Chapter Six: Down with the Beast

Belladonna lunged at the heroes, her mouth open wide and her claws out and ready to slash.

The Pharaoh quickly held out his hand and put up another force field which Belladonna bounced right off of. She flew back and thudded onto the ground.

The little dragon had watched in horror as its mistress transformed and now stared down angrily at her injured, monstrous self. It looked up and let out its mightiest roar at them, which could have been compared to the sound of a baby lion growling.

The heroes stared at it. Kaiba stepped forward, faced the dragon directly-and let out a loud, Blue Eyes roar which made the entire house shake.

The little black dragon whimpered and quickly flew out of the house.

"Dat was…sad," Joey commented.

Belladonna angrily jumped up and grabbed at her chains. She spun them around in the air and lashed them out at the kids.

Joey quickly shifted his arm into a pointed silver spear and hooked it into one of the links of the chain. Belladonna stared in shock, then yanked back at the chain, and the two commenced in a tug of war.

Finally, when Belladonna gave one last, hard tug, Tristan conjured up two hands right behind her shoulders. Joey let go of the chain and the combined forces of her still pulling and the hands yanking her downwards made Belladonna crash hard onto the floor.

As an extra precaution, the hands pulled the chains right off of her neck and floated over to Tristan. He took them in his own hands and the regenerated ones vanished.

Belladonna angrily sat up and snarled. She pulled her cape up around her and transformed into dozens of large, angry bats. The bats swarmed around them and the teens wildly swatted at them and tried to avoid a bite from their tiny fangs.

"EY! GET AWAY FROM US, YA STUPID BATS!" Joey yelled.

After swatting away so many bats, Téa finally got an idea. She took a deep breath and let out a high-pitched banshee scream.

The bats squeaked in horror and started flying around wildly, smacking into one another and crashing onto the ground. Slowly, they came together in one heap and transformed back into the horrifically monstrous Belladonna.

Belladonna rubbed her furry ears, muttering, "God, that was loud…" With her eyes shut, she took a step forward towards the teens and her foot landed right in the sunlight that shone through the windows.

Her foot suddenly started emitting a small stream of smoke. She screamed out in horror and pulled it back, yelling, "IT BURNS!"

"What de heck-" Joey said.

The Pharaoh's eyes widened. "She's part vampire…she can't be in the sunlight!" He quickly focused within him and, in the blink of an eye, vanished.

Once Belladonna had stopped hopping up and down, clutching her burning foot in her hands, she looked around at the heroes and asked, "Wait…where'd one of you go?"

Suddenly, she felt something shove her down into the sunlight. Her entire body started emitting smoke streams. She screamed and tried to get up, but the Pharaoh reappeared in front of her and created a translucent force field which trapped her in the sun.

The teens stared in shock (except for Téa, who had to look away from being freaked-out) as small, burning cracks started to form in Belladonna's body where the sunlight hit it. She tried to curl herself into a ball and hide, but no matter what she did, the sun still got to her in the force field.

Finally, with one last scream, Belladonna's body imploded, forcing the Pharaoh to slightly expand his force field in order to contain the blast. Once it had ended, he took the force field down so that the smoke could dissipate a little. Upon clearing, the heroes could see that the only things that remained of Belladonna were a few torn shreds of clothing that fluttered onto the ground and a charred circle in the floor.

Spencer and the chiefs of Kingrah Police walked inside of the house. The entire time they'd been observing the teenagers battle with Belladonna from the front door. Eli and Liv stared at the six in awe and shock.

"See, you guys? Just like I told you," Spencer grinned. "These six are some of the most impressive heroes you will ever meet."