Negi's POV: "Rastel Maskil Magister! Duodeseptum Spiculum lux lucis! Septicem spiculum ventus! Tel Ma Amoris!" Letting fly a barrage of magic arrows, I ducked under the swinging sword of another demon, and danced out of the way of the clawed paw of another. Taking flight with my staff, I spin around and kick the demon that tried to claw me in the face, sending it reeling right onto the tip of the other demon's sword as it was freed from the ground. Dropping down, I land on the back of another demon, and push off in time to avoid another swinging blade. "Rastel Maskil Magister! Phasmatis of ventus! Phasmatis of Levitas! Levitas Tempestas! Tel ma amoris!" A thunderstorm raged around me, scorching multiple demons and forcing others away.
"AAIIEE!!" Whirling around at the sound of the screaming. To my left, I saw that the defensive line of students had been breached, and that a few demons were corralling them into a tightly packed huddle. "YOU DO NOT THREATEN MY STUDENTS!!" I yelled, zooming toward them. Jumping off my staff, I land on the largest demon's head. The brute then began to flail about swinging his axe left to right, cleaving apart his fellow demons, while trying to swat me away like a persistent fly.
"OOF!" I grunted as the demon yanked me away, and held me at arms length. "Oh well…this ended well…I'm going to get myself killed…again…Hoo." Swinging myself forward, I brought my legs up and planted a kick, right into the demon's face, sending me falling to the ground as it jerked back in pain. A massive six-foot shuriken then swooped overhead and decapitated the brute. "Thanks Kaede-san!" I called out over my shoulder, before rushing back into the fray.
To my left, Chachamaru was calmly gunning down and cleaving a wide swath through the advancing hordes. To my right Evangeline and Setsuna were fighting back to back with extraordinary grace and skill, evenly balancing long-range spells and up close and personal swordsmanship. Behind me, the defensive line had reformed and was at the moment holding fast. "Wait! Where's Lyn?" Looking around, I couldn't see her amidst the swarm of demons. Then a quick parting in the lines caused by the discord of battle revealed her location. She was surrounded by demons, however neither seemed to be fighting, just staring at something up ahead.
Darting my eyes back to Lyn, I saw that she stood rigid as a board as if frozen by fear, no not that it was hatred, pure, unrefined hatred. Finally, a middle aged, man of average height and a relatively muscular build appeared and walked into the circle of demons facing opposite of Lyn with a silver enameled long-sword in hand. "So you came, Fraulein?" He leered.
"Shut your mouth, you craven wretch." Lyn hissed fists clenched around the hilt of the Ensis Expulsum.
"Such harsh words Fraulein? My, I thought that you would have given up on your little game of revenge. Surely the loss of one pathetic young lordling isn't enough for all of this anger! Oh yes…I see it now…you're protecting the girl that illegitimate Magic Canceller. Heh heh I see, maybe, just maybe I'll take her for my evening entertainment. My… I might even have her as the main course…just the thought of it makes me salivate in anticipation…HEE HEE!" He laughed, throwing his head back in glee.
"HOW DARE YOU!! COME HERE AND SAY IT TO MY FACE YOU BASTARD!!" I screamed soaring toward him, ready to break him into tiny pieces. "WHAT!?" I shouted, come to an abrupt halt.
Before me, a sight that was not meant for human eyes was unfolding. Lyn's skin peeled and hissed as if it was being boiled. A monstrous 9-foot limb exploded from her left arm and flailed about, quickly followed by the appearance of another monstrous right arm, each bedecked with long talon like clawed fingers. The flesh of her legs cracked like a ripe ear of corn and fell away, revealing a pair of dragon-like legs that ended in massive clawed crow's feet. Her face stretched and elongated, and fangs grew from both her upper and lower jaw. Tusks ripped their way out from her cheeks and two swept-back straight horns erupted from her temples, while her eyes lost all color and then turned a dark blazing violet. A black undulating tail sprouted from her lower back and curved outwards, ending in an arrowhead shaped spike. Jet-black scales clanked down her back, stomach, and sides while a ridge of spikes crawled down the length of her spine.
Rearing up, she let loose a bloodcurdling screech and charged forward. She snatched him up in one hand and effortlessly hoisted him into the air. "Come on! Show me your anger! Let your hate seethe and erupt beyond control! Let it consume you, for it will be your very undoing!" he yelled, just as she clamped down on his torso, crushing the air from his lungs. A small rivulet of blood began to trickle down from his nose, as Lyn tightened her grip. A sharp crack pierced the air as a rib cracked, and he vomited up blood, spattering the fingers of Lyn's hand red with it. Lyn tightened her grip even more, making him cry out in agony and forcing him to cry blood. With a final sickening crack, he was crushed in the grip of Lyn's massive paw. Blood and crushed bit of gore sprayed from between her fingers, painting the ground and her front with blood.
Turning towards the surrounding demons, which looked like tiny rag-dolls in comparison she growled and made a mock charge towards them, sending them skittering backwards in fear.
"Heh heh… Is that all…Oh you great monstrosity? Is that the best a pathetic fool like you can muster? My…I barely broke a sweat! Now! Know my name! I am the Corrupter! The Purveyor of Inanity! I am Azmodan! Lord of Sin! And you weak fools will be my slaves by the end of this fight!" With that, Azmodan reappeared from a haze of red and black fog. He stood twenty-three feet tall, with massive spiraling goat horns sprouting from his skull. His hair was made out of writhing serpents, and when he opened his mouth, he revealed a double-row of shark-like teeth and a snake for a tongue. Where fingers and hands should have been, instead he had octopus like tentacles complete with suckers that squirmed and flailed as if they had a mind of their own. He also had seven clawed toes on each foot and four arms. Two whip-like tails dragged across the ground behind him.
Lyn leapt at him, claws out, and ready to tear him apart. "Cor Corru Corrupt! Phasmatis of Obscurum! Phasmatis of Glacies! Phasmatis of Calx! Phasmatis of Ventus! Redimio quod laqueus meus hostilis pro etenity! Dimensional Carcer! Corrupter!" A cube shaped prison with eldritch symbols carved into it appeared and surrounded Lyn, obscuring her from view. "Is that all!? No struggle to tear free? How sad!…But still it makes it all too easy now to capture you all and make you into my slaves, as it should be for weak fools like you!" He chuckled.
"Feig Dummkopf*" I yelled, speeding towards him. To my left, Evangeline flew along swiftly, hands ready to cast a spell of great destruction. Raising my hand to attack, I felt Evangeline place hers on top of mine. "Together!" She said, looking me in the eyes. Nodding in agreement I focused on gather up energy for the appropriate spell.
"Lic lac li la lilac! Rastel Maskil Magister! Phasmatis of Obscurum! Phasmatis of Ventus! Phasmatis of Glacies! Phasmatis of Levitas! Vindico quod frendo nostrum inimicus! Procella of Atrum Levitas quod Thunder! Tel Ma Amoris! Lilac!" An angry wave of compressed Lightning, darkness and thunder roared outward and smashed into Azmodan, lifting him clear off his feet and into the air. He reeled backward and slammed back onto the ground, where he lay still.
"That was a very nice try, but I won't be defeated so easily! It takes a man to kill a monster! Not a pair of pathetic dogs like you!" He laughed, as he stood back up, grinning like a loon.
" Damn!" I heard Evangeline snarl in response. I silently agreed. Turning back to face him, I was slashed in the side by one of the tentacles that extended from where his hands would have been if he was human. Whirling, I found myself being slapped around, receiving two more slashes, one across the cheek and one to the stomach. Evangeline was slammed into a tree, and then pinned down by the wrists. *THUD* getting up from the ground, I watch Azmodan open his mouth, and stick out his tongue toward Evangeline. As it turned out, his tongue was if anything too long to be normal. It extended from his mouth and kept traveling, the snakehead's jaws gaping, directly towards Evangeline. Pulling myself back onto my staff, I kick off the ground and grab the snake-headed tongue right behind the head.
"Rastel Maskil Magister! Phasmatis of ventus! Consurgo quod plaga meus hostilis! Aero Vesica! Tel Ma Amoris!" A quick, concentrated blast of wind sheared off the snakehead. I let it drop to the ground, as Azmodan's eyes bugged out of his head, and he made a retching noise before retracting his damaged tongue. Turning, I dived downward and swooped underneath Evangeline and caught her, albeit rather clumsily.
*CRASH* Turning around I saw that Lyn, still in the same form that she was in when trapped, had smashed her way out of the Dimensional Cage. Azmodan saw it too, and lashed out at her with the same tentacles that he had used to slash Evangeline and me. The blows had the general effect of bee stings against her for all it mattered, considering that she shrugged off the blows without any visible effort. "GRR…NO! Stay back! Back I say! Cor Corru Corrupt! Phasmatis of Incendia! Phasmatis of Obscurum! Ignite quod perussi meus inimicus! Astral Pyre! Corrupter!" A roaring inferno of red-black flames shot from his hand and expanded outward, smothering Lyn in their intense heat and- then they were gone and continued her slow deliberate single minded advance toward him.
Lyn suddenly leapt forward, pinning him under her massive bulk. Raising one massive paw, she held him fast, while she slashed and tore at him with her tusks and talons, ripping deep, foul gashes across his chest, face, arms and legs. Pressing down on his chest, she clawed across his stomach ripping it open and splattered his innards over the ground, splattering the trees and grass with blood and flecks of gore. Apparently not satisfied, she proceeded to rip out his ribcage and toss it aside in a shower of blood, forcing a scream of agony to fly from Azmodan, as he quivered weakly on the ground. Now with the demon's heart laid bare, Lyn thrust her head forward and ripped it free with her fangs, before crushing it in her massive jaws.
Rearing over her slain enemy, she bellowed in triumph, shaking her head from side to side. "Hmm…To see that you've made it this far, is truly amazing, but all things must end and unfortunately for you, your time is up. Ab Absol Absolute! Phasmatis of obscurum! Phasmatis of incendia! Orior oriri ortus quod servo vestri own verus vinco! Frendo tine hostilis , quod macies vox grows! Coniecto Nightmare! Absolution!" A dark red-black-purple specter burst from the mist and slammed into Lyn, with such power behind it that it forced her back into her human form, where she lay stunned and unconscious. As the mist cleared, an inhuman figure lumbered into view.
The creature before us was like something out of a nightmare. He stood at least 45 feet tall, was hunchbacked and had a huge pair of bat wings jutting from his shoulders. He had long gorilla-like arms with a spike on each elbow. He had only a small pair of beady yellow eyes that seemed to glow with an inner light in his massive head. His head was crowned with a ring of curling goat and bull's horns, surrounding a solid oval shaped gem-like mass. As he approached, the ground shook, and demons parted before him, forming a column. "So." He rumbled. "Are you the ones protecting that illegitimate Magic-Canceller? If you are step aside, and I will let you live, refuse and I will destroy all that you hold dear, beginning with the Erstwhile Guardian."
"Tirips fo ssenkrad, emusnoc ym luos, tniat ti, ruoved ti, dnib ti, wolf hguorht ti, tnarg em eniht ecnatirehni! Release Sixth Seal! Reaper of Darkness!"