Charon somehow managed to retain some semblance of consciousness and flopped over onto her stomach and lifted her head to see Spade about to hack his own wife's corpse to pieces. Something inside her snapped and all the aches, pains, broken and fractured bones ceased to hurt in that moment. There was nothing but complete focus as though someone else had taken control of her mind and body for the time being and it willed her up and forwards towards Spade, towards her mothers body.

How her body obeyed the other voice she had no idea but it was nice not to have to think for herself right now because she may have a serious urge to find a steam roller and run Spade over with it.

She rolled into the cell where Spade seemed stuck, as though he couldn't quite bring himself to make that final strike into the corpse. She could see the internal struggle as love battled hate, greed battled loyalty and the real Spade, the one who could love battled with D-Sin.

The whole scene had taken on a very surreal feel, she couldn't work out whether Spade was moving in slow motion or whether she was moving extremely quickly. Whichever it was, Spade's arm was about to come to a full stop as Charon smashed the enforcer down into Spades shoulder blade, rendering his whole arm immobile and useless and the sickle clattered to the mat. Spade reeled in surprise and shock, Charon swung the hammer again and buried it in Spades stomach, forcing him into the ropes, she then pushed him over the top rope and watched him crumple in a heap on the concrete.

She was breathing heavily with the effort, when she finally turned and looked at the corpse with the gold just showing in the chest cavity. She approached it slowly as though it might move to grab her arm, to stop her taking the belt away. She moved trance like closer and closer and finally touched the leather strap, she pulled at it carefully and finally pulled it free. She realised she was crying, something she hadn't done for many, many years.

She clutched the belt to her chest and collapsed down onto the gore soaked canvas where there was another tiny gleam of gold near to her left hand. She picked it up, it was the brooch. She looked from the brooch to the concrete floor outside and saw the look on Spades face. Rage, anger and disgust all mingled to create a very ugly expression. She smiled at him and managed to raise the belt above her head, his reign was now over and she was the new champion! She managed to look at Gojinn and it was hard to tell whether he was pleased or really pissed off but it seemed all he really wanted to do was get inside and kill Spade. All was right with the World....for a few minutes anyway!