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"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

Nyx looked up at the man and she giggled again. "True, but that all depends on what you do with your gift. If you let it annoy you and distract you from what's important, then it's a burden. Or you can do what I do. Embrace it. You're stuck with it so why not why make the best of it. Besides, my little gift gave me best friends. Only they're not visible to you or anyone really." she said before she shrugged her shoulders and then felt a raindrop fall on the hat she remembered was still on her head. She looked up at the sky and spaced out for a moment before she smiled brightly and ran over to Luna. "Come on! I remember now! I know how to summon him!" she said excitedly as she grabbed Luna's hand and started dragging her along with her. Luna looked at her sister in confusion. "Well why can't you summon him here? Where are we going?" she asked as she followed reluctantly. Nyx didn't say a word but looked back at Cross. "Let's go! Hurry or you'll get left behind!" she teased as she seemed to jump in place.

The hunter finishes morphing as Marie left the scene with the protection of her plants. Without anything weighing him down, Shadow now doesn't have to worry about what he is going to do. The hunter forms into a freaks armored man-like creature as he laughs evilly in a metallic voice,"So, what do you think?. This is my power. I was implanted with a portable fighting armor known as Project Shield. But you can call me, Armor Fiend". Shadow stares down Armor Fiend as his eye began to glow brighter. He sheathes his katana and puts up his guns. He then pulls out the large bandaged object in his back and stabs it into the concrete. Suddenly, the darkness around Shadow began to move as dark blue flames began to spiral all around him with the darkness mixing together as if its coming to life. The bandage began to undo themselves to reveal a large strange shaped katana with a thick sharp blade with the name Reaver branded across it. Shadow grips the handle on Reaver tightly as the dark energy emitting from him began to pour into the blade, making the blade burst in dark flames and vibrating at a high frequency. His long black hair floats in the air and his crimson eyes glowed like a demon's The sight of Shadow's power was almost as if the fires of hell have been unleashed. The image Shadow holds almost looks as if he was a demon that escaped from hell itself.

"What the hell is happening? I have never seen a power like this before?", thought Armor Fiend "What the hell have those damn scientists created? What Are you?", Armor Fiend asked Shadow as the terror of the dark energy forming began to spread all around. Before swinging his first attack, Shadow speaks these words,"Punishment, Thy Name is Ruin.". His voice echoed as he lunges at Armor Fiend. Armor Fiend extends sharp long blades of of his elbows and attempts to block Shadow's swing. But they both collide in a deadlock and clash into mortal combat.

Shadow and Armor Fiend go at it as the sparks and shock wave explode in the air as they can be seen through the rain drops. They collide again as Armor Fiends blades from his fore-arms vibrate like Shadow's Reaver as he slashes at him violently in mid-air Shadow clashes with sparks flashing with him swing at high speed and timing as if he was synchronizing with his speed. Shadow flips his blade backwards across his fore-arm and blocks hard, pushing against one of Armor Fiend's arm-blades to a halt while the other swings at his waist to cut him in half. Shadow senses it coming and flips side-ways, barely missing by a hair. He then trusts downward and slams the heel of his foot on Armor fiend's head. Armor Fiend staggers for a moment and swings at Shadow, attempting for a back slash. Shadow turns and kicks the arm away as he charges dark power in his blade. He then swing and fires a black crescent shaped energy attack vertically downward. "ZANGETSUHA!!!", he shouts as the attack fires right across Armor Fiend's back and launches him down at the street. He skids through the concrete, kicking up gravel and bounces off into a car. People ran to get away from the ominous struggle that is going on. Armor Fiend slowly gets up raging mad with a serious case of road rash to his bio-armor and a gigantic slash across his back from the Zangetsuha as he drips blood all over. Shadow aerial maneuvers with his dark power and lunges down at Armor Fiend at high speed ready to take a swing at him and strike him down. But Armor Fiend crosses his blades together as the vibration and power increase. When Shadow swung downward at him, the clash in a powerful dead lock as the collision of the two powers raised the streets and the shock wave knocks a few cars in the air. Their powers push on each other they try to overpower one another growling out loud battle cries. The wind kicks out all around them and knocks them away from each other. The moment they got pushes back. Armor Fiend manged to get a swing at Shadow's chest, leaving a wide open bleeding injury. Shadow grunts as blood splatter out before he lands back on the ground skidding back. He presses his hand on the wound as he was bleeding heavily. He dropped to his knee as he held himself up with Reaver as support.

Batlle Theme: Bodies

Shadow begins to lose consciousness with the large amount of blood loss and with the vibration doing a bit of nerve damage through the injury as he tries to maintain his composure. He tries to get back up, but his injury takes its toll on him as he grips the blade hard even when unconscious. Armor Fiend walks up to him in a metallic laughter of amusement. He looks down at the unconscious Shadow as he bids his final farewell yo him,"Well kid, you lost. Although I give you credit for making it this far, this is where it ends. And once I'm done with you, I'm gonna have one hell of a fun time with your friend up there". He prepares to swing at Shadow to cut him in half as he licks his lips feeling the joy of Marie as a little treat after a brutal fight. But nothing could pass through Shadow's ears, even when half dead. Knowing that if he were to lose, Marie's life would be in danger and he could not go through losing an innocent life again. His mind begins to cloud up with anger as a raging burn begins to motion through out his body Suddenly, he springs back to life with his hand turn pitch black and stopping the blade like it was nothing. A dark abyss began to spread through Shadow's clawed hand like an infection as a new terrifying power surfaces out of him. The darkness moved around more violently as bright and dark purple flames spiral and storms around Shadow rapidly like a living hell breaking loss. The gravel begins to lift and the ground and air shook all around him. He lifts his head slowly to reveal a new face on Shadow. His expression was full of raging delight and his pupils turned inhumanly slit like a raging demon. The atmosphere was fill with rage and blood lust as something was beginning to take over Shadow. "Wha-wah. Who or what in the hell are you. Your not that same kid.", said Armor Fiend as his body becomes paralyzed with fear like prey in the grasp of some sort of predator. Shadow growls in a dark demonic voice with a bloodthirsty smirk, showing that his fangs have extended with his inhumanity staring up at him. Could this transformation be the source of what happened six years ago? With ease, Shadow crushes and snaps Armor fiends arm with brutal strength, making him screech in agony. He then takes his other clawed hand and plunges it through his stomach, causing Armor Fiend to puke a fountain of blood from his mouth as the lighting in the heavens clashed in fear. Gagging and desperately trying to catch his breathe while Shadow mutilates him, like a raging beast. He then fires an energy wave made of darkness and purple flames and fires it right through him while he still hand his hand in his gut. Armor Fiend screams feeling the excruciating burn from the hellish power and flies back, crashing into an abandoned building. Th building explodes and crash down on the hunter as the smoke was reach to the top of the sky. Shadow looks up at the sky yelling out furiously in his demonic echoed voice,"Whats wrong? Isn't this what you wanted?"

Transformation Theme: Lies

Shadow slowly walks toward the debris dragging Reaver as he grinds his fangs and growling wanting to make Armor fiend suffer more. His demonic eyes stare at the rubble like a predator searching for its kill. But as a last push of his strength, Shadow tries to contain himself as he covers up his face while taking deep breathes and grunting. His wound stops bleeding as his nerves recover instantly. "Dont come out. Dont come out,", he whispers to himself as his demonic voice subsided and the black infection on his arms disappears. The atmosphere calms down and Shadow drops his to his knees trying to regain his sanity as he trembles with fear. Apparently, there was something inside Shadow. Something terrifying even for him.