The Adventures of Lilaze/Lilaze's Journey/Chapter 12:Last Offensive

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**Chapter 12: Last Offensive** is the 12th and second to last chapter within Lilaze's Journey.

## Story

*(The following consists of what the author refers to as "Choice Read". The main character will fight four boss lock guards but can be fought in any order, dependant on the reader. No boss fight is duplicated.)*

* Red Whale
* Bubble Blaster
* Crystal Knite
* Ghoul
 Lilaze opens the container to the far right of her. The computer Terminal showing a symbol of a familiar face. The container fully opens up and out reveals a medium-sized White Face Mask. It falls to the floor, then in an instant, the room transforms, becoming cube-shaped and completely empty save for Lilaze and the familiar face mask. She looks around, studying this new room, then focuses her attention back on the mask. Suddenly all the lights go out, and the room becomes shrouded in total darkness. Lilaze quickly pulls out her sword, holds it with two hands, closes her eyes, and concentrates on both her elements to infuse into her eyes to help guide and enhance her vision. In a few seconds, she reopens her bright orange eyes and lowers her sword a bit with one hand. She quickly wanders her eyes around the room, then spots and returns focus on the White Face Mask. Before she can even think about running close enough to strike down the mask, it suddenly rises from the ground and faces directly at her. It soon begins to grow limbs and once formed, the mask melts into its own body, which afterwards reveals a familiar Red-Eyed Gaze. And once fully formed, the figure is shaped into a tall dark character Lilaze knows all to well. Ghoul. The manipulator of darkness, nightmares, and fear. She can never forgive or forget what Ghoul put her through. The amount of pain she felt within all of those nightmares she experienced. Nightmares he created to torture her to death. As Ghoul stares directly at her, he transforms one of his arms into a long, single pointed sharp blade; solid and surging with dark energy. Lilaze stands her ground, ready for battle!

Ghoul strikes first, extending his standard arm to grab Lilaze. She easily dodges. Ghoul repeats but lower. She dodges again, this time slicing said extended arm. The arm dissolves but Ghoul easily reforms another one. He then begins to melt into the floor. Lilaze studies the dark area and begins to think. When last they fought, Lilaze was dreaming of sorts, allowing Ghoul to summon powerful illusions against her. He ate off her fear, but Lilaze accepted her fear, and defeated Ghoul by ultimately thinking of...but that time has passed. And right now Lilaze is certain that: [Ghoul] "This isn't a dream!" Suddenly, a dark hand grabs one of Lilaze's leg from directly underneath her. As she feels the pulse of harmful Dark Energy, she quickly cuts the arm, freeing herself, and jumping away to avoid other surprises. She closes her eyes and hones her senses and continues to think and formulate a plan. She's right. This is no dream. She has to focus on physical prowess rather than mental willpower this time. She remembers the sword fight with Ghoul. The time she got stabbed, and the time she stabbed back. She thinks of a possible weakness in Ghoul and opens her burning orange eyes wide. She immediately sees Ghoul rushing directly at her. She successfully ducks to the side and counterstrikes, stabbing her sword into Ghoul's red face. [Ghoul]:"Yaa! My Eye!" Deja Vu. Lilaze prepares for what happens next. Ghoul reveals a one-eyed face and fires a blue beam from it. She dodges, then Ghoul wraps two hands around the room to try and subdue her. She dodges with an elegantly twisting body, however, a third unseen arm grabs Lilaze by her tail. [Lilaze]:"Yaow!" She falls to the ground, and as the other two empty hands disperse,Ghoul fires another beam with focusing power. Lilaze holds her sword tightly, blocking the powerful beam. She then adjusts the angle of her sword, deflecting the beam straight back at Ghoul. It hits his face; momentarily stunning him: [Ghoul]:"Yaah!" Lilaze tries to free her tailby slicing the shadow arm, but the arm keeps moving her tail around, not giving her a perfect opportunity to strike. Ghoul recovers, revealing another face. His two limbs transforming into blades. He then charges a bit before stabbing his two blade arms into the ground. Predicting the next move, Lilaze lays her belly and chest flat on the ground, hugging her sword. The blade arms clash with her sword, sending into the air. She then stands and faces Ghoul while enduring the sharp pain of her tail being pulled. She focuses on fire to try and burn the clenching arm. Ghoul retracts his blades and rushes even closer to Lilaze, attempting a close-range strike. Just as he thrusts his blades onto her, Lilaze stabs her sword into the ground and holds onto it to counterstrike Ghoul via a Blazing Kick to the face. This weakens the clenching arm to which she quickly pulls her sword and shoots a small flame near the arm, thereby halting its movement. She then carefully slices the arm, thus freeing her tail. As Ghoul recovers he begins to clash his blades with her sword. Lilaze gains the upper hand by landing a rising blow onto Ghoul's face, the location of his mask, the source of his Dark Energy Manipulation. He quickly melts into the floor, and reforms a distance away from Lilaze. And with the swipe of his hand, reveals yet another face. For his next tactic, he grows multiple grabbing arms. Lilaze is confident in exposing Ghoul's weakness so she runs steadfast towards him. As she does Ghoul unleashes his Legion of arms all across the room in an effort to snag her.

Lilaze uses all of her speed and grace to effectively to avoid each and every single one of Ghoul's arms unleashed upon her. She finally reaches him, jumps high into the air with her flaming heels, and by letting go of her sword mid-flight, she performs a Blazing Drop Kick on the hilt, sending the Equinox Blade directly at Ghoul with incredible speed. It slices through another hand, soaring directly at Ghoulwho barely dodges it, but still stabbing through half of his dark body as the sword strikes the ground. Lilaze is seen performing a Blazing Dive kick, aimed directly at Ghoul. Her flaming boot connecting with Ghoul's face results in him releasing a loud, painful howl. She steps off his face, reacquires her sword, and by dodging and slicing one more sneaky shadow arm, reaches Ghoul and delivers the decisive blows to his face. Each hit cracking off the illusion, revealing his true face, and the final stab causing a discharged explosion which sends Lilaze and her sword flying back a bit. Ghoul melts to the ground, but not his face mask. His face mask producing smaller explosions before ceasing and dissolving the darkness around his 'body'. Soon the Darkness around the entire room begins to dissipate as Lilaze takes a moment to catch her breath from this enduring battle. She closes her eyes and removes the flames around her pupils, returning her orange eyes to normal vision. As she opens them again, she notices the room's lights are still off, leaving the room heavily dark still. She can barely see herself, her sword, and of course, the white face mask on the ground in the distance. She gets up with sword in hand and walks directly towards the downed mask. She expects more unseen surprises in store for her as she walks, but to her amazement, there isn't anymore. Is she victorious? As she reaches the damaged facemask, she stares down upon it, thinking how much power can be instilled in such this one object. She readies her sword, gives one last look at the fallen mask, and on the command of her disturbance by that 'Dark presence', she stabs her sword directly into the nose of the face mask, slightly exposing its electrical innards. [Lilaze]:"This nightmare is over." The mask explodes into harmless bits and pieces of shrapnel, causing Lilaze to cover her eyes for a moment. A few seconds after the smoke and debris clears up, the lights go on and the room transforms to its previous state, albeit one less active container on stand-by. Upon Ghoul's defeat, the bottom-right light on the large, secure door, which also connects to the now empty corresponding chamber, changes from red to green.
## Trivia

This chapter parallel's Carolac's Quest/Chapter 12: Rematch.