The breakdown and the causal well.

[LAIX: Painful Determination]

Two dragons stood in the courtyard of the prison and white light and a terrible song emanated across miles.

There were few in the city that didn't understand something major was happening.

A centerpoint of calamity, a magnet for all who sought to preserve the peace.

The dragons clashed against one another, sparks creating shockwaves that caused agony for the espers within range.

Even through the pain, people kept moving. Saten and Uiharu ran with a woman who worked at the prison. She had been Kimi's accomplice but she understood the stakes now as much as anyone else.

All turned their eyes to this fight. Man and god alike watched for a moment the instant that phases clashed in the real world.

Aleister hummed as he saw the devastation through a view screen "How curious, I need to make a call."

All of this flashed through Joule's fragmenting mind as the beats clashed. She saw as the man called Tsuchimikado received a call, the man passed it onto the person who might be able to do something about it.

Touma needed a car..

Closer to this all, GV was trying to figure out how he could help.

Joule saw him, and tried to mentally reach towards him. She didn't want him to get hurt now. Anything he did would surely just seem him hurt or killed.

Even so- another part of her wished for him to come and take her again. To carry her limp form in his arms as the feathers fell around her.

GV looked upon the dragons and reflected.

[ASG2: The Burning Garden's Chorus]

This was the greatest threat he'd ever seen and Joule was caught right in the middle of it. He could see her caught in the dragon's curls. She looked like she was unconscious, caught limp in the grip of a terrible monster.

To get between the two dragons was to invite death, but in this case there was something GV had to protect. There was something he knew he'd lose if he refused to act.

He felt Joule's mind lightly touching upon his. A desperate plea, she didn't want him to get hurt as much as he didn't want her to be hurt.

At the current rate though it looked like she was losing. The complete power of the angelic dragon was beginning to overpower her dragon. The reasons were beyond GV but if he did nothing, she was going to lose this fight.

So there was nothing to be done but to act.

He propelled himself off the ground and drew a pistol he'd stolen along with the disguise. It wasn't his style really. No physical projectile, it was an electrolaser taser. It didn't have as much use to him as a tagging gun did, especially against monsters like this which could ignore certain laws of nature.

Even as he thought that, the angelic dragon let out a blast of black lighting. He'd seen lightning like this many times before and he knew the trick to deflect it.

The taser did have one use that he needed it for. Now his powers were back it would act as a useful source of power.

Pointing the taser at his own head he pulled the trigger and electricity surged into him.

Throwing the taser aside once it had unloaded all of its charge into him, GV stretched his hands up.

"Sacred sword agleam, Barbarous and bathed in blue, Cleaving right from wrong!"

More sparks flew, tearing up GV's body and the world around him.

"Luxcalibur!"

His sword materialised, born from this meeting of science and magic.

It was unstable, yet thrumming with so much more power than ever before. The lifewave pulsed in his head, a feeling he'd never really experienced before.

The angelic dragon glowed but the blast of light that would have turned him to salt was deflected by a sudden impact as the four-eyed dragon slammed into its enemy to knock off its aim. The white light shot into the sky turning an entire cloud to salt which would drift down to the city below like snow.

GV didn't hesitate, he used the opening Joule's dragon had given him as his sword cut into the angelic dragon.

Something broke, something important. Sparks flew and GV felt a pain in his gut as he suddenly realised that the dragon had taken that instinct to counter attack. He might have given the dragon a paper cut through its scales but in return he'd been impaled.

The dragon flicked its claw and GV went flying into the prison walls. As he hit it, he heard the snap of bones breaking as he slid down to the ground. If not for the electricity pounding through his body, he'd probably have died from that before anyone could get him to a hospital.

"Galvanic Patch."

He muttered as his view started to fade. The electricity kept him conscious and dulled the pain as his body began knitting back together. Both from the impact and from the damage the sparks had been doing to him.

GVs mind continued to fog and he realised there was something wrong with the wound. As he thought about that, something was happening with the angel dragon.

The four-eyed dragon's host watched as the angel dragon's host began to scream. Scars and stigmata were carving up her body even as the dragon's magic tried to knit them back together. The sparks caused by GV's strike were causing her to go out of control.

In this instant, the four-eyed dragon became the stronger one, purely by being able to channel more power through its host. Though the cost to the host was only mounting as the seconds passed.

The host was aware though that the host's friend, the one with flowers in her hair, had reached the prison's control center. She didn't know what that girl was going to do, but she had faith she'd think of something, anything, that could see them all through this alive.

As they fought, the dragons moved through the prison. The four-eyed dragon tried to stay out of the way of people and it seemed like the angel dragon was doing the same, though maybe out of apathy instead of any actual care.

The girl who had been called Kimi had lost the ability to move her body, but her will was still driving the fight.

That said, both dragons knew that even should Kimi fall unconscious from the damage, it wouldn't be enough. Even if both dragons wanted to end this fight now, it wouldn't be enough. Even should the four-eyed's host die it wouldn't be enough.

This was just what they did. Dragons fought and people were caught up in it.

Aleister was right in a few ways but this was one of them; the clashing of phases caused disaster.

Only a miracle could save the city now.

Touma stepped through the broken gates of the prison.

End of chapter.

Hmm… Something about this chapter felt very repetitive, especially with the last one. I feel like I just keep repeating "The dragons fight and this is a bad thing." over and over. Meh, at least we're coming to the end of it now.