Chapter 12: Battle for Survival, Frankie's Rage!

"Watch out!!" Frankie shouted as Zatos charged. Dante brought up his sword and was sent flying overboard the ship from Zatos' attack. The others didn't have time to figure out what happened and immediately went on the offensive. Seras brought her fist towards his face and seemingly made contact...only to be shocked as Zatos blocked it with but his index finger alone.

''Impossible! I put a good deal of strength into that!!''

"Is this all a vampire can do?" Zatos asked in a bored tone, "It would seem your master's sacrifice was wasted on you."

Hearing this made Seras see red as her eyes glowed and she roared in primal fury. Sending strike after strike from her normal arm and shadow arm in hopes of completely ripping the strange swordsman apart. It was all to no avail however as Zatos either blocked with his finger or simply dodged. Growing tired of the one-sided display. Ty Lee and Suki charged at him, the latter having a katana at the ready in hopes of catching the man by surprise. Suki thrust her sword into the man's back and gave a smirk as she implanted her blade into him.

"Did you honestly expect that to work?"

Zatos suddenly appeared from behind her and embedded his blade into her back. Suki's eyes went wide as she felt metal pierce and cut through her flesh and blood spray across the deck of the ship. As she fell to the ground, Frankie froze in shock as one of her friends were practically getting cut down one by one. Ty Lee tried to attack but only ended up getting both of her arms cut off. Ty Lee screamed as pain shot through her and the blood poured from the stumps from her arms. She fell to the ground as well, twisting and writhing in pain.

'' "KID!! FOCUS!!" '' Fumetsu shouted, causing Frankie to snap out of his funk. Before he could step up, hpwever, a powerful surge of energy shot out from the water. Both Frankie and Zatos turned and saw a tall demonic figure with black wings and piercing red eyes holding a broadsword.

"Now you f$%ked up punk," Dante said with a demonic distortion in his voice. The voice sent a chill up Frankie's spine but Zatos merely gave an arrogant smirk.

"So this is the power of a devil huh? Please, show me how far you can go...against a god above gods!!"

God above gods? Frankie thought, Is he...like Aria?

"Bring it a$$hole!! Overdrive!!" Dante shouted. He channeled red energy into his sword and swung it three times, creating three crescent shaped crimson blasts that tore the Zatos dodged with ease.

To be continued...