Crimson brushed off the soot and ash of his coat and drew his sword and dagger and looked at Dust, eyes glowing fiercely.  "Get down here so I can beat you to the ash you made." he said.  

Crimson turned his head and grinned.  "You're either going to let me go, or you're going to get burned." he warned.  

"Dust is always attracted to light.  That is the point you create fire, to draw attention to yourself." Crimson said.  

"And there is the saving grace." Crimson said, laughing.  

Crimson tightened his grip on his sword and looked at Dust fiercely.  "You've burned down countless homes here.  If anything you should be eating your own words."

Dust shifts around the spikes, distorting again into something that shouldn't be able to live. "Oh spare me your words of hypocrisy, what's left to live here? you?" It barks a laugh and continues, twisting its face to peer at Ark, "And I didn't say that you'd forget my existence, afterall who could forget somebody like me? How do you even keep finding me, didya plant a tracker or somethin on me?" Dust launches itself into the sky, and sends down a scorching rain of fire and shadows upon the two challengers.

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"Nah, no trackers." Ark leaps up towards Dust, slashing at him with his scythe. "But when you're a wanderer like me, you're bound to find interesting stuff eventually." He also absorbs the shadows into his fist, preparing for his next attack.

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Dust blocks the scythe with crossguards on its swords, before plummeting back to the ground and shooting a couple knives out of its body at Crimson. It follows the attack with spikes of shadow that reach out to pierce Crimson through, particularly aiming at the prosthetic limiter arm. "Aw, you think I'm just interesting!"

"Who said I died? And who declared you capable of that feat, a liar?" Dust easily grabs the arm, before crushing it in its claws. Quite suddenly, Dust disappears, and then it rises from the shadows cast by the burning forest. It lashes its whip-like tail into Crimson, striking with the spikes on the tail. "In fact, who said you could even hurt me, little ember?"

"Hey, pay attention!" Ark says, as he slashes his specially made, shadow damaging scythe into Dust's body. "You're fighting two people at once."

Ark is knocked back a bit, but he retaliates. He throws his scythe at Dust.

Dust is struck squarely with the scythe, as though that was what it wanted. In fact, it's pulling the scythe out of itself and tossing it into Crimson's person. "C'mon we all know that ain't the best you got, Ark." Dust's swords, which seemed to have just disappeared after it did one thing with them because i forgot it had them out, reappear in its hands and it swings them at Ark, the first hit to land feeling like a burning strike of all the damage Ark had already done to it. Black ichor stains its armour from the wounds it was inflicted with, and also leaks onto the ground, where it sizzles and dissolves.

Ark gets hit, and hit bad. His blood drips onto the ground, however his regeneration is already working at it. "Ha! I'm just getting started." His scythe returns to his hand, and splits apart, transforming into dual scythes with short handles, both attached to each other by a golden chain. He spins one end and shoots it towards Dust, then attempts to loop it around him. As well as that, his shadow lurches out of the ground and becomes a copy of him, except with a full scythe.

Crimson quickly pulls his sword out and stabs it into the ground, partially stopping himself, all the while, still taking most of the knives to the back and falling to the ground in agony.