SHIAAAA! HAH!

Yes, BlueRyuu, fighting! However... This... Is... The... Last... Sea... Devil... BATTLE!

HORRORS!

However... Dark Raven style of martial arts? All this is coming in the next episode!

-Second Wind and End Game-

We stood there for a moment, the two Titans facing the lone Sea Devil and the ocean, her limits of physical endurance almost exhausted, shuddering beneath and around us. Then, as one, my opponents and I struck, their arms snapping up and a bolt of lightning followed by a wall of water shot toward my spinning ax before a whirling blade of air snapped out from me and struck them, causing a massive explosion before the water surged through the explosion and I was forced to stop the spinning and stare down the water. As the ocean was blown away, Obliterator slammed through the explosion's settling smoke and charged me with jaws wide, intent on devouring me. Flashing away, I reappeared in the air above Devastator and smirked.

"You guys are slow."

The instant the words were out of my mouth, the Titan beneath me shimmered, then disappeared; I felt my eyes widen, then his voice came from behind me.

"Perhaps, mortal, but thou art not as quick as us."

Turning, I watched in horror as his hammer's head struck me, sending me flying into the ocean with an explosion of lightning and thunder.

I heard Aliza and Nicone scream as I hit the water, the sound of their voices the only thing keeping me from slipping into unconsciousness as I remembered the dire consequences of failure; snarling at the ocean around me, I felt a tinge of satisfaction as it fled from the dark fury I felt come out of nowhere.

As Devastator settled to the ocean and Obliterator began stalking toward me, a smirk on his face, I brought Yamakaze up and held it horizontally in front of me, my vision analyzing my numerous injuries before repairing them. As the wounds healed at an accelerated rate, steam began rising from my body and Obliterator's smirk slipped slightly.

"Well. Guess I am guilty of what I accused the others of; not taking this fight seriously." Raising my head, my hat no longer there from the sheer ferocity of the blow and the dragonskin coat still trying to repair itself in spite of the small fires lit by the Titan's blow, I stared directly at them. "Battle Form."

I felt my bones begin readjusting, then I witnessed a change in perception as my height doubled, tripled, quadrupled until I returned to my thirty-seven-foot form, unleashing a roar that caused the already-unstable ocean to begin trembling. Water began rising and falling at random intervals; a wall of sea would form seven stories high, then it would melt away, followed by rings of pillars and strange shapes that had no name. As the Titans shimmered, then disappeared, I bellowed again.

"MOUNTAIN CORE!"

My skin crackled as the two reappeared, their attacks already closing in on me; I snapped Yamakaze's massive form forward at Obliterator as he smashed an icy punch into me and an explosion ripped to life around us as Devastator dropped the heavy end of the hammer on my head. Smirking as I felt nothing more than slight tickles through the impervious armor of my battle form, I watched through the explosion as Yamakaze drew a line of blood across Obliterator's abdomen, causing the Titan's expression to go slack in shock before he rippled away.

As the pair returned to their positions in front of me, I smirked and readied my ax as they stared at Obliterator's wound. "Houw'dja lukeh daut strukeh? Goud 'nough fehr yuh?"

Obliterator and Devastator turned to glare at me, then they began laughing. Confused, I cocked my head at them. "Whut's suh funneh?"

"Har-har-har!" Obliterator held his hands over his injury as he cackled, then he smirked at me. "Think that's 'nough ta stop me? I'm a Titan, devil-boy; this here's nothin'."

Devastator held his war hammer up and pointed it at me. "Thy arrogance is truly astounding if thou believest this is other than a minor injury to his pride, mortal."

My eyes widened in shock as Obliterator straightened up, the wound already gone from his hide. "You're not th' only one who can fix himself, kid." His mouth turned downward in a frown. "Though I'm not happy that ya could even catch me, slow as ya are."

Brandishing the massive Yamakaze, I eyed them suspiciously. "Thus us th' bahttle fourm. Spehd us sahcrufuced four suhze und invulnurubulutuy."

They exchanged glances, then began laughing wildy and I glare at them. "Whut's suh funneh?"

"Ya talk funny, kid!" Obliterator's laughter cut through the wild atmosphere generated by the turbulent ocean like knives cut through butter. "It's like ya ain't got no more brains!"

Devastator seemed about to speak, then I smiled thinly as I brought Yamakaze back.

"Oh, thut's aull."

Yamakaze sliced toward them; they stood there for a moment, waiting for it, then shimmered away. Their voices came from behind me and I smirked.

"THUNDER HAMMER!"

"BLACK SEA DEMOLISHER!"

Two explosions rippled off my wings, then I turned and smirked at the pair. "Ut's useluss; wuth th' Mountain Core aurmour, nuthun' c'n get through muh skun."

Smiling thinly, they both drew back and brought their left hands around to point at each other, palm facing palm. Energy began surging from everywhere and I felt a twinge of fear as the energy coalesced into a sphere that was rotating between their hands; even in my immune form, I wasn't indestructible if enough power to level a planet was used.

Rotating as if flinging something, the pair roared, "RAGNAROK!"

The sphere shot forward and struck me in the stomach, knocking all the wind out of my stone lungs and flinging me back, slamming me into the ocean and skidding so far away that I could no longer see them with line-of-sight vision. As I felt my armor melting away, one single thought ran through my mind before the light overtook me.

I'm sorry, Captain.

-Thurd e sonl-

Aliza sank to her knees as Devastator and Obliterator smirked, their lungs heaving and reminding them of something they had long since forgotten; there could be opponents worthy of their best yet. Still, not even the upstart Sea Devil, child of Medusa the Gorgon Queen, had been enough to best them; their goals and intentions remained unstopped.

Turning to regard the shell-shocked girls, Obliterator smiled thinly and raised a hand above them.

"Welp, one more job ta do."

As the air shield around them began dissipating, Nicone looked up at the pair, tears streaming down her face. "WHY?!"

He paused and looked down at her, a glimmer of humanity showing for the first time that night as he shook his head. "Ya fell inta th' wrong crowd, kid. Sorry 'bout that."

Aliza looked up at him viciously. "I DID NOT FALL INTO TH' WRONG CROWD! HE'S MY FIRST MATE AND I'M PROUD OF IT!"

Shrugging, Obliterator drew his hand back farther. "So be it."

Before he could drop his hand, however, something in the air above Aliza shimmered, then pulsed. Grunting in surprise, the titan narrowed his eyes before slamming his fist down. There was a crackle, then he howled in pain and backpedaled, holding the arm where his hand used to be. Above the girls shimmered a strange light, a greenish fire burning in the air as the last of Obliterator's hand disappeared.

"What in Hell is that?!"

Devastator narrowed his eyes, then snapped his gaze to where the massive form of Gargoyle had been sent flying. "Hell and damnation!"

At his oath, all three pairs of eyes turned to follow his gaze to find the distant horizon lit by a green glare, as if a massive fire was burning on the ocean. As they focused, however, something else came into view; a tall, burly figure with the wings of a bat, a long, pointed tail and a huge ax over his shoulder. Obliterator's eyes narrowed.

"There's no way..."

Aliza screamed in delight as Nicone collapsed in relief. "ARGY!!"

The distant figure raised his ax, then disappeared. Before anyone present could quite figure out what had happened to him, fire sprang to life around them, the green flames lashing out at anything that moved, be it ocean, human or titan; the girls shrieked and backed away as a tongue of flame the size of a house licked out toward them before the shield around them snarled and knocked it back, sending it howling back. A deep, thundering voice echoed through the flames as the figure, roughly the same height as the two titans, strode out of the flames.

"It all comesss down to round three."

-Sha'man o'deth-

I smiled through my tusks at the shocked-looking group, Yamakaze howling as the stony head lit with a demonic fire hovered over a shaft of solid air. "The firsst two roundsss I concccede to you, but now the final round isss here and I cannot lossse."

Obliterator licked at his hand where my demon fire had devoured it. "What th' hell are ya?!"

I smiled toothily as my tail lashed the air behind me, my seven-fingered, scaled and clawed right hand wrapped around Yamakaze while my three-fingered, stone left hand formed a fist before a single finger pointed at them. "I am a Sea Devil, nothing less, nothing more; you, on the other hand, are about to die."

The two titans snarled, then Obliterator shimmered away and snapped around behind me. His other hand slammed into my back, the weight of the ocean behind it, then he screamed as I turned up the heat of my furred, scaled skin and melted his limb off. Screaming, he staggered back as I turned to him and smiled wickedly before inhaling deeply.

"BANE OF LIFE!"

The green fire that poured out of my mouth wrapped around him and clung to him, no matter how much he flailed and how much water he doused himself in. The ending was inevitable; his titanic form slammed into the ocean as he attempted a last-ditch dousing, then his struggles slowly ceased until he went still, the fire continuing to devour him until there was nothing left. As the hungry flames began looking for something else to devour, I turned to look at Devastator, who was eying me uncomfortably.

"How ist it that thou can do these things?"

I smiled thinly. "I defeated the Sssiren with ssspeed; I dessstroyed Leviathan with power; I crushed the Gorgon with trickery and deccceit. I turned their own ssstrengthsss into weaknesssesss againssst my own power; thisss isss the true nature of the Sssea Devilsss, the nature you never sssaw when you enssslaved them by murder and usssurpation. Thisss isss how they ssstayed ssseparate from your rule for ssso long." Lowering my head, I let my voice turn dark. "Thisss isss how you will die."

He snorted and spun his war hammer around before drawing it back. "Enough talk."

Nodding, I shot forward at the same time as he did; our weapons collided and a shock wave brutal enough to envelope entire islands surged out, creating a massive wave that traveled only a short distance before the unstable ocean simply dissipated it. Snarling, we drew our weapons apart before slamming them back again, our power generating a tornado that blew away as quickly as it blew together. Repeated blows generated the same results; growling, we leaped back, our feet digging into the ocean as if it was earth before we stood up. Devastator brought his hammer over his head and began spinning it, lightning crackling from the weapon as it charged an enormous amount of power; bringing Yamakaze behind me, I gripped it with both hands and began focusing energy into it. We both finished simultaneously and swung our weapons, unleashing the attacks at the exact same moment.

"THOR'S WRATH!"

"DEVIL'SSS ADVOCATE!"

A lightning bolt large enough to swallow an island whole crashed toward the massive scythe of energy I created with a swing of Yamakaze; the two attacks collided and exploded violently, creating a ball of flame that I dissipated with a wave of my hand before flashing forward, digging Yamakaze's head into Devastator's chest as his hammer struck my side, driving in deep and breaking numerous ribs. We both staggered away, a shocked look on his face and a grim one on mine, then we both raised our weapons and roared before charging again, our weapons colliding before shattering from the incredible force with which we struck.

Without pause, we began pummeling each other, our massive fists slamming into each other at either chest or head level and either absorbed on the arms or hand or smashing the targeted area with incredible force. This went on for a moment, then Devastator slammed me in the head with one fist while the other crackled with lightning before driving into my stomach and sending me skidding back. As I gripped the ocean with my clawed feet, he drove toward me with his fist cocked back; grimacing, I formed a blade-edge with my hand and slashed it into his fist. There was a crack, then he screamed and staggered back as his hand went limp from the force that had hit it; sensing my opportunity, I brought one fist back while my stone hand reached out and gripped his skull, applying enough pressure to attract his attention to taking it off for a moment.

As he finally wrenched the hand off and flung it away from him, he was just in time to stare as my other fist, completely charged with energy, drove into his chest.

"GORGON FISSST!"

He screamed as energy poured through his body and lit him up from the inside, then died as his body disintegrated beneath the onslaught of pure power that had erupted from my fist.

As his remains floated to the ocean, I staggered from exhaustion before reverting to human form with much pain, my injuries no longer allowing themselves to be ignored or pushed away. Staggering in a circle, I spotted the terrified faces of the girls and weakly smiled as I gave them a thumbs-up.

"'M gooood..."

As I fell forward, the waves not dissipating away from me as they usually did, I hit the water just as another voice wafted through my senses.

"Guess he won, huh?"

Shelby?