This was going perfectly. They were practically there! He kept an eye on Ray as he flew above them and landed behind the group. Well, at least he was following us. Kris decided a small attack was needed to distract Ray just enough for him to get past him. The battleground was behind Ray after all.

Kris used his blade trick to mold the air into a cutting edge and swung the sword at Ray, sending the air blade towards him. Soon after that though, Kris propelled himself through the air heading above his opponent to try and keep moving forward.

Ryan was already running as he watched Ray fly over them, a ball of goo made from the concrete rooftop forming behind him as he went. He ran in a circle to the left of Kris's charge, and as the air sword was sent flying, he set loose his gelatinous mass. It broke apart as he launched it, disintegrating into hundreds of football-sized pieces of concrete.

As his projectiles flew towards their target, he kept running towards the parking lot, the others hot on his heels. Hopefully the double-attack from two directions would distract Ray long enough for them to get to their chosen battlefield.

"too late" was the whisper Mr.terrible heard behind him as he landed seemingly hitting nothing but air.

Mr. terrible then spun around behind him and immediately aimed a kick charged with lightning right at the stranger's head.

Ray see's the two attack's flying towards him. letting out a chuckle, Ray gesture's his hand and a group of minions appear from the ground, the attacks hit the minions directly, killing them and leaving Ray unscathed.

He turns his head and notice's the hero's running towards an unmarked building, it looked like an old multistory parking garage, Ray follows behind them. casually walking as if he was in no danger.

"i love this city...." Ray mumbles to himself, puffing on the cigar.

Having made it over Ray and seeing that Ryan was also joining in an attack, he knew that they would be able to make it to the parking garage without any troubles. With that, Kris kept using his power to move at a super human speed, continually propelling himself when he touched the ground, making it seem as if he was jumping at an alarming speed. It was something like an instinct, he didn't really know how he was doing it, it was just happening. After a few seconds, he reached the first floor of the parking garage and turned to face the opposite direction, looking at Ryan and the others as they made their way here. He could also see that Ray was taking his sweet time to get here. The man was surely mad.

Damien shook his head, as if to clear his mind of the fog of bloodlust. "Damn, gotta keep a cool head. those who die first are the ones who lose their cool." he muttered to himself. Damien breathed in deeply and closed his eyes. his eyes snapped open, razor sharp, cold as ice and dangerous as lightning. Now he was truly ready. he was not killing for the sake of killing. he was no monster. he was going to end this to stop anyone else from getting hurt.

Ray reaches the end off the roof, over looking a parking garage. He lets out a small chuckle while jumping to the ground, he lands on all fours and glances towards the hero's, picking himself up, he lets out a sigh.

"your fear, your nervousness, your pain....." Ray say's in an insane voice, puffing on the cigar "I experience none of these, for i am immortal."

Ray deploys a shield of dark energy around his body and his mind, a heavy black smoke arising from him, no flesh was visible, the cigar slid out of his mouth, disintegrating upon landing on his foot.

come get me Ray projected the thought into his foe's minds.

Damien responded in kind, covering his body with condensed gravity. nothing could get through without becoming warped and crushed beyond recognition. Then Damien negated all the gravity around Ray and changed the flow of gravity around himself and flew towards Ray. He unleashed a vicious hidden hurricane kick.

Ryan stopped and turned, getting into a defensive stance, as Damien prepared his shield and charged. Ray was likewise shielded, so Ryan couldn't really do anything here, especially without harming Damien in the process. He glanced at Amy, the only one really able to bring down Ray's dark energy shield, and nodded, an understanding between them. Though Ray was his nemesis, she was the one best fit to defeat him. Ryan would have to settle for defending her.

He crouched to the ground, spreading his hands over the pavement and willing a dozen goo tentacles to sprout up out of the ground around them, prepared to lash out at Ray should he come too close. Then he used the goo beneath him to lift himself up till he could touch the ceiling, at which point a large circle of goo appeared above the fighting pair. If things went bad for Damien, he would drop the roof on them.

Ray see's the hurricane kick coming towards him, interesting tactic. Ray simply lets the hidden hurricane kick connect with him, the shield absorbing the hit. the two separate shields collide, he felt his own shield distort and curl around the impact zone, wrapping around Damien's shield.

Ray closes his eye's and projects a psychic attack at Damien, slowly tearing apart the foundation of his attackers mind.

Damien smiled. now Ray was physically weaker. He built up a mental wall around the core of his being, thinking only of Rose, the person who had mattered most to him in his life. nothing under heaven could break that barrier. Damien increased the gravity warp around his right hand 5 fold and aimed right at Ray's chest.

Kris caught up to Ryan as he raised himself to the roof to create a giant blob above the fighting pair. "I hope you don't mind that i help defend the lovely maiden."He chuckled and held his sword up to defend himself from whatever attack came their way."I hope you don't mind me being your Lancelot, oh dear King Arthur." It surprised him that he could joke so easily in a time like this. Well, if he were to die in a fight, might as well make it fun...right?

Ryan glanced down sharply at Kris' comment. The man probably didn't think Ryan was familiar with that specific story, which was understandable, but he was, in fact, very familiar with it. Despite his lazy, time-wasting, gamer personality, he was a very avid reader. It was just one of those habit oddities that some people had.

He would let the comment pass, after all this wasn't the place nor the time, and Ryan was someone who could appreciate a joke. It did set off a tiny warning alarm in the back of his head though. He was fairly sure Amy wasn't as shallow as Guenevere, but then again Kris was a pretty charming guy.

He turned his mind back to the task at hand, maintaining the goo and watching dueling pair. He managed to let out an small chuckle in Kris' direction, as Damien charged a began charging massive gravity blast.

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Ray felt the quick gravity increase, tearing away parts of the shield. Ray raise's his hand and fires another massive beam of energy at Damien, equal in size to the one he fired at Amy and Ryan earlier but at this time at pointblank range.

"goodbye gravity man....." Ray said, unable to see Damien through the dark energy.

A pillar of light shot upward from the ground, inches from Damien's face. The dark beam that Ray had fired collided with the pillar, and in a thunderous boom, both attacks where cancelled out. The air felt heavy with energy and smoke wafted thickly about.

Amy took a step toward the group, her hand raised and glowing. She looked to Ray. "Good to see you again," she said with a sarcastic smile, her first clenching tighter as she spoke.

Damien landed on his butt. "Whew, that could've been messy. thanks!" He yelled up to Amy. "I owe you!" Damien negated all the gravity around Ray and flipped him upside-down. "Hit him now!" he yelled.

The impressive show of force that Amy had just showed them made Kris thankful that she was on their side. He let her walk past, moving towards the group of fighters. Kris was close behind her, making sure that there wouldn't be anything to surprise them. Ray could be a very dangerous opponent, especially when he created those... shadow puppets or minions or whatever they were.

Ryan moved forward as Amy did, the tentacles combining and drawing closer around her and Kris. Perched atop his gelatinous pedestal above them, he watched as Amy conjured a massive pillar of light, knocking both Damien and Ray backwards. He gritted his teeth, wishing he could be there, pummeling that bastard head on, but knowing that wasn't his place. Right now he had to make sure Ray was being covered should Amy's attack fail.

"Hit him now!" Damien yelled, flipping the disoriented Ray upside down. Ryan pushed his hands against the ceiling even harder, gaining as much contact as he could. The gray splotch above Ray morphed into several long tendrils that came winding down like jellyfish tentacles, surrounding the man in a semi-circle behind him, effectively halting any dodge or escape attempts.

Then he waited breathlessly for the final few milliseconds before Amy unleashed her attack.

"The enemy is here, or at least, His agent. I may have to engage him"

And only now the being had begun to make sense. The enemy of Order? So this will be an agent of Chaos? Perhaps some of the others had already noticed this agent running around. Going with how the orderly agent looked and acted the chaotic counterpart was going to stand out from miles away.

Her conversation with the agent of Order had easily run it's course so she bid adieu to the being before going back towards the fight. If Ray had truly needed help, now was the time to laugh in his face about it.

Ray feels the gravity shift around him, he was now upside down, the strange concrete tentacles surrounding him. He was trapped with no visible escape route, he did however have a plan.

Do you really think that you can kill a god? Ray projected this thought into the minds of his foes, alongside of images of their worst fear's. Ray strengthens the shield of darkness around his body, preparing for any attacks.

Do you really think that you can kill a god?

Egotistical, much? Amy thought back in reply- but the moment she did, her mind exploded in a flurry of painful sounds and images. Fear moved through her body like electricity, sapping her to the very core.

It was hard to describe, this fear. It felt primitive, and empty, as though the Earth and the universe were gone, and nothing remained save for the chaos and darkness that had been there before creation. White noise, like static, blocked her ears and the world went silent as though her ears were stuffed with wool. She felt the darkness and the cold, and mostly, the despair. The glowing aura around her body dimmed.

I... I... Damn...

She looked to about and spotted Ryan, holding Ray still with concrete. He was watching her, almost expectantly, waiting for her to strike their now frozen target. Her breath caught in her throat- what would she do?

I have no excuse. She glanced towards Ray. I helped start this fight, and it's time to finish it. But the darkness and fear within her mind was growing, now far too strong... What could she do?

An idea sprung to her mind, and she looked to Ryan. He better not lose focus, she thought, hoping he would keep the concrete tentacles held tightly. Clenching her fists, she walked over to Ryan, wrapped her arms about his neck, raised herself slightly on her toes, and planted her lips firmly on his.

What could be a better way to fight darkness? Amy felt the strong emotion well up inside of her, suffocating her fears and the evil that Ray had planted inside her mind. She felt the warmth and the starlight return to her body, filling like a fountain until she was overflowing with the positive energy. By the time she pulled away from Ryan, her pupils were glowing a burning gold, and solar flares once again emitted from her skin.

With a passive face, her mouth forming a stern, straight line, she extended one palm toward Ray's direction. Nothing seemed to happen.

She blinked. From the sky, as if shot downward from the sun itself, a colossal beam of light fell onto Ray, burning with a heat that threatened to scorch the eyebrows of everyone on the roof. It lasted for a good minute, before fading, leaving the group a little blinded by the light.

When Kris had seen Ray lifted and turned upside down, he knew that it wouldn't be long before the Battle would be over. He felt confident that they would win and not have to deal with someone like this. All those thoughts however, were washed away when he felt something like another mental attack like what Ray has become quite talented with. This time there was no static, no mentally destructive power. All he felt was fear. Everything was fear. He wanted to run as fast as he could away from this fight. Away from everything.

Images formed in his mind. He couldn't quite make them out but he knew what they were. It was as if someone was looking through his mind to take out only the bad thoughts and push them into his conscious mind. All the images and thoughts Kris had made up to try and figure out what he was, what had happened to him to be beaten so badly that he lost his memory. What was he before the day he woke up in an alley two years ago, with no recollection of the past events? All these fears and thoughts were brought from the depths of his mind and he couldn't stand it.

What am I to have deserved something like this? He kept shouting in his mind. Over and over he repeated. What am I? What am I? Then, he felt something different. Something further down in his mind that felt like salvation. He didn't recognize much from the memory but he knew this was from before he lost his memory. A small image of a child reaching for an old saber. And then, the memory was gone. But that was all that he needed. Kris fought back the fear and the darkness, confident that he would find out what he was and not be afraid.

It took him all that he had to come back and be aware of his surroundings. And for good measure. When he looked around him, he noticed Amy pulling away from a kiss she had given Ryan, which seemed to cause her to glow brightly. When he saw her extend her arm in Ray's direction, he had just enough time to try and bend the air around him so that he wouldn't feel the burning heat caused by the massive pillar of what Kris believed to be the sun itself that descended upon Ray. Surely that would finish the man.

Ray feels the beam of energy collide with his body, quickly destroying the shield, the light searing his body down to the bone with indescribable pain, the last thing he would ever feel.

The words darkness never dies projected from his mind for the last time.

The beam stopped, revealing a skeleton with a heavy black smoke arising from it. Ray was dead, and he had no tricks up his sleeve to bring himself back.

Damien held strong through the mental attack. "sorry, but i already lived through my worst nightmare." he saw the giant pillar of light. he increased the gravity so much in that one area that it warped right around him and foucused on Ray, like the sun magnified by a magnifying glass. he heard Ray's thought projection. "No, darkness does not die." he said aloud. "However, it must learn its place. In pace requiesat." he flipped Ray back over and laid him down gently. even monsters deserve respect in the end he reasoned to himself.

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Hardly had Ray fallen, but there was another ripple in reality, though smaller than before.

It took a second for the supers' minds to clear, and by that time, someone nearby was screaming

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Mr Terrible's kick was full of thunderous wrath, enough to smash the life out of any target. Only one problem...

There was no one there.

The wind blew again, but this time there was no enigmatic laughter, and Terry came to realise that the presence he had felt from the Agent of Chaos had gone.

In the distance, someone screamed...

Ryan had half a second of warning, as he felt Ray's presence suddenly invade his mind, to brace himself for the attack. Then it hit, fear coursing through his mind. Everything he had always feared, including that one, horrifying, unimaginable dread that that he had since he was a child, came rushing into his consciousness, overwhelming it and tearing it apart from the inside out. The tentacles and shield wavered and nearly fell apart.

This, coupled with the terrible memories of his last mind-attack encounter with that devil, were threatening to destroy him. He clenched his eyes closed, gritted his teeth, felt every muscle in his body contract and ripple under the enormous mental stress.

Then a light, moving towards him, a warm, bright light. He opened his eyes and saw Amy standing before him, arms wrapped around his neck. Suddenly time seemed to stand still, as she leaned forward, glorious, shining face close to his, and kissed him.

Needless to say, it was the best kiss he had ever received. It sent an electric shock through his body as her light shone through and washed out Ray's fear. As she drew away, he was left in a sort of limbo, for a moment forgetting their circumstances, just reveling in the moment. Then he was drawn back into reality as Amy through up her hand and a giant beam of light shone down from the sky, seemingly from the sun itself, enveloping Ray and casting a burning heat across the parking lot.

He collapsed as Ray's presence vanished, without a trace. The goo dissipated and shattered, small pieces of cement falling to the ground around them. For a moment he just sat there staring at the ground, then he lifted his head slowly, gazing at the charred skeleton, all that was left of Ray. "Oh my god...."

He gazed up at Amy, pure relief and gratefulness in his eyes. "Thank you."

"fucking coward" Mr.terrible muttered under his breath he heard a scream in the distance and his mind raced with the possibilities of what it could be and how he might be able to make it worse but he fought these urges and decided to sit against a wall and start planning his next move.

"okay ray is`nt here so that`s one ally gone and I can`t find Cathy but I still got to shoot her and she`s still living...I think, so I`m even in that respect but what to do now" Mr.terrible then turned his attention back to where he heard the scream and decided to see what all the fuss was about.