Burning excitement that was flooding through William made him too eager for combat to snap at Sei for the use of Mystic Protection that the Mystic used on him. William had a general dislike for magic, but as often as it was necessary he had come to accept that it was something he was never going to truly do away with. Having magic used on him was an entirely different matter and one that usually carried vicious, bloody consequences.

William leaped back into melee with the Alpha Demon, heeding Sei's command without even realizing the absurdity of it. He had been 'doing what he did best' before Sei himself pulled William away. He would most likely remember it later when he could well and truly be annoyed by it, but right now William was nothing but cooperative.

A snapping hiss popped next to William's ear as the creature's saw-toothed jaw whipped closed in the space that William had occupied only a fraction of a second before. Unlike the lesser demons, the Alpha was strong and wily, a long lived and powerful specimen of its brood. It twisted around, scrambling its many clawed arms for purchase on its own body as the wiry line of the thing's torso contorted to lope around William while bringing its jaws back into striking distance. William grinned a savage, shark-like grin as he himself moved, twisted, and lashed out with his claws in opposition to the creature's movements.

The strike-counterstrike battle between the two demonic combatants was an utterly beautiful dance, and an utterly deadly one. It quickly became apparent that it would only take a single mistake to end the combat. Sei, Kyla, and the plant monster might have as well been on a different continent for all the recognition that William gave them. Any loss of focus, even the slightest bit he knew, would prove fatal.

As intricate as it was, the dance of death ended simplistically and in the blink of an eye. One moment the creature was darting its head forward, jaws opened wide, and the next William had his hands grasped firmly around either side. It would only have taken a minimal amount of exertion for his inhuman strength to crack the creature's maw irreparably, but William was too aroused to end the fight in such a delicate way. Heaving with all of his might, William wrenched his clawed hands apart, and act which split the creature's head (and three feet of its trailing body) in half with a bone chilling squelch. Finished, William dismissively shrugged and tossed the mutilated Alpha Demon back into the murky Haide Swamp never to surface again.