Whilst Aerrow and Entei had been facing off, Ace had managed to find a gap in the spikes big enough to climb through.
"Aerrow I'm coming!" He called as he began getting a grip on the spikes either side of the gap as Aerrow dared to break eye contact with Entei and ran up to the spike to help him. But as Ace was just about to climb through another, much more deliberate spike closed the gap up, blocking Ace from getting through.
"Ace!" Aerrow called in concern as he bashed against the crystal.
"Leave him and Molly here and leave this place" Entei warned walking up to face Aerrow, who clutched a fit in anger as he turn to face the creature.
"I won't do that Entei, he's my uncle and Molly needs to leave these illusions" He said back as calmly as he could.
"They are staying here" Entei replied, taking a step forward in showing it was deadly serious. "Now leave this place or you will be made to leave" It growled.
"I'd like to see you try" Aerrow replied determinedly, drawing his blades and igniting them. "I've face worse than you" He warned as he took a fighting stance.
"You think you can defeat me?" Entei questioned.
"I'm not going to lose to some illusion" Aerrow answered before sending an energy wave right at Entei. But the creature saw it coming and swiftly jumped to the side.
"You fool see if this is an illusion!" It shouted back as it took a deep breath as a ball of light purple energy formed and shot out of it's mouth and straight at Aerrow, quickly followed by two more in rapid succession. The third blast just clipped Aerrow which was enough to pushing him back and send him sliding across the smooth crystal floor. Quickly recovering, however, he countered with another blast, this one a continuous line of energy from his blades that he could use to push Entei back without close contact. The problem was that Entei also had moves of it's own a it countered with a similar attack. The two blasts met each other in the middle as a power struggle began. Aerrow could feel his feet sliding back with the force before the lock suddenly broke.
"Your strong" Aerrow muttered to Entei as recovered and regained his stance.
"Now have I proven I am real?" Entei questioned.
"Your still just an illusion created by the Unknown through Molly's imagination" Aerrow replied back.
"Your wrong Aerrow, your wrong" Molly stared quietly from where she was stood quietly as a few tears trickled down her cheeks, a few more spikes rising out of the ground as a result whilst a cold wind suddenly kicked up, causing Aerrow to momentarily shelter his head with his arms as he got use to it.
The cold wind had quickly turned into even colder snow which blew about furiously as far below the Unknown were becoming more and more restless as the large ball of red energy in the centre of them became bigger by the moment whilst outside more and more crystal was being added to the structure.
"I am not illusion!" Entei suddenly roared as it smashed a paw down onto the crystal floor, sending shards flying upwards. "I am this girl's father and I must protect her!" It shouted with a slight look to Molly, who was a short distance away just on the other side of the spikes, using one of the spikes as shelter as she watched. Suddenly Entei leapt at Aerrow, who sent another blast as he leapt out of the way and used the spikes as shields as Entei sent blasts after him. As Aerrow ran between the spikes, weaving and dodging as he tried to counter, Ace watched desperately as he ran from spike to spike, looking for gaps to climb through. Soon he found one, frustratingly still too small, close to Molly.
"Molly only you can stop this, think about your real father!" Ace tried to instruct a terrified Molly, who just shook her head in denial. Across the room one of Aerrow's counter attacks hit Entei's blast which caused a large rebound force at either side, causing a shower of crystal shards to rain down and a large hole in the side of the wall, forcing Aerrow to dive for cover before looking back up to face Entei. Though both had been fighting for some time, neither looked as if they were going to give in, though Aerrow looked much more worn as Entei sent another blast at him which he could only roll away from before managing to get back up onto his feet and shelter behind a spike, hiding him from view, as a moment of ceasefire occurred. But the relief was short-lived as Entei roared in anger.
"You have had enough chances!" It bellowed, sounding furious at Aerrow's persistence, as it looked around for him.
"I'm not going anywhere without them Entei" Aerrow called out, pressing his back against the spike in order to remain hidden as he brought up his arm and pressed a button on his wristwatch. Across the Terra, at the inn overlooking the town, the quiet and dark night was broken by the rumbling of an engine before a pair of headlights lit up as one of the skimmers lined up by the inn sudden sped off across the grass before launching into the sky towards the mansion. In Molly's bedroom, Aerrow knew he didn't have much time left as Entei had started to randomly fire blasts at spikes it thought he was hiding behind and was getting very close. Making the decision to move Aerrow broke cover in the hope of circling around to where he'd seen last seen Ace, which was also quite close to the stairs leading out of the mansion. But has he ran out he saw that Entei was ready for him as it launched a blast at him which slammed into Aerrow and sent him crashing to the ground and sliding across it. By bad luck Aerrow saw he was heading straight for the large hole in the wall, which had been made in the earlier explosion, and tried to slow himself down by slamming his blades into the ground, creating a trail of sparks from the friction. But it wasn't enough, he was travelling too fast, he was going to slide through it and fall out of the mansion and down the sheer drop below and he hadn't brought his gilder.