The Spider cracked his neck and flew forward. Phantom grabbed his dagger, letting it parry the attack.
"This-" The Spider's eyes widened as the dagger he was holding was made of pure black metal with red gems in it and chains dangling from the hilt tip.
"This be one knife ya can't break!" Phantom shouted as he pushed against the bone, pushing The Spider slightly back.
"Bah." The Spider growled as his leg began to bubble and spikes shot out of his skin. Phantom jumped back and grinned. He aimed to throw the knife and then grinned.
"Ya throwing away ya prized weapon?" The Spider shouted as he leaped forward.
"Opposite feint!" Clark shouted as he stopped moving and threw the knife behind him. You saw blood spill as The Spider was hit in the back with the knife. Phantom and Spider had switched places and Phantom threw the knife behind him. It had hit The Spider in the back.
"PEST!" The spider shouted, turning around, only to find him gone.
"Right here." He said as he appeared behind him.
"There wasn't anything there?!" The Spider roared but it was too late.
"Phantom step. chain twist!" The Phantom grabbed the chain of his special dagger and pulled on it, making The Spider fly toward him. he spun down and placed a kick to the Spider's chin, making his leg stretch up fully. The knife was still stuck in him so when the chain extended fully. he was pulled down again and slammed into the ground. The force made the knife pop out as Clark grabbed the chain and spun it so the knife kept its momentum and flew back toward him. He caught the knife, holding it by the handle again.
"Raaah!" The Spider slowly stood up, wiggling from side to side in annoyance.
"You annoy me. You annoy me. You annoy me. You annoy me. You annoy me." The Spider growled this sentence under his breath again and again as he slowly slid down on all fours.
"YOU ANNYO ME!" He shouted as he vanished. Clark looked around only to feel a presence getting closer. He spun to the side, deflecting an incoming bone. Only to feel a sharp pain in his back as a bone spear had been thrust into his back.
"He is getting faster...and more feral." Clark thought as he threw a knife in front of him, teleporting to it and getting some distance. The Spider appeared again as it was sitting on all fours. Growling and mumbling under its breath.
"Annoying, annoying, annoying." He growled as his skin began to bubble.
"Here he comes," Clark said, holding up his knife. The Spider vanished again. He might move fast, but-
"PREDICTABLE!" Clark shouted as he deflected the incoming attack. He was throwing bones and cuts everywhere, leaving behind a traceable track of cuts on the ground. Clark let the knife drop and grabbed the chain, spinning it around like kusarigama. He kept spinning around, deflecting the incoming attacks.
"Can't keep deflecting forever." Clark thought as he kept the momentum up.
"PERISH!" The Spider shouted as he slammed his arms into the ground, breaking it.
"For a martial artist, he is quite feral." Clark thought as he took the time to throw a few knives into the roof. The Spider's back began to bubble as he looked up.
"RAH!" He flew forward, unleashing spikes from his feet, launching him forward. Clark spun around, swinging his dagger forward.
"DIE!" The Spider roared, throwing his hand forward. You saw his left leg go completely limp as a long spear was thrust out of his palm at amazing speed. It hit the chain, shooting it away and piercing Clark right through the shoulder.
"That speed-" Clark didn't even get time to think before he was thrust back by the pure force of the impalement. He crashed against the wall as the spear latched itself deep inside his body. He tried to pull it out but felt a screaming pain.
"Barbs?" He thought as he looked down. The tip of the spear had changed at the last second, making small spikes come out of the tips, making it a barbed blade. Clark looked up to see the spear extend more than fifteen meters. The Spider was lying on the ground with both his legs limp and his lower half too. His hand extended fully as the spear was still connected to him.
"Bahaha, got you. GOT YOU" The Spider began to crawl over the ground, using his free arm. The bone slowly became smaller as he crawled. Slowly you saw him begin to move his lower body again.
"I need to free my-" Clark didn't even get a chance to think before he felt a piercing pain from the inside. The bone was extending inside his wound. The barbs moved around his insides piercing him.
"F-" He vanished, appearing at one of the knives on the roof, holding on to it.
"-uck." Clark thought as he felt the spikes still linger in his body. He looked down to see that he might have escaped the spear, but the small barbs were still inside his body, pierced to his inner flesh.
"Gahahaha." The Spider slowly absorbed the bone back into his body as his leg began to wiggle and bubble. He stomped the ground, getting his footing back, slowly standing up as you could see skin bubbles on his back.
"You...can't escape." The Spider said as the bubbles popped on his back, shooting out a lot of long thin spine-like whip spears. They wiggled forward, moving into the air. Clark grabbed his knife, deflecting them as they caught up to him.
"Damn. He is a monster!" Clark jumped to the ground, trying to avoid them, but suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his leg. Spikes shot out from inside his body, piercing him to the ground. He wasn't ready for that so when the spines came moving they all pierced him at the same time. They went straight through his shoulder, abdomen, side, and chest.
"GAH." Clark stomped the ground and moved himself forward in one quick movement, the sound of ripping and tearing could be heard as the spines moved through his skin and he forced himself free, making him fall to the ground, leaving puddles of blood around him.
"Little man." The Spider's spines started moving and slowly retracted into his back again. He would wiggle as all of his skin would waver and bubble until it all snapped into place again and he slowly stood up straight.
"My foot." Clark thought as he looked down at it. There were many holes in it from the sudden spikes. He slowly pushed himself to stand, flinching from the pain in his foot.
"This is not the time to cry over a small wound like this." Clark thought as he kept his eyes on The Spider. The monster slowly stood up straight, wiggling his arms and shoulders before coming to a complete stop. He stood still like a statue. Not a single movement.
"What is he up to now?" Clark thought as he grabbed his knife, preparing for the next attack.
"Ba-" A single voice came out from the monster as his upper body kinda gulped. A small amount of green vomit erupted from his mouth.
"Bahahahah!" It began to laugh as his neck snapped, making him look directly at Clark, his head dangling next to his shoulder.
"Disgusting." Clark thought as he sighed. He slowly stood up, unclipping all of his buckles, allowing the knives to drop around him, crashing against the ground.
"I think it's time to bring out the powerful weaponry." Clark thought as he grabbed his ponytail and undid it, allowing his red hair to spill out and also showcase a small metal piece waved into his hair. He grabbed the chain from his knife and attached it to the metal piece before he spread out his arms, holding them in the air completely horizontally. "Blade dancer," Clark said as he moved his hands up slightly and all the knives on the ground began to rise into the air, levitating around him. The Spider looked at the knives and began to vomit again. It slouched over as his legs began to bubble. Spikes come out of the back of his leg and the back of his arm and hand, making him spiky as a hedgehog.
"HERE I COME." It screamed and rushed him on all fours.
"Graceful." Clark thought as took one step forward and in a sliding and flowing motion went from upright to close to the ground, allowing his right leg to be fully stretched out but his left leg to be closed together. His arms stretched out in front and behind him, making a perfect diagonal line as all the knives began to vibrate and then point in the same direction as his front-pointed arm.
"Wait for it-" Clark thought as the beast came running. It stomped the ground, flying into the air, curling itself together into a ball, and then. BOOM. A million small bone spikes rained everywhere, piercing the ground and roof, and walls. Clark started to move around in an almost elegant dance, cutting down all the spikes coming his way, weaving the levitating knives like flowing water, turning them into an almost gliding wave formation. The movement of this was quick precise and elegant. Clark kept his eyes closed, using the touch of his feet on the ground to move him. He trusted in his dance fully. Soon the barrage of bones stopped as the monster slowly uncurled itself mid-air and looked down at Clark. Clark in one graceful movement, spun around and thrust his hand forward. The knives followed suit and shot forward at incredible speed, piercing the air and then into The Spider's body. All the knives cut into him and sent him flying into the roof, pierced to the roof. Clark slowly stopped dancing and placed his hands together in a clap in front of his chest before slowly lowering it down, pointing both palms to the ground in front of his pelvis.
"BAhaha GAHHA RAAH!" It didn't even try to speak anymore as it was wiggling its body, trying to free itself from the pierced prison. Clark grabbed his hair and started to weave it together with the chain on his knife.
"It won't hold you for long, but just enough for me to prepare." Clark thought as he stopped the weaving, swinging his head in a motion, allowing the chain to bend and the knife to fly into the air around him. He grabbed his boots and took them off, standing on the ground barefoot even though his foot one foot was mutilated from the bone attack from earlier. His cloak gone too.
"FREE...FREE...FREEDOM!" The Spider growled as bones shot out from every visible piece of skin, pushing the knives away. Clark quickly moved his body forward, flowing like wind. The knives that were falling slowly started to levitate and glide around the room, coming to him before spinning around him in a circle. The bone mass collided with the ground, creating a large gust of dust.
"It has been a while since I last fully danced like this. Only great opponents get to see this form of martial arts. So come now beast. Come for your death." Clark said with a confident grin. The cloud of smoke erupted to all sides as two red eyes stared from inside of it. You heard cracking and creaking as the monster slowly rose to its feet again. You saw it expand the shadow growing bigger and more slim. Spikes coming out of all of his pores. Clark slowly took a breath, walking toward the cloud with the knives spinning around him.
"One monster and one beast," Clark said out loud as he moved a hand up, making all the dangling knives point forward, preparing for the onslaught the monster was about to wreck on him.
