Crystal

The demonic crystal demon walked towards Ligi who was panting from exhaustion and pain. Ligi felt an eery feeling when he saw the beast walking towards him but he did not know exactly what those feelings were. There was a hint of fear, anger, and nostalgia.

Ligi could not do anything as the demon's finger touched his chest. The finger was cold as he felt himself fall to the ground not because of the finger's momentum, but because of something else. As he fell, he could see his own back, still standing tall and unperturbed. That was all that he saw before his eyes went black.

Black sludge came out of Ligi's chest. It crawled into every part of his body, every crevice, and every muscle. The black sludge formed cracked reddish-black skin like dry ground that was bigger than Ligi's whole body.

The mouth of the demon started to form. Its frowning mouth was built first from the black sludge that was continuously flowing from his chest. Its wrinkled red nose came next as it puffed up hot smoke that condensed into the cold air of the environment.

Then its sinister dark eyes came into being, glaring off a deathly aura that everyone could feel. The grass underneath its feet started to rot and lose its vitality until it became dust that scattered in the wind.

*Flap*

Its wings unfurled from its back, rearing its terrifying yet majestic weapon for flight. Its cartilage was long, long enough to almost skid in the ground creating thin indentations in the soil. Its bat wings made it look larger than it seemed as its wingspan created an intimidating feeling.

Horns started to protrude on its forehead, curling into a spiral.

*crack*

The demon took its hands full of sharp claws and bent its own head sideways, creating a resounding crack sound that everyone could hear. It stretched its arms and looked towards the sky, like a man who just woke up from a deep slumber.

*Stomp* *Stomp*

The crystal demon walked with its gigantic spiky feet and walked towards the mean demon. The muddy ground underneath its feet started to solidify and create a solid footbridge for it to cross on. Its face was without emotion as it spoke to the mean demon.

"Hello, brother dearrrr"

The mean demon looked its eyes on the ground while still keeping its head facing the heavens. Its eyes widened as it saw the crystal demon that spoke to it. The mean demon reared its head down, making sure to do it at an unhurried pace.

"Raguel..."

The crystal demon, also known as Raguel, opened its jaws wide like a shark rearing to take a bite out of its prey. The sharp crystals in its mouth gleamed in the dim light indicating its lethality. Bang recognized it now that the demon was not trying to take a bite out of the mean demon but instead was trying to display a smile.

"Brother, how many eons has it beennnn?"

"Too long....Raguel"

Bang was surprised at the sight. The two demons knew each other from whatever place they came from. It was not just a casual acquaintance but instead what seemed like a familial bond. Bang did not know if they had the same kind of definition for being brothers.

Everyone watched with bated breaths as the two demons reached out their right hands for a handshake. The two hands moved in slow motion as the faces of the two demons displayed strange facial expressions that Bang could only surmise to be an attempt to display a smile.

Blair's heart stopped as she considered the thought of fighting two demons at the same time. The mean demon had a stronger deathly aura than the demonic form of Ligi. She calculated that even with the help of Bodt, she wouldn't be confident in defeating the mean demon.

Her worries only multiplied as the crystal demon displayed the same strength of aura as the mean demon. Raguel, or whatever the crystal demon liked to call itself, was displaying a suffocating aura. She felt that her movements were restricted but when she moved her hands, it could move properly.

Isiah looked at the two demons with curious eyes. Two people becoming demons who had insurmountable strengths were no longer a coincidence. Something was going on that made them gain powers in a short amount of time. He looked at the two demons and greed almost spilled out of his mouth.

The two demon's hands crossed paths but there was no interlocking of palms. Their hands went straight to each other's guts as they accelerated their punches to generate more force on their opponents.

Deathly reddish-black sludge came out of the mean demon's hands and onto Raguel's crystal body. The reddish-black sludge collided with the bluish-black crystal and steam started to produce from the reaction. The reddish-black sludge made the crystal rot and lose its luster but the bluish-black crystal fought back and tried to overwhelm the invading sludge.

The two demons retreated after they had tried to attack each other. Their auras clashed with each other creating a divide in the ground; on the left was solid ground that crystallized and on the right is rotting ground matter.

"Azrael, you seem to be growing weakkkk"

Raguel spat some insults at the mean demon called Azrael. It gathered its hands and formed a ball of compressed air that solidified into a gel-like substance. The spherical gel of air was translucent and wind could still be seen revolving inside the gel.

Raguel, the crystal demon, launched the compressed air towards Azrael. It whistled through the air but it did not go directly towards Azrael. Raguel seemed to miss his shot as the compressed air flew above Azrael's head, missing it completely.

Azrael looked at the attack oncoming towards him and displayed a serious face. The demon did not ridicule Raguel for missing the shot but instead moved its head to the side as the ball of compressed air attacked the demon from the back.

Bang saw the attack from Raguel. The ball of compressed air went over Azrael's head but it bounced off some kind of solid barrier that allowed it to attack Azrael from the back. It was able to dodge the attack with such precision that it only needed to move its head a slight bit to the right.

Azrael anticipated the attack since they supposedly knew each other. If what they said was true, then they have known each other for eons which meant they knew each other's powers like the back of their hands.

The attack from the ball of compressed air did not stop there. It bounced off an invisible barrier again as it shot off towards Azrael's face without losing its momentum.

Azrael did the same thing as tried to move its head away but found that an invisible barrier was preventing it from moving. Its mean face displayed an even meaner frown as it felt annoyed at the playful demeanor of Raguel.

Azrael raised its hands caught the ball of compressed air. It continued to revolve around its hands, unrelenting in its pursuit of damaging Azrael's hands. It did not work as Azrael crushed the ball of compressed air using its claws. It dug deep into the gel-like substance, tainting it with a reddish-black sludge that made the air inside rot. The ball of compressed air dispersed in the air, only leaving a black sludge as its remains.

"Come on, brother. It's been agessss."

Azrael closed its eyes and gathered all the reddish-black sludge in its chest. It crawled from his arms and onto his hands without dropping a single drop of sludge in the ground.

The reddish-black sludge pooled into one spherical shape the same size as the ball of compressed air that Raguel threw to him. The reddish-black sludge was currently rotting and regenerating as it revolved in Azrael's hands.

With its right hand, it flicked the ball of rot towards Raguel's feet. It arced from the air and onto the wet and muddy ground. Raguel opened its haws of spiky crystals, signaling a smile from the demonic beast.

Raguel did not move from its spot and just watched as the ball of rot touched the ground it was standing on. The ball of rot splashed onto the ground and started to spread onto the soil it was touching onto.

The ground rotted, losing its vitality and spirit. The ground started to erode as the rot disintegrated the soil into a reddish-black sludge of rot that affected other soil in the ground. It spread like wildfire, growing exponentially as more rotting sludge was created from the soil.

The ground underneath Raguel collapsed onto itself and created a crater that was filled with a pool of rotting reddish-black sludge. Raguel did not fall inside the rotting sludge but remained on the air, stepping on a condensed platform of air.