I know, its shorter then the last one, but i just wanted to finsih this on a good note, and i figured you guys had had enough of my bad fight scenes. other then that, in the future, i might be longer in putting these out, as i will be going to college on Aug 20th, three days a week, 9am-10pm. then my job might be almost everydaay as well, and thats construction.

brutal...dosn't come close. anyway, once more, Thanks to Seele, one of my new friends, and best reviewers. (wait, ive only had two people...PLEASE review)

ok, im done.

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Chapter Eleven

The wind howled as it blew around the clashing warriors. Talon and Jake's weapons shot out sparks every time they hit, bits of molten rock flying everywhere. The earth broke apart as Jake summoned forth a literal wall of spikes that lanced for Talons black form.

Laughing, his face a twisted mask of maniacal glee, Talon didn't even bother to dodge the attack, simply bashing through the stone as though they were nothing more then tissue paper. Still laughing, he grabbed Jake's head in his right hand, and started pressing. "Crusssshhh..." He hissed out, as the earthen armor cracked and broke beneath his titanic strength. Never-minding the hard hits that Jake was landing with his huge spiked fists on his chest and stomach, the demon simply continued to smile as he pressed down even harder, breaking the armor off completely.

The claws digging into his skin, Jake frantically slammed his oversized fists into Talons unyielding body. Blood starting to run down his face as the claws ruthlessly dug deeper and deeper in to his head, and as he started feeling his bones give way, he grabbed Talons arm and stamped his foot. A thick pillar of stone shot up directly beneath Talons jaw, and the crack of snapping bone resounded across the plain, and his hand released Jake's severely hurting head.

Back-flipping several times, Talon landed easily on his feet, crouching down and that vile grin still fully in place. The wound already closed, he smirked as he began pacing on all fours around Jake, their eyes very once letting go of the other. "Easy fucker!" His voice still harsh, he carried sarcasm very well. "We've got all night to fight. No need to get hasty! HAHA!" Standing tall, his now seven foot frame towered over Jake's stocky one. Arms flung out wide, he cried out in ecstasy. "AH, I'd forgotten just how good the real world feels! Normally all I can do is watch from the background inside Talon's damn head, and even the, only rarely. But now! Now I am free, and ready to kill!"

Pointing his left index and middle fingers at Jake, he smiled before speaking again. "And what luck! I get to kill someone right away." Without turning his head, he spoke to the girls who stood horrified at his words. "And don't worry girls! Like I said, I'm just gonna fuck you two until I'm sated, then kill you! And as for you..." A black aura of fire, four inches in diameter, began to rotate around his outstretched claw-tips, and blackish-silver lightning twirled around it at three short lines, smaller bolts flickering between the three.

His eyes narrowed his burning gaze into lines of fury, and his maniacal grin showing off his elongated canines, took up almost his entire face before he unleashed his attack. The orb exploded outward, transforming into a foot thick line of roaring black fire, and twining silver lightning. The ground beneath it and for almost twenty feet to its side's were vaporized as it passed by, and Jake himself disappeared in the explosion of it striking.

Teela and Adora threw their hands before their eyes, shielding them from the debris and the backlash of energy. The dust clouding the area, it was brushed aside by Talon's wind. Turning to them, he smirked, the remains of Jake's armor smoldering on the ground fifty behind him.

Striding for them slowly, he was cockier then all hell. His eyes roamed their bodies with a hungry leer, the lust and arrogance apparent in his gaze.

Struggling backwards, their bodies numb from horror and the intense presence he generated. Teela, still working her way away, yelled out desperately, trying anything to make him realize, to wake up. "Talon! What the hell are you doing!? It's us, Adora and Teela, remember?!"

His face flickered in indecision, but was wiped away so fast Teela didn't know if it had been real. In an instant, Talon had grabbed their neck's, and lifted them off of the ground. Leaning in close, he ran a long, pointed tongue up and down their necks, poking out from behind his sharp teeth, sensually tasting them, the fear that roiled off them intoxicating to his mind. "Don't you understand yet?" He asked, "Talon's not here right now."

Adora tried to pull his fingers away from her throat, but in vain. "Then who the hell are you?" she asked, her voice trembling in fear.

He brought his face close to her's, his breath hot, so hot it dried her sweat. Putting his mouth close to her ear, he licked it slowly, and spoke as she gasped. "Me? ...I am...his better half."

"Not from where I'm standing."

Dropping the girls, Talon spun around, but didn't make it before two thin stone lances pierced his hide, parts of his lungs and heart hanging out on the ends, the girls doused in his boiling blood as it sprayed from the wounds. Gasping as he fell to his knees, his head was jerked back roughly by a large, heavily burnt hand.

Jake stood there, his entire right side carrying third-degree burns, blood oozing from the cracks of the now inflamed and leathery flesh. "That's one strong fucking attack ya got there, hell spawn. Even when I was almost six feet down and off to the left, it still managed to do this to me. I'm not gonna let you have time to regenerate." with that, he placed his foot in the middle of Talons back, and yanked downward sharply.

Tightening the muscles of his neck, Talon resisted the pressure, but his spine slowly started giving way under the power of Jake's entire body.

The crack of a rock smacking into his flushed forehead was clear, as was Adora's arm motion. A large, tired grin adorned her features, and then collapsed to the ground, the smile still plastered on.

Jake still reeled back, more from surprise then pain, but more then enough time for his enemies to rally.

Teela grabbed Adora and started dragging her away, uncaring of the multiple puncture wounds that she carried, but not before she hissed to Talon, "That's all the help your getting!"

Talon had already pulled out the spikes, and steam once more gushed from the wounds, healing him. Standing up, he knew that this battle was nearing its end. Jake's fucked up enough that I can beat him if I strike soon, but the damn wounds still not closed. And Talon's starting to retake control. His thoughts were quite suddenly cut off as Jake's massive axe crashed down for his skull. Rolling back out of range, Talon rolled to all fours, dug his clawed feet into the ground, and shoved off.

His clawed hands outstretched for Jake's heart, Talon flew through the air and slammed into Jake hard enough to send them both soaring, only to land as Talon immediately started slashing and pounding on Jake's burnt side, eliciting gasps of pain as the force got through the armor. Spines shot out of the armor, and Talon brought both hands down hard, piercing both hands clean. His insanity was enough that he didn't even bother to pull away. Digging his claws deep into the armor, he raised Jake high above his head, smirked, and twisted, bringing him head-first to the ground.

The hit broke the earth around it, but Jake merely smiled and, even upside down, the helmet he had made protected his head. In retaliation, he launched several bullets from his hands, pounding Talons armored scales. The hits left him in the dirt once more, but his quick spring-up left him again on the offense as Jake sank beneath the earth. Talon, eager to continue the fight, knelt on one knee, placed his left on the ground, reared back with his right, and punched directly into the ground.

He buried his arm up to the elbow, and was about to pull away when he felt a hand grab him and yank him under.

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Teela dragged Adora to the aircar's, blood flowing down her legs with every step. Her left hand pressed against the wounds, stemming the flow a fraction. Looking down at her best friend, Teela was scared. Hell fire! Adora's out cold, I'm bleeding like a stuck pig, and Talon's gone on some sort of Death Incarnate/Hell-man/Vlad wannabe. Even those thoughts couldn't make Teela less fearful of both Talon's possible death, or, possibly worse, his return.

Laying Adora on a seat, Teela dug out the field-kit and started dressing her wounds. Four minutes later, as the disinfectant and pressure bandages did the work, she turned her attention to Adora's wounds. Thank the Elders, their all shallow cuts. Relived that Adora didn't carry a thousand deep wounds, Teela quickly swiped the facial cuts with more disinfectant. It's official, nothing bothers Adora when she's sleeping. Teela thought, after noting the peaceful look on her face. If we get out of this, I am so gonna ask her to teach me some magic. Similar thoughts raced across her mind, a hint of normality in her crazy life.

But the crack of thunder atop the mountain made her jump, and even Adora twitched in her sleep. Looking at the horrible visage of Snake Mountain, she swore she saw Talon and Jake fighting atop it. No way, its not possible for them to get up there that fast.

Five minutes ago

Talon was seeing the earth beneath his feet in a whole new light. Namely: pitch blackness, and actually in his eye. Now, normally this wouldn't be a problem as he had superb night-vision. The lack of light itself was a problem however, and the dirt clogging up his lids was annoying. Talon was lucky however, as being what he was, he had three eyelids. The outermost one was a normal lid. The second inner was crystal clear, and used for dusty or water-exploration. The innermost one was thickest, blocking the glow that his eyes normally gave off, and opaquing his vision somewhat. It was however, the strongest of the three, able to withstand the rocks and stone that were currently trying to dive-bomb his eyeballs.

The blindness would have to wait, for the pressure was beginning to let up, and next thing he knew was that he was flying through the air. The dirt being burnt away by his internal flames, his vision cleared just in time for him to see the stone wall right before he met it.

Headfirst.

Jake grimaced as he emerged form the earth, his left hand held against his right side, a thin trickle of blood running down into his left eye. Looking on the pile of rubble that marked the spot where Talon had hit the wall, he didn't wait for Talon to strike. His hands whipping about in sharp, fast motions, he solidified the earth around him, entombing Talon's body. Both hands out-thrust before him, fingers curled in claws, he squeezed both shut, and the rock about Talon imploded.

The settling silence was eerie to Jake after the long, hard battle that he had endured. A tired sigh escaped his lips, right before a rumbling shook the mountain, and the tomb cracked clean down the middle, fire blazing from it, only to erupt in a storm of stone shards, molten rock, and fire.

Bent over, blood dripping from a dozen wounds that were closing before his eyes, bones shifting back into their proper place, Talon stood. His head hung low, but laughter boiled out of his frame, sick and twisted in the joy of feeling pain. "AHHHH HHHAAAA!!!" Head flung back, rock flying off of him, his eyes blazing in full fury. "I LOVE IT!! The pain, the fear, the helpless rage you give out! It's better then any drug!!" Looking right at Jake, he held his hands out to his sides, the molten rock flowing behind him, the winds whipping his black clothes and smokey essence around him in a whirlwind of power. His smoke trailed about his head, leaving only his left eye visible, before he spoke again, joy punching into every word. "Give me more! Attack! NOW! Come on! Come on!! COME ON!!!!!"

With that, he struck. Moving so fast he left behind a dust trail, his right smashed into Jake's face, the armor cracking and falling apart with his first blow. A left came as a body blow to his right side, the armor falling before it, his scaled knuckles breaking the fragile skin apart, blood gushing as Talon pushed forward, his claws digging in and literally pulling out his kidney. Waving it before Jake's pain-filled, dying eyes, Talon grinned as he bit into it and swallowed half, and then slapped Jake with the other. Tossing it to the side, he landed punch after punch. Leaping upon him, he dug his feet into his chest and his hands into his shoulders, and reared back and head butted him, driving Jake back to the head of the lowermost snake.

A double-handed hammer-blow brought Jake to the ground, only to be dragged back up by Talon's hand in his hair. A frown adorned Talons face as he regarded Jake. "Is this it? This is your limit? You're a pathetic waste of my time you fucking piece of shit." Wasting no more words, his right hand grabbed Jake's head and started crushing down. He only grinned as he applied more and more pressure, as Jake's eyes rolled back into his head, blood running down the open wounds. His bones failing, he felt an incredible pain as his skull shattered, blood and bone, brains and veins flying off of the mountaintop, coating Talon's hand and dripping down his corpse.

Letting the now headless body fall, Talon kicked the corpse off the mountain, watching as it fell over a thousand feet to hit bottom. The impact didn't reach up to him, but the now askew body parts testified too the force of the hit. Rearing back, his unearthly roar sounded across the barren plain, ash and dust swirling about him, lightning framing his black form, thunder puncturing its high points. At last it ended, and he stared down at the girls, his eyes roaming their bodies hungrily. Looking back at the hole he had been thrown from, he eyed disdainfully all the options that presented themselves to getting down quickly.

Shrugging, he leaped off the head, digging his claws into the stone and slowing his fall enough that he landed easily on the next ledge. Landing on it, he suddenly grabbed his head and fell to his knees, grunting as pain blossomed in his skull. FUCK! Talon's starting to reawaken! If I don't hurry, he's gonna get back control before I can have my way with them! Once more leaping off, he quickly made it to the ground and took off for the girls, eager to satisfy his carnal desires.

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Teela only barely managed to roll out of his initial grab, but his next one caught her leg and pulled her back. His claws tearing the clothe of her uniform's back away, leaving the back of her white bra exposed, she lashed out with a vicious thrust of her heel, hitting him square on the jaw.

Released from the grip, she scrambled back, clutching the front of her shirt to keep it in place. Her back touched the stone wall behind her, and before she could move away, she was pinned in place, Talon's right encircling her throat and dug into the wall, and his left already groping her right breast. Disgust and horror spread across her face at the idea of what he planned to do to her. His face leaned close as he ran his long, hot tounge around her face. He's gonna rape me...he's actually gonna rape me.

Oh hell no.

Her right leg came up right between Talons legs, catching him square full on. She felt the impact, and his head bowed as the hit connected.

Rasing his head, Talon smiled at her. "That could have really hurt. Don't be so worried bitch. I wont be Too harsh on your virgin body..." Grabbing the remains of the shirt, he was about to rip it off when he froze, his eyes wide and blankly staring off in the distance.

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Inside his mind, Talon had managed to drive his demon back, locking it in place behind the door he had erected long ago in order to keep it sealed away. It's screams and shouts reverberated throughout his mind-scape, and his demon clawed and scraped every inch of the way back to its dark cell. The door slamming closed, Talon turned to see something new forming from the mists that floated about his mind. Its shape slowly formed into that of a tall, shoulder length brown hair, pale white skin, and soft, caring eyes.

Surprise was all that covered Talon's features, closely followed by pure joy. "Cassie!" he cried, engulfing her in a hug that lifted Cassie off of her ethereal feet, her laughter ringing about Talons convoluted mind. Her laughter echoed down the billions of thought corridors, down the dark pits of negative emotions, and into the lighted places of happy times that pockmarked his mind. "Cassie! Where have you been?! I thought you had been destroyed when He got loose?"

Cassie stared up at Talon's lit face, and smiled back as she let go of his embrace. "I know, and I'm sorry that I worried you so. But after he got loose, he did indeed attack me. I was only able to survive by fleeing down your thought paths. He tried to find me, but you know him, easily lost." soft laughter came between them, but Talon brought them back on track soon enough. "Is that why he got loose? I mean, aside from the fact that I got really angry?"

Cassie looked away, shame coloring her face. "Yes. I know that you entrusted his imprisonment to me, but after the battle I ran from, I was unable to fully reseal him. I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it," Talon said, smiling. "Your back, which means that we can hold him back once more."

"Indeed." She said. "But right now, you need to get back too the outside. I will remain and guard him again."

"Good Luck Talon."

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Talon fell to the ground, unconscious and heavy. Once he hit the ground, his body was engulfed in the blackish-silver flame for a second, before it dissipated, leaving behind his human body, clothes and all returned to normal.

Teela sank to the ground, the wall's thick, smooth stone gently easing against the silky flesh of her back.

Still clutching the front of her shirt, she stared down at Talon, his normal body a sight for sore eyes. It was a lot harder then I thought it would be. Adora is ok, and I'll be fine. Talon though...is that why he keeps everyone away? That power, that rage?

That evil?

She never got the chance to answer those questions, as she lost the battle to stay awake, and all three slept in the barren fields of the Negative Zone.