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Settled
Damon scratched the side of his head as he leaned back against the tree, listening to Ruby and Moka's conversation. However, just as Ruby agreed to investigate Hokuto, who Moka had seen with Kiria, Kiria appeared behind Ruby, a massive scythe formed from Kiria's Monstrel body in his right hand, already slashing. Ruby began to turn too late, but Damon had seen Kiria first.
Kiria's scythe halted just shy of Ruby's back as Damon's scale-covered left hand caught the shaft of the scythe. Kiria's eyes widened. He yanked on the scythe, which was still attached to him, but it didn't budge. Not until Damon's right fist exploded into Kiria's gut and his left opened, allowing Kiria to explode through a tree.
"Damon!" Ruby breathed.
"You're too slow, Kiria," Damon snarled.
"Is that right?" Kiria grinned, suddenly behind Damon, scythe pulled back.
"Yes," Damon said calmly, his tail suddenly extended from his back, having impaled Kiria through the gut on its way out, the hole about six inches wide.
The tail wrapped back around, the end of it wrapping around Kiria's throat. Damon looked back at him, smirking.
"You're helpless," Damon said. "I could snap your neck like a twig. If this is all Hokuto can manage for entertainment, then you're not worth my time." He retracted his tail, allowing Kiria to collapse to the ground. Then, he turned to Ruby and Moka. "Ruby, head to the committee building. They'll need you."
Ruby nodded, turning and forming her wings, flying away quickly.
"You and I are going to see the headmaster," Damon said.
Moka nodded and they turned, walking away from Kiria. After about twenty minutes, they walked into the headmaster's building just as Hokuto, who had somehow gotten here before them, along with the others, drove a spike into the headmaster's back, a massive lattice of growths sprouting from the spike all the way along it, making the already severe wound ten times worse. Then, just as the headmaster collapsed, Damon reached Hokuto, slamming his foot into Hokuto's face in an areal roundhouse kick, Hokuto exploding through the stairs off to Damon's left, then the wall behind them. A moment later, Tsukune was kneeling beside the headmaster, his pupils slit and his eyes red.
"You captured him and brought him here right?" Damon asked.
"It was all a part of his plan," Tsukune said.
"What do you want?" Damon asked.
"I'm going to destroy the Great Barrier protecting this school from the humans, and send the world into chaos," Hokuto said, standing.
"Not without this you aren't," Damon said, picking up the headmaster's crucifix and tossing it to Mizore. "Protect that for Tsukune."
"Don't you mean for you?" Mizore asked.
"Since when have you ever cared what I wanted?" Damon asked.
Kurumu knelt, preparing to attack, but she stopped when Damon hurled a fireball, blasting the ground in front of her.
"Don't even think about it," Damon said. "The last thing we need is a piece of peasant filth like you getting in our way. You're too weak to help here. Leave this to us. And get that fucking cross off of Moka's neck."
"Only Tsukune can pull it off," Kurumu said.
"That sucks, then," Damon said. "Guess we're going to do this without her."
"Why?" Yukari asked. "He could just-"
"No," Ruby said. "Hokuto's too strong. If they don't focus on beating him, he'll win."
"I'll be taking the Rosary of Judgment, now," Hokuto said, turning to Mizore. "And I think I'll kill the person you trust to keep it safe from me."
Damon appeared between them, eyes narrowed to slits and smoke curling out of his nostrils and the corners of his mouth. "Over my dead body."
"My thoughts exactly," Hokuto said.
Then, he was in front of Damon, only for Damon to divert Hokuto's mutated arm blade out to the side, the blade cutting through Damon's scales, though only enough for a small scratch. Then, Damon through a punch of his own, only for Hokuto to catch it, grinning wickedly. Then, Damon's curled up tail exploded into his gut, launching him away before Damon began to expand. He was careful to keep it slow and controlled, growing rapidly, gaining two feet as his shirt and jacket all but exploded off of his ballooning muscles, his wings spreading behind himself, his tail uncurling and curving so that the end came to rest beside his left leg, the tail itself in an "S". His legs grew digitigrade, and his pants split from the bottom of the pantlegs to about mid-thigh, the tattered pieces all catching fire suddenly and burning away so there was nothing hanging loose. Lastly, Damon grew his scales over his entire body and shook his head, his snout and horns growing in as he did. Then, he blinked and his eyes had become yellow, the irises almost filling the visible part of the eye with a slit pupil and light glowing from the eyes, spreading outward from the pupils, like the light of a fire.
"So, the Fire Devil has something he wishes to protect," Hokuto smirked.
"No," Damon snarled. "I've got a cockroach that's been begging to be stepped on."
Hokuto chuckled. "I see. Then by all means, step on me."
Damon shot forward, punching downward at Hokuto, only for him to lean out of the way, then transform his right hand into claws, almost a dozen of them. He slashed at Damon, who leaned out of the way before roaring. Flames exploded into the ground like a shuttle's booster rockets, Hokuto only barely avoiding it. The flames shot outward, igniting almost a quarter of the room. Hokuto glared at Damon, then smirked, leaning out of the way of Tsukune's fist, slashing at him and tearing several gashes into his chest before drilling a knee into his gut. However, before he could do more, or move at all, Damon's fist exploded into his side, sending him exploding out through the front of the building. Damon walked after him, only for Hokuto to suddenly explode out of the ground, smashing his fist into Damon and sending him exploding backward into the stairs, shattering them. Tsukune, who had been running for Moka, skidded to a stop just in time to leap to the side away from Hokuto's suddenly extending claws, one slashing a deep gash into his shoulder and another punching through his side before ripping sideways out of him. Damon exploded out of the stairs, speeding across the ground in a blur and beginning to slash and punch and kick at Hokuto, only for Hokuto to keep up with him, blocking and countering when he could, only for Damon to also fend Hokuto off.
"I've been training since I was a child!" Hokuto sneered. "A spoiled prince would never understand!"
Then, Damon's tail drilled itself through Hokuto's gut, flicking him off of itself into the air before Damon's fist exploded into his fist, sending him streaking at Tsukune, who met his face with a punch of his own. Hokuto crashed to the ground in a heap and began to stand as Damon stormed toward him, flames roaring off of him.
"I may be prince, but I am very far from spoiled!" Damon snarled. "You don't know the first thing about Fire Devils. We live to fight! We live to kill! You've trained to fight since you were young, but my first battle was the day I was born! I've been fighting a war since your grandparents were considering whether or not it was worth it to piss their diapers and have their mothers change them! If you think you frighten me, you are pathetically mistaken! But what can you expect from a foolish child who enrolled in a monster academy on accident to escape an abusive father, then became a mutant, half-blood chimera to save his own ass?"
Hokuto roared in rage, both hands transforming into dozens of blade-like claws as he exploded forward. However, when he reached Damon, Damon roared, flames engulfing and washing over Hokuto instantly, the flames dragging Hokuto backward and blasting him into the wall as they continued to wash over him before Damon stopped to breathe. They all watched as Hokuto pushed himself up slowly, growling furiously. Then, there was an explosion of supernatural energy from off to the side and Moka was suddenly in her vampire form, screaming in pain and with her Rosary's chain halfway disconnected from her collar. After a moment, her scream ended just as Kiria flipped over Damon, landing beside Hokuto, his scythe's blade extended along his right forearm, and currently held at Mizore's throat.
"I'll take that," Hokuto sneered, yanking the Rosary of Judgement out of her hands. "Kill her."
Kiria grinned, but before he could blink, Damian had reached him, yanking his blade away from Mizore's neck with his left hand before his right hand had grabbed Kiria by the face. Damon plowed through every wall in the building, all the while tearing a trench into the floor with Kiria's head, then the ground outside for a ways before hurling him. Kiria bounced and flipped along before stopping, pushing himself up and snarling in rage.
"Don't give me that," Damon snarled. "You're annoyed me for the last time, Kiria."
Just then, a beam of light shot out of the ground behind them and Damon turned, seeing Tsukune jump into the beam, which had shot up around Moka and Hokuto. Damon heard Kiria coming and turned back to the front just in time to block Kiria's blade with his claws.
"You're not going to win doing stupid shit like that," Damon snarled. "I warned you not to annoy me, and I told you to stay out of my way. You broke both of those rules. Now, I'm going to remove your stain from this world."
"Things are getting interesting at last," Kiria hissed, literally drooling in excitement.
He shot forward, slashing at Damon rapidly and Damon ducked and weaved around the blade before suddenly stepping forward and drilling a punch into Kiria's face, sending him staggering backward. He planted his foot, managing to stop himself, only for Damon's foot to crash into his chest, hurling him away. As Kiria stood again, snarling angrily, Damon rolled his eyes, flames exploding into existence on his hands.
"Just get lost!" Damon roared, flapping his wings and leaping forward, streaking across the distance between them before slamming the fireballs into Kiria's chest.
Both fireballs exploded and Kiria shot away from him, flipping and spinning as he went. Then, Damon turned, walking back inside just in time to Ruby, Yukari, Kurumu, and Mizore in the spell circle taking up the middle of the floor a second before the headmaster teleported them. A moment later, Damon found himself standing in a massive room with darkness filling it and pillars every couple meters, the room too dark to see the ceiling or any walls. He looked around, seeing light shining up from the ground off to the side, the control device for the Great Barrier.
He flew over to it and landed inside of the three control panels. The Rosary of Judgement was in a small cross-shaped slot in the center one and he placed his hand on it, looking to the others as Yukari was explaining to Moka and Tsukune that transferring the barrier their supernatural energy would save the barrier. Damon smirked, beginning to shove his supernatural energy into the rosary, reverting to his human form as he did, blinding light shining from below him. Everyone stared in awe as the light began to lighten. After a moment, Mizore rested her hand on top of his, adding her energy. Then Ruby. Then Kurumu, Yukari, and Moka. Yukari was the first to drop. Then Mizore, though Damon was facing her, so he managed to catch her and set her down gently. Kurumu went next, then Ruby. As Moka began to drop, Tsukune caught her just as Hokuto stepped up beside Damon, his left arm and his body below his ribs transformed into something resembling a cross between blades, claws, and a skeleton.
"I think it would have been interesting if you and I had met somewhere else, Tsukune," Hokuto said. "I was wrong. You are also a human who is trying to survive this academy."
He set his hand over Damon's, and within seconds they had not only finished saving the barrier, they had also strengthened it. Damon pulled the rosary out and flicked it to Tsukune, who caught it just as Hokuto collapsed. Damon's tail shot out and caught him, moving him away from Mizore before setting him down, Tsukune kneeling beside him worriedly. Then, a few moments later, Tsukune was out too. Damon sighed, turning as the headmaster's bodyguards, all of them wearing dark suits, arrived. Damon huffed, lifting Kurumu and Mizore in his arms and Moka with his tail.
"I'll let you handle the others," Damon said.
A few of them walked over, picking up everyone else who was unconscious, and then led him out of the basement. They headed to the infirmary where they dropped off everyone who was injured. Then, Damon left, heading back to his room and to bed.
Damon ignored the way the other students went out of their way to avoid him. He didn't care. If they didn't go near him, he didn't have to clean himself as soon. However, after a few minutes, he stopped as he saw Tsukune and the others, Mizore wrapping her arms around his for a moment before Moka dragged him forward into the festival, Mizore losing her grip on his arm but following after him. He watched them for a few minutes as Yukari, Moka, Kurumu, and Mizore al fought to be closest to him. Only Ruby wasn't, though she was looking around, like she was looking for someone, probably him. He grunted and turned, walking away from them, leaving the festival and heading back to his room. Once there, he sat down and pulled his obsidian project out, finishing putting it together, his claws allowing him to work with the obsidian more precisely than he could otherwise. A few minutes later, he had finished, slipping the obsidian watch onto his wrist. It had obsidian rectangles for the arms, the shell, the clock's face, arms, and the clasp. There was glass over the face, like a normal watch, and the inner workings were the same as a normal watch's, but it was receptive to magic, because it was created by his flames, which had an element of magic to them. As such, the watch had accepted his protective charm beautifully, and once it was on, he felt warmer. It wasn't perfect, but it was better.
He coughed into his elbow, then grimaced and opened the window, spitting phlegm out of it, hitting a student in the head and chuckling as he closed his window again. Then, he sighed. He hated the cold.
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