IRNANE
The strategy was working. Rinku was being rapidly overwhelmed. Originally she'd intended to use a Frenzy scroll, as opposed to Demoralize- but she'd held off for the sole purpose that she had assumed he would use a desperate move. Her guesswork paid off, with energy gushing off of the demon in waves a moment before he enacted his move.
No longer was the boy leering and jeering, but Irnane had already learned earlier from him not to give him opportunity - not to underestimate his capabilities. It was this caution that enabled her to face what came next, as a bubble of flames engulfed her body. Another Fire Shield spell, but to her surprise, Rinku's move was able to break it almost instantly.
Almost.
The yo-yo's and Rinku himself rammed into the shield, ripping through it, but that brief moment in which they were held back gave Irnane the time she needed to move, flinging herself to the side as the demon barreled past- but 2 yo-yo's still managed to deal some degree of damage. One struck Soul Edge head-on, and a flaring pain erupted within Irnane at the force of the blow, similar to the damage dealt by the devilsknife, while the second smashed into her elbow of the arm holding Soul Edge, the weapon disappearing.
Irnane was pulled in the wind behind Rinku as he moved, skidding her heels across the floor as she grit her teeth, feeling her left hand going limp from the elbow down. The bone had been shattered. Huffing, Irnane let out a puff. That move had to have expended Rinku a decent amount, and while she herself was too low on magicka right now to use a custom spell, she still possessed her final trump card. Azura's Star, which she had used before to defeat NiGHTS, if only just.
Not willing to risk letting Rinku have recovery time, Irnane raised her good hand, the star-like item appearing in her grasp. "Azura's light burns ever bright," she muttered, her crimson eyes boring onto the back of Rinku's head as he came to a stop. They were a good twenty feet apart. "Let her fury consume your might!"
The soul trapped within Azura's Star burst with light, overpowering a single spell of Irnane's choosing as she thrust the star out toward Rinku. A swelling of flames filled the sewers, the crystal clear water evaporating as a raging inferno was called, blasting out to fill the girth of the sewer, shooting out to the t-shaped end, and barreling in either direction, flames screaming through the nearby doorways to fill the adjacent rooms. Trapped underground, the sewers quickly became a furnace at the searing heat and blistering flames that roared out from the star.
This was the same move that had nearly melted NiGHTS, possibly a little more dangerous now in such a tight environment.
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NEPHTHYS
The creature didn't teleport, this time putting its focus on the brunt of a physical assault on Marshtomp. With the flick of her wrist, the gardevoir summoned a small portal in the way of the Leo Wizard's strike, its limb potentially disappearing inside as it emerged from the exit portal- the back of its head for a self-strike, followed by the portal immediately closing to sever its arm, and hopefully leave it wide open for the marshtomp to finish it off.