Mikey vs King, Part 1

Ace grabs the hilt of his bamboo sword with one hand, and the blade with the other. And with a loud "crack," Ace effortlessly snaps his bamboo sword in half. A line of light blue Cursed Power extends from the broken-off handle of Ace's bamboo sword, before molding itself into the shape of a katana.

"How many years have we known this bastard? And this is the first time he uses his Cursed Ability? Against us?" Clover growls.

After drawing his Cursed Power sword, Ace then spins in a circle, slashing through all seven of the attacks that were flying his way, Grover's kick, Jamie's fist, Austin's bullets, Clover's spike, Diamond's Cursed Power emission, Spade's hand, and Heart's punch.

"Eight against one?" Ace asks as he slowly moves in a circle, aiming the tip of his katana at each one of his opponents. "I quite like those odds."

***

"Luis…Luis…" Ella sobs, still crying into the chest of her dead friend. "I still haven't thanked you for all that you've done for me…"

An intense, searing pain then erupts from Ella's right left socket with her missing eye, causing Ella to scream in pain and clutch her face in agony. A rush of golden Cursed Power then bursts from Ella's empty eye socket, blowing her black eyepatch clean off, and revealing…a brand new eye. Ella then slowly opens her new eye, revealing that the whites of the eye are black, and the eye itself is orange. Rather than having a pupil, a mysterious red symbol is plastered over Ella's eye. Ella then fixes her new eye on Luis' wound, and much to her surprise, the wound begins closing up.

"Wh-what did I do?!" Ella cries as her mint green Cursed Power begins flowing from her hands into Luis' wound. And then…the hole in Luis' chest closes up for good.

***

"FLAMES OF DESTRUCTION!"

"The black Flames of Destruction…at last, I can finally see them!" King bellows.

Mikey aims his palm at King. "Burn out," he says, as a mighty stream of pitch- black fire with red streaks shoots out from Mikey's palm. Mikey's Flames of Destruction wrap around King, enveloping the man's entire body in a vortex of black fire.

"My Flames of Destruction never extinguish until I command them too," Mikey explains. "Not water, not wind; nothing can quell my hatred! How does it feel to be burnt alive by the very flames that you sought after all these years?!"

After a few moments, Mikey allows for his Flames of Destruction to extinguish, revealing King's completed charred-black body which limply drops to the ground.

King doesn't move for a few seconds, and -assuming the latter is dead- Mikey takes a step towards King, but pauses when he notices King's fingers flinch.

"Black…Prism…" King weakly croaks, and a transparent purple cube of Cursed Power manifests around King's entire body. King's scorch wounds then begin to clear up as King pushes himself off of the ground to face Mikey again. By the time that King's Black Prism dissipates back into Cursed Power, King has been fully healed.

"Sorry," King says as he dusts off his cloak. "I've always had a bad habit of letting my opponent "kill" me to test out their strength. Now that I know what your Flames of Destruction can do, that won't happen again." King then crouches into a fighting stance, bringing both his scepter and one fist up.

"Remember our last fight, King?" Mikey asks with a smirk. "And how we almost broke your Black Prism?"

"Don't tell me that you're planning to attempt that again," King answers as he smirks back at Mikey. "It took you, the Blue Demon, and Slayer Hachi to so much as crack it. What makes you think that now you'll be able to break my, Black Prism all on your own?"

"BECAUSE NOW I HAVE THESE!" Mikey roars. "Flames of Destruction!"

King's eyes widen as black flames engulf Mikey's entire body before spreading outwards, engulfing King's entire body swiftly as well.

"My Flames of Destruction never extinguish until I will them to do so," Mikey says as King slams his scepter into the ground, reverting the "time" around King and extinguishing the black flames and scorch marks engulfing his body. "The only way in which my Flames of Destruction can be extinguished is by fighting someone like you, who can control time. But unfortunately for you, after watching Nick fight, I know how to beat you."

Mikey then aims his palms behind him one more time, releasing a steady stream of black flames which propels him towards King. King brings his scepter up and prepares a Black Prism, but pauses when Mikey dashes right past him, towards the ball behind King. Mikey then slams into the wall, before bouncing off, using the momentum to propel himself towards King even faster than before.

"Flames of Destruction: Exhaust Pipe!"

"Black Prism: Space Manipulation!" King booms as he moves to slam his scepter into the ground, but before King can do so, Mikey punches him in the gut with a flaming black fist before dashing past King, towards the wall behind him yet again.

King then drops to his knees, clutching the scorching wound on his stomach and spitting up a glob of blood.

But Mikey gives King no chance to catch his breath.

Mikey bounces off another wall behind King, then dashes towards him yet again, striking King with yet another flaming black punch before King has the chance to activate his Black Prism.

"Michael Hakan…he's fighting just like Slayer Hachi…" King marvels. "He's moving so fast my Black Prism can't counter!"

King then looks up again, seeing a black fireball streaking through the air straight towards him. King brings his scepter up a little to activate his Black Prism, but fails when the black fireball streaks past King, slamming into his gut in the process and knocking the scepter out of his hands, which is engulfed by the black flames then reduced to ash within seconds. King's cloaks then catch on fire as well, causing King to pull them off of him and toss them to the side -which are also reduced to ash- exposing King's muscular frame and studded arm braces.

Mikey then stops behind King, who turns around to face him. "Flames of Destruction: Meteor Fist!" Mikey shouts as he launches a barrage of flaming punches towards King, each punch sending a mighty black fireball streaking through the air towards him.

In response, King weakly claps his hands together, as spheres of dark purple -almost black- Cursed Power levitate into the air around him. "Black Prism: Cursed Power Emission!" King shouts as his spheres of Cursed Power fly towards Mikey's fireballs, canceling them out in another large explosion of black fire and dark purple Cursed Power.

In the midst of the explosion, shrouded by the cloud of smoke kicked up, King uses his Black Prism to teleport behind Mikey, aiming a Cursed Power Barrier reinforced jab to Mikey's back. Noticing this, Mikey turns and peers over his shoulder at King behind him, then ignites his entire body on fire to defend. But much to Mikey's surprise, King still slams his fist into Mikey's back, sending Mikey flying forwards and spitting out a glob of blood, but at the cost of King's hand igniting on fire. King watches intently as the black flames engulfing the hand which he used to punch Mikey steadily travel up his arm.

"They're not going to stop, you know," Mikey comments as he pushes himself off of the ground then turns to face King. "You've just lost your arm."

Without even a second thought, another word, or even a glance at Mikey, King reaches up with his non-flame engulfed hand, bubbling with Cursed Power and grabs his other wrist, yanking his hand and wrist clean off and tossing it to the ground. King grunts in pain as blood rushes from his wrist, but that's no longer an issue when King rewinds time on his arm, and makes it so that it was never ripped off in the first place.

"Unfortunately for you, Michael Hakan, I've been going easy on you both of the times we fought," King says as he turns to face Mikey. "So now…I'll show you the true power of the Cursed Ability that tampers with time."

"Black Prism: Chronos Destroyer."

A rush of dark purple -almost black- Cursed Power explodes out of King's body, a rush of Cursed Power so potent that Mikey is forced to take a step backwards.

"What the Hell are you doing?!" Mikey cries.

A transparent purple cube of Cursed Power then manifests around Mikey and King, and around the entire throne room of the Temple of the Almighty Torch. And then, in the blink of an eye, the scenery changes, and Mikey finds himself in an icy, frozen tundra. But more importantly, when Mikey looks down…he sees that -from his toes to his head- Mikey's entire body is frozen in ice.