Point-of-View: Adelmira Hartley

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"Quick question, would you still be trying to kill me if I had blonde hair and blue eyes, you piece of shit?" I inquired, as I evaded a barrage of earth projectiles and countered with a powerful water blast.

He swiftly fired out a ball of black flames in response, a cloud of steam bursting out upon impact as our attacks canceled each other out.

"Hah, you think me incapable of change? No, I now strive for the supremacy of Demons, with you humans beneath us!" He declared in response, as he shot more black fireballs at me.

"Ah, so in other words, you’ve changed but not really," I replied dryly, as I raced across to evade them, taking aim and firing out my Piercing Water Beam at him in retaliation, piercing through his left shoulder and eliciting a stifled hiss of pain from him, as blood trickled down the arm of his uniform.

But the wound closed up instantly, before he sent a wave of rising earth spikes in my direction, which I swiftly cut down by swinging my arm across while firing out another Piercing Water Beam, springing back to avoid the spikes.

"You’re gonna have to do a lot better than that, Nazi bastard!" I snapped, as I fired out a barrage of rapid, pressurized water blasts.

He evaded a few of them, before one struck his right side with a loud splash, knocking him slightly off-balance. I then shot forward and swung another beam at him, aiming at his neck to decapitate him.

He quickly tilted his head across in alarm, my attack slicing across his left eye and the top of his left air, blood gushing out as he let out a pained cry, but his injuries were already healing.

"You bitch...! I cannot believe I am wasting this on the likes of you...behold my Unique Technique: Swastika!" He exclaimed, as he manifested dark energy into a weapon.

It was shaped like, well, a swastika, with a hole in the center that had a handle across the middle of it. The edges were bladed and sharp, he’ll most likely use it by spinning it. It was quite large, if you drew a circle around it, it’d probably have a radius of about a meter.

It was black with a slight red hue to it, it gave off a menacing feel that sent chills down my spine. He then arched back his arm and sent it flying towards me with a rapid spin, slicing through the air at an alarming speed in my direction.

I quickly sprang off to the right as it closed in on me, a cut appearing across my left side at it shallowly sliced past my skin. I grimaced in pain, before he raised his hand and the weapon halted, before flying straight back towards him.

He caught the handle and then flung it towards me again, this time I ducked backwards to avoid it, and as he began to recall it back towards him, I formed a water whip and swung it at the weapon, hitting my mark and wrapping around the handle, getting pulled along with it straight at the vile Demon.

His eyes widened in alarm as I closed in on him, hitching a ride on his weapon before shooting out pressurized jets of water from the bottom of my feet to blast myself forward and cover the remaining gap in distance between me and him.

I then slammed my palm onto his chest, piercing a water streak into his body and then rapidly branching it out inside him, slicing his organs to shreds and cutting off his arms from the inside, both arms falling off as he began to reach for his weapon, blood gushing out of the stumps by his shoulders as he coughed out blood with an agonized wheeze.

Come on, come on, come on, hit his core! I have to hit his core, before it’s too late! My eyes then widened in alarm as he suddenly grabbed his weapon with his tail and swung it up towards my throat with a rapid spin.

I fired out pressurized jets of water from my palms to shoot myself backwards to try and avoid the spinning weapon, letting out a stifled cry of pain as the tip of the edge hit my right eye and sliced through it, my vision turning red as an agonizing pain burst out.

I continued firing out the pressurized jets from my palms to get some distance, stumbling as I landed, my head throbbing as sweat and blood poured down my face, my left eye blurring slightly as I struggled to catch my breath.

M-my eye, I-I can’t see from my right eye anymore...calm down, damn it, I-I can’t afford to freak out, I can’t drop my guard. Or one missing eye will be the least of my worries.

"H-how dare you...! The likes of you, damaging me so immensely! You will suffer an excruciating, agonizing death, you bitch! Now, Unique Technique: Genocide!" He screamed furiously, his eyes bulging with rage as dozens of dark, shadowy figured manifested all around him.

As they took shape, their bodies were wrapped in what resembled the Nazi uniform, their eyes gleaming red as they locked onto me.

"Oh, shit...," I muttered, trailing off as they began to approach me.

"These are the ghoulish remnants of my former army, the best of my soldiers! They will tear you apart, limb from limb, until you lay lifeless in a pool of your own, inferior blood!" Cackled Hitler maniacally, as the ghouls began to surround me...

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Point-of-View: Zoraiz Rafayet

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"I am the Demon Sin of Greed, Mammon! And I will be the last thing that you ever-...agh!" Exclaimed the Demon, before I cut him off by shooting forward the instant he took his eyes off me as he got way too into his own introduction, and then slammed my fist onto his face, sending him stumbling back as I knocked out several teeth, before he snapped after spitting out the broken off teeth, "You cannot just interrupt me in the middle of my-...oof!"

I ignored him and slammed a kick onto his midsection, knocking the wind out of him before I swung a twisting uppercut to his jaw, knocking his head back before slamming the sides of my palms onto either side of his neck, eliciting a choked gasp from him.

As I drove a swift punch towards his face, he began to raise his hand defensively, but only managed to get a fingertip in the way of my fist, barely even slowing it down before I struck him square on the middle of the nose and broke it, along with a few front teeth.

I then quickly sprang back as he let out an enraged snarl and burst out slicing streaks of black water around himself, narrowly avoiding getting hit by them. The Aqua Skill combined with the Dark Skill, huh? Any hits I sustain from that will weaken me, I should be careful.

"Heh...hehehe...," He suddenly chuckled, as a wide smirk appeared on his face.

"Huh, well, that’s not creepy at all. What, did I hit you so hard that I knocked some screws lose?" I taunted him dryly.

"Ohh, how the tables are about to turn! Did you notice? Your pinky finger hit my fingertip," He laughed, as he held up his index finger, which I’d grazed when I punched him in the face.

"Yeah, so?" I frowned warily in response.

Is this just a bluff to try and get under my skin? No, his expression tells me otherwise, what is he upto?

"Fair warning, this is going to hurt. Unique Technique: Plunderer," He smirked maliciously, as I suddenly felt an intense, sharp pain coming from my right pinky finger.

My eyes widened as I glanced down at it, unable to move it, chills running down my spine as I realized...the bottom bone segment of the finger was gone. My self healing ability with the Physical Skill isn’t good enough to repair this damage...damn, this hurts!

"You bastard...," I growled, as he sneered at me triumphantly.

"This is my Unique Technique, called Plunderer. If I touch a spot on my opponent’s body with any of my fingertips, I can steal any body part inside of the spot I touched, at will. For instance, if I were to touch the left side of an opponent’s chest, I could steal any ribs that are right under the skin around that spot...or, of course, I could steal their heart. Quite literally," He chuckled sadistically, as he held up a small bone, the missing bone segment from my finger...

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