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Cleanup
Damon groaned, slowly curling into a ball and holding a hand to his abdomen. His scales had managed to seal the wound once Gyokuro had left, but he'd taken serious damage. He was finally healed, but he had been out for a while. He wasn't actually sure how long. Which meant he was late and needed to find the others.
"So you are alive," a voice said, Damon slowly turning to look, staring at Hokuto.
"Come to finish me off?" Damon groaned, slowly starting to push himself up.
"As easy as it would be right now, no," Hokuto said. "I was on my way out and happened across you."
Damon sighed, pushing himself up and holding his hand out toward the charred corpses of the Fairy Tale members he'd torched before. All of the corpses glowed after a moment and Damon smirked. So he couldn't have been out longer than an hour. Shining white spheres of light rose out of the corpses and sped over, flying into Damon's mouth and down his throat. As they did, he felt his energy being restored quickly. Then, he finally finished swallowing the last of the souls and sighed, grimacing at the disgusting taste.
"If you're leaving, get lost," Damon said. "I have a floating city to destroy,"
"You may want to hurry," Hokuto said. "The others have been fighting the Subdivision Leaders for a while now."
"Good," Damon said, walking out of the room. "Less vermin to stand in my way."
He turned, taking off at a jog. He followed the trail of destruction, soon reaching a long hallway where a massive Raiju was lying in a bloody heap, its chest rising and falling with its labored breaths. Damon snorted as he walked over to it.
"You look like shit," Damon said. "Which one did you in?" he looked at the stab wounds. "You'll probably live, if only barely. Wasn't Tsukune. Was it Ruby? Mizore maybe?"
"That...damned...witch!" the Raiju snarled. "I...can't believe...I let her...beat me!" He coughed, blood splattering over the ground. "I almost...killed the bitch...too."
"You did, huh?" Damon asked.
The Raiju's eyes rolled toward him, only to widen a split second before Damon's clawed, scaled hand impaled him through the head, killing him. He pulled his hand back, bringing its soul with him and swallowed it, turning and following the hallway, once again beginning to jog. After a few minutes, he slowed to a stop as he reached a room that had been collapsed. He walked into it, sniffing and following his sense of smell until he located the source, lifting it and finding a man in a black coat, a striped vest, and with a top hat beside him, and a small girl with a white dress and a pair of small conical horns on her head in his arms. He looked up at Damon, who raised his hand, forming his scales and claws.
"Any last words?" Damon asked.
"Would you be interested to know that before one of the Fairy Tale subdivision leaders collapsed the ceiling on me, I was about to join Fang-Fang?" he asked.
"Not my problem," Damon said. "What about the girl?"
"She's with me," he said.
Damon grunted, standing and walking away. "You're too weak to be worth the trouble of killing anyway. Filthy Yasha vermin."
He followed his sense of smell after the others, heading down a hallway with dozens of sprung traps, then took a staircase down at the end of the hallway, reaching another hallway and following it. After a few more minutes, he slowed to a stop as he found Miyabi and Kiria, Kiria coated in blood and barely standing. However, just as he stepped into the room, he froze, his blood suddenly boiling. There were Fire Devils around the Floating Garden. He roared, sending a jet of flames straight up, blasting straight through every level of the fortress and out into the open air, allowing his roar to echo through the upper levels and outside. A moment later, almost a dozen dragons got over the hole, compacting themselves into humanoid forms within about thirty seconds each, betraying their low status and power, and dropped, landing before Damon in low bows.
"What...the...FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING HERE! ? !" Damon roared.
"Sire, we meant no disrespect or treachery," one of them said. "We believed you would not mind if-" His head bounced across the floor with a swipe of Damon's tail.
"Next?" Damon snarled.
"We were payed in several hundred females from several races, which whom we could reproduce, in exchange for our services defending this fortress," one of the remaining Fire Devils said.
"And you didn't think that maybe I, your king, should know about this business transaction?" He snapped his tail against the ground, shattering it, all of his subjects flinching.
"We were fools," the Fire Devil said. "Please, Sire! We beg mercy!"
"Stand!" Damon snarled through gritted teeth. "All of you!"
They all stood and Damon slashed them all across the chest with his claws, leaving deep gashes that would definitely scar, leaving marks of shame, proof of their accidental treason, sentencing them to a life as the scum of the species, respected by none and allowed no offspring.
"Destroy this fortress's defensive guns, escort that ship inside safely, and then wait around the fortress," Damon said. "If Alucard awakens, you will be helping me destroy him once and for all."
The Fire Devils all bowed before extending their wings and taking off through the hole in the roof before expanding back to their full sizes, taking off to do their king's bidding. Damon turned back to Kiria and Miyabi, just as Miyabi sent Kiria crashing along the ground, then turned to Damon. Damon formed his scales, tail, and wings, then froze, his heart stopping for several long seconds as ice flooded his veins. Tears streamed down his cheeks instantly, and his gaze snapped to the floor. It couldn't be. It had to be something else. Ruby's potion was just wearing off. That was all.
He dropped, drilling his fist into the ground, flames exploding out of his fist at the same time as he spiked his power, the added force obliterating the fortress between him and the lowest level, allowing him to drop, landing off to the side of everyone else. There was Alucard, a giant creature the size of a sky scraper with a half-dozen massive tails, and a main body that had a skeletal quality, an exposed ribcage, and a head that reminded Damon of the Alien movie series. There was Moka, with her silver hair falling around her messily. There was Akua. There were ice spikes and chunks littering the room's platform. And there they were. Kurumu and Mizore, lying on the ground in rapidly-growing pools of blood, both bearing deep gashes across their torsos. Damon walked over to Mizore, entire body numb. He fell to his knees, lifting her into his arms as his tears began to fall again, gently brushing her hair out of her face, then feeling for a pulse.
"It's too late for her," Akua said. "They're both going to die."
He found her pulse. It was weak, and fading, but it was there. He swallowed hard, eyes flicking to Akua again before he reached over to Kurumu with his tail, pulling her over and gently laying Mizore beside her. Then, he rested a hand over each of their gashes, his scales flooding off of him, all of them, binding their wounds, both external and internal, stopping their bleeding instantly. As they healed, the scales would dissolve, but until then, he wouldn't have any. Only his claws and flames. He couldn't even use his wings without scales. His tail sure, it would just be like a super smooth version of itself. But his wings were too fragile without scales.
"You sacrificed your greatest asset to save them?" Akua asked.
"Akua," Damon snarled. "I'm going to rip your intestines out and shove them up your urethra, you little cunt!"
Akua's eyes narrowed, gaining a deranged, dangerous emptiness, just before a massive sea of flames exploded out of Damon's mouth, passing harmlessly through her, then enveloping Alucard, which shrieked and roared in agony. Akua spun, eyes widening, just before Alucard's tails exploded outward, obliterating their way through the Floating Garden. Damon grabbed Mizore as Moka grabbed Kurumu, both fleeing up one of the tails into the fresh air of the outside world. Ruby and Tsukune were there, and Ruby was wounded, but not nearly as severely as Mizore and Kurumu. Damon grabbed Kurumu instantly and sprinted to Ruby, setting both girls down gently.
"Go," Ruby nodded without him needing to ask.
Damon nodded and looked to Tsukune. "Tsukune, I'm going to need your help to beat Akua."
"Right," Tsukune nodded. "Let's go."
Damon nodded, turning and walking toward where Akua was standing on one of Alucard's tails "Go greet your girlfriend first. I can hold Akua's attention for a few minutes."
"Okay," Tsukune nodded. "I'll be quick."
Damon nodded and they separated, Damon exploding across the ground, grabbing a stone on the way and hurling it as he kicked a second, then launched himself through the air. Akua avoided the two stones, and when he was in range, she smiled wickedly before they both struck.
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