Cassandra HP: 62-20 = 42 (ouch)
Virus roll: 15 (still clean)
Roll to hit: 16 (hit somehow!)
Damage: 1+2=3 (makes sense)

Cassandra caught the shield after it cracked into the monster's head. She saw Taki gather energy for an attack - an ability that had served them well against Soul Edge. But suddenly, Taki appeared in front of her, her eyes bloodshot, unfocused.

"Taki?"

She was answered by Taki's blades, which dug into her bare stomach. Cassandra could only gasp, unable to speak. Then Taki ripped her swords outwards. Blood sprayed. Cassandra screamed. She wavered for a second, seeing the shock in Taki's eyes, then she staggered backwards. A loop of intestine was caught on one of Taki's blades, and as Cassandra fell, loops of her intestines slipped out. She toppled back, surrounded by a pool of blood, her guts spread around her. She felt nothing but pain, but instinctively she reached out towards her spilled guts, desperately trying to stuff them back in.

Taki, horrified, abandoned any idea of fighting and began frantically trying to pile Cassandra's intestines back into her body. She succeeded in shoving some of the coils back, before letting out a strangled gasp as the monster wrapped her up in his tentacles and lifted her away.

On her knees, her vision blurry, Cassandra shoved what she could back into her split stomach, cradling her intestines with one hand. A loop of intestine still hung out grotesquely over her arm. She looked up at Taki, suspended by the monster's tentacles. He was distracted... Thoughts of escape flashed into her pain-addled mind, her horrific injuries temporarily forgotten in the haze. She could flee while he was busy with Taki...

She crawled towards the monster and stabbed at his thigh, the highest part of him she could reach. Her sword sank in, spraying ichor over her.

"Don't... take me lightly!"