"Save me Demetrius!" yelled the damsel in distress caged behind the hidden shadowy bad guy.
"I'm coming Miss!" yelled back the sharply dressed, gun wielding Toad that went by the name of Demetrius while he ran past the fireballs and sliding under thwomps strangely thankful he didn't have a fedora.
"Hurry!" she yelled at him impatiently at the Hero of a Toad who was steadily closing the gap between them; just then the hidden shadow of evil stepped in-between the damsel and her savior, although he stepped into the light of the dark dungeon he was still a shadow.
"How can this be?" thought Demetrius absentmindedly because he was focused on the fact that the beauty that he was saving was turned away from him, yet, he could hear her clearly; must be the acoustics in this pit.
It wasn't until he was sliding backwards on his butt that he noticed the shadow that was in the light; the outline was humanoid, that much was certain, the limbs were small but torso was huge. Demetrius glanced at the top of the shadow's domed, flat-horned head and he saw that the only hairs on the head looked like it was a non-clipped moustache. This was all he could look at before we realized that he must fight this person to get the girl.
Demetrius quickly jumped to his feet and shot at the shadow, at least, he tried shooting the shadow; he had raised his arm and pulled his finger but nothing happened. He looked down at his hand to see what the problem was and he did see the problem, however the problem could not be easily fixed because there was no gun in his hand to fix. He looked around and saw the gun, it was in the hand of the shadow pointed at him.
It was obvious that things were not going well for Demetrius, he was at the wrong end of his gun and he couldn't really see his opponent, all he could see was one option. It was time to fight unfair. Demetrius ran left, stopped shortly, making sure the shadow man was turning to follow him, and ran like crazy into the shadows into the right hoping that the shadow man could not see into the shadows. He ran along the wall to the cage checking to make sure that the shadow was confused, if he was looking forwards he might not have run right off a cliff. His last thought was
"Ouch".