I get off Rose and stand up, "Rose, run." She tugs on me, but I pull myself away from her grasp as Carter smiles. Scott swears and screams at Carter. Puppers swings a gun's stock at Scott. He falls over as that big guy and Markus rush in. "Scott denied me for so long." I shout, “You killed Mama!” Carter tilts his head towards her, “Not yet. Seems she’s-“ I lunge forward, but the pain forces me to fall onto one knee. Carter smirks and bolts towards us at an insane speed. I stare at a shard floating to my right. Thadius steps once as liquid splotches from his arm. He instantly flies faster towards Carter. I smirk.

  A loud crash follows and Thadius screams in pain. He punches Carter in the face, but he doesn't flinch. I scream at the pain in my arm and raise it to Carter's face. The glass ball of shards grinds against his face. He reaches towards me with his sharp, long fingers. I move the ball towards his hand and as soon as it touches him, I hear a loud series of snaps within my arm. As an unbearable amount of pain shoots through me, wires extend out his hand, a loop goes over my head. I force my back against the floor as the wire retracts, a sizeable tuft of orange hair falls. Thadius throws a heavy punch as I grab at my arm and scream. Rose scoots back. Carter tries to get past Thadius, but he's using a giant chunk of metal to keep him at bay.

  I march towards the demon as he rushes in, I block and shout at the impact of the strike of his sharp fist. He extends a wire and I grab it, yank it, and punch him across the face. He screeches and thousands of wires fly at me. I tear the shield off my skin and throw it at his head. The wires lose their trajectory as I close in, you have to see them to control them, huh? "You're no Ursa!" The demon spins as the shield falls from his face. I spin, grab the shield and throw my leg back, I feel him fly away from the impact. The wires fly towards me, but I spin the shield as they all scrape past. They cut into my shoulders as I turn to face him. He's already in my face. A blow lands across my face, forcing me backward. The demon dog barks and those guns spark away. He avoids the bullets as I shout, "You are mere fodder!" He turns to me, flies at me. I smile and leap back. A loud gunshot rings out and the demon screams at the impact to it's eye. I bolt towards him, but the wires come out. I stop as they spike outward.

  I slam the rifle's barrel down and cock back the bolt as that big guy stares at Carter. I force the bolt forward as Carter retracts the wires. I swing the rifle up and as the barrel starts to drop, brace, right at his other eye, I pull the trigger. The force sends me to the floor, but in the kaleidoscope, a thousand bullets fly through his eye as planned. I force myself up as he screams in pain, Puppers shoots more bullets at him as his wires pop out. I scream, "We're actually pinning him down!" I laugh and cock back the bolt. I glance up at the shards and my heart drops, a giant ball of wires flies towards me. I can't run from that. My hand forces the bolt closed. The wires are too tight to fire a bullet through. A black tendril wraps around my leg. I glide and scrape against the floor. Puppers barks at me, then splits apart, into a million tiny pieces. I quickly kick myself across the floor to get away from Carter. The wires shrink to the shape of his body. The sound of his flesh tearing, but he doesn't hurt from it. He turns to me as holes open for him to see, "Are you sure about that?" A wire flies at me, I drop the rifle and wave my good arm. The shards fly out my pocket and the wire wraps around it. The wire snaps, then the shards force it under it's weight. Carter stops for a second as a pain presents itself in my other shoulder now.

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  Mama excitedly gasps as Rose watches in awe. Thadius huffs. Jack actually stopped a wire. Something so fragile became hard as a demon's weapon.

  He rushes towards me as Thadius does the same, shouting, "Even a kid's got you tired!?" Carter roars as Markus fires an automatic rifle at him, the bullets ping off him as I back up and shout, "Get them out, Markus!" He shouts back, "Yeah!" Carter tries to cut me, but the big guy slams the shield against his wiry skin. Sparks fly until the wires extend out over us. Thadius pauses to follow them with his eyes, but I don't. I pull out my pistol and shoot, the bullet flies right into his ugly face. The wires still retract towards us. Thadius looks at me and I look at him, then point with my eyes, to the fist flying towards me. He turns and drives his shield against Carter's fist. I wave my hand and the shards force the wires to violently snap in a way they retract for us to survive just fine. The wires snap back to him as I run to my rifle. I grab hold and swing the barrel towards Carter's eyes, a stray wire cuts the barrel halfway. I still pull the trigger. The bullet drives it's way through the small hole in the wire, his wires droop to the floor as he stumbles backward. Thadius leaps in and throws a haymaker, forcing Carter to fall over. He quickly recovers, then leaps up a floor. Markus and Rose look towards him. No!

  Mama almost slips out my grip, "Be careful with me." As I drag Mama and Rose stuffs parts of her shirt around the knife in her back, Carter leaps up. I drop Mama on the steps, Rose yelps and nearly falls down the steps. He leaps towards Rose with sharp claws and I instantly swing my fist at his chest. Pipe wrench! He doesn't even try to dodge. The whole weight of my fist pushes him back. He loses his balance and falls backward over the ledge. We almost just got killed. Why won't that power come out for me?

  Carter falls and crashes against the floor, we pause as he zooms towards us, but he grabs Scott and puts him over his shoulder. He starts running towards the stairs. "Don't you touch them! Carter!?" He runs up the steps as we slowly try to catch up. Thadius passes me as the concrete steps crack. Carter swipes at Rose as he runs through them, but Thadius throws his shield. The shield falls with a thud as Rose stumbles with blood pouring from her nose. She lets go of the railing. I run up, lock my good arm into the railing and stop her from falling. She pushes herself off me with a scoff, then grabs at her nose. A loud crash is heard as water pours in from the entrance. Thadius stomps holes through the floor and grabs hold of us. The water washes over us with an intense speed.