I personally think that's a bit grammatically incorrect, but there you go.


*Chapter 28: Severance*

For a moment the rabbit stared at Erst in shock, split in two like a cartoon character cut in half, then split into a thousand fragments that were sucked into the sword with a shrill wail. At the same time the cowled figure, who had been watching wordlessly, bought his sword down across Erst's blade, which flared, then dulled, nothing more than an ordinary sword. There was a brief *crack* and the circle of light vanished, an invisible wall of pressure and sound knocked everyone but Erst and the mysterious figure over. For a few seconds there was utter silence.

The figure spoke. "Well done, far better than I expected." Erst looked around, the sky was blue, the strange things above had gone, the noise had gone, the heat had gone. "All things come to an end, congratulations, you've won." The figure walked over to the body of Red, lying face down in the dust, swung his blade right through it, causing her form to shiver and vanish. Erst looked on in open mouthed shock as this process was repeated on the other two demons, who had also succumbed. "Do not look so surprised, they were nothing but spirits, but I am Death, all come to me eventually, even them." Death turned and strode past Spaz and Kira to the sprawled figure of Trixi. As he passed he pointed at the bird. "I shouldn't worry, it's only a broken wing and concussion. Now, as for this one I-"

Schrock seemed to materialize in front of the figure, looking exceedingly annoyed, even for him. "Now hold on one minute there! I Whoever you think you are, you just back off before I do something I regret okay?" Death smiled coldly. "I am Azrael, the shadow of creation, the alpha and omega, then end of worlds. You defy me mortal?" Shcrock stood his ground. "(-) straight I do! You and you 'Look at me I'm so big' gibberish! So you think you can just pop by and take who you want huh? Well I quite frankly am sick of all this, this... idiocy! So you're not getting this one, no matter what you say Mr Azrael, so why don't you just toddle off to whatever realm dimension or enchanted cesspit it is you come from, huh?"

Death smiled, then wavered, two gigantic wings sprouted from its back, windows into sheer darkness, black as midnight on a cloudy day at new moon. The robe became as insubstantial as mist and the visage beneath it became very unpleasant. "I suspect you are not impressed by these theatrics. Many have defied me turtle, but it is not necessary, I do not have a claim on this one anymore."

Schrock smiled triumphantly, and a little nervously. "Glad you saw reason. I've seen enough death today, thankyou!"

Death grinned and turned away. "Indeed. You mortals are strange, always giving your lives for some cause or such, even to another. Besides, you were going to live an unusually long time anyway, as it works out now, you and the rabbit will die around the time your brother does, good day... and see you later."

Scrock's grin disappeared as fast as Death did. "Hey... wait! Whaddya mean were? Wait, no! I never said anything about going 50/50! Where did- wait- come back!"

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And across the planet disaster abated, the skies cleared, storms dissipated and things returned rapidly to normal, leaving little more than a few smoking wrecks and befuddled rabbits in their wake. And above the world too, rabbits found their systems suddenly responsive, locked doors sprang open, blown fuses popped out of their sockets as the military computers of Carrotus topped planning Armageddon and went back to calmly monitoring Carrotus' space for possible threats. All over the planet, and above it rabbits erupted into relieved cheers, then went off to consume large amounts of alcohol, especially those who hadn't done so in a long time.


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