3rd Person POV:
Natalia & Amelia vs Luka:
Battle BEGIN!
Luka grinned as he easily ducked out of the way of Natalia's lunge, his body a blur as he spun & tried to cut her in half only to click his tongue as earth rose into a wall that managed to block his attack just in time for Natalia to move out of the way.
Amelia frowned as she snapped her fingers, the air around Luka warping before it erupted in a large explosion, the witch waiting as the dust settled while Natalia landed next to her.
"Ah, I see your magic is as powerful as ever even after all these years that you've been inactive from combat."
"I still know how to fight. I'm just a bit rusty." Amelia spoke with a roll of her eyes, Natalia giggling before they turned back to the dust just as sounds of blades on the ground echoed in the air.
"Man, I have to say I underestimated you. I didn't expect you would still be able to fight like you used to, Witch of East End." Luka spoke with a grin as he wiped off a trail of blood from the corner of his mouth, Amelia just sighing as Natalia smirked.
"And I've told all of you that I've abandoned that title. Now, I'm simply Amelia Dracovich, wife of Makarov Dracovich & mother of Loup Dracovich."
"Hahaha! Being reduced to nothing but a house wife really has changed you, hasn't it Werewolf Hunter?" Luka growled with a grin, Amelia frowning before she smirked as a deep silver glow coated her body.
"My husband tries to negotiate for peace even after you & your allies mocked him and tried to ridicule his name. Now, as his mate, I should show you what happens what happens to little shits like you." A deep growl echoed in Amelia's voice as she finished her sentence, Luka's eyes widening as his nails lengthened until they were nearly triple their original size before slashing out at the duo.
Unfortunately, it was too slow as twin walls of steel shot out from the ground and blocked the blow, Luka gritting his teeth as he tried to force his nails through only to curse as a surge of energy rushed up from the ground & sealed his nails into the walls themselves.
Not finished yet, Amelia snapped her fingers rapidly, Luka leaping backwards as jagged rock spikes shot out from the ground & tried to impale him, the lycan gritting his teeth & forcing his body to keep going as he weaved & maneuvered through the field of dangerous spikes.
However, his eyes widened as Amelia smirked & lifted a finger upwards, the lycan stifling his pained scream as the air behind him twisted before his right leg was cleaved from his body.
Feeling the hairs on his body stand up as he felt danger approaching, Luka twisted his body through the air just as the ground below him was carved apart, frowning as he felt the same danger flying around him before he gasped as pain exploded in his chest.
"Too late." Natalia whispered into his ears as the yellow glow covering her body disappeared, transforming back into her human form as she ripped Luka's heart with naught but a smirk.
"H-Hehe…t-that S-Speed of t-the Lunar Lycans…e-e-everyone hates that s-shit." The dying man wheezed out with a bloody chuckle, Natalia just winking as the man fell over dead while Amelia sighed.
"Okay. I'm going to go & help Nikolaj & Loup. You go and help Makarov." Natalia spoke as she crushed the heart in her grasp and Amelia gave her a thankful smile as she nodded before rushing further into the forest where she heard Makarov's fight going on.
"Well, I suppose it's time we finished this off. Lunaria knows that we're going to be stuck with fighting the rival packs for the next few days." Natalia muttered as the yellow glow from earlier covered her form before she disappeared as a yellow streak of light rushed further away from the mountain to where Nikolaj & Loup were fighting.
Natalia & Amelia vs Luka:
Winner: Natalia & Amelia
Time: 1min. 32 sec.
A few moments earlier:
Nikolaj & Loup vs Dimitri:
Battle BEGIN!
Deep growls & snarls echoed across the frozen plains as three four-legged beasts rushed at each other, one lycan with ash-coloured fur and another with deep grey fur rushing towards the final lycan with pitch black fur that looked as if it was drawing in all light around it.
Loup growled as he lunged into the air, magic sigils appearing under him as he leapt from sigil to sigil, but Dimitri didn't have time to try & attack him as Nikolaj's deafening growl brought his attention back to the ground.
Leaping with a vengeance, Nikolaj snarled as he brought his right paw down, Dimitri grunting as he easily blocked the attack while the ground cratered under them. Spinning out of the way of Loup as the lycan crashed into the ground while leaping from a magic sigil above them, Dimitri grinned as he pulled Nikolaj into Loup before leaping & kicking Loup away.
However, he frowned as Nikolaj blocked the kick with not even a grunt escaping his snout, the lycan grinning as he gripped the foot against his arm tightly before howling as he tossed Dimitri deep into the sky.
"Now!" Nikolaj exclaimed and Dimitri's eyes widened as dozens of magic sigils appeared in the air around him, forming some kind of cage around him just before he wheezed as a foot crashed into his chest.
Shaking the pain away and glaring at Loup who quickly leapt away before he could counter, Dimitri wasn't given any chance to counter as a heavy blow into his back knocked all of the air out of his lungs before a swift barrage of punches to his face made his vision blur.
Watching through blurry vision as a silver blur flashed all around him through the cage while a black blur followed slowly after, Dimitri gritted his teeth as he forced his vision to reset through sheer mental effort just in time to see Nikolaj leaping towards him.
Faking his dizziness until Nikolaj was too close to dodge, a feral grin spread across his face as his head snapped to the surprised Nikolaj, who wasn't given any time to think before he gave a silent gasp as Dimitri's boot arched through the air & crashed into his side.
Not even caring for Nikolaj's form as he crashed through a magic sigil, Dimitri snapped back to Loup just as the werewolf lunged to a magic sigil behind him, landing on the magic sigil under him before he grinned as both lycans lunged at each other.
The air quaked as the two lycans tried to kill the other, a slash of Dimitri's claws missing Loup's throat by mere millimetres while the lycan himself barely dodged the claw strike that would have carved his guts out.
Flipping through the air and landing on another sigil once more, Dimitri's eyes widened as the entire sigil matrix shattered all at once before his attention was brought back to his other opponent as heavy arms locked around his upper body & restrained his arms to his side.
Gritting his teeth as Dimitri strained to get out of his grip while forcing down his pained growls as the Void Lycan stabbed his sharp claws into his thighs, he grinned as the two of them landed on the ground, letting go of the lycan just as a yellow blur rushed across the snowy plains & landed a devastating blow to the lycan's skull.
Not finished with her sneak attack, Natalia growled as she dashed towards Dimitri as soon as she landed, a barrage of spinning kicks making Dimitri himself spin through the air before a deafening boom echoed into the sky as the ground exploded.
"Leave it to Makarov's brat to make such a big spectacle." Nikolaj grumbled as he transformed back into his human form, Natalia giggling as the dust began to fall. The dust settled just as a now human Loup walked out of the small crater his final blow created, Dimitri's corpse laying in the middle of the crater with a gaping hole in his chest as his heart & lungs were completely vaporized.
"Ah, the Silverfang's's Lunar Claw? You must be quite capable if your old man has already taught you that move.." Nikolaj spoke with a smirk as he gestured at the deep claw marks that covered the crater from one side to the opposite, Loup just groaning as he rolled his sore right shoulder which he used to perform the attack.
"Not good enough." He grumbled and Nikolaj burst out with laughter as he patted the young lycan on the back while Natalia rolled her eyes with an amused smirk.
"Do not worry. Your father took a while to figure out the move and most lycans struggle with even creating the impact let alone the slash attacks. A few more battles & you'll have it down." Natalia spoke and Loup frowned as he nodded before turning to where he sensed his parents' presence.
"We know, brat. Go on ahead. Natalia and I will take the corpses back to our packs as spoils of war." Nikolaj nodded at him and Loup gave a small smile as he nodded, transforming back into his lycan form before rushing off towards the large forest that covered the base of the Claws Mountains.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Nikolaj asked after a moment of silence as he turned to Natalia, who frowned before sighing as she nodded.
"We need to get our packs ready. With the death of the alphas, war is no longer as far as we thought."
"Another war. Just what the doctor ordered."
Nikolaj & Loup vs Dimitri:
Winner: Nikolaj & Loup(w/interference from Natalia)
Battle Time: 1 min. 40 sec.
A few moments earlier:
Makarov vs Yuri:
Battle BEGIN!
Makarov howled as he crashed into Yuri, who was grinning widely despite the audible sound of his ribs snapping from the lycan as he was being dragged head first through the ground. A flash of green had Makarov leaping back as a viscous green liquid barely missed him and landed on the ground around them, a hissing sound echoing through the air as a thick acidic scent hung in the air.
"Hehehehe! Come on, Maka! Give me a reason to fight you!" Yuri exclaimed as he slammed his paws onto the ground, a sea of sickly green venom shooting up like a wave in all directions only for the waves in front of Makarov to be parted as he slashed downwards. Spinning in a wide circle, Makarov grinned as he unleashed a flurry of air slashes that easily cleaved apart the poison spears trying to attack him from the shadows, a slight frown appearing on Yuri's face for a split second before it quickly reverted back to his regular demented grin.
"You know, I really hate that move of yours."
"The Silverfang's Lunar Claw was specifically made to fight the Toxic Drool's venom attacks." Makarov spoke with a shrug, to which Yuri just snickered as the lycan twisted his body in obscene ways.
"Then…let's see you try and block this!" Yuri exclaimed as he dashed forward, Makarov frowning as the beast drew closer before he smirked as he leapt into the air. Yuri frowned as he watched Makarov jumping and as he went to follow, his eyes widened as he felt his footing slip, looking down in shock to see the ground having turned to mud.
Stumbling to try & readjust his footing, he gasped as he felt himself being pulled backwards, looking down before growling at the sight of steel chains wrapped around his limbs & neck.
'N-No! No! I will not be defeated by this!' Yuri snarled in his mind as he tried to pull himself back up before he gasped as something smashed into his back, Loup's smirking face being the first thing he saw when he looked back before he slowly looked back as a pair of footsteps drew closer.
"I was merely stalling while my family got into position to take you out." Makarov spoke before he frowned as he pulled a hand back, Loup easily jumping out of the mud & away from the shaking Yuri while Amelia quickly created even more chains to make sure he can't escape.
"Lunar Claw: Silver Enlightenment." Makarov chanted as he took a deep breath before punching the air in front of him as hard as he could, the air trembling before the visage of a large silver wolf roared into existence & bit down onto Yuri's screaming form.
A moment of silence hung in the air as the silver wolf compressed itself into a small sphere before rapidly expanding to nearly ten times its former size, Yuri's screams sinking away into the screeching winds of the shock wave as Makarov just looked on at the devastation.
Loup had a look of awe on his face as he stared at the full extent of Lunar Claw while Amelia just smiled proudly before they turned to Makarov as the man left the large crater left behind by the explosion.
"Thank you for the help, but I had him."
"Yes and we would just have had to wait another few minutes or so for you to finish it." Amelia countered with a roll of her eyes, Makarov grumbling as Loup had an amused smirk on his face.
"I can sense that Nikolaj and Natalia has already taken away their spoils of war, so let's take this corpse away and go see if Isaiah needs help."
"Knowing him, his battle was most likely easy or he's taking his time." Amelia said with a sigh, Makarov chuckling and Loup smirking before the witch sealed away the destroyed corpse in a pocket dimension as a magic crest appeared under the family before they teleported away.
At the same time:
Isaiah vs Shalba:
Battle BEGIN!
'This is just sad.' Isaiah thought with a frown as he spun in a wide circle, slashing outwards with Gram & unleashing a tornado that easily sliced through the hordes of bees that tried to surround him.
Watching as hundreds of more bees spawned from Shalba's mutated body, each carrying an unstable amount of demonic energy, Isaiah frowned as he lifted Gram before slicing downwards.
The pressure from the simple slash made the air quake as Shalba's bees exploded in a glorious, colorful array of fireworks, leaving Shalba to click his mandibles in anger as the young Knight sighed.
'Even you're bored, huh?' Isaiah thought with an amused smirk as he glanced at the blade resting on his shoulder, chuckling as he felt Gram's disapproval & boredom at having to face such a weak opponent.
Tuning back into the battle, he was surprised to see a barrage of holy spears flying at a blistering pace towards him, frowning & wondering where the spears were coming from as he easily deflected the spears with his demon blade.
'Come on. That had to be fun.' Isaiah rolled his eyes as he felt Gram's anger at having been used to block simple weak light spears, calming the blade down slightly and making the Knight shake his head with a sigh before he focused his attention on Shalba.
'Did he fire those light spears? But how?' Isaiah thought with a frown as he looked Shalba over, trying to figure out how he used an ability toxic to devils before frowning as he felt the residue of holy power from the bracelet on Shalba's upper right arm.
'I only started reading the Light Novel after the Sairaorg-Rias Rating Game, so perhaps he had it in the Light Novel and not the anime.' Isaiah thought before shrugging as he rolled his shoulders & slowly lowered himself into a Iaido stance, sheathing Gram & placing it on his left hip.
'Storm Knight plus Touki should be enough. Anything more than that is overkill and would waste too much stamina.' He thought with a nod as his Touki roared to life & coating his body while sparks of blue lightning covered both him & the sheathed demonic blade at his hip.
"You will die today, lower class scum! I shall take your head and bring it back to Lord Rizevim as a trophy to drink the blood of your masters from!" Shalba shouted with a manic grin and yet Isaiah just took a deep breath, tuning out the world apart from himself and Shalba's presence.
'The world is an empty canvas. Your sword is the paint brush and your enemy's blood is the paint. Now, paint your picture.' Okita's words echoed throughout his mind as he felt Shalba's presence splitting into hundreds of smaller ones that scattered through the air in front of him, taking another deep breath as he pumped more demonic energy into the blade.
'One Sword Style: Unsheathe Technique: Demonic Resonance.' He could feel Gram roaring in glee as he firmly wrapped his hand around the hilt, waiting until the presences were nearly touching him before his eyes snapped open.
With a simple grunt, Gram was unsheathed and out in the blink of an eye, smirking as the hundreds of insects & Shalba froze mid-flight, the aura around Gram calming down as Isaiah sighed before sheathing the blade once more.
Flying towards Shalba, Isaiah ignored how every insect he passed slowly cracked all over as he stopped in front of the still devil before smirking as he lifted his right index finger.
"Boom." And with a simple poke to Shalba's forehead, the world went back to moving as Shalba exploded into a fine mist, the insects all being disintegrated in the blink of an eye as the snow below him was dyed red.
'We were both on Major God-class, but our actual power was as far from each other as Heaven & Earth. I guess it's true what Sirzechs said. Just because we're on the same level in power does not mean we're equal in skill.' Isaiah thought with a sigh before smirking as he felt the three lycans' presences appearing in his sensory bubble, floating back to the ground before chuckling as Loup & Amelia looked critically at the destruction around them while Makarov just groaned.
"Could you have not destroyed everything around you like a devil?" Makarov asked, to which Isaiah just shrugged.
"I could have, but then I would have risked them doing the destruction for me, so I decided to just…take them out when I can. So, how did things go on your end?" The devil asked and Makarov smirked as he nodded.
"The alphas are dead and our other two allies are currently gathering their packs. After that, we're going out to subjugate the other packs & bring them into ours."
"…Cool. Want some help with that?" The Knight asked, making Makarov chuckle while the mother & son behind him just shook their heads.
"Do you believe it was a mistake to have them meet each other?" Amelia asked her son, who just looked at how his father & Isaiah spoke happily with each other before turning to her with a nod.
"Yes, I suppose you're right, sweet pup." She spoke, giggling as Loup just gave her an irritated look before he sighed as they followed after the talking duo.