Phelios/Stage 5

Part 1
Once the enchanted mirror has faded out again and Pegasus has started to propel Apollo again for a fourth time, ten groups of four Debiru will come flying towards him in a zigzag pattern while firing projectiles at him from the right side of the screen; once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, two Item Flies will come flying towards you fromm the left side of the screen - and once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to kill them, they will leave two "S" powerups behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected these two "S" powerups, two of Scylla's minions will walk onto the bridges on the left and right sides of the screen and fire their arrows at you; once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at both of them to knock them off the bridges, two Black Tekyuu will come rolling towards you from the left and right sides of the screen. Once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, two more Black Tekyuu will come rolling towards you from the top of the screen - and once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, two more of Scylla's minions will walk onto the bridges on the left and right sides of the screen and fire their arrows at you. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at both of themm to knock themm off the bridges, two more Black Tekyuu will come rolling towards you from the left and right sides of the screen; once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, four more of Scylla's minions will walk onto the bridge inn the centre of the screen and fire their arrows at you. Once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to knock them off the bridge, four more Black Tekyuu will come rolling towards you from the right side of the screen - and once you have fired enough charged shots fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to destroy them, two more of Scylla's minions will walk onto the bridges on the left and right sides of the screen and fire their arrows at you. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to knock them off the bridges, two more Black Tekyuu will come rolling towards you from the left and right sides of the screen; once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, four more of Scylla's minions will walk onto the bridge in the centre of the screen and fire their arrows at you. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of themm to knock themm off the bridge, four more Black Tekyuu will come rolling towards you from the left side of the screen - and once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to destroy them, eight more groups of four Debiru will come flying towards you in a zigzag pattern while firing projectiles at you from the right side of the screen. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, three more Item Flies will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen; once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of themm to kill themm, they will leave two more "S" powwerups and an "O" powwerup behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected the two additional "S" powwerups and the "O" powwerup, four more of Scylla's minions will walk onto the bridge inn the centre of the screen and fire their arrows at you - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to knock them off the bridge, you will notice a Red Tekyuu rolling forward inn its place on the right side of the screen as two more Black Tekyuu come rolling towards it from the left side of the screen. Unless you can fire enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of the Black Tekyuu to destroy them before they hit the Red Tekyuu, the Red Tekyuu will self-destruct and explode into eight pieces which cannot be destroyed and must be avoided. A nineteenth Black Tekyuu will now come rolling towards you from the right side of the screen at the bottom as two more Red Tekyuu come rolling towards each other from the left and right sides of the screen at the top; once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at the Black Tekyuu to destroy it, both of the Red Tekyuu will self-destruct and explode into eight indestructible pieces once they have hit each other. Six more pairs of Red Tekyuu will then come rolling towards each other from the left and right sides of the screen at the top, one at a time - and they will all self-destruct and explode into eight indestructible pieces once they have hit each other. If you were lucky enough to survive this onslaught, some Japanese text will appear at the bottom of the screen as Apollo arrives at the boss temple of Scylla herself. The music will also fade out once he has descended down to the temple and entered it to indicate that you have proceeded to the second and final section of the first "HARD" stage.

Part 2
Once Apollo has reappeared inside the temple, two more Item Flies will come flying towards him from the left side of the screen; once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, they will leave two more "S" powerups behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected these two additional "S" powerups, a sixteenth Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the left side - and once you have moved out of its way, a seventeenth Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the right side. Once you have moved out of its way, an eighteenth Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the left side; once you have moved out of its way, a nineteenth Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the right side. Once you have moved out of its way, a twentieth Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the left side - and once you have moved out of its way, a twenty-first Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the right side. Once you have moved out of its way, a twenty-second Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the left side; once you have moved out of its way, a twenty-third and finnal Red Tekyuu will come falling down towards you from the top of the screen on the right side. Once you have moved out of its way, you will come to a barrier of red crystals that are rotating in an anti-clockwise direction (similar to the one that Maiku was protected by inn Namco's own Ordyne, which was released earlier in 1988 and also ran on the company's System 2 hardware) - and once Pegasus has stopped propelling Apollo forward, Scylla (whose appearance is very similar to that of the Crystal Brains from Namco's own Bakutotsu Kijuutei, which was released even earlier in 1988 but ran on the company's System 1 hardware) will materialize inn the centre of the barrier and cause four walls of spikes to come down on each side of the screen. One spike from each wall will loosen itself from the others and fly towards Apollo in the direction that it is facing; you can either move out of their way or fire a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at them to destroy them for extra points. Scylla will then cause the four walls of her remaining spikes to go back up again for a short period of time - but each time she decides to bring them down again, a different spike from each wall will loosen itself from the others and fly towards Apollo in the direction that it is facing until he has either dodged or destroyed them all. Once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at Scylla to defeat her, she will explode and the four walls of remaining spikes on each side of the screen will disappear. Apollo will then proceed to the enchanted mirror at the back of the temple; once it has faded in, it will depict Apollo's lover and twin sister Artemis running down the corridors of Typhon's temple from behind. The once-again-unseen Typhon will then speak out to his arch-nemesis in Japanese for a third and final time while the accompanying Japanese text for what he is saying appears at the bottom of the screen - and once the enchanted mirror has faded out again, the game will segue into the sixth stage (which can also be described as the second "HARD" stage).