"It seems I might have flung her a bit too far and a bit too hard"
Vejoko thought as he slowly approached her crash site. He finds Maya on the floor laying on her back in the rubble. Her arm still tightly gripping her axe, she coughs up some blood, while she lays down in some of her own
"It seems as though this will be were you meet your end girl. This exact spot where you lay"
"Damn it! I can't say I approve of the outcome of this result. I don't want to lose to him here, if I do the others could die and Edward could get in trouble if he has to fight two demons on his own…Do I use it? Can I use it!"
While Maya contemplates her options of escaping, Vejoko begins to focus fire at a spot in front of his eye
"This will be the end of you girl. In the end it is as I promised. Your existence will fade without me ever remembering this encounter, your name, or acknowledging your existence"
The focused heat gets bigger, larger and hotter but Maya doesn't make a move
"Even if it's just a distraction, even if its only for a few seconds! Someone…Anyone…Please! Give me an opening!"
Just as Maya had hoped, the opening she was looking for was provided. Vejoko had been using the tentacles around his body to gather the heat and focus it at the front of the eye. Maya in her position had no way of stopping that from happening, but someone else who wasn't seen by Vejoko could.
Not to far off from where the fight had started, 16 shots were fired and each shot hit a different tentacle. Vejoko was flustered and surprised which caused him to call off his attack… Then, Maya smiled like a devil
"I was shot? But how? From where? Last I checked, there was no one in the area… Could I have missed someone? No…Impossible! My eyes miss nothing"
Vejoko quickly turned away from Maya and started to use his eye to scan the area once more while he sent his tentacles out to search
"Perfect" Maya whispered to herself "This was just the distraction… I was waiting for"
She licked a spot of blood off her lips, still wearing that devilish smile, the aura around her changed.
Vejoko suddenly felt a chill and decided to call off his search. He quickly turned back, only to discover Maya was gone
"W-What is this?"
Vejoko was so stunned by her sudden disappearance, he had forgotten someone else might still be on the field. Just as soon as he lost his coordination, he was shot again
"WHAT!? SHOT AGAIN!? Just who has the nerve to do this to me!?"
The gunman who was firing from a distance was Ethan who had hidden among some corpses not to far from Maya's fight. Ethan said
"Now don't start getting angry. After all, no one said you should take eye off me"
Ethan said again as he fired another round at some of his tentacles. The sound of each bullet piercing Vejoko's tentacles but not being able to determine where they were coming from, or who was firing, drove him mad and sent him into a rage
"Don't make a mockery of me! You lowly humans!"
Ethan put down his gun and hid amongst the corpse again. As he did the blue fire at the end of the barrel of his gun, and the light in his eyes, slowly started to go out
"There you go Maya. I've given you the moment, the opening, and the perfect condition. So, go make a fool out of that damn demon!"
Maya leaped out of the darkness and tries to land a sneak attack by throwing her axe at Vejoko, but with his many tentacles he sees the attack coming and knocks it back. Maya leaps into the air to catch her axe and in mid-air, Vejoko sends a barrage of floating objects that he controls with his eyes to hit Maya. She brings out her wings and tries to outmaneuver his attacks.
"Tsk! How annoying"
Vejoko Then gathers rubble together and makes one huge pile of shattered rock. He then sets the cluster on fire and concentrates the heat to make the jagged rock a fine, burning orb. He sends the orb flying in Maya's direction and uses tentacles he separated from himself to guard it on all sides but the front. The tentacles move at high speed creating a wall of flesh and wind to deadly to try and reach
"Huh…I see what you're going for. The only way to stop your attack would be for me to face it head on or die…But with the work you've put into that bad boy your already pretty confident I won't survive it. hehehe, this will be a tough one"
"It was an entertaining and infuriating match but this is the climax. You won't survive this"
"Oh boy. You must be really dense"
"What?"
"I thought a demon would have good memory…but I guess its my fault for assuming that. I already told you didn't i? I'm going to make you acknowledge me in this fight. So, there's no way a rock like this…"
Maya starts to surround both her palms with blue energy. Then she holds her axe up with both hands as if presenting it. She builds up so much energy it looks like her hand is covered in stars. She infuses all that energy into her axe and all of the bright blue beauty is now sitting on the axe
"Would be what kills me"
She raises her hand into the air slowly and once the axe passes her head, a quick slicing sound passes the rock reaching Vejoko, and a bright blue slash follows. After that the rock splits in two, explodes and the rocks fired off of it blast in all directions. Destroying the tentacles that were around it and some of the surrounding area.
Some of the rocks also nearly hit Vejoko, but he used all of his tentacles to surround himself causing all of them to be torn, pierced, and shredded to pieces, Making him vulnerable.
The tentacles fall to the ground one by one and as they fall Maya starts to clearly see Vejoko who was hiding inside. With no mouth or limbs and only and eye with tentacles all over it, it is hard to understand or know if or when Vejoko is making an expression. But…. The Look his eye had when his tentacles started to fall to the ground was clear. He was enraged and very much surprised by this
"But…But how? How was i…By a human? By this girl?!"
Maya started to showboat and moonwalk while she glided on a spot mid-air. She then held her hand to her ear and asked him
"So, What's my name?"
Vejoko responded saying
"YOUUUUUUU!"
"Well that's not it. Come on try again. What's my name?"
"YOU VILE! DISGUSTING! IGNORANT LITTLE COCKROACH!"
"Now you're just being offensive"
"I'LL KILL YOU! MAYA!"
Vejoko spins his tentacles off his body and throws them all at her in a last attempt to kill her. But Maya evades with amazing speed into the air. Falling from right above him. she says
"See. Was that so hard? All you had to do from the beginning…"
The snakes on Maya's axe all rush for him and bite him
"Was say my name"
The poison from the snake's bites not only instantly kill him, but from the moment he was bitten, his essence was exchanged with the poison in their glands. So, Vejoko to shrivel up and wither away into nothing. In his final moments, Vejoko said
"This cant be…I truly am dying? This is my end? It can't be…it just can't be… I the mighty Vejoko, servant under wrath. Could not lose like this, it is not only dissatisfying but it is disgusting that I not only face defeat at the hands of this human but I acknowledged her existence…the existence of this Maya…How disappointing"
Vejoko had been Vanquished and had now disappeared. The fighting was over and Maya… Maya, of the kings of men was victorious. She lifted her axe and let out a loud battle cry to celebrate her victory. But then she dropped it as she remembered her friends who may still be fighting. She turned and looked into the distance asking herself
"I wonder if Cayafaz is still alive"
MEANWHILE
BACK AT THE BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Nathan looks out the open wall of the floor they're on
"Still not here? After all the time I bought him. How much longer now?"
Nathan said as he looked outside, completely unphased by the opponent he had laying in-between his legs
"Hey. Hey you! Nathan"
"Oh? Cayafaz. Yes, what is it?"
"How the hell aren't you dead?! I put a bullet through your head! I even shot past the bandage you told me about! So, WHY RHE HELL ARENT YOU A CORPSE RIGHT NOW!"
"Ah yes the Bandage" Nathan holds his right hand to his face "I forgot to thank you for that. Thank you Cayafaz"
"Thank me? What the hell. Is this some kind of joke? Were you just lying to me?"
"Well It seems we still have some time so I'll answer your questions"
He takes a knee and looks Cayafaz in the eyes
"I have to thank you for shooting me through the head. Though a piece of me isn't actually happy about it. I did want to kill you before changing forms to prove that my newfound strength was superior. But it seems that wasn't enough. Your mind truly is a dangerous thing"
"How does this exactly explain why you aren't dead"
"It's simple really. You prevented that from happening when you killed me and severed the bandage wrapped around my right side"
"What? So, this is my fault?"
"Technically yes. It actually is but if you hadn't come up with those ideas in the final moments of that fight I wouldn't be here right now and you would also be dead"
"But how?"
"True that I was dying because of the amount of evil I was exposed to but that wasn't the end of it. you see the bandage was somewhat like a condition to my transformation. Someone of equal or greater power would have to severe the bandage for my shift to demon to demon hood to be complete. The requirement was for me to die as the seal was broken. So, If the bandage wasn't severed and the seal inside wasn't broken I would have died without completion"
"So... you lied to me? But you swore to me that bandage of yours was your final truth! You swore it and you lied!"
"I never lied about anything Cayafaz. That bandage was my final truth to you. I just left out certain details concerning it. But don't blame me, after all, you didn't ask any questions"
"I can't believe it … outsmarted by you? You!? Of all people?"
"It wasn't easy to do really. You are a smart man after all Cayafaz. I had to hope that your pride would make you overlook everything and anything else. Thanks to that belief 'I could never outsmart you' Doing this was easier than I thought it would be"
"No…No… No!"
"I was so worried that I wouldn't be complete I constantly zoned out in battle, out of the fear that I would die without ever having even tasted my new forms power. And what's worse? I believed I didn't need my new level of power to beat you and hid my fear with that cocky belief that I would win…but I lost…I lost to you…Humiliating isn't it? Yes…it truly is"
"Nathan! Nathan, wait!"
"But now!"
Nathan stands up properly and his body starts to enlarge a bit. His muscles increase in size, his eyes change color to fruity orange, a horn grows out the left side of his head, marks appear on his left cheek, his purple tail can now be seen more clearly as it sways behind him. He stretches out his arm and begins to levitate
"There's no way anyone of you will defeat me!"
The energy from Nathans body causes the building to completely collapse
"Yes! This is it! This is the power I've searched for!... I've reached it. I've become it. I've renounced my humanity and received a new image."
The rocks nearly fall on Cayafaz, but Nathans Tail deflects and Destroys them effortlessly
"Today is the true day of my birth. My old image is no longer, and because of that, I renounce my human name. I am no longer Nathan. I am from this moment forward, The great Demon, Zahad"