Artificial 3: The Valla Chronicles

Chapter 35: Demon Lord Showdown

(Seth's POV)

Moments after my siblings disappeared, the zombie army rushed us on Leonidas of the 300 Spartans's orders,
Simo hung back and started sniping as well as moving around the room all over the place,
Miyomoto Musashi engages Frost and Keiko,
Lancelot immediately zones in on me and Niel!
Flecia, Crystal,
and Reina dealt with the Zombie army. The best I could describe the battlefield was chaos and a warzone.

Niel immediately enters Demon Form and fires his feathers off his wings like shuriken,
I engage close quarters combat,
Lancelot fighting like a damn fucking wild animal,
King Leonidas comes in and Spartan kicks Reina into me,
Leon is slapping everyone with wind like whips that actually slice us up, Penny starts singing a tune that drains everyone of our physical energy as well as demonic energy,
Lancelot puts his sword on his back,
rips the pillar out and litterally deconstructs it and transmutes it into a mother fucking minigun!

Lancelot starts spraying his minigun lighting up me,
Reina, and Niel!
My demonic instincts grow as I find myself snarling like a beast as my wounds heal shut,
smoke enitting from my body.
I draw lightning from my sword Anakonos Barack and coat my fist in lightning,
I glare at Lancelot,
and by extension,
Brandon/Valla.

I run fast enough to take Lancelot by surpise and punch Lancelot in the helm, discharging my lightning into his armor, then concentrating it into a beam and fire it through Lancelot's head.
Brandon leans his head out of the way, still smirking even though my lightning beam nearly pierced his head.

"What kind of Fate bullshittery did you do to Lancelot?"
Brandon laughs.
"Used Valla's power to resurrect a really powerful human from history, ya know he always had that hidde dark side, those fits of uncontrollable rage, all I did was amplify those dark feelings and he naturally turned into a monster. As for the whole transmuting thing, Sense I am Valla's host, I am able to upload information into those I resurrect, so Lancelot had all modern military tactics and firearms uploaded into his brain like a computer."

This guy makes me sick.
Cracks,
in reality,
begin to form behind behind Brandon's throne and gradually get bigger and bigger until it shatters like glass followed by Chace finishing a slashing motion with a sword oddly enough,
followed by the appearance of Sora and Terra!
Simo takes a shot at me,
and before I knew it,
zombies had swormed me,
Flecia and Crystal.
Reina, Keiko,
Frost,
and Niel weee dealing with Miyomoto Musashi and King Leonidas.
I cut down zombie after zombie with my sword,
but they just kept on coming,
and before I knew it,
I was getting tunnel vision.

All I could see was the source of my anger and the obstacles in my way.
I heard the sound of my siblings engaging in combay,
likely with Brandon and the sounds of Reina yelling for backup.

I was torn between the want to save my friends and my vengeance on Brandon,
I could practically hear his voice taunting me as if telling me to make a decision and before I knew it,
I blacked out from the surge of demonic energy and anger.

(Chase's POV)

"Terra, Sora, go help the others, I'll take it from here!"
My sister immediately jumped into the frey,
and I turned to Brandon,
who puts on a serious face,
and stands up he forms an ice odachi, and we begin clashing blades moments later,
this bastard has the balls to rely on power that isn't his own,
shattering my pride as a warrior,
I beat the Demon Council with my sisters, the supposed best of the best in the Artificial Demon community,
fought pure blooded demons fron the Demon Realm,
played my part in slaying a Demon King and then this schmuck that brought the Artificial race to their knees,
nearly killed my brother,
tricked him into getting resurrected and nearly brought me to my knees by robbing me of my demonic energy.

Never have I ever faced such a disgrace, but if I didn't,
then my brother would have been possessed,
and I'd hate to have to put him down. our swords break,
and we escalate into hand to hand combat.
He hit hard,
but I hit harder.

Seth comes in mid combat with a slash, causing me and Brandon to separate,
his face furious.
"Let's do this!"
We both teleport near Brandon,
Seth going in for a slash while I went for a mid-air kick to the head on Brandon, Brandon grabs my leg,
and Seth's hand then throws us to the side.

We keep the pace up with a less than perfect tag team action,
our attacks, movments,
it was all out of sync,
and that's the very thing that put Brandon on the ropes.

Seth came in sword slashing,
I used martial arts I picked up on from my military orphanage,
Brandon blocked,
dodged,
and striked at us and ended up throwing Seth into me,
I recovered but accidentally chucked Seth into the air but hey in a indirect way I set him up.

Seth chucks shadow knives,
and Brandon flashily flips out of the way,
Brandon and I engage in a fist fight, punching the shit out of each other, he strikes pressure points on me,
I kick him in the stomach and follow up with two jabs to the chest for them body shots.
Brandon grabs my right hook only to be hit by a surprised left hook to the jaw.

"DAAAAAAAM YOOOOOU!"
He goes to strike,
and then Seth takes him by surpise with a flying kick to the side of his head. Brandon makes an ice spear from an ice rune as me and Seth rushed him,
Seth opens a pocket dimension and tosses me my split staff,
I split it with the blades in reverse grip and start striking with the metal baton part of the split staff and only used the blades at openings.

Brandon used his ice spear like a bow staff and even incorporated flashy stybt twirls,
and Seth kept hacking and slashing like always.
Brandon accidentally strikes the ground, whipping up a dust cloud,
but I see him through it and punched him,
Seth fired off a shadow and kept it sticky as he bounched around,
pulled Brandon back to him,
jumped over Brandon and slammed him into the floor.

Seth constructed a shield out of shadows with buzzsaw like blades,
then reved it up as he chucked it.
A shadow chain was attached to the shield,
and these wrist shadows reattached the shield.
Seth kept chucking it repeatedly as Brandon was distracted by it,
so I created massive fireballs and blasted them at Brandon.
He dodges,
but they explode,
so Seth slings his buzzsaw shield into the smoke clouds,
then created a massive shadow rune on the cieling that fired knives,
swords and shuriken.

Brandon dodges like hell,
and dragon like scales become more visible on his throat as he lets out a deafening roar!
The soundwave of the roar blasts the shadow weapons in all directions,
lightly grazing me and Seth!
I teleport above the bastard now that his attention wasn't on us and yeet a massive fireball at Brandon,
but Brandon was a quicker thinker and wrapped strands of his own aura around Seth and throws my own brother at my fireball!

It makes contact and explodes,
his body hitting the floor hard enough to leave an inprint and his body still on fire.
Brandon zones in,
and before I knew it,
this water bubble thay was fizzing like boiling water punched my stomach,
and I barf up blood!
Damn!

Highly pressurized water!
I could feel my pulse starting to weaken as my blood was going everywhere.
The last thing I saw before blacking out was Brandon's arm retracting from my stomach and then walking over to Seth and raising him up only to punch a hole in his chest.
I'm sorry,
Seth.
I couldn't save you or free you from your demon.