Half an hour into the fighting and Michael is surprised to have no opponents left... He lowers Auriel's Bow and looks around the absolutely torn-apart room in search of any remaining vampires but finds nothing but blood spatters and ash piles.
He stands at the locked entrance to the main hall where Harkon should be hiding, waiting for Saeko and Serana to arrive from wherever they'd gotten off to. Thankfully, it doesn't take long, Saeko comes from the basement with her clothes torn and covered in someone else's blood, while Serana walks in from the shattered entrance after saving those she saw as redeemable.
"Anyone know where Kunkka went?" he asks, he knew he'd been desummoned but how that'd happened was another matter.
"He got backed into a cage too small to swing his weapon and was surrounded and torn apart." Saeko states.
"Huh... You 'avenged' him then?" he asks and she nods, "Everyone secure?" he asks Serana.
"They aren't happy about it, but yes."
"Good. Shall we greet your father then? Ask for your hand to take his head?" he jokes.
Serana sourly frowns, "He already gave me away once... Let's just end this."
They pull the lever to open the barred gate and enter through the double doors into the hall... Where an already transformed Vampire Lord Harkon was waiting in front of a fountain of flowing blood, a crimson glowing and shimmering katana resting in one of his clawed hands.
"So you've slaughtered our people with your pets, daughter? I would offer congratulations if it weren't for the fact that you've brought the device of the sun's end to me." he growls, gesturing to Auriel's Bow that was currently slung on Michael's back.
"Stop the bravado, father. We killed all your followers while you were cowering in here. You think we'll just let you take Auriel's Bow? You were barely able to defeat mother last time we saw each other, you must be senile if you think you're enough now."
Harkon shows a fanged grin, "If you think I've been doing nothing for all these years, you're a bigger fool than your mother ever was." he holds his unused hand out, "Give me the bow, and I may let you live. If nothing else, my daughter is required for the future as I paint it with her blood."
"Oh yeah, since you're asking I might as well hand it over-Not! Do we look like a bunch of fucking retards?" Michael drawls as insultingly as he can manage. "I'm the guy that had your rape-god fuck off out of Nirn! And you're telling me what to do!?" he holds his arms out hauntingly, "Well the bow's right here, come grab it you bottom-ass-up cock-sucking leech cunt!"
...
The duo next to him raise their brows at him, even Harkon was speechless at his vitriol...
"What? Too much?"
Serana sniffs and shakes her head, "No, you're right. Father wasn't even legible to receive Molag Bal's blood... Yet he still presented himself... Still sore, father?"
"QUIET! YOU DARE MOCK OUR LORD!? NO! No! You won't live to see the future, daughter! I'll harvest our Lord's blood from the body, then I'll send it right back to its rightful owner! Molag Bal!" he angrily hisses while preparing his blade for battle.
"No one owns me! I'm free of his grasp! He can't touch me now!" she shouts back, "It's you who's being sent back to him! IN PIECES!"
"COME! RUN TO YOUR END!"
With that, the battle starts. Michael begins with Serana by launching a Laguna Blade to accompany her own lightning bolt, Harkon blocks it with a crimson shield of some sort, but is forced to parry Saeko's blade as she dashes up to him.
He is far stronger than the werewolf, even with Hircine's gift, allowing him to slap her aside as if she were a paper plane. This allows Michael's Spectral Dagger to fly straight at him.
He turns to bats and teleports to the side of the hall to avoid it, but the dagger turns midair and continues its pursuit, striking the surprised Vampire Lord in the chest and causing shadows to drip from his form, leaving a trail along the floor.
He teleports once more as Michael Blinks towards him, appearing and positioning himself with a large stone pillar between them... He's taken aback however as Michael literally jumps through the pillar, using the trail left by Harkon to slip through solid matter.
"Hit him Derf!"
"Got it, Partner! YOL TOOR!" the sword shouts, cutting it short since Harkon was already moving.
*THWWOOM!*
Harkon raises a hand and brushes the flames away with yet another crimson shield before pushing his sword behind him to block Saeko's slash at his back.
*Crackle!*
A lightning bolt from Serana strikes his arm and he hisses in mild irritation before teleporting back in front of the fountain. "Is this all you have!? WEAKLINGS! LET ME SHOW YOU MY EFFORTS, MY AMBITIONS! MY-"
"Shut up and fight already!" Serana's angry shout interrupts him.
"FINE! DAUGHTER. SU GRAH DUN!" he shouts, using the thuum and causing bright lights to envelop his monstrous form.
"I know that shout! He'll be faster than the wind until it ends, partner!" Derflinger helpfully announces.
Harkon just sniffs derisively however, "KNOWLEDGEABLE, BUT NOT SMART! TIID KLO UI!" he roars, his voice distorting as his perspective of time slows to a crawl.
In an instant Harkon, zips forwards, bypassing Serana's frost storm with ease and approaching Michael who's the only one present who could actually track him.
His katana-like blade darts for Michael's throat but it's slapped away by Derflinger and retaliated as Michael returns an attack to his neck, attempting to behead him.
"VAMPIRES RULE TIME! WE ARE ETERNAL!" Harkon roars as he clashes with Michael, his words sounding oddly high-pitch due to how much his time was sped up.
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Serana and Saeko can't do anything but watch the duo dart around the hall, clashing at speeds they couldn't follow, leaving them at a distinct disadvantage in this fight... While Saeko was incredibly fast in her own right, this fight was above the level she and Serana were currently capable of.
*Ching! Clang! Chink!*
Michael starts to push Harkon back but the Vampire Lord casts a powerful Vampiric Drain with his off-hand, levelling the playing field to some extent.
"Fucking time manipulation dog shit!" Michael can't help but complain as he clashes with the vampire, "Derf!" he calls out, voicelessly asking the sword to do something.
"GAAN LAH HAAS!" the sword shouts, the crystal face's mouth opening up and sucking in the energies torn from Harkon, the Drain Vitality shout returning Michael's stolen energies.
Michael cuts halfway through Harkon's wrist but it isn't enough to force the blade from his grasp, not to mention how quickly the wound healed. Irritated, he grasps the vampire with telekinesis and throws him around the room, into the pillars, walls, and floor for good measure.
Unfortunately, he hadn't realised how close Harkon had landed to Saeko and Serana until the last moment... Allowing Harkon to make his move.
"STOP DAMN YOU!" he exclaims, telekinetically pulling Harkon back but it isn't enough to stop him completely... It does however allow Saeko to finally participate.
She throws her katana at Harkon which he dodges, but she continues and slices down without a weapon, shouting, "SHEHAI!" as she does so.
Her spirit sword bathes the room in light, blinding the two vampires present as a large slash is released and launched at Harkon... He seemingly senses this, but Michael freezes him in place Winter's Curse, forcing him to take the attack head-on.
*BOOOOM!*
*CRASH!*
It hits and continues on blasting a giant hole out of the back wall, the fountain of blood is somehow left unharmed but the fading afternoon sunlight streams in through the new hole regardless.
Harkon had been split completely in two by this, of course, bisected with a line running down from his head to his crotch... The fight isn't quite finished yet though as blood explodes from the fountain and envelopes the Vampire Lord, instantly healing his wounds and leaving him more focussed and lucid than before...
He turns a wrathful glare to Saeko and turns to bats, appearing behind her and using his speed to try to bite at her neck... Michael Blinks behind him and beheads with him Derflinger, but blood-red tendrils shoot from the neck and into the head, allowing it to bite down on Saeko.
As soon as the fangs pierce skin, her eyes widen as all the blood in her body is drained away in an instant, turning her into a pale husk before anyone can do anything.
Serana gives a furious roar and explodes throwing blood everywhere before charging her father in her Vampiric form. Her claws tear one of his arms off, and Michael pierces his heart with Derflinger in retaliation for what he'd done to Saeko...
But even then, all of these wounds seemed less than a pinprick to Harkon... The blood from the fountain was granting him incredibly regenerative abilities...
Growling under his breath, Michael kicked the immortal creature in the back and through a nearby pillar before Blinking next to the fountain and utilising his Wynningbaldr runes to find a breakpoint in the gothic-looking thing.
There, directly in the centre of the forehead on the metal depiction of Molag Bal, he saw it.
"Survive this!" he roars, stabbing Derflinger directly into the thing, causing a blast of crimson light to explode out from it and launch Michael to the other end of the hall... The fountain was left unharmed...
"HELL NO!" he exclaims at the sight, glancing at Harkon who'd just recovered from having his spine shattered. "RUBICK, COME! FUCK THIS GUY UP!" he shouts, summoning the enigmatic Grand Magus from the Book of Demi-Gods.
"Ohhohoh, that was not part of our, arrangement, friend." Rubick's distorted voice drawls as he surveys the area.
"Well, it is now!"
Harkon pulls himself from the rubble and glares at both of them, "What manner of bloodless creature are you?"
"I'd rather learn what sort of bloody creature you are..." Rubick's hand idly reaches for something and tugs at it.
Harkon gives out a pained roar as his form flickers between Nord and Vampire Lord. "W-WHAT IS THIS!?"
"I wouldn't personally recommend selling your soul but, I doubt such a thing comes with a receipt." he lets go of whatever he was holding. "Bound to a being manifesting through that strange fountain of yours... Are you going to destroy it yet, Michael? Or do you wish for me to do all the work?"
"No, I've got it." Michael states, already aiming Auriel's Bow at the fountain. If Derflinger wouldn't work then this certainly would. He was even using one of the sunhallowed arrows he'd been given by Gelebor.
Harkon, only now noticing this, tries to leap into action, but is struck by a strange green spell that causes his body to fall apart into bloody blocks... It quickly reforms of course, but Serana then blasts him with an ungodly amount of lightning, thoroughly cooking and preventing him from stopping Michael.
*Twang!*
*Thud-BOOOOM!*
The shriek of both Harkon and Serana sounds out as the place is bathed in holy light, scorching their undead bodies before utterly decimating the fountain, rendering it a pile of squirming molten metal.
"yooOOOOUUUUU FOOOOOL!" Harkon roars, throwing himself at Michael but getting knocked to the side as Auriel's Bow smacks him into a nearby wall.
"Not so tough without Molag Bal's artifact, huh!?" he taunts before looking to a thoroughly scorched Serana, "Are you alright!?"
"I-I am but, Saeko! She's dead!"
Michael shakes his head, "Not for long, now deal with your dear-old daddy so I can help her out."
...
She lets out a mix between a reluctant growl and a sigh before moving over to the prone Harkon. "You ruined my life, and now I'm going to make you hurt for it."
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