The masked person in front of them looked thin and had the drawing of a cobra on his mask.

  Anyway, as they readied their stance in preparation to fight him he just removed his masks then let out a horrific laugh. He had three scars o the side of his face and he had green eyes.

  “No amount of preparation will make lose to you weaklings” he said then laughed horrifically again.

  “What think that” Hatashi said with a grin which stopped the serpent demon’s laughter. At that moment the serpent demon’s ridicule turned to rage.

  “You dare speak back to me child” he said in a fit of rage.

  “Prepare to die!!” the serpent demon announced and then charged at them at full speed.

  His first attack was with his curved, sickle-like blade which Hatashi blocked with much difficulty as he was in shock that the serpent demon went through their defenses so easily. While Hatashi tried to hold him off, Tiatsuri and Kaitara tried to perform a sneak attack from behind while Hashiro stayed afar off.

  “That won’t work” the serpent demon said then snakes shot out of his back at high speed. Luckily, Kaitara and Tiatsuri were able to block it and this also gave Hatashi a chance to escape from the serpent demon’s clutches.

  “No matter how far you go my venomous serpents will reach you” he said then performed the serpent technique: full serpent stream which created a horde of giant venomous snakes.

  ’Hatashi get out of there!!” Hashiro screamed from a distance but Hatashi just stood there and performed the dragon technique: furnace attack which let out a humungous wave of flames which burnt all the serpents. On seeing this, Hashiro let out a sigh of relief as he kept on watching them take on the serpent demon. The serpent demon was also baffled by his strength and tried to go after him first but Tiatsuri and Kaitara had already cut up his snakes and then all three of them tried to attack him together.

  “Fools!!!” he exclaimed.

  “Serpent technique: serpent blades” he said then two giant serpents, one for each hand emerged and prepared to poison all three of them.

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  Nevertheless, the team dissected all the serpents and continued their charge. Hatashi charged at her using a flaming blade which he created using the dragon technique while Tiatsuri and Kaitara charged at him both using the power of their three Takudas.

  “they’re still coming closer” the serpent demon said then grinned.

  “that’s good” he said then put his palm on the ground.

  “Serpent technique: great serpent swarm” he said then a swarm of hundreds of giant snakes appeared thereby crushing them before could even lay a finger on him.

  “And that takes care of that “the serpent demon said with a wide smile then looked at Hashiro who looked back at him with a grin.

  “Why are you smiling boy” the serpent demon said then saw Hashiro’s finger pointing to something behind him. What he saw baffled him.

  They were still alive and unharmed after his attack.

  “How!!!!” he exclaimed and tried to perform the serpent technique but before he could even perform the hand signs, he was stabbed in the heart by Hatashi’s flaming blade which in turn burnt him but he managed to remove the blade from his chest.

  After removing the blade from his chest, he rested on a tree and couldn’t even muster a proper breath.

  “How did they survive that attack” the serpent demon thought they were meant to be crushed to pieces but all my snakes were destroyed in almost an instant after the attack” he thought again then a small flash of an idea which made him remember the reason why he focused on Hatashi first.

  “it was that Hirakima boy’s illusion technique!” he thought

  “But when did he…” the serpent demon thought but before he could finish, he was thrust through by Tiatsuri using the death palm which was meant to finish the job but the serpent demon wasn’t done.

  “if I’m going to die you might as well die with me” the serpent demon said with a smile then he let out his last resort in the name of the “serpent technique: emergence of a thousand snakes”. This attack created a great swarm of venomous snakes out of the serpent demon’s body this left the gang, especially Tiatsuri, who had removed his from the serpent demons’ body in time but still was the closest to the serpent demons body stunned as they all struggled to destroy all of the serpents.

  When they finally destroyed all the snakes, they were all poisoned because they received bites from many snakes but Kaitara healed herself, Tiatsuri and Hatashi before the poison could take effect. Then they all walked to where Hashiro stood.

  “they’ve all grown very much since the last time I saw them” Hashiro thought.

  “They might even be able to surpass me in the near future and ascend to even greater heights” he thought then he smiled while looking at them.

  “How did we do Sensei” Kaitara said as her and the others looked at Hashiro who then looked at them and said: “good job guys”.

  Which is a phrase he has never said up until now what even made it better is that he hugged all three of them after saying it.

  While they celebrated another masked figure appeared but the mask of this one had flames on it which said a lot about him and made his identity obvious. He was the indeed the Fire lord.