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Slayer Fūjin

Daily chapters! Luis Tramontana, your ordinary teenage boy, just wants to live a normal life. But Luis’ plans are interrupted when a demon attacks his family, and Luis is roped into becoming a professional demon slayer in order to protect the ones he loves.

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Staten Island Squad vs Nick, Part 2

"AUSTIN!" Grover cries.

Next, Austin aims his Assault Rifle at Nick as it changes form into a net cannon. Austin fires his glowing orange Cursed Power net at Nick. Austin's net wraps around Nick, catching him. Using his net cannon, Austin flings Nick over to Jamie, before releasing him from his net's grasp.

"JAMIE!" Austin shouts.

Jamie punches her fists together and turns her entire body into iron, while also reinforcing it with Cursed Power, as Nick flies over to her. Once Nick is in front of Jamie, Jamie lunches her Cursed Power Barrier reinforced iron fist forwards, slamming it into Nick.

"ELLA!" Jamie exclaims.

Ella places her hands on Mikey's shoulder blades, and instantly, Mikey feels a rush of warm, comforting Cursed Power flood into his body, massively beefing up both his strength and Cursed Power.

"Mikey!" Ella says.

"RIGHT!" Mikey replies as he brings the barrels of his dual pistols together, aiming them at Nick and charging up a powerful fireball.

"I might not get along with the members of this squad all too much, and they might not like me, and Hell, we may not even be friends-" Mikey begins to say, as his fireball continues charging up. "BUT WE'LL NEVER LEAVE ONE OF OUR TO DIE! NOT WHEN THE CARDS OF THE KING KIDNAPPED YOU AND I, OR WHEN THE CHAIRMAN SENT ASSASSINS AFTER LUIS, OR WHEN HE GOT KIDNAPPED BY THAT STALKER! NO MATTER WHAT SECRETS HE'S HIDING, AND NO MATTER WHAT HE MAY BE, WE'RE GOING TO SAVE HIM!"

Ella scowls.

Grover smiles.

Jamie nods.

Austin smirks.

"EXPLODING FLAME BULLETS: EARTH-CORE CANNON!"

Mikey's giant fireball blasts into Nick in an explosion of fire and flame-red Cursed Power. When the explosion subsides, Nick is kneeling on the ground, soaked in blood and covered with ash. Slowly, Nick moves to stand up, but he's interrupted when Mikey places the barrel of one of his dual pistols to Nick's forehead.

"I was alone in this world, until Luis found me. But looking back at it...I think that he was alone, too. I ain't letting anyone -even you, Nick- stop me from saving my b-" Mikey pauses. "What the Hell am I saying, man, this is embarrassing…" Mikey sighs to himself as he shakes his head. "Luis saved me once and I saved him, making us even. But now…I need to save Luis again so that I can one-up him! "Because…"

"LUIS IS MY RIVAL!"

The rest of the five Junior Slayers then walk out of the smoke from Mikey's explosion and approach Mikey. Ella, with her hands bubbling with pink Cursed Power, Grover, with his knives still drawn, Jamie, with her fists in their iron form, and Austin, still wielding his Cursed Power net cannon.

Nick looks back and forth at the confident faces of his five students, his eyes wide, his mouth ajar.

"Don't move, Nick," Mikey orders. "You may be our squad captain, but right now …you're just in the way of us saving our friend."

"I remember…when this squad first formed…" Nick croaks out. "Ella was just some timid girl…Grover was an annoying loudmouth…Jamie was a battle-monster who scared everyone…Austin was a conceited snob…and Mikey, well…he's still an asshole. But now…here you five are. Working as a team to -hah hah- defeat your teacher, the strongest Pro Slayer. But more importantly…to lay your lives down for your friend, some depressed, cynical jerk named Luis who found everyone annoying." Nick moves to strain his hands up in surrender, but instead…flops to the ground on his back in defeat. "I surrender. No, that doesn't matter now…" Nick begins to say.

"You guys win."

Mikey lets out a huff of distress before letting the arm aiming his pistol at Nick limply slump to the side. And then, Mikey drops to the ground on his rear. Ella rushes over to Nick, and begins treating his wounds.

"We need you at full strength to go rescue Luis," Ella explains, causing Nick to let out a weak chuckle.

"So we've got our plan, right?" Austin asks. "To go to the Slayer Organization Headquarters and retrieve the information on the Cards of the King?" Austin asks.

"Yeah, I-" Nick begins to say, but he's interrupted when a figure in a black cloak rises out of Nick's shadow behind him.

"Woah!" Mikey cries as he leaps backwards, instinctively aiming his dual pistols at the figure.

"Don't worry, I come in peace," the figure says as he aims his arms up in surrender.

"Wait a minute…you're Luis' stalker, aren't 'cha?!" Mikey shouts. "What are you doing here?!"

"Don't worry, I'm an ally of Luis. He called me here to help today," the stalker answers.

"And how can we trust you?" Jamie growls as she approaches Mikey's side.

The stalker opens his mouth to reply, but Nick interrupts him. "I mean…this guy was fighting all four Assassins all by himself before I even managed to get there, and when I told him which Assassin to fight, he followed my orders," Nick explains. "So I think it's safe to say we can trust him."

"Who are you, anyway?" Grover asks.

"My name is Daniel Reaper. But who I am is a much different question, a story we do not have time for, not at the moment," the stalker -now known as Daniel- answers.

"And where were you when King and Ace captured Luis, Daniel?" Austin sneers.

"Sorry, I got stabbed during my fight against the Assassin, Slayer Nuru, and was unconscious for a bit," Daniel answers as he lifts his cloak, revealing his deep, bloody puncture wound. "She got my kidney. I can't really breathe."

"Yup, I'd recognize a wound from Nuru and Hai's daggers anywhere," Nick nods.

"Great, so we got another ally. Let's go get that information then!" Ella exclaims.

"Oh, about that-" Daniel begins to say as he reaches into his cloak, pulling out a bundle of papers. "I heard about the plan. I didn't want to interfere with your fight against one another, it seemed…powerful. So instead of watching, I decided to go make myself useful. Here, the information on the Cards of the King's where-abouts." Daniel tosses the bundle of papers over to Nick, who frantically flips through the pages.

"HOW DID YOU GET THAT?!" Nick cries. "That is maximum secret high-ranking Pro Slayer knowledge that only like…I and a select handful of others have access to?!"

"I can move swiftly in the shadows, sneaking into the Slayer Organization Headquarters and searching through the files is child's play," Daniel answers.

"Alright, well I ain't repeating my speech," Mikey says as he places a hand on Daniel's shoulder. "No matter what our relationship is, we're all here to save Luis. So …LET'S GO GET OUR SQUADMATE BACK!"

"RIGHT!"

***

"OW!" I wince as Ace chucks me to the ground. I manage to sit up, dispute my hands being bound and having a sack over my head. "So what do you want with me, you Cards of the King scum?!" I shout.

Ace kneels down and takes the sack off my head, allowing me to see. I look around, seeing that I'm in some sort of dingy old shack, surrounded by King, Queen, and Ace, all peering down at me.

"We want to make you an offer, half demon child!" King booms as he spreads his arms out to his sides.

"And what kind of offer do you want to make little ol' me?" I sneer with a fake grin.

"To join us," King answers with a warm smile, extending his hand out to me.

My eyes widen. "Why the Hell would I join you?!" I snap. "You kidnapped me, and tried to kill me and my friends on multiple occasions?!"

King sighs then retracts his hand away, folding both arms behind his back and pacing around the room.

"Luis D. Tramontana. Born December 26th, 2002. Fifteen years old," King rambles.

"What are you getting at?" I ask, applaud.

King ignores my words and keeps talking.

"When you were only three years old, your dad left without a trace and you spent the rest of the next few years harassed and alienated from your peers since you weren't like the other boys," King continues.

"Digging up my past trauma? How classy," I snort. "This ain't helping your cause."

"When you were ten years old, your best friend, your first friend, your only friend, Robert Rose, was struck and killed by a passing car, who got off scot free and Robert carelessly walked out into the middle of the street, spelling his own demise. The interesting part was that Rose was only in the middle of the street to save you from a passing car," King continues, causing my entire body to tense up as my eyes gloss over. 

"To this day, you still blame yourself for Robert's death," King continues, as if he didn't just drop the biggest bombshell of my life. "For four years you closed yourself off from everyone, afraid to form any new bonds. When you were fourteen years old, you became a Pro Slayer, Slayer Fūjin, and you, Luis, are happy, happy for the first time since Robert's death. You only became a Pro Slayer, however, because Slayer Hachi sought out your latent potential, to begin with. But then, one year later, the Pro Slayer Organization learns that you are a half demon. And despite how many lives you saved, how dedicated you are to the Organization, they send Assassin Slayers after you, attempting to kill you, or turn you into their own personal weapon."