Origins 2: Forgotten Bonds

Jordan looked up at the castle, hearing Marluxia yell down to him. He growled loudly at him and yelled up, "Coward! Even as a nobody you show cowardliness!"

As he was distracted, Cole took this opportunity to stab the ground, sending pillars of ice through the bridge straight toward Jordan.

Jordan noticed this too late and was sent flying backwards, disappearing in the woods.

Cole leaped after him and looked around. "You call him a coward yet you hide from me? That's pretty sad," Cole said aloud.

Laughter could be heard from the trees, leaving Cole in a state of confusion. "It's not cowardly if it was a trap," whispered the faint voice of Jordan. Cole, hearing Jordan's sinister words, immediately turned around to run away, only to meet a wall of flames, it beginning to engulf the forest. As he slowly backed up from the fire in horror, he was hit with a ball of fire from behind, where Jordan sat on a tree branch.

Cole turned to look at him and sliced through several of Jordan's initial attacks, only to be overcome seconds later. As he was hit with a barrage of attacks he looked up and stared at all the smoke above him. Knowing he had no other option, he jumped high into the air, through the smoke. Jordan smirked and jumped after him.

When he jumped up, he saw nothing except white orbs scattered everywhere. Jordan slowly began to fall from his high leap only for the orbs to follow him. "Shit," he mumbled. He held his Keyblade in front of him in hopes of defending himself. The orbs blew up immediately on contact of Jordan, sending him down faster and hader. As he landed, he began to cough from the smoke and teleported back to the bridge. When he arrived he quickly fell to his hands and knees to catch his breath. Unfortunately, Cole was right in front of him and kicked him in his face. Jordan fell back and held his bloody lip. "Ah! You fucking asshole," he exclaimed.

Cole said nothing more than, "Do you give up?"

Jordan was about to answer, until the Darkness spoke.

"Ooooh...."
"It seems that your sister found our little backup."

"What," Jordan yelled, forgetting that the Darkness spoke to him in his head.

"Yessss..."
"She's fighting our backup plan as we speak."
"Soooon you will have either the pitiful sister you had beforeee....."
"Or a sister that you can ressspecct."

Jordan, infuriated, held in his emotions and stood up. "Fine. I need to end this soon then to say goodbye to my sister."

Cole, unsure of what was to come, prepared himself for the worst.



Darian growled and gave chase to Marluxia and Angel.

 

Jordan now looked serious and said, "Time I show you what I can really do." And like that, his faced turned into a twisted smile, his gray eyes turned a dark red color and two giant serpent like heads erupted from his back.

Cole stared in total awe and disbelief at the disturbing scene. His stomach tightened up, actually beginning to fear this battle. He no longer recognized Jordan to be his friend...but now as a monster. He raised his Keyblade for an attack but the Darkness struck quickly and slammed Cole into the ground. He was repeatedly raised and slammed into the ground, head hitting it the hardest.

Jordan laughed maniacally before yelling, "Come on! Be a fucking man and do something about this!" Jordan stopped the punishment to see what Cole would do.



Devlin tried to save Jordan using the behemoth but the attacks were too much and broke his guard. The behemoth disappeared and Darian was now met with an extreme amount of defenseless attacks.

 

Cole struggled to get up but did. His forehead was completely engulfed in his own blood. He looked up and Jordan for a second, woozy and stumbling, before slowly lifting up his Keyblade high over his head. He healed himself of his more harmful wounds and took a deep breath of relief.

"What? That's it? Boy, you are just asking to-"

Cole pulled his Keyblade close to his chest and whispsred, "I guess I have no choice." He and the Keyblade began to light up brightly. They're intense light began to grow even brighter, now becoming blinding. The Darkness pulled away, as the light began to grow painful to it. The light reached as far as into the castle before disappearing in another flash. What stood there now was a white winged, newly clothed, Cole. His eyes glew and bright blue color and it looked like his previous wounds had been healed.

"Heh, so you really are stronger than I thought. That's good enough for me! I'll kill you either way," Jordan yelled. He ran straight towards Cole, Darkness ready to attack as well, and sliced right through the apparent fake which disappeared into nothing. "Wait. What the-"

Cole kicked Jordan in the side of his face before multiplying into several copies of himself, all of whom began to deliver a barrage of unavoidable attacks on him.

Jordan for couldn't move and was incapable of defending himself. The Darkness spewed a black mist into the faces of the many Cole's, temporarily blinding them and causing them to cough. Jordan launched himself upward to gain a bit of reprieve for himself, forgetting that Cole now had wings.

Cole flew up behind him and shot a mix of ice and light attacks, hoping that it would stun him long enough to deliver a finishing blow. His theory worked and he flew quickly to his stunned opponent and slammed his Keyblade down on his back sending him straight through the bridge.

As Jordan fell into the water underneath the bridge, he smiled and curled up in the water in a fetal position. The Darkness wrapped itself around Jordan until he was encased in a black ball, giving off large amounts of wild electricity in the water.

Cole, flew down to see where Jordan had gone to see this sight. He hovered there in shock and disbelief, knowing that whatever would be coming out of the water would be much more stronger and more intense coming out.

 

Cole, not wanting to wait any longer to see what was going to come out of the black ball, pointed his Keyblade at it and shot a beam of light. The light, however, only bounced off into space. Cole watched the beam disappear into the sky and looked back at the ball in horror as it began to move.

The ball began to shake violently, back and forth, until it came to a complete and sudden halt. It remained that way for a few seconds before rising out of the water slowly in front of Cole. The ball burst open in Cole's face and sent him flying backwards. He regained himself, thanks to his wings, and looked up to see Jordan, but with all black armor and curled up, looking as though he were asleep. Jordan opened his eyes to reveal his bright red eyes and massive black wings that erupted the moment he opened up his eyes. He got out of his curled position and smiled at Cole.

"Heh, you didn't think I didn't have a trick up my sleeves too, did you? Haha, looks like we're just alike now, huh?" Jordan smiled and summoned his Keyblade again, it now carrying a more threatening demeanor as it had black. sparks of electricity coming off of it.

Cole held up his own Keyblade and nodded. "Let's finish this."

"Let's."

Jordan flew straight toward Cole, hoping to hit him with his Keyblade. Cole quickly blocked it and this led to the two trading incredible blows to one another, all of which were blocked by the other. As the two began fighting more intensely than before, they found themselves flying everywhere in the area.

The two flew up together, in perfect sync, and fought on the bridge, again, no one taking a complete hit. The two then found themselves soaring high above the woods, exchanging equally matched blows above. And finally they began circling the castle with their intense battle, the sound of their Keyblades and their wings being the only thing that could be heard.

 

OOC: I'm not going to keep stretching this battle. I had anticipated that Destiny had posted at least once by now.


Cole and Jordan continued to ram into each other outside of the castle, beginning to hit harder than before. They collided so hard, in fact, the two bounced back off each other and landed on opposite sides of the castle. And then, as if they just instinctively knew where the other was, they flew at near full speed towards one another, crashing through the castle before locking Keyblades in the center of the throne room.

"You're not giving it your all, you're still holding back on me," Jordan yelled, beginning to push his Keyblade against Cole's, showing his strength.

Cole was losing the fight and he knew it, he took a deep breath before putting more effort into fighting back Jordan. He finally began to level and balance out the amount of strength the two were demonstrating. He growled loudly and pushed Jordan off of him, to catch his breath. 'My power, it's beginning to waiver....I'll have to use everything now," he thought.

Jordan breathed heavily, completely ignoring everything around him, and chuckled out, "Is....is.....that the best....you got?" He quickly got himself together and stood up straight, getting into his battle position again. "I'm ready to end this!"

Cole huffed and puffed before finally replying, "Yeah....me too."



Darian weakly stared up at Marluxia and Angel as Marluxia said his last words before disappearing. Before he was completely gone, he weakly rose a hand to reach out for Angel before passing out, just as the two disappeared.