Alan vs. Tyrannil

Alan rushed forward and launched his mighty blade at Tyrannil to which the silver knight did a back flip and grabbed Alan with both of his legs. In a triumphant attempt to slam Alan down on the cold hard floor of the ballroom, Alan waited patiently and as he let go of Alan, the young guy in that tree bark beige suit did a flip of his own avoiding impact and slicing across Tyrannil's left elbow. The agile knight summoned a circular translucent platform underneath him and raised himself into the air. He then launched a series of blue and white coloured stars in the form of twisting cyclone towards Alan. Even as he dodged the brutal attack, the cyclone turned upward as Alan jumped high into the air and consumed by the massive blow of magic. Nadia yelled, "Alan!!" as he was struck down hard by the stars and he collapsed on the ground with a hard thud. Tyrannil floated downward with his platform and his platform scraped the ground hard like a chainsaw heading for wood. Alan unfortunately didn't look conscious and Nadia yelled, "No Alan!! You gotta wake up…" nothing happened. "Please, please…", the girl was getting worried.

Then Alan sliced the platform with his keyblade causing it to disperse and Tyrannil slammed his silver rapier against Alan's kingdom key causing sparks of all kinds and sorts to come to life. A slash to left amongst Alan's shoulder was nearly done, but with his practicing against the Knights of the Realm, Alan was becoming more powerful, even if he didn't know it at the time. Alan slashed the sword away and rushed right at Tyrannil (sort of the same way Inuyasha went for Bankotsu in that anime but was struggling against for those who like that series as well), but Tyrannil turned to his right and punched Alan in the right side of his cheek. Nadia covered her mouth the whole time with both of her hands and was watching closely at Alan's fast yet vibrant moves. Alan sliced Tyrannil's neck, but it didn't bleed because of the extra padding covering his neck (all knights in the feudal times had special padding around the parts of the body that the armour didn't cover of course for those who didn't know that) and Tyrannil summoned a giant black Chinese Dragon from a sudden abyss that appeared in between Alan and Tyrannil. He jumped on the beast and rode it like Xaldin did with his weapons in the same fashion.

The dragon breathed a ghastly green blaze of fire and Alan held out the kingdom key on its side to protect him from the flames. "What?", Tyrannil exclaimed as he saw the keyblade begin to glow and sparkle. Alan suddenly began to glow and shine. He was consumed by a large beam of light that shone through the clouds of Castle Darkhand and into the ballroom. Alan then noticed a series of white stars circling all around him and then he said, "Listen to me Tyrannil. You are not evil. I know that for a fact because I sensed it through my keyblade. You do have some good." "You lie boy!! How can one such as myself have good in me when I have tried to kill others just to bring back those who had fallen in the 'Great War'?", Tyrannil asked. "Face it. You will die now. I will see to that.", he continued. Then the dragon breathed more fire and that didn't even penetrate Alan's new magical defenses. He slowly walked towards the beast even as more fire at over 5000 C of heat was raining down upon him, he kept walking with confidence and stabbed the dragon through its neck. It fell with a great thud and dissolved into nothingness.

Alan stood on his own as Tyrannil then said turning the page of his dark arts book, "I still have more tricks up my sleeve boy!" Tyrannil then became invisible with one swoop of his silver rapier. Alan not knowing where he would come from was slashed brutally from all directions. Alan fell to his knees as Tyrannil became visible and Tyrannil said, "Some great power. You can barely even take such pain, can you? Irony is the one getting the most worked up is your lovely dame." He pointed to Nadia who was flustered pink like a blossoming rose and Alan held his stomach as he looked at her concerned and worried eyes. 'Some hero I turned out to be. She doesn't deserve that. I'll get him Nadia. I'll come back to you…I promise!!' Then Alan stood up and said as he smiled with a good satisfaction, "You can rip me apart, you can tear me limb from bloody limb…" Nadia gasped as she heard this. "Heck you can even mentally use me as a puppet and make me wish I was never born…", Alan continued. Tyrannil was breathing heavily as he heard this. "But there's one thing you can never do to me Tyrannil and that's this…", Alan said as he turned to face Nadia. "Love knows no bounds. I got friends on my side who love me: D'Leh, Evolet, Mickey, Master Yen Sid, The Prince, Eric, Abdoul, Christine, Casanova, Malfurion, Odressil, Danielle, Annabelle, Marcus, Lord Birmingham and his kingdom, Donald, Goofy, and to a certain extent Pyraine. What do you have to show for yourself?"

Tyrannil became invisible as he said, "I don't have time for this!!" Yet as he slashed at Alan, Alan ducked and launched his keyblade right at his stomach, cracking his armour a tiny bit. Then Tyrannil summoned his circular platform once more and then rose himself above the ground once more and slashed Alan in the process. Alan started to get cuts on his legs and his chest as well as his back and his face a little bit as well. Nadia screamed, "Oh no…Alan!!" to which Alan said, "It'll be alright Nadia. It'll be alright." He smiled to her as he said this and jumped to grab onto Tyrannil's platform. Success as he did so and sliced it in half. Tyrannil fell and summoned another one as he said making a magnificent triple backflip and landing on it, "Silly boy. When will you learn? I have been holding my own and yet as of now you're all bruised and utterly devastated. This'll be easier than taking candy from a baby."

Alan then felt something tremendous happen. He began to fly like Peter Pan to which both Tyrannil and Nadia were surprised. Tyrannil then launched his platform towards Alan and chipped off a piece of his cape as he nearly avoided its chainsaw like blade attack. Alan then tried to zap Tyrannil as he kept summoning a powerful silver forcefield that blocked off his every attack and he said, "Got to try harder than that. I'm a master of sorcerery and there's not a thing you can do to stop me!!" Then Tyrannil launched the same star cyclone he used before on Alan, but added in a second one to double its power on Alan and as it struck Alan, the new power he discovered vanished and the blows he took were unbelievable. 32 cuts appeared all over him and scraped his suit as he fell with smoke drifting from his broken body. Nadia yelled, "No!!" as Tyrannil laughed and stared at the unconscious boy and walked towards him leaving the comfort of his platform behind. He then knelt down to get a good look at Alan and then said, "I have a great respect for you boy. I never thought a mere amateur like you could have lasted this long, but then again you do have a lovely dame beside you aiding you as well. Yet you have demonstrated great power before me and I feel your pain. I truly do." Then Alan said as the keyblade pierced Tyrannil's heart, "Can you feel this?" Nadia cried and smiled as this happened and Alan stood up with the Kingdom Key still lodged halfway inside Tyrannil's body nearly touching his heart.

"So I see I didn't speak too soon this time around. Once again you have outsmarted me my boy. Now's your chance, end my life. Take it away and do your duty as a knight should. I am the enemy, be done with it!!" Alan looked angrily at Tyrannil, but then remembered Nadia and looked at her. She had that same concerned worried face as before and shook her head slightly as he lost his angry face and then smiled confidently to lift the girl's spirit. Alan pulled the keyblade out and Tyrannil asked as he covered his chest with both of his hands, "Why? You had a good chance to end it and you didn't. Tell me why." Alan put his keyblade back in his backpack and said, "We have a job to do. Killing you would prove nothing. I said what I meant before. You do have good in you Tyrannil. Whether you believe it or not is not my problem."

Then as Alan walked towards the door to the left Tyrannil yelled, "Wait!! That door leads outside of the castle. You have to take the one on the right to go upstairs." Alan turned to face him as Nadia rushed towards him and Alan smiled as he looked upon Tyrannil. "See. I knew it. You are a goody goody.", Alan said with a smile once more. "Don't push it boy. I still am a man of my word and duty, but seeing as I too like Pyraine have seen my master's wicked ways want to see that he does not win." Nadia then asked him, "How do you know that? Pyraine told us that he didn't trust Obeion, but how did you know that?" "Because, Pyraine and I were closer than anything you could imagine in a friendship. It is also the same reason we shared secrets with each other. We also have one great thing in common than anything else: we can sense a person's emotions very well. Our master's emotions were of bitterness and betrayal. We both knew it would mean doom to us anyway even if we did beat you at your own game. Now to do this…" He pulled out a little black remote and pushed the only switch on the thing which was red in colour (typical). They heard an explosion and felt tremors coming from upstairs.

"Don't be alarmed. That was our secret weapon being destroyed. Thanks to me, our plans for domination of the universe are history. Seems fitting since 60 of the Knights of the Realm are dead.", he continued. Then Alan said, "Thank you Tyrannil. No matter what happens, you are a friend in my books. I'm also sorry for taking the life of your friend Pyraine." Nadia also said, "I'm sorry too." Then Tyrannil shook his hand as he summoned a dark portal to escape, "He would have wanted to go like he did and so thus you just ended his suffering and for that I thank you." As he entered inside the portal, he turned to face Alan and said, "I don't have much time left…" Alan shocked at this asked, "But how? I didn't kill you. Plus you barely took any damage. Even when I struck you with my keyblade in your chest, it didn't touch your heart." "Whoever said you were my killer? Obeion is the one to blame. He knew that either I or Pyraine would betray him and so he cursed me and Pyraine. Pyraine was cursed by the many missions he had to do while he cursed me with my own Dark Arts book. I'm doomed to die any second now…even now a virus…the same one that created the Viraltroopers…will end my life… take care…friends…aahuaha!!"

Then Tyrannil dissolved like his dragon did earlier and the portal also disappeared with him inside it. As the portal closed behind Tyrannil, Alan and Nadia got a good look at his face before it closed shut on him and parted him from Castle Darkhand forever. Alan and Nadia paused for a brief moment as they bowed their heads and then Alan grew in anger as he said, "It's time to end this. For Pyraine, Tyrannil, everyone. This ends now!!" Nadia nodded and they headed to the door to the right and headed up the long set of stairs up to the third and top floor of the castle, where Tyra awaited patiently for Alan and Nadia to appear before him.

(A sad ending for poor Tyrannil I have to admit. As I will outline in a future story to come, the Knights of the Realm really weren't that bad. They unfortunately were victims of a lunatic bent on power and felt that he could help them with their problems. Alan also saw this as well and Tyrannil was too stubborn to admit that he was good. With that I shall leave it at that and end off this weekend on that note as well. There's more to come in the following weeks so stay tuned.)

(Next Time: Alan vs. Tyra.)

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