Hextra crawled out of the dust and smoke, her body sparking with electricity...
She was wounded heavily... At the door of death.
This boy...
These children...
They had somehow overpowered her.
Chase stood behind her like a monster.
He slowly stepped forward.
His axe swinging lazily at his side.
Then...
Everything froze with the horrified scream that Hextra let out.
"ETERNITY! GRANT ME MERCY!"
Chase froze.
Equan's eyes widened from his unmoving position on the ground.
Rakshaa shook his head, finally coming back to his senses as he glared dangerously at Hextra.
"Vile witch..." He muttered, stepping towards her with killing intent.
However...
When a gate opened before Hextra...
Chase was paralyzed...
This Elder God...
Was letting her escape.
"No!" Chase screamed.
He launched himself forward, pushing his body past its limits as he readied his axe.
But when a hand made of stars gripped his face...
He felt true fear...
A primal fear far worse than the divine had given him in the void.
A power beyond all powers...
"Wait!" Chase pleaded, thrashing around in the grip of Eternity.
"Relax boy... I cannot kill you." The words of distortion were full of anger... Vicious rage aimed towards Chase.
Then he launched him towards the wall. Time unraveling as he was there before he was launched.
His body broke apart, yet he was fine...
Sitting up as he realized that Hextra had been freed.
He couldn't even comprehend what had just happened.
The Elder God of time had shown Chase a glimpse of what he could have done...
And yet...
Chase was fine...
He groaned, as his flames began to die out.
"You..." A terribly ancient voice spoke with rage from above...
A crimson troll... With crimson eyes... Glaring down at him with the intelligence of a human being... Or beyond that...
Chase looked down at the heavy axe still within his hands...
It had become a Lumen...
Thanks to Luna, the axe was now bonded with his soul.
But that enraged Rakshaa.
"How did you claim Apocalypse from me...?" The troll asked, baring its fangs as its brutish and unbreakable figure looked down at Chase with rage.
Then...
Hans's broken gauntlet crashed into the skull of Rakshaa with tremendous force.
The troll grunted with a recoil, and turned his gaze viciously towards Hans's broken figure.
"We need to leave..." The Panda muttered, breathing heavily beneath all of his wounds.
Then...
Jacob let the shackles loose as the sun crept up from the horizon.
Ivy fed him the energy needed to sustain his body as he launched forward at a speed beyond all speeds.
Each floor of Olympia sped past, flashing like visions as he felt his legs begin to break beneath him from just the force of one step.
First he grabbed Gideon by the collar, then he grabbed Kaylynn and sped towards the surface.
He ran across the lake surrounding Olympia, turning at a wide angle and speeding back down.
He grabbed Equan and Luke this time, speeding back towards the surface.
Chase realized that his friends were slowly vanishing.
So he said aloud.
"Screw it."
He attacked Rakshaa.
His axe lashed out, crashing into the stone torso of the monster beyond possibility.
Rakshaa grimaced as his stomach caved in.
But he moved before Chase could even see it.
Next thing he knew he was launched across the room, crashing and rolling as he skidded across the ground violently.
Hans let loose a violent attack, punching and kicking with all of the energy left in his body.
The troll only spat as Hans began to slow down, unable to keep up the attack.
"Too weak..." He muttered, grabbing Hans by the throat.
Then Leo slid in, kicking the knee of the troll and knocking him into a kneeling position.
He formed a fleshy blade once more at the tip of his elbow, and lashed out against the troll.
"You fought honorably... But you are not strong enough Leo..." Rakshaa backhanded Leo, sending him flying.
Rakshaa closed his grip around Hans's throat, squeezing the life out of him.
But then something impossible happened.
A gateway opened up behind Rakshaa... A scape full of what could have only been hell behind the impossible door.
Chase flew out at an insane speed, his axe crashing against the top of the troll's antlers-severing the crown of them as his body landed with a slide.
Then...
He formed another disc in his hand...
It was crimson... with a window-like vortex in its center...
It was the benefit of his second seal...
A gateway into the underworld...
He flashed a smile.
Placing the disc beneath him and letting his body fall in.
His body began to burn as he fell through the underworld...
It was a horrifying sight... That could easily kill him just from the sight.
So he shut his eyes, forming another disc and throwing it forward.
His eyes snapped open the second the heat vanished.
And he descended from the ceiling, lifting his axe as he prepared for a fatal attack on Rakshaa... However...
"Enough."
Chase was grabbed out of the air, and now being strangled easily by the troll.
He locked eyes with Hans.
Then he was standing in a small forest near Olympia... With Panda sitting down at his side... Along with all of his allies, lying broken and heavily wounded nearby.
Jacob grimaced.
He then fell over, his legs completely mangled and bruised with horrible pain.
He then threw up all over himself.
"Never doing that again..." He muttered, clutching at his broken legs.
"That's everyone right?" Luke did a headcount, leaning against a tree as he slowly nodded.
"Where is Reinhart?" Leo asked, gripping at his mangled arm.
"And Skylar...?" Hans muttered, leaning back as he could only pass out.
Chase's expression darkened...
As they had escaped Olympia... But not at the heavy cost of something far beyond them...