Battle Academia (The original one)

Chapter 57: Umbral Trespass

Okay Zoe.. Remember what space doggy said.. Don't let him touch you with his Darkin weapon.. The Aspect thought as Rhaast was waking up from her sleep bubble.

The Darkin quickly dashed towards her twirling his scythe behind his back.

"Your dirty tricks don't work on me Darkin. You have to catch me first!", she yelled as she jumped into a purple portal. She had left it open long enough for him to follow her.

She could hear his desperate growls and exasperated breathing as she took the demon through a maze of portals. They had passed through the Shuriman desert, a dark cave in the void, the great waterfall of Ionia and even the Great City of Demacia among other places. Until they finally landed at the place that Zoe had intended to take him from the beginning: Mount Targon.

"Enough with the games Twilight", the demon said as they landed on the cold snow. "Don't fear the reaper", he chuckled menacingly.

"I agree", Zoe chirped trying to maintain her usual upbeat attitude.

She created a star out of thin air and threw it towards the Darkin. Ultimately she would miss.

Zoe took a few steps backwards. Where is he?

"No escape..", she could clearly hear his voice but she couldn't quite tell where it was coming from.

Rhaast was nowhere to be seen. Out of the blue, she felt her legs giving out as Rhaast broke through the ground making her trip with his scythe's handle.

She saw him leap through the air. His blade was shining under the stars. Zoe jumped into a portal below her and closed it immediately so the demon wouldn't follow her anymore.

Her star was becoming larger and larger the more portals she jumped through. When her feet finally landed on the snow again the star had grown big enough to destroy a big mansion.

"I'm over here!", she yelled at the Darkin who hadn't ever realized her presence at the moment. But it was too late for him. He took the impact of the star at full force. Normal people would have been obliterated. But not him. Because there wasn't anything even remotely normal or human about him.

The Darkin was lying there in the freezing cold for a good moment. But the girl was still too afraid to walk anywhere near him. Rhaast was slowly sitting up. But she had no time to run. Rhaast had moved so fast that she could barely follow him with her eyes. Let alone her feet.

She hadn't even realized that she had fell to the ground. Her palms were buried in the white snow.

"Zoe.. Please"...

His eyes were still red but his voice betrayed something that Rhaast could never mimic.

"Kill me."

Because this was something that Rhaast could have never wanted for himself. He was nothing but a greedy demon. Clinging onto life with everything he had.

Zoe stopped on her tracks as she recognized Kayn's distinctive voice coming from a body that didn't belong to him anymore. He was defeated. Kayn had lost the battle. There was no point in denying it anymore. The Darkin inside of him had come out victorious. And there was nothing they could do about it.

"No", she said in a low voice as Rhaast stood above her. Metal scythe buried in his horrendous claws. Preparing her end. Kayn's remaining conscience being the only thing stopping him from dealing the finishing blow.

"Kayn!", she screamed out his name in pure despair. Her bottom lip was trembling. Her eyes were already welling up in tears. How can he be asking me to do that? There has to be another way.