Serge was trying to keep his men back far enough to effectively flank the cereature as the panicked giant Oni reached for the young woman driving the point of her climbing axe repeatedly into it's naked skull; both spending their respective energies to no avail.
Carter was running and dodging in front of the armor plated beheamoth, trying to distract it from Lara.
"ARE YOU MENTAL?!," she screamed at the grinning Evan, "GET AWAY FROM HIM!"
"Nag nag nag!," he laughed, "You first! You impossibly hot, Crazy monkey! Besides, when will I ever get the chance to do this again?"
"Stick around," she sighed, "you nutter," then shook her head and barely dodged being snatched by the beast as it reached for her.
Carter reached into an ammo belt and popped two shells into a double barrel , sawed-off shotgun,"Ok, funs over. I'm getting damn near purple balls watching you bounce around "
"Charming,"Lara giggled, smiling at her lover as the oni raised it's mace once more, swung... and missed.
"HEY! SOLOMON GRUNDY!" Evan shouted at the giant.
The oni spun instantly it's massive head inches from the Brit, It's hands lifting the mace once more.
"Have a shot, on me," the killer said with a cockey grin "Ah hell, MAKE IT A DOUBLE!" and shot the beast in the face with both barrels of the sawed off shotgun; an act he immediately regreted as it mostly shrugged off what should have removed it's head, and grabbed the gun from his fist, and crushed the barrel. "AH! Eight hundred 'cool points'... GONE!" Carter roared in frustration at the sky, "ENOUGH WITH THE UNKILLABLE BULLSHIT ALREADY!"
"YOU TWO!," Serge roared, as Jean raised the SAW to his shoulder, "GET DOWN!"
Lara and Evan dove to the ground as the Foreighn legionaires opened fire on the beast as one. It absorbed over three thousand rounds of ammuinition.
It kicked the huge plane fusilage, knocking five of the elite soldiers to the ground, all five badly injured. It then advanced on Jean who stood his ground, determined to do some damage. It lifted it's huge mace and swung it at the huge soldiers head, missing as Evan dove on the African giant, just saving his life.
Lara watched this, confused as to the beasts seeming invulnerabilty. It had gone down before... hadn't it? This time it was inexhaustible. How? She looked down at the brightly glowing ruby in her hand.
The Oni lifted it's booted foot over the heads of the two men. Suddenly a single gunshot rang out, and the giant's right eye vanished, just for a moment - it was enough, Evan and Jean rolled out of the way.
The Oni turned to the source of the bullet. Serge stood, right hand extended, holding a Desert Eagle 357 magnum, "Yes, you forgot me. I'm offended by your insensitive disregard of my person... You inconsiderate prick. I assure you I am just as much fun as these other enfants."
The oni roared at him.
Serge roared back, "Yeah, yeah, real impressive, all big and bad... but no vocabulary. 'Con'."
"I don't think he understands french slang," Carter yelled out as he and Jean retreived their respective guns.
"Which proves the point," Serge answered.
The oni advanced on him.
"Or not," the frenchmen backed away, emptying the gun uselessly and tripped.
Carter and Jean dove on the giant's legs, bringing it down for only a moment as it kicked them off like a pair of toy dogs.
Serge got up and kicked the giant in the head, and got grabbed by the ankle. The beast pressed it's upper body up with it's free arm, sending Serge onto his back, his leg still trapped. It brought it's right leg up to it's chest, and made to stand.
Five succesive heavy impacts to it's head sent it reeling, releasing the frenchman.
The three men left standing turned and faced their savior.
Lara stood on a rise, in her hands a Browning Automatic Rifle... with one modification: the ruby talismen was duct taped to the barrel. "Remember me?"
It turned, it's flesh dripping from it's face and head.
"You're very unpleasant... playing dead all this time. I feel cheated," she chidded.
It picked up it's mace, carefully.
She cocked her head, and smirked, "Shall we see whose is bigger? pretty boy?"
The mace went flying.
She dropped, and rolled.
The mace came crashing into the cliff where Lara had been standing only a moment before.
She lifted the gun, and again leveled it at the Oni's head, and opened fire. The bullets (the length of a ballpoint pen) glowed red as they exited the barrel.
The giant's nose was destroyed, his right eye socket, his right cheekbone; still - he kept coming.
She fired till the gun was spent, and the creature was left with one eye and a demolished upper set of teeth.
It reached for her.
She threw the gun as far away as she could from the creature, and dove away.
The oni touched it's face and advancecd on the wounded soldiers.
"'L'!,"Carter shouted, and pointed to a pair of grenade belts by her feet, "We'll take care of the wounded, you give him a trim."
Lara grabbed the belts, then ran at the giant Oni as the three men rushed in front of it to pull the downed men toward safty as the beast advanced, and reached for one. She was on him, throwing the belts around it's thick neck, and locked them together behind it's head.
The oni ignored her as it lifted it's wounded prey, and dripped his blood into it's ruined mouth. It began healing.
Lara began pulling the grenade pins as the giant ripped the soldiers kevlar vest open and raised it's hand to his exposed abdomen.
Carter jumped up, and pulled the legionaire down just as Lara dove off.
The oni looked around, lifted it's boot over Carter...
Carter closed his eyes, and whispered to the wounded man, "Real men don't watch explosions, eh? They just strut away, looking cool... Right? Yeah - If they want to die." he covered his head with his arms as he shielded the wounded soldier he just rescued as the oni's head blew apart instantly, and it's massive body fell over backward with a massive thud and immediatly began to disintergrate into dust, leaving behind rapidly rotting armor, and an equaly quickly disolving scrap of linen on which was a single ancient Hebrew symbol.