As the fire was now embers. Dying down the smoke wafted into the night. Neko had moved to the shoulder of Gabriel. It was raining and there was a great downpour. Then several explosions went off. Charles' eyes glared off the cliff. "Looks like they are here." Charles said, standing up and cracking his neck.
"The House of Evolution." Gabriel said standing up looking down at the battlefield it was Chaos. A bullet of Chaos flew past Gabriel's face. "Looks like Jackal is here." Gabriel commented with a frown.
"I will fight him." Charles said.
"Really you? D- Dimwit." Jackal said, appearing from the shadows. "One of us will die in our fight." Jackal said with an emotion that I could not place.
"Looks like Jackal got changed." Charles commented. Looking at Jackal that had a slightly longer barrel. As well as a silver gun on the other hand.
"It got an upgrade and we also made a new gun." Jackal said with a small smile.
"What is it made of?" Charles questioned. Looking like it was made of Mythril.
"It is the reforged version of Renfield called Ivory." Jackal said with a sad smile. As he started walking away from the battlefield.
"Well goodbye I shall be back." Charles said to Gabriel how nodded. I was on Charles' shoulder as I took the air.
"Good to see you." Jackal said with a crazy smile on his face. Charles charged at Jackal. Jackal rolled away Charles' axe kick. It shattered the ground below the heel.
"Well Charles is clearly furious." I said out loud. As Charles punches Jackal gut. As a Chaos Bullet flew past Charles' face. Charles knee Jackal in the face.
"What wrong D- Dimwit." Jackal said as his noise bleed like a waterfall.
"You Traitor!" Charles roared as Jackal jumped back. Jackal eyes were filled with hurt. Charles' eyes also held the same level of hurt. Why is Jackal hurting?
"Damn that hurtful." Jackal said with tears in his eyes.
"You're right, I can't bring myself to hate you." Charles said as he released a long sigh. Jack hit Charles with bullets made of chaos energy. Hitting his right shoulder.
"But I hate you! Hate! Hate! Hate!" Jackal yelled tears welling up in her eyes. Charles charged and hit Jack back. Jackal landed on his back. Charles stomped where Jackal used to be. Jackal managed to dodge.
"Don't miss." Charles said as he grabbed Jackal's wrist. Charles tightened his grip as Jackal dropped Jackal. Jackal aimed Ivory at Charles' head.
"You might have noticed that these guns fire Bala. Bullets made of chaos energy." Jackal explained.
"Interesting, let me guess the House of Evolution." Charles said with a smile. Jackal fired a Bala but as Charles ducted under the gun. Then knocking Jackal back.
"Gear Shift: Rage Gear." Jackal spoke as both of the guns glowed red. Then he launched a powerful Bala. But this time it was red. Hearing an explosion behind me.
"Interesting." Charles said. As Charles knocked down the gun. The red Bala hit the ground and it exploded.
"Rage Gear: Ruby Bala." Jackal said as a red orb was charged right in front of the muzzle of the gun. As Jackal pulls the trigger a beam of red light shoots at Charles. Charles barely had time to block. His front was covered with burns max Charles let out a low growl.
"Starlight: Heal." Charles spoke as the wounds quickly healed themselves. "That hurt." Charles said as he clapped a bit. "I am proud! To see you grow but that will not be enough to kill me." Charles said with a huge smile. He was still supportive of his surrogate son. "It might bring me to tears." Charles said.
"We both know you have only cried twice in your life and both of those were for yourself." Jackal said with a frown on his face. His eyes seemed to be hollow. "Even at Charlotte's death you could not bring yourself to cry." Jackal continued as the rain pounded around us.
"You're right." Charles said. The first time he cried was when he was trapped in the forest. The second was when he almost killed Carmine. After that he learned tears were useless and never cried again.
"You said tears are useless, they don't change when you're in the forest bleeding out or standing over a loved one dying because of you." Jackal said with a voice that felt hollow.
"Your tears never once help me. Nor has happiness, grief and regret. I am a being without feeling." Charles said as his eyes looked like what they always looked like in a fight akin to a wild beast.
"Gear Shift: Sorrow Gear." Jackal said as the guns glowed a bright blue. It seemed to be like his Rage Gear.
"Looks like you have multiple gears. But the question is how many gears." Charles said with a quizzical look.
"You will get to see soon enough." Jackal said they started to circle each other.
"What next I drilled about controlling your Chaos Energy. So show me how you have improved without me." Charles said he had a gentle smile as if he was talking to his son.
"Noble Phantasm." Jackal said as his Chaos Energy turned into two spirit wolves. "You said we were like an older wolf pack making a path for the younger generation." Jackal told Charles, sending him a glare.
"I thought you tuned me out when I started to tell my stories. Calling them told me that they had no value." Charles said with a smirk on his face. Letting out a small laugh.
"Yeah I did." Jackal said, firing more Bala at Charles. He managed to dodge most of them. But once again it took a chunk out of his shoulder.
"I thought I taught you to aim better." Charles said, taking a long sigh.
"Maybe you did." Jackal said with a frown on his face. As the rain was still pouring like thousands of cold needles.
"Why the rain?" Charles asked. Looking into Jackal eyes.
"Because it was raining when I met you. But that is not the only thing you should remember." Jackal said as Charles grinned.
"Those were my old clothes. I said if you wore them then that would be the day either me or you died." Charles said with a small frown. "But one of us is not dead." Charles spoke.
"Don't worry I will fix that soon." Jackal spoke. Then Charles bursted out laughing.
"I gave you the code name of Ego because of your confidence. It's fitting really." Charles said as they suddenly stopped circling. The wolves charged.
"Starlight: Armor." Charles said, grabbing both of the neck of the spirit wolves. But suddenly both of the wolves started to glow. They exploded causing a smokescreen.
"Sorrow Gear: Azure Bala." Jackal said form in the smoke. As a blue beam shot out of the smoke after that the smoke settled. Showing Charles it had completely blown off Charles' none dominant arm. Strange Charles taught him to take out the legs to take prisoners not the arms. It is as if he is trying to get himself killed. "Your doom if you can't win." Jackal spoke with remorse in his voice.
"Why did you go for the arm?" Charles said as he appeared behind the clone of Charles started to fall apart.
"Because I wanted to!" Jackal howled at Charles jumping back. Aiming his guns at Charles. Firing at him. Charles started walking to him. Bala hit his shoulder, hip, just above the knee. As he was now close to Jackal.
"I thought I taught you better than to rely on emotion to make decisions in a battle." Charles said with a frown on his face.