Distortion slowly landed back onto the ground and his eyes changed back to there normal colour and he started to walk towards Master Teo and Katrina, who had their weapons ready just encase, but after taking 5 steps he fainted onto the ground. As soon as his eyes closed he felt like was instantly transported to world of pure light and as he drifted in this land he heard a faint sound. As he got closer to this sound he soon realized it was a female singing, he then started to run towards the female s voice until the world became a field of flowers and in the distance was a single tree, that s where the voice was coming from, Distortion ran towards the tree until he had finally reached it, the tree was a blossoming cherry tree exactly like the one he awoken under back in Radiance City, and underneath the tree were two people, the female singing her while a young guy laid his head on her lap and slept. Upon a closer look, the guy looked exactly like himself and immediately Distortion knew that this must have been one of his memories, unfortunately he couldn t see the female at all and when he walked towards her for a better look, everything vanished. As the field of flowers, blossoming cherry tree, and his past self and the female vanished, the voice of Distortion s darkness said; only time will tell.
Then Distortion awoke laying flat on his stomach in one of the beds in the castles infirmary room, and as he tried to stay awake he was able to hear the same piano, he turned his head to his left and saw Katrina playing a white piano, and surprisingly she was playing the exact tune the female in Distortion s memories was singing. As he tried to get up he noticed that his hands, feet and neck were tied down by some sort of unbreakable material, as he struggle to break free Katrina heard him, stopped playing the piano, and walked over to him, looked him directly in the eye and said.
Good morning, lets start today off with a few questions shall we?
What s the meaning of this and why am I tried up?
Shut up, I m the one who ll be asking the questions. Question one, what s your name?
Are you kidding me, you already know my name
Answer the damn question!
Distortion, my name is Distortion.
Second question, what power did you master when we first met?
It was lightning.
Last question, what did you promise to me and Master Teo?
I promised that I ll do my best to eradicate the Distort and bring back the balance to all the dimensions. There I answered your questions, now can you please untie me.
Katrina started to untie Distortion, while she untied him she told him why she had to ask those questions, it was to make sure that his darkness didn t take over his mind, then she told him if his darkness had taken control of him a guillotine would fallen over top of him and severed his head from his body. Distortion looked up over top the bed that he slept on and saw a big ass guillotine just hanging there, in his mind he started to freak when he thought about how close he was to have his head cut off.
Now that s out of the way Master Teo requested me to take you directly to him once you awoke, after all you have been asleep for nearly ten years. Katrina said while grabbing Distortions hand and leading him out of the infirmary and towards where Master Teo was. Distortion swiped his hand away from Katrina and said.
Ten years, why the hell should I believe that I ve been asleep for ten bloody years, I mean look at me I look exactly the same as I did before I fought Marcia.
I m guessing that Master Teo didn t tell you about the aging process, did he?
I mostly learnt a few things from my darkness but that s it.
Ok then? Katrina looked a little puzzled when she heard him say that, then she continued on.
Well I can t tell you everything right now since there s tons of info but I can quickly tell you about the aging process. Lords can live for thousands upon thousands years, take Master Teo for instants he is 16,548 years old, also since we control time, space, distortion, and alpha basically our powers manage our bodies to look the ideal age the power bearer wishes, example you look like your eighteen years old.
Ok that makes a lot of sense, but I hope you don t mind me asking how old are you exactly?
Marcia is 312, Sarah is 279, and I m 330.
Wow 330 years old.
Now you know, but now we must hurry and meet Master Teo.
Then the two of them started to walk down one of the castles white, majestic hallways, and as they walked Distortion randomly remember something that Marcia said to Katrina before they fought. As they walked he asked her why Marcia called her a imperfect freak of nature, she told him that it s because that Marcia is a pure blood, a Lord that was born with two Lords as their parents, and she told him how hard it is to have a pure born child, the chances are one out of zillion, and since Marcia is a pure born she thinks that everyone and everything is a imperfect freak. As the conversation continued they had finally reached the room where Master Teo was, as the two entered the room Distortion noticed an enormous planetarium with hundreds of pendants hanging off of it. As Distortion and Katrina walked toward the planetarium Master Teo appeared from behind it and started to tell distortion about the meaning of the planetarium and the pendants that are attached to it. Apparently each pendant is connected to a certain dimension that the Lords are suppose to protect, and as Distortion look at all the pendants he noticed one black star shaped pendant with a huge knot he then asked about the knotted pendant and Master Teo replied, that dimension was where the last Lord of Distortion died 300 years ago by my hands, then Katrina butted in and said that s also where her friend died as well. Then Master Teo snapped his fingers and a podium rose from the ground, Master Teo then told Distortion to place his hands on the podium so they could find out what dimension he was from. Distortion didn t know what he was talking about but he placed both of his hands on the podium just like he said, then the planetarium started to spin rapidly and when it started to slow down one of the pendants started to glow, it was black star shaped pendant, after seeing this Master Teo started to freak he then told Distortion to leave the room immediately, he then pushed him out the door, slammed the door close, and immediately locked it. Distortion quickly placed his ear to the door and heard small bits of Master Teo and Katrina discussion; basically all he heard was Katrina asking Master Teo if it was him, and Master Teo telling Katrina that Distortion must never ever return to his dimension. The conversation continued for a while but Distortion quickly got bored of it and left, while he wandered around the castle he eventually saw Sarah and ran right up to her.
Hey Sarah, how s it going?
O hey Distortion, everything is going ok I guess.
What s the matter?
Well tonight is our annual ball that we host every 10 years, and I don t even have a date for tonight!
When if you don t have a date them wait a minute how come were hosting a ball when there s Distort kill the fair people of Radiance City?
Didn t you know, on the night of every ball the moon shines a golden glow which strangely the Distort can t survive in.
Ok then, geez there s a lot of thing I need to learn, but anyway if your not going with someone maybe we could go together?
Sure I would love to go with you, just make sure that you where a tuxedo, it is a formal affair after all.
Sure thing but now I must be going, to get ready and all but I ll see you at the ballroom, ok?
Then Sarah nodded and Distortion started to run toward his room, and when Distortion was out of sight Marcia popped out of nowhere and started to talk to Sarah and by the end of their discussion the two of them started to laugh.
As the sun set beyond the rocky mountain, the moon rose from the line of sight of the great sea. Like Sarah the moon as indeed shining a wondrous golden glow which made the whole city sparkle in the night, even the people in the streets of the city sparkled, like some stupid ass vampire from the twilight series, in its radiant splendour. Distortion watched this happen from his room s window while he struggled to get into his tuxedo that he bought earlier that day. As he got the final touches down he quickly ran back to his window and saw thousands of people young and old entering the main grounds of the castle and walked through the main doorway into the castle, he then walked out of his room, locked his door and was on his way to the ballroom.
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Meanwhile in the sewer system of Radiance city, where none of the light that radiated from the moon could reach, hundreds upon millions of Distort laid hidden, as they all growled and hiss at each other, two adult like Distort who were able to speak started to yell out commands.
Hello my fellow comrades, if you don t remember who me or my brother here are, raise your godforsaken claws. one of the brothers yelled out
Upon that every single Distort raised their filthy claws into the air.
We are Vim and Vigour, your substitute leaders until our leader and creator returns and brings judgement onto the worlds. Vigour pronounced
That s right brother, and as you know right now we hide from that accursed moon while those pathetic Lords host their ball, and recently we have learned that there is a new Lord of Distortion and we all know that the only Lord of Distortion that should be allowed to live is our master. Vim yelled out in anger.
Relax Vim, but yes we ask of just one of you to step forward to confront this Distortion impostor, so we begin the ritual to bring back our master.
Then one Distort covered in black amour raised his hand and asked in plain English how would one Distort defeat this Lord of Distortion impostor, they have the power to kill thousands of us at once.
That s a good question right there, and we have the answer. Vim said then he opened his hand to reveal a small locket.
This locket was created by our master and to this day it contains a fraction of her power, which in turn will allow the wearer to walk outside right now in the moon hideous glow and increase the wearer s power tenfold. Now then do we have any volunteers? Vigour once again pronounced. They all waited for a Distort to come forward but none did, until the same Distort that asked the question sighed and walked up to Vim & Vigour.
Ah yes, Distort Knight, last of our brothers that were created by our master, and created from the blood of our masters last victim before her demise, we re glad that you ve decided to take this important mission, and we wish you the best of luck. Vim said then he placed the locket over Distort Knight s helmet and around his neck. Then Distort Knight started to leave the sewers and his brethren behind and headed towards Castle of Beginnings.
Meanwhile back at Castle of Beginnings Distortion was about a few steps away from the main doors to the ballroom when he felt a eerie presents like someone was watching him, he quickly turned around and saw that no one was there, he then continued on and when he got to the ballroom doors he quickly fixed himself up and continued walk through. The ballroom was quite elegant, it had a glass dome so you could see the night sky, and it had a nostalgic feeling to it when you first step in, apparently Master Teo was able to get a orchestra for this splendid occasion and thousands of people from the city were all gathered here dancing, talking with others, and having the time of their life. As Distortion walked in he noticed something strange, everyone including Master Teo, Sarah, and Marcia were in their everyday clothes, Distortion then walked up to Sarah who was talking to Marcia by the banquet table while eating some appetisers.
Sarah I thought that you said this was a formal ball?
It was, about 250 years ago
Then why did you tell me that I had to wear a tuxedo?
Because it s funny to see a loser like you show up wearing a tux and thinking that he has a date. Sarah and Marcia immediately started to laugh while Distortions face started to burn red in anger, then suddenly someone tapped Distortion s shoulder, he turned around and yelled out in anger, what do you want. It was Katrina dress up in a beautiful white gown, and then Katrina asked him if he wanted to dance, Distortion was a little bit in shock so instead of replying he simply nodded his head. Then Katrina grabbed his hands and led him to the center of the ballroom where they danced the night away while Marcia and Sarah watched in anger and disgust, every few times when Distortion and Katrina dance by the two, Distortion would quickly flip the middle finger at them. Around the time of 1 o clock Am Distortion was taking a break from the dancing and suddenly something crashed through the glass dome, it was a Distort, everyone started to run to the doors or cower with their backs to the walls, and then the Distort started to call out for Distortion so they could battle, Distortion walked to the hollowed center of the ballroom and asked what it was doing here.
I was told that I must kill you, but since you re having your ball here I ll make a deal with you.
What type of deal?
I can see that you re a powerful man, so if you don t use your powers except for the one that allows you to summon your weapon, I will not harm any of the participants here.
And how would I know that you would keep you part of the promise, you re a Distort after all I ve seen your kind kill the innocence!
I know what we re like but rest assure I have a little something that you would call honour, honour that ran through the blood of the last victim of our master. That same blood that I was created from.
Then Master Teo yelled out to Distortion to just kill, but Distortion didn t listen to him because it felt like Master Teo has trying to hide something from him. Then Distortion agreed to Distort Knights proposal, he summoned his katana and the Distort Knight summoned his weapon, a large buster blade and then the battle commenced, the battle was a long, effortless one with no end in sight, until Katrina yelled out, come on Dustin you can do it. When Distortion heard her say those words he lost his concentration and wondered how she learned his old name, then Distort Knight was able to sliced his chest on a 45 degree angle, and as the blood dripped out Distortion felt a increase in power then suddenly he started to get a sharp pain in his back. He started to yell out, then six black tentacles with a single red spike at the end ripped right out of his back, Katrina started to run towards him so she could help him but Master Teo stopped her and told her to just watch. Then Distortion pointed directly at Distort Knight and the six black tentacles shoot for him, the Distort Knight quickly evaded them but before he could do anything else a shadowy portal appeared from underneath Distortion and he sunk into it. The Distort Knight started to look around the ballroom to see were he might reappear form but Distortion reappear in the one spot that he never look, underneath himself, Distortion quickly grabbed Distort Knight s head, flew up to the ceiling and threw him towards the ground. As Distort Knight fell Distortion once again disappeared and reappear on the ground underneath him, then right as he was in range Distortion quickly punched him in the spine and throughout the ballroom you could hear a large cracking sound. Then finally Distort Knight landed on the ground and said to Distortion that he concedes Distortion looked at him while the six black tentacles disintegrated from his back.
I concede, you might be even more powerful that our master. Before you kill be I have one request, please let me die with honour.
Distortion looked at him and raised his right hand and snapped his fingers, and then a white flame appeared Distortion quickly grabbed it and shoved it into the Distort Knight s chest, the Distort Knight started to scream out of pain while Distortion watched until he exploded, as the smoke cleared there was another person within it, he was wearing white armour with a half black half white shield with a P and a Z in the middle logo on it, he also was wearing blue boots, gantlets, and a blue helmet. He then took of his helmet and revealed a young man in his twenties with blue eyes and long green hair.
As this new person looked at himself Distortion gave his hand and helped him up, he then told everyone that this guy was the Distort Knight, and then he faced him and said.
You weren t created with honour, you were created with a heart, a heart that you listened to and had sent you to a better place, with us. From now on you re no longer a Distort you re a living breathing creature. Now that I think about it you need a name don t you, how about this, tell me what you want to be called?
N.
N? Ok then from now on you ll be know as N.
And from now on you ll be my new master.
No I don t want to be your master; all I want to be is your friend.
Then N nodded and patted Distortion s shoulder, and then Katrina quickly ran over to Distortion and gave him a big hug while giving N a dirty look of distrust. Then Katrina used her powers over time to heal Distortions wound that N gave him during the battle, then Master Teo yelled out to everyone who was still in the ballroom to continue with the occasion, then Distortion, Katrina and the ex-Distort Knight N left the ballroom, showed N what room he could stay in, headed to their rooms and had a good nights sleep.
-To Be Continued