Marihea was out late that dark frosty night. Such excursions was a regular occurrence for the tigress especially when it came to the 'work' she did. Marihea took care of alot of dirty jobs that nobody else was capable of, she only asked one thing of anyone looking her 'services' "what evidence do you have that they deserve this fate and how will this benefit me?". Marihea was no cold-hearted murderer she understood all too well the repercussions of taking the life of those in high status or authority.

She had seen too many friends taken advantaged of that were beaten, broken, enslaved or fates worse than living. This job was no different; an alchemist was apparently stealing holy relics and corrupting through various means to them for the summoning of some demonic entity. Marihea was given a tip that a high church in the area was going to be the staging ground for more ritual sacrifice. The guard had apparently received the same tip which worsened her mood. "Urgh...fucking humans have to be involved. It matters not either way as I'll find myself a little gift on the way I'm sure. Corrupted relics...they said this alchemist was involved with...sounds like old magic. Hehehe...poor fool has idea what real magic is...ahh..." she sighed as she slipped in through the bell tower.

The tigress stepped through the shadows without a sound until she reached the main congregation hall, there were several people both Alterisian and humans tied up, a few were....not so lucky. 'Hmph...someone's messing with forces beyond their kin, I sense only one person here and this DEFINITELY isn't who I'm looking for...this seems like a lackeys work...' thought Marihea. The cloaked figure in the center of the hall spoke some words in an old ancient language before he took a sword that clung to the wall and cast what looked to be herbs and blood into an open flame he conjured. The flame began to turn an ominous purple, crackling and spitting embers before the cloaked figure held the sword into the licking flames causing it to roar.

Purple lightning sparked out from the flames before finally subsiding as the figure held the blade up cackling that the ritual was a success and all that was needed was to sacrifice all the people in the hall. The people cried in fear of the cloaked figure approached them before he swung the blade horizontally sending forth a wave of purple flame, Marihea stepped in from the shadows as the flames were diverted from the crowd by another force. "Who are you? How dare you interfere with my masters work? No matter...your pity magic must surely have been exhausted from deflecting this once holy blades strike" cackled the cloaked figure who's eyes glowed an ominous purple. "Such a fool...a human thinks he can play god...when he doesn't even realise that there are beings beyond your understanding...your little ritual will have been for naught...for your life is mine...hehehe" crowed Marihea as she lifted her hood down.

"Alterisian bitch...filthy animals should learn their place! My master will soon rebuild this work anew! Now all of you shall die!" he shouted as he swung the blade frantically at Marihea. The purple flames sent forth by the blade all collided with the tigress much to shock of the people behind her, the room was filled with black smoke and some of the people cried louder at the apparent death of their savior. Heh he ha ha...stupid little bitch...where's all that bravado now? Oh wait...your dead hahaha! A step closer to completing this ritu-huh" laughed the cloaked man until he saw Marihea was still standing as the smoke cleared.

"Hehehe...hehehe....that was it? That was the power of a corrupted holy relic?" cackled Marihea in terrifying tone. Marihea held out her hand in the direction of the cloaked figure, her eyes glowed an ethereal blue as a torrent of blue flames shot out and hit the mans arm dropping the sword that began to smoke from exposure to Marihea magic. "Ahh! W-what have you done? Argh my hand!" cried the man as he tried several magic spells to heal his wound, nothing worked. Marihea walked closer to the man making sure that scratching noise of her claws could be heard in the congregation hall. She knelt down and picked up the blade, she gripped the blade tightly "Get lost" she shouted in a stern tone staring at the sword causing purple flames to began flowing out of the blade. Marihea stared at the flames, merely lifted her other hand and clenched it into a fist towards her causing the flames to disperse into a deafening screech.

"Noo...the beast...how could destroy it? That's impossible...your no radiant shaman...grrr...I must inform my master of this transgression!" spoke the cloaked man as he tried to run towards the back of the hall. As he reached the altar he found himself constricted in shadows and turned around to be met by Marihea's gaze. "Impossible...not even a sound...such strength...argh!" cried the man as he was hoisted into the air. "So much for that...now return from whence you came apparition...die!" Marihea shouted as she grabbed the man with her tail as she slowly crushed him before placing her free hand on his face causing him to burst into blue flames. The man thrashed in vain as he began to disintegrate "you've merely postponed the masters plan..."spoke the man before Marihea crushed his skull to dust. Marihea dusted herself down as a scarlet gem came into view from the ashes "Of course it was a fucking revenant priest...I must be getting closer..." she muttered to herself as before snapping her fingers which caused the ropes tying the survivors to come loose who all began rushing to escape. Marihea put up her hood to cover her face as she melted into the darkness as though she was never there.

Marihea watched from afar as the city guard ran into the church hoping for some sort of clue as to what had just occurred. "They'll never find who did this...I will in due time...at least I got a consolation prize out of this..." grinned Marihea as she hopped from rooftop to rooftop with the blade from the high church in hand.

Character Marihea©  Mari274
Art  Albtraum_Wach