"Is that who I think it is?" Diva asked as Phantom neared.
"Yes, Diva," Hagi said. Diva dropped the dagger and looked at him wide-eyed. Tears streamed down her face. Her body wavered, she reached out her hand preparing to run to Phantom and embrace him.
"Father..." she whispered. Mathew grabbed her arm and pulled her back.
"Diva, get back!" Mathew shouted. Solomon lunged at Phantom; they both plunged into the ocean. Hagi ran next to Diva and placed her sword in her hands.
"Diva, fight," Hagi said as Phantom flew out of the water and threw Solomon onto the ground. Phantom flew down a few feet from Diva.
"I can't..." she whimpered as she fell to her knees.
"Diva..." Phantom whispered, stepping toward her.
"Don't you dare touch her! You stay away from her!" Mathew yelled, running toward Phantom. Phantom cinched Mathew's throat and threw him against the concrete stairs. He hit the stairs with a crunch and crack to his body. Solomon and Hagi ran at him and fought. However, Phantom was astute and deflected all their hits. He sliced into their bodies with the hidden spikes in his Chiropteran arm.
Diva turned her head and looked at Mathew.
He's not breathing.
Tears streamed from her eyes. She cinched her sword and removed it from her sheath. She jumped up and ran toward Phantom. Phantom tossed Hagi and Solomon aside as Diva ran toward him. Once Diva was close enough to strike Phantom grasped her right wrist. Her sword was in that hand and now she could not strike. She flung her left fist at him but he grasped her other wrist too. Diva's head titled downward to the ground as she whimpered and wept.
"Diva," Hagi whispered, pulling a spike from his stomach. Diva looked at Hagi and then at Mathew, who was deluged in a pool of his own blood. Diva stared angrily at her father, her eyes tinting scarlet. She growled angrily, her teeth clenching together. Phantom chuckled at her eyes semblance to Saya's when she was in battle. Diva trembled with anger as a wicked angry smirk came over her face.
"Eyes just like your mother. But with a smirk just like mine!" Phantom said, throwing her across the beach and knocking her unconscious.
"Solomon, help Diva! Leave Phantom to me!" Hagi shouted. They both divided into blue streams that passed into the air. Phantom deflected Hagi, tossing him against the concrete wall beside the stairs. Hagi hastily stood up and ran at him. His Chiropteran claw unswathed of the bandages.
"If you are here then that means Saya is too! Where is Saya?!" Hagi shouted, striking his claw at Phantom's torso. Phantom grasped his arm and chuckled as his shirt was torn. Though his flesh remained completely unharmed as the exoskeleton would promise.
"If you ever want to see Saya again then you'd better come with me," Phantom said. Hagi nodded his head as Phantom pulled him into the air and into the sky.
Diva awoke a few moments afterwards, shooting up from Solomon's arms. She gazed over at Mathew.
"Mathew!" Diva shouted as she scurried over to his body. She pressed her ear against his chest.
"I can't hear his heart beat..." she whimpered. She sat up and looked at Solomon.
"Is there any other way? I want him to decide," she asked. Solomon shook his head. Diva gazed at Mathew sadly and then nodded her head. She used her sword to incise a deep cut into her palm. She swilled the blood into her mouth and kissed Mathew. The blood trickled down his throat and into his system. He writhed in pain and screamed.
"What's happening?!" Diva shouted as she began to cry. Solomon held her up against his chest and let her cry. A few moments later Mathew became quiet and still. Diva turned to him and pressed her ear against his chest.
"Mathew?" she asked, more tears still raining down her face.
Hagi was thrown to the ground. He quickly stood up into a fighting position.
"I came to get something from you that Saya so desperately needs," Phantom said. He shot several spikes at him and Hagi was impaled into the wall. His blood pooling beneath him at a hasty rate. Phantom took out a vile from his pocket and placed it under Hagi's Chiropteran claw. The spike that went through it was long and narrow so much blood distilled from it. As soon as the vile was full Phantom placed a lid on it and chuckled.
"That was all I needed." Phantom said. And then he flew into the night sky, leaving his Chiropteran children behind to be tested by Diva's blade.