Comment Posted Successfully The black jar on Higgs' chest glowed a sickly, malicious red. Simultaneously, the mechanical arm on his shoulder sprang to life, folding in front of him and opening into a claw, resembling a three-petalled flower. It caught the fireball with horrific speed and snuffed it from existence.
"So be it..." Higgs smirked his hands began to smoke black. "It can be so hard to form connections, but fortunately I have a good connection to the other side..."
His back turned to John and tendrils, resembling umbilical chords, of tar shot from his fingertips into the tar pool. He tugged and pulled and dragged. The tendrils grew longer and longer before eventually, with a roaring cry, a huge roaring four legged beast, dripping in tar with a flat face made of gold sprang forth from the pool. It shook itself, as though a dog padding forth from the ocean, sending rivulets of black tar flying around the room. It stood the height of two men, with a mane made of black dripping tentacles. Hungry and black void eyes fixed upon John.
Higg's looked over his shoulder at John, laughing out a sort of "Oooh hooo hooo hooo" sound. "You're on the menu, John. I guess this is what you wanted..." He dissipated in a blink of the same golden lightning, his skull mask appearing over John's shoulder like the Cheshire cat, his arrogant voice ringing from it. "A game over."
With a cackling laughter and the same jab of lightning, the mask dissipated, leaving John facing down the four legged beast which looked set to charge...