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 Sunny

and he could feel the giant body of his enemy twitching in pain. He could also feel fragments of

himself, Sunny ferociously bit down on the damaged spine of the leviathan and persisted in his frenzied attempts

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

shell, slicing it open like a saw. Instead of blood, darkness flowed out of the vivisected serpent, only

together in all-consuming fury... and finally felt the bone

my incarnation be

it mattered too

thing that mattered. There was nothing

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

shell should have already come undone - but Sunny had submerged so

of the leviathan's fin, opening a straight path to

same time, he felt the spine of the

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,

of moments now before Sunny's defenseless shadow form would

'Death!'

called upon his

startling intensity. In Sunny's mind, everything disappeared. The only thing that remained was an imperative resolve to kill the

jaw snapped shut with

moment, there was

sense of touch... even shadow sense was gone, leaving him in

were incinerated, and all his awareness was

'Ah... ah...'

scream, because

But, despite all that...

was satisfied. He was

He was happy.