Spectral soldiers of black and white swarmed around Charles. Charles plunged all-black into the ground, causing all 4 of its variations to appear in a circle around him.
The soldiers all rushed at Charles. Charles grabbed his ax, which was in front of him. Charles swung in front of him, cleaving the first row of soldiers in half.
He reached behind him and grabbed his spear. He thrust it to his right, skewering another row of soldiers, before throwing it into the air. He grabbed the sword variation of all-black and extended the blade, swinging it around him.
He sliced through a large number of the soldiers before throwing the sword into the air as well. Charles grabbed his bow and jumped into the air.
The three weapons already hovering there fused into one perfect fusion of ax, spear, and sword. Charles took the weapon and loaded it into his bow.
Charles aimed at the center of all the soldiers. The bow and makeshift arrow glowed white for a split second until Charles let the arrow fly.
The arrow impacted the ground, vaporizing the soldiers and leaving only Benjamin and Velena standing there.
Velena rushed at Charles, ax in hand, as Charles landed back on the ground. Charles didn't hesitate and swept his foot along the ground, sending a rippling wave of dirt at Velena.
Velena simply jumped over the wave and continued running at Charles. Velena raised his ax and swung it down, trying to cleave Charles in two.
Charles used the dirt to create a shield. Velena's ax fell upon the dirt shield with a sickening crunch.
Charles slammed his hand into the ground and used the dirt to form an ax. He swung this at Velena, whose ax was still buried in the dirt. The ax hit Velena in the side and knocked him back.
Benjamin appeared right behind Charles. Charles turned and morphed the ax into a spear. He rapidly thrust the spear at Benjamin multiple times, interrupting his attack. Charles pointed at his hands behind him and closed his fist. "Sand Coffin!!!" he yelled.
The dirt that was kicked up from the ax hit swarmed around Velena and encased him in a tomb of dirt. Charles whipped his fist back at Benjamin, causing the coffin, with Velena inside, to fling itself at Benjamin.
Benjamin sheathed his sword and caught the coffins. Charles tried to take the opportunity to encase Benjamin's hands in the dirt too, but Velena shattered the coffin at that exact moment.
Velena raised her hand, and her ax came flying towards her. Charles moved to the side to avoid getting hit but was caught by Benjamin who had already begun to run at Charles.
"Cross-slash!" Benjamin yelled. Charles was unable to block any of the five attacks resulting in him getting black lacerations all over his torso.
These lacerations immediately began to cause the rest of his body to flake off into black ash. Charles winced in pain as his body began to disintegrate in front of his eyes.
Charles fell to his knees as the last of his white aura disappeared. "Something's not right," Benjamin muttered.
How could Charles have already lost his energy? He was at full chi, Benjamin thought quietly. A glance at Velena told her that he was thinking the same thing.
As if he'd jinxed it, the ground began to rumble and shake. The ground cracked and fractured, spewing white energy into the air. Velena and Benjamin jumped away from the asteroid as a crack opened beneath Charles, swallowing him up.
The two landed on an asteroid, not too far away from the last one. The asteroid finally exploded in a brilliant wave of white light. When the light dimmed, it revealed a monster. The monster was black but glowed with a white radiance.
Benjamin and Velena watched in horror as the monster unfolded its wings and roared. It turned its head towards the two and opened its mouth. "What do we do?" Velena screeched. Benjamin was at a loss for words.
He finally opened his mouth and yelled, "Run!!!" The monster blew white fire from its mouth just as the two jumped away from the asteroid. "Kai!!!" Benjamin yelled while he was flying. Nothing happened. Benjamin looked thoroughly confused.
The shadow didn't even show the slightest sign of showing. "Who's that?" Velena asked, looking over at Benjamin. "It's nothing," he replied. Benjamin had no idea why Kai hadn't come out.
The monster let out a fearsome roar and began to fly after the duo. Velena raised his hands and summoned his monster, though it was considerably smaller than their pursuer.
The monster unfolded its wings and, with Benjamin and Velena on its back, took off. Benjamin looked back at the monster. When he looked closer, he noticed someone riding its back. It was Charles.
Charles was grinning eagerly as his monster chased them down. Benjamin's observations revealed a second horrifying fact.
It was gaining on them. While Velena's monster had to weave between asteroids, Charles could just smash through them without sustaining any damage or loss of speed.
"We need to do something or it's going to catch us," Velena said, drawing Benjamin's attention. Benjamin saw that the monster was opening its mouth, preparing to fire on them once more.
Suddenly, he got an idea. Benjamin raised his sword in the air and called upon all of his shadows to enchant the blade. Shadows jumped out at the blade from all directions. The monster began to charge a beam of bright white energy.
"C'mon," Benjamin said urgently. "Hurry Benjo," Velena said, now looking back at the monster. A beam of brilliant white energy fired from the monster's mouth, straight toward the two.
"Got it," Benjamin exclaimed. His blade looked like it was surrounded by fire, with several runic symbols on the blade glowing black.
"Reaping slash!" he yelled. He swung his blade downwards, sending a massive wave of black energy toward the monster. The beam and the wave collided.
The wave of black energy split the beam down the middle, sparing Benjamin and Velena to blow.
The wave kept going until it connected with Charles and the monster. A massive contact generated a massive explosion of black energy.
Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the monster's back. Out of the explosion of energy, a beam of white light fired and hit Benjamin and Velena directly.
The two and the monster they were riding on were blasted away through several asteroids before coming to a stop. Benjamin was the first to wake.
He looked over to see Velena still lying unconscious. Benjamin reached over to him and shook him. Velena opened his eyes and slowly sat up. "What happened?" he asked. " I think we got shot," Benjamin replied.
At that moment, Charles's monster reached them. It folded its wings in and hovered in front of them. Charles spoke to them from the top of the monster's head.
He stood between two horns. The monster had no eyes and spiked teeth with no nose. "I hope you like my new friend," Charles said, mockingly.