First Demonic Dragon

Oddly enough, this was not Shin Nagumo's first time seeing a dinosaur.

He had a bit of a reckless period where he traveled all across time periods to see various historic moments or sites.

A little secret, the reason no one can find Ghenhis Khan's resting place is because he moved his body as a gag.

So of course, he had seen a dinosaur before.

He had not however, seen the Queen of dinosaurs.

Even for most mythical creatures she was big. Almost baby Nevi'im sized.

She was a powerful, deep cocoa colored tyrannosaurus with clear genetic resemblance to other species.

Spines, frills, and irregularly large horns were just the tip of the iceberg. She also possessed huge black talons like blades of obsidion that gouged out the soil underneath her.

When she roared, the sound of her screeching was almost as loud as Shin's earlier sonic attack.

So loud in fact that Thrudd actually woke up from her nap.

"Hm..? Behemoth??" She looked around.

Tatiana was nearby and couldn't resist the urge to noogie her daughter's head. "All these years of trying to get you to wake up on your own and all it takes is a roar from a pretty girl to do it?"

"N-Not necessarily a girl… Just Behemoth."

"Awww..!" x10.

"Y-You guys hush!" Thrudd blushed.

"Yes, yes." Sif rolled her eyes and patted the empty space beside her. "Now, will you sit here and watch this great love of yours in battle?"

Thrudd swallowed as she crawled over to her mother's side.

She peered down at the battle below and even contemplated summoning a pair of Pom-poms to cheer her love on.

But all of that went out the window when Thrudd saw her love get tossed in the air, and she fainted in her mother's lap.

"…Big baby." Sif sighed.

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To her credit, Behemoth had been doing a good job of keeping her enemy suppressed.

…For around thirty seconds, that is.

All of the sudden, she felt something shift underneath her foot, and little by little the demon began to push her leg upward.

Using nothing but his two arms against her powerful tree-trunk legs, he stood up while laughing for all to hear. His body didn't appear to have suffered that much more damage than it did earlier.

"It is always strange to see old faces in new places..! What's gotten you out of that nice little hidey hole we left you in?"

Behemoth only roared back in response and shifted all of her weight onto one leg.

The demon winced, but he didn't break his smile and he didn't go back down. "You know, I'm actually glad to see you've been awakened. I had been dying for you to see the results of all of your generous donations."

Behemoth roared louder as the island they were floating on started to crumble.

"Well, of course you don't like it. You're not in a position to take a good LOOK!"

Using all of his power, the demon rocketed Behemoth up into the air as if she was a toy dinosaur instead of an actual one.

In the brief second since he forced a separation, the demon held out his hand to call his black sword back and shifted his grip.

Wielding it like an dangerously large harpoon, he hurled it through the air at Behemoth.

The sound of two gunshots rang out and his sword went flying yet again.

"Did I give you permission to look away yet?!"

Shin rocketed out of the sky and pistol whipped him across the jaw.

Meanwhile, while still airborne, Behemoth twisted her large body around in the air so that her feet would touch the ceiling.

Pushing off the ceiling, Behemoth shrank her body back to regular size and nearly doubled her velocity.

With her club raised overhead, Behenoth released a new war cry as she dropped the blunt weapon over the head of the demon.

The two great attacks had all but permanently disfigured the demon's face. And they completely demolished the island they were standing on.

The island exploded. Clumps and clouds of dirt and dusty debris scattered across the cavern and turned it into an obscure nightmare.

For a fraction of a moment, a look of understanding passed between Shin and Behemoth.

The demon had been knocked into another island, and was struggling to lift himself out of the water.

"JUDGEMENT BE AT HAND!"

A shining light suddenly engulfed the demon's body. He shrank back underneath the shining radiance of the small sun that had appeared underground.

The order had almost finished their preparations with two veritable distractions.

The demon got to his feet, dizzy and disoriented. Having half your brain turned to mush and your jaw broken tended to do that to a man.

And the time he would've needed to recover, he just didn't have. Stay updated through My Virtual Library Empire

He willed his body to move, but his surroundings seemed to turn against him in that moment.

The dust in the air started latching onto his wings, chest, and legs all at once.

More and more of it was pulled in, and it began to form a hard, armor-like plate mail around him.

Though this was hardly designed to protect him. It was supposed to restrict him.

Just as he started trying to pick himself back up, Behemoth appeared in his face again and slammed her forehead into the bridge of his nose.

A cracking noise filled the cavern, and black blood gushed out of his nose to paint her face.

While the demon's head snapped back, Behemoth caught him by the horn and drove her large fist into his face once, twice, and then six-times.

By the end of it, the demon couldn't even stand on his own.

Perhaps feeling it's master's impending demise, the demon's sword flew in to protect him.

Nearby, Shin pressed a button on his wrist panel.

As soon as the sword came within ten feet, a blue prismatic shield surrounded it.

The sword lashed out inside the bubble again and again, but it couldn't cut itself free. It seemed to be totally trapped inside.

"Dad! Be-Be! Move!" Fiona warned.

"Who is the little mortal calling 'Be-Be'?" Behemoth raised her brow.

Shin grabbed her by the arm. "Have to worry about that later. Let's move."

Shin barely got the dinosaur out of the way in time for the order's prepared attack.

With a wave of her hand, Fiona commanded the great sun to fall atop the island.

Instead of rampant flames drowning the structure in lava and smog, the entire cavern was suddenly bathed in a blinding light.

It was so incredibly powerful that even the immortals had to avert their gazes to avoid burning their eyes.

It took almost a full minute for the light to die down.

When the occupants were no longer at risk for going blind, they uncovered their eyes and marveled at the sight in front of them.

Much like ancient remains, the entire island, demon included, was covered in some strange amber-colored material that looked like hardened sap.

"It looks like syrup..!" Bekka gasped in wonder.

She teleported from in between her sons and reappeared on the island of floating amber.

After laying down, she gave it one long, unprovoked lick.

However, she immediately gagged she made an expression like she was about to cry. "…It doesn't taste like syrup."

Valerie sighed and picked her up. "Honestly, hon. You're embarrassing our reputation as deities a little bit."

"A girl's gotta eat, Val! You know this!"

"Ah… sure."

One by one, the rest of the family started appearing atop the island and inspecting the crystallized island. As did the order.

"I've never seen this little trick of yours before." Lailah glanced at Shin and his daughter.

"I should hope not, since it was designed for your husband and sisters." Shin rolled his eyes as Fiona fretted over his wellbeing as if he weren't perfectly fine. "It's-"

"Designed to stagnate regeneration, ward off all senses and tracking, and give those trapped inside a feeling of being trapped in a long, peaceful sleep." Fiona said proudly.

Shin just stared at his daughter like she'd unironically given away the krabby patty secret formula. "…I was going to say that it was a top secret prototype spell."

"Ah…" Fiona suddenly looked a lot less proud of herself.

Lailah was amused. Not because of the father-daughter pair's antics. But because they actually believed that she couldn't figure out what the spell did within milliseconds of looking at it.

"M-Maybe our calculations were wrong though." Fiona scratched her head. "The area of effect definitely wasn't supposed to be this big, and the casting time was a lot faster than it was in trial runs. Maybe the talent of the bunch matters?"

As Shin pondered that, he saw Abaddon descend from the sky.

No longer a dragon, he was a swirling red nova in mortal form with three eyes and a black hole in the middle of his chest.

He and Shin held eye contact for less than a split second before Abaddon turned away and went with Thrudd to check on Behemoth.

"Yea… I'm sure it was something like that."