The roar of the exploding bombs was nothing compared to the noise that now tore across the night sky. It was the cry of a mother who had just had her children taken from her, the fruit of her labors consumed in a flash of heat and blinding light. Her heart and her whole universe had been shattered in an instant… again.

"I almost feel sorry for her…" thought Moka's outer self.

"Don't…" her other self told her.

"MURDERERS! MONSTERS! FILTHY MAMMALS!"

"Sorry queenie… An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." replied Akua.

"Now for the honor of our father, you must die!" bellowed Kokoa.

"You think you can destroy me with your pitiful bat?"

The queen opened her mouth and started gathering energy.

"MOVE!"

Tsukune and the others barely had enough time to avoid the blast before it swallowed up a whole portion of the woods.

"¡Mierda!" exclaimed Diego "That's Spanish for, holy shit!"

"I HAVE LAID WASTE TO WORLDS AND CONQUERED ENTIRE GALAXIES CENTURIES BEFORE YOU WERE EVER BROUGHT INTO CREATION!"

"I'm willing to bet you conquered most of those planets with the help of your offspring, and you've said it yourself that you've never encountered a species like ours before." said Tsukune.

"Enough talk, let's fight now!"

"KOKOA, NO!"

WHAM!

Without warning Kokoa was smacked by the queen's tail and was sent skidding across the ground.

"Oww…"

"Even without my children, I am still more than a match for you murderers… I have kept more than enough yokai energy for myself."

"We'll see about that."

"Whatever you do, don't let the orbs on her hands touch you."

"And Kokoa has already demonstrated that it would be a good idea to watch the tail…"

"Let's get this over with so I can go home to my daughter." said Moka.

"If Mikogami doesn't find Takara soon, Moka's gonna be really pissed…" thought Ruby.

"Okay… One three we all charge her together. Ready? Three!"

Tsukune pulled out the Kaiser Katana and led the group, but suddenly huge towers of ice and dirt erupted out of the ground in front of them.

"Look out!"

Kahula was sent flying as a pillar erupted beneath her feet.

"Just what I need… a late night snack." said the queen.

"Oh no you don't!"

Moka leapt up and kicked the queen hard in her knee, the queen reacted by swiping at her with her claws, but Moka dodged it.

"This one's for Harold!"

Demona conjured a huge icicle and chucked it at the giant lizard.

"Oh please…"

The queen shattered Demona's projectile with a laser eye blast.

"No one said it was going to be easy."

"Well let's see how much her royal monstrosity likes this one."

Yukari and Ruby started chanting something that Tsukune and the others couldn't understand, finally they pointed their wands at the queen and zapped her with huge bolts of energy. Right before their eyes she turned into a bunny.

"Cute."

"You're going to have to do better than that…"

The queen shot up into the air like a rocket, Tsukune and the others tried to pursue, but she sent bolts of lightning raining down on them.

"Tsukune, I think she's chanting a counter curse!"

But the warning came too late, the queen had already returned to her normal form.

"All the pain that you have caused me tonight, I will return it tenfold!"

"It serves you right! You and your kind have destroyed entire races of people!"

"And I will destroy many more once I have disposed of you! You still don't get it do you? I am the top of the food chain; I am the dominant life in the universe! Look at all the alien races that have already died at the hands of my kind, look at your pathetic human race and your fellow yokai… You crumble, you die, but I go on, and I will continue to survive."

"Is that what this is all about?" asked Tsukune "Survival?"

"Yes! Survival is all that matters and I must say you yokai and your humans know this better than most of the other races I've destroyed. But you spend all your time hiding in the shadows, and still you die!"

As the alien spoke, Mizore couldn't help but think about her own race. With all the fuss about aliens her other problems seemed to be pushed out of her mind, but now she remembered the horrible truth.

"I'm running out of time…"

"The only way you can ever really feel secure is by knowing that all threats to your existence are dead! And I will crush anything and anyone that gets in my way!"

"What good is it to survive when you're left all alone?" asked Tsukune "We yokai have coexisted with humans for centuries and we still live, but you made war with us and now your nest is destroyed!"

"Once I've taken care of you I will lay more eggs, and with the energy of such powerful yokai at my disposal nothing will be able to match my children! We'll devour every last sentient being on this planet until we suck it dry!"

"Sorry your highness, but you're the one who's about to become extinct!"

The queen started laughing, and it sent a chill down everyone's spines.

"I've already admitted that your races are stronger than any I've faced before, but I've absorbed enough of yokai to ensure that even your combined powers are no match for mine."

"Well… Then I guess we'll just have to call in some reinforcements."

Demona and Mizore both conjured a whole battalion of ice dolls and sent them to attack the queen, but she just opened her mouth and vaporized them with a jet stream of fire.

"Haven't you pathetic mammals been listening? All your plans are futile!"

"Oh are they? Now Diego!" bellowed Akua.

Diego pounced out from the trees behind where the queen was standing and landed on her head.

"Eat this alien scum!"

Diego took his knife and rammed it hard into the queen's head; blue blood came spewing out of the wound.

"You… bastard…"

The queen fell flat on her stomach. The impact shook the whole area.

"HELL YEAH! I GOT HER! I WON! TAKE THAT YOU BITCH! NO ONE CAN MESS WITH DIEGO THE RAPTOR! I AM GOD!"

"Is he always like this?" asked Moka.

"Most of the time."

"I AM DIEGO THE RAPTOR! SLAYER OF BIG FAT UGLY POWER SUCKING ALIENS!"

Just then the queen's arm started to twitch.

"Uh… Diego."

"OH LOOK AT ME, I'M A BIG SLIMEY ALIEN WITH HORNS AND TUSKS, BUT AT HEART I'M JUST AS WEAK AS EVERYONE ELSE ASININE ENOUGH TO TAKE ON THE RAPTOR!"

"What… was that… asshole?"

Diego immediately fell silent and dropped his knife.

"No one… but no one… makes me bleed."

"No fucking way! I stabbed you in the brain! You can't be alive!"

The queen blasted Diego off of her with a burst of water, which unfortunately was one of a vampire's greatest weaknesses.

"With the powers I've absorbed from vampires and countless other yokai, I can heal just about any wound almost instantly, even severe head trauma."

"You think we stand a chance?" asked Kahula.

"No…"

"As someone famous once said, if it bleeds we can kill it." said Tsukune.

"And how do you propose to do that?"

"Maybe it can heal even severe damage to its brain, but let's see it get up again when its brain is completely removed from its body."

"Hmm… Sounds like a plan. After all that is what killed your predecessor Udar the Wicked." said Akua.

"Is it now?"

Tsukune held the Kaiser Katana at the ready and stood to face the alien.

"You said I'm more powerful than any other species you've ever faced. You want this power? Then come and get it."

"Gladly…"

Tsukune and the alien both leapt at each other.

"SPADE SLASH!"

Unfortunately the alien dodged the crescent shaped bolt of energy that Tsukune had fired from his sword. He started gathering energy to fire another blast, but as he did something caught his eye.

"What in the name of…"

SLASH!

"TSUKUNE! NO!"

(To be concluded)