King then shrugs off his various robes and cloaks, until he's shirtless, other than his studded arm bracelets. Revealing that secretly under all that clothing…King is SHREDDED as Hell. Great.
"I didn't expect that pampered douchebag to be such a hunk," Mikey grumbles.
"WHICH IS WHY BEFORE YOU CAN GET ANY STRONGER, I MUST KILL YOU NOW, BOY!" King roars, as he reinforces his entire body with Cursed Power, charging me at speeds faster than I can react to.
"Luis!" Mikey cries as he attempts to make his way over to me, but a wave of pain from the overuse of Cursed Power is sent surging up and down Mikey's body, and Mikey collapses to the ground.
King then continues charging me, and once he's directly in front of me, King launches a fist bubbling with an eerie dark purple-almost black Cursed Power my way. King's malicious intent has left me incapacitated. I can't hardly move, and I certainly can't dodge. But when everything seems bleak, the familiar buzz of electricity rings through the air. And then, a bright yellow flash dashes straight in front of me, shielding me from King's attack. I smirk as I look up at the back of my hero, who's saved me yet again. Nick.
"STAY AWAY FROM LUIS!" Nick roars as he struggles against King's attack, which is slowly pushing him backwards.
"This seems to happen often," I chuckle.
"Luis, Mikey, get up! You two gonna keep laying down and letting me fight King on my own, or what?!" Nick shouts, causing my eyes to widen. "I CAN'T DO THIS WITHOUT YOU TWO!"
Mikey's eyes widen. For someone like him, it's probably really important when an incredibly powerful Cursed Power user like Nick recognizes his strength. Hell, it feels pretty good for me too.
Mikey then shakes his head, and his face returns to its normal, pissed off look. Mikey smirks. "You're the one who should stay out of my way, old man!" He says.
"Just try not to die, you two!" Nick smirks back.
Slowly, Mikey and I push ourselves back up to our feet one last time. "Right!" We shout as I wrap my wind around my ankles as Mikey activates his flame exhaust. I use my wind to leap into the air above King from behind Nick, readying my Wind Blade. Meanwhile, Mikey comes charging at King front he left, readying his Fire Fist. Nick's arms, which are still struggling against King's Cursed Power Reinforced punch, benign crackling with electricity.
"NOW!!!" Nick shouts.
All at once, with a roar, I swing my katana downwards, Mikey launches his flaming punch forwards, and lightning bursts out of Nick's arms. Our three attacks explode in a rush of wind, lightning, and fire, sending King flying backwards, his body even more torn up and burnt than before, but King manages to stay on his feet.
"A three on one, and it's finally a fair right," King smirks, as Mikey and I land besides Nick.
"Now…" Nick begins to say. "The fight really begins!" Nick then gets into a running stance, his entire body crackling with electricity, before taking off, zooming towards King. Before King can defend, Nick snatches his scepter straight out of King's hands, before stopping behind King, the path that Nick took crackling with lightning. Nick and King then turn around to face each other. "Missing something?" Nick smirks, before grabbing this scepter with two hands, bringing it down onto his knee, and effortlessly snapping it in half.
King smirks. "That scepter was just a habit that I built up from carrying it around everywhere as part of my Kingly persona," King explains. "I DON'T NEED THAT FOOLISH TOOL TO ACTIVATE MY BLACK PRISM!"
Without another warning, King then appears before Nick, slamming a Cursed Power reinforced punch into Nick's gut and sending Nick flying backwards, before he even has the chance to defend.
"Good going, Nick, now you just made this fight even harder!" Mikey sneers. "Now we don't have a tell for when King uses his Black Prism!"
Just as Mikey says that, King reppars directly in front of Mikey and I. Before we even have a chance to defend, King grabs mine and Mikey's heads with his meat paws, crackling with dark purple, almost black Cursed Power, slams them together, before dropping us to the ground. I spit up a glob of blood, Mikey grunts in pain, as he struggles against King's strength. Even with King's regular Cursed Power reinforced attacks, I can physically feel his intent to kill, as if he's using Cursed Power Burst with his fists.
Nick then zips over to King, striking him with an electrified spear-hand then spinning around and knocking King away with an electrified roundhouse.
"Don't just stand there, you too, move!" Nick snaps before zipping away again.
It feels awkward fighting alongside Mikey, but I can't hold Nick back!
"Get your head in the game, dumbass," I grunt to myself as I slowly struggle to stand up. I curl my hand into a fist, peer down at it, and without a second thought, I slug myself in the face.
"Hell are you doing?" Mikey spits, but I ignore him. I punch myself in the face one more time, blood squirting from my nose, before turning back to face King, with a newfound sense of readiness.
"I'm good now, don't worry," I say.
"I can manipulate all of time and space within my "Black Prism." I can manipulate space in order to control where anything is within my Black Prism, and I can manipulate time to rewind wounds on my body, rewind others' actions, or rewind time back to even the ice age, or when the earth was nothing more than a ball of fire, if I desire,changing our place in time, just not space, within the walls of my Black Prism" King begins to explain. "AS OF NOW, MY BLACK PRISM ONLY EXPANDS A FEW DOZEN METERS, BUT SOON, MY RANGE WILL BE INFINITE, AND I WILL RULE THE WORLD! DO YOU STILL THINK THAT YOU CAN BEAT ME, SLAYER SCUM! KNEEL BEFORE ME NOW AND I'LL SPARE YOUR LIVES IN THE NEW WORLD!"
Mikey doesn't even take a second to process King's words. "Not happening!" Mikey shouts as he aims his dual pistols at King, firing off a volley of bullets. King rewinds time, making it so not Mikey never even fired those bullets off, before appearing before Mikey, kicking him away. Nick then zips over to King, aiming an electrified spear-hand King's way, who counters by spinning around and knocking Nick away as well. I ready my Wind Blade and slash towards King, but King then turns back around and punches me in the gut, before I can land my attack, sending me flying backwards as well, and slamming into Mikey. All of King's attacks are greatly reinforced with Cursed Power.
"I need a way to predict his movements, but I can't keep my eyes on King with my Cursed Power Sensing…" I mutter to myself. But then my eyes widen. "That's it!" I emit my Cursed Power into the atmosphere a few dozen feet around me, then use Cursed Power Sensing to enhance my eye sight. "By emitting my Cursed Power around me, like a net, I can feel the air waves in the room, predicting King's movement! I can't spread it out too far or too wide, that'll take too much Cursed Power," I explain. "Air Control!"
King then uses his Black Prism to strike me again. But by using my Air Control, I'm able to dodge all of King's attacks. This pattern continues for a while now, but eventually, King gives up when he slams a Cursed Power reinforced punch into me, sending me flying backwards, my back slamming into the wall behind me.
"I wanted to kill that boy, Luis Tramontana, first, but you're the biggest threat as it stands now, Slayer Hachi…" King growls as he makes his way over to Nick, kicking Nick in the gut and sending Nick flying backwards, spitting out a glob of blood as he does so. King then slowly begins making his way over to Nick again, as Mikey and I slowly struggle to our feet.
"Nick…he's saved me so many times…I can't just stand back and watch him die!" I roar.
"Luis, let's go!" Mikey shouts.
Mikey and I bring our knees high into the air, before slamming our feet down, taking a mighty step forwards, standing side by side against one another. I thrust my right hand forwards as Mikey aims his left pistols towards King. Flames begin igniting around the barrel of Mikey's pistol, as wind begins swirling around my hand.
"WIND CONTROL: SPIRIT STORM, CURSED POWER LAG!"
"EXPLODING FLAME BULLETS: FLAME THROWER!"
With a roar, Mikey sends a rush of flames as I send a laser beam of Cursed Power flying towards the unexpecting King, he's too focused on Nick to notice our attacks coming. Our two attacks blast into King, who barely has enough time to bring his arms up and reinforce them with Cursed Power to block.
"Dammit…not good enough…" I growl.
"
Yo, old man!" Mikey calls to Nick, causing the unconscious Nick to stir a bit. "Remember our conversation back in our cell?! I already told you the first of those two things that I meant to tell ya', do you want to hear the second?!"
Nick doesn't answer. But Mikey doesn't need him to.
"I'M GONNA SURPASS THE STRENGTH OF EVEN THE STRONGEST PRO SLAYER!" Mikey booms, causing my eyes to widen. "I'LL KILL EVERY DAMN DEMON, AND I'LL NEED NO ONE'S HELP DOING IT. NOT EVEN YOURS, EVER AGAIN!"
My wide eyes then narrow into a smirk. "And I-" I begin to say. "I'm gonna become strong, too! Strong enough that you'll look to me to save you when a demon attacks, Nick!"
"Shit, I don't have enough Cursed Power to activate my Black Prism…" King growls. "I do…I'll be roasted by these two boys' attacks!"
"IS THAT ALL YOU GOT, LUIS?!" Mikey roars.
"I'M NOT DONE YET!" I roar back.
The wind around my palm then begins to fire outwards, forming a spiraling beam of wind like a sideways tornado, or like a ranged version of my wind blade, which hugs my Cursed Power beam, wrapping around it as it flies towards King. And just like when Mikey and I attacked King's Black Prism, our two attacks merge together, my wind strengthening Mikey's flames and forming a giant swirling inferno.
"INFERNO CONTROL: FANNING THE FLAMES, FLASH FIRE!"
King roars back as he struggles against mine and Mikey's combo attack, our Flash Fire slowly pushing him backwards. Mikey and I let out a roar as well, as we keep the pressure up.
Slowly, out of the corner of my eye, I see Nick push himself back up to his feet. "Strength isn't just about who has the stronger Cursed Ability, who has more Cursed Power, or who has more experience in hand-to-hand combat," Nick begins to say, as he slowly starts walking towards King. "No, strength is more than that," Nick continues, as he begins jogging towards King. "Strength is about who stands up and fights for their dreams, even against the greatest of odds!" Nick adds, and now, he's sprinting towards King, as Nick's entire body crackles with electricity. "AND BEHIND YOU AND I…IS THE STRENGTH OF THE DREAMS OF THE NEXT GENERATION!" Nick then zips towards King, faster than I've ever seen him move before.
"ELECTRICITY: BUMBLEBEE STING!"
Mikey and I roar as we turn up the heat.
King roars as he struggles against our attack.
Nick roars as he dashes towards King, aiming a Bumblebee Sting straight towards King's chest. And so, as Mikey and I run out of Cursed Power, our Flash Fire attack slowly diminishing, Nick pierces King straight in the chest with an electrified spear-hand.
We've won.