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Rebecca broke down on the ground. The fluid must've been a little too much for her. Rand turned back into a human and put his arm around her. He could hear little bits and pieces of muffled words coming out of her mouth.

"Rebecca?"

"Why... Why would you do that? Make me think you actually WANTED to kiss me but it was just a cruel trick to turn me into a Serlix!" she cried.

"No I wanted-"

"YOU DIRTY LIAR!" Rebecca yelled. The voice started changing into a more demonic one. Red wings burst out of her shoulderblades. Long black claws took over her hands and feet. She was turning into the Hellix!

Rand went with his first instinct. "Calm down! I... I love you!"

Rebecca's eyes turned red and she spewed out black lava. Her demonic voice radiated, "Stop trying to play your crooked games. I know your secrets now."

Rand stopped and stared up at the bigger lizard thing. He knew what to do. He closed his blue eyes. Scales ran up his arms and legs, and a huge skull mask protruded above his line of sight. Huge orange wings burst out of his shoulders, then he was standing on all fours. His head turned into a more lizard-like shape. Obsidian started to go up his paws and tail tip, until eventually it covered his whole body. Translucent lavender flames licked his lower legs. He opened his eyes back up and they were a violent orange with red flecks. It's like his eyes had some sort of vision to see all her weak spots. Of course, the neck! That'll be easy.

He had to decide quick what he would do to get her out of this state. Rand remembered something Blake had told him at the Serlix Temple. "There are two kinds of fluids in your fangs. One is a transformation, and one is a knock out," he had said. Rand felt his fangs flip over to the other fluid.

Rebecca, suddenly, made a blow at his leg. It bled fiercely and he almost fell over. No... I have to turn her back to normal, he thought. He shook his head and ran towards her. Just about reaching the weak point on the neck, she knocked him onto the ground. Lucky enough, he opened up his wings before he hit the ground and buffeted up back to his feet.

"JUST DIE ALL READY!" the Hellix screeched and collided into his chest. Her skull mask's horns impaled his scales. Rand roared up into the endless sky. The pain rushed through him, like electricity. He felt himself turning into something way more than a Serlix. It felt like he was getting stronger. Stronger than the Hellix.

Eyes narrowing, claws unsheathing. He was ready to take his turn. The orange Serlix grabbed her by the shoulders. Forcing her to stay pinned to a tree, he flicked his fangs out and cut through the strong red scales. He felt the knock out fluid ejecting from his fangs, and he could tell that by her pulse that she was greatly impacted by it.

She collapsed to the floor, wings slowly drifting back into their folded position. He saw her lightly breathing. Good. It didn't kill her. I would die if it killed her, Rand thought. Feeling his wings deforming, bipedal form returning, and scales subsiding, he happily took his role back as a human.

Rebecca, he noticed, was also turning back into a human. Her beautiful hair looked like it was gently laid down on the grass. Her breathing was still at the same pace. He picked her up, carrying her back to the school campus.

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Rebecca felt the environment around her, noticing she was in the nurse's office. But she wasn't there before.

"W-what happened?" Rebecca asked, opening her eyes to see Rand's face in front of her. His glasses were all cracked. She felt her heart break a little when she saw all the scratches on his face and arm. "Are you okay?" she said, feeling warm tears roll down her face.