Chapter 13
The battle for Tanzia part 4: loss
Joseph continued swing at the Deviljho, dodging the tail swings and dragon breath and stabbing the Deviljho in every opening he could find. The Deviljho looked at him curiously "Why do you continue to fight me? You do realise it won't bring him back." "I know that! The only reason I'm going to kill you is because you deserve it!" "But what about all the other monsters you killed? Are we really that different?" "Yes! I don't randomly kill!" "Yes, but you kill for money. What about those monsters who you hunt, surely they have friends like daimyo?" "But what about all those people you killed?" "Humans kill senselessly, they kill monsters for clothes and trade their parts and they even kill each other. So then, are we really that different?"
Joseph looked the Deviljho in the eye "Just shut up and die you piece of ****, you don't understand me! Daimyo was… all I had left of my old life." "What?" Joseph stabbed the Deviljho in the face "NO QUESTIONS BITCH!" Joseph climbed up the Deviljho's face and started stabbing its brain.
The Deviljho threw Joseph of its head and Joseph landed against a wall. "Now then, do you want to be eaten like your friend? Or killed in a different way? Nothing? Ok then dragon breath it is." The Deviljho used dragon breath, just as it was about to hit Joseph Riko jumped in front of him and blocked. Viridi jumped down from the buildings and grabbed Joseph and flew off.
Callum ran in on Sanchez and started furiously slashing at the Deviljho, grabbing its attention. The Deviljho swing its tail at Callum and Sanchez, Sanchez ducked and Callum jumped over the tail, Callum then hopped back on Sanchez' back and Sanchez continued to circle the Deviljho. Anthony and his Lagiacrus jumped down from the buildings. Anthony hit the Deviljho on the head and the Lagiacrus paralysed the Deviljho. Finally Ben and his Plesioth ran forward and used rising axe on the Deviljho. Riko used his great sword and Callum went into demon mode.
Joseph woke up, he saw Viridi carrying him over buildings. He tried to remember what had happened. He remembered the horror. He threw Viridi to the ground and ended up landing next to her, "Why did you just do that!?" Viridi asked. "You abandoned me! It's because of you that Daimyo died!" Viridi tried to argue "What was I supposed to do? Wait around to die like that? How was I supposed to know that would happen?" Joseph stared at her, angrily "Ok then fine…" Joseph started to walk back towards the battle. "Just don't follow me, if you're so concerned about your own life then get out of here." Viridi walked towards the city borders. She thought to herself "Fine then, if he wants to kill himself that's fine, I won't stop him." She looked back for a second before turning around again. "No, it wasn't my fault, I have no responsibility. It wasn't my fault."
The Deviljho stood up again, Callum looked at the Deviljho "This is the 5th time we've done this, how many time do we have to do it before you die?" Ben looked at Callum "That's a little pointless, he obviously won't tell us when he's about to die…" Ben switched to sword mode and loaded in a power phial "We just gotta keep doing until this bastard keels over!"
Sean flew towards the Deviljho "I don't think that will work, you might need a little more firepower!" The Deviljho looked at Sean "Oh you're back, finally come out of hiding have you?" "Trust me I wasn't hiding, I was simply getting this!" Sean threw coffee at the Deviljho. Alicia flew up beside Sean "Seriously? That was what you went into hiding for? That's really disappointing." "Wait for it…" The coffee exploded! "That's what I was hiding for." The Deviljho smirked "Well you've used your only one so are you going to go hiding again?" "No." Sean threw more coffee "Dammit." Sean leaped off his Azure "See you at the bottom!" Alicia sighed "I wish he would tell me when he's about to do this kind of stuff." And followed Sean.
Sean ran down the Deviljho's back, knocking off parts with explosive rounds. Alicia followed shooting at the parts Sean missed. Eventually they came to end of the Deviljho and Azure and Alicia's pink Rathian flew by picking them both up. The Deviljho laughed "Fools! I can regenerate from any part!" Zach shot at the scales. "Not if we destroy them!" "Good idea!" yelled Anthony. The Deviljho roared. Riko looked at the Deviljho "Yep, now he's mad." Callum looked at Riko, worriedly "He wasn't before?"
The Deviljho charged at Zach. Alexandra leaped in front and blocked it. "Can't let you do that!" The Deviljho roared and continued to attempt to get past her. Ben jumped forwards and hit the Deviljho in the side with his switch axe, and then his Plesioth hit it with a water beam, knocking the Deviljho over. "Didn't you hear the woman? We can't let you do that." Zach destroyed the last of the scales.
The Deviljho leapt up. "ENOUGH!" it yelled. "I'm tired of playing games with you! Time to die!" It hit Alexandra and Ben to the side and ran towards Zach, Sean hit it with a bullet and it shot dragon breath and made him fall to the ground to dodge. Alicia followed him. Callum ran away, because Callum. Riko ran forwards and was thrown back by the ground slam. Anthony ran forwards but was also sent back by the ground slam. The Deviljho stood over Zach and did a ground slam, pushing him into the ground. Zach was straining under the weight.
Joseph threw a rock at the Deviljho. "Hey you, stop trying to kill my friends!" The Deviljho stepped away from Zach. "Oh look, the entire gang's lined up to be butchered! Wait where's you crab? Oh yeah! I ate him up didn't I? Silly me! Where's your girlfriend too? Did she abandon you again?" Joseph stared with a face of utter disgust, before becoming calmer. "I'm not here to fight you; I've decided to join you." "Ok then figh- Wait what?" "I've realised fighting to save the city is a lost cause, and if I joined you we could rule the world!" "But what about all that stuff about avenging your Daimyo?" "Who needs that idiot anyway? He's dead, killing the guy who ate him won't bring him back." "I like your attitude! Ready to help me conquer?" "Sure, just one thing first, say you're the super-saiyan monster." "I'm the super-saiyan monster." "Louder." "I'm the super-saiyan monster!" "LOUDER!" "I'M THE SUPER-SAIYAN MONSTER!"
A small silhouette appeared in the sun, before progressively getting bigger. The Deviljho looked up, confused. Joseph stared at the Deviljho with a slight smirk on his face. "Ok, I'm not going to lie, I would never join you. That was a trick. And I'm going to warn you: no more jokes, no more smart quips." Joseph grinned insanely "My name is Joseph. You killed my friend, you tried to kill my friends and you tried to kill me. Prepare to die." The Rajang punched the Deviljho in the side of the face, sending it flying. "I'm the only super-saiyan monster, BITCH!"
To be continued