Ryuko closed her eyes as she let her mouth open slowly, razor sharp fangs framing a breath of air that was so hot it steamed in her surroundings, a spark away from being a plume of flames. She remembered what it felt like to wear and be worn by Senketsu...but that was a pale fragment of what she was feeling now. Even the moment when she'd channeled power that rivaled gods through Ddraig in her failed attempt to resurrect Asia paled in comparison to this. Power did not thrum through every cell of her being to the beat of her heart. She was power incarnate, her strength growing to need and desire with a thought. She could feel the fabric of their pocket space struggling to contain the energy she was releasing, and consciously reigned it in, feeling it build inside her as heat and light, the fire of a dragon..

Opening her eyes, she saw the stunned look on Koneko's face and grinned. Looking up, her grin widened as she saw Raiser's Queen - a purple haired woman who seemed to be exploding with magic - staring at her in a mix of rage and fear. "You think a transformation scares me? The legendary Bomb Queen!" Magic circles shaped all around Ryuko before exploding. "You will fall like all others!"

As the smoke cleared, Ryuko floated there unscathed. "So that's your magic, then?" Ryuko asked with a grin. Her tongue snaked out to lick her lips, long and thick. "I wonder how it tastes." She leaned forward slightly.

That was the only warning anyone had before a flash of blue light, Senketsu and Ddraig's cry of "Claim!" and silence reigned until the announcement came. "Riser Phenex Queen...retired."

Koneko's eyes were wide, as she'd managed to track what had happened. Ryuko had blurred forward in a wave of energy, faster than any living being could react. Her fist had slammed into Yubelluna's gut, seeming to go straight through even as Ryuko's jaw clamped down on her neck. Both strikes were instantly pulled back, and even before she could scream the Bomb Queen's magic was ripped from her body even as she was pulled out of the dimensional space.

Ryuko, for her part, promptly spat and choked. "Okay, drama aside, not doing that again. She hadn't bathed since..." She made a retching noise.

"What did you expect when an unattached pretty boy asshole had an entire team of lovely ladies calling him 'Master'?" Senketsu asked idly.

"At least basic hygiene!" Ryuko complained, gagging.

"To be fair, with demons that's somewhat magical," Ddraig pointed out. "If she wanted to remain 'marked' by him, that wouldn't wash out."

"A bit of warning would have been nice!" Ryuko snapped.

"How was I supposed to know you were actually going to BITE her?" Ddraig complained. "I thought you were just being dramatic!"

"You're the one who shaped her teeth and tongue like this from the transformation," Senketsu countered logically.

"We're a DRAGON now! Of course we're going to have razor sharp teeth! That doesn't mean we try to EAT people! I thought you and Ryuko didn't LIKE that aspect of Life Fibers?"

"Okay one, shut up!" Ryuko snapped back. "Two, there's a difference between a bite attack and chowing down. Three...shut up!"

"Ryuko, what did you do?!" Rias screamed in her ear. "We just lost visual for your entire area, and Riser is on the move!"

"Then I guess it's time to clear the board," Ryuko stated flatly as part of the helm lowered to cover her eyes. "Senketsu, gimme locations!"

"Already on it."

"Wait, what-"

Ryuko dove into the main school building. "Promotion...Knight!" Her Evil Pieces responded...and the school building collapsed from the shockwave of her passage as the rest of her teammates were bowled over.

"Riser Phenex Rook, Bishop, Bishop, Knight, Knight, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn...retired."

Riser Phenex froze as that announcement chilled his blood. "What...how? How can any Devil have that much power?" He winced as his arm was shredded by something's passage, only to rapidly regenerate. Looking up, he saw something that made his heart beat out of tune. "Sekiryutei...impossible!"

"Normally when someone says that, they're talking about the other side of me!" Ryuko called out with a laugh. She paused long enough for him to get a good long look at her. "I'm going to enjoy taking you apart piece by piece, Roasted Pheasant."

Riser's fear was quickly pushed aside by rage at the insult. "How dare you mock the child of Phenex! You will burn in my flames!" Raising his arms, he started gathering immense amounts of the flames of his lineage, the almost sacred fire that would burn all before it as it healed the caster.

"Hit me with your best shot...if you can!" Ryuko called back as she shot into the air.

Screaming in fury, Riser expanded the gathered sphere to immense proportions before hurling it into the air at Ryuko...only for her to veer right towards it.

"Ryuko, what do you think you're doing?" Rias screamed out in fear.

"That's the fire that lets him regenerate, right?" Ryuko asked calmly. "It's not sacred or anything, is it?"

"Yes it is, and no it's not," Rias replied. "A Devil wouldn't be able to use it if it were. But it is still enough to burn you to ashes even with all your power!"

"Good!" Ryuko cried out eagerly...and dove into the fireball. She could feel the dimensional space trying to pull her out of what it perceived to be a possibly fatal strike...and willed herself to remain, blocking the recall. She cried out in pain and delight as the flames burned into her body. Senketsu screamed in agonized excitement as he felt what she was planning. Ddraig laughed as he understood the limits of Ryuko's insanity.

"CLAIM!"

The fires swirled and flowed into Ryuko, devoured by her D-Fiber nature and made a part of her. Her wounds healed rapidly as Senketsu repaired, the essence of Phoenix Fire infused into her being...and she continued her dive as another pair of wings made of flames erupted from her back.

"Impossible!" Riser screamed out as he unleashed a lance of flame that incinerated Ryuko's arm...only for fire and fibers to rapidly regenerate it. "Impossible!"

Ryuko grinned eagerly. "You keep using that word," she purred eagerly as she slammed him back into the ground before punching him square in the face, enjoying the sight of it reconstructing in fire. "I don't think it means what you think it means." She then delivered another strike with her other fist.

As Riser's face reconstructed, he groaned as he stared up at her. "Wha...?"

Another strike, though Ryuko was careful to leave his ears intact. "Like I said, I'm going to enjoy taking you apart!" She delivered another blow. "This is your immediate future...until your fires run out or you surrender!" She continued to deliver blow after blow as she kept him pinned beneath her, straddling his chest.

As Riser gazed up at her through reconstruction after reconstruction, his expression changed. From wrath, to fear, to awe...to something else. As the next blow came, he let it...and something else.

"Riser Phenex signals surrender," the announcement came.

Ryuko paused before the next blow landed. "Geeze, only 27? I thought you had more in you." Stepping back, she stretched even as Senketsu and Ddraig returned to normal forms, her Balance Breaker sensing a lack of need. "If I have to do this again, I hope you last longer next time."

As everyone was warped back to where they came from, Riser continued to watch Ryuko, that unknown expression on his face.