Chapter 12: Into the Darkness

I felt myself hit thhe water and I assumed, since I only felt a stinging sensation through most of my body, that I had not died or injured myself to badly. I swam down a little more and grabbed my stuff. I got my head above the surface and put my belt with my dggers back on along with the two swords. I saw the docks of Bevelle and instantly began to swim towards the shore. When I finally did reach the shore my legs and arms were extremly sore. I walked around a bit trying to lose the soreness but then I looked up to see Evrae falling downward and bursting into pyreflies. I have to hurry to the top of the towery thing where Yuna is about to marry Seymour I thought running stright for the tallest building in the city, which was also right in the center. Meaning of course I was going to run into evry guard in Bevelle in order to even reach the tower. I was as stealthy as possible only once having to give a guard an elbow in the stomache and a fist in the face. I reached the bottom of the tower and looked up, it was still a long ways to the top. Take the stairs or use a diffrent method, think I'll try a diffrent metod, I thought pulling out a large amount of my daggers.

I began throwing them as hard as I could at the wall. Making sure the were slightly lrft then right of the last one and somewhat higher too. I threw till my hands were empty, then I began jumping from dagger to dagger using them as stairs of sorts. I was near the top when I saw something hanging over the edge of the top. It was white, and I instantly knew it was Yuna about to jump off the edge to ensure her friends were not harmed. I stopped on the last dagger I had thrown but it was still too far from the top. Then I saw Yuna begin to fall and as she pssed me I tried to grab her but missed and almost fell off myself. Then I felt the dagger I was on make a little cracking noise. Crap, I thought as I felt the dagger break beneath me and I began to fall down the side of the building. I was actually more or less sliding but none of my daggers could stop me since it just got knocked out when I touched it. I then put my legs into a position that I could push off the wall and shouted out to Yuna who had now summoned Valefor and landed safely on his back. She looked over and I pushed off the wall, she must have gotten the hint because she ordered Valefor to grab me and it did so. I landed on its back right behind Yuna.

"That was pretty risky of you, jumping off the top of a building," I said to Yuna. She replied without looking back, "You're the one who was using daggers to climb the building even though you knew that they couldn't support your weight for too long!" I scratched my head, "Then why did you save me if you thought it was so idiotic," I asked. She simply replied, "Well, I can't let my cousins boyfriend die now can I," I blushed, Ack boyfriend, umm err now what, I thought as Valefor landed near the entrance to the elavator and stuff that led to the cloister of trials. "You go on ahead, I'll wait here for the others," I said to Yuna who looked reluctant to go but I finally convinced her by Yelling, "go," she ran off inside as I stood and waited for the others. My arm was burning so badly that I just wanted to tear it off but I stood and waited anyways. I saw the others approaching. "Chris, you're alive," Rikku yelled jumping on me and giving me a big bear hug the instant she got close. "Yea, could you let go so I could breathe now," I said a little short on air, she let go blushing as I continued, "Yuna's up ahead she's probably almost at the chamber of the fayth now. You guys go, I'll hold the guards here," I said Rikku looking worried now. "No you're coming with us," Rikku scolded me. I shook my head just now noticing that my arm had stopped burning, "No, I'll catch up just trust me okay," I said to Rikku who looked sad and then nodded. They ran off as I drew my swords to wait for the guards.

Then I saw a guard come around the corner and point his gun at me. He shot and I moved out of the way just in time. I pulled out one of my few remaining daggers and threw it at the gun, it went straight into the barrel just as the guard pulled the trigger and the gun didn't go off. So the guard being the genius that he was pulled the trigger again causing the gun to backfire and to put it simply it almost exploded. Then a few guards holding swords came around the corner, neat I never saw any of these guys in the game, I thought blocking the one guards swing and stabbing the other one in the foot. The guard who I stabbed fell to the ground dropping his sword while the other guard attempted to hit me from another angle which I also blocked. I stepped down hard on the fallen guards sword causing it to flip and the hilt to hit the standing guard in the face. He stumbled then tried to swing at me. I sidestepped the attack and made an odd honking noise to taunt the guard. It worked and he swung sideways at me. "Woop," I said jumping up and landing on the side of his blade causing it to fall to the ground. He tried to pull it from under my feet but I simply kicked him causing him to fall off the edge of the bridge. I laughed then noticed a bunch of guards carrying guns and flamethrowers.

"Well, I'll just be going then," I said turning to run but saw my pth was blocked by Seymour. "Eep," I said startled backing up slightly. He smirked causing me to anger a little, "Trapped," he said. Now I smirked, "Not quite," I said running straight at him. He swung his staff at my legs but I simply jumped doing a flip and putting my hand on top of Seymour's head. I was now doing a hand stnad on Seymour Guado's head, I moved my hand around a bunch, mussing up his hair, then I lept off and began running after the others. "My hair," I heard Seymour scream in a girly voice that almost caused me to fall over laughing. I didn't thought because I didn't want to be caught by the guards. I stepped onto the stair elavator thing and hit the button to bring me down. I ran through the hall where the barrier had been and ran straight into the cloister of Trials. The first time I had done this one it took me forever because I messed up so many times but now it took me maybe five minutes, which is about how long it actually took me. I ran into the "waiting room" before the chamber of the fayth. I collapsed to the floor and panted out, "guards... many... coming." This caused the others to draw their weapons and get into a fighting stance. "Where are Tidus and Auron," I asked and I noticed Lulu nod her head towards the chamber of the fayth. I got up and approached it with full intention of forcing it open but it automatically opened when I got close. That's right, Bahamut's my best freiend, of course he'd let me in, I thought laughing a little inside and walking in. I saw Tidus carrying Yuna and Auron standing there. They almost ignored me completely and walked out of the chamber and I heard Rikku yell, "Wait, don't come out," but of course she was to late and the door closed behind them. "Hey," I heard from right behind me causing me to jump. "Don't do that," I said turninf to see Bahamut, or rather his fayth floating there. He laughed and then said, "I can explain a few things now," which caused me to sigh, for now I had to listen to some long boring explanation. "First, that man you call Mr. Cloak is actually you, but not really he just looks like you, he is really the previous owner of your swords and he is testing you and if you complete the test you will get the swords he has, which are slightly better then your current ones," I was actually interested now since he was telling me about the things I couldn't figuer out. "Second and lastly, your arm has burned a few times correct," he asked and I nodded, "that is for one of two reasons, one, you were away from Rikku for too long because being around her supresses the darkness that is attemting to control you, or also you touched the blade of darkness with your right hand. When you absorbed the other you into your right arm you just let the darkness into your arm, now if you are away from Rikku and touch that sword with your right hand... lets just say it wont end well," he finished.

"Wait what do you mean," I asked but he shook his head. "Interesting," I heard from behind me. I swung around to see Seymour. "You," I yelled running at him but he swung his staff and hit me square in the side of the head knocking me out cold.

I awoke laying on the floor of a small round hanging cage, it reminded me of a bird cage but only big enough for me to take one step. I stood up and noticed my weapons were missing, I still had the sheaths though. I saw my swords, or at leasy I was pretty sure they were mine, but they were wraped in a brown cloth. My arm was burning slightly and I remebered that I could try and call out to my blades. I put both of my hands out and saw the blades lift up off the ground, kool, I like having magic swords, I thought as my swords flew over and I caught them. Completely forgetting what Bahamut had told me I reached into one of the cloth wrappings with my right hand and pulled out the blade of darkness. My arm which had been burning ever so slightly began to hurt tremendously. Then it felt like the handle jabbed something into my hand. I yelled in pain trying to get the sword off my hand. Then I noticed the skin of my arm had turned a bright red and the size of my muscles had grown. The blade itself had changed too. The hilt was larger and the blade now was twice as wide and formed a circleon either side of the blade. There were three pairs of these incomplete circles. (there is a pic on my msn space http/spaces. but I scanned it out of a sketch book so it may look a little funny)

Then I noticed that my entire arm was diffrent I now had three claw like fingers, little spikes coming out of my wrist all the way around. My muscle size had at least doubled and there was now a blade like spike stickinh out of my elbow, in a way that if I punched at someone, missed, but still grazed them, it would cut them. Then my shoulder had what looked like a bunch of spikes sticking out of it, creating a shoulder pad armour effect. (no pic... yet) I could no longer control my body either it was acting of its own accord, or at least I thought so until I heard my voice but slightly distorted say, "Looks like you failed the test already," I just wonded how I could have been so stupid as the previous owner of my swords now had complete control over my body. I could only watch as he pulled out the blade of fire and it turned into a completely diffrent form as well (also posted on my space). He tehn cut sevral of the bars near the top and bottom and knocked them off. He jumped out of the cage and walked down the hall.

As we went into the next hall a guard spotted "me" and began shooting he hit "me" a few times but I kept walking. I walked right up to him and brushed him aside like a child with my mutated arm. He hit the wall and slid down to the floor obviously unconcious. I continued like this until I reached a window that looked out over the Highbridge. I could see something near one end of the Bridge, it only looked like a dot from here but I was very certain that it was Rikku and the others. Go down there and I will kill you I thought but he could hear me perfectly because he replied, "And how would you do that exactly, your trapped inside a prisoner in your own mind." I knew it was true and as he jumped out the window I began thinking of how I could get out of this mess. He flew straight down and landed just ahead of the group, blocking their path down the bridge. "Chris," I heard Rikku ask as "I" turned to face them. Half way through the turn I caught a glimpse of my face in something shiny and noticed that my teeth were now all sharp like fangs and my eyes were glowing completely red. As I finished my turn I could see Rikku's face, she looked scared and I realized that she was scared of me, but there was nothing that I could do. I'll kill them all starting with the Al bhed girl I could hear his thoughts. No you wont I'll stop you somehow I thought knowing he could hear me but I saw him charge at Rikku and leap to attack her. She was standing right next to Yuna but at the last second Tidus, Auron and Kimahri stopped his attackwith their weapons. Suddenly he raised his left arm, which held the blade of fire. Fortunately Kimahri noticed this and pulled his weapon off the blade of darkness and knocked the blade of fire out of his hand.

Now he was able to push Auron and Tidus back though. He pushed them till they almost ran into Rikku and the others. He put my face right up to Rikku's and hissed at her. She reached out and slapped him but I could feel it too. It hurt, enough to make him lose his footing and Auron and Tidus pushed him back knocking him flat on his back. He had lost control. I got up slowly holding my aching head. I looked at the water in the pool next to the bridge and saw my eyes had the whites back but my pupils were still red. I heard a laugh from behind me and turned to see Seymour who had obviously been enjoying the show. "A guardian attacking fellow gaurdians and his summoner," he started but I ran straight at him. Thr guado guards stepped in my way but I just knocked them back right over Seymour's head. He pulled out his staff to try and defend himself but I used the small circles in the blade of darkness to pull it away. I swung but he ducked and I only managed to cut one of the long pieces of hair that suck out and almost touched the floor. He stood up and laughed, "You can't even hit me," he said but I smirked as the long piece of hair finally fell from his head. He looked shocked and then suddenly mad. "Nobody touches my hair," he yelled puncing me in the face and sending me flying backwards. I bounced off the ground droppin the blade and bounced along the ground till I was right next to Rikku. My arm had reverted and I guessed my eyes had too. The last thing I saw before blacking out was Rikku's face. She seemed to be crying, I couldn't tell if she was still sad or if she was happy that I was myself again. I would have to ask her later.

I thought I had awoken but when I opened my eyes I was still surrounded in darkness. "Aww crud, more of these weird dream things," I complained out loud. "This is no dream," I heard turning slightly to see myself but slightly diffrent. The skin was pale, his eyes were a dark blue, and his hair was blonder then Tidus's. "Wow, you definetly ruined my look with that blonde hair man, blondes are just annoying (no offense to blondes but some are really dumb)," He gritted his teeth then said, "I dragged your bdy into the darkness and now you must fight to live!" I noticed my blades nearby on the floor, "Fine," I said sticking out my hands causing my blades to fly into my hands facing down. I turned my hands back rightside up and ran at him preparing to attack.

WEE nother cliffhanger, gotta fight myself in the darkness to survive. Confused, bet u r. I'll explain if u review. I'll update soon, maybe, I might be working on my joint profile story thing in case u forgot its DJ-sesshfan.