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Everyone, thank you for going on this journey with me. This is the final chapter of She's the Demon. Let's get it.

He lunges at me with his large clawed arm, aiming for my head. I block his attack, both arms above my head, his weight causing me to half kneel. Generating strength in my legs, I lift his arm, causing him to stumble back. I land a kick on his side and quickly retract my leg before he grabs it. He groans and smirks, his eyes crinkling, reading 'wise choice' in his gaze. 
He lunges an attack again swinging left and right I dodge and deflect the incoming barrage of attacks reading the flow and form of his body. My stamina is slowly depleting and my easy breaths become short.
I fist my hand tight using all my strength, I land a chi-force punch to his chest and quickly slam the open end of my palm harshly on his throat ending it with a kick that sends him in the air with force propelling him into the wall of the cabin, it breaks on impact. 
He tries to breathe through his constricted chest and chortled throat as he sits on the rubble of wood his body has broken a hole through. Every being has to breathe. I pant out trying to channel more energy into recovering my stamina and reopened injuries. 
Blood flows down from my wrist dripping to the ground, I hold a staring contest with Rohan— one is on the ground the other standing a few feet away— he gets up slowly, recovering faster than I would expect but it's still within my calculations. The battle will not be easy but I will make sure this is the last fight I will have with this monster.
His legs part, lowering into a stance, his pitch-black eyes an abyss filled with vicious cruelty. To defeat a monster like Rohan, one has to fight like him— I let myself go— tapping into my demonic instinct, the rush of energy surges through me. My demonic energy grows. My heightened senses smell my friends' fears but Loren's calm beating heart keeps me at ease and I breathe calmly. They are closer. I need to end this soon, I don't worry them too much.
Rohan sees the determination in my eyes and spits on the ground anger ablaze in his eyes. "You betray me for a set of insignificant beings"
I snarl "They are not insignificant. They have taught me everything I need to know about myself." More than you ever will Father.
"You have been taught everything you ever need to know" he spits pain flashing in his angry gaze.
"Oh yeah?" I leap slashing for his chest, he crosses his arms blocking it. Pressing my weight into the blow, I lean closer hissing in his face "About what, being a puppet? Tortured and put together every day in the name of protection or the fact that I was given away to a marriage where I would never be happy for the sake of your power." My venomous words cut through him like knives weakening the strength of his defence. 
He blinks speechless unable to refute my words, I head-butt him. His head snaps back following a sickening crack of his nose and I watch the blood flow dripping from his sinuses. He cleans it sniffing the rest away and looks at me "All I did was for you... everything!" he roars and I shout back... 
"I never wanted it." surprise flashes in his eyes and they recover showing his usual anger. "Did you ever consider what I, your daughter wanted? Or did you just automatically stick it in your emotionally damaged brain that whatever you wanted; your six-year-old kid would want it too." I growl out of anger tightening my features.
He swallows lowering his head. fisting his hands sharp claws digging into his fresh. Blood flows from the holes in the pierced skin. I take his silence as acceptance and nod "Maybe it was already like that. You never knew what love was in the first place. You claim love is cancer just because it broke you. You turned your love for me and mother into a weapon of hate and stabbed me with it" his eyes snap up to me red with anger.