Two vs. Five

Blood summoned his dagger and threw it to Emile. Emile caught the weapon and pressed it against the back of his arm, cutting from his tricep to bicep.

Another lightning strike struck beside Blood. Meanwhile, the four other wood dolls charged across the empty expanse of stone towards Blood and Emile.

Blood pulled the scarlet liquid from Emile's arm and immediately formed a crystal spear in the air. Blood launched his spear ahead at the closest approaching doll.

The doll crouched down and slid its fingers across the stone. Wherever the doll touched, the stone burned a bright orange until it collapsed completely and became magma.

The doll willed the magma into the air and formed a shield. Blood's crystal spear slammed into the shield, instantly shattering like glass.

The doll behind stopped running and took the form of an archer. It pulled the essence from the air and plucked an arrow out of nothing. The doll steadied its aim for just a moment and then released the barely visible, ethereal arrow.

Blood mimicked the magma doll and formed a crystal shield, but the ethereal arrow shattered the crystal then returned to nothingness.

Blood turned back to look at Emile and gestured to the side just before taking off and sprinting towards the stone pillars. Emile stayed a step behind him while blood continued to spill out of Emile's arm and fly to Blood's side.

Blood passed behind one of the stone pillars just as a bolt of lightning struck it. Emile made it to cover too, he slid behind the pillar just below an incoming ethereal arrow.

"We need to get rid of the lighting doll!" Emile said.

"We?!" Blood shouted, "I gave you a weapon! You go take him down!"

"I thought you were supposed to be good at this!" Emile yelled back.

"I was the healer just a couple months ago! Give me a break!"

The stone pillar that stood just between Emile and Blood's head started to glow a faint orange. Emile and Blood simultaneously looked at the melting rock then looked back at one another.

Suddenly, the doll's hand exploded through the pillar and flailed around until it grabbed Emile's shoulder. At the same time, a new doll sprung itself around the corner and pushed its palm outward.

A bubble manifested on the doll's palm, perfectly forming to fit the creases in the wooden fingers. The bubble jiggled as the doll pushed it forward. The instant the bubble left the doll's hand it rapidly expanded, growing large enough to hold a person.

Just before the bubble made contact, Blood jumped back and slashed an arc of crystallized blood at the magma doll's arm. The arc easily sliced through the wooden components of the doll's wrist, severing it's hand entirely.

The bubble touched Emile's arm and was sucked around his body, completely encasing him. He had been released from the magma doll's grip moments before the bubble touched him. The bubble likely would not have been able to encase it with the other doll's arm attached to him.

The bubble peeled off the ground and slowly lifted Emile off of his feet. Emile stabbed the bubble with Blood's dagger, but the bubble stretched with the blade and refused to pop.

Emile continued to rise. One foot off the ground. Then two. Below him, Blood intercepted the bubble doll. He whipped a line of blood around the bubble doll's waist and hardened it.

With his remaining supply of blood he formed another arm for himself, slightly hardening it just enough to be able to move without shattering. He molded the blood arm's hand into a sharp point, his entire arm becoming a personal lance.

Blood pulled the bubble doll into his lance, burying his arm into the doll's chest. He continued to pull the doll into him while ramming his arm into it's chest over and over. Even though Blood could mold himself a new arm and move it in line with the rest of his body, he still couldn't feel anything with it.

Blood released his control over the lasso and his crystal arm causing the bubble doll's carcas to fall to the ground. He looked up to pop the bubble that was holding Emile prisoner. Emile was already twenty feet in the air.

Blood created a crystal spear and aimed it at the bubble, but before he could launch it an ethereal arrow smashed into the crystal spear and shattered it. Blood had to fight the magma doll and the arrow doll.

The bubble doll was just defeated and there's the lightning doll. One doll is still a mystery of the four dolls left.

Emile finally approached the top of the stone pillar. He looked down and saw Blood fighting the doll's, they were more than two hundred feet below. Emile wasn't confident in his ability to heal broken bones, especially the shattered state his body would be in if he fell from this height.

He passed the top of the pillar and could see the stone dome. The lightning doll was still there along with the fourth unaccounted for doll.

The lightning doll noticed Emile rising to the ceiling and summoned another bolt. It steadily raised its arm and lined the bolt up with Emile.

Then, thunder struck.