The Bridge Is Open

[.:Alex:.]

Amon stood amongst a vast army of the Abyss. They were restored to their original forms, none with rot on their bones. Each fresh being was stronger than the Original Abyss grunts, each one a bit more disobedient. Amon had noticed that nearly a hundred had abandoned the army since the fall of the Keeper.

Here stood the Leader of the Abyss. His voice thundered through the crowd, amplified magically by unknown means.

"Children of the Abyss! Hear me!" He raised both of his hands from his sides, palms up, fingers slightly curled, "We stand today in essence to the Keeper's demise. But, he was weak, and so his shackles are now broken, and the true leader of the Abyss rises once again!

"It's been some time, but the Ajerians don't have their key leader, they do not have Arix, they don't have their Rockstar. And so we will counter their invasion of the City and wipe away their outposts, and wipe away the vermin who still stray the city. Today-"

[Matron-Adena]

"Enough!"

The Abyss rows parted, her figure was unlike any other in the crowd and tainted with both demonic and holy energy. She was Matron Adena, "Your petty lies only grow annoying Amon, here in this realm you speak of wiping out the Abyss, whereas in my realm you knelt to Arix's power and begged for mercy."

She had a small pause, where the Abyss snarled and tried to lash out at breaking her personal bubble. "No," she simply said and slid a finger across the Pyramid object dangling from her sleeve blowing up the area around her with pressure, "Amon! You will listen!"

[.:Alex:.]

"NO! NO WOMAN! YOU WILL LISTEN!" He pointed at her, in doing so the same area she had ruined with the artifact became dense with his power, "You claim to know me! You claim that I bowed to my enemy! HAH! You know nothing!"

Amon crossed the field toward her, he pushed aside the Abyss grunts violently until he stood exactly fifteen feet from her, "Let me explain something to you, I am Amon Degile Satanis, the 12th Hierarchy, the leader of the largest Army within the underrealms. What do you know of power?! What do you know of ME!?"

[Matron-Adena]

She smiled, the pressure around her was nothing she hadn't felt before, and was a lot weaker than the ones she had fallen to, "Arix, Abaddon, Lucifer, the Lord Yahweh. They stood much stronger than you. They shredded their foes with their power, they made you look like a child, and so you are."

Adena's eyes closed and she gripped the sword hilt at her side, "Amon!" His power evaporated from around her and the ground splintered and shattered toward him, "YOU WILL LISTEN!" The Abyss once again tried to surround her but her sheer essence made them second guess it and keep their distance. Adena's aura burned off her as if she was a summer fire, uncontainable.

"And you'll listen to me good. This one, the one that ate away at your energy. Inanis. He serves the Anima. He's now beyond the Anima, as the seventh realm has been destroyed by Abaddon, Anima has become unstable. This being said, Inanis is no longer under his grasp, and he must be stopped before he consumes all. You, the Ajerians, your petty armies. I now task to you, the job of hunting and killing the Inanis. Because if you don't, then you will fall."

[.:Alex:.]

Amon was held in place by her Aura, it was indeed powerful, but he too hadn't put out his strongest. He listened and smiled to himself when she 'tasked' him with a job, "Get this straight woman, I am the Lord of the Abyss Dynasty, I am the leader of the largest army on this planet, you do not task me. Instead, I will not only kill this Inanis myself, but I will kill you as well, and Cyris, and any who stand in my path. Do you understand that?"

As he said all of this he pressed back on her energy the battle of wills had commenced.

[Matron-Adena]

"No I don't. The Keeper was a better leader, he would of listened and planned. You are rash, you refuse strong allies because you're afraid someone will take your place, being in shackles has made you paranoid. Amon, you don't understand, I know things about you that you don't know. I have faced you, and I was the one who killed you in my realm. Do not test me you petty coward," she drew the sword from her side and walked into his aura face first with no struggle, the blade was slowly raised to his throat.

"Arix made short work of your army when you were dead, the Ajerians are stronger than your demons, and that is why you are many while they are few. But there is something about the Ajerians you don't know. So now please, hear me." She paused, he nodded and didn't interrupt her (approved by Arix), "Arix is not dead, literally he has moved on, several times. I've scouted the Ajerians, they don't even know of their leaders past lives, but the Ajerian warlord could still rise again, with the experience of many lives. Inanis is a big threat, but you know as well as I do, Arix is a much nastier threat to you personally.

"I tell you this, because you need a good ally outside of your army. You need a deceiver, an informant. I am Matron Adena," she lowers her blade and raises her hand to him.

[.:Alex:.]

From her hand to her eyes his gaze followed, he said nothing and looked over his shoulder to the generals of his army, of which had just arrived and ready to battle if he gave the order. But he didn't, he took her hand, "Tu es la femme de mes rêves."

Amon raised her hand and kissed the back of it, "Very well, I accept your offer." He let go of her hand and turned away and walked toward his generals, "Berith, gather your team, you're heading to Jerico, the rise of the Damned is taking a toll on our numbers at their gates. Lilith, escort the Matron to her quarters."