"Damn it, another fucking Fiend." O Telefteos says, a bit irritated, "And it's a dragon this time?"
"You will address me with respect, mortal!" The Dragon-Fiend shouts at O Telefteos.
"Oh, great!" O Telefteos groans, annoyed, "It can speak as well!"
The Dragon-Fiend is getting annoyed. It's appearance was keen. Black scales along it's body, burning flame eyes and flaming wings. It's teeth were razor sharp and it was as large as a sky scraper. With it's anger increasing, it's flames burn brighter.
Alya regains her composure and tries to act brave as she stands in front of Noota, protecting the little creature, "Why are you here?" Alya asks.
"I was hungry, and you were going to be my lunch." The Dragon-Fiend says, "But due to your disrespectful attitudes..." The Fiend flies up into the air as it's flames burn brighter and brighter, "I WILL JUST BURN YOU TO ASHES INSTEAD!" The Fiend flies down, heading straight for the group to burn them with fire it blows from its mouth.
Alya screams to part the flames in half, making the Fiend a tad bit surprised—but nothing note worthy. It then flies up in the sky and starts flying around, throwing fire balls from its mouth at them relentlessly.
"This is becoming a pain." O Telefteos says calmly with his voice a bit horse as he raises his palm up in the air and clouds start forming.
"What are you doing?" Alya asks as she tries to fight of the flames.
"I-" O Telefteos stops immediately when he realizes the clouds are gone. His eyes widen oh, so, slightly.
"You thought bringing snow would stop me?" The Dragon-Fiend says as it chuckles, "Now that's just laughable!"
The Fiend then uses its burning eyes and one glance to Alya makes her start burning from the inside but it is stopped by O Telefteos. Noota sees all this.
"Noot, Noot" Noota says in its mind, thinking it should help.
Noota looks around as the Fiend starts breathing flames from every ways starting to destroy the area around them and making O Telefteos have to dodge the flames while holding Alya. And after looking at how Alya is hurt, Noota puts on a determined face and morphs its body into something. An unusually tall, all black figure with two large white ovals for eyes. Noota is twitching rapidly in this form, leaving O Telefteos confused.
"Is that... Noota...?" Alya says faintly with her eyes slightly open while O Telefteos is holding her.
"N̸o̶o̶t̵,̶ ̸n̷o̴o̸t̷.̷.̶.̶" Noota says in an abstract voice as it twitches.
"What does that even mean?" O Telefteos asks.
"Oh, this is surprising." Quintessence says in O Telefteos' mind, "Noots can shapeshift into anything and they usually use this form when they protect the ones they love."
"It's attached to us that quick?" O Telefteos asks.
"Noots are very warm hearted and just overall love people." Quintessence continues, "As long as you don't try to hurt them, that is."
Noota moves beyond the concept of speed itself somehow. It starts punching the the Fiends scales omni-directionally. But it's scales were to hard to penetrate, in-between the scales one thing that can barely be seen is gas, like the one from in a star, said gas is hotter than the hottest known star currently known to man, WR 102. Noota keeps going and going—hitting and hitting. Flames fly through the tiny crevasses of the scales. Noot protects itself from the flames. Then its eyes combines and swirls into a white vortex, absorbing the flames and then it's body burns with black flames and then runs around aspen faster than the concept of time. How many times was the equivalent to all the aleph numbers, maybe more. Then kicks the Fiend so hard its scales were broken. Then Noota goes back to its normal form and falls to the ground unconscious as the Dragon-Fiend flies out the universe. And Alya is recovering, and thinks they won. Alya, still with not much stamina and a bit hurt, walks over to Noota and cradles it.
O Telefteos smirks, "Well, guess that thing was strong after all." He says.
There is relief and joy for about a second... until...
Meanwhile, out far into the multiverse is the Dragon-Fiend, unconscious and it's scales broken. But then suddenly, it starts jittering and twitching rapidly, like something is trying to get out. Then it roars a roar that could be heard across creation.
"I don't think you're done yet." Quintessence says in O Telefteos' and Alya's heads.
"There's more?!" Both O Telefteos and Alya say in unison.
They hear the roar as the multiverse starts to shake like an Earthquake. Alya and O Telefteos look up as a long, like at least woodin cardinal-esque length, Chinese dragon or Loong wraps around the Earth's atmosphere. Its texture was that of a star, it's heat radiating across the multiverse. Then the dragon opens its mouth and it's bright like a shining sun. Then a silhouette of a person walks out. Their flaming eyes glowing in the light. Alya is blinded, while O Telefteos just stands there since his eyes aren't affected by any kind of brightness.
"I have a feeling this is the same Fiend, yes?" O Telefteos says calmly.
"You've guessed right mortal." The Fiend says as the bright light stops and it floats down to the ground where O Telefteos and Alya are.
Alya clutches Noot tight to her, making her breasts squish a little which O Telefteos takes a mental picture of using his red eyes with the X.
"You thought you killed me?" The Dragon-Fiend says, "How foolish..." it continues. It's appearance was a young man in his early to mid twenties. He has an athletic build with dragon tattoos along his body with the texture of a star. He wears blood red Hakama pants with gold dragon designs on them, no shirt, and vertical red lines from his knuckles to his forearm—the ends of them tipped like a sword and their texture is also that of a star. His irises have the texture of a star and his pupils have the same texture and the shape of dragon heads with the rest of his eyes being pitch black. His hair is short, like ear to slight neck length, and a beautiful brown fading into a gold color. Even the tip of his tongue had a gold dragon symbol on it. He wore no shoes but toe hold toe rings with dragon designs, he wore a lot of gold jewelry and even the hems of his Hakama pants were gold. With him having gold brass knuckles in one hand gold rings in the other, and a gold broad collar over his neck. And lastly he was about 6'2", the same height as O Telefteos, along with his skin being completely pale.
"What the...?" Alya says, nervous yet in awe of his appearance, but then comes to her senses and hands Noota over to O Telefteos, "Hold him O Telefteos. I've got this." Alya is about to scream but the Dragon-Fiend appears in her face and grabs her by the lower half of her face and breaks her jaw, then kicks her out the way.
"Silence, wench." He says as he turns to O Telefteos with a serious expression, "Now for you..."
O Telefteos teleports Noota and Alya away from the battle field as the Fiend appears in front of him and starts to pummel him into the ground with light speed punches, but then O Telefteos stops him by grabbing his fists and kicks the hell out of him, making the Fiend fly back but it does a backflip and catches itself.
"Hmm, you seems to be a worthy adversary." The Fiend says, "But it doesn't matter, my power will crush you!"
The Fiend then rushes towards O Telefteos spears the Fiend with an ice rod to slow it down but the Fiend dodges and decks O Telefteos in the jaw making O Telefteos lean back unusually far but not fall. He then gets back up and remembers the barrage of roundhouses he did in the air to one of the Enropic-Fiends archetypes,
"I wanna try that again." O Telefteos thinks in his head.
He then kicks the Fiend right in the face, making it fly back, and then he rushes towards the Fiend proceeding to jump into the air slightly above the ground and starts to do multiple roundhouses back to back, nonstop.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7..." O Telefteos counts the kicks he does but once he gets to 19 he is then cut of as the Fiend grabs his leg and starts slamming him into the ground like the Hulk did Loki in the first Avengers film.
"That's enough, now it's my turn!" The Fiend yells as he his O Telefteos with a combo of a right and left hook, a knee to the chin, and a kick to the throat making O Telefteos fly back this time.
Meanwhile... Alya then gets up and sees she's in the cave they met Noota, with Noota right beside her asleep.
"If Noota's here then that means O Telefteos is still fighting that Fiend!" Alya says in her head, and she wants to go out there and help but the pain of her broken jaw prevents that. So all she can do at the moment, or at least until the pain subsides sligthly, is stay by Noota and hope O Telefteos is okay.
Chapter End: A Message
Hark! Methinketh they be in grievous plight;How shall they vanquish yon Dragon-Fiend of might?Burneth he doth with flame and ireful breath —How shalt they 'scape the clutch of fiery death?Yet, we must bide and watch how fate shall weave,What say'st thou, gentle reader? Dost thou believe?