Ashe and Liam were making progress on Lust. Once they got close enough, he began trying to rapidly fire arrows, but blood walls were an easy counter with how much blood was already shed on the battlefield.
The two worked quite well together, and they slowly picked away at Lust.
"These stupid little brats." Lust muttered. He finally started trying to use his demonic art, but it had no effect on the Ashwood twins.
"Why can't I charm them?!" Lust yelled in anger.
"You do realize we're original vampires right? That's like us trying to charm you, which is why we haven't tried, you big dumb ugly idiot." Ashe taunted.
"I am quite beautiful, you know you want some of this," Lust said as he shook his butt. For a demon, he was quite handsome, but it just made the twins laugh.
"You're damn right we want a piece," Liam said as he used his brother's back as a launching pad to swing his sword, cutting off Lust's right arm.
"Shouldn't be so cocky, dumbass." Liam muttered. Lust managed to fire an arrow with one hand into Liam, when he turned his back. Ashe was quick to teleport to block the dagger coming for his brother's throat. He kicked Lust, who teleported back to Azazel.
Azazel rolled his eyes and healed Lust's arm.
"Please tell me at least Sora did this to you." Azazel said, clearly annoyed.
"Nope, the Ashwood twins. Such an unfair matchup. I can't charm those men," Lust said with a frown. "Sorry Master, but the Titans are causing lots of havoc! I'm afraid Gluttony will probably be back soon as well. Sora probably could have fought all three of us at once. His wife is also a pain."
"I'm glad to hear the titans are causing havoc, thank you Lust. You may rest." Azazel said calmly.
"Why are you so calm? Aren't you angry they're losing?" the goddess Helen asked sternly.
"I'm gauging the strength of their party. General Getz got the typical failure's treatment after he couldn't retrieve his own damn child from Sorbella. These are battles where we test our enemies' strength. Like I said before, we have thousands of titans. They need to think these are the strong titans when really they're the weaker of the lot. My only worry is Bishop will catch on," Azazel said as he twirled his black hair.
"I trust you, my love." Helen said with a kiss and she faded away into the darkness.
*****
With the other two sins down, Sora didn't wait long before thinking, 'Eye of Chronos.'
The titans tripped over more werewolves, but one trampled Solstice, one of the Blackmore children and another titan grabbed and ate Xepher, one of the Grimwalds.
'FUCK. Why didn't I think to protect them? FUCK.' Sora began crying.
Sora swung his swords at Gluttony's neck but couldn't maintain his mental fortitude and time unfroze.
Gluttony stepped back, just in time, and teleported to Azazel with a laugh.
"Brat stopped time again but he can't stop the titans! Surely he lost people of value because he lost his concentration and cried like a friggin' baby. Otherwise, I'd be a goner!" Gluttony said with confidence.
"Excellent." Azazel said with a smile.
Dorian saw the dead vampire and instantly teleported to Sora.
"Don't lose focus. We came here willing to die. It's not your fau–"
"Of course it's my fucking fault! Now there's blood on my hands because I was negligent. Don't tell me everything's going to be just fine. I just killed two people." Sora screamed with silver tears dropping from his face.
Brie also quickly teleported to him and just hugged him and began wiping the tears away.
"Sora, please. Listen to Dorian." Brie pleaded.
Valen and Corvina Grimwald and Eyrx and Eve Blackmore teleported to Sora as they realized they both lost one of their children.
"Solstice was 2100 years old and lived a long and healthy life. She wouldn't have come if she wasn't willing to lose her life. It's not your fault Sora," Eve Blackmore said while rubbing Sora's sweaty blonde hair.
"Xepher was 2000 years old and despite having two children and a beautiful wife, he's resting with his youngest child who died at birth in Paradise right now. Please, Sora, do not dwell on this. We cannot afford to have you lose control," Valen Grimwald said while patting Sora on the shoulder.
"Do you see the bigger picture Sora? Did you really think every life lost today would be from the enemy side? If you did, that's not the intelligent, level-headed man I know." Dorian said with a kind smile.
"I'm not that naive, I just didn't think I'd be the reason." Sora said as he finally started to calm down. "Thank you all for being so kind and noble. I'm terribly sorry for your losses."
"Which is why everyone loves you, including me. So please, Sora, look at me," Brie pleaded.
Brie smiled as Sora looked at her with the same, loving chin turn and eye glow he always did.
"See, that's the way you always look at me, every time. We've done really well. Look at what Bishop is doing out there! He's here because of YOU. We're all here because of YOU." Brie said as she gave him a kiss.
"Ok, ok. Thank you all, seriously. Let's give Bishop a hand. There's still a ton of titans. The least we can do is clear the demons and werewolves. With Brie, I can hold time for three minutes, but I need everyone to group up away from the titans. How can I get everyone together, though?" Sora asked.
"Me silly," Celeste said telepathically.
"Attention all allies. Please retreat to the forestline away from the titans. Sora is going to use his eye skill so that he and Brie can use those precious 3 minutes to kill as many demons and werewolves as they can!" Celeste spoke to the entire alliance on the battlefield.
They all did as she said, aside from Sora or Brie.
"Ready babe?" Brie said with a wide smile.
"Yes, just watch out for the titans! I can't freeze them." Sora said confidently.
"EYE OF CHRONOS!" Sora yelled angrily. To his surprise, the titans froze this time.
"Holy shit. We might not have 3 minutes but LET'S GO!" he said as they teleported off, slashing the necks of at least 2000 werewolves and 2000 demons each.
"Sora! Release it! Your eye!" Brie said.
"Release, thanks Babe. It burns like hell. Can you heal me?" he asked politely as blood dripped from his amethyst eye.
"Of course, let's retreat to where the others are and hand out some potions and blood bags." Brie said energetically.
As they returned to their allies, Brie used her elven healing magic to heal Sora's right eye.
"Did you manage to stop the titans that time?!" Bishop asked in wonder, as he watched two titans' heads fall to the ground.
"Yes, he did, but we only had a minute." Brie said enthusiastically.
"Sometimes that's all you need when you're married, am I right?" Levi joked.
Everyone burst out in laughter. It was the relief Sora needed.