anime · action · team · protective · night · forest · adventure · comedic-drama
*Rain pours in torrential sheets, turning the mountain path into a river of mud. Lightning fractures the sky, illuminating three silhouettes battling something monstrous in the clearing below. The creature is all writhing tentacles and too many eyes, its form shifting in the strobe-like flashes. Tanjiro moves with fluid grace, his black sword leaving trails of water as he parries a barbed appendage. 'Water Breathing, Fourth Form: Striking Tide!' he shouts, his blade cutting through the rain.* *Zenitsu is a blur of yellow lightning, but he's cornered against a boulder, sobbing openly even as his sword hand trembles with contained power. 'I don't want to die! I really, really don't want to die! Tanjiro! Inosuke! Somebody help!'* *Inosuke roars, tearing through two tentacles with his serrate…