"Last chance, what is your mission?" the man asked. This time they all said nothing. All of a sudden he appeared behind The Brooker. He swung and The Brooker ducked.
This happened almost instantly.
The others- Oroc, Amir, Art, and Aria were lost. They could not tell what was going on. They turned and saw the man leap back, away from The Brooker.
"Who are you?"
The man asked, he looked at the others.
"I am The Brooker," The Brooker said and the man smiled.
"I guess I don't need to take it easy on you," the man said and grew twofold. He was already about 6 feet tall. As he grew his skin turned red. His head stayed bald but he grew a beard and fangs. Covering his diamond jawline.
He swung at The Brooker who dove into the ground. He stomped but he rolled out of his way. He continued stomping cracking the floor with every stomp.
"Fight Me," the man screamed as he chased The Brooker around the room. Now that he was bigger he was much slower. As the others tried to join the fight. The red giant swung his arm, and the accompanying wind discouraged them.
Aria materialized a bow and shot arrows at him. The arrows disappeared immediately after they struck his skin. Which were unusual. Normally they pierced the skin or object, then disappeared after a while.
Oroc tried to restrict the movement of his arm. He swung his Kusuragima at him. The same thing happened, the moment his soul weapon touched his crimson skin it disappeared.
Amir ran to the red knight and took its sword.
The others followed his lead, Art took the blue sword, Aria took the green and Oroc took the silver. They joined the fight cutting him any chance they got.
Amir slid behind the giant and slashed at his tendons behind the knees. He fell to his knee letting out a loud growl. A new swarm of guards poured in. From experience, they knew they exploded.
They did not engage them but rather kept their distance. As they ran around the room Art screamed pause.
"Immediately, the guards and even the red giant stopped moving.
"So this is what he meant by giving us pause," Amir thought, he looked at Art amazed.
Oroc scoffed then walked toward the door. He opened it and almost fell down a ledge.
Aria locked the guards and even the giant.
"Oh my god," He said got back, and closed the door.
"Oroc, give me your sword. Don't worry I'll give it back," Art said and collected the Sword.
He stabbed a guard with it and he exploded. He then took the red, the blue, and the green sword. He used them to stab the guards.
He noticed the red sword made the guard explode after 10 seconds. The blue sword made the guard explode after 20 seconds. The green after 30 seconds.
Art was about to test the effect of the sword on the red giant. But before he could stab him, he smacked him. This sent Art flying into the wall.
"Pause," Amir quickly said, then rushed to check on Amir. The others joined him.
"It doesn't matter the effects the swords have on you," Art said, he held his chest and coughed covering his mouth with his hand.
He looked in his palm to see blood. He quickly wiped it on his pants. The others helped him position the guards around the red giants.
They stabbed them with the green sword and stood back. They had hoped the explosions would kill him. Unfortunately, all it did was leave it with minor injuries.
Art used another pause, he tried the swords on him but there were no effects.
"This is all a game to you, why would you give us pauses? When you can put an end to us before we can blink," Art said, he looked at the room like a puzzle that needed to be solved.
"We can't leave unless we defeat you. Our soul weapons do not work against you. The colored sword does but, you regenerate before we can make any significant damage."
"Pause," Art said, the others used swords to make as much damage as they could. The Brooker on the other hand watched.
Art called pause every minute, that was how long the pause lasted. Soon they had only two pauses left and had not yet figured out how to defeat him.
Seconds before their third pause was about to end. The red giant reverted to his normal size.
"Pause," Art called and spat out blood. He looked down to see a hand sticking out of him. He saw Amir, Oroc, and Aria run toward him but, every sound was muted. All he could hear was his heartbeat. He expected it to beat slowly because he was dying. Ironically, it did the opposite.
"Nooo," The Brooker screamed which turned into a roar. As he transformed into an armored beast. He was about the size of the red giant. He had a hard covering all over his body. His tail moved with precision and decapitated the red giant.
The Brooker rushed to Art, blood pooled beneath him. Amir saw this and lunged at him. He smacked him with his tail. This sent him flying into a wall. Amir got up, The Brooker roared at them, this created a vortex that pulled them through the blue door.