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Devil's Playground
Damon inhaled slowly, waiting as Alucard's tentacles neared him. Then, he roared, a massive sea of flames exploding out of his mouth onto the tentacles. They shrieked in rage, jerking backward and the roof began to collapse. Tsukune shouted in surprise as he began to fall, only for Hokuto to extend his fingers as tentacles, catching him and pulling him to safety, However, just as he did, a dozen more roars tore through the air and more and more flames flooded down onto Alucard, engulfing him entirely as the other Fire Devils circled above him, the flames flooding into the Floating Garden itself as well. Then, a Huang Family airship shot downward from above, the second team all leaping out seconds before it hit at the point in the roof where Alucard's tentacles were all emerging from, exploding. Damon smirked as the second team walked calmly toward them, Cocoa currently having Kou as a cleaver resting on her shoulder.
"Where are your scales, Fire Devil?" Touhou asked.
"Being put to a better use," Damon said. "I'll have them back momentarily."
Just then, a Fire Devil roared, swooping down toward Damon, the rest all chasing him, only for Damon's tail to flick, calling them off.
"Lord Keyser Soze sends his regards!" the Fire Devil roared, opening his mouth to bite Damon in half.
Damon sighed. "And he sent you?"
He smirked as he felt his scales finish regenerating. She was healed. Then, the Fire Devil's jaws snapped closed and he shot past, only for one wing to tear free, remaining in Damon's raised, scaled hand, the Fire Devil's jaw having broken and was hanging limply after trying to bite Damon, only for his scales to stop it. The Fire Devil roared and Damon slid a hand along the wing, the scales on it crushing it into a spear before he turned, hurling the spear through the air into the Fire Devil's head, killing it and sending it crashing down on the Floating Garden.
"Took you long enough," he smiled, turning to Ruby and the others, Mizore and Kurumu both standing with her, fully healed.
Mizore sprinted forward, throwing her arms around him, and he spun, setting her on her feet and kissing her.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again," Damon said.
"I won't," Mizore promised. "Thank you for saving us."
"Of course," he smiled.
"My King," a Fire Devil said, landing beside him and watching Mizore in confusion and distrust. "Is...Is this...Yuki Onna, your...mate?"
"Yes," Damon said. "For all intents and purposes, she's my queen. Any who would harm her are to be killed immediately. Now, all of you head home. You're finished here."
"Yes, sire," the Fire Devil bowed before a column of flame erupted up around him, the other Fire Devils all erupting into fireballs, all of them being transported back to Hell."
"Well, now that that split second assassination attempt has been dealt with," Damon smirked, turning back to Gyokuro and Kahlua, both of whom looked nervous. "Shall we, everyone?"
"Kahlua," Gyokuro said. "Handle them."
"I don't think so," Damon said. "I'll burn you both to ash!"
"No," Cocoa said. "I'll handle my sister. You deal with Gyokuro."
Damon nodded, turning toward Gyokuro, who narrowed her eyes, tapping the device in her hand. Damon spun, leaping into the air then flapping his wings backward, launching himself back down and drilling his fist into the top of one of Alucard's tentacles, blasting it into the ground and sending blood and bits of what looked like cartilage exploding out of the tentacle the entire way along it. Somewhere below them, Alucard roared in pain. Just then, Damon sensed new arrivals and turned slowly, looking around at the monsters standing around them, all wearing black cloaks and grinning widely exposing their fangs.
"Fairy Tale's second subdivision," Gyokuro said, speaking to Touhou, then paused. "No, maybe it'd be easier for you to understand if I told you they were my personal assassination squad? You know who I mean, right?"
"The name said to be the strongest in the dark side of society," Touhou breathed.
"You're right," Gyokuro grinned. "And that name is Shuzen!"
"The strongest in the dark side of society, huh?" Damon growled, stepping up beside Touhou. "Then I suppose I should introduce myself."
Touhou chuckled. "This is a surprise. You're the last person I expected to be here, Issa Shuzen, head of the Shuzen household."
Shuzen vampires appeared around all of the others, aside from Cocoa, who was struggling to fend off Kahlua. Damon's mouth stretched into a wide, excited grin as his pulse began to race, bloodlust flooding his body. His claws extended slightly, and his teeth extended almost an inch. Beside him, Mizore and Kurumu both prepared themselves and Ruby formed her wings.
"You really think you can defeat the entire Shuzen family, don't you?" Gyokuro asked.
Damon hissed excitedly, grin growing even more, his voice turning into a feral snarl. "Are you kidding? I'm going to rip them apart!"
Then, he exploded forward, shattering the ground. A pair of vampires moved to stop him, only for Damon to slash through one entirely, splitting his torso in half, then caught the next one's arm and swung him downward, the vampire's body exploding down on a third and shattering the ground, blood spraying out of both vampires mouths. Then, the blood bath began in earnest. Every vampire around them charged, releasing battle cries. However, they were instantly drowned out by the deafening roar Damon unleashed as he tore into the vampires. One attacked him from the right as one moved in to his left, so he grinned and flipped, his left fist reducing the head of the vampire to his right into paste, then as he landed, his head shot outward into its true form, albeit smaller, and snapped closed on the other Vampire. He whipped his head to the side, hurling the vampire's corpse away, then roared, flames exploding from his mouth as he swept his head back the other way, incinerating half a dozen of them. His head shot back toward him, his neck retracting to a human-length one and his tail exploded upward, taking a vampire's head off is shoulders as they leapt at him from behind. His head twiched and compressed down into his human form, retaining its scales still, and he grabbed a female vampire by the leg as she kicked at him, turning and smashing her into another vampire, hurling him at Ling-Ling, who split the vampire in half with her Jigen-Tou.
Then, Damon's bloodlust and more base Fire Devil instincts took hold a bit tighter and he grabbed the female vampire's other leg and ripped hos arms outward, coming away with a body in his right hand and only a leg in the other. A pair of vampires leapt at him and Damon roared, exploding off the ground past both, impaling one vampire with the broken hip bone of the leg in his left hand, planning the leg up to the knee in the vampire's chest. At the same time, he swung the rest of the female vampire's corpse around into the other vampire, an impact like an explosion going off as the vampire spun out into open air, broken pieces of ribs sticking out of the sides of his chest and blood spraying out of his mouth. However, before he could fall off of the Floating Gardens, another vampire caught his leg and hurled him at Damon. Damon punched his right fist through the corpse entirely, then swung it around, smashing it head first into the vampire that had thrown it, the head being turned into paste and his fist breaking free of the corpse, exploding into the other vampire's chin and smashing its head off entirely. Damon's sadistic grin grew as he was, for the millionth time that fight, showered in blood, and he turned, seeing Haiji and Gin slaughtering the vampires around them, and Touhou and Ling-Ling handling the handful that had been smart enough to not attack Damon. Off to the other side, Moka and Tsukune were also easily taking down their opponents. The only group with a decent number of targets left was the one fighting Ruby, Mizore, and Kurumu.
Damon exploded forward again, streaking across the ground and grabbing a vampire by the face as it was reaching for Mizore's back. He squeezed, crushing its head then spun, smashing its body down on another, drilling his free fist down into the vampire to ensure it was dead. Two of them turned on him and he grinned widely catching the first vampire's punch and ripping his arm off, slamming it into the second and knocking him sideways. The first leapt at Damon from behind and Damon's tail shot upward, impaling the vampire through the chest before flinging it just before Damon drove both hands through the last one's chest, the backs of his hands together, and ripped outward, splitting the vampire in half down the middle. He looked around, disappointed by the lack of enemies left for him to mutilate. He let his tongue out, currently forked and thin as its true form, and licked some of the blood off his lips, growling contentedly.
"Damon?" Mizore asked.
"Sorry," Damon said, grin shrinking slowly. "I guess I got a little worked up for a second there."
"And this is why everyone is afraid of Fire Devils," Kurumu said. "No matter what they may be like normally, when it comes down to it, they're all volatile, murderous monsters who enjoy combat more than anything else."
"That's entirely true," Damon said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I know one more vampire I still need to dismember."
"Look out!" Mizore shrieked suddenly, looking behind Damon.
He spun, roaring and spewing a massive sea of flames that completely incinerated several dozen tentacles, all of them ending in spikes, that were reaching from the newly charred corpses toward Damon. Then, all of the corpses he'd left, the burned ones and the mutilated ones, began to change, mutating rapidly into monstrous forms, each more different than the last, and none of them alike. Damon growled, his excitement going out like a light and being replaced by annoyance.
"Fucking Ghouls," Damon snarled. "Stay close together behind me. Protect each other, but don't try to attack."
The other three agreed and the Ghouls lunged, only for Lee to roar, spewing flames onto them again. Then, he took off. He exploded down on one, splattering its insides, then grabbed it and spun, smashing it into another. One grabbed him with dozens of tentacles from behind and he roared, his wings snapping outward and ripping the tentacles apart. He spun, grabbing the tentacles and yanking, pulling the Ghoul to himself before exploding forward and drilling his fist into the Ghoul, the force of the punch causing its back to exploded. He spun, flapping his wings and exploded down on a Ghoul that had been charging at Mizore and Kurumu. Then, he turned and roared, burning three more to death. More began to swarm toward them from another group and Damon charged out to meet them. He quickly slashed his way through one of the them, shredding its flesh and killing it before drilling a punch into one from below, blood and bits of bone spraying out of its mouth in a geyser. He spun right instantly, turning in a complete circle before his left foot flashed up, exploding into the front of another's face as it tried to pass him, blood and bone fragments spraying out of it anywhere there was an opening as he compacted its front half into its back. He turned, exhaling flames onto two of them before his left hand caught one by a tooth. Then, he turned, slamming a snap kick into the underside of its snout, its head folding back onto itself, the underside of its extended neck splitting open and spraying its blood.
He growled as more began to approach just as he looked off to the side, where he'd smelled Tsukune and Gyokuro fighting. What he saw was not a good thing. Gyokuro had used Moka's rosary to fuse with one of Alucard's tentacles. Damon grinned. Perfect. Now he could burn them both. But first, he had to burn the last of the Ghouls.
"Ruby, go help Moka and Tsukune," Damon instructed.
"Right!" Ruby nodded, extending her wings and flying away. A Ghoul moved to catch her, only for Damon to explode down on top of it.
Then, he took a deep breath and roared, flames exploding out of his mouth and washing over the Ghouls, shrieks and screams of agony filling the air as they burned to death in seconds. Damon glanced back at Mizore, who staggered away from the flames, wincing, and stuck a sucker in her mouth.
"Are you alright?" Damon asked.
"I'll be fine," Mizore said. "We should go help the others."
"I'll throw you to them," Damon said. "Make a big entrance. I'll be assuming my true form and joining you over there."
Both nodded and Damon took their hands before spinning and hurling them at Gyokuro. Then, he turned, flying away from the Floating Garden before erupting into a gigantic fireball, one rivalling the Floating Garden in size. He flapped his wings, clearing the flames and heard Alucard roar in rage and Gyokuro shrieking just as angrily. Alucard's tentacles exploded out of the fortress at Damon, who roared, bathing them on flames before flipping forward in the air, his tail exploding through the tentacles entirely, both burning to ash before they hit the ground. Again Alucard roared and Damon roared back, sending flames flooding into the fortress through the hole the tentacles had just retracted through.
"Be careful!" Touhou shouted, landing on his head. "Don't kill us all!"
"Be grateful I'm not killing you," Damon growled just as Issa Shuzen leapt off the Floating Garden at him. "You pest!"
His left arm swiped up, grabbing Issa and crushing him, blood spraying out of Issa's mouth, nose, and eyes. Then, Damon swung his hand the other way, sending the vampire's mangled body crashing into a tentacle as it was reaching for him, bathing both in flames.
"Don't burn our ride!" Touhou snapped.
"Relax," Damon growled. "Given who it is that's securing us an escape vessel, I couldn't burn our ride if I wanted to."
Touhou huffed as several tentacles exploded from the fortress, wrapping around Damon, only for his claws to rip them apart and flames to chase them back into the hole they'd formed.
"God dammit!" Damon growled. "Get out here and fight me you fucking bastard!"
His roar shook the fortress, but instead of waiting for a response that probably wouldn't come, he turned, flapping his wings and racing through the air, his fist exploding into Gyokuro's entire body, along with the tip of the tentacle she was partially swallowed by. A massive spray of blood filled the air, but after a moment, the tentacle regrew, Gyokuro growing from it, half her face missing but regenerating.
"Damn," Damon snarled. "I was hoping to at least get rid of that cunt's body."
He looked back as Tsukune leapt at Gyokuro, only for a dozen tentacles to explode up around her then whip downward away from her in a complete circle, completely obliterating the floor around her and hurling everyone. Damon roared, flames washing over Gyokuro and all of the tentacles around her and she shrieked in pain, writhing atop the tentacle before it suddenly retracted into the fortress. Then, a mass of twisted-together tentacles exploded out of it below Damon, crashing into his chest and hurling him. He flipped, flapping his wings and stopping himself before roaring and exploded forward again.
"What are you doing!?" Touhou demanded, stomping on his head. "Are you planning to ram the fortress!?"
"Jump now!" Damon ordered.
Touhou did as instructed just as Damon's body suddenly contorted and compressed, shrinking into his human with his wings, claws, and tail form just in time for his scaled fist to explode into Kahlua's hand, stopping short. He growled, seeing she had removed both earrings. Then, he free hand swung up, backhanding him in the side of the jaw, hurling him to the side. He flipped, hands and feet exploding into the floor and skidding to a stop. He snarled, staring at Kahlua. Her arms were both a dark brown from mid-bicep in spirals, then entirely darkened below the elbows. She also was watching him with a cold, calm smile, tears only barely leaking from her eyes. Damon stood slowly, growling, flames shooting out of his mouth as he did.
"Damon!" Mizore called out from off to the left.
"Can you...beat her?" Cocoa asked him from the ground behind him.
"We'll see," Damon growled. "Mizore. We're going to have a very serious conversation after this about you pretending to be healed more than you actually are."
Mizore nodded, forming her ice claws, only for Damon to snarl loudly.
"Don't even think about it!" Damon growled. "This cunt's mine! Look after Cocoa!"
Mizore hesitated before nodding and turning, running over to Cocoa with Kurumu. "Please be careful."
Damon growled. "You don't get to tell me that! Not after the stupid stunt you pulled!"
Mizore nodded and Damon roared, exploding forward and drilling a fist at Kahlua, an explosion blasting the wall off the fortress on impact.
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