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"...I see..." Makuro said, dropping the sword hilt. His hand shot up, Bushimarus sword connecting with Makuros half bandaged hand, creating a large gash, but failing to penetrate all the way through and being stopped in its tracks, it seemed as though the super-human strength that his lieutenant sported didn't just come from nowhere, and it seemed as if Makuro actually enjoyed the pain of the cut, infact he now sported an even wider grin "I admit, you had me fooled for a bit....I thought I was going to be on pest control duty, but now, I can have some real fun, theres nothing like making a strong opponent suffer" Makuro said "Even if we are fighting on a more even ground now, you'll soon find that we Nosferatu are feared for a reason" Makuro said. Bringing his other arm round in a powerful punch towards Bushimarus head, his other hand clamping down on his blade, hoping to separate the 2. This time Makuro would be serious.

"Very pretty I'm sure, but not really my thing..." Makuro said as he observed the technique. He stood there while Bushimaru rushed in to attack, he was interested in testing the strength of Bushimaru, and indeed, the blow sent Makuro skidding back across the red sand. the blades around Bushimarus midsection giving him a sizable cut across his own midsection, but still Makuros smile didn't flicker. "Time to get serious....with a few tricks of my own..." Makuro said, he removed his tie and unbuttoned his black shirt, whipping it off. Almost his entire upper torso was covered in bandages, as well as his arms. With a smirk he took hold of a bandage on his left arm and unraveled it to reveal that his arm was riddled with countless cuts and gashes all the way down it, some of the larger ones had stitches but most were just laid bare on the flesh. "Being of the Vampiric nature I have quite a familiar command of blood, I hope you're not squeamish now..." he smirked as slowly the congealed blood on the cuts reformed back into fresh looking blood, dripping out of the many wounds, but instead of dropping to the ground it floated slowly around the arm "Vampiric slicer!" Makuro shouted as he swung his arm forward sending out a large wave of his own blood, forming a sharp blade-type edge in mid flight, since it was still a liquid it would be nigh impossible to block with just a sword. Makuro dashed forward just after launching his attack, starting to undo the bandages on his right arm with his teeth as he did so.

"Ah, Just as planned, if not better..." Makuro smirked as he saw the hit he had made. He extended him arm, making the blood he had just used return into to him. As Bushimaru began his attack Makuro quickly lifted up his red tinted glasses, revealing a pair of glowing red pupils in the center of pitch black eyeballs, he quickly made eye-contact with Bushimaru "Now..." he said, a strong influence suddenly jerking at Bushimarus mind, causing his lightning blade attack to miss, passing inches by Makuro as he continued to stare into Bushimarus eyes, exerting a strange influence on him, it wasn't psychic power as such, but had similar effects.

"I don't know if you are aware, but we vampires have a certain gift, allowing us a degree of mind control, well, they say mind control, but in reality it's the soul we manipulate...." Makuro said as he stared on, Bushimaru would find it extremely hard to try to look away, or for that matter to even think about it, as if Makuro was filtering out thoughts themselves "I could sense your soul was pretty strong, so to secure my control I would need to infuse you with some of my own blood....which is exactly what that last attack did....now that you have my blood in your system it's far easier for me to manipulate you, now, lets start the fun...." Makuro said evily. Bushimaru would feel a sudden force within his mind commanding him to stab himself in his shoulder. Though Makuro could have gone for something more fatal, he, as he mentioned earlier, enjoyed tortuing his opponents.

"What?...." Makuro said, caught off guard by the sudden burst of flames, causing him to break his concentration and eye contact with Bushimaru, though he still had some degree of control with the blood he placed within Bushimaru, the effect was only strong enough to slow him down slightly without the backup from Makuros vampiric control.

Once again blood swirled out of Makuros chest area, forming a rough shield to protect Makuro from getting burned further by the flames. It seemed though that when burnt, Makuros blood was far harder to return to it's liquid form, some parts of it even being turned to ash and lost. "Tch, lucky shot human, I guess it's always more fun when they struggle though, hehehe" Makuro said, still as arrogant as ever, the fire raging around him giving his already creepy pale features an even more demonic tint. He finished removing the bandages covering his upper body, which was of course also a mask of hideous looking wounds and gashes. He extened an arm, the blood from it's wounds protruding into the shape of sharp quills "Vampirc Spines!" he declared as he shot a hail of sharp blood spines at Bushimaru. his shield still in place to protect him from a possible counter attack and the fire that still raged

"You'll need to try harder garden-boy" Makuro grinned, suddenly short spikes of blood thrust their way from Makuros body under each of the seeds to destroy them, hopefully before whatever purpose they were for was realized. Makuro himself was starting the change in appearance, his ears becoming longer and more pointed, his fingers becoming more like claws and his teeth and fangs becoming larger. He had now finished re-liquefying the blood he had used to defend from the initial onslaught of flames, and half of it floated around Makuros legs, ready for immediate use if necessary. Blood also flowed from Makuros arms once more, coiling up them and forming into 2 mean looking dragon heads, one snaking out from each shoulder. He removed his glasses, tossing them to one side to finish his odd transformation, It would be safe to say any eye-contact at all with him in this state would bring about the same if not stronger effects then before, since Bushimaru now had slightly more of Makuros blood hindering him from within.

Makuro leaped towards Bushimaru, his strength giving him an impressive boost, and swung one of his claws at Bushimaru in a vicious gouging motion, he wasn't concerned about what part of the body he aimed for, with his superhuman strength behind him it didn't really matter.

There was a huge smash and a great hail of rock and dust as Makuros attack connected with the ground after Bushimaru dodged, However the moment he dodged the dragon-like heads near Makuros shoulders snapped around and spat 2 large blood needle-type shots at Bushimaru, seeming like a reflex motion of Makuro failed to connect with a physical attack, the range making them hard to dodge. However Makuro also had his share of problems "...huh!?" was all he could say before Bushimarus blast kicked in. With a snarl Makuro brought the hand he had lust smashed into the ground upward, flinging a lrage chunk of rock at the blast, the blood orbiting his legs also quickly converted into a shield. This quick defense deflected a lot of the energy away but Makuro still took a large hit.

"You can use Devil Sorcery at such an advanced level?! But how? your just a lowly lieutenant! I won't allow myself to be humiliated by you!" Makuro hissed, smoke rising from his person, though with all the wounds already on his body it was hard to distinguish much else in the way of what damage the attack had inflicted "If you like your Devil Sorcery so much, then here's one of my own" Makuro grinned. The circle of blood around his legs had reformed, though was now missing a fair bit of volume, which was being refilled by more blood from Makuros body "Devil Sourcery #166: Energypire!" Makuro said. He spread his arms and starting inhaling deeply, and seemingly indefinitely, as he did so he started to suck the very energy from Bushimaru at no small rate, the energy he consumed being added to his own.

Makuro, was blinded by the sudden attack, interrupting his Energypire, and preventing him from using it again until his sight was restored since he was unable to see his target, this also temporarily decommissioned his mind control ability. "Guh, damn you! You just don't know when to quit....well, I might not be able to see you right now, but they sure can..." he said, and on que the dragon-like things still coiled up his arms turned their heads and spat more blood needles at Bushimaru, the blood from their last needle attack also rose into the air, reforming into the 2 needles Bushimaru had blocked before and shooting at Bushimarus side. Makuro also put more blood into the defensive ring around his legs, It was debatable whether Makuro has much more blood to spare from his body, as it seemed he was trying to stall until his sight returned.