The red-caped leader pulled off her helmet and let the murky rainwater mark her face.

She was uniquely beautiful.

Her skin was a light coffee color that was dotted with several patches of black and red scales.

She had bright crimson hair that was cut in a wolfish style and shaved closer on the sides and nape, as was tradition for Nevi''im females.

As she removed her helmet, dark horns curled out of her forehead to the sky overhead.

Her ruby red eyes ran over the mighty Cthulhu as if he were no more than a mortal monster.

"My neck hurts." She mentioned, seemingly to no one.

The riders above her head roared and black chains suddenly lashed out at the towering behemoth underneath the sky.

Cthullu roared and lurched as the chains wrapped around his slippery body and pulled him to his knees; leaving his arms restrained at his sides.

With a great flap of his wings, the beast tried to soar up and throw his body into the riders restraining him.

The mounts displayed a wide breath of ingenuity as they avoided the creature without any provocation from their masters and dive bombed towards the ocean.

With the riders still holding tightly to the taut chains, Cthulhu was forcefully pulled back down into the water face first.

"That''s better." Kanami smiled now that the two were at eye-level.

Loud screeching filled Kanami''s ears and she remembered the sea full of beasties who had been made from the dark being''s mutated blood.

They were naturally less than pleased to see their maker and father being treated so roughly by a brand of beings they didn''t even know.

Kanami hefted up her sword again, and this time the blade compressed itself. It retained the same weight and length, yet was no thicker than the average katana.

She gave her mount a pat on the head to leet it know that she would be right back and she lunged from the safety of it''s back.

An arc of black lightning fell near Kanami.

She moved with seemingly no delay between her thoughts and actions and ran up the bolt of lightning like she was trying to leave the atmosphere.

Then, she suddenly kicked off the bolt of lightning and performed a somersault through the air that was the epitome of grace.

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Despite her seemingly crystal cool demeanor, in reality she was panicking a bit inside.

''Don''t cut the planet in half again, don''t cut the planet in half again, don''t cut the planet in half again, don''t cut the planet in...''

Kanami''s sword glowed.

She pushed the blade of her weapon towards her side as if she wee about to draw it from an imaginary sheath, and ''drew'' it and performed two swipes in the air in quick succession.

Time seemed to return to normal, and her men were about to be descended upon by the nameless horrors.

That is, until they were all miraculously diced into too many pieces to count.

A beam of dangerously concentrated plasma cut through the ocean from above, with the cold water seemingly unable to hamper it in any way.

Cthulhu narrowly succeeded in throwing it''s body into a nearby rock to avoid getting obliterated.

He peered through hateful red eyes at the beast hovering above the surface of the water.

His cursed blood nearly curdled when he saw the large dragon staring back at him; her two red eyes like boiling suns.

Her scaly lips curled into a dreadful smile and he could no longer deny the most obvious reality.

She saw him.

But as she had yet to act on it in anyway, that could only mean one thing. She was daring him to come out of hiding and face her.

The nerve.

Cthulhu''s pride was sufficiently wounded. His pride as a named horror had been besmirched by some upstart dragon, and he would not have it.

A tidal wave crashed out of the water, with Cthulhu returning to full size and leaping towards the airborne dragoness.

Several brands of dark magic surrounded the creature in an instant. If he was going to go down, he would certainly make sure that Kanami''s death was not a painless thing.

The dragon smiled as if she found it all amusing. This only served to infuriate the beast even further.

She raised her great clawed hand to the sky and her black obsidian sword came flying into her palm. It had even grown to fit her new and dangerous appearance, making it bigger than her once again.

Kanami lifted the great weapon above her head and swiped downward.

Using the flat side of her blade, Kanami swatted Cthulhu out of the air like he was no more than an overgrown hornet.

He hit the ocean hard, so hard in fact that he flung every droplet of water up into the air for miles. Inadvertently creating an even more torrential rainstorm.

Cthulhu hit the muddy soil hard, and his head even bounced off the ground.

But just as he tried to pick himself up, a horrible pain filled his midsection as he was stabbed right through the stomach and impaled to the sea floor.

He roared not out of anger, but out of embarrassment and pain. The sound of his distress was more grating than the sound of 1,000 worlds dying.

A great clawed hand grabbed him forcefully by the back of his bulbous head and slammed his tentacles into the ground- silencing him.

He felt an enormous amount of heat gathering behind him.

It would be the last thing he was ever aware of as Kanami opened her muzzle and fired a column of plasma point blank through the head of the creature.

He twitched for a fraction of a second before his body went completely still, and he moved no longer.

Kanami torched his entire body for good measure, and when Cthulhu was a heavily charred husk of his former self, she turned her head towards the heavens and roared victoriously, shaking the entire planet to it''s core.

And then... the very heavens seemed to respond to her will.

A column of black and red fire dropped out of the sky, larger and much hotter than anything she could have produced. None of her men could do this either.

After draping Cthulhu''s corpse over her shoulder, her confusion prompted her to fly towards the billowing flame, and discover the meaning behind it.

The last thing she expected to find waiting for her was a face that she didn''t recognize from her thousands of years of life...