[Alita]what a hideous monstrosity
[Flint]WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?!
looking at the 8 legged armoured arachnid they were both quite taken aback, spotting them it quickly made it's way towards them seeing this Cloud quickly before it could get to them appeared by them, grabbing them and jumping up and flashing away like a bolt of lightning, they appeared in the distance and hidden in the shadows however it was using a lot of concentration on Cloud to not get spotted.
[Cloud]alright look, that monster is almost invincible to physical attacks, my knives didn't do a single thing and my lightning barely left what you could call a burn mark, any plans?
[Flint]any plans? ANY PLA-mmmpphh
covering his mouth was Alita so he wouldn't alert it, with the both of them sending daggers at Flint he calmed down after a few seconds with Alita turning back to him.
[Alita](sigh)yeah i got something of a plan, don't see it killing that thing but it'll deal damage
[Cloud]so then what's the plan
[Flint]yeah i'd rather try and return back home today or this week, so your bight idea sounds great
[Alita]okay look i can restrict it's movements for maybe i don't know i would say 5 seconds at most with it's abnormal size, Flint you can easily give us cover for that with your smoke and make it really thick around it so it makes it hard to breath, afterwards you will also get ready to use your mist to make an escape route for us, Haruta i plan on using you for your mass produce of lightning, if you can shock that thing from the inside it may kill it
looking at her like an idiot Flint and Cloud sighed, seeming lost she was confused and looked at the both of them with a questioning look
[Cloud]look good plan, great plan, however if you don't know that thing can also use sensory magic along with the fact that it is also an 8 eyed beast and can use poisonous gas so mist or smoke will be useless then there is killing it from the inside.....
[Flint]look leader i mean to say you are smart, but right now your kind of well.....stupid
(bang) whacking the both of them on the head Cloud lost his concentration, being spotted straight away Cloud and Flint looked at Alita as she just whistled like nothing happened, rushing towards them they all dashed away and dodged it easily
[Flint]great job leader now were seen and, WE HAVE NO PLAN!!!
[Cloud]it's fine Alita restrict it's movement like you said, we'll make use of that 5 second window and
[Flint]LEAVE?!
looking at him they just sighed, listening to him, she restricted it's movements looking back at Cloud, he unsheathed his katana releasing a mass amount of magic energy on to the blade making it sharper and stronger, dashing at it he yelled out to Flint
[Cloud]FLINT COVER IT'S EYES!!!
doing it the spider sensed around, quickly trying to move not possible it earned a large slice on it's back cracking the exoskeleton but not shattering it, quickly smashing the chains they all jumped back readying up again.
[Flint]hey i got an idea, since the cracks are open, stab your blade into it and try sending your lightning inside,maybe it'll deal damage
[Cloud](huff).....(pant) yeah....(huff) your right (pant) if i had any magic left
[Flint]WHAT!?!!
[Alita]your out of magic?
catching his breath as they kept dodging and jumping away, only getting caught up in a ton of attacks from left to right, or poison being spat at them occasionally
[Cloud]buy me some time to absorb the surrounding darkness in the room, i'll be able to go through with that idea of yours, just need some time
[Flint]fine anything to help is good right now
[Alita]i shall protect you with my body handsome *wink*
quickly jumping towards an area away from the creature he quickly started absorbing the darkness and shadows of the area well they were distracting it, sending mist to cover it's view and making the area which it resides in increased with smoke and making it more harder to breath slowing it's movements, well Alita was sending a flurry of chains, slicing and chipping away at it's exoskeleton, however it seemed to have stopped.
confused by this Flint stopped to getting ready for whatever it was doing, squinting and seeing through his smoke like it wasn't there, the creature had seemed to have closed it's eyes, and after a few seconds suddenly "SKRAAAAAAWWWWW" letting out an ear piercing screech they all cupped there hands over there ears.
after letting out this screech they looked around as it still wasn't moving, however only but a few moments and suddenly a lot of tapping on the walls was heard, looking where it was they saw a lot of spiders, having had absorbed a bit of magic back, Cloud could use some dark energy but no lighting, disappearing he appeared by the two.
[Cloud]get behind me and duck now
[Flint]why?
[Cloud]JUST DO IT
quickly doing so suddenly around them the shadows and darkness like fire started reaching outwards, till boom, sending out like a shock wave, a lot of spiders were killed but in doing so Cloud lost half his magic reserves, he needed to save the rest for his final attack but not right now, instead he used some of his magic and engulfed the 3 of them in darkness, covering there presence completely.
[Flint]what where are we?
[Cloud]inside the shadows but this used 1/5 of my magic reserves and i can only hold it for a total of 2 minutes if i want this final attack to work, however i need you 2 to cooperate accordingly
[Alita]okay and what is this plan?
[Flint]yeah this may be our last shot, so...
[Cloud]okay look that cracked you said was open, instead of lightning im gonna absorb it's entire life, however i need you Alita to hold it for a while 5 seconds won't do, and Flint your gonna hold those pests off us got it?
[Flint]your insane
[Alita]look i can at most hold it for 15 maybe 20 seconds at most a while makes it sound like more than 20 seconds
[Cloud]yeah cause i would say absorbing a life would be more around a minute with this things strength and magic power
hearing this they thought he was crazy, taken aback that he can absorb the life of things Flint wanted to ask how he new he could do that, but he also knew now wasn't the time for that, and that he probably wouldn't tell anyway, well Alita already knew what he has done and who he was but being able to absorb life was knew to her, however she also knew this may be a bit impossible however she also knew this was there only chance to kill it.
[Alita]okay if i use my full magic reserves maybe i could hold it a total of 50 seconds so that last 10 is on you okay?
[Cloud]alright i'll manage that on my own, Flint you need to take care of those annoyances got it
[Flint]....UGH FINE I GOT IT
[Cloud]one more thing don't do anything till we get to the spider
getting ready, Cloud released the shadows from them and himself dashing at the mass of spiders and slicing his way through and guiding the two through the giant spider also making it's way to them at a fast speed Flint turned around and engulfed behind them in smoke and increased the density well holding a thick wall of smoke that as hard as concrete.
in front of them was the giant creature, responding fast Alita wrapped a ton of chains around the creature, straining a ton of weight and concentration on her, jumping up and manoeuvring around the chains he made his way to it's back Cloud jammed his sword into the cracked opening, earning a wince in pain from the creature, as he quickly started absorbing what seemed to be a blue like ethereal mist.
black essence was also wrapped around the blue like essence, struggling back and fourth Cloud was fighting mentally, his mental power was efficient against this creature since it was only a rampant creature, stabilising himself he let go of the sword and started using both hands to absorb it's life, this would also make the creature weaker by absorbing it's life essence, making chaining it up easier for Alita.
after a few moments Flint was becoming tired and Alita was also similarly tired, along with Cloud, however he was only tired due to mental fatigue, with the mist wall getting less dense Flint was huffing and puffing with Cloud absorbing it, he had almost finished however Alita had passed out letting the spider able to move again however it was weakened and sloppy, with Flint now protecting Alita and himself on both sides with the giant creature trying to crush him and the spiders on the other side he started roaring out as he was about to reach his limit, the spiders had broken through the walls and the wall of smoke he made for the giant spider was weak one more attack and it was broken, about to break it he looked down at Alita closing his eyes and smiled "sorry Alita"
(whoosh)
[Cloud]why're you closing your eyes
opening his eyes back up he realised they were now in the corner of the room, looking around he spotted the giant creature dead and laying there well the rest of the spiders were scattering away, dumbfounded he looked at Cloud who was standing there leisurely
[Flint]i see....thanks friend....
passing out Cloud looked at him and reminisced on those words (friend huh? sorry but i have never once thought of you as my friend) with a dead look in his eyes he picked them both up and left but not before trapping off the area with debree so that those spiders can starve.
leaving to the front area he saw that all the members of the dark guild were killed off along with some of the mercenaries, giving the members Alita and Flint he looked at the members who were all facing him
[Cloud]return back to headquarters i will report the status of this mission to the client
with the extermination of the dark guild they all had lost some fellow brothers and sisters grabbing there bloodied corpses some mourned some felt happy and prideful over the victory, however the third rates were all proud of there first big job and finally are able to be recognised as full fledged mercs, watching on to the members was Cloud who was getting ready to leave to tell the client.