I hadn't felt pain like this in anyway. My left arm flew away to the side.
I groaned in pain and stopped the bleeding. I could feel Sage's emotions, he was worried and anxious.
"Don't do anything stupid!" I yelled at him.
Rosemary plunged the sword into the ground and placed a barrier around the area.
I grabbed my arm and reattached it with my shadows. My fingers were barely moving and I stepped further back.
Rosemary pulled out her sword and swung again, but his time I had my shield. The impact knocked me back, but I blocked it.
She grinned and spoke, "For a Devil, you are quite durable."
She then relentlessly swung her sword at me wrecking the surrounding environment.
I started pushing back little by little as much as I could. I summoned a sword and slashed at her, however her raw power was greater than mine. I felt my body push into the ground and succumb to her overwhelming power.
She picked me up and threw me with one hand. "I'm not satisfied with this."
I barely had any energy to pick myself up, but I did. I raised my hand forward and summoned my shield.
She went back to slashing at it until I was back up against a rock wall.
I slowly poured my Magic into this final technique and I released it.
My shadows encased my body and slowly fit over my torso like armor. I felt better and stood up straight. My shadow armor encased every part of my body and I made a pair of wings to combat her physical ability. I also reinforced my fists and arms with studs and plates.
Rosemary tilted her head. "Is that the Dark Form?" She seemed confused.
I nodded and she grinned. "This will be a first."
I used my wings and appeared behind her. I thrusted my fist into her stomach. It hit hard and pushed her back a few meters. I then gave her a present.
I relentlessly punched her until I grew tired. She broke free and slashed at me with her sword, I blocked with my plated arm and grabbed her face and pushed her down into the ground. I held her down with my foot on her torso.
She struggled and tried to push me off. I pushed down harder and I heard a roar. I looked back and saw the Wyrm a few feet away. It slithered towards me and swung its tail at me. I avoided it and let Rosemary free.
"That's odd, I've heard that your Dark Form only happens once your bubbling up with rage, but I don't sense any from you." Rosemary said.
"Do you want rage?! You already tore my arm off once!" I yelled. My armor seemed to change with my anger and I calmed down.
"I'd do anything right now, just to see you burning!" She said. She hopped onto the Wyrm and changed her weapon into a bow. She fired several arrows like earlier, but these were much stronger.
I avoided them barely with my wings and the ones that did it were causing my armor to disappear. I noticed an arrow fly towards Sage. He used his flames to avoid it easily.
I was tired of this. I advanced towards her and avoided the Wyrms mouth. The Wyrm seemed to strike at me when she fired an arrow. There seemed to be a connection between the two.
I swung at her, but was hit by the Wyrms tail. I was flung back to where I was a second ago. I had no choice, but to fight it as well.
I avoided the arrows and swung my fists at the Wyrm. It was barely doing any damage to it.
Rosemary panted and I felt the barrier around us weaken. I summoned a spear and threw it as I hard as I could at the barrier. It opened and I yelled at Sage, "Get out of here!"
He did and quickly got out just a second before it close up.
The Wyrm swung its tail again and I exerted full power to stop it and then I dug my hands into it.
I grasped the Wyrm by its tail and pulled it. I swung and swung and then I flung it. The Wyrm flew towards the barrier wall and hit it. Rosemary jumped off and summoned her great sword.
I summoned a spear and we went head to head once again. She was starting lack in her power and I took advantage. I disarmed her and pushed back down. I thrust my spear towards her, but held it back.
"I'm not a cold blooded killer." I explained. "Even if you think of me as a Devil, I'll prove you wrong."
She grinned and laughed, "There's no proving me wrong! I have a personal connection to you Devils!" I lost my train of thought and that's when it happened.
She thrust a sword through my chest. My armor disappeared and I fell onto my knees. The pain felt great, but I could feel and hear everything clear. "I'll bring your corpse and offer it to the God of Light." She screamed.
I watched her get up and her Wyrm coil up beside her. My eyesight started fading quick and I could hear her muffled voice. "It's odd, how you were able to keep the Form for this long."
My mind went blank and sure enough I felt as though I was dead. I had hoped that there would be an afterlife, but I felt like I was travelling an endless desert.
I was approached by several faceless individuals and asked, "Where are we?"
I couldn't answer them and kept walking.
Sure enough I was rewarded with an interesting conversation.
A faceless woman approached me and told me her life story.
She then told me about her son, whom she named, "Valian Dark."
I broke down and fell to my knees.
"Mom, it's me! I'm your son." I yelled.
The faceless woman seemed frightened and calm at the same time.
"Well, I can't tell if your telling the truth, I can't see your face." She said.
"Mom, remember the time I had cut my hand with the knife. I flinched and then you started crying. I had never known why until a few weeks ago. Then there was that time that you had made a new type of bread and Dad took a bite and asked for it every time after."
"I'm so sorry. I don't remember that." She said.
My heart felt weak. "I've been losing my memories. The only thing I can remember is my sons face and name." She explained.
Suddenly a horn was blown.
"Excuse me, I have to leave." She said.
"Mom! Wait!" I yelled.
Suddenly I could feel again and I slowly opened my eyes. I looked around and saw that I was in a metal cage with cuffs on my ankles and wrists. I was inside somewhere and it was on the sea. I noticed someone in the cage next to me. "Hey!" I said.
The man in the cage looked crazy and said, "The dead mans alive!"
He started screaming and the door opened and I was face to face with Rosemary.
"I put a sword through your chest and your still alive?" She said.
"What can I say? I'm pretty hard to kill." I said.
My mind was racing, "How, how am I still alive? I was sure I was roaming the land of the dead. I even met my mother."
She hit the cage bars and shook me back to reality. "I'm going to kill you whatever it takes."
She started to leave, but I yelled, "WHERE ARE WE?"
She looked back and said, "We're on the open seas, I'm taking you to the Holy Lands."
She exited the room and I laid back on the floor.
I remember that on the maps, the Holy Lands is in the far east. Farther away from Ebix and Udes. I would be taken away from my home very far way.
-FIN(FOR NOW)
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Dark: Saga One
FantasyValian Dark is young man from the poverty ridden lands of Duxia and dreams of going to the Bekerth Magic School, however will the the things that he dreams be what lays in hiding for him there?