Bold and Mikhail were still on Rasputtin’s trail thanks to Bold’s trusty horse. Mikhail shot his ‘paralyzing snake’ towards the four legged animalstic Rasputtin but missed. With his second shot the attack managed to link with its target. Rasputtin stopped dead on his track. His four legs shook with anger. 

“Gotcha, finish him off, Bold”

Bold jumped off his horse and drew out his sword. He closed in on Rasputtin carefully and raised his sword. Just as he was about to stab the guy, a wooden being emerged out of the transformed Rasputtin’s back and jumped away into a different alley. The four legged beast fell on it’s belly, colors began to deterate from it’s body.    
 
“Shit, I think he just substituted” said Bold as he realized the four legged beast was now nothing more than a wooden corpse.

Mikhail rode the horse past Bold and ran after the man alone.

“Hey, wait up. That’s my horse” complained Bold as he ran after him.
  
The wooden being had now shapeshifted back into its original form of a middle aged man named Rasputtin and ran with extreme speed not very common for someone of his age. Unfortunately, he took a turn that lead him to a dead end in a small alley. Fortunately, there was a sewer tank in the area and he pulled it out. When Mikhail turned around a corner he saw Rasputtin jumping into the sewer hole. Gritting his teeth he jumped off the horse, ran towards the hole and quickly hopped into it without a second to take a break.

But what awaited him down there was a boiling hot water current which burned his skin through his clothes. With an instinctual and animalistic dance Mikhail jumped and reached a paved slope next to him that was higher than the water current. But at that moment he realized that Rasputtin was standing there in the darkness and he threw Mikhail back into the boiling water with little to no effort.

“Ahh, hot hot hot, FUCK”

Rasputtin quickly typed on his wristboard and turned into the four legged beast and crawled into the abyss with extreme speed. Mikhail somehow managed to pull his burnt body and landed back on the slope again.

“Darn it”

It wasn’t long before Bold jumped into the hole and splashed himself with the hot water as well. Dancing and prancing from the heat of the water, Bold arrived next to Mikhail.

“Ahh, shit shit. Where is your dad? Rasputtin”.

“He threw me into the water and ran away. Come on, let’s go after him. Summon your horse”