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Eldest Sister

Damon remained silent, ignoring the Huang Family's glares. It had been a long time since anyone had the balls to openly glare at him. It was refreshing, annoying, and somehow shaming all at once. Aside from during the war after finding out what his kind had done, he'd never felt shame for being a Fire Devil, and yet, these people, most of which weren't even Yasha, apparently, somehow made him feel shame just by glaring and making him feel unwelcome, unlike the others.

There'd been a feast for them after they'd been introduced to Touhou, but while everyone else ate to their hearts' content, Damon had been given a grand total of about three quarters of a serving. At least until Fang-Fang had given him some of his own food. And then, of course, Touhou had begun to act like a crazy old man, like a half-drunk Kung Fu master in some old movie, and stolen half the food on the table and began to eat it all at once, including an entire roasted bird of one kind or another, bones and all. Then, Fang-Fang's mother, Ten-Ten, had hurled several senbon the length of the dining room table into the side of Touhou's head, ordering him to settle down and eat quietly, her entire aura all but exuding power and malice. Fei-Hong had even admitted her was stronger than him.

Then, Touhou had once again proven himself to be a crazy old man but somehow managing to get Moka to dress up like Lum from Urusei Yatsura, a manga that Damon had read out of boredom once, and tricked her into adding daccha to the ends of her sentences, and calling him darling, only for Moka to spike his head into the ground, receiving a compliment from him immediately afterward on her convincing portrayal. Fang-Fang explained that Touhou had recently gotten into manga and cosplay, and had been getting a bit out of hand. Then, he'd brought up how much she looked like her mother, Akasha. Damon had excused himself from the meal before the others, and when he returned, Mizore, Tsukune, Moka, and Touhou were all in a coma, and Fang-Fang said they had all been pulled into Moka's seal. Then, Fang-Fang had gotten the news that the Miao Family had stormed his father's mansion.

"Wake up Mizore," Damon growled from where he was crouched atop a wall opposite the front gate of a courtyard that was the first place the Miao Family would enter when they made it to Touhou's house. His arms rested on his knees, extended in front of himself with his hands hanging loosely, watching the door with an angry glare and waiting for the Miao family to arrive. "Or at least Touhou or Tsukune."

"That girl in front will be trouble," Ten-Ten was telling Fei-Hong. "I'm not sure even I can beat her."

Fang-Fang stepped out of the building off to the side, glancing up at Damon, and Damon held up a hand, telling him to stay away from the wall. Damon could smell the two groups of Chinese monsters well enough to get an image of what was happening. And he knew that Ten-Ten was probably right. He could sense a Vampire, though he couldn't tell who. Though, since it was Fairy Tail, it was probably Kahlua, even though he couldn't smell her. Then again, his sense of smell had proven to be unreliable recently.

"Who is it?" Fang-Fang asked.

"The Miao Family, and one Vampire, though I can't tell who," Damon said, holding his hand out to the side, forming himself a scale puppet and sending to get Fang-Fang's mother and father away from the Vampire. "I'm bringing their main fighter here. If I don't your parents will probably die, and I can't promise I'll win. But I stand a better chance than your parents."

"Why?" Fang-Fang asked.

"It's a Vampire," Damon said. "And an exceptionally powerful one. Since it's Fairy Tale, I suspect it might be Kahlua Shuzen."

Fang-Fang swore loudly. "Can you defeat her?"

"Yes," Damon said. "Though I can't promise not to trash Touhou's home."

"That's fine," Fang-Fang said. "We're rich. Rebuilding a house is fine. Just as long as no one dies."

Damon nodded. "Don't forget, whenever we get done with this seal situation, and now with the Miao Family, you owe us a tour of China's cuisine and hot springs."

"I won't forget," Fang-Fang said, just as Fei-Hong and Ten-Ten sprinted through the gate, closing it and applying a barrier to it before backing away, stopping below Damon as Damon's scale puppet landed beside him, the scales returning to him and covering him again.

"Is it Kahlua Shuzen?" Damon asked.

"No," Ten-Ten said.

"Fuck," Damon said. "Fang-Fang, get back inside. If you can, get everyone out of the house. See if Yukari can teleport them."

"What about you?" Fang-Fang asked, just as something crashed into the barrier, hard.

"I'll have to entertain your guests for a bit," Damon said, picking up a G36, a full-auto pistol with an extended mag, and a hand grenade in his tail, all three of which his scale puppet had brought back with it.

Fang-Fang watched him for a moment before turning and running inside. Ten-Ten and Fei-Hong both hesitated before following their son. Then, Damon passed the two guns to his tail as well and extended his tails before settling back into his previous position to wait. Then, suddenly, a hand appeared through the door, barrier and all, and swung sideways, the door being cut cleanly. The hand slice the door to pieces and they crumbled, the barrier fading as a girl with black hair, and a black trench coat walked in, looking up at Damon in silence, Damon watching her as well.

"God...dammit," Damon said, standing slowly, then dropping to the ground, landing in a crouch before straightening. "Akua Shuzen. I swear, if it's not one it's the other with you girls. First Kahlua, and now you."

"Oh, so you're the one who beat Kahlua?" Akua asked. "I've heard so much about you. Damon Faust, the Fire Devil King. The Fire Devil who single-handedly slaughtered the rest of the Royal Family to end the war, then slaughtered the next most powerful Fire Devil Family who tried to usurp your throne. It's truly an honor to meet such a worthy opponent."

"Worthy opponent my ass," Damon said. "With your Hougetsu Jigen-Tou, my scales are completely useless. My one true advantage as a Fire Devil is completely worthless against you."

Akua smiled. "You're right. I'm impressed you know so much about me."

"Always know your greatest threats," Damon said, taking the guns from his tail.

Akua smiled. "You're still not going to just allow me to see my sister, are you?"

"Not a fucking chance," Damon said. "She's got an active restraining order against your family. I'm the one currently tasked with enforcing it."

Akua laughed cheerfully. "I like you. You're very brave. I have to kill you, but I like you."

"Thanks, but I'm already spoken for by someone who almost killed me," Damon said. "I'm not interested in having another mate."

Akua's eyes flashed dangerously as she continued to smile. "I wouldn't touch you with a three hundred foot pole with a spear on the end, you filthy lizard."

"Hurtful," Damon said, then shot forward just as the Miao Family's men got into position outside the gate.

He started with a left straight punch at Akua's head, holding the pistol to drill the barrel into her face. She leaned out of the way and Damon squeezed the trigger, bullets ripping into the Miao Family thugs who had been about to step through the gate. After a half second of firing, Damon stopped and spun to his left, swinging the G36 in his right hand at Akua's head from his right. She ducked under it and the gun crackled to life as it passed along the wall out of the house, bullets ripping through it and into the men lined up outside it. He again stopped firing at the last man, and spun, swinging a windmill kick at Akua, who blocked it, only for Damon to jump and flip, his other foot exploding into the ground, barely missing her. Akua smirked from in front of the gate just as the grenade fell at Damon from above and the last dozen or so Miao Family thugs surged toward the gate. Damon jumped, his tail dropping the pin it had pulled, and kicked the grenade, sending it flashing at Akua, who leaned her head out of the way, the Grenade hitting the ground in front of the thugs.

"Oh come on!" one of them shouted, just before the grenade exploded.

Akua smirked, walking forward as Damon landed on his feet, tossing the guns aside and grinning, twirling his finger at her. She raised an eyebrow and turned, seeing the smoke and the blood splattered over the ground. "Oh, I see. You weren't after me yet. You were killing off my men first."

Just then, one of them stepped out of the smoke just as it began to clear.

"Huh, I missed one," Damon said.

"What...only...one guy?" the thug asked, eyes wide as he had apparently expected a small army of thugs from the damage.

Then, the thug collapsed, revealing his blood-coated back and the jagged piece of broken submachine gun stabbed into it.

"Oh, nope, I got him," Damon smiled. "Now then. Shall we get this started for real?"

"Let's," Akua smiled, turning back to him and swiping a hand. "Hyakujin Ryouran!"

Damon shot into the air just as blades of spatial magic energy tore into the building behind him. As Damon flipped, he exhaled a jet of flames at Akua, only for her to smirk, the flames passing through her harmlessly. As soon as he landed, she shot forward, Damon sensing the magic around her hands as she drove one at him. He leaned to the side, avoiding the strike and drilling a fist into her side, blasting her backward, blood flying out of her mouth. She crashed into the building, collapsing a section of it. After a moment, she stood, narrowing her eyes.

"You forget who you're dealing with," Damon said, adopting a martial arts stance. "You're not the only person trained to fight since you were an infant. Your technique is lethal, even to me, but in order to use it, your hands have to make contact, and you have to be solid to strike. With those two facts, I have a chance."

Akua smirked, adopting her own martial arts stance. Then, both rocketed forward. Just before they reached each other, Damon drilled his fist into the ground, shattering it and sending Akua staggering backward before Damon's foot flashed past her, Akua having only barely managed to lean back out of the way, the foot taking off a few strands of hair that hung in front of her face. Then, he landed on his feet and exhaled a short blast of fire, which began to pass through Akua entirely. As she was nearing the edge of the blast, she shoved her hand at him, driving it into his face while still intangible, only to remain that way as his tail passed up through where her heart and brain both would reappear, resulting in what would have been an instant death. Damon smirked at her irritated expression, and stepped sideways off of her hand before moving his tail out of her body. Then, as he was spinning, he swiped his right wing across her face, feeling it make a connection before he doubled the speed of his spin, his other wing exploding into her abdomen before his first wing was off of her face, sending her exploding out of Touhou's house through the wall beside the front gate. He walked out after her as she was standing, spitting out blood.

"I can understand why you beat Kahlua," Akua said. "You're powerful."

"And now that we're in grass, you're in my home turf," Damon said, then exhaled straight downward, lighting the entire area around the house on fire, leaving nowhere for Akua to stand safely.

Akua looked around, then sighed and nodded. "Not a bad move. However, you should know, I've got no intention of burning to a crisp."

She rocketed forward and Damon waited. He'd only have a split second to strike, only when she materialized to hit him. Akua drove her hand at him and he sent his own fist streaking toward her as well from below. However, both passed entirely through each other. Then, just as only the very end of her coat's tail was left, it began to sweep to the side and Damon dove forward, his back splitting open as Akua shrieked in agony. He crashed to the ground, then pushed himself up and turned, staring at Akua, whose clothes were charred and tattered already, and whose entire body was sporting nasty burns. However, after a moment, it regenerated, including her hair, leaving only her clothes damaged. Damon narrowed his eyes and shot forward. Akua smirked, moving to block him, only for him to begin to pass through her, as he expected. Then, just as he separated from her, she shrieked in pain as she moved to slash him again, only for his balled up tail to explode into her abdomen, sending her crashing along the ground.

She plowed up a trench where there was no fire, and when Damon turned, now standing inside the courtyard of Touhou's home again, she stood, brushing the ash that was all that remained of her clothes away from her slowly-healing skin. Her red eyes glared at him, shining with malice. Then, she shot forward, spinning and swiping her hands rapidly, sending out blades of magic energy constantly, which Damon spun and ducked around. Finally, she reached him, swiping at him and he punched through her, spinning and snapping his right wing up, deflecting a strike into the air. He spun, drilling his other fist back at her, only for both it and his wing to pass through him, following by his tail, forcing her to allow her next strike to pass through him as well. Then, she flipped, kicking at him, only for it to connect solidly at the same time as his tail exploded into her face. Both crashed into a wall before exploding forward again. As they neared each other, Damon hurled a flaming spike of broken wood and Akua batted it aside, ducking under a punch and punched at his gut, only for his tail to bat her fist aside, her magic Jigen-Tou instead tearing a gash into his side before his own fist exploded don into the ground, passing entirely through her head. She swung her hand back the other way and Damon's left wing, which was folded down along his back, snapped upward, slamming into the side of her head and hurling her away. She flipped, landing on her feet, just in time for Damon to pass through her with a punch. Then, he flipped and spun, kicking at her, only for it to also pass through her before she drilled an elbow into his chest, sending him exploding through Touhou's house.

He flipped, landing amid his flames and shot forward again, arriving at the same time as Fang-Fang, who slashed at her with his coin sword. Akua flipped, one hand splitting Fang-Fang's left shoulder open deeply and dropping him as Akua's foot crashed into the underside of Damon's chin. He grinned. She hadn't been able to focus her strength into that strike. He flipped, lashing out at her with his tail and shattering the ground as it passed through her. She landed on her feet and swiped at he tail, but it shot to the side, wrapping around her forearm before he flipped, yanking her up into a kick, sending her exploding back into the ground. Then, he dropped, his fist shattering the ground yet again, though she was gone. Then, she burst out of the ground, grinning as he sensed her body becoming more solid a little at a time. She had never had to be solid to attack. He smirked. Well played.

Her hand tore through his abdomen, his scales preventing her from completely bisecting her, but the wound was still bad and fight-ending. He collapsed to the ground as she finished leaving the ground, standing over him and smirking.

"You fight well," Akua said. "It's been a long time since I've had to work that hard to win a fight. Kahlua would definitely have never stood a chance of beating you."

"You're not...so bad...yourself," Damon said. "You let me...think you...had a flaw throughout...the fight...to trap me later. Well...played."

Akua inclined her head. "Out of respect for your skill, I would normally let you live. But you're dangerous, and you ruined my favorite coat."

"Yeah, well...I also...showed everyone that...Yukari has...bigger boobs than you," Damon smirked.

Akua's face darkened instantly and she instantly covered herself. "You pervert!"

"Oh, trust me, I'm not...interested in...your pimples," Damon said. "My girlfriend...and my sex slave...both have much bigger ones."

Akua's face darkened even more and she shrieked in rage, driving a hand down at him, only to leap away from an ice spike at the last second. Mizore knelt beside Damon a moment later, pressing a bandage to his abdomen.

"Hey Snow Angel," Damon smiled. "Good morning."

"I told you not to call me that," Mizore said, blushing but smiling. "You lost pretty bad, huh?"

"Yeah," Damon sighed. "She has an ability that allows her to ignore my scales entirely, and turns her intangible. It was a bit stacked."

"You did well to last as long as you did, Fire Devil King," a calm, powerful voice said from off to the side. "Mizore, put him in the flames outside."

Mizore looked outside, then nodded, lifting Damon and turned, hurling him. Damon grunted in pain as he crashed down in the flames, only for them to begin restoring his strength, his wounds sealing quickly. He pushed himself up, looking to the roof where a man with long black hair, a young face, Touhou's glasses, and an aura of power and authority shining from him standing atop the one wall Damon and Akua's fight hadn't destroyed in the courtyard. Touhou smirked at him, then turned his smirk to Akua. Damon sighed and lay back just as his pet Phoenix, who had ben with Mizore while she was trapped, landing on his chest, cheeping happily and making him stroke its feathers as he waited to finish healing and for Touhou to absolutely demolish Akua.

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