Blackbeard boisterously laughs holding out his arms as His Black Heart spreads over Michael's light zombies. Michael's giant eye widens. "WHAT!? What have you DONE!?" He says swiping his wing at the ship, sending a gust through the air, pushing them all over. Blackbeard however, stands tall.

"Your crew has committed mutiny it seems! BWAHAHA! Too bad my NEW crew will NOT!" He declares, rushing to the helm of the ship, grabbing hold of it, spreading his Black Heart over it. "Now! Allow me to show you, the power of BLACKBEARD! TO BATTLE!" He yells as the creatures Michael created to fight Blackbeard suddenly move all at once, taking up various positions on the ship. Manning the cannons, going below deck to man the cannons down there, hoisting the sails, some even coming up from below carrying weapons stashed below.

Michael's eyebrow furrows. "That is MY power! You cannot STEAL it!" He seems to strain himself however his 'angels' do not react whatsoever. Blackbeard swirls the black rudder and his ship starts turning in the water.

He draws his cutlass and points. "Do not be childish, Fairy king! This is life! FIRE!" He declares as the cannons on the ship fire from Blackbeard's new crew, blasting Michael with a bombardment of cannonballs. The giant angel shields himself with his wings, the cannonballs unfortunately not being empowered by My Black Heart.

"Gah! Betrayal! Betrayal on all sides! WHY!? Why must even my own powers betray me!?" His giant eye moves over body, to stare back at humanity. "Is this what you wish to see!? I have done you NO harm! Can you not see?!" However humanity is suddenly silent, seeing Michael's giant form glaring down at them, sending shivers down their spines. "Tch! I will prove that I am grace! I am MICHAEL! I will play no longer! I WILL defeat you!" His eye moves back to the front, the pupil dilating. "EDWARD!" He declares, his massive form flying higher, moving to stare down on him, casting a giant shadow upon the ship.

"HA! Now he wants to fight, huh!?" His crew lock onto the figure in the sky with the multiple mortar cannons at the front, blasting them off without even hearing Blackbeard's command, Michael yelling in anger as he's struck by the exploding shells.

"Fool! Your weapons, powerful as they are, shall never fell me without a blessing of divinity! BEHOLD! The power of Humanity's guardian!" His eyes all shoot open and he begins launching beams down at the ship, burning holes in the hull, causing the crew to 'panic' and run around.

Blackbeard leaps away from the rudder as the main eye aims straight at him. "YOU! Take the rudder!" One of the crewmates takes the rudder as Blackbeard draws his cutlass, leaping over the railing as Michael's beam follows close behind him. He shoves the blade into a barrel of alcohol from the very beginning of the battle. His Black Heart moving over the cutlass causing it to turn black, sharp and longer, the liquid thickening into a syrup-like texture. "You will not lose to my weapons, Michael! You will lose to ME!" He yells, swinging his blade over his head, the liquid flying off and forming a long slice of black liquid, slicing Michael's beam in half as it flies up, spreading it to the sides like a mirror. "Oho!? How interesting!" The black flying blade slowly burns away. Blackbeard kicks the barrel, spilling the alcohol all over the deck, sliding along it, the black mist spreading across the floor, making it float up above his head like an umbrella, blocking Michael's beam again.

"Do not fool yourself, Edward! Your little shield will not SAVE YOU!" Michael declares, as his eye widens even further, the laser intensifies further.

Blackbeard smirks as he reaches the mortar cannons on the front of the ship. "Don't need it to! Just needa be close enough to these to do THIS!" He grabs hold of the cannons, spreading his mist onto them. "Now fire! MY BLACK MORTARS!" He laughs maniacally as the cannons grow larger, darker and even grow spikes. The fuses light themselves with a purple flame, blasting several giant shells into the air. Michael shields himself with his wings once more, but the shells burst right through like a knife through butter, exploding in his face, sending the giant sphere falling towards the water.

"GRrrrr! You PEST!" Michael yells, flapping his remaining wings out as he steadies himself. "You will FALL!" He wings spread out and the many eyes jitter erratically firing out shards of light. They drive themselves into the ship all over, knocking holes into the hull, striking down the crew as the helmsman turns the ship to try and avoid them.

Humanity gulps seeing this giant being firing recklessly at the ship. "Is that… truly Michael?" "Surely not…" "Was he… always this sporadic?" "He is… losing his mind!"

While some show concern others begin to lash out. "Stop pretending you're worthy to RULE us!" "Yeah! This is your TRUE nature! We're not stupid!"

While others again… silence. Noah crosses his arm, tapping his foot on the floor. "... Come on Michael… pull yourself together dammit…"

Blackbeard points forward. "HA! You cannot scare me! Harpoons! Let's reel in this ugly beast!" He yells as several large harpoons are brought forward, Blackbeard grabbing one and enhancing it with His Black Heart, making it grow longer, thicker and spikier. He hurls it at Michael as the shards of light graze him, cutting up his jacket and giving him flesh-wounds. He hurls the harpoon forward with incredibly strength, piercing through every shard fired at it, followed by many of the crew's other harpoons. Michael's eye widens in shock as the enhanced harpoon bores itself into his eye, Blackbeard gripping the rope, along with several crewmates and they start to pull. "All hands! Heave! HO!" He yells with a manic laughter.

Michael writhes as he attempts to fly away but with some of Blackbeard's enhanced ropes wrapped to the ship he cannot get away. "You DARE!" His eye opens showing its bloodshot look with the harpoon sticking out of the middle. "How dare you do this to ME!? Were it not for me NONE OF YOU would exist!"

Blackbeard lets go of the rope, hoping onto the railing seeing Michael closing in, drawing his pistol and cutlass. "Same goes for my old man. And I fuckin' killed him without a second thought! Humans ain't so simple as to BOW to anyone who saves us! Get ya head out of the clouds ya bastard!" He yells staring down the giant monster in front of him.

"YEAH YOU TELL HIM captain!" "Damn him! Why does what he's saying make sense!?" "Get that pompous angel, Blackbeard!"

"What're you SAYING!? That's Michael! Our savior!" "Don't stop Michael! We forgive you if you kill him!"

Michael howls into the sky. "PLEASE! Humanity! I am trying to HELP YOU!"

Captain Kidd sits back. "Too late for that Michael… Heh. Always stirring up chaos wherever you go huh, Teach? Just your presence is enough isn't it?"

-The Caribbean 1718-

Captain Kidd struggles to get out of his handcuffs. "Let me GO ya bastard!" He yells as a british soldier shoves the young pirate into a cell. "Gah!"

"This is better than you deserve pirate scum. Were it up to me, I'd kill you where you stand. But unlike you savages we have rules!"

Kidd runs to the bars and angrily rustles them. "Get back here! Ya wanna fight!? I'm gonna fight ya'! I'll win!"

Suddenly from the next cell over a booming laughter is heard. "BWAHAHA! Yes. Good! I like that!" Kidd looks over seeing Blackbeard sitting in his own cell, rather calmly.

"You're… Blackbeard!? What are you doing here!?"

"Waiting for death some might say. Others might say wasting away. Some might even say plotting," he says yawning a bit. "In truth. I'm here by choice."

"By… choice?" Kidd asks, rolling his eyes. "Yeah right. Ya really are a nutcase. You're in a heavily fortified British fortress prison… by choice?! I guess we're gonna die together."

"The only one of us here, who ain't trapped! IS ME!" He suddenly jumps up, stomping his foot on the ground. "HEAR ME, prisoners! When we get outta here! Drinks're on me! BWAHAHAHA!"

"Shut the fuck up!" "Yeah that AIN'T funny!" "Hope ya die first!"

Blackbeard laughs. "Ya see, lad? No one here has anything left. But I! I alone am TRULY FREE!" He yells as a guard walks by. The guard slams his rifle against the bars.

"Oi! Quiet in there!" He starts before Blackbeard suddenly grabs the barrel of his rifle, letting the guard get a shot off on him, which he promptly dodge, knocking the man out with his barrel. As other guards come running Blackbeard has managed to fish the keys off the man, unlocking his cell.

"YOU! Get back in your cell this instant!" An entire squad points at Blackbeard who holds out his arms.

"Fuckin' make me," As he takes a single step, there's suddenly an explosion next to the squad blowing them all away. The alarm blares into the compound.

"Enemy ships incoming! It appears to be… Queen Anne's Revenge!? But… we sunk that vessel didn't we?! It's a fleet!" A soldier yells as Blackbeard casually walks along, unlocking each cell.

"Show me that spirit young ones! OUR TIME IS NOT UP YET! YA FREEDOM IS AT HAND! Never let it slip from your fingers! NEVER!" He yells, breaking their cuffs with a sword he looted from one of the soldiers.

Kidd looks upon Blackbeard's wide back as he walks out of the compound to the beautiful sight of destruction. He never forgot that sight. The sight of a man, so truly free that even the most secure prison was as easily to walk out of as anything else. He looks back at Kidd, resting the cutlass on his shoulder. "Ya coming, lad? We got some fucker's to kill and ya had some pent up rage ta get out didn't ya?"

Kidd smirks and runs along. "YEAH! Come get some bastards!"

And so the group fought tooth and nail through the chaos. Even managing to get onto Blackbeard's ship and escaping! However in hot pursuit was the British vessels. Among them, the HMS Pearl. Blackbeard sees the speedy vessel approaching. He smirks. "Looks like we're outsped lads!" He turns to Kidd and takes off his hat with a smirk placing it on his head. "Do me a favor, Kidd! Chase freedom! Chase the endless horizon! At all costs!" Before Kidd can even speak Blackbeard has leapt onto the enemy vessel. "And you fuckers! BRING! IT! ON!"

"CAPTAAAAAAAIN!" They all yell out as Blackbeard snipes the helmsman, stopping the ship dead in its tracks before long. "Damn that guy… doing… whatever he wants…" The crew suddenly burst out laughing, tears flowing down their face, pointing forward. "FORWARD! CHASE THE ENDLESS HORIZON!"

Later, Robert Maynard, the captain of the HMS Pearl would say. "I am the man who killed Blackbeard? Oh no. No no. You are mistaken. My men laugh at me when I claim this. I am ridiculed but I swear it is true. When I severed that… man's head from his body and caught it. I promise you! The head spat on me… and the body took another swing at me, before both lost all life in them. It's the truth! On my honor! I did not kill Blackbeard… Blackbeard chose to die. When he arrives in Hell, The Devil will struggle to contain such intense desire."

Blackbeard awakens abruptly in Heaven, sitting in a cave-like cell much like the one in which he met Kidd, chained to the wall with stone shackles, the cave entrance barricaded with brimstone pillars. "Huh? Ha… Hell's real huh?"

Suddenly, in front of the cave, there's a light tap on the bars. Blackbeard looks up, seeing Lucifer. Behind him stands a titanic man. Fire erupting from his skin, wearing a large helmet seemingly screwed into his head, and a massive molten blade dripping with lava, connected by a chain to his arm. "Welcome to Muspelheim, Edward Teach. I have heard much of your legend. The most free man on the Seven Seas. Your legend made its way all the way to hell. Congratulations. That however ends now. I, as well as Surtr here, will ensure that you are here, encased for eternity. Please be a good prisoner. Escape is quite literally impossible."

Blackbeard looks The Devil in the eyes as a smirk creeps onto his lips. "Challenge accepted."

-Present-

Blackbeard smirks as he leaps off the railing, raising his cutlass, as His Black Heart flows over it, growing it in length, darkening the metal. "Hey Fairy Monster! Are ya fuckin' stupid!? Humanity doesn't NEED YOU!" He calls as he slices into Michael's body, jamming his massive saber in there, light blasting out of the hole like this entire body is filled with light.

Michael howls out in pain, writhing and gasping for air seemingly. "OF COURSE THEY DO!" He yells as a giant pulse explodes from him, sending Blackbeard flying back to the ship crashing into the main mast, knocking blood out of his mouth. "No matter what! Humanity NEEDS a savior! Someone who can talk sense into the selfish. Human and god alike. THAT IS ME!"

Blackbeard leaps onto the main deck, grabbing hold of the rudder. "Oh yeah!? What fuckin' good did THAT do 'em huh!? Fightin' for their damn lives! And here ya are! Selfishly claiming YOU ALONE can save 'em!? HA! Save 'em, Judge 'em! Keep 'em as PETS!"

"I would never! NEVER! NEVER! I love humanity! They need someone! THEY NEED ME! I am their GOD! I MUST BE!" He yells out suddenly, his eye widening… "What did I… just say?" He whispers, but given his form it echoes through the arena. "N-no! That's not… THAT'S NOT TRUE!" The arena falls silent from humanity's cries.

"There it is. Finally YOU are under that damn Angel's Gaze huh!? Too bad I'm not gonna give ya' praise for honesty! RAMMING SPEED!" He yells and Michael's eyes all focus back to the ship which Blackbeard has turned to face him and suddenly it shoots forward, seemingly from an explosion at the back, the bowsprit directly heading for the big eye once again.

"BLACKBEEEEEARD!" Michael yells out as the bowsprit pierces his eye, sending him crashing into the side of the arena, shaking the entire thing and sending the audience running to the sides.

Michael pants and strains himself to look around with the eyes on the audience seeing not faces of concern. But faces of fear. Faces of contempt! "No… listen… I did not mean it. I… Noah! NOAH!?" He yells out, spotting the old farmer. However his gaze darkens when he sees Noah has gotten up and is walking away.

"Our god huh? I thought you were better than that. Guess I was wrong…" He says turning away.

Michael, in his immense pain, his eye sheds a single golden tear. "I am better… right?" However it is too late. His eye darkens, the black and red spreading through his body. His wings warp inwards, surrounding him and they merge in.

Blackbeard takes a few steps down the staircase. "Finally got 'im," He says before the black sphere begins to crack and he raises an eyebrow. "This again?" Suddenly the sphere EXPLODES, knocking the ship backwards into the water, the front of it splintering and shaking the entire vessel. Blackbeard nearly loses his footing for a moment, as his crew disintegrates due to Michael's transformation. "Guess we're capsizing," He looks up at the bowsprit seeing Michael standing at the tip, looking rather… different. Darker, paler. His skin flowing with red patches, creeping over him like paint. His clothing is simpler, more ragged, dark and flowy, having a single gauntlet with a golden-eyed black metal snake wrapping around it. He has sharper teeth and of course one cannot miss the single demonic wing on his back. Nothing more than a boney protrusion, dripping with a dark unknown liquid forming the vague shape of a wing. He looks down at himself, seeing his demonizing skin. "What… have you done?" He asks his voice having a demonic echo behind it. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" He yells, his eyes flowing with tears of blood. He springs off the bow, clenching his fist and the black liquid from his wing flows into his grasp, forming an ornate blade, seemingly hardening as it forms. "LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE! EDWAAAAARD!"