The obsidian plain was a wound in reality—jagged, bleeding void. The indigo moon hung inverted, its hollow core weeping black rain that devoured light. Every droplet that struck the ground erased a fragment of existence: a scar here, a memory there. The air screamed with absence.
Tyrone's voice was a gravel whisper, scythe trembling in his grip.
"Felicia. Kamaki. You two ready?"
His eyes—violet slits in a mask of blood—flicked to the emptiness where Lihanna had vanished. "Our chances just plummeted without her. This isn't gonna be easy."
Felicia's phoenix wings flickered, blue flames guttering against the abyss. "Yeah? Have faith, Tyrone. Quit dumping it all on Lihanna. It's us now. Against a Nullity being. That's why we win."
Kamaki nodded, fangs bared in a bloody grin. Crimson flames licked his fists. "She's right. We pull through. Somehow."
Tyrone leaped.
"ROCK ON, TEAM!"
Shadow-fire exploded from his scythe—a black comet streaking across the void. Felicia soared beside him, wings spreading in a blaze of rebirth, pale blue inferno turning the rain to steam. Kamaki charged below, fists igniting—DRAGON PUNCH. Flames shaped like ancient wyrms roared toward Vanessa, jaws of fire snapping at her heels.
She walked.
Spear spinning—lazy, lethal. Dragon flames shattered against the blur, scattering into harmless embers that winked out mid-air.
"Attacking from opposites, huh?" Her voice was silk over razors. "Cute."
A wild slash.
The spear's arc tore reality. A shockwave of abyssal force hurled them back—Tyrone tumbling through shadow, Felicia's wings clipping, flames snuffing.
But Kamaki adapted.
Vampire speed—blur. He slipped the blast, hand reaching for the ribbon fluttering at her waist.
"GOTCHA—"
Her foot rose.
CRUNCH.
Boot to spine—Kamaki slammed into the obsidian, cratering deep. She pinned him, heel grinding like the weight of forgotten worlds.
"Shit," Kamaki gasped, blood bubbling. "So close… If I was faster—"
Vanessa's smile was almost proud. "You almost outsmarted me. Be proud."
She kicked.
Kamaki tumbled—through rubble that wasn't there a second ago, bones creaking, regeneration stuttering. Black veins crawled his skin, abyssal essence sealing wounds that refused to heal.
"KAMAKI!!" Felicia screamed.
He coughed blood, grinning through crimson teeth. "I'm fine. She… stopped my regen. But don't worry about me."
Felicia's eyes widened—true fear. "Stop regeneration? What else can she—Kazimir unmasked must be a god if Vanessa—"
Vanessa appeared.
In front of Felicia—instant. Purple eyes abyssal wells.
Her hand reached.
Felicia's instincts flared. INFERNO BLAST—pale blue flames erupting point-blank, a phoenix's roar.
Vanessa caught it.
Fingers crushing the fire like paper. Flames died in her palm—erased.
She pointed.
Gravitational horror.
One second—face-to-face.
The next—BLAST.
Felicia hurtled downward. The plain collapsed—fractured reality shattering like glass under a god's hammer. Obsidian liquefied, then vanished. Tyrone and Kamaki followed, yanked into the fall.
They plummeted.
Through outer dimensions—stars streaking, voids yawning. The hollow moon loomed beside them, its core a screaming maw.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS PLACE?!" Kamaki bellowed.
Tyrone's shadow-fire flared, slowing the descent. "We're falling through dimensions! LOOK UP—SHE'S RIGHT ABOVE US!"
Vanessa hovered at the rift's edge, spear casual on her shoulder.
Kamaki's eyes bulged. "NANI?!"
Far below—or above; direction was lies here—the void rippled.
Evelyn and Raijin fought the worms—lightning carving titanic flesh, thunder booming. But the abyss swallowed them whole.
Evelyn screamed, pistol firing wildly. "WHAT IS HAPPENING?! THIS POWER—"
Raijin's eyes widened, lightning coiling. "Don't know! Looks like space—but it saved us from the worms!"
A portalyawned.
They fell through.
THE INVERTED WORLD
They landed—hard.
But not on obsidian.
On sky-ocean.
Waves crashed above them, fish swimming in inverted seas. The ground was cracked earth, floating islands drifting lazy. Gravity whispered secrets.
Raijin and Evelyn—separated from the battle—crashed onto a distant isle. Peaceful. Eerie.
Raijin panted, lightning fading. "Don't know what this place is, Evelyn… but it's calm. For now."
Back in the abyss-fall:
Tyrone, Felicia, Kamaki crashed onto an inverted shore—waves raining upward, stars drowning below.
They rose—exhausted, armor cracked, blood steaming in the void-cold.
Felicia's wings flickered, half-formed.
Kamaki spat void-black blood.
Tyrone's crescent mark pulsed, shadow-fire defiant.
They stood.
Against the abyss.
Against her.
Vanessa descended—slow, inevitable. Spear tapping the air like a countdown.
"Impressive," she murmured. "You survive my dimensions."
Tyrone spun his scythe. "We're not done."
Felicia's flames roared back—brighter, fiercer.
Kamaki cracked his neck, regeneration fighting the seal. "Let's end this."
The inverted sea thundered.
The hollow moon watched.
And the three—broken, bleeding, unbreakable—charged into the null.
FADE ON their war-cries echoing through dimensions: a symphony of defiance against the end of all things.