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Not knowing how well this whole deal was going to go, Kuro let the haymaker go and could only hope for the best. The best didn't happen, but it was definately positive in his perspective. The strike hit, if only barely, which caused the lid of the lantern to raise up and just let a glowing orb escape and get drawn to him. Not wanting to risk anything more, Kuro backed down and took an observation of what was going on. It seemed that everyone wasn't too impressed with what was going on, and all wanted some type of revenge against this monster. It seemed that this specter wasn't too ready for the assault from the students as he could only move the lantern out of the way of one of them. In retaliation, he ended up swinging the ghastly container at the one who initiated the assault. The strike hit, but it didn't look that hard as the female Inuzuka was only grazed on the shoulder. One particular part though was that a green orb ended up going back into the lantern itself. These orbs must have been important if the specter's lantern re-gathered them. Waiting for an opening with his classmates, Kuro decided that he'd best try again in hopes to rid themselves of this being.



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Loric held out his hand as the blade returned to him promptly. From the looks of things the warden had definately felt the attack against him but there was no way for him to be sure if he was doing any real damage. Watching on as the rest of his classmates waged their own attacks against the Warden, Loric couldn't help but feel as though he was barely able to put a dent in the enemies defenses. Frowning, Loric began aiming the chain yet again. Quickly he twisted it above his head and began to twirl it around, all the while he could feel his body tipping lazily back and forth, conflicting with both his vision and his balance. Just being in this place made him sick to his stomach, but even worse the smell of death and rotting flesh was still as present as ever before. The blow to his senses made it very difficult for him to lock onto the target to do any real amount of damage. However, not one to be shown up, Loric launched the bladed chain once again at the warden in hopes of finally defeating his foe and returning life back to normal for him and his class mates.

Shiro jumped over a swing of the lantern sneering down at the glowing skull of the Warden as she landed on the ground and back flipped away from a follow up chain attack. She confident right now, perhaps a little over confident. The chain attack was a feint as she dodged it the Warden seemed to fade from existence. He hadn't vanished, he had simply moved so quickly that he vanished from plain sight. Shiro could feel a disturbance in the air near her as she tried to right her failed strategy however it was too late. The Warden suddenly became visible again as his boney fist struck out and hit Shiro solidly in the chest. She let out a gasping yelp as his attack landed heavily. The strike sent Shiro careening through the air before she hit the ground and proceeded to bounce and tumble across the ground all the while four little orbs escaped from her body to swirl and return to the lantern.
At first Shiro was entirely out of control stunned from the strike she had no way to react, however as she tumbled she regained her center and threw her hands out the blade howling from her right hand dug into the ground and slowed her to a stop. She pulled herself to her feet and breathed slowly she was still aching from the fight with the desks and now this. She growled some swinging her hands out to her sides. "You... Piece of s**t." She snarls before spitting some blood on the ground. She rolled her shoulder around again and popped her neck once more. She rubbed her chest lightly and sneered again. Her eyes scanned the room looking at her classmates to see if she could decipher what they were thinking, what they were planning. Her ears perked and her eyes returned to the Warden as she heard the chains let out a clanking sound. Her eyes widened for a moment and instantly locked onto the lantern, he was... holding it in his hand? was he actually holding it? Was the lantern, a thing? She blinked slowly forcing herself to focus past the slightly older dull aches, and the newer sharp throbbing pain.
For a moment Shiro looked to her right hand summoning up the glowing spirit blade once again. Her brow furrowed. Did it matter if the lantern was actually physical or not? She had grabbed what looked like a ball of ectoplasm, a little will-o-wisp, and it became this... sword. If that beast was somehow powered by that lantern, or... something to that effect. Then if she could gain dominion over that lantern... She should theoretically be able to shut this all down in an instant. She tensed her muscles and launched herself at the Warden in a full attempt to take the lantern not just strike it.
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Everyone was starting to get into rythem now, as one by one strikes were being made to the lantern. The question though was how much effect was it having on this creature. There's an odd fact surrounding spectors, and that is the only emotions that they show are ether anger or a twisted and messed up version of glee while torturing their victims. Normally these emotions would be at the same time, so any visual ques on if they were weakening were imposible to observe without any outside help. Knowing that everyone here were academy students how every, it was very unlikely to find someone with that type of skill here at the moment. Ether way though, there was a task at hand and if they were to get too distracted something nasty could happen without them truly knowing. Unfortunately for the fox-girl, it had to be her that it happened to. Kuro watched as the strike landed with a loud thud and forced her to bonce away from the combat area. Kuro took a few steps towards her, but then stopped looking back at the monster that wasn't letting up in this fight. He wanted to help her, but knew little healing... heck, it was even less then his combat skills which were very few to begin with. Instead Kuro waited for another opening. He soon got it as Shiro had already sprung back up into action, and soon after that Takuya was heading in. That's where he would attack, carefully trailing the more experienced combat orieneted student kuro would wait for until the moment where Takuya would attack this ghastly creature. That was when he'd try use the other boys momentum to catch it off guard and strike it once more and then afterwards maybe see if the little fox-girl was alright.




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Metal sliced through the space Jynn's head used to be, the young boy just barely dodging the Warden's chain. The blond rolled away, diving under one of the many desks in this classroom from hell. Like every other class room, then. He thought to himself. He took a moment to calm his breathing, waiting for his beating heart to slow down at least a little. Until then it was nothing but a constant pounding in his ears, a nice bass to the melody of fighting. The ringing of steel and exploding battle cries were nice sounds. They meant that none of them were dead. Yet. At that moment, something fell on to Jynn's head. Something thick and sticky. He lifted a hand to his hair and examined the goop. It suck to his fingers and it was fairly warm. But it was clear. Jynn craned his head over his shoulder, his face pale as he had an idea as to what it was. The boy was greeted with a giant glob of saliva landing on his face. He quickly wiped the mess from his face. Upon reopening his eyes, he was greeted with a row of sharp teeth, snapping at him from the bottom of the table. He watched as a sharp, crimson tongue shot out of the mouth and waggled around. Jynn's face went green and be brought both feet to the wood, kicking the desk off of him. The demon table went flying, just as Jynn went running. He was up in time to see his classmate, Shiro, take a blow from the Warden's chain, leaving a gash across the body. But, instead of blood, little blue wisps flowed from her body. Among all of the fighting, Jynn ran to her and, without much thought (like usual), he pressed his hands to the gash

Shiro lunged at the Warden aiming to remove the lantern from his hand, however her trajectory fell short as the Warden lifted the lantern at about the same time as her lunge, and so her attempt missed entirely. She hit the ground at the other side tumbling past the Warden to land on her feet. She slid back and clenched her hands into fists. She jumped slightly when one of her classmates, which one was it? Jynn, she was pretty sure she had heard his name was Jynn. The exact same one she had entered this area with a dire suspicion of. Her lip curled momentarily to start to growl, but he did something rather unexpected she felt an extra warmth radiate from his hand which he was holding over her arm, the gash from her earlier fight with the desks apparently.
She watched as a blue glow radiated from his hand, the gash in her arm healed up substantially, but the odd part was there was an obvious transfer of those little spectral orbs, same as those they had been claiming from the Warden. She smiled wryly, still feeling quite a bit antisocial, however this gesture lessened her current distrust for Jynn. Shiro however didn't really have long to think about this as the Warden's chain came sailing in a wide arc across the room and swiped Shiro away from Jynn in an unceremonious swat, one of the little soul orbs drifted from her back to the lantern.
Shiro hit the ground fairly easily, it was plainly not a targeted attack. She gathered herself up and looked back to where Jynn was and saw the attack that the Warden used on him, she furrowed her brow and pointed to her haunted desk. "You, cover him he looks hurt." She commands the desk which grumbled before going to stand near Jynn. "Don't kick the desk..." she adds clearly addressing Jynn that time, though she wasn't sure if he would hear her considering he rather looked a mess right now. She narrowed her eyes and scanned the battle field, this back and forth, she wasn't sure how well it was working. She clenched her fists and looked back to the Warden. She looked at her hands and thought about trying to strike again, however as she thought about it she opened her hands, she had failed to take it the first time but... maybe. She nodded and rolled her head some loosening herself up before dropping her posture. She waited for the Warden to turn so that she could clearly see the lantern before taking off like a shot.

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Another strike, it seemed as though Kuro was actually able to help in this situation. There was a feeling of waiting to help the injured female Inuzuka though, just like last time he paused to look over in her direction to see how she was fairing. It turned out though that Jynn was already over there lending a hand. With her being looked over he thought for a moment realizing that he didn't want to loose what momentum he had against this fiend. How ever it seemed like the ghoul had other plan as it gripped the chain of the lantern and started to swing it around him and a full circle. There was no preparedness with Kuro about this attack that was just launched, so it easily struck him on the shoulder. This caused him to spin slightly and drop to a knee, quickly grasping his shoulder as the strike was a solid one. He looked over at the nightmare and noticed that there was a orb that had escaped everyone and was then absorbed by the lantern once it stopped moving. Kuro had been on a roll before hand, and he had no intention on stopping his momentum. With that thought finished, he got right back up and headed back to their target. The strategy was going to be continuous his and run, and this was the wind up for the fourth consecutive strike against this monster that stood before them all.




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