Chapter twentynine: Yamata no orochi

Otsuki slices orochi´s head clean off and comes out covered in blood. The snake head wriggles in pain and regenerates into another snake and regrows it´s original head. "That´s annoying!" Otsuki says keeping up the defense parrying all the incoming attacks. Hi sets his sword ablaze and slices up the demons left and right. They clean up fast with demons and monsters coming in. Hi dodges under the fangs and claws of the monsters running through them with no effort. He jumps flips and dodges in a fiery dance. Tatsuya on the other hand is cold and calculated and slices them up in one powerful strike before using Iaido again. He doesn´t move an inch from his circle and can sense them and kill them as long as they enter the circle. Otsuki parries the incoming heads and takes a green fire breath face on. She blocks it with her arms and the armor gets burned through. After the fire settles she slices trough another head of orochi. Orochi takes some time to regenerate. The other two snakes from the heads are now attacking Hi and Tatsuya. Hi quickly turns around and slices the snakes head of. It dies because it can´t regenerate from the burnt wounds. Tatsuya slices it´s head off but now there are two snakes to deal with. Hi assists him by chopping their heads off. "You, good?" Hi asks him. "I´m alright, we need to help Otsuki!" Tatsuya says approaching Yamata no orochi. "Keep it busy I need to cast a spell on my sword to stop it from regenerating!" Otsuki says backing off. Orochi attacks Tatsuya but Hi blocks the attack with his sword. "Let´s buy her some time." Hi tells Tatsuya. "You focus on defense while I chop it´s heads off with my fire sword." Hi tells him. "Alright." Tatsuya says assuming an Iaido stance. Hi rushes off and dodges with no worry and chops one of it´s heads off but is hit by another head. Hi lands next to Tatsuya. "Looks like we´ll have to wait for it to attack." Hi says. Yamata no Orochi uses it´s heads and attacks them all at once. From the shadows Otsuki emerges and cuts up all the heads in rapid succesion with a sword now wreathed in white flame. Yamata no Orochi collapses then and there. Yamato no Orochi is now covered in green light and regenerates fully again. "Even holy fire doesn´t work?" Otsuki exclaims surprised. Yamata no orochi now more mad than ever roars across the island intimidating all the wildlife. "Let´s kill this thing for good." Otsuki says. She jumps into the air and slices off all the heads again spinning through the air with grace. Hi follows up after orochi has regenerated it´s head and needs to recover. He spins through the air with a blaze of fire cutting the heads off. Now Yamata no orochi is coverd in green fire and disperses like a demon. It was weakened enough to reveal a demon which was Yamata no Orochi all along. He is covered in green light and has black scales and horns as well as wings and a tail using a spear. Hi charges in attacking him but the demon figure dissapates in his red flames. "Looks like it´s dead now." Tatsuya says. "It is." Otsuki says collecting the soul orb from the ground. "That was strange." Hi says. "Some demons have true forms like this one but once weakened they take on a humanoid shape, like the one you killed just now." Otsuki explains. "Strange it felt strange cutting through it like it was fog." Hi says. A rumbling from atop the islands grows closer. It´s another giant snake. "Another one?" Otsuki asks. "I´ll deal with it!" Hi says following it to in the direction of the ship. Otsuki sits down exhausted holding back some dark magic swelling up. "You should calm down." Tatsuya tells her soothing her with some magic. "Thanks, If it wasn´t for Hi I would have needed to use that form." Otsuki says resting up. "It´s a curse. You can´t do anything about it." He says. Hi follows the snake who shares the same aura as Orochi. "So that´s where he headed off to." Hi says. The snake arrives at the beach and starts attacking the hunters protecting the ship. Hi arrives in time and stops the snake charging with his bare hands gripping the scaly beast. He throws it aside using the snake´s momentum. He follows the snake into the air and chops off it´s head and the snake dissapates for the final time. "A second orb huh." Hi says picking it up. Everyone comes back to the ship. "You did well." Otsuki says complimenting him. "You too. You´re stronger than I thought holding yamata no orochi off like that." Hi says. "I would´ve killed it on my own if it wasn´t a demon and had I been prepared." Otsuki says. "Good job hunters!" Erik says handing them some bags full of gold coins. "Thanks." Hi says. "I gotta thank you. I saw what you did there and those monsters and demons gave me important data to research." Erik says. "Gotta go now, I have unfinished family business." Hi says teleporting away.