[center][u][b]Minamoto Yoshitsune[/b][/u]
Level 4 [3/40]
Al Mamoon Northwest - Obelisk Temple
1821
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Yoshitsune sighed in relief at the backup. As the man began firing his weapon, the samurai used the last of his Kurama herbs, healing him considerably, though not completely. Once the blond man's attack stopped, Yoshitsune rushed forward, his swords slashing through the air, aiming at the staff and dagger the Witch Doctor held, attempting to disarm her, before aiming a kick to bounce her head off the wall. 

Thinking she was out of the fight, he turned back to the gunner. "Surrender," he advised, trying to hide the physical strain he'd been going through for the last couple minutes.

With the ranks of her loathsome summons thinned, the Witch Doctor anticipated an attack, but the speed and anger of the vengeful samurai surprised even her. Once in melee range, however, Yoshitsune aimed not for her vitals but the weapons in her hand. The dagger flew from her fingers almost effortlessly, the impact of the blades having jarred her grip. When she felt her all-important staff being wrenched away, the Witch Doctor committed to keeping hold of it to such an extent that the force pulled her impact wide open, and the next moment a kick threw her back. Still, basically untouched until now, the summoner could still fight without much issue. With a vehement swear the Witch Doctor unleashed the spell Horrify to conjure a nightmarish image above her and force Yoshitsune to dash away.

Goldlewis didn't like the distance between the two sides. Until his Security Level rose again, he couldn't challenge the ladies at range, and even then his slow weaponry would be hard-pressed to turn the tide. He took note as the Witch Doctor summoned a trio of undead mongrels to fight by her side, but Daisy was a more immediate concern. She finished reloading her rifle and opened fire, which prompted Goldlewis in turn to bring up his coffin like a shield and deploy a glowing energy barrier. With it in front of him he advanced toward the enemy. "Keep the dogs offa me!" he called to Yoshitsune. "I'll push 'em back 'til we've got 'em cornered!"

Yoshitsune leapt back, getting a bit of space between himself and the summoned dogs. "There's nothing your beasts can do to me, witch," he smirked before activating Kamui again. As he'd hoped, all 3 dogs attacked together. The samurai countered with a spin, slicing through each of their heads. "I've defeated gods," he continued, walking closer. "Surrender or perish."

As he heard the samurai's boasting, Goldlewis shook his head. "Hey, don't get cocky, kid!" The undead mongrels called forth by the Witch Doctor ran as a pack around the side of the Secretary of Defense's barrier, and after making sure of his positioning the samurai met them head on. When the hounds lunged for him, the rotting flesh of their faces flapping over slimy, gnarly teeth, Yoshitsune's fiery blades met little resistance. Since they moved by necromancy the wounds weren't fatal in the conventional sense, but in essence they were all but dealt with, and despite his burns and spider bites the samurai was clearly feeling himself.

Rather than respond to Yoshitsune's bragging verbally, or be unnerved by the approaching shield wall the Witch Doctor kept her focus. She reached a hand toward the mongrels fallen at the samurai's feet and clenched her fist to cast Sacrifice. Though weak and easily felled, the Mongrels served a much grander purpose in death: to detonate in a withering explosion of dark magic, the highest burst damage that any Witch Doctor could put out with a single skill. The beast detonated with enough force to put a small crater in the dungeon floor and stagger the nearby Goldlewis despite his formidable build. "Gyah!" he grunted, his coffin knocked askew and his barrier fallen. "That's just what I meant! Anyone who's anyone's got some crap up their sleeves!" He quickly took stock of the Witch Doctor and Daisy, noting the distance between them. "Well, we're in it now!" He rapped on the coffin, and from it the alien's arm extended to release a spiky, pineapple-sized grenade with a propeller on top. It floated toward the Witch Doctor as she cast Gargantuan to summon a large zombie. Daisy, meanwhile, had kitted herself with a [url=https://i.imgur.com/ISPYpmJ.png]Vox Burstgun[/url] before turning the head back up. Goldlewis, however, was already in motion. With the coffin held before him he thundered forward, running like his life depended on it.

As the zombie swung for him he leaped into the air and rammed the coffin into its head, end-first. The mighty blow counterhit the wretch and knocked it backward, and as it fell Goldlewis tensed himself mid-air. A golden disc appeared behind Secretary of Defense, and with a heave he pushed off it to perform an airdash right over his fallen foe, putting its bulk between himself and the Witch Doctor. Yoshitsune, he figured, was close enough to keep them occupied. He, meanwhile, needed to deal with Daisy, or even trying to fight fair would end in getting shot. He inverted himself as he fell to deliver a [url=https://i.imgur.com/QbCES7O.png]heavy drop attack[/url] that forced Daisy back into the cover of the prison cell. No doubt she planned to sprint out of reach and plug him full of holes the moment he stepped through the doorway and made himself an easy target.

Instead, Goldlewis reached over and slammed the cell door shut. A quick turn and yank of the key trapped Daisy inside. As she realized her error a string a vehement curses assailed him, and bullets flew through the bars, but for now Goldlewis could ignore her. He and Yoshitsune had the Witch Doctor and her hulking friend surrounded.

"It's not cockiness if it's fact," Yoshitsune replied to his ally's statement. He was blown back by the hound exploding but was able to flip in the air to land on his feet. Seeing the undead human, the samurai rushed passed it, aiming to decapitate it as he did. This time, as he swung at the Witch Doctor, his aim was to disarm her in a literal sense, assuming for her biceps.

If Yoshitsune expected to carve through the Gargantuan like butter and kill him with a single slice, he would be disappointed. At the very least his blade didn't stick in the aberration's throat, allowing him to pull his weapon free in order to duck out of the way of a wild counterattack and target the Witch Doctor directly. Put on the back foot, the shaman hurled a jar of spiders that shattered against his cuirass as he approached, releasing its leggy contents to squirm wildly as they flew through the air, but Yoshitsune was undeterred. The Witch Doctor held tight to her last jar in an effort to smash it against her enemy's helmet, both stunning him with its blunt force and giving her minions a chance to bite his face, but a quick slice buried Yoshitsune's katana in her upper arm. She screamed as the blade's flame cauterized the wound, and the spider jar fell to smash at her feet. Another attack could end this.

At that moment, however, the Gargantuan made Yoshitsune regret underestimating it. From behind the huge zombie seized the samurai by the arm and the head, squeezing his in its crushing grip. If he didn't think fast he would be mashed to a pulp inside his own armor.

With the gargantuan coming from behind and the Witch Doctor injured, Yoshitsune had thought of a plan. Being a bit too slow, however, got him grabbed. When he swung his blades, he aimed to dismember the giant zombie's hand, hoping to at least loosen its grip.

Instead of aiming for the other wrist, though, he aimed for his armor straps. Freeing his arm, he was able to get a better chance at destroying the other wrist. With a leap, he kicked at the Witch Doctor's stomach. Standing over her, he waited for the monster.

In a stroke of genius Yoshitsune managed to escape the Gargantuan's clutches without debilitating injury to his arm, but his priorities still lay elsewhere. The Witch Doctor, forced to keep one hand on her wounded bicep, held onto her staff with the last of her strength, and it certainly wasn't enough to stop a heavy boot to her midsection. She crumpled, wheezing, but victory did not belong to Yoshitsune just yet. Wrists intact or not, the Gargantuan behind him swung its massive limbs and walloped Yoshitsune end over end--this wasn't an enemy that he could afford to ignore.

Before the monster could stomp on the downed samurai, Goldlewis appeared. He went low and thrust out a leg to sweep the zombie's own, and as it fell his coffin came down in a meteoric Behemoth Typhoon. It slammed into and caved in the Gargantuan's chest cavity, but the thing still wasn't dead. Never one for half-measures, Goldlewis planted the coffin and slid it open. A half-dozen long, cosmic arms extended from within to grab the zombie's head, and together they began to pull. Already loosened by Yoshitsune's slash, and poorly anchored in necrotic flesh, the vile head began to slide free. A good hack from a sharp blade would be all it took to part ways with its grisly neck.

Yoshitsune smirked as he stood over the Witch Doctor, listening to the thudding footsteps of the Gargantuan behind him. At the last second, he leapt. Not quite fast enough, though, as his wheels were hit, causing the man to spin in the air before crashing down by the Wood doctor.  He grabbed her, hiding her above him and between him and the Gargantuan. "You can control it, call it off."

As the samurai saw the blond man taking it down, he tossed her to the side. Since it seemed it was almost a headless Gargantuan, he rushed as fast as he could, slicing through the monster's neck.

Blazing steel slid through rotting ligaments and separated bone, cleanly finishing the job Yoshitsune started earlier. The alien hands relinquished their grip to disappear back where they came from, and as the Gargantuan decomposed Goldlewis loosened his collar with a heavy exhale. Now that the troublesome Witch Doctor had been dealt with at last and Daisy confined, his part in the battle seemed to be over. Still, Yoshitsune could use some healing and antivenom, and Goldlewis himself needed a break. Still, a few enemies remained, and both combatants readied themselves for any further surprises.

Instead of relaxing, though, the samurai approached the wounded woman. He sheathed one blade but rested the other by the Witch Doctor's neck as he grabbed the staff from her. "I told you to surrender." If she refused to let go or fought to get her staff back, he'd try to finish removing the arm he injured.