Chapter 226: Voracious

The Dragon Claw sunk into my skin and my normal hand was just left, but I could still feel it there like something sleeping inside of me. The feeling was pretty distracting, but I pulled my attention back to the girls, who were all looking at me. I knew what question was coming next and I stopped them before anyone could ask me, again.

"I'm okay, This new weapon is voracious and it's going to take some getting used to, but it's supposed to make me stronger. I just have to bear the pain, for now, pain is worth the gain!"

I reached out to the side to grab a drink, but nothing came to my hand. I looked at my wrist and then my other.

"NO!" I yelled in frustration stamping my foot down. "Dammit, I knew this thing was too good!"

"What's wrong?" Latisha asked, coming over to me, putting a hand on my arm.

"When I got the new weapon, the bracelets disappeared, or the weapon ate them, I'm not really sure."

'Yeah, don't try to use the Armory without fully integrating with an A-Type weapon.' -Dansei.

I got a cold chill that ran up my back, and that was because that was too cape covering it. Already knowing, with my heart in the bottom of my stomach, I reached back. Nothing, my heart fell into my shoe. Out of everything I had got this entire time I had played, there was nothing like the Cape At Hand, and now it was gone, but maybe this was its limits.

I let out a long sigh, no more tricks, for now, I was back to just hitting stuff, Dave, not like I was the key thinker, but Bhan's ability was overly helpful, to the point where I had started to rely on it. The same could be said about my brother's power, most of the time it would just close back up before I thought to close it. The cape was a real kick in the pants, hopefully, I wouldn't need another weapon for a while.

"Do you think we should get going? A new door opened up in the wall at the end of the room, and we checked the entrance for traps," Sandra said, motioning for the door.

I nodded and left the room, Carly was out already, and I joined the rest of the group as we headed into the next room. Inside there were five stone statues that looked like manikins, but as I, the last one entered the room the wall closed and the statues began to change. Each one of them, except for one that stepped back became a clone of us in every way. My clone even hands a flat grey version of my new Dragon Claw, the same color as all of them.

"Everyone, this is a shadow fighting room. You will have to use unorthodox methods to beat them!" I yelled out to the girls as I felt my skin burn.

The claw was awake, and it was not happy. I could feel the waves of outrage coming from the beast inside of me. It wasn't just in my arm, it was like a feeling of being in the shadow of something far larger than myself, on a scale that I couldn't measure.

'Kill the mockery.' -Deep, and old voice.

The voice was deep and old, vibrating me to my core. Pain heated up in my arm, but there was also an intense rush of power making my synapse crackle to life, burning all pain away. The copy was already lashing out with his fake Dragon Claw, the grey head of a dragon coming directly at me.

I lifted my arm to meet the attack head-on, and a massive metallic red dragon grew and ate most of the stone. Then, as my arm shifted back, I dash forward, without giving the imposter a chance to react. I grabbed its neck with the dragon claw and crushed it, causing the manikin to explode into black particles. 

The claw drank in the particles and the pain made me start to sweat and breathe heavily, but soon I was over. I looked up and I was surprised to see that each of the girls had defeated their clones. Their weapons had all changed some more, but before I could examine them, a brain-rattling roar came from the last golem.

I turned to find that the last stone doll had got a lot bigger, grown more arm, eight in total, and turned gold. Yes, the boss…

'Why is it still here? Destroy that abomination!' -Deep, and old voice.

'Oye! What's your name?'

'What? Name? The Destroyer of Men!' -The Destroyer of Men.

'Eww, people might get the wrong idea in this age, if you know what I mean? I'll just call you TDM.'

'What? No! I am your master and you will call me by my full name!' -TDM.

'Sure, Great Destroyer of Weiner, let's go.'

'I will make your life living hell puny mortal!' -TDM.

'Don't start giving me lip, or I jerk off with you!'

'I will rip that tiny appendage off your body if you try!' -TDM.

"Dave!" Latisha yelled to try and warn me, but I was too distracted.

*Wack!*

*Thud!*

"OwO, That hurt," I groaned after sliding down the wall.

The Boss had backhanded me while I was having a pissing match with the monster inside me. 

'You need me! Bow down to my greatness!' -TDM.

'You need me or you know what happens, right? If I die, I start another game, but what happens to you?'

My hand snapped up of its own accord and bit the golden Jet-Ax and arm swinging it at my head. The boss tried to pull away, but my arm grew larger and started to eat its way up. The golden monster tried to flair with its other arms, but the girls were on it.

Chains wrapped around some, two fell off to sword strokes, but Carly was the winner this round. She ran up and when she was right below the Golden boss, she pulled the trigger of the real Jet-Ax, which was smaller than ever, looking like an oversized hammer. Carly rocketed up and smashed through the head of the boss in a shower of particles.