Xraktos
I walked through the Castle Oblivion smirking to myself. I was going to start it whether Xerebus was ready or not. With one swift motion I formed Cipher in my hand and began feeding it the summon energy. The whip twitched in my hand and steadily grew larger. The end hook split and formed nine heads, Cipher’s truest form, the cat-o-nine-tails. First I would lock up all the subordinates in this castle to keep their hands out of my plans, and then I would proceed to take Citadel Abyss.
The first victim I found seemed startled and tried and fend me off with a set of twin blades. I knocked them down easily and strung him up by the ends of Cipher. One of Cipher’s heads wrapped complacently around the nobodies neck and begged for me to finish the job, but with my intentions understood after a moment, Cipher released a limp body onto the floor. I summoned a few lesser nobodies and gave them exact orders on where to lock all the nobodies up. It continued like this until I came upon an interesting fight in the training room.
“Now what do we have here?” I smirked. “Xakiah of course the meddler …what are you up to? And you as well Setxune…simple training? ....”
Xakiah gave me a sudden look but then her face was instantly composed. Setxune did the same.
“None of your concern,” Xakiah retorted.
“In my castle,” I answered. I smirked. “Well, whatever your goals are, say good bye to them…..”
Cipher’s heads brushed together and twisted around each other impatiently. An image of Martel’s face appeared in my mind, and I felt the situation’s full thrust again. I placed both hands on cipher and began summoning.
“Guardian of the summons of Light and Wind and partner to Luna, I summon the,” I said quickly. “Aska.”
A ring of light circulated just as Luna’s had, and a boy with yellow and purple wings appeared in the center of it. His back was ached a bit as if he was looking at the ceiling, but his waving blonde hair seemed to act as a shield. With both arms out and wings back, Aska recited the pact summon status.
“Pactmaker Kratos, I, Aska, have been summoned here by the pact we share, but are you willing to accept the price of my summons?” Aska asked.
“As always I am,” I answered.
With this, Aska opened his wings forwards and his head was brought to an upright position looking forwards at Xakiah. A purple gem formed between his enclosed hands, and the yellow wings became gold, and the tips of them shimmered with violet. The boy looked around cautiously and maintained the air space between him and the floor even after the summon was over and the ring of light had vanished.
“Pactmaker,” Aska said quietly.
“As the extensions of our pact, I reserve the right to use your skill,” I answered.
“Indeed,” Aska answered. “And I shall grant you it.”
The gem between his fingers shimmered and gusts of air whipped through the room. Xakiah put her hand up to avoid the bush of the air, and Cipher and I started forwards. With a flick of my wrist, Cipher’s hooks darted it Xakiah. She dodged them as I had expected her to, but as each of Cipher’s heads continued to come at Xakiah, I began to work my way into her head.
Aska looked at Setxune, and neither of them moved. The gem within the enclosed fingers of Aska shimmered again and a gust of air bushed Setxune back.
“You are a human,” Aska said in childish wonderment, “But not a human….a human but not a human…. A Nobody of a human?”
At hearing this, I almost stopped and sighed. Aska was indeed a young summon spirit being the obscure creation of Luna the spirit of light and Sylph the spirit of air, but I had expected a more knowledgeable creation.
“I am Setxune,” Setxune answered. “And that is all.”
“Setxune and that is all,” Aska reputed. “Interesting…..I am Aska.”
As I worked my way into Xakiah’s thoughts, I found that for a spit second we both shared the strange wonderment as to why Setxune and Aska had yet to start fighting. Xakiah doubled back as I lashed out forwards, but with a quick flick of my wrist Cipher was at her again. All nine heads were moving with the twist of my wrist, and even as Xakiah tried to back up, the length of Cipher just continued to extend.
“What are you?” Setxune asked still not moving.
“What are you?” Aska asked back.
“A wielder of what appears to be darkness,” Setxune answered.
“A summon spirit of light and air,” Aska answered back.
“Shall we?” Setxune asked.
“As a requirement of my pact I must fight alongside Kratos, but I will allow you the first move,” Aska answered.
And with that, Setxune formed his shadow blade once more and stood ready. Aska gave an almost pained look and clasped the gem. A photon exploded directly in front of Setxune, but he backed up and then jumped forwards with his shadow blade in hand. Aska’s wings shoved a pocket of air between them and another photon exploded.
I began focusing on my own fight again. Xakiah’s mind kept trying up barriers, but I crushed them all, and soon I started blocking off her own spells from her. The further her mind tried to distance itself from my own the more I was able to tear away. With the pressure of the fight on, Cypher lashed out with the twists of my wrist. A hiss rang through the room as the whip brushed against walls and the floor.
Xakiah had backed herself almost into a corner, but as I was about to have Cypher finish there, she jumped up and used the corner of the ceiling to lash back down. She had almost made it towards me before I flicked my wrist again and Cypher blocked.
It was then that Xakiah started fading into the shadows. So she was trying to use as assassin’s sneakiness….I called forth several Dusks around me opening up my own sight and waited.
In the meantime, I heard Aska’s fight with Setxune. The sound of Aska’s high-pitched voice uttering the words photon over and over again was almost annoying. I could tell Setxune was getting closer to Aska and getting ready to attack. The summon had better do something before Setxune overtook him.
“Stop it you meanie!” Aska’s voice yelled. “Air Blade!”
A gust of air ran through the room, and a few of the Dusks were swept aside. It was then that Xakiah’s mind sparked up with a plan of attack. I returned the Dusks to their stance around me instantly, and I knew what Xakiah was planning in that instant.
“Is that all you have to say?” Setxune challenged Aska. “For a supposedly strong summon spirit, you appear quite weak.”
“Don’t call me weak, you meanie,” Aska answered. “I’m going to make you pay you big meanie….Air Blade!”
Once again the air whipped though the room brushing away the Dusks. In that instant, Xakiah formed out of the shadows and attacked. I flicked my wrist back and Cypher beat her back. I could hear the sound of the clash between Cypher and skin. Xakiah quickly returned to the shadows again as a defense.
I pulled the Dusks up around me again and started to see through them once more. The shadows had lengthened in the room, and I doubted that it was because of the lighting. It was time to finish this indeed.
“Aska,” I ordered. “Enough weak attacks.”
The boy turned his head directly towards me, but one of his eyes always rested on Setxune keeping him at bay.
“Yes,” he said calmly.
“Release your largest light attack,” I ordered.
“Wha-“ Aska started.
“I order it,” I answered. “Release your largest light attack now.”
“A…..as you wish….” Aska answered.
The purple gem in Aska’s hand turned white, and all the light in the room began to absorb into it.
“Photon,” Aska said quickly, and with that an explosion rocked the walls. The Dusks that I had been using to see were completely destroyed, and I was left standing blind in the room. My mind quickly moved into Aska’s and for a moment he flinched back unsure of what was happening in his mind, but as soon as he realized it was me, he relaxed. The explosion reached its height, and I locked my legs to the ground. In a second, I heard the impacts of two bodies hitting the walls. I sighed a bit.
The sound of Aska’s unconscious body hitting the floor came as no surprise to me. Indeed I had called upon him to use all his power at once, and when his mind was suddenly ripped from the connection I had made, I did not flinch. I summoned more Dusks and assessed the damage in the room with them. It appeared that there was barely any wall left standing in the room, and for a moment I wondered why the ceiling had not come down. Xakiah and Setxune were taken to be held with the other prisoners in the dungeon.
Cypher all but disintegrated in my hand. The summoning process was draining enough as it was. When asked what to do with Aska by one of the Dusks, I turned to it and told it to leave. The other Dusks left as well. I walked silently over to Aska and picked him up. His wings unfolded through my arms and draped on the floor a bit.
“Aska…..forgive me,” I said breathing out. “Martel would not have had me use your power in this way especially because you are so young……But I do have a purpose…I do….And with this I concede to my half of the pact….”
I felt the drain on my energy exhausting. A ring of light appeared on the floor again and slowly Aska revived. When he was able to stand, I let him.
“Thank you….Pactmaker…” Aska said quietly as a ring of light encircled him. In that instant he was gone. I waited for a moment to gain composure again and then continued to find and confine the rest of those in the castle.
End of Part I
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@___@ *twitching on the floor*
Triskix: .__. sorry people but it appears her brain is fried.
Xraktos: -__- indeed.
