"It's just out there..." Azure whispered, watching the frozen ocean with distance in his eyes.
It was night, and so Gabriel and Michael found themselves struggling to find what they were looking for.
Until...
Azure touched the water before the coast, and a glowing sensation began to run through the entire ocean with a vibrant light.
An entire fleet of ships sat on the edge of sight, stuck between the chilling ice of the ocean.
"When morning comes..." Azure's voice trailed off, his muscles twitching violently under the chilling air the East...
"We drag that entire fleet to the bottom of Vallmora's Ocean..."
...
Chase blocked in panic, getting caught up in another powerful shockwave that was all too familiar.
'What the hell is Natalia doing fighting again!?' He thought, having seen her already heavily wounded body.
Poppy yelled something out behind him, seconds before she vanished from his sight.
He shrugged, lowering his head as he charged through the shockwave, flaming shrouding his body as he powered through.
"Impressive..." Jack growled beside him.
"You look like shit..." Chase frowned, but Jack only laughed.
"Better than you."
"Fair enough." Chase responded, readying his axe at his side as Callahan appeared before them with several clumps of metal hovering around him.
"Ready!?" Jack yelled, spinning a flaming sword along his fingers.
"Nah!" Chase shot back, summoning an onslaught of green flames around his own body.
"Good..." Jack growled as he launched at Callahan like a bullet, knocking aside a giant slab of protective metal.
Chase followed, leaping with a spinning and twisting slash or two, using a blast of flames to redirect his path, coming straight back at Callahan from behind.
Jack read it as well, soaring upward in a torrent of orange flames with his blade in hand.
CLANG!
Jack was knocked aside by the Paladin, leaving Chase an opening.
CLANG!
The heavy greatsword met Apocalypse in vain, rattling Chase's bloody grip and launching him towards the ground like a comet.
Jack spun back, flipping around the homing metallic spears with blasts of fire.
Launching forward, he slashed horizontally at Callahan's chest, slicing it open as he followed up with several more attacks while dodging several flying projectiles.
Meanwhile on the ground...
Chase struggled to stand, using Apocalypse to keep him upright,
Poppy appeared beside him, her spear in hand.
"Hans and Gideon plan to keep Vex busy. He was right after all, this fight ends when you, Jack, Vex, or Callahan die. And we can basically subtract Vex from that equation." She frowned, pointing out the fact that this was one against two odds.
"The good news?" Chase asked with several heavy breaths leaving his lips.
Poppy shrugged.
"Well, this will be the best that I can do." She spun her spear, gazing up at Jack and Callahan's fight.
"And neither of us can fly..."
"That might not be an issue..." Jackal spoke up from behind them, cracking his neck as he followed their distant gazes.
"Dogs can fly now?" Chase asked, even though he probably shouldn't have.
Jackal ignored him, readying himself before leaping up with a shockwave following in his wake.
"Screw it." Chase groaned, falling into a portal below him, in which Poppy sighed and followed.
Both of them came out of the portal above the crater, on the edge beside all of the spectators.
"This was your plan?" She asked with confusion.
"What? It worked for The Vex of Seh Jenah."
"Your defeat lies within your own reasoning..." She could only sigh, allowing him to grab her wrist as they both fell into a graceful descent.
Below, Jackal had entered a violent back and forth between the Paladin of metal.
It looked as if he had landed several imbued scratches upon Callahan's face, especially considering the look he wore on it.
Chase and Poppy descended into the crater once more, both falling near each other as they prepared for a powerful attack of their own.
She braced herself, loosening her body and allowing Chase to take command.
He grinned, twisting midair and pulling Poppy along with him, before letting out a roar as he hurled her straight at Callahan from above.
She grit her teeth, letting the release from Chase spin her as she let her other hand rest loosely upon her spear, which spun alongside her like a planet in Callahan's inevitable wake...
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
CLANG!
She pierced and tore straight through all of the metal walls that Callahan could throw up in time, leading to him only having the option of blocking her attack head on...
In which case, they had met blades... Her body slowly coming to a spinning stop as her spear's crown dug straight into his greatsword, barely stopping before it could make its way through.
"Impressive..." He scoffed, knocking her aside with the wave of his hand on upon the blade.
"Nice try, Jackass!" Chase roared with glee from above as Apocalypse gleamed with laugher in their eminent path towards the Paladin.
Callahan's eyes widened, only able to watch in horror as Chase descended upon him.
He twitched with a frenzy, throwing his greatsword up out of sheer panic.
Chase landed with a devastating shockwave that tore up the ground twice over.
Their arms trembled as their weapons matched... Clashing as their eyes could only peer into each others own...
"What is it that you are trying to do?" Callahan asked with grit teeth, barely holding up against Chase's overwhelming force.
"It's simple really!" He pressed further, grinning with insanity as his flames bursted into overdrive.
His eyes met Jack's angered expression below.
"Catch up now!" Chase screamed as his axe tore straight through Callahan's greatsword, launching him into the ground below as he bursted forth in follow.