I jumped out of the way of a huge dark purple hammer that left large cracks in the arena floor and I charged forward, grabbing Diptera by the throat and slamming her into the ground, the impact causing her to stop her spell and the hammer disappeared.

Draken charged me from the side and crashed into my side, knocking me off of the bug bitch before he jumped with a blade in his mouth. I rolled out of the way of the blade and smacked him away with a backhand from my gauntlet, which sent him flying into the stone walls.

Diptera got to her hooves and began buzzing her wings, taking to the sky. Perfect, if there's one thing that I couldn't deal with well, it was flying enemies, those were usually Mothy or Pyro's fortes.

I pulled out some of my knives with my magic and began throwing them towards her, only for her to dodge them or block them with a magic barrier. I pulled my knifes back and tried grabbing her in my magic, only for her to break out of the hold with her own magic before forming a large amount of clear purple buzz saw blades. My eyes widened and I threw out all of my knives and had them spin around me violently for protection.

The knives managed to block most of the buzz saws, but a few slipped through and stabbed into various parts of my body. Before they could start spinning and cause more damage I pulled them out and threw them towards Draken who had tried to sneak up on me to stab me in the back. His armour blocked most but two managed to stab into one of his back legs. Diptera saw this and dispelled her blades.

I used this brief moment to pull out The Lancelot and blasted her out of the sky with an explosive shot. She had managed to block most of the damage, but the flames of the blast burnt her wing slightly, so she was grounded for the most part.

I cringed in pain as I held one of my wounds from the saws, focusing the magic in my gauntlet towards closing the wounds, blood dripping down my arms.

I quickly changed the magazine in my gun and shot a magic dampening bullet into Diptera's leg, that would at least keep her from walking and casting more spells.

Draken grunted in pain as he charge me with his injured leg and slammed himself into my chest, knocking me backwards slightly. He then spun around and kicked my knee with his good leg and then when I collapsed to one knee he spun around and punched me in the face with his hoof. I fell to my side and could feel the blood drip down the side of my head as he closed in on me. As he got close enough to strike again I grabbed his mane and slammed his face into the ground, a few of his teeth cracking and breaking, flying out of his mouth along with a large amount of his blood.

I lifted myself up and unsheathed my sword, as I was about to bring it down on him I heard a soft clang. I looked over and found that Diptera had pulled the magic dampening bullet out with her mouth and now stood on her three good hooves while her wounded one healed.

"Ah fuck..." I groaned before being blasted away by a huge beam of energy, my back slamming into the hard stone wall, causing me to cough up some blood and collapse to my hands and knees.

Draken and Diptera walked up to me and looked down at me with twisted grins. As Draken was about to drive his blade into me I grabbed it, spun it around shoved it into his chest. His eyes went wide as he stumbled back, a trail of red drops of blood following him before he collapsed.

Diptera growled and pounced, only for me to grab her by the throat and push her face up against the wall, ready to finish the fight. Before I could, a large swarm of changelings and groups of bandits charged out of their hiding spots towards me. "Shit!" There was no way I could take on so many alone, although, lucky for me, I didn't need to.

The groups closest to me were blasted away as my friends burst trough the stone doors and moved in between the small army and me.

"Jesus, what took you Idiots so long?" I asked with a playful smirk.

Moony chuckled and tossed the head of one of the changeling elite guards over her shoulder. "This big boys lasted a lot longer than we expected. Anyway..." She growled with a predatory smirk. "...let's finish."

"Trying too hard with the sex metaphors Moony, trying way too hard."

"Oh shut up and kill that buggy slut already!"

"Hey, don't call my sister a slut before I do! I'm family, I get first dibs!" Mothy shouted in annoyance.

"Can we just kill things please?!" Candy exclaimed as she charged forward and impaled a changeling with her horn.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely sending her fiancé a sympathy card. Poor bastard doesn't know what he's getting into.

"Now..." I said while turning back to Diptera. "...as for you." I began pressing her into the wall with greater force, her kicking and thrashing to try and break free. She tried to use her magic but I used one of my knives to cut off her horn, leaving her defenceless. "Any last cryptic words for me from your whore of a mother?"

"Just you...wait...you'll regret all of this...soon...she'll kill you and...everyone you love!" The bug bitch spat out with hatred in her voice.

"Eh, I'd like to see her try. When you get to hell, tell Insectia he's a sissy, bye!" With one final push her head exploded into a delightful gory pile of grey matter and changeling blood.

Wiping the blood and gore off of my hands, I walked past th ongoing slaughter that my friends were so invested in committing and hurried over to Molly. "Sorry you had to see all that Molls, here let's get you out of those ropes." I said while cutting her free with a knife, letting her remove her gag herself while I cut the last binds around her legs. "Alright, let's get you out of he-"

"Wait." She interrupted, grabbing my sleeve.

"Huh?"

For a few moments, the two of us locked eyes, something that made me both extremely comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time. "Gray...I...I think we need to have a...talk."

I sighed and picked her up bridal style, causing her to gasp in surprise. "Now's probably not the time, let's get you out of this hellhole and hopefully with a couple of years of therapy leave this memory behind us."

I didn't let her talk as I ran out of the room and into the cave system we fought through to get here, the clear and bloody path we left behind guiding me to the exit. The running hurt with some of my wounds still open, and the fact that I probably had a few broken bones, but the sooner we got out of there the better.

When we finally reached the exit I set Molly down on a rock to sit on while I collapsed onto my back, breathing heavily. "Gray? What's wrong?" Molly asked with concern.

"Damage...catching up to me...don't worry, happens all the time...*cough* ok that's blood."

Molly just shook her head and placed a hand on my forehead. "You're too reckless."

"Probably, but running straight into situations where I'm probably gonna die is kinda my job so...kinda have to be." I laughed before coughing again. "Ok that's more blood."

Molly just remained silent with a conflicted look on that beautiful face of hers.

"Hey, what's with the sad look?" I asked with a smile.

"Gray...did you mean all those things you said at that bar in Manehatten?"

My smile faded and I sighed. "Yeah...I did." Oh boy, here we go, prepare for the sappy stuff.

"...how long have you felt that way?"

"Probably from the moment I saw ya honestly, never seen such a beautiful girl like ya before, Ireland ain't exactly priding itself on it women." I admitted with a laugh.

"I see..." She whispered, looking really unsure of what to say.

I'm not great with this kinda thing, especially after a fight like that which took most of my energy outta me, but this had to happen sooner or later. "Honestly you scared me when you froze up like ya did, although it really made Mothball laugh like an idiot, don't worry though, I threw his bug ass in the trash after he did, literally."

This got her to chuckle a little, a small smile appearing on her face. "Yeah, sorry about that, it was just such a shock and my brain just kinda..."

"Fucked off?" I suggested.

"Ha, yeah I guess." She laughed a little more before cupping my cheek in her hand. "It was just surprising to hear that...you felt the same way."

My eyes widened a bit in surprise as she leaned down towards me.

"Gray, can we stop being a pair of idiots and actually be honest with each other about all this dumb bullshit?" She asked with a confused smile.

"We ain't ever gonna stop being a pair of morons, me especially, but with all that's happened I think we should at least talk about this mo-" I was cut off as she placed her lips on mine.

Uh...score for me I guess?

Things are gonna get complicated...

You know what? Fuck it, why not?

I returned the kiss and brought her closer to me, wanting to reach for that sweet ass but figured that it would ruin the moment.

There would be plenty of grabbing that ass later. Right now it was cliche romantic shit.

Author's Notes:

And it gets an update for the first time in forever. Honestly I'm just writing this when I feel like it.

Won't be long before the end though, got a few more chapters ahead, so hope ya can wait and bear with me a little while longer.