Flying up into the air, Gabriel(?) flapped her metallic wings a single time before seemingly shooting what seemed to be numerous steel feathers at Raven; the latter responded by shooting all of the feathers out of the air before they reached him.

Gabriel(?) did not seem to be bothered by this. With a peal of maniacal laughter, she flies forward, her metallic wings cutting through the air, leaving a white slipstream from the tips of her wings.

Raven clicks his tongue before dodging out of the way of Gabriel(?), who flew past him at an insane speed, with the metallic wings cutting through anything that touched like butter. Even with her insane rate, Gabriel(?) kept her momentum and turned toward Raven with that sadistic smile.

With even more speed than before, Gabriel(?) launches herself toward Raven, breaking the very sound barrier itself, causing Raven to hear a ringing noise in his ears due to the explosion, but it did distract Raven from the foe in front of him.

But even so, Raven is not fast enough to dodge Gabriel(?), so he decides to do his best to block the attack; however, one of Gabriel(?) wings reels back right an arm before extending itself forward like a punch.

Raven's eyes widen, and out of instinct, he put up his left hand to block the oncoming metallic wings, which resulted in the wing piercing him right through his left arm while also sending him on his feet and sliding backwards, dragging his feet along the floor.

Gabriel(?) followed up her attack by clenching one of her fists tightly before sending it straight into Raven's face, hitting him squarely in the face; Gabriel(?) followed up by kicking him right into the leg, causing Raven to lose his balance.

With her laughter echoing throughout the room, Gabriel(?) moves another of her wings to move it and aims it to pierce right into Raven's face, and Raven quickly uses his free right hand to grab on the wing, stopping it.

"Come on, bastard!! Ain't you supposed to be one of the Crown heirs!? Is that all you fucking got!?" Gabriel(?) says while trying to push both wings forward, one still piercing Raven's left arm while the other is trying to stab right into the face.

"Shut the hell up!" Raven says, trying to push her wings back, "Swearing like a fucking sailor, you should go to hell and learn some manner!!"

With even more power, Gabriel(?) uses even more force to push both wings forward and close the distance between her and Raven, and with Raven being wide open, she starts punching Raven, who takes all of the hits.

Blow after blow, Raven is taking so many hits from Gabriel(?) fist that he can feel his bone start to crack.

"Come on! Don't give up now! Used that Crown and fought back!" Gabriel(?) says with her sadistic smile prevalent on her face, "If you want to make me shut up, then fight back! Struggle! Make it more entertaining for me to kill you!!"

Raven grits his teeth, and Zether channels right into Raven's right arm, causing his right arm to glow green, catching Gabriel(?) attention. With a second wind, Raven pushes Gabriel(?) wings back before using his right hand, which is full of Zether, to crush some part of her metallic wings.

With his right arm taking the shape of a massive claw, he grabs onto Gabriel(?) wing and pulls it out from his hand while also crushing it simultaneously.

Gabriel(?), who sees all of this happen in a few seconds, jumps backwards to make the distance between her and Raven, with her destroyed wing visibly fixed before returning to look normal in a second.

Raven, who was now free, his stab wound started to heal rapidly, and his bones also started to heal themselves, even though he might not know it.

"HAHAHA, now that is what I'm talking about!" Gabriel(?) says before grabbing one of her feathers and pulling it out before that feather shape changes into a sword, "Let's make this dance even more entertaining!"

Raven glares back at Gabriel(?) while also grabbing his sword that was still sheathed, "Bitch"

Gabriel(?) only laughs in response to Raven's provocation before more metallic feathers start to come out from her wings, floating behind her like drones; all metallic feathers are pointing straight at Raven.

Raising her sworded hand into the air, Gabriel(?) looks at Raven with a smug and sadistic look. With one simple motion, she lowers her arm, and all the feathers fly forward like bullets aiming straight at Raven, while Gabriel(?) herself runs along, following behind her barrage of feathers.

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With incredible reflexes and skill, Raven raised his sheath sword and started to parry, redirect and dodge an oncoming barrage of steel feathers. Following behind the flurry of feathers, Gabriel(?) swings her sword at Raven, who quickly blocks the sword feather.

With their weapons locked onto each other, Raven and Gabriel(?) stare into each different eyes. Gabriel(?) with her smile still ever present and Raven with a frown on his face.

Suddenly, both Gabriel(?) wings move and swing toward Raven, whose eyes widen in surprise, and quickly react and dodge both wings swings. As an opportunity, Gabriel(?) follow it up by delivering a barrage of attacks using her sword and wings, causing Raven to be on a backfoot, trying his best to dodge all the oncoming attack.

While all this is happening, more feathers start coming out of Gabriel(?) wings and begin to float around them. Raven, whose attention is solely on blocking attacks from Gabriel(?), did not notice all of this.

Grabbing hold of Gabriel(?) face with one of his hands before slamming her hard on the ground Gabriel(?) only responded with a laugh when she hit the ground, showing that she did not feel any pain from this at all or maybe she doesn’t care about the pain.

With a sudden kick in the guts, Raven was sent flying while spitting blood, sent backwards by Gabriel's (?) kick. Raven slides along the ground before landing on his feet and looking back at Gabriel(?), who had already stood back up and now looking at Raven with a sadistic smirk on her face.

With absolute shock, Raven now sees all the floating feathers surrounding him in all directions, leaving him no option but to escape.

"Klingen Tanzen"

With those words uttered by Gabriel(?), all of the feathers surrounding Raven launches forward in all directions, from the front, above, sides and back.

Concentrating the best as he can, Raven swings his sword while also starting to move his body at an insane speed. Dodging, parrying, and blocking all of the oncoming metallic feathers, Raven is using everything he got to avoid all of the feathers.

However, all of that was futile because one of the feathers could fly past his guard and stab into one of his legs, causing Raven to lose his balance and making him wide open in a split second. However, that split second was enough for the feathers to pierce him all over the body.

Many feathers pierce Raven's body, causing massive amounts of blood to pour from the wounds caused by these feathers.

All the stabbed wounds caused Raven to lose his strength and kneel to the ground, with a pool of blood forming underneath his feet.

"Ah, it seems that is your limit. It was fun while it lasted." Gabriel(?) says while walking toward kneeling Raven, breathing heavily while also trying to pull out all the feathers from his body.

But, despite all the wounds on his body, Raven still tries to stand back up, albeit shakenly.

"Ah~ How cute. Struggling until the very end. That's what I like to see." Gabriel(?) says,

"Fuck... OFF!!" Raven shouts back, swinging his sheathed sword through the pain at Gabriel(?), who easily dodges it by simply leaning slightly backwards.

"Now, now, be careful how you swing that thing. Someone might get hurt, you know?" Gabriel(?) says, with her soft voice taking more of a sarcastic tone.

Raven glares hatefully at the smiling Gabriel(?), who only looks at him through the visor mocking him in his current state.

No matter how hard he tries, Raven can feel his consciousness slipping away from his mind. His entire body starts to feel numb, and all of his strength begins to fade away, with his heterochromatic eyes losing light from them.

'Dammit, am I gonna die here?' Raven thought while his body slumped forward; before hitting the ground, he used his remaining strength to stand up, 'No!! I'm not going to die here!!'

Gritting his teeth, Raven's right arm starts to glow brilliantly green, and the massive amount of Zether in the air from Heaven's Gate is absorbed into Raven's right arm. All the feathers that stuck into his body immediately got expelled and fell to the ground, and his wound started healing rapidly.

Gabriel(?), who sees all of this, only watches the situation folding with interest.

However, despite his healed wounds, there is something wrong with Raven's body. There is a visible change in Raven's appearance.

When the right arm stops glowing, Raven's right now is looking straight into the ground, while Gabriel(?) is looking at the scene in front of her with interest.

Raven suddenly looks back up at Gabriel(?), the latter of whom immediately takes a step back due to the change in Raven's appearance or some of it.

Right now, the right side of Raven's face is covered in black material with green lines running along them, and his teeth have been visibly changing to the point that it becomes as sharp as a knife. His green right eye is now glowing, leaving a light trail behind.

Raven opens his mouth, and steam made of pure Zether comes out of it, and Gabriel(?) can hear the growling sound from Raven.

"It seems the Crown had consumed you." Gabriel(?) says, a smile still visible on her face, but her body is clearly on edge, "Doesn't matter, it would not change anything!!"

Raven let out a beastly roar before rushing toward Gabriel(?), readying to continue their fight.