Chapter 17

The fight of dark

The dark knight walked through the darkness, his black steed having been returned to its astral home, he bended the realm of darkness with his will into the realm of his home and then he traveled to return to the realm where he was required, stepped up from the darkness into the world.

It did not take much long before he understood that the castle had been made in darkness and he did not had to move back into the old realm. It was just like his home, made of darkness except that his home was a part of the old realm while this one had been a realm of its own different from his own.

The castle was just the part of the other realm brought by tremendous power of some.

The dark knight walked into the castle, then through the castle. He called onto darkness for help and the darkness answered him. He started searching for the throne room where he was supposed to find Krokon. After closely examining a few of the rooms, he understood the castle was empty as an effect of contacting the darkness. He finally found the throne room; he walked into the room feeling for his own power growing inside. But the disciplinary action and the hearts of the one known to him gave a control against the power pulling him. He thought no more of it.

He was going to turn back and proceed to other location when he observed an orb at the centre of the castle hall he was standing. It was half hung in the air and it was hollow occupied by something.

For the ordinary it would have been just darkness, darkness everywhere. For the knight who was living for darkness, it was much more.

The orb radiated energy, a dark energy whose ripples has been sensed by the knight as an object of farther distance than seen. Inside the orb was a boy and the orb was sending call to others, to him. A trap.

“Interesting, isn’t it, sweet and fluent, just as dark as his eyes in the night, the spell.”

“Who is it.” asked the Knight.

He unsheathed his sword took it to a point at the orb after reducing the distance using the primeval force of darkness and smashed it. An explosion occurred, the hall’s walls got shattered but it again reformed, the orb was back again but the boy was out.

“Interesting power. The dark one in the dark world.”

The Knight did not care for the voice but looked at the boy, he opened a portal and send the child to where Leofin and Amnophia were. He decided against the urge to fight the person responsible and decided to go through the portal for saving the injured person. He was about to jump but the portal closed.

“Interesting power.”

But this time in front of him stood the lady, the lady of chaos.

“Nice to see you again, lady of chaos.”

“So you haven’t forgotten me.”

“So you are meddling with darkness this time.”

“Join me and we can rule this realm.”

“You are not among the waterbies and neither shall you be.”

“But you could be the ruler.”

“A good offer, but I value other things than that.”

“What if you were given some new power to foster?”

“There is nothing I sense you can offer me.”

“Then it’s clear, you must die.”

Some spectral beings appeared out of nowhere, they had a shade of yellow, no shade seen yet the outline.

“They are thinner than darkness knight.”

Other beings appeared swallowing the beings of yellow, they being red.

“I know many beings of darkness lady.”

“Then it’s up to me.”

“I am much more powerful now.”

The dark knight moved his sword through the castle floor and thicker darkness came as a flood towards the lady, but it did not affect her. She made a portal at the floor and both of then started falling through different realms as it was a multilayered portal. The knight hit on things unseen moving towards him made to move by the lady and finally they were back on the lands. They were inside the castle once again and the knight smashed his sword at the neck of the lady.

But the sword got attached there and the lady got the sword in her hands. The knight was dropped to the knees with sword at his neck held by the lady.

“You thought I would be the same, powerless.”

“I thought you would be the same.”

“We have changes.”

“You may kill me.”

“I will not kill you knight. I will defeat you first, I will destroy everything, your family, your friend and…”

“They are probably dead.”

“Oh really. What do you care the best? If I take you to be my slave, no! What if I take away the throne of your land and give it to someone like someone and start a fight between outside lands and the waterbies.

“No, you couldn’t probably.” said the knight in a calm voice.

“There is no probability in everything.”

“The kingdom of waterbies may fall but the kingdom of delzoun will always stay put.”

“I forgot you were from a different realm, delogori, I will change the fate of people, here first then at you realm delogori.”

“Stop boating about yourself.”

The Lady waved her hands and in the air opened a portal and the knight saw his old realm. There could be seen was a large building and many people walking from here to there. The feelings of knight could not be seen outside as he had worn his helmet over his head, but a tear dropped from his eyes.

“Remember Knight, you are not alive because of your capability but just because I want you to be.”

The dark knight got absorbed in the portal and landed at the place where he had been before entering the castle. There waited for him four fighters to do anything on his command.

A sound was heard in the head of the knight but it was as if it echoed throughout the desert. “You should have stayed with me knight, the real face of darkness.”

The castle crumbled into big pieces colliding into itself and vanished in itself and there were sand dunes present in its original position.

Leofin and Remuka ran over to help but were thrown away by some unseen force.

Again voices were heard. “Stay away from my path Knight, as it is required.”