Everyone vs Death, Part 1

Daniel's army of shadow animals and Death's army of skeletons then collide, the two armies battling it out for dominance. But Daniel's shadow animals manage to destroy Death's fragile skeletons with ease, before continuing onwards towards Death. Daniel's shadow animals then pounce upon Death, biting him, slashing him, pecking him, clawing him, stomping him, doing whatever they can to maim the demon. Death howls in pain as he's assaulted and bloodied by Daniel's army of shadow animals.

"Get…off…of…MEEEE!!!!!"

With a roar, a burst of white and purple Cursed Power explodes out of Death's body, knocking Daniel's shadow animals off of him, which retreat back into the shadows. Death's Cursed Power then solidifies and takes the form of a giant skeleton towering over Death. Death's bone-scythe then grows large enough for the giant skeleton to wield, which it snatches out of Death's hands.

"SLUMBERING WHITE GIANT!"

"Dammit!" Daniel cries.

Death then charges Daniel, his bone-scythe clenched tightly in the hands of Death's Slumbering White Giant.

In response, Daniel charges Death back, and as Daniel runs towards Death, he holds both hands out to his sides and says; "Shadow Beasts: Wolf and Panther!" On Daniel's right, a black panther made out of Daniel's shadow rises out of the ground and begins running alongside Daniel, meanwhile on Daniel's left, a black wolf rises out of Daniel's shadow, as well, and bounds alongside him.

One in front of Death, Daniel then begins exchanging blows with his father, Daniel with the shadow sickle blade coiled around his wrists, and Death with his bone- scythe in the hands of his giant skeleton. As Daniel and Death fight, Daniel's Shadow Beasts leap around Daniel as well, pouncing upon Death and sinking their claws and fangs deep into the demon's flesh, while also acrobatically flipping through the air to dodge Death's attacks, protecting their master; Daniel, at all costs.

Daniel would slice Death with a slash from his Shadow Sickle blade, but Death would counter by slamming his giant bone-scythe into Daniel. Daniel's panther would slash Death with its claws, but Death would respond by summing an army of skeletons from out of the ground, and use them to knock the panther off of him. Daniel's wolf would then sink its fangs into Death, but Death would counter by shooting his ribs out of his chest and piercing the wolf.

"Necromancy: Parts Bullets!" Death shouts as he aims both hands at Daniel, firing off the bones of the digits of his fingers one by one, blasting Daniel's Shadow Beasts and forcing them to retreat back into Daniel's shadow, before blasting Daniel with his Parts Bullets as well.

"I'LL KILL YOU NOW, SON!" Death roars as the giant skeleton behind Death lifts its extra-large bone-scythe into the air, before slamming it back down into the ground, sending extra-large brambles of sharp, barbed bones jutting out of the ground and heading towards Daniel, much stronger than the attacks which Death had used before.

Five Shadow Sickles sprout out of Daniel's shadow, then begin spinning and wrapping around each other, until the five sickles wrapped into one single point, forming a giant spinning drill of rainbow Cursed Power. "Shadow Sickles: Primal Chain Coil!" Daniel shouts as his attack flies towards Death's Skeletal Brambles.

Death and Daniel's attack then collides, and Daniel's Primal Chain Coil begins drilling through Death's Skeletal Brambles, until Death's Skeletal Brambles pushes through Daniel's Primal Chain Coil at last, before continuing on towards Daniel.

"Shadow Sickles-" Daniel begins to say as he crouches down and touches a hand to the ground, but as Shadow Sickles begin wiggling their way out of Daniel's shadow, a rush of blood bursts from Daniel's nose, causing Daniel's Shadow Sickles to retreat back into Daniel's Shadow.

"Dammit…" Daniel grunts as he watches Death's attack flying towards him. "I'm done for…"

But a mere second before Daniel was sk ewered by Death's Skeletal Brambles, as voice shouts: "I heard that you needed some backup!" Death's eyes widen as a spiraling light green wormhole opens up in front of him, as Grover, Jamie, and Austin hop out of the wormhole.

"Wormhole: Laser Tag Arena!" Grover shouts as he opens up dozens of wormholes around Death's attack, then fires off an emission of Cursed Power which flies in between wormholes, shattering Death's bones.

"Adaptability: Rubber-Iron Gauntlet!" Jamie shouts as she launches her iron- coated arms towards Death like rubber, shattering his bones, as well.

"Gunsmith; Gadgets and Gizmos: Shotgun!" Austin shouts as he aims his mechanical arm at Death, which morphs into a cannon, shattering Death's bones with a blast of Cursed Power.

After shattering Death's Skeletal Brambles, Grover, Jamie, and Austin's attacks then flies towards Death, smiting the demon with their onslaught of attacks.

"So all we need to do is defeat Death, now? Sounds easy!" Another voice booms, and Death turns around to see Ralph, Lycan, Slayer Kaze, Slayer Renzu, Slayer Mezame, and Winter approach him from behind.

"Easy?! This is the King of the demons we're talking about!" Another voice snaps, and Daniel looks to Clover, Diamond, Spade, and Heart approach Death from behind.

"E-everyone" Daniel softly says.

"WHAT?!" Death cries as he looks around, finding himself surrounded by Pro Slayers and other Cursed Abilities users. "Daniel, where did all of these allies come from?!"

"Oh, I just figured Daniel could use some help against the final boss!" Grover explains with a cheeky smile as he folds his arms behind his head. "So I rounded up just a couple of allies!"

"I have friends now, father…" Daniel grunts as he struggles to push himself to his feet. "Friends who would die for me…friends that I would die for!"

"Don't lump me in with them!" Spade snaps. "I don't know who this Daniel guy is, I'm only here because that green kid told me that we can get a chance to have our revenge on Death!"

"Green kid?!" Grover cries. "We've fought how many times now, and you don't even know my name?!"

"Calm down," Heart interrupts. "It was only twice."

"I still don't know how the Cards of the King are on our side…" Jamie sighs.

"Something to do with Luis," Austin answers.

"Yeah, I also don't know who Daniel is, but Ivy would never forgive us if we didn't take up this chance to help kill the Demon King once and for all!" Ralph chimes in.

"Agreed…" Lycan sadly replies.

"So, Black Demon, what's the plan here?" Slayer Mezame asks as he strolls over to Daniel and places a hand on the half-demon's shoulder. "This is your fight, afterall."

I have a way to beat Death," Daniel answers as he turns to face his army. "I just haven't had a dance to use it yet because it takes time to prepare. But if you all can buy me just five minutes…then we may have a shot at winning this war."

"Five minutes, aye…?" Clover asks.

"We'll buy you six!" Kaze smirks.

Daniel sighs, then turns back to face Death. "Thank you, all," Daniel replies. "I'm forever in your debt. And then…Daniel begins sliding down into the shadows.

"NOOO!!!!!" Death roars as the giant skeleton desperately swipes a hand towards Daniel in a frantic attempt to catch the half-demon, but Death is interrupted when Winter swipes a hand up, freezing the giant skeleton's arm in place.

"WINTER?!" Death roars. "WHY DO YOU BETRAY ME SO?!"

"It's a long story," Winter replies as she freezes Death's legs as well. "But unlike my brother…I won't just be leaving you frozen."

"EVERYONE!" Kaze booms as Daniel slips into the shadows for good. "FOCUS YOUR ATTACKS ON DEATH!"

"RIGHT!"

***

Daniel then opens his eyes again, seeing that he's floating in an endless black abyss, floating in his shadow, which is faintly glistening with an ominous small red hue.

"When half-demons come in contact with a powerful demon, it awakens their latent powers, allowing for said half-demon to then enter a "half-demon mode." Upon training even further, a half-demon then unlocks their "full-demon mode," the pinnacle of their powers…" Daniel softly says to himself. "But then there exists a stage above that, a level of the powers of a half-demon above even their full-demon mode…" Daniel then continues. "An awakening of sorts, if you will."

"To fuse one's soul with their Cursed Power, and create something even greater than themselves."

Daniel's eyes then shoot open viciously, and as they do so, a Shadow Sickle comes flying out of Daniel's shadow, piercing Daniel straight in the gut, blood rushing from Daniel's wound, and mixing into the black abyss of his shadow. Another Shadow Sickle then comes flying out of Daniel's shadow and piercing his body, and then another, and then another after that, until Daniel finds himself pierced by hundreds of Shadow Sickles. The chains of the Shadow Sickles then wrap around Daniel tightly, restricting his blood from flowing out of his body, and causing Daniel to grunt in pain.

"NIGHT ABYSS OF PURGATORY!"

***

"You puny Slayers…CAN'T STOP ME!" Death roars as he rips his arm free from Winter's ice imprisonment.