Chapter 107: Adrian vs. Adrian

Meanwhile...

"Wakey wakey Adrian..." The Devil Virus jerked himself awake, finding himself face down on a dirty floor, in a dark circular room with several cracked mirrors, torn red curtains lining the ceiling, and no visible exit. But what scared Adrian the most was that instead of walls there was a stormy sky, like a tornado, and no visible ground.

"Where am I?" He asked Mary, who had reappeared behind him,

"The Silver Side of the Mirror," she answered with an evil smile.

"It's fucking freezing here ya know," he snapped, shaking the cold off of his hands,

"Is it? I can't tell," she said, laughing to herself. Adrian turned to the vampire mistress, done playing her game,

"Why did you bring me here?" He demanded from her, "And if it isn't you I'm fighting then who is it?!" Bloody Mary laughed as she began to levitate into the air, and once she was safely out of reach of Adrian, she spoke cryptically,

"Zeus may be one of the main causes of your suffering..." said Mary, "...but you are your own worst enemy..." She cackled as she turned into her red bat cloud, and dissappeared from Adrians' sight.

"What do you mean by that?" He called after her, "Hey! What do you mean?!" That was when Adrian heard it; a deep demonic voice, speaking in a singsong tone,

"Adriaaan...Aaaaaaaaadriaaaaaaaan!" Adrian saw a single light shine on one of the mirrors, and straight through the glass jumped something as big as Adrian, dressed almost exactly like him as well but in shades of silver with black zigzags across all his clothes. Then Adrian saw its face, and he nearly screamed, for despite his skin being silver with black cracks and red eyes, the mirror creature looked almost exactly like him!

"What in the Jesus H. FUCK?!" Shouted Adrian, making the mirror creature laugh,

"You haven't figured it out yet?" It asked him. "I'm just you! Or at least...the side you never bring to light!" Adrian stared at the creature, unsure of what it meant, "What? You thought Calvin was the only one with a bad side?" He smirked at Adrian, and charged for him, trying to land a kick to Adrians' chest but the true Adrian side stepped him just enough to try and lock the creature in a headlock, only to be thrown down onto the ground and stomped on the chest. Adrian rolled back onto his feet, recieving a hard punch to the left side of his face, followed by a punch to the right side, then a knee to the stomach, hunching him over, followed by a knee to the nose, causing a nose bleed. Adrian wiped away the blood, summoning his Sacred Gear,

"Alright, I've already had enough of this crap!" He aimed his gear arm at Mirror Adrian,

"DEVOUR!" Shouted Penglog, absorbing the Mirror Adrians' strength and power, causing him to waver on his feet, "DISCHARGE!" Adrian fired his red blast of energy, hitting the mirror creature in the chest, but instead of sending him flying back like Adrian expected his entire body shattered like glass!

"Yeah!!" Shouted Adrian, "That's right!! Is that the best you bastards can do?!" Adrian instantly regretted his words, as the rest of the room lit up, and three more Adrians burst from the mirrors, smiling maliciously at the Devil Virus.

"This isn't even close to the best we can do..." they said in unison, "we just have a bad habit of playing with our food!"

"Of course you do," grumbled Adrian. He then had to quickly dodge and duck as the three Mirror Adrians began to attack him with punches and kicks, only for him to successfully evade their attacks, turning them around on each other, and just like the first Mirror Adrian, caused them to shatter like glass. As soon as those three were destroyed however, three more appeared, ready to attack Adrian without mercy. Adrian repeated the process like he had with the last three Mirror Adrians, but they seemed more concentrated, and managed to land some attacks of their own on the Devil Virus. One landed a punch to the side of Adrians' face, a second landed a roundhouse kick to Adrians' temple, making him take a knee, and finally the third mirror monster ran up to Adrian and landed a picture perfect curb stomp on the young devil.

Adrian spat out a mouthful of blood, wipeing away the excess from the side of his mouth, and slowly stood up on his feet as the three Mirror Adrians surrounded him, smiling and laughing.

"Alright you cheap knockoffs," Adrian spat, "no more playing around!" Adrian then formed his claws, and quickly and efficiently slashed through the mirror Adrians, shattering them like he had the other creatures. Adrian was now alone, breathing heavily as he finally thought he had won. "Anyone else?" He asked the remaining mirrors.

"Right here!" Adrian turned, and was punched right in the face so hard he was sent flying across the room, landing in a crumpled heap. Adrian propped himself onto his elbows, and saw yet another Mirror Adrian, but this one had black muscular arms with silver cracks running up and down both limbs.

"Don't tell me, Muscle Mass?" Asked Adrian, standing himself up while rubbing his jaw.

"That and then some," said the creature, his Muscle Mass dissappearing and replaced with a black Sacred Gear with red gemstones, and a Blacklight Blade with silver cracks. Adrian rolled his eyes,

"Of course he could copy the Sacred Gear!" He shouted. Penglog, while his face couldn't be seen, had wide eyes,

"In all my years, and trust me, there is a shit ton of those, I've never had to face a copy of both myself and my partner." The Sacred Gear on Mirror Adrian rumbled, and both the real Adrian and Penglog realized that it was laughing,

"There's a first for everything, Bone Dragon!" Laughed the gear, and the Mirror Adrian charged. The Devil Virus summoned his own Blade and blocked the mirror creatures' attack, lifting his gear arm up in time to block a punch from Mirror Adrians gear arm, and with both arms locked, they both landed a solid headbutt onto each other, breaking the lockup between them and giving them enough space to breifly stratagize to themselves. Adrian instinctively held up his Sacred Gear, as did Mirror Adrian, and the gemstones on both Sacred Gears glowed brightly,

"DEVOUR!" Both dragon arms shouted...but nothing happened. Both Adrian and the Mirror Adrian looked down at their gear arms in confusion,

"That's weird," said Adrian.

"I guess the combination of the Ravenous Reaper abilities canceled each other out," said Penglog. Mirror Adrian laughed,

"Oh well, I guess we have to settle this like good old Devil Viruses do!" The Mirror Adrian charged for the true Adrian, blade at the ready, while Adrian had his up, and both of them began to slash at each other, dodging or blocking when they need to. In the end, both Adrians had deep cuts on their bodies, both were short on breath, yet the one true Adrian managed to land one fatal swipe on the Mirror Adrians' neck, severing his head from his shoulders and shattering him like he had the previous Mirror Adrians. Adrian gasped for air, almost on his last legs,

"...got any more?" He asked the remaining mirror, and out bounded another Mirror Adrian,

"How about...JUST ONE MORE?!" The last Mirror Adrian lifted his gear arm into the air, the gemstones glowing brightly, and right before Adrians eyes, the mirror creature was encased in a black skeletal dragon armor, resembling much of Adrians' silver almor but with mirror-like cracks running along the entirety of its body. "Balance Breaker! Ravenous Reaper! Scale Mail!"

"Oh give me a damn break!!" Adrian shouted. Adrian then lifted his own gear arm, causing the gemstones to glow,

"You don't have a lot of power to keep your Balance Breaker armor up for long," Penglog informed Adrian.

"If this copycat cunt right in front of us is exactly like us but evil, then in theory he shouldn't be able to keep up the armor either," said Adrian. Suddenly he had his silver Balance Breaker armor on as well, both of them walking up to each other, both of them raising their right fist, and finally both of them throwing a straight punch towards each other, with fist connecting to fist. As their punches connected their right arm plates cracked, making them both shake the pain out of their arms, and soon both of them were taking their best attacks at each other; punches, kicks, even Claws, Hammerfists, Muscle Mass, almost everything they had to offer. Eventually Adrian formed his blade, as did Mirror Adrian, and the fight turned into a sword fight, their swords sending mettalic thunder rolling off the walls. Suddenly Mirror Adrian morphed his arms back to normal, dashed behind the true Adrian, locked his arms around the waist of the Devil Virus, and with a mighty heave, he sent Adrian flying with a German Suplex. Upon impact with the floor, Adrians' armor cracked, and he coughed up blood. Mirror Adrian sprouted devil wings from his back and darted for Adrian, scooping him up and standing him dazed onto his feet. The mirror creature then headbutted Adrian, the sound of metallic thunder once again making the walls shake,

BOOM! BOOM! BANG!

Adrians' armor shattered, and the Devil Virus was sent to the floor, bleeding from his head as Bloody Mary reappeared by Mirror Adrian,

"I think this fight is done," she said, pleased with herself as Adrian continued to bleed...