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Standing motionless as Dom appeared behind him Kono smiled keeping his back toward Dom, not even reaching for his weapons. He sure showed up here fast. must not have liked the present I sent him He thought to himself. Holding a hand out in front of him he called his dagger back to him. swiftly returning landing with a small thud in his head as he put it away. Listening to Dom as he spoke his preachings. Finally he turned around his face holding his ever present smile as if a kid were looking at the biggest ice cream cone they have ever seen.

"Leader of heaven... ahh yes, you mean Kite. The abandoning leader of Heaven. I am disgusted that you would even put me on the same level as him." Kono Said back to him mockingly, "You know as well as I brother, I am no angel like Kite. Just as you are not the Demon Inferno any longer. Kite knows this. and knows that he will not be needed to fight any but Inferno himself. and clearly you are not as strong as the man you once were."

Kono Looked at Dom from behind his blindfold. Dom could feel Kono's gaze upon him, Looking down at him, making fun of him. Trying to push His old rivals buttons.

"We both know your spewing out nothing but lies from your forked tongue, Inferno. Something that you do very poorly I might add. You point fingers at others instead of taking credit for your 'achievements' one so twisted as yourself may call them. one particular conquest of yours im sure you remember rather vividly." Kono began to get angry as he spoke. his usual playful demeanor giving way to one of anger as if scolding a little boy. "Her death is on your hands Inferno. YOURS! NOT HELLS! and don't you dare try to tell me otherwise!" He finished practically yelling at Dom.

Taking a deep breath he took a few seconds to calm himself back down. adding one more word to make sure his point got across fully.

"Aurora.."

Dom stood there in silent hearing Kono speak. The cat was out of the bag it would seem. "I am sorry my friend but you are right...", he would say hearing the name of a friend who"s blood was on Dom's hands. The tension would now pick up as the ground began to rumble violently. "I pity them, I pity them all, because like you, you will never experience what true power is...", as he spoke it was clear as day that he had been brainwashed by his own actions and consumed with a greed for power. It was one thing to that Inferno never had a defense for.... The need for overcoming his need to be stronger.

The heat would finally expose it's self around them, as the biggest battle of the decade was about to unfold with hasty actions. Dom's arms would crossed together as he would speak once more.


"Forgive me.....'friend' for you know too much for you to leave here alive."

Suddenly the ground around Kono would explode, sending out massive shock waves around their area. Dom would appear in front of Kono "Take as dirt nap!"He would yell waving his hand down towards Kono as out of thin air a massive wave of flame and plasma would ignite above Inferno and arch it's way around to slam onto Kono threatening to not only incinerate him but slam Kono into the hard Earth as chucks of rocks flew around their location.

Kono's shock wave would approach Dom only to meet Dom's shock wave as he stomped his foot in the ground. When Kono was near Dom aiming his dagger towards the heart, Dom would explode! Without warning, a massive amount of fire and lava would surrounded Kono quick and consume the light putting Kono in darkness. Yet again threatening to incinerate Kono within minutes. Dom would appear above with his hands thrown back over his head. "Forgive me..." He would then throw his hand down forward towards where Kono would be, if he moved so would the attack because his energy signature was locked on. A massive plasma beam would fire out of Dom's hands forming into a compressed sphere that would hit the ground. It was none other than Dom's Atomic blast, creating a small mushroom cloud for those off in the distance to see. The battle had just begun and already things were intense.

Dom would watch him changed back into Kite, and couldn't help but go back on memory lane, too bad this had to be how it was. The good times between them were all but lost and forgotten. Dom would snap out of it just as ice spikes were coming here way. Dom would throw up one arm after the other and move towards the oncoming ice with fire coming out of his hands. The fire would rush forward in a folly of fireballs that would completely cancel out the ice but now what?

Dom's eyes widen to see a blur appear directly in front of him, when focused on, he knew right away he was left open while defending himself. Kite's dagger was mere itches away from piercing through the royal clothe of Dom that was also white. But would only cut through the cloth and nothing more. Dom would slide back grabbing his chest and leaning forward breathing hard, cursing in some other language. He would look back up at Kite through his mask. What stopped Kite's dagger from piercing Dom's heart?

Dom would stand up, after settling down while his arm was still on his chest. "You couldn't hope to achieve the power I am after, the level of which would overwhelming your entire existence. I will become something more, something incredible! But you.... You have volunteered for your own demise coming here alone. You are a fool!" He would then grab the clothe and rip it completely off of him revealing what was under, as his mask burned away.

It was indeed Inferno....

"You will not live to see the coming dawn, and your discovery of who I am will be buried with torn body. They will need tweezers to pick up the pieces after I am down with you. Are you not satisfied?" He would say as Carnage, the legendary pitchfork would appear in flames directly in his right hand followed by a black cloak that would cover Inferno's entire body before his real mask appeared.

"There is no one in my way, and I will be damned if I will let you try. I threw away all of my ties, just as I have in the past. The old days are dead, it is time for a new beginning. Where there is no war but order, and I will have that order. There is no god, there is no devil there is only those who have power and those who seek to gain it. It is survival of the strongest. The rest of you are all weak if you believe other wise." Inferno would say lowering his pitchfork pointing it towards the ground as he used the other hand to point at Kite.

"You see Kite, I have discovered something....All creatures want to believe in something bigger than themselves. You really put your faith in that 'god' of yours. Do you trust in him? Trusting in someone means relying on him and only the weak do that. They can't live without blind obedience and that is how kings are born. And in turn, they look for someone even stronger and to escape that pressure of that trust, those whom faith is placed in turn looked for someone even higher than themselves? To these so called 'Gods' is who those kings turn to, because they have not the goal to reach such levels of power, the one thing to keep order, to keep control."

Inferno stood there as embers appeared around him as he was talking to Kite.

"You have it all wrong my friend, power is not to be shared it is meant to be achieved. If they believe in something else that gives them the ability to gather and gain false strength then they are weak for depending on such nonsense. You fail to understand, order will lay a new balance out for this coming world, in which suffering will no longer exist, because the weak will perish and the strong will endure. This is the way it was meant to be my friend and I am sorry to say, I wish things could have gone differently between you and me, you were offered the opportunity of a life time."