The Doppleganger

[bunji]

I will hunt you down... The castle grounds where quiet, empty, and pretty much dead there was no one around; the red haired samurai had arrived here along with his companion Hanelli. The two of them had linked up for this mission, it was an odd one but it was also an interesting one the task was simple they were to chase the doppelganger here to this castle. Bunji and Hanelli had spotted the damn thing earlier but it fled here, so now they needed to get into the castle it seemed to search out every inch, and corner of the place to find this thing. Bunji was walking a few steps ahead of Hanelli, his katana resting at his hip as always strapped there by the scabbard while the hilt of his sword found itself ready to be drawn from the scabbard at any time. "We should move in carefully, we don't know what sort of monsters we are going to run into in there" he explained to Hanelli as he walked along his footsteps careful but with a bit of haste to them. He wanted to get in there, and trap this thing again, but just as he was taking the first few steps he would feel something beneath his feet. Bunji didn't even make it to the castle entrance he was still outside the great walls of the ruined castle when he fell down a seemingly bottomless pit "HAN!!!" he cried out trying to reach for the girl but to no avail he instead would free dive into the empty darkness. With a loud thud Bunji hit the ground hard, his body tensing on impact, and his air rushing out of his lungs all he could do was cough as he rolled around. "Gah...what the hell..." was all he said as he rolled to his side noticing his HP had dropped down to half, it had been quite the fall. Looking over to the skies above he noticed the light that would shine down from the opening he had fallen through. Sitting up he would use telepathy to communicate with Han knowing that yelling up at her was not a good idea, especially with such dense darkness all around; who knew what was down here with him. "Han...can you hear me? I feel down a hole, duh. But I seem to have fallen into another room. Not entirely sure where I am, but the drop is pretty long so getting down here seems impossible...find a way around I'm going to explore. Keep in touch" he said before turning his attention to his surroundings. The Samurai found himself dressed in his typical cloak as always with the leather armor beneath it, reaching for the hilt of his katana he would draw the weapon, the word blade of his katana was begging to be fixed. But unfortunately he did not have the means to do that, so he worked with what he had, Bunji ventured further into the darkness his red eyes focused on his surroundings relying on his fox ears for guidance, and his free hand which ran across the wall to guide him. "So dark..." he said to himself in a whisper as he walked along, Bunji would hear the sound of crumbling in the distance forcing him to stop, he stopped turning his attention towards the incoming sound. His eyes widened as he watched the shadows come to life as the golems glowed with an odd blue outline which was the binding of their body, the magical energy that kept them alive. Bunji would tighten the grip on his hilt as he smirked, "Oh...great" he whispered to himself eying the two golems... Up top Han was not alone emerging from the ground like a zombie a single soil golem was ripping the ground apart its body rising up to stand fully upright as it stared down the girl slamming a fist onto the ground to announce its presence.
	words 661 tags Hanelli notes golem golem
...escaping is futile...

made by jasmin - for sir paya use only

[Hanelli]

"Can't hit what you can't see!" ☒ bunji ✐ 792 ✉ Skills Used: Atrophy Break (active; debuff) Deadly Dance (active) Shadow Wires (active; debuff) Stealth Strike (active) MADE BY ★MEULK OF GS

Han was wondering why she had agreed to follow him on this very unusual “request” from a Lander who had told them about a certain “creature” that only appeared very rarely; that they might not even succeed in finding it; but then look at what happens next! She had received a message from a certain redhead requesting for her company in chasing down this “anomaly”, and we now skip forward to the present time, where the two explorers are up to no good as always; and she was listening to the redhead going on about being careful, which she brushed off with a wave of her hand; she was always careful whenever going through unusual or unchartered territory. However, though, the merry band of two would soon become one as she suddenly found herself alone, without a companion! She thought she heard someone screeching her name; and then she received a telepathic message from her companion; and she breathed a sigh of relief. At least he’s still alive and sane enough to send me a message… she thought as she listened to what he was conveying to her. She then nodded, and then looked around the deserted area. “You’re used to going through areas alone, you can handle this fine, no sweat, don’t be scared…” she muttered to herself as she then looked around; and saw that she had registered her bow and arrows to her other quick slot; therefore making reaching through the menu and equipping everything unnecessary. The slight drawback to this was that since she had a dagger and a kunai equipped, how would they even fit in the Quick Slot? She then shook her head as she began walking forward, hearing the cold wind whistle through the abandoned area that they were supposed to explore together; looking for something that apparently was just a “rumor” (but was totally disproven earlier with the appearance of the ‘doppelganger’). “Crap…I have to find a way down to him and save him…” she hissed to herself, spinning the kunai around quite obsessively in her right hand; her grip was tightening on the dagger in her left. She thought she heard another moaning noise, and she looked around quite warily again; before realizing that there was a flicker of movement coming from somewhere in front of her. She then saw the flickering movement seemingly grow in size; and she turned to face it just in time to see a golem made of magicked earth and grit pull itself out of the muck; and then swung a fist on the ground, as if barring her way forward! “Ah, you have seriously got to be kidding me…!” she groaned to herself, quickly deciding to activate Atrophy Break on her dagger and then letting it fly forward, towards the zombie-like Golem that was now recovering from the initial swing. She knew that the Golem-class had the tendency to move slower than normal; and she now had a better library of attacks to use just in case things went awry! She then flung the dagger forward, and then heard a seeming hiss emanating from the point of contact, and her eyes flickered to its Health bar; it had suffered just a pinch of damage; but as it tried to move around, the Golem-class ‘thing’ then realized that it was apparently stuck! Or was it? She then realized that its already-slow movement was now at literally a snail’s pace; and she then decided to switch to one of the better attacks in her repertoire; activating Shadow Wires and then letting the rest of her shadows do the talking. As she darted around the lone target, she felt something… sentient wiggling through her own shadows; and she then noticed that her target was taking on normal damage; and she then breathed a sigh of relief; for it was a safe attack to use. As she narrowly missed getting pulverized by another slow-motion incoming fist, she then realized that her Shadow Wires was now on cool down, and she then decided to activate the next skill, which was Stealth Strike; so that she could deal a bit more damage to the inanimate object that was now trying to pummel her into dust! Now that her own body was shrouded with the pale blue aura, she then chained next into her Deadly Dance skill, leaping into the air and coming down with a spinning vertical slash against the mob that was now trying to grab the extremely slippery target. Upon checking the Golem’s Health bar, she noticed that instead of the pinch-like damage she had inflicted, the damage level was now ‘normalized’, and she backed away just as the Golem reared back and tried to deliver a one-two punch her way!

[bunji]

I will hunt you down... He was staring down the incoming Golem duo, his mind was racing too busy with his little dilemma at the moment he was not too worried about Han he knew he had to focus on taking these two out as quickly as he could manage. Bunji would widen his stance, and bend his knees as he observed the slow approaching Golems. Gripping his katana with both hands the red haired samurai would exhale sharply, his piercing red eyes focused entirely on the Golem that was closest to him. It was then that he activated the skill which would envelope his figure with a sparking aura of electricity, the electrical current that had enveloped him sparked, and lashed out with individual bolts. He was well aware that using lightning based attacks on these monsters was futile, but he was not using this Ace Move for the sake of offense he was using it for the sake of speed! With a forward dash Bunji would rely on the speed boost this Ace Move granted him in order to out maneuver the much larger, and slower Golems. As he dashed between the two his fox ears picking up the individual booms from their failed attempts at stamping the speedy samurai to the ground. Stopping just behind the second Golem, Bunji would pivot his lead foot, and quickly turn to face the duo. Wasting no movement he was already activating his follow up Ace Move, with a swing of his sword he created a powerful vacuum of wind. Pulling in the two Golems, the wind based attack would ravage their HP bar. Bunji watched as his attack was a success he was already contemplating his next move when he was suddenly caught off guard. From behind the air vaccuum a large fist broke through the wind aiming to crash into Bunji. With wide eyes, and thankfully quick reflexes he kicked off the ground dashing to the far left where he managed to avoid the incoming punch. Bunji rolled onto one knee stopping his motion, his red eyes watching as his wind vacuum was fading away, and the Golems were free to give chase again. "Tough bastards" he whispered to himself still surprised at the fact that one of the Golems was able to still take a swing at him despite being trapped by the wind vacuum. Either way the samurai knew he had dealt a decent blow on these things, and despite this he also knew he had to deal with these monsters quickly. The sooner they died, the faster he'd be able to seek out an exit, and regroup with Han. It was then when his mind thought of Han, that he made it priority to work faster, he knew she could handle herself but he'd be damned if he let her get stuck in a jam similar to the one he was facing. An animal like protective instinct would swell inside him as he let a sharp low growl escape between his now bare canines. With a forward charge Bunji engaged one of the Golems the creature swung with a hammer fist, and Bunji stepped to the right avoiding the attack, and responding with. Two vertical slashes, the Golem then swung again this time trying to smack Bunji, but the samurai again managed to avoid ducking under it. He would retaliate with two horizontal slashes one after the other. Bunji would then jump using his leg muscles to propel him upwards just as the Golem tried a low swing, and along with that when he landed he actually had to perfom a quick and sloppy roll as the Golem swung overhead aiming to his upper body. Landing on one knee Bunji recovered unleashing a three slash assault the first was a downward vertical strike, spinning with the motion of the move he performed a horizontal slash then turning the blade around he brought it back for a follow up strike. The Golem howled, as it swung again this time the Samurai actually letting his body weight drop him back as he laid flat on his back. Quickly he would roll to the left avoiding a downward smack by the Golem, Bunji would hear the loud smacks every time the thing missed, and feel the violent shaking resulting from the impact. Standing upright he charged forward unleashing a barrage of slashes onto the Golems person, each slash landing with a cleans strike, "Time to end this!" He called out as he raised his katana overhead activating his ace move [Kabutowari] bringing down the sword for one final owered up slash Bunji would slice the rest of this things HP. Watching as the Golem burst into brilliant data crystals he would then rest his eyes on the second Golem, he smirked bringing his sword up again manipulating the elements to attract wind to concentrate around the blade. Using [Izunagiri] now he swung his sword downward unleashing a dense blade of wind which crashed into the second Golem, its already damaged HP from the previous wind attack dropping drastically once more. The wind blade forced the Golem back a few staggering steps, and left an obvious scar over its torso. Bunji would move in again ready to meet this thing head on, its HP was below half now anyways so he was going to finish it off quickly, well as quickly as he could. Bunji closed the distance quickly using his faster speed to move around the Golem in a half circle as he passed by he swung his katana at the leg his sword leaving a scar, coming to a stop he turned towards the Golem watching as it spun to retaliate with a horizontal swing he ducked under it. Bunji felt the wind rush overhead, his ears folding back as he stepped in swinging his katana upwards in a clean slice the Golem endured as brought down a wild hammer fist which Bunji was barely able to dodge. When he landed in a firm stance ready to attack, he would find himself being stopped mid attack as the Golem took a second surprise swing. Bunji would grit his teeth, and actually glide back a few feet as he fell onto his back rolling to his stomach. He coughed and groaned all the while pushing himself up to look up at the Golem his eyes glaring sharply at the stone giant. "Hope you enjoyed that lucky shot. Because its not happening again!" He called out with a tone of voice that seemed to mix with a wild roar, standing fully upright now he bent his knees then charged towards the Golem, the beast seemed ready to welcome him as it cocked its fist back then threw the straight punch once Bunji was in range. Leaning to the side the samurai did not slow down one bit as he kept charging forward in a quick motion he slashed downward with a swift vertical motion. His body spun as he brought the sword over then he would thrust it forward using his full body to deliver the strike which would bury his sword into the Golems scar that was left Izunagiri. With one final cry of pain the Golem would erupt into data crystals, Bunji would watch as the area around him was lit up. Taking his katana back he would sigh heavily, "What a pain" he said to himself, before turning to get a move on, and finding a way out. "Han? You okay? I just had to deal with some Golems down here, finished them off, and I'm starting to search out the area for a way out. Be careful because I don't know if there are more Golems. Remember these things react to the vibrations of our movements, and they are weak to wind attacks" with that telepathic message out he moved on, shifting his focus to finding a way to get top side again.
	words 1322 tags Hanelli notes Lesser Golem : 2/3 Activated Skills Kabutowari, Izunagiri, Shosen, Denkosekka
...escaping is futile...

made by jasmin - for sir paya use only