AN: This it...big stuff happens this chapter. ENJOY!

ARC Six: The Watergate City War

Chapter Forty Nine: Old Tears of Love

There was a heaviness in the air as Wilhelm faced his wife...a person who had been dead for almost two decades. He silently unsheathed his sword as he stared at her soulless eyes for a few seconds, she unsheathed a large sword from her back and furrowed her brows a bit.

"I don't know what has caused this occurrence…"

"..."

"But I know that I must save you Thearesia, even if I couldn't back then. I will save you now!"

Wilhelm retrieved his sword and charged at Thearesia, their swords clashed as the impact caused a small shockwave.

Deathstroke spun his tomahawk around as he stared up at the eight armed Kurgan, his slick brown yellow hair swayed from the shockwave from the other fight as his green eyes leered down at Deathstroke. The assassin simply analyzed him as Kurgan retrieved his two great swords and two knives.

"...I guess we can have our fun now right?"

Deathstroke charged forward and used his tomahawk to block a charging sword strike. He jumped and aimed his sword downward, as he attempted to impale the warrior's head .

But the stab was blocked by a sword and knife. Deathstroke simply humphed at the action as he kicked himself free from the situation. Deathstroke then tossed the tomahawk at his opponent who simply swatted it away with his sword.

Only to realize it was a ruse and see him pull out his Semi-automatic rifle and fire away at him. Kurgan did his best to quickly slice away the bullets in a mad flurry of strikes with his weapons. His black cape being the only thing to be riddled with bullets. Deathstroke used the chance to leap over and attempt to stab him in the back, but Kurgan saw this and blocked it with a slice. The impact sent Deathstroke flying away.

Kurgan charged at him, but realized his flips in the air were being used to kick wind blades at him, forcing him to dodge them. Deathstroke then kicked of the ground and raced back to Kurgan who had dodged the last wind blade only to face Deathstroke head-to-head.

The two of them began attacking each other in a flurry of sword strikes. The two did not falter as the strikes get closer and closer to their intended target. Deathstroke then allowed a knife to stab him in the shoulder so that he can get the knife stuck and distract Kurgan for a surprise attack. He does a backflip which sends a wind blade shooting out, slicing off one of Kurgan's arms and cutting deep into his cheek, causing blood to shoot out.

Deathstroke then saw an opportunity to do a spinning sword slash at the man's abdomen, only for it to be blocked by his two swords.

"You are an interesting one!"

"...!"

"But I have to end this."

Deathstroke and Kurgan leapt back away from each other.

Kurgan then raced forward, only for Deathstroke to stab his sword into the ground and hold out his palms. He breathed calmly as he focused on what he was going to do next.

Several discs of wind surrounded the assassin, as his single eye glimmered blood red with a deadly intent.

"Wind Spell: Chakram Destruction."

With a thrust of his palms the discs flew out in a mad dance of destruction. Kurgan did his best to avoid them, but at least two of them sliced his sides badly. Deathstroke then used extra wind magic to push himself forward and with a spinning slice, completely cut off a hand of his that was clutching a knife. Then in an amazing form of combat efficiency, Deathstroke jumped back from a vicious strike from Kurgan, and actually kicked the severed hand with knife in tow back at Kurgan which stabbed him in the abdomen.

Kurgan used the chance to slice upward with his two great swords...hitting Deathstroke and sending him flying to the control tower.

The wall broke apart from the collision. Deathstroke walked out of the rubble as his eye literally shined red from his murderous intent on Kurgan.

Deathstroke then sheathed his sword and pulled out his electric staff, even as copious amounts of blood leaked out of him. Kurgan readies his swords after he yanks out the knife from his abdomen.

The two charge at each other...when one of the large walls protecting the city is hit by something and falls apart. This distracts the two, as they look to the direction of the wall which was west from them. They watched as the wall crumbled away and saw that the attack that destroyed the wall and everything in it's path, came from one of the control towers.

At the same time they saw in the far distance a large explosion that seemed to send orange gas out into the sky.

"Looks like everyone else is finishing up their fights."

"..."

"Why don't we continue ours a bit longer?"

Deathstroke then blocked Kurgan's charging attack, the momentum actually pushing him forward.

"I'll take that, as a yes."

Wilhelm had blocked another barrage of strikes from Thearesia, he continued fighting her viciously even after the wall had collapsed west of them. Wilhelm did a spinning strike against her, but she not only dodged, but swung her body and tried to stab him in the throat. He blocked it and used a counter to aim downward and actually stab her through her shoulder. She seemed to wince in pain, making Wilhelm slightly flinch in concern, but she soon straightened her face and sliced downward at him. He dodged most of the damage, but he did get cut in the chest.

The two then tried to outmaneuver the other as their strikes tried to slice the other to pieces. Wilhelm was just staring at his undead wife as she tried to kill him.

He tried to push his own sentiments back, his own feelings, everything behind him as the battle continued.

Thearesia eventually was able to push herself past a strike and actually cut at his arm. But he retaliated and cut at her abdomen, not enough to completely disembowel her, but enough to make blood squirt out. She then swung her sword down at her former husband, just to decapitate him. He was able to block it, though the impact caused a crater to from under him.

He used his strength to push her off. She landed carefully but was unable to block a rapid strike that sliced apart her left arm.

Now she was forced to fight with one arm. But she showed little to no emotion to him...simply staring at him. It hurt Wilhelm to see her like this, it also made him feel vengeful that the Witch's Cult was somehow responsible for this. He promised that he would get revenge on them for what they did to his wife and his master.

Wilhelm did a quick thrusting stab that Thearesia was able to block with her sword...but Wilhelm roared as he focused all his strength into the strike which shattered her sword in two. The distraction gave him a chance to slice her several times, cutting up her thighs, shoulders and even legs.

She fell to her knees from the damage and Wilhelm raised his sword high...Thearesia simply looking up at him.

"Remeber that I love you…"

"..."

"Goodbye, Thearesia."

As he began to swing his sword down, he caught sight of his son Heinkel in the corner of his eye.

"Mother….?"

The hesitation, gave Thearesia a chance to slice apart Wilhelm's calfs with her broken sword.

"AGHHHH!"

Wilhelm fell to the ground dropping his sword. Thearesia grabbed his sword and sliced him across the back. Seeing him unable to fight any longer, she simply began to walk towards Heinkel, who backed away in fear.

"No...Mother! Stop!...Don't hurt me!"

Wilhelm began to crawl, helpless to stop Thearesia as she kept getting closer to his son.

"Thearesia! Stop! I'm still alive!"

"..."

"I'M STILL ALIVE! COME AFTER ME!"

As she was about to reach him, something crash landed ahead of them.

"It seems I have arrived in the knick of time."

"...?"

Reinhard emerged from the rubble with his sword unsheathed as he got into a battle stance.

Wilhelm could only widen his eyes...he believed he was about to see his wife killed by his grandson….

Deathstroke had managed to cut off another one of Kurgan's arm and even shot a ballistic blade at his foot, slowing him down considerably. But he was still sliced in the side by a great sword. The two glared at each other as Deathstroke dropkicked him away, giving him time to spin around the ground and fire his pistol at him.

He then retrieved his electric staff and parried away a slice to his head. He then used the opening to beat him over the head with several spinning hits with his staff. Then jabbed him with the staff to the neck and shocked him. Kurgan roared as he quickly sliced away at the air, eventually slicing away at Deathstroke's chest.

Deathstroke flipped in the air as he fired his last pistol rounds at him. Kurgan blocked them...but Deathstroke landed safely away from him.

He then placed his staff back in it's holster and Deathstroke retrieved his sword and did a mid-stance, with one hand hovering around the blade.

"I'm going to end this Kurgan. Sorry, but I can't spend anymore time on this crap."

Then he had some wind wrap around his sword so rapid that if one would look closely it would look life small blades were dancing around the sides of the sword. The sounds coming from it sounded odd to the those in this world, but one from their world would say it sounded like a drill.

The swords shined a whitish hue as Deathstroke focused on Kurgan, who took up his battle stance.

"I was saving this for Batman someday...but I should probably test it out on you first…"

With that Deathstroke took a low sword stance, similar to a samurai. Then he inched his foot slightly…

"Sword Art: God Killing Severance."

Deathstroke charged at Kurgan who took up a defensive stance, in order to block the attack. Deathstroke then suddenly flashed past Kurgan as the aura dissipated from his sword.

"Oops...Looks like it works...but I put too much mana into it, I guess."

The control tower next to them slowly slid as it was cut in two...and so did several other buildings next to them.

Kurgan's eyes widened as his body began to spilt in two slowly...and his swords broke in two.

Kurgan's body completely split in half horizontally as his body began to fall to the ground.

"Kurgan do us all a favor…"

"...?"

"Stay dead you asshole."

"...Heh."

Kurgan's face quietly smiled...as his body landed on the ground, it crumbled away and turned into dust...the rest of his body followed suit.

The ashes flew away as the building crashed into the ground.

"Well, that takes care of that."

Deathstroke looked on the ground and saw he was dropping blood all over the place.

"It'll take a while to heal all this I guess."

He looked over and saw that he lost track of Wilhelm.

"Better check on the old man."

Reinhard was now clashing swords with Thearesia, but it was obvious that she was at her limit. Wilhelm kept crawling towards the fight, but had issues as he was tired from the battle.

"Reinhard! It is dishonorable to interrupt a fight between two swordsman, let me finish this fight!"

"No, not only are you unable to stand properly! But the way of the sword does not abide to living corpses."

"...Reinhard...Please! Listen to me-"

"-I cannot. For I cannot abide any orders for the fake being that stands before us."

Reinhard did a barrage of slices that quickly sliced apart Thearesia's arms and legs, making her unable to fight any longer.

"Reinhard! Please!"

"...I am simply carrying out my duties grandfather...I must fulfill them to the end."

Reinhard raised his sword high as he stared down at his grandmother.

As Wilhelm reached a point where he could see Thearesia's view….she looked over at him.

"...-helm…"

"Ah!"

"Wilhelm?"

Reinhard began to quickly thrust down his sword over his family's objections.

"Reinhard please!"

"Son stop!"

Wilhelm's eyes began to shrink as he didn't want his wife's life to end this way. He wanted to end it for her, to be there and comfort her in her final moments. He felt he had the right...and now it was being taken away from him.

Suddenly, Reinhard's sword was stopped by a great sword. The clash sent a powerful shockwave and shattered the great sword in two, but was then met with a tomahawk that sent the sword down, next to Thearesia.

"You should really listen to your elders, Sword Saint."

"You!...What are you doing…?"

Reinhard's usually calm eyes began to show anger for the man that saved his enemy.

"...I'm asking you a question...What are you doing, DEATHSTROKE?!"

In front of him, protecting Thearesia, was a newly arrived Deathstroke.

Deathstroke did not yield in front of the Sword Saint, as he kept the sword in place with his Tomahawk.

"Why are you doing this?!"

"I just didn't care for your interruption of your old man's fight. Seriously, show some self respect and not pull off that crap."

"This is a family matter! It has nothing to do with you!"

"You're right! It doesn't! But I know what it's like to have family matters slip by your hands. It's a horrible feeling, even I can attest to that."

Slyly, Deathstroke quickly rolled a bottle of X-Potion to Wilhelm. The swordsman was shocked to see it, but quickly drank it. It quickly healed him enough to stand and acquire a sword he had on him.

"Deathstroke...No, Slade Wilson! Why are helping me?!"

"Just call it a kind gesture, old man. Besides, I still have some energy after killing Kurgan, so I'm itching for another battle. Your grandson will do just fine."

Wilhelm, Heinkel, Reinhard and even Thearesia were simply shocked at Deathstroke's actions and couldn't look away from him.

Deathstroke then removed his axe and aimed a wind slice kick at Reinhard, forcing him to back away.

He then turned his attention to Wilhelm and angrily yelled at him.

"What are just standing there for?! You ain't getting any younger! Hurry up!"

"...! Yes!"

Wilhelm ran forward and made his way to Thearesia.

"Remember one thing though old man."

"...?"

"Even if your wife is in there, she is still a corpse. An unnatural being that isn't meant for this world. Even now, her being here is wrong on every moral level one could think of."

"...Slade."

"You have the right to choose her fate, you are her husband after all. But know one thing, if you leave her be...her spirit will never rest in peace."

"...!"

"I can't tell you what to do...but I can tell you that I personally think, you should end her suffering. Because the dead cannot, and should not, be brought back."

"...I understand."

Wilhelm walked over as Deathstroke took a defensive stance in front of the two.

Wilhelm was looking down at he severely injured wife and quietly squatted down to see her eye to eye.

"Thearesia…"

"...So you are Wilhelm."

Wilhelm held back his tears as he heard her speak and saw her flash a simple smile.

"Do-Do you know what brought you back?"

"...No, I don't. I just remember the White Whale and then...I blacked out and I was here."

"...I see."

Thearesia slightly laughed as she looked at her husband.

"You got really old."

"...Heh. It has been 15 years since we last each other."

"Oh I see…"

She then glanced back and saw Reinhard with sword drawn and smiled at him, making Reinhard tremble a bit.

"...Well...look at you Reinhard, grown up so much."

"...Hk!"

"So you're the Sword Saint now? It'll be a tough burden to carry you know?"

"I-..."

Reinhard hesitated for a bit before he spoke, even finally lowering his sword, his face filled with dread.

"I am...and…"

"Hm…?"

"I apologize. I am sorry, grandmother! If I hadn't taken the Divine Protection...at that time...you wouldn't have-"

"-Reinhard."

"...?!"

"...It's not your fault. Get that through your head okay?"

"But…"

"...And even if that was the case…"

"...?"

"I forgive you grandson."

Reinhard's eyes faltered as tears began to form around his eyes.

Heinkel looked over and saw that his mother was now smiling at him.

"Heinkel, I hope you have been doing well."

"Yes, I have."

"Good...in my steed please take care of these guys for me, please?"

Heinkel began to cry but held some sobs back to answer.

"Yes, mother."

"Good...boy…"

Thearesia began to cough blood, ensuring everyone knew that her time was coming to an end.

"And you stranger...thank you for letting me speak to my family."

Deathstroke turned his head to look over at the woman and simply humphed at her comment.

"I didn't do it for praise or anything. Don't make it sound like it was either."

"...No matter the case, Thank you. This family is indebted to you."

Deathstroke simply turned his head back, ignoring her. Thearesia seemed to find his actions humorous and giggled a bit.

Wilhlem hugged his wife and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She cried a bit, as well as Wilhelm. Wilhelm pointed the tip of his sword at his wife's head.

"I love you."

"...I love you too."

"I will see you again, I promise you that."

"...I'll be looking forward to it."

Wilhelm then pierced his smiling wife's head...and then her body crumbled away and she became ash that flew away into the sky.

Everyone stood there silent, unable to process what they saw. Only for Deathstroke to loudly crack his neck and sigh. He then put all his weapons back and began walking away.

"I don't care what issues this family has, but right now is not the time to resolve them. We got a battle out there that we should be fighting in."

"...!"

"So we should go."

The Van Astrea family members began moving as they didn't look at each other...until Reinhard spoke up.

"Grandfather...Wilhelm…"

"...Hm?"

"I'm glad that...we got to say goodbye."

"...Yes, Reinhard. Now let's get revenge on those who used your grandmother."

"...YES!"

The relationship between three generations of the Van Astrea family, one that was on the verge of collapse just moments ago...was somehow being slowly mended by the actions of a mercenary for hire.

Al was now facing off against Capella as she charged at him, sending the two of them into a nearby building.

Inside, she used a newly formed dragon tail to slice off Al's head.

Then when she turned around…

"Hey now, I didn't even have a chance to try something."

She turned around to see a very much alive Al who had now brandished his sword.

"El Dona."

A earth spike came out of the ground and stabbed her through the chest, then he quickly sliced her head clean off.

But as the earth spike crumbled, Capella simply grew a new head and chest.

"Fuuuuuck, well aren't you just sore ass punk who doesn't understand what his love is meant for...me of course."

"Shit."

She then stretched out her arms and pierced straight through Al's stomach.

"Hehehe! Serves a little scarred man like you right! Can't give the love I demand of you, so you should fucking rot into pieces-"

"-Hey now, I didn't even have a chance to try something."

Capella's attention turned to Al, who was once again standing there with no injuries to himself.

Al quickly ran forward and sliced away Capella's arms and neck then stomped the ground.

"Ul Dona!"

The earth dome that formed around him crushed Capella. But as he lowered the dome, he simply saw her body reform around herself.

"Damn. That whole reforming ability is such a pain in the ass."

"Pain in the ass? YOU'RE THE FUCKING PAIN HERE! What have you been doing then?! How are you still in one piece?!"

"...Trade secret!"

Al simple gave a thumbs up as Capella narrowed her eyes at him.

Al did think to himself though….

"This bet of mine to repeat is working to save my ass, but still as long as the territory is right here, I might be okay."

Al then saw blood on the floor that belonged to Capella so he stepped on it to test if it would infect him, luckily it didn't but he was caught off guard and was about to be smashed by her tail.

He then activated his ability and went back to the point of his comment.

"Hey now, I didn't even have a chance to try something."

Al then moved around the building as he dodged her tail and newly formed giant claws. Al even used earth spikes to try and strike her. But they missed as she licked her lips and laughed loudly.

"Fucking worthless ass! Can't even hit me this close. What a useless sperm bank you turned out to be!"

"Man, this lady is considerably different from the Sin Archbishop I know."

But as she reached the end of the room and as such, got angry.

"Die."

Transforming into a black dragon again, she tried to kill him, though Al took advantage of this by making her destroy the remaining foundations of the building, escaping through the waterways underneath a hole he secretly dug with his earth magic.

"Later!"

He rode the stream as the building collapsed on her.

Al rode the stream until he eventually made it to the river and used earth magic to make it back to the streets.

"Whew! That was tiring, I might be getting too old for this nonsense!"

He then looked over at the control tower and saw that it was on fire.

"Better get to the princess!"

"AL!"

"Huh?!"

Al looked in the corner of his eye and saw Batman flying through the air and making his way to him in the Justice Armor.

"Grab on!"

"Okay!"

Batman reached out and grabbed Al by the hand and the two of them flew up high and above. Making their way to the to the control tower.

Priscilla and Liliana were now facing Sirius as she bellowed out her love for her husband. She then looked over at them with some disdain.

"I was hoping he would show up here I even set this tower on fire to better signal him to come...sadly I have to deal with you."

"Hmph. You should be grateful that I have graced you with my presence Witch Cultist! My time and efforts are not to be messed with."

"Heh. As if I care about that sort of thing. I am merely surmising my own love and seek to find a way to reach him...you two are just an obstacle."

Just then a crazed mob burst through the smoke behind her and watched as they charged at the two.

"Then let these people show you their love!"

"Ignorance."

Priscilla then formed a aura of light around her closed fan as she narrowed her eyes at the crowd. Then, a sword of light formed on it and she sliced the ground, making fire erupt on the ground. The crowd stopped on their tracks, making Sirius angry.

Priscilla saw that the crowd was still trying to brave their way to through the fire, so she turned her attention to Liliana...then gave her a big kiss on the cheek.

"Wuh wuh whu?! Priscilla-sama?!"

"Do not fret, this is only to help turn the tide you know?"

Liliana looked over and saw the crowd calm down considerably as they seemed to be embarrassed as well.

"Liliana! Go and try to sing, we shall try and calm this unruly crowd!"

"Yeah! Of course!"

Liliana backed away and began to sing a lovely melody...and with the use of her Divine Protection of Telepathy, she heightened it's range and efficiency to everyone in the city. Sirius became enraged and actually leapt over the fire and made a beeline towards Liliana.

"Do not trample on this love!"

"No you don't!"

Her chains were bounced back by Priscilla's Yang Sword, then Sirius tried to kill some nearby civilian with her chain...only for it to be stopped by a wall of earth.

"WHAT?!"

From behind Batman and Al landed on the roof and face Sirius...as Batman was now close by, he noticed it.

"No…"

"Oi! Batman! What's up?"

Batman was staring at her….noticing her eyes...her eyes looked exactly like Emilia's.

"Priscilla! Al! Take care of Liliana, I'll face Sirius!"

"...?!"

"I need some answers from her."

Al formed an earth wall in front of Liliana as Priscilla went to guard her...watching as Batman and Sirius fought.

Batman flew around dodging each attack from her fire chains. She seemed to have her anger reach a boiling point.

"Where is my husband?! You cannot have him! Give him to me!"

"Subaru is not your husband! The boy's got his heart set on two girls and I can assure you, you're not one of them!"

"RAGH!"

She spun the chains around trying her best to whip him out of the air. But just as soon as she tried to actually pierce him, he twisted his body and used his jet boots to charge past them and landed in front of her.

He then reached over and grabbed her by the collar.

"What is the Witch's Cult purpose?! Where is your hiding place?!"

"HAHAHAHA! Nothing. Each of us merely follows what their gospel tells them too! We have no formal meeting place...we go where we please!"

Batman quickly spun her body to the ground as he interrogated her further.

"Who are you?!"

"Simple I am Sirius Romanee Con-!"

"-ENOUGH! Your eyes! They're not normal, they-"

Batman then noticed behind himself that her chains were now once again trying to pierce him, so he backflipped away, but not before ripping off the bandages that covered her face.

As he landed safely and Sirius got back up, she grabbed her face and tried to hide it.

"My face! NO! My face is not good enough for him! I cannot let him see me like this! He would hate to see me like this! YOU! YOU! YOU!"

She stopped hiding her face...Batman's eyes widened, even underneath the armor he had a face stricken in terror.

Months ago, Batman had a conversation with Emilia while Subaru went off with Beatrice and Petra to the nearby town for supplies.

Emilia was looking at the tea and snacks in front of her with an affectionate smile.

"You seem in a cheerful mood."

"Oh? Yes, it just reminded me of something."

"That is? Well, I had fond memories of how I used to have tea with my Mother."

"...I see."

Batman removed his mask as he relaxed a bit.

"It's always good to keep loved ones on your mind, Emilia. It keeps them always with you in a way."

"...Hm, yeah. Thinking about it though, if she was still around she would've been friends with you no doubt."

"From what you told me, she seemed to be a caring person...but also a very expressive one at that."

"Hehehe, yeah she was always headstrong. I'm sure you would have gotten along with her."

"Yes, I would have loved to meet her."

The two spent the time relaxing before they made their way to the training area.

"So Emilia, your mother was a elf right? What did she look like, if you don't mind?"

"Oh, wellll, she had beautiful short silver hair and eyes like mine."

"Maybe when you et older you'll look like her."

"...Hehe, that would be nice."

Emilia smiled cheerfully at the thought of it.

Batman was cringing painfully at the sight of it.

"Oh my god…"

His trembling finger pointed directly at his opponent...reaffirming her true identity.

"You're Fortuna."

Underneath the bandages was Fortuna's face with crude stitches all around her face, she gave a seriously malicious grin as she stared at Batman.

"I am Sirius! Not anyone else! And for you to make me show my face like this! I will have you die a death worth a thousand screams!"

Ice spears formed around her and fired at Batman, there were so many that even if he dodged, many of them could potentially strike the others. So Batman concentrated as he unleashed a counter measure.

"Yang Spell: Gotham Swarm!"

Several hundred bat constructs made of light magic formed around him and flew at Sirius. Each of them either destroyed the icicles or battered Sirius enough to make her put up a guard.

Batman then used the opportunity to try and tackle Sirius, but spun the chains around madly making him keep his distance.

"I shall find him! My love! My one true love! Petelgeuse! Bring him to me! BRING HIM!"

"Fortuna and Geuse seemed to get along so well! I alway wondered if they...well you know...liked each other?"

Batman felt sickened as he remembered those words Emilia told him. He felt guilty...almost as much as the time he actually went behind Subaru's back and told Emilia that the Sin Archbishop they originally saved her against was Petelgeuse.

He remembered how she cried for several hours and how he and Subaru got in a verbal argument about it. But in the end, Emilia did eventually come around and forgive him and Subaru.

The ones she blamed were Pandora and the rest of the Witch's Cult.

But now, here in front of him was one of the most important people Emilia knew. Once again, trying to kill not only her but many innocent people.

It pained him...but he knew he would have to tell her the truth once this was all over.

Batman fired some projectiles from his wrists that sent smoke everywhere. In the confusion Sirius was tackled into the air and held right above the tower. She lost her composure, but looked down and laughed wildly.

"Where do you think we'll be going eh?"

Batman gave her a slight head-butt...sending electric shocks all around his system.

When he opened his eyes he saw a large black vine sticking out of Sirius, when he glanced down he saw the roots of the vine all going down and surrounding the civilians she kept hostage.

"The path of your Authority. I see it! Now I know what to do!"

"Fool! FOOL! FOOOOOL! I shall engage you with my love and unleash Wrath upon you! You cannot beat me! Not unless you want to kill the people below you!"

"I don't intend to."

Batman stared up in the sky as he focused every last bit of mana he had and-

"AL ERMAC!"

A tear in space formed and revealed that it lead just a bit above the stratosphere.

"WHAT IS THIS?!"

"Your Authority won't reach this far!"

He then flew forward and spun around and around, holding onto to her. Then without warning tossed her through the tear and thus through the stratosphere.

But Sirius used her chains to try and latch on to the roof...only for them to be cut apart by Batman as he flies back down.

"Damn you! My love will crush you as I-!"

Before she could finish Al fires an earth attack at her, forcing higher into the air, then Priscilla aimed her fan into the air and fired it at her. Sirius screamed as she fired a humongous ice boulder at the group...just as the tear in space closed.

On the other side of the tear Sirius was hit by the powerful beam and sent hurtling towards space. Then, she left the world's gravity and began floating away without being able to stop.

"AH! What is…?"

She looked on in panic as she realized she was being pulled further and further away from the flat earth she knew to be home. She tried desperately to use water magic...but the ice she summoned broke into pieces and her chains froze up.

"No...NO...NOOOOOO!"

She tried to swim back, kick back...anything to try and reach it...but she kept floating away.

"But my love! My love! My LOOOOOOOVE! I cannot live without him!"

She soon felt her breath begin to leave her and her body began to slowly freeze over. At this point her right foot froze completely and shattered away from the increased gravity of outer space.

"Wait….my love is gone isn't he?"

Her hand shattered away as well.

"Yes...and there were others weren't there?"

Her face began to crack.

"The...forest...there was one right?"

Her arm came off.

"Emilia…?"

Her body became stiff from being absolutely frozen.

"My...little Emilia...Petelgeuse…"

She tried to cry but her tears froze and her face twisting in sadness was actually making her face crack more.

"Please...I want to see them...please...let me see them!"

Her body was now at this time breaking apart.

"MY love! MY loves! PLEASE! LET ME-"

Her face then shattered away along with the rest of her body...the pieces that broke continued floating the vastness of space...then those pieces simply faded away into nothing.

With that, The Sin Archbishop of Wrath, Sirius, once known as Fortuna, died…

Batman landed on the top of the tower, but he looked up and saw the boulder coming straight for them...so he rushed everyone off as they jumped for their lives.

The ice boulder crashed through the burning tower making it crush away as it fell on top of itself.

The civilians eventually made it to the waterway, as they made it they held on to each other so that none of them would get taken away by the current.

Eventually some nearby knights helped evacuate them from the stream. Kiritaka helped pull out Liliana from the stream, just as Batman shot into the air with Al and Priscilla in tow.

As they landed they dried themselves off, except Batman, who was simply staring up at the sky.

"Batman."

Batman turned around to see Priscilla looking at him.

"Are you well?"

"...NO. That Sirius...she was Emilia's mother...another corpse violated by the Witch's Cult."

"...!"

Batman was at this point feeling so many emotions he didn't know what to do.

"What will you do now?"

"...I'm going to tell her once this is over. She has a right to know."

Priscilla nodded as Batman leaped into the air and activated his jets.

"You all decide what to do. I'm going to help out with the others."

"Very well we-"

Just then, the large wall north of them exploded from the bottom. Pieces of the wall were sent flying and crashed into several buildings.

Batman used his optic eyes to zoom in on the incident. Al rushed over with the others as they looked at the rising cloud of debris.

"What is it?! More Cultists?"

"No….No much worse."

Over at the hole in the wall, a large stomping sound was heard as several guards arrived to investigate. From the smoke, emerged a large marching army, wearing dark armor and red tribal paint on their helmets and faces. They unsheathed their swords and charged. The thunderous sounds of their roars and the stomps of their feet, rattled the ground.

The guards were quickly overwhelmed by the army and instantly killed.

From behind them was a floating piece of earth carrying six people...including one clad in gold and silver armor with spikes running around it.

"GO FORTH! GO! FOR GLORY!"

His eyes narrowed as he overlooked his army and smiled. His sharp teeth and fangs clicking as he did.

"GO FORTH! CONQUER AND KILL! FOR THE GLORY OF GRODD!"

Grodd roared out his orders, as the rest of his soldiers stormed the city.

With the arrival of Grodd, the entire battle for the Watergate City, truly became an all-out war.