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Chapter 21

When I awoke, I was seeing everything in red again and my body was out of control. I gripped my sword tightly in my hand and lunged at the Werewolf and Raisu. I missed Raisu and sliced off the Werewolf's arm instead, to my relief. The blood splattered over my armor and face...and the gore fueled the Spirit of Anger.

"Hikaru!" I heard the faint yell from my commander. "Get a hold of yourself!"

I kept lunging at the monster, careless and disregarding Hanya who was still in the grip of the Werewolf.

"He's going to hurt Hanya!" Crono yelled and ran forward. He tried to freeze me with a Storm Gust, but the spell was too weak. I broke out of the ice and turned my attention to the Wizard. "Ohhh crap." He backed off, ready to run.

Before I could lunge at him, the Werewolf took this opportunity to swing a punch at me. I fell to the side and hit a rock on the ground. The Spirit of Anger started to fade away as the pain was realized.

'No...stay, just a bit longer...' I needed the strength of the evil spirit to defeat this great beast. I begged it to come back. 'Come back!' It was gone.

"Heal!" Tempest realized I was back to normal and tried to Heal me as much as he could, but he was short on Spirit Power and the Werewolf did not back off. "Watch out!"

"Bowling Bash!" Kyle came to my rescue and pushed the monster away. "Get up already!" He spat out at me and returned his attention to the Werewolf. "Two Hand Quicken!"

I stood up, weak and wobbling a bit. My head was bleeding, but we needed as many people to help fight as we could get. I gripped my sword again and took a deep breath. I could feel Raisu's gaze on me as I lunged at the monster again.

"Holy Cross!" I started spamming the spell desperately. "Holy Cross! Holy Cross! HOLY CROSS!"

"Pierce!" Raisu and Chuu appeared beside me. The spell got the Werewolf to loose it's grip on Hanya, who dropped to the ground. Hwan quickly brought the heavily wounded sin to Tempest who tended to his wounds.

Before long, most of the minion monsters were destroyed and all able fighters tried to fight off the Werewolf. Dante, however, wasn't one of them.

"Double Strafe!" Hwan shot the wolf with precision, but the arrows did near to nothing.

"It's not use!" Crono sat down in the background, trying to recover Spirit Power. "We're losing men and it's just going to keep killing us off."

"We can't retreat either!" Raisu blocked a blow with her halberd. "We can't turn back!" She pushed the arm away and prodded at the monster. "It'll just mean more monsters." She was tired and her blows were weakening.

"Sacrifice!" I chanted again and the pink light connected us both once again.

"Hikaru." She looked at me, worried.

"Just fight, Rai." Was all I said before running into the battlefield again.

We bother slashed at different places of the monster, trying to find a weakness. Many times, we were almost crushed by the overgrown fur ball. Soon, however, Hanya was up. He ran into the battlefield and Hid himself.

"Sonic Blow!" We heard him cast the spell and we looked up. He ended up on the back of the Werewolf and hit the back of the wolf's neck.

The wolf roared in pain and shook the Assassin off it's back. Crono ran up and tried to catch the Assassin, but instead made a cushion for him. I looked at Raisu and we both nodded with a smirk.

"Hwan, aim for the eyes." Raisu commanded. "Hikaru, keep him busy."

"We're using strategy now?" I joked and took my position in from of the enraged Werewolf.

"Shut up."

Hwan aimed for the wolf's eyes, but because of it's raging movement, he had only gotten one of it's eyes. I danced around in front of the monster and blocked it's blows. Raisu was trying to make it behind the monster without being hit. Before long, she had jumped onto the wolf's back and took out her knife.

"JUST DO IT!" I yelled as I was beginning to be crushed. The wolf looked into my eyes...provoking the Spirit of Anger. "RAISU!"

"AHHH!" Raisu's knife dug deep into the Werewolf's neck and it reared itself again. Chuu caught Raisu and quickly rode back. The wolf was going crazy and wasn't exactly dying. A faint bit of my berserk strength came back...and I couldn't think clearly.

"GRAND CROSS!" I yelled blindly. The light consumed the monster...and during the flash, I managed to stick my flamberge into the monster's gut...thanks to the strength of the Spirit of Anger.

I blacked out again.