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"Why... do you have his aura..." the demon hissed.

Akuro was too dumbstruck to realize that the demon was talking to him. 'It's spiritual pressure is so intense... it's more than anything I've ever experienced, I can't even move! My body's frozen!'

"You... aren't... him..." the demon spoke as it raised a hand. What seemed like red liquid then began to pool into a ball in the demon's palm. "Die."

'I need to move! Move!' Akuro screamed mentally for his body to move, but it refused. And then he felt a hand touch his shoulder and a strange vibration ran through his body and his sight went green, then he reappeared inside a small office that looked down at the demon. Just as Akuro looked down through the shattered window a beam of dark, blood red energy shot from the demon's hand and crashed into the spot Akuro had just been. The being then moved the beam along the building, and then Akuro felt a quake beneath him.

"Get back!" He heard Darius roar as he pulled Akuro away from the window, both of them rolling away just as a streak of red burst through the room they were in, splitting the walls.

"This whole place is going down, we need to move!" Darius yelled. "Akuro, snap out of it!"

Akuro shook his head, his consciousness returning to him. 'The hell was that.. it was like I was in a trance.' "Sorry... i don't know what happened."

"It doesn't matter, we need to move! We can't fight that thing!" Darius yelled as he ran to the other side of the building with Akuro following behind. Darius jumped down through the window and onto the street below as green aura began to cover him in a cloak before he became completely invisible.

Akuro jumped after him, but then the demon appeared from nowhere in front of him, so close that Akuro could clearly see it's red eyes through its metal mask. The demon spun midair, it's foot colliding with Akuro's chest as he was sent soaring back through the building and out the side the demon was originally on. The demon gave him no time to recover as it flashed above him and descended onto him, grabbing him by the throat and crashing him into the ground.

As Akuro struggled under the demon's grip, it extended one of its hands and red, hazy aura began to extend in the shape of a large sword. The being raised the blade into the air before plunging it into Akuro's heart, causing him to cough up blood.

"You are a fake, and for your sin, you shall perish." The demon hissed as it withdrew its weapon and it dispersed, fading in red mist.

The creature turned its back on Akuro's body, and as it did a black wisp of aura crashed into its back sending it crashing into a wall.

Akuro rose from the ground, a gaping hole in his clothes as inky black markings covered his wound, healing it over. His eyes had gone stark white and his aura cloak had materialized about his body, except now the aura was darker than before with a slight tint of red, and his horns were also larger. His aura had increased due to his emotions as rage overfilled him.

"You came out of nowhere... thinking I was someone you knew, and then you tried to kill me because I wasn't who you thought I was?" Akuro shook his head. "You're fucking dead."

The demon rose from where it had broken the wall on collision. "I see you are still alive. How is it you came to possess his power?"

"Who the hell are you talking about? Who's power? Because I've got no clue, all I know is right now, I want to see your head separated from your body."

"You can try, but you will not succeed." The giant sword reappeared in the demon's hand, and then it swung the blade through the air sending a wave of blood red energy soaring towards Akuro, who simply waved it aside with his dark talons, absorbing the attack's aura before dashing towards the demon. Akuro moved so fast that he seemed to flash out of existence, the ground cracking where he once stood, then he reappeared behind the demon, his scythe cutting cleanly through its neck. The demon's head tumbled to the ground and it's body stood still.

'Was that it?' Akuro thought, 'really?'

He was wrong. The demon's headless body spun on its heel, its fist crashing into Akuro's face in a downward thrust, crashing his head into the pavement. Akuro's body was frozen from the shock of the impact as the demon grabbed its head and replaced it back on its stump of a neck.

The demon rose its sword into the air, but just then a silver stream of aura screamed through its shoulder, the impact causing its body to spin. At that same moment Akuro shot to his feet, and expression of pure rage on his face as he rose his arm, black aura forming into massive talons that he crashed down onto the demon, the impact creating a small crater in the street. Akuro then kicked the demon's body with all his might, sending it spiraling across the street. He then jumped after it, raising his arm for another attack, an orb of black aura compressed into the palm of his hand as he slammed it into the demon's body, sending a shockwave that rattled every building near them and cracking the earth causing it to tremble.

Akuro was about to continue his attack when the demon released a shockwave of pressure that sent him skidding back a couple yards.

The creature rose to its feet, its body misshapen and hissing with red aura. It's red eyes were locked with Akuro's.

"What is your name boy?" It hissed as its body cracked and snapped back into place.

"Does it matter?" Akuro responded.

"I guess not. You may know me by the name Gallatine, Demon of Chaos and destruction. Before I kill you, I would like to know, how did you come to possess the power you hold?"

"Screw you." Akuro said simply.

"Oh well. You shall die a nameless fool." Gallatine hissed, and then another shockwave burst from his body. The chains wrapped about his limbs loosened and then fell to the ground with a rattle. The demon let his blade fade as his body changed, spikes now protruding from his limbs and back. The demon hunched over as his wings disappeared and were replaced by another pair of arms and massive spikes.

Gallatine let out a tremendous roar, then leapt at Akuro who attempted to back away, but was too late as the demon's knee hit him, crushing his chest and pinning him to a wall where Gallatine then grabbed him by the head and threw him to the ground. Akuro raised his hand while gritting his teeth and a massive force pulled everything in towards him. Gallatine held its ground, resisting the pull, but didn't seem to realize what was happening as aura condensed in Akuro's hand. As the demon recovered its posture Akuro dashed to him, his hand slamming into Gallatine's face.

"Dark Implosion!"

Another force of energy condensed between his hand and the demon's head before exploding outward, eviscerating Gallatine's body from the head down as a massive shockwave crashed into the surrounding buildings, causing some of them to crumble under the force as the dark wave of energy swallowed the street, leave nothing in its path.

When the explosion faded, Akuro stood at the edge of a giant crater, breathing heavily. He'd not only used the energy he'd absorbed but also his own aura, so the effect was much greater than before, the attack swallowing not just the street but the buildings around it.

And then Akuro froze. A red mist floated there at the crater's epicenter, forming the body of Gallatine.

The demon raised both hands then, the earth splitting under its feet, the cracks giving off a ghastly red glow.

"Now you shall meet hell's wra-" the demon stumbled forward, the red light faltering. "What... is... this...?" Gallatine fell to his knees as his arms began to fade, followed by his body. Darius appeared behind the demon, a silver bow in one hand and a dagger in the other.

"Damn you... this is not the end, others will come for you and your false power!" Gallatine hissed as his body faded into nothing.