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The sword did exactly as it was told, cutting straight into the ground with a dry crackle. The monster of a man looked at the ground, looking into the now sandy patch. It wasn't even grass anymore, more of dead hair sticking out of the deader soil. "What manner of creature is this thing? Acidic?" Poruu asked himself as he jerked the blade free, spotting the trail of dead ground. This thing had eaten it's way through the area. Looking at the insect with a sort of angered confusion, Poruu spun about for a few rotations before he lowered himself to the point his knees were entirely bent. Lifting a leg slightly from there, he spun about thrice more before lifting his sword out. The edge was about mouth level with Acid as it spun in a top-like fashion. Poruu moved nearer to Acid before springing up and, if the attack had hit or not, cut down, hoping to have diced the monster in four, cutting the top of the head first, followed by a verticle bisection.

The weapon was not exactly meant to be bitten onto, and the wrong edge of the sword hit the dirt on the second cut, meaning that there was an ugly sluggy thingy clamped to the top of Poruu's weapon. "Imputant worm! Let go!" The angry beast proceeded to toss the sword around, trying to shake the little bugger off. After a moment longer, he realized something rather troubling. The scent of burning cloth and a heat on his back. Grunting madly, this pissed thing ripped it's vest off, and with it whiping the acid that reached it's back off. He had still been trying to get Acid off at the time, so the vest went flying with all the quick turns, fluttering through the air until it was caught on the weapon along side the slug.

Poruu got sick of it, and decided to just cut at a pillar, the poor little slug in the path. If all went well, Acid would have that labotomy planned a moment ago.

Poruu didn't care what this little b*****d did. It had gotten damned annoying at this point, and our demi-human friend was fed up. So, with a slightly different approach, Poruu did something that a hip cat up on pop-culture might call a Soul Charge, or dreadfully similar. Raising it's arms slowly, a purple energetic aura surrounding his arms and the weapon. The stench of death rose from the blade, and Poruu growled. Rushing at Acid at a nigh-run, the man lifted his right arm on high and cut sideways at the slug, wanting to end this pain in his side.

Stumbling forward was all the dark warrior could muster as his sword finished it's arc. The bug before him was really more trouble than six bugs are worth. Standing tall, he shifted the blade in his hand and stabbed it into the floor just as- WHUMP! -A very ugly slug thing was latched onto his face. And so, being a dumber person, hardly someone to carry a conversation with, Poruu punched himself the the face, and with any luck at all, The slug would cusion that punch to his nose. It was then that, were the sluggy little guy still there, he would spin about and stumble to the edge of the 'ring' and dunk himself in that odd river, at least his head, anyways.

The man reached his hands into the water, rubbing then both hard in the circularly flowing water, rubbing as much off his face as possible. It was no time to bathe, of course, so he stood, his hands and head sopping wet. Grunting, the man proceeded to run back at his sword, stamping his feet. He was gonna pass right by Acid as he did so, preferably squashing him. As stated, though, his target was his sword, and squash or not, the beast grasped his sword and did a one eighty, cutting down at Acid. The differance was, now, that there was a glow to the sword. A purple stench of death. That 'soul charge' like thing caused the souls cased in the sword to come awake.

Poruu barely had time to react to the very sudden monsterous form, and with a good deal of luck, he pushed himself off to the immediate left, rolling off to grip his soul bearing sword. "...damn ugly a** worm!" Raising it high into the air, the monster let off a scream of anger. It was at this point that one of the three tails, Green, disappeared. Not falling off, not going inside of him, just not being there any longer. With quite an angry scream, the gargantuan of a man proceeded to step before the slug, cutting half down once, which might nick his head, all the way down before scooping forward and tearing the glowing weapon upward. He wanted to see the inside of this thing, for some sick reason.

Poruu watched with surprise as the demonic looking thing burst inward before passing out. Walking up the the bug, he positioned his blade above the mouth of the KO'ed Acid. He felt a slight twinge of pity and remourse as he gashed his blade down the slugs throat, but that soon passed by.

Walking off, Poruu disappeared through the river, no more to be seen.

The mist around the tree of life is damp and foggy again. Suddenly, of all people, Julio pops back in from some sort of strange power. His whole body is wrenched and landing on a pad of the tree of lifes branches. he moans, carbie just cringes in aches.