A morbid trap (Bishamon)

Two attacks at once, and a unusable limb, this was far from ideal, but he had to make do, his main priority was the head, which again attacked with that bolt of lightning, he quickly put his hands out in front of him "Hado 17, Smite!" as soon as the large octagonal block appeared and began moving towards the snakes head, it acted as a great shield from the lightning, and then it continued towards the snakes head.

But he forgot about the swipe from the tail, it smashed into his legs, knocking him right off of his feet, the force of the swipe, nearly made him do a full summersault, he then landed hard on his shoulder, he quickly tried to get up but due to his leg, stumbled over, all he could do was hope that his attack managed to do some damage, or at least slow the snake down.

It had forgotten to calculate the x factor that was the shinigami ability to conjure up different effects with the help of incantations, this one in particular being a large energy block heading straight for its head and smashing its way through the electric attack. Because of this, despite the fact that it had managed to bring him down from his standing position it was still unable to counter, of course that was a secondary concern for the moment. Had it not had its controlling nanites active it would probably have been able to either power through with brute force or dodge it with speed, as it was however it could do neither. The block smashed into its head, the side of it since it had managed to slightly evade to the side but it was still pushed back with the jaws dented and its neck bent backwards as it ensured to bend it in order to evade being pushed back even further back.

While its head had been pushed however the tail was free to act as its sensors was still able to detect the reapers position it lifted up then slammed down, the sharp point of the tail aiming for the mans back. "You are persistent. But you cannot escape it."

Bishamon's breathing was a lot heavier now, preforming that kidou, without an incantation wasn't easy, but it seemed to pay off, as he watched the attack, smash into the mechanical snake, a small grin appeared on his face, his leg still hadn't fully recovered yet, but he hoped it would take the snake longer to recover, he was so caught up, watching the snakes head that he forgot about the tail yet again, this time, the tail was meant to finish him off, rather than throw him off balance.

Bishamon managed to evade the attack, by rolling to the side, at the last possible moment, he did get hit, somewhat, but it was just a flesh, wound on his right shoulder, enough to cause some pain. He had to get up now, he slowly struggled onto his feet, and then hopped to catch his balance, his left leg seemed to be getting some of its movement back, but he didn't need it quite yet, as he jumped up towards the snake, only using his right leg to take off, as he closed in on the snake he crossed his arms as far as they would go, and then as he closed in on the snake, he brought both of his arms to the centre, aiming for the snakes slender body, attempting to cut it in two.

It took note of how agile he still was despite the lack of control in his leg as he rolled to the side of its tail. Raising its upperbody it sent out new commands to the nanites inside, abandon the leg and continue the controlling process running through the death gods body. The shinigami once again displayed an impressive agility considering the circumstances as he rose to his feet and jumped on one leg towards N.I.U.S with the intent to sever it in half. "Too fast."

As the attack was about to come down, the machine assumed control over his right arm, making it instead of slice the machine hit the other sword and although it managed to cut through the outer shell and cut wiring and circuitry the sword was pushed out by the other one. While that was happening N.I.U.S went on the offensive aswell, its head lunging forward towards his torso while the forgotten tail sweeped once more aiming for his hip. "Overconfident. Your counter was too fast."

The attack, was less than satisfactory, he planned to end this with one strike, he couldn't continue this fight in the condition he was in, and now the snake was controlling one of his arms again, luckily he had control over both of his legs again, the head of the snake smashed into the chest of Bishamon, he managed to take some of the impact with his blades, which where in an 'X' shape due to the snakes control over his right arm, Bishamon flew back, but he managed to stay on his feet, due to the force of the snakes attack, he flew back fast enough to avoid the tail.

He took a few steps back, trying to figure out how he could fight like this, he once again couldn't fight with his arms, he smiled "Bakudo 25, Seigen" a large circle appeared on the roof, this should slow him down. Bishamon then jumped off the roof, and began running once more in the opposite direction, as long as the snake didn't try anything else tricky, he should be able to get a fair distance away, but now he was tired, Bishamon could only probably use one more kidou spell now. Taking a few deep breathes, he continued jumping from rooftop to rooftop, not looking at the snake.

Although it had successfully evaded his attack aswell as pushing him back from it, he still wasn't letting down. While it was trying to go for a quick counter to keep him from escaping another one of the shinigami spells quickly halted its progress. It was left too simply watch as the reaper scurried off with his tail between his legs, the snake's body unable to muster any speed to follow him and he quickly got away. While it was unfortunate that such a rich meal was able to escape it was a victory that N.I.U.S needed, it proved to it that it was simply circumstances that led to its previous failures in combat and that it still possessed formidable power. Exactly what it needed if it were ever to face its creator.

As he had already disappeared, N.I.U.S made its way back into the city slowly as it waited for the effect to wear off, there would be more hunting to have this night to take advantage of the time it would take for a new reaper to appear and to regain the strength lost in the fight. It had been a good night.