Nine Circles of Hell, Part 3

"Crap, there's just no end to these demons!" Ralphs cries.

"Just keep on firing!" Austin replies.

That is, until two demons emerge from the portal to Hell. Two demons who are far more stronger than the others. Their names are Treachery and Greed, The Ninth Circle of Hell and the Fourth Circle of Hell respectively. Austin's eyes widen upon sensing their Cursed Power.

Treachery is a demon of the humanoid variety, who stands at around nine feet tall. Treachery's entire body is pitch black with streaks of light gray, like a shadow. Treachery has dark purple, sinister claws and talons, with the same purple shade of curly ram shaped horns and a tail that ends in a spiked mace. The Devil's eyes glow purple, as well. 

As for Greed, he's also a humanoid demon, but only seven feet tall. Greed's flesh is a pale yellow color, with lime green, scaly arms and talons, and black horns and a tail that ends in a lighting rod shape. Greed has pale green eyes that emit sparks of lightning when Greed speaks. In fact, Greed's entire body seems to crackle with random sparks of green jolts whenever he moves or twitches.

"You sense that people?!" Kaze booms. "Those two demons are members of the Nine Circles of Hell! Focus all of your firepower on them!"

"Let's go, Ralph!" Austin exclaims as he aims the barrel of his sniper rifle at the two demons and unleashes Hell.

"Right!" Ralph replies as he knocks back a few arrows, and fires them at the two demons.

"Eh? Who are these people?" One demon -Greed- asks as he looks around.

"These are "Pro Slayers," the ones here to stop us," The second demon -Treachery- answers.

"Can I eat 'em?" Greed asks.

"Yes, go right ahead," Treachery answers.

"ALRIGHT!" Greed excitedly. "Cursed Drainer: Greedy Feast!"

Greed his mouth up wide, revealing rows and rows of pointy, jagged fangs. "First I take their Cursed Power-" Greed begins to say as he inhales deeply, and the Pro Slayers find their energy begin to drain. Slowly, Cursed Power begins leaking out of the Pro Slayers' bodies, and flying into Greed's mouth.

"What's…happening…?" Ralph weakly asks as he collapses to the ground, allowing for his golden bow and arrows to fizzle out.

"He's…draining our Cursed Power…" Austin slowly grunts as he collapses to the ground as well, his glowing orange assault rifle fizzling out.

Greed then closes his mouth as he cheeks puff out, full of Cursed Power. Greed then swallows, and lets out a small burp. "-and then I give it back to you!" Greed cackles as he opens his mouth up wide again, firing off a beam of clear Cursed Power at the Pro Slayers, wrapping the ruins of the Temple of the Almighty Torch up in a giant explosion of Cursed Power.

By the time that Greed's explosion of Cursed Power subsides, almost all of the Pro Slayers have died. Most of them have died from the initial draining of Cursed Power. The rest have died from Greed's laser beam attack.

"Your Cursed Ability has always been a vicious one, Greed," Treachery says. "You drain your victims of Cursed Power, and if they don't feed you enough, you drain their life force."

"Yeah, but a few Slayers with a lot of Cursed Power are still alive," Greed complains. "Them, them, them, and them," Greed says as he points to the three survivors; Austin, Ralph, Slayer Kaze, and Slayer Supurasshu.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of them," Treachery replies. "The Ghost!"

A figure then manifests itself besides Treachery. The figure has a round, balloon-shaped transparent gray body, and instead of legs, it has a swirly tail like a ghost in cartoons, and large, white hands with no arms. The Ghost has golden tooth decals going across its stomach, like the stomach is a mouth of its own.

Treachery's ghost then flies towards Austin and Ralph.

"The Hell…is that?" Austin weakly croaks. The Ghost then punches Ralph and then Austin with its large, white hands, knocking the two out instantly.

"Now, I think that's good for now," Treachery announces as his ghost dissipates back into his white Cursed Power.

"Alright! Where are we going now?" Greed asks.

"To New York City," Treachery answers as he turns around and begins walking away from the ruins of the Temple of the Almighty Torch, the hordes of demons eagerly following behind their leader. "To the Slayer Organization Headquarters."

***

"Look, up ahead!" Jin exclaims as he points ahead, towards the horde of demons approaching.

"Look alive, people, we're going to see our first hint of combat in this war!" Shouts Slayer Haraki, the leader of the Attacker Slayers, the first squadron of attackers stationed outside of the jungle that the Temple of the Almighty Torch is located in.

"Austin…" Jamie sadly says. "What happened to you…?"

The demons charge the Pro Slayers, and they soon find themselves surrounded.

"Let's go!" Haraki roars as scales sprout across her entire body, which she uses to slam through some demons.

"Magnetic!"

"Swole Growth!"

"Absorption!"

Mercury, Slayer Haruka, and Jin Brasher (Slayers from the Brooklyn and Bronx Squads from the NYew York Interborough Competition) shout as they activate their Cursed Abilities as well as use them to punch through some demons.

"Zoo Keeper!" Ivy shouts as she blows into her flute, using it to send a wolf-form Lycan pouncing upon the demon horde, and using his claws and fangs to shred through them.

 Jamie takes a deep breath in…then out.

"You better be okay, Austin, we made a promise…" Jamie softly says to herself. Jamie then slaps herself across the cheek. "What am I worried for?! It's Austin, I know that he's okay! I need to focus on this battle! Adaptability: Iron-Rubber Golem!" Jamie shouts as she turns her entire body into iron. Jamie then begins spinning in a circle while extending her rubber arms outwards, like a wrecking ball.

"Adaptability: Rubber-Iron Wrecking Ball!" Jamie shouts as she decimates a few demons with her attacks.

"Look out!" Jannet Mayors (Slayer Kanpeki, Luis fought alongside her against Kaze in the second round of the IJST) cries, using her Precognition Cursed Ability to see a few seconds into the future and give her comrades advice to dodge attacks.

Jamie swiftly ends her Wrecking Ball attack and ducks around, dodging the emissions of Cursed Power fired to her from the demon hordes.

"Thanks!" Jamie exclaims as she jumps back up to her feet.

"No problem!" Jannet replies.

***

"Alright…there we go…" Lucifer says as he opens a pair of doors, which leads to the rooftop of one of the highest buildings in New York City. Lucifer then crawls over to the edge of the building and holds a palm out, brandishing dozens of capsule pills, which lie in the center of his palm.

"Bartender!" Lucifer exclaims as he swiftly clenches his palm, crushing the pills into powder. Lucifer then holds his palm out over the edge of the rooftop and opens his hand, releasing his Cursed Power-constructed powder, which is caught up in the breeze, and carried through the city towards the demon hordes attacking it.

"Now, all of the demons who come in contact with or ingest that powder will be strengthened thanks to my Bartender!" Lucifer booms. "Lord Death will love this!"

***

"Fūjin, Black Demon, Luis' dad!" Renzu cries as she barges into the room.

"What, what is it?!" I cry as I quit my pacing and turn to face her. "We caught sight of one of the Nine Circles of Hell, the fourth circle; Greed!"

"Alright, I'm going!" I exclaim as I dash towards the door.

"Luis, hold on," Daniel orders as he stands up as well.

"What, what is it?!" I shout as I turn around to face Daniel.

"Greed is only the Fourth Circle of Hell, one of the weaker demons, Daniel explains. "You're stronger than me, so you should wait here until a stronger member of the Nine Circles of Hell shows up, or one of the Four Horsemen."

"WHAT?!" I cry. "Are you kidding me?! I was waiting here for so long and now you tell me that when there is finally an opponent not to go?"

"Luis, Daniel has a point," my dad replies.

"Ugh, fine!" I pout as I sit back down.

"Where is Greed?" Daniel asks as he turns to face Renzu.

"Outside of the portal to Hell, engaging with the Sniper Squadron now," Renzu answers. "But Greed will soon be making his way to us!"

"Don't worry, I'll go take care of this, Luis," Daniel says as he exits the room.

"And I'm going to alert everyone about Greed's entrance!" Renzu exclaims as she rushes out of the room.

***

Death begins to chuckle, which then evolves into a bellowing cackle. War laughs as well.

"You sense that too, don't you, War?" Death asks.

"How could I not?!" War laughs.

"The Hell are you two laughing' about?" Mikey asks.

Death turns to Mikey and smirks, as War ends her laughing fit. "The Nine Circles are here," Death answers, causing Mikey's eyes to widen, which then narrow down into a smirk. Mikey's Flames of Destruction begin flickering around Mikey's body.

"Who's here?" Mikey asks.

"The Fourth Circle; Greed, and the Ninth Circle; Treachery," Death answers.

"But Treachery is a master at Cursed Power Sensing, there's no way that the Slayer Organization will be able to sense his Cursed Power, since they don't have anyone who recognizes it," War adds.

"You gonna go meet 'em?" Mikey asks.

"I'll go. You two stay here," Death orders as he walks over to the elevator.

"EH?! Why?!" War cries.

"I'd rather leave Greed to take out the Pro Slayers for now," Death answers as he enters the elevator. "And as for Treachery…I need to speak with him alone."

Death's lips curl up into a smirk as the elevator doors before him close.

"Use Cursed Power Sensing," Death orders. "Michael Hakan and the Four Horsemen are going to have a meeting with Luis Tramontana on thirteenth street after I kill Treachery."