Pestillence, Part 6

Pestilence's cloud of gas then explodes in a giant rush of flames, wrapping Famine's snake form up in the fiery inferno, causing Famine to scream in pain.

"My poison gas is flammable, you know!" Pestilence explains.

"Chimera…Dragon…" Famine croaks out, as the lime green scale across her entire body begins to darken into maroon-red and olive-green scales. Famine keeps her serpent like appearance, but also sprouts muscular, clay arms and legs, armed with long, caring white claws and talons. Two leather, mighty wings armed with claws at the end sprout from Famine's shoulder blades, as well. Famine takes the form of a mighty dragon.

Famine then opens her fanged mouth up wide, spitting out a mighty fireball towards Pestilence, which blows straight past Pestilence's own flaming gas cloud, which appears wimpy and pathetic in contrast to Famine's fireball, which streaks through the air towards Pestilence.

Famine's fireball then blasts into Pestilence in a giant rush of flames, and this time, Pestilence finds himself caught up in the mighty inferno.

"Shit…" Pestilence grunts as he swings his right arm out to the side, discharging a cloud of poison gas, which leaks out of the pores of Pestilence's arm. The flames from Famine's fire breath then ignites Pestilence's poison gas, which causes it to explode, and Pestilence uses that explosion to blow Famine's flames away from him for good.

The two mighty demons then stare one another down again, in a stalemate, as Famine reverts back into her human form.

"Poison Pores-" Pestilence begins to shout as he brings his palms together, while keeping his fingers hooked out like fangs in a jaw.

"-Twin Fang Thrust!" Pestilence shouts as he thrusts both hands forwards, emitting a rush of poison out of his two hands. Once in front of Famine, Pestilence's emission poison separates into two waves, the top emission of poison flying above Famine and taking the form of a snake's head, while the bottom emission of poison flies below Famine, taking the form of a snake's jaw, with the emission of poison extending from Pestilence's hands resembling the body of a snake.

"CRUSH!" Pestilence shouts as he claps his two hands together, and as he does, Pestilence's poison snake clenches his jaws, chomping down on Famine, who quickly defends by sprouting lime-green scales across her entire body, and and taking the partial transformation of her snake-form.

But despite being able to resist Pestilence's poison gas thanks to her scales, the force of Pestilence's attack and the crushing fangs of his gaseous snake still forces Famine to drop to the ground on her knees, unable to withstand the power of Pestilence's attack.

Until Famine reinforces her entire body with lime-green Cursed Power -similar to that of Pestilence's own shade of Cursed Power- which Famine uses to slowly stand back up, then knock Pestilence's Twin Fang Thrust off of her, leaving Famine's body punctured and bloodied from Pestilence's crushing fangs.

"You stole my color of Cursed Power…" Pestilence grumbles. "I'm offended that the "shade of my soul" is similar to yours."

"My Cursed Power changes color depending on the form I take," Famine explains as the lime-green Cursed Power bubbling around her entire body dissipates, due to Famine reverting back into her human form.

"Then allow you to show you my color," Pestilence replies as he holds his right hand high into the air above his head, emitting a steady stream of poison, which forms a giant cloud of noxious gas sitting in the center of Pestilence's palm.

"The strongest attack that my poisons can muster…" Pestilence continues.

"POISON PORES: FORBIDDEN FRUIT OF PLAGUE!"

Pestilence then swings his right arm downwards, sending his giant ball of gas slowly flying towards Famine, before crashing down into her in a giant explosion of poison gas and lime-green Cursed Power.

"Chimera, Cornucopia Combination: Satan Serpent plus Kraken!" Famine shouts.

"Dammit, so Famine can combine monster forms?!" Pestilence cries.

Famine then holds her scaly snake arms outwards. The scales lining Famine's fingers begin to fade, as the flesh of Famine's turns a maroon red and slimy, and sprouts dozens of suction-cups, like an octopus. Famine's fingers then shoot outwards, elongated and growing thicker, like an octopus Famine wraps her kraken tentacles around her body, creating a layer of physical defense. Famine then sprouts lime-green snake scales across her Kraken tentacles as well, resisting Pestilence's poison.

Seeing that his attack is ineffective against Famine's monster combination, he allows for his giant cloud of poison to dissipate with a sigh.

"So what are you going to do now, Pestilence?!" Famine cackles as she unwraps the kraken tentacles from around her body. "You said that was your strongest attack, eh? WELL IT WAS USELESS AGAINST ME!"

"Are you so sure about that?" Pestilence asks as he holds a hand up to his face.

"EH?!" Famine snaps. "What do you mean?!"

"My poisons have already flooded your bloodstream," Pestilence smugly smirks, causing Famine's eyes to widen.

"No, you don't mean-" Famine begins to say, but the panicking demon is interrupted when she hears Pestilence snap his fingers.

"Poison Pores…"

"DIE."

Famine's eyes begin to water as she feels a burning sensation flood her entire body, starting from the pit of her stomach. Famine then begins coughing, and continues coughing so hard that Famine drops to the ground on her hands and knees, writhing in pain on the floor as she continues coughing, and even begins foaming at the mouth, and coughing up blood. Dark purple sores then begin appearing all across Famine's body, as poison gas begins to seep out of her eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.

"What's…happening…?" Famine chokes as she peers up at Pestilence, weakly extending a hand to the demon.

"My Poison Pores Cursed Ability isn't any known decides or gas," Pestilence begins to explain. "Instead, it's a gas cooked up in my own body, made out of a noxious mixture of my own Cursed Power and blood. I dont turn my Cursed Power into poison, I create poison. Touching my poison and having a physical resistance to it is a whole 'lot different than ingesting my poison. And that's what's happening to you right now. From the inside out…my poison is consuming you alive."

"Dammit…" Famine croaks as her hand flops to the ground. "I need…something to resist this poison…"

"Snake…dragon…griffon…kraken…wyvern…centaur…kappa…" Famine rambles to herself, her voice slowly growing louder and louder the more monster forms that Famine summons, as her body begins to shift and change, taking on aspects of all of these creatures.

That is, until Famine loses control, and all of her monster forms explode out of Famine, tentacles, wings, fangs, and scales flying everywhere. Famine's body then begins to grow larger and larger, standing in the form of a monstrous, five story tall creature, with wings mimicking a dragon, scales mimicking a snake, fangs mimicking a wyvern, a shell minking a kappa, legs momocking a centaur, tentacles mimicking a kraken, and much, much more.

"What's…happening?!" Pestilence cries as he stares up at Famine's monstrous form, which lets out a mighty roar, a roar so powerful that it sends shockwaves of sound and air flying towards Pesticlen and sending the demon flying backwards, his back slamming into the rocky future behind him, keeping Pestilence pinned in place due to Famine's howl.

"Dammit…Famine hasn't gotten this worked up in a while…" Death grumbles.

"This always happens when she tries to take the form of too many creatures at once," War sighs.

"Tell us what's happening!" Aether snaps, causing both Death and War to turn to him and smirk.

"Famine's Cursed Ability; Chimera, allows her to take on the appearance of mythical creatures," Death begins to explain. "Because of this…Famine is a demon with no true form, both her body and soul, her demon form and her Cursed Power. What we're seeing now, is an ability that Famine uses when her life is on the line, an ability that combines all of her monster forms at once, at the cost of Famine losing control of her mind and body. Famine's true monster form never looks the same every time she uses it. A true assimilation of Famine's Cursed Ability. This-"

And the next line…both Death and War say in unison with a smirk, causing chills to run up and down Aether's spine.

"Is Famine's true demon form."

"Poison Pores: Forbidden Fruit of Plague!" Pestilence shouts as he holds his right hand high into the air above his head, emitting a steady stream of poison, which Pestilence then swings his right arm downwards, sending his giant ball of gas slowly flying towards Famine, who knocks the attack away, with a singular swipe of her monstrous kraken tentacles.

With a roar, Famine then launches a giant, monstrous fist towards Pestilence, who brings his arms up to block and reinforces them with his lime green Cursed Power in order to defend.

But it's futile.

When Famine's monstrous fist slams into Pestilence, Pestilence crumbles to the ground due to the force of Famine's punch, which slams Pestilence into a giant fist-shapped crater in the ground, shattering Pestilence's bones, as his entire body erupts with blood.