Chapter 37 Heavenly Dragon vs Heavenly Demon

I realized that I have not put much effort into Paul's bodily change and looks, since Paul's eating of his devil fruit, his body has also began to change and adapt to the power. He has a light tan skin tone color and is currently 7' tall (213 cm) with long jet black hair that comes down to his shoulders. His hairstyle is put into a pony tail with a few strands of hair coming down in front of him. He looked well built muscle mass that can be easily seen even with clothes on. He occasionally wears a loose black vest and a large baggy pants. He has sharp handsome facial features. When he transforms to his hybrid form, he grows an extra two feet taller as his body grows and change color and becomes different.

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Paul and Doflamingo has been fighting for quite some time now. In terms of brute strength and everything, Paul was stronger than Doflamingo. Whatever Doflamingo attacked with, Paul was able to block any range attacks that came flying at him rather easily. Doflamingo has also noticed the situation that he was in. All of his executives and officers has been defeated leaving just him alone.

Paul looked around himself as he felt like the battle was going his way. He smiled as he looked at Doflamingo and said " Looks like my crew is also stronger than yours. I think it's about time to finish this, don't you agree?"

Doflamingo frowned as he replied, " Hmph, don't you think you are being to cocky brat. There's something you should know about devil fruits. Have you heard of the concept of awakening in a devil fruit?"

Paul knew exactly what Doflamingo was trying to say. He has seen this power in the series after all. However, he responded with, " So what about it? Are you saying that you have achieved that awakening with your devil fruit."

Doflamingo laughed as he continued, " I see that your devil fruit transforms you into something close to a dragon huh. But it doesn't seem like you have full control of it yet, seeing as you are only able to use the hybrid stage. If that's the extent of what you can do... you stand no chance against me. Hahaha."

Doflamingo walked forwards as strings began to emerge and change the ground with ever step, " This is the price you pay for being arrogant, boy."

When Paul saw this move, he became excited. Finally, a battle that can push him to his limits. In Doflamingo's base form vs Paul's transformation, it was simply boring for him. This will be the first time that he can fight someone with a stronger mastery with their devil fruit and perhaps cause some wounds on him. His battle with Kizaru was too quick and desperate, battling Raleigh, well he was just out of his league and got too confident and unfortunately, him and Raleigh had no connections whatsoever so Raleigh didn't really help improve his strength. Battling Aokiji, the guy was holding back since there were innocent bystanders.

However, fighting against Doflamingo was different. Although in terms of brute force and different use of techniques Paul is superior, but in terms of mastery, Doflamingo was on a higher level than Paul. Paul has been advancing too quick and hasn't stopped and thought about upgrading his techniques so far.

Strings gathered and formed into large masses of thick white strings that could pierce any solid objects if it wanted to and surrounded Doflamingo.

Doflamingo: " Let's see how you handle this. Bellow white"

'swoosh' A large mass of white string with a pointed end came flying at Paul. Paul chose to strike back and see how his attack would fare against it.

Paul: " Heavenly dragon's punch!!"

(Heavenly dragon's punch- Haki covered arm imbued with all of his elements.)

As the elements swirled around his arms, it only gave him more power and destructive ability. When it met with Doflamingo's attack, it caused a strong shockwave to occur. A huge blast happened as neither the string or Paul's arm moved. This was practically Paul's strongest punch, without the use of chakra. Circling chakra, although he has become used to it, to Paul, he made it act like a second source of energy or power. Meaning that he will only use it when he becomes exhausted as this world mostly depends on brute force or their own body's stamina.

As the clash was still ongoing, more large masses of strings began to flow out of the ground and around Doflamingo and started attacking Paul. Paul was already struggling to keep his ground with the one mass of string as he looked at the oncoming strings coming towards him, he decided to relax his power as he allowed it to send him flying helping him gain distance from the other attacks.

'bang' 'bang' The several attacks missed Paul as he flew backwards, however, since it was intentional then he recovered from the blow back easily.

From this strike alone, Paul finally knew a fatal weakness he has. He has no over the top winning move. His usual powers used to be enough but Paul has finally reached hit his wall. However, this can also be easily passable, why? Simply because, he has seen several anime's and read so many manga's and other fantasy novels. With control over the elements, he has just been waiting to try them all out.

Doflamingo just kept up his evil smile as he stared at Paul being blown back.

Doflamingo: " Just like what I said before, with my devil fruit awakening, you stand no cha..."

Before Doflamingo could finish his words, Paul had sent a strong breathe infused with all of his elements towards Doflamingo, interrupting his words and forcing him to block the attack.

Paul enjoys interrupting people when they are talking, especially villains. It's probably for content but since Paul had already knew some of the story and personalities of some people, he just wants to settle things and go on his way.

Since Doflamingo was still in the middle of talking, he wasn't able to prepare for the powerful breath attack. He had blocked the attack with nothing but his arms and haki, which caused him to blow back and up into the air.

Paul concentrated his chakra and energy as he circulated his elements around his body. With this energy coursing around him, it enhances his strength and speed by a large amount, however it also drains his stamina faster.

He instantly vanished from his spot and appeared before Doflamingo and threw a powerful punch at him. Doflamingo at the time flicked his finger in the nick of time the string had pulled him out of harms way and brought him upwards.

Seeing his attack miss, Paul continued to attack as he continued to push his power to his limit as he appeared before Doflamingo once again. However, Doflamingo was already prepared as large masses of strings were both surrounded him, acting like a shield and then another pair of stings flew out towards Paul. Paul flew along the sky getting away from strings that followed him everywhere he went. During this flight of dodging, he was throwing spears of lighting, fire, water, and wind at Doflamingo, trying to find an opening in that circling mass of strings. Some strikes had managed to break through the defense and struck him a few times leaving him with a few injuries.

This continued for a few more short minutes as their long ranged battle continued. Then, Doflamingo made a change in move. Doflamingo spread out his hands as several this strands of strings were now on both sides. This was Doflamingo's flap thread move. Seeing the move, Paul raised his right hand to chest level as he began forming a rasengan. Then he compressed the rasengan some more as he started to form the wind and lightning nature around it. After charging in and controlling it for some time, the rasengan started to change shape. The Rasengan was still a ball of pure chakra but there seemed to be a small amount of electricity coursing through it and around it, making it look like a small ball of energy that pulsed as if it was alive. Next, you can see two rings around the rasengan that spun in different directions of the rasengan looking like a ball with two rings around his.

Doflamingo frowned when he sensed the energy and power behind that move, " That power... what kind of devil fruit did you eat to be able to transform and handle energy like that?!!"

Paul: " You don't need to know that."

Doflamingo sent out his move as did Paul and Doflamingo was greatly surprised by what he saw. He saw Paul throw the small energy filled ball and controlled it as it started to grow larger and larger as it cut up his threads and then finally reaching him.

Doflamingo: " Not good."

Doflamingo tried his best and gathered as much strings as he could and blocked the attack while putting his full force into his haki to defend against it. The block did last for a minute until Doflamingo heard, 'explode' coming from Paul. 'boom' Just as Doflamingo was thinking of escaping from this situation, a strong and large blast came from right in front of him tearing him apart while wind and lighting began attacking him and sends him flying.

Paul hand been controlling the wind-lightning style rasengan this whole time and just as Doflamingo had tried to blocked it, he expanded and exploded that rasengan making an bright explosion that lit up the skies. The explosion contained pure wind and lightning that cuts and electrifies anything within it's explosion. The attack took up a lot of chakra as had to use chakra to actually form the elements and enhance it's strength.

As Paul saw Doflamingo flying from his attack and crashing onto the ground near the edge of the bird cage, Paul started to breathe heavily as that attack took a lot out of him. Paul looked and saw the Doflamingo was just bleeding from everywhere and his clothes were torn up. He didn't see any signs of Doflamingo getting up but looked up and saw that the bird cage was still moving and hadn't yet stopped. Paul had no choice but to continue to fight. Since Doflamingo is badly hurt and if he delays the fight any longer, then he will run out of energy and it will be hard for him to continue fighting.

Paul flew up high into the sky and looked down at Doflamingo. This time, he would try another combination of elements. He knew that he had to pull this one off because if he can't beat Doflamingo's final move then he wouldn't be prepared to block the next attack and would be out of energy, but then, he would surely lose the battle. Fire and lightning are the two natural elements that boasts as the most destructive power to have. Combining the two elements would be hard be has no choice but to prepare. Luckily, Doflamingo still has not gotten up yet.