The mont that Nushi defeated Ti, Calabria underwent a dramatic change.
[View of x and Calabro, Monts Before Ti's Defeat]
"You have taken everything from !" Calabro scread as he was sohow expertly able to weave through the tower's traps to chase x.
"I have done nothing of the sort! You have done this all to yourself! Whatever is wrong with you was wrong long before you t !" x yelled down as he dodged spikes that were shooting up from the platform he was running across.
Ti was forcing Calabro into an almost trance-like psychosis that was distorting reality as the Manticore saw it. This was causing him to see x as a monster while being assaulted by auditory hallucinations telling him that x was the cause for every problem in his life.
Because Ti's influence was so strong, Calabro could no longer tell right from wrong or enemy from friend. x had no clue of any of this, nor did any of the few that knew him.
Everyone from the keep had just assud that the Manticore was ntally unstable, which wasn't wrong. The problem was that it was an illness that forced him to be used as a toy to prevent Zack from completing this first world.
'You must kill him and the rest of them before they kill you! I have told you that they would trick you, and I was right. Kill the Demon Lord, and then kill all of his family! If you do this, you will have Candace back, and these creatures will never bother you-!' Ti tried to scream in Calabro's mind but was cut off.
This was the mont that Nushi attacked, and Calabro was climbing onto the next platform that x had just finished. As he pulled himself up, the Manticore-man's mind snapped back into complete clarity.
x watched him with interest, noticing the change in the creature's movent right away. Calabro now looked confused, and as he stood up on the starting block for the platform, x had just crossed.
"Who are you, and what is going on? How did I get here, and why do I have a body similar to… whatever you are?" Calabro asked x, baffling him.
"What? Did you just completely snap now?" x asked as he watched the Manticore stare back at him in confusion.
"Snap… what? … wait… that voice… you are… x?" Calabro asked with actual confusion in his voice.
x lifted an eyebrow at Calabro but then was distracted by one of the guardians appearing with his massive sword.
"Duck!" x shouted, and Calabro listened without hesitation, barely avoiding the slice that would have cut him in half.
Sothing had clearly changed with Calabro, and x made a split-second decision to try to help him. x wasn't scared of dying, so if he was betrayed, he would just make the psychopathic creature pay when he revived.
"Co to , but listen for the clicks! They are the spikes in the floor, and you will get impaled if you stand near one after it clicks!" x shouted as fast as possible, but Calabro started moving right away.
x knew that it was safe to stand on the end platform of each challenge. If you stood on the first section for too long, one of Noel's Guardians would appear to try and kill you.
The point of all of this was to train the mind to think faster and on the move. Sotis you didn't get ti to think over a choice before making it, and fighters needed to learn how to quickly adapt to any situation.
Calabro was nearly impaled on the first spike that shot up and barely evaded it. With x's instructions, he was able to make it across with only one deep gash.
x stood back and made room for the panting red-skinned winged man with a scorpion tail as he jumped to the cube that he was standing on. The Demon Lord watched Calabro as he caught his breath, watching the creature intently, waiting for him to make so sort of attack, but nothing ca.
Calabro looked up, and the two n locked eyes, but the crazed look was gone from his eyes. x was still unsure of what was going on and decided to wait for Calabro to speak.
"I feel like I just woke up from a nightmare that has lasted for longer than I could rember. Is this what we both really look like?" Calabro asked in a calm and level voice, making x's eyes grow huge in surprise.
Then x started to laugh as he scread in his mind.
Calabro watched the Demon Lord for a mont, unsure why he was laughing. After a short mont, Calabro joined the laughter with x, and the two laughed for a good five minutes straight.
Finally, after the two had almost been brought to tears, their laughter subsided. The two smiled at each other, but then Calabro asked, "What is so funny?"
This made x laugh again, but this ti it was short-lived as he noticed the apparent confusion on the Manticore man's face. x settled down and then smiled at Calabro.
"I have known you for many years, but this is the first ti that you have ever made any sense! This is what I look like most of the ti unless you make angry. You, on the other hand, are not normally like this, but we are inside of a tower built for training," x explained, and Calabro nodded thoughtfully.
"So, I guess that we are supposed to work together to get out of this place, right?" Calabro asked, but that caused x to start laughing again.
x was not one to hold on to any grudges. In fact, there were only two people that x truly held contempt for, and the psychopathic Manticore was not one of them.
Together, the two of them started up to the next platform. Since the two n had known each other, they worked together as friends for the first ti.
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