Last time the shit hit the fan fast and by surprise when the troops arrived at the coast side of the isle, ready to take on the last Lycani general, Abyss Dweller. But things didn't go as smoothly as people would like. They were being attacked from behind as well by Falcon-type Lycani's who tried grabbing Snow, but Umbra pushed her to the side and he was taken instead.

General Anderson reacted at once to this attack and ordered the fire to be let loose, and thus, the fight for the Britannic Isle had begun. But with Umbra gone, a strong piece was taken from them.

"Umbra!" Snow called out to him as the falcons carried him to the water. Snarls and growls were heard coming from the wolf as he struggled to shake them off but to no avail. When he got one down, 2 take its place. They were just too many "We have to go help him!"

"We can't!" Sasha yelled out as she shot dome of the advancing Lycani. "They are coming in with all they got! We need all hands on deck to hold the line!"

"But Umbra-"

"Snow!" Her teacher shouted and looked at her. Sasha's cold glare making her understand the situation they were in.

"I...I understand." She took her weapons and pointed them at the Lycani forces, then repeatedly pressed the trigger towards them, shooting them down as they were coming.

"Keep the heat on them lads!" Anderson shouted as he was shooting the Lycani forces using modified scorpion assault rifles. His bullets like whips on them, and the smile on his face wide as he unleashed hell. "How's that turret coming along?"

"It's all done, sir!" The mechanical turret that marks the edge of the battlefield was all but ready. They had yet to activate it. "We only need the Vibros cell and we're ready to fire!"

"Well, what are you waiting for then? Get it!" Anderson shouted and the soldiers immediately obeyed his orders. They ran through the battlefield towards one of the cars in order to get a green cubic compartment made of glass with a handle on top and a glow in the center of it.

"Now to get this back to-GAH!" He didn't get the chance to deliver the capsule as a falcon-type dived down at him, attacking him with its beak and talons. "Get…off!" He managed to grab his gun and shoot it in the core, killing it. "Damn, that was-Oh shit!"

"EVERYONE! WATCH OUT!" Anderson shouted as a number of bull-type Lycani charged through the battlefield, sweeping right through the line and even taking a soldier in the forms and throwing him on the ground. But they were heading for the soldier with the Vibros capsule. "No, you don't!" But the general was quick to catch on.

The soldier averted his gaze as the bull came close to him, but then he found that the final strike didn't get delivered. He opened his eye to see the bull on the side, struggling to get up. "Oh, thank God, someone shot its leg." He said then began running.

"Nice one miss!" Snow said to her teacher and it was she who shot the bull's leg.

"Anderson's guns are good for large crowds, not precision. " She said. "Of course I have to cover that flank myself…" she sighed.

The soldier ran across with the Vibros capsule in hand to the turret then plunged it the designated place for it. "We're powered!" He shouted, then Anderson jumped behind the turret, pressing a few buttons.

"Let's see what the boys at the tech division were able to do this time." With a final flip of the switch, the turret began to rise and 2 mini-gun barrels started rotating on the sides. A digital sensor detecting all Lycani in the area. "Oh, fuck yeah." The turret began firing, hundred of Vibros rounds per minute raining down on the Lycani, and offering a clear view of a certain struggle.

"Umbra!" Snow shouted as she saw him being carried to the water by the falcons. He was struggling like hell, biting and scratching the birds around him. But they just kept coming. "We have to help him-"

"Snow! Look!" Leonna shouted and pointed in Umbra's direction. The falcons were…retreating? But why? And why right above the water- Oh God.

"Finally!" Umbra exclaimed as the last falcon flew away and he landed in the water below. He managed to swim to the surface, spitting out water as he tried to keep himself afloat. "Ugh. Someone is going to lose their head for getting my-"

"Umbra look out!!!" Snow's shout was too late to warn him as Abyss Dweller came from below him and bit Umbra, swallowing him whole completely before going back to the depths. "Um…bra?"

"Damn…" Leonna was shocked by what she saw; Umbra was eaten alive. But this had to wait…

"You 2!" A soldier shouted. "What are you doing? Stop lingering around and start fighting!"

"Y-yes!" Leonna replied, but Snow was still in shock, looking over the horizon. Just how badly is this affecting her? "Snow?"

"Is he gone?" Her eyes became black in color trying to reach him; visual, audio, anything to know he was alive. But for nothing. "No…no, no. We need him!" She dashed out towards the coast.

"What is she doing?!" Sasha shouted.

"Snow!" Leonna called out to her and ran after the white-haired girl, but she was fast, very fast. Strangely fast to that. "Damn…" Leonna slowed down as she saw Snow getting out of range. "Just where is that speed coming from?"

The Lycani were not stupid and began pulling back slowly as the turret was slaughtering their forces. They ran towards the sea and looked like they were running away as a part of them kept charging to distract the humans and offer cover. But there was something odd about it and Anderson could smell it.

"Does this thing shoot higher caliber rounds too?" He asked looking at the commands, but the soldier from the tech division smirked knowing the general will like the reply he's about to give.

"Yes, sir! The turret's ammo and guns can switch out for anti-tank ammunition and firing. Slower, but more powerful."

"Anti-tank you say? How about anti-earth?"

"Pardon me?" He didn't have the luxury of processing the question the general took his entire grenade belt, pulled a pin, and threw it in the middle of the barren battlefield. "What the-?"

A large explosion took place, sending a powerful shockwave in all directions, but right there, at that spot, the earth sank in and revealed what the general feared to be. "God fucking damn it, a tunnel!" He shouted as a number of Lycani began coming out of the ground, far more than the initial amount they saw on the surface.

"They must have been planning to use that tunnel to sneak past the line…" Sasha muttered in shock as she realized the enemy's plan. It wouldn't just be a hard blow, but a finishing one. Fighting on 2 sides simultaneously was just not possible with their current amount of resources. And now, they have reinforcements to deal with. "Everyone!" She shouted. "Conserve ammo and aim straight for their cores! Close-range fighters are to take the front line! Now!"

Everyone obeyed the order, except for Snow. She was still running towards the water in hopes of finding the wolf. But on her way she was met with her share of enemy forces trying to stop her. Strange though…each time one got close, she quickly reacted to it, no matter the chaos and confusion, she just managed to tell when one was after her and she shot them straight in the core. But it might have something to do with her eyes going Lycani-like right now, with only her iris not being black.

In the meantime, Leonna was doing her share on taking out Lycani. Her Vibros modified combat gloves allowed her to plunge her fist straight through them and into their cores. But that only with the slim soldiers. The bigger, sergeant class, proofed to be quite the challenge. Especially when she found herself face to face with a bear-type. "Oh shit…"

The Lycani got on his back legs and roared as it tried bringing his claw down on her, but Leonna managed to duck under it and slide between the legs of the bear. "Not this time, teddy! Last time you took me by surprise, but the same trick ain't gon' work twice!" She said as the bear tried turning around at her. But the black girl simply stood there with her gaze fixed on it.

"Come on!" She shouted and the bear tried to strike her again, only for it to have his upper side blow away by a bullet next. "What?"

"Oh, yeah!" The tech soldier exclaimed. "It works like a charm!" The turret's guns didn't change, it was the same one. But the bullets did. The middle of the mini-gun barrel was actually designated to shoot those anti-tank rounds. And it was working perfectly.

That didn't change how it took Leonna's moment, but it made up by revealing the core. She jumped up to it before the Lycani could regenerate, flipping forward with her right leg forward which she used to smash the exposed core before landing back down. "Well, I guess that works too."

Suddenly, Snow screamed from the middle of the battlefield. She had run in so deeply that stray bullets were a danger now; risking to get shot dead right where she stood. A bullet even got her shoulder and made her topple into the mud, then a falcon-type dived down to her, but she managed to get on her back and shoot it before it reached it. "Snow!" As soon as she saw her, Leonna ran to her friend.

Snow got up slowly from the mud, her shoulder bleeding a bit. But luckily, Leonna caught up to her and offered some help. "Leo?" Snow muttered as her friend picked her up.

"You really are a handful, you know that?" Leonna said as she was helping Snow walk back to the safe zone behind the storm of bullets. But the white-haired girl, once she saw the direction they were heading towards, shook off Leonna. "Snow? What's wrong?"

"We can't…I can't! I can't leave Umbra to die!" She said raising her voice. "I don't know why, but…I need him. I need his strength!"

"What the hell? Snow, are you even hearing yourself right now?" Leonna argued. "You were wary of him until recently, so why are you acting as if he's your-" Before she could finish the sentence they were attacked by the Lycani. Perhaps a battlefield in full battle is not a good spot for arguing. "Damn it!" She jumped back to dodged a bull-type's charge, but Snow took that chance to run for the coast again. "Snow!"

Leonna was calling out to her, but it was like she couldn't hear her anymore. All that mattered was the place where the earth and ocean met. But once she reached it, that was it.

"Umbra!" She shouted desperately for him, trying to get a reply. Abyss Dweller was quiet throughout the fight as well, but that didn't mean he was not there…unlike the other Lycani forces charging at Snow.

Multiple enemies tried to attack her, but a few bullets blew them right up. The turret had been pointed at them to provide cover, but it won't hold on for long. At the speed that turret was firing, its ammo ran out before they knew it, leaving Snow open.

"Sir! We're out of ammo!" The soldier shouted and Anderson grit his teeth. The number of enemies was far higher than expected and they were mostly unprepared to deal with such a force. Plus that blasted tunnel.

"Then get down and start shooting!" He ordered. "I want someone to check in contact with HQ! Request immediate back-up!"

"We can't!"

"What do you mean?! Go contact HQ right now damn it!"

"Sir, we can't! I've been trying for the last 30 minutes to do so and nothing!" The soldier was telling the truth...And Anderson hated that. He hated such misfortune falling upon them in the midst of battle. "No one is picking up…"

"So we're left to our devices." The general muttered and grabbed himself a cigar from his pocket, lighting it up and blowing some smoke. He then looked at the battlefield with a look of madness in his eyes, but not a chaotic, crazy one. But one of a man who chose his grave. "EVERYONE! Spare no bullet on them!" Anderson ordered and the line broke, entering in a downright wild brawl with the enemy forces.

While chaos unveiled, Snow remained by the shore. She looked towards the horizon with false hope in her eyes, thinking that her wolf might return. But no one had emerged from the deep abyss. "Umbra...come back…" She muttered. "Return to the battlefield...Fight!" She was raising her voice. "As your Queen I command you! Return here and fight! Slay them however you wish! I don't care anymore!" She was freaking out, shouting orders to him for naught.

But someone did hear her, and that someone was none other than Abyss Dweller. The shark-type general swimmer through the water at a speed similar to that of a torpedo and jumped right out of the water in front of Snow, his hard breathing as he inhaled air instead of water and many razor-sharp teeth in his maws giving the image of nightmare as it's black body creep towards the white-haired girl.

But Snow, as she saw him, only grabbed her guns with a tight grip and pointed them at him. "You took him from me...DIE!" She began firing at him like mad, bullet after bullet hitting the black body of the shark. But it just slowed him down as he took bullet after bullet which simply got stuck in his body for a second before falling off and regenerating. "DIE! DIE! DIEEEE!" But Snow kept going.

"What the?" Leonna dodged a hit herself, leaning on her palms then jumping up and giving the Lycani a good kick to the chin. But as she did she saw Snow and Abyss. "Snow!" She began rushing to her through the crazy battlefield.

"Eat this!" Anderson pulled out a smaller handgun, a magnum, and stuck in a wolf-type's mouth. The bullet traveled all the way to the core and destroyed it, but that was barely an achievement. "Damn…" He looked around. "Sasha! How are you doing?"

"Could be better." The Russian woman fired as the Lycani grew closer, but when a bear-type tried getting too close she simply waited for it to go on 2 legs and kicked it right in the core, shattering it. "Much better."

"Oh well." Another wolf jumped at him, but he elbowed it from behind it and crushed its core with his foot as it hit the ground. "It is what it is. At least if we kick the bucket here it'll be a fight worthy of the history books!"

"I don't like your way of seeing this, sir" Sasha confessed as she and the general ended up back to back. "But I hate to agree…" She threw the empty clips and reloaded and the general popped his knuckles.

"By the way, what's the deal with 2 of your students wanting to throw down with the big one?"

"What?" Sasha looked and saw Snow shooting Abyss in desperation and Leonna rushing to her. "Those 2 are going to give me a heart attack one day…"

Leonna was rushing throw the battlefield, kicking and punching away any Lycani that tried getting in her way and even using some as launch pads to leap a higher distance. "Come on…" She was praying to be in time, but fate doesn't always listen to what we want, but to what we don't want.

"Grenade!" One stray grenade blew up close to her position, knocking Leonna down on the ground with her head bleeding from a side and her hair coming loose to get into her eyes.

"Damn-" She winced as she tried getting up. Looking down she saw the cause; her leg had been busted. Her knee was covered in blood and she could feel it move abnormally, it was dislocated. Or worse, ruptured. But both were bad at this current time. "Damn it!" She cursed as she laid down and could do naught but watch.

"Die. Die. Die…" After shouting with so much anger, her fire was put out by the reality of despair. Face to face with Abyss Dweller, her guns empty as she presses the triggers in hopes of even 1 bullet to fire, she had nothing left to do but eventually let her arms down. " I'll...die"

The general grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up, looking at her with disgust as he opened his mouth. "Disgusting…" a deep, inhuman voice came from him, sending chills down her spines as he began choking her. "That traitor's remains course through your body, making you so much more than your peers. Yet, you remain weak. A fragile human easy to break by the smallest tide."

"Snow!" Leonna called out to her as her friend was struggling for breath, but there was nothing that could be done. Dweller was killing her slowly, not to gain pleasure, but to show her how little she is worth.

"Die, foolish human." Those last words were all she heard before her vision began going dim and the sound of battle vanished. Her arms collapsed and her eyes began losing their luster.

-It seems...this is it.- She thought as she accepted death.

-Have you lost faith in me already?- Her eyes shot open as the voice of the wolf echoed in her mind, then a sharp projectile made its way into Abyss' eyes, making him drop her on the ground where she coughed.

Snow looked up as Abyss began to grunt and shriek, and the black goo making up his body shifted at his waist into a pair of claws that pulled themselves up, revealing a familiar set of eyes. "Thought you could just eat me and be done with it, you oversized sardine?!" Umbra, as if this was a horror movie, emerged from Abyss' body.

Snow's and Leonna's gazes couldn't be more happy to see him. But Abyss sure was not. "You annoying, traitorous pest!" He snarled as he tried grabbing bra, but the wolf already began attacking him right from where he was.

"I might be a traitor to YOU, but know what? I don't give a fuck." Umbra bent backward and grabbed the earth with his claws, managing to pull himself out fully and grab Snow. He ran with her through the battlefield, picking up Leonna as well, and rejoining the others. "I get eaten for not even a full hour, and this is what I come back to? Pathetic."

"Glad you're alive, wolfie" Leonna said barely able to breathe at this point.

"Yeah, yeah. Keep it for later" Abyss let out an inhuman shriek and the Lycani began focusing on Umbra. They wanted the traitor's head. "A lot later...But I take it that I can now kill them as I wish, yes?"

"You heard me?" Snow asked looking at him.

"Of course I did." His fur perked up as the other Lycani drew closer. "And you cannot even imagine how much those words make me happy." He chuckled sickly, a sadistic urge kept in check until now beginning to sip through the cracks of the little mask he was wearing.

"...My order is unchanged" Snow added. "Do your worst."

Umbra howled and charged straight into battle, knocking away each and every small fry coming to him. But when a bull charged him he grabbed it by the horns and threw it into some of the others. "Come on!" He challenged them, and falcons began raining down. But he was not going to fall for it twice in a row and countered them completely, killing 2 of them brutally by hitting them in half.

Sasha and Anderson, as well as the rest of the troops, were relieved. With him back the Lycani seemed to have changed priorities and are now focusing on him. "SUPPORT THAT WOLF!" Anderson shouted. "Help him kill them all!"

The tide of the battle was changing, and Abyss did not enjoy this sight. "You damn traitor. Damn humans. Just who do you think you are!" He himself went in the chaos, finding himself between 2 soldiers. One got crushed under his feet while the other had been eaten from the waist up, only to be spat out after. "I'll show you just who ruled this world now!"

"Looks like the shark joined the party-" She flinched as the medic was patching up her knee. "Damn, that hurts"

"Try not to move"

Leonna looked at the battle, wishing her knee didn't get busted. But all she could do now is watch and…"WHOOP HIS FISHY ASS!" Do this.

Snow, on the other hand, went to Sasha and Anderson's group for some ammo. "I apologize for my behavior!" She said quickly then began shooting.

"Snow, you can't just-"

"We'll worry about it later, Sasha!" Anderson interjected while pointing out the situation. "Less talk and more shooting!"

"...We will have a talk when we get back at campus, got it?"

"Understood…" This was certainly something Snow was not looking forward to doing but for the moment, this battle needed to be won.

Umbra and Abyss advanced deeper into the battlefield, going through any obstacle like the monsters they are until they got face to face in the heart of the chaos. The 2 giving each other sharp gazes. But the first to throw a hit was Abyss. He tried punching Umbra in the head, but the wolf caught his punch and retaliated with one of his own. Only to then receive a strong kick to his abdomen and getting forced back a step.

The 2 knew everything about each other, but that was the exact reason they didn't fight like this from the start; Abyss can not defeat Umbra on land. Just as Umbra is not fit for fighting in or underwater, Abyss was not a threat on land, and it was showing; his movement, despite looking strong and steady, was difficult because of his membrane between the toes. And there was the air as well which was bothering him. But this is war, and in war, nothing is fair.

The 2 fought in the center, shark versus wolf, a predator of the sea against a predator of the land. But Abyss couldn't help but take notice of something and smirk, almost laughing as if he heard a joke. "Are you eating right? You seem...slimmer."

Umbra's eyes widened as he caught on to the meaning of his words and knew he couldn't drag this for long...he knew it too now. In the meantime, Snow was maintaining fire along with the general. "They are just too many!" She shouted.

"Damn it!" Anderson cursed. "At this rate, we'll be fighting with sticks and stones! We have to take the head whilst we have bullets left!"

"What does that mean?"

"It means that we have to kill the general, ASAP!" Sasha exclaimed as she shot down the enemy, but she could tell that her guns were getting lighter. "And we better do it quickly."

"Umbra!" Snow called out to him, but he was more busy fighting the good fight in the center. But as the fight dragged on, and the bullets stopped providing cover, the Lycani charged at Umbra like a wild storm. Snow gasped as she saw him getting overwhelmed, even pushed on his knees.

But the wolf had his pride, and he was not going to fall here easily. "If you all wish to fight me, then so be it!" He got out his claws. "I'll take on ALL OF YOU!" He jumped up and managed to catch a charging bull-type by the head, smashing it into the ground below. A bear then tried to get him as well, but he struck it first, receiving its heavy claw afterward, but no even flinching. He lifted him up above his head, the wolf letting out a powerful howl as he threw the bear onto the bull's horn, destroying the core.

Multiple, smaller ones attacked him; wolves, falcons, and boars. But he was able to send them flying-the strength of his hits so powerful that their cores shattered the moment their the cold ground-this was the gap between a general and other Lycani. Once fully unleashed into battle, not even an army will stop them.

Abyss charged once again at Umbra, trying to bite him using his jaws, but the wolf slid to the side, making Abyss trip a bit. Umbra then jumped on him and pulled his upper jaw up until he was looking him straight in the eyes, he then grabbed his lower jaw too and jumped down, throwing the shark on his back. "Give me this!" He pulled on his jaws and broke them apart completely, making Abyss roar in pain.

But before he was able to deliver the final strike, the bull he put down earlier bashed into him and managed to shake him off Abyss, allowing the shark to get up and regenerate his damaged jaw. "You will pay dearly…"

At first, Umbra thought Abyss was talking to him, but when Abyss had grabbed the bull's horns and threw it mercilessly towards him, he understood. The shark had his own pride: He hates having his life spared or saved. Umbra did take the gift, and slashed the flying bull in half with his claws, destroying its core as well. He gave Abyss a piercing glare, the shark returning it just as much.

"Die!"

"Die!"

The 2 Lycani shouted at each other and once again began fighting. But it was not getting anywhere. Despite other Lycani jumping on him as well, Umbra was holding his own completely. If anything, they were more of a nuisance to Abyss since he had to watch out for his soldiers being thrown at him again and again.

But Snow could feel Umbra getting tired. Despite him fighting like there was no tomorrow, and despite how everything looked, he was getting tired. If nothing was to be done to change the current situation, then all is lost. Luckily, Leonna had been looking around.

"Snow! I got it!" She shouted and got up as she could, but her knee was making it difficult to even stand. "The rocks! Anderson's little boom revealed a bunch of them!"

"What are you trying to say?"

"Listen here."

Umbra had just killed another annoying sergeant but then he received the message from Snow along with his new orders. "Here." He growled before beginning to run towards the formation of rocks created by the explosion of the tunnel.

"Coward!" Abyss shouted as he began chasing him. Umbra was putting all the energy he had left into this, and it better work. They did try to stop him along the way, but when he caught one of the wolf-type sergeant's and split him down the middle he was already there. And Abyss was not far.

-Now?- He asked Snow via their connection as she was getting ready on her part.

The sound of weapon parts clicking as they got put together was a beautiful song, accentuated by the sound of loading as well. Leonna had managed to find Snow a Vibros modified sniper rifle to shoot with. She laid behind a cover and laid on her stomach, not caring about the filth, and took aim. -Do your part!-

Umbra turned to the rocks behind him and looked around, seeing one big enough to fill that shark's maw good. But he also grabbed another one from the ground, screaming as he pulled it out entirely and set it on the ground, leaving a pretty big sized hole. He began carrying it on his back, waiting for the signal

Abyss has opened his jaws wide, ready to devour Umbra again. But as he got too close, Snow shot his eyes and Umbra used the rock he picked up as a weight when Abyss went past him to completely smash him again the other rock, his core getting crushed in the moment of impact.

"You didn't win…" his last words began pouring out as the Lycani shrieked and screamed in pain, retreating away towards the sea. Umbra was sitting behind Abyss and watched as he melted slowly. "...you will perish, Terror. You know it..." His last words before he finally died.

"We won?" Anderson asked taking off his glasses and looked around. A wide smile took his face as he put his gun up and shouted. "WE WON!"

Everyone rejoiced in victory, but Umbra howled in domination as he claimed his prize. He took the time to rip Abyss' jaws out before they melted and held them up. Snow and Leonna looked at him and noticed the extra goo on him which was from the other killed Lycani. But as he began making his way to them, he suddenly grabbed his chest in the area his core was.

Seeing him, Snow rushed ahead along with Sasha who also noticed him showing signs of injury, but when they found him, they found with...shorter hair. "How come you got a haircut in the middle of a battle?" Sasha asked confused, but he only narrowed his eyes. He was hiding something, and Snow knew what.

"Umbra?" He remained silent as behind him laid a small amount of death Lycani cells-the goo, but they were both Abyss' and his. "Are you dying?"

"Dying?!" Sasha echoed in shock as she heard Snow ask him then looked at him. True, he seemed to have more difficulty than last time, and he did show signs of fatigue that were not present with Shadow Wing. Heck, it even took him longer to defeat Abyss, and not because they were evenly matched, but because, ever since he gave away his core…

"Yes…I am dying. Been slowly melting since day 1 in the cell. I will be no more than a bunch of goo before long, and my hair, where the excess was going, is the countdown for that" His words couldn't shock then more. One major victory was won today, but only now do they find out the cost.