Argos: Sky, take care of her for me.

He carried Alepou and put her next to Skylos, as he left her, he healed her as well.

Skylos: Good to see you again, dude.

Argos: Okami, back off, you'll get caught in the crossfire.

Okami: I'll be just fine.

Argos: Don't blame me if you get hurt. Volk, there's no point in waiting anymore, use your Telum.

Volk: Right.

Clouds started gathering in the sky, and it started getting darker. The lightning running through the clouds was lighting up the place. Thor threw his hammer at Argos who dodged under it and pulled out his Telum.

Inu, who was already outside as well summoned his Telum and tried grabbing the hammer from the ground to try and hit Thor with it but couldn't. Volk looked back at Inu who was trying his best.

Volk: Inu, there's no time!

Thor gathered lightning as thunder roared throughout the sky. The clouds flashing constantly from the energy he was pulling into the palm of his hands, his eyes lit up and the energy he gained ran through his body.

Thor: Now! Let's see if this will knock some sense into you.

He aimed his hands towards Volk and started letting out bursts of electricity at him. Volk stood still taking all the electricity in. Argos looked at him confused about why he's not moving.

Once Thor stopped, he called his hammer back to him. Argos went and rushed at Thor, he went in for a hit with his axe, Thor moved back and dodged it.

He went to hit Argos with the hammer, but they clashed weapons. From behind Thor, Aster appeared and went in for a hit with his claymore. To avoid the hit, Thor turned into electricity and moved away from them, Argos ducked under Aster's blade.

The two looked over at Thor who was gonna throw his hammer at Aster. Out of nowhere, Volk appeared in front of them, he opened his mouth which let out smoke, a hint of electricity could be seen in his eyes. Thor threw the hammer forward and Volk put his hand forward and grabbed it mid-air. Inu, Aster, and Argos looked surprised.

Inu: Oh, but he can grab it!

Volk looked back at Inu and smiled.

Volk: Now, is that all the mighty Thor has to throw at us?

Thor snapped his fingers and lightning started hitting the hammer and running through Volk's body.

Volk: Tis' but a flesh wound.

Thor: WHAT?

Volk grinned and smoke came out of his mouth once again.

Volk: So...How ya like me now sparky?

Behind everyone else, Okami was asking for Inu to give him the gauntlets. Inu summoned them and passed them over to him.

Inu: Be careful though...you're not as resistant as us even with my Telum.

Okami: It's fine, I can handle myself.

Okami ran over to help the rest of the team.

Thor: Alright, then...Hildur, they're all yours! I swear, just when it was getting fun.

Thor retreated up to the sky and someone else came down from behind him. She pulled out a scythe from thin air.

Hildur: So you're the children of Accalia that our lady wants.

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"Accalia?" said Lykos in Argos' head.

Argos: It doesn't matter who he mentions now Ly, just shut up and let me finish.

Okami: What the hell are you talking about?

Hildur: Once I take you in you'll know.

She snapped her fingers and a dragon appeared from behind her.

Aster: What the hell?

Volk: I thought dragons had gone extinct!

Argos: No, they did. This dragon was partially revived, if that's the actual Hildur then she has the power to bring things back to life.

Okami: You know who she is?

Argos: She's a Valkyrie, of course I know, Volk should too.

Volk: Totally...

The dragon roared and began to breathe fire down on them, they moved back rapidly avoiding the fire. Meanwhile, Hildur herself had moved past them and went over to the people in the back.

Okami: Hey! Your fight is over here.

He stretched his arm and went to hit her, she deflected the punch with her scythe and prepared to attack the people in the back. Okami went in for another punch, but it was too late, she had started swinging towards Inu.

Out of nowhere, Kitsune ran in the way and pushed Inu out of the attack, she tried moving out of the way. She fell to the floor in pain, Hildur looked at her and kicked her in the stomach to move her out of the way. Kitsune's arm now served, on the ground.

Hildur: If you are eliminated then your friend over there loses the Telum.

Argos, Aster, and Volk were distracted trying to take the dragon down, Okami stretched his arms out and tried to barrage Hildur with punches. She deflected the hits by swinging around her scythe and immediately cut Okami's hands off.

Okami fell back, unable to do anything. Meanwhile, Volk was holding the dragon's head by himself while Aster ran his blade through its back and Argos cut its legs off. Skylos took notice of everything that was happening but couldn't leave Alepou's side.

Hildur looked over at Inu again and swung her scythe through Inu's torso. The dragon let out a final roar as Aster and Argos ran their blades through its neck.

Argos took notice of what was happening behind him, he went and healed Okami's hands. Okami looked over at Kitsune and Inu, he stood up ignoring the pain that still lingered. His eyes went a bright red and a light filled his hand. His hair turned a bit brighter as well.

Okami: You monster!

He put his foot forward, his breathing got heavier.

Okami: You took him! NOW I'M MAD. I'M REALLY, REALLY MAD!

The light in his hand began to shine brighter. Soon after, it turned into a red scythe with a black outline. He ran towards Hildur and clashed weapons with her.

Argos: Aster, Volk, take care of Kitsune. I'll help Okami take her down.

"You could've helped him." yelled out Lykos.

Argos: I had to take care of the dragon.

Argos rushed Hildur with the axe while Okami kept swinging at her relentlessly. Hildur swung at Okami when she saw the chance but Okami stretched his legs up and his arms out, so he could have a wider area of attack.

Argos slid under Hildur and cut her leg with his axe, she was beginning to fall but opened up her wings and started shooting feathers at them both. She flew up a bit and kept shooting feathers, this time she aimed for everyone.

Volk threw his shield over to Skylos to help him protect himself while Aster cut down any feathers that approached them. Okami stretched up to her and kept on trying to hit her.

Argos: Volk, throw me up there.

Volk went over and grabbed him up, he grabbed some momentum and threw Argos towards Hildur in the sky. Hildur revitalized some harpy and sent them towards Argos, he took them down one by one using the momentum from Volk's throw.

He aimed for Hildur and threw his axe towards her, she got caught off guard due to Okami's attacks and the axe hit her back rendering her wings useless.

She fell down to the floor, Okami shortened, and started walking over to her, he had a red aura around him. He was ready to destroy anything in his path, he grabbed his scythe tightly and cut her in half down through her body.

Her body disappeared, and she left two orbs on the floor. A spirit appeared where her body was and flew away quickly. Okami quickly looked back as he dropped the scythe entirely, he sprinted towards Kitsune and slid over next to her. Argos fell back on the ground.

Argos: I can't keep up like this...

Argos grabbed his head and his hair changed to brown, his beanie and hoodie changed as well. Lykos stood up, ignoring how tired his body was, and ran over to Kitsune and tried healing her arm.

He couldn't fix the whole arm, he only managed to stop the bleeding. Sobaka finally left the house he was in. Okami grabbed Kitsune and took her to the house they were in.

Lykos: Aster, please go with him.

Volk: Where the fuck were you the entire time?!

Sobaka: I fell asleep again.

Volk: YOU FUCKING MORON! YOU COULD'VE HELPED US!

Sobaka: Relax, everything is fine....right?