Ch. 6 Dark Spawn Brother
{Nix's point of view}
It's been two days since me and Rexdek came to this camp. The Dark Spawn attacked every day around noon. Just a small force though, so we took care of them easily. I was getting worried though. My brother disappeared regularly and that alone was disturbing but so was the other bit. That Gallade Chrome keeps following and watching me. It's really fucking creepy. The longer we stayed, the more attention we started to draw because we never ate, drank, or used guns. That seemed to cause discomfort among the others. Their leaders tried to reassure them that we're on their side but that did little to comfort them. Rexdek and I were on the northern gate to overlook the area. The camp was separted into four sections. There's the Center, North, East, and West. North, East, and West each had a gate to allow passage. These three sections also acted as a defense to protect the center. The Center is where all the injured and civilians are kept safe. Near the entrance to the Center is where the Commanders meet to discuss their next actions. My memories were starting to disappear now. I almost forgot my real name as well as the fact that was human. It really is a strange experience... to have your memories fade and... start to feel empty... cold. I find myself wondering if it really matters to remember. Rexdek and I sat on top the north gate to make sure no one was trying to sneak in. Guard duty is so troublesome and boring though. Although, it does give me time to think about the big questions but these questions always affect my mood. Thinking about my memories made me a little depressed but a bit neutral as well. It was... strange.
Rexdek must have noticed something was off and asked, "You seem troubled. Something wrong?"
"No. Well... yes and no. I'm starting to lose every memory now. One by one each day. I didn't have many to begin with and good ones were far too few to begin with. Say... do you think our world has always been like this?" I asked.
Rexdek shrugged, "Who knows? It acts like it. Maybe the world is finally ending because it's time and we're just delaying the inevitable." Rexdek suggested.
"Yeah, that seems..." I paused when I spotted something watching us from the bushes, "50 meters 105 degrees north." I instructed.
Rexdek got up with his bow immediately, "Got it." He whispered as a yellow arrow formed.
His lens formed as he shot the lightning fast arrow. I watched as it hit the intended target but didn't do anything. Instead, the mysterious figure shrugged before walking into the forest.
I got up, "Wait, don't follow. It's obviously a trap." Rexdek warned.
I sat back down, "Yeah. Your right. Sorry." I apologized.
"It's alright. Should we mention it to the others?" Rexdek asked.
"No, we didn't really see anything important. It'll just cause more stress they don't need. If it comes back, we'll have to fight it. We don't want it to lead an entire attack force, do we?" I asked.
Rexdek sighed, "I guess not. I didn't really care in the first place." Rexdek replied.
I glanced at Rexdek before looking back into the forest, "What about those kids?" I asked.
Rexdek didn't react to the question at all, he just asked, "What about them?"
"What do you think will happen to them?" I asked.
"Don't know, don't care. I'm not their mother." Rexdek replied simply.
"I know but should we really leave them and everyone else here to die?" I asked.
"Ugh, why do you even care? They're just a bunch of scrubs who'll become one of us or the dark spawn no matter what we do. I saw we leave them behind and not give a fuck." Rexdek replied with a frustrated huff.
I sighed, "You know, you may lose your memories and stuff but that doesn't mean you should let yourself feel nothing. You were alive too so maybe we should care." I replied coolly.
Rexdek just sighed, "Whatever you say boss."
"Ugh, what am I going to do with you?" I asked.
"I know what your not going to... wait... is that..?" Rexdek got up and looked through his lens intrigued.
"What is it?" I asked.
"It's... your bro. He's going into the forest alone." Rexdek told me.
"Should we follow him?" I asked.
Rexdek got up and stretched his legs, "That's up to you boss man." he replied from simple uninterest.
With a shrug, I got up and called over a group of pokemon to guard the gate for us. With that set, we jumped down from the gate and crept into the forest carefully. My brother walked through it level headed as if nothing was wrong. While following me, I noticed there weren't any Dark Spawn around. Usually there'd at least be one or two around to scout for strays. Instead there was nothing with a calm breeze and sweet scents. I didn't like this. Something bad was going to happen. At one point my brother stopped to look around but we hid out of sight. Assured that he was alone, my brother continued on his little stroll.
'What is he up to?' I asked myself.
My brother stopped once he reached a part of the forest that was white and decaying. He turned around to inspect the area again but couldn't see us. With a snort, he turned back towards the dying forest and started walking again. I glanced at Rexdek to see he was uninterested in the situation but still followed. While following him, I started to get a sense of uneasiness. Things were too... quiet. Where are all the dark spawn? This forest is supposed to be infested with them? Either my brother is extremely lucky... or...
"Hey, what do you think he's up to?" Rexdek whispered.
I whispered back, "I don't know but this is... strange. Have you noticed the extreme lack of Dark Spawn?"
"Yeah, not to mention he doesn't look or seem like a Nobody so... what's going on?" Rexdek asked in a harsh whisper.
I didn't respond but returned my focus back to my brother. At one point, he grabbed a white decaying flower and smirked for a moment. He crashed it in his hand and opened his hand to reveal white dust. Letting the dust slide down his open palm, he looked up at the sky taking in the surrounding scents.
"It's about time you made it." A very intimidating female voice spoke.
"Hey, I can stroll if I want old woman." My brother replied.
"I guess but we have things to do. If you don't play your role, we'll never get to kill our enemies." This woman told him.
Rexdek nudged my shoulder to get my attention, "Where is the voice coming from?"
I inspected the area to see that he was talking to a woman deeper in the decaying forest, "I can't see, she's behind a couple trees. Let's move to a different position." I suggested.
With a curt nod, Rexdek agreed and moved a bit closer to see who my brother was talking to. We were to my brother's left side as he looked towards the decaying forest. A woman stood before him at 6 foot 7 with long black hair that hung down her back and over her shoulders. Her pale white skin shone rather brightly as her blue eyes sparkled with a sharp small nose. Her lips were ruby red with slightly sharper canine teeth. Her breasts were a c cup with a very defined hourglass figure. To cover her torso, she wore a tight black low cut tank top with three silver bracelets on her left hand. Her nails were painted black with the edges cut cleanly. Her slim stomach showed slightly as her tank top hung off her breasts. For her lower body, she wore rather long black shorts. Her feet visible as she wore simple white sandals.
My brother started acting out of character as he shrugged, "Well..." he grinned as he shot her a smug look, "Sometimes I think it ain't my problem." A loud smack rang in our ears.
"You fucking idiot. I hate improper grammar. That's why I tried to instill intelligence in my child but that fuck had to go fuck the shit out of a god damn Gardevoir." She spat hatefully.
My brother rubbed his cheek before nodding, "I'm sorry, it won't happen again." He apologized.
The woman's head shot up as she looked around before saying, "I'd hope so. Also, it seems your rather bad at sneaking out. At least my son could sneak out of camp without being followed." The woman chuckled darkly.
My brother started looking around, "Hm? I don't see anyone." he replied.
"Heh, I know you don't but your not supposed to see if your alone. You need to sense it. Your still not familiar with your Dark Spawn powers, are you?" She demanded.
"No... I haven't had the time to since I've been surrounded by my 'fellow humans' as of late." He replied calmly.
"Yes well... you've attracted the attention of some Nobodies. Come on out!" The woman demanded.
"Uh... what should we do?" I asked.
Rexdek pulled out his bow and aimed a yellow arrow at the woman, "Improvise." he whispered.
Rexdek shot the lightning fast arrow at the woman but it looked as if it went right through her. She smirked before raising a hand towards us. Rexdek and I separated in a desperate jump as a jet of flames incinerated our previous position.
"Would you look at that." My brother commented as I came into view.
"What's wrong?" the woman asked.
"That's the douche that tried to pick a fight with me." He told her.
"Wow, maybe he knew you were a Dark Spawn." She replied.
My brother approached me, "Tell me, why did you try to mess with me specifically?" he demanded.
I frowned before glaring at him, "I did it because your the reason why I'm a nobody." I replied.
"Oh? So, who were you before?" he asked with a grin.
I pulled out my sword as I sighed in frustration, "I was your brother you fucking asshole." I replied.
He started laughing, "Heh ha ha ha! You were my shrimp dick brother!? No fucking way! I always knew you were a nobody but this is just rich!"
"Yeah? Well I always knew you were a dick! Ever since our parents died, you've done nothing but hurt me!" I yelled angrily.
"Died? Let me correct you on that. I changed ever since I murdered our parents with my Dark Spawn powers." He grinned.
I felt shock rise but it quickly went away as I grunted, "What are you talking about?" I asked.
My brother chuckled, "I died when I was like 6 years old because of our parents' stupidity. What idiots allow their child to walk around freely? Of course I'd explore the world and get slaughtered by some random danger. When I was reborn as a Dark Spawn, I decided to go back and continue my life. It was rather entertaining really. After that little incident, our parents were a lot more serious about caring for me. Then they had you and I noticed how much harder they tried to raise you. Honestly, I might of felt a bit... jealous but I did it out of love, heh." My brother grinned.
"Oh, I'm going to enjoy kicking your fucking ass." I replied as I ran at him.
With a sigh, he nudged his head towards the woman. With a snap of her fingers, a black portal opened in front of me. I ran into it unable to stop and ended up on a flat boulder. The surrounding space acted like an endless space without any stars to light it up. Suddenly, the edges were lit ablaze as it encased the flat boulder. A black portal appeared ahead of me as my brother stepped through it. He seemed excited from how jittery his body was.
"Oh boy, I've been wanting to fight you ever since you got in my face." he spoke quickly.
"Yeah? With what? Your completely defenseless." I reminded.
I hung his head low as he placed his hands on his hips to laugh, "You idiot, you should know by now not to judge a book by its cover. Well... not that you could even READ a book." he smirked as he looked back at me.
Dark matter seemed to cover him as he changed into his fighting form. A black and blue leather, skin tight set of armor covered his body with ripped in half heart across his chest. The armor covered every inch of his body with various ridges along his ribs, neck, and every joint. His chest, abdomen, arms, and shoes were blue while all else was black. His helmet had a long square black lens that went across his eyes. His mouth and chin were visible as a grin was plastered across it. A sword materialized in his right hand to create a red bladed longsword to counteract my own.
I wasn't impressed, "Huh, how unoriginal. A sword just like mine." I told him.
"Hm. Well, I had mine first, so you stole it from me." he replied.
I couldn't contain myself anymore as I charged at him with my sword extended. I thrusted the sword towards his heart but he just sidestepped me. I looked to my left as I stopped my momentum and decided to turn my body quickly. I did a spin slash but he jumped away as he charged an attack in his hand. I ran at him, ignoring the charging attack, and tried to slash him. He jumped back again as he swung his hand to release a wave of black gunk at me. The gunk landed on my feet and I immediately felt like my body weighed more. I did my best to get the gunk off my shoes but that left me vulnerable. My brother ran at me with his sword extended. He was going to slice me in half from an overhead swipe. I decided to use his previous attack to my advantage. With the added weight due to it, I could overpower his attack from my present footing. When I held up my attack and blocked his strike, I immediately noticed his shocked expression. He was surprised I used the weight gain to stop his momentum in its tracks. Instead, I pushed him back and got the gunk off my shoes. I charged at my brother and started swiping my blade to block and attack him. Our swords clanged and tinged off each other as we fought to get at least one hit it. I tried to slice his legs but he jumped over me and landed behind me. As he turned to face me, I tried to do a spin slash on the ground. He reacted perfectly as he raised a foot and stepped on my sword to stop it. He tried to impale me with his sword but I swung my left leg forward to kick his. Shock, he fell back, dropping his sword as he landed onto his back. I got up and pulled out my sword from under his foot. He grabbed his sword and quickly jumped up to glare at me. I held mine towards him as I waited for his next move. He jumped back and threw his sword into the air. I ran at him to get an attack in but he jumped into the air to catch his sword's handle. With a flash of light, crystal light spikes and swords started forming around him. They coiled in a sphere as I realized what his next move it.
"Spiral Rail!" he screamed as the Spikes and Swords shot at me.
I ran, dodged, and deflected the spikes and swords as they disappeared and reappeared around him. Only to shoot at me again until he finally started falling. The attack was over, so none of the spikes or swords were around him. He turned to try and block my attack but wasn't fast enough. I slashed across his chest before spinning to to kick him in the stomach, knocking him back. His feet dragged a bit as FL formed on my sword. I sprinted towards him in hopes of getting two more strikes in to complete my flow. Instead, he blocked my attack and kicked me away. FL disappeared from my sword and instead appeared on his. Too surprised by this turn of events, he started slashing me with his sword. I feebly tried to block but his string of combos were too fast and powerful. Sure enough, FLOW was spelt across his blade as he kicked me square on my chest. I fell onto my back with a grunt and slid a few feet before looking at him.
He twirled his sword overhead before thrusting it into the floor, "FLOW BREAK-Oversurge!" My brother screamed.
The flat boulder we were on started to shake as the outer circle of it broke from the circle of flames. The chunks that broke of started to coil around the boulder as the flat surface shrunk in half. If the diameter of it was about 150 feet, it was about 75 now. The flames seemed to rise higher now as the boulders rotated violently. Light shone all around my brother as waves of energy and spikes came off him. I quickly got up and started jumping and rolling out of the way of this attack. A wave of light came towards me but a few spikes distracted me. By the time I noticed, it was too late. My brother rose up from the ground and slashed me into the air. I dropped my sword to which he gladly grabbed. He started to slash me with both the swords in a string of combos. He twisted, spun, and front rolled with the weapons to cut me all over. To finish it off, he ran up my body to slam both feet into my stomach. The sudden force thrust me towards the edge of the arena. I slammed into an invisible barrier and felt my body get alit in flames. I screamed in frustration as I fell onto the floor and rolled to put out the flames. When I put out the flames, I stood up to see my sword thrown into the ground in front of me. I looked up to see my brother land across from me.
"Come now, is that all you got?" He asked.
"Go fuck yourself Ch... Uh... Huh..." I couldn't remember his real name.
"Hm? What's wrong?" He asked curiously.
"I... can't remember your name." I admitted.
he shrugged, "It doesn't matter you nobody. When your dead, no one will remember you since you don't exist in the first place." He chuckled.
"Your not going to win, I'm telling you that right now." I replied.
"By all means, make a move. I have all the time in the world nobody." he grinned.
I growled as I gripped my sword tightly and ran towards him. I decided to try a move I've been working on for a while. I train with my sword when I'm alone to learn any potentially useful moves. I raised my sword up which caused my brother to hold his up defensively. The moment my blade touched his, I stopped gripping my handle. Instead, I ducked and thrusted my body forward to tackle my brother to the ground. Due to the shock caused by the move, I made him drop his weapon as I twisted my body to grab mine. I quickly twisted again to get my knee to thrust my body up. I kicked away my brother's sword and turned towards him.
"Crap." he muttered as I charged at him.
"Crap is right you douchebag!" I yelled as I ran at him.
He held out his hands in anticipation to my attack but that didn't matter. I started slashing his across his body and twisted mine with my right foot extended. I kicked the back of his left knee with it to cause his to fall forward. I quickly got behind him and held his head in a lock. I tried to slit his throat but he slipped through my headlock. He rolled forward and ran for his sword. I chased after him but wasn't able to catch up to him in time. I tried to strike but he twisted after picking up his sword to block my attack. He kicked my stomach and jumped back to create some distance.
"Your becoming a real pain in my ass." he commented.
"Don't worry, when your dead you won't feel anything." I replied.
"Oh, I'm not going to die here but you will. I guarantee it." He smirked.
"Why's that?" I asked.
"Heh, because my boss lady has to let you out. If you kill me, you'll be stuck here forever." he answered with a chuckle.
I bit my lip as I started thinking, 'Shit, if he's telling the truth then I have to hope Rexdek comes up with something. Damn it, why me?' I wondered.