" It has been a while." Flood replied to Sebastian. He opened the door and was greeted by a massive skeletal hound in what appeared to be... an arena? He looked up at the crowd and observed that they didn't exist. They were there, but it was like at the same time they weren't. The beast bowed its head and waited for everyone to step in. "Whenever you're ready."

Sebastian's eyes go to a dark shade and he spins his weapon twice before stepping in with a broad and proud swagger in and sets his stance, his large sheild covering his chin to his upper thighs. The thin and lanky spear he held far behind and ready for a powerful hit. "Listen up you all, keep behind me until you see an opening the strike got it?"

"To heck that I'm staying behind you. I'm staying beside you, you idiot." Mason said stepping so she stood beside Sebastian. She twirled her light blade and ran her dart shooter a short way down her leg so it was loaded with a poison dart.

Kamino pulled his sword from his sheath, muttered something and then said "shouldnt we get to killing this thing?"

Sighing Ghost drew his weapons and commanded Shade to be ready. "Time to fight I suppose, this is my element!"

Sebastian charged straight forward at the monster, planting his feet in thr ground deep and making a wide stance for a good gaurd.

Kamino Flicked his wrist back and charged at the boss going for the legs.

The beast swiped at them all as it roared into action. It snapped at Sebastian as it saw he was a wide open target, while Flood went for the back of the monster and struck the back of its legs where the Achilles Tendon would be usually. It stumbled and it's swing went wild while it continued biting at everyone. The tail whipped Flood in the legs and he went flying as half of his health went down. "Don't get hit, it's extremely powerful!"

Mason launched herself, shooting a poison dart at it then slashing at it with her dark blue blade.

Ghost grabbed a few heeling crystals before jumping into the fray. First he tossed one to Flood then dropped the rest withing convenient grabbing distance from the dog. "**Shade!**" He then called out, drawing his axe-swords. "**Shadow travel attack formation!**" At this Shade appeared before him and started to move him through the spirit world. His health took damage, but he continued on. When he reached the boss he cried out again. "**Pierce the vail formation!**" And Shade used her powers to allow him to make strikes through into the physical world. This did, of course, drain allot of his health and he had to constantly use a ton of healing crystals to keep it going. Periodically he rested and used the crystals while shade went and got more.

As everyone was fighting the room suddenly filled with a flash of black, and something so fast it could hardly be seen was moving around everyone and towards the monster, after the fight for speed steel, and joining the new guild, Alexander had taken his new weapons and shut off his location icon, having never even told Sebastian or Mason why he had left, in truth he had done so because he had found out that the Laughing Coffin had been hired to end his gaming career, So to protect his new friends Alexander went into hiding far in the icy reaches of floor 68, it just so happened that Today was the fateful day he had decided to open his menu and see where his friends had gone, when he saw they were attacking some dog boss a fear came over him, he couldn't let them die. So he used his last teleportation crystal to aid his friends...dangers be damned! Suddenly the monster was struck by a powerful special attack, one that Mason and Sebastian hadn't heard in quite sometime, "REAPER'S DAMNATION!!!"

"Hey Alexander!" Mason said as she made another slash at the dog boss. Her short black hair following her like a shadow.

Flood's eyes widened as a new person appeared and he grabbed the healing Crystal. The first two health bars crumbled away the beast began to back away as it began an immortal object temporarily. Skin began to build around it until it looked like the Cerberus of Greek legend. It began to sprout two more heads and it started the battle once more by breathing fire.

Sebastian held well against the slashes that he managed to tackle, and with his recovery faster than the bosses he was able to recoup with simple and weak counters that did decent damage. With the shout heard he smiled, glad another good member of the guild joined the fray, "get'em alex" he beckoned with glee.

Mason jumped back when the dog spit fire. "Well then, that just made things twice as hard. Someone cover me! I need to load my dart shooter!" She yelled falling back a little ways as she shakily put a poison dart into her dart shooter. She hadn't been paying attention to her health, which was in the yellow but slowly regaining.

Ryan moved in front of Mason and took a small amount of damage protecting her. He pulled out a consumable throwing knife and threw it at the dogs eye. He scored a critical hit and the dog stopped spewing fire. The other heads began snapping at people as the middle head's eyes began to glow. "Take it down, All Out Attack!!!" He yelled as he pulled his scythe back for his most powerful Sword Art. He dashed towards the dog and became a whirlwind of blades as he took down an entire bar by himself. The dog smashed two of its heads into him and knocked him into the arena wall. He was afflicted with a lengthy dazed status as the dog began to walk towards him.

Alexander smiled at the words of his friends, he had truly missed having allies, "The Reaper is back in the game!" He knew that some people would dislike him because of his title, Kinslayer, the one player who survived the deaths of two guilds, and lived on, The Reaper. Alexander say Flood defend Mason and that made him a friend in Alexander's book, so when he was struck Alexander reacted instantly moving so fast that he appeared underneath the dog, "Heavenly Vortex!!!" Alexander suddenly shot straight up into the air spinning his scythes around him and turning him into a rising vortex of blades, he went right through the Cerberus and out his back, taking down another whole health bar, Alexander then landed next to Flood and steadied him, "I've got your back friend."

"Thanks." Flood shook himself out of the dazed status and observed the dog. "Two health bars remaining!" He called out to everyone as he leaned against the wall to recover. "You guys got the rest of this handled right?"

After resting for a little bit, Ghost got up and began to attack. Then he decided to do an extremely powerful attack. "**shade! Pierce the Vail, full body stack.**" And at that he began chargeibg towards the beast. Shade opens up anouther rift and he jumped out at the beast and struck it and the kneck. Once he was strikeing it instead of falling he just kept getting pushed back into Cerberus. This was shade, and she was keeping him doing more and more powerful attacks.