I am therefor I think

Roxy stood up, cracking her pelvis left and right. Regenerated.

'Back in business.'

What wasn't in business was the dagger, as soon as the foes vanished it became like a paper .

She poked herself with it couple times but it was like a tip of a paper air plain made contact with her skin.

"Whyyyy?~"

In the mystery location the human was playing with the golden apple.

'So it doesn't work inside a logical creature's dimensions..'

Karaza looked at the giant snake with white hard exterior. Sitting in a corner, mirroring her.

'...Did this thing exchanged textures with the skeletons? Dope. They struck a deal maybe?'

'I lived here most of my life and I still find new things.'

She stood up too quickly, experimenting. The snake moved too albeit slow and not concerned. She sat back down, lazily leaning on a rock like it's a soft cushion.

'It probably feed on my alertness or something in my brain.'

She rested her head, facing the ceiling and its teal glow.

'The more I move the more strength it will gain. Endless loop till I fall.'

'I fought one that fed on anger before right..?' She tried recalling the solution, only to face the final scene of such.

Blood dropping from the tip of the axe, a pulp of flesh on the rocky cracked  ground.

Stomach twisted, half guilt half regret and another half fear of one own capabilities.

'Just let them feel fear. That's what the food chain is all about after all.'

"You know, I really don't have a reason to be this way."

"I really don't"

The eyeless snake wrapped on itself slightly, uncomfortable from the unprompted one sided conversation, or something else.

"Don't make that face, you brought me here." Her tone clam, cold. She stood up, slow and not in hurry at all. The creature felt the bad omen.

"You have to bring your prey into your dimension." The axe grazed the ground, echoing a painful shrill. She turned her back in the snake and touched the wall.

"I could break your dimension, but the echo would be too much for my ears, and no guarantee where I would land after that." Her apathetic eyes stared the snake.

Her admitting the nodus injected the air with tension, such rational realization didn't seem leading toward a rational solution.

The quite hisses of the snake vanished, sound itself wasn't there.

The axe stopped vibrating. Dull, chipped double blade didn't reflect the purple glow dropping on it.

The brutal swing to the wall left a gash on it. Smaller rocks flying in all directions.

"Not that effective, I can go on forever though." She walked slowly left to the other wall, cold and menacing.

Another blow ensued, the snaked crawled on itself as the rocks flew in the air. Something not akin to fear. Pity perhaps.

In a sudden the purple glow beamed too brightly, covering everything like a thick suffocating blanket.

The snake dimension diffused, making her fall into the unknown ground.

She avoided the crash in the last second, still hitting some muddy rocks. Revamping she looked up and around, immediately recognizing the situation.

Broken chairs were flying in the sky, substituting clouds or stars. Broken legs floating slowly, menacingly.

"I should've hanged with the snake." She took a gulp, last line of sarcasm defense threatening to fall.

'The boarder of the red zone. One step inside and I'm fried.'

She looked up to the sky directly above her, dark with questions marks clouds and such but seemingly normal, however few ten meters were what separate her from the red zone and its weird sky.

A layer of sound wave covered her just in case.

'All right, it's all right. I just have to walk back, get deeper into the orange zone then use the apple to go back to the green zone.'

'Or should I use the apple now?'

'No, nothing react normally near the red zone.'

She turned her back on the chair sky and stepped forward into what logically seemed the safer zone.

Though that wasn't the case in the moment. A flock of Aerostats were right in her direction, heading into their base in the red zone.

'Why they're this small, and this many?' She took a shaking breath.

Some questions had their answers far away, reality always accompanied the situation.

'Move forward and their radiation will cook me, move backward I will be dead. I could thicken my barrier, let them pass above me...'

'But a person can get half dead so many times.'

She dropped into focus, making and rolling sound marbles into the ground.

'It's not easy like it used to, making these and keeping a barrier.' She admitted, rolling the last patch away. Moving to generate something else. Axe floating on its own near her shoulder.

The defenses of the Aerostats beamed radiation, targeting the marbles below them.

Radiation and sound nonsensical relation caused the marble to be dormant, not exploding, nor destroyed.

'Radiation and sound almost don't register each other. Doesn't mean my flesh can't be burnt. Doesn't mean their circuits can't be ruined.'

She thickened her barrier. As the axe shacked visibly the Aerostats wobbled in the air.

Tinnitus bypassed the ear plugs, she winced. The undetectable wave frequency was unmerciful.

The wobbling turned into full blown imbalance, one Aerostat drifted to smash into another.

The impact of the explosion kicked rocks and debris back to the red zone, shrapnel in her way threatened to take her with them if not for the barrier around her.

'I can't move much further from the axe when spreading this frequency...'

Her eye counted the Aerostats in the air.

'23? 22? All that impact will yeet me back at some point.' After counting the enemy she glanced back at the doomed zone like another solution will spawn in her mind.

In one hand she either spam the frequency before the Aerostats reach and fry her, and in the same hand the impact of their destruction if she does do is almost equally dangerous.

'Think of something... Think!' She looked around for anything useful but the land was empty and the sky was far.

Another clashing impact hit. Covering her face with her arm, the nails of the other hand digging into the muddy ground for an imitation of stability.

Peaking through the shield of her arm she observed the reduced swarm, flying closer to the ground.

She peaked right above her where they didn't reach yet, having ideas. She eyed the dormant marbles in the mud.

'I don't think I can pull that stunt off as I'm now...'

'But was I any better when I was stronger to being with?'

'I think I will always be the same.'

A rock flying right to her head solidified the lack of options.

The axe fell into her grip, no longer shaking.

She jumped in the air, foot landing on a disc of compound sound waves only to use it to jump higher, forming another disc in the location of her next step.

In the altitude of the Aerostats a blast of sound waves shoved them back, just enough for her to jump higher again.

Standing above on the disc.

Aerostats directed their beams upward.

'Now.' She activated.

Marbles on the ground blast, no longer bounded by the beams.

The red golden explosions made the ground glow, she observes closely.

Fainter and Fainter. The brightness left thick clouds of dust and couple aerostats flying still.

She looked east, mistaken the ray of sunlight for a threat.

The sun was about to rise. Early strings of light reflected on the dull sliver hair and the stormy gray eyes.

In a final swing, she directed the axe at the left.

One final blast.

The metal fall to the ground. Last beam faded. Their radiation stopped.

A clam breeze blew as the sun rose higher, lighting the chairs and the muddy ground alike, toning down the danger and despair.

Nostalgic feeling of a Job finally done.