Shadow Slave

Sunny bit into the spine of the Azure Serpent, igniting what little strength he had left into a violent and furious blaze. Billowing, shadows and flame rose from his onyx scales and wreathed him like a burial shroud. His eyes shone with mad, morbid, murderous malice and chillingly cold killing intent.

His jaw pressed down with enough force to shatter mountains.

...But the spine of a Great Beast was much stronger than a mountain chain. It resisted his obsidian fangs, refusing to be broken, cracked, or even scratched.

'Die! Die!'

Drowning in fury, Sunny put all of his resolve, all of his hatred, and all of his desire into crushing the indestructible bone. He violently jerked his head left and right, gnawing on the spine like a rabid dog. If he could not bite through it, he would saw through it. If he could not saw through it, he would grind it down...

The Azure Serpent was going to die, no matter what. It was already half-dead, anyway...

However, so was Sunny.

He sensed the gargantuan body of the ancient leviathan moving, and coldly refused to pay it any attention. It did not matter how the mad beast would try to destroy him, or if it would succeed. Sunny had already discarded his survival instinct. The mad beast could not reach him with its harrowing maw, which meant that it was not going to be able to kill him instantly.

That was all he needed to know.

As his fangs scraped against the spine of the Azure Serpent in a frenzy, the abomination's mangled body rose and ensnared Sunny like a crushing vice. Once he was caught in the coils, there would be no escape... he knew it, but he did not care.

All he cared about was the feeling of a thin, shallow crack finally appearing under one of his fangs. The leviathan's spine... was giving.

'Die!'

As dark glee washed over his heart, the coils tensed, crushing his ravaged shell. The strength contained within them was unlike anything Sunny had experienced before. It was truly, and utterly, harrowing.

Pressing down with harrowing strength, the Azure Serpent turned the marble carapace of the Mantle into stone dust. The serpentine body beneath it was instantly broken, the onyx scales shattering, sharp edges of broken bones piercing the skin and protruding from the horrid wounds.

was blinding pain... but

on the abomination's spine now, spreading and merging with each other, and he could feel the giant body

damaged spine

see which one of us dies first, old snake... as long...

effortlessly cut into his shell, slicing it open like a saw. Instead of blood, darkness flowed out of

pressed his jaws together in all-consuming fury... and finally felt

be destroyed? Or

it mattered

enemy was the only thing that mattered.

deranged roar and half a wail of agony escaped from his maw. His

By all accounts, his shell should have already come undone - but Sunny had

the sharp blade of the leviathan's fin, opening

felt the spine of the Azure Serpent shattering as

beast convulsed and let out a roar of blind agony. However, just like Sunny, it did not know surrender. It only had murder on its mind, and so, the vice of its coils only grew stronger, crushing and slicing the hateful worm with unquenchable

now

'Death!'

called upon his enemy's death,

second, the shadow flame billowing from his mangled body ignited with startling intensity. In Sunny's mind, everything disappeared. The

shut

there was nothing

his hearing, his smell, his sense of touch... even shadow sense was gone, leaving

and all his

'Ah... ah...'

because he had forgotten

But, despite all that...

satisfied. He was

He was happy.