Zhena swings her mighty, spiked chain that whips across the air with intense speed towards Ray, who dodges the attack by bending backwards and then flipping over.

“What the fuck was that speed?”, Ray thought to himself.

Suddenly the chain was above him and descending with immense speed and force, if he was hit by that he wouldn’t be captured, he’d be divided. Ray jumped to the side, but his shoulder was nicked by the chain, ripping a chunk out of it causing his arm to fall limp. Ray falls to his knees in pain.

“Good boy. Now submit.”, Zhena says, a devilish grin on her face.

However, flames burst out of Rays shoulder, and the wound recovers. He stands back up, massaging his shoulder.

“Your fast I’ll give you that, guess I was dumb to think I wouldn’t need my aura”, Ray says as his orange flames engulf him.

“W-what is this power?”, Zhena asks amazed.

“The power of the Phoenix, now answer this, compared to the demon who has already infiltrated this world. Where do you stand compared to him?”.

“Ha, unfortunately although I am quite the powerful warrior, that man is far stronger then I, with his soul splitting ability and hypnosis, his 2 demonic abilities are far superior to my 2.”.

“Wait... 2 abilities? Demons have 2 powers?”, Ray asked, things clicking in his head.

“Yes. We demons don’t follow the same rules you overworlders do, which is why we are far superior.”, She says smiling menacingly.

“Hah, guess you won’t tell me yours, will you?”, Ray ponders.

“If you can survive long enough you will see.”. she says as she swings her chain are Ray who now quite easily dodges the swing.

Ray rushes forwards, blade in hand towards Zhena however she smiles, she swings her arms rapidly, the chains coiling and spiralling all over the place in the air around Ray like a cage. She then yanks the chain backwards and the chains contract inwards towards Ray who smiles. Ray spins rapidly in a circle, creating a tornado of flames around him that blow the chains backwards and cause them to fall to the floor uselessly.

“I-incredible, this power... I, need it.”, Zhena says.

Ray leaps out of the spinning vortex of flame towards Zhena, Blade outstretched, Ready to pierce through her, however she dodges the blow, Knees Ray in the chin and punches him away, sending him flying into the wall on the opposite side. Causing him to cough up blood. He falls to his hands and knees.

“DAMN, she's ridiculously strong. If that other demon is leagues above her, then he’s extremely dangerous and she hasn’t even used one of her abilities yet.”, Ray says gritting his teeth. He really needs to get stronger, he needs to reach newer and newer heights, if he was ever going to be able to beat these demons.

Ray stands up, and closes his eyes, the flames around him, as well as the flames in his mana blade, getting lighter and lighter, until they turned pure white.

“This isn’t stronger than the true flame aura, but I can use this without any problems, my semi perfect flame aura.”.

“Oh, what is this, the room suddenly got a lot hotter.”, Zhena says fanning herself.

“Round three.”, Ray says.

“Bring it human.”.

Ray gets into a running position and darts towards Zhena, the speed was far greater than she had expected from him, a simple change in colour changed him this much, she swung her chain, but Ray dodged it easily, closing the distance between the 2. Zhena smiled, she dodged the blade attack and punched Ray in the gut, however he didn’t budge and Zhena’s hand began to burn as it lingered on Rays body.

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“I see, with just a small change in look you have ascended to a new level, not bad, this power, if I had this, I would be incredible.”, Zhena’s body began to become engulfed in a weird pink aura, “However, I doubt I can take it from you. So, I will simply make you my slave and make you fight for my will.”.

Zhena moves her hand back by and inch and punches Ray, which sends him skidding a few meters backwards.

“You were interested in my power? Well, here is the first one. My demonic aura that strengthens me.”.

She swings her arm, Ray had no time to dodge at all, this aura had seemingly doubled her speed as well as strength and it was also surrounding her chains. Ray moved his word to block which offered him some protection, however he was still sent flying into the wall. However, he was not gonna let her beat him so easily, as he hit the wall, he jumped from it, a white ball of flames spinning in his hand. He throws it towards it at Zhena who places her hand out to stop it, however Ray snaps his fingers and the ball releases a might y explosion that engulfs Zhena.

Ray stood there panting; he knew that wasn’t enough to beat her, but still, it bought him some time and he wasn’t gonna stop. He breathed in deeply, his lungs filling with white flames, as he opened his mouth, he released a devastating beam of flames into the smoke.

Suddenly, the glowing chain flies towards him which he manages to jump over. As the dust clears, he sees Zhena, her armour had been destroyed, leaving her fully in the nude and she had a few burns on her body, but other than that she was fine.

“Your just full of surprises aren’t you boy, it makes me want you even more.”, She says licking her lips.

She lifts here chain and swings it around rapidly.

“Shit.”, Ray thinks to himself, the chains were moving too fast for him to follow. As the chain connected with him it sent him flying into another and another and another, he had become a Ping-Pong ball bouncing around, every strike cutting and battering him. Even with semi-perfect flame aura, it still wasn’t enough to beat her.

When she stopped. Ray lay still on the floor. His body slowly healing himself.

“Are you ready to submit now? Any more of this and you will die.”, Zhena says as she walks towards him, her aura disappearing, she had obviously won, the boy was down for the count unable to move.

“I’ll show you my second ability now, those who I’ve conquered, when they receive my kiss, will finally become my loyal slave, unable to do anything but obey and please me. Don't worry, I have come to like you, I’ll make sure I keep you properly satisfied.”, she says as she stands before him.

However Ray did not say anything. He was dead silent.

“Embarrassed, are we? No matter, just let go and be mine.”, she said, as she lifted Rays head, her hands burning slightly.

As her face met Rays, she saw his smiling face.

“Kamikaze.”. He said. A smile on his face.

“WHAT?!”.

A MASSIVE EXPLOSION left Rays body, him at the epicenter. Zhena went zooming, knocked back by the sheer force of the explosion and slammed into the wall hard, still being burnt by the flames of the explosion. It was a cowardly move and Ray knew it, he had faked being down for the count to make her drop her guard, meanwhile he was charging up all the power he had left for one final attack.

Ray lay, his body suffering from severe burns on the floor, his clothes burnt to ash, he was surprised that he could get burnt by his own fire, but hey, at least he wasn’t dead. As his body slowly recovered from the burns, he looked up to see Zhena who was lying on the floor near the wall. Had that finally killed her?

Ray stood up slowly. As he watched her, he saw her arm twitch slowly and her body began to rise.

“What a monster.”, Ray thought to himself as she stood up, burns all over her body, her hair gone, her left arm missing, and her right eye gone.