(This was extremely bad. On the one hand, this might've been a fake or something just weird and he would only be dead. But on the
other hand, if this was the real Suraisu and not the other one...then he was gonna be
hella-hard to negotiate with, even if it was the aggressive and knifey kind. Shadow's paralyzer didn't help, and frankly neither one of them looking to get too close at this time. That was when a summon came in and intercepted its first strike. Surprise attack! Awesome! Canti felt a...presence. It'd been there before, and now he knew who it was that supported him.)
“Looks like everything’s a mess, need a hand?”
(Takua. He'd gotten in. Good, because there was no way that Canti wanted to be alone with this thing, Suraisu or not. That being said, there was uhhh...something that he hadto share with his sudden helpful companion. The Twin Blade turned to face him...)
Canti: Tak? Run.
(...and then went for the door. Nah, forget it. This place was a deathtrap. It had 'deathtrap' written all over it in metal chains and Canti wasn't having it. He assumed Takua Ap Do'd himself and then also make to join him in this. However, even as he moved down the hall to get out of here, the door was blocked with metal chains. In fact, this whole place was writhing with them. Canti skidded to a halt in front of this mess and muttered a totally justified "Fuck". As he suspected, a trap and a damn good one. The question was...would a condensed blast of darkness find its way into corroding the door to this decidedly metal and chained door? It wasn't exactly a vault. Let's find out! BANG! Canti let loose the Spirit Gun of the Darkness Flames, and Takua summoned Yarthkins on top of that. Maybe neither alone would've done it, but now the chains snapped and the door was open. They
moved, oh by god did they move, like the lightning that would soon chase them - that being Suraisu - kicking Shadow out to be certain he WAS fast enough. Canti was now about a foot-and-a-half off the ground, seeing if Frankenstein's chain-wielder was following. Everyone else was out...and momentarily safe.
Shadow: Master, that hurt. How did you even
do that?
Canti: Sorry, Shadow. Needs must when the devil drives.
(There was a decided lack of activity from inside that metal hovel. The Suraisu-being wasn't coming out...and it was too quiet. For good measure, Takua summoned Vulcan. There was alot of noise and effect, but no dice. No reaction. Canti backed away a bit further. This looked like...trouble. Tak next summoned the lightning god and that only made an odd 'shwump' sound. THAT wasn't good... The Twin Blade looked over at the Wavemaster.)
Canti: Don't...do that again.
(He launched an ordinary Darkness Fireball into the place. No pleasure there either.)
Canti: Takua, I don't think this is the real Suraisu. This looks to be living home security.
"...that would be an interesting way of putting it. In that case, we're unlikely to be able to deal with the fucker. He's also not going to follow. What do we do?"
Canti: Find the real Suraisu, if I'm right. Talal said he was fighting Dien. Come on!
(He went rushing off in a promising direction, but then he altered his direction as soon as Shadow ran in a somewhat different one. Why? Well basically, the Twin Blade had then given orders for the dark hound to locate Dien by his data profile. Piece of cake. They'd find this place he was at in short order. Takua followed, of course. Would
you want to be left behind? I think not. 'Cause, you see, ummm...Suraisu's pad exploded. No, seriously! The whole thing went up in flames and debris as a number of chains reached out of it to hoist up the Lightning Hulk. There was a somewhat-humanoid shape embedded inside alot of chains, using around six or so projected chains as legs. To what end? Why, to follow them of course! Home
vindictive security! It pierced ground, walls, and players in order to get where it was going. People were ghosted and the area was gettin' wrecked. Fortunately, Tak and Canti had taken the Gandalf advice.
Fly, you fools!)
Canti:
Wonder what happens if these two meet...?
(No time for pontificating now. Time to get the hell out of dodge. Strictly speaking, they were running, Ap Do'd still. Canti was actually low-level flying, but that didn't matter because he wasn't abandoning the others. Takua attempted to hit it with another Yarthkins, but that wasn't really doing much to hurt it or trip it up yet. This thing was like a much-more-sinister Doc Ock, and wouldn't be so easily tripped, tangled, or whatever. Also, he was gaining on them, slowly. In flight, Canti turned around to let off a rather big flamethrower-type darkness blast, returning to seeing where he was going shortly thereafter. Also, Shadow attempted to cast Dek Do on the pursuing Suraisu. Neither of these seemed to help all that much. You couldn't Dek 'im and the Darkness Flame didn't seem to hurt him much. Although...it DID look like he couldn't see there for a moment. Looking around, the Twin Blade tried to find something for the pursuer to hit if blinded, also so that he himself didn't fly into anything. Nothing special, just a gradual curve. Damn. From here, though...)
Canti: I have a cunning plan...
Shadow: Like the ones in
Black Adder.
Canti: Hell no! This one's gonna rock!
(The answer to his focusing-on-the-problem-at-hand issue? Canti landed on the Bogie's back and took a seat, facing the approaching killer-whatsit. Hey, as long as Shadow knew where HE was going, it was fine. And, if nothing else, he still had Takua's support when he needed it. Afterwhich, the Twin Blade proceeded to fire at face, torso, and the beginning points of chains-as-legs with Darkness Fireballs to see about knocking him off his balance, making him trip, etc. The good news is that it knocked the sucker around a bit and made 'im blind for a moment. The bad news is that that...was it. He didn't trip or fall or anything else. Phooey. Well, it wouldn't gain on them so long as he was shooting, at least, but that was hardly a solution. Okay... Fire two! Two tons, that is. The SP-buster that parted a mushroom cloud to make way for its evil. Canti fired a condensed and highly-explosive blast of darkness, putting his SP to zero to cause a monumental kaboom! To which, shortly thereafter, he turned to the accompanying Wavemaster and said...)
Canti: Well, I'm out of ideas. How 'bout you?
"Reinforcement from anyone else would be a great idea. Can we broadcast an SOS for anyone who thinks they can slow him down a bit? Barring that, I can keep bombarding him with spells while running to try and slow him down."
(The result of that big-ass attacked? It'd been knocked around alot and it was staggering quite a bit right now.)
Canti: Ummm...let's keep running for now, and lemme recover SP. Oh wait, I have items. Nevermind. Hiyo, Shadow! Awaaay!!
(In one hand, Canti was replenishing his SP with Made Souls. In the other, he hit the music selector and now there was some
loud music filling the area as they ran and rode the hell over of there, the Twin Blade riding bare Bogie-back. By the time they were out of sight from the creature, there was a hideous shriek of metal and they could hear it coming again with a vengeance!)
Canti: Tak, have you got any Resurrects?
"And Rip Maens."
Canti: Oh good. Because if push comes to shove, I've got a really stupid plan. In fact, three of them. But they depend entirely on you being alive so I can come back ghosted and get raised.
"Works for me, just lemme know."
(Their erstwhile tagalong gaining to a distance of two blocks from their behinds, the two Freedom Fighters got their rears fully in gear and headed still on to the arena they were suppose to hit. And damn straight, because there was NO WAY they were getting run over by Thor's gift to
God of War. The next part...happened very quickly, and all at once. {1} They arrived at the pit. {2} The chain monster arrived at the pit. {2} Dien was delivering his last blows to Suraisu. {4} Suraisu was ghosting and Dien was dying in agony. {5} Canti swore. It should be noted that, at this point, the chain-monster was now entirely berserk because Suraisu had been ghosted and this in turn allowed Takua, Canti, and Shadow to be swept into the pit with its chains
and it followed them... As this happened, the Twin Blade tried to get Suraisu's ghosted self to talk while Takua tried to resurrect him. No dice. Dien was risen just fine, but the Fist Fighter couldn't be targeted. He appeared to be...frozen at the point of death. That was very strange. Also, Dien was unable to fight because he was paralyzed or out cold or something. It was at this point that Canti realized something.)
Canti: He wait a second. I didn't revive this guy much. How come he isn't dead?
Shadow: Maybe it was completely darkness-immune?
Canti: Aw, dammit... I wish these things would say so next time!
(If darkness WAS useless, and it might be, then Shadow is looking like the biggest lost puppy since Zuul emerged in
Ghostbusters. Experimentally, Canti doth look at the thing and cast BiVak Rom, for color. This...produced a useful effect. The chains started glowing orange. Glowing chains
usually meant heating up to melt. Good! Of course, it started taking long chain-sweeps at Canti and he was forced to backwards somersault, watching life flash before his eyes on the embers of a glowing chain over his head. Takua, picking up on things quickly here, casted a couple deadly fire spells and brought the chains to a smoking red-hot as the both of them had to run avoidance now, taking to the sky a bit to get out of the way of the more-rapid swipe-attacks. Canti's foot still got hit, but that was negligable. To blind it again, Canti used the Darkness Flamethrower on it again and used his fire-based items on the monster while Takua unloaded on it again. The result? EXPLOSION!! Steel flies everywhere, and the two of them were almost killed! Almost...but not close enough. Now, they had two Suraisu's one on top of the other. And incidentally, mostly everyone ran. The only people that would be here now was their own, such as Talal. Canti resurrects Dien - because the explosion had killed him again - and then...wonders what the hell to do. See, it looked like they had enough people to carry everyone out, but unfortunately...the Suraisu twins here couldn't be moved at all, by anything. They were frozen together like one bit of scenery now.)
Canti: Demorian, where the HELL are you when we need you?!
(Answer? Nowhere to be found. What happened to him? He was the one the Twin Blade had actually called, but he didn't show up. Something must've happened... Canti sent Takua ahead to get Dien out of here before he somehow ended up dead
again. He remained with Shadow in the pit, and nobody else around except Talal. He looked and he poked and he prodded to figure out anything he could about the pair of frozen Fist Fighters. He had Shadow analyze it anyway he could, but it wasn't any help. They both matched as Suraisu, but that couldn't be right. Canti...was far from pleased about any of this. Dien was gonna get it for this. He was going to be in the more royal-ass trouble and the Twin Blade now felt like he'd explode because of it. He tried to remain objective and sarcastic about it. It didn't help.)
Canti: Well, this plan is a bust. Dien went nuts, I battled with home security, and maybe neither of these is even him! God dammit, I didn't want this!! Try to do something right for a change...
(Instead, the yelled-out part was loud enough to carry some distance, sounding like Canti was really raging for a moment. He managed to find some of his indoor-voice as both he and Shadow got out of the spikey pit, either by flight or by agility. But let's just face it. He's pissed. It seems they'll go home empty-handed again.)