The Dragon's End (Sajuuk vs Treble)

Sajuuk was in his homeland, a barren, flat, and desolate patch of the world. It stretched for well over a hundred miles in diameter like a scar on the planet's surface. He didn't know who was going to show up exactly but he had three guesses to who it was going to be.

His chosen form would be determined on who showed up. As of now he stood in his complete dragon form towering over the land, nearing his fullest size of three hundred meters. His tail swayed back and forth gently as he waited patiently. Sajuuk had been a part of this world long enough. Had there been a few others of his race then things might have been different.

"I plan to leave this world by honorable death. I shall have no other way."

A cool wind blew over the barren land that Treble had been called to. She had a serious mission ahead of her, something she knew would take all she had to give, and then take a little more, which is why she came fully prepared. On this day, Treble fully embraced her demonic half, knowing the fight with Sajuuk to be a long grueling one. She lifted her hand to lightly trail along the horns that adorned the sides of her head, her tail whipping around from behind her as she slowly stalked towards him.

"Sajuuk." She whispered as she stood in front of the huge dragon's form. She grinned sardonically as she held her sword in one hand, her whip in the other. "It's time, father of mine.

Sajuuk's form shifted at the voice. He wasn't surprised in the least. Treble had become something else altogether. She wasn't the same sweet little girl he had once known, he could see that now. His body changed into his half dragon state and his scales shifted so that they covered different parts other than the norm.

The scales now covered both hands going from fingertips to his mid bicep on each arm. Each talon slowly sharpened to a point so sharp that Iron was like tissue paper when it came to armor. The dragon sighed and shook his head. "I'm sorry to see you as you are now Treble. I am partly surprised that it was you who answered my request. But why you had to embrace that side of yourself is lost on my part. I don't think you know but I gave up my angelic side for this duel. Had I known you were to take this form, I'd have stayed the way I was." He said, giving her a more serious look, "You're no daughter of mine. I didn't bear a half-daemon child."

He growled at her and stomped his right foot, the Earth splitting beside him. A deep fissure formed and the heat of the earth could be seen deep within the trench. "Let's end this once and for all you confused wretched child..." He said, leaping behind the sudden wall of magma that spouted up from the fissure.

Treble's lip curled lightly as she looked at him in his half dragon form, his words having very little effect on her demonized mind. "You think I care about something so petty Sajuuk? My real family loves and cares for me no matter what path in life I choose. It's your loss." she snarled as she jumped back numerous feet, the molten lava wall bringing it's heat to her already warm body. She couldn't hide the grin that fell on her face as he stamped his foot, her lips curling into a cruel grin. "How childish."

Growling low in her throat, the demoness leaped into the air, her whip flying out, almost as an extension of her hand and flew not over, nor under, but right through the wall of magma. It curled and hissed almost as if it were alive, the ends becoming like serpents, biting and hissing at the flesh of the half dragon.

Sajuuk grinned as she made her first move, her demon form was almost as lithe as Chanvre but lacked maturity. Beautiful nonetheless. "Foolish girl." He said, grabbing the whip around the tip and yanking it backwards, toward him. "Let's see how you fair against me now without me holding back at all." He spoke again, his fist rearing back and swinging forward to meet her body when she came with her weapon, if she did of course. The Dragon was prepared to end her life, knowing full well what Haseo would do in turn to him but that was how things like this worked he figured.

Treble's piercing, always deepening blue eyes lit with malice and deceit as she felt Sajuuk grab the whip, tugging on it. Her hand, which had already let go of the whip end, immediately went to her side, Zwaard roaring to life in her firm grasp. As the whip sailed through the magma it burst into hundreds of tiny daggers, each as sharp as the sharpest sword and coated in a vile, deadly poison, the kind that put ice to your veins if skin was nicked. Without giving it another thought, great blue and black dragon's wings sprouted from her back. "Do you like them Sajuuk? They're not real dragon wings, of course. I squashed that part of me long ago, though they do make a fabulous addition." Grinning like the maniac she had become, Treble sped straight through the wall of magma, her body reacting naturally as she rolled quickly to the left at his oncoming fist. "Tsk tsk Dragon! That was rude." Flashing a grin, she rose higher into the air, her body twirling faster and faster, the higher she rose until she became a whirlwind of motion, the air around her singing with the raw power this demoness brought. "I rather love the power these wings bring! The Dragoness I killed in order to get them gave me so much strength with her dying gasp!" She called over the roar of the whirlwind, which had started to form glowing blue ice shards as sharp as the daggers of poison. All the ice surrounding Treble quickly found a common target... Sajuuk.

Sajuuk growled and wrapped his wings around his body as the daggers fell upon him. He smiled as they harmlessly bounced off his body, his wings unfurling to see Treble sprout wings of her own. At hearing how she got the addition his eyes widened and tears formed. "Y-You... YOU... HOW DARE YOU!" He yelled, vanishing and reappearing behind her, his talons raking down her back and his knee ramming into her lower back. "You rid yourself of MY lineage to become this!? And then you dare to defile another of my race!? You will die for your crimes!"

The dragon shifted his form as the ice came towards him, shattering on his scales as he grew to his fullest height. "Treble! Consider your life forfeit!" He said, drawing back and spewing forth a wave of white fire, hotter than the core of the earth. Holy fire some called it as it had the tendency to strip anything to ribbons, even those only harmed by the effects of the light.

Treble only grinned maliciously at Sajuuk's obvious rage and pain. How fitting she quietly thought to herself. Though her thoughts were quickly ripped from her as the dragon's rage grew one hundredfold. Cobalt eyes snapped open quickly as she was engulfed in fire, white hot fire that burned like the hottest flames of hell. She screeched as the flames engulfed her body, only for the sound to completely stop as the form of Treble burst into a great wall of crystal clear water, and then splashed to the ground with a mighty crash.

From far away, more than one hundred feet, came the indistinct, bubbling laughter of Treble. "Ahh, what a brilliant show Sajuuk! I must say, those mist clones Haseo showed me how to conjure do come in quite handy!" Though as she was speaking, she was raing toward the giant dragon. At the last minute, she spun in the air, disappearing. The first thing to materialize was her sword, her companion, Zwaard, and it was ringing through the air as the rest of her body materialized along with it. She came at him quickly, and with the powerful strength of a demonic ruler, in a series of quick thrusts. But she didn't stop there, oh no. Quick on her feet, and confident in her abilities, Treble lashed out with a couple of well placed kicks at the dragon's underbelly, her booted feet ringing with the sound of steel as a blade came out from the toe of the boots for each thrust of her foot.

The surprise attack was more than just a surprise to Sajuuk. Her style was almost exactly the same as Zerasan's but more finessed and perfected. He saw her speed come through like he had taught her only a few years ago. He hadn't expected a gain in skill of this magnitude, he predicted at least another decade. The dragon watched as she struck several times on his scales, her blade slicing through with each thrust and before he had time to react she was already on his underbelly.

She got in two hard kicks that actually winded him in this form. Such had never happened to him before. He jumped to his right, shrinking down to a much smaller size. He stood on his hind legs at about seven feet but stayed on all fours. "You learned how to fight finally." He growled, his wounds not healing for whatever reason. "Now I'll see if you can do the same with me like so." His eyes went a deeper red and his white pupils seemed to brighten. The dragon lunged at her and swiped at her side as he passed.

Treble's face was a contortion of concentration as she continued to deliver blow after blow of her swords and powered kicks, and yet her brow didn't even seem to pop a sweat. Though she saw his form quickly start to shrink, causing her to jump back a couple feet, or get smashed by his powerful body. Wincing lightly as her arm scraped against a boulder, tearing into her armor, Treble glared at the Dragon.

"I always knew how to fight, I just wasn't aiming at killing you, Sajuuk." Flashing him an evil, sardonic grin, Treble jolted her body to the right as he whizzed by, though she missed that gods damnable swipe. She grimaced as his claws raked into the side of her armor, deep crimson blood with a slight blue aura surrounding it slowly oozing out. "Fuckin hellfire!" She spat as her armor magically closed itself, though she was still bleeding underneath it.

"What a girl move. Are we going to resort to hair pulling and scratching then?" She snickered as she charged after him, leaping into the air and landing in front of Sajuuk, her hands already glowing an intense blue. With precise, quick movements, she slashed into the air in a large X, the trail left from her hands steadily growing bigger until a ten foot, flaming red X flew towards Sajuuk, demonic energy crackling around the laser like weapon. But she didn't wait to watch him and the X, oh no. She was on her feet again, jumping high into the air as her whip reformed in her hand, which she sent at his heels, letting the snakes that appeared, snapping and hissing, aim for his legs and underbelly.

Sajuuk saw the X form and his eyes widened at the arcane power he sensed from it. His energy wasn't built around resisting that of the arcane. As the attack flew towards him he growled and stood his ground, forming a barrier between him and the attack. The barrier stopped it and Sajuuk held it easily, until the whip took him out from under his feet and the barrier disappated into nothing. The X came at him and hit him square in the chest, the energy left in it dissolving his scales and eating into his body, a giant X now resided on his chest like some kind of macabre target. The snakes didn't do much more than just act as a nuisance to him, unable to pierce his scales that still covered his belly and legs. He squashed them underfoot.

blood flowed freely from his new wound on his chest and his breathing was heavy and slightly labored. I can't believe that my own death will be at the hands of her... he thought to himself, his body trembling slightly. The attack, as minor as it may have been, was a bit more effective than was previously thought. Sajuuk had virtually no defense, bodily-wise, against the powers of the Arcane. It's the style every Dragon slayer used. "Damn you foul witch... Cheap shot." He scowled at her, starting to circle her slowly. "I must admit you surprised me."

He shifted into his half dragon state again and looked as though he were about to drop. His red aura was pale by this point. Arcane magic was a vacuume to a dragon's own magic, it absorbed it as though it were a sponge in water. Sajuuk took a stance that a mage might take before he conjured an attack of sorts. His aura faded away completely as lightning arced around his body and his hands glowed both blue and red. "Your worse nightmare will not be me Treble. But your brother... When I die, whatever remains of my power will be yours, that is if there is anything left for you..."

Treble watched her power collide with Sajuuk, laughter flashing across her eyes as his aura wavered, almost blinking out. "Ahahahaha! Sajuuk! The all powerful Progenitor Dragon! Did you forget that you told me about our little to zero resistance to the Arcane?!" She laughed as he squashed her snakes, though they were simple illusions, so it didn't matter. Cobalt eyes lifted in glee at the sight of the blood that openly poured from his chest, causing a spark of hope to race through the demon's body. She was going to win!

"Besides, I'm evil, Sajuuk. Don't you know we deal only in cheap shots?" Grinning, she took a few steps back, watching him change back into his half dragon form. She frowned lightly as she tugged her powers back within her body, calming herself, preparing for his next attack, though he just stood there, lightening arcing around his body. What's all this? she pondered for a moment before shrugging, ignoring his words completely as her eyes flashed an intense, deep, grey. "It's time, Sajuuk. Accept your defeat." Her growl echoed across the field.

Dark blue, almost webbed, hands lifted gracefully, twisting, and twirling magically, intricately, as hundreds of runes began to appear over Treble's body. It wasn't an attack, more a preparation. She was calling forth all the power of the Dark Folly, and her mate. She glowed a brilliant blue for the barest of moments before her form began to change, her hair growing longer, her body becoming a combination of different colors, red, black, blue, all mixed into one, swirrling, crossing, roaming, over her skin. With a mighty war cry, the demoness launched herself at the dragon, moving faster than thought possible. She swiped, not with a weapon, but her bare hands, powerful, golden flames of magic, covered with a black, Arcane aura, trailing towards Sajuuk.

Sajuuk saw the attack coming long before she lunged at him. He was finished well before she attacked.

Time slowed for him as he watched her zoom toward him, her hand bristling with untold power and magic, enough to disentegrate him completely. He wasn't about to have it that way. A roar emitted from his throat as his hands placed at his front, the pale white orbs becoming solid and even moreso as the seconds passed. The ground beneath him was pushed down and away in the form of a crater just as the orbs combined, bulged, and ruptured, exploding outward at the demoness. Sajuuk's aura was around him again as a huge golden beam fired from his hands. The only attack roughly equivalent to this was one he used on Zerasan so many years ago.

The beam widened and sped toward her as she came to him. "Ma-Ko-SEN!" He cried, the beam growing more focused at his words, as if it was listening. The cohesive beam was Sajuuk's signature attack. If this didn't work then he'd lose.

Treble's eyes widened completely at the gigantic beam that was coming directly towards her. But that.. that was Sajuuk's finishing... TRYING TO FINISH ME SO SOON, SAJUUK? Her voice screamed inside his head, over the incredibly loud den of noise created by the beam. She gasped, a scream echoing through her throat as she disappeared in a whirl of mists, only to reappear some mile away; though the beam was still coming at her, still just as powerful. We can fight fire with fire, dragon!

Closing her eyes, acting as quickly as she could, Treble called upon all magical abilities, aid, and power that she could, from her entire demonic empire. With a scream of rage, she flung her hands to her chest, palms cupped in a small form fitting circle that steadily grew larger, and larger until the ground beneath her blew out into a huge creator. A beam, much like Sajuuk's, only pure black with swirling, deep red, etches of energy and lightening quaking through its midst, shot towards Sajuuk's attack. It crackled with evil energy, repulsed by the light, and goodness in the world as it sped towards Sajuuk's beam with a powerful force.

The two beam collided, directly in the middle of the mile. Treble's black to Sajuuk's pale white. Test your strengths NOW, father! She all but snarled inside his head as she continued to pull strength and power from Ita Halventaa, the hell dimension she resided over. She could feel Haseo's magic inner twining with hers, giving her small boosts of power every so often, as well as her sister's. With a ferocious growl, she shoved just a bit harder, and threw in just a bit more power, as she watched the two beams fight for a winner.

Sajuuk growled as he felt his beam collide with one of equal power. He knew he wouldn't finish this in his favor but he'd make sure she'd have a permanent wound of some sort. His own body began to glitter and trails of it began to swirl around his body, his beam quickly receeding as her's easily overpowered him. He stood there, her attack stopped dead at the sudden dome surrounding him. A heavy labored chuckle could be heard over the roar of the beam as Sajuuk spoke to her...

"You fool... I'm going to crush you... And throw you into the wind..."

What remained of his aura was swirling around him as the air and the dome around him seemed to be slowly dissolving his body, growing more and more intense with each passing moment. A flashback came to him as his mind went blank, several actually. Finding out that Treble was actually his little girl, her rather funny introduction with Xen and meeting her other brother Veiran, Finding out she had found herself a mate and loved one, Realizing that not only Haseo but now even the Host had fallen for her, meeting the children on both ends, and finally remembering her smile. The memories brought a tear to his eye, but was whisked away as he spoke into her head. "This is for your own good demonspawn."

He suddenly grunted heavily and rose into the air half a second afterwards emitting a battlecry of sorts as the dome expanded outward, consuming the ground and sky as it grew. It consumed him too after a moment, the remainder of this lifeforce adding to it and causing it to increase ten fold, rapidly growing to a diameter of eight miles. It was a last ditch attempt to take her life with his own.

Treble's eyes flashed a deep cobalt, her irises completely disappearing for a moment as she stared, in absolute and complete horror, at what Sajuuk had created. He... He... Surely he didn't! her mind screamed as she watched her father's body erupt into a great dome of pure energy. "ARE YOU CRAZY SAJUUK!?" She screamed at the blazing wall of her father's essence as it raced towards her shocked frame. It had taken a lot to have her own energies stopped mid way into the dome, though she'd done the only thing she possibly could have, thrown her own powers into what Sajuuk was creating. The dome now had wide, sizzling flecks and lines of cobalt racing through it, which caused Treble more worry. Her power, combined with Sajuuk's?

"... Shit." Was all she managed to mutter before her mind went into a whir of actions that her body stumbled to carry out as well. Slamming her eyes shut, the demon's hand whirled in front of her, causing her body to completely vanish in a swirling of blue and black mists, only to reappear about half a mile away. She'd used so much of her energy throughout the course of the fight, she didn't have much left. Certainly not enough to outrun the great dome, which was rapidly growing faster, having already over taken her previous spot. The Empress groaned as she repeated the same motion with her hands, this time only moving a mere fifty feet away. "Damn it!" She cried, her hands flying up in exasperation. She was spent. Mentally, physically, spent. The only thing left to do was use what wasn't hers to use in the first place.

A long time ago, centuries in fact, Haseo had taught Treble how to take powers from everything around her, and everything she was connected to, and it was in this instance the Demon lord used that ability. Her lips moved soundlessly as she chanted, and spoke in quiet, hushed tones, calling upon all the hell dimensions she and her mate operated, as well as everything unholy and evil within the walls of the Folly. Every being she'd ever killed, every soul she'd ever possessed, every innocent she'd slain, all slammed into Treble in one, powerful blast, causing the Empress to cry out in pain. Though evil was pain.

Her skin turned a pale, pasty white, and her back began to twist and disfigure as the Empress called more and more power to her. Soon her body was nothing but a twisting mass of skin and bones, muscles and tendons. She became a monster. More fear filled than even the ones a child would cry about in the night. She rasped silently as her tongue flickered out of her mouth, licking along her pale, blue lips, and her hands lifted, now great claws, with giant, dagger like, fingers at the ends. She was silent as she let the wave of power wash over her, though as he body became encased within the dome of Sajuuk's energy, Treble let out a scream, a primordial, evil, scream of pain and agony.

The pain was so intense that it caused the Empress to collapse, her body shaking and trembling violently as she tumbled into the dirt and muck of the floor. She wasn't dead... Not completely... But she was spent. Completely, entirely, spent. With a low, whimpering groan, Treble opened her eyes, the endless, black voids slowly turning back to their cobalt orbs. And as she lay there, the dome, Sajuuk's lasting energies, gone, Treble's body gave out, causing her to black out, and more than likely bleed out, as she lay there, covered in lacerations, bruises, broken bones, crushed lungs. Her arm was bent, horribly bent, completely backwards, until her bone actually stuck out of her skin, and it stayed like that even after all the energy and power she'd taken left, leaving the young woman as she normally looked. Long brown curls were matted to her face, blood seeped everywhere, coming from almost every part of her body, and still she breathed.

The crater that remained was unreal.

Nearly three miles deep and over ten in diameter, the crater stretched on and on. The terrain that didn't suffer the fate of becoming one with the crater was glassed over and scorched. No, it was beyond scorched, it simply ceased to exist. The valley that they had just dueled in was now another scar on the planet, desolate and barren. Yet something still remained of the once godly dragon.

In the center of the crater, hovering where the ground was before it was pushed away, was a glittering essence unlike anything anyone had ever seen. Sajuuk knew this because no one had ever seen the remaining life-essence of a Progenitor. It was essentially the energy that found a center-point and flocked to it and the amount that had massed at this point was enough to nearly equal the amount that was released in the blast. That was the unique thing about a Progenitor's energy, it could find it's "owner" if it was dispersed before it was ignited into whatever attack it originally was formed into. But for whatever reason, this energy seemed to be what was left over from the blast. It was as though the blast wasn't enough to ignite the amount released. If the energy couldn't find the original body, then it would find an alternative living source. At times this could be somewhat awkward. Example, a mouse could be the beneficiary. But it had already located said being; the only living thing within a fifty mile radius of it. It seemed to drift over to her, quickly at that, and hovered just over her destroyed body before slowly settling down on top of her. It seeped into her, through her skin and instantly went to reviving her. Her outer wounds would still be present but any injuries on the inside would be fixed in an instant. The energy she gained was all that remained of the once pround and powerful Progenitor. A father's gift to his daughter persay. Her own powers would be amplified three fold at the minimum and she'd notice it instantly when she awoke.

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Sajuuk was sighing at this unfortunate turn of events. She was even more powerful now. If he somehow was revived, which he knew he would be at some point, he'd doubt his chances against her for even five minutes. His spirit dissolved from this plane and into the next like it always had. He could only hope that what he was looking at, the old Treble, his little girl, was going to stay that way. He doubted it entirely.