Max spread his 10 tails and felt their power, he looked at his hands, and they were scaly and red with blood. Max looked up, Grenadeel had miraculously healed all of his wounds. And for some reason he had materialized into his iron form though this would probably the most vulnerable one.
Max leapt at Grenadeel but his limbs felt like they were made of ice, he could barely move them, Grenadeel took a neat step over to Max and sent him flying with a punch.
Grenadeel:" Did you really think that having 10 tails is easy, it took me well over 20 years to master mine, you´ve had yours for 2 minutes, they´ll probably kill you before I do".
Max got up slowly with his limbs and charged two small fireballs in each hand and fired them at Grenadeel, the two orbs smashed into each other becoming one huge ball of fire, Grenadeel smirked and caught the fireball with one of his tails.
Grenadeel:" It seems that you´ve discovered that you can still use weaker spells, but those won´t even scratch me".
Grenadeel took the fireball in one hand and began to generate black flames into it.
Grenadeel:" This is an attack".
The fireball acted like a black hole and swallowed Max in, Max managed to get out but with burns and some cuts. Max thought to himself, and then he came up with a plan, Max withdrew eight of his tails.
Grenadeel:" Have you finally given up".
Ma leapt over to Grenadeel and stabbed him in the arm with his claw.
Max:" Hardly.
Max back flipped away and released on of his tails.
Grenadeel:" I see, by lowering your power to a point where you can control it you´re looking for the optimal way to defeat me, clever, very clever, but you´ll die before we get there".
Max and Grenadeel became locked in a fist to fist battle, the two warriors fired their punched like New Year's rockets and every hit left a terrible mark on their opponent's body, but even though Max was faster, Grenadeel had the obvious power advantage. Max leapt back and released another tail making it three, Max sent two lightning bolts at Grenadeel who just managed to block with an ice shield. Just as the lightning had struck Max shot at Grenadeel with his fists covered in thunder, fire, and rock the punched his point blank and hammered Grenadeel into a wall. Max then continued to pummel Grenadeel with all his might, but he soon realized that he wasn´t hitting anything, he stopped and looked around, Grenadeel had become invisible again. Suddenly Max felt himself being jabbed all over his body, eventually he was knocked into the ground, Max got up very beaten and released two tails so he had 5. Max shot into the air and began to breathe fire everywhere, every building was demolished, water evaporated, and trees turned to charcoal, suddenly Max saw Grenadeel standing in the middle of the flames in an iron form. Max charged up his energy and fired a huge flaming fox at Grenadeel. The fox blew huge fire rings at the enemy demon scorching the ground. The smoke cleared and the fox evaporated. But Grenadeel stood like nothing had happened, except it seemed that there was ice standing around him, Max realized that Grenadeel had summoned his own beast to counter Max´s. Max finally released all the way up to his 7th tail.
Grenadeel:" Honestly Max do you really think that you can beat me with anything less than 10 tails, amusing".
Max launched himself at Grenadeel:" I don´t think it".
Max punched Grenadeel into the air and released at huge combo of punches:" I know it". Max then used then underside of his fists to slam Grenadeel straight into the ground, thanks to his steel body Grenadeel didn´t get injured, but he got very, very mad. Suddenly Grenadeel drove his hands into his flesh and ripped out the shards with all his might he smashed them and his body disappeared, suddenly all the ice around them evaporated, and the wind settled, also the things of metal that had been lying around them seemed to have disappeared.
Grenadeel: It´s all your fault you disgusting pieces of the earth, to hell with ruling this world, I will destroy it and create a new one in my own image".
Max:" Holy crap you´ve gone insane".
Max used the earth shard to create a tower that worked as a launch pad, he then shot himself at Grenadeel spinning incredible fast with his claws stretched out. Grenadeel caught him in mid-air and ripped out the fire and darkness shards before immediately smashing them. All the surrounding shadows disappeared and suddenly Max felt empty inside, like a piece of him had been ripped out.
Max leapt back and found himself slower and weaker. Suddenly Max realized what was at stake, Grenadeel was slowly ripping the world apart, and Max drew into himself and released all ten tails.
Grenadeel:" You honestly still think that you can beat me".
Max leapt at Grenadeel this time faster than the eye can see and smashed his face into the ground, Max then proceeded to punch, and punch and punch, until all that was left of Grenadeel was a bloody mess. Max went over and collected as many of the broken shard pieces that he could find before his tried to repair them with the life shard. But suddenly Grenadeel launched himself at Max pummeling him several meters into the ground, Max could feel several teeth being ripped out in the process.
Grenadeel:" You believe that you can defeat me, the most powerful existence in the planet, face it Max, compared to me you're like an ant, and now without your element your more like a leaf".
Max suddenly felt an urge to die, something he hadn´t felt before, it was like his body was begging him to quit and get it over with, but something held him alive it was several small voices calling for his help, Max realized that it was the shards, they were begging him to save them. Grenadeel charged an energy ball into his hand and prepared to fire it at Max, Max turned around just as the ball was launched and hit Grenadeel with it. The demon lay twitching on the ground with an evil grin.
Max:" Look at what you have done Grenadeel".
Grenadeel:" You trying to make me regret now Max, I guess it´s too late for that, I´ve killed hundreds and hundreds of people and I won´t stop until I have what I want".
Max walked over to Grenadeel and with one gesture his sword Oblivion came to his hand.
Max:" Like a spoiled brat".
Then he pierced Grenadeels skull, (or probably his skull since Grenadeel was of course invisible) and killed him.
In one final moment Grenadeel managed to utter:" Huh pitiful". Suddenly all the shards glowed brightly and out came a hook from each of them. The grabbed Grenadeels flesh and tore it apart. The pieces then fell through the ground and suddenly a loud scream could be heard. Then a large beast, each resembling the shards spirit came to life. Max backed off and drew his sword.
Water Shard:" Do not fear us Max, we wish you no harm".
Max held tightly around his sword but nodded in approval.
Wood Shard:" As you can see we have sent Grenadeel to the deepest parts of hell".
Light Shard:" For only there can people who deserve crimes more severe than death repent".
Max:" So it´s over now, he´s dead, he won't come back"?
Thunder Shard:" No Max we cannot say if he will escape, but for now his soul will stay there".
Max:" I guess that's better than nothing".
Max looked at the pieces of the broken shards in his hand, suddenly the life shard went over and the stones regenerated and their spirits came back to life.
Fire Shard:" Max you have without a doubt saved the world, is there anything we can do"?
Max was quick to answer and shortly after he found himself a year into the past. Back when they left him. The past Max was playing with chomp while the others were packing away. While everybody but past Max were inside the present Max closed the Time machines door and started the engines. Then he walked back to his own house in his time, where Zoe and Lellia greeted him with open arms.
The End
Or is it, next week there will be a time skip chapter 16 years into the future all I can say is be prepared for wedding bells. Also I know that the end came very sudden and it isn´t because I don´t like this fic, I just wanted to get it over with so I could start a new one.
