getting up, spartan reflects on how gross of an attack that was. :shock: deciding to stay away from lylax, he goes after brannen again. jumping an insane distance, he lands in front of him and says, "let's continue."

While Lylax walks toward Shyakugan he notices that Brannen and Spartan are having an amazing fight which only great fighters can do. "he was supposed to be dead..." Lylax knows that he isn't a problem for now so he turns around only to see shadow regenerating. "that can't be good..." He knows Kugan (shyakugan) can wait for later. Lylax then pulls out a hand of throwing knives. He throws many at shadow which pin him to the floor. Then he sees shadow chanting something.....

circling eachother slowly, spartan and brannen stare coldly at eachother. "you know," spartan laughs darkly, "i just realized, iv'e been itching for a larger sword..." raising his right hand, yet another katana materializes in it...but brannen's eyes widen as the sword keeps...growing! when spartan puts down his arm, it holds a katana over 6 feet long, a sword of stature and quality matching the famous sephiroth's. With blinding speed spartan seems to fly towards his victim-i mean oponent, brannen just barely blocking the fierce strike. spartan comes at him again, and again, and again, but brannen has a couple tricks up his sleeve...

Taking advantage of a brief pause in Spartan's attacks, Brannen Hurls a ball of lightning at his foe, when it made contact a chain of lightning was sent back to Brannen. He pulled it and Spartan Towards him. With a huge curved blade (think Artemis in God of war) he swung. It made contact , picking it up Brannen walked over to Spartan's lifeless corpse and said, "Did you think you could stab me in the back...again, and get away with it. Oh and try not to lose your head with all this." And he dropped it next to him.

brannen, walking away, hears a strange squelching sound. turning around, he watches in horror as spartan's body, and head...melted. forming into a huge puddle of blood, brannen could make out a message; "you cannot kill me that easily." suddenly, what seemed like bats appeared out of nowhere, hundreds of them, all going towards the pool of blood. brannen raises his arms to cover his face from the endless onslaught, and when he puts his arms down, spartan stands before him yet again. he smiles nonchalantly and says, "it's been a long time since i lost my head...i'll give credit for that. you have some skill. but, alas..." spartan starts to look around for his new favorite sword. not finding it, he shrugs and pulls out two huge handguns, one black and one silver. obviously too large for any human to handle... "...i'm not dead." two bullets flew at brannen, and he staggered back with the blow. pulling the triggers again and again, spartan only stopped when his clips went empty. as brannen's smoking body collapsed on the floor, spartan reloaded his guns and turned on lylax, thinking to save shyakugan for himself last. :twisted:

Brannen rises to his feet and plunges his sword into Spartan's Back, "How do you like it?" He says just before kicking off his blade into lylax.

Lylax was trying to make out what shadow was chanting when he saw that spartan had killed brannen. He knew that he wanted Kugan for himself and wanted revenge on Lylax. Then Lylax turned to spartan. "You know he's mine. You can't match my skill. But I have to admit, no one has damaged Brannen for a long time. I'm impressed. But still its not good enough.." Then lylax formed his sword into a pair of nunchucks. He suddenly dashed at spartan and whipped him in the face and kept going and then came to a halt. Lylax turned to see that spartan had staggered onto the ground and still hadn't realized what just happened. Then Lylax teleported beside spartan and started using these uber-pwnage moves on spartan. Spartan just laid on the floor heavily breathing, trying to figure out what just happened to him....

scarred and bruised, bleeding heavily, spartan gets up. he starts to walk slowly in the direction of lylax and brannen, currently fighting together. spartan is staggering, but something's changed about him. the air about him seems heavier, and yet the earth around him shudders with each step he takes. his eyes have become a seering sharp hue of red. he thought he'd try and hold back his power. after-all, he didnt actually want anyone dead, even if his actions proposed otherwise. but, driven too far, his family's power has been pushed to the surface, showing once and for all the terrifying ferocity he posesses. "you...fools...run..." ...too late. lylax is first. spartan is upon him in an instant, slashing with his new-found claws at his enemie's face and body. mostly face. :roll: finally snapping his neck, he throws the lylax's carcass off the cliff they are now standing on. his eyes turn on brannen now. but he just stands before him, seemingly focusing on nothing. suddenly, he moves his hand forward, moving towards brannen with impossible speed. he appears to punch brannen, but he doesnt flinch or move from the impact. normally, a victim of this style of attack, fashioned after the martial art "buddhist palm", the oponent would fly back an amazing distance from the force of the blow. brannen just stood there, unmoving. then all was clear. as if on cue, spartan put his hand down, and brannen simply exploded. his blood-lust not nearly sated, spartan grows two black wings. now his transformation is complete. fully demon, spartan lifts off, flying high, in search of another victim.