Chapter 28-THE UNDERWORLD KING

The battle continues between Azubah and Sura vs Cerberus. Their attempts to defeat the Pride head kept on failing as the other two heads prevent them from harming it. Azubah's plans start to run out as his stamina slows down.

Azubah (he kneels down panting heavily in exhaustion.): "How can we bypass his defence? We need to think fast, I'm running out of stamina."

Sura jumps near Azubah, she looks at him while breathing heavily.

Sura (she sighs as she looks at Cerberus.): "How can we defeat him? He's way beyond attacking."

Azubah: "I know, it's been past seven hours, but he's not losing any stamina. It's like he's increasing while we lose our stamina. Let's try this..."

Azubah explains a plan at Sura and she begins to understand it. They begin to stand up straight, readying their weapons.

Azubah (his expression becomes focused as he looks at Cerberus.): "Ready? Just as planned."

Sura (she nods.): "Yes."

Hades looks at them curiously through at their change in battle stances, their lose aura being suppressed into their bodies.

Hades (he smirks as his bone face shows a knowing expression.): "Have you figured out Cerberus's weakness? Suppressing your aura so he can't locate you with [Aura Sense], still, it won't be enough to penetrate his defences."

Sura charges at Cerberus with immense speed, each step becoming blurry as she swift towards Cerberus. Azubah follows behind her in the opposite directions as he tries to distract Cerberus. Azubah dashes towards Cerberus's legs and he cuts them. Before Pride could reverse time, Sura jumps towards him to cut his eyes. But the middle head, Wrath, changes to bite her, but Azubah throws his scythe at Wrath's chin and it cuts him. The scythe spins in the air and Azubah jumps up to catch it and thunder sparks appear and charges the scythe.

Azubah (he pulls the scythe back.): "[THUNDER SCYTHE]"

Azubah throws the spinning scythe at Cerberus and it cuts through it's back, creating a thunder bolt and crushes at the ground below. Sura charges at Pride and successfully cuts his eyes, making Pride scream in pain. Azubah smiles in the air as Sura backflips back, but as she's mid air, Wrath looks at straight into her eyes. Wrath's golden eyes shine and turns Sura's eyes gold and her body shines in a low golden aura glow, as she freezes mid air.

Azubah (his eyes widens in suprise and fear.): "What the? SURA!!! GET OUT OF THERE!!!"

Sura doesn't respond, making Cerberus hit with her clawed paws. Sura crashes to the ground with a massive impact. Azubah tries to fly towards her as fast as he can, making his aura rise, causing the back head of Cerberus sense him and it bites his stomach mid air and he screams in pain, the sound echoing through the whole arena. As Hades watches the scene, three shadowy figures approach behind him.

Hades (he doesn't turn to look at them as he speaks in a serious voice.): "You three need anything?"

??? (The figure speaks in a calm, smoothing female voice.): "So that's him huh?"

??? (The tall figure crosses it's muscular arms together under her breasts looking at the screaming Azubah.): "The prince of Hell and Underworld."

??? (The small figure smiles.): "Our brother, Hayden."

Hades (he nods.): "He is."

??? (The tall figure smirks as it looks at Azubah and the small figure.): "He doesn't look that tuff, he's the same level as you Zagreus."

Zagreus: "Huh? What's that suppose to mean, Melioë?"

???: "It means you and him are weak."

Zagreus: "Are you supporting her? Makaria?"

Makaria (she looks at Azubah disgusted and emotionless.): "I'm saying the truth, he looks weak and worthless. If he can't even defeat Cerberus, then he's not fit to be the King of the Underworld."

Hades (he looks at Makaria.): "So you're saying that he's weak?"

Makaria: "Exactly father."

Hades (he turns his attention at Azubah.): "Wait and see then."

As they look at the half dead Azubah in the fangs of the mouth of the back of Cerberus, Cerberus walks towards the unconscious Sura. Cerberus raises it's claws above her, his massive shadow covering her body, making Azubah watch as his lover about to be stomped.

Azubah (he pleads in a low weak voice.): "P-please, don... don't hurt her."

Cerberus ignores him and throws his claws at her. His massive claws crashes at the ground landing on Sura, as it removes it, Azubah sees Sura bleeding all over her body, her maid clothes scratched and torn. Cerberus rapidly stomps her with both claws, Azubah's eyes widens in fear and anger as Cerberus finally stops, making Azubah view the lifeless body of Sura that's left leg and right arm destroyed and bleeding. Azubah groans in pain and anger as Cerberus's back head's fangs dig further in his stomach.

Cerberus raises it's massive muscular clawed leg again, this time the claws have become sharp and blazing with poison. Azubah's eyes widens in wrath as red vains cover his eye balls, the attack hits the ground again as the ground shakes and cracks. Everyone looks closely at Cerberus's claws as it raises it. To their suprise, Sura's body is gone.

Melinoë (her eyes widens in suprise.): "What the?"

Makaria: "Where's the elf?"

Zagreus (his voice shakes in fear.): "T-the better question is... where's Azubah?"

Everyone looks at the back of Cerberus's tail, but sees Azubah gone.

Hades (he crosses his arms together.): "Behind us, on the arena seats."

Before they could turn to see, their bodies becomes tensed as an immense ash-gray aura passes then like a tsunami. Just as they shakily turn around, they see Azubah gently rubbing his cheeks on Sura's while placing her on the seats, his body radiating with ash-gray aura that forms jackal ears, tail and furr as his hair slowly flows like a smoothing wind. Azubah looks at the lifeless body of Sura with sad eyes that glow with sparking ash-gray aura.

Cerberus charges at them, as he's inches way from slashing them, Azubah's Cursed Bone Scythe that has transformed into a massive, heavily-bladed polearm made from the calcified remains of ancient cosmic entities, crackling with anti-holy energy teleports in his left hand and without looking at Cerberus he swings it with god-like speed that looks slowly it slashes Cerberus in the chest and he falls back with immense impact force passing Hades's children with immense speed as he crashes to the ground on the arena.

Makaria (her voice trembles in fear.): "H-how?"

Melinoë: "Im... impossible, I didn't even see him move."

Zagreus: "This doesn't look good."

Azubah (he speaks in a soft sad, calm voice.): "I'll be back my elf. No one hurts you while I'm alive."

With those words, he slowly turns to them and slowly passes them, but his speed is only calmly seen by Hades as his children see a blurry figure pass him. They turn to the arena viewing a hurricane of ash-gray aura around Azubah's body, his aura jackal body liquid flowing calmly around him.

Hades (he calmly speaks as his arms are crossed together.): "Now let's view how far you can hold up, let us see the power of the Ancient Obsidian Jackal, show us your Centinal Anubis powers."

Azubah (he speaks in a calm low voice.): "Let's begin the real battle."

The arena's atmosphere changes as a powerful ancient form has been awakened. The real battle, begins.