Leon sliced through wood,stone and metal swiftly in his haste. Al things in his path splintering or falling to the floor as the blade slickly coursed through any materia. He began to continue summoning more clones to battle himself. Compared to the power of the real one, bound with harusame, he was unbeatable.
'Harusame, Integrate...' He bound his sprit with the spirit within the blade, causing a wrath almost like an invincible titan of pure rage...

Carlos and shadow found a building still standing with the few survivors in it and called knuckles over. Knuckles ran over with rai and they walked in...

Leon managed to calm the beast a little, just enough for him to sheath harusame and return his soul to within himself. He was still aware of what he was capable of, but headed over slowly, careful not to cause more wrekage...

Knuckles sat Rai on a chair and unrapped the bandage,blood soaked it and he got a new bandage out and wraped it around rai's head,tighter than the last one..."Hold on rai..."hesaid...

'Is she gonna be alright?' Leo aske,curious...

"I hope so..."Knuckles said worriedly...

'Me too...' He said, grippng the sheathed blade in his hand so tightly his fingers turned a paler colour...

Raina's eyes flickered open slowly...
"Unh...Knuckles?"she said quietly..."What happened?"
"You were attacked...Are you alright?"Knuckles said,a hint of worry in his voice,tears in his eyes...

'Yeah...you ok? He's gone now...' Leon said. Watching her closely.

"I'm fine..."Rai said...Then she saw the look in Knuckles and remembered the three words she had heard him say before she'd lost concoiusness...He'd said I love you...Raina blushed slightly and knuckles smiled and wiped his eyes of the tears that had not fallen...

'I'm glad to hear you're ok...' Leon admitted. Letting his fingers loose on the sheath again.

Knuckles hugged raina close,a tear falling...a tear of joy that rai was ok...Raina closed her eyes...

There was a shuffling sound near behind Leon and in an instant, Harusame was out of its sheath as he span round and weilded it in a prepared stance, directing it at the shadowed figure he saw.
'Hey, hey, careful, a little vermin like yourself might hurt yourself, note the sharp point on the end. Now we wouldn't want that. Not that I honestly care...'
'Who are you!' Leon yelled, tilting the blade dangerously toward him, ready to strike at any moment...

Raina's eyes opened,knuckles let go of her and they jumped from their seats,in fighting stance...

'I said, who are you!' Leon yelled again. When the figure didn't reply, he simply charged, Harusame in hand, ready to pierce the shadows flesh. When the shadow suddenly smirked. A second later, Leon felt the clash of metal instead of the sinkage of skin. He looked up. Somehow the shadow had managed to withdraw a long sword himself. Freezing Leon in his tracks. He hacked at the shadow but everytime it was blocked. Then he knew he'd have to release the beast in him again to beat this guy... He closed his eyes, concentrated and brought the blade down heavy. He felt the shadow's blade shatter from the impact, but instead of feeling the shadow dying beneath the metal of his sword, he opened his eyes to find the shadow had faded, leaving nothing but shattered metal behind all over the floor from what Harusame had caused...