'It is entirely possible this is the entry of its' plan,' Sam thought as he stopped another spike, drawing the lust into himself. 'But it feels like a shallow one.' Maybe he was too used to people who thought in twisted and double-crossing ways. Maybe the beast wasn't that smart.
'But it's shown a thing of long-term thinking. Sam wasn't sure, but he could currently deal with what was happening. The beast might have more in mind. When they came off the dancing floor, panting, lightheaded, but smiling ear to ear, did the beast move!
*crack!*
Everyone stopped, seeing the crack in the air above the dance floor; it couldn't be more than a foot long. But a lot of them being here were knowledgeable enough to know it was a crack in space, in a place with defense against teleportations or portals.
"Emergency!" the kyubbie shouted, causing everyone to move back towards the door or switch to a more battle stance. "Well, great," Sam mumbled, throwing off a coat and rolling up his sleeves." What do I know about closing spatial portals?" Unfortunately enough, I know the current method, depending on how the portal came to be. Was it tearing or folding space, or was it a wormhole?
You could crack space worse if you did something wrong, causing it to collapse into a black hole. Not fun, very not fun! Blinking, Sam shook the half-memories way and focused on the crack. The yokai were already beginning to deal with it. Casting spells and letting power flow free in preparation for whatever came out or created the portal.
Sam was glared, knowing what was causing this. "Well, I guess I should prepare." Reaching under his shirt, he pulled out his ribbon, wrapping it in its proper place around his arm. Then reached out a hand, and the shard of the night came flying down the halls into his hand.
Binding the ribbon to the sword, he walked towards the portal and stood guard." The look on your face is interesting," the kyubbbie muttered, "Do you know what this is?" Sam tilted his head," I know who is causing this, I know how they're causing this. Sorta. But I don't know what for?"
"Well, right now they're disrupting my event and scaring my people. It will not stand," her growl shocked the room. No, that was the crack rapidly growing into a portal. Only inches big at first before quickly growing feet wide.
From it slowly crawled out, puppets of wood, then puppets of stone. "Well, that's workable." Then the stone pulled flipped their hands, replacing them with weapons, alien swords, clubs, one had whips, and was that a chainsaw?
"Yep," he heard the roar of some kind of magical engine." That's a chainsaw." For something made of stone, the puppet moved fast, racing at him at more than a hundred miles." All of them did." Flicking out his sword, he blocked a sword bash. Snapping a leg up, he kicked and popped in the stomach, cracking the wood, before dropping aocuing a chianed saw, slllwing to the side, he kncoed a leg out.
Catching a sword with the sole of his dress shoe, he kicked out. He pushed the puppet back into another. Flipping to his feet, he didn't even let his heels touch the ground before it was twisting, right as a stone puppet was run through by several spears of ice. Right before the kyubbie ripped its head off with teeth coated in white fire.
"How rude, to attack my home and ignore me!" With a howl, it rushed forward. Sam chackled before following after her. She was powerful,' SamSam noticed as they threw through four of the puppets. She was keeping up with him; actually, she was a bit faster. Well, faster than SamSam was at the current moment. 'That sounds a bit cocky, but I do remember being faster in the past.' he pushed the thought aside, and he stomped on the arm of the wooden puppet.
Lifting his sword, he directed the blow of a stone puppet, sliding his weapon up to take the puppet's head. It made a valiant attempt to block him. Kicking its body away, his mother smashed it with her hammer. Lifting the weapon, she twirled it above her head and brought it down to the ground.
The ground shock, a shock wave, raced across the ground, knocking over a puppet, so the kitsuna could rip out the knee cap of a stone puppet. "If I were any less paranoid, I'd say something that might get us jinxed."
"please don't the ballroom is already a mess." of coruse the beast had'nt given up that easly anothe two compaines dropped out of the portal." sighing the fox used one her tails to grab a glass of lenoaid. "when this is over, i would like a word about the being that has disturbed this event and ruined the dance hall." Sam smiled grabbing a glass of soda for himself." i don't think that possible without being injured or dirvein insane by lust." she turned to look at him her mana readying for the battle.
"It is a very long story," she sighed before throwing back her drink. Setting the glass on the table, Sam did the Sam, instead of throwing the glass into the face of a puppet. Rushing to a moment later. Swing its legs and thrust his sword through it. "HA!" he ripped the sword upward, slashing its upper body in half.
At the same moment, the kistune ripped through the head of another puppet before freezing its entire body. A tap of its tail caused the ice to shatter before the fox landed, bouncing towards the next one. Raising the shard of night, he let a chain wrap around it." With a spin, he yanked it, and it popped off, feet right into a double kick. Sending it flying into the spires of ice, the kitsuna raised. She shamed through its head a moment later.
Flicking his sword throughout, he quickly carved a run before thrusting his sword through it. The rune turned into a shimmering light, which clung to the sword." Now, it's time for the rest of you." Sinking, he raced at the next puppet.
His now shimmering sword sliced through the metal of another puppet. Having more sparkies as he moved through the puuets, wielding the blade with all the erpeincer he possessed. 'Not the most refined style, but it's working.' The kistusne, though another company of puppets came in, met with a shower of spells from the reinforcements.
"knew this was going to be a pain," Sam reeled back his arm, catching his sword flying at him. Twirling the ribbon, he wound it up before sending it flying into the horde of puppets." Now, are you trying to kill me? Or do something else. Killing two birds with one stone. That saying was older than him by a multitude, but still widely used even by birds themselves.
The shimmers of light on the blade grew even further as he crouched to stab and slash the puppets. Eventually, the kistince walked up to him," Are you going to keep collecting power, or do you plan to release that power?"
"I plan to release it, but I'm concerned how many puppets are going to waste against us." There gathered yokai fired into the horad, helping their numbers by a 1/3, just as more started climbing out of the portal. "I'm really hoping no one has to go onto the other side of the portal. But it's not that dangerous."
"You ri-" she was cut off by a hand twice the size of Sam reached out of the portal." Wow!" It slammed down with enough force to shake the building. Make them all stumble." Oh, that's not good."
"fuck you, Merphy!" Pulling on his ribbon, he dragged, a popped close, and crushed it head under his boot." Well, guess we can't sit here." Flicking his finger, he thought he air he wrote out a few runes before running his ribbon through it, causing the ribbon to gain a slight glow.
Next to him, the kitsune flicked her tails, creating a lingering chill as each beautiful tail was coated in a lair of ice that formed into razor-sharp blades." Sam heard his mother roar, so he turned to face her, watching as the rune engraved on her hammer glowed, sparking as it was coated in fire.
His father stayed back as the three rushed into the hoard." Out of the way!" With a roar, Novo swung her hammer into the ground, and a wave of force tore up the ground. Each puppet caught it as it was thrown into the air, flash fires spreading over them. The kistuine jumped through them with hesitant tails, swinging and dancing with grace that it could almost be mistaken for a dance.
Even past the rage of Nova's attack, she didn't stop, reaching through the horizon, singularly focused on the giant hand. It wasn't fully through, but her hand was already standing on end from the immense power it possessed. Forget the building, she couldn't be sure if the city would survive.
Compared to the two of them, Sam was walking at a sedated pace. Letting each puppet come at him, swiftly slicing through each puppet coming through. Despite the way he walked and fought, SamSam was slowly starting to sweat hard, the glimmering on his blade inching to the point it was becoming blaring. But still, he wouldn't release the power.
In the same, he was focused on the ain't puppet slowly pulling itself out. Cracking his neck, Sam moved, swinging his sword, feeling the energy starting to bleed down the ribbon like he planned. Even though the heat was building faster than he expected." Okay, then." Kicking off the head of a puppet, he slashed another down the middle, landing, he spun on his back and knocked out the legs of another puppet." Let's move, burn it off."
With the spoken word of the rune, the energy started to come off, like white fire and falling snowflakes. Instead of moving to prepare for the puppets rushing at him, he swung the blade. From the tip bloomed a slash of fire that melted right through them.
Even the small flakes were dangerous as they seemed to slowly set the ground around Sam on fire. The raven quickly stopped out of the fire, calm about the flames that licked from under his boots as he moved.
The puppet tried to sneak up on him, partly destroyed, missing most of its right half. Sam heard the motion, flicking his sword around, then abandoning that motion to drop completely. rightove this eaht his mother hammer flew smahing into he puppet with an echong bang that sent it flying into a fall. Spiderweb cracks are forming.
"Please don't damage my walls more than necessary, this place is already going to need major repairs," the kitsune stated," though a good chance to add in the cloud chandelier, maybe even a fountain," she murmured in through, right before reaching the ain't all. Leaping into he air, she tucked and spun, not dissimilar from a buzz saw.
a ear piercing scream formed as the buzz saw smashed into the arm, "wow!" Sam quickly covered his ears, turning down his hearing. "damn it, what the fuck!" Sam swore as the buzzsaw landed, the kstune cursed after him, seeing how little damage she had managed to do.
"Okay, problem," Nova waved her hand and called back her hammer." Ha!" With the roar of an actual fire, she launched it right through the crowd, like small meteors. kistune mad no hesitong of jumping out of the way, letting the hammer strike the arm
Again, Sam had to cover his ears," Ahh! damn it!" The impact was ringing through his skull. Shaking his head and picking at his ear, he considered trying himself. This thing was already proving to be a fierce opponent. But not the fiercest Sam Haas ever faced. he then launched him self forward, cracking the titles.
The point of the shard of the night clashed against the material of the arm, the recoil pushed the young lord back. "mm," Sam hummed as yhr landed on the ground.' that was,' luaching himself back, he slashed at the arm, robbed of his forward momemtuiom but matching to avoid it turning into backward momentum he started falling dow the arm, slasheidng it repeaitly with more force behind every blow.
Each blow made a horrible noise that forced Sam to drop his hearing to near deaf levels. Landing on the back of the puppet's hand, he quickly jumped off, then back as it tried to reach for him. "What material is this?" Cora came rushing in with her hammer, sticking the wrist of the puppet.
The raven was familiar with many of the metals upon earth, the shard of the night being able to cut through many of them. 'Is it an enchantment?' Every time Cora struck the puppet's arm again, ringing out. He listened for the vibration of mana that you'd find in defensive techniques. The bleed of kinetic energy.
'So it's not an enhancement, is it the natural property of the material?' or was it an addition on, though a method unknown to him. 'Do you know anything?' he asked the helper, spinning the blade, and he returned to slashing through the horde of puppets, continuing to pour out of the portal.
'It appears to be normal steel that had been artificially altered to produce that noise whenever it is struck.' Sam nodded. When it came to alchemy, Sam's knowledge was mostly limited to how witches used it." I didn't know you could do that. The question of why?"
Then again, the answer was pretty simple: to hurt the lord of lust. Attack his supernatural hearing. Sam would admit that it was probably a good plan. 'Been a while since I pulled out this trick,' he thought, letting his hearing drop to zero while amping up his sense of touch until he could feel the very vibrations in the air.
This wasn't a good replacement for hearing, while he could feel vibration enough to map out a room. He couldn't decipher what the sounds actually were. Noises and words were all the same; if something broke, he could no longer tell them apart. Same with gunshots. Or if they were aimed at him or someone else.
But for the moment, the vibrations of footsteps were enough to guide him through this battle.' Now, how to break this!' Flipping his sword around, he stabbed into the puppet, walking up behind it. "Might need demon power for this!"