Chapter 41: The Final Charge Part III - Team Darksiders vs Samael - OPERATIONAL MODE ON!
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The Charred Councils keeled and roared as they breathed their last in the sacred planet of Earth. Their bodies exploded and became nothing more than crumbled rock dust, leaving behind six warriors with charred bodies, slash wounds, scars upon their legs, scars upon their shoulders, blood dripping out of their shoulders and back, and even bruises across their chests and legs.
"We still have two more to go...and we know who they are..." Death frowned.
Thanks to the power of the seven seals and the two Maidens' Arcana Cardio systems, they regenerate enough health back to face their next adversary with straighten backs despite their injuries.
Samael...
The Blood Prince, now fully awakened thanks to War's earlier help in restoring his full power for entry into the Black Tower, clapped his hand slyly.
"Wonderful...wonderful...So, Death...this is the 'Humans' you have said that made you respect humanity, even though they deny it, yes?" Samael frowned.
Death, knowing the argument he had with Samael when the former went back in time to get the Demon Key via the Phasewalker, frowned.
The Four Horsemen, Arcana Quattro Chris, and Arcana Quattro Alito turned their back and frowned.
"So...this is the Samael that Death was talking about." Chris frowned.
The six members stood face to face with the blood Prince itself as the Heavens and Earth raged into a boiling war once more in the cloudy, fiery skies of darkness, with only rays of light piercing through the murkiness.
Remnants of the Black Tower
Samael crossed his arms as he spread his upside-down vampire wings wide.
"You...I have observed you and Alito in my Omniscience...To think that you are able to get the Four's respect and destroy the Charred Councils with them. You humans...I can never get you." the Blood Prince frowned.
"What makes you think...Alito and I are humans?" Chris frowned.
Samael took a deep breath. "I am just as curious as you...No, I really am."
The six members frowned.
"To be honest, even in my most ambivalent demonic craftiness and cunning, I have never understood what was the point of Balance, the Council's Law, or even Honor's essence. But...but there is something about you and your lover that might get me intrigued." Samael frowned.
"Is it one of your tricks again Samael?" War frowned.
"I am serious when I am, Red Rider!" Samael roared, his fists crackled with lightning and fire.
"The Crowfather had told us about your plans...Samael. You ain't fooling us." Chris frowned.
Samael laughed haughtily, his thunderous roar rumbled the heavens and shook even the furthest of Hellguard, though the six members stood their ground handily.
"Of course...but you know what? What is the point of being the strongest of the strong anyways? I have wondered, what can I do as a demonic leader...aside from creating chaos and blood? Sooner or later, those things have to calm down, but because I am far too strong I will be way too bored..." Samael sighed and shook his head.
"You said your power is comparable to a god, and that you could kill us with the quickest breath." War frowned.
"I have fought against the Four for period's time over the millennias, unleashing my full power among them and grew bored at it, because nothing exciting comes out of it. But this time...this time, I sense something is about to be different." he admitted.
"However...back to what I am talking about how you and Alito got me intrigued. I want the both of you, and the four, to fight me!" Samael cracked his knuckles.
"What? Fight you?!" Fury's eyes widened.
"I have reasons, of course. I have a feeling what I said about not believing other people, other than words...might be proven wrong, because of what I have overheard outside earlier and something that welled up in both you and Alito." Samael frowned.
"You overheard us?" Strife frowned.
"But I want to know what it was..." Samael frowned.
"Why?" Chris frowned.
He continued. "Humans always love to compete with each other, just like demons. They love to take things away and make people suffer just for the heck of it. Humans love to dominate and look down upon others that they see as weak and like demons, they desire stuff of value. You know glit? Yeah...that. However, something...something about the both of you tells me that you are human...though I can't put my hands on why. You are humans, but you claimed yourselves to be not human, and yet you have something that made me realized that humans might have an edge..." Samael frowned. "If not...why can you defeat Lilith even when Death is your ally?"
"That, and I can sense the Four's new respect for humans, which makes me wonder all the more why. I have never been wrong in my life regarding the similarities between humans and us...That is why I must have this fight, to determine why!" Samael continued.
"If that is the case, Humans should have been demons...but we know that they ain't as heartless and dominating as all the demon races! That's what separates them from you!" Chris frowned.
"Besides, humans don't need gods or demons to rule over them! They can live in harmony and in peace, and we don't need your rule over them and screw 'em up big time! Higher beings are there to help, to guide, and not to dominate and make people suffer!" Alito frowned.
Samael straightened up and chuckled. "Yes...Even though I never see the both of you until now, I can feel your growth strength in strength when you were travelling with Death and fighting off Corruption. Don't you want to find the meaning of Humanity? Then you will have to fight me first!" Samael smirked.
Chris and Alito turned to the Four and tilted their heads, wondering.
Then the Pale Rider spoke, "Chris and Alito...The Earth have suffered for much too long...Demons and Angels are causing Chaos, and the Earth is indeed sick from the conflict, but the Council's definition of Balance had made us stay our hands for far too long. We remaining Nephilims' job is to protect Humanity and fight against the Darkness."
"But ain't you all supposed to pass judgement on those that schemed with Abaddon in breaking the peace on Earth?" Chris wondered.
"We can worry about that later. If Samael is not defeated, we will never even get to see judgement on those that schemed against me..." War frowned.
The six members turned to face Samael...
"Only one team gets to walk away today..." Chris frowned.
"Rest assured, I will make it a fight you will regret, because I will prove that I am right..." Samael covered himself with darkness, fire, and lightning as he transformed into a more muscular, bigger, version of himself. "AND YOU ARE WRONG!"
His skin became ashen grey. He has black scaly armor upon his body's left half, the scars upon his left armor glowed red-hot with abyssal fire, his greaves became ashen with grey, and so did his black gauntlets. His claws have become sharper and looked deadlier than before.
Samael's true power possessed two large, purple, upside-down vampire wings with one small expansion of wings in each of its side. His four devil horns by his extended and wrapped around like a ram horn. His chin grew a small beard, and his demonic tattoos upon his body glowed. His eyes glowed red-hot with electricity sparkling around his body.
His gauntlet, which has gold highlights, became charred grey, and his long purple reptilian tail became longer with nails pierced upon its tip. His bottom-half robe covered his right half of his legs; tattered, grey, and flowing with the wind. The chains, spikes, and skeleton ornaments upon his waist belt clanked and glowed with dark arcane magic.
"Come face me, at my true power, so that I may know what is it that humans have and we demons do not!" Samael roared, unleashing a huge arcane shockwave that nearly blew the team away.
Morphology: Samael (Destructor Form)
Type: Demon Overlord
Size: Big
Element: Darkness, Electric, Fire
Description: This is Samael at its strongest form. This form claimed that it could kill the Four Horsemen with his immense arcane energy. It is known to dual-wield elements, and it is capable for high-speed flights that can act as teleportation. Its attack carries a lot of damage, and he is extremely cunning. Not much is to be known about this demonic creature, except that it can attack with huge fireballs, teleport straight to people with fast sweeping manoeuvres, and has extremely high durability."
Samael's Destructor Form raised his right bare hand as a huge building levitated beside the Red Demon.
"I have the strength that can match you six...May the least hopeless win!" Samael roared as he threw the huge building as a javelin towards the five members - Alito transformed into Arcana Lifebane once more.
The six members promptly scattered, but Samael teleported straight towards Chris, smirking.
Chris frowned, predicting that Samael will teleport to her because the Blood Prince wanted to find out about her. The Arcana Icy Maiden delivered a swift kick towards the Blood Prince's electrically charged left slash. A huge shockwave rattled through the air, destroying the Black Tower's Crumbled pillars.
"What?!" Samael's eyes widened as he saw that despite feeling Chris's apparent pain from the clash, she was able to bit her tongue and resist it. The Blood Prince could also see an aura's apparition that represents a kimono-based woman - Kako Takafuji.
Distracted by the aura, Samael found his attack parried, kicked in the chest, and slashed several times across his arms and limbs.
Right leg damaged - Intense Arcane Energy from Samael's Destructor Form must have been the cause - Healing process starting now. - The Project Tundra beeped.
The Blood prince crashed down into the Black Tower's huge tower, his eyes astonished by Chris's power and determination.
"Though her legs are hurt through my left slash...she still resists it like no other." Samael frowned. "And what is the apparition that I saw just now? Could it be that aura that gave the determination, and the willpower she needs?"
Death, in his Reaper Form, descended upon the skies in high-speed, and ready to cleave the Blood Prince.
Samael quickly blocked the Harvestor with his left arm, but he was not smiling this time.
Thanks to the Seven Seals' powers, the Four Horsemen's strengths grew leaps and bounds, allowing an even edge with Samael. The Blood Prince knew about that fact, however, he was even more than surprised when he experienced it. He knew it would be exceedingly strong...but not THAT strong.
Samael roared and unleashed a shockwave that broke the tie. His eyes glared with hot yellow eyes as the team reunited once more.
"So...you lots decided to go full force on me with the power of the Seven Seals. Chris and Alito...you're going no holds barred as well with that aura filled with icicle energy..." Samael frowned.
"Aura?" Chris and Alito raised their eyes.
"You can't see it...but I can see it..." Samael frowned. "A woman with a kimono around her."
Chris frowned. "Kako...Kako Takafuji..."
"Show me what you got!" Samael roared as he disappeared and appeared behind the team's back. The Four Horsemen managed to dispersed just in time, leaving Chris and Alito to deliver a collaboration punch upon Samael's fire-imbued punch.
A huge burst of arcane energy began to build up as a deadlock ensued, cracking the ground beneath them. The surge of energy dissipated into the air blew the Four Horsemen back in the skies, where they managed to hold their stances after getting to grips with the strong burst.
Chris and Alito winced as they felt the searing abyssal flame, combined with Samael's true strength as the Destructor, straining their arms despite being in an extremely resistant Arcana Quattro Mode. However, the memories of their parents and their determination to protect innocent beings allowed the two Maidens the slight edge.
With a short, sharp shout, Chris and Alito's eyes glowed intensely and punched through Samael's right fists, breaking the tie and forcing the Blood Prince into a stagger. With a quick close in, Alito transformed into Arcana Lifebane and Chris's delivered her Arcana Force: Tundra Absolute. When the icy prison surrounded an astounded Samael, the Four Horsemen closed with punches from their Abyssal Armor, shattering the Icy Prison that held the Blood Prince.
The Blood Prince quickly teleports just as Chris was about to throw the Icy Javelin, but Chris's Project Tundra Arcane Tracker managed to pinpoint Samael's signature and turn a one-eighty to throw the Ice Javelins straight towards the Demon's face!
The Blood Prince deflected it with his vampire wings, but Chaos Form War quickly flew to Samael during an opening and delivered a massive triple slash down Samael's body. Chris followed with a powerful cleave that unleashed a huge icicle energy arc which sent the Blood Prince straight down to the Black Tower once more.
Samael roared as he summoned sixteen fireballs and threw towards the six members.
The team members dispersed to dodge around the fireballs efficiently. Moving up down, left, right, twirling around, and even making angular turns to avoid all the fireballs narrowly.
"He's faster than before in dishing out these craps!" Chris frowned.
Death swooped down to deliver a powerful cleave, but Samael summoned a powerful fiery barrier with enough arcane energy to blast the Reaper Form off. The Blood Prince cackled as he created a big electrical fireball and threw it straight towards the Reaper Form Death.
"DEATH!" Chris teleported in front of Reaper Form Death thanks to Arcana Teleport and managed to neutralise the fireball with a huge swing with her merged Arcana Lifebane. Death's Reaper Form quickly flew over to Samael's face and slashed him hard, much to the latter's astonishment.
Fury got ready to use her Inferno Rage to whip Samael just as he came sailing, but the latter managed to teleport and grabbed Fury by her face.
Chris quickly teleported over towards Samael's neck and slashed over his shoulders. After the Icy Maiden leapt off, Fury delivered a powerful Inferno kick straight upon the Blood Price's heavy skull, sending him flying to a Punisher Form Strife to be blasted by a powerful barrage of Soul Silver Bullets.
The Soul Silver Bullets sliced and exploded within the sinews and flesh of the hardy, reptilian skin that Samael's Destructor Form possessed.
"Let's see if you can bravely come forward with THIS!" Samael roared as he summoned six dark orbs, three on each side, which shot out intense dark lasers streaming towards the six members.
Dark orbs are connected towards Samael. It can be extremely powerful but suffer one major flaw - if all six orbs were destroyed, Samael cannot move not teleport for 30 seconds.
Samael stretched out his palms and unleashed fireballs after fireballs to ensure that the team would have a hard time dodging.
The Fireballs quickly approached the team members in a DNA-cum Double helix formation. As the Four Horsemen and Chris dodged through the incoming fireballs and the linear lasers with multiple barrel rolls, the lasers unleashed branched out into streams of energy beam that flexed its way towards the team.
Chris unleashed rapid-fire Arcana Ice Shards and Fury unleashed rapid-fire Hellfire Shots towards the right half, while Strife let loose an immense amount of Soul Silver Bullets towards the left half. Chris's Tranquillity Orb - Fire and the Sunder's Shielding ability helped mitigate the damage the Four Horsemen received.
Both Chaos Form War and Reaper Form Death descended upon Samael while deflecting and dodging through the Fireballs. The Pale Rider crossed his arms, summoned a strong Aegis Guard with an intense lightning armor, and flew straight in front of War to tank the huge lasers coming War's way. While the former managed to deflect most lasers, a few lasers that managed to surprise him through rebounds, but Death's Aegis Guard managed to keep him on target.
"I got you!" Samael smirked as he charged a powerful flaming left hook towards Reaper Form Death. The Pale Rider, however, smirked as he suddenly flew straight up the air, surprising the Blood Prince just as War's Chaos Form delivered an intense left punch upon Samael's skull and a huge impale upon the Blood Prince's chest.
Samael attempted to grab Chaos Form War by his face, but a huge surge of intense pain slammed upon his spine like a human under a large ringing bell; Fury, Strife, Chris, and Alito (as Arcana Lifebane) managed to destroy the six orbs on Samael's side.
"FULL FORCE!" Chris yelled as the teammates joined their attacks into a powerful four-in-one weapon burst.
Samael's Destructor Form quickly recovered his stance just in time to block Chris's Scythe attack with his bare hands. The Icy maiden slashed continually to find an opening while Samael's Destructor Form managed to block every slash that the former threw.
Samael smirked and roared as he released a huge burst of electrical shockwave that blew Chris back in the air. The Blood Prince took this chance to teleport behind Chris's back to strike her, but the Icy Maiden managed to turn around and kicked Samael in the kisser before he could land a left hook.
With her Genesis Flight System, Chris applied enough pressure to maintain the kick attack. Samael placed his right foot behind his back and slowly took one-step in front with his left foot, unleashing torrents of fire and lightning energy in a clash once more. Chris frowned as she was pushed back bit by bit, no thanks to Samael's immense demonic strength in his Destructor Form, but still gritted her teeth as she applied even more propulsion towards her Genesis Flight.
Samael grinned - he thought he had the upper advantage thanks to his raw power, but failed to notice that he was stepping over a mine that Strife's Punisher Form had placed during the clash!
*KABOOM!*
Not an ordinary bomb that humans used, the Expulsion Bomb that Strife created during his service to the Charred Council unleashed loads of firepower straight towards the Blood Prince's body. The Blood Prince's concentration got interrupted by the explosion and was thus kicked back into the far end of a crumbling Black Tower's pillar.
Samael tried to stand up, but the shrapnels attached on his body after the Expulsion Bomb's detonation beeped upon Strife's command and exploded with vicious velocity. The explosion tore through the blood vessels,, muscles, and the bones of Samael's armor, making him stagger at astonishment.
"So...even you, Strife, have grown way stronger than I have imagined, even with the Seven Seals' power..." Samael frowned.
Chris instantly teleported straight towards Samael and the latter quickly parried and attempted a sweeping left kick. The Icy Maiden quickly read, though her HUD, where most of Samael's Arcane Energies were going and quickly blocked the kick with her scythes' hilt and palms.
The shockwave caused by the kick, caused Chris to keeled temporarily, lending Samael a chance to deliver a swift left punch, but Chris gritted her teeth, stood her ground, and quickly crossed her arms in front while covering it with Arcana Ice. Despite blocking the punch, the electric-fire shockwave pierced through Chris's back and sent her back tumbling across the floor. Fury managed to catch the Icy Maiden just in time with the Hellfire Whip.
Samael summoned a humongous Red Fireball covered with dark energy and threw it.
"IT WAS THE DESTINY FOR THE DEMONS TO RULE OVER THE HUMANS! CHAOS NOVA!"
Alito powered down, joined in with the Four Horsemen and Chris, and charged towards the Chaos Sphere. With their battle cries and glowing auras, they released punches at immense speed and broke through the Chaos Sphere, shocking Samael. The Blood Prince attempted to counter with a right hand but the team managed to find an opening, ducked down, and...
"HERE'S OUR NEW FOUND RESPECT FOR HUMANS, IN YOUR FACE!"
The six members punched through Samael's thick skull with a huge hook, releasing a huge burst of shockwave that intensified the cracking damage, and sending the Blood Prince towards another crumbling pillar flying. Chris quickly flew up, plunged the Arcana Lifebane into Samael's weakened body, and launched a slingshot swing into a crumbling pillar in front of the Icy Maiden.
Strife detonated another Expulsion Bomb that exploded and Samael flying towards the team once more. Death swung his Harvestor, but Samael gritted his teeth and swiftly teleported in a puff of dark smoke.
"You're finished; I will take you out first, Pale Rider!" Samael roared as he appeared behind the Reaper's back.
"Not yet, you motherfucker!" Chris and Alito teleported towards the Reaper's Front, closed their eyes, concentrated their arcane ice and wind energy through their elbows, opened up their eyes, and released a surge of blue and green energies as lasers through the Pale Rider's body and into Samael's head.
The huge burst of energy through Samael's head blew him back, causing him to spit blood at the amount of damage he incurred. Just as he was about to stand his ground, however, War came in with a huge swipe across Samael's chest and sent him crashing into the ground just meters away from the team.
Samael wiped off the blood upon his face and grunted.
"So...you really believe that humans can rule the Earth by themselves, even without the rules of either demons or angels? Without demons to trample over them, they will be like blind sheep without a leader! Humans are essentially like us, you will never get it!" Samael roared.
"SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!" Chris flared up as she and Alito teleported straight towards a shocked Samael and punched him with a left swing upon his face, releasing another powerful blizzard shockwave. The Blood Prince, defiant, poised himself to resist the attack once more, but Chris and Alito could feel a new surge of resolve filling their core.
"Humans have bad times." Samael taunted.
"But we have seen people helping one another in times of disasters!" Chris and Alito shot back.
"Humans will mock people based in their choices and opinions..." Samael shot back.
"But there are humans who stood up against them and protect them!" the two maidens interjected.
"They are cunning and stab people in the back at times." Samael frowned.
"Yes they are, but we have seen people who are willing to encourage people in times of needs in the events of tyranny!" the two maidens shot back.
"You know that some people do not care for the well-being for others…" Samael bellowed.
"We have seen people giving aids in times of terrorists' attacks! We have seen people doing even the simplest things like giving up seats for others, and even helping to encourage people in times of needs!" the two maidens rebutted.
"Humans are irresponsible…just like us demons!" Samael concluded.
"We have even seen people taking responsibility in their works and their team without blaming others!" the two Maidens followed.
"We might not know the meaning of humanity, but we sure as hell am not going to mope around and do fuck all; we are going to find the true meaning of it and decide if it is our fault that our parents' died!" Chris decalred.
"YOU WON'T JUDGE THE SINS OF ALL BY THE SINS OF A BLOODY FEW!"
The Nephilims' Blood that were medicated into Chris and Alito's bloodstream temporarily found a clear entrance to merge with their human blood, sending their entire systems into massive overdrive...
"Overdrive System: ONLINE."
"Restrain Command: OFF."
"Operational Mode: ON!"
A huge explosion caused Samael to sent tumbling towards a huge wall behind him; the remaining wall on the Black Tower.
The smoke dispersed as Samael saw the form that Chris and Alito took, and his eyes widened.
The Four cleared the smoke and widened their eyes too.
Chris and Alito's aura took on another entity together.
Chris's aura hair became extremely long, with an icy blue tint, with an ice crown upon her head.
Her forehead outline formed a diamond, which spreads out to form an intricate tattoo among which extended to her eyebrows.
Her armour outline became a strapless gown that had a velvety texture, metallic breastplate, and white cloth shoulder pads. Ribbons made of cloth could be seen flowing on the center part of the dress itself.
Her neck, where she wore her family necklace, transformed into a necklace outline with ice crystals joined to one diamond that sparkled with earnest...
Her eyes had become navy blue, with scribbles of data engraved upon it, signifying that it was configuring the mechanical augmentations of her new powers and hardware...
And lastly, a majestic piece of icy blue cloth flowed out of her back like a curtain...
As for Alito, her hair became long and silvery. Strips of ribbons were connected to her armour that was a pale-green strapless dress with intricate patterns of lines forming into the symbol of the wind, and branching out to flow glowing 'branches'.
Her forehead had an emerald where it gave off a warm glow.
Her necklace transformed into a scale-like necklace giving off a magical glow...
"So that is a human being's determination...the stubbornness, yet steel-willed determination of a human being...that I have always hear them Councils rambling about..." Samael widened his eyes, and frowned.
"Good...good! Now things are finally getting interesting! GIVE ME YOUR BEST SHOT!" Samael roared as he unleashed streams of fire and electric beams towards the six members.
Chris and Alito managed to dodge quickly left and right, rose and dived below oncoming lasers, barrel-rolled their way out of homing streams of energy, and teleported straight towards Samael's Destructor mode to deliver a swift upper under his chin!
A swift, crisp crack upon the Blood Demon's skull echoed through the dark, demonic air, and even getting nearby Hellguards' attention, including Uriel.
"This force...that must be the determination...the flaring, unlimited determination of humanity given to life through arcane magic..." Uriel frowned.
Samael roared once more and teleported behind Chris and Alito. The two maidens swiftly turned towards their back and deliver a convincing punch, which Samael promptly teleported. However, Chris and Alito smirked as they swiftly drew their fists back, turned towards their left, and delivered a powerful hook that connected where the Blood Prince was teleporting towards!
The force threw Samael back several strides, stunned.
"Fake out…You managed a fake out…" Samael gritted his teeth.
Death's Reaper Form appeared above the Blood Prince and swung the Harvestor towards the latter. Samael, however, quickly recovered, charged magma, darkness, and electrical energy upon his right fist to deliver a punch. Samael's attack connected with Death''s scythe, bringing forth a deadlock once more.
Chris and Alito, however, grabbed Samael by his reptilian tail and with a short sharp shout, exerted their every strength with their augmented arcane arms to send the Blood Demon flying over towards Strife and Fury.
Strife teleported straight towards Samael, managed to pull Punishment's trigger and unleashed huge burst of hot plasma upon the latter's body before he could teleport! Fury, too, joined in on with a powerful blast of fire.
Reaper Form Death and Chaos Form War flew above Samael and unleashed huge energy slashes, sending Samael crashing down on the floor.
"Arcana Formulae: Tempest Crusher!"
Streams of ice and wind energy surrounded Chris and Alito as choreographed their swordplay. Their arms weaved the air with beauty and grace of a smooth river, combining utmost precision and fluidity with brawl, strength, and attrition towards the Blood Demon. The slashes formed an electron-like shell that sliced through Samael's flesh with microscopic wind ice blades that sliced the sinews, muscles, and bones in such high-speed that it sent Samael flying once more before he could teleport. War finished the wave of attacks by impaling Samael's back with his Neo Chaoseater and releasing a huge blast of magma filled with Chaos power.
Despite the injuries, Samael wiped off blood from his mouth and managed to pick himself up, though struggling.
"Such...power...But I AM NOT PUTTING THIS CHANCE TO KILL EVERY ONE OF YOU!" Samael roared as his body glow red, sending himself into a surge of blood frenzy as electricity sparked through his body. Veins bulged from his biceps and his chest, and the scars upon his left glowed red with superb intensity.
Streams of fire, darkness, and electricity concentrated upon his two palms and formed two humongous, yet powerful, arcane gauntlets filled with his three signature elements.
"I say I will draw life out of every one of you...unless I get the answer about why that humans might have an edge...YOU WILL DIE!" Samael bellowed as he propelled himself in a huge aura of combined signature elements covering his body towards the six members.
"We have told you..." Chris charged up her fists, "as long as the virtues of humanity exist..."
The six members combined their weapons' aura once more…
"YOU WILL NOT JUDGE THE SINS OF ALL BY THE SINS OF A BLOODY FEW!"
The unity attack clashed upon Samael's final charge assault, creating another burst of energy that dissolved the Black Throne for good.
Samael's eyes widened...He could see the familiar aura that gave Chris, Alito, Death, Fury, War, and Strife the edge earlier on...
"So...this is why humans could have an edge of demons...is it? The one's they called, 'Determination', 'Heart', 'Emotions', 'Kindness', 'Independence', 'Friendship'...and 'Love'..." Samael's eyes looked upon both Chris and Alito, among the six who joined their powers, as he saw the apparitions of Kako Takafuji, and the apparitions of both Chris and Alito's parents.
"That must be...those humans' parents...and that Kimono Girl...must be the one to show them...the light...of humanity...Heh, to think that I will lose to sheer determination alone and the newfound respect for humanity...It seems they are fit for one last test..." Samael smirked as his attack finally shattered into smithereens by the combined attack of the six members. The joint attacks struck the blood Demon and a huge blast of arcane Blue (Chris), Green (Alito), Pale Green (Death), Dark Orange (Fury), Lava Red (War), and White (Strife) blasted past the Blood Price's body, sending him into an extremely painful roar that made him collapsed upon his knees.
The Four Horsemen, Chris, and Alito levitating mid-air knew that they defeated the Blood Prince, but they were not celebrating. Samael struggled to get up once more. Smokes surrounded his charred body of his, lacerations were aplenty upon his chest and arms, blood were dripping out from tattered wings and slash wounds. Broken horns – three of them - were all that was left.
"So…you do not know the meaning of humanity…but am willing to protect them from the sins of a heartless few…And you have no knowledge of Balance whatsoever?" Samael frowned.
"Alito and I not know what Balance and Humanity are, but we just want to see a world where everyone can live in peace and harmony without humans fighting one another for no adequate reason! Not just for our parents and loved ones but for ourselves, because that's what we want! Besides, we will find Humanity's meaning sooner or later, and we know we will, because our parents believed us!"Chris frowned.
She continued, "But above all else…we know when we must stop ourselves from going too far in our attempts to strive for our aim; nothing is much worse than going against one's own self! I nearly learned this the hard way, when I'm concentrating way too much upon my works…"
Samael gave a broken grunt, stood up, and gave a soft chuckle.
"So…this is how far humans can go…Not just for a human…but for all." Samael smirked.
Chris's eyes widened, however, when she detected a different, and unknown, dark arcane energy coming from Samael's back.
Death, too, could feel it and knew who that belonged to.
"Samael! Behind you!" Death shot out.
"What?"
"LUCIFER!"
Too late…
The hands of the Dark Prince impaled through Samael's chest from his back. The Blood Prince's deep screams pierced through the shattered skies as the black smoke took shape to draw Samael's blood.
"Well done…you lots have fought long enough for me to take advantage of this situation…Thanks, you foolish imbeciles…"
A tall, muscular angel with red skin, long golden hair, and two ram-like horns materialised from the black smoke. He has gold-plated gauntlets around his bulging arms. He wore a red, scaly armor below his waist and a brown, tattered cloth around the armor. A huge scar with several branching blood veins rested across his muscular chest – a reminder of his rebellion against the Creator Samsarel.
His eyes, though yellow, glinted with sinister intent. He wore a black scaly strap around his chest, and has two dark and majestic demonic wings with veins upon each of them.
The Dark Angel exuded a sense of grandeur – twisted grandeur. One look and one could see the twisted light of the demon itself; an angel, corrupted by darkness, jealousy, and weak of self-will.
Lucifer…