Augustus Mansion Raid Part 6

Iris and Diego enter the mansion. Awaiting them is a pair dressed as matching jesters. One of them is in an embarrassing pose, imagining himself to be the star of some show.

"Enter the Great Inyaki!" He yells to himself. Chloe just sits on the stairs rolling her eyes.

"The hell's up with this clown?"

"Th-They're vampires."

"Let's take 'em out. I'll get the dumb-looking one."

"Okay."

As they run forward, Inyaki smirks as he's been waiting for this moment. "Showtime baby." Cursed veins appear on his face.

"Diego!" Iris shouts. This will be another difficult battle, they're facing two vampires both with their own curse.

"Wha…"

Diego involuntarily drops his blade. He's already been affected by the curse.

"Hey girl, shouldn't you be paying attention?"

"Cra—"

Iris looked away for a moment, even with the warning she still got hit in the heavy. But it wasn't by the female vampire, the culprit was a gorilla stuffed animal.

'Where did that come from?'

She had also activated her curse. Their next fight begins. Inyaki does a 360 spin and throws his right arm into the air.

"You ready to bust a move kid?"

"Huh?"

Losing control of his body for a second, Diego does the same move as Inyaki.

"Don't tell me…"

"Have you guessed it? We're gonna have a dance-off, that's my curse. I can only use it on one person at a time, but you're stuck dancing until I've acknowledged that you're a better dancer than me."

"Yo, are you serious?" Diego smiles. "Cuz if you are, then you picked the wrong opponent!"

"Let's get down."

First, the cotton spawns out of thin air, then the skin peels itself out from the inside as it forms into an animal. Several of them are coming forth as Iris climbs over the stair railing running upstairs to gain space.

'Are those stuffed animals? That clearly looks like cotton, but that punch felt much heavier. So this is her curse.'

"I'll have you know I'm rather fond of cute things, so I'll be a bit sad once I've killed you."

There's an awkward pause before Iris responds. "A-Aw. Your words cut deep, deeper than any blade…" 'Oh my god, I can't believe I got to say that.' Iris basks in the glory of her first witty remark during a fight.

As she's still thinking about the line she's been wanting to say for a while, an eagle stuffed animal swooshes up and blasts a gust of wind. Iris rolls out of the way evading the broken pieces of the banister that violently flew into the wall. Iris reacted before she thought of her action, consequently she performed the roll with her dislocated arm causing her even more pain.

"Ahh.."

Unfortunately, she doesn't have any time for error right now. An army of 9 stuffed animals are pushing her all at once. Iris gets back on her feet and runs down the hallway. Taking on all of them at the same time would be unwise, so she's going to try to isolate them into fast 1-on-1s. This is just a hunch, but she thinks she can take them down with 1 attack each as long as they're clean slashes.