I keep myself wary when suddenly the beast vanishes, Vex appearing in its place. He jogs over to me and looks around.
"Where did that thing go?"
He asks, I shake my head.
"It might be going after Warren and Kain down the tunne-."
I blink and Vex is gone, the beast replacing it. In an instant its long fingers ram through my left shoulder and lift me off the ground.
[-40,000,000 HP]
[+125,000 HP]
I grit my teeth angrily and swing towards its face with my right arm. My blade slams against its boney face, but again it doesn't even react. I start to thrust my blade, but it opens its fingers, blowing my left shoulder open and ripping off my arm.
[-15,000,000 HP]
[+125,000 HP]
I feel no pain as I drop to the ground and jump away.
Shit! One more hit and I'll be done for. Without buffs I can't beat this thing.
I think, hearing footsteps rapidly approaching from behind. Vex jumps over me, dropping a book beside me while flipping forward. He brings his blue and black sword down onto the beast's head, but it doesn't react to his attack either.
The beast reaches to grab Vex, but I lunge forward and slam my sword against its palm. Vex quickly slams his sword against mine, forcing my blade through the middle of the beast's palm.
"We have to work together!"
Vex shouts, I sigh and nod. The monster suddenly leans back, strange bone fragments jutting through its ribcage. Before we can react, small bones shoot out towards us.
I manage to block most of the bone projectiles, but one hits my right foot. It immediately explodes, calsifying over instantly. I try to jump back, but my foot rips off, now a statue locked to the floor.
[-2,000,000 HP]
[+125,000 HP]
My left arm is slowly healing, and Vex looks to me concerned. He instantly turns his gaze back to the monster, almost glaring at it.
"I won't let you kill him!"
Vex darts forward, jumping from the floor, to the wall, to the opposite wall, and back to the floor. He repeats the process while moving towards the beast, gaining speed at an alarming rate.
The beast attempts to reach towards Vex, but its hand instantly gets chopped off. I inspect closer, seeing Vex's blade swinging wildly in the opposite direction of whatever surface he's currently on. He slowly makes his way closer and closer to the monster, the creature refusing to retreat.
I slowly stand up, Vex buying me enough time to heal my foot. I watch in amazement as Vex suddenly changes direction and slams his sword towards the monster's head. The creature drops it's head and pushes itself into his strike, a small crack appearing. Vex drops to the ground and stumbles back, clearly dizzy.
As he stands up, It That Kills swings its hand against him. Vex shouts as he's slammed against the wall, completely crushing his left arm, leg, and ribs. Vex falls to his knees and I feel the thorns on my left arm throb, even though it hasn't fully healed.
I dash towards the monster, readying my sword. A blood-crazed wrath over takes me, all sense of rationality seeming to vanish. I jump towards the monster, and it swings downward towards me. Without thinking, I kick the air hard enough to push me to the side of its swing.
A loud boom from my kick rings down the hallway and I quickly grab the creatures index finger. In one swift slice, I slam my blade into the joint at the base of the wrist. No blood comes from the injury, but its wrist comes clean off.
I drop to the ground, tossing the hand back and lunging back up again. It reaches up with its other newly regrown hand, but I easily lop two of its fingers off. I fall back down to the ground, but instead of the monster being in front of me, I see someone else.
"Dante? What are you doing here? I-it's me, Klandiz?"
He extends his hand, but I quickly spin my blade and cut off the man's head.
"Never heard of you."
I say calmly, seeing the monster appear with a massive crack in its bone-like right leg. It takes its first step back in the entire fight, but without hesitation I capitalize on the opening. I slam my sword through its right leg, breaking through at the knee.
As the beast falls forward, I angle my sword upward and jump as hard as I can while simultaneously thrusting as hard as I can. My blade rips and breaks through its bone-like skull, pinning its head to the ceiling. I spin around upside down, putting my feet on the ceiling.
I rip my blade out and fall to the ground, landing slightly in front of the monster's body. The beast's body seemingly melts into a puddle of black ooze, another long black limp emerging. I stare coldly, watching the third monstrosity rise.
Its two heads open wide, revealing hundreds of teeth. The split in its jaw becomes apparent now, both jaws splitting into two and looking more plant like. I ready my sword and bend my knees, getting ready to lunge towards it.
The monstrosity lets out a high pitch shreak and charges toward me, much faster than the previous monster. I manage to side step its charge and slam my blade against its knee, but a mouth forms and bites down on my blade.
Without thinking or concern, I tilt my blade upward and cut through the newly made mouth. I pry my blade free and attempt to attack the back of the creature's knees, but mouths appear there as well.
I angle my blade inwards, towards the knee, and kick the handle as hard as I can. The blade pierces the mouth and breaks through the knee, bringing the creature to the ground.
The mouth on its knee seemingly vanishes and I rip my blade from it. Once again readying myself to attack.