Thick clouds cover the entire night sky, while rain pours down all over the city. In this silent atmosphere that reigned the same as all previous nights, it is shattered by a ferocious beast.
*Roaring
Slithering through the extremely narrow alleys, the main streets and through the very sky. The dragon yokai that had terrorized the soldiers the night before makes its presence known again on this rainy night.
"It's illogical - how can it be unaffected by the buildings? It's almost as if he's immaterial, though it's impossible, my attacks manage to hit him."
Jumping from rooftop to rooftop easily and letting out a tired and even resentful voice. A young man with medium-long blonde hair sticking to his face, completely wet Onmyōji attire carrying a sword at his waist. He dodges the blows the dragon throws every now and then before counterattacking with his flames.
Avoiding the young man's flames by moving between buildings, positioning his body in completely impossible ways and taking flight into the sky. The dragon yokai shows superior intelligence to all the previous cannon fodder that has been wiped out during this contest, though not enough to avoid the sacred arrow that hits directly into his back sending him to the ground.
*Boom*
"At last. that this was already too much!"
Speaking enthusiastically, but keeping a strange face, in the face of the small explosion created by the fall of such a large body. He then points a closed fan towards the sky, causing a huge sphere of fire to appear in that place, before hitting the dragon with it, giving an end to this dark being.
...Christopher pov…
Burn, burn, burn! I'm not an arsonist, but what satisfaction I'm feeling right now... It's like when you finish something easy, but it becomes complex by the vagaries of fate... hehe. What!
*Shingg*
My warning bells rang out loudly and in a display of inhuman reflexes, I guided my hand towards Clouded Fang.
The passage of time seemed to stop due to the amount of adrenaline, I even felt the wetness on the hilt, all thanks to my senses being heightened to the maximum at this instant.
Drawing extremely fast and managing to redirect the spear coming from my back to another side, it doesn't end there, as a hand appears in front of my face before it transforms into a black yokai that lunges at me.
*Boom*
Coming back to my normal senses, I notice my body being smashed against a wall, due to a yokai still biting Clouded Fang.
Rearranging my body before putting more force on the hilt of the sword, I split the yokai's body two and incidentally burn its remains before leaving from the wall.
"Just to confirm, since it's obvious. The true shape of this extension?"
Wiping my wet attire and talking to my opponent, who seems to observe an arrow that hit his vicinity, I simply shrug my shoulders before looking at him closely.
He was a slim built young man, he has long black colored hair tied in a high ponytail, he wears clothes that look like common villagers, though he wears a scaled breastplate and on his face he keeps a strange mask.
"Umm."
Extending his left hand in my direction, then blurting out unrecognizable words under his mask made of wood, he causes this limb to explode into a pile of shadows.
The shadows merge, combine and change until they take the forms of multiple yokai who, in a fit of rage, hurl themselves in my direction.
*Shingg
With the sound of the air being pierced by a swift lunge, a trail of orange flames shoots out from the tip of Clouded Fang and quickly all traces of enemies in front of me are completely eradicated.
*Tinkling* *Tinkling* *Tinkling*
Jumping off the ground at full speed at the sound of a bell tinkling from behind me, I am surprised to see how, from the shadow cast by the previous flame strike, multiple grotesque limbs are formed and hurl themselves towards me.
Leaning on one and leaping towards another limb quickly, I continue to climb higher and higher, before launching a diagonal slash downward, so as to burn all the limbs with my flames.
"@#&€%+#&"
Looking at me and letting out indecipherable words that seem to be charged with negative energy, the masked one who stands calmly among the flames, raises his left hand and as if the darkness itself responds this begins to thicken in my surroundings.
"It was a trap!"
Raising my voice due to the surprise it was to see him control the darkness of my surroundings, I release my tails to increase the amount of my flames and wrap myself in them before making myself burn like a small sun.
*Booooom*
The clash between my flames and his darkness was like mixing water with oil, it ended badly. The resulting explosion was the least of my worries, as the shockwave left me completely vulnerable to any attack and knowing that my enemy was going to take advantage of it, he continued to make me burst into flames before lifting me up.
"Ha, ha, ha. Time to get serious. right?"
Stabilizing my breathing that had become highly agitated, I enjoyed having my body dry thanks to my flames and grabbing Clouded Fang in two hands, I dash towards him.
*Shock* *Shock* *Shock*.
Forcing the masked man into direct combat, by scattering multiple spheres of flames all over the place, as my sword and his spear clashed around, I increased the pressure on him more and more.
"Tic. Tic. Tic. Tic. You're running out of time."
Giving a horizontal slash and making Clouded Fang explode into flames as I see him block it with his spear, I enjoy watching him go flying from the explosion, before raising my sword and firing a discharge of reddish energy.
*Boooom*
"I don't intend to pay for the damage. Oh, here we go again."
Taking my eyes off the newly formed crack from my attack, I take a step back to dodge his spear and noticing that it's already time, I start gathering all the scattered flames from the surroundings to make one last area attack.
*Booooooom!
Everything within 10 meters around was instantly incinerated, only the destruction stopped the moment I was finally able to take control of my flames and I could calm them down.
"#€%%€#"
"C'mon. You're just dragging this confrontation out already!
Shouting at the masked man emerging from the depths of the rift formed by my previous attack, I guard Clouded Fang, before sighing at his resilience.