GENESIS (Living Armor X Male Reader)

GENESIS PART 9

(Morning)

Duncan's POV:

I hitched a ride inside of an aircraft to this ancient castle site, it may have taken all night to get there, but I was finally beginning to see the castle coming in to view below. It's most promising feature being the giant dragon statue on top of it

I landed the aircraft on the ground and hopped out of it, the ground was so dry and sandy, it was like a complete desert despite the area being a forest, nonetheless, I continued to walk ahead until, I was met by the entrance of the castle being blocked by some sort of boulder with a symbol embedded in to it.

"Good thing I came prepared" I said, I took out one of the blasters that I would normally equip my droids, however this blaster was a more dangerous prototype, about four times as strong as the blasters ahead of it.

I shot at the boulder blocking my entrance, causing it to break in to dozens of peices of stone. But, upon doing so, I felt an ominous feeling emitting from the ruins hit my body like a sudden powerful wave

"No turning back now" I said to myself, I entered the ruins, only to discover that everything was completely pitch black, even with the morning light peering in from the entrance didn't help, I took out my flashlight and it turned on, however, the chamber was still too dark to see ahead of me

'Damn it, where should I go now?...' Just before I could come up with a solution, a red line of light suddenly appeared from underneath of my feet, I jumped back after being startled, but I kept my eyes on the red line moving ahead of me

The red line moved to the left, and strangely enough...I followed it. I followed the line in the direction it was going in, it made another left, then a right, followed by a quick left then another right, with each turn the line made, I followed, until it went completely straight and went nearly half way up a wall, resulting in a red glowing handprint appearing in front of me

I got closer to examine the hand shape in the wall, it looked to be for the left hand, I didn't know exactly what to do, but my mind was only telling me one thing...touch it

I slowly reached my left hand out and pressed it against the hand shape, however the intense heat from the shape immediately burned the palm of my hand "Argh!" I yelled as I drew my hand back to see my palm already shaking uncontrollably with red singe marks and smoke coming from my hand

I looked back to the handprint again, the cursed sword must be on the other side, it has to be, maybe this is a test of enduring the pain, if I can't endure this, then I can't possibly beat Y/N!

In a fit of rage, I placed my hand back on the smoldering hot handprint which burned my hand even more, but I chose to endure, no, I NEEDED TO ENDURE IT, the heat continued to grow even worse, it felt as if my flesh was being cooked which at this point probably was the case due to the smell of my own flesh cooking spreading throughout the ruins

I pressed my hand against the print even harder, causing my entire body to shake as I tried to fight the urge to draw my hand back

'NO, NO, I MUST ENDURE, IF CAN'T DO THIS, THEN I'LL NEVER GET BACK AT HIM FOR WHAT HE DID TO ME!' I at this point I was on the verge of crying from the burning pain, but that was nothing compared to my strong will and anger towards Y/N

'That guy played me like a fool, I actually put my trust in him and called him my friend, turns out he was nothing more but a liar who wanted to see me fall...'

I could see the skin around my fingers burning off followed by the strong smell of something burning as I continued to not move my hand 'But to beat him, I must obtain power that rivals his, I NEED THIS, I NEED POWER...' At this point, my hand was completely black like charcoal, my flesh, my veins, my bones, all of it had felt completely charred