From his perch over the now fully open doors, the Pastmaster laughed wickedly as the huge wolf demon stepped completely out of the portal. He held up the glowing amulet as he looked at the demon. "Now! Obey me, beast! Destroy the Swat Kats! Then you shall help me to take over this wretched world!"

Arawn turned to look at him, his ears turned back. The demon lord spoke in a deep resonating voice that echoed throughout the entire temple, seeming to make the walls tremble. "Your trinket may allow you to control my minions, but it has no effect on me, sorcerer."

The demon reached out and grabbed the Pastmaster with a large clawed hand. The skeletal sorcerer yelled out in surprise and anger, accidentally dropping the amulet as he did so. He struggled to reach his watch, but before being able to do so, the demon lord threw him though the portal, the sorcerer screaming out as he vanished though the hellish glow.

Star groaned and shook her head, slowly getting back up as the demon now turned his attention back to her. "You've failed this time. The portal is open and now my time to rule this world has come again."

The she-kat snarled hatefully, shifting up to her werewolf form. "No... I can still stop you..."

"It's over, cub. Embrace your demon blood and stop fighting what you truly are."

Star pinned her ears, snarling fiercely, a soft red glow in her eyes. Elena had also gotten back to her feet and was moving forward, holding her sword ready with it's blade still glowing brightly. After everything that they had dealt with before in defending their city, the Swat Kats were also more than ready to help the werewolves against the huge demon as they also stood and prepared for the fight that was obviously about to come.

Elena and Star glanced at each other and exchanged nods, then they both attacked. T-Bone and Razor did so as well, both firing the mini turbo-blades from their glovatrix's. The blades seemed to have no effect on the huge demon, merely bouncing off his hide, and the beast completely ignored them. The demon countered the werewolves' attacks, first knocking Star back against a pillar, then slashing at Elena, leaving a deep pair of gashes from her left shoulder down to her right hip. The guys fired again, this time T-Bone using the mini buzz-saws while Razor fired the tarpedos. The demon simply knocked the saws away, but the tay hit him full in the face. He roared out hatefully as he wiped it away. "Foolish pests! You have no chance against me!"

Arawn then lunged, slashing with incredible speed. T-Bone was his hard by the demon's massive fist, getting thrown back several yards into the wall with such force that it cracked the stone, breaking several smaller chunks off beneath him. Razor tried to dodge out of the way, but was snatched up by his torso in one massive paw. He hissed as he tried to struggle loose, but the demon constricted his grip, trying to crush him. Star gasped as she looked up and saw it. "Let him go!"

"Why? What do you care for mortals? They are nothing to us."

Elena and T-Bone both struggled to get up, but both of them were in serious pain from the demon's powerful attacks. Star snarled as she got up and walked forward again, back into the center of the pentagram. The demon watched her curiously. "It's too late, cub. The portal is open."

"I know..."

Star suddenly cried out and dropped to one knee and doubled over, grabbing her gut as if in pain. The pentagram around her began to glow bright red again, and the glow spread up to cover her entire body. The demon lord raised an eyebrow curiously at this as he watched. T-Bone looked over to where Elena was still crouched by the wall, blood dripping from the pair of gashed caused by the demon and spreading to stain her pelt a deep red.

"What is she doing?"

"I... I don't know..."

The others watched on in surprise as Star's body began to grow and change. Her form became far larger, almost as large as the demon lord himself. Her claws became long and daggerlike, her fur coarser. Her white mane turned blood red, as did most of the rest of the white coloration on her body, the actual blood staining her pelt seeming to dry out and crumble away. A pair of deep red spiraled horns then grew from her head just in front of her ears, curing up and back around them. Arawn narrowed his eyes coldly, but then gave a dark grin.

"Well, it seems that you've finally embraced your demon blood afterall, daughter. And what brought this on?"

Elena's and T-Bone's jaws both hit the floor at the demon's words. "Daughter?!"

Only Razor didn't seem surprised at hearing this, though even so, seeing his lover's sudden dark change was still quite a shock to him. Star's eyes now glowed brightly with a Hellish fire, and as she spoke, her voice was somewhat deeper, and filled with cruel malice. "Do not call me that..."

"But it's true. My blood flows within your veins. Though sadly it is diluted with werewolf blood."

"You killed my mother!"

"Her soul was mine to take. She lives on in Malfeas, where you belong."

"Never!"

Star howled out and lunged at the black-furred demon, red claws ready to rip and slash. Arawn grinned and tossed Razor aside, ready to counter attack. However, Star's attack had been a mock one. As soon as her father released Razor, she pivoted, avoiding the larger demon's own attack and grabbing the Swat Kat before he hit the wall, jumping back out of the way. Razor struggled to catch his breath, hissing in pain as he could feel that several of his ribs were cracked and possibly pressing against his lungs from the demon lord trying to crush him. Arawn glared hatefully. "For a mortal?"

Star cradled Razor protectively in her arms as she backed away. "More than that..."

The demon growled softly, but then sniffed the air, trying to notice the scent of Razor's blood. His ears pricked curiously when he caught it. "Well, I knew you had changed the girl, but I did not realize that he had tasted your blood as well."

Star pinned her ears. "It was an accident that I should never have let happen..."

She set him down gently next to T-Bone, Razor groaning in pain as his partner looked at him and the female demon-werewolf with a shocked expression. "What the Hell is he talking about?!"

"I'll... explain... later..." Razor barely managed to groan the words out though the pain in his sides and chest. Star ignored the question as she stood back up and turned to again face the demon lord coldly.

"Regardless, the only thing that matters now, is sending you back to Hell!"

She lunged again, this time for a true attack. The demon snarled and met her attack, slashing back with his own long claws. The pair of demon wolves fought viciously, slashing and biting with claws and fangs as around them the entire temple now began to quake. Elena gasped and struggled back up, moving quickly over to the pair of Swat Kats. "Come on! We've got to get out of here!"

Razor winced in pain as the werewolf pulled him up to his feel. "What about Star?"

"There's nothing else we can do! The entire temple is starting to collapse!"

She and T-Bone helped Razor as the three ran for the tunnel entrance. Razor stopped and leaned against the wall, looking back at the pair of battling demons. He barely even recognized Star now, her form more similar to her father's as she fought viciously, her eyes burning with fiery hatred. The Swat Kat was about to call out to her, when he suddenly heard her voice in his head.

~There's nothing any of you can do now. I alone must stop him. I'm the only one with the strength to do so. It's the only way now. Go, Jake. I'm sorry.~

He didn't want to leave her, but suddenly he had to move aside, partially pulled out of the way by Elena as a large chunk of glowing stone fell from the ceiling and crashed down where he had been only moments before, shattering against the floor. Everywhere large stones were falling loose and the pillars were beginning to topple. T-Bone yelled at him from further up the tunnel to hurry. With one last glance at his lover, Razor turned and made his way as quickly as he could, helped by Elena, back up the sloping tunnel.

The three rain as fast as they could despite their painful injuries, all the while fighting not to get knocked off their feet as the ground continued to tremble and quake all around them. They had nearly made it back to the small store room at the end of the service tunnel that led back out to the subway, when they suddenly heard a deafening rumbling sound from behind him, followed by a thick cloud of dust that blew against them with such force that it threw them down to the floor. They all knew that the temple had fully collapsed behind them, with Star still in it.

As they slowly got back up to their feet, Elena shifted painfully back to her own kat form, her sword seeming to shrink to remain in proportion to her size. It's glow faded away as she returned the blade to it's sheath at her hip. Razor looked back down the tunnel. "Do... do you think she...?"

Elena just shook her head, then turned and continued into the service tunnel heading back out the way they had originally came. T-Bone put a gentle hand on his friend's shoulder. "Come on, buddy. Let's just get out of here."

When they reached the subway platform, they could see the demons all screaming out, as if in agony, their bodies seeming to burn to ash from the inside. It was the same when they came back out of the subway to the streets above. All around the demons were burning away, their bodies crumbling to piles of ash that were getting blown away on the rapidly decreasing wind. In the sky above, the dark clouds were beginning to part, bright shafts of mid-day sunlight breaking through to show the vast amount of destruction that had befallen the city. It would take a long time to repair the damage, but at least it seemed that the city was once again safe. They had done it. Or rather, Star had, though it cost her dearly.

The trio made their way back over to the Turbokat, Elena getting into the cockpit behind Razor. As T-Bone lifted the jet back into the air, they were able to see the true extent of what had happened. Not too far away, a large section of the ground had fully caved in on itself, the old buildings on the street above having collapsed into the sink hole. The temple had been destroyed, and with it the gateway to Malfeas. Whatever Star had done in facing her father, had sealed off the gate and destroyed the hoards of demons that had come through. But apparently at the cost of her own life.