Ezekiel
Left.
Right.
Straight.
Diagonal.
The bullet bounced like wildfire, soaring towards the heavens. As it did, the chains it evaded all this time coalesced, following him relentlessly. No, calling them chains would be a disservice at this point and calling him a mere burning bullet would be like spitting at the void. It was as if the night was trying to swallow a star from all sides. Bloody and dressed in wounds, his world upside down, the boy had pushed his luck and was about to be swallowed by the sea of chains. His limbs snapped back gruesomely by his bind's pull. "Damn."
He had nowhere left to run.
Her sword was to pierce his back cleanly.
And so the nightmare begins.
Yang
He waited for the lass to get back up, if only so he could kick her back down the curb again. But before he could, he heard something that made his spine chill and his face flush.
"H-huh!?"
Wait, no, no way! He must have heard it wrong! Haha, well, he was a healthy young man, in the heat of battle, of course, he'd imagine things like that! H-hey, why was she staring at him like that? Wait, no, this isn't what this meant right? He wouldn't be able to get married if she kept looking at him like that! Oh no! Nope nope nope!
If she hadn't taunted him, he'd probably had never snapped out of it. A blink later, and he snapped back to reality. Despite being invisible, his eye glowed with fiery retribution. Invisible, he struck first with a lunging strike!
Right past Nanako. Her hair just fluttered behind his movements. The crash behind her and the explosion was the one tell of his advance. However!
"This is much better, eh?" He flexed in the middle of the ruined car, ripened and burst open by his strong hands. No, the motor had been totaled, and the oil was pouring all over... all over him! The madman was using the oil in order to mark his presence! She could see him now, even despite the invisibility, because the motor oil was revealing his body! At the same time, the sky burst in a horrific black explosion of tendrils that washed away the stars.
Wait, did I do that?
WAIT WHAT!? He glanced behind him for but a second, a moment of distraction!
Ezekiel
She was rushing towards him. He could feel it. So before she could slash him... the abyss glanced back.
It wasn't that it was too fast. It was all a matter of timing. As she felt her weapons connect with something, a living horde of beasts crawled out- no, erupted out of the nether! And these countless creatures sundered the chains, gnashed at the magic, and rushed to shatter her energy, her body, her very spirit. To devour it all for their own. The call of the old world would have its answer.
A small glance, if she could afford it, would reveal Zeke's body, falling like a ragdoll... It was torn from the ligaments down, his arms and legs flailing like a bird's shattered wings. Her slashes had cleaved down to the shoulder and arm, but his heart was untouched. Faster and faster, he'd reach the ground and splatter spectacularly.
The bird would break its own bones instead of suffering its cage.
And the void in its heart was not an absence of a will. She could feel it now. The desire inside him. He wouldn't stop until he had everything, forever plundering until he was satisfied. He just looked up to where Aruna once was as he fell, with the same empty stare and emotionless smile. But there fire was rising.
