Daniel vs Death, Part 2

"Necromancy: Spinal Blockade!" Death shouts as he swipes his arms to the sides, exposing his chest to Daniel's onslaught of Shadow Sickles. The bones of Death's rib cage then fire outwards in a burst of blood, piercing through Daniel's Shadow Sickle army with ease, before counting onwards towards the half-demon.

"Shadow Sickles: Chain and Sickle!" Daniel shouts as he touches a hand to the ground again, causing dozens of Shadow Sickles to wiggle their way out of Daniel's shadow, before flying towards Death.

Daniel's Shadow Sickle army and Death's ribcage bones then collide again, just as before. Except this time, Death's ribcage bones push past Daniel's Shadow Sickle army with ease, flying towards Daniel one last time, and skewering his body before the half-demon has a chance to react. Daniel's eyes widen as he spits out a glob of blood.

"Oh come on, you are still my son, afterall!" Death complains as he yanks the bones of his ribcage out of Daniel's body, retracting them back to his chest. "I expected you to at least put up some sort of fight!"

Death aims the jagged blade of his bone-scythe at Daniel as he begins approaching his son. But before Daniel can get a chance to move, dozens of rotting, decaying, skeletal arms shoot out of the ground, latching onto Daniel's arms and legs, prohibiting him from getting away.

Death continues slowly approaching Daniel, and once he's standing before his son, Death brings his bone-scythe high into the air and clutches its shaft tightly between both of his hands. "YOU DIE NOW, SON!" Death booms as he swings his bone-scythe towards Daniel.

But before Daniel can be decapitated by his dad's bone-scythe, he shouts: "Black Demon!" Daniel then resumes his Black Demon form, and uses the accompanying burst of black and dark-gray Cursed Power to knock Death as well as his skeleton army away from him.

"Your Black Demon form, eh?" Death asks as he peers up at Daniel's towering half-demon form. "It's been a couple of years since I've seen it. To celebrate this occasion, I shan't hold back as I kill you, son!"

Scales as black as night spread all across Death's body, as a black tail and horns jut out of his tailbone and the sides of his head. Death's hand and wrists morph into scaly, which claws, as his feet and ankles morph into scaly, white talons. White scales as white as fresh bones sprout across Death's body as well, forming a visible imprint of his skeletal structure. Death has entered his demon form.

"Necromancy-" Death begins to say as he brings his bone-scythe above his head and begins twirling it around. "-Graveyard!" Death shouts as he slams his bone-scythe down into the ground. Dozens of skeletal arms then shoot out of the ground then grab onto the floor, using it to hoist themselves out of the ground, revealing Death's army of skeletons. "Attack, my army!" Death orders as he aims the blade of his cane-scythe, and in response; all of Death's resurrected skeletons begin charging towards Daniel.

In response, Daniel jumps backwards as dozens of Shadow Sickles fly out of his shadow and pierce Death's onslaught of skeletons. But Death had spawned more skeletons than Daniel had Shadow Sickles, and they just keep coming.

"Our two Cursed Abilities are similar, you and I," Death monologues as Daniel tangles with Death's skeletons. "You attack by summoning shadow blades out of the ground, and I attack by summoning bones from out of the ground. I can also create armies of skeletons, while you should be able to create an army of beasts out of shadows."

After piercing dozens of Death's skeletons with his Shadow Sickles, Daniel finds himself surrounded. "Shadow Sickles: Pierce the Heart," Daniel says as he uses his mighty chain-and-sickle limbs and tail, as well the Shadow Sickle blade coiled around his wrist, to slash and slam through Death's skeletons, knocking them away from him, and shattering Death's skeleton army for good. But a few skeletons manage to bypass Daniel's attacks, and begin climbing up his mighty Shadow Sickle limbs.

"Dammit, get off of me!" Daniel roars as he shakes his mighty Shadow Sickle limbs from side to side, but the skeletons hold on tight. After scaling up Daniel's Shadow Sickle legs, the skeletons then make it up to the main body, and charge Daniel with their rusty broadswords, striking and bloodying Daniel with various attacks.

"Shadow Sickles: Primal Chain Coil!" Daniel shouts as he aims his scorpion stinger tail at the skeletons. The Shadow Sickle end of Daniel's chain tail then begins rapidly spiraling around as it glows rainbow shades of Cursed Power, before firing off, slamming into the bulk of Death's skeletons in a burst of rainbow Cursed Power, and shattering them for good.

But Daniel was too busy tangling with Death's skeletons to notice Death himself. Daniel's eyes widen as he turns to face his father again, seeing that Death is now right upon him. "Necromancy…" Death begins to say as he holds a hand out to Daniel.

"CATACOMB CATACLYSM BURIAL"

Death's entire body begins bubbling with white and purple Cursed Power which bursts out of him, exploding into Daniel. At the same time, each and every one of Death's bones tear through his flesh with a burst of blood as well and skewer Daniel, who's punctured by Death's ribcage, spine, arm bones, leg bones, skull, and even more. Daniel howls in pain as he's sent flying away from Death and off the roof of the building that the two are battling on, before falling to the ground in a pool of blood.

"Want to tell me which organs I punctured?" Death asks as he wanders to the edge of the roof of the building that overlooks Daniel, before leaping off, and landing on the ground in a crater and kicking up a cloud of blood. Daniel doesn't respond. He just remains lying still on the ground as he leers at Death, panting heavily.

"Oh…you never were fun to talk to…" Death grumbles. "That's why I left you."

"I ran away…" Daniel growls.

"Oh, did you know? I suppose that I have my details mixed up…" Death asks as he wanders over to Daniel, who lies limply on the ground in a pool of blood, wounded so badly and drained of Cursed Power that Daniel was forced to revert back into his half-demon mode, as opposed to his full Black Demon mode.. "Still think you can beat me, eh, son?"

"No…" Daniel weakly answers. "But I will kill you. I don't care if I have to sacrifice myself in the process…I WILL KILL YOU AND FORCE YOU TO REPENT FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE!"

"DEATH!"

"Well, so I'm not even "father," now?" Death sighs. "How sad…"

"You never were my father…" Daniel growls as he slowly struggles to his feet.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you…" Death smirks as Daniel places a hand to the ground.

"This ability…is one that I've been trying to perfect for years, and one that I swore to use only to kill you…" Daniel growls, causing Death's eyes to widen.. "This is the Cursed Ability of my mother, this is…"

"SHADOW BEASTS!"

"Oh…come…ON!" Death groans. "Why couldn't you have mastered this Cursed Ability back when I was teaching it to you?! Of course now you master it now that I no longer have any use for you!"

"It's because you're no longer the one teaching it to me that I was able to master Shadow Beasts…" Daniel growls.

"Oh well…" Death sighs. "Once a failure, always a failure." Death then smirks as he turns back to face Daniel again. "If you couldn't master Shadow Beasts then, what makes you think that you can use it now?" Death asks.

"Beauces now…I HAVE THE STRENGTH OF MY MOTHER ON MY SIDE!" Daniel roars.

"But she's dead…" Death grumbles.

"No she's not," Daniel replies. "She's standing right behind you."

"WHAT?!" Death cries as he spins around. Seeing no one behind him, Death clutches his heart and breaths out a sigh of relief. "Had me startled for a second there…" Death says under his breath.

Daniel then crouches down and places a hand to the ground. As he does so, Daniel's shadow begins to stretch and extend outwards, forming a circular shadow underneath his feet.

"SHADOW BEASTS-" Daniel roars.

All at once, various creatures and animals as black as the night itself leap out of Daniel's shadow and charge Death, snarling and howling as they do so.

"WHAT?!" Death cries again. "So you can use Shadow Beasts, afterall?! He wasn't bluffing?!"

"Now I can," Daniel answers. "And now…YOU DIE!" Daniel's army of Shadow Beasts then charges Death, panthers, ravens, scorpions, bats, wolves, the whole works.

"-ZOO STAMPEDE!"

"So your Rule Breaker awakening is tied back to your mommy issues, huh?" Death teases. "Necromancy-" Death begins to say as he brings his bone-scythe above his head and begins twirling it around. "-Graveyard!" Death shouts as he slams his bone-scythe down into the ground, summounding dozens of skeletons from out of the ground and sending them charging towards Daniel.