[ The shadow blobs take the most damage, as more are skewered by your various sharp implements. A few of them vanish entirely.
...The remaining ones are distracted by the snack sticks, while the rest seem very keen on reaching Maya still.
Yato himself is being rudely SPRAYED AT by Yukine and Link, and the water seems to burn when it connects with him and the shadows. And as Maya tries to disarm him, he's knocked in the face by an incredibly lucky fox. And then he's hit in the face with a knife, wow?! He drops one sword.
But grabs onto Maya's arm with his now-free hand, pulling her up. She'll start to feel blight on her, as well. ]
I won't let any of you go!
[ Predictably, the remaining shadow creatures combine again-- this time there's only two remaining, as large as a person and looking an awful lot like a couple of shadowy raptors. THEY BOTH RUN FOR THE TOPKNOT.
Yato's distorting further, turning entirely purple and incredibly eyebally. His limbs grow longer. He's starting to look a lot less humanoid and sounding a lot more screechy.
The shadows around him continue to try to knock and stab at you all. ]
[YOU KNOW WHAT. lobbing every knife and fork he's got left straight at Yato's left leg. then he's off after the nearest raptor, just fucking lunging at it, grabbing hold around its neck with his already burned arm and stabbing his knife into its jugular with the other.]
( this. . . this isn't working. maybe there's no normal form for this yato to go back to. at the very least, the more that he distorts, the easier it gets to stop seeing this thing as yato. because it isn't. not really.
and star's in danger.
he leaves the AMULET on, but swaps out the supersoaker for the KATANA. this isn't yato. this isn't yato.
so it's fine if he advances with the intent to slice off the arm holding star! )
[well this is beginning to backfire now that her plushie power is done for. She hisses in pain and grits her teeth when Otay grabs her, but she's still got a free arm.]
[She's going to use that arm, to take off her topknot and SHOVE IT RIGHT IN OTAY'S MOUTH as he's screeching, then judo kick at his chest to try to get herself free of his sweaty clutches]
[ nope. he pulls out the katana this time and runs towards the raptors, attempting to slash them in half. we're not doing this raptor attack shit again. ]
Grant us the power to cleanse this soul of corruption.
[Sol will try and run at one of those raptors from behind and slash at its head to try and behead it. Because yolo I guess.
Fiere will try and headbutt not!Yato again, because that's been working sort of, right?
...And realizing what his human is trying to do, Fiere will continue the prayer. Because powers being off might render it pointless, but at the very least it'll steady Sol to try.]
Grant us the strength to purify this innocent of that which would taint him, in the name of the fire of life!
[...yes, I know. Yato, innocent. Just roll with it, okay?]
They're bashed and stabbed and one is successfully beheaded by two of you. It bursts into nothing. The other isn't faring much better.
Y'all fucking rude to Yato monsters, too. His left leg is stabbed, and his chest is kicked by a teenage girl, and a fox keeps trying to headbutt him. Before he can do much else, Yukine's running up to try to cut the arm grasping Star-- he halfway succeeds, and Yato retaliates by FLINGING STAR ACROSS THE ROOM, screaming bloody murder.
While munching on the topknot.
Anyone who's been badly blighted now will start to feel hotter, and sicker. ]
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO! YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING! WHY CAN'T YOU ACCEPT IT?!
[ The remaining shadow creature this time combines with... well, Yato, and now he's more or less unrecognizable, a giant shadowy monstrosity, lashing out at everyone with claws and rampaging around the room like a maniac. Even as one of his arms is barely hanging onto him. ]
Dodging the claws (and not exactly caring about getting nicked a little here or there because high pain tolerance and also boy who cares so little about his own self), Sol and Fiere now both rush in to attack not!Yato, Sol raising his katana and Fiere ready for Yet Another Headbutt, both screaming the final word of their prayer as a battle cry, pouring all the emotion of their wish to be strong enough to protect everyone into it. Again, powers being off it's not like it's gonna do anything, but.]
[he's not doing too good at this point, the burning in his arm getting to him. so he can't get out of Yato's path before his claws strike. he DOES manage to get his blighted arm up in front of his face, and there's a dull clang as they gash through the flesh-- but not the bone. it startles him for a second. then he's yelling at him, holding up the spray bottle in his good hand.]
Because fuck that hopeless attitude, that's why!
[SPRAYING YATO DEAD IN THE CHEST WITH SHRINE WATER... WHAT PASSES FOR HIS CHEST RIGHT NOW, ANYWAY.]
( jerking his head back to see where she landed, a small amount of panic rising in him, but thankfully mushroom is fast enough to catch her before she hits the ground. because he knows he wouldn't have been fast enough to do it instead. fuck. he's really got to get better at this whole fighting thing when he's not a sword.
speaking of swords, his grip on the katana tightens. )
That's not true! Yato's still there and he's worth saving! There's no way we'd just accept it and let the shadow take him!!
( so, taking a page out of yato's stupid sweaty book, he continues to slash at the freaky monster with the intent to slice it into ribbons. )
He's slashed and sprayed (and briefly distracted by snack sticks?!) quite viciously, and bits of his shadowy exterior begin to fall away...
until he can't take the onslaught anymore, and falls to his hands and knees with a screech, the eyeballs and the shadow and the blight absorbed back into him at once.
And then he's just a normal tracksuited Yato again, albeit with those attractive yellow eyes, panting and bleeding on the floor.
But he looks back up at them, face twisted with pure contempt for you fuckers. ]
Haa haa. You hypocrites want to be killers that badly?
I told... you... it was pointless. You haven't accomplished anything! You can't destroy me... from in here...
He'll never be free of me... and neither will you, now.
[ Before you can do anything else, though, he sinks into the floor. Gone.
. . . BUT CONGRATULATIONS, YOU SAVED THE WORLD
YATO!
Feels almost as good, huh?!
And while you're all standing there, the floor of the room floods with a clear, watery liquid.
See??? It's healing all of your blight! And your wounds! You feel incredibly refreshed. The shadows surrounding you melt away, revealing some houses and a theme park in the distance. It's sunny and pleasant and the air smells like Yato.
( this seems like a moment where they ought to feel triumphant or at least, he ought to feel triumphant. instead he just feels terrified. the sword drops from his hands as he stares as where the shadow had just been. was it really pointless? did they not help? he had been so sure that this was the right answer, that he should fight the shadow in the same way that yato fought ayakashi. what if it wasn't? what if they didn't help? maybe the shadow was just trying to rattle them, set them on edge, and maybe it's dumb to even think too hard on it but—
he's scared. he'd been so sure all the way through that they would fix this. they always fixed it in the end. that's how it works! . . .right?
pressing his palms against his eyes, he tries not to cry. he just wants this to be over. )
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BOSS ACTION
...The remaining ones are distracted by the snack sticks, while the rest seem very keen on reaching Maya still.
Yato himself is being rudely SPRAYED AT by Yukine and Link, and the water seems to burn when it connects with him and the shadows. And as Maya tries to disarm him, he's knocked in the face by an incredibly lucky fox. And then he's hit in the face with a knife, wow?! He drops one sword.
But grabs onto Maya's arm with his now-free hand, pulling her up. She'll start to feel blight on her, as well. ]
I won't let any of you go!
[ Predictably, the remaining shadow creatures combine again-- this time there's only two remaining, as large as a person and looking an awful lot like a couple of shadowy raptors. THEY BOTH RUN FOR THE TOPKNOT.
Yato's distorting further, turning entirely purple and incredibly eyebally. His limbs grow longer. He's starting to look a lot less humanoid and sounding a lot more screechy.
The shadows around him continue to try to knock and stab at you all. ]
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[ protect me capyper ]
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and star's in danger.
he leaves the AMULET on, but swaps out the supersoaker for the KATANA. this isn't yato. this isn't yato.
so it's fine if he advances with the intent to slice off the arm holding star! )
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[She's going to use that arm, to take off her topknot and SHOVE IT RIGHT IN OTAY'S MOUTH as he's screeching, then judo kick at his chest to try to get herself free of his sweaty clutches]
Here, since you like my hair so much---!
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[Sol will try and run at one of those raptors from behind and slash at its head to try and behead it. Because yolo I guess.
Fiere will try and headbutt not!Yato again, because that's been working sort of, right?
...And realizing what his human is trying to do, Fiere will continue the prayer. Because powers being off might render it pointless, but at the very least it'll steady Sol to try.]
Grant us the strength to purify this innocent of that which would taint him, in the name of the fire of life!
[...yes, I know. Yato, innocent. Just roll with it, okay?]
BOSS ACTION
They're bashed and stabbed and one is successfully beheaded by two of you. It bursts into nothing. The other isn't faring much better.
Y'all fucking rude to Yato monsters, too. His left leg is stabbed, and his chest is kicked by a teenage girl, and a fox keeps trying to headbutt him. Before he can do much else, Yukine's running up to try to cut the arm grasping Star-- he halfway succeeds, and Yato retaliates by FLINGING STAR ACROSS THE ROOM, screaming bloody murder.
While munching on the topknot.
Anyone who's been badly blighted now will start to feel hotter, and sicker. ]
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO! YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING! WHY CAN'T YOU ACCEPT IT?!
[ The remaining shadow creature this time combines with... well, Yato, and now he's more or less unrecognizable, a giant shadowy monstrosity, lashing out at everyone with claws and rampaging around the room like a maniac. Even as one of his arms is barely hanging onto him. ]
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[{One big strike. You ready, Fiere?}
{As good a time as ever.}
Dodging the claws (and not exactly caring about getting nicked a little here or there because high pain tolerance and also boy who cares so little about his own self), Sol and Fiere now both rush in to attack not!Yato, Sol raising his katana and Fiere ready for Yet Another Headbutt, both screaming the final word of their prayer as a battle cry, pouring all the emotion of their wish to be strong enough to protect everyone into it. Again, powers being off it's not like it's gonna do anything, but.]
MICHAEL!!!
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Because fuck that hopeless attitude, that's why!
[SPRAYING YATO DEAD IN THE CHEST WITH SHRINE WATER... WHAT PASSES FOR HIS CHEST RIGHT NOW, ANYWAY.]
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[yeah she's getting flung across the room like a football, BUT LUCKILY, someone's there to catch the Topknot Jenkins]
Ooof! N-Nice catch.....
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[ once he can see she's all right, though, he pulls the katana back out. ??? ]
Hold on, okay?
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H-Hanging on! Let's let this stupid shadow jerk have it, once and for all!
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( jerking his head back to see where she landed, a small amount of panic rising in him, but thankfully mushroom is fast enough to catch her before she hits the ground. because he knows he wouldn't have been fast enough to do it instead. fuck. he's really got to get better at this whole fighting thing when he's not a sword.
speaking of swords, his grip on the katana tightens. )
That's not true! Yato's still there and he's worth saving! There's no way we'd just accept it and let the shadow take him!!
( so, taking a page out of yato's stupid sweaty book, he continues to slash at the freaky monster with the intent to slice it into ribbons. )
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Ugh, shut up already! We're not leaving without him!
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[ bringing up the knife primarily to judge, clicking his tongue as he hisses from blight pain ]
BOSS END
He's slashed and sprayed (and briefly distracted by snack sticks?!) quite viciously, and bits of his shadowy exterior begin to fall away...
until he can't take the onslaught anymore, and falls to his hands and knees with a screech, the eyeballs and the shadow and the blight absorbed back into him at once.
And then he's just a normal tracksuited Yato again, albeit with those attractive yellow eyes, panting and bleeding on the floor.
But he looks back up at them, face twisted with pure contempt for you fuckers. ]
Haa haa. You hypocrites want to be killers that badly?
I told... you... it was pointless. You haven't accomplished anything! You can't destroy me... from in here...
He'll never be free of me... and neither will you, now.
[ Before you can do anything else, though, he sinks into the floor. Gone.
. . . BUT CONGRATULATIONS, YOU SAVED THE
WORLDYATO!
Feels almost as good, huh?!
And while you're all standing there, the floor of the room floods with a clear, watery liquid.
...It's shrine water. Definitely shrine water. Yeah!!
See??? It's healing all of your blight! And your wounds! You feel incredibly refreshed. The shadows surrounding you melt away, revealing some houses and a theme park in the distance. It's sunny and pleasant and the air smells like Yato.
Good job. Now get outta here. ]
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he's scared. he'd been so sure all the way through that they would fix this. they always fixed it in the end. that's how it works! . . .right?
pressing his palms against his eyes, he tries not to cry. he just wants this to be over. )
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