blood, the desire to reduce everything to nothing.

"Rage! Unleash your anger, don't hold back, Shion. She's one of them!”

You spur on your mutual hatred. Do not even concern yourself with the words of a walking corpse.

This bitch is nothing but a nuisance to be crushed. Shion understands that as well as you do.

She closes the distance.

A black cloud of poison, a mighty stormfront sweeping in.

She stabs with her beak. Lashes with fins sharp enough to cut steel. Smashes a tail that can send a jeep flying. A mere touch can reduce an oil tanker to nothing, but paired with the strength of a dragon, she is truly unparalleled.

She delivers all of her anger on the thing in front of her, no matter what it is.

She is a rampaging storm. A force of nature.

A harbinger of death.

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Shion bears down like a tidal wave.

As she so much as touches the screens weaved by the mime in front of her they melt away, touched by the supremely toxic venom that coats her entire body. She is everywhere all at once, a force of nature. She is the sea, falling down atop her prey with as much force, just as unstoppable.

Light alone cannot part the sea.

It refracts through her, it burns her, makes her bleed.

And yet, that only makes things worse. As she bleeds, clouds of venom seep into the air. It burns the back of one's throat even at a distance, an acid that melts even metal upon touch. She fills the air with a violent screech of pain, hatred, and pleasure all at once, reveling amid destruction.

She is an unstoppable force. Flailing against barriers put in her way, she shatters straight through them, striking with her tail, the most dangerous part of her.

"All Rockets die the same, don't they?"

You can't be heard over the sound of a storm, but it hardly matters.

These words are for your sake, not hers.

"You think you're special, that you're above everyone, don't you? But you'll see what it's like, to fall."

A maniacal grin on your face, you let Shion's poison seep into your heart. It fills you with hatred, a desire for revenge. You're not this sort of person. You'd turned over a new leaf, so you said to Navy.

And yet, at the bottom of the void-sea lurks that part of yourself you discarded, that version of yourself you'd promised to let go of.

Here, the whole time, waiting.

"Please... I beg of you... stay your conceited, stuck up self, right to the bitter end... it'll make it so much more fun when I melt you down to the bone."

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You can't help but laugh.

What comes from her mouth in protest was your point all along.

"Exactly! The great equalizer, the thing that makes us human! So there's no point pretending you're above all that, is there?"

Malice spills from your lips.

The way she holds herself, so superior to everyone around her, it makes you want to topple her to the ground. The exquisite statue she presents herself as should just be ground into dust. Eventually it'll be worn by time. But you, you're not the patient type, are you?

If you had your way you'd ruin that pretty face, completely and utterly. She'd never be able to act superior to anyone else ever again.

"Come, open your eyes! Witness true beauty and be humbled for once in your sorry life! Can't you see it? Can't you hear their laments? A sunken world, stuck in the ancient past, a world that can't change. Isn't it so marvelous?"

Your hollow heart sings to the void. It's touched you in ways you could never imagined, shaped your soul with its own song.

It's only right you return the favor.

"It's a reminder that you and I are different. We grow, we love, we die, but they never will! Don't you just love it?"

You're her reminder, too little too late. A wolf at the door. She's forgotten her humility, forgotten that she's not immortal. Not like them, those who long to love with all their heart, the angels that inhabit this ever-beautiful antediluvian wasteland. You'll teach them to love in due time, but first comes this lesson in death.

You raise your hand, and Tsutsuji emerges from the capsule on your hip. She knows what you desire already as that woman reaches to her hip to procure a bomb. She need not hear your commands as she summons a wind to blow it all back in the Rocket's direction.

You merely frown, watching the smoke return on the wind.

"How sad, that you'll never get it..."

Shion lets out a scream of pain. A sound like a whale's song, so loud it cracks your glasses. That sound breaks you from your trance, and you notice your surroundings again. The frost of a deep winter assails Shion's body, so used to the warm climates of the tropical seas. As she writhes in pain, so consumed in her rage, you realize you've lost your sense of self, just as she had.

As she bleeds, her venom pours into her surroundings. It is an acid that melts flesh, melts metal itself. Smashing herself against invisible walls constructed fruitlessly, destroying them with each violent swing of her tail, her fins, her beak, she closes in on her prey. Even if she must destory her body to do it, she will deliver that fatal sting.

You compose yourself slightly, letting all of the venom in your heart spill forth. Like a chalice runneth over.

"Drown. Drown in the void for all I care. Despite that pretty face, you're ugly to your core. I'm tired of eyesores."

A sea of sludge dyed completely black surges forth as a tsunami, engulfing everything in its surroundings.

Shion's rage, your own rage, will not be contained by mere walls.

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The conflagration begins and expands before you can even respond. You open your mouth anyway, but your words are lost, your throat scorched by a tremendous fireball.

It doesn't matter. None of it fucking matters. All those words are lost on someone who doesn't care. She deserves this place, this stagnant tomb. Truly deserves it.

You silently hiss. A curse, though you can't form the words. As the cloud rises into a gigantic fireball and threatens to consume you, there is little you can do to stop it, to stop her from escaping in the chaos she's unleashed.

Tsutsuji picks you up with a single claw and throws you on her back, taking flight. She drags you away, despite your impulse to rush into the flames. And through it all, that massive fireball is spurred onward by the deathly shrieks of Shion. Bathed in that poison, she was the sole casualty of that explosion. Something you know she's tough enough to survive, but all the same... the noise, it rattles around in your head. Makes you dizzy.

You'll retrieve her, still rampaging, several hours from now. In spite of all her injuries, she'll still be fighting the local wildlife.

It will take a long, long time for her to recuperate from this battle, where she fell into her madness, and you fell alongside her.

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