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Chapter 19 - Jeshan, The Black Fiend

Jeshan is really and truly an actual black fiend in the flesh. Those monsters are called black fiends for a reason, so why on earth has Jeshan been so kind to me all this time, and why is he standing in front of me right now and protecting me from this monster that calls itself my desires mixed with my darkest emotions? Without warning, Jeshan holds his hand back and the black shadows that surround him break off a little bit and form a transparent, black barrier around me. "W-What are you doing Jeshan..?! D-Don't fight that thing..!" I press my palms against the barrier, wanting to grasp his hand and hold him back.

"Don't worry... I've...been doing this for a long time now..." He says without looking back at me.

"W-What do you mean you..." I don't finish my question, for I start to form the answer in my own mind piece by piece. I'm not the first person Jeshan has saved like this, that's what he means.

He twirls the double edged scythe in his hand and the monster that stands several feet away from him lets out a terrifying shriek that, oddly enough, still sounds somewhat like my own cry of despair, albeit heavily dark and distorted. "You might not want to hide your true form from me, monster..." The monster swipes its arms to the side and its fingers extend into thin, sharp claws, then dashes at Jeshan with an intense burst of speed. Despite the terrifying aura the fiend gives off, Jeshan merely sighs. "Fine then, have it your way..."

With a single swing of his scythe, the creature goes flying over us with a monstrous shriek of pain. In the blink of an eye, Jeshan vanishes from my sight, and I jump somewhat, looking back as I hear a loud kick and the monster goes flying overhead once more, Jeshan standing a few feet behind my barrier now, but he's only there for a second. The instant I catch a glimpse of him, he's gone again and I hear another slamming sound, quickly turning to see what it is and I see Jeshan slamming his foot against the creature's head into the ground.

The creature raises its hand and its claws extend to pierce Jeshan's head, but the black cloak's hood rises up on its own and seems to harden as he tilts his head down, the monster's claws not able to penetrate. Without skipping a beat, Jeshan swings his scythe and cuts the creature's arm right off, making it screech in pain once more as its arm completely turns into a thick, black liquid and splatters on the ground, the same black liquid now coming out of the beast's wound.

Jeshan doesn't stop there however, he picks up the creature by its head and throws its body toward the farthest wall with immense speed, and yet he's able to fly and keep up with the creature's flying body as he continuously kicks it to make it fly faster and faster, eventually just slamming his feet against the monster's torso and flying it straight into the wall with a loud bang. He continues his assault by holding out his hand and firing a wave of his shadow like energy at the creature and using the wave to drag the creature's body along the entirety of the white wall, causing a black and grey explosion as it reaches the corner. The most amazing part about all of this is that all of that happens in mere seconds, and I can barely keep up at all.

Despite how many hits the monster has taken, it comes barreling out of the smoke screen caused by the explosion and it slams right into Jeshan, dragging him to the other wall through the air. "Jeshan!" I cry out, slamming my fists against the barrier.

"Still not convinced yet huh..?" Somehow, I can hear Jeshan's voice perfectly despite how quiet and far away he is. Jeshan slams the backside of his scythe into the creature's gut, extending the other end of his scythe into the ground and bringing him and the monster to a halt, and as a result, the creature slams into the backside of Jeshan's scythe that much harder, making it spit up a bit of that black liquid. Jeshan then twirls his scythe and smacks the creature in the face and up into the air with the opposite backside of the double edged scythe.

Afterward, the back half of Jeshan's cloak molds into wings and he flies up after the creature at an immense speed, turning the scythe in his hand so the blade is facing the creature now, and he swings the second he reaches the monster, cutting right through its side. He continues to fly at an immense speed, not giving the monster even a second to recover, breaking his double edged scythe into two regular scythes and then flying back and forth around the monster at a rapid pace, slicing part of its body whenever he passes by. I watch in awe as I watch the black flash that is Jeshan, the creature spouting more and more of that black liquid with each cut.

"You can do this...Jeshan..!" I silently cheer for him. Almost as if he hears me, Jeshan stops flying back and forth and floats right by the creature's suspended body, raising up one of his scythes and thrusting the pole end of it into the creature's gut, proceeding to extend it afterward until the creature's body slams against the ground. He then holds both scythes in one hand, both the scythes connecting together to form a scythe with two blades. I find it to be odd, until the space in between the two scythes becomes filled with shadow energy, a much larger blade filling the space between the two original blades and a much longer pole filling the space between the scythes' poles.

Jeshan pulls the blade back and swings downward with all his might, firing a pillar of that shadow energy right down onto the monster, its shrieks of pain highly evident. Despite all of it however, Jeshan doesn't bat an eye, unlike me who can't bring myself to look at the gore. I'm still scared, downright terrified, but with Jeshan fighting that thing, I feel so safe. The creature's screeching slowly grows deeper, and the sound of the monster's body morphing can be heard in the form of loud cracks as well as bending and twisting. I look over to see the creature slowly growing larger under the veil of smoke caused from Jeshan's blast, and my fear slowly grows as I see the creature's new, monstrous form. "There you are...you disgusting piece of trash." Jeshan states bluntly.