Chapter Twenty-Six: A Whole New Roy
I jumped up to the island with the castle on it. After opening the outer gates, I stood in the courtyard, looking up to the roof. There, a woman in an orange trench coat stood on the soles of her feet, hanging ten above the castle. I knew who she was, and who she was not…
I walked up to the inner castle gate. Looking up, I saw the woman jump down, then use fire to stop her fall from the high rooftop. The woman that stood before me was, and was not, Serenity Sheno. The one I had traveled so far with, lost to the light, and now would be forced to kill.
"So, you've come," were her first words to me. "After a year, I didn't expect you to still be alive, let alone able to find your way here." she taunted me, a smug look on her face.
"Never count me out early! Unless you've got my head, don't expect me to be dead." I told her, cleverly rhyming. "I'm far more resilient than you might expect. So, Serenity, how fast do you intend on killing me? Are you going to take it slow, so I can draw out the fight, or are you gonna do it fast, so I can end this now?"
She laughed. "You, kill me? Here, in the realm of light, where just a simple snap of my fingers can incinerate you? You're sorely mistaken if you think you're going to kill ME. I'm not the Serenity you knew." Serenity replied.
"True. But, at the same time, I'm not the Roy you knew." I said, closing my eyes. Then, I concentrated, peeling away the layers of darkness I had enveloped my heart in. A barrier of darkness to ward off pain. A shield of shadow to stop sorrow. I pulled it all away.
My hair tuned snow white. I felt my energies being increased exponentially. This was my true power… the power of the true me.
Serenity stepped back in shock. I opened my eyes, this time looking at her with a sinister look. "You… you're… not the Roy I knew!" she shouted.
"You're right, to some degree. I'm the true Roy… the Roy I locked deep in my heart, sealed within the darkness! The Roy who can feel sorrow and despair! The Roy who can feel joy and happiness!" I yelled, pulling out all my blades and whirring them in midair.
The Souba and Masamune combined into the Soubasune in midair, and the Buster Sword and Zangetsu combined into the Dragon Blade in midair. When I got hold of them, I combined both blades into my ultimate weapon: the Phoenix Sword.
The Phoenix Sword… a great sword about 10 feet long. Its 9 foot long blade is composed entirely of Orichalon, an immensely heavy, red stone that causes energy discharges in those it strikes. The handle is small, consisting of a proper handle and a phoenix wing motif hand guard.
I pointed the immense blade at her, clearly terrified, and offered Serenity an ultimatum. "Get out of my way now, or die." I said.
"W-who… w-w-what are y-you?" she asked me in a shaky voice.
"I told you, I'm the true Roy. The one you never knew." I said simply. "Now stand aside, or suffer the consequences."
"I won't leave! Charon's counting on me!" Serenity proclaimed, her voice still a little shaky.
"… then so be it." I said, then sliced her in half with supersonic speed before she knew what happened.
I turned around to see what had become of the last of my friends. Serenity laid there, masterfully cleaved in two, blood spurting everywhere across the ghostly courtyard. I walked over to her corpse, and cried.
"Why… why would you be so stupid?" I cried, totally aware that this is what it would come to. "Why would you follow him? What does he do to people?"
I brushed aside my tears, then walked back to the inner gate and opened it.
