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[h2][b]Zeruel[/b][/h2]
[@Lucius Cypher][@floodtalon][@The 42nd Gecko][/center]

As Zeruel and his task force began to descend deeper and deeper into the dungeon, they see several dark orbs gravitate towards them. The forces stopped momentarily as they witness the floating orbs issue a message from Helena herself. She offered the grand scheme of this entire war and what it's real intents are. Again, this meant nothing to the Laguna Grand Leader. His haughtiness and divine devotion to Heaven's cause was undying. After all, even if he did surrender and decide to seek that knowledge, he'll certainly loose his position as the Grand Leader. 

That's when the [s]drugs[/s] hallucinations kicked in. As the Laguna Angel was about to continue pushing forward, he suddenly catches a glimpse of himself hanging from the ceiling. However, this Zeruel was dead, his tendrils shredded and in tatters, and his whole body in mangled shreds, with slash marks and burnt marks, all while supported on several chains. Blue blood escaped from the wounds, his eyes dead black as they soullessly look out in a lacuna state. Yet the most disturbing thing he sees are the engravings on his body...

[b][color=ed1c24][u]DEATH TO ZERUEL[/u][/color][/b]

Another flash came to him as Zeruel witnesses an event that happened several hundred years ago, during the beginning of his regime. It was the day where rebel Laguna Characters recruited the help of several Machina units to overthrow the Grand Leader of the Hierarchy and replace him with a new one. They considered him unfit to rule, brutish, and incompetent, and they wanted someone with much more intelligence then him. When they attacked him in his throne room, Zeruel was quick to dispose of them all, brutally without mercy, and kept a tighter check on his Hierarchy and dawned his unquenchable hatred of man. 

But instead what he saw was an alternate outcome of that event. What if Zeruel failed to defend himself and was exterminated right there? What he saw was a brutal beatdown, the echoing cries of rage and fury, alongside the sickening cracks and squeals of his skin and inner organs being damaged. He was then hung on a cross as a trophy and to celebrate his death... and everyone cheered at it. They must've hated Zeruel with a passion. And in the Angel of Might's place came a new ruler to the throne. And that new ruler was...

It's at that moment when the Laguna Leader finally snapped out of his daze and vanquished the hallucination from his mind completely. They were already beginning to get stronger the farther they continue going down. He slowly turns to his soldiers, making sure that they weren't going crazy yet. It appeared to him that none of them had succumbed to them yet... until one of the Ramiels screamed in such a fury unlike anything Zeruel has seen before. The flying Angel attempted to lunge at him with a lightning bolt in his hand. But before he had anytime to get close to him, he finds his mid-section completely chopped in half as he falls to the ground with a thump. As his body begins to fizz away into smoke, Zeruel looks at the rest of his soldiers.

[b]"ANY OTHER TRAITORS THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED?"[/b] he asks them as his eyes flash once.

None of the soldiers said a single word. With that, the army continues to descend. Yet as they turn a corner, Zeruel realizes that the path took them towards a pier. At first, Zeruel seemed surprised at this, not expecting to encounter an ocean this deep into the dungeon, let alone visible land. Yet in the distance, he sees three figures standing around. Immediately he identifies them... two from Hell, they being Henry and Fran, and one from Heaven, Miyu. What were they doing out here just talking chantingly? Was Miyu being captured by the two Hell persons? Or was she defecting sides? Either way, whatever she was doing was oddly suspicious. The Laguna Leader's eyes shine once again as his tendrils began to flap violently in the air.

[b]"ATTACK."[/b] Zeruel booms menacingly towards his troops.

With that, the Michaels, Sachiels, and the Ramiels began to charge at the three, the latter of them firing their lightning bolts from afar. Some of them even supported the supporting Gaghiels and ordered them into the water, where they were at their most deadly. As the soldiers began charging into battle, Zeruel had one last thing to say.

[b]"BRING MIYU TO ME ALIVE. KILL THE OTHER TWO HEATHENS."[/b] 

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[h2][b][color=00aeef]Titanica[/color][/b][/h2]
[@KoL][@thewizardguy][@Lonewolf685][/center]

As the blistering blue plasma attempted to incinerate Khaine's blades, they would be halted by a barrier of golden energy that blocked her beam from utterly obliterating. Yet that didn't stop Titanica from trying to break through it. The barrier was rather strong for a non-vassal like herself, but regardless it won't survive the onslaught of her fire upon this magnitude. As she continues to fire upon it, she witnesses the two figures behind bars begin to retreat, with Diana escaping within the guts of the little girl's pet. Clearly the hellish warrior was trying to give them time to retreat by stalling Titanica's progress. The lizard-woman scowls disgustingly at their unwillingness to fight. Regardless, this only left her with Khaine himself, a 1 on 1 at that. She needs to beat this opponent within under thirty seconds before he can getaway, at least according to the girl. 

Challenge accepted.

Eventually, Titanica breaks through Diana's barrier and attempts to fire upon the barred wall and upon the fleeing characters. However before she gets that chance, she finds herself being wrapped around in coal-black chains as they encompass her arms and legs. She issues a guttural roar as she attempts to break free, followed by a roar of anguished fury. She attempts to look up, only to find Khaine rapidly descending upon her downwards from the air, with an arm of his having transformed into a lance and a curved shield protecting the user's face from any atomic blast she might blast from . Even before the hit, did he already attain Titanica's attention. She only had a quick moment to think on what to do, but regardless she quickly figured what to do. 

Considering the angle he was coming from, Titanica quickly executes her next move. Using her massive tail, she swiftly raises her tail and smacks it into the ground with enough force to issue a small crater from within the floor. The impact from her tail was so immense, she was able to break the shackles from her limbs as she leaps over the attack with surprising agility. His attack almost hit her, just dodging it by several inches, yet she was able to pull the maneuver off. Finally she was beginning to wake up. Her speed was beginning to come back to her.

As a counterattack, Titanica lands from her jump and almost immediately lunges towards Khaine's back with a powerful atomic punch, glowing in hot, burning-blue plasma. Yet instead of using a regular arm, her punching arm in fact turned into a large black reptilian hand, with scales like that of obsidian. Her attack alone considerably rivals, if not surpassing, the warrior's own attack by a heavy margin as a Vassal. If speed didn't cut it out for her, the strength most certain will. If it connected, the punch should send Khaine flying back, possibly crashing through a wall or two, and possibly cripple the warrior if it hits a more vulnerable part of his body.