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To War
Damon watched the fortress draw closer. The time had come. They were infiltrating Fairy Tale's headquarters. It was a floating fortress called the Floating Garden. It was surrounded by artillery and antiaircraft guns, soldiers, both human mercenaries and monsters, patrolled with M16s, and even from this distance, Damon could smell Kahlua, Akua, Miyabi, and something far, far more dangerous.
"Those stupid fuckers," Damon growled.
"What?" Mizore asked.
Damon was silent for a moment. "A plan as simple as this is going to get us all inside."
They were on a Fairy Tale airship, supplied by Hokuto, wearing Fairy Tale uniforms, supplied by Hokuto, and getting in using a plan supplied by Hokuto. Damon hated it. However, once the fighting started, he had permission to let loose as much as he wanted, so he could bear with it. Finally, the blimp landed and Damon, Tsukune, Ruby, Kurumu, Mizore, Yukari, and Fang-Fang stepped off of it, looking around at the massive hangar. It was a little surreal. Like something out of a shitty movie.
"So this is Fairy Tale's headquarters," Tsukune mused.
"It's so cool!" Fang-Fang gushed. "It's really a castle floating in the sky!"
"Don't let your infantile age show, Fang-Fang," Damon said. "We've got a job to do."
"I'm not a child!" Fang-Fang snapped.
"We got in so easily," Mizore said.
"It looks like we won't need to worry about the others coming in later," Yukari grinned.
"Of course," Hokuto smirked from off to the side, rolling over slowly. "We've spent an entire month preparing for this."
"Don't get superior," Damon growled. "Don't forget, once this party starts, you're on my list too, you fucking cripple."
Hokuto glared at him, before smirking. "I must say, our uniform actually does look quite good on the two of you, Damon, Tsukune. Allow me to welcome you to Fairy Tale."
"Thanks," Damon growled. "Now, which way do I go to rip this piece of shit out of the sky?"
"It's been a month since Moka was taken," Tsukune said. "We've waited long enough."
"Too long," Kurumu said.
"Take us to Moka immediately," Tsukune said.
"You're the same as ever, Tsukune," Hokuto smirked. "Come with me." He turned his wheelchair, only to find Damon in front of him, eyes narrowed.
"Don't forget that we don't trust you, Hokuto," Damon snarled. "You try anything funny, or lead us into a trap even once, and I'll rip your head off, then draw Moka out by destroying this place and torching Fairy Tale."
"Have at least enough faith in me to follow the plan," Hokuto smirked. "Otherwise this plan will fail just because you wouldn't try."
Damon glared at him, then stepped out of his way. Hokuto wheeled himself away and the others followed. They passed easily through a gate using passes Hokuto had given them, then followed for a few minutes, only for Tsukune to sneak into a meeting after sensing someone horrifyingly powerful, forcing the others to follow. The person in question was Gyokuro Shuzen, the leader of Fairy Tale and Kahlua and Cocoa's birth mother.
"Stay as far from her as you can, and keep your energy hidden," Damon warned. "Vampires are skilled at sensing supernatural energy, and Gyokuro is practically a prodigy at it. Even Fire Devils know her name. She's dangerous."
The others all nodded.
"Everyone, there's really only one reason why we are gathered here today," Gyokuro began. "Finally, the time we have all been waiting for has come. The revival of our god, Alucard."
Damon dropped his head, covering his mouth and swearing into his hand. That was what he was sensing below them. He looked up again as a massive screen off to the side turned on.
"Right now, I shall show you her current form," Gyokuro continued, the screen displaying Moka in a white dress, kneeling obediently for the camera. "This girl is the daughter of Akasha, the one who sealed Alucard. After many years of examination, we have identified that the key to releasing the seal on Alucard lies inside her." The camera swung around, showing Alucard just in front of Moka, who was kneeling not ten feet from the monster. "That key will soon open the door. It is almost time for the awakening of our god."
"Th-That huge thing is Alucard?" Fang-Fang gaped.
"If that thing wakes up we'll be in huge trouble!" Yukari breathed.
"It won't come to that," Damon growled.
"Also, the awakening of Alucard marks the beginning of Fairy Tale's revolution," Gyokuro continued. "Kill the humans. Slice their meat, crush their bones, and use their blood and guts to hold the most extravagant party. Come now! And we shall engrave into their corpses our everlasting fantasy world!"
Monsters all through the room began to transform into their true forms.
"It's getting kinda rowdy in here!" Yukari said, shying away from the monsters."
"Oh?" Gyokuro asked. "I sense someone who opposes my speech. Eight of you. Oohh, and one of you is a rather rare find."
"I told you she was sharp," Damon growled, extending his claws.
"It would seem like some rats have found their way in," Gyokuro smirked down at them, eyes locking with Damon's.
"No way!" Tsukune gaped. "She found us in this huge crowd?"
She reached over to a support pillar beside her, ripping out a massive section of it three times taller than her, then turned, hurling it directly at them. "Right there."
"Go," Damon snarled, his scales springing from his skin just in time for him to raise his left hand, the pillar stopping against his hand, shattering instantly.
"Damon!" Mizore said, worriedly.
"I said go!" Damon snarled.
"Well, well, a snake protecting rats," Gyokuro smirked.
"Intruders!" one monster shouted.
"They're Lady Shuzen's enemies!" another roared.
"And you're all nothing but tinder," Damon snarled, inhaling.
"Stand down!" Gyokuro snapped, the monsters all stopping and backing away, Damon narrowing his eyes as he watched her. "I'll deal with that one personally. He'll massacre all of you and not even break a sweat."
Damon smirked, then roared, sending his flames washing over the monsters anyway. They roared and wailed in despair and agony as they burned and Gyokuro sighed, shaking her head. Tsukune and the others took off running and Damon lifted into the air, glaring at Gyokuro as he ripped his uniform's shirt off, the shoes burning away, along with the pants below his knees, and his tail extended behind him.
"At least you recognize me as a threat," Damon said.
"Oh, no, not a threat," Gyokuro smirked. "Simply a higher class of monster than the scum you just massacred, exactly as I predicted."
"Well, if you think they're the only scum in the room, obviously I need to teach you some respect," Damon growled. "You're nothing but a rat with wings wearing some pretty makeup. And rats do burn so well."
Gyokuro began to laugh, the laugh quickly growing into a cackle. "Well then let's see about that!"
She exploded off of the balcony, streaking toward him, and he grinned widely, flapping his wings and streaking forward to meet her. He leaned aside from her punch and his own fist collided with her face instantly, sending her exploding backward into the wall. After less than a second, she exploded out of the wall again, flipping and kicking downward at him, only for him to brush the attack aside. Then, his own foot snapped up, his shin exploding into her from the right side of her waist to her left shoulder, collapsing her ribs entirely and sending her exploding into the ceiling. She began to fall and he spun, slamming a spinning kick into her back, shattering her spine and ribcage and sending her exploding into the wall. Then, he spun, his tail snapping out and batting Kahlua aside as she leapt at him from behind.
"You're far too weak for this, Kahlua," Damon said. "I don't want to kill you. Your sisters would be devastated. Stay over there like a good girl."
Just then, Gyokuro's power suddenly skyrocketed and he spun, only for her fist to explode into his chest, shattering his scales and sending him exploding through several walls, out into the open air. He flipped, snapping his wings out and focused, his scales regrowing, as he had spent half a month to figure out how to do following his brief scuffle with Tsukune. Once his scales were back, he shot forward, reaching the same room he'd just left in time to drill his fist into the floor where Gyokuro had been a moment before, less than a second before she had the cross-shaped hairpin that was her limiter back in her hair. She cast it aside and snarled in rage as Kahlua joined her, her own limiter removed and her right arm transformed into a dozen batwing blades. Gyokuro opened her hands and a pair of eyes opened in her palms.
"Just die!" Gyokuro shrieked, a massive bolt of electricity exploding out of her left hand's eye, missing Damon by a hair's breadth as he turned profile and leaned back.
The lightning bolt tore through the Floating Garden and demolished a massive trail of it, killing dozens of Fairy Tale's troops. The moment the attack had passed Damon, Kahlua appeared in front of Damon, slashing downward at him with her wings, only for him to spin around it, then slam a roundhouse kick into her side, sending her exploding into the wall behind Gyokuro.
"You better call off your girl before she becomes useless to you," Damon said as Kahlua charged at him again, sobbing.
She slashed at him rapidly, spinning and swiping in a blur, actually impressing him with her speed. However, after a moment, Damon flipped, drilling a fist down into her back, sending her exploding down through the floor, her spine crumbling under the force of the blow.
"Too late," Damon said, then dove aside from a lightning bolt.
Gyokuro spun, shrieking profanities and nonsense alike, ordering him to stand side as the continuous flood of lightning chased him around and around, Damon spinning, ducking, flipping, and otherwise dodging to avoid it. Finally, he exploded forward just as the lightning ended. Then, his fist missed her by less than a centimeter just as her hand extended from his back, impaling his left lung and heart. He stared down at the perfect cut in his scales. He couldn't believe it.
"H...How?" he asked, blood flooding down his chin.
"My ultimate technique is called Enemy Zero," Gyokuro grinned. "And at its strongest, whatever these eyes on my hands observe, I can use. That lightning, for example. Or Akua's Jigen-Tou." She sliced out through his right side and he staggered past her, blood splattering over the ground before he fell to his knees, coughing up blood and gasping for breath. "You got sloppy just because I didn't fully break through your scales before. You had no idea I could negate them entirely whenever I wanted."
He tried to speak, but couldn't breathe through the blood filling his lungs and throat. He fell forward, collapsing to the ground, and Gyokuro retrieved her limiter as Kahlua returned, retrieving her own. Then, both women walked away, leaving their dying enemy to bleed out on the floor.
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