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The kitchen was a mess. Everything was either knocked around, broken or both, even the toaster was flaming. The only thing that was undamaged was the stove.
“Well Ziolang, you still have it. Just look at what you did to my kitchen.”
“Oh stop crying over your human crap, just go get more.”
“Do you know how hard it is getting permission to go to the human world? Not to mention the cost.”
“What’s your problem, you have both!”
“Yes I have the money, but I don’t have the card anymore.”
Ziolang was surprised to hear this. “What happened? You’ve had that permission card for at least as long as I’ve been alive!?”
Masuke paused for a moment before answering, “I killed Sethol.”
Ziolang’s eyes went huge, “Sethol? THE Sethol, the Veil!? I know no one likes them, but we need them! Why did you kill a Veil!?”
“He was corrupted by a dark power I couldn’t stop without killing the host. It was the only thing I could do, but of course, no one believed me.”
“Wow, Masuke! I knew you were strong, but besting a Veil? They’re all at least class B demons!”
“It took everything I had. I was unconscious for a week, then I told the other Veils. I think they believed me, but didn’t want to.” Masuke noticed Ziolang’s eyes shift to the window for a split second. “They’ve been out there for about an hour now.”
“You knew they were there and didn’t say anything!?”
Masuke shrugged, “I was hoping they would leave, but I guess they aren’t going to. Come on, let’s go greet our guests.” Ziolang and Masuke walked down the hallway and went out the door.

Outside was a demon with black eyes and a yellowish skin tone. His ears were pointed and he had short silver hair. Next to him was a female demon with deep purple skin, hawk-like eyes and long red hair. They were both whereing some kind of battle garb.
“Hello, Ziolang,” the black eyed demon said. “I’ve been following you for quite some time. Oh, and the famous Masuke is here as well! This must be our lucky day.”
“You two!?” Ziolang said in amazement, “I thought Callista, Koden and I finished you in that fight two years back!”
Masuke turned to Ziolang, “Who are these guys?”
The black eyed demon answered first, “I am Gragole and this is Cartha. It’s true you beat us that day, but we don’t die that easy. Now, we’re here to get back at you.”
Ziolang cracked his knuckles, “I’ll take Gagole and you can have Cartha, be careful though, she’s fast and tricky.”
Masuke created a pike out of ice. “This will be a good fight, I can feel it.”
Gragole dug his heel in the ground and Cartha just stood there with her hands behind her back.

“You going to start, or shall I?” Masuke asked. Cartha remained silent. “Fine, have it your way.” Masuke threw his pike which split into hundreds of shards and shot at Cartha. She leapt to the side opposite of Gragole and landed on a tree branch. Masuke created an ice wall just in time to block 6 knives that seemed to appear from no where. Cartha had 6 more in between her fingers. “You’ll have to do more than throw knives if you want to ta-” the knives exploded, destroying the ice wall completely.
“I told you she was tri-” Ziolang’s voice was cut short.
Cartha jumped over Masuke, threw the knives and landed on the house in one, fluid motion. Masuke spawned an ice shield which deflected the knives and then covered the blades in ice so the explosion was greatly decreased. Masuke’s eyes went a deep blue and the clouds above began to darken. Cartha noticed this and threw her knives followed by 6 more. He was able to deflect most, but 3 of them cut as they flew by. That was too close. I didn’t get enough time; I’ll have to wait for the clouds to finish. Cartha pulled out 2 kunai and threw them at Masuke. He noticed the kunai, but didn’t move, realizing that they would miss. They flew right past his head and stuck in the ground. He was about to counter, but realized he couldn’t move. Why can’t I move? What happened? It was then that Masuke saw the other kunai stuck in various locations and that the kunai were attached to a very thin thread. How could I be so careless! She’s got me trapped like a fly in a web! A drop landed in front of him.
Cartha pulled out a black dagger and walked in front of Masuke, “Die.” She swung the dagger when the rain fell. The dagger hit a 2-inch thick layer of ice around Masuke. The ice crept up the blade. Cartha let go and jumped back in surprise.
The ice around Masuke melted. “I may not be able to do much while tied up, but I can still freeze anything I touch.” The ground began to freeze. “You’re intelligent; I don’t need to tell you what would happen if the ice reached you.”
Cartha pulled out a sword and prepared to leap. Before Masuke realized what she planned to do, it was too late. Cartha was completely frozen above him with the sword less than a centimeter from his head.
Masuke finally broke free of the frozen threads and took the frozen Cartha off his head. “You could have ran and lived, but instead, you have honored the demon ways and continued even after there was no hope of victory. Your name shall always be remembered. Thank you for the fight.” Masuke threw Cartha to the ground and she shattered.

“I’ll make this as quick and painless for you as I can.” Ziolang scoffs, “or you could just turn around now and leave like the wimp you are.”
“I’m going to beat the tar out of you!” Gragole replied.
“Then let’s do this.” Ziolang pulled a sword from its sheath on his back. He was about to attack when an explosion went off. He turned and saw Masuke standing in surprise from the explosive knives thrown by Cartha. “I told you she was tri-” before he could finish, Gragole had run up and punched him in the stomach, knocking him a few feet away. “Ow! Oh, that’s it!” He got to his feet and jumped back to avoid a second punch. Ziolang ducked under another punch and swung his sword at Gragole’s side. It collided, but didn’t go through. It was blocked by a coating of earth.
“You already forgot about my earthen abilities? You’re just as dumb as always.”
“I didn’t forget! I was just… testing you! Yeah, that’s it!” He taps the rocky armor with his sword. “Yep, pretty strong.” He heard a rumble and jumped back in time to dodge a stone pillar that burst out of the ground.
“Stop joking! Sheesh, you act like a human!”
Ziolang became furious at this comment. “I am not human like at all! Those creatures are weaklings!” A flame appeared in his hand and it began to grow. He put his flame covered hand out facing Gragole and the flame shot at him. Gragole kicked the ground and a stone wall emerged from the ground, shielding him. The wall was split in to and each have was hurl consecutively at Ziolang. He was able to dodge the one, but the other hit his leg and spun him around in the air til he crashed into the ground.
“It’s funny” Gragole scoffed, “You seemed so much stronger in our last fight. Oh, that’s right; you had that elemental do all the fighting!”
“Shut up! That’s not true!” Ziolang let loose a barrage of flames. Again, a stone wall emerged that protected Gragole. Ziolang then began to start a constant stream of flames and the wall began to heat up; turning orange. The wall began to melt. “Take this, you ugly freak!” He shot another stream from his other hand and the wall was completely destroyed, but Gragole wasn’t there.
An earthen hand came out of the ground and grabbed Ziolang’s bad leg. Another hand appeared and grabbed his arm. Then, Gragole emerged completely, pinning his other leg and arm to the ground with more earthen arms.
“I’ve got you now, any last words?”
“Yeah, I DID get stronger sense the last time we met.” Ziolang began to glow a bright red.
“What in the-” Before he could even finish the sentence, a huge explosion of flames burst from Ziolang.
The earthen hands crumbled to dust and Ziolang, weak and tired, slowly rose. All that remained of Gragole was a skeleton, everything else was completely incinerated.
“That took a lot more than I… thought it would. It was… pretty cool… I think… I’ll… call it… dragon dome… heh…” He then proceeded to face-plant back onto the ground, unconscious.