Friend stood ready, batted Kiadred away with a backhand, and met Zigera's kick by grabbing her foot.
He looked where she had aimed, then up at her.
"Cute, but wrong."

Then his eyes glowed and two intense beams of heat slammed into her, sending her hurtling back.
He looked up at Grey and Inferno, and as they came at him again he simply smiled warmly.
"Please, some more of you. I'm getting excited now. You'll never beat me through blind rushing, I'm afraid."

Mawthrough's eyes began to flutter.
"C-chast..."
He was still far too weak, but his hands reached for hers and held it.
"You... were willing to... for me... I..."
His eyes fluttered shut again, though his breathing was now regular.

Kiadred got up and looked at the fight.
Friend was dueling Grey and Inferno simultaneously, not seemingly worried in any way.
There had to be a way to beat him... to even injure him, but how?
She growled, and charged again.

Grey stopped, and at this moment, revealed Midnight to be in his hand. Aiming carefully, he fired a focuses beam of Omega and Oblivion's energy into him, before speeding around the room and repeating the process, aiming for each of his vital areas, such as his eyes, his heart, his spine, his neck, his joints, even his knee caps, all the while Zigera slowly stood up, her armor slightly melted onto her skin. She summoned her river of metal, and forced it to flow all around Friend, splashing a bit toward his eyes, hoping to blind him.

Grey shot a pure stream of Oblivion's energy to counter Friend's eyebeams.

While this occured, Zigera summoned her river of metal around her body, practically turning her right arm into a blade, and flew forward, aiming for his neck, the blade lined with Oblivion's energy.

Ezekiel flew up close to where Grey was clashing with Friend, and assisted him, slicing through Friend's attack with the blade, True Death.

Friend reached out with one hand and caught the Bail Fire in one hand, laughing as he held on against Grey and Ezekiel's attack.

"Bail Fire... haven't seen that for a couple of thousand years..."

He analysed the situation. Mawthrough was down, Chastity hadn't gone far enough to escape, the girl -

He reached out with his other hand and caught the blade, crushing it, before forcing Zigera to her knees - before hurling her at Grey.

The girl was dealt with, Grey was dueling him though not for long, Inferno was down though he was now getting back up, Ezekiel was now going to be fending off the attack alone, the catgirl was attacking him with Balefire of all things, the demon was -

Wait. No!

An instant before Kiadred's claws would have connected, he leapt sideways, rolling along the ground before regaining his footing.
"You almost had me there. Almost," he remarked, his face flushed for once.

Kiadred paused.
Why does he dodge some attacks and not others? There has to be a reason...

Mawthrough looked weakly at her.
"I'm... not angry... I'm... sorry..."
He tried to keep his eyes open.
"I've been... trying to shelter you... I've been treating... you like a child... you're... a much stronger woman... than I could have imagined. I... couldn't have hoped for more... I under...estimated you...I'm sorry..."
He managed a weak smile.
"I'm...actually... in a weird way... proud of you... as my queen..."

Grey saw what had happened and grinned. As he held off the attack, the soulshadow version of himself broke away from him, this time in a physical form, though it wielded Omega's protection. The being shot forward, and attempted to claw at Friend head on, while Zigera, who now had shadow claws, ready to fight like a beast, entered the shadow speed state, and sped forward, aiming her claws toward Friend's throat.

Friend felt the Balefire expand beyond his ability to grasp and he smiled as the energy engulfed him, his eye attack still holding Grey and Ezekiel at bay. He felt the force of it push him back slightly, his feet moving furrows through the ground.
He sensed the two soul shadows advance, and he relaxed, preparing to meet them.
He saw Mawthrough beginning to awaken and frowned.

If either Mawthrough, Chastity, or that cat join the battle things could get dangerous... but as long as they don't realize it, I still hold the advantage.

He reached out with his other hand, blocking Grey's soul shadow.
He was unable to stop Zigera's crashing into his throat - though it had absolutely no effect.

"Time to be rid of the illusion I'm some fairy tale monster that can be defeated with a shot in my one convenient weak point."

He cut off his eye attack and refocused it on the soul shadow of Grey, sending it back.
Still engulfed in Balefire, he lightly stepped out of it, holding up Zigera by her own throat.
"How very impressive. A young human girl, strong, impetuous, thinking she can take on infinity. Marvelous."
Then he slammed her into the ground.

Mawthrough began to roll to his front.
"Give... me a few... minutes..."

Inferno got to his feet, finally, and looked at Kiadred.
"We can't win like this!"
"Well, how did you seal him last time?"
"God fought him to a standstill, but that won't work this time! He's shrugging off everything we throw at him!"
"Not everything... he seems to avoid some attacks in particular... whenever I get involved, he backs off... yet I can't hurt him. It doesn't make sense!"
Inferno moved forwards again, blade raised.
"Well, we'll figure it out - then we'll send this bastard back where he belongs."

"NOW!".

"right..."

A flash of light appeared in front of Friend as Maria appeared, slamming her giant sword onto his head

Within that moment the twins appeared behind him, cutting forward with each of their two blades

The balefire formed a wall around them, with a radius of around 10 meters

"My turn...",
Deus ran forward,
"100 Blades! Centurion!",
one hundred blades formed in the air above friend, they were not of physical being but instead created with the essence of souls
"Strike his soul!",
the blades shot to the ground in synchronisity

Zigera grabbed ahold of his arm with one of her metal covered hands, and dug in before spouting her next words at him, "Infinity isn't even invincible....there's nothing I can't tear limb from limb!!!" Her eyes were glowing red, as if she was using Genesis' energy and power.

Grey remelded into the soulshadow, and jumped above the attack which he had been clashing with, watching as it flew by, he flew forward, then around Friend in order to swing Midnight toward theback of his head, though this was just a cover.

Ezekiel was slightly burned from the attack, but continued forward, holding True Death close.

Friend saw, felt, and sensed every single attack at once.
He felt the raw power behind the strikes, in the enemies he faced, and came to a realization.

If they figure it out... I'm not powerful enough to stop ALL of them.

However, for now...
The attacks hit.

He smiled.

BOOOOMMM!!!

The resulting attack created an explosion so fierce and so large that all the catgirls, Grey, Zigera, Maria, and the twins were all thrown back, sent tumbling and rolling along the ground.

By the time they all got up, the smoke had cleared.

His clothes were tattered. His body was covered in bruises and sores. Yet, somehow, the skin remained resolutely unbroken, and Friend looked up at them all and smiled.

"Care to do all that again?"

Inferno swore.
"That attack should have destroyed him! How the hell can we stop him!?"

Kiadred growled.
"We're missing something... we have to be."

Mawthrough managed to get to one knee and looked Chastity in the eye.
"True... all this because of a child. But, Chastity, our child is the most important thing in the universe. Not because it will grow apparently into some cosmic being - but because it's our child. No-one has the right to give you a child but me, and no-one has the right to bear my child than you. So... when I get up...I'm going to -"

He was cut off. Because Friend had appeared directly behind him, and had thrown Minerva aside and put his fist straight through Mawthrough's stomach for a second time.

Mawthrough bellowed for a second time, and collapsed forward, curling up on the ground again, once more bleeding fiercely.
Friend stood over him, looking at Chastity.
"All that healing for naught. Tragic, really..."

Deus smiled,
"So... do you feel it yet?",
he stood up, as did the catgirls,
"Or did you think those blades dealt physical attacks?"

"Oh my, they are gorgeous." Cereza gasped upon seeing the rings, then looked at Kye. "I can't say I'm familiar with this tradition." She added.

Grey stood up, his wounds healing rapidly due to Omega's presence. Zigera also stood up, snapping her shoulder back into place with a low growl. "Let's try this again......." He switched his offensive capabilities to demonic energy, and shifted his defensive to Oblivion and Omega's energy. Without hesitation, he closed the distance between himself and Friend, swinging Midnight for his eyes, while Minerva attacked him from behind, her claws aiming for his spine, a scent of crippling energy filling the air, while Zigera watched in the distance.

Draklin dropped within the area, the demon of light, having been called earlier, he finally had the time to help.

Kye smiled, "It took me forever to make them, usually, one gives another a golden band, but I thought, since we are of the flame, obsidian would be our sacred band.......and its fine......different people have different traditions, would you like me to help you place it on your finger?"

Cereza bit her lower lip and nodded her head. "I want to embrace all of your traditions." She replied. "You are my mate. Our bond, strengthens our pack."

Kye smiled, "Alright, well here......" He gently took her right hand with his, and her ring from the box, and gently pulled it down upon her ring finger. Next, he took his own ring, and slipped it onto his ring finger. "So, are there any of your traditions I should be aware of, other than the ones you've told me of?" He couldn't help but gaze into her lovely eyes.

Cereza tilted her head, as she thought. "Come to think of it, when my Mother declares us the next Alphas, there is a kind of ceremony involved." She said, as she rolled onto her side, looking at Kye. "She'll declare us mates, and we're expected to rub our noses together...and that's that....afterward...there will more than likely be several days of celebration."

Kye looks up at the ceiling, then back at her, "That sounds fun, though the only one I really want to celebrate with......" He pulled her close, and rubbed his nose up against hers, "Is you, my lovely wolf......." Next he kissed her gently.