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Note: I love this quote! What was that guy thinking!

Probably The Toughest Time in Anyone's Life Is When You Have To Murder A Loved One Because They're The Devil.

Emo Phillips

Yuri grabbed my wrist. His eyes blazed with fury, and he didn't look so much like Yuri anymore.

"You're going to regret that" he whispered to me. He held my right arm high above my head, while with my left arm I struggled to find my gun. As Margarite reached us he flung me aside. I hit the wall of the church, and slid down to the ground. I muttered the words to my healing spell as I finally managed to locate my gun. Margarite had managed to shoot the creature, which was looking less like Yuri by the minute, but the wounds didn't seem to be having much effect. Holding her gun out in front of her she looped around until she was standing in front of me. As I finished healing myself and stood up she stepped back and reloaded. I shot the thing, but the wounds, though they did seem to cause it pain, closed up almost as fast as I could inflict them.

When I ran out of bullets, Margarite took over. I reloaded quickly, but then seeing that she was hurt, prepared to cure her. The creature, which now looked nothing like Yuri, stepped forward and hit me, jolting me out of my chant. I began again quickly, chanting the arc spell this time as the thing continued to hit Margarite. Her right arm was wounded now, and she couldn't aim as well with her left. Seeing that she was too weak to really hurt it, the creature turned back to me. I continued chanting, focusing on the spell, as it raised its arm higher and higher above my head, preparing to strike me again.

Suddenly it turned, startled, howling with pain. I looked beyond it, and there stood Karin, holding her grandfather's sword. I finished chanting the spell, and Margarite stood up, fully healed. She shot it again and again while Karin continued to attack.

I knew its name now. I had recognised it. We had fought its brother before. Yamaraja.

It hit Karin, knocking her away, and then turned back to Margarite. I began healing again, first Karin, then Margarite over and over as it switched it's attentions between them. I could feel my sanity slipping away, and I also knew I did not have much mental energy left. Still I continued healing, knowing our only hope was to kill it before it killed us.

I could see that the creature was beginning to weaken. Then it turned its attentions towards me, knocking me off my feet. I couldn't cure anymore, I wasn't strong enough. I tried to stand up, but couldn't. I watched as Karin and Margarite did their best to defeat it, but they were also growing weaker and weaker.

Is this how it ends? I thought. Suddenly, an arm appeared in my vision. I looked around. It was Zhuzhen. The creature handed noticed him yet.

"Here," he whispered, using a talisman of luck on me. He then handed me some mana extract, and, as I felt my mental health return, three lots of thera extract. "For them," he whispered. I nodded. The creature had not noticed us yet but it was only a matter of time. Zhuzhen stood up, and moved away from me, towards the mouth of the alley. The creature was facing away, toward Karin and Margarite. Zhuzhen hit it with his ogre flame dance.

The creature turned angrily. As it followed him down the alleyway, I threw two of the thera extracts to Margarite and Karin, and used one myself.

Within a few seconds, we followed the creature down the alleyway. Margarite shot it and as it turned, I slipped behind it, to stand next to Zhuzhen. It was pinned between us now, Zhuzhen and I, and Karin and Margarite. Karin and Margarite hit it over and over, while Zhuzhen cast various black spells upon it and I healed. Zhuzhen also used items to keep us healthy when I couldn't cure.

"It's weakening!" Cried Zhuzhen, finally. We could all see he was right. The creature's movements were slower now, more sluggish. Karin hit it again. Behind the creature, I could see Margarite kneeling, her face pale and drawn.

"Margarite's hurt!" I told Zhuzhen. I did not have enough the strength left to cure her. Zhuzhen reached into his pocket and pulled out another thera extract, throwing it across the creatures back while Karin distracted it.

As Margarite stood up, the creature turned back to Zhuzhen. Howling in fury it slashed him across the face. Zhuzhen slumped down, looking frantically through his pockets, but not finding anything. I carried on shooting at the creature, as it howled again and struck Zhuzhen, knocking him backwards, out of my range of vision. I couldn't risk turning around.

"Karin!" Yelled Margarite. "Run behind it! Keep it trapped!"

Karin did so, landing a few hits on the creature as she passed. It turned towards us, looking even weaker.

"We can finish it!" I said. Karin didn't answer. Instead, she drew back her weapon and prepared to strike the creature once more. I readied my gun.

Then, suddenly it was Yuri again, who stood before us. Yuri, injured and weak, looking like a small child. Yuri…

I was only dimly aware of Karin beside me, frozen as I was. Suddenly a shot rang out, and the creature slumped forward, changing once again into the Yamaraja of war that it always was before breaking into a thousand pieces and disappearing into the ether.

I looked across at Margarite. Margarite was staring at Karin. Karin was staring behind me, at Zhuzhen.

Zhuzhen.