As the bedroom door opens, Hachi enters.

“I heard you screaming.” Hachi says, “Is everything alright?”

“Yeah, it’s alright now.” He says, “Just having a nightmare.”

“Ah ok.” Hachi says sympathetically seeing the sweat on his forehead, “Well, you should take it easy, grab a drink if you need, and don’t hesitate to ask for anything. I’m always here to help.”

“Thanks.” He replies.

*Psh*

…

Blood is dripping. Hachi is shocked, he looks down to find something protruding from his chest. He falls to the floor while looking Kenta in the eyes. His lifeless body goes limp. He is dead. The blood pools on the bedroom floor, staining it. Standing behind where Hachi was standing, is the dark figure. It has no features, no details, no nothing. It’s an entity of pure darkness.

Dazed and confused, he still hasn’t processed what just happened. It moves closer to the bed. It strikes out its hand and grabs him by the throat, lifting him up into the air. He feels no body, but he feels the pressure. Waking and seeing this, Yogi and maxi run over and try to bite the figure, to no success. There is no body.

*Psh* *Thud*

A deep red gash appears on the side of the bears’ neck, they go flying, shooting through the air, slamming into the timber wall. They breathe heavily. Gasping for air. They don’t know what just happened.

Seeing this happen, a tear runs down his face and drops onto the blood below.

“You bastard!” he screams, fuming with anger.

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Struggling to get free, Kenta drops to the floor, regaining his breath.

“Kenta, is everything alright?” Kaede says as she comes around the corner.

…

Looking in, her heart drops. She sees her dear husband lying on the ground, motionless, surrounded by a pool of blood. Her eyes go watery. She falls to the floor, bawling her eyes.

“How… how could you do this?” She yells.

“What!” He replies, “I didn’t do this. Don’t you see the…”

Turning around, the figure is gone. Nowhere to be seen. Leaving him, and only him alone in the room with Hachi’s lifeless body.

“Why… why would you do this?” She asks, weeping as she does, “After everything he did for you…”

“Kaede, it wasn’t me.” He answers, taking a step forward.

She crawls backwards, aware of Kenta stepping closer. He stops. After a few seconds, he takes another step. She stands up and runs away, down the stairs. Unable to stop her, he turns around, and drops to his knees.

*Sniff*

Crying, he looks around the tragedy filled room. Still unable to comprehend what just happened.

*Argh*

A rope wraps around his neck from behind, choking him. Incapable of looking behind, he can only assume it’s the scarecrow. Pulling him out the door, it throws him down the stairs, bruising his body, losing 2 health.

Once more, the scarecrow wraps its straw-made rope around his neck. Pulling him outside, into the cold darkness. Struggling, he unsheathes his sword and chops of the rope, letting him breathe again.

Coughing, he stands up and faces the scarecrow. He charges straight, piercing the scarecrows chest. It looks down, expressing shock on its emotionless face. Remembering the nightmare, he immediately pulls out the sword. The scarecrow vanishes into a dark mist, only to appear behind him. Before he can react, he is whipped across the head by the straw-made rope, it feels like being hit by a baseball bat. He goes flying a few feet before tumbling down on the ground. He loses 35 health bring him down to 265 total.

Stretching out its rope, it grabs Kenta by the ankle and pulls him closer. Chopping the rope in half before long, he stands back up and charges the scarecrow. He slashes its chest, before getting whipped again. They’re too quick. Losing another 30 health, he’s at 240.

Right now, its blow for blow, but from the looks of it, I don’t appear to be hindering it at all.

Activating glass ninja, he sneaks around to the back of the scarecrow.

*Thump*

With pin point accuracy, one of the ropes goes flying into the centre of his chest, like a homing missile. It doesn’t pierce him, rather it was like being hit by a blunt weapon. Shattering, he goes flying.

That’s bullshit.