Origins 2: Forgotten Bonds

Before he had a chance to warp himself, Zenaku was back in the throne room. He then saw Deimos attempt to comfort Jordan, which the Master wasn't receptive to; Zenaku watched in silence as Deimos was forcibly thrown into the wall.

"Rrrgh..." Zenaku growled in pain as he clenched his chest, falling to a knee. His fractured heart had become overcome with hunger, and not feeding made his hunger pangs intense. Zenaku feebly looked to where his Master was; though he desperately wanted to talk to Jordan about the pain, he could tell his Master was in a bad mood. Zenaku didn't want to risk getting thrown around like Deimos.

Zenaku stood back to his feet, wobbling slightly. As he walked out of the room, back turned, he said loud enough so Jordan could hear: "I'm going to my quarters. Please send a heartless if you need anything, Master."

 

Selena looked at the keyblade and nodded.

"It did belong to somebody, it belonged to a keyblade master named Devlin, who sacrificed his life for currently an unknow reason." Selena said returning to
Her serious self. She walked up to Cole taking the keyblade. She looked it over.

"How did you ever come across this?" Selena asked.



Angel stood out on the balcony of the throne room waiting for Lu to come back. She stood now in a red dress and red boots.

 

Darian looked at the boy as he held up the keyblade Devlin used to wield " Where in the Hell did you get that" Darian said as he summoned his oathkeeper keyblade.

Darian looked at the boy with a fire burning rage in his eyes. He then shot a concentrated light beam at Cole, which hit him in the chest. Darian then stood there and waited for the boy to attack him.

Ashley looked at Darian, she had known something wasn't right with him. "Darian stop it!" Ashley said as she grabbed his hand.
Darian looked at Ashley and shoved her to the ground. "This is not for you to interfere, I am your teacher and you are my student. Don't cross me again!". Darian then ran towards Cole and hit him with his keyblade pushing Cole back about four or five feet from where Darian stood.

As Ashley fell to the ground her eyes began to tear. "He...But-".

 

Selena looked towards Darian a flash of annoyance flashed in her eye. Before Darian could attack Cole again, Selena flashed in front of him pushing him back with her keyblade and knocking him to the ground.

"And I am your master." Selena said. "Stand down, Darian, what has gotten into you?" Selena asked. She looked over at Ashley giving her a look of concern to see if she was alright. She then turned and looked back at Cole and walked up to him giving him a hand.

"Are you alright? I'm sorry about that." Selena said shooting a look that could kill to Darian.

 

Selena was caught off guard.

"You didn't feel... anything?" She asked shocked. He did feel Jordan's darkness hurt him now Darian's light, what could this mean, he has 100% resistance to both light and dark? She thought to herself.


"What are you?" Selena asked confused. She barely knew Cole, in fact she probably met him once or twice. He was Jordan's friend when they were really young. Selena was probably 6, so even then and now she didn't know much about him.

 

OOC: Made a change to my last post so that Zenaku would stay in the throne room.

Catching Deimos and Jordan's argument as he walked out of the throne room, Zenaku slowly turned around to face his master. He looked to Jordan then to Deimos, with incredulity in his eyes.

"Master... Deimos... please, calm yourselves," Zenaku began. "Arguing with each other, fighting, it will get us nowhere. I beg of you both to consider this... you are not enemies. We need each other now more than ever if we want any hope of defeating the light."

Zenaku regained his composure, stood up straight, and walked slowly to his throne. It seemed like he was still in pain as he sat in the marvelous throne.

"Now... I fear I must address a more... selfish matter." Zenaku eyed Jordan. "Master... my heart is weak. I must feed soon, or I will lose my strength to fight. Perhaps you wouldn't mind giving up one of your weaker apprentices? If that is not an option, I'm sure you can come up with a viable alternative."

 

Zenaku looked confused for a moment, but then realized that Jordan had summoned these men for Zenaku to feed upon.

"Thank you, Master." Zenaku said appreciatively. After seeing that his previous speech did nothing to cool down his master's temper, he simply dragged the men to a corner of the throne room, so that he would hopefully be out of the way if and when anything happened between Deimos and Jordan.

Black tendrils began to seethe from Zenaku. His teeth turned to fangs. Zenaku's Keyblade formed in his hand and he wasted no time jamming it into the first victim's chest. There was a muted scream of pain, and Zenaku looked to the others to see if the other two had awoken; they didn't even roll over. The Master must have magically sedated them, Zenaku thought. He really did think of everything!

Finally, a heart was in Zenaku's hands. He studied it for a moment, relishing in the warmth that it gave off. This heart is mostly darkness... but oh well, it will have to do. Zenaku's fanged maw opened wide and devoured the heart. He repeated this process for the other two men as well. When he stood back up, Zenaku had a wide smile.

"Ah, now that's more like it!" Zenaku said, a bit louder than he had intended to. He cleared his throat and readjusted his volume as he walked back over to the other two. Zenaku would try one last time to reconcile the argument before leaving.

"Master, Deimos, please! There is no reason to be at each others throats like this!" Zenaku pleaded with his comrades. Turning to Deimos, he added: "Hey, apologize, will ya? The Master does everything for you. He even re-powered your gauntlet. C'mon... can't we just drop it?"

 

Selena couldn't help but laugh some.

"Cole, girls are stronger than you think, at least some." She told him. "Ashley, can I trust you to take Darian and the rest of the apprentices somewhere to rest. No training tomorrow." Selena spoke before looking at Virgil.

"We should go and talk, I'll get you caught up about Jordan, that keyblade, and everything else." Selena said.



Violet shook her head watching everything that was unfolding before her.

"Jordan, can we talk?" Violet spoke out. "Private." Violet asked especially shooting a look at Deimos.

 

Selena nodded leading to the abandoned house locking the door behind her.

"Jordan, the one you remember, the one I love, has become the host to darkness. It's changed him, not a lot but a bit. He feeds off of hearts of light, the purer the better. There are 7 pure hearts of light, if Jordan consumes their hearts life in the realm of light, in our realm will change." Selena began.

"6 months ago a witch was in progress of gathering those princesses for her own world domination. If Jordan gets his hands on their hearts, the worlds will fall. The Jordan we know doesn't want this, I know he's in there, but he as accepted it, giving into its control." Selena continued. She paused to allow Cole to get caught up.



Violet led him to her balcony and sat him down.

"You miss your friends and sister, don't you?" She asked a look of sympathy etched on her face.

 

Zenaku bowed formally as Jordan and Violet retreated to the Master's private quarters. Zenaku looked at Deimos, not with anger, but with a look of confusion.

"What are you trying to prove, huh?!" He shouted at Deimos. "Why would you taunt the master like that while he was obviously in a bad mood?" Already knowing that Deimos would likely react aggressively to the comment he added: "Tch. Whatever. I'll be in the training room if anyone needs me." Zenaku headed toward the door of the throne room.

 

Selena nodded agreeing with him.

"I know, never in a million years did I believe Jordan would align himself with darkness. To be perfectly honest, and though it scared me, I always thought, I'd be the one to align myself with darkness. But it is what it is." she sighed glancing over at Virgil she sighed.

"Cole, the Jordan you were friends with, the Jordan who was my protective brother, he's still in there, but like I said he allows the darkness that uses his body as a vessel to control him. I've made it my goal, training all these keyblade wielders, to fight and give Jordan back his body. To have the darkness leave him and to find refuge in the realm whence it came. To find refuge in the dark realm." Selena told him.



Violet shook her head.

"It does seem that way, but they are plagued by the power of the light and the lights constant fear of dark. Hell, that's why my father abused me all those years, he was afraid of me, a child or the realm of darkness." Violet told him.

"What if you were to cast out their light with your darkness. One by one, turn their hearts into darkness, allow who they really are be released, theyd have you to thank and you'd have your old friends back, and your sister. After all, Selena's darkness that is caged in half her heart did come from you. And you told me about Devlin kidnapping her and Virgil adding artificial darkness in on how it changed her. Sure she became a servant to Devlin, but that's because it was artificial darkness, yours Jordan, is pure. You can release them from their fears of the dark and join us in this life." Violet told him.