Chapter Three
Ten
One minute Ten was sitting next to Nine joking around, the next he was staring in the face of one of the most powerful beings in history. "Greetings Tevisin Teysonen. Please unseaze Vasilis."
Ten did as requested and for the first time since receiving the blade, he carefully studied it. It looked like two jagged swords forged into a single one. One half of the blade looked devoid of all light and the other half shined brighter than the sun, but it wasn't blinding. Even the hilt was designed in that fashion. It felt like an extension of his arm. When he removed his hand from the hilt he could feel immense cold and and heat emanating from it.
"I am sure zat you are now properly studying ze Sword of Light and Darkness for ze first time."
"I understand that it has control over light and darkness, but I don't understand how people figured that out."
"A very customary question. It is how people understand its powers. A proper name for it would have been Vasilis, ze Sword of Matter and Anti-Matter."
Ten was taken aback. "I-I thought that anti-matter was unstable it our world?"
"Zat it what science zinks. Wiz everyzing zat you have witnessed, you question ze auzenticity of a zeoretical particle? But I understand. Vasilis is an abnormality. It shouldn't exist, yet it does. Now, split ze blade."
"Split the blade?" Ten repeated, but he tried it anyway. He pulled at the blade until he was holding two jagged swords. One was made of darkness. No. It was made of anti-matter. The other was made of blinding matter, but they shimmered in his hands. The sword of matter started to straighten out. Its jagged extremities appeared to thin out and meld together until he was holding a broadsword like he was used to. The sword of anti-matter on the other hand did a few peculiar things. First, the half of a hilt that he was clasping turned into a leather grip in his hand. It was formed perfectly to his hand, like it was meant for him to utilize. Then, if that wasn't strange enough, the blade started to gyrate around the leather grip. It spun so fast that it created the illusion of a circular object spinning around the point. Ten soon realized, however, that it had become a shield. The shield of anti-matter stopped spinning. "H-how is this possible?"
"It left behind solid after images of itself zat eventually consolidated into a single shield. Zey are now Vasi, ze Shield of Anti-Matter and Lis, ze Sword of Matter. Humans have alternatively called zem Vas, ze Shield of Darkness and Ilis, ze Sword of Light. You can merge zem back togezer wiz a single zouhgt."
"I don't know what to say."
"A zank you would be nice."
"Thank you Lord Cthulhu." Ten gave him an army salute.
"Now, let us bring in Mr. Wondershine for you two to spar."