Chapter 97: The Black Knight vs. The Green Knight
The Knight lifted her sword, ready for one or both of the devils to come and attack her.
"So how do you want to do this?" Asked Adrian, "I know one of us has to go after the basilisk while the other fights the black knight. So which do you want?"
"Dibs on the knight," said Damon, "I've always wanted to fight a knight, plus if you kill the basilisk and save Llarya, you might have yourself a bit of a rebound girl," he finished with a wink. Adrian scowled at Damon, "Too soon?"
"That will be forever too soon," said the Devil Virus, summoning a magic circle below himself, "So tell me, Black Knight, where's your monster?" The knight scoffed,
"If you wish to die, you can find it in the castle guarding the vault. But I wouldn't waste your time, one drop of venom from the basilisk will be enough for you." Adrian tightened his fist,
"Never underestimate the power of a devil," said Adrian, and he dropped into his magic circle, vanishing from sight. Damon popped his neck as he retrieved the Green Knight off his back,
"Nyna!" He called out, making sure he had the light elfs full attention, "If I fight your mom, there is a chance I might not be able to save her..." Nyna understood what he said, and her eyes became shadowed by her hair,
"I...understand..." Damon gave her a brief look of sympathy, turned back to the Black Knight, stuck the tip of his sword into the ground, and revved the gear shift. The Knight laughed at the display,
"Did the devil just show sympathy to my daughter? How adorable...and pathetic." The knight charged at Damon as he yanked his sword from the ground, "I only hold sympathy for the devil in front of me!"
As the Devil Hunter and Black Knight clashed, Adrian appeared in front of the massive castle in the mountainside, with half a dozen orcs heading right for him.
"Just another day in the office..." Adrian mumbled to himself, readying his Sacred Gear,
"Devour!" Shouted Penglog, draining the strength and power from the orcs, causing them to stop in their tracks, Discharge!" Adrian aimed his gear at the stunned orcs, and with one powerful red blast, disintegrated the group of pig men and the tall castle doors with them. Adrian walked inside with pure conviction, glancing around to figure out where the basilisk could possibly be, and decided to use his Hunter Sense, detecting a large lifeform directly beneath him, as well as several smaller lifeforms, which to Adrian felt an awful lot like...
"Humans?" Adrian glanced back and forth across the floor, summoned his Hammer Fists, and began to punch and punch and punch the stone floor until it finally cracked, caved, and broke apart, allowing Adrian to fall into the hole, landing on his feet in a dark cavernous room, with the only light being the hole Adrian made, and a pair of torches on the farthest end of the room, lining a dark doorway. Adrian squinted his eyes, seeing a man walking out from the darkness; a shorter man dressed in a makeshift military garb with an edged red and silver mask, slightly resembling a stereotypical devil, carrying a large silver machine gun,
"So! You must be Adrian," said the man.
"Yeah," answered the Devil Virus, "and who are you?"
"Salem," answered the man, "not that it will matter to you." He lifted his gun and opened fire on Adrian, only to see that he had vanished into the shadows of the rest of the room. Salem took a pair of steps away from the dark doorway, ready to start firing again at a moments notice, "You like my gun you devil shit?!" Salem called out into the darkness, "Light rounds, just like what your old pal Wesker used to pack!"
"Don't speak of Wesker as if you knew him!" Shouted Adrian from the darkness, "He was, and still is, my friend!" Salem scoffed,
"'Friend?' That's cute. I had a friend once! You know what he did? He left me for dead in a burning truck! Not even bothering to check to see if I was still alive or not! What's worse? He chose some girl over me, his best friend, and then left me for dead! Or no! I took a fucking bullet for him, so he could save Shanghai! Still chose a stupid little girl over saving me..." Salem paused, relishing in the memory, "...I can still hear the gunshot...the one I put in the girls head, and then my so called 'friend,' who I couldn't trust enough to keep me alive..." Salem had no more time to speak as Adrian slipped behind him, snatched the gun, disasembled it with almost fluid like motions, and delivered a good palm strike to Salems' mask, a flat foot to his shin, and a low jab that connected to Salems' mask, knocking it upwards and revealing the scarred mans' face,
"You talk way too much, even for a bad guy," said Adrian. Adrian was sent flying forward as he said those words, skidding across the stone floor as Salem rose up, laughing at Adrians' expense,
"Speak for yourself when you should be focusing on the damn basilisk." Then, off of the ceiling dropped a massive lizard, almost exactly like a giant komodo dragon, only the top of its head where its eyes should be were completely flat, like that portion had been smashed down and smoothed over to leave no trace of its ability to see. "It's hearing allows it to find prey," said Salem, "but the real kicker is its sense of smell. Cause it can tell the difference between friend, like me, and foe, like you." The lizard screeched into the air, and scampered towards Adrian, the Devil Virus cursing under his breath.
As Adrian began his fight with the Basilisk, Damon was doing his best against the Black Knight, parrying sword strikes with having his own attacks parried as well, and the strikes he did manage to slip in only created sparks against the knights armor.
"Stupid child," laughed the knight, "this armor was specially crafted by Zeus himself. It is damn near unbreakable." She grabbed the Green Knight with her free hand, ripped it from Damons' grasp, and tossed it across the room, sliding on the floor and stopping near Nyna and the dying Llarya. Damon scoffed at the knight,
"Sweetheart, nothing is unbreakable, except for Bruce Willis," said the Devil Hunter, casting a wink to Nyna, who blushed despite not knowing who Bruce Willis is. The knight frowned behind her helmet, twirling her sword before taking a lunge at Damon, only for him to grab the blade with his normal hand, causing him to bleed, and with a powerful slam from his Devil Bringer arm, he smashed the sword into pieces! The knight rolled her eyes with a groan as Damon dropped the pieces of the sword, and used his Devil Bringer on the Black Knight, lifting her up by her chest plate with his ghostly arm, and slammed her down head first onto the hard stone floor. The knight lifted her legs up over her head, and kipped up to her feet, surprising Damon,
"You have no chance here Devil, no chance in hell." Damon gritted his teeth,
It seems like that armor is keeping her alive, he thought to himself, kind of makes me wonder what would happen if I got her out of it? Damon then had an imaginary light bulb appear over his head, followed by an image of Issei and his Dress Break technique. Why does that have to be stuck in my head in a time like this? Damon then reared his Devil Bringer back in the form of a fist, right as the knight reared back a fist of her own, and both fists collided with the face of the other, the force sending Damon flying backwards, skidding across the floor until he hit his head on the wall, while the knight simply stood her ground, stunned for the force of Damons' punch.
"Need I repeat myself about my armor?" Asked the knight. Damon then had Issei and his technique stuck in his head once again, and he finally came to the conclusion,
Do I really need to resort to that tactic? Damon wondered, internally sighing to himself.
"Hey Nyna!" Damon called out, getting the princess to focus on him as the knight began to close the distance, "before I do what I am about to do, I apologize in advance!" The knight grabbed Damon by the front of his shirt, lifting him into the air as if he weighed nothing,
"Any last words...Devil?" Damon placed his Devil Bringer on the knights forearm, creating a small red rune,
"Unfortunately for us both, I do. Nyna! Close your eyes!" The princess did as she was told, leaving the knight confused, until Damon closed his eyes, "...Dress Break!" He snapped his fingers, and with a fireworks grade BANG! the armor on the knight shattered, leaving her mature body as bare as the day she was born while also giving Damon a hint as to what she truly looked like; blonde hair like Nyna, harsh green eyes, and a slim yet toned body including a six pack. She dropped Damon out of shock, not believing what had just happened.
"What just happened?" Asked Nyna, keeping her eyes covered.
"Trust me...Nyna..." wheezed Llarya, "...you're better off...not knowing..." The knight stared down at herself, then at Damon who had pulled out Black Dahlia,
"I really wish I didn't have to do that," admitted Damon, "but since your armor was so unbreakable, I didn't see another-!" Damon stopped, seeing the naked knight was laughing at him, uproarously.
"Was that really your best shot?" She asked him. What happened next caught Damon off his guard.
Tendrils appeared on her body! Recreating her entire armor except for her helmet, leaving her head bare as she gave him an evil smile
Damons' eyes widened like saucers,
"B...Blacklight...?"
