Angel Monarch

Chapter 82: Pyrrhic Victory

The war was over.

The human lives lost, too many.

They killed every single one of the enemy except one. The Mad Scientist Harold, he simply disappeared. No one even saw him during the fight.

Bea was walking around the battlefield. She should be celebrating, Sera survived although barely and judging by her scars, she won't be the same ever again.

There was that girl with her also, she calls herself Victoria. Sera named her when they met and adopted her as well. Bea smiled at the thought of it, she was kidnapped and came back as a mother.

Remembering Sera's and Victoria's suffering, Bea quickly realized how they ended up bonding.

'At least she wasn't alone, there was someone to rely on, even though that person was a child.'

Bea looked around the corpses, there were thousands of them. Young and old, beautiful and ugly, good and evil, death didn't care he came for everyone.

After Sera nearly lost her arm, Bea quickly healed the wound, but used all her Essence doing so. Which meant she couldn't continue fighting and instead stayed by Victoria and Sera, keeping them safe.

After the battle finally ended, Bea brought them to a makeshift hospital. It was already full, but seeing Sera and her state they quickly made room for her.

Bea immediately asked for Witchdoctor to heal her, but the other healers only shook their heads. She didn't survive the battle.

After that Bea was reminded, she didn't even know who survived. In the hospital she found Lucy, and she told Bea that Hellfire was alive as well.

Bea went outside looking for the others. She found Will and Clockwork kneeling in front of a broken corpse, Killshot. Dead from an explosion. Bea touched their shoulders, but only Will looked up at her. There was one singular tear running down his cheek. She nodded at him and squeezed his shoulder.

He just turned back and didn't say a word.

Soon Bea found Faith and Hellfire. They were counting how many survived.

'237... All of them Evolved... The loss of life... 1234...'

She didn't really care about the enemy, they deserved it.

After telling them the good news, that Sera survived, Faith ran away immediately. It would have been very funny, if she wouldn't have been standing in a sea of corpses.

Afterward she began walking through The Hold. Bea walked in a specific direction and she finally arrived. In front of her was the headquarters where they kept Sera.

Others already looked through it to make sure no enemy was hiding in there. They found a couple and killed them. They also found a few female corpses dressed as maids, judging by there wounds they killed themselves.

Bea walked through the many doors and disabled defensive measurements. The building was similar to The Bunker, only without any life in it. Only death and suffering.

She went into multiple rooms, there were a lot of torture chambers and labs. There was nothing useful here, Harold destroyed everything before escaping.

It took her half an hour to find the room. There was wood paneling all over the walls, a large table knocked over, leftover food all around it and on the ground a collar.

Bea lifted it and instantly knew the collars nature. It meant to send electricity into the neck. Her hand began to tremble and she squeezed so hard the collar broke into pieces.

She took a couple of deep breaths, then walked into one of the bedrooms. It only had a large bed and two small night table on either side of it. There was also a short chain running into the wall.

'This was his bed... he raped her here...'

Bea took out her sword and cut the whole bed into small chunks. Then she moved on.

The other bedroom was much better, it had a bunch of toys, books and even drawings. Bea looked through them and realized who they were made by.

'This is where they spent most of their time...'

On Bea's face tears began to fall down. The drawings weren't good but she understood them. There was a happy family holding hands, a mother, a father and their daughter.

'Sera's family.' Was written on the back.

On another picture there were a bunch of people, laughing.

'Our group.'

On another was a woman with brown hair and green eyes.

'Bea.'

Then there was a bit more crude drawing, probably done by an eight year old. On it was a woman with golden hair and eyes, and a girl with white hair and eyes.

'Mommy and me.'

There was a lot of similar drawings, but one stood out to Bea. And when she read the writing, she began to sob. There were three people on it, Sera, the girl Victoria and Bea, all of them were holding hands.

'My family.'

Bea put that drawing away and walked out of the building. She hurried back to the hospital to see if Sera woke up or not.

Around Sera's bed were multiple people, but none dared to go too close. Victoria attacked anyone who dared to approach.

In the room was Will, Lucy, Clockwork, Faith and even Hellfire. They all waited for Sera to wake up.

Sadly Bea couldn't heal her fully just yet. And there is so many things to heal not just on Sera, but on Victoria as well. The girl had missing fingers, a shattered arm, most of her teeth were gone, one ear was gone as well and some ribs too.

Bea slowly approached the bed, Victoria watched her like a predator, but let Bea get close. When she wanted to touch Sera's hand though, she began to growl.

'It's fine, I will just sit next to her silently.'

After an hour Sera finally moved and her eyelids slowly opened. Suddenly her eyes became terrified and she began to look for something.

"Mommy!" Screamed Victoria and jumped on Sera.

This seemed to calm her and they stayed like that for a long time, hugging and crying. The scene brought tears to everyone's eyes. Even Will shed a few tears of relief.

After they finally calmed down Sera turned her head to Bea. And her body shook from sobs as she asked.

"Is this another nightmare?"

Bea reached out and held Sera's hand. Her voice was very shaky as she said.

"You're home..."