*BOOM!!!*
*GAH!!!*
Damian cried out as the blow took the air out his lungs, he didn't get to react before he felt a kick connect with his side sending his crashing through severals buildings breaking down the front gate in the process before it collapsed on top of him
The figure stood and stared in the direction that Damian's body flew before it turned and looked at the collapsed Dara before it turned and looked at Kie-er. It's gaze lingered on her face before an indistinguishable tremble passed through the shadow figure before it looked away and started walking to the torso of the fiend
Dragging her injured body inbetween the 2, Kie-er spoke "what do you think you're doing" asked Kie-er as she gritted her teeth and raised her sword with trembling hands. She didn't think the side effects of using the formation would be so strong but she was determined to stop the figure even if it cost her life. She didn't get to finish her thought when the figure disappeared, instinctively sticking her sword behind before she felt it completely stop, Kie-er tilted her head to the side and saw that the figure stopped her sword with a finger
"you're still to weak" Kie-er could've sworn she heard a silent sigh after the figure spoke
"wai----"Kie-er didn't get to finish before she felt a blow behnind her neck and she started to lose consciousness and fell forward. Catching her body before she could fall the figure gently held Kie-er and pointed her finger at the fiend's torso, where a black light shot out and then the torso started trembling, before she grabbed Dara and disappeared with the duo
*CRUMBLE*
The soud of rocks crumbling and shifting were heard as Damian started to push the debree from his body and stood up grogily while holding his side and spitting blood out of mouth. He started looking around before he saw something that made his pupils constrict
The fend's torso started to tremble uncontrolably even causing the surroundings to tremble along with it, to the point that Damian had to brace himself so he wouldn't fall over before a overbearing pressure was felt from the fiend making Damian almost fall to his knees. Damian's eyes started to glow and he gave a low roar and started to straighten his back as the pressure caused his feet to sink into the earth. Looking the the trembling torso Damian's eyes were filled with dread before they flashed with coldness and his killing intent permeated the surroundings as he drew his halberd and started to walk towards the torso with heavy steps as he fought against thr pressue
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Right when he was was right infront of the torso, the trembling and the pressure suddenly disappeared causing him to stumble forward before he caught his footing. Feeling confused about the situation for a second before he snorted and raised his halberd and was ready to destroy the core when an intense heat started to radiate from the core slowing the desent of the halberd causing Damian to frown as he gritted his teeth and applied more strenghth before he seemed to meet a barrier a few centimetres above the skin completely halting him.
Before he could make any other moves a tyranical qi appeared and knocked him back causing him to stock the blade into the floor to stop himself from sliding to far
*ROOOAAAAR*
A primeval roar was heard from the torso which caused his blood to boil in excitement? Damian didn't even know when a derranged smirk formed on his face as he watched limbs grow from the torso even larger than before but a brighter shade of red and it even seemed to grow some new appentages.
(damian you need to run, i don't know what that figure did to it but when it finishes transforming it'll be peak 10th stage spirit core then no one is the city will be able to stop it)explained Hope in an anxious tone
"I-I can't"said Damian in a haorse voice with his head down
"what do you mean you can't----"Hope paused what she was saying when Damian raised his head. Damian's pupils were narrowed to a slit with a reddish tinge that was spreading to his irises but the part that shocked her was the wide smile that he had on his face that showed his growing fangs as he stared at the fiend
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(sigh.....you should use that thing you got from completing the clan mission, you can't fight it with your current strength) said Hope with a resigned sigh
"i thought you said it was dangerous since we didn't know the outcome of mixing my bloodline with that unkown one" asked Damian in a gruff voice
(do you have a choice at this point in time? maybe something good will happen and you won't die to fast)said Hope
Damian open his inventory and took out a crystal bottle with black blood inside of it, inspecting it 1 more time before his swallowed it
[!$%Shadow &*+????]
"here goes nothing" said Damian as he put it to his mouth and swallowed it. At first he felt nothing he was hit with nerve racking pain as black lines started appearing over throat before it started spreading throughout his entire body causing Damian to release a silent scream when a shadow appeared in front of him and made him forget about his pain as he looked it over. It stood over 5 metres with 2 large curve horns on it's head, it's formerly black was now a fiery red and it's arms and legs with thicker than Damian's waist , every time it breathed steam came from its nostrils as it stood towering above Damian and looked down at him. It's past comtempt and disdain no longer adorn it's face only wrath and hatred.
"maybe we could sit and talk this through like gentl--"Damian didn't get to finished before 5 dagger like claws appeared before his face, he narrowly doged the attack or so he thought as he felt his blood flow down the side of his face. Losing the former smile on his face Damian tried to ready himself for the next attack the fiend already appeared before him with a punch, he tried to block but that only resulted in him breaking his arm as he cried out and flew back. He didn't get to hit the floor as the fiend caught him and punched him into the ground before starting to rain punches on Damian's body, Damian managed to block the first 1 before he could only lay there and cry out as the fiend broke his body as his consciousness started to blur. No one noticed that the places where his bones were broken, that the black marks appeared and spread even further at a faster speed.
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A naked figure could be seen floating in a space
"where am i? huh? this seems familiar. Oh right i came here when i died, does that mean that i already died? Pathetic.....after all i said this is where it all ends?" asked Damian as he watched a bunch of blurry pictures appear before they started to focus and he realised they were his memories' Beneath him a clash of 2 powers was happening, one blue and one black. The blue power tried to fight off the black aura but everytime they connected the blue power seemed to be devoured. As the memories played through from his birth, to his death, to his rebirth up to his most resent fight, he started to see new images that he's never seen.
He saw the fiend lift his lifeless body and ripped him appart and left, it changed to a scene of Kie-er, Dara and and even Hope being to toyed with by several men. A sense of powerlessness suddenly overcame him as the black aura devoured the blue and started to cover his entire body leaving only part of his face before that too was covered and it began to spread to his eyes, the whites of his eyes turned black and his irises turned gold with his pupil started to turn completely blood red. Before the change was complete a figure suddenly appeared before him, it was himself, the body from his previous life. Only that he discovered that they were distinct changes, he still had his brown skin but his hair was white and his irises blue
Time seemed to freeze as his transformation paused and they stared at eachother before "Damian" spoke" we're both fools but you just take that shit to another level" said "Damian" causing Damian to shake his head with a wry smile and spoke with a hoarse voice" you think I don't know that? i still have things to do in this world before i can go back home, so ofcourse i wouldn't die h-"
"Damian" interupted Damian and spoke"there you go, you never treated this world as your home, you just treated it as a place where you have to be until you complete what you came for. Earth is no home for us, we have nothing in that place, what will happen to Kie-er and Dara when you decide to go "Home" and with your weak ass how will you even get home? when you're dying to a knockoff fiend rightnow? IF this is all you're capable of doing then you might as well disappear and let me take over, you can return to earth ahahahaha"said "Damian" while laughing
"hahahaha"Damian started laughing
"what's so damn funny?" asked "Damian" angrily
"hahaha it's amusing that you think you can use my tricks against myself" said Damian "but you're right i never considered this world my home, i never considered their feelings, as much as i never showed it i dreamed every single night of tearing Michael apart"
"see so that's why i should take o--"
"then it struck me, what would a little Michael be worth if i control this entire realm, by that time any one of my subordinates could kill him with the flick of a finger hahahahaha" as Damian spoke the space began to crack and break down looking like it'd fall apart at any minute
"so "Damian", i'll cut you a deal, join me and become 1 whole" said Damian as he stared at his counterpart seriously
Mean while the other Damian stood dumbstruck, because he knew that only 1 of them could exist at a time and the other would cease to exist and he never considered becoming one whole causing him to tremble a bit as the words he was going to say got stuck in his throat
"so?" asked Damian after he got no reply. When suddenly "Damian flew into him and entered his "body" causing him to freeze as the darkness on his body started to move and completely covered his body. Then there was silence and stillness then crack started to appeared on his body before the darkness started falling from his body revealing his new form. Damian stood there, his hair turned gray with the ends being a dark rose colour, he had 2 black short horns that arched upward on his head, he had black bone spike on his shoulders, elbows and knees. His entire body was filled with blue tribal markings that constantly flickered as if they would disappear, he then opened his eyes the whites of his eyes were black, while his irises were his signature blue but his pupils were a golden red colour. Damian raised his head and raised a thunderous roar that cause the space to shatter
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*BOOM* BOOOM* *BOOM*(Damian wake up, please get up) said Hope in a depressed tone that sounded like she was stifling tears
Damian opened his eyes and watched a giant fist come toward his face, compared to before when he could only dodge using his instinct....now it all seemed so.....slow. Damian raised his hand and caught the fist causing the fiend to widen it's eyes
"don't worry my dear Akeno, i'll finish in a minute so wipe your tears and watch" Damian's voice caused Hope to jump in suprised, if Damian could see her he'd see that she blushed a little
The fiend brought down it's next fist in anger only for it to be caught as well. Damian clenched down on both it's causing it to cry out in pain as it tried to free it arms before it and Hope stood dumbstruck as they watched Damian's figure started to change as he stood up
"ahhh that's better"said Damian with smirk. When he fully transformed his form reached 2.5 metres, the fiend still dwarthed him in size but the pressure he was giving off caused the fiends instincts to cry out, telling it to run for it's life
"now where were we? Ah I remember you!!" Damian's gaze caused cold sweat to form on it's back. Before it could do anything a shockwave was felt causing dust to blow that was followed by a roar of pain. When the smoke cleared, the fiend was seen kneeling before Damian because one of it legs was missing. Damian snorted before he leaned back slightly before headbutting the fiend and broke it's horns causing it to cry out because his horns pierced it's skin causing it to tilt it's head backwards to escape, Damian then did the unthinkable, he opened his mouth and bit into the fiends neck causing it to roar and struggle as it actually started to shrink in size.
"peh, you taste like shit but that's good enough" Damian's wound started to heal at an alarming rate under the atonishment of those who saw it
"i wanted to fight with you and try out my new powers, but it seems this is all you're worth, a pity" said Damian while staring down at the enemy that once brought him to the brink of death
The fiend heard what he said and started to roar in anger and shame at the humiliation that it felt. A bright light was seen from it's stomach and it started to once more give off intense heat that caused the stones in the surroundings to start melting and the fiend's size once more started to swell
*BOOM*
A giant head was seen flying through the air and a body slowly dropped to the floor. Damian was still seen in his kicking position before he slowly started to drop his foot before walking towards the body and using his claws to dig out what looked like a graped sized ruby, he stared at it for a while before putting it in his mouth.
Damian then looked to the sky and roared as if declaring his victory over his opponent causing the surrounding to shake
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On a rooftop in the distance stood the shadowy figure with Dara and Kie-er passed out on the roof
"not bad boy"said the figure before disappearing
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I kinda got to into and wrote both chapters as one so here go, tell me what you think