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In her best 'James Bond Villian' voice Vanessa said, "kill his two friends. I want Antonio alive. But, hey, I said 'want', didn't say 'need', so if he does get splattered, well, we'll just grab somebody off the street to torture for info."
Banny asked, "what info would somebody off the street have?"
"None. But it can be more fun torturing people who don't know anything. They usually get this great look of wounded innocence." She mock-whimpered, and giggled.
Antonio fired two shots at a demoniform, but it moved too quickly as he expected. It and the other demoniform went at him. The demon in male form lunged at Lissa, while the female pulled a switchblade and got behind Banny. The last man was a short wiry pale-blond-haired man in his mid-40's. He wore blue pinstripe pants, white shirt, and a tie. He just sat back and watched. He looked slightly bored.
Lissa quickly became cat-girl. Her sneakers, shorts, and T shirt were gone, but she kept the one-piece bathing suit she had had on underneath. She tore into the man like a six-year-old into a birthday present. They hit the ground together, rolled, and he wound up flat on his back. Lissa crouched on his chest, tore open his belly, ripped out internal organs she didn't recognize. These were normal human organs, but Lissa is certainly no doctor. The man screamed and tried to fight, but couldn't.
"Liss!" Antonio called out. "The only way to kill it is to cut off the head or destroy the brain!"
"I know. I'm just taking the scenic route."
"Goodbye," the woman behind Banny said. He sped up, turned around. The knife pressed against his side, stabbed him at less than one-third speed. It barely penetrated the skin. Banny moved across the room, and returned to normal. Yes, normal speed, not a normal person, ha ha, very funny.
"Is she a demon?" he asked. The woman ran at him, crossing half the room.
"YES!" shouted Antonio. These two demons were good. He'd emptied his clip, doing no significant damage. They were as good as any demon the Demon Tracker had faced in his ten-year career. As good as any, and better than most.
"So I can kill her?" she dodged past Antonio and his battle. Banny sped up, slipped past her faster than she could stab him. Just barely.
"YES!!" He'd been slashed! But if he stopped to take a counter-potion, they'd capture him and kill the two Worthy Ones. They slashed him again and again.
"Are you sure?" He moved back toward the door.
Antonio's world was spinning. He was fighting more on instinct now. His arms and legs stiffened, like hardening cement. He pulled out a vial of counter-potion, but his hands may as well have been severely frost-bitten. The vial fell. Did it break? there was a carpet, on the ground, so far away... so much pain, but so far away. had to fight. not give up. "...not...no..."
"No, you're not sure she's a demon? I'm not gonna hurt her if she's human. What do I do?"
Vanessa shouted, "forget the moron, Claire! Get that creature!" The woman immediately whirled away from Banny. She ran behind Lissa, grabbed her by her hair (Lissa's hair was shorter and wilder in this stage) and raised the switchblade.
Speeding faster than he knew he could, Banny tackled the woman. He instinctively used a neck-lock tackle his old friend Tim had taught him, the one Tim called the 'I'm-only-teaching-this-to-you-'cause-your-daddy's-so-rich-you-probably-won't-go-to-jail' tackle.
Banny was moving at nearly eight times normal speed. That should have meant that any unaccelerated object, to Banny, would be eight times as massive and eight times as difficult to move, just as Banny should have massed one-eighth his normal mass. He should have hit her with less than twenty-five pounds of mass, equalling the same total force as if he were moving at normal speed. If you understand this you have an excellent grasp of physics. If you think this is what happened here you have a poor grasp of magics.
The Rings of Beneficience are the most powerful magic items in this existence, crafted by the Essencia itself. The Rings can violate the laws of physics, force objects at different speeds to keep their masses the same relative to each other.
This is actually much less impressive than when Lissa goes from human to cat, losing more than nine-tenths her mass, without causing a massive nuclear explosion.
The important thing to consider is that to the demon-woman, she was hit by a 190 pound man moving at about 100 miles an hour. But to Banny, the woman's head had its normal mass, and her neck certainly had its normal strength. Her head came off her body like a half-melted fudge pop off its stick and dissolved into viscous slime. Banny said, "Okay, yeah, I think she was a demon! I guess."
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