(***Flashback Valna POV***)
Having just received Zero’s orders Valna first opened a portal to her own realm. She was greeted by the kneeling dark and chaos valkyries who all said, “Welcome mistress!”
The 2 most powerful of the valkyries looked up at Valna and asked, “Do you have any orders for us mistress Valna?”
Valna shook her head and replied, “No I do not so keep guarding this realm until I say otherwise. Eir you will be in charge of the dark valkyries and Mist will head the chaos valkyries.”
The 2 confused valkyries asked, “Eir? Mist? Are these names mistress?”
“Yes remember them well since you’ll be my attendants in the future. I have other matters to attend to so look after this realm well. If you’re unable to handle this duty then I shall dispose of you both.” said Valna in a cold tone as she walked past the valkyries to a blue gateway that appeared.
“We hear and we obey mistress!” shouted all the kneeling valkyries
Valna then donned Zero’s ring to hide her residual mana leaking from her body and passed through the gateway. The gateway dropped Valna off at the back of Yoko’s library. Valna quietly walked around the library heading to the front entrance. When she reached the corner she saw Hel carrying Yoko and laying her on the ground. Hel had a cold look of indifference on her face as she checked Yoko’s condition.
Valna spied on Hel but let her do what she pleased as ordered by Zero. Hel performed a harmless inspection for quite a while causing Valna to yawn from boredom. As she yawned she heard a light grunt and looked to find Hel’s ethereal green hand entering Yoko’s body. Valna wasted no time and removed the ring causing Hel to pause and look over in her direction.
When Valna received Zero’s order she had just returned from a sparring session with Hammer. Coming here straight after gave her no time to change so she was wearing her black sportswear. Valna summoned her symbiote armor Valhalla which had gone thru a massive change since her apotheosis. The symbiote no longer looked like a puddle of goo but had now transformed into a living white flame that burned off Valna’s sportswear and turned red and clad her in a red bodysuit. A white valkyrie armor then appeared on her arms, legs, chest, shoulders, waist, and head. Now fully armored, her spear Serenity appeared in a white blaze sporting a new white design matching her armor.
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Valna grabbed Serenity and charged at Hel who dodged the initial trust of the spear. Valna released her wings coming to a stop before putting them away, turning and performing a one-handed sweep with the spear. Hel still managed to dodge the attack but it forced her away from Yoko’s unconscious body.
“I know why you’re attacking me but…” said Hel but she was cut off by Valna who said, “Shut up and surrender! If you do then I’ll go easy on you!”
“Wait let me explain. I was just…” said Hel but she was yet again forced to stop and dodge Valna’s incoming strike causing them to further leave the side of the unconscious Yoko.
Valna raised her spear and summoned 30 holy flame spears that encircled them. Hel looked around at the white flaming spears before turning to face Valna and said, “I don’t want to fight so how about we just calm down.”
Valna refused to heed Hel as tossed her spear at her. Hel shifted slightly to the side and dodged the incoming spear and then ducked to avoid a follow-up attack. Valna had transported behind Hel, grabbed her spear mid-air, and attempted a sweep attack aimed at Hel’s neck. This left Valna open for retaliation but rather than attack Hel simply put some distance between them while still paying attention to the flaming spears.
Valna developed an irritated look on her face when she saw Hel’s actions. Wasting no time Valna lunged at Hel and attacked with multiple thrusts pushing Hel back. Although Hel had managed to dodge the attack she fail to position herself well and was unable to dodge a surprise attack by a flaming spear. The spear grazed her and the flames burned her right shoulder. Green energy escaped from Hel’s burn wound and touched the spear freezing and shattering it.
Hel grabbed her right shoulder and stopped the energy release. The ring she received from Zero shattered and her true form was revealed. The right side of her body instantly transformed into decaying flesh and the right side of her hair changed to a platinum blond. When she looked up her black eyes had changed with her eyes now having an eerie pale green glow. A dark energy covered her hands changing them into demonic claws.
“This is the last time I’m going to warn you. Stop now and you won’t get hurt.” said Hel in a cold voice that emanated despair.
Valna said nothing as launched her 29 flaming spears at Hel. When the spears reached a certain distance from Hel they instantly froze and shattered. The cold mana that emanated from Hel’s body held more power than Valna spears so the attack could not reach Hel’s body. Hel did not look amused by Valna’s attack and began to walk Valna who gritted her teeth in frustration.
Valna strangely felt backed into a corner so she gathered all her remaining mana and form 16 flaming swords. The sword flew at Hel who took a step to the right to dodge the attack at the last minute. As the last sword was passing by Hel; Valna snapped her finger causing the flame sword to explode in a sea of flames at point-blank. As the holy flames raged Valna called back her sword and took a defensive stance as the air grew colder.
The flames were extinguished by Hel’s aura growing stronger. When the flames disappeared Hel was revealed to only be lightly wounded with a few burns and cuts. Hel raised her hand to retaliate when suddenly the laughter of a child could be heard and a voice asked, “What on earth is going on? Why are you 2 fighting?”
Valna felt intense malice held within the laughter and raised her spear in defense before looking to see Zero holding a child.