Oren flashed in front of Chase that very second, instantly firing a wave of energy at Justin, launching him into the behind.
The two locked eyes...
"So, the girl is your weakness..." A crimson smirk of energy flashed upon his face, just before an ivory spear slashed at the back of Oren's helmet.
"Tch! Damnit!" Poppy screamed, falling to the ground without mobility as Oren turned towards her direction unphased.
Chase forced energy into his body, launching like a bullet at Oren with a devastating slash of Apocalypse following shortly behind.
CLANG!
'He blocked...' Chase took note, watching as Poppy slashed at Oren's ankle from below.
Justin slid in, leaping up and grappling The Prince of Darkness's giant throat.
"Get off of me..." He growled, unleashing a terrible AOE blast of shadows.
Both Justin and Poppy were sent sliding across the floor towards where Chase assumed was the Northern side of the room, but he on the other hand: Had been launched back into the Southern wall with a horrifying crash.
Chase groaned, falling onto the floor with a thud as Oren locked his sights on him.
He thrashed, forcing his body to stand once again.
Unluckily for him, Oren had already launched an attack, leaping into the air with a furry of slashes aimed at him, decimating the ground around him, and just before his accuracy sharpened and he himself grew closer...
Poppy twitched in front of Chase, twirling her spear at supersonic speeds...
He watched in awe as she deflected every single one of Oren's fatal slashes, that was until the beast reached his destination, shoving Poppy aside and swinging his blade down on Chase.
CLANG!
Chase barely deflected, sacrificing his last second balance in order to buy himself a few seconds.
Suddenly, an ivory phantom appeared beside Oren, slashing at his thigh.
He roared in pain, confused at the sight of the ghost just as Poppy's true form hurled her spear into the princes' backside.
Justin came crashing in, slamming his shoulder against the beast's ribcage.
Chase gathered himself, lowering his body as he prepared for a battle of longevity.
Just as Poppy caught his blades' attention, Chase appeared, slashing at Oren's left shoulder before he could have time to react.
"Nice!" Poppy managed, evading a mindless swing and shifting towards the same side of Oren as Chase, leaving Justin to hold down the Northern side.
Oren let out a terrible roar, staggering Justin and Chase as Poppy shot forward and clashed with the beast.
"Shit!" Chase cursed, snapping his body back into rhythm.
He shot forward, backing Poppy up from behind as their blades met.
CLANG!
CLANG!
CLANG!
They switched out, following with a low vertical parry by Chase, knocking away Oren and slashing at his chest, at the same time Justin had released an onslaught of piercing attacks aimed towards the beast.
Oren vanished into the shadows...
Appearing in an instant right beside Poppy, who blocked out of Panic and got caught off balance.
"Help!" She screamed, deflecting another attack but losing her footing.
Chase leaped up, gripping the crown of Apocalypse into Oren's collarbone and pulling him to the ground with an echoing slam...
Justin helped poppy up just as Oren slid back into the shadows.
Suddenly a piercing spike shot at Justin...
He sidestepped, pushing aside Poppy as a wall of shadows suddenly separated them.
Poppy looked at Chase.
"Follow my lead..." She demanded, her eyes glowing a violent crimson.
Chase frowned, about to speak up when she dashed at Oren without a second thought.
Chase followed reluctantly.
'It's not gonna work... I can't read your attacks...' He cursed internally, switching in for her after several piercing attacks of her own.
He slashed horizontally, chipping the side of Oren's blade and using that momentum to flip back into a downward slam with Apocalypse.
His flames bursted to life, shrouding his eyes in an eternal green...
BOOM!
Oren staggered back, blood and energy oozing onto the ground below...
But his will...
Was still unshaken.
Chase cursed internally again, watching as Poppy dove straight at him...
She bursted into light, flashing as a hundred or so minute cuts followed suite, filling the air with essentially razers...
Oren let out a terrible scream as the shadows began to grow stronger...
Chase leaped, sliding in beside Poppy as he released a torrent of attacks of his own, knocking Oren back and leaping with the spin of Apocalypse.
FLASH!
Suddenly Chase was standing beside Justin as a giant shadow came crashing down on him.
In confusion, he watched as Poppy: Who had taken his place, attempted to pierce the skull of Oren with her spear...
CLANG!
It chipped off the side of his helmet, causing her to instantly get knocked back by another wall of shadows.
Chase caught her, getting sent back flying with her momentum.
They came to a sliding spot, where he simply let go of her with his off hand, moving forward as she fell to the ground.
"What the hell!?" She yelled, making Chase's blood spill out of annoyance.
"Maybe next time communicate when you are going to use that shit... And you don't telegraph your attacks, so how the hell am I supposed to know when you want to switch out?" Chase stomped his foot, clenching his teeth at the sight of the incoming Oren.
"Fine "Leader", you try..." Poppy scowled, pushing herself to a battle stance.
Chase; although his face was hidden behind his blood-stained golden hair, was grinning behind the crimson veil upon his face.
Apocalypse glimmered with life, hanging at Chase's side as he brought his feet closer together and awaited Oren.
With a flash of shadows and crimson energy, Chase met Oren in a monstrous clash at the center of the room, their energies swirling and devouring each other as Poppy could only await her turn...
He laughed, kicking his axe upward, knocking back Oren's own blade allowing Chase to step to the side as Poppy bursted forth with a deadly piercing attack.
Her spear met Oren's wall of shadows, but disintegrated the second they met.
Poppy jumped out of panic, and from below came a slide Chase who swung feverishly at the legs of Oren.
He leaped, instantly turning his momentum downward at Chase.
BOOM!
He blocked... Grinning ear to ear, with blood pouring down his face... Chase let out a muffled laugh as the entire might of Oren crushed down upon him with the aid of gravity.
Poppy and her ghost appeared beside him, launching a two beams of ivory energy straight upwards at the beast.
She growled, leaping upwards and hooking her spear under the princes' ribs and swinging him downward with spinning motion.
BOOM!
He dashed into the shadows behind the explosion, appearing behind Chase just as he turned.
CLANG!
With a flash of fire, he knocked aside Oren's blade... Then Chase lowered his body allowing his eyes to meet the ground with a crouch.
Poppy rolled overtop of him, using their back to back meeting to draw from the axis energy running through the both of their bodies...
FWOOOSH!
Poppy shot forward, stabbing her spear straight into the sternum of Oren...
ROAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!
The room quaked as parts of the ceiling began to rain down from above.
Chase sidestepped, feeling his flames begin to burn hotter.
Poppy swayed back, feeling her energy reserves begin to plummet.
She looked at Chase, and was caught in an instant of frozen time... Staring at the seemingly maddened heir of Vallmora...
He was...
Laughing...
Standing with a favored side... looking up at the ceiling with a violent green glimmer in his eyes...
With his face completely ridden in his own blood... He chuckled, gripping Apocalypse so tightly that his knuckles had turned purple...
Poppy was simply...
Astonished...
Her eyes glimmered, feeling a strange sensation of inspiration as Chase's flames began to glow brighter... Pushing back against the all powerful shadows...
"Now is our chance..." Chase growled, almost seething at the mouth...
Poppy attacked first, projecting her obvious jab as Oren easily deflected with immense might: Launching her back towards Chase with incredible speed but at far too high a height for him to do anything...
'Unless...'
Chase growled, twirling his axe with horrifying might and slamming it into the ground... Using the force to launch himself into the air and hurl the axe far above his propelled height...
He grinned, grabbing Poppy by the arm as she soared past.... Using his own momentum and spinning...
With a heave, he launched her straight at Oren, where she stuck her spear into his shoulder...
Chase caught Apocalypse, and swung it viciously at where Poppy hung...
She ripped the spear from Oren's flesh and let her body fall... Just in time as Apocalypse crashed into the beast's chest, knocking him back about three or four meters.
Chase resummoned Apocalypse, turning to a low sprint and leaping up into the air.
Poppy attacked from below, slashing with ten or so instant cuts.
And from above, Chase's flames began to radiate with joy as brought his axe down upon a wall of shadows...
Poppy attacked again, slashing in a wide arc of ivory energy.
Oren retaliated, kicking her back into a stagger.
Chase let his flexibility take over, swinging with such a wide arc that Oren had no physical way of escaping in time...
The axe crashed down on him...
But he caught it, pushing it upward with his palm upon the blade's crown...
Poppy appeared behind Oren... Ivory flames bursting from her skin...
Chase was caught off guard, staring in confusion as she took the lead...
'She has... Fire again?'
He shrugged, backing her up as she piercing ribcage...
Chase came flying in, slashing down at Oren with vicious intent...
He blocked with a devastating clash...
"Switch!" Poppy yelled, taking his place with her slim advantage.
Chase came crashing down, using her spear as a downward force...
He dodged...
"Switch!" They switched places again, Poppy dashed forward with her own weapon once again and slashing three consecutive times at Oren before yelling switch once again.
Chase began to get caught inside of a new sort of rhythm...
"Hey Poppy!" He yelled, sliding and slashing with Poppy's spear.
"What!?" She replied, roaring as she swung Apocalypse with surprising might, knocking back Oren with a powerful blow.
'There was no way I would have survived this long against such an opponent without their help... So...'
"Wanna dance with me?" He asked, outstretching his bloodied hand in the heat of battle...
She grinned, her cheeks flushing under the neon green flames burying the room in smoldering heat...
She took his hand...
In that moment...
Their flames collided, flashing to life as Oren launched an all out attack, his shadowing splitting and turning him along with them into a wall of death...
Chase turned, twirling re-acquired Apocalypse at his side.
With a powerful leap, he met Oren in the middle, hooking his axe's crown along the edge of Oren's armor, twisting and hurling him towards the ground as the shadows began to envelop them...
Poppy appeared, burning ivory as her spear danced with the blade of Oren on the ground as Chase began to descend...
"Switch!" She yelled, as Chase quickly hurled her spear at Oren.
She grinned, her eyes widening just as Oren used their own attack against her, grabbing her by the leg and hurling her at the wall along with the deflected spear...
Chase leaped, grabbing Apocalypse and slashing at Oren's face and backing him up as a spike of Shadows pierced Chase's ankle.
Poppy came flying in, her spear pointed straight at the visible catalyst of Oren...
However...
Chase had began to see something... The missing piece of the puzzle...
'Switch with me now...' Chase demanded, his eyes deathly gazing at Poppy's incoming figure.
"Tch!"
Chase hurled Apocalypse up into the air above Oren...
"Switch!" She screamed, allowing Chase too take hold of the cometing spear...
SPLAT!
SHATTER!
Chase grinned in that instant, driving the ivory spear into Oren's catalyst... But that wasn't all...
Chase used the last of his physical might, twisting his body, letting go of the spear... And grabbing the incoming Apocalypse out of the air with a twist...
And with the might of all of Chase's flames...
The axe crashed down upon The Prince of Darkness' skull...
BOO-BOOOOOOM!