Triplet Wraiths

Chapter 1

Hurried footsteps ran through the stone clad hallways of the labyrinth in which was the main field of battle for the boss. The ghoul named Kairas followed quickly as Kirito ran. He needed to think of something to do, but nothing came to mind. There wasn't enough room in these hallways to fight the creature. Plus he had to dodge the barbs in which Kairas sot out for they drained your health. Kirito however found it easy to take random turns in order to prevent the boss from learning and predicting his movements.

Kirito noticed a red glow coming from behind him. A sign he now recognized all too well now. He jumped down an adjoining hallway just as the path he was on was engulfed in red flames. A highly damaging attack that he almost was killed earlier by when the beast first used it. Kairas is too difficult to fight alone. Yet bringing him towards the others could risk more casualties.

However Kirito needed the help and decided that the assistance would be better than not fighting the thing at all while it hunted him down. But where could he go, this whole place was maze and Kirito had no idea of where to go. So far he had just been wandering in random directions. Kirito was actually starting to get exhausted from all the running he had been doing, yet any stop in his steps that lasted too long would surely end in his death.

He continued running, although it was getting hard to breath. A part of the games realistic simulation, which made it somewhat burdensome. Kirito figured that now it would try to shoot it's barbs at him. Kirito made a quick turn just in time to see the barb coming for him and he blocked it with his blade, then after continuing in his flight.

Kirito made a right turn to see that it was a dead end. Without stopping he turned around and ran back under Kairas who attempted to crush him into the ground with its fist. Kirito now came around again to a different bend in which he turned. He had relieve because down the hall he saw a group of people walking the opposite direction. Some of them dressed in dark green, some in the royal colored armor, and one of them in normal garb. It was Leafa's group, which he recalled was lead by a guild captain named Yukato from the Altrea Militia.

"HEY! GUYS!" Kirito called out to them.

A few of them turned and looked at him who was running. Probably not to long afterward, Kairas turned the corner because he saw them readying their weapons. However even though they were prepared they didn't know the grim realities of this creatures power.

"Don't let its barbs hit you!" Kirito said as he approached.

An archer nocked his bow and fired at Kairas, hitting the creature straight in the chest and it screamed out in pain. As the archer kept firing the others got into battle formation. Kairas soon approached, furious with his monsters rage.

"You look like you were in a predicament," Yukato said to Kirito.

"You could say that" Kirito said as he turned to face the oncoming beast.

Kairas now flew above them and tried punching them into the ground again. Luckily it was an easy to see tactic and the group was able to dodge it. Those who didn't need to dodge such an attack took that chance to attack the beasts arm. Taking a considerable amount of damage out of its health. Kirito estimated that it now was missing an entire tenth of its health.

Kairas let out a shriek of fury, just before shooting down his barbs at the people below. Kirito just like he had always been doing, blocked the attack. However two others haven't been so lucky and Kairas started draining their health. The two soldiers tried pulling the barbs out but couldn't. It was stuck in place. It was happeing again. People who had been unlucky enough to get hit by the barbs themselves will be completely helpless till they died, nothing could stop it.

Kairas continued absorbing their energy, out of reach by any of the soldiers except for the archer. The archer who's arrows did far too little damage to stop Kairas from his syphoning. What were they going to do?

"How about we cut off it's supply?" Yukato said.

Yukato then turned and slashed out his blade at the two soldiers. Then there was the clatter of two pieces of barb falling to the ground. He had cut the tips off of the bars and Kirito immediately realized that Kairas could no longer syphon health from the two soldiers. So that's how you stop it from draining your health down to zero.

Kairas grew furious at the beings who had discovered how to fight against it's syphoning ability. In rage the creature swooped down and flew straight at them, ready to slash the players to pieces. However Kirito wasn't going to let this thing kill another person.

Running straight on toward Kairas full of energy and devotion Kirito jumped onto the creatures back. Slamming his sword into its head and dragging it along the length of the creatures back his blade cut through the creature's entire body. The creature shrieked in pain as the blade sliced it draining the health at an incredible rate.

Once Kirito had cut all the way through the creatures health had been completely drained. Kairas glowed red and then bursted into a downpour of light signifying the creatures death. A box show just above Kairas' spot which said "Kairas Defeated! Survivors health fully replenished." Just as the gui said, each of the players health was fully restored.

"Now lets finish this," Kirito said.