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Here goes chapter 3! Lets enjoy this, shall we?
I re-written part 1, twice.. as some might not get the idea yet.
Chapter 3 part 1: The not-so-amazing thing to hear
"Mom! Get out of here! It is dangerous!" Dark exclaimed
-Ground starts to fall, absorbing everything into it-
Dark's mom was also being absorbed into the ground. "No! I'm coming!" He heard a laughter coming from every direction possible, and then his mom was not to be seen again. "No! Ahhhhh!". And he found the place turning back into a... Room..
As Dark woke up in the middle of the night, he finds himself in a big mansion, inside the once barrier-ed Edelstein. He looked around the beautiful house surrounded with trophies and pictures of Spark winning contests in school.
"Where am I? ... What the.." Dark heard a snoring sound. He turned to find out what was making that sound, and saw Spark sleeping beside him, he smiled slowly at him. "Oh..." He sighed, "It was just a nightmare.. Wait a minute, what's that on Spark's chest?.."
"I shouldn't be thinking of that.. It's late and I gotta continue sleeping.." And so Dark laid down and continued to sleep.
The sun rises a few hours later, as well as loud cheering sounds coming from the main hall of Edelstein, mostly about being saved by the Masters and all, but no sign of anyone cheering for Dark or Spark..
"Hey, it's morning" Spark softly whispered to Dark's ear.
"Oh, good morning" Rubbing his own eyes while looking at Spark walking out of the room.
Dark followed shortly after fully awaking. He went down and saw a big living room with lots of living room stuff in it.
Spark made some breakfast and asked his tired looking little brother to join in, wanting to ask him about his 'special abilities'.
"Good morning lil' bro, was the bed comfortable last night? Had to place you there because I was exhausted, and you slept from the moment you closed your eyes." Spark placed some food in his mouth, then continued, "I think you did a great job last night, so, how exactly did you... Combine your spells? Especially with Dark / Lightning combos which might kill you, you know, it's dangerous.. And I like it! Can you tell me how you did it?" Spark excitedly said, not knowing if Dark actually heard everything as he was squishing his breakfast around.
"Oh, uhmm.. I noticed what Zeus said before raging, so I thought about it and it just happened..." Looking down at his now totally squished breakfast.
"Hey, you okay? You don't seem to be looking so well today, is it because of that?" Spark worriedly asked.
"I dreamed about Mom, she was absorbed into a vortex inside the ground. It looked like a Lightning based vortex, I think its the gods wanting to have revenge on what we did." Dark said with emotions obviously showing on his face.
"I guess I did the wrong thing by killing him, instead of following Mom's orders." Dark had tears dripping down on his breakfast.
"I'm sorry, I am also in the wrong, I ignored the warning too.. Don't cry, cheer up, what's past is past, now we just have to fix it. Here, I'll go and make you some new breakfast." Spark handed him a tissue and took his plate into the kitchen.
"What I am worried.. Is that the future will not give us an easy chance." Dark walked out of the house without a notice.
"Hey.. Where did he go?" Spark looked around the place, then back at the plate on his hand. "Can't waste this." He ate the whole thing, then left to find Dark.
Dark walked around the streets, into the hall and blended in with the other Demon Slayers that were partying. The hall was made into a temporary party house, with DJs, bars, dancing corners, and resting areas. He went to sit alone in the resting area as he was too young to be drinking, the bar was also closed at this time..
Spark went around the city searching for Dark, then went into the hall, trying not to gain attention from any slayers. He looked around and found Dark sitting in a corner table, and went to join him.
"What are you doing here, Dark? Still feeling bad and worried? You really need to let the past free.. If not, we can't start planning about the future, right? The future for our city still awaits for our move." Spark sat beside him and looked at him.
Dark said nothing, but as soon as he turned his face to Spark, he started crying, and he hugged Spark.
"It is beyond our powers, and I do not want to lose my brother!" Dark exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" Spark was worried that he knows about the spell.
"That curse." Dark looked at his brother with teary eyes.
"Oh." Spark looked away from him, trying to hold back his tears. "How did you know?"
"Just... Don't push yourself too hard in the future, let me handle the future." Dark wiped his tears away, "I saw the mark when you were asleep."
Spark blushed and looked at his chest. "Alright. I trust that you can handle it on your own, if you ever need help, remember that I am always by your side, I will never ever leave my brother to die out there."
Spark went off to his usual training spot, remembering all about the special powers in the cursed skill book.
Dark walked around the hall and bought something to eat, when he walked back, he saw two Officers from the Lightning Academy wearing disguises, who were once destroyed by him.
They snapped their spears into position ready for battle. Just a few seconds ago Dark was feeling down, but now looking at a challenge, he brightened up with an evil smirk on his face. "Bring it on!"
Dark ate his breakfast and shattered the plate while throwing it towards the Officers. Dust particles from the plate flew into their eyes and irritated them. Dark made a quick escape outside, in order not to gain attention from slayers in the room. He jumped out of the glass window and down to the ground. Looking around him to find a weapon, the Officers then jumped down and slammed his spear, almost hitting Dark, but landed on the ground instead.
Dark kicked and pinned the Officer down, then took his spear and ready for the next. He spun the spear around and created a lightning spear, which he threw into the other Officer while he was jumping down from the window.
He walked home looking cool and feeling happy, imitating his brother's styles. "That was fun."
The Cloud Mayor was then greatly provoked by this and slammed on a cloud, causing an unintended lightning strike, which took off the roof of the hall of Edelstein. The electricity to the party was then shorted and everyone ran out shouting.
"Hey! Watch where you are striking, clouds! I will take you down if I have to!" Dark, shouting to nobody.
Suddenly, from the same area that the lightning strike was created, the Cloud Mayor flew down, dressed in a black suit with a suitcase, or maybe a Pandora Box.
"Good evening, young Slayer. I seem to have gained some 'Interest' on you.. I think you are strong, powerful, and needs to be more well known.. Don't you think the same? Dark?" The Cloud Mayor gave Dark an evil grin.
"How do you know my name? And do I even know you? What are you? A president? I laugh at how you dress, Mr President of the clouds." Dark giggled.
"Oh, how amusing! A mere little slayer laughs at a Mayor? You must be the bravest boy I have seen in my life, every others would just run away crying." The Cloud Mayor became irritated.
"Really, do you want to have a fight with me? I would gladly take down the whole of your 'cloud' land and give peace to my city. Unless you are scared of me." Taunted Dark
"No, I pity you, fighting for your little 'city'.. No fame, or even a little 'thank you' from citizens you saved, don't you think that it is a waste of a talent? If you join me, I can let you rule over the city! Everyone will be at your command! If not..." The Cloud Mayor couldn't stand it anymore and opened his 'suitcase'
"Hold on right there, Mr Cloud Mayor, if you are so interested in killing me, how would I be able to join you? I think you are right, I have wasted a lot of time here, I want you to take me with you, and I wish to rule over the city." Without thinking, Dark answered.
Spark, witnessing whatever had happened there, was in awe. "Am I dreaming!? How can he do that! My little brother, working FOR the cloud mayor? No!". He ran away in tears.
Chapter 3 Part 2: Confrontation
Spark tried to master everything in a few days in hope to stop Dark from doing what he says he wanted to do. Although that might take his life.
Spark thought to himself: "I have to do this, on my own, I have nobody to help me, only myself, I must save Edelstein!"
Dark flew into the clouds with the Mayor, amazed at everything he saw inside the city.
"So, Dark my little slayer, welcome home! This will be your new home once you make a flat land out of Edelstein. Leave no body, leave no slayer." The Mayor whispered the last few words with a scary voice.
Dark smirked as he went into a cloud like house, with cloud television, cloud windows, cloud doors, cloud toilets, cloud food, cloud everything.
As he looked around, he whispered to himself: "Spark, I am very sorry, I have to do this, I hope you understand. You must understand.."
-Back down to Spark on earth-
He looked at his suit in the glass closet of his house. Shiny 'White Knight' Kevlar Overall, Leather Gloves, Elemental Swords, Leather Boots.
"I will miss you, you were a good little brother to me." He slowly suited up and went out his mansion. He looked up and saw a beautiful sky, too beautiful to let the day be ruined by a battle.
-As Dark signs the contract-
"So, you will be rewarded with that little land, for killing every living thing in Edelstein. You must leave no one alive. Understood?" The Cloud Mayor ordered.
"Oh sure, I despise those things, they looked down on me before.. If I destroy them all, who will be your next targets?" Dark signed.
"That.. Is none of your business, you just need to do your stuff."
"I want to know."
"No, it is confidential."
"I demand an answer! If not the deal is off!" Dark shouted.
"The Demon Avenger you are with, he is next on our lists. And you are not required to know it!" The Cloud Mayor stomped off.
Dark was prepared to die, he vowed to rescue the city and his brother. He scanned through the whole Cloud town, looking at an obvious headquarter, hoping there is some way to power down all the electricity while he saves the city.
"Turn around."
Dark paused and looked back at a masked, shiny armored Demon Avenger with an elemental sword.
"Go away! I am not intending to kill you, yet!" Dark did not let his plan out but kept silent as he saw the Cloud Mayor looking at him.
Spark walked towards him slowly, while gripping his sword, he charged his sword.
"I don't want to hurt you Spark, go away!" Dark backed off, more and more afraid of his brother's built up anger.
"Go! Now!"
Spark dashed across his brother and tried to stab him everywhere he can, and Dark dodged anxiously.
"Hey! Don't anger me!" Dark shouted as the Cloud Mayor was approaching.
"You are the most evil person I have ever met Dark! You will go down, together with the whole of this Cloud town!" Spark roared
Dark ran and Spark chased him, leading them into an open area. Dark tried to open a hole in the ground to let Spark fall off, while Spark was busy trying to get his sword into him.
The Cloud Mayor approached and ordered Dark: "What are you doing! Kill that intruder!"
"You said he was next on the list! Not first!" Dark denied.
The Cloud Mayor put his palm on his face and said: "Just kill him. I will give you another reward for that".
Dark created an energy ball which transformed into his weapon, and since this is the skies, he had more chance to use Lightning skills. And every strike he made on Spark was carefully planned not to hurt him.
After a long time, Spark appeared to be exhausted. Dark noticed it and tried to make Spark fall off.
Dark hit his brother's head, as soft as he could, knocking him out and falling off the clouds.
Dark held his tears as he looked at the Mayor, who seemed disappointed in him, and walked towards his headquarters.
"Come with me, young slayer, we have much to talk about." The Cloud Mayor waved his hands
"I'm sorry Spark, sorry that I hurt you." Dark whispered and tear drops flow down his face.
"Did I hear you say something about him?" The Cloud Mayor stared at him.
"Uh, yes! I was saying what a stalker he was." Dark answered
"Then why are there tears in your eyes, and on your face?" More staring contests started.
"Some dust particles went into my eyes, nothing much." Lied Dark.
"There are no dust particles in heaven! You have feelings for that guy, huh? If that is the case, I might kill you as well." Warned the Mayor.
"No! I do not have feelings for that guy, why would you think I have some!?" Dark blushed.
"Because you look as red as a person in love." The Mayor made a disgusted look.
Dark looked away. "You better be on task, go, go now and destroy Edelstein!" Mayor changed his orders.
"Fine, I will report to you once its done." Dark left the Clouds and down into his house.
Spark fell into bushes that soften his fall, not so much, but still enough to leave Spark alive.
Spark woke up, in Dark's house, with Dark sitting beside him waiting for him to wake up.
As Spark was about to punch Dark, Dark stopped him and explained everything.
"You see... It is just a plan, nothing else, I... Love my city more than anything else, and I, love you too." Dark hugged his brother.
"You're quite smart there bro, I am sorry I got in your way, I hope you forgive me, love you too." Spark hugged back.
"I need your help now, I need you to come with me, and deactivate their electricity source." They smiled at each other.
-End of Chapter 3-
Please enjoy XDreamerMS while Chapter 4 is in the makings!
This chapter had lesser words since 2 parts only :P, it was a hard chapter for me. Hope you enjoyed it!