The shadow underneath me disappeared again, and four more split away. They lined up in pairs, and took form. Two became Kalet & Serene, the others became Sleytra and Slander.

"Prepare yourself, my friend. This is PHASE TWO."

Slander leapt forward, tail raised and ready to strike. Kalet & Serene stayed back, but looked ready to defend themselves. Sleytra stood still, looking intently.
Lunar dodged the tail strike and sent Slander flying into a spinning trajectory. As she spun in the air, she suddenly dropped to the ground and brushed herself off, a few transparent images of herself hanging in the air between her current spot and her position in the air. She dusted herself off and looked to Sleytra.

"Hey, what's wrong? why's this punk still movin'?"

A kunai flies past her head, and she ducks as a few more cut through the air.

"Come on, hurry it up!"

Sleytra creates and ice shield in between the two sides of the battlefield. With demon hearing, Lunar listens to what is being said on the other side.

"What? Why hasn't he died yet?"
"I don't know! The instant freeze technique isn't working... something must be--!"

Sleytra notices Lunar looking at them, and disperses the wall. This time, she charges into battle without hesitation. She creates a sword of ice, and slashes at him, with a miserable result. The blade is caught in one of Lunar's claws and he looks her in the eye with a confident smile.

"Oh, impressive. A piece of ice."

Lunar grabs it with both hands, shaking her free of it. He puts one hand on each side, and bends inward... to his surprise, the ice doesn't break. Instead, he cuts his hands on the edge!

"Like that trick? It's doesn't break unless I want it to!"

The sword suddenly changes into a spear, the head scraping at Lunar's side. It wasn't too serious, but it hurt like heck! He throws it aside and focuses his chakra into his right arm. Though his left arm felt stronger, he wasn't sure it was safe. Lunar jumps a short way into the air, and the chakra focuses into a claw on his fist.
Ryuu Claw!

The next few seconds passed by in slow motion. In this strange haziness, several thoughts, not all of them related to the current battle, flew through his mind.

"This should be enough. She's can't dodge this!"
"What are those two doing over there?"
"Ugh, I think that milk's coming back to me..."
"She's kind of hot..."
"I've got a bad feeling about this..."
"Something's not right here."
"Is that Frear's body over there?"
"Is she... smiling?"
"No, no... nonono... nonononono AWW! Dang it, nasty thought..."

Suddenly Lunar stops in midair. The chakra at his hand disappates. He feels nothing. Nothing? That's not right... he should have felt his injuries, right? It was then that he answered one of his recent thoughts: Kalet & Serene were creating a field in the area. It must be stopping the resistance to Frear's poison!
Now, to answer his more important question. Why was he not moving? He is thrown backwards by the neck, and lands face down. When he looks up, he sees Slander help Sleytra up. Now that's just great, she got in behind him and grabbed him by the neck to stop him. Either way, he now had a new priority; stop those twins!
He ran with a speed that he couldn't feel, which was disorienting. When he passed the avian sisters, he half-noticed that Sleytra had been harmed a bit by the mere energy field of the Ryuu Claw. He rushed forward, a kunai at the ready, and slammed into the concentrating sisters. The fell together in a heap, seemingly unconcious. After a few seconds of the feeling returning to his body (which he almost regretted for all the pain), he watches as the sisters start moving. They rise, and join together, their sillhouettes melding into one... KENET! The violent looking alien was startling in contrast to those two, happy, cute little twins. With a merciless speed, a tentacle lashes around each limb, but make a mistake: You can't grab chakra! What would have been a death hold was severed by the fact that there was nothing to hold on to for his left arm. Lunar had another slow-mo moment, but this time he thought clearly and knew what to do. He was going to finish this in style!

He used his free "hand" to grab ahold of the other tentacles, cutting those he had to. He moved with a swiftness never before used. Now free of his alien chains, he swung Kenet like a mace, bring her (them?) into Sleytra and Slander. He lets them go, and strikes the ground near them all with the Ryuu Claw, easily defeating them. As they lay on the ground together, he hears Sleytra speak with Slander again before fading...

"There was something wrong with Croab. He's distracted by something. Do you think it's...?"

She fades away before finishing, and Lunar uses some of his remaining chakra to heal some of his injuries. He turns to me, clapping at a short distance.

"Bravo, I say, Encore! Good job, young lad! You've got just a few more times to go... although I think this one was cut a little short. Anyways *dodges painfully thrown kunai* Now, now, don't start all that nonsense; at this rate, you'll have your chance at me soon enough. That is, of course, if your goal is achieved, as opposed to m*e*ine..."

Lunar saw, as my shadow again disappeared, that soemthing had happened in that monologue. It was brief, but... somehow felt important. I had faltered when I said "mine".