My Calling: Night Warriors
Author: Cornell Valentine Gainsborough
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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(Move Name) Name of Nelius' moves
A/N: This one's rather short, since I'm recovering from a cold and a minor injury. Hopefully the next one'll be a bit longer.
Chapter 3: First Battle
"Demon Cradle!"
Nelius slid beneath Demitri's diagonal spinning attack and quickly righted himself, sending a foot toward the back of the vampire's head. As it whiffed over him, the young demon used his momentum to spin into a crouch, aiming for the vampire's legs. Again, it missed, and Nelius was forced to get to his feet rather quickly.
"Chaos Flare!" A bat engulfed in flames shot forth at an extreme speed from Demitri's hands and hurtled toward Nelius, who, through either coincidence or common sense, threw his own wings upward and knocked the bat out of the way.
Demitri's eyes narrowed. This had gone on for too long. It was time to finish this fight.
'Hm, looks like Maximoff's serious about this one.' Morrigan noted as the battle began anew. 'If our little friend can't see through his defense, he won't last too long here.'
Nelius was having a hard time keeping up his own defense. Since Demitri had decided to get up close and personal, he'd noted that the vampire was focusing a lot more on battering down his defense, and he could already feel his own wings beginning to ache from all of the abuse they were taking.
'Damn it all. If this keeps up...' Seeing a hard right hook coming for his head, he quickly released his wings from their defensive position and closed the small distance between them, connecting with a left fist to the vampire's side, then immediately followed with an uppercut to the chin that sent him flying straight upward. Nelius jumped upward, using a backflip to kick Demitri a few meters away. (Triple Strike)
The lord of vampires felt the effects of Nelius' attack, but quickly shook them off.
"So, you do have some fight in you."
"Better believe it, fangface. I don't go down without a fight."
"You are unworthy to be my opponent. DEMON BILLION!" With that, Demitri transformed his body into a swarm of fiery bats and sent them flying at Nelius.
"Not happening, you blood-sucking freak!" Backflipping out of Demitri's reach, he made a small landing about three meters away before flipping into the air again, charging energy into his cupped hands. Once he had a sufficient amount, he thrusted his hands in the direction of the reforming vampire as a beam of iradescent energy slammed down on Demitri before causing a widescale explosion. (Lion's Roar)
As Nelius landed a small way away, the dust from his previous attack had settled out, revealing Demitri, who'd changed back into his "human" form. Some of his cape was in tatters, and most of his clothing had suffered some burns. The two shot each other a glare.
"You'll pay for this insolence." Dashing forward with an ungodly speed, becoming near invisible as he spun into another Demon Cradle, but what had happened next suprised quite a few people.
Waiting until just the last second before the attack connected, Nelius threw himself backwards onto the ground and, using his legs, launched Demitri into the air, then used his own arms to launch himself upward to initiate a lightning-fast series of attacks on the defenssless vampire before throwing him back down to the ground at several hundred miles per second. Demitri's landing left an impact crater, which was then widened by an explosive foot strike from Nelius. (King of Beasts)
As Nelius landed a few feet away, Demitri immediately flew out of the crater.
'Thrice now, that filthy outsider had the audacity to strike me.' His own bloodlust was growing. 'He will learn to respect the new king of Makai!' He was prepared to strike again, but something interrupted the fight.
"Master Demitri." A soul bat flew down, dispersing into a small sheet of paper. "One who calls himself the Bane of Darkness has challenged you, sire."
"Hmph." He turned his attention to Nelius. "This will be resolved later, boy." Throwing up his own gate, he stepped through back to his castle.
"I-is he gone?" Almost instantly, upon seeing that the vampire had departed, the demons who'd witnessed Demitri's descent into Makai came out of hiding and resumed business as though nothing ever happened.
"Yep, definitely like back home. Nothing gets these guys down." Nelius couldn't help but be a bit humored at how quickly the demons began setting up shop after the battle blew over.
"You've got some potential, to be able to see through and counter Maximoff's attacks." Nelius turned his attention to Morrigan. "You mught just have what it takes to become a Darkstalker."
"Darkstalker?"
MAKAI!
"Sorry, haven't seen that kid."
"Nope, haven't seen him."
Back at Nelius' home netherworld, the search was still going strong as William had reached the Dimensional Port, and was searching around for any clues as to Nelius' wherabouts.
'Damn, three days and nothing to show for it. Still, it puzzles me as to why Sirea wants that kid so damn badly. I never noticed anything remarkable about him, but it's not like I can just go up to her and ask what the hell's going on.'
The search continues on. Too bad he hasn't thought about checking the security footage yet.
MAKAI!
Until Next Chapter,
Cornell Valentine Gainsborough