Chapter 5 part two
Thane wandered the desolate landscape of the land of the Titans in search for the Ice Goddess Tyris. Thane was not looking forward to this reunion. Tyris hated Sora because Thane had chosen Sora over her. Now she preferred to be called a Titan rather than a Goddess. Off into the distance Thane could see a giant Titan whose head brushed against the clouds. It carried a massive club and wore very little clothing around the waist. The land was dark with no trees and no grass for as far as the eye could see. The giant beast must have been at least a few miles away. He used shadow transportation to catch up to Titan and its huge strides. He stood in front of the great beast. It didn't notice him. Thane launched himself off the ground with a blast of shadow to the ground. He landed on the Titans shoulder and yelled in its ear.
"Hey! I need directions to Tyris's temple!" Thane shouted.
The Titan lifted hand to smash Thane. Thane jumped out of the way and landed on its head.
Thane was loosing patience, he had been wandering the wasteland for months in search of a Titan to point him in the right direction. Thane summoned a massive pool of shadow in front of the Titan. The pool started to rise up into a solid being. Thane jumped into the giant shadow and it quickly turned into a solid mass of glimmering black armor. He was now eye level with the giant beast. The Titan stopped.
"What is it you want shadow god." the Titan spoke and the ground shook.
Thane had to be careful not to mention Axis because the Titans backed Axis when Sora and the others had the great war against him.
"I just need directions to Tyris's Temple."
"She is on the Titan side now. She will not want to see you." the Titan said
"well she is going to have to. Now tell me or I will make you tell me." Thane said. The land grew darker then it already was.
"Calm yourself shadow. You wouldn't dare attack me here. My brethren would converge and you would be out numbered ten to one." the Titan stated
"Do you want to test me?" Thane replied
The Titan thought it over.
"Tyris will not want to see you." he said and walked past Thane.
Another shadow opened up beneath the Titan and he fell into the abyss until only his head was above ground.
"Ugh, I didn't want to resort to force. If you do not tell me, I will kill you and everything else that walks this forsaken land." Thane said in a very dark and menacing tone.
The armor dissolved and Thane was standing before the Titans head in his regular size.
"You will pay for this! We had an agreement after the war that you would spare us and we would not enter the humans land!" the Titan boomed.
"I have never been good at keeping promises" Thane said.
The Titan hesitated.
"Very well. You head north for about another hundred fifty miles. You cant miss it. Now free me!" the Titan yelled.
"I will free you. I can show pity to a fallen enemy. However, there is a war coming and you could be a threat someday." Thane said in a sorrowful tone.
Shadowy tendrils extended from the ground and started wrapping around the Titans head and going in his mouth and up his nose and in his eyes and ears. Thane disappeared into the ground and vanished into the shadow listening to the gargled screams of agony of the great Titan.
Thane appeared in front of a great Ice Temple that shimmered in the few beams of light that penetrated the clouds above. All around the temple was dirt like the rest of the forsaken plains. The temple itself was pure ice in very extravagant design. The ice on the hinges of the two massive doors creaked open and Tyris appeared.
"Why Thane, you never told me you would be stopping by" Tyris said with a smile.
"We need to talk Tyris" Thane said.
"Please, you never write, you never visit and you just show up out of the blue and expect an audience?" Tyris said.
"you got something better to do?" Thane said impatiently.
"You have been searching for me for a while haven't you? Alright, come in."
They entered the temple. The inside looked like a normal house, wooden walls and furniture and paintings. The works. They went into what must have been a library judging by all the books, and sat down at a table.
"you killed Demitri" Tyris said.
"Who?" Thane asked
"the Titan you killed, his name was Demitri." she said.
"Oh, yes I did" Thane replied.
"That was very foolish…I will not get involved in the war." she said.
"how did you know about that?"
"I'm not stupid Thane. Why else would you search this restlessly for me and kill a Titan, breaking the treaty we have held for hundreds of years?" she said.
"Why wont you help us?" Thane asked clenching his fists.
"Are you summoning HER?" Tyris asked.
"We are summoning Sora, yes." Thane replied.
"Than I will not assist you. But I will not fight against you either." She said
"Listen, we cannot do this without you. Even with your help it will be close."
"Not if you unleash your power" she said
She got up out of her chair and moved behind Thane.
"Just imagine the old days. You destroying all that oppose you, me standing beside you. isn't it wonderful?" she whispered.
"if it is required I will use my full power." Thane said after hesitating.
"That is enough for me to come and watch. So I can be there when you unleash your potential." she said and she kissed his cheek. Shadows shot from his back pushing her hard against a book shelf causing books to fall to the ground.
"Ha-Ha, tell you what. If you beat me I will join you."
Before he could respond she threw back her hands and ice knives grew in her hands and she threw them at Thane. He sank into the shadows barely evading the knives and came out of the ceiling and tried to kick her on the neck. A wall of ice blocked his attempt.
"Come on Thane, quit holding back!" she yelled.
"there is no need to use my full power against you." he said.
She got angry and ice covered the floor and walls ice shards shot from all directions. Thane drew two short blades and deflected every single one that came in his direction.
"I might not even have to use my element to defeat you" he chuckled.
She continued to get angry and two ice blades appeared in her hands and she charged. Thane went to block a blade but it cut straight through and cut Thanes arm. Thane threw two knives from his sleeves at her and made some distance between them. His arm wasn't cut very bad. He drew two more short blades but this time layered them in shadow armor. He ran toward her then vanished in front of her then reappeared in front of her then vanished again and appeared in a totally different part of the room. He continued to do this so his movements wouldn't be predictable. She made an ice shield around her body. Thane stopped. His plan worked.
"Its over!" he yelled.
His arm turned black and he ran at the shield and punched it. His arm went through it and he heard her gasp. Shadow wrapped around the whole ice shield preventing escape and the tendrils wrapped around Tyris.
"Damn you!" she yelled.
"Give up" he said.
"Oh I'm not done yet!"
Ice spikes erupted from the shield Thane had to retreat.
Frozen air shot out of the hole he made and turned into a giant ice dragon. The shield broke and he saw the dragon was her arm. The dragon shot a beam of ice at him then tried to wrap around him.
"Nice trick, you have gotten better"
She didn't reply. She drew a knife and cut her arm off. The dragon was still alive and attacking him. She grew another one and cut if off. She made three more like that. He was fighting five giant ice dragons and the Ice Goddess. He decided to counter using the same technique. He made five shadow dragons and they battled the ice and shadow dragons destroyed each other while Thane and Tyris clashed blades.
"I am growing impatient. Will you join us?" Thane asked.
"You haven't beat me yet Thane" she answered.
"Fair enough" he said
Thane closed his eyes. Tyris could feel energy pulse from his body…dark energy. He opened his eyes that were now pure black. Tyris stopped and dropped her blades. His eyes stabbed her with fear. She couldn't breath. She closed her eyes and concentrated to summon an ice shield. Her shield appeared. Thane walked up laughing and threw a punch shattering the shield completely. She sent small streaks of ice in zigzagging motions with very sharp ends. Thane back handed the first attack and shattering it. Then danced through the intricate weaves of deadly ice webs. He drew a blade and threw it at the ceiling above Tyris she looked up and he opened a shadow portal bellow her and she fell in. just her head was above the floor. He walked up and tendrils started to appear out of the floor around her.
"Thane stop! You win!" she screamed.
He just smiled
"Please!" she screamed again
"Thane, you don't want to do this. Fight the darkness. You have not unleashed your full power, you can fight this temptation." a voice whispered in his mind.
"Sora?" he shook his head and stopped the attack on Tyris.
"SORA!" he yelled in his head but got no response.
Tyris was sitting on the floor panting.
"I…I will join you. To make sure you do not become that darkness again." she said
"…Thank you" Thane said.