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Chapter 20

The battle went on...and I thought it'd never end. There were bodies on the ground and the Priests were tired. Wizards were forced to use brute force and the Hunters were pressed back to back.

Just as I finished off a Bloody Murderer, I turned around and witnessed another slaughter. Upgrade rant to help the dieing Blacksmith, but it was too late. The Dullahan devoured the poor guy and Upgrade was infuriated.

"TWO HAND QUICKEN!" He yelled and charged towards the mob that killed the Blacksmith. With a few lightning fast slashes, the Duhallan was reduced to tiny pieces of rotten flesh. Upgrade was now surrounded and I ran to help.

"Guard! Shield Reflect!" The protective spells surround myself and protected me a fair bit as I ran to the knight. "I'm coming Upgrade!"

"Argh!" Upgrade was wounded by the butcher knife of a Bloody Murderer. "God damn it!" He was on the ground and thrust his Perfect Two Handed Sword of Verserk into the monster's side, upwards. The blade re-appeared through it's shoulder, and the monster fell onto him. "Oh shit man. That stinks."

"Grand Cross!" I chanted, getting rid of the mob. I pried the dead Bloody Murderer off Upgrade and helped him up. "You alright?" He was bleeding too much.

"I'll be fine..." Upgrade winced as he got up from the ground. He held his wound and clenched his teeth. "I'll be fine..." Before I could protest, I noticed that the monsters stopped.

"Get to the cart." I said, eyeing the monsters. "Get to the cart, Upgrade." The dark power inside me was fighting for control.

"Upgrade, in the cart, now." Dante rode up beside me. "There's something coming." I couldn't answer. "Hikaru?"

"HANYA!" I looked up as Raisu's voice was heard...and there it was. The 'Wolf of the Moon' showed itself. The overgrown canine held the wounded Hanya in it's large right paw and roared. "Hold on!" Raisu charges towards the monster, spear first.

"Raisu! Don't be stupid!" I ran after the girl with my sword out. "s-STOP!" My armor was tightening around my body.

"Idiots!" Tempest buffed us with his spells and prepared heal. Crono began finishing off the monsters around us who started attacking once more.

"Pierce!" Raisu chanted, her Perfect Halberd of Verserk pierced the werewolf's skin. "PIERCE!" However, the attacks did not exactly do any good. The Werewolf roared with anger and it's left paw came down at my commander.

"Sacrifice!" I yelled and a pink light connected me to Raisu. The blow was re-directed at me and knocked me out.