I let out a loud gasp as my eyes shoot awake.
"DANIEL!" I roar.
But then, I realize that I'm not where I once was. Everything around me is dark, and I can barely see.
"Wait...I recognize this," I then said. "This looks like the dream I always have, about…my dad leaving me…"
But instead of my usual dream, above me there are flickering spotlights overhead emitting a dull, eerie blue glow in between flicking on and off. For the first time since I've been having this dream, I can finally see around me, and it looks like I'm in-
"A jail cell?"
In front of me are iron bars locked tight, and around me are brick walls and a metal floor which have suspicious, crusty dark red stains splattered about. In front of the iron bars is a cozy looking couch seated in front of a giant flatscreen tv. On the tv, I see Daniel slowly slinking towards me, with a sickle blade poised and ready to strike.
"Ugh," I gag.
I then look down at myself and see that I'm somehow wearing a black and white prison inmate jumpsuit.
"I believe this is our first time meeting," an ominous voice growls, causing me to flinch.
"Huh, who's there?!" I shout as I move to turn around to where I heard the voice, but I find that my wrists and neck are shackled to the wall behind me in iron chains, prohibiting me from moving.
"Of course, we've spoken many times before, but you've never actually seen me," the voice continues, and I hear footsteps behind me as whoever is there stops beside my cell, just barely out of my sight. I raise an eyebrow as a surprisingly small shadow looms before me.
"Who are you…?" I growl through grit teeth.
"Oh, me?" The voice asks. "You can call me…your demon," it answers, causing my eyes to widen. "I've been sleeping for fourteen years, but I was woken up once we met Slayer Hachi."
"What…am I doing here, what is this?!" I cry as I frantically look around.
"This place is the inner mechanisms of your mind, Luis Tramontana," the voice… my demon answers. "Our mind. I like to call it the control room."
I see the demon's shadow move as it seemingly points to the couch and tv before me. "You used to sit there, and I was in here," the demon monologues. "But now, you're the one locked away, and I get to claim my seat on the couch as the true Luis Tramontana."
"FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR LIVES I GET TO CHANGE THE CHANNEL TO WHATEVER I WANT!"
And then…the demon moves. Its small shadow grows closer and closer as it makes its way towards the tv.
"No…dammit…" I weakly growl. Even in this "control room," I can feel the effects of my battle against Daniel weighing me down. "Don't…you dare sit down…!"
I don't know what will happen when the demon reaches the tv, but I have a feeling that it won't be good.
Ignoring my pleas, the demon keeps walking towards the tv. But before I can get a good look at it, my vision fades to black again…
***
It feels weird.
I'm unconscious, but my body is still moving.
But I'm not controlling my body.
It looks like…I'm watching a first person movie of my fight against Daniel.
But I can't feel my body either.
After I dodge Daniel's attack, I land on the ground again, my Cursed Power further bursting out of my body. And although I can't see the changes, I can feel them. I open my mouth and let out a loud, feral growl, a noise that I didn't even know that I can make, smoke billowing out of my mouth as I do so. The veins in the right half of my body glow a medium blue, as the hair on the right side of my head turns white, pure, which is like snow. My right arm and fist has morphed into a scaly, black claw, and my right ankle and foot…a talon. The white of my right eye turned black, as my eye turned an even darker shade of blue, and my pupils turned white.
"So you've finally awakened…" Daniel cackles. "BLUE DEMON!"
***
Mikey groans as he stands up, rubbing his head. "What the…'' MIkey asks, as he sees a giant hole in the wooden walls of the abandoned house. Mikey walks over to the giant hole, and peers out. Below the abandoned house, Mikey see's two figures engaged in combat.
"Are those…demons?" Mikey asks himself. "One's Luis' stalker, and then the other one-" Mikey is cut off, when his eyes widen in realization. "Luis."
Luis lets out a roar, similar to one of a wild beast, and charges Daniel. Luis grasps his katana tightly with his clawed hand and his human hand, flooding his Cursed Power into the blade of his katana, then turning it into wind, which condensed around its blade, forming a dark blue version of Luis' Sky God's Katana.
With a roar, Luis swings his giant katana downwards, slamming it down into Daniel in an explosion of dark blue Cursed Power, sending shockwaves of blue Cursed Power flying backwards, one so mighty and so violent that it snaps the tree's around Luis and Daniel, sending them flying backwards. Even Mikey has to struggle to hold on to the wall of the abandoned house, to remain on his feet.
Luis then ominously begins walking towards Daniel, steam bellowing from his mouth with each breath.
Daniel counters Luis' Sky God's Katana with a Scorpion Stinger attack of his own, the two blades colliding.
"Splendid, Blue Demon! Your Demon form is incomplete. Although you can't control it, your Blue Demon form rivals the power of my own Black Demon mode!" Daniel booms, excited by the promise of Luis's soul.
Luis doesn't reply. He just lets out another feral roar as he swings his Sky God's Katan towards Daniel again, the two attacks clashing in another explosion of black and dark blue Cursed Power.
The two trade blows back and forth, Luis howling with each clash. Luis's Sky God's Katana clashes with Daniel's Scorpion Stinger, but Luis slowly begins to overwhelm Daniel.
Luis shoots a clawed hand out and palms Daniel's face, causing the other half demon's eyes to widen. Using his claw, Luis then slams Daniel's back into the ground, before opening his mouth up wide. A small orb of dark-blue Cursed Power begins to charge up in Luis's mouth then expands outwards. Luis then breathes a powerful beam of dark-blue Cursed Power upon Daniel, scorching him to bits.
"Your Blue Demon form, it's a little too powerful, isn't it?" Daniel nervously asks. With a battle cry Luis slashes Daniel, striking right through his scorpion stinger body armor, and finally, his flesh. Daniel yelps in pain, the first major injury that he's taken this entire day, through multiple fights. "MY FATHER IS DEATH ITSELF, I CAN'T LOSE TO THE SON OF AN UNKNOWN DEMON LIKE YOU!" Daniel roars.
With another fierce roar, Luis fires off a Hurricane Slash towards Daniel, sending a next-level powerful blast of wind and dark blue Cursed Power flying towards Daniel. Daniel attempts to block Luis' attack with his Shadow Scales but is easily overpowered. Luis' Hurricane Slash received a major buff from his newly found demon power, and cut through tree after tree and free, sending Daniel flying hundreds and hundreds of feet away. With every attack Luis lands on Daniel, Daniel bleeds. Blue blood.
But Luis just keeps on attacking.
Luis activates his Air Control using it to scope out Daniel from hundreds of feet away. Despite being berserk, Luis still has a genuine grasp on his abilities. Luis then chambers his right hand, wind swirling around it, before launching it forwards with a roar, sending a powerful beam of dark blue Cursed Power flying towards Daniel, an attack stronger than Luis has ever used before.
In defense, Daniel prepares a third Primal Chain Coil, and fires it off towards Luis, the two attacks colliding in the grandest explosion of Cursed Power seen yet that day. The two attacks struggle against each other for a little while, battling it out for dominance, with Daniel slowly overpowering Luis and sending him stumbling backwards.
With a roar, the wind wrapped around Luis' hand then begins to fire outwards, forming a spiraling beam of wind like a sideways tornado, which hugs Luis' Cursed Power beam, wrapping around it as it flies towards. Luis' upgraded Spirit Storm then blasts into Daniel's Primal Chain Coil, instantly overpowering the attack and knocking it away. Luis' Spirit Storm then computes flying towards Daniel, without a moment of hesitation, until it pierces Daniel straight in the chest, right through his Blood Demon transformation and samurai armor. Daniel coughs out a glob of blood.
"Is this…the strength of a man who fights for his friends and family…rather than himself?" He softly asks himself
Mikey can only watch in horror as the boy he onced called his friend and rival loses himself to the strength of a demon, turning into a vicious monster.
One that walks down a path of death and destruction.
With a roar, Luis prepares his dark blue Sky God's Katana again, charging towards Daniel.
"You still…have more left in you?" Daniel weakly asks as he limply falls to the ground.
But that doesn't stop Luis, who lets out the loudest roar he can muster as he keeps charing Daniel. Once Luis is standing above Daniel, he swings his Sky God's Katan downwards, attempting to deal the final blow to the back of Daniel's neck. But before Luis cna decapitate Daniel, his Sky God's Katana fizzles out. Luis remains standing for a few more moments, but then, without another warning, Luis's Blue Demon transformation slowly begins reverting back into Luis' normal human form. No claws, no talon, no glowing veins. And then…Luis falls face forwards onto the ground, besides Daniel, not moving at last. But one aspect of Luis' demon transformation didn't revert back to normal.
The streak of white running vertically through the middle of Luis' hair.