The Next Two

You're running down the halls, curious as to exactly what the hell you're going to do about whoever happens to be the ringleader- you're sure it's the dragon or the tiger. More and more and more of those stupid veggie-people along the way, which is wearing you down, bit by bit, because you don't want to waste your spirit gun or Shotgun on it.

But the next one to fight is actually the rat. Who isn't a rat himself, but has millions of them with him. You're reminded of Willard. You start making walls around the many many many rats, sort of like jezzball. You put a small barrier around the main demon, then you put a very large one around all the little rats, and you start to make the small one grow and the large one shrink until all you can see is a mess of blood, and then you let the smaller barrier on the inside go, and you hear gurgling noises of the rat demon drowning in blood. ((I thought it sounded cool. ... Shut up, and STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!))

"That was creative," Hiei says as you walk around the barrier, ignoring the rats you missed, and starting to knock through some more of the veggie people.

"I hope we get a challenge, next. This is getting old," you say aloud. "They're as annoying as the stupid veggie people." You knock a few more down and fight to get through them.

Someone drops out of the ceiling. He reminds you of Byakko, but he's much bigger height-wise and skinnier. "You get your wish," he says, dropping onto all fours. "But this challenge will be the one to kill you."

"Oh, good," you say, stretching and pulling out your sword. He grins at you. You rush forward and hold your sword out to stab him, but he grabs the blade and breaks it, then hits you against a wall. You laugh and drop the hilt.

"You know, that probably just saved my life," you say. "Weapons aren't my style."

"Oh?" You kick off the wall and launch yourself at him, using a powered up fist to punch him in the ribs, then bounce off the opposite wall at his head. He catches you and throws you to the floor, then starts to stomp on you, but you make a spike out of your energy and push it up and above you, so he impales his foot on it and starts screaming. Unfortunately, he picks his foot back up before you can move, so the energy that you've yet to disconnect from the rest of you hauls you with him, until he shakes his foot and you drop the spike, rolling up onto the floor. He roars, now pissed, and lunches at you. You curl into a ball and do it again, this time looking more like a morningstar's ball, with spikes jutting everywhere. He impales himself on it, then throws you into a wall where you comically stick. You let the spikes fall again and you fall to the floor, landing in a crouch, leaving you with hardly enough time to jump out of the way of the monstrous balls of energy he's launching at you out of his throat. You get hit with the first one, then you jump out of the way, making a gun with your fingers and you point it at him.

"SPIRIT GUN!" you roar, shooting a very powerful blast at him, knocking him to the floor. He roars at you and gets up and launches at you again, only this time, you punch him in the face, inverting his snout.

"Well-" you begin.

"Impressive!" the rat behind you says. "Very impressive! But you didn't finish me!"

You step forward and look at him, grinning. "Hello, little rat," you say. "I'm sorry I didn't finish our game. But now I'm free to do so, so let's go."

He grows, quite suddenly, to about twenty feet tall ((Yes, he can do that, even inside.)) and lowers himself onto all fours and breathes on you. A greenish-gray gas comes out of his mouth and you cover your mouth with your cloak and Hiei breathes through his sleeve. Your eyes are watering, though, and you can't see. Something hits you hard over your torso and you fly into the wall, being pressed there by something. All the air in your lungs is literally forced out of you, making an incredible sound. You hear Hiei swear and something screams.

Knife...? Spirit sword? What's a knife? Is it like a dagger, FOCUS! You think for a minute struggling to think hard enough about what you need to do with your energy to do it, before you finally just rock against whatever it is, and listen to Hiei try to fight it.

Hiei
The smoke leaves the rat's mouth, and you cover your mouth instinctually. Kali puts her cloak over her mouth, but the cloth is too light, or her eyes are too easily affected, and she doesn't see the rat's tail as it swings towards her and hits her. It's moving too fast for even you to do anything about, so you swear to yourself and leap up at its face. It catches your leg in its mouth, but doesn't manage to sink it's teeth too deeply into you before you stab it in the muzzle. It screams, of course, but doesn't let go enough to let you free. You hear some coughs, and when you poke into her mind, you have to leave very quickly before you get caught in it, too, and get confused and lost.

"Release my leg and I'll consider easing your pain rather than letting her do it her way," you threaten futilely at the rat.

"Hahaha, ease my pain? Let her do it?" it slurs, taking you by the middle in one hand. "She's too busy dying to kill me, and I certainly don't see what good you're doing!" it cackles. You reach up and cut its hand off, which pins you to the ground briefly before you can get up.

"Alright, alright!"

You
"Alright, alright!" the demons shrieks. You fall to the floor and scramble desperately for good air, having run out a while ago, but not being able to move too quickly at all. You hear footsteps behind you and you feel arms help you to the good air and you sit on your feet on the floor, breathing deeply, all too aware of how much the oxygen is missed.

"Are you okay?" you ask Hiei, hearing your voice sound oddly hollow.

"I'm fine," he says, grabbing your arm and pulling you to your feet. You go back to racing down the halls.