When the smoke cleared, eight figures stood. Isaiah Osis, Alfonso Furey, Ryan Pryde, Eyana, and Jaime Weaver all rose, as well as Christopher Showers and a female Altmer none of them had ever seen before dressed in pale golden robes with bright aqua eyes and long golden hair to match. On the opposite side of the destroyed room, Makenna began to rise. He was different though. His blue mage robes were replaced with pitch black ones and glowing red highlights crossed his face.
"So this is the power you possessed Hanele?" Makenna asked the Altmer in a cruel and twisted voice. "I know… everything I could possibly want. So many secrets… forbidden knowledge…"
"Makenna…" Eyana began to approach him.
"Quiet!" he shouted at her as he waved his hand, sending her flying backwards. "Don't interrupt me now!"
Makenna simply floated there, arms outstretched trying to absorb this newfound power.
"You do not want that power Makenna!" the Altmer yelled to him. "It is tainted!"
"Silence!" he yelled again, this time sending Hanele careening into Fons. "You just want it back, I'll not let you take back what is mine now."
"What is happening to him?" Isaiah asked Hanele once she regained her footing.
"He is transforming into a shade," she told him, "replacing me…"
"Yes…" Makenna hissed. "Sithis will destroy you all… There'll be no stopping him this time…"
"How do we stop it?" Isaiah questioned as the rush of energy towards Makenna began to steal sound from the room.
"You cannot," she replied, "there must be a shade, a soul full of nothingness to balance existence."
"The hell I cannot!" Showers screamed as he attempted to plunge his blade into Makenna's heart.
The black dwarven steel bounced off a protective shell that had formed around Makenna.
After a few moments, just as the rush of energy became deafening, Makenna disappeared in a blink and a sonic boom.
"Where did he go?" Isaiah asked.
"To the Void," Hanele answered, "to visit his new master."