The Shadow Knight Begins: Part Three: Endgame

Chapter 2: A Knight Amidst Chaos

CLOCK TOWER, SOUTH LUNAR

Up in south lunar lies an old clock tower, first built in the 1900's during Lunar cities heyday it served as the city's main place of time, and a symbol of what they city could be. Today, it was just one clock tower among dozens around the city, and like most historical objects in the city, old, and covered with graffiti down below and the tower hadn't been working since 1988.

No one worked maintenance on it because it wasn't found cost effective to re-tool it, and to most people, it was a public eyesore.

No one had been up inside the clock interior of the clock tower for years, except for today.

For today inside the tower there was a lone figure, a figure called the shadow knight.

Me.

For some reason, my evil side noticed this place and out of desperation I landed here in the clock tower when trying to escape Dorian's anti-shadow knight missiles.

After stopping Dorian's siege of my father's building I found myself caught in a sinister trap that I had foolishly fallen into.

Some detective I turned out to be.

The idea of Dorian's trap was to put me through the gauntlet of hostage situations, while hopping that some of his goons would shoot me with that tainted mutagen. A mutagen that would slowly coarse through my veins, feeding of my inner darkness and strengthening it until, all the while causing my negative attributes to take control.

It was like a virus, a virus designed to turn me into something like Dorian.

It was working slowly at first, if I hadn't fallen into that mutagen tank trap that Dorian had laid, I might have been able to fight the influence of the dark mutagen, but that second bath in the mutagen not only increased and unlocked a couple powers I didn't know how to use yet, it also increased the time and potency of the transformation process of the dark mutagen.

Dorian put me through that gauntlet to see the good side of me die, my true self, my sanity, as damaged as it was...he wanted to see it die... then watch as the mutagen overdose killed me.

I knew that the dark mutagen was winning its battle against the mutagen that already existed in my blood, because now I was starring, breathing heavily, dying as I look out at the new avatar of my conscious being, the dark version of me, the shadow knight evil...what I was to become once the dark mutagen was finished and had reached my mind.

I wondered to myself where the Mariko and shadow knight avatars were, as crazy as it sounds I hoped that these figments of my damaged mind didn't end up getting wiped out by Dorian's mutagen...I wasn't sure if I could fight this influence on my own.

The dark shadow knight, currently just a hazy specter, looked at me with blazing eyes of contempt.

"There's no point in fighting it Kagae. Give up...give in to the power" the dark me taunted.

"Never!" I spat in defiance.

"You can't fight it Kagae, I'm what you should be instead of what you are" the dark me sneered.

"I'm not you, and you're not me!" I spat, "I can feel what you want. You want blood, destruction, tyranny...that's your idea of punishing evil!"

"Yours too..." the dark me added, "Blackie's death, that night skulls death, and that loser Derek Lensher, who instigated Mariko's death and Rachel's attempted murder...."

"Not my fault!" I said in defiance, "they killed themselves, their guilt, their evil killed them..."

"Their fear of you!" my dark me corrected, "Their fear they use on people used on them. What better way of justice than that right? Only you don't have the guts to use the real way to keep criminals from hurting people, you have to put the fear of god...the fear of you into criminals...by killing them, and anyone else who embraces evil"