Chapter 106: Damon vs. Nero

Damon charged at his father, and their swords clashed and clanged against each other at such a speed and ferocity that red and green sparks flew all around the room. For a moment Nero had them lock blades, until Damon reached into his coat, pulled out Black Dhalia, and try to shoot his father in the face. Nero broke the lock and backflipped away, pulling out the Blue Rose and shooting Damons' bullets out of the air, only for his torso to be grabbed by Damons' Devil Bringer arm and yanked forward before being slammed head first onto the floor. Nero, unphased, sent a sweep kick under Damon, taking his feet out from under him. Nero kipped up to his feet, swinging the fully revved Red Queen down to the ground, aiming to take Damon in half, but he rolled out of the way, rolled onto his feet, and held up the Green Knight just in time to block an overhead strike from the Red Queen, his face inches from a smiling Nero,

"Call me impressed! You lasted longer than thirty seconds..." Damon spit in his face, blinding him, and kicked him back, landed a perfect upward slash on Nero, cutting him from the middle of his torso and up through his right shoulder, making the two halves lean apart from each other.

"...and I performed better," Damon said, about to put away his sword until he saw that Nero was still standing, and to his shock he saw the Blacklight tendrils reappear, stitching the cut apart Nero back together, leaving no trace of the wound whatsoever, right down to his clothes.

"Let's agree to disagree on that last one," said Nero, swinging the Red Queen again, barely catching Damon across the chest, making him shout as the swipe left a deep cut. Damon growled and began to send attack after attack at Nero, the older Devil Hunter having more prowess in terms of fighting than his son, but only because of the Blacklight coursing through him, making him feel twenty years younger, taking away any restraint from age or injury, and replaced with stength, speed, and an everlasting stamina. Damon, however, was already beginning to wear down from the onslaught brought on by his father. Soon Damons' coat was something just above rags, and his entire upper body was covered in cuts, and his white hair was almost matted with his own blood. Blair, barely breathing, opened her eyes just enough to gaze at the injured Damon, and just in time to see Nero kick him back, making him land on the hard floor and drop his sword.

"D...Dam...Damon!" Blair gasped. Damon could only spit blood from his mouth as Nero put away his own sword, rearing back his Devil Bringer arm, and to the shock of both Damon and Blair, both of Neros' arms changed shape, into a more muscular form that Damon knew was the Blacklight Muscle Mass. Damon sighed,

"Fuck me." Right as those words were uttered, Nero bent down and began to slug both sides of Damons face, left and right, bruising his face, breaking in cheek bones, blackening his left eye and making it swell, and finally, after an unrelenting beating, he made one of Damons' teeth go flying across the room, finally making him stop. Nero followed the tooth with his eyes, breathing heavily from bashing in Damons' face, and finally stood up, apparently advancing to the tooth, but soon had his head veered to the side as he was shot in the head, followed with more shots to the side and then his torso, as Blair was now on her feet, her bullet wound healed, one of her guns in her left hand, and a green devil blood orb in the other,

"You stay the fuck away from my boyfriend you diseased piece of shit!!" She screamed, tossing the remainder of the orb to Damon, who caught it and started to heal himself, fixing his face and shrinking the cuts on his torso, but was unable to make them fade as the orb vanished. Nero simply turned to the gun weilding girl, his bullet wounds healing, and drew out the Blue Rose, but quickly had it shot out of his own hand. He turned to where the shot came from, and saw Damon back on his feet, Black Dahlia in his fist,

"Your shit ends here Dad," the white haired devil said defiantly. Nero only chuckled,

"My shit has only just begun!" He then pulled Red Queen off his back, revving it up as he held his Devil Bringer out to the side, and right before Damon and Blair, he had it change shape, into a glowing blue Blacklight blade with red scales. Damon let out a deep breath of air, breifly turning to his invisible wall,

"Try taking it easy on us Scarecrow, would ya?!" Damon then drew out Rebellion, summoning his green devil armor and the red spirit, while Blair held a hand high, summoning a magic circle, followed by a giant dark haired woman with gray skin and red eyes, dressed like a queen.

"Queen Sheba! Are you ready to fight for what feels like the final time?!" Blair asked the giant woman. She looked down to the girl that summoned her,

"Of course...daughter of Bayonetta."

"That is fricken' metal!" Stated Damon, "I didn't know you could summon the fucking witch queen on your own!"

"She could," said Nero, "but she won't be able to help you." Nero then tossed Red Queen aside with a crash, and reached inside his coat for one last weapon he had on himself; a traditional katana with a black scabbard, bronze guard and a white and black fabric hilt.

"Yamato?!" Gasped Damon.

"Isn't that your grandpas sword?" Asked Blair, unsure if she should be afraid or curious.

"It is," said Damon, "and my dad uses it to unleash his Devil Trigger!" And unleash his Devil Trigger Nero did; his eyes glowed blood red, a blue aura surrounded him, and a large blue devil-looking spirit appeared behind him, much similar to Damons' red spirit, only it was encased in blue armor.

"And now you see my Devil Trigger kids!" Laughed Nero, "Now let's see what you've got!!" Nero charged at the two teenagers, but quickly had to dodge the giant hand of Queen Sheba, who planted her hand onto the floor in an attempt to crush the elder Devil Hunter. Blair reached behind herself and revealed she had a katana of her own; a silver and black sword with a red glow, and it clashed with Neros' Devil Blade arm as he tried to strike Blair,

"So Yamato vs. Shuraba, that's an interesting combination!" Laughed Nero, and with one swipe from Yamato, Nero destroyed Blairs' sword, and sent her crashing into the far wall. Then he raised both his blade arm and sword up to block an attack from Queen Sheba, and sliced her hand in half, causing lavender blood to spray about the room as the witch queen sounded off a scream that had no place on earth, and with a quick fluid like motion, Nero lept for Sheba, using his blade and sword in a scissor fashion, and took the head of Sheba off her shoulders, causing her body to evaporate into shadow. Blair could only stare at where Sheba once was, and now Damon was taking his best shot at Nero, Rebellion and the Green Knight clashing and slashing against the Devil Blade and Yamato. Damon did the best he could, and right when the odds looked to be in Neros' favor, Damon used his swords to parry Yamato out of Neros' grasp, sending it flying across the room and sticking into the ground. Nero looked from the sword to his son, and without even really trying, he impaled Damon on his Devil Blade, slowly forcing him to the wall, sending a tendril to retrieve his Red Queen Sword, revving it up, and when Damon had been slammed to the wall, he slammed the sword into Damons' chest, puncturing his right lung. As Damon gasped for air, Nero grabbed the Green Knight from his son, and plunged it into Damons' left lung, cutting off his oxygen altogether. Nero then snatched Rebellion from his son, forcing his sons Devil Trigger to vanish, waited for his suffocating son to make eye contact, reared back Rebellion, and right before he could go for a decapitation he had a bullet exit the top of his head. He turned around, seeing Blair had two more pistols attached to her feet, and saw her go for a thrust kick to his face. He caught the foot, but the gun went off, the bullet entering his right eye, but he was unphased as his eye healed almost instantly. Without warning Nero then brought Rebellion down towards Blairs left leg, severing it at the middle of her thigh. Blair screamed in agony as Damons' eyes widened,

"No!" He wheezed, but he was unheard as Nero caught the falling Blair by the throat with his reverted Devil Bringer arm. She weakly tried to aim her right hand gun at Neros' head, but the evil Devil Hunter swung Rebellion up, severing her arm as well, making her scream more, and finally he quickly strode to the wall, pinning Blair like he had with Damon,

"Die you little WITCH!" To the young devils' horror, Nero reared back the sword, and sent Rebellion straight through Blairs' heart!

"Blair! Noooo!" Damon sputtered, blood leaking from his mouth as he gave a half winded shout, with Blair already choking on her own blood, the life slowly but surely leaving her body. Nero gripped the hilt of Rebellion with his Devil Bringer arm,

"And as the last Umbra Witch dies..." Nero tightened his grip, the metal that made up Rebellion beginning to groan from the strain, "...so does Rebellion!"

BANG!! Ping ping! Ping ping!

Damon watched in gutwrenching defeat as Nero shattered Rebellion; the hilt and part of the blade still in his hand, part of the blade still pinning Blair to the wall, and the remainder had clattered onto the floor in pieces...