Chapter 154: Balance Breaker

Everyone stared at Katrina as the lightning finally vanished, and they saw the Devil Goddess drop Soul Reaver, but they were not staring at the sword. They saw Katrina now had bright blue glowing skin, with most of her hair dropping from her scalp, and piercing white eyes.

"How...how is that possible?" Asked the Akeno clone, clearly afraid, and even tried to throw some lightning at the Goddess of War, only for it to absorbed harmlessly into the glowing blue skin. Katrina looked down at herself, then back up at the evil clone, snapped her fingers, summoning Soul Reaver back into her hand, now pulsing with electricity,

"What you see here," began Katrina, "you can thank Calvin for." Katrina then zipped towards Imposter Akeno, and with one slash from her sword she reduced her to nothing but black tar in the grass. Damon laughed into the air, kicking evil Issei while he was down,

"All you copycats are so fucked now!" Katrina then zipped across the grass in a fashion like Zeus, Kessler and Calvin briefly did before her, reappearing by a downed James and a vicious Kiba copy, only for him to be quickly cut down by the now electrified Devil Goddess, sparing the cowboys' life.

"Thanks miss!" Said James, and Katrina zipped over to Llarya and evil Asia, grabbing the imposter by the front of her outfit and throwing her as far as she could, presumably to the edge of the Halo ring, and off into space,

"Now why didn't I think of that?" Llarya wondered to herself. Katrina then ran to Jason and the Koneko copy, and with one SWISH from her sword she leveled the imposter with one swing. Jason looked at Katrina with wide eyes, and the Goddess gave him a shrug,

"I would kiss you, but it might wind up being lethal," she told him, and then she ran off to help Damon fight the evil Issei. Jason stared after her,

"I wonder if anyone is going to tell her that her hair fell out..." Katrina then zipped over to Damon and the evil Issei, and planted a solid knee to the side of the evil clones head, shattering the helmet and making him crash into the ground, leaving a decent sized trench in his wake. Damon looked at Katrina from head to toe,

"Kat, how are you able to use Calvins' Balance Breaker?" Katrina turned to Damon, breathing heavily from the new power surging through her,

"Truthfully I didn't know I could until now. But remember when Calvin died?"

"Hard to forget. It was one of the first major character deaths in this story."

"Well when he died, he left something behind."

"Yeah his...pawn piece!" Said Damon in realization. Katrina nodded,

"When I grabbed it, I placed it with my own, and it felt like since then a piece of him has been with me, and now I think this proves it." Damon nodded, the looked to the top of Katrinas' head,

"Did you know your hair is gone?" Katrinas' eyes widened, and she reached for the top of her head, and true to Damons' word, her hair was indeed gone.

"Oh no. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no!"

"Relax, it doesn't look that bad," said Damon, being honest with her.

"Really?" Asked Katrina hopefully. Right then the evil Issei stood up, his breath heaving as his rage increased,

"It will look bad when I'm done with you!" The evil Issei then charged up a small red orb of energy in front of his fist, and with an almighty punch he turned the orb into a massive beam of energy causing the two to jump away from each other to avoid annihilation.

As the two bounded away, Adrian, still inside his silver dragon bone Scale Mail, was locked in serious midair combat with the evil Rias,

"Oh brother! Is this really all you have to work with? How pathetic!" Adrian gritted his teeth beneath his helmet,

"Just watch this!" He then vanished from sight, reappearing behind Rias, and placed both of his hands on the sides of her head,

"DEVOUR!" Shouted Penglog, and Adrian absorbed the evil Rias' power and strength. As the evil clone began to falter, Adrian brought his hands right between her shoulder blades, "DISCHARGE!" A red beam of energy was sent forward, practically annihilating the red haired copy, and as she crashed into the ground, covered in smoke and nothing more, Adrian landed gracefully, looking to Damon and Katrina as they fought the Issei copy. The Devil Goddess, still using Calvins' Balance Breaker while weilding Soul Reaver, and the Devil Hunter, now weilding Yamato and unleashing his Devil Trigger, were on either side of the imposter, and with a piercing of the Soul Reaver on the left side and a stab from Yamato on the right, they followed the attack with a yank and reduced the evil Issei into black tar. Soon Adrian and his friends regrouped, with Adrian himself still in his Balance Breaker armor, Damon putting away Yamato, Katrina letting her electric flesh revert to its' normal ash grey, Llarya, Jason and James soon joined them, either out of breath or slightly wounded, and Thatan was the last to join them, carrying a barely conscious Pennie in his arms,

"Pennie is badly hurt from that blood drinking creature!" Thatan informed them. Damon hurridly looked through his coat, and dug out one last green orb,

"My last green devil blood orb," said Damon, "enough to heal one of you completely, but seeing as you're both hurt, I would reccomend sharing it." Thatan said nothing as he snatched the orb from Damon, and quickly began to apply it to Pennies' wounds.

"I'll be fine," said Thatan, "It's Pennie I'm worried for." As the green orb disappeared, so did Pennies' wounds, and she looked to Thatan with concern,

"Brother! You need to be healed too!" The Sangheili gave her a look, and one could say it was a smile,

"Just seeing you better heals me, sister."

"Wait, you two are brother and sister?" Asked James.

"Pretty sure it isn't by blood," said Jason, raising an eyebrow at the cowboy.

"Does it need to be blood for it to be family?" Asked Llarya curiously.

"No it doesn't, but we can save the chit chat for later," said Adrian, looking up into the air, "we still got one fight going on." Everyone followed Adrians' eye, and they saw Issei and Zeus still fighting in the air, "How long do you guys think he has left in that armor?"

"Considering he is running on crystalized devil tears from my world, I'd say about five minutes," said Damon, "but the more power he uses, the faster it wears off..." Damon then cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted at Issei, "Quit dicking around Issei! Pick up the pace and beat his ass!"

The Red Dragon Emperor was already fighting for his life, swinging Ascalon at Zeus as the devil god expertly ducked and dodged the attacks.

"It's down to you and me, you titty obsessed twit!" Shouted Zeus, "Now let's finish this!" The devil god darted back, and sent several blacklight tendrils to the red dragon, only for Issei the use Ascalong to quickly slice them off of his arm and out of the air,

"I agree, and I know just how to do it!" Said Issei. He promoted himself to queen, the chess piece briefly flashing over his head, and he vanished in a flash, reappearing and dissapearing around Zeus as the devil god spoke,

"Go ahead! Hit me with your best damn shot! You won't get to again!" The flashing stopped, with the armor clad dragon nowhere in sight, until Zeus slowly turned around, looking down to the ground and seeing Issei by his friends, a red ball of energy in front of him, and the red dragon punched it, full power, full strength, with every bit of his heart and soul he's got, and sent a red energy blast, the size and force of a speeding double decker passenger train, right for Zeus, and with the size and power behind it, Zeus was unable to block, and had no option but to take it full force, breaking him away piece by bloody piece, not only destroying him but completely wiping him from existance. More so, the blast continued onward, past Zeus and hitting the inner side of the Halo ring on the horizon, causing a massive explosion and shattering the ring in the distance. Issei exhaled, and before he knew it he was recieving a pat on the back from Adrian,

"Well done, Red Dragon Emperor," said the one eyed devil with a smile, "well done." They both turned to Thatan, who with the others had watched the destruction, "Do you think this God-Slayer thing will still be functional?"

"It should be unoperational now," said the Sangheili, "but we shoul get off this thing before the rest of the ring explodes." The others gave their agreements, but before they could go back to the teleporter, a red and violet shockwave hit them all from behind, forcing them all onto the ground. They all turned to see the attacker, and half of them gasped; there was a skeletal arm, held together by blacklight tendrils, and originating from the back of a single blood red eye, soon sprouting more blacklight tendrils, until finally they formed a head, then a torso, legs, finally clothes, and right before them, Adrian and his friends witnessed Zeus regenerating from a single eye, rubbing the side of his head to force it into looking forward,

"Now...where were we...?"