Evil Shows Its Face
(For the first little bit of this chapter I would listen to KH awakening since it involves Victor meeting Darkness and the chronicles of his life and Darkness since they were once a single sentient being (living thing if you want to call it) as well as the end of this chapter since Victor will also fight Darkness for the first time as well. So anyways, I hope you enjoy this next little bit of the Perfect Trio.)
Victor was asleep again after a long hard day of fighting Torahne and he was yet again tossing and turning in his bunker. This time, in Victor's dream it was completely pitch black for a tiny bit, but soon enough he saw that he was in a white room that seemed to stretch for miles with no end. Everywhere he looked, to his left, to his right and up above him was a huge white expanse that was glowing ever so brightly. Victor then heard something behind him and turned to see what it was. Nothing was there. He then heard footsteps coming his way, but when they stopped Victor couldn't see anything yet again. He then asked nervously, "Who's there?" Then Victor heard his voice. "So finally we meet my boy. I must say this is a surprise to actually be conversing with you.", the voice said. "Who are you? How do you know me?", Victor asked. The voice then said, "I am the great mind that inhabits your very body. I lurk in your very shadow protecting you from any sort of danger that could come your way. I am your imagination brought to life. I am 'you'.", the voice proclaimed. Victor then stepped back slightly and then quivered a little. He then said, "No. That's not true. There's no way I could create something like this. It's impossible!!" The voice then said, "Yet it is. Look around you boy. There is potential for life in any cranny and nook. In fact that is how you were created: by the Almighty One's Imagination." Victor then saw a rose appear by his left foot and as he picked it up he saw a dark ring of fire appear two feet in front of him and turn into dark clouds before revealing a young boy who looked like him in every way, but with dark skin and yellow eyes.
Victor then yelled and tried to run away, but the dark being appeared in front of him on a black cloud relaxing on it as if it were a couch saying, "What's your hurry? You asked me how I knew you so here it is. To put it simply, any bit anger, hate, sorrow, fear, jealousy or any other negative emotion you feel is what I am made up of. That goes for your sins as well." Victor then gasped and said, "You're made up of my sins and negative emotions?" "Yes. But I am not going to hurt you. In fact I am willing to make a proposition with you. So here's the deal: I am willing to lend you my power to become one of the strongest fighters there is. With your imagination and my power, together we will become unstoppable. In return, you give me control of your very mind in exchange for my power in the end when you reach the top.", the dark being replied. Victor then sighed and then the dark being then asked, "Problem?" "It's just I don't know about this. Isn't it like cheating if I get help?" The dark being said, "I'm you so there's nothing in the rule book at this dump you call an Academy that says you can't get help from yourself. So is it a deal or not?" Victor then replied, "How about if I think about for a bit. Do you think you could wait for my answer?" The dark being then said, "Very well. You can have two to three weeks. During that time you can still test out my power. You only have two to three weeks though. No more; no less. After that I need a decision." The dark being then said before he disappeared into a blanket of black fog, "Oh by the way, my name is Darkness."
Victor awoke the next day and in everything he did he had darkness at his side in the form of his shadow. Any bully Victor saw picking on a bunch of kids he would go up and tell them to get lost. When some of them didn't listen, he would use Darkness' powers to defeat them through kicking and other different attack strategies. It seemed as if things were going well for Victor. His grades drastically improved bit by bit, his strength tripled over the past two weeks and even when he couldn't have enough time to chill out with Torahne, he told the guy he would make it up to him and play some soccer if he liked. Victor didn't like to play soccer of course, but he knew it was for a friend.
Life for Victor seemed to be getting better and better, but at a timely cost. Victor himself was becoming a bully himself. He trashed the bullies about and began to enjoy it to the point where he almost lost himself. Everyone around him started to become afraid to even go near him. One day Torahne oversaw Victor throwing a bully towards the field, the black top where the jungle gym was and towards the front of the academy as well while getting an ice cream cone for Victor and then took a walk with him to the beach. Torahne then stood over Victor as he ate his cone while sitting on an old log, "Victor, what are you doing?" Victor then looked at Torahne with one eyebrow up saying, "Um…eating my ice cream?" Torahne then shook his head and said, "That's not it. Those bullies you just tossed about. What's that about?" Victor then said, "What? They were picking on every little guy about my height and age. They had it coming. Besides that's what we're doing all the time." Torahne then said loudly, "Yeah, but we don't toss them like twenty feet across the entire field. You've even started to become a bully not just to those guys, but you're really starting to change a lot more than you know. You know ever since you had that weird dream about that white room you told me about, you've been changing, and not for better." Victor then stood up and asked angrily, "What's that supposed to mean?" Torahne then said louder, "I think you exactly what it means. This is coming from a guy who doesn't want to see you become like those guys." Victor then yelled, "But I'm not!!" Torahne then gripped Victor's shirt and said, "Look at yourself!! You're not even Victor anymore. You're just a real jerk!!" Victor then punched Torahne and socked him straight in his left eye. Torahne then stared at the ground as he rubbed his left eye and stood up looking at Victor on the verge of tears, he said, "I think it's time for me go." Victor then saw Torahne run back to the Training Academy and as Victor yelled loudly to Torahne to come back, Torahne tripped over a stone on the beach and kept running. Victor began to pant panicking and tears were forming at his eyes over this incident as he thought, 'What have I done? Torahne's right, this power has done nothing, but create a heck a load of trouble. Do I dare look at myself now that I have this power?' Victor then stared at the lake looking at his reflection, he saw his dark shadow leering right behind him, to which he threw a rock at the lake. Victor then cried a little and as he saw the sun go down he knelt down and began to pray. "Listen God…I know I've come off as a real idiot, not only to those I tried to protect, but to Torahne too, I just ask if you can give me the strength and wisdom to do what's right in my heart that would most appreciated. I also ask if there is some way I could tell Torahne I'm sorry I just ask that I would be able to find it somehow. I ask of this in your name. Amen." Victor then ran off to his bunker to get ready for bed.
Victor then fell asleep the following the night and in his dream Darkness was there in the same white room. "So have you come to a decision yet?" Victor then looked at the ground and said, "I've been thinking Darkness and I don't think your power is really cut out for me. It's changed me into something hideous." "But Victor, this power is supposed to be dark and hideous. I'm made of your evil component as a being. Why not embrace this gift you have? So what if a few people don't agree with it? Together we could beat your older brother Michael. I know how much you want to be like him and how much you desire to be powerful like him.", Darkness replied. Victor then said, "Yes, but I don't want to just defeat him. He's still family and I can't just betray that. I also can't leave Torahne. He's my best friend. Thanks for the offer Darkness, you're a cool guy, but I can't accept." Darkness then grew angry with the youth and the white room became covered in darkness. "No isn't an option Victor!!" Then Victor found himself on a platform with a picture of Alan in his tree bark beige suit and Nadia in her rose dress (to know more about these two you would have to see KH the Legend Begins to find out) holding a pink and a white keyblade. Behind them was a giant red desert in the background and above them was Obeion (also would have to find out about him in the Legend Begins). Around the background was a circle of petunias, violets and roses covering the platform's circular edges.
Victor then saw Darkness appear at the centre of the platform and say, "You probably don't even know who these two people are, but believe me they are much more connected to you than you could possibly know." Victor then asked, "Why are you doing this Darkness? I don't want your power. I just want to go home." "Where? A world to which no one wants a thing to do with you? A universe that doesn't give mercy to the weak or vulnerable? You will always be different Victor. You will never have any true friends whether you like it or not. You will constantly get betrayed by those close to you. What's more, you will never have permanent happiness. So I ask you this. Why bother?" Victor then said, "What's life without living? I mean what would I know about problems? I'm a kid. I'm a real happy camper and I know that someday I will meet my brothers again. As long as I have that and stay oblivious from my surroundings, I shall never lose my true happiness." Darkness then brought his arms towards his chest and crossed them over covering his face. Then he brought them down ferociously roaring and creating a ring of fire surrounding Victor and Darkness. (I would either listen to KH Awakening (near the very end of the song here) or Forze de Male since either would bring about that sinister confidence that Victor and Darkness feel right now.)
Darkness then yelled, "I will never allow you to get away. Once I'm done with you, your freedom and your life will end. From here on in after today, I will reign supreme over your imagination." Victor then got blown away with a severe amount of smoke and earth shaking roaring coming from Darkness' direction. Darkness then ran in and punched Victor in his gut and slammed him towards the ground, but Victor teleported above him and smacked him on either side of face ten times before Darkness teleported into the air and created a force field around him. Then Victor thought of flying and floating up towards Darkness. The dark being then yelled "What?!? How is that possible?" Victor then thought while laughing confidently. "It would seem that anything I imagine is my greatest weapon after all. I don't even need to use your dark powers." Darkness then blasted Victor with a twenty foot beam of darkness from his mouth as if he were a dragon breathing fire. The dark being thought he won, but then he looked past the smoke and saw that Victor's arms were covering his face as he confidently said, "Get a breath mint buddy." Then Darkness yelled again, "What?!? You think this is a joke? I will teach you some manners."
Darkness then multiplied into an infinite amount of copies of himself and began to circle around Victor. "What's that supposed to do? Scare me? I'm too clever for that Darkness.", Victor said. Darkness then laughed sinisterly and said, "Oh don't count your chickens before they cluck!!" Darkness then blasted many black balls of darkness towards Victor and all he could do was hold his arms up to create a shield for himself. Darkness then became a whole being once more and then started to change the environment into one big holographic funhouse that Victor had to go through (this is of course from the Prince's dream in The Two Thrones when he fights the Dark Prince.). Victor then used his imagination to blow away the deceitful images and Darkness was revealed again once more. Victor then appeared in from of Darkness just about a foot away from his face. "I'd advise giving up, but that's just me." Darkness then said, "You my boy have a lot to learn about fighting and this is one of the first rules…never get too close to your opponent!!"
Darkness smacked Victor right at his left cheek and covered him in a series of black sludge. The sludge froze and encased Victor. Then Darkness said, "With this black sludgy tar on your body, it will suck away at the darkness inside you making me even more powerful. Face it boy. You don't stand a chance against me!!" Victor then began to glow white and as he broke out he saw a dark aura glowing from Darkness. He then pierced through the barrier protecting Darkness and punched him yet again. The dark being then shook the entire platform again as he said, "Such impudence is foolish. I cannot believe you're even the Protector as your parents proclaimed you to be." Darkness then threw Victor towards the ground and this time he hit his mark. Victor was weak and couldn't get up. Darkness then said as he landed on the platform, "Why even bother boy? You know you won't win so why try at all?" Victor then slowly stood up and he imagined that he could recover and recover he did!! Victor then said as he walked closer to Darkness, "My heart tells me that you are a sad empty shell. It tells me you have no soul, nor even a body. You're only half of me. You share my strengths and weaknesses and you don't even have an ounce of happiness inside you."
Darkness then threw a series of black balls of darkness towards Victor, but they didn't seem to do anything to him since he had a barrier of his own. "Face it Darkness. I'm more than a match for you. I have been ever since you met me. You became jealous and tried to control me for you own little schemes even though I just used a tiny bit of your power.", Victor replied. Darkness then said, "I don't need to explain myself to you boy. I don't have an ounce of goodness nor humanity in me so don't try to reason with me!! I will succeed and nothing you do can stop me!!" Darkness then lunged forward to stab Victor with a knife, but Victor yanked the knife out of Darkness' hands and destroyed it in his clenched fists. Then Darkness showered the entire platform in black sludge and everywhere Victor could look was skulls, dark clouds, and demons. "Don't test me boy!! I am more powerful than even the greatest warriors of the Planet Namek or even some of your most cherished heroes on Earth. I control the very evil inside everyone's heart. I am the one will take over this puny universe and make the great Pyros the ruler of all!!" Victor then imagined a pair of white gloves and then he said, "Not if I can help it. From here on in Darkness, you are too dangerous to be in the same realm with me. So I'm here by separating you from my body." Victor then hugged Darkness and with that one single embracement a huge amount of light blanketed the room and the sludge along with the platform disappeared as they soon reappeared back in the white room. Darkness then smacked Victor right back at his face and Victor kicked Darkness at his stomach as they both began to match each other move for move dead on. Darkness then made another punch towards Victor's heart, but Victor caught it in time and smacked Darkness' heart weakening him. Victor then saw he was beginning to glow white and saw that he had light within himself.
He then thought to himself, "This is my chance. The only thing I have to do is destroy him and Darkness will be gone forever. No more will anyone be troubled because of your actions anymore." Victor then kicked Darkness into the air and shot a giant cyclone of light towards him as the dark being yelled in agony and screamed as he disappeared into a blanket of smoke and ash. Victor then yelled "Yay!!" as he congratulated himself, but soon stopped as he heard a sinister laugh. "You really think that will get rid of me so easily?", Darkness replied as he appeared right in front of Victor and Victor gasped asking, "How? I just…you were…and…" Darkness then said, "You don't know the balance of good and evil do you? In order for there to be 'order' in the universe, there has to be dark beings as well as light beings. These are what you humans would call heroes and villains. They keep each other in check and make sure that there is a balance of good vs. evil, hence the name. Other beings that are good and evil can die, except for me and now you. Since I am a part of you boy, we are immortal beings because we both control the very essence of light and dark. The only way one of us can die now because of your little glove act is if one of us dies. If you die, I die too and vice versa, so now we can't even destroy each other. But that doesn't mean our fun is over yet. Oh it's just beginning. Now then listen well. In eleven years time precisely we will meet again and when we do, I will become victorious somehow. Just you wait!!"
Then Darkness disappeared again and Victor awoke from his dream thinking, "Yeah you wish Darkness. I will defeat you one day and you will get your come upins." Victor then looked at his watch and realized he had to go for morning exercises since that's what they did every morning at the Training Academy as such. Later at lunch hour, Victor finally caught up with Torahne after looking everywhere for the guy. Torahne turned away eating his sandwich when he saw Victor wave to him and then Victor said with his left arm around the back of his head, "Listen Torahne, I know what I did yesterday was wrong and heck these past three weeks have been murder, but I'm sorry. I didn't mean to punch you, but…" "But you did. So what? I'm not mad about that Victor. I was mad before because you really began to scare me you know. You looked like you were possessed by something evil. I'm glad to see you look like your old self." Then they heard a kid crying and Victor smiled smugly as Torahne then sighed and said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Go get 'em tiger!!" Victor then ran off and with his imagination made the kid crying who was in shorts like Victor was and in a green shirt become invisible with his imagination. The bully then ran off scared thinking it was a ghost and the kid just laughed his butt off and it took Victor and another kid with two pails of water to make him come to his senses. Victor then thought as he looked at his hands like he did after revelations, 'With this power there's nothing I can't do!! I wonder what else these buggers of powers could do?' Victor then heard Torahne call his name and Torahne asked looking at Victor, "Coming slow poke?" Victor then said, "Yep, you go on. I'll catch up!!" Little known to Victor was that a purple demon was outside on the playground watching the commotion from the mess hall thinking, 'Just you wait kid. Soon I'll make a man out of you someday. With your powers I might just be able to beat the Ultimate Five.' Then the demon continued to watch as the little guy ran off to join his buddy.
(I'm actually really impressed at how I captured Darkness this time around. I guarantee there will be other times Victor will meet some people that look like him in some ways (not giving too much away), but those are for later chapters. Also if you did notice, Victor fought Darkness on one of those platforms that Sora did against the Heartless in KH one. Big connection since in KH Legend of the White Knight Victor told Sora to face Darkness and not to fear him, he took on Darkness with the newly founded powers Darkness tried to control. A lot more to come with Victor and the rest of his brothers (for those that are a Mike fan I have a lot more stuff to do with him since he's just as important as is Chris as well. Stay tuned.)
(Next Time: A New Friend and the Final Days with Torahne.)
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