Corrupted By Shadows - A Mianite Tale of Syndicate

Chapter 2: Tempted

/Tom's POV\

I struggled to sleep, I kept twisting and turning but I couldn't get myself to sleep. Why hasn't Dec unclipped my wings yet? The others got their wings unclipped straight after the Purge! Unless he knows something we don't know.. something I don't know. And why would Dianite do this?! He's not the alternate universe Dianite, it was my Dianite, the one who would send me cute notes, even though it was strange as Nether - not for the notes, but for a God and a mortal flirting. A few minutes passed and I fell into a strange sleep, Nade was in it. He was calling me into the darkness, to join the Shadows - did they want me again? Suddenly, I was trapped in the nightmare, I could feel myself kicking and clawing on my bed, but I could only see the image of me in the Shadows leading them.. fighting against the others - fighting against Dianite.

I woke up after 'The Nightmare', it was 11:48am - SHIT! I was supposed to be meeting the others at 12 noon, I won't make it on time! I scrambled to my feet, and saw my pillow ripped and empty, I looked down at my nails and saw a feather caught underneath one. "Damn, that nightmare was scary!" I pulled my suit on over my OpTic boxers from Hunting OpTic as a joke, and then signed by them in Lone Survivors, they were the times before.. the Gods happened. Then I tugged at my Yoteslaya vest, we miss you. We miss you. I wiped a tear that escaped from my eye and continued to do my tie, and put on my leather shoes (not ACTUAL leather boots, but like our kind of leather..yeah).

When I got there, they were all staring at me,(Tucker, Sonja, Jordan, Dec, Wag, Steve, Martha, Andor and Ianite.) "20..minutes..late Tom!" Tucker shouted across to me, "We shouldn't of expected him to be here on time, I mean - he's late to EVERYTHING!" Jordan said back to Tucker and also directing to me. "Can we start now?" Dec clapped and Champwan brought out a note for Dec to read,"We've got a lot to discuss today.. especially Tom..". Dec discussed with us a few things, starting with things I didn't give a shit about like: Ianite's missing bird, Martha and Steve getting engaged, I mean it is quite important for their part, but not for us - and that bitch still owes me 1000 diamonds!. Then the topic came - Dianite. "So if you guys haven't heard yet, Dianite has given his Chosen One the Sword of Dianite, and that is Wag!' I closed my eyes and clenched my fist, could hear the others clapping but I could feel Sonja and Tucker staring at me in sorrow. We talked in our minds. (Tom=T,Sonja=S,Tucker=TU)
S - I'm so sorry Tom..
T - You have nothing to be sorry about, Sonj!
TU - But now you have no one to follow, no one to aid you..
T - Does that matter anymore?! I'm free!
S - I guess that's true..
TU - Tom! Dec's looking at you! Focus!

I gained consciousness, and Dec was staring at me looking like I should be answering something. "Pardon..?" I was nervous just incase I missed a big part of the conversation, "Mind coming outside for a minute?' Phew.. "Uh, sure.." I started getting up and realised what I just said, "I mean, I don't mind, let's go!". We were standing outside, the sun beaming down on us "Tom.. now that you've left Dianite, no God will accept you." I felt like an anvil was just placed on my chest, "Wait..what?" Dec could see the anxiety in my eyes and frowned, "They know your true colours, they can't make risks with you being so.. dangerous." I shook my head and paced up and down the walkway. "A-are you sure?" I couldn't piece a single thought together, then I saw him in the background, Dianite. Dec saw him too, and realised that he was coldly staring at me, "Erm.. wait a second." I nodded as he flew up to Dianite. They were talking for a long while, and a few minutes after, Dec returned as Dianite gave me a dirty look. "Dianite said that he doesn't want you near him anymore, and that you should throw away his weapon he made for you - unless another God magically appears out of nowhere.." As he said that a huge gust of wind hit my back, making me tumble onto Dec, onto the floor. "Blame.. Dec..?" I whispered, he grinned.
/Dianite's POV\
I could still hear the conversation in the back of my head:
(Dianite=D,Dec=DE)
D - Tell him I don't want him near me!
DE - Are you sure?..
D - Of course I am!
D - And make sure he throws away that godly weapon I gave him.. Unless a God will magically appear!
DE - ..
D - Now go!
When that wind hit Tom, it wasn't normal. It had more character in it, and didn't affect Dec.

He's back.