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DxD:Holding All The Cards#115
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23 Dec 2025
Upon seeing this both Artemis and her remaining six wolves skidded to a stop, the beasts then surrounded him as Artemis readied another arrow. "Given up on running human?" she smirked in apparent victory, only for the smirk to drop as Issei started laughing.
"You're forgetting one of the Golden Rules of hunting Artemis," chuckled the human, even as he continued coughing up blood.
"And what's that?" scoffed the Goddess.
"A wounded animal is twice as dangerous," smirked Issei before he roared a battle cry and charged the pack of wolves.
Scathach smiled as she stepped out of the glowing purple portal and set foot into Issei's attic, only for her smile to instantly drop as the boundary field she'd placed around the house bombarded the witch with information. Without a word Scathach immediately summoned Gae Bolg and rushed out of the attic, jumping through the floor boards into the wrecked living room.
"What happened here?" gasped the Godslayer as she saw the damaged building, and stared at the giant hole in the wall with horror.
'This shouldn't be possible! I reinforced the house myself! Those Runes should have protected this building from a damned army!' frowned the witch, before she heard the sound of soft coughing coming from nearby.
Scathach immediately spun around and leveled her spear in the direction of the sound, only to see a large amount of rubble shifting slightly as a small scrap of familiar white cloth became visible. Eyes widening in horror the witch rushed over the pile of rubble and saw the injured forms of the exorcists as well as Asia and Issei's father.
"Someone is going to pay for this, I swear it," hissed the witch in a cold voice as she began administering to the four wounded humans.
After a couple of minutes Xenovia began to stir and saw the Godslayer staring down at her with an angry expression, "what happened?"
Issei rolled to the side as one of the wolves leapt towards him before grabbing the wolf mid-roll and throwing it against a large tree, snapping the unfortunate plant in two like a twig. For any normal animal that would have been an instant kill but these wolves were no ordinary animals, they were Divine Beasts conjured by a Goddess herself. And so the wolf in question merely got to its feet and shook its head before rejoining the fighting, leaping towards the teen's neck from behind.
Eye of Mind was the only reason the teen survived as his sixth sense instantly gave a loud warning and he spun around just in time to place his arm in between the enormous jaw of the Divine Beast and his own throat. Issei flinched as he felt the fangs of the wolf again pierce his skin, his weakened version of God's Hand near useless at this point.
Using his distraction Artemis fired her readied arrow into the melee and Issei cried out again as an arrow nailed him in his axe-sword wielding hand, causing the teen to drop his weapon as pain rushed up from his hand. Even so the teen kept fighting as he grabbed the wolf still biting his hand and used it as a shield as the Goddess fired another arrow at him.
The wolf gave a painful yelp before it grew still, an arrow embedded in its head as smoky blue wisps escaped its body, causing Issei to drop the carcass as it dissolved into blue mist. The teen then picked up his axe-sword with his uninjured hand and turned to glare at the Goddess.
Artemis just frowned as she took in his broken and battered body, 'how is he still able to stand? No human should be able to survive injures like those, let alone continue fighting. Is he really human?' Before the Goddess could ponder this further Issei suddenly leapt towards her, ignoring the numerous wolves that leapt to her defense as he continued on course.
"Is this the best you've got Artemis, Orion would be so disappointed in you," sighed Issei in fake disappointment he dodged the beasts.
Instantly the Goddess stopped moving as her eyes widened before she began trembling in rage, "you dare to mention him…you're dead HUMAN!"
Suddenly the wolves backed off at the Goddess' unspoken command as she glared at Issei's wounded body, "you wish to belittle my relationship with him, then so be it. You shall perish by the power of it!"
The extremely wounded Issei just smiled smugly, further infuriating the Goddess as her bow began to glow a bright white light, seemingly absorbing the light from the full moon as it continued growing. "Tri-star Amore Mio," snarled Artemis as she leapt into the air with the moon glowing behind her and fired the glowing white projectile from her bow.
Issei briefly felt pain flood his body before his torso was literally blown apart as the Goddess' attack hit, killing him in an instant. Artemis merely snorted as she glared down at the teen's dead body before she sighed and shook her head, "Amaterasu won't be happy, she wanted him alive."
However, before she could so much as blink a powerful kick hit her in the stomach and sent her careening into a nearby tree. In the space it took her to look up all six of her remaining wolves had evaporated into blue mist with red spears stabbing where they had been moments before, while a purple clad woman was standing over Issei's dead body.
Ever so slowly the women turned around to face the Goddess and Artemis saw unbridled rage in the woman's eyes, even as tears began to scroll down her face. "You…you killed him…you killed Issei. I, Scathach the Immortal Witch, swear to Gods, Old and New, that I will kill you," snarled the woman as two red spears materialized in her hands.
And suddenly Artemis felt like she had made a big mistake…
"So you're Artemis huh? Well are you ready for death, Moon Goddess?" growled Scathach before the two spears in her hands turned into red beams that pierce Artemis' gut.
Scathach gave a cold smile as she saw the horrified expression appear on her prey's face as she realized she had been immobilized. The Godslayer then summoned Gae Bolg as she slowly approached the Goddess, her smile growing wider with each step.
"You know usually I would just use Gae Bolg to finish you off, a nice quick death…but I have a better idea for you," smirked the witch as she placed Gae Bolg over the naked flesh of the Goddess' face.
Artemis cried out in pain as she felt Gae Bolg's tip lightly pierce her skin, "I always wanted to know what would happen if I carved a rune into a person's flesh. Would it be more effective on that person? Last longer? Require less energy? Let's find out shall we?"
Artemis would have shivered if she wasn't immobilized from the smile now wide on the witch's face, "in fact I know exactly what Rune I'll use to kill you. Tell me how does having your body ripped apart from the inside out feel?"
However, before the Godslayer could begin her grisly work she had to remove Gae Bolg as well as summon another spear as a swarm of arrows came flying towards her. Scathach defected the oncoming attacks with ease but the shooter had merely used the attack as a distraction he rushed towards Artemis and quickly removed the spears from the Moon Goddess.
Now freed, Artemis gave her brother a grateful nod as the pair backed away from the witch whom just glared at them with burning rage. "So you're Apollo, that was brave of you boy. It would seem that you wish to end up like your predecessor," snarled the Godslayer.
"So it was you who killed Helios," frowned Apollo as he and Artemis continued backing away.
"Daddy didn't tell you?" scoffed Scathach, before summoning spears around her and launching them at the pair, whom dived to the side as they returned fired with their bows.
Scathach deflected the arrows sent at her by the two of them as the Sun God and his sister retreated into the forest, trying to escape from the Godslayer's wrath. The witch just snarled before she picked up a rock and drew a Rune of Searching on it, picturing Artemis in her head with no small amount of rage.
As soon as she had finished Scathach threw the rock onto the ground and saw it rushing off after her prey, easily tracking them as their attempts to cover their tracks proved fruitless thanks to her rune. Suddenly her rune stone shattered as an arrow pieced it and Scathach skidded to a halt as a second projectile came soaring at her head.
Showcasing her speed and reflexes, the witch spun around and caught the incoming arrow with her hand before looking at the direction it had come from and disappearing in a blur of movement. Artemis could only just track the witch's progress as she cried out in pain, looking at her shoulder she saw her own arrow embedded in it.
"Hind and seek isn't my favourite game, but I'm not too bad at it," commented the witch as Artemis looked above her and saw Scathach with an array of spears hovering around her.
The next thing she saw was Scathach appear in front of her before the witch smashed Artemis' head into the ground repeatedly, followed by the feeling of blood dripping down her face as everything turned dark. Snorting in disappointment Scathach grabbed Artemis by her long, now blood soaked hair, and dragged the unconscious Goddess out of the forest before dropping her in the middle of a clearing.
"Apollo, I know you can hear me! Save me the trouble of hunting you down and reveal yourself, if you don't then you'll be forced to watch as I slowly kill your sister in front of you!" shouted Scathach as she walked over to Artemis with Gae Bolg now glowing hungrily.
"Scathach!" roared Apollo in rage as he emerged from the forest, the plants around him withering and dying as he approached.
"Oh scary," taunted the Godslayer as she approa
ched him. "Do you know why others, Gods in particular, find me so terrifying?"
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