Archangel's Demise

My Dark Place 5

A day has passed since the attack on Kagame and Lisa, "do you think they noticed who we were?" asked Tashiro. "I doubt it, but I think Lisa recognized you," Alyson said. Tashiro grunts and walks to the training field, Lisa beside him looking down at the ground with sadness. "You want to talk to me about it don't you?" Tashiro said silently. "You almost killed me, and you killed someone innocent in the process", said Alyson. Tashiro shutting his eyes and having a flashback of the day he lost control of himself. "Alyson! they're up here, we need to save them" Tashiro shouted from a burning house. Alyson flew up into the 6th-floor window and landed next to Tashiro, they both stop because of a man blocking their path to the 7th floor. "Excuse me, sir, you must evacuate immediately" Tashiro commanded, the man beginning to laugh a bit. "Boy, you should have left me to my work," said the man, Alyson releases her chains and makes a staff. The man releases chains from his arms and his chest. "What?" Tashiro was confused, he had never seen chains come out of a chest. The man's chains formed into a weapon and the chains from his chest formed an armored chest plate. Tashiro and Alyson clashed with the man, the armor blocking most of their damage the man whipped the chains and hits Alyson across the room. Tashiro charging and attempting to slash with his swords, the man grabbing Tashiro by the throat and slamming him down. Alyson being knocked out not able to do anything wakes up to see the man walking towards her with a spear. Tashiro waking up to see Alyson being stabbed in the chest as Alyson falls still. Tashiro screams in anger as black energy spirals around him. Tashiro's mask falls from his face as a portion of the black energy spirals around his face to make a new mask. "What the hell?" Questioned the man, he stood in awe as the energy grew stronger and darker. Tashiro's chains fused with the black energy and the energy making an armor around his whole body. "Enough of this," the man said as he changed his weapon from a spear to a long blade. The man began to charge Tashiro, but in a blink of an eye, Tashiro would teleport behind him. "What?" Shouted the man as he turned to Tashiro, the man gave a swing of his sword but the sword did not make a dent in Tashiro's armor. Tashiro smiled as he lashed his left arm forward to hit him with a loose chain. The man fell back to a wall falling, Tashiro grabs him by the throat and begins squeezing a bit. Tashiro smiling maniacally takes his right arm and the chains make a roughed pattern edged sword. He swings his arm back and stabs the man through the armor and into his chest. The man coughed up blood, Alyson behind Tashiro, grabbing him by the shoulder and saying weakly "Stop Tashiro". Tashiro turns his head towards her, he lets go of the man and kicks her back into a wall. Alyson sitting up grunting in pain looks up at Tashiro walking towards her. "Snap out of it Tashiro!" She shouted Tashiro swings his sword from the ground up to unleash a black energy spike from the ground and towards her. Alyson barely dodges the attack as she's fallen to her side, in that instant Tashiro is above her holding a dagger. As he lifts his arm up to stab Alyson, he sees a pendant hanging from his neck with a picture of Lisa. Alyson notices the pendant and says, "yes! We're your friends come back, Tashiro! Don't let it take over you completely!" The mask begins to disintegrate into the air and the black energy being lifted into the air disappearing. Tashiro's eyes go from all black to normal, Tashiro falls to his knees. As he huffs heavily, Alyson stares at him as she knew what he had become. Alyson falls unconscious and lays on the floor, "Alyson," Tashiro said weakly. Tashiro picks her up and walks toward the exit as the building was beginning to fall. At the exit, the man stands up and points his hand at Tashiro ready to unleash his final attack. Tashiro turns to him and uses his body to protect Alyson from the attack. The building rubble falls on the man canceling his attack, Tashiro exits the building and makes sure that the building is empty. Tashiro lays Alyson on the table at their base and stares at her. Vaguely remembering what he had done, he looks at Alyson in sadness. Tashiro walks out of the room and into his own. Back to the present Tashiro opens his eyes and he is in his room while Alyson is in the other room next to his. "Not again, it won't happen again," he said to himself, as he laid himself in his bed to sleep.