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Alucard
Damon roared, flames exploding out of his mouth and enveloping Alucard's tentacles, though Miyabi avoided them. Miyabi shot forward, punching at him, but Damon leaned out of the way, his fist exploding into Miyabi's side, sending him bouncing and spinning away. The ground beneath Damon's feet exploded and Damon flipped, roaring and sending flames down into the Floating Garden, Alucard's main body shrieking and roaring in pain as he burned. Miyabi narrowed his eyes, holding out his spine cane, a spell circle spreading from the head of the cane. A blast of magic energy exploded out of the circle, ripping the ground apart as it sped toward Damon, only for Damon to punch it, a spell circle of his own spreading from it.
"Spell reflection!" Damon roared, the blast rolling inward into itself before suddenly exploding back at Miyabi.
Miyabi swiped his hand and cleared the blast, just before catching Damon's fist, the floor below him exploding. Before Damon could react, Miyabi smashed his cane into Damon's gut, shattering his scales for most of the front side of his torso and launching him into the air. Tentacles exploded skyward at him instantly, and Damon flipped, spreading his wings and roared, once again burning the tentacles away to ash. Just as he did, Miyabi streaked toward Moka, batting Tsukune aside easily on the way. Ruby, Yukari, and Fang-Fagn moved to stop him, but before they could, Damon and Akua both reached Miyabi, Akua taking his right arm off at the bicep as Damon's fist caved in Miyabi's face, sending him exploding through the floor.
"Stay away from my sister, Alucard!" Akua snarled, watching the hole Miyabi had fallen into, as was Damon.
"Akua!" Moka breathed.
"I'm impressed you're up and about again," Damon said. "Seems I'm losing my edge. Truce?"
"For now," Akua said.
"It seems you've chosen to betray me," Miyabi said, climbing out of the hole, face fully healed but arm still missing. "All for your precious sister? Very well. Then tell me if this sounds familiar. A long time ago in China, there was a small girl named Jasmine."
Akua's eyes widened as rage filled them.
"Jasmine was a young vampire, and she had an older sister," Miyabi said. "Though they were not related by blood, they were as close as real sisters could be. They hid their identities and blended into society. Despite being poor, they were happy. But one day, Jasmine was mutilated by the humans. Suspected of being a vampire, she was first tortured, then skewered."
"Quiet!" Akua seethed, her supernatural energy boiling, raging off of her in a strong wind as murder shone from her eyes.
"Didn't you swear on your sister's remains that you'd slaughter all humans?" Miyabi asked, grinning smugly. "That was why I lent you my help."
"Shut up!" Akua shrieked. "Shut the Hell up!"
"Oh, now that I look closely, Moka and Jasmine look very much alike," Miyabi mused. "But no matter how much you love Moka, that won't make Jasmine happy, will it?"
Damon's tail lashed out, grabbing Akua around the waist on the way and flinging her at Miyabi. He'd heard enough. He may not like Akua, but even he wasn't going to allow Miyabi to run her feelings through a grinder like this. Akua responded perfectly to the sudden action, and as she passed Miyabi, she shredded him.
"You bitch..." Miyabi choked out before suddenly exploding into little more than a bloody stain and a few bits of bone.
"Well done, Akua," Damon said.
"Thanks for the throw," Akua said, looking back at him as his scales finished regrowing, then shifting her gaze to Moka, her eyes watering. "Don't worry. The past is in the past. I learned there are more important things than revenge after meeting you. This time, I'll be sure to protect you, Moka...my sweet little sister."
"Akua," Moka breathed as Akua turned, taking a step toward her, only for Damon to catch her shoulder.
"We're not done!" Damon snarled.
Akua glared at him before her eyes suddenly widened.
"So selfish," Miyabi's voice said, echoing from all around them. "Akua, there's no doubt you are the strongest. In terms of strength, not even the Three Great Dark Lords could compare to you."
"Agree to disagree," Damon growled.
"But your mentality is no different than a child doing whatever they want," Miyabi's voice continued. "You lack philosophy. There is no turning back for those who've chosen the path of revenge."
"Moka, look out!" Tsukune shouted, moving to tackle her, only for spikes to suddenly impale both of them, rather than only her.
Damon stared in shock at them. One of them had pierced through the crystal center of Moka's rosary. The seal was finished. But not only that, both of them were now seriously wounded, and Alucard's true body was already acting according to its own will.
"Tsu…Tsuku…" Moka coughed up blood as the thin tentacles that had impaled the pair lifted them, beginning to wave and flex in the air over them.
"I told you, I am a clone," Miyabi said as more tentacles began to spiral together, reforming his body from the head down. "As a clone, I cannot die so long as my original survives. Alright now...time to remove the seal and flood the world in darkness."
"ALUCARD! ! !" Akua shrieked, only for Damon to shove her aside, then hurl himself the other way, several tentacles just barely missing Akua and grazing the underside of his arm, scratching his scales and proving their ineffectiveness, but failing to cut harm him.
Suddenly, the Floating Garden began to shake violently, starting to fall from the sky. Damon swore.
"We're going down!" Damon shouted. "Bail, now!"
Anyone who could fly grabbed anyone who couldn't and took off. Damon grabbed Akua with his tail and shot through the air to Mizore and the others, grabbing Mizore as Kurumu grabbed Coco. Damon glanced down at Kahlua and groaned. He was going to regret this. He shot down again, grabbing Kahlua by the hair and shot into the air again, this time getting clear of the falling fortress a few seconds before it crashed to the ground. the entirety of the fortress erupted into a massive fireball, obliterating several blocks of the city, bringing down skyscrapers, and sending Damon and his passengers spinning high into the air, Damon accidentally ripping the handful of hair he had out of Kahlua's head, though he caught her around the waist before she could fall.
"Moka!" Akua shrieked, sobbing.
"Calm down!" Damon snapped. "Moka's going to be okay!"
"How do you know!?" Akua demanded.
"Because she's a Shinso!" Damon snapped. "Even sealed, it'll take more than that to kill her!"
Akua was silent a moment before nodding. "Is Kahlua alive?"
Damon glanced at her. "No. But I can fix that once we land."
"Wait, you can revive her?" Akua asked.
"In a sense," Damon said.
He flew to the top of a stable skyscraper and landed, setting everyone down before kneeling beside Kahlua. He focused before a blood red spell seal spread from his palm, shifting to hover over her body. After a few moments, a transparent, glowing silhouette appeared over her from the spell circle, then transformed into a second Kahlua before sinking into her. The spell circle sunk to the rooftop beneath her and began to shine as Damon focused, using a claw to slit his wrist before forming his scales into something like a needle stabbing it into Kahlua's heart.
"What are you doing!?" Akua demanded.
"Probably something really stupid," Damon said. "According to the memories passed down through my family, the original Shinso vampire, from whom the name Shinso comes, was a bit special. He gained his power not by being abnormally strong on his own, but by absorbing the blood of a very powerful demon. His choice of demon was a Kishin. With that in mind, theoretically..."
"You're turning her into a Shinso!" Akua gasped.
"We'll see," Damon said. "If nothing else, I'm turning her into a Monstrel. But at least she'll be alive."
Suddenly, Kahlua gasped for breath and sat bolt upright," Damon retracting his scales and reforming them over his body.
Kahlua looked around for a moment before staring at him, eyes widening as her wounds healed and her missing hair regrew. "You...saved me?"
"So it would seem," Damon said. "Apparently I've gone soft. I didn't like seeing Cocoa cry."
Kahlua smiled and threw her arms around him, thanking him, then released him and instead hugged Akua.
"You're going to repay me immediately," Damon said, Kahlua pulling back and looking over at him, confused.
"How?" Kahlua asked.
"You're going to use that ultimate form of yours to keep Miyabi distracted alongside Akua," Damon said. "While you do, I'm going to burn Alucard's main body into ash."
"But...can you really beat-"
Just then, a massive tentacle flashed out, whipping down at them, only for them to all be in the air off to the side before it hit the building. Damon smirked, nodding approvingly as he held Mizore against him, watching Kahlua, who had instinctively used her new power to save Akua. She now hovered in front of them, Akua held in her arms, and a pair of huge, red-scaled wings spread from her back, and her fingers now black claws, similar to Damon's own. Her scales, however, were thin, and not exceptionally hard, just enough to make her wings more durable and capable of higher speed than a bat's.
"What is..." Kahlua stared at her wings as they beat softly before her eyes widened. "I have some of your abilities?"
"Weaker versions," Damon said. "And you won't be able to use them properly without training, but you should be on Shinso level by the time they finish settling. Who knows. You may end up even being able to use a couple of powers on level with a weak Fire Devil."
"I may even pass you someday," Kahlua smirked.
Damon snorted. "Don't get ahead of yourself."
He looked over toward where he could sense Alucard just as it exploded through a skyscraper, emerging for all the world to see in his true, horrifying glory. Massive, pointed teeth, long, sinewy body, massive tentacles. He was slightly closer to humanoid than Damon had expected, though he still reminded Damon of the Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver. And he towered over the skyscrapers around him, standing easily five hundred feet tall on his own. Damon swallowed the fear he felt from the prospect of facing it, then grinned.
"Time to prove who's the true King of Monsters," Damon said. "Kahlua, Akua, keep Miyabi from causing trouble. I'm going to go full Godzilla."
Mizore snorted. "I assume I'm not allowed to fight with you?"
"No," Damon said, looking down at her. "Find Ruby. Tell her to focus on finishing healing you. Then tell her to hurry up and get to work finishing her first job once you're healed. We both know how we're going to spend the vacation we're taking after this."
Mizore smiled, shaking her head. "Focus on killing Alucard now. Think about sex later."
"I can multitask," Damon smirked, kissing her. "Kahlua, drop her off with Ruby for me."
Kahlua nodded, Akua shifting to be held along one of Kahlua's sides while Kahlua took Mizore, holding her on the other side before turning and flying away. As they did, Damon turned to Alucard. He knew Fuhai, and probably also Mikogami, wouldn't be long before they tried to fight him, and probably lost badly. However, Damon had other ideas. He shot toward Alucard, getting his attention instantly before exploding into his full form directly in front of his face, throwing him backward and sending him crashing tot he ground. He roared deafeningly, only for Alucard to roar in response, many, many times louder than him, thanks to his monstrous size. Damon steeled his nerves, then flapped his wings and took off, exhaling a flood of flames onto Alucard. He knew there were still people in the city, but Alucard had to die. A tentacle shot around at Damon from the left, almost as thick as Damon's entire body, but Damon roared, catching it, then spun himself, spiking his power over and over to keep his strength as high as possible, yanking Alucard by the tentacle. He swung him around in a circle, levelling what few skyscrapers inside a two mile radius hadn't been destroyed, then flipped swinging him over himself before smashing him back into the ground. Then, he roared, once again bathing Alucard in flames. He knew his flames were doing very little, even in his true form, but he couldn't do much else. Alucard was so big that Damon's options were limited.
Finally, two of Alucard's tentacles flashed down from the smoke above Damon, smashing into him and sending him exploding into the ground. As he stood, Mikogami stepped up beside him.
"I've had the area evacuated," Mikogami said. "So long as you don't let him get to the city behind you, it's safe to stop holding back at all."
Damon nodded, his mouth spreading into a grin. Mikogami knew him better than he though, if he knew that Damon was holding back to limit casualties. And Damon hated to admit he had been. He'd gotten so soft. It was all Mizore's fault. He flapped his wings, rising into the air as the monster stood, then roared. Unlike the stream of flames before this one was a full, aimed volcanic eruption, as he had used to kill Ruby's master. Alucard roared in agony as the explosion launched him away, flames engulfing the world before Damon, melting it rapidly into molten rock and metal. He sensed Miyabi leap at him from the right side and glanced over, just as Kahlua and Akua exploded into him, sending him crashing backward through the city. He turned his attention back to Alucard. They could keep him busy. He had his own job to do, and it didn't involve playing with Alucard's clone.
Alucard roared, standing, now covered in burns, though they were healing rapidly, and sent out his tentacles at Damon, only for Damon to again send flames erupting out of his mouth at Alucard, incinerating his tentacles altogether. Then, he flapped his wings exploding forward into the flames and focusing, forming some of the scales from his side into a massive blade extending from his left arm behind his fist. He pulled up just as he exited the smoke in front of Alucard, avoiding Alucard's swipe, then splitting him up the front. Alucard roared in rage, swiping at Damon again, but Damon flipped around it, shifting his scales back to where they were supposed to be before unleashing as powerful a blast of flames as he could directly down onto Alucard, a sea of white-hot flames exploding down on him, slamming him to the ground and drowning out Alucard's shriek of agony with the roar they produced. Finally he stopped to breath and a tentacle flashed up, exploding into his side and shattering most of the scales on his body, sending him exploding along the ground before he rolled to a stop in the magma he'd produced. He raised his head as Alucard stood, he heat quickly healing his shattered bones and scales. Then, suddenly, the military arrived, jets firing rockets into Alucard relentlessly as tanks on the edge of the evacuated area fired everything they had into him. Again and again explosions bloomed against him, Alucard roaring over and over in agony, finally collapsing. However, just as Damon finished healing about five minutes after being hit, and one minute after Alucard collapsed, Alucard's tentacles shot into the air, the mouths on their ends crushing and swallowing the jets. Damon growled, beating his wings and lifting into the air again. He should have known the military wouldn't be able to beat him. Not without nuking him, which was out of the question.
Damon narrowed his eyes as he spotted Miyabi in front of Alucard's chest, several small tentacles connecting them and slowly pulling Miyabi into Alucard's chest. Just as he did, Kahlua flew up beside him holding Akua, both breathing hard.
"He managed to get away when we were distracted by the military," Kahlua said.
"It's fine," Damon growled. "Go and protect my friends for me. Since they've fused, I'll handle it myself."
Kahlua nodded and flew away just as several tanks rumbled toward Alucard below Damon, stopping at the edge of the magma. Alucard sent a tentacle out to crush them, but Damian crashed down in front of them, catching it and making it bow over the tanks, shattering the road behind them.
"Get the fuck out of here!" Damon roared. "Let me handle this!"
He roared, his flames incinerating the tentacle ahead of himself, letting him toss it to the side as the soldiers from the tanks fled on foot. Then, Damon shot forward, rolling out of the way of Alucard's claws, then his tentacles, roaring and bathing Alucard in white-hot flames as he continued to circle him. Alucard shrieked and roared in pain, swatting and swiping at Damon repeatedly, only for Damon to continue evading the strikes. Then, as he stopped to inhale, he heard singing. He roared again, his flames blasting a tentacle less than a second before it could reach him, and suddenly San landed on his head, continuing to sing. A flaming arm swiped out at them and Damon flipped, catching San in his hand before flapping his wings, his stomach being torn open by Alucard's claws before he and San crashed down in the lava, Damon keeping her held above it, San having not stopped singing for an instant.
"Hello San," Damon said. "Nice of you to drop by."
She raised a hand in greeting just as Alucard roared, the flames covering his body going out just from the sheer force of his roar. Damon pushed himself up as his stomach sealed, then lifted into the air, San returning to his head.
"I was planning to prove I'm the true King of Monsters," Damon growled. "But I suppose even kings need help some times."
San smiled, nodding, and Damon inhaled, focusing. Then, just as Alucard sent a his tentacles at him again, Damon roared, once again incinerating them. He didn't know how many times Alucard would be able to regenerate them, but he'd keep burning them for as many as it took for them to stay gone. He shot into the air as he inhaled, Alucard's freshly regrown tentacles exploding through the space he had just been, only to suddenly explode from San's song. Alucard turned his head to watch Damon, Damon seeing Miyabi in its forehead now, watching him coldly.
"You're quite the annoying vermin, aren't you?" Miyabi asked. "I almost with the Kishin and Yasha had succeeded in exterminating your race."
Damon huffed, then roared, spewing more flames onto Alucard, Miyabi's cold stare turning into a glare as Alucard roared again. Damon narrowed his eyes. Why was he simply allowing his main body to burn? How long was he going to continue to allow Damon to attack him while only attacking in half-hearted attempts at hitting him? Suddenly, Alucard's fist flashed up, streaking through the air far faster than any of his strikes before. Damon whipped his head backward, hurling San away before roaring in effort, compressing his entire body in an instant at the same time as throwing a punch, all of his scales gathered onto his right arm into a massive, heavily-muscled, scale arm around his right. The entirety of the overload of his power happened at the exact moment when his fist met Alucard's, also the exact moment that he spiked his power for the strike. The resulting explosion of power obliterated, Alucard's arm up to his elbow, but also reduced Damon's scales to powder. He began to fall, only for San to catch him. Then, Mikogami's expanded right fist exploded into the side of Alucard's face, sending him exploding to the ground before he threw off his robe, revealing his three holy locks, all of which all but exploded off of him instantly as he transformed into his true Kishin form. At the same time, Fuhai flew up beside them on a square of floating cloth.
"Time for you to fall back, San," Fuhai said. "Leave the Fire Devil with us." He swiped his hand several times and Damon's skin suddenly burned as fresh scales grew in in under a second.
"Thank you," Damon said, spreading his wings as San retreated to the others. "Who would have thought, three of our species working together."
"Probably the same person who could have imagined a Fire Devil and a Yuki Onna falling in love," Mikogami said, grinning wickedly at Alucard as he rose to his feet again, his arm beginning to slowly regrow.
"Touche," Damon smirked, flexing his hands. "It's easier to fight in my human form, after spending so much time in it. Not to mention, thanks to that little surprise of his before, I finally managed to learn a new trick. This is going to be fun."
Alucard shot forward, moving to punch them with his remaining arm, only for Fuhai to blast it on the inside of the elbow, redirecting it past them before Mikogami and Damon shot forward. Mikogami's punch was just as devastating before. Damon's combined his normal spike in power, along with the added power from his arm transforming back, blasting a massive hole through Alucard's torso and sending him exploding backward through the city before Damon compressed his arm again, smirking.
"Your kind's ability to grow stronger is truly horrifying," Fuhai said.
"Why thank you," Damon smirked. "I agree completely."
Alucard began to stand, body sealing quickly. Then, he roared, charging through the city. Damon narrowed his eyes. He was mad. Which made it time to go.
"Fuhai, shoulders," Damon said.
Fuhai nodded and swung his arms upward, his Jigen-Tou slicing Alucard's arms off entirely at the shoulders. Alucard roared, sending out his tentacles again, but Damon roared, sending flames exploding out onto Alucard, making him roar in agony, his tentacles being incinerated for the hundredth time that fight. Then, Damon and Mikogami's fists exploded down on Alucard's head, Mikogami's strength far, far higher than the last time, this time shattering Alucard's body alongside Damon's, sending him crashing to the ground in an instant. Damon landed on a building beside Fuhai as Mikogami landed on the other side.
"You keeping up, Kishin?" Damon asked.
Mikogami laughed. "I'm doing fine. You sure you're not struggling, vermin?"
Damon snorted. "My species is the strongest of the true Three Great Dark Lords. I'll try not to leave you two behind."
Mikogami snorted. "Well, at least you've got more power than Fuhai. His strikes were barely even able to cut into Alucard. If not for our power, Fuhai would be finished."
"You always were a pain when you transformed," Fuhai smirked. "Even your brain turns to that of a muscle-bound fool."
Just then, there was an explosion of Supernatural Energy from the distance, a beam of light exploding into the air. Damon snarled instantly. That was Tsukune's energy.
"What's that light?" Fuhai asked.
"That energy belongs to Tsukune," Damon said.
"Don't tell me he removed his Holy Lock!" Mikogami said.
"I see now," Miyabi's voice said from Alucard as he began to stand inside the thick cloud of dust his fall had formed. "So this is what you were getting at, Mikogami. I thought it was strange that you chose such a meticulous and reserved method of fighting. It seems that attack just now was to buy time. So that's your trump card, huh?"
"Mikogami," Damon growled. "You held back?"
Mikogami's eyes narrowed.
"Now that I know, I must go and make sure," Alucard said.
"Oh no!" Mikogami growled. "Fuhai, you're the fastest so go and get them out of there! We'll distract him!"
Miyabi smirked up at them, a flame dancing to life on his finger as he lit a fresh cigarette. He turned, to head toward where Tsukune's energy was, where Damon could sense all of their other friends, including San, who had gone to warn them before Fuhai could. And now that he was actually paying attention to them, he could hear Akua explaining that Tsukune had taken off his Holy Lock in order to be able to give Moka his blood to save her, and that his Shinso energy was sending both his and Moka's out of control and creating a vortex while tearing Tsukune's body apart.
"We need to stall," Damon said. "My friends will help Tsukune. We just need to keep Alucard busy."
Fuhai and Mikogami nodded, all three exploding forward. However, Alucard's newly regrown right arm flashed around, the back of his fist exploding into Mikogami and sending him exploding into a the ruins of a shattered building, the rest of it crumbling instantly. Fuhai and Damon just barely escaped the blow, and Damon roared, pure white flames exploding out of his mouth and blasting Alucard down into the ground, engulfing him as Fuhai began to swipe his hands rapidly, massive gashes splitting open in the ground across where Alucard was. Then, suddenly, four massive, flaming tentacles shot up, swiping at them. Damon flipped around them, but one of them crashed into Fuhai and sent him exploding into the ground.
Damon shot down at Alucard from above as Alucard was standing, fist exploding down on Alucard's right shoulder and obliterating it, the arm crashing to the ground. He flipped instantly, flapping his wings and streaking into the air over his tentacles, which tried to eat him, instead grabbing chunks of debris. Damon shot down again, streaking down under Alucard's left arm as he swiped at him, then arced back up, fist exploding into the underside of Alucard's jaw, Alucard's face and lower jaw all but exploding Miyabi only barely remaining on Alucard. Damon flipped backward and flapped his wings again, speeding forward and roaring, flames washing over Alucard, who roared in rage and agony before its left fist suddenly flashed out of the flames, crashing into Damon and sending him exploding into the ground. He groaned just as the vortex Tsukune had been forming cleared, and a pair of massive, oppressive Supernatural Energy's suddenly began to crash down on Damon's senses. Tsukune and Moka had awoken fully. They were both Shinso.
"Damon!" Damon's own Shinso called out from above him.
"Kahlua!" Damon called out. "Any chance you've figured out how to breathe fire?"
Kahlua focused for a moment before exhaling a stream of dark orange flames onto Damon. They weren't great, or very powerful, but they did allow Damon to regrow his scales and repair his bones inside of a minute. During that time, he got to watch Tsukune and Moka absolutely demolishing Alucard. Their true powers as Shinso were more amazing than he could have ever thought without seeing it. Creation, according to Akua. Mixing Supernatural Energy into their own blood and using it to form armor or glowing objects that explode on impact and blast their opponent to bits. And they were faster than Alucard. He didn't stand a chance against them in their sudden assault. Just as Damon stood, Alucard crashed to the ground, more than half his body having been obliterated.
"It seems I've been outclassed again," Damon said. "Your kind's Shinso vampires are truly horrifying, Mikogami."
"Only the strongest of the Three Dark Lords species can create a Shinso," Mikogami said.
"I definitely wouldn't go that far," Damon said. "Right Kahlua?"
"That's right," Kahlua nodded.
Mikogami's eyes widened. "You made a Shinso? Why?"
"One part curiosity, two parts sympathy," Damon said.
"You mean two parts you going soft," Fuhai corrected him from behind Damon.
"Going?" Damon snorted. "Please. I'm so soft I'm basically a human." He smirked, shaking his head before glancing at Kahlua, who was flying back to the others. "She was dead, and I didn't like seeing one of my friends crying after losing her sister. So I made her a Shinso in order to revive her. But she's not the brute force type of Shinso like your kind's are, Mikogami. With any luck, once her powers set in fully, her body and scales will be as durable as mine. That way my Shinso vampire will be better than yours again."
Mikogami huffed. "You're awful high and mighty for a species that had to use underhanded tactics to win."
"And you're jealous of your Shinso Vampires for being able to combine your raw power with their ability to enhance that power, vastly outstripping us all in sheer force, not to mention their Creation ability," Damon said.
"Hm, how unfortunate," Miyabi's voice said suddenly, everyone turning to where he was regrowing from some of the bits of obliterated flesh Alucard had dropped. "To be honest, I expected a little more. Kiria and Hokuto, two of my clones, if you so choose to call them that, were quite impressed by your potential. But in the end, it seems you're nothing but a puppet of Mikogami's."
"Alucard!" Tsukune snarled. "You're still-"
He stopped as Alucard began to laugh, massive tentacles beginning to shoot into the air and regrow rapidly.
"God, he's still alive even after turning his body to shreds," Akua said.
"He...he's invincible!" Fang-Fang said. "We can't kill that! We can't possibly beat a guy like that!"
"Don't be a pussy, Fang-Fang," Damon said, landing in front of them all, staring up at the bulging mass of mismatched monster parts and flesh Alucard had formed in front of them, Miyabi at the top.
Yukari and a couple of the other girls shouted in surprise suddenly, Damon turning to them and raising an eyebrow.
"What?" Damon asked.
"You're naked!" Yukari shouted.
"So?" Damon asked. "I transformed. My clothes always get ruined by that. Besides, I'm covered by my scales, and I have scales hiding my junk. It's not like I'm letting it just hang out."
"It's still naked!" Cocoa shouted. "At least put some pants on!"
"It'd be wasted," Damon said. "I'm going to have to transform again to finish him."
"You can finish him?" Fang-Fang asked.
"You're too late," Miyabi said. "Any time now, the eggs I planted all around the country, like the one in the village of the Abominable Snowwomen, should be hatching." He raised his hands, a spell circle forming in the air over him before beginning to form images in the sky between him and the spell circle. "Behold as the cries of my little babies blanket the entire country. This is the plan I spent the last two hundred years perfecting. First, reduce the population by devouring them, crushing them, trampling them."
The images became that of a giant creature that looked like some kind of caterpillar, or a grub, but covered in tentacles like Alucard's, destroying a city. The images shifted between cities, each with similar scenes of devastation. Sapporo had the massive grub. Morioka had massive snakes like bigger versions of Alucard's tentacles. Tokyo had flying isopod-like insects the size of humans.
"Next summon my brethren to this land and scatter them to every corner of this world," Miyabi continued as the image shifted again.
The images showed an army of monsters moving through Kyoto, flying fish-like monsters the size of airplanes destroying Hiroshima, legitimate giant snakes destroying Nagasaki.
"And then, I will built a fairy tale that brings forth the dawn for those who live in the darkness," Miyabi said, a small, glowing spell sphere appearing over his hand. "An eternal nation for our kind."
"Y-You're insane!" Tsukune shouted.
"This is not a joke," a second head beginning to grow from the front of the mass of flesh said. "You're one of us now. It's about time you stop siding with the humans."
"Let me use this time to tell you something interesting," the mouth said. "The real reason you turned into one of us."
"What?" Tsukune asked.
"Moka injecting you with her blood was nothing more than a trigger," another new mouth said, more growing around the first.
"Sealing the power with the Holy Lock Mikogami gave you..." another said.
"That is where the actual problem lies," a third finished.
"The Holy Lock's original purpose is to adapt the body to the power that's sealed off while suppressing the side effects," all of the mouths said. "In other words, it's a tool that can reliably and safely turn a human into a monster. You became a Shinso instead of a Ghoul because you had that Holy Lock. Putting it another way, you've been nurtured to become one of us right from the beginning, playing right into Mikogami's hands."
Tsukune looked down at his right hand just as Moka's foot flashed up, obliterating a mouth that was reaching toward Tsukune slowly.
"Don't listen to him, Tsukune," Moka said. "He's just making stuff up to get into our heads."
"Moka!" Tsukune breathed.
Alucard began to laugh. "However Tsukune, all this time you've been wishing for coexistence between humans and monsters because you were the only human among all your friends. Perhaps it's time you should abandon the rest of your population."
"Think about it," another head said. "You're one of us now. You no longer have any reason to fight for coexistence."
"Shut up!" Moka snapped, kicking that head as well.
"Identity crisis," Alucard laughed. "Since being made into a Shinso, you, like me, are now an enemy of Humani-"
Damon roared, bathing Alucard in flames, making him shriek and roar in agony. "Tsukune has plenty of reason to fight for coexistence. He still has human family, like that cousin that found our school, or his mother and father. And even if he doesn't care about them, he'll continue to fight for it because that's just who he is. He's a naïve little shit who never learns his lesson, and he's the only person who can possibly succeed. So you can shut the fuck up now and just burn."
"Mind if we join in?" Gin asked as he, Haiji, and Ling-Ling walked over.
"Gin!" Kurumu cheered. "Haiji! Ling-Ling!"
"There are some real beauties among the human race," Gin said. "Only a fool would want to wipe them out. And besides that, Marin is human, so I'm not going to let anything happen to them."
San's eyes began to water as she smiled just before Haiji picked her up excitedly.
"I agree with the part about not wiping out humans," another voice said as the little girl with the chainsaw and the Miao Family Yasha Damon had found on his way to catch up with Mizore walked over.
"Xia-Long!" Fang-Fang cheered, hugging him.
"Stop that," Xia-Long said.
"Don't worry about the Alucard clones attacking Japan and China," Ling-Ling said. "The Huang Family and the Miao Family are working together to fight them. With our alliance, most of the monsters in China are under our command."
"Which means I only have to focus on the main body," Damon said. "Good. All of you need to get clear. I'm going to have to resort to the true power of my species, a power only usable by the ruler."
"How far clear will we need to be?" Mizore asked.
"Wait a minute!" Kurumu said, paling rapidly. "You can't really be planning to use that are you!? You're just kidding, right! You just don't want us near Alucard!"
"You're partially right," Damon said. "Being near Alucard would definitely be bad. But yes. I'm using it. Leave. Now."
Kurumu staggered backward, spreading her wings. "Everyone run, now!"
"What's he doing?" Tsukune asked.
"He's going to level the city!" Kurumu shouted, grabbing Mizore and Coco before taking off, everyone else swearing and fleeing as well, anyone who could fly grabbing those who couldn't.
Mikogami and Fuhai landed beside Damon in their place, and he looked over at them.
"You should leave too," Damon said. "I'm sure you remember this ability."
"We do," Mikogami said. "Will it actually work?"
"It should," Damon said. "Fuhai, I'll need a barrier around the battlefield. One that can hold it back."
"I'll need time," Fuhai said.
"How much?" Damon asked.
"As much as you can give me," Fuhai said. "I'll try for ten minutes."
Damon nodded. "I'll do my best."
Both left and Damon rose into the air, expanding into his true form as Alucard began to rapidly grow into his full form again.
"I had wanted to avoid this," Damon said. "But now, allow me to show you who the true King of Monsters is."
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