Y'know, I really don't need this section for notes at the top, but I just felt like leaving this section for notes at the top. Read on!
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Taking on a couple of Sin Scissors and Sin Scythes, Dante made it to the bedroom where he had first seen his brother as Nelo Angelo. He looked at himself in the mirror there. This mirror had once led him into the mirror version of this castle. Now the mirror was an ordinary mirror. Dante was frustrated. All the doors out of here were locked, and he was trapped in. The mirror was the final place he checked: but no, this place also led to nowhere. Dante went back outside.
Hey, was that an object where the Death Sentence had once been? He ran over, and collected it; the "Matukhi's Glare". Dante did not have any more luck opening the doors now he had the Glare, so he sat once more in the bedroom. He was feeling drowsy all of a sudden.
Dante locked the bedroom's door to stop anything unpleasant getting in (He was too sleepy to remember the Sins could go through walls), and rested on the bed. He soon fell into a deep slumber.
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Dante realised in his sleep that the drowsiness had came from the Matukhi's Glare. Now he was trapped in a nightmarish dream, running through a cursed forest where all the trees tried to crush him. He tripped into a hole in the forest floor.
The hole led to the main hall of the castle, but the gravity was flipped sideways and everywhere was constantly rippling and warping. A large red blur floated through the air. A face formed in it…
"I am Matukhi!" It yelled. Poisonous red gases exploded from the walls, catching fire and nearly roasting Dante. Dante tripped over. Matukhi vanished, and a wave of fire appeared on the ceiling and roared down to Dante.
"I'll fight fire with fire!" Dante said, equipping the Ifrit gauntlets and punching the wave of fire away.
"You are tough." Matukhi grinned. "But not tough enough."
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Clinton didn't want to go underwater. This was increased by the sudden thought that his Glock wouldn't work down there. He tried climbing up the wall to the skylight, but sealed up and he was too wet to climb anyway. He spotted something shining on the ground near him; a Needle Gun. Clinton was armed, and so he decided to take the plunge.
He swam through the underwater tunnel until he reached a secret door. The door closed behind him, leaving him in his new surroundings. All he had done is learn Blades are no fun underwater and he could get lost if he tried.
He was in a circular corridor. There were holes in the floor, which looked ominous. To his left there was a spike wall with a skeleton impaled on it. As Clinton struggled out of the water, he grabbed onto the skeleton's arm for support.
The corridor was now moving like a conveyer belt towards the spike wall. Clinton ran away from it, but spikes were leaping up from the holes in the floor. Great. A trap.
Clinton struggled away and slowly but surely got out of the trap room via an elevator. It hadn't helped that he was wet. Now he was by a large natural waterfall. There was a stand with a sword in it. Clinton pulled it out…
Grace, a sword with a blade that draws energy from nearby evil. The more evil a foe is the more powerful Grace is.
A Kyklops smashed through the cliff face behind the waterfall and ran at Clinton. He swung Grace to and fro at the massive earthy spider, and caught it straight in its one big eye. The blinded Kyklops stumbled into the cliff wall heavily, causing loose rocks to fall and destroy it. The two exits were these: one cave, which was locked by one of those door-hands, and the hole the Kyklops had made when it entered. Clinton went through the Kyklops hole.
It directed him to a waterway. Clinton fought some Marionettes and a Death Scissors but eventually managed to find… another waterway. He seemed to be going around in circles. (These are the waterways that Dante saw in this place, except there are more waterways opened up now.) Clinton sat down in a large circular chamber after an hour's getting lost. What now? Three Beezelbubs hovered nearby.
Clinton was about ready to give up and let the bugs eat him, but he instead raised his Glock and shot down two of the pitiful creatures. The other one got close enough for a direct hit from Grace.
When the last Beezelbub fell, a hatch opened in the wall. Clinton clambered through it. He had to crawl in the small space. The tiles changed to grit and rock.
Eventually, the tunnel collapsed under Clinton, and he was dropped on one side of a hand-barrier. He could faintly see through. On the other side was the waterfall where he had collected Grace. Bah! All that time spent on practically nothing. At least he could keep moving. There were red orb doors already opened, like someone had been here. Dante seemed to know this Island, maybe it was him.
Clinton was still not sure on his path, but he found some sort of coliseum. Like the entire Island it was a ruined version of its former self. Huge webs were everywhere, and Baby Phantoms were scuttling all over the ground. Several sleeping Kyklops were in the webs. Clinton stepped on one of the Baby Phantoms and it squeaked. One of the Kyklops woke up. It called to another, and another. Soon all six Kyklops were awake. But that wasn't it… A massive shape pulled itself from the ground, fire all over its hairy body and a scorpion tail lashing out as if it was feeling the air.
Phantom glared his beady eyes at Clinton. "Well, well. Think you can come in here and step on my young?"
Clinton was aware that the six Kyklops were behind him. "The heel of my 400 red orb shoes much appreciated it." Clinton said. On the upper floor he could see a statue of time. Clinton rolled sideways and into the tornado that teleports you to the top floor. He ran to the statue of time. "That's worth my money." Clinton said, buying a skill under the category 'Grace'.
He jumped back to the ground floor, the Kyklops behind him and Phantom in front. He used his new skill, Gracious Spin.
Clinton stabbed his sword into the ground, and holding the swords handle, swung himself in a wide circle at the spiders. Grace's energy channelled through him, and two of the Kyklops who had got a little too close were knocked flying. Clinton retrieved Grace and slashed at the other Kyklops. Three more fell, but he had to leave the last one because Phantom was attacking him. Clinton used the wall to propel himself into the air. While being flung over Phantom, he got in several lucky shots on his back with the Glock. Phantom yelled, his health decreased by 25%. Clinton landed on the other Kyklops and stabbed it in the back. It collapsed with a pathetic whine. Now the distractions were out of the way, Clinton could fight Phantom properly.