All out Showdown

Blood, bone and brain matter coat Dracula's face as the head of his son's body explodes in his arms from the bolter round Juniper put into it.

His heavily wounded body which had been shaking with grief just a second ago freezes in shock while the white of his one remaining eye gets drowned out by crimson and the iris bursts alight with an amber glow.

*RRRRROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!*

Came the earthshattering shout from the king of vampires as the entirety of the castle shakes and quacks under his erupting fury.

The shadows in the hall go haywire and multiple amber eyes surrounded by crimson snap open along with maws lined by ebony fangs.

These shadows rise in answer to the angry cries of the ancient creature of the night and attach themselves to his maimed body.

Observing the transformation that her foe is undergoing with great curiosity, the moth silently retreats a bit from the grief and rage stricken vampire to let him finish and fully enter his second phase.

Eyes and maw filled shadows eagerly move to cover and replace all the damaged parts of Dracula's body before sneaking up Alucard's corpse to encase him in a black cocoon.

Once done, the cocoon with the deceased and desecrated son sinks into the shadows while the vampire king himself slowly rises to his feet.

Narrowing her eyes, the demoness feels a bit confused as even after the transformation finished, coating half of his body in what can only be described as nightmare matter filled with eyes and teeth, that starkly remind her of his alternate namesake in the Hellsing world, her haki told her that his strength didn't increase by a whole lot.

'Hm, probably because he's still dry. The guy needs a drink.' Nodding to herself, the gaseous demon shares her thoughts with the angry vampire.

"Not enough! You're still WEAK! Like that you won't be able to avenge anything!" She taunts with a mocking crackle.

Face already twisted in fury with the shadowy part of it bubbling and churning, he growls and bares his fangs which is mimicked by all the maws lining his body as the shaking of the castle intensifies and Juniper's ears pick up a new sound.

It seems to come from the corridor behind the throne and reminded her of rushing water.

Widening her eyes in realization, she breaks out laughing just as a flood of crimson blood bursts into the hall.

"HAHAHAHAHHA THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!" She cheers as the wave of blood crashes into her body with the force of a mini tsunami.

Letting the raging waves push her along, the moth gets torn along with the current and thrown out of the castle through the open gate and into the area before it.

The stream of crimson washes across the entire area in front of the castle, all the way to the blessed river.

When the blood came into contact with the water, a violent reaction took place.

Blue fire ignites at every point of contact as the blood tainted by the dark power of Dracula fights over the river water imbued with the blessing of the bishop.

After a short while, the wall of blue fire gets pushed back as the winner becomes clear and the blue water tuns red.

The demoness reforms her body atop the nightmarish landscape that has formed around the castle, with puddles of blood and mud covering hundreds of meters in every direction all the way down to the banks of the now crimson river.

Grinning, she turns to look at the pitch-black darkness filling everything behind the castle gates while the [Sun's Tear] illuminates the scene outside from above.

Slowly, the face of Dracula emerges from said darkness, pulling the shadows along like a cloak draped around his body as he steps into the sunlight emitted by the system created artifact which is turning this night into day.

His face has healed and turned to a stone-cold mask that didn't even twitch as his skin began to burn off under the light, only to immediately regenerate.

Turning his burning amber eyes surrounded by an ocean of blood filled with endless rage, pain and grief towards the floating orb in the sky emitting the rays of the sun, the cloak of darkness starts bubbling behind him before countless screeches fill the air along with an almost endless swarm of bats that rise from the cloak.

The swarm rises into the sky and starts circling the shining orb till their sheer numbers start to block the rays and slowly plunge the land back into the darkness of the night.

'That is sick.' Juniper admits amazed upon watching the mass of bats seemingly devouring her artificial sun.

Turning her attention back to the guy responsible for this, she meets his burning eyes with her own glowing green orbs while her body billows with the wind.

Right now, her haki is bugging out pretty bad as if not sure if her opponent is about to fall over and die or erupt like a volcano.

"…you…you trespassed into my castle… … challenged me… to fight… … to fight for what is mine… wanting to take it all from me." The king of vampire's whispers just loud enough for the moth to pick up.

"Then we fought… … I lost… … … but… it wasn't enough… not for you... You killed my only true friend that kept standing by my side till the end… … and… and… my boy… my child… … my last connection to her…" Deciding to prepare for the worst, she lets the old vampire monologue and starts getting ready for what is about to come, a beat down she suspects, and not one in her favour.

Raising a clawed hand in front of himself, Dracula stares at it for a few seconds before clenching it.

"You… … will pay… I will not rest till I rip you apart limb FORM LIMB!" He declares, his voice rising in intensity till he's finally screaming.

Wit his voice, a powerful gust of wind appears and sweeps over the area, along with an overbearing pressure that crashes against Juniper's conquerors haki with enough force to push her a whole step back and cause cold sweat to run down her back.

"I WILL GUT YOU LIKE THE FUCKING PIG YOU ARE!!! GRIND YOUR BONES TO DUST!! NOT EVEN YOUR SOUL WILL BE LEFT TO RETRUN TO THE ABYSS WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU!!!" Shouting at the top of his lungs as the cold mask on his face breaks apart, the ancient creature of the night reopens his clenched fist as a ball of flames sparks to life in it.

'Bloody fucking hell! Maybe… maybe I shouldn't have pissed him off that much.' The demonic moth thinks self mockingly.

"I WILL KILL YOU HERE! AND! NOW!!!" The orange flames making up the blazing ball roars before exploding outwards, covering the blood drenched land in an inferno, fully displaying his great mastery over pyromancy.

Momentarily stunned by the overbearing force pressing down on her after the ancient creature of the night let go of all its restraints, the demoness could only watch the fire whose heat would easily bypass her natural resistance as a demon flood towards her.

Getting a hold of herself in the last second, she rips open her mouth and in the but a moment all the oxygen in the surrounding area up to twenty meters is sucked away and compressed into a dense sphere inside of her maw.

The fire that was about to reach her sputters out and dies off as it suffocates from the lack of oxygen.

*ROOOOOAAARRR!*

Unable to get even a second to think, the vampire king wrapped in darkness and fire bursts through the flames surrounding her little null zone and rushes in.

The flames that have attached themselves to his form die out, but the undead monster and nightmarish shadows that cloak his body do not care about the lack of breathable air and continue one.

With a jerking motion, the moth brings up the [Boltgun] in her grasp.

The roar of gunfire erupts in an instant.

A hail of bolter rounds tear into the creature of the night before detonating and ripping it to shreds.

Not even a second passes before the scattered shadows and guts reform into a much bigger and more monstrous form of the angry vampiric parent.

Hundreds of eyes and maws cover the surface of the hulking human-bat like abomination that is the fully transformed vampire.

He swipes his sharp claws pulsing with a malevolent power at the gaseous form of Juniper with incredible strength and speed that surpasses his previous performance by a large margin.

Observation haki blares its alarms in the nick of time and, unable as she was to move with enough speed to get out of the way in the conventional sense, she quickly splits her body into multiple separate pieces that compress into narrow streams and slip past the attack without making contact.

Merging them all back together afterwards, she opens her mouth wide, revealing the white sphere inside that then flashes orange for a split second before glowing blue.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!*

The beam of oxygen infused fire hits the old vampire point blank, like a jet engine to the face, before exploding as if it was a gas leak on steroids.

A sphere of blue fire and destruction expands and drowns out the area, ripping and charring the ground to shreds.

Harmlessly blown away and a bit scattered by the shockwave, the moth reforms in the sky without any injuries.

Her elementalization negated the shock from the explosion, and the fact that she has changed her body's composition to a non-flammable gas allowed her to be almost immune to heat from now on.

'Except for the gathering and ignition, this attack was a purely chemical reaction between fire and concentrated oxygen. Quite fucking devastating, and no draw backs for me, as without magic, or something similar, I am untouchable thanks to the logia powers of my devil fruit.' Feeling smug, the demoness takes a deep breath as she finally got a moment to reorganize her thoughts.

'I drastically underestimated his capabilities in this form. Shit is going to be a pain to deal with.' She manages to think before multiple shadow spikes the size of trees are launched up into the sky at immense speeds.

Juniper twists, splits, and reshapes her body in unnatural ways, thanks to the fact that this form of hers has no restrictions in terms of movements whatsoever to dodge the projectiles aimed at her.

Then with a roar and an explosion, the dust covering the ground is pushed aside by the shockwave generated by Dracula leaping into the air.

Twisting around, the moth sees this and hastily draws in the air around her to inflate her body to a size matching that of the angry vampire.

Reinforcing her right two fists with armament haki and conquerors, she punches out to meet the flying fist of her opponent.

The two punches connect in the air and cause a deafening boom accompanied by a powerful shockwave.