Mat watched as he was saw the Seraphim was flabbergasted by the Crucifix's lack of transformation. Daniel moved the item away from his chest and repeatedly slapped the item onto him over and over. Mat and the others all watched him as he started to lose his temper at failure he kept experiencing. "Uhhh. Do you need you some help?" Mat asked as he saw the angel look at him in anger while pointing his finger at him. "YES! HOW ABOUT YOU SHUT UP WHILE I FIGURE THIS OUT! AGAIN!" Daniel cried making the dragon move his head back with comical timing. Alistair noticed that the angels were focused on their boss as he looked to the sides. With a snap of his finger he made a clone appear and let it take his place as he started to crawl over to Kasey slowly. "Again? What do you mean?" Mat asked. "The Crucifix's design isn't none of your concern, traitor!" Daniel yelled as he kept slamming the holy item on his chest. "Look... This is the second Riser device I've seen so.. Maybe try saying Rise?" Mat asked leaving both Lily and Alistair in shock. "Right and me saying 'WISE' will make me become the Holy Riser," Daniel said with a snarking manner as he slapped the item on him once more. It failed to transform him as he looked at the dragon. "See?!" "Dude.. I said Rise, not wise," Mat told the Seraphim. "Oh, my bad. Here I am with the expert of everything Riser related! I know the damn phrase traitor, RISE!" Daniel screamed as he yelled the phrase while simultaneously slamming the item on his chest once more. Much to his own surprise, the holy cross failed to change as he screamed in anger, "ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME RIGHT NOW! I PUT A PART OF MY SOUL INTO THIS!?" Alistair looked surprised as he kept crawling to Kasey. As the tiny imp saw his uncle, he immediately ran towards him and embraced him in a loving hum. Alistair put his finger to his mouth to tell Kasey to stay quiet, he stayed by his side watching the dragon and Seraphim.
"What do you mean you put a piece of your soul in it?" Mat asked. Daniel looked at the dragon as he growled angrily at him. "I already told you, the Crucifix's design is none of your FUCKING CONCERN! FUCK!" the Seraphim yelled as he threw the Crucifix on the ground as he started to seethe at the holy item. He walked up to it as he started to stomp on the seemingly indestructible device. He slammed his foot multiple times as he screamed, "WHY! WON'T! YOU! WORK!" The Zealots all around starred at him with a strange concern as one of them started to walk up to Daniel as he took his rapier and slice at their 'x' covered eye. The golden blood spew across the ground as everyone looked surprised at his slow decline on his sanity. "I don't fucking understand it! I have tried it on several beings! I asked that stupid little brat Emily to try it and it worked on her! So it should work on me!" Daniel cried as he wiped his angelic weapon with his cloth. Mat was slowly turned his focus on the device, as he felt a strange aura while starring at the holy item. Alistair's clone tried taking a step towards the Seraphim but was stopped by the Zealots aiming at their weapons at his throat. The clone laughed heavily, "Well, it seems to me that you haven't even understand the concept of it.. What was your name? Spamiel was it?" "My name is Daniel.. Demon.." The Seraphim told the Goetia. As he was about to step through, the Zealots trained their weapons on him as he cast his own illusioned chains to pull them away from him as he kept walking towards the angelic being and Mat. "You said that you put a piece of your soul in the device? What part did you put in there per say?" The goetia asked.
As Daniel tighten his grip on his rapier, he pointed it towards the Goetia. His eyes glared with a vicious hatred to the clone as he exclaimed out loud, "If you have something to say you stupid bird, I suggest that you use your words carefully!" "My my, someone is quite testy today? What's the matter Spammy? Afraid of the truth?" the clone laughed out loud. Within a split moment, Daniel flew straight towards the Goetia as the bird demon illusioned a teal ethereal chain as he caught the Seraphim's rapier with a split second. Laughing with a joyous delight he looked at the Seraphim as he starred at his silvery angry eyes. "MY! This outta be fun! I must say I never have been in a fight like this before!" The clone screamed as he spun him and Daniel around, as their backs were touching each other within the confusion. Daniel growled viciously as he snapped his fingers. The Zealots started to come towards the two as the real Alistair created a heavy teal fog covering everyone within the Zealot circle. The Zealots were confused, lost within the fog, as they started to swing their angelic weapons within the smoke that Alistair created. Within a moment, a clone jumped at one of the angels as they had started to fight them with an illusion knife. Another popped out of the fog swinging a broad sword at a Zealot. Several more clones had appeared out of the fog and begun to attack the angels. Knives and spears had clashed with the angelic weapons of the Zealots. Daniel saw the attack that the Goetia had cause and turned his focus on the clone, believing him to be the real Alistair. He pulled the rapier out of the teal chain and begun to swing viciously at the false Goetia. With every attempt he made, the fake Alistair used his chains to parry the thin blade with a swan like grace. Moving his chains downwards and upwards with the movement of Daniels rapier.
The fake laughed with a joyous feeling as he kept blocking the Seraphim's swings. "Stop blocking my swings and hit me coward!" Daniel screamed as he made a thrust towards the Goetia's head only for the fake demon to spin around immediately to the left. The Seraphim then followed the fake as he grabbed the Goetia by the collar of his shirt as he pulled him in close. He growled at him as he starred at his eyes as he said, "What do you think you're doing?" "Teaching you a valuable lesson. Have you ever even considered that something might be wrong with you?" the fake said to the angry Seraphim. As he pushed the fake away Goetia with ease, and began to walk towards the Goetia with a cold manner as fire appeared from his steps as he griped his angelic weapon tightly. Blue flames surrounded his eyes as he starred at the fake Goetia as he screamed, "What the Hell are you talking about?!" He aimed his thin blade at the fake's head only for him to dodge it entirely as his hat was pierced, making him scream, "MY HAT!" The real Alistair looked at the fight and back to his imp nephew as he said, "Kasey, Uncle Ali needs to help Uncle Mat, can you sneak over to Aunt Lily and stay with her?" Kasey looked to Mat and Lily quickly as he saw the succu-imp holding her chest in worry while Mat was still weak on the ground. As the imp look back to Alistair, the Goetia looked to him and said, "Don't worry, I'll stay out of sight. I promise." Kasey nodded his head and quickly crawled over to Lily. Alistair waved his hand as he created a teal rope and quickly used it to reel in Mat as it slithered over to him with a stealth and grace of a snake. Mat was dragged towards the real avian demon while the Zealots kept their focus on the clones of Alistair. As they continued to appear out of nowhere overwhelming the Zealot forces as they grow tired from the fight.
"What lesson are you trying to teach me, Goetia?" Daniel asked as he removed the demon's hat and threw it back to him. As the fake grabbed it and placed it back on his head, he his face grew a heavy smug as he looked upon the Seraphim angel. "Just because a part of your soul is in that cross, what makes you think that it'll listen to you?" the Goetia laughed softly. The Seraphim glared at him with a strange demonic nature as he said, "What are you talking about? It should listen to me! I literally place the part that recognizes what Good and Justice is!" Daniel screamed out loud. The Goetia's eyes widen as he heard the angel's words and slowly started to cackle wildly with a owl like manner. "OHOHOHOHOHOH! You mean you placed all the good from you in there?! How implausible! How impossible! But most importantly, how foolish of you." "Speak sense bird before I slice you in half," Daniel said as he pointed his rapier at the owl's direction. Completely shocked with a false look, the fake Goetia placed his finger at the tip of the blade, moving it slightly from him as he kept starring at him. "It is foolish of you because without a complete soul, it'll reject you. Especially now, you put in all the good parts of your soul. It'll never accept you now!" the fake Goetia started to laugh villainously. Daniel gripped his weapon in anger and with one fell swope, he sliced at the avian's throat. As his head started to fall off, it disappeared into a puff of teal smoke, along with the body. The Seraphim looked shocked as he scanned the area as he kept looking for the true Alistair. With a quick glance, he saw the that the real Alistair had pulled Mat to his side safely as he looked to the dragon and said to himself, "No.. I won't allow you to change.. Never again. You're coming back home one way or another." He started to walk towards the duo as he was blocked off by four fake Alistairs, with an immediate swing of his rapier, he began to fight against the illusion clones.
As Mat watched the fight, he saw the Zealots continue to take out the clones with ease despite the growing numbers of the fake Alistairs. He looked to Lily as he saw that his mistress was worried as she looked to see Kasey coming towards her. She ran to him and picked him up in her arms. He gripped the ground and felt the dirt being gathered in his hand as he slammed his fist into the ground. Alistair looked to him and tried to caress his shoulder saying, "Mat, it's going to be ok." "How can you say that? I got my ass handed to me by those shitty angels.. My own people wanted to kill me.. I can't protect my family.. All because.." As Mat was about to finish, Alistair showed a box with a skull latch on it in his hand. Mat looked to him in confusion as he said, "Al what are you doing.. I choose our family man, I don't need it anymore." "You do Mat.. And I know why you gave it up," Alistair said. Mat looked shamefully to the ground, feeling his heart beat fast within his chest. "Like you I'm also afraid of what is inside this foul thing.. I'm afraid of you losing yourself to it's powers.. To it's wrath.. To the very thing in it." Alistair said. He watched the dragon looking wearily at the box then he instantly looked to the ground in fear as he shook. Alistair placed a free hand on him as he caressed his draconic friend. "But seeing you give it up for your family gives me hope," Alistair said. Mat slowly looked to Alistair. Sounds of the fight continued as a Zealot sliced one of Alistair's clones in half as they screamed loudly, "How many of these fucking things are there!?" "Just keep killing them! They'll run out eventually!" Another Zealot screamed. Mat looked to the fight as he saw the Zealots. The dozens of clones that Alistair created were starting to dwindle as the angels kept killing them one by one and turning them in smoke.
He looked back to him in confusion as he told him. "So you what, were you testing me?" "Not exactly, but I want to stay true to my word and I think I found a matching host. At least I hope I did," Alistair told him as he handed him the box and slowly opened the container. Within the demonic box, contained the Reliquary as it glowed its vicious crimson tone. Mat starred at the demonic item with worry as he tried to reach for it, only to pull it back immediately. Alistair looked at Mat as he calmly touched his shoulder. "What if.. You made a mistake... letting me be the host again?" Mat asked. "Not if you remember what I told you.. Are you going to rise up to the opportunity Mat, and face this fear you're feeling?" Alistair told him. As the dragon looked at the demonic item, he felt scarred as he slowly raised his hand towards it. Feeling his fear rise higher and higher as he kept starring at the item. He remembered the dream of the dark malevolent demon he faced, how it almost engulfed him completely and dragged him further into darkness. Memories of his family raged through him heavily as he thought about his mistress and lover, Lily. As he looked to her, he saw that a Zealot was about to attack her and the others only for Franky to take shots at the angel with his revolver. The Zealot blocked the bullets with their sword and swung at the saw shark's hand, cutting it off completely. He was kicked away from the Esiheths and Kasey by the Zealot as the angel began to laugh viciously as it wiped the blade of her sword. "Ohhh I can't wait to finish what Diana couldn't, starting with you sluts!" the angel screamed. As Mat watched, he growled heavily as he instinctively grabbed the Reliquary, surprising the Goetia as he watched. The dragon then flew forwards towards the assailing angel quickly and instantly blocked the Zealot's attack with the sharp edge of the Reliquary. Both the Angel and Lily were shocked by Mat as he held the angelic weapon back with the use of the Reliquary. "I.. Won't let you.. Kill my family!" Mat said he as pushed back the Zealot. Golden blood flowed from his hand as he felt the bladed edge cut it, the eyes of the Reliquary glowed as it sensed the Mat's blood. Lily looked to him in fear as she clutched her chest.
Mat looked back to her and Kasey as he sighed hard and said to them, "This time, I won't lose myself. I promise." Lily looked to her pet as she looked scared heavily as she also looked at the Reliquary in his hand. "Mat I don't want you to... I don't want you.. I don't want to lose you again.. If you use that thing.. Promise me you won't get lost.. Please.." Lily begged as she held onto Kasey firmly with the tiny imp in her arms. Mat looked to Kasey as he got on his knees. He softly patted his white hair as the little imp scrunched quickly in Lily's arms. Mat looked solemnly at his nephew as he told him, "I promise you little man, I won't lose myself again. Just watch." He got up slowly and turned his back to Lily and Kasey. The tiny imp looked up slowly as he saw Mat taking several steps away from the two. The battle continued on as Daniel struggled against Alistair's clones. Two were left as he quickly stabbed one of them in the head as he snapped his finger at the other watching the fake die in a blue flame covering him completely. Pulling his rapier away from his enemy as he wiped clean the weapon. Seeing that the other Zealots had easily taken care of the clones of Alistair, they all huffed slowly as they lowered their weapons to the ground. "Boss.. Can we just go home.. These guys aren't even worth the killing anymore," one of the Zealots cried. Making Daniel stare at the angel with a dark look as he backed away immediately. "We will leave when I say we will leave! Now where is that stupid Crucifix!?" Daniel yelled as he looked every where on the ground. Within a moment, he saw Mat was walking towards him and the Zealots. The angels all looked confused as they witnessed the demonic item being held in Mat's hand. "What do you think you're doing?" Daniel asked as he looked to the dragon. As Mat stopped in his tracks, he felt a strange wind blowing behind him as he looked at the villain. He raised the Reliquary slowly in the air as he said to him, "I'm going to show you.. What it truly means.." "DON'T YOU DARE! STOP HIM!" Daniel cried as the Zealots all started to fly towards to the white-ash dragon.
"To RISE!" Mat yelled while he simultaneously slammed the Reliquary onto his chest. Within a brief moment, the Zealots had immediately covered him with a powerful red lightning bolt striking the ground. Forcing away the Zealots as several of them landed on the ground near Daniel, some of which landed on their face into the ground while another slide right across the ground. Daniel covered his face from the lightning strike was bright and strong. Unbeknownst to the others, the Crucifix was glowing with a slight strong blue glow as it sensed the presence of the Hell Riser. As he slowly removed his cover as he looked at the appearance of the Hell Riser Shuten, a dust cloud had slowly moved out of the Riser's way. As he stepped forward, red electricity moved from his boots all the way up to his arms. The Riser had flexed his hands as he felt the electricity cover his hands. Daniel was seething in rage as he looked at the Riser starring at him. "So... You're really going through with this then.." Daniel said under his breath. Shuten then pointed his index finger at him. Rage was seething through him but he focused heavily on the thoughts of his family. "If you got any brains left, I suggest you leave. NOW! And take your stupid Crucifix with you!" Shuten yelled with his cyber voice. Daniel growled angrily as he tighten his rapier, his hand was shaking heavily from the tighten grip. The Crucifix kept its holy glow as it felt the Hell Riser's power surging while no one seemed to noticed. "If you think.. That I'm going to leave here.. After EVERYTHING I've been through to create the Crucifix! Don't think that I'm just going to fly out of here and not take you in?!" Daniel yelled violently. Shuten clenched his hand as the red electricity flowed over it. He lowered his hand as he said to him, "Well then.. Let's rise." He started to run heavily towards the Seraphim while Daniel flew right at him. The two had clashed hard as Daniel landed his rapier on his white gauntlet. As the two struggled with each other, Daniel looked at the Riser as he said to him, "I hope that you are proud of yourself!" "You know what? I am!" Shuten yelled as he pushed him hard as the red electricity flew between the two. Daniel flew backwards as he swiped his rapier in preparation as he moved forwards slashing heavily at Shuten once more.
Slash after slash, Daniel kept fighting against the Riser as the two kept struggled with one another. Flames of blue and streaks of red lighting flew wildly with one another as the two beings of Heaven fought. The streaks flew across to the Zealots as some of them dodged the furious streaks as they watched the fight. As the flames and lighting both flew out of control, the Crucifix was seemingly absorbing the flames of the Daniel as it glowed deeply. Both Lily and Kasey focused at the battle of the two furious beings with a strange demonic and angelic way, Lily slowly clutched her heart as she watched her pet don the Hell Riser form. While Kasey was strangely enchanted by the fight itself, his eyes were filled with a strange wonder as he snuck out of Lily's arms and began to imitate the swinging movements of Shuten with a happy smile on his face. Lily immediately noticed as she grabbed underneath his arms as she pulled him in close to her. Trinity and Franky stood by Lily's side as the shark demon covered his severed right hand . "Jesus.. I forget how crazy this guy is.." Franky said as he winced in pain. Shuten had started to throw a furious barrage of fists with several side kicks at the Seraphim as he responded by blocking the attacks quickly with his rapier. Daniel immediately pushed back at the Riser as he was flung far from the angel. The Seraphim flew towards the Riser as Shuten landed right on his feet, he immediately pushed himself off the ground charging heavily towards Daniel followed by a heavy trail of red lightning behind him. He brought his fist back behind him as he landed a punch right at Daniel's head making him fly backwards. Daniel landed on the ground flat on his face as he quickly recovered while grabbing his rapier and stabbed Shuten through his shoulder. Shuten was unfazed by the wound he received as he grabbed the blade itself with a vicious grip. He created a surge of red and black electricity through his hand and sent it towards Daniel as he quickly released his holy weapon.
Shuten then pulled the angelic weapon out of his wound and tossed the weapon back to Daniel. Catching it by it's handle, he starred at the Hell Riser with a disgusted scowl as he felt the strange aura emanating from him. He then looked to his rapier in his hand and threw it away from him as it landed right through the head of one his Zealots killing them immediately. The others around them went to pull the weapon out of his skull and held onto it with fear in their hearts. Daniel was breathing hard as he was creating blue flames from his mouth, the sparks of Daniel slowly entered the Crucifix as it glowed even brighter. "You got to be kidding me.. It's bad enough that the stupid Crucifix won't work for me.. But your Reliquary seems fine with you, you fucking traitor!" Daniel screamed as he pointed his finger at Shuten. "Why do you keep calling me a traitor? What did I work for you or something?" Shuten yelled as he crossed his arms. Daniel's eyes started to twitch heavily as he looked to Shuten with anger in his heart. "You don't even remember... You don't even remember who you are do you!?" Daniel screamed. The Crucifix was glowing brighter as it felt stronger with every second. Daniel caught the glow as he grinned evilly towards the Crucifix. Shuten was confused by Daniel's movement as he walked towards the holy item. As he picked it up, Daniel felt the item glowing brighter and brighter as his smile turned into a wicked snare. "What are you talking about? What's going on with that thing?!" Shuten asked as he prepped himself into a fighting position. Daniel started to laugh wildly into the air, making all in the area nervous. "Who cares what some stupid fake has to say, I know that this time.. IT WILL WORK!" Daniel screamed in excitement as he held the Crucifix in the air. Shuten felt worried at what will happen, Lily covered Kasey as well as Trinity as she stood in front of them with Alistair running up to the group. Franky ran towards the truck as he screamed, "I'LL MEET YA'LL IN THE TRUCK!"
"Hey! Where've ya been!?" Trinity asked the Goetia as he made it to their side ready to defend the Esiheths and Kasey. "Behind the dumpster, didn't think I was needed anymore. But this... This is important," Alistair said as he watched the Seraphim hold the Crucifix in the air as he laughed a terrible and villainous tone. Kasey immediately went under Lily's arms as she held onto her adopted nephew. Daniel brought the Crucifix to his face as he looked at it with a wicked nature while laughing with a demonic joy, he then looked back to Shuten as he saw the Hell Riser readied for a new fight. "So you really want to know who you are? I'll gladly tell you Riser.. You're-" as he was about to speak, the Crucifix glowed a strong and violent light as Daniel immediately released the Crucifix as it was starting to float in midair. Much to everyone's surprise. Alistair was taken back by the nature of the device as he covered his face while using his long fluffy like tail feathers to cover the Esiheths and Kasey from the light. Shuten was covering his visor from the light as he screamed, "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" "I DON'T KNOW! THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!" Daniel cried out loud. The Crucifix still flying in midair suddenly moved itself towards one of the Zealots as it floated near the angel. Confused by the motion, Daniel looked bewildered by the movement of the holy item floating near the Zealot. "Don't you dare!" Daniel screamed as he looked at the individual Zealot. The being quickly removed their hood revealing a smooth features of his face with long silvery hair and golden eyes. As he eyed the Crucifix, the angel felt a strong pull from it as he slowly walked to it. Daniel started to charge at him leaving the Hell Riser in a confused position. "This... This is for Diana!" Grabbing the Crucifix, he instinctively kiss the holy item and quickly slammed it on his chest and a bright light shine heavily. Blinding all in the area and a strong shockwave across the ground as it pushed Daniel back while Shuten kept his guard up.
Within the blinding light, the strange angel was wrapped in strange white clothe as it enveloped his entire body. Blue flames had covered his forearms, shoulders, calves, knees, chest and eyes. As he clenched his fists, the blue gem in the Crucifix glowed brightly as a line of blue went down his torso and splitting into two down his legs with the flames hardening into pure blue knight style armor. Simultaneously the blue lines went down on his arms and as he flexed his hands, the blue fire had hardened immediately into the same knight style armor as his boots. Gems of blue were on his knee caps and armored gauntlets. The blue flame on his chest hardened into chest armor along with his shoulder pads. As he slowly brought his hand to the blue flames around his eyes, he flipped the flame downward as the flame changed into a knight's visor with black tinge followed by a strange Heracles beetle like bug horn with a black lining in the blue bug horn. He had a strange sharp smile on his helmet that was indented into the mouth. A silver belt appeared around the angel's waist with a blue gem in the middle the belt. He slowly walked out of the blinding light as all of the demons and angels gazed upon the newly form Riser. As the Seraphim gazed upon him, he growled viciously as he clenched his fist. The new Riser walked towards the duo as he looked at both Shuten and Daniel with a vicious stare. "So what.. You want vengeance against the traitor for killing Diana!? Be my guest then bastard!" Daniel screamed as he turned his back towards the new Riser. As he was about to walk away, he felt a strange blue fire ball past by his head, singing his hair. Daniel immediately turned his head back to the blue and white Riser as Shuten looked surprised. "What do you think you're doing Kai.." Daniel asked as he starred angrily at the new Riser. "Shuten may punched a hole in her gut, but you let her die! You let her join you in this stupid crusade against Hell! I'm done.. I'm done fighting. And I'm done fighting for you!" The Riser known as Kai screamed at the Seraphim. Daniel shook with anger as flames of blue started to surround not only his eyes, but his hands and feet as he screamed, "Kai.. Do you want to be a Fallen!?" A small blue flame line stuck out of the Crucifix as he grabbed the flame, slowly pulling out a long line of blue fire as he swung the flame. It instantly changed into a silver double-edge sword with a blue flame at the top of the hilt followed by a blue gem at the bottom of the hilt as well as a cross blue gem in the guard. He pointed the strange holy blade at Daniel as the Seraphim growled heavily. "I ain't gonna fall brother! And you don't have the right to call me Kai anymore! I'm the Holy Riser now! I, am Holy Riser Kaidon!"
