Max leapt at Grenadeel throwing Oblivion away and drew his claws; he began into an intense close combat battle.

Max:" Shard of the Wind bless my fists with you speed, Shard of Earth bless my claws with diamond hardness".

Suddenly two lights appeared on Max´s shoulders one white one brown. Max fought at amazing speed making it almost impossible for anything to see his fists. On more than one occasion he hit a wall, the wall shattered but Max´s claws remained intact and sharp. Unfortunately Grenadeel wasn´t just anybody and seemed prepared, he dodged almost all of Max´s attacks; the ones that did hit did little to no damage.

Max:" Why can´t I hurt you anymore"!

Grenadeel countered Max by smashing him into the nearby wall as they began a power struggle, Grenadeel attempted to force his claws into Max´s heart while Max tried to keep the claws away from him. Almost like a flash Grenadeel moved his hand to Max´s shoulder and in a quick motion he ripped out three shards. After that there was a light and Grenadeel was gone again. Haikou slowly walked over to Max.

Max:" Where were you"?

Haikou:" Wait and see, how's the shoulder going"?

Max:" I lost the Iron, Wind, and Ice shard, luckily my arm heals thanks to the Life shard".

Haikou nodded.

Suddenly the entire field turned into one large ice plate. Before anybody could react Max and Haikou were smashed through the ice and somehow they had been caught underwater as if it was possible. Suddenly an iron figure grew ever closer and Max could see Grenadeels horrible form. Grenadeel had long sharp claws and his arms were completely asymmetrical, one was like a bodybuilder on steroids, the other one was like the bones in his arm had swelled up. His 10 tails were nearly 20ft long and a disgustingly rusty color, each one ended in a huge spike. But the most terrible was his face, the ones smooth round and dare I say, kind of handsome, had become deformed with muscles growing huge around, his lips had become small and pointy, his hair seemed to have disappeared, and his neck just looked like a huge disgusting piece of flesh.

Grenadeel:" Disgusting isn´t it, in this form you could say that I am the devil himself, anyway thanks for the ice shard Max, who would have thought that your first shard would become your doom".

Max could feel the oxygen slowly leaving his lungs, what more was that the icy water was draining away his energy even faster. Suddenly a large thunder strike hit Grenadeel and shattered the ice; Haikou and Max leapt up for air and were on their feet shortly after.

Behind them stood Rex all charged up with thunder.

Max:" I´m guessing you saved your girl, but where's that other guy".

Rex remained silent and instantly both Max and Haikou new that he must have died.

Rex:" Zaleilah went out to evacuate the town so we don´t need to hold back anymore".

Grenadeel got up:" So I assume that you haven't fought all out to protect the town, noble but very, very stupid".

Haikou:" Look who´s talking your fighting us three against one, but it looks like you ugly enough for 50 so I guess that makes it fair".

Grenadeel cracked his ugly neck and suddenly his disappeared again.

Grenadeel:" Amusing I think I´ll get rid of you first".

Suddenly Haikou was blown into a wall while the wolf coughed a small pool of blood and fainted.

Max looked at Haikou but didn´t move so not to be detected, Haikou looked fine but they would have to end the fight quickly, Max looked at Rex that nodded back, the two powered up, fire and thunder, now the real battle had started. Suddenly both Rex and Max´s wounds closed Max looked over at Haikou, he didn´t know how but somehow the wolf had healed them.

Max and Rex launched several 100ft into the sky and saw that all the villagers had safely left the town shot down streams of fire and thunder that bathed the entire town in flames, the flames destroyed nearly a quarter of the town but died out shortly after they had been set a flame.

Max:" Did we get him"?

Max was answered by being punched into a brick wall. Rex followed suit just after.

Rex:" At least something cushioned by fall".

Max: Get off me you idiot"!

And Rex did, shortly after Grenadeel took on his steel Golem form once more.

Grenadeel:" Clever idea Max, you thought that by burning down the entire area you would hit me one way or another, only problem is Max, remember the little Ice Shard you lost, well I managed to fuse it´s abilities with the Wind Shard creating this"!

Grenadeel launched his body forward firing a huge blizzard at Rex and Max throwing them far away. Rex grabbed Max by the shoulder and released his wings; he barely managed to keep himself afloat with the extra weight and the endlessly powerful winds.

Rex dived behind a nearby house pretending to fall. Suddenly however he saw a huge ice shard shooting towards him there was no escape, but luckily Max managed to melt the ice with a fireball. But Grenadeel kept firing ice shards and soon Rex was forced to land.

Rex:" Max I have an idea".

Max:" Okay spit it out".

Rex lifted one of his swords while muttering "Please forgive me". Rex swung down the blade cutting off a large portion of Max´s arm. 5 Shards fell to the ground, Water, Thunder, Earth, Tree, and Death. Max picked up the shards and absorbed them.

Max:" What the hell was that for Rex".

Rex:" Look Max if he manages to kill you then he´ll get all of the shards and my chances of beating him alone are terrible, but maybe if we both fought using different powers we´ll have an advantage".

Max:" Whatever you say but let´s get out there and kill that bastard".

Max leapt into the sky and began melting the thousands of ice shards that flew against them, meanwhile Rex flew up and launched a huge water canon at Grenadeel. The attack hit but did no apparent damage.

Grenadeel:" You think a little water will stop me".

Rex responded by sending a huge thunderbolt after Grenadeel. The attack hit at Grenadeel that just stood there in shock of the immense pain, when the shock had ended he had lost several tails and half of his right arm was gone.

Grenadeel:" How dare you".

Suddenly Grenadeel shot a gigantic beam from his mouth that moved at the speed of light instantly knocking Rex out of the air destroying one of his wings. Max ran to his hurt friend well aware that Grenadeel would have to recharge after such an attack.

Rex lay one the ground bleeding heavily. Max closed the wounds by burning them but Rex didn´t react to the pain.

Max:" Just hang on we´ll get you to safety".

Rex looked at Max and they both knew that this was Rex´s last fight, he might have survived this attack but he would definitely die soon, if he fought on. Rex rippes out the remaining shards and gave them to Max.

Max:" Can you fly"?

Rex:" Not really, but I should be able to get to safety, now go his this motherf****r"

Max answered by turning around and launching himself into the sky, he landed a little in front of Grenadeel.

Grenadeel:" So did I manage to kill him".

Max didn't answer.

Grenadeel:" I´ll take that as a yes, now let me guess, you're here for revenge, but guess this, I won´t die no matter what you try, so just give me your body and let's get this over with, nobody has to die, except you, and we´ll all be happy".

Max:" Not a chance in hell".

Suddenly Renitsune materialized and began to shine brightly behind Max two tails erupted out, now all of them appeared all the way up to 10.

Renitsune:" Max your body won´t last long in this state".

Max:" Give me ten minutes and then tis will be over".

Grenadeel laughed:" Finally after so many years another 10 tail has been born, don´t I just chose the best bodies, well enough talk, lets end this.

TBC

So hey guys long time no see, you know what worse than being sick for three weeks. Being sick for three weeks where one of them was a vacation. Anyway I´m back on track so until next time peace out.