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"This chick is insane!" Danny couldn't help but shout as he dodged the volley of wing slashes aimed at him. Though since his stamina was a lot higher than Rin's due to the fact that his demon's heart was fully awakened, along with his more developed and diverse skill set, he was fairing much better against the Senor Exorcist First Class.

"Oh come on, is that the best yer got!?" She laughed wildly as she continued to swing around her sword. Even though Rin had hardly been able to grasp the position of the attacks from the woman's swings, Danny could sense the demonic energy moving through the air, allowing him to 'see' them coming. Though with the speed of the attacks, he was still left with little time to dodge.

As one came a little too close for comfort, Danny turned himself invisible and intangible, moving through the air to try to avoid further damage as he planned out his next move.

"Invisibility? Yer think that old trick will work on me? Kid, I'm a pro." Shura said, clapping her hands together four times and starting to chant in an old dialect that Danny couldn't understand.

Danny could feel his form being condensed by a static pressure in the air as he was forced back into the visible spectrum. "Oh great." He said as she rushed him with a stab that was intended for his shoulder. But to her surprise when it passed through him his body turned to a white mist and she found that she really had pushed her blade through Danny's mist-like tail. The tail solidified and wrapped around her wrist before flinging her away, but Shura artfully recovered and was back on her feet before even Danny was.

"Well yer can turn yer tail into a copy of yerself. Pretty high level skill yer get there." Shura said as she prepared for another strike.

"Took me a while to get it down. You wouldn't believe how many ways there are to mess it up." Danny said, rubbing his butt. "Man even though it wasn't solid when you struck it, that demon sword of yours still hurt my tail. It's a water demon of some kind, am I right? Since wind and water both fall under fluid mechanics, water demons can often have air pressure based attacks. Just like insect demons include winged demons, which is why your more basic birds still fall under that category."

"For someone that doesn't want to become an exorcist, yer sure do know a lot about demons." Shura said coolie. She moved with enough speed to be just a blur in Danny's vision.

The boy put up a shield all around him, but the woman was no were to be seen. He looked left and right, even turning around, but he couldn't see her. "Try lookin' up!" Danny was shocked when Shura smashed straight through the top of his shield and pinned him to the ground with the blade of her demon sword pressed to his throat. "Yer need to take things more seriously if you don't want to wined up dead. Yer didn't even try attackin' me." Shura said with a scoff from her position of sitting on Danny's stomach. "Danny Fenton, the son of Maddie and Jackson Fenton. Looks like your parents managed to lie while under a demon contract that was supposed to force the truth from them. They must really have wanted to protect you. The rumored Frankenstein's monster they created. A truly artifical demon."

"You're wrong." Danny gasped. "They... they never even knew about me. They never... knew I was a demon."

"Huh? How could they have not known? I mean, what kind of exorcist parents could seriously over look somethin' like that?" Shura asked, his face looking a bit in disbelief as she pulled the blade away. She was done testing the boy's skills.

And he was skilled, for a demon anyways, but refused to use his powers to actually go on the offensive, which could possibly hurt her. 'Self righteous brat. I hate people like that. Doesn't he know Chivalry is dead' One part of her mind said, but the other part added. 'Maybe this have nothing to do with men or women. Maybe he just isn't much of a fighter.'

"I only became a demon a year ago, just after an accident. I never told my parents anything, because if I did... well, you know how exorcists treat demons. And my parents were considered extreme even by the Order's standards. They would have killed me in my sleep." Danny said as he rubbed his neck, glad that the older exorcist seemed to be content with whatever she had been trying to do by attacking him.

"Well that's messed up. Next question, why is a guy like yer doing workin' for Mephisto?" Shura asked.

Danny sighed. "My parents had some big plan for connecting to Assiah to Sheol, the Ghost Zone. But in order to do it, they needed knowledge, the kind that they could only get from one place, a Demon King who specializes in the Earthly desire for knowledge, Mephisto." Danny said, recounting his understanding of the story. "So after finding out what they wanted it for Mephisto made a bet with them. He would give them the information they needed, but in exchange, if they were ever caught using the info to break taboo... Mephisto would become the legal guardian of both me and my sister. Though that all happened before I was ever even born. Just over twenty years go after they were first banished from the Order."

"So yer saying that Mephisto basically owns your lives." Shura said sounding disgusted.

"After that he just kept giving me jobs that he knew I wouldn't be able to refuse, no without putting peoples lives at risk." Danny said looking over at the woman.

"So is it safe to assume that yer weren't the one that busted yer folks out of the slammers. And now yer've been put in charge of teaching Satan's son to control his flames?" Shura asked. Danny only nodded in response. "So Mephisto is using one taboo to teach another. What is he thinkin'? When the big brass finds out about this his head will be on the chopping block."

"Anyhow, now's my turn to ask a question. Why haven't you killed Rin? The Vatican ordered it didn't they? And even if they hadn't, your run of the mill exorcist would have killed him anyways, without even a second thought." Danny asked, sounding more than a little accusing.

The woman scoffed. "Hey, that's my own business and I'm not about to talk to yer about it."

"Hey no fair, I answered your questions." Danny said in a bit of a pout.

"How ever said life was fair?" Shura said with a grin. "Life sucks, and anyone that tells yer otherwise is an idiot."

"Jeez, and the students think I'm a pessimist." Danny said sarcastically. "You sure your an Knight of God? Don't really act like an exorcist... or dress like one."

Shura began to laugh again. "A Knight of God? Oh please, I've never prayed even once in my whole life." She said tilting her head in a seductive manner. "Prayin' ain't never helped anyone. And as for bein' an exorcist... well, there isn't much else you can do with yer life after yer've got yer soul bound to a demon sword. Though I suppose yer know what I mean there. I tried to run away from it at first, but yer'll find that it's easier to just accept it and go with the flow."

"Just accept it and go with the flow? You mean by doing something like killing Rin? Heck, the Vatican would probably sentence me to death too. So you aren't exactly going with the flow." Danny pointed out.

"Well... to tell you the truth I'm holding out on my report. Mostly because of something the idiot said." Shura admitted before snorting. "He told me he was going to become the next Paladin!" She said before bursting out laughing.

"The... Paladin." Danny repeated smiling. "Sounds like something Rin would say." He closed his eyes. "If only he really could become Paladin. For a guy like him to make Paladin, it you prove that this world is a better place than I give it credit for."

"Oh, so what would yer do if he really did make it?" Shura asked. "Don't you pretend you don't know he has the potential to be one of the most powerful exorcists there is. So what would you do if they really did make him Paladin."

"I don't know. Maybe I'd become one of his Archknights." Danny said thoughtfully.

"'Maybe'? Jeez yer no fun." She said bitterly. "Whatever, interrogation is over. You're free to go." She said opening up the door. They both walked out, having a bit more to think about.


Talk with Mephisto tomorrow.