As Lucina fended off the knight's onslaught, she felt a weight bounce off her backside and chanced a look at the cause of it before parrying another swing from the enemy's mace.

"What are you doing out here, helmsman?" she grunted as she swept her battleaxe in a wide horizontal arc, forcing the knight back.

"Th-the enemy has control of the ship!" the helsman replied, his eyes flickering nervously between the two combatants. "I tried to stop him, but-"

"Enough. Go and find reinforcements, I will deal with this."

"Just you try, invader!" the knight retorted as he charged once again.

With a roar, Lucina met the attack with equal ferocity and launched into a blitz of her own. The resulting struggle was fierce yet brief as she rained down an avalanche of blows with ki enhanced strength and though the knight fought valiantly, he could do nothing but parry in vain as a final devastating strike shattered through his mace and armour, chopping into the ribs from the collarbone down.

Pulling her axe free, Lucina stood with grim satisfaction as the knight fell away coughing blood and breathing his last. Now it was Tyrhallan's turn, but as the Vaimese captain turned towards the wheelhouse she was surprised to see the helmsman still standing around, his mouth agape in horror while staring off towards the bow of the frigate.

"I thought I gave you an... order," Lucina began, trailing off as soon as she saw what the helmsman was seeing. She had not noticed it during the fight, but the airship was turning steeply to the side and seconds away from colliding with another frigate.

With a choking laughter almost entirely drowned out by blood, the fallen knight managed to utter in between gurgling coughs, "You're... too... late."

And as he laughed the rest of his life away, Lucina erupted in an explosion of rage while screaming towards the sky, "TYRHALLAN!"

Then the world became empty madness as the collision sent her flying through the air, her limbs flailing in a last ditch effort to save herself.