• Chapter 10 part 1: face to face with master radion

    The girls, akako and kyo had since left the palace and now were sitting atop a large hill that over looked the valley, in the distance they could see the remains of the azure forest, and the palace which looked like a tiny dot just behind the dead crooked trees of the forest below them. “I hope that kin comes back” kyo thought to her self as she looked out over the valley. She watched as dark clouds swirled high above the palace and listened as thunder lulled across the valley. “I know he will” akako said with a slight whimper “as for Travis I can’t say the same” she said wiping tears from her eyes. Kyo then leaned over and pulled akako close like a mother would a child and said “it’ll be alright” she then turned gaze back toward the palace “it will be alright won’t it?” she asked her self.
    Mean while in the palace kin was still making his way down the dark hallway, “where the hell is the ball room?” he asked as he stumbled over old suits of armor and through cobwebs, just has he finished his sentence he managed to stumble head first into the doorway the lead off into the ball room, “found it!” he said under his breath. he was now panting as he entered the room, he looked around but saw nothing but an empty space, where people should have been dancing there was nothing but and empty floor and darkness. Across from that he saw a tile staircase the led to the kings throne and in the throne he saw a dark figure, it was crouched over its elbows on its knees and it was looking straight at kin, “one flame has gone out” it said teasingly and running its fingers over three lit candles “and three remain” “you knew we were coming didn’t you?” kin asked the dark figure sternly “that’s why you sent that demon kanaye to stop us wasn’t it?” the figure then sat up straight still keeping its eyes on kin and then it chuckled “of course I knew” it said “ive known since I was first sent to look after this place” it laughed “what do you mean?” asked kin his eyes now fixated on the blackened figure, “because!” said the figure angrily “I was told by my own father that I would be killed by the hand of a family member!” it told kin. A cold wind blew through the ball room as the figure got to its feet and made its way toward kin. “And who knew it would be my own nephew that would take my life.” It said with a slight chuckle “nephew?” asked kin his eyes wide “stay back!” kin shouted as the figure came closer, he then drew out his sword “im not afraid to kill you, you know” kin told the figure. The dark silhouette stopped just a few feet away from kin’s blade “and im not afraid to kill you” it said as it grabbed kin’s sword and pulled him forward “because im going to prove my father wrong” kin was now face to face with master radion, his long white-ish blond hair looked dead like it would break if touched, his skin was pale like it had never seen the light of day in several years, and the most noticeable thing was his eyes, there were no pupils just darkness where a golden brown color should have been, he looked almost like he was dead; but kin knew it was his darkness he was seeing, not the real radion or one who had a different name, one who was once called kin! At that kin knew he had been named after his uncle, a man once so great and now corrupted by darkness…..