Origins 2: Forgotten Bonds

"You! Tall, dark and angry! Be prepared for Jordan's call! It's nearly time..."

Tall? Zenaku thought as he looked over his shoulder at the pink-haired man. "I'm not that tall am I?" He said. Zenaku was still in the training room, with a number of knocked-out apprentices on the ground behind him. He recognized the pink-haired man as Marluxia, a nobody that had some connection to Jordan. "Too bad I didn't know it was tonight, or else I would have gotten some sleep. Ah well, if the Master bids that I come, I will be there. Now, where does he need me? I can use a dark corridor to appear there immediately."

Just then, a Neo-shadow manifested itself next to Zenaku. It had a sense of urgency about it, and Zenaku immediately knew that Jordan had summoned it to call him. A rush of adrenaline ran through Zenaku, as he put his hand forward, crushing the Neo-shadow and absorbing the darkness.

"Traverse Town," Zenaku said, opening a corridor of darkness and stepping through. The other end of the portal opened in a random area of the world, as was the nature of the corridors, but he could easily sense his Master's presence nearby. He rushed as fast as he could to Jordan, even using bursts of darkness to speed himself. When he finally made it to the alley, he saw not only Jordan, but Deimos and Violet as well. Ignoring his recent encounter with Deimos that didn't go so well, Zenaku put his fist over his heart and bowed low. "You needed me, Master?"

 

"He's right," Zenaku said, hearing Deimos' inspiring speech. Without getting up from his bow, Zenaku continued: " You made me what I am, and I will not forget that. I owe you a debt that can never be repaid. I will follow you to the ends of this world and any others that you traverse. Our enemies, those festering beings of light, will all fall to the power of darkness."

 

"You saved my life." Violet smiled at him. "Now I'll help you." Violet smiled

"Well show them, well proove to them that youre not one to be taken lightly that you are who you are and your great at it." Violet smiled at him looking over at the other two.



Selena slowly made her way towards the third district. Was what she was doing right, did she know what was good?

 

Zenaku saw his Master open a portal. He followed Jordan through it and looked around; it appeared that he was very high up. Not being all that familiar with the world, he tried to absorb as much information about the area around him as possible. When he thoroughly surveyed his surroundings, he then turned to Jordan.

"Master, if I may ask, what happened?" Zenaku said, a twinge of concern in his voice. "Deimos seems injured, and I feel much has happened in my absence."

 

Sky heard Virgil running over and he nodded his head.

"So this is it?" Sky asked as they arrived at the third district. He looked up and saw the guy he heard all about.


Selena arrived to the third district and stopped. She looked up sensing the darkness seeing Jordan arrive in a dark portal.

"Jordan..." She shook her head. "I made a promise, I plan to follow through. I will bring you back, I will bring back the good Jordan." She said before turning her head seeing all of her trainees, apprentices, and more.

 

Zenaku leapt off of the tower in earnest. Flying through the air, he landed near Jordan and Marluxia using a small blast of darkness to cushion the fall. He then looked at the scene around him. The Warriors of Light on one side, and the Servants of the Darkness on the other. The air was incredibly tense, and he could feel that everyone was waiting to fly into battle.

Zenaku summoned his Keyblade. Trying to sense the relative powers of his enemies, he felt two very large spikes of power and light, presumably belonging to Virgil and Selena. Zenaku had heard stories of Virgil's power, and would not fight him one on one if he could help it. With orders to keep Selena alive, Zenaku decided he would stay clear of her too. That left a number of Warriors that he could still engage in combat, but, being the opportunist that he was, Zenaku quickly honed in on what he thought was the weakest link, but, in contrast, one of the brightest hearts. A young-looking boy with blonde hair stood among the Warriors of Light. Perfect, Zenaku thought. He looked to Jordan, then to Selena, who had just finished her speech. Zenaku felt to reason to wait any longer and so he dashed toward the blonde boy. When he got in range, Zenaku used his Keyblade to swipe at the enemy's face horizontally, while simultaneously letting a burst of darkness out of his other hand, aimed at the boys gut.

OOC: just to be clear, Sky is the one Zenaku is targeting.

 

Selena summoned her keyblade and extended her arms.

"I once had darkness in my heart trying to control me, but now, now I'm one with the dawn." Selena told him. "Warriors of dawn, light..." Seleba paused and looked over at Saix hiding spot, "and twilight, we're heroes of the good." Selena spoke.

"Jordan, I promised to bring you back, I will not allow you to devour anymore hearts of good people." Selena spoke.


Violet came through last.

"I call Selena's Bly friend, Virgil." Violet spoke glancing at Deimos, "I'll take him."

 

Selena put up her keyblade to block the attack and watched it evaporate hearing Jordan laugh. Selena smirked.

"Oddly, I believe I was the one to pull those stunts, however when I was mad at you something else would occur." Selena looked up as a shot of thunder came down striking Jordan, a weak attack nonetheless, but waited to see his reactions.


Violet shook her head.

"Listen here, you lost to him out there, now it's my turn. Plus do not underestimate my power. I've dealt with far worst powers my entire life, I've built up... an immunity to it, if you will." Violet said grinning eyeing Virgil. "Plus seems only right that those two battle it out, the couples battle each other out, and I have no plans today of dying, perhaps killing. So go battle that girl over there, or as my eaves dropping all the time, your sister." Violet said looking over at Ashley.


Sky stood in shock before looking over at Arashi.

"You ready?" Sky asked looking at him. "We were supposed to be battle partners tomorrow, maybe this is what we had in mind though." Sky spoke referring to how they were going to battle but now they'd be battling against an enemy side by side.

Sky saw Zanaku run at him and easily blocked the attack. Sky raised an eye brow before striking back with a easily powerful ice attack freezing Zanaku's feet to the ground. Sky raised his keyblade up.


Angel watched in horror of the battle. They were no friends of hers if they casted their own friendships away.



OOC:: Edited, and so we're clear Sky is actually pretty strong, after all he's Selena's apprentice.

 

The blonde boy reacted with incredible grace, effortlessly knocking away both of Zenaku's attacks and casting an ice spell in response. It connected with Zenaku, freezing his feet to the ground. He growled at the blonde boy. Perhaps I underestimated this one's power, he thought. Then, the man who he assumed to be Virgil began to speak; he addressed the Servants of Darkness in an incredibly hostile manner. Zenaku internally laughed and thought This guy's supposed to be on their side, right? So much hate... how has he not succumb to darkness?

Zenaku quickly returned to the situation at hand and began to think of his strategy. Damn, I wish i could cast fire magic, Zenaku thought, kicking himself. Oh well. I'll let instinct be my strategy for now. He imbued the tip of his Keyblade with darkness and slashed at the ice at his feet, clearing it quickly. Then he studied his target, who had an eyebrow raised. Zenaku adorned a full-toothed grin.

"What's the matter? You look confused," Zenaku taunted, lazily pointing at the boy with his free hand. Then, before he spoke again, his look changed to one of hatred."You are a disgusting guardian of the light, and I will defeat you in the name of my Master and darkness itself."

Zenaku decided that he would test the speed of his adversary. He quickly jumped to the left, then the right, and used dark bursts to supplement his speed as he dashed around the blonde boy in a diamond shape. If he was fast enough to find an opening, he would unleash a relentless chain of slashes with his Keyblade.

 

Selena stared Jordan down the battling occurring all around them.

"We can stop this Jordan, you just need to stop feeding off of hearts of good people." Selena told him.


Sky shook his head.

"I'm kind of shock at how easy I stopped you is all, I hope I don't sound cocky, I can't tell a lie." Sky shrugged watching his opponent run around him. He sighed before releasing a powerful fire spell that shot out in all directions around him hitting Zenaku.


Violet grinned.

"Is that so. My father was the devil, and my entire life up until 6 months ago, I faced his fury and his pain, to the point I feel no pain. So please enlighten me what I don't already know." Violet said grinning as her body began to radiate darkness. "Feed me what pain you have to give, I'm not bothered by whatever flame you may possess." She said as darkness opened up at Virgil's feet and grabbed hold of his legs pulling him down at the ground. Chains shot up next grabbing his arms to keep him immobile, it happened all so very fast.

"I know of your power Virgil, please show it to me, show it to me... show it to a real demon." Violet said releasing the secret only Jordan knew of. The secret that she was tortured as a child because she was a demon who killed the entire town but her father of the light was strong enough to fight off and continue to attack and harm day after day.

The truth was much like Angel, Violet was born of a child of a realm, the child of the realm of darkness that is.