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Erec nodded at James and prepared to rush the now-known Behemoth King. Before he did that, though...

"Cerberus!" he shouted. "Do your thing...whoa!" He had to jump to the side to avoid the monster's spell. Unfortunately, the car he was standing on wasn't so lucky. It had exploded in a fireball of heat and machinery. As he stood, he concentrated one last time on his Guardian's arrival. "Counter Rockets!"

The sky above Erec grew as black as night, and the snap of cold air sent a chill down his spine. Behind him, a large gate erupted from the ground, and his three-headed Guardian appeared behind it, snarling and banging away. As the gate cracked open, Cerberus burst free and howled towards the air. Suddenly, a burst of light came from his body and surrounded each SeeD. Satisfied with itself, Cerberus walked back to the gate and disappeared, the gate closing behind it and disappearing back to where it came.

"Guys, if you didn't already, you got Double and Triple! Go nuts!" Erec shouted to the rest as he took his gauntlet attachments from his belt and snapped them onto his wrists. He took a second to focus on the gleaming blades before casting Protect, Shell and Haste on himself.

"Let's do this!" Erec shouted as he charged to the Behemoth King's back legs in an attempt to take part of it down. Since the beast wasn't focused on him, it was easy to get to its back right leg. As he ran up to it, he reared his fist back and, upon meeting the behemoth leg (sorry, couldn't help myself), sunk his now clawed fist into it. Not wasting any time, Erec unleashed a flurry of punches at its knees.

'This is what we've been missing! A real fight!' Cerberus snarled inside his head. Erec couldn't help but smile because he couldn't help but agree.

The Behemoth King roared in fury, frustrated that it failed to eliminate its targets. It continued to swat at Isaac, but the boy was too fast for the large and bulky creature. The Holy Spells were nothing more than a mere nuisance to it, seeing as its Magical Defense was so high. The spells did damage, plenty of damage, but they didn't even slow the best down.

It was Erec that was being a problem. Erec was in a wonderful place to attack, if the Behemoth King had been distracted by someone else. The only problem...Isaac wasn't there to be an annoyance any more. So the Behemoth looked down at Erec and let out a low growl. He was irritated now. With his great paws, he brought them heavily, and surprisingly quickly, downward at Erec's head. And at the same time it sent its spiked tail at Isaac, who had sadly landed behind the large creature.

The great creature's focus had surprisingly shifted. Kino was not as large a threat as Isaac or Erec, and so it was doing its best to eliminate the bigger problems first.



James had a plan for eliminating the great creature, but it was going to be rather costly. And it was extremely dangerous. He had cast triple on himself, and was preparing several spells in his mind. He needed to get in close before he could cast any of them though, and then it would be at a great risk to himself. He had to be in close if he was going to contain the impending explosions.

"Amara." He thought out loud, having taken a vantage point that allowed him to chose the ideal time to attack, "She could be of assistance."

He dashed back in Amara's direction, and quickly found her where he had originally left her. He knew that she didn't like him, but if he was going to possibly destroy himself then why wouldn't she help him? It was worth a shot.

"Amara." He began, wanting to get the plan out quickly so that Isaac and Erec could walk away at least in one piece, "You were going to use Tornado, weren't you? I need you to. Focus all your energy on the beast, and I'm going to leap inside the thing. While inside, I'm going to combine a few spells that will create a rather large explosion, and I need your help in containing it. I'll need Rainer's as well. It's the only way we're going to be able to beat this thing."

James could not help the smile that broke across his features. She had known for quite some time exactly what he was. He knew that. But still he had not confronted her. It clinched exactly what he had thought to begin with as well. She was Doctor Odine's Grand Experiment that had been kept from everyone. Even the highest ranking people in Esthar had not been allowed to see what it was.

But she was human. That wasn't part of the original plan. She was originally meant to be just a tool for the Sorceresses, and apparently knowing this made her a cruel person. Any magical being seemed to disgust her entirely. Diablos was the only one that seemed to keep her in control.

"If I live through this, you and I will have to have a long talk, Odine's Project." James returned, his voice much kinder than her's. He had no intention of insulting her. He was merely calling her by what she was, since she had just done the same to him, "I will live through this. You are of great interest to me, and I would like to talk with you."

James then charged back into battle, preparing a three spell combination that any normal human wouldn't dream of using. It was a spell combination that would likely kill the caster. A double Flare combined with Holy.

I will do what I can, Master, but not even your body may be able to handle such power.

Won't know unless I try, right?

Rainer's Sorceress Magic should be able to help keep your body in one piece, as will my own. Live through this. You need to speak with Amara again.

Again, that much I already knew.

"Oh?" Kino now sat in an indian-style like manner, his right elbow on top of his knee, and his chin placed to rest on the palm of his right hand as pillar for his head. He since long gave up on the spell he attempted to cast, not that he couldn't cast such a spell, er rather, it seemed pointless. "Ya'know Carbuncle... " The debree of a tornado attack was deflected by an invisible barrier due to his special ability.

He'd continue. "With all these people using fancy spells... makes all the ones that I know seem like it's not enough... so..." His eyes slightly widened, but remained almost halfway closed. "So... maybe just this once I can-"

"NO! You know as well as I do you aren't allowed to do that!"

"Yea... " His eyes slowly began to close more than halfway as memories flushed through his head. "Well..."Coming to his feet he'd pat himself down before holding out his palm pointing towards the large behemoth. "Guess I won't then.... this'll just have to be enough without it."

"Firaga." His right palm which now began to glow red, generated a small ball in front of it, and in only a few moments a beam with a width of five feet now shot towards the behemoth, barely budging the creature with a large explosion to its side.

"Thats a Firaga?"

Kino kept his hand where it was, pointing at the target. "Yes, but a more concentrated version."He'd reply before generating yet again, another Firaga. "It's harder to hit the target of course, but aiming at a large target won't be too hard..."

Isaac gasped as the colossal tail sailed into him, his arms thrown up on his left side to try and keep some of the force from his head. He crashed into a building, blood flying from his mouth as he hit the ground. He trembled getting up, every bone in him aching. His left arm giving out and he face planted. "Broken... Not good..." He continued to stumble up and his right hand glowed. He gazed at the behemoth king, hopefully already forgotten from behind. "Where to hit it... Where to hit it? The apex of the arms and legs meet there," Isaac made a mental note. "And then the torso extends... Got it!" He knew James was scheming with the girls over a ways.

"James!" Isaac yelled, his right arm waving a little bit. "Hit it just above its... belly button? You should go right through! We can go from there!" "If any of us actually feel like getting inside... Then we can tear it apart. No thick hide in there..." Isaac surprisingly didn't take enough damage for a limit break just yet, so he threw a few more knives into the back of its knees. He turned and starting backing off a little, one more hit like that would be all she wrote.

Erec grinned when he saw James go airborne. He knew that he was setting up for something big with all the Tornado spells that Amara was casting.

'As nice as it must be to admire your handiwork, it would be wise to move, Cerberus replied.

"Good point," Erec said aloud as he prepared to move back. He took three steps towards a nearby alleyway when the side effects of his Limit coupled with Haste can do. His leg muscles began to spasm horribly from the strain. He held back a gasp as he collapsed to the ground.

Dammit! he screamed in his mind. He hated this part of the awesome Limit Break. Especially now, when escaping from a magical meltdown of epic proportions was so important. The recurring muscle spasms broke his mental musing, so he struggled through the pain, managed to stand and limped his way away from the now-trapped Behemoth King. As the spells erupted behind him, Erec turned around and grinned at the beast.

"Checkmate," he said with a grin. The grin disappeared when the spasms caused him to fall backwards against a wall. "Damn. No laughing, Cerberus."

'And you plan on stopping me how? Besides...it was worse the first time you attempted it, remember? I've never seen human legs bleed like that before...and they still survive.'

"Yeah...fortunate."

||She's alive!||

Thankfully, there was no bruise. James's own Sorcerer Powers welcomed the flood of energy from Rainer and immediately began to right what all had gone wrong with his body. He was still being pulled toward Rainer, of course, but the extra magic that was pulling him in that direction was also being used to heal him. Broken bones were replacing themselves. Cuts and scratches were closing over. And he was getting feeling back in the various portions of his body.

When he was finally next to Rainer and her powers let him go, he dropped to the ground and landed on his feet. He smiled to her. He couldn't help but smile.

"Thank you." He simply said, before turning and rushing back into the battle. The Behemoth King still had his sword, and he wanted it back.