Shoggoth Britney launched a tentacle attack at the two boys, but they were quick enough to dodge and counter attack. Koby spinning his hatchets and dodging attacks while hacking at tentacles, James dodging and dashing while slashing off tentacles
James was very effective in dealing with the tentacles but it was too much for him to handle by himself. Suddenly an idea popped in Kai's mind
"James head straight in, while Koby hacks off the tentacle attacks. I'll try to pin her at a spot so you can finish her off."
Spitting out blood, Koby rushed in, hacking at attacks as laid out in the plan creating room for James to move in swiftly and head for the neck of the monster. The monster knew it was in a dangerous position and tried to move away but was shot at by Kai. Groaning in pain, it realized that it had been cornered and went berserk, attacking like a wild animal concentrating all it's attacks on James.
In that moment, Koby leaped up and using a spin hacked the monster's neck. The neck was tough and didn't budge. In that moment, as Koby despaired, Kai fired off a shot.
"Honing Beam, fire."
The attack veered towards the monster who dodges it as expected but the attack redirected it's route hitting the monster on the spot where Koby had slashed. This decapitated the monster.
Koby slumped on the wall, groaning in pain. It appeared that in the scuffle a tentacle had pierced his right shoulder and it was bleeding profusely.
"Everyone okay?" Kai asked before checking on Jugo's body. It had gone cold. Looking at the monster, they discovered that the monster was some kind of parasite that takes host in bodies.
"This is bad." James said before glancing at Koby, who was tending to his injuries and trying to hide his pain and discomfort.
"And whose fault is it?" Koby asked sarcastically .
Raya knelt besides and spread her hands over his injured shoulders. A green light shimmered and the wound closed and the flesh was intact as though it had never been injured.
"So you have healing abilities? It suits you." Koby smiled at Raya.
"How did you know there was something wrong with Britney?" Raya asked, a look of concern plastered on her face.
"I didn't ." Koby said covering his shoulders and moving on to check the barricaded door.
The air was tense as everyone in the room sat down in a small circle facing the exits until they were all fast asleep.
A bang outside the room woke the group up, it was morning already. Standing up, they couldn't find Britney's body anywhere.
"It's gone." Those words sent shivers down everyone's spine. They listened and could hear the others moving around. They had come out of their hiding spots and so they did the same
No dead bodies was found on the hallways despite the numerous screams of death they had heard throughout the night.
"Looks like there wasn't much casualties." Raya heaved a sigh of relief
"Yeah, it's very concerning." Koby said looking around.
"Concerning? We should be thankful." Raya looked surprisingly at Koby's words
"With all the screams and crashes we heard last night, there should be bodies littered on the floor." Koby explained.
"I agree. There's no way everyone survived that." Kai agreed.
As everyone came out of their hiding spots, one person caught Koby's eyes.
"Isn't that Petra?" he asked Raya who was just as shocked to see Britney among the crowd.
They weren't the only one with similar issues. Everyone else saw who they thought death, now alive.
"I'm guessing shoggoths have the ability to possess dead bodies, huh?" Rory echoed from the stairs.
Everyone turned to look at him.
"And how do you know that?" Koby smirked at him
"They're sensitive to my Sound Manipulation Technique." Rory returned the smirk before proceeding to cast a spell.
"Resonance" At the sound of that, a frequency was sent all over the room, making everyone scream in pain while holding their ears. The shoggoths in their midst started to twitch, disrupting their forms while Rory chuckled.
"If you're not a shoggoth, get down!!" Rory shouted before clasping his hands.
"Crescendo." With that a circular wave of sound energy sliced through the room causing damage to the disoriented shoggoths. The severed shoggoths started to regenerate but then a girl using fire magic burned away at the shoggoths effectively killing them.
"Their weakness is fire." She shouted. The fire magic users got to work by burning away at the shoggoths until there was nothing left.
"Well, this is exciting." Rory remarked smiling.
The remaining survivors gathered together in the larges hall trying to catch their breaths and process what was happening. Koby moved up to the first girl that used fire magic on the shoggoths, she was attending to an injury she had gotten from barely missing Rory's Crescendo
"Are you alright?" he asked looking at her. She returned his glance and went back to sealing her wound with fire.
"That was some quick thinking with the fire spell back there."
"I just used what I had to survive." She said still tending to her wounds. She wasn't very successful in tying up the injury.
"Let me help." Koby said taking the cloth from her and tying the wound.
"Thank you." She said
"Can I ask you a question?" He asked as he tied her leg up. She nodded her approval.
"What do you think about the shoggoths? We have a week and some days left."
"I say we're all possibly going to die." She said laying her back against the wall.
"Your reason being?"
"Shoggoths can assume the flesh of those they kill. This would definitely sow seeds of doubt in the future, because that sound user can't be everywhere at once. We're moving on a thin thread and a little pressure can snap it. Everyone's already forming factions in hope of survival. It's going to be a brutal week." She said smiling.
Koby was surprised at how much she had grasped the situation. Just then, a guy came up to the two of them.
"We're all gathered to know the next move, Zara." The boy said.
"Well , I have to go now. Thank you." She said to Koby before moving away with the boy.
"What are our chances of survival?" He asked out loud.
"It's the end of the world. So I can't say for sure." She said before entering another hallway.