Bat like ears, leg's that resembled a horse's, fur patches on certain areas like the neck and chest area. Huge looking hands with claws, fiercely red eyes and huge wings on the back that had slight fur patches on it with two tails on each beast. These were the two identical beasts that were once flung into the forest by the two tailed demons. Now standing just a little far behind Rodney, they themselves did not look any happy as well.
*Bang*
"I grow tired of these pests. You all deem me as a threat when the real threat is over there" one of the demon copies spoke. By now it was impossible to tell which one was the original one as they didn't exactly have name tags on them. And the one that had spoken did so facing Rodney's direction as it had knocked Eiko back with a black coloured fist that had just appeared directly in front of Eiko who flew towards it.
Then not wasting anymore time, it flew towards Eiko whose body got lifted up by two black hands from the ground and seemingly passed on to the clutches of the still flying demon who happily caught hold of Eiko by the neck and with pure strength buried Eiko's head into the ground while still flying. This ensured that Eiko's head remained on the ground and was now being used to brush against the floor scraping up rubbles and dirt. Then after a while, Eiko was flung away.
And while Eiko tried to catch himself mid air by flapping his wings to break the motion, he just couldn't as he was tossed with quite the authority to back it. Eventually, he flew and landed on the ground tumbling for sometime before stopping. Then as he lifted his head, he saw that the demon paid no attention to him again and instead went after it's next victim.
But he wasn't just going to let the demon get away with something like that so kicking of the ground, he flew towards the demon closest to him. And while he did, he could see sharp pointed blue objects going towards the demon as well. Then with an arm stretched towards the numerous blue ice projectiles heading the demon's way, he gestured quickly with his hands and so the ice projectiles sped up even more.
But the demon in question had no problem seeing this coming. And the next minute several black shields appeared blocking the path of the ice projectiles. Soon after, the ice projectiles hit the first batch of shields which offered little resistance before puffing into ashes and returning back to the demon. Several more of the demon's shields were destroyed. And the one behind it all was flying towards the demon still with his hand pointing directions for the ice projectiles.
The ice projectiles had originally come from Blair. But they had then been accelerated by Eiko who had the telekinesis ability which in turn gave the ice projectiles just the right amount of boost required to keep it from being stopped by the demon. But just as the projectiles were going to hit, the demon there and then started to disintegrate into ash.
Now why this was shocking was because the ice projectiles had never hit the demon. Rather they flew past the position where the demon once stood and were eventually halted in the air by Eiko who had his eyes searching for where the demon might appear next. But then they could see the ash, which was the remains of the demon fly towards another demon and join up with it. And one tiny detail that had been missed all the while was that whenever one of the demon copies or whatever object it conjured up puffed into ash and returned to the body of another demon, the one that was acting as some kind of ash collector would have its eyes glow redder and the dark liquid pouring from its chest would come out the more.
"This is becoming tiresome. I can't keep wasting my energy this way. I thought creating this many would ensure that I take care of all of them at once but its costing me the same energy I'm trying to conserve. And I can't create anything on a large scale as I did for that troublemaker back at the other side again. In that case, I'll just have to take care of them one by one. But what would that mean for him?" One of the free demons who wasn't currently engaged in a fight said while staring towards Rodney's direction for the last part.
Then the next second, all the other copies began to implode into ashes and return to the one who just gave it's thoughts out. And soon after, Blair and the others were left with no longer any target apart from the one who stood at their front. The one thought to be the original copy of the demons. Blasting off from their positions, they all had their sights set on the demon who in turn readied it self as it saw Ice projectiles coming towards it and dark winged figures following behind.
"I don't know how, but for being glorified as the deadly sins of kravenus, you all come off weak and utterly stupid. Making me wonder, was i wrong?. Are you truly his sins?" The demon said watching the ice projectiles increase and the source of it all was a blue haired, dark winged figure flying closely behind, this was Blair.
"If you are going to do anything, I suggest you quicken your steps and start now. I don't know how they will fare against a two tailed demon. Though it certainly is giving off a different aura than I'm used to. Yet the display of power it has shown alone, I don't think your friends even in their current state can beat it, at least before the worst happens" Gypson cautioned Rodney.
"What is the worst..you keep hiding little details from me. I need you to...."..Rodney paused as he saw Erwin raised his hands up with something that looked like an axe only made with lightning up in the air and the person below him who happened to be the intended target was Mia.
[Shadow drive]
Rodney said and once again threw out his hands which released a dark shadow that travelled through the air and latched on to the lightning axe. And just like before, it began to engulf the axe or so Rodney thought as he watched. But then the next minute more lightning left Erwin's hands and travelled to the axe in form of radical sparks and just like a dream, the shadow was completely overwhelmed and vaporized.
"What?" Rodney thought shocked as he watched his skill fail. Why this was so was because he had used it against the demon's aura slash and it had worked. So he wasn't expecting the skill to fail against his own companions. And with this occurrence, he had concluded that Erwin's attacks had to at least be stronger than the demon's.
And as he watched the axe swing down towards Mia who had her hands crossed ready to take the hit, two figures jumped into the scene and one grabbed Erwin by the wings and held on to it tightly. This were the two mixed beasts that looked identical to each other. But the sparks from Erwin wouldn't give the one that hung on to Erwin in a chance. And the situation only got worse as Erwin bent towards the ground. Giving the mixed beasts the impression that they had gained leverage only to find out that more sparks were building up.
Soon after a lighting field was released from Erwin's body and in the midst of the sparks that flew around, Rodney could see the mixed beast figure letting go off Erwin and being pushed to the back. And finally when the lightning had diminished, the mixed beast figure opened it wings that had covered its body and a blue field of its own could be seen slowly dying down as the wings uncovered the whole of its body.
Then it rushed back at Erwin and tackled him to the ground holding Erwin's shoulders. With Erwin pinned to the ground, it further elongated its claws and they dug into Erwin's skin. But Erwin with his fist was still able to move and sent a ball of condensed lightning that hit the beast's stomach again. The mixed beast was lifted off from Erwin and as Erwin looked to stand up, the second mixed beast hopped on top of Erwin and retained the position that the other identical beast had taken. Piercing its claws into Erwin at the same spot it had Erwin pinned again. Then right on top of Erwin it's two tails had gone inside and its stomach began to tighten and slowly changed resembling a scale.
"Arrh!!" The beast yelled out as Erwin blasted its belly with lightning balls.
"Come on, help me out here!!!" The beast on top of Erwin said as it turned back to look at Rodney. But Rodney had little time to be shocked and instead took the initiative and ran towards where Erwin was pinned. And as he got close he wasn't sure what to think of the situation but part of him just felt unnaturally comfortable approaching the mixed beasts. Then grabbing on to Erwin's head making sure they but made eye contact...
[Shadow trance]
Rodney activated the skill and immediately Erwin fought through it and released yet another one of his lightning discharges that would go round which blasted the beast and Rodney off him.
" Arhhhh" Erwin let out a yell and as quickly as he got up, he fell back to the ground on his knees and his eye colour began to revert to it's normal brown. His blue extended hair began to shorten and go back to it's typical red colour. And the changes went on to revert to normal as he fell to the ground.
"What just happened ?" Rodney said as he stared at the two mixed beasts who now stood towering over him with their hands extended out towards him.
"Come on, we have the others to save" one of the mix beasts said.