Heya, in this scene, the MC is still half-baked and loses easily to the enemy even whilst fighting in a group.
(Bad Language and cuss words involved)
I step forwards after Airo, and suddenly my foot snags on something. I glance down, and see nothing. Elemental's noticed, and I see his eyes dart across the ground. Then they widen. I turn and see what he's seeing. From a particular angle, the ground is covered with thousands of threads, each one far too thin for us to see with naked eyes. It's just the blue light from main cave is spilling through a crack in the rocky walls and the from that angle the threads catch the light. They're using the few rocks jutting out of the ground as waypoints to criss-cross across the whole cave.
"Run," I say.
"Too late," Exqua replies.
He lifts his other hand, blue threads on all of his fingers.
"Welcome to the playground," he says. "Let's start with the firework show, shall we?"
He closes his hand into a fist, someone slams into my from behind and pins me to the ground, and the whole room explodes.
After the booms die down and the heat against my back diminishes a little, I scramble to my feet and snatch up my sword. There's no time to waste. Neo's the one who jumped on me to take cover, and a stray piece of rock form the mini explosions has hit him in the head, so he had been lying over me, groaning, with blood running down is face. I push him onto his back, then look around. There's smoke and fire everywhere, and several small craters in the room. Shrapnel bombs. I can’t see anything, and the smoke's getting in my lungs. Then, through the grey wall before me, Elemental and Exqua come tumbling through, with the latter being locked in a tackle by the formed. However, Exqua somehow still has a hold of his spear, and he slips his grip further down the shaft and rams the back end into Elemental's stomach, and he lets go. Elemental lifts his head and I'm met a gruesome sight. One side of his face, mercifully the side without an eye, has been turned into a black and red, cracked mush, and there's blood pouring down his neck. There's about fifteen pieces of shrapnel in his back. Exqua, meanwhile, is basically unharmed, and he gets slowly to his feet, facing down the wounded Elemental.
"Farewell, 002."
"Nope, he's not hopping off yet."
Woodsy comes out of nowhere and body slams Exqua into the wall. I snap out of my trance at seeing Elemental and rush forwards as wall. Woodsy's pummelling him, but Exqua suddenly whirls his spear and catch's Woodsy's fist. Before he can run him through, I leap into the air and launch a flying knee strike into Exqua's face. I thought I had him, but he's somehow got his hand in between my knee and his face, and his head is smushed against the wall. Then he flings me off and I backflip, upright.
"Get it together!" Woodsy yells at me, and he slams his elbow into Exqua's neck, thoroughly winding him. "Now!"
Exqua's head is bent over, as he fights for breath. Woodsy draws back his arm, and I also pound forwards. Then he somehow lifts his head and glares straight at me. I will never forget them. Those eyes, those terrifying, murderous black eyes, filled with nothing but death. He grabs Woodsy's punch in his hand and twists his arm, but Woodsy twist with it and flips upside down, scoring a roundhouse kick on Exqua's jaw. Blood flew, but Exqua's eyeball snapped back to glare and him and he drove the spare right between Woodsy's ribs between he even had time to react.
Luc came out of nowhere and snatched the back of Woodsy's shirt in one gauntlet, yanking him backwards, and Exqua's spear glanced off his breastbone. I ducked under a thrust aimed at me and kicked the spear out of his hands, but he suddenly grabbed my face and slammed me into the ground. Me vision swam from the shock, but I fumbled at my belt and yanked out a spare knife, and I felt it slice along his arm. His grip loosened and then Luc charged him full on back into the wall. Before Luc could regain his balance and land a proper punch, however, Exqua ducked under him, wrapped his arms around his chest, placed his feet on the wall and finally managed to get his back of the wall. Woodsy was nursing his bleeding chest and Elemental was trying to move his heavy limbs, which left me and Luc, the current 003, to 2v1 Exqua, who was holding like a monster.
"YOU FUCKING MONSTER!!!" I roar, the blood suddenly rushing to my head.
Stroma. Chris. Dobo. Strain. Elemental…
I leap forwards and my hands find his neck from behind him, and I yank him backwards away from Luc, who's got a knife his side at the moment. I full onto Exqua, and push down on his windpipe. I can feel his lungs fighting for air as I press my thumbs into his neck. Then pain explodes under my right lung - he's driven a razor blade into my body. I ignore it and keep pushing down on his neck. My sword has gone flying into the rubble and smoke beyond. The smoke is so thick that Woodsy, who was just a couple feet away, is now obscured, and Luc groans in pain behind me as he yanks the knife out of his body.
"DIE!!!" I scream. "APOLOGIZE THROUGH DEATH, YOU FUCKING MONSTER!!"
His eyes lock with mine as I squeeze out the last of his breath. Then his other hand flies into my face and my voice cuts of short and he slashes a knife right across my mouth.
I fall to the side, blood leaking from my face onto the ground in ribbons. I glance up and see Exqua wheezing for breath, then climb shakily to his feet. He glares down at me, hate filling his eyes.
"You want ME to apologize for being a monster!?" he demands, still gasping for air. "Has anyone ever apologized to ME for turning ME into one!?!?"
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