Kovu smashed his fist across her face. He grabbed his second axe and swung it downward toward his leg to slice into the demon's tail. Mudiwa screamed, loosening her grip on him.

Kovu pulled himself away. He opened his eyes, looked forward, crawling to get behind a pillar before the creature could recover.

"Don't think you can escape." The scorpion tails straightened as they formed jagged crystal draggers off their tips, shooting them out at the prince. The crystal draggers sliced opened the prince's clothes and skin.

Kovu just barely managed to roll behind the pillar when a dragger stabbed into his back and another in his leg. "Curses!" The prince sheathed his sword. He yanked the crystal from his leg which had been soaked in his blood. He clamped down on his teeth and slammed his eyes shut, baring all the pain of his fresh scars. He pulled the remaining draggers from his back.

He laid his wounded back against the pillar. He let out a grunt. Blood spilled from his mouth. What made it worst was hearing Mudiwa crawling in his direction. He needed this pain to just disappear.

His scars glowed red for a moment, fading away as the pillar and floor around him turned to sand. All the bleeding and pain had vanished within moments.

He looked up after hearing the sound of the pillar crack. What remained of the marble pillar came crashing down toward him.

Kovu rolled out of the way.

Unfortunately for Kovu this gave Mudiwa the perfect chance to tackle him against the ground once more. “You will accept your fate.” She flipped her victim over so he would have to face her. However his eyes were close to stop her from inflicting her curse and adding him to her collection.

Mudiwa brought her face closer to Kovu. “Come now, are you not curious about what a man sees in my eyes?” Mudiwa spoke in the most seductive voice she could to tempt him to take a peek.

“MUDIWA!”

The creature turned her attention toward the doors. “Who’s there?” Her hair rubbed together. “Where are you coward? Who are you, man?”

“I am the son of a man who defiled you, priestess,” Dayo called out from behind the pillar he hid behind. “He told me before he came here how he would enjoy your body and tell everyone about it. I will avenge him.”

“Avenge him? I will make you a part of my necklace alongside him.” Mudiwa charged forward. She swooped around the pillar to be right in front of the second prince.

Dayo squatted behind the pillar, covering the front of his body with his cape.

“Do you really think a cape will save you?” Crystal draggers formed in Mudiwa’s hair about to launch them.

Like a flash of lightning, Dayo thrust his spear through his cape that stabbed right through the monster’s abdomen. The three Redemption crystals on the spear glowed. Mudiwa screamed bloody murder at the strike.

The crystal draggers flew out in every direction. One of them stabbed through the cape and into Dayo’s arm. Mudiwa slapped the spear away which tore through Dayo’s cape. Her black blood poured from her wounds.

In her furry she knocked away the cape before grabbing him by the throat to pull him into the air. “Now, look into my eyes and join your father upon my neck.” She squeezed his throat, cutting off his air.

Dayo’s eyes slowly began to open not willing to die without seeing who had killed him. His eyes meet hers. His body stopped all at once in horror. Starting from the tips of his toes his body turned to amethyst before her gaze.

“DAYO!” Kovu yelled out for his brother with total anguish in his heart. He pulled his sword from his belt. He could tell in an instant that he could not close the gap between him and them even with his arrows. There was only one option. The same trick which saved him from the wrath of the harpies.

He smashed the butt of his sword against the floor with all his might to scatter the Redemption crystal embedded there. A flashing wave of light consumed the room.

It swept over Mudiwa that ripped away her demon form. Mudiwa screamed as the white hot light shot across her body. She could no longer hold onto her prey, dropping the prince.

The light slowly faded away. Kovu had no idea if the crystal had the power to defeat an angel’s curse or not. Slowly he lifted himself back on his feet and prepared his axe and sword for further combat.

When the light from the crystal had finished fading he saw something truly unbelievable. His brother lay on the ground back to his former self. Ahead of him laid a woman with raven color hair dressed as a priestess who had been wounded.

Kovu raced to his brother’s side to see if he was still alive. The last bit of the purple crystal broke away from his leg. The younger prince still breathed. For Kovu that was enough and he thanked the angels for that mercy.

He put away his weapons. He pulled out the chunk of crystal that impaled itself into his brother’s arm. He then gave him a good shaking to awaken him from his dreams. “Dayo, get up. This is no place to sleep.”

When his brother still would not get up he smacked him across the face with the back of his hand. Dayo jolted awake in a panic. Kovu grabbed his shoulders. “Relax, Dayo. You are safe now.”

Dayo looked to his brother. “What happened?”

“Mudiwa almost took you from this world, however,” Kovu looked toward the priestess who was once a monster. “She should be no threat now.” He stood up. He saw not just her blood, but the blood of the men she fastened into her necklace. The spell on them had also been broken only to reveal there had been nothing left of them to save.