"Void...are you alright?" Leon asked opening the door to his house.
"Nothing I can't handle." Void's voice was cold.
"No one's seen you for a couple of days, we thought something had happened to you." Leon ushered Void in, checked that the street was clear and closed the door.
"You should know by now Leon, I'm harder to kill than most. Enough with the small talk, I know you weren't worried about me really. Where's Sora?" Void turned to face Leon.
"Why? So you can stab him again?" Leon rested a hand on the handle of his gunblade.
Void laughed, "He told you that huh? I had to find out something."
"What?"
"If he was strong enough. You know at least a little about this," Void touched the handle of his Daito. "You know what it can do. I can't fight with someone who will be weakened by it."
"The heartless?"
"So you know?"
"We had a run in with them...and a strange man. He weiled a huge scythe. The same guy who did that?"
Void made no comment. He glanced around the room and seemed to notice something.
"Sora!" Void's voice was commanding, and as if by magic Sora opened a door into the room.
"What?" Sora stood there with one hand on the handle of the door.
"The time draws ever near. The heartless are coming, I don't know why but something has upset the balence. We need to find the other keybearer. The two of you must go on a mission. To find the Keys of-" Void was cut short by the front door being blown off its hinges.
Time seemed to slow once again for Void's eyes. He turned towards the sound and watched as the door was thrown across he room, directly at Sora. He darted forwards drawing his Daito. He stopped infront of Sora and slashed upwards. Time returned to normal and the two halves of the door crashed either side of Sora, leaving him unharmed.
Before anyone could say anything a figure stepped into the room.
"So you have finally found some power from the sword."
"Zasalamel." Void took a step forwards, his sword pressed up against the back of his shoulder. "Leon, take Sora and go. Try and find Cloud, he will point you in the direction of a safe place. I will meet you there."
"You sure you don't need any help?" Leon had already drawn his gunblade.
"No, just take Sora and go. Teach the kid something useful!"
Leon didn't need telling again, he ran towards Sora and picked him up as he passed, taking him towards the back of the house.
"Don't make me take you down again. I will kill that keybearer."
"Not today."
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Void had given up trying to remember the name of the spell. It seemed like he had hung there for an eternity. The warmth that had kept him company was fading. He could barely feel it now.
A tear fell from his eye. It rolled down his cheek and hung from his jaw line before dropping into the darkness that surrounded him.
This is the end, thought Void. All that running and this is where I will die. Alone, cold and no where near my home. So cold...if only I could remember that fire spell. Fire....fire.......fire.......fir...aga.....firaga?
"FIRAGA!" Void screamed the word as loud as he could, it hurt so much to draw breath now.
Suddenly his world shifter perspective. It no longer felt as though he was hanging from a wall, but lying on the ground. The sword that had pinned him to a wall for so long had started to low faintly. What looked like motlen fire was running beneth the surface of the metal, as if the core of the sword was on fire.
"Rise. Rise from the sword and gain your true power."
The words just seemed to form in his head, as if the sound had bypassed his ears and just filtered into his brain.
Void pulled up his knees and put his feet flat on the floor. Gritting his teeth he began to push up. Slowly his body lifted form the ground, sliding up the blade of the sword. He could feel the warmth returning. It radiated from the sword all through his body.
Slowly, so slowly he pushed himself upright. Almost there, he could feel it. Void couldn't look down, only straight up. He didn't want to see the sword sliding through his body.
Suddenly there was no resistance and he fell forward. Putting a hand on the ground to stop himself from collapsing he turned and took a grip of the sword. He took a few seconds to breath. Then he pulled the sword from the ground and held it above his head.
A wind roared past him from no where and a huge flash of fire tore across his vision. In the light he could see countless skeletons around him, obvious remains to those who could not gain the swords powers.
The fire passed and Void had changed. He was dressed in a black sleevless shirt with leather trousers and heavy, mid-calf high leather boots. From his waist hung an open front skirt that was Obsidain in colour. Suspended at the base of his back was a black saya from the sword he held in his hands. His already long hair had turned an Obsidain colour and flicked in the wind that rushed past him.
The wind died and Void sheathed the sword. He took a step forwards and words came to his lips that he had never heard before. Void vanished from that place, and never returned.
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Zasalamel rushed forwards bringing his scythe back ready to slice at Void's neck. As the sycthe's blade arced round it whistled through the air. Void ducked, leaving nothing for the deadly blade to make contact with. He rolled to the side and rose bringing his sword round, ready for an attack.
Zasalamel grunted and used the momentum of the scythe to attack again. Void stepped into the attack and block the scythe easily with his sword.
"Leave Zasalamel before you do something that will make me kill you." Void pushed hard against Zasalamel's weapon and forced him back. He brought the Daito over his head for his own attack, but was blocked by the long shaft that made the handle of the scythe.
"Fool. I had thought that our last encounter would have shown you that it is I who is the stronger. Though I see that I need to have taken your eyes. I wonder, is it thanks to the sword you are still able to see?" Zasalamel jumped back, swinging the scythe at Void's torso.
Void bent over backwards to dodge Zasalamel's attack, landing on his back. Flicking his body back onto his feet Void ran towards Zasalamel who began to spin his scythe around his body. A wind picked up in the room and formed a whirlwind around Zasalamel.
As Void flew through he air towards Zasalamel he could see that the scythe seemed to have a random path through the whirlwind, creating a deadly future for him.
Void took hold of the Daito's handle with both hands and ploughed into the whirlwind. Again and again he knocked the scythe away from him, but again and again it was carried round by the powerful wind and hurled at him.
He pushed forwards, growing closer to Zasalamel. Everything seemed to be going so slowly...as if he were moving at an incredible slow speed. Then, almost as quickly as the duel had begun Void was thrown from the other side of the whirlwind and landed in a crouch, his sword held out to his right side.
The whirlwind died and Zasalamel crashed to the floor, his scythe spinning into the ground and embedded its blade.
Void walked over to Zasalamel but could see that he had done all the damage he needed to. He was still alive, but only just. A huge gash lashed across his neck.
"Remember this fight well Zasalamel. You will not take he life of the keybearer, any keybearer." Void sheathed his sword and walked across the trashed room and exited through the door the Leon and Sora had used.
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Meddigo
INFO: Sorry for the big long one!
I got carried away lol. I hope you didn't get a really weird image of Void when he gained the Daito. I took inspiration from this webpage and picture,
Kadaj (not AC
), again, sorry for an SP's, etc. It's late and I'm tired and I can't spell anyway!
ha!
