The King of Beasts! (Deniel)

Deniel fired another arrow until he noticed that on his back the Nephalem Spirit: Devil had vanished. That must have meant it timed out. The female lion immediately put this distraction to good use, jumping up on her feet and going at Deniel at her top speed. This speed was far too much for Deniel to handle, for as soon as he turned his head to notice her charging at him, she had already slammed her paw at him. Deniel was pinned down to the ground from the mighty paw. Deniel struggled from her grip, and she looked down at him. Her yellow eyes were full of anger and rage, with blood pouring down their sides. "Deniel....I hate to say this....but this is your end. Sinners will always be judged for their sins. Always." Deniel couldn't believe that his own weapon was doubting him.

It angered him more and more, and he fought back against the lion's grip with all of his strength, but it was no use. The female lion started to push more weight against Deniel, forcing him into the ground. The pain that Deniel was feeling in his spine before was now being revived, and even worse as well. Deniel cried out in pain as she pushed her weight and strength on him. "GAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Deniel clenched on to his bow tighter and tighter. Nidhogg had nothing to say. To him, this was the end.

To Deniel, it wasn't even close to the end. He found a hidden strength inside of him that he had never used before. The ground below him began to rumble, and his body began to shake from exhilarating power. Deniel's teeth began to grit, not from pain, because for some reason...it was gone, but from the amount of power he felt surging in him."NEPHALEM TRIGGER!" Deniel yelled out over the pain, and something unexpected happened at that very moment. The Black Devil's spirit was arisen from him once more.

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An immense amount of force was created from Deniel's body and pushed outward. This force was enough to knock the female lion away and on her side. She scrambled to get up, trying to see what just happened. Neither the lions nor Nidhogg could believe what had happened. There, standing tall on his feet despite the pain he felt before, was Deniel. In addition to him, his Nephalem Soul: Devil was sitting there right on his back. In Deniel's hand was no longer El'Druin, but Nidhogg was created once again. "That.....that can't be! A person can't use a Take Over so soon after it's timed out! Deniel! HOW!?" Deniel was standing tall and proud, but also extremely angry. He had a harsh scowl on his face, which the Black Devil mimicked in his expression. The fist that wasn't holding Nidhogg was clenched, but was also shaking from rage.

"Because no one ever challenges a Nephalem." Deniel held on to Nidhogg a little tighter and stared up at both of the lions. Now, the male was finally standing up from the pain that he suffered, and the female had just recovered herself. Both of them were in terrible condition, Deniel could tell. And that was just going to make things easier for him. In just a few hits, life will finally slip away for the both of them. Deniel held up his clenched fist, releasing his fingers from his own iron grip. Deniel moved his fingers back and fourth, edging both of the lions on. "Come on!" He taunted both of them and lowered his hand.

The lions roared as loud as they could, causing a great amount of shaking to be given in the land. Unlike last time, Deniel didn't cover his ears to it, nor was he bothered by it. He took it as an acceptance for his challenge. "So be it." He said and readied Nidhogg and himself for combat.

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Deniel held Nidhogg up, pointing it at both of the lions. The male lion was the first one to make a move, going at Deniel at top speed. The lion pounced at him with its mighty strength, but Deniel felt like a brand new man with him activating his Nephalem Trigger for the first time. All Deniel had to do was hold up his blade, Nidhogg, horizontally to block the lion's gigantic paw. The lion pushed down with all of its strength, but all Deniel had to do was keep Nidhogg held up. The lion dug down at him further, but then came up with a new strategy quickly. It lifted its paw up and swiped at Deniel with its other paw immediately after living it up, sending the Nephalem flying. Deniel stabbed Nidhogg in the ground to slow down and shortly stop his flight.

Once he stopped, he turned his head to see the female lion trying to attack him with her mouth. Deniel put Nidhogg right between two of her teeth, so that she would bite down on it and end up piercing her own gums. It was a harsh method, but it worked. The female lion's gums began to bleed, delivering a load of pain to her. She backed off of Deniel, and all he could do was laugh in response. "This is too easy!" He was having fun right now, but all fun must come to an end.

He may have felt like a new man, but his fatigue was catching up with him once again. It was time for him to end this fight once and for all. These lions were getting weak; if he was able to fend off one of them with just one hand, that must mean that they were losing their strength. "Time to die."

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The male lion roared upon seeing his female be stabbed and laughed at like that. The male lion recklessly chased Deniel. All Deniel did was stand there, look down, and whisper a few words, "Shout......of................" At the very last second, when the lion was only a few meters away from Deniel, he looked up. "THE DEVIL!" A tiny glowing red magic circle appeared at Deniel's mouth, and out of it shot his Twilight Energy. Additionally, the Black Devil that had been looking down with him and mouthing the same words fired out the same amount of Twilight Energy. The Energy utterly destroyed the male lion's face, cutting into his skin and everything inside. Shortly after using the spell, Deniel ended it.

The lion stood there, tall and mighty.....but then fell over. Lifeless and miserable. Upon seeing it defeated, Deniel turned his attention to the other mighty beast. However, with her spouse dead...she wasn't so mighty anymore. Out of her bloodied yellow eyes....were tears. Deniel's expression didn't change upon seeing her tears. All he did was look at her with his red eyes, with an expression that was as cold as ice. Deniel pointed Nidhogg straight at her, and so did the Black Devil on his back. "Worry not! You'll join him soon enough! Wherever the Hell wild beasts go."

Nidhogg couldn't help but admit one thing: Deniel was being harsh. Extremely harsh. He knew Deniel had a cold attitude, but didn't expect him to be this cold and without remorse. He was killing beasts, but they had feelings and cared for each other. And here he was ending both of their lives without hesitation. Still, a job is a job. The female lion shook her giant head, making her tears go away. He growled at Deniel, and purposely leaving herself open, went straight for him.

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The lion went for Deniel, and all Deniel did was stand there, holding Nidhogg in front of himself. Once the female lion was close enough, she held her head low, which gave him the opportunity to leap in the air, and stab her right in the center of her forehead. She ran for only a few more paces before she stumbled and fell down. Deniel jumped off of her before she fell down and landed on both of his feet. By this time, he was panting, exhausted. Fatigue caught up with him all the way, and he had been through a lot today. Fending off twenty lions by himself, and then fighting off these behemoths with an injured spine. Nonetheless, Deniel was the winner.

He held his arms up in triumph, and so did the Black Devil on his back. "NEVER! CHALLENGE! A! NEPHALEM!" Deniel gave out his own celebration and cheer, before he looked at the two corpses. "They'll need some kind of proof....." He said to himself and walked to the corpse of the male lion. He stared at him, wondering what he could bring back as proof. The only thing that he could carry and would be big enough.....would probably be a tooth. "Ohhhhh dear. This is gonna' be gross." He slowly opened the mouth of the male lion and held Nidhogg up to a tooth. He put Nidhogg against a tooth and then started to saw through it with Nidhogg.

It was hard and took a lot of effort, mainly because teeth were a lot harder than most things, but with Deniel's strength, he was able to pull through. He sawed through the tooth of the lion and eventually pulled it out from its spot. It was much bigger than Deniel's hand, and was like holding another tooth. Deniel looked at the whitened tooth, seeing some blood stains on it as well. "This will do....."

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Deniel made his way from the spot that he was located back into the canyon where the lion's nest was. He saw the corpses of the five female lions that he killed earlier, and ignored them. He walked back the way he came: back in the large canyon walls. As Deniel walked, he eventually came upon the spot where he killed most of the lions from before, and the further back he traveled, the narrower the walls got, and higher the ground became. Deniel just noticed the fact that he was going downhill while he was going here, which might have explained why he was able to run so fast and outrun the lions. Eventually, he came upon the spot where he first met them. Not much to his surprise, the corpses of the first ones he killed were still there.

Once Deniel was finally out of the canyon walls, he gave a deep breath of almost fresh air. To him, this felt like freedom. "Aaaaaahhhh! Finally out of there! Now then...." He looked down at the giant tooth in his hand and took another deep breath. "Back to the village....." Deniel walked away from the canyon's entrance and into the desert-like environment Hunter Village was surrounded by. While Deniel was in the desert, he canceled his Nephalem Soul: Devil spell so that he wouldn't stand out too much in the village.

Once Deniel arrived in the Hunter Village, he caught the attention of most of the villagers. He had already canceled his spell, so that wasn't what caught their attention. What made them all look at him was the fact that he had a giant tooth in his hand. This only meant one thing: he had defeated the Grand Lion. When Deniel walked inside the chief's tent, the chief was speechless. Deniel was standing there, alive, and with the tooth of the Grand Lion. All along, the chief didn't have much faith in his return. "Mission complete." He said and tossed the tooth at the chief.