Darkest Days

29, Falling Terra

"Fine. Here's the deal- I'll explain all this bullshit if you manage to at least break all the bones in my limbs" He challenged as one of the masks he had dashed at me suddenly. Almost taking me out.

Thankfully, but also weirdly enough. I landed face first into Xela's chest because the sudden explosion spun me around. Honestly, I thought she'd help but...

"Get the fuck off me kiddo-" And she pushed me away to the side before I heard the roars of battle fill the room. Up until the room became a rubble of gravel and nothing more than a relic of warfare. I tried to get up, fought through a feeling of stinging pain throughout all my body. Like a boulder that holds me down, preventing me from moving forward. Just in that moment, I heard Kan Sensei say to me, while training one day.

'You always restrict yourself from the power you could truly hold.' That's true... I do.

The truth also hurts sometimes, that's why I began to get this feeling in my heart. A feeling of stinging pain...
So that's the source of my pain. All my life, I'd always hated the fact that I had this curse. The element of darkness, its like a curse that cannot be erased.
'Life always has a difficulty Specter, no one can be perfect' I heard him say again.

So I decided to take the truth head on. As I got up, struggling against what I could now see was the force of my dark aura constricting my body; I uttered the words: "Fine, I don't care anymore. You can haunt me l my life. But I don't think I'll see you as a big problem"

"What?! N-no!!" The Darkness replied to me. "This can't be..." The Dark aura itself began to wrap around my body gently. Its form taking the shape of a clean, heavyweight set of samurai armour. Pure matte black were the boots and the lower parts of the armour. Then, it stretched out and shifted, morphed and writhed into shape. Until it reached my eyes...

I then saw everything differently. "Noooooo!! How could you?! I... have mercy!! I feel weak!" I heard The Darkness cry. "Stop! Stop! It hurts...it hurts s-so much..."

I realised what I was doing now. My katana was penetrated into one of the thicker strands. So I picked it up and the darkness of the armour wrapped around my sword too. The chest plate, the sleeves. All matte black.

I even felt a surge of energy spike at me from within...

"Outta my way everyone!" I exclaimed through all the destruction before me. I managed to get my voice heard by everyone around the area despite it all being broken and torn apart from explosions, fire, wind and heavy floods. I channeled my energy into one quick step. One step I intended to take that would crush the ground beneath me to form spikes like the earth bending move. But instead, I ended up before Akuma and I had split his torso and legs apart.

Perfectly.

Before I knew it, I had even gone as far as to break the ceiling of my mansion and reach the skies. The skies... how?

What the fuck kinda powers do I even have?!

Nevertheless, I continued my full on barrage on him. Swiping my katana all over his body, slicing it all up and as I did, the white, bright sky began to get darker and darker. I began to see stars even.

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As he made his unexpected advance in absolutely shredding Akuma, all of his other friends and people he knew looked at him far in the sky. Head up and never looking down.

"What...the..." Maki whispered in complete awe. "Nah, ain't no way" Ari added on, her expression seemingly being hyper as she witnessed a true warrior being born before her.