Author's notes: Welcome to the fifth chapter of "Defection Week" I hope all of you can join us as we count down to Christmas and if you can't or wasn't here when I posted it, I hope you all have a good day.

Christmas Countdown: 2 more days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N2tbS9ctbQ

The song of the day today is
"Beat the angel" from the game Tales of Symphonia this song is amazing using bells in the song to inspire fear and dramatic tension seeing as their is a line in the game at least to my knowledge that says "When a bell rings a angel cuts off a head" the presence of divinity is given a grand entrance with these heavenly bells and tones signifying ascension with rising tones.
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The large gem patted down upon her uniform, extinguishing small flames about the size of a candles flame, Ruby slammed her gauntlet on the ground again causing 3 more cracks to form, one of these cracks sat between the gems outstretched legs with only seconds before the cracks would release another wall of flame, the gem started to sprint at her opponent, jumping high into the sky, narrowly avoiding a torrent of flame which seemed her large form in one large bound the gem made it's way to Ruby, another strike was aimed as the large gem fell from the sky her sword glistened in the sunlight, Ruby seeing this reflexively brought her arm up in a attempt to block the attack, the only thing was Ruby didn't have a shield, Ruby realized this to late and closed her eyes in fear of the coming pain as her arm would be subtracted from her current form, suddenly the weight of the attack hit her and instead of the screams of a mutilated gem, a dull metallic sound echoed across the ruined city, shocking both combatants, opening her eyes Ruby saw the gems sword bounce of the cuff of her gauntlet, amazing leaving not a single scratch, seeing this the large gem jumped back a couple feet trying to recover from her failed attack, before she dashed forward slashing wildly starting with a horizontal slash to Ruby's chest, a vertical slash for each of Ruby's arms and lastly another downward strike aimed at her head, each of these attacks were deflected by Ruby making use of her gauntlet cuffs as the large gem's finally attack was blocked, her arm recoiled behind her, preparing a thrust, deciding at that moment it was best to change up her strategy for fighting the intruder, unexpectedly the intruders by contorted away from the thrust dodging the attack, but what shocked the large gem the most was her weapons blade laid trapped in the intruders grasp, Ruby prepared a punch straight for her enemy's gut, when Ruby's arm recoiled she felt her fist engulf themselves in those same soothing flames, she felt mere hours ago, a cocky smile crossed her face as she stared at her enemy who stood completely still, fear crossing her face as she tried vainly to pull her sword out of Ruby's grasp.