Chase let out a bitter laugh... looking down at the blood stained hand held out before his eyes.
"A Paladin's might..." He gasped, crazed in amazement.
Natalia frowned... Tilting her head as the sands settled and crowd waited in anticipation.
She begun to laugh more...
More...
More, more and twice as much...
Leaning his head back, he felt the night sky embrace him...
"Impossible!" The announcer boomed, as Natalia's eyes lit up with a spark of hope.
"Two affinities..." She smiled.
The lunar sigil on Chase's wrist began to resonate with the full moon above... Giving him the might that Luna had gifted him.
His first prayer in years... Answered by his benefactor...
His laugh grew quiet and twice as bitter... Leaving him standing with the faint humming of Apocalypse.
Natalia had already begun to move... Dashing at Chase with supersonic speed, clearly trying to keep the fight at the closest distance possible.
Chase seen this... And brought the crown of Apocalypse into a delightful strike against the ground below him...
Chase boomed with laughter as the sands began to shift... And the floor that held the sands caved in... Bringing everyone falling down into the vortex with him.
However, there had been a time when Chase had once descended upon a king...
So, he was quite familiar with this form of combat...
He shot himself forward with a barrage of flames at the falling Natalia below him.
She cocked an eyebrow, lifting her offhand and pointing her top two fingers at Chase with a grin.
Suddenly a wave of gradational blasted Chase in the chest, sending a terrible pain into his sternum as he fell deeper into the sands.
The crowd was amazed, screaming at a level that Chase had never heard before... Natalia herself even seemed quite shell shocked by all of it.
Both of them stood up in the now smaller and deeper pit...
"Say... Heir of Solis... May I ask if you would like to dance with me?" Natalia asked, pointing her sword with elegance at Chase.
Chase tilted his head in annoyance, before shaking his head and slamming his back heel in the ground... Using his Axis energy to launch himself like a rocket at Natalia... Who's eyes blue eyes widened in shock.
Apocalypse bit into her shoulder... Devouring the flesh of her sword arm with what could only be described as a messy and violent cut.
She looked up with blood splattered across her face.
She smiled.
"Incredible..." The gravity around them shifted violently, pulling Chase back and slamming him into the stone wall that stood behind him.
Natalia clicked her tongue as she ripped the axe from her now limp and disgusting right shoulder, tossing the axe aside with a frown.
"Nobles are taught to be both right and left-handed..." Natalia chuckled, as Chase lifted himself from his previously limp position on the ground.
His mask had cracked, a terrible one as well... Running from his right temple to the left corner of his bottom lip.
And his back had certainly been broken as well... But that could be healed... His identity... Not so much.
He put his hands behind his back... Lowered his head... And screamed as he began to dash towards Natalia at an incredible speed compared to his previous fights.
However, halfway before he reached The Paladin... Chase had took off, leaping into the air with a grin behind his mask and the Lunarangs rustling behind his back.
As he reached the climax of his jump, Natalia braced for a direct attack... But Chase hurled both of his arms outwards... One of his hands unleashing a precise ivory crescent moon that curved and swirled towards Natalia's cheek... While the other was an ominous black crescent moon that went straight for Natalia's right leg.
This made it impossible for her to dodge both of them...
Chase chuckled, landing with a slide as he leaped again, this time summoning Apocalypse and shooting straight at Natalia.
However, he watched in horror as Natalia lazily flicked her sword at the black Lunarang, knocking it away while the white one took a chunk of flesh off of her face... Yet, she showed no signs of flinching...
BOOM!
The black Lunarang exploded about ten meters too far from Natalia, as Chase grimaced in his descent.
CLANG!
Their blades met in a devastating match... The staff of Apocalypse chipping from the might of her swift sword... But her sword taking the full brute force of the axe once wielded by Rakshaa...
Then she spun, leaving Chase's momentum to pull him forward, causing him to have to panic portal into a safer place.
Meanwhile Natalia spun again... Chase's soaring body shooting past her as his Axe followed...
He crashed into the sand and launched his axe downward once again, this time immediately bringing him to jerking stop.
"Enough of this..." Chase growled, launching himself forward.
CLANG!
In a whirlwind Chase knocked her blade aside, the crowd roading as she quickly ducked under the second attack that was as Chase soared past, having somehow snuck a second attack before he flew past her...
She frowned, spinning so low that she was parallel to the ground as she launched her blade at Chase, who tried to move his head in time... Only to get another large crack on the surface of his mask.
Natalia summoned her sword again, and sprinted straight at Chase as he did the same...
They clashed again, Chase bringing his axe horizontally towards Natalia's cranium and her sword ripping into the back of his knee...
She ducked, ripping her blade into his knee, and he jerked his other foot into the ground and jabbed the pommel of Apocalypse straight at Natalia's back...
A crushing blow caused her to falter and stagger, making away with unbalance and shock on her face.
Chase meanwhile had been brought to a limp... Dragging his right leg as they slowly circled each other.
"You are strong." Natalia said, her breath slightly shaky as she could only smile in the heat of this battle.
Chase swayed with breaths of exhaustion.
"You as well..." He said, gritting his teeth with a burst of determination.
"Good..." She chuckled, blood spilling from the corner of her mouth.
Suddenly, lightning struck the sands above them, shaking the entire Coliseum.
"Shall we?" She asked, tilting her head and outstretching her limp and bloody arm with a devastating smile.
Her eyes glowing vibrant indigo as the sound around them began to hover and defy the laws of physics themselves...