Color in Akamu's face drained as he saw Leviathan fall. Sure, he was aware that Regalia and their Dominant forms weren't invincible- but it was still sobering to see it happen in front of him. It didn't help that Leviathan was massive either the earth and water shaking and shuddering as they fell. Followers of the great serpent fell in despair, and the swarms of monsters feasted and gorged themselves on the remains. It was both degusting and terrifying to see. Ripper swarms grew larger and more malignant, and the great beast trudging out of the water began its attack in earnest.
Akamu glanced back behind him, towards Laura- now Gaia, and the civilians huddling around her, her protective barrier surrounded by the flashes of muzzles as the remaining soldiers stemmed the tide of monsters. They wouldn't be able to hold out forever- nor would Akamu just punching his way through these beasts one at a time. They needed something decisive to end this inexorable tide, and it seemed the great monster before them was as good a place to start as any. But he couldn't fight it as just a man.
Akamu needed to transform.
His fists clenched, and the man gulped, nerves and anxiety coursing through him. He remembered the last time he changed- the collateral damage and chaos he created during it. But if he didn't now, the swarms would eventually wear him down and tear him apart- along with the Gaia and the rest of the civilians around them. He cursed his poor luck even as his stone hammer sent another one of these smaller beasts flying. He glanced around him, pillars of stone shooting out of the ground to propel any civilian close to him away and towards Gaia's barrier. Satisfied that the immediate area was cleared, Akamu settled into a squat and surrounded himself in a cocoon of stone.
"Do you call upon me? Young Regalia of mine?" a voice rumbled through his head, low yet guttural, a grumble like the shaking of earth. "How many moons have passed since the last time you've communed with me directly?"
"I'm scared." Akamu admitted in the quiet of his mind's voice. Around him, he heard the scrape of teeth and claws trying to cut through the walls of stone he'd engulfed himself in. "I don't know what to do."
"Yes, you do." the rumbling voice chuckled in his ears, in every fiber of his being. Inside his cocoon, Akamu felt the warm grip of earth and stone wrapping and condensing around his feet. "The boy on the mountain was scared too. But he did not fear for himself, did he? Your sister needs you. My sister needs me."
"Get up little brother. We have a monster to fight."
The stone cocoon, practically covered in tooth swarms now, cracked and shifted, growing to the size of a building as it displaced land, home and beast alike. Like the earth itself cracking open, the stone cocoon shattered, sending razor sharp shards of stone into the beasts around it as from within a man of stone burst out of it and into the air, propelled forth by a pillar of stone. Titan careened through the air, not unlike a boulder propelled by a trebuchet, streaking towards the beast making its way out of the water, indiscriminately flying through air and ice, alike as it sought out its target.
The hammer in Titan's hands had turned into a veritable maul of stone, a pillar the length of streetlamp topped by a boulder the size of a car. Raised over his head as the Dominant collided with the side of the massive monster's head. With the weight of tons of stone behind him, Titan hung off the side of the beast, grabbing one of its many spikes or horns for leverage as he braced his feet against its hide. In one hand, the hammer lifted high up before Titan brought it down with earth rending force.
Again. Again. Like a worker hammering a railway spike, Titan would bring his hammer down until the beast stopped, or he was flung from the side of its face.