SLASH
James wasted no time and unleashed a cleave upon Andrealaphus; the bird gained a large laceration on his neck before quickly freezing over and regenerating.
The bird clicks his tongue and puts his hand on the ground, unleashing a chill in the air before a large glacier forms under James, almost impaling him and the sinner before he dodges it.
"Hey, there are still people here, you dumbass!" James yells as he throws his copy of the inverted spear of heaven at the head of Andrealaphus while shifting the sinner into one hand, picking her up by the scruff of her clothes. "Hey, what's your name?"
The sinner stayed silent and looked at him with the same look of worship as she did while he held her, "Oi, I asked what was your name." Of course James knew her name, but it would be weird to call someone by their name after not meeting them before in their life.
"N-nifty" She finally answers, wiping a bit of drool from her mouth, "Well, Nifty, how do you want your ice bird—" James quickly dodges out of the way, a snake made of ice appearing under the place where he once stood. "Hey, we're having a conversation here!" he shakes his head. "Some people are just so rude."
"Anyway, Nifty, how would you like your bird?" he points at an Andrealphus in the air, standing with ice, flabbergasted that his opponent is not taking him seriously before unleashing a dismantle on the ice, causing him to lose his balance, "Waffled?
He then summons a small flame in his hands before making a finger gun and shooting Andrealaphus with the gun as he gets up, making a small hole in his chest, making him scream, "Or cooked?"
Nifty was drooling at this point, looking at James and thinking, 'I want him. I want him. I want him. I want him. I WANT HIM!' He looked at Nifty confused for a bit, but as he was about to snap his fingers in her face, she wiped her drool and said, "BOTH… I want both.
James lets out a small laugh, putting her back in the 2-armed carry, 'Okay, she's definitely motorboating me now.' He points one of his hands at Andrealphus while crossing his fingers with the other.
'Y'know, I've been wondering, how does chanting work with this? When Gojo used blue or purple, he chanted, and it boosted his power by a bunch. I guess I'll try it as well.'
"Plate of pancakes. Syrup. Twin bacon"
Andrealaphus tried to interrupt his chanting by freezing the entire mall, including the people he came in with, without a hint of hesitation. And for a minute it seemed like it worked, as all traces of James had disappeared.
But right before Andrealaphus could celebrate, a certain 4-armed figure sat on a railway on the upper floor, sitting on the ice. James simply pointed with a small grin on his face and said,
"Waffle maker"
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of slashes rained down on Andrealphus and his ice like a mini Malevolent Shrine. Although everybody else was unharmed, Andrealphus screamed as he was cut up into little, gory pieces that fell over on the floor.
"Is that it? Really? Andrealphus, I must say, you are a damn disappointment. Here I am thinking that someone with ice powers was strong, but you were just painfully mediocre.
James jumped down from the railing, landing on his feet, looking down on the fleshy chunks.
That remained of Andrealphus. Yet something happened while James was looking down; Andrealphus' corpse started to move.
The meaty chunks froze over, and jagged shards of ice jabbed out from the chunks, making connections between them, eventually making all of the parts meet back up into Andrealphus again.
"You damn idiot!" Andrealphus yells, waves of cold energy emanating off of him, "We, of the Goetia clan, are immortal; no matter what, we will always come back!" Andrealphus starts to maniacally yell as many snakes of ice wriggle up his form before consolidating into a solid dragon with Andrealphus as the base.
The ice dragon had a mighty presence, being a figure of pure white and reaching up to the top of the mall, its gaze bearing down on Jerimiah. 'AM,' James thought, 'my eyes make me see and sense more than I can take. Can you take some of the load?' AM chuckled a little, their naturally maniacal laughter ringing in James' ear, making him more nervous than fighting the literal demon.
'Who do you think I am? I am a supercomputer made by the top researchers of my old world, designed to be the pinnacle of intelligence. Of course I can.' James smirks and fully opens his eyes, the world now in a light blue tint and the information he gets much more digestible.
But before James could fully revel in it, the dragon moved faster than he could react and headbutted him out of the mall. He skidded on the dirt while he thought in shock, 'How the hell did he just hit me? My six eyes were fully open… It must be a fluke; yes, it had to be a fluke.'
He reinforced his body with more cursed energy; a bright azure color for everyone to see exploded from out of his body, covering him and Nifty. The strain of the six eyes was massively reduced, but a dull throb remained at the back of his head.
He rushed at Andrealphus, launching cleave after cleave at him before punching the body of the dragon. But as he looked up, he saw the head of Andrealphus' dragon staring down at him with a smug grin; the cleaves he launched looked like mere paper cuts on his face.
The dragon opened his mouth and launched a wave of ice over James, freezing the ground below him and himself as well if it wasn't for him reinforcing his body with all of his cursed energy. But even with the six eyes and his naturally massive pools of cursed energy, it still set him back to about 45% of his original reserves. And that's with positioning Nifty in order for him to block most of the ice.
'H-how… How did he get so strong?'He thought as he channeled his cursed energy into domain amplification, trying to cancel out Andrealphus' dragon transformation to level out the playing field.
The fight raged on for 30 more minutes; both parties took a significant amount of damage, but James was the only one who looked worse for wear. Andrealphus' dragon only had a few cuts that he hadn't bothered to heal yet, but he was significantly smaller, James' domain amplification having a big effect on him. He was still keeping the smug look on his face as he looked at James.
Speaking of James, he was in the worst shape of his life right now. With a surprise attack, Andrealphus managed to graze one of his eyes with an ice spear, causing him to be handicapped throughout the rest of the fight. He had many bruises and cuts on his body and only had 5% of his original reserves being split between keeping domain amplification and focusing in on his arms protecting Nifty.
James was backed into a wall, both figuratively and literally. He was standing in front of a building with his hands still up, trying to figure out a solution to beating Andrealphus. None of his tricks he could pull worked; the cleaves would hurt him, yes, but Andrealphus would just regenerate back with almost no energy lost.
His fugal flames definitely were more effective than his cleaves, but he could only output them at half power, with Andrealphus figuring out his chanting and hand signs boosting his power so he constantly kept the pressure on him, specifically focusing on his hands and second stomach.
He panted as he stared down the dragon, an idea forming in his head on how to beat him, risky, but the only way out at this point.
"Nifty… Brace for some impact." He whispered under his breath, the small sinner in his arms looking up at him scared… and aroused. "Cleave" With this cleave, he put more cursed energy than ever into it. Normally the cleaves he threw only took about one hundredth of his reserves, but with this one he put around 2% of his cursed energy into it.
The effect was as clear as day, Andrealphus' body getting cut in half along with many buildings behind him. Yet James knew that he would just regenerate, so he quickly used something he purposefully hadn't used in this fight. Earthbending.
He quickly stomped the ground, causing thick metal chains to rise up from the ground and attach themselves to Andrealphus' limbs, binding them down. He also made a large earth sphere around his bottom half with a small opening in the middle.
He quickly raised one of his hands in a crossed-finger position, and the mouth on his stomach began chanting, "Breath of the Dragon, Scorch, Twin Burns." A large flame grew on his palm as he was chanting, slowly becoming smaller and smaller, until eventually compressing into the size of a pebble.
By the time he was done, Andrealphus was finished regenerating and looked down in fear as he quickly tried to spawn ice under James to try and disrupt his chanting, but it was too late as James had finally finished chanting and threw the flame inside the dome with 3 final words.
"Divine Flame, Fuga"
The effect was immediate as James had to dodge out of the way of the opening as flames shot out aggressively, hitting the buildings behind him, scorching a hole through 5 buildings consecutively until the flames started to die out.
He breathed heavily as he walked back to the window, squinting his eyes because of the steam, and looked in to see the damage he caused.
Andrealphus simply stood there, slightly shaking as he glared hatefully at James. He stood there for only 5 seconds until his eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he fell backwards, being knocked out and finally declaring James as the winner of this fight.
James let out a massive sigh as he let Nifty down and finally felt the aftereffects of the fight. All of his body hurt, his arms, legs, chest, and head; he couldn't understand how he had struggled so much. 'If this random demon could've beaten me if I had been more sloppy… how strong is Adam?'
Regardless of his pain, he started to limp back to the hotel, retracting his two extra arms while reflecting. 'I've been so arrogant. The only thing I've been doing is coasting along while relying on the gacha's powers, not even training… I'm a damn idiot.'
"Do you need some help?" He heard a voice from behind him; it was Nifty coming up to him and asking him. He let out a tired smile. "Yeah, I could use some, thanks." Nifty put his arm over her shoulder, walking in the directions he instructed until he finally got to the hotel.
(Hey guys, Quandale Dingle here. Thanks for reading this story; it has 100k views. That's one…. Helluva Boss ass milestone)
Badum tish.
(Anyway, thanks for reading, and what's your favorite Hazbin Hotel character? Mine is Adam by a long shot. He's the GOAT for real.)
(Shameless plug: Ko-fi.com/mrlegantrop)