HOLY HQ

[Shizo]

As they reached the HOLY HQ, they found the entire building in turmoil. Ryu quickly walked over to the main desk and slammed down his fist, silencing the entire room. "Report! Where is he now?!" The terrified secretary nearly dropped the papers she was holding as she read the most recent report. "Umm.... his last known location was on the fifth floor. We sent a HOLD tactical forces unit to try and stop him, but there's been no report." He turned and rushed to the elevators with Ryo right behind him. "Ryo you take the 4th floor, i'll take the sixth. We'll try to pin him in between us." He smiled grimly as they entered the elevators.

[Mizune]

She'd tried to catch up to the group of HOLD officers when the secretary had told her the situation- but when she got there... let's just say they weren't in 'one piece'.
Now she finally reached the fourth floor again by stairs following the destruction and litter of bodies left in the man's wake as opposed to the elevator she'd taken to the fifth.
She stopped dead when she finally found the man. He turned slowly at the noise she'd made running down the stairs. Her heart caught in her throat, leading her to forget she'd ran out of breath during her run of the building.

His whole body seemed half flesh half metal with nails drilled in here and there as if he were some sort of robot... an experiment.
His eyes looked emotionless... and yet with a trace of loneliness. They were pure almost black showing he'd been swallowed up by darkness.
She couldn't believe what HOLY had done to him, knowing nothing like this could have happened to someone naturally. "Who..." she managed to breath out, unable to move as he took a hostile position. 'Who would do this kind of thing... to someone?' she thought with a softened expression.
She didn't notice a black sword-like weapon materialize in his hand, and had even less time to react as she dove down the hall to her right to escape the blow, sliding a bit as she hit the ground painfully.

[Shizo]

As the elevator doors slowly opened, Ryo saw the dark figure slowly approaching the downed Mizune. He quickly rushed forward and stood in between them. As he took up a defensive position, he looked over his shoulder and whispered to Mizune. "Hurry. Go and get Ryu. He was heading for the sixth floor. I'll see what i can do to hold him off." He frowned as he turned back to look at the living shadow in front of him. "Even a native such as myself knows who you are. HOLY synthetec prototype human superior, codename COAL correct? I know something else too. Theres no way your getting to this girl."

[Mizune]

Mizune stood up, brushing herself off. She nodded to Ryo knowing in any other situation she'd probably have said something sarcastic like "Ryo, my hero!" but she brushed off the opportunity, darting past the two for the stairs...

She was out of breath once more when she hit the 6th. 'I'm really out of shape!' she thought to herself, looking back and forth. "Ryu!" she yelled trying to get his attention, wherever he was.

[Shizo]

After searching the entire floor and finding nothing, corpses he was about to call for an update on Coal's present location when he heard something. After distinguishing it as Mizune's voice he quickly rushed to the stairs. "What is it? Is something wrong? I mean something other than the present situation of course."

[Mizune]

Finding Ryu, she gave him an urgent look. "Your brother's fighting COAL-" she began before he ran down the stairs. She trailed besides him down the fleights, "On the fourth floor!" she finished, catching up to him.

[Shizo]

When they reached the 4th floor the found Ryo laying on the floor bloodied and badly beaten with Coal nowhere in sight. He quickly rushed over and knelt beside him. "Ryo! What happened" When Ryo didn't respond he quickly stood up. "COAL, you messed with the wrong twin!"

[Coal]

(Hmm...I didn't even control myself for that fight. lol. Oh Mizune, read my bio to learn what I look like...I added pictures there too. ^_^)

~Second floor~

Coal emerged from the ceiling of the second floor, blasting a hole in it, floating down to the floor with a grotesque elegance. An entire fist of men, forty tactical units, stood in his way to bar off his exit, their creation, or rather, their alteration was completely out of control. Raising his hand slowly, his palm to the ceiling, he gave the impression that he was conducting an orchestra of sorts, but such was not the case. Spears of black energy exploded from the floor underneath the tactical unit, black spears of darkness, slicing through the tactical units flak armor and piercing the ceiling to travel all the way through the roof at the top of the building. Leaving the wake of shredded bodies and blood, Coal made his way to the stairs, heading to the first floor and his freedom.

~First floor~

The wall and door that led to the stairs on the first floor exploded, a figure surrounded by darkness emerging from the smoke, a blade of darkness in his hand. A hail of bullets were fired on the figure, the experiment gone wrong, the demon that Holy had created by mistake. None of the bullets touched Coal, disappearing in a flash of darkness, not even slowing Coal down in the slightest. With a broad wave of his hand, a wave of darkness swept though the hall, disintigrating all that stood before him. Coal was now mere meters from the exit, mere meters from freedom, the steel that in and around his body exploding off to reveal what he truly looked like. Revealing the handsome face of Death...

[Mizune]

(I wouldn't call it a fight... more like a massacre, lol)
Mizune followed besides the highly pissed Ryu, despite him wanting her to stay with his twin. They left when the medical squad got there.

She showed him to the fire escape as they were told Coal was already heading to the first floor.
They slid down and ran to the front of the building... he still had to get past them and from the HOLY courtyard...
This would be a tough fight.

[Shizo]

As they arrived in front of the building he quickly his diamond dragon and signature diamond knight form. Once that was done he formed diamond clones of himself, Ryo, Mizune, and Coal, then covered the entire fbuilding in a thick diamond wall. "If he gets through that, then we'll have to stop him before he escapes into the city."

[Coal]

Coal stopped in front of the double doors that lead to the outside and freedom, the entire building becoming encased in diamonds, four people standing before him. Instant recognision of the cloning came to him, seeing that he was also standing on this line of defense, but that wasn't enough to stop him. The Ryu clone was the first to charge, which would make him the first to fall, Coal raising his blade of darkness. As the Ryu clone got closer, the true Coal winked out of existance, appearing behind the constuct and swinging his blade in a downward arc that slashed the clones back from right shoulder to tailbone, causing the creation to disappear. The other three came next, all deciding that it would be best to attack as one, but Coal was much quicker than a simple clone. In a flash of black, virtical slashes, Coal was passed all three clones as they exploded into smoke, each falling to his blade. Now for the wall of diamonds.

Grabbing a telephone from a nearby desk, Coal began to swing it by the cord, proceeding to knock out every single light on the floor that hadn't been destroyed by his dark spears. Soon, the entire room was pitch-black, nothing but Coal's golden eyes showing in the dark, until suddenly the world went grey as Coal absorbed the darkness into his body, recharging himself completely. His alter form was envoked then, the sleek, black armor covering his body, the steel as hard as titanium and as flexible as he was. Something else materialized next to him then, a dragon three times his size, three heads and six pairs of eyes turned toward Coal.
"You know what to do," was all he said, the three-headed dragon of darkness inhailing deeply and creating three orbs of blackness before each mouth, the orbs growing larger by the second. The beast fired, a thick beam of darkness that punched a large hole in the casing, allowing Coal the chance to step through. The dragon melded into Coal's shadow, ready to surprise attack the unprepared. Coal was now in the courtyard...

[IsaacV2]

After Vergil arrived into the city, he hitched a ride with the ambulance to the HOLY tower. He jumped off and proceeded to the courtyard. There we was flabberghasted at the sight. It was pure chaos. Many injured HOLY and HOLD forces are strewn about the place and the center of this chaos stood a man of pure darkness and a black dragon that seems to embody darkness itself.

"What is this!?" Vergil breathed. Fear struck him straight to the bones and he was petrified in place.

[Shizo]

He bent over in pain as the clones were hacked to pieces and the huge wall punctured as though it were wet paper. He had noticed that the dragon had hid withen Coal's shadow. As he sent his diamond dragon to attack it he quickly rushed forward with a scream of rage and brought the 3 foot blade of his broadsword down with enough force to slice through steel.

[Coal]

Coal held up a single hand, the very night folding to do his bidding, since the sun finally dropped below the horizon and the blackness of night filled the sky. A bubble of darkness proceeded to envelope Ryu, a force that would lift him off the ground, sending him off to the right shortly after with a powerful toss. If Ryu somehow evaded however, the overhead cleave would pass though Coal's body, slicing him in half. As Coal was cut in half, his body would turn to black smoke, the actual Coal appearing several feet to Ryu's right, next to Virgil.
"I can taste your fear," he would whisper into Virgil's ear, "I can feel you shaking. Do you fear the dark?" He would then await Virgil answer, knowing full well that he was the most powerful being in the night.

~Shadow Dragon~

The three-headed dragon of pure black energy exploded from Coal's shadow, two of the three heads, the right and the middle head, locking their jaws on the diamond dragons throat, while the left was in a throat hold by the diamond dragon's maw. Their hands locked, the Shadow Dragon and the Diamond Dragon, beginning a power struggle that had both of the dragons' muscles bulging. But the Shadow Dragon began to grow even stronger, along with its master, the night lending them its power of darkness and fueling them. Soon, Coal would be at full strength, and he would be able to complete his transformation into his third stage.

[IsaacV2]

Vergil jumped away from Coal with shivers down is spine. "Something like you does not deserve to exist. You are harming the innocent without a rightful cause." Vergil retorted. He was trying tremendously to suppress the fear he had.