Hades ended up on the ground, feeling dazed and confused at the impact and what he himself had done just now. It had all happened due to logical reasons rather than emotions, of course - having Ed died would cut the fun he could still have with him short permanently.

Deciding to ignore the fact that he would usually just have let the human fight for himself anyway, the god looked up just to see the kishin and then catch the look in Edward's eyes. He reacted without thought, letting his body disperse and reassemble into the cold metal chain that landed in the Meister's waiting hands; this time properly so. The resonance happened that quickly that Hades almost missed it - but he didn't miss when the kishin hit them and he got dragged over the ground.

Making a displeased sound, he all but chided the blond. "Jump before you think and you will do exactly what your enemy expects you to."

As if to empathize his words the kishin egg giggled like a granny that had had a few eggnogs too many as she rode her flying mortar in a wide arch and came swooping down on them once more, rudder-broom clutched tightly in her spindly hands and raised like a baseball bat. This time the attack was coming from the side and at a sharper, faster arc.