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*a zombie rises from the ground, nothing out of the ordinary in a place like this. However, a white light envelops it and it takes the shape of the Masked Boy. Upon closer inspection, the boy appears no older than 11 or 12. Despite this, he looks like he's in plenty good shape. And a powerful aura to boot.*



"Well this is convenient."

*he looks over to Kold, then Kyla, then Kokujo, then Corbenik*

"Interesting." *he walks around the group and laughs menacingly.* "So this is how things turned out. I guess Hori's plan didn't go quite as expected. And how would I know? I'm merely a projection. I can only act from that person's memory."

*he draws his sword*



"The fact that you're here means that you're still within the web, albeit the other side of it. I'll purge you of your despair."

*The Masked Boy seals the exits with a barrier, and takes a battle stance. He holds the sword at his hip with one hand, and places his other arm in front.*

"You're a fool if you think this is going to be easy. You only beat Brimmstone because Yokoshima made it so he couldn't defend himself. Don't get cocky, brat."

*Kold graps Sohi's hilt, ready to strike at any time.*

"Heh heh heh, well you all seem confident. This'll be fun."

*Masked Boy (MB from now on) throws his sword like a javelin at Kold, then extends an etherial hand from his own. It's nearly invisible, but the air seems....wavy where the arm is. (think AIDA hands from the lockers, except nearly invisible....OK, more like Lucy's extra arms in Elfen Lied) The arm divides into two and grabs Kold's legs.*

"Can't move..!!!" *Kold does a sway back to avoid the sword, but more hands extend from MB and throws the sword towards Kyla. Meanwhile, the arms that have have Kold in their clutches fling him towards Kokujo*

*MB uses his other hand to plunge his hand into the ground, sending random arms up from various places as rising grab attacks.*

Kokujo's astute eyes manage to catch the distortions in the air as Kold was snared. "....What a strange technique, but by no means will that be all it takes to defeat us....." Kokujo said, glaring dully at the masked kid. He ran forward suddenly, drawing his shuriken with his mechanical arm and reaching out with his good arm, catching hold of Kolds arm as he was flung towards him and using the momentum to swing Kold 360 and give him a boost back towards the masked boy. He continued twisting round after the boost to Kold and shortly sent his large shuriken whirling after him as a followup attack for whatever Kold was have in mind.

He then quickly turned to the defensive as one of the random arms grazed him as it passed by. He began ducking and weaving about the arms, concentrating of avoiding them for the moment.

Light a fire to the fang that cannot be reached! So that I do not have to see that star! So that I may not slit this throat!

*She unsheaths Hien as she flies back towards MB*

Fuu! Wind Crescent!

*Three wind crescents fly in arcs, intending to hit MB from behind. Meanwhile, Kyla is still flying towards him preparing to slice him in two with Hien*

*MB notices Kyla coming back at the last moment and does a spinning dodge. He manages to avoid getting cat cleaved, but the wind and dark crescents hit him. He falls to the ground, then splits into 3 MBs.

Each of the MBs rushes the trio.

MB1 attacks Kyla with a slash attack. The slash extends into six arms even if it misses. These ones look like they want to rip Kyla's limbs off.

MB2 walks over to Kold and laughs at him.* "What's the matter? All that boasting and this is all you have? Pathetic." *MB2 picks Kold up by his neck with his left hand, and holds Sohi shut with another Arm. Another Arm shows up and slowly begins to place its fingers inside Kold's head. If he succeeds, Kold's brain will be officially not healthy.*

"You're such a disappointment. I expected more."

"Damn it....!!! Why is this happening...!?"

*Kold tries to struggle, but without results*

MB3 uses arms to fling himself towards Kokujo, then grapples himself erratically with other Arms to throw off Kokujo's rythm as he approaches. Other arms emerge from his mask and reach to sever Kokujo's head from his neck.*

"Tch...." Kokujo threw a frowned glance over to where Kold was. He didn't appear to be having the best time of things, but Kokujo knew he wouldn't be able to get over there easily, he was pretty far away from the others due to his last flanking manoeuvre and the MB before him didn't seem like he would let him through without a tussle. He would have to leave it to Kyla for the time being.

He balled his fists up, pressing them together infront of him like some kind of meditation stance, the shadows around him picking up as the MB approached "You're not the only one who can pull that trick...." Kokujo said darkly, suddenly unleashing the built-up energy into his shadow. From the darkness a swarm of shadow tendrils with clawed hands on the ends burst out of the expanding darkness towards MBs own arms, aiming to grab hold of them to immobilize MBs mysterious arms and hopefully MB himself. They were similar in function to MBs arms it seemed, only far more visible and made from shadow energy.

Kokujo simply remained in his pose, having to put fourth a lot of concentration to independently control all the shadow arms.

*Kyla dodges the arms, careful not to move too wildly. She wants MB to focus on her while the others attack*

You should not draw a weapon on others unless you yourself are prepared to shed blood.