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// Last Spark of Hope, Part Six: Fang. 
// Story: A New Tale In Equestria. 
// by Sylif Daring Doo 
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_____*Dalcorus, The group.*_____

Ever since the arena, there had been nothing but combat, Roxanne was guarding Lyaroa, while the rest of them had fought fiercely to clear the path, but they were now fighting living creatures of all kinds, beasts, sentient beings, traps, golems and constructs, it was harder than ever.

Shade took a moment to catch his breath after a while. "Fighting things that can actively think is so difficult!" He complained.

Golden huffed. "It makes no difference, kill anything in our way, we just need to get to Fang, and knock him out of his insanity binge." He replied while walking by Shade.

Shade sighed and followed Golden.

Roxanne looked at Lyaroa who was silent now. "Are you alright Migraine?" She asked.

Lyaroa nodded. "I'm fine, I can walk." She said.

Roxanne gave her a skeptical look. "I'm not talking about your injury." She added.

Lyaroa smirked a little. "I always told Fang I would understand if we wanted me dead......but I didn't say anything about others dying because of it." Her smirk faded. "I'm not ok, I can't use my powers, and I've been betrayed at the worst possible time." She sighed.

"I wasn't expecting him to do this the way he is, using others for his vengeance?......i should have been more careful." She told the fox.

Roxanne stopped and shook her head. "No, if I hadn't ran off, this wouldn't have happened, even you can't deny that." She replied.

Lyaora smiled a little. "Of course I can, it's a persons job to lie to the ones they love right?.....to protect them." She said.

Roxanne poked Lyaroa's forehead. "Yea yea yea." She said jokingly, she didn't want to say anything at the moment, but ever since they healed her, Lyaroa's eyes and features seemed drained, and they looked like they were fading away, her once vibrant teal eyes, now a faint blue.

Lyaroa looked at Roxanne with a little grin as they walked. "You know......I CAN walk." She pointed out, getting a nod from the fox. "So why are you holding on to me so tight?" She asked.

Roxanne quickly let go and crossed her arms. "Fine, be that way." Lyaroa pouted as she continued walking.

As they reached the next area, Shade looked at Lyaroa. "We think it would be a good idea for you to stand back, we can't risk you dying." He said.

Lyaroa nodded and leaned against a wall. "Alright, leave me here all alone while you three have fun." She sighed theatrically. "I see how it is." She looked and saw that they were already gone, her expression turned grumpy as she waited. "Spoilsports." She mumbled.

As they fought, Roxanne found herself pitted against an unbelievably nimble kangaroo, she tried and tried, but she couldn't hit it, eventually she got fed up and tried to call on her fire, but it was still unresponsive. "Son of a bitch." She cursed under her breath before running off to fight something else.

Golden saw the kangaroo and attacked it with his psychic powers, it soon fell over dead from its brain melting. 'Pests.' He thought before swatting a Pegasus away. "Why do all Pegasi dive bomb?" He found himself asking.

Shade decided to take a much faster approach to the battle, he was simply disintegrating everything living other than Golden and Roxanne, the blasts that contacted with the living creatures intantly turned them to dust, making it much faster. "I'm actually kinda liking fighting these guys." He muttered.

Lyaroa however was watching from a distance, she felt bad for not being able to help, but in her condition she would be a liability, she clutched her chest when she felt pain shoot through it, she didn't need her powers to be able to tell that a share of Fang's sword was inside her, making it impossible to use her powers, just then, she realized something.

"I don't need them......I barely used them before anyway, so why stop now?" She asked herself quietly, she held out a hand and looked at it. 'I have my arms to fight, and my legs to carry me, so what if I lost my powers?' She thought.

As she finished her thoughts, the others returned, and Lyaroa decided something. 'If I have no choice.....ill fight, but until then, I'll recover my strength.' "Let's get going." She said.

With that, the group moved on, however, for the next few areas, there were nothing but constructs, making it seem like they were being led into a trap, the room was very long, it was moderately wide but not overly, it looked like a gigantic hallway actually, the group looked around and up, expecting spikes or something.

Instead, an iron gate slammed down behind them, and they heard a slow clap, they looked up and saw Fang looking down at them from behind a glass wall up ahead. "Good work on making it this far, but i know it's because of Shade of Golden Freddy, this time, you won't be so lucky." He pulled a lever next to him and walked off with a dark chuckle.

The group looked forward and saw that the constructs altered, they obtained jets of fire in their arms, and their armor seemed to change, upon scanning psychically, Golden determined that it was a grade lower than the first construct they fought.

The group then fought, Lyaroa assisted, but appeared to be struggling. "Don't fight if you can help it." Golden suggested.

Shade slammed a disintegration bomb on some of the constructs, he then detonated them and they fell over. "I win." He taunted.

Roxanne found herself able to use her fire again, and call on Life and Death, making short work of the constructs in the room.

However, once they destroyed them all, the floor opened to reveal holes, Golden quickly sent a psychic shockwave and disabled the traps and everyone.

Suddenly, the jets all shot fire up, and it showed no signs of ending.

Roxanne used her and Death's fire powers to clear the way for Lyaroa and Shade to group up with her, she then led to way to Golden who was up by the door. "How are you doing this?" Shade asked.

Roxanne gritted her teeth. "Not now Shade." She answered.

Thankfully, once they reached a certain point, they found that the traps were inactive, so Roxanne could stop forcing the fire down.

As they reached Golden, they found him opening the exit up.......with a powerful psychic blast. "Shall we?" He said.

_____*meanwhile*_____

Fang and Kara were in the armory, Fang was going through the suits or armor attempting to find one that could assist him, while Kara was talking. "I don't see why you need the armor.....as if you need it." She said.

Fang gave her a death glare, his new hexagonal eyes giving her a feeling of unease, "In case you forgot, I'm going up against a god damn SENTINEL!......who are normally unkillable, not to mention Roxanne who seems to have an endless bag of tricks, a guy with the power to disintegrate me, and a bear who has immense psychic power, so yes, if I can get some armor to keep me alive long enough to complete my mission?......I'm getting it." He answered.

Kara rolled her eyes. "You know, if you would just get some backup instead of trying to play supervillain, you might get something done." She pointed out.

Fang looked at Kara. "Look, the Four wanted me to kill Lyaroa, and i am more than happy to do it, but I can't kill her through her three friends, and I doubt that there's anyone here who can hold back, much less kill, the others." He said.

Kara grinned. "You have no faith in me do you?......or the people here?" She wondered.

Fang chuckled as he spotted a set of green armor. "If you want to fight, go ahead, but I doubt it will help." He said with no care.

Kara walked off, saying nothing.

Fang grabbed the armor and began to strap it on. 'Let's see you beat me so easily this time.'

_____*meanwhile*_____

Roxanne cut the head off of a construct then threw a fireball at another, she wasn't entirely sure why the rooms and enemies were getting easier now, when they should be getting harder, she kept expecting more and more traps, but they never came, soon enough, they had yet another room clear. "This is too easy, somethings wrong." She said to the others.

Shade looked around and saw the exit, it was a hatch in the ceiling. "Come on, the sooner we can deal with Fang, the better." He said as he ran to one of the walls and started climbing, making holes in the wall for the others.

Lyaroa shook her head and walked forward. "Follow the leader I guess." She said to herself.

The group followed Shade's lead and climbed up, save for Golden, who simply did something with his powers and jumped up through the hatch.

"Show off." Shade complained to himself.

_____*the present.*_____

Fang looked at the group. "And this is the part we all know." He said.

Lyaroa nodded. "Yea, still, it won't be easy to forget.....maybe we shouldn't." She said calmly.

Fang blinked and looked up. "How could I forget?" He asked himself.

_____*the not so long ago past.*______

As they reached the top, they found themselves in a very large room, to Lyaora and Roxanne, it resembled the room they fought Jandoka in, but there ware red runes dancing along the walls.

There was a large statue in the far end of the room, and a large entryway to the side. "What is this place?" Roxanne asked.

"A ritual chamber, much like the one from Jandoka's temple, but this time, you aren't fighting a hydra." Said the voice of Fang.

The group watched as Fang dropped from the ceiling and landed in front of the statue. "Your overconfident Fang, you can't beat us all on your own." Golden said.

The group noticed that he was wearing armor now, his leg armor had a mountainous pattern, while the chest had a fiery pattern, Fang laughed quietly as he looked down, he then looked up at the four with a grin. "Who said I was alone?" He wondered.

The group looked around and saw that they were surrounded suddenly, there were two, an earth pony, and a Minotuar, and from the entrance they saw reinforcements coming in.

Fang chuckled and unsheathed his sword, the black wavelike pattern now glew eerily. "Now then, I will make this one time offer......Lyaroa, step forward and die, or you all die, simple isn't it?" He said.

Lyaroa looked at Fang, seeing no emotion, seeing only the desire to kill, she was going to walk forward, but a hand on her shoulder stopped her.

Shade walked up and sighed, he rubbed his eyes and looked at Fang. "Are you an idiot?" He asked.

Fang looked at the Night Wolf. "Excuse me?" He replied.

Shade let his arms hang at his sides as he stepped between Fang and the group. "Are you so stupid as to actually think that will work? or that we will trust that you or your goons won't kill us?" He wondered.

Fang sighed and then looked up. "Do you think you beat me?.....or all of these soldiers?" He asked, before pointing at himself. "I'VE SEEN WHAT THEY HAVE AND YOU CAN'T KILL THEM ALL!" He shouted.

Shade did not budge. "So you just gave up?....is that it?" He said before looking around at the reinforcements Fang brought. "I don't see soldiers!.....I see cowards hiding in a mountain because they are too scared to go out and fight the one they swore to kill!" He taunted as he looked at Fang. "This is pathetic." He said to Fang.

Fang shook his head and approached Shade. "Kill them." He said simply.

Immediately after the order was given, every single one of the soldiers and such that Fang brought along attacked.

Golden found himself facing the earth pony. "Why do I always have to fight the girl?" He asked himself.

To his surprise, the earth pony grinned and leapt up, and Golden found himself being pelted by a seemingly unending barrage of weapons. 

Lyaroa was fighting a Minotuar. "Oh come on, look, I'm already injured, so how about we talk this over?" She asked.

The Minotuar simply charged after her, saying nothing.

Lyaroa rolled to the side as she drew Soul and Spirit. "I tried I guess." She mumbled as she engaged the Minotuar in battle.

Roxanne however had the worst of it, she was fighting the reinforcements, and no matter how many she killed, more came, so she spoke in her mind. 'When you need assistance.......all you have to do is ask.' She thought.

And then in the middle of them all, came a pack of crystalwolves, like Timberwolves they regenerated, but they were much harder to kill.

Roxanne decided against using Life and Death for now, so she simply ignited herself and got to killing. 

Shade was fighting Fang one on one, because he had no weapons, he didn't have to worry about blocking, just dodging, he threw some lightly powered blasts at Fang, but they didn't do much except annoy him. 

Fang swung his sword in a brutal combo, but they mostly missed since Shade just dodged, then threw some blasts, and went back to dodging.

Soon Shade felt like he had a good opening, he managed to get a good punch in on Fang, he then charged a blast before throwing it, the blast hit, but once the smoke cleared, Fang just stood there unaffected. "You rely far too much on those." He stated before advancing.

Shade laughed nervously before running. "Coward time." He said to himself.

Lyaroa managed to stab the minotuars heart, and as she did, she backed up and took a quick breath, only to see more goons attack her. "Son of a bitch!" She complained.

Golden's fight wasn't going anywhere really, he was mostly unable to do much as the earth pony attacked, he eventually had enough and began charging his powers as he parried and dodged the thrown weapons. "Missed." He taunted as the earth pony missed.

The earth pony seemed to be getting pissed off beyond belief, she then changed out her thrown weapon from daggers to maces. 

Golden's eyes widened as the first made almost hit him. "Fuck." He swore before going on the defensive, charging all the while.

Roxanne conked two heads together and then threw a wall of fire out at the entryway, hoping to but some time, but it was quickly avoided as the reinforcements simply jumped threw it, seemingly immune to the fire. 

Roxanne kicked a Griffin in the groin, as was evident by his expression, she then threw a fireball on some goons who were tearing one of her wolves apart.

"Savages." Roxanne said and she incinerated a kangaroos skull.

Shade was currently on the run from Fang, he found out the hard way that he couldn't beat Fang in close quarters, but he couldn't throw his disintegration blasts anymore since Fang cut him multiple times. 

Shade suddenly was hit from behind, he flew into a wall and then fell to the ground, he gasped for air but was soon kicked in the side by Fang who appeared out of nowhere.

Fang was now batting Shade around like a pinball, he would throw him, he would kick him, even slash him, but the Night Wolf wouldn't die, soon, he appeared in front of Shade who was just standing up, he grabbed him by the throat and picked him up. "WHY WONT YOU DIE!?" He shouted.

Shade choked as he tried to force Fang off, Fang then roared and plunged his blade into Shade's heart......he screamed in agony, but the Night Wolf still lived. "What are you!?" He yelled out of anger before pulling the sword out and stabbing him in the side, he then threw him aside like he was nothing. "Hmmph, garbage." He said before cleaning his blade with his hand.

Golden threw the massive discharge of psychic energy at the earth pony, she clearly didn't know about it as was evident by her falling to the ground and screaming in pain, she soon quieted as she went limp.

A crash was heard and he looked to see Fang plunge his blade into Shade's heart, and then hearing a scream. "What are you!?" Fang had said.

Golden's eyes widened as he remembered something.....a very similar scenario from his past, he cleared it from his mind and rushed over to where Shade landed.

Lyaroa was doing fine.....all things considered, she had killed one of the goons, but there were still two left, she was just about to kill another one when she flinched from Shade's agonized scream. "No." She said quietly.

Unfortunately, that second was enough, as the moment Lyaroa said that, a sword plunged into her heart, and the other goon ran off, Lyaroa coughed up blood and fell to her side. 

Roxanne summoned more wolves to keep Fang busy and threw up some more fire before running over to Lyaroa, when she got over there she grabbed the sword. "This'll hurt." She warned before pulling it out.

Lyaroa screamed a little and looked at Roxanne. "Ouch." She joked.

Roxanne went to set Lyaroa down but she felt the Sentinel's hand stop her. "Wait......I need you to do something for me." She said.

Golden knelt down and put his hand over Shade, he began healing him and threw up a psychic barrier. "Shade you with us?" He asked calmly.

Shade grunted and then shivered. "Yea.......I'm with you, least he didn't get my lungs." He replied through the grunts of pain.

Golden looked at the Night Wolf, by all intents of purposes, he SHOULD be dead. "How are you alive?" He asked.

Shade grinned. "My race can survive without their hearts inside them, but if the heart dies......we die, and I have it." He replied cryptically.

'That makes, no sense.' He thought as he worked.

Roxanne sat there wide eyed as she looked at Lyaroa. "Come again?" She asked.

Lyaroa rolled her eyes and gritted her teeth. "Look, I can't use my powers......so the logical corse of action is to get them......back in working order." She replied before coughing up blood.

"And you think ripping your heart out will work?" Roxanne countered.

Lyaroa's head fell back. "You just need to rip it out long enough to tear the shards out, then shove it back in." She explained.

Roxanne shook her head and looked back to Fang, who was defeating her wolves, while Lyaroa felt the pain increasing. "Roxanne.......we don't have time for this, please......" Lyaroa said through the pain.

Roxanne looked back to Lyaroa and bit her lip. "You better not die on me, or I'll bring you back and then kick your ass myself." She swore as she raised her hand.

Lyaroa smirked. "Deal." She said, and just then, she felt her chest be forced open and her heart ripped out, it was excruciatingly painful, but she held it in.

Roxanne looked at Lyaroa's heart, it was strange and oddly calming, it's coloration was faint but the most notable was pink, an incredibly faint pink......once she took her mind away from that, she immediately saw the problem, it was a shard imbedded into the heart, she carefully grabbed the shard and went to pull it out. "It's fine, take your time, I can last forever without it." Lyaroa said quietly.

Roxanne then ripped the shard out, and the second it was gone, the heart shone brightly with a wide variety, sky blue, green, red, black, gold, but for whatever reason, the only color that was soft and not vibrant, was pink, Roxanne looked at Lyaroa. "Why is it doing that?" She asked.

Lyaroa smiled. "My heart, it's a powerful thing, used correctly, it can be used to do great things, used incorrectly, it's a source for destruction." She looked at Roxanne and put her hand over the Fox's own heart. "The reason it's doing what it is.......it senses a bond, it's rare, but it happens, the soft pink and glowing black? that's the origin of the bond, one from hate, one from love." She explained.

Roxanne took a deep breath and prepared to put the heart back, she knew they didn't have much time, but they had enough. "You ready?" She asked.

Lyaroa chuckled. "No......you never are." She replied.

Roxanne forced the heart back inside Lyaroa, and very soon, the once drained appearance of Lyaroa, slowly faded away her eyes returned to normal and her fur was now white again instead of a faded gray. "You alright?" Roxanne asked.

Lyaroa nodded. "I'll live, but I need some time to regain my powers, sorry." She said before sitting back up, she placed her hand over the hole in her chest and slowly healed it. "Kick his ass Roxie." She encourages.

Roxanne looked back at Fang who just finished off the last of the wolves, Roxanne closed her eyes and returned them to their realm, then summoned other familiars to cover the entryway, she opened her eyes and walked forward to Fang.

"Are you done playing games Roxanne?......or are you just getting started?" Fang wondered as he faced her.

Roxanne huffed. "That's rich, coming from you.......your the one who got me into the habit of our 'game'.......or does that mean nothing now?" She wondered.

Fang walked to the center of the room, he looked at the statue, and then at Roxanne. "It doesn't mean a damned thing to me anymore, my life was stolen from me!.......the only reason that I exist.....or even Golden?.....is so SHE!" He yelled pointing at Lyaroa. "COULD RETURN HERE FOR HER REVENGE!......THEN SHE DOESNT EVEN HAVE THE STOMACH TO CARRY IT OUT!" He took a breath and readied himself to fight. "I'm not going to let her leave this place alive, and she will watch as I kill her." He said calmly.

Roxanne shook her head and stood across from him. "Your wrong Fang, you do have a life.....you have a son, you have friends, you may have people you hate in your life but that just makes it better......it gives you a reason to go back." She explained.

Fang looked at Roxanne with little emotion. "That dragon is not my son." He said coldly. "And deep down he knows it too, he just won't admit it." He continued.

Roxanne sighed and drew Life and Death. "If that's what you think, then your a fool." She said as she prepared to fight.

Fang growled. "No, the only fools are those who would trust that bitch!" He shouted as he charged.

Roxanne braced and blocked the attack, making little effort to prevent contact between the blades, she saw Fang's grin. "Just like last time.......you don't even try!" He taunted confidently as he held the struggle, but this time, he slowed time around the, and accelerated it around his feet, he threw a kick at Roxanne and then spun around before striking, forcing Roxanne to trip her feet and throw her blades up in defense.

Fang laughed maniacally as he pressed the attack on Roxanne, giving her no time to react or get a foothold.

Roxanne was then forced into a constant cycle of dodge and defend, she knew Fang was bating her, trying to get her to use either her armor or call on.......her dark side, she growled and breathed fire on Fang, blinding him long enough to get back up.

Fang wiped his face of the ash. "That won't work on me Roxanne." He said as though he lost interest. "You can't beat me as you are, wthout Life and Death....you are nothing." He said insultingly.

Roxanne didn't pay attention to the insult, but she knew he was right about one thing, she couldn't beat him as she was, so she went with the safer bet, she called on her Crystal armor and it soon formed around her, she summoned a helmet, it had a wolf like appearance to it. 

Fang grinned. "Much better." He said as the two continued the fight, Fang knew that Roxanne's armor was enchanted, it enhanced all of her natural abilities, strength, speed, agility, but Fang's was special.

His armor not only enhanced his attributes, it supercharged them, he would have to take it off eventually to avoid overload, but they also gave him immunity from the elements, combining the sword, he was immune to practically everything, and the small rune on the sword?.....it gave him the ability to siphon power, and throw it right back.

Fang and Roxanne soon clashed, the flurry of blows was difficult to see, but it seemed like an evenly matched battle.

Roxanne would force Fang back, only for him to push back again, Fang would push Roxanne back, and Roxanne would counter with some decisive strikes.

Eventually, Fang got fed up with the stalemate that he broke off, he then heard a booming voice in his mind. "Enough toying with the girl!......slaughter her!" The voice said.

Fang grinned and felt power flow through him. "Thank you." He said before charging.

Roxanne attempted to fight back, but was unable to do so as Fang forced her onto the defensive, leaving no room for counter attacks, she was then caught off guard as Fang went to strike in front of her then suddenly vanished and struck her from behind.

Roxanne felt her armor shatter and Fang's sword cut her, she cringed and then felt all air leave her system as Fang punched her in the gut.

Fang smirked and then threw Roxanne, she crashed into the wall and he the slammed his foot on her spine, he picked her up by the throat and broke her left arm. "Like I said.....you can't beat me as YOU are, I am too powerful for you." He said as he slowly crushed the fox's throat, he then broke the other arm and pinned her to the ground, breaking her legs shortly after, he grinned and forced his fist into her chest and broke her lungs. "Let's see you regenerate from this you little brat!" He laughed as he picked her up again and slammed her into a nearby wall, he saw that the fox's eyes were shut, and as he was recieving no response to that, he concluded that she was either dead or unconscious, he chuckled darkly and dropped her. "Night night you little shit." He pulled his sword out and raised it.

_____*In Roxanne's mind.*_____

Roxanne found herself in an all too familiar place. "Freddy's?" She said out of confusion.

She walked around and saw that there was nothing, no tables, no cameras, nothing.....just bare walls and floors.

She heard a faint noise and looked around, she eventually saw a light coming from a familiar place, she walked to the kids cove and looked inside, there she saw something odd, it was that of a fox kit, huddled in the corner crying, this kit was female and looked very similar to Roxanne herself, except she was white with a soft pink, like her original body.

Roxanne walked up to the kit and kneeled. "Hey, are you alright?" She asked softly.

The kit sobbed and looked up at Roxanne, she wiped a tear from her Amber eyes. "Mommy?......" She asked quietly.

Roxanne was caught off guard by the question, she didn't know what to say honestly, as she already had a daughter, Firefly, but on the other, she didn't want to make the kid cry. "I'll be whatever you need me to be." She said softly.

To Roxanne's surprise, the kit rushed and hugged her, a surge of emotion flooded her at that moment, but she didn't say anything as the kit was talking first. "Why is everyone so violent?......why does that bad man keep hurting you?....why do you keeping fighting him?" She asked.

Roxanne petted the kits head. "I don't know why everyone is so violent, it's something we could do without....." She then picked the kits head up and looked her in the eye. "And that bad man is the closest thing I ever had to a father, and he isn't himself.....something happened to him that made him this way.....and I'm fighting him to protect my friend." She explained.

The kit rubbed the tears out of her eyes. "So what now Mommy?.....your hurt, you can't keep going." She said sadly.

Roxanne smiled, even as she felt a dark yet familiar presence behind her. "You don't worry about that sweetie, you go and find something happy ok?" She said before sending her off then standing up and facing the presence.

The presence itself was that of Roxanne's darker self, it had the appearance from before but the red was far darker and the white was stained with blood, and it's eyes were a very dark green, it also had a scar on its left eye along with cuts bruises and burns, it's claws and teeth were like swords with their sharpness. "Hello again love, how are you?" The presence asked, it's voice very quiet. [1]

Roxanne looked at it with a calm gaze. "I'm about to die, what do you think Nightmare?" She asked sarcastically.

Nightmare Rox grinned. "I think it's going in our favor actually, if you tag me in......" She started.

Roxanne blinked and shook her head. "Forget it, I took a big risk letting you out before, never again." She swore as she turned around to walk away.

Nightmare Rox reappeared in front of Roxanne. "Don't give me that shit, we both know what happens when you die love, and you can't deny the fact that you need me." She said as she held her hand out to stop Roxanne. "Let me help you Roxanne." She begged.

Roxanne huffed. "After everything you did to me?" She said. "No way in hell, the last thing I need is YOU running amok." She said.

Nightmare Rox took a breath and looked at Roxanne. "Look, I've never wanted to hurt you Rox, I'm just the manifestation of all your negative emotions, it isn't my fault about the nightmares, I know that, and YOU know that, if you won't do it for me love, then do it for Firefly, she deserves a mother." She said desperately.

Roxanne put her hands on her hips and bit her lip, she looked at the Nightmare and held her hand out. "The moment someone other than Fang or those cultists ask you to stop, I get control back, until then, your in command." She said.

The Nightmare smiled and took Roxanne's hand. "You won't regret this love, yes?" She asked.

Roxanne closed her eyes. "Yes." She answered.

_____*In the battle*_____

Fang swung the sword, looking to cut Roxanne's head off, and just as the sword neared, Roxanne's eyes shot open and she grabbed the sword and threw it back all within a second.

Roxanne stood up, she was changing again, but this time the change completed, her faded red became deeper and darker turning to the color of blood, and her white fur changed to slightly bloodstained, her eyes changed color to a glowing dark green, she got multiple cuts, bruises burns, and such, her teeth and claws sharpened to the point of iron and she got a scar over her left eye, she grinned maliciously and looked at Fang. 

Fang was dumbfounded, he knew the regeneration was fast but.....he didn't know it was instant. "What the hell are you!?" He shouted.

Nightmare Rox teleported in front of Fang and put a finger on his mouth. "Hush little pup.....I'll be your Nightmare for the evening." She said quietly but sinisterly.

Fang growled and attacked, he threw a punch at the Nightmare's gut, but he found that his hand was blocked by a wall of shadow, he called on all of his power and his fist went through, but the Nightmare simply grabbed his hand and smiled. "Aww......little Wolfy wants to play with mama, how cute." She said before throwing Fang away from her. 

"Sadly I'm not in the mood to play with the little puppy." Nightmare Rox said out of boredom.

Fang balled his hand into a fist and charged, he threw a punch at Nightmare but she didn't even flinch. "Wow, your durable, I hit you about five times and your nose just barely bled." She said in wonder.

Fang put his hand up and felt the blood. "What the hell?" He asked.

Nightmare Rox appeared behind Fang and threw a punch to his side, he retaliated by tripping her up, and then holding the sword to her throat, all he got was an innocent smile. "Aw, but honey, I'm not a bottom." She pouted.

Fang growled. "STOP TOYING WITH ME!" He shouted as he thrust the sword down.

Nightmare grabbed the sword and kicked Fang off. "As you wish pup." She replied out of disappointment.

Fang got himself up and charged after Nightmare, however, she simply appeared behind him and jammed her claws into his back, she tried to get her off but was unable due to strange energy around them, he then felt teeth burrow itself into his neck. "Aaaahh!" He screamed in pain for the first time since he was taken, he felt her take her teeth out. "What the hell is wrong with you!?" He shouted.

Nightmare Rox licked her lips and stroked the side of Fang's face. "Mmm.....your blood is thick and bitter, but I love your spirit my little pet." She said before throwing Fang to the ground.

Fang crashed on the ground, he growled and looked at Roxanne. "If your going to kill me, just do it." He said.

Nightmare Rox slowly walked towards Fang, but before she could get far, a hand rested itself on her shoulder, she stopped and looked back to see Lyaroa smiling at her. "Go on back, I'll handle this Nightmare." She said. [2]

Nightmare chuckled and walked away. "See you next time love." She said quietly before returning to Roxanne's mind, letting her body to return to normal.

Lyaroa looked down at Fang and crossed her arms. "Get up Fang, you wanted to fight me, so fight me." She said.

Fang got back up and drew his sword. "You shouldn't have called off your attack dog." He said.

Lyaroa grinned. "Roxie isn't an attack dog, Nightmare may be a close second, but still." She hardened her gaze. "Unlike me, she has no one holding her back." She said calmly.

Fang found himself horrified, if that.....Nightmare, could do that much damage while 'holding back', how much could she do with no restraint?

Fang then charged at Lyaroa, and to his surprise, she didn't draw Soul and Spirit, instead, she stood there and looked at him.

Lyaroa allowed Fang to get near her and then she kicked him, he didn't even have time to react, as she had done it instantly, she did it very casually, as though kicking a trash can, she then threw binding runes on the Wolf. "You broke my heart Fang, while I don't deny what I did to you was wrong, I never went to this extent." She said before.

Fang looked up at Lyaroa, he had an expression of pure hatred. "Now what?.....you'll kill me execution style?" He taunted.

Lyaroa put her hands together in front of her. "No, but I will be showing you one of my favorites." She said calmly as energy ramped up. [3]

The energy quickly built up and soon it was clearly visible with electricity sparking among it, she gritted her teeth and then fired, shouting two words. "FINAL FLASH!"

Fang watched as the energy fired right at him, and he felt himself get torn to shreds almost immediately.

Lyaroa said no more as the blast continued, it fired for about five seconds before Lyaroa killed it off, she discharged the beam and looked for Fang.

Soon enough, she saw him, Fang was standing there and he was holding his blade, as the fog and dust settled, Lyaroa drew her blades and looked at him, when she could clearly see him, she saw that he was looking down, and when he looked up again he seemed disoriented, she kept her guard up as she watched him.

When Fang looked at Lyaroa with confusion, she felt something was off about him, but she couldn't stop herself from feeling anger, and she readied herself for a fight as Fang looked around.

And finally, Fang looked at her again. "What the hell is going on?" He asked out of genuine confusion.

At that point, Lyaroa knew it......Fang was back.

Roxanne didn't hear much as she fought, but she did hear some words in her head. "Thank you for letting me help love, call me when you need me." Said the Nightmare.

And then, when Roxanne saw Fang and Lyaroa's walking over, she smiled, knowing that the Nightmare was right......she had helped.