"DAMNIT ALL!" Equan screamed, shrouded by the roars of the coliseum.
Chase ignored the announcer, and instead looked onward at their opponents mirroring their own exit on the opposite side of the battlefield.
The only thing Chase heard other than Equan's cursing and the eruption of the crowd, showing that this fight was probably going to be a good one... Was the announcer crying out the names of their opponents...
"BEHOLD!!! THE DURANGOR TWINS!!! THE SHADOW STALKERS!!!"
Chase grit his teeth, using Soul Sense to zoom in his natural sight and study their eerie opponents...
They definitely weren't Paladins based off of Chase's initial read of them; however, they weren't weak either...
The twins wore matching slim black armor sets, and much to Equan's disapproval... They were both men.
The twin on the right, seemed to be using some sort of thick jagged blade about the length of a bastard sword...
The other twin had two decently long daggers with serrations all around the lower halves of the their spiny blades.
Both users wielded black weapons that seemed to be made for killing, and both of them had similar bird-styled masks...
"BEGIN!!!"
With little time to communicate with Equan, the battle begun and Chase had already launched himself forward, but much to his surprise, the twin with the daggers mirrored him perfectly, matching his speed and threatening to meet Chase head on.
'So that's how you want to play it...'
Chase swung apocalypse straight up, several seconds before he would meet the twin.
And instead of accepting this challenge of a head on collision... Chase used the momentum of the axe to slam his back straight into the sand below...
The twin flew straight over him, seemingly glaring straight down at Chase with an unknown emotion...
However, it was the eerie eye contact of the twin that seemed to drive him mad...
'Some sort of mental affinity?' Chase asked internally, clearly unaffected by such a weak attempt at swaying his mind.
He stood up quickly, spinning apocalypse in his hand as he and the twin with daggers began to circle each other... Obviously drawing suspense in the battle as well as sizing each other up.
Which the crowd seemed to love...
"WATCH OUT!" Equan screamed from somewhere behind him as Chase felt a second figure closing in on him.
Chase tried to turn, but felt the serrated sword bite deep into his left side.
Fire began to spread from Chase's wound... Crawling up the second twin's blade and burning his gauntlets...
"You bastard..." The gruff voice of the twin growled, before having to let go of his jagged blade.
Chase watched behind his mask as the twin backed off, leaving his blade sticking out of Chase's flesh.
'So much for the armor...' Chase whined internally, before gripping the handle of the blade and ripping it out of his flesh with not much reaction to the pain.
"Tis a fighter!" The twin with daggers laughed, standing beside the other twin.
"That isn't a good thing..." The other twin whispered back, unknowing to Chase's amplified hearing that could hear every little whisper coming from the opponents.
Equan landed beside Chase with a thud, his bow already pointed at the twin with daggers.
Chase tossed the jagged blade aside and readied Apocalypse once more.
"Switch?" Chase asked Equan, who seemed deadest on murdering the both of them just from the appearance of his body language...
No answer...
'The hell is wrong with him today?' Chase wondered.
Shaking his head, he began to make observations...
It was obvious that this was not going to be an honorable fight, as the twins seemed dead set on duo-ing against Chase while avoiding Equan like the plague...
'Whatever...'
Chase didn't have time to react...
The jagged blade was already coming straight at him...
Chase lifted Apocalypse, barely clashing its staff against the blade of the single weapon twin...
'How the hell did he get the sword back...?' Chase frantically tried to figure out what he was facing while holding back the force of the first twin, at the same time... His eyes darted and glanced around looking for any sign of what exact affinities were at play here...
Then he spotted the second twin in a low sprint heading straight for him...
"Nuh uh." Equan huffed, as a loud clang resounded through the arena...
He knocked the second twin back with the slashing of a sword made of pure lightning, as his bow was already readied within the grasp of his legs... His body suspended above the ground.
With a spin, Equan followed up his parry with a counter shot... Firing three bright bolts of lightning from his bow.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
A scattershot... And yet somehow... The twin had evaded all three with quick twitches, causing his body to look like after images had followed in his place...
Meanwhile, Chase finally took hold of his clash, forcing his strength into his legs and pressing back the blade of the twin...
"Impressive..." The twin grumbled, feeling the raw strength of Chase, even with his injuries from his battle with Poppy and the gash in his side-Still had enough pure might to win this clash.
Meanwhile, as Chase slowly gained advantage in his one on one: Equan landed once more, and launched himself back into the air while at the same time dismissing his lightning sword, probably to conserve more energy, and at the very same time drew his bow back to its absolute limit.
"Do you know... The pain it brings me to know that I may never get the chance to battle a powerful woman?!" Equan screamed, releasing a powerful bolt of pure energy at the dagger wielding twins.
The twin dashed, but didn't realize that the bone headed archer had quite the quick thinking brain.
As he Axis twitched to the left, being the most awkward position for Equan to change his arrow's mark: The twin's eyes would have definitely widened under his mask, as the arrow launched forward with a loud booming roar, and began to arc its course directly to the twin's new position.
The crowd boomed as the arrow struck the twin directly in his chest, launching him back into the wall at bewildering speeds.
Then, Chase grit his teeth, pressing axis not into his legs like before, but into his arms...
"Watch the feet..." Chase grinned behind his mask, giving a powerful swipe with Apocalypse, simultaneously breaking the clash as well as swiping the legs with the staff half of the crimson axe.
The twin tried to leap upwards, but was immediately outsmarted, as the momentum of Chase's axe had already pushed him further into this battle than the momentum of his opponent, as Apocalypse spun its torrent, crashing straight down on the twin's chest.
"No!" The other twin yelled, as Equan dashed towards him, throwing his unarmed body on top of the twin and putting him in a chokehold.
The crowd seemed to assume that the battle had ended as cheers ran across the stadium like a wave.
However, Chase felt a terrible dread eating away at his body, as if something hadn't ended quite the right way.
'Chase...' Luna spoke internally, her tone quite drastic making the dread feel about ten times heavier in his chest.
'You need to kill the twins... Now!' Luna demanded, naturally making Chase force his body into a third attack with the blade of the axe now on a collision course with the twin's mask; however, there was hesitation ridden in the attack.
'Huh?' Chase was caught off guard as a new energy forced him to instinctively activate Soul Sight out of sheer panic...
There was a barrage of black flowing plasma filling the air, unseeable with natural human eyes...
It connected between the two twins as the colossal force of energy made Chase simply go still in the moment.
'CHASE! IT'S A TRINITY ART! YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THERE!' Luna screamed internally...
However, Chase had already succumbed to the fate of the inevitable attack...