"Salem vs. Hazel" is a battle that takes place in "Witch". After learning of Salem's true goal, Hazel Rainart defects from her inner circle to help Oscar Pine and Emerald Sustrai escape from Monstra, ultimately battling her to buy time for the two along with Yang's Group to escape.
Preceding Events[]
After hearing of Salem's true goal, Hazel takes Oscar to the room which contained the Relic of Knowledge, in order to determine if he is lying. When he summons Jinn from the Lamp, Hazel is convinced that everything Oscar had told him was true. Hazel decides to turn against Salem and plans to get Emerald Sustrai and Oscar out of Monstra.
He returns to the hanger after Salem has captured Yang's Group, as well as both Oscar and Emerald. Salem orders him to take Oscar back to his chamber, while she will continue to interrogate Emerald on the location of the Lamp. Instead, after returning The Long Memory to Oscar, goes and lands an unexpected punch onto Salem, throwing her onto the other end of the room and freeing the group from their bindings. Injecting Dust into himself, Hazel bids everyone to leave. Salem generates a wind cyclone on which she lands, telling Hazel that after all this time, he has decided against vengeance for his sister. Hazel declares that he is doing what Gretchen would have done, as he lights his metal claws on fire with the Fire Dust.
The Fight[]
Salem fires multiple energy beams at Hazel, but he quickly dodges them and and throws fireballs at her. Once he turns and runs to Salem's direction, he takes out a Wind Dust crystal from his pocket and slams it onto the ground, generating a burst that throws him in the air. As he is airborne, he slams Earth and Lightning Dust together to make a massive spiky sphere-shaped rock, which he uses to slam Salem into the ground. Hazel lands on top of her, performing a double axe-handle before punching her across her face with mighty blows that completely obliterate her head, splattering her blood across the floor. However, before he can do anything else, she summons Shadow Hands to restrain him in the air.
Emerald worriedly looks on and sees Yang Xiao Long, Jaune Arc, and Lie Ren escaping. Jaune leads Yang, Ren, and Emerald out of Monstra while Oscar offers to stay behind to hold off Salem.
As she gets up, Salem regenerates her head and blasts Hazel with an energy beam, but he blocks it with a Hard-Light shield. Salem then uses the Shadow Hands to throw Hazel into the wall, and then slam his head multiple times onto the ground, incapacitating him.
Aftermath[]
Before she can do anything else, she looks towards Oscar, as she senses him using magic.
Oscar begins to generate something with The Long Memory, but Salem dashes at him. Hazel, however, manages to hold Salem in place, lifting her in the air and buying him some time. Salem summons more Shadow Hands to choke him, but he merely bites down on a Fire Dust crystal, setting the two of them ablaze. Encasing himself in a forcefield, Oscar unleashes the power in The Long Memory, which causes a bright light that encompasses the entire area.
The light is revealed to be a giant blast of kinetic energy that was stored in The Long Memory. The resulting blast destroys Monstra, as well as most of the Grimm surrounding the city. Hazel is killed in the blast, while Salem is temporarily destroyed.
Trivia[]
- During the battle, small references towards Salem's allusions are made:
- She conjures a tornado to move around: the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz is commonly associated with tornados.
- When Hazel uses Dust to set them both on fire, it's a possible reference of how witches were popularly burned at the stake.
- It also works as a reference to Hazel's allusion, Hansel and Gretel, in which the witch in the story is killed by being burned to death in an oven.
- When Connor Pickens asked Kerry Shawcross and Eddy Rivas if the fight inside Monstra's "Docking Bay" in "Witch" was planned from the start, they confirmed that it was what they had in mind when it was conceptualized with them calling it "The Hangar Bay Fight" except everything was made of flesh.[1]
- When Hazel powered up using his Semblance, he deliberately overdosed on using Dust since he already knew he wouldn't survive the fight.[2]
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