Chapter 3
Zed stood speechless in front of the Kinkou Assassin, an uncommon sight to many that stood against him. After all I've done… He wishes to talk to me…?
The sun had already begun to set against the temple, the forest's foliage covering its slow descent under the horizon. Akali was as calm as ever, her attention away from Zed thinking it give him peace on his decision. My hands are stained with his own father's blood yet regardless he would ask...
"But to kill you of course." A voice echoed. A sudden pain rose to his head, Zed violently lifting his hand to his face, forcefully gripping it to deal with the pain. Soon he fell onto one knee, opposite hand clenched, his steel blade extending with lightning speed, carving a line against the cement.
"No…"
"Yes."
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Zed yelled, hands on his head, both knees against the ground. Akali quickly turned to the see the warriors distress, instantaneously raising her Kamas out their handles in sense of imminent danger.
"You know it my child. You killed his own father. He would never forgive you after all the blood you yourself have spilled."
Zed could only groan in response.
"You are a monster. You are a murderer. You ARE, a shadow…"
The moment the phrase ended, a sudden click occurred in the warrior's mind.
…
"Zed…?" Akali cautiously spoke.
From her eyes Zed was enveloped in a dim-black fog with the outline of his body barely to be seen. Fractions of shadows shaped like him were to be dashing in and out of the strange substance, each laughing deeply drowning out Zed's yells of pain.
Moments continued to past and at this point the moon had already begun to rise into the sky, covering the two assassins in the dark coat of night. Akali remained purely focused on Zed, now hearing nothing resembling his voice, the black fog continuing to emanate sounds of what were shrieks of soldiers before death.
"POOF"
It suddenly stopped.
"Y-ee-sss" a voice preached.
…
She could hear the words come from his helmet, but it was were like a different voice altogether. With the night it came a silence with only them to break it. Crickets were not to be chirping for some strange reason and even the leaves stopped rustling - only faint winds to brush against them.
There Zed lay, legs crossed, seemingly meditating in the middle of the temple pathway. His eyes glowed with much stronger colour, his aura enveloped with a mix of blood-red and the black from the fog.
"What are you…?" Akali finally spoke,
"What am I you ask…?"
The assassin remained silence, noticeably tightening her grip against her weapon.
"I…" the voice continued. "Am Zed!"
Laughing maniacally, he suddenly he disappeared from the air, a mark appearing and glowing on Akali's abdomen. She could see three faint shadows of Zed cross her sides slashing non-physical blades that seemed all-too real. Death Mark. Suddenly appearing behind her, Zed would stab his metal sabre into her back – it alone possibly killing her – prior to him spinning the top side of his body to slash with his arms extended. Shadow Slash.
Realizing that this would end her life, Akali narrowly dodged it and leapt to the closest tree for high ground. She would only grunt as the pain from his first stab spiked from her back. Zed would only glare upwards toward her, saying nothing, the red glow in his eyes being enough to tell her he was out for blood.
He is no longer the Zed we know. Akali muttered.
"The shadows have corrupted you to much," she exclaimed, yet still with sorrow in her voice. She stared deeply into the helmet of the man who once was the brother of her now master. "It seems I have come too late."
Gracefully, Akali leapt from tree to tree, entering the darkness of the forest. Zed, now warily and tired from his body moving seemingly on its own, collapsed against the floors. As his vision starting to become blurry, and his eyes beginning to close, he could only mutter, I'm sorry…
brother.
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Author Note: Another shitty story my friends! My mum told me to write a whole different story of how the shadows are actually the good side, with the order of Kinkou brainwashing its subjects or something like that. Meh, maybe later. Ugh bout 670 words! I'm jealous on how people can go on and on and reach like 2000 per chapter ;-; . Anyway, thankyou for baring with my story and have a good day :D .