As Miguel stood between the black figure and Mathias, a grayish, etheric aura emanated from his body, growing and growing and finally touching Mathias.
"Aaaah" an inexplicable pain took Mathias feeling his soul being shredded.
Miguel turned his head and, seeing Mathias in pain, retracted his aura.
"Sorry"
He apologized, his gray eyes cold and calculating, showing no sympathy.
Then he turned to face the figure again, whose corpses around him could be seen dissipating again in a black smoke regenerating towards him.
"You've had your fun, hurting my friend again."
Miguel threw back his normally cold and indecipherable face was replaced by rising anger.
"Again and again you take everything, first my starry sky and now all these people."
"Just disappear" Miguel threw out, as his aura came to life and projected itself like sharp tendrils at a speed impossible to perceive with the naked eye.
The tendrils split the air before slamming into the coyote, who had dodged the attack by twisting his body to the side.
The coyote straightened up, disappeared and reappeared in front of Miguel, raising his long clawed hand to attack.
But his body didn't move, a gray aura enveloping him paralyzed him, leaving his torso exposed.
"Get out...of my life "miguel delivered a punchMiguel returned his hand and suddenly stopped the shadow's run.
"Get over here "he pulled the coyote toward him and delivered another powerful punch in the face.
Miguel shoved him away and extend his aura again but this time the attack hit her target and the coyote was slashed in three piece.
He's done it' mathias thought with joy, but it was short-lived when the three pieces of the coyote were reattached.
But it's a pain, he had to be able to regenerate'.
Miguel didn't wait for the coyote to finish regenerating, but charged at him at breakneck speed, his fist charged with a greyish aura.
The coyote regenerated quickly and in turn raised a fist and charged towards Miguel.
Boom
The collision of the two fists caused an explosion that cracked the ground beneath their feet, their confrontation appearing to have ended in a draw.
"Tsk. You're starting to get on my nerves," snapped Miguel.
But the coyote didn't even react and immediately two sharpened pliers shot out from his back, aiming at Miguel's neck.
But they were blocked by a grey barrier surrounding Miguel.
"The stars...bring them back" said Miguel, grabbing the two pliers and pulling them from the coyote with force.
SKREEEEEEEAAAAARGH
A piercing scream was heard as Miguel threw down the pliers, while the coyote tried to back away, howling in pain.
The five-cross sword suddenly moved and landed in Miguel's hands.
"This thing will be enough to cut you," said Miguel, pointing at the blade, which instead of emitting light, drew a gray aura from the five crosses.
The coyote roared
RRAAAAAGGHHH
And he charged toward miguel who stood firm,waiting,the five crossed sword in his arm
The coyote raised his hand like claw and struck.
Slash
A flash appeared and the arm of the coyote fell severed cleanly.
The coyote howled, stumbling back as his arm immediately reattached to his body.
"Try again" miguel said, stepping forward
"Because I'm going to cut you again and I'm gonna enjoy every moment of it."
The coyote growled,backing up. Then it shrieked.
SKREEEEEAAARRRRGH
A black mass circle appeared behind him and then dozen of twisted creature appeared. Their form being grotesque mockery of animal like tiger, lion and...dragon.
Miguel didn't reacted or showed fear his face as cold as ever he continue to step forward.
One step. Two. Three.
Then—he vanished.
A storm of grey slashes erupted across the battlefield.
SLASH. SLASH. SLASH.
The clones were diced to pieces before they even realized they were under attack. Miguel reappeared behind them, sword dripping with ethereal ichor.
"Come at me...yourself"he muttered
"You won't do anything with these thing...not anymore."
The Coyote lashed out with his hand claw striking like a fury. Miguel deflected it with a single flick of his wrist, the blade singing through the air.
Miguel lashed out a several attack. One deep cut to the leg, another one was a slash across the hip.
The coyote tried to attack with his other hand who take the same form as the first one but miguel dodged it and striked again.
The coyote moved for parking the attack but the strike was a feint and then miguel launched a viscous strike across the neck.
The Coyote dropped to its knees, shaking.
"Everything you have done... my dream you haunted, my nightmare you maked worse, I will make you pay for this" miguel said his grey eyes showed no mercy.
Yip-yi-yip...ya-ya-yaaAaWoooo
The coyote started a twisted laugh it sounded
Like a creature that should have never existed.
"Why are you laughing"? Asked Miguel his voice cold as ever.
Suddenly, its chest tore open, revealing a gaping mouth filled with spinning fangs. Chains of shadow erupted out, wrapping around Miguel's arm like vipers.
Yip-yi-yip...ya-ya-yaaAaWoooo
The coyote continued to laugh like taking by a sudden foolishness.
Miguel gritted his teeth as his energy was siphoned. The sword trembled in his grip.
"Not this time…" he growled.
His grey aura surged to life again, burning through the chains. With his free hand, he drew the sword up, focusing everything into one last strike.
"Remember"
The blade shimmered. The five cross who was grey became to ignite a light again. The metal became translucent—pure, ethereal, divine.
Miguel raised the sword above his head.
Then the coyote stopped laughing and then he talked with a voice who sounded like a child.
"We...will meet again"
Hearing the voice the cold face of miguel changed replaced by a twisted rage.
"Don't use...this voice."
He brought the sword down.
A blinding flash.
No sound. Just light.
And then—nothing.
The dust settled slowly.
Where the Coyote had stood, there was now only absence.
No corpse. No shadow. Not even ash.
Just emptiness.
Miguel stood before the emptiness and then he fall on one of his knee.He drove the sword into the earth to keep from falling.
Mathias eyes wide with disbelief.'He...he
did it?'He thinked.
Miguel look back at him and like he have hearing his thought he answered to him
"I don't know, but... he surely won't get back fo a time."
He looked up at the sky.
Still empty. Still starless.
"He toke the star from me" he murmured.
Poof
Miguel loser his head to se Mathias who fell on the ground his eyes slowly closing.
"Mathias" Miguel shouted and he stood un leasing the sword on the ground and sprinter to his friends.
The eyes of Mathias closed and the past tong he saw was Miguel with a panicules face.
'So you Can do this face too'