"Tell, don't!" I managed to let out. Seeing how intent she was at cutting the werewolf to pieces though, I doubted that she actually heard me. Just as the spears were about to hit the werewolf, it dodged to the left, causing only one of the four spears to hit while one only grazed its skin. Then Tell shortened the chains of the spears, pulling the werewolf to her. "Stop!" I shouted while releasing a huge ball of frost from my entire body. Before it could hit either of them, Tell redirected the three missed spears and slashed my huge ball of frost into four parts which exploded before it could even reach them. Through the field of ice between me and them that resulted from the explosion, I could see them still fighting, trading punches and exchanging kicks while Tell fired her ethereal blast and the werewolf clawed at Tell. "I said," I mumbled as I blinked behind the werewolf, "STOP DAMNED YOU!" The Half Lilin By The Light Of The Moon (Chapter 11) By Shinieris

Then there was a humming sound, slow at first, but growing increasingly louder, as the locket on Tell's neck started glowing, brighter and brighter, until it exploded in a blinding flash. As the glow faded, I saw that Tell no longer had a pair of broken wings. She now, in fact, has 3 pairs of wings, one pair the original black coloured wings which was now reinforced with some kind of silvery metal, the other two pairs were shimmering under the moonlight, as if it was made of polished silver.

"I thank you for your cooperation, Wings of Freedom. I assure you, your greed shall be sated. Blood will pour forth this night and all shall be dedicated to you, who roused me from my slumber," she said again.

Then she spread her new metallic wings and with one powerful flap, flew forward towards the werewolf with the speed of a bullet train. The werewolf was caught off guard and was smashed against a tree upon contact with Tell's supersonic kick. It wasn't dazed for long though, as it gave Tell's stomache a strong punch that sent her flying through the air. Tell had to spread her wings wide to regain balance, but it was too late. By the time Tell managed to regain stability, the werewolf had already leaped to the sky. Before Tell noticed, she was already peppered with half a dozen punches, each with the strength to crush rocks. It wasn't pretty and Tell looked like she was suffering without a chance of fighting back. It was clear that Tell was disadvantaged from her lack of experience.

"Stop it, both of you!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, which was impressive, because my voice echoed all around the park. Didn't make any difference though, as the werewolf grabbed on Tell's shoulders and hitchhiked on Tell's body, continuing to pepper her with rock-crushing punches.

Then I saw one of the pair of metallic wings changed shape and turned into a pair of razors that bent and attempted to cut the werewolf in half. The werewolf, sensing danger, let go of Tell's shoulders and kicked Tell away with its powerful legs, causing the twin razors to cleave air. While Tell flew a distance higher, the werewolf fell fast, aided by the Earth's gravity.

The werewolf flipped its body and instead of hitting the ground with its head, it managed to land on its feet without any perceived injury. Tell meanwhile was still spinning in the air, flapping all four metallic wings in many different directions, making it look like she was spinning in mid-air. As someone new to flying myself, I could appreciate how hard it was to control a pair of newly-formed wings, let alone three pairs of new wings. I could only imagine how hard for a newly-born lili to fly with six wings.

Eventually, Tell stopped spinning, but it was only because she was starting to lose attitude, and had learned to use her own pair of wings as stabilizer. She was screaming curses as she fell, which wasn't very nice to my ears. I had no idea those swear words were anatomically possible. Before I could move to catch her though, her metallic wings exploded and expanded in all directions. The metallic wings formed a network of semi-rigid webs that connected with each other creating a dome which broke Tell's fall, in the same manner as a spring or a ball.

The werewolf didn't give Tell any opportunity to catch her breath though, as she charged at Tell before Tell managed to place her feet on the ground.

Tell only realized the werewolf's approach once it got close enough to hit. To Tell's credit, she managed to change some of the web that broke her fall into sharp thorns that jutted from the web and impaled the werewolf's body with a dozen sharp spikes before it was able to withdraw. As a result, the werewolf suffered heavy damage from all the bleeding holes initsr body. I doubted it would be moving as fast now.

Now that Tell had the upper hand, she pulled back that metallic web and reformed it into the two pairs of wings. Before it fully reformed into wings, she reformed it into four chained spears and launched it at the werewolf.

"Tell, don't!" I managed to let out. Seeing how intent she was at cutting the werewolf to pieces though, I doubted that she actually heard me.

Just as the spears were about to hit the werewolf, it dodged to the left, causing only one of the four spears to hit while one only grazed its skin. Then Tell shortened the chains of the spears, pulling the werewolf to her.

"Stop!" I shouted while releasing a huge ball of frost from my entire body.

Before it could hit either of them, Tell redirected the three missed spears and slashed my huge ball of frost into four parts which exploded before it could even reach them. Through the field of ice between me and them that resulted from the explosion, I could see them still fighting, trading punches and exchanging kicks while Tell fired her ethereal blast and the werewolf clawed at Tell.

"I said," I mumbled as I blinked behind the werewolf, "STOP DAMNED YOU!"

I opened my Vault, pulled out one of Raphael's Collar, that I took from Asmodeus and stabbed the wolf's back, piercing its body. Within the blink of an eye, I pushed deeper, forcing the tip to come out of the werewolf's front and stabbing into Tell's stomache, piercing her body to her back. I could see the Collar glowed white as it sucked in mana and ether.

I pulled myself back as the werewolf swung its arms at me. The werewolf's sudden movement made Tell who was impaled on the other end of the Collar dangle around following the werewolf's movement, like a broken doll. It was a few seconds later that Tell was thrown free from the Collar, but the damage was already done.

Slowly, but inevitably, Tell's body started to turn to ash. With the ethereal bonds that maintained her lilin form gone, Tell's premature body was slowly breaking apart. It started with her wings as it crumbled into ash and was carried away with every passing breeze. Then her tail simply fell onto the ground, leaving a stump above Tell's butt. Then the tail also turned to ash and was carried away by the breeze. Tell touched her horns and it also crumbled and blown away. Her entire body looked like it was smoking, but I knew that it was just her lilin form dispersing, due to the nonexistence of ethereal bonds. Tell then fell naked on the ground, her nightie now in tatters, no longer capable of giving her any sense of modesty, The only thing she still had on her that was still in one piece was her panties.

A loud howling sound from the werewolf drew my attention away from Tell. The werewolf was looking at the sky, as if howling mournfully at the bright full moon. Meanwhile, the light of Raphael's collar shone upward, as it created a pillar of light that reached all the way to the topmost boundary of the barrier. It didn't take long for the barrier to stop having any effect on the Collar's light, as the light eventually shone beyond the barrier's boundary, higher and higher, as if reaching the heavens itself.

Then suddenly it stopped howling. It looked at me with its bloodshot eyes, it mad a feral grin and charged at me with all four limbs.

I thought, "Alright, let's get this party started. Then my body started smoking and this strange circle started glowing under my feet.

I barely avoided the werewolf's charge. Even so, the moment my feet touched ground again, the strange circle reappeared, glowing brighter than before. I didn't know if it was the werewolf's doing or a trap prepared by someone else, but I wasn't taking any chances. I flapped my wings and flew upward fast, before maintaining a distance of 100 feet above the ground.

The werewolf looked at me, totally ignoring Tell, who was lying fainted on the ground. It then grabbed the Collar, as if trying to pull it free from its body. I just had to laugh at the werewolf's futile attempts. That Collar will not ever be dislodged without my approval.

A sharp pain on my left cheek made me stop laughing. I touched my left cheek with my slim demonic fingers and saw black blood smeared on my fingers. I looked down at the werewolf and was barely in time to swat at an incoming object. I winced as the object hit my hand wit such a force as to break bone. I looked back at the werewolf and saw that it was juggling a number of broken-off concrete the size of a fist. I covered my right hand with a healing aura as it threw a whole volley of 8 concrete rocks at me in a matter of seconds.

I probably should've evaded, that would most likely be the most energy-saving solution. The only problem was I was pissed. So I covered my body in a cocoon of liqud ice and watched as the concrete rocks hit the ice, slowed greatly by the liquid and fell as gravity started working against the force of the throw.

As I felt my anger drained away, I laughed aloud again, wondering why this wild mutt kept doing futile things. Then something hit me again, but this time, instead of a sharp pain, it felt like I was being hit by a truck. This time instead of a small concrete debris, I found that I was being hit by a whole statue of a horse. As I fell from the sky, I heard the werewolf make short, stunted howls repeatedly. I knew exactly what that was. The damned werewolf was laughing at me.

Pissed, I flipped my body, stretched my arms forward and concentrated my power on my two hands. Then I launched that power with a full blast of hailstorm at the laughing werewolf. The werewolf, seeing hundreds of ice shards coming at it, dropped into a ball and covered its head with its arms.

I grinned at seeing the werewolf put on the defensive. As I fell, I kept on firing bolts after bolts of ice shards as the werewolf hugged its head tighter and tighter. Landing on the ground I launched an ice spike at the werewolf with one hand. Then I threw another and another. All the while laughing like a madwoman.

It was then that something glowed a foot in front of me. It took a moment for me to recognize the glowing circle and what it was. It was a spell circle. ELPH, LON, REN... no, this wasn't just a simple spell circle. It was a sealing circle. I turned around to escape when I noticed that there was already one of the same circle on each of the four corners. I leaped to the air, seeing that it was the only direction without one of those sealing circles. To my shock, the sealing circles rematerialized around me.

I tried flying up but another circle materialized over my head too. I tried to drop down but even the way down was blocked by a sealing circle. When the sealing circles started closing in on me, I panicked and let out a big blast of frost nova to blow it away. The blast was huge alright. My frost nova ended up freezing up to 50 feet of ground around me. The sealing circles however remained unaffected.

I mentally hit myself for panicking so much I forgot the nature of spell circles. While spell circles are constructed from ether, it is neither ethereal not corporeal. It is a perception, a thought formed not in the mind, but in the physical world where it may be perceived by people other than the caster, but only useful to the caster or those the caster chose to share the knowledge with.

Knowing that I was dealing with the mind of a caster here, I know of only four countermeasures. Those were Oblivion, Corruption Field, Exorcism and Banish. Oblivion was cast on the caster's brain to make them forget, which was useless because I had no idea who or where the caster was. Corruption Field could be used in two ways, one to corrupt the sealing circle and the other to corrupt the mind of the caster. So I spread my Corruption Field and tried to corrupt the sealing circle with my Corruption Field.

As the Corruption Field surrounded and started infesting the sealing circle, I recognized the error in my judgement. Instead of being eaten away by my corruption, it glowed brighter and started to push my corruption out and away. Then as it glowed brighter and brighter, until it felt like I was being smothered by the sun, I felt my body flattened from all six sides at the same time. I now knew that the spell had run its course, but what had been sealed?

Time's up, dear. said a familiar voice in my mind as I dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

Mother? Why? What are you doing? I asked while rubbing my legs, painfully aware of the loss of my wings.

It's midnight, dear. Time for Cinderella to go home.

Unfair, Mother! How do you expect me to defeat a werewolf in a human body? I objected, now realizing that I had lost both my horns and my tail, as well as realizing that I had lost my bodacious succubus body. I still has a female body though, powerless human female body.

That's your problem, little one. If you had used all your power, you would've won in seconds, Instead you waste time playing games. Let this be a lesson! With that final word, I could tell that she had already left my mind.

Mother! I called, hoping to make her change her mind. There was no response.

I turned around to face the laughter of that werewolf. Although I really did want to shut her up, I knew that as a human, I would just be slaughtered. Then the werewolf lunged at me.

Despite knowing that I wouldn't last a second as a human, I made a fighting stance awaiting the werewolf's claws. I was when the werewolf was about to grab for my head that its chest was pierced by what seems like four chained silver daggers. I couldn't see it clearly because some of its blood got in my eyes.

"Don't you dare lay a finger on my sister, bitch!" Tell or maybe Illy-Lyri said. She was still on the ground, lying on her front while her right arm laid on the ground, looking weak. From her back, four of the tendrils jut forward, the long chain connecting to the silver daggers. The point of the daggers changed shape, each turning into the shape of four hooks that dug into the werewolf's body.

Tell got up unsteadily, then shouted, "Come here, bitch!" as she shortened the chain, pulling the werewolf off its feet and flying backward straight towards her. Before the werewolf reached her, she stopped shortening the chains and instead turned the chains into a semi-rigid material, smashing the werewolf on the ground to her left and right. Then the other two tendrils turned into swords and slashed at the werewolf's body.

As the werewolf suffered from being smashed on the ground, a thought entered my head. If Tell can use her artifact in human form, there is no reason why I can't as well.

Windsor, Windsor,
My contract Windsor,
Hear my voice,
I summon you.

Nothing. I looked at the pendant. Nothing changed.

I looked at my right hand, at the ring with the Geyer family's seal. The ring which contained the soul of Florian. I willed the ring to turn into a sword, the pallasch which personifies Flo. Nothing happened. Not a flash, not a tingle and none of that cool paternal voice that made me feel like a child during our short time together. Flo was still asleep.

The sound of Tell's scream pierced through my feeling of guilt for being the cause of Flo's long sleep. I looked at the source of the sound and saw Tell was on a pulling contest with the werewolf, with all six of her silvery tendrils as the rope. The tendrils were still hooked into the werewolf's back, but the werewolf had turned around and grabbed the tendrils with its massive arms. As it became clear that Tell could not beat the werewolf's strength, I decided she needed my help.

But how? I looked around, looking for things I could use as a weapon.

My eyes fell on the ice spears that I had earlier launched but had not yet melted. I can do this. I told myself and proceeded to grab one of the ice spears. It was cold, but perhaps because this ice spear was mine, it didn't feel as cold as it should be. So I wielded it like a club with both hands and sprinted forward at the werewolf.

I hit the werewolf on the back and face with the hard ice over and over that it turned its head at me and howled loudly, almost piercing my eardrums. When it tried to grab the ice spear, I quickly pushed the tip forward, causing the ice spear to pierce its palm and stuck itself in there. Meanwhile, I noticed Tell drop to her knees and the six silvery tendrils disappeared from her back. She fell face-first to the ground as she exhausted her human energy and went unconscious. I looked at Tell with my 'death' eyes and was relieved that her date of death remained unchanged, which meant that she was not dead.

The howl of the werewolf warned me when it tried to sweep my head. I barely rolled away in time, aware of its frustrated face through the light of the Collar that reached the sky. It stalked quickly at my position, smashing the ground where I was with its good fist, or kicking at me with its strong legs. All which I barely evaded within a hair's breath. Then it suddenly howled again and I ran, I used that opportunity to reach another ice spear when a loud boom exploded behind me, throwing me away from the werewolf. I turned around and got myself blinded by the bright light that accompanied the werewolf's pitiful cries.

*Sorry for the late update. I only just managed to find the suitable words to write parts of the chapter. Only one chapter left. The final chapter should be quicker though, as it has mostly been written and typed, as the whole story was written to suit that ending. Thank you for those fans who never gave up asking me to continue the story, I love you guys. Thanks too to those readers who commented or mailed, I reread those and told myself, "I must do this." And here it is.

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