Chapter 7 - The Boundless Distrusting Maze - Part 2

*Bonus*

Stryker

Weapon: Fiend Spear (Skill Drain)

Head: Peasent's Hat

Body: Spirit Armor

Hands: Air Bracer

Legs/Feet: Ranger's Boots

Skills: Repulse Cage, Double Sweep, Juk Kruz, Repth, Rip Teyn, Dek Juka, Ap Corma

Kenji

Weapon: Devil Blade (Skill Drain)

Head: Ice Helm

Body: Frost Armor

Hands: Hands Of Water

Legs/Feet: Aqua Guard

Skills: Sohgasho, Ap Ruem, Dek Ruem, Rip Teyn

Shagg-ii

Weapon: Cedar Wand

Head: Steel Cap

Body: Kagayuzen

Hands: Silver Bracer

Legs/Feet: Leg Mail

Skills: Juk Rom, MeJuk Kruz, Repth, Miu Lei, Rai Rom

The party seems to be making good time, bypassing a few portals to save time, but now they must encounter a portal.

"Right or left? Either way is a fight. Shagg-ii, you left handed or right?" Stryker asks an odd question to Shagg-ii.

"I'm left handed, why?"

"Left it is then, prepare for a fight." Stryker runs down the left side path and triggers the portal. A Hobgoblin and Hell Doberman appear.

"I have the pooch, you get the demon thing. Keep us healthy Shagg-ii. For starters, Dek Ruem." Kenji begins his onslaught of the Hell Doberman.

"Right, the demon thing. Let's follow suit, Dek Juka." Stryker does as Kenji does and lowers the opponents defenses first.

"I'll stand back and watch HP, I want to fight next time." Shagg-ii steps back and prepares to heal.

"Sure, but for...," Kenji was suddenly hit by the Hell Dobermans Juk Kruz. "Lucky that wasn't an Elemental Hit."

"Repth! Repth! There, back to good. Now I want to try something." Shagg-ii runs up out of his defensive position and begins an attack on the Hell Doberman. "Miu Lei! Take some charm!"

"Watch out!" Just as Stryker was screaming his warning, Shagg-ii was hit by the Hobgoblins club and his HP went to 0.

"Wha? What happened?" Shagg-ii is looking around but can't do anything but walk and talk. "Why am I grey?"

"Juk Kruz! There, Hobgoblin dead. Finish off that Hell Doberman soon, we need to move." Sounding annoyed, Stryker ignores Shagg-iis question and begins to walk away.

"Yeah, uh, sure. Sohgasho!" Kenji kills off the Hell Doberman and takes a quick look to Shagg-ii's ghost before switching to whisper mode. "Are you planning on leaving him a ghost? It's not his fault. You were new once."

"New or not, we told him to stay back. Fine, I'll revive him." Stryker goes down his items menu, selects a Resurrect and uses it on Shagg-ii. Switching back to party talk mode, he tries to keep his calm as he tells Shagg-ii, "We told you to stay back and heal. Your level is still low. If you keep dying like this, it will slow us down. Heal yourself then replenish your SP. Let's keep moving."