Balance

by BioQuillFiction


Edge of Darkness: Part Two

I walked out of the DTL and found myself in a forest. Damn, must be near where John is. This looks like the Everfr-

BOOM

And there’s my target. I thought, heading towards the noise when. Bang. I grabbed my arm. The bullet was normal, so it ricocheted off my arm, but still stung. “Well well, long time no see little bro.” I looked behind me, seeing my eldest brother… Dillen. He was dressed in a yellow hoodie, black pants, and shoes. He dyed his hair silver. Smart ass.

“Guh. And here I thought I was having a good day.” I groan, rubbing the spot still. “Still using .308’s?”

“Yeah. Easy to find, easy to make, and in a skilled marksman's hands, the gun that shoots it will always hit its target.” Dillen said, showing off his favorite gun, a carbon fiber .308 sniper rifle with a scope he ripped off an anti-tank rifle back in India when their government went after him. Forgot what he was doing there in the first place.

“Yeah, what’s your kill count on that? Over a hundred?”

“After Core picked me up, seven thousand, nine-hundred and forty-nine. And I’ll make it an even seven thousand, nine-hundred and fifty once I crack that skull of yours wide open.” Dillen said, darkness coating his gun.

“Heh. Guess what’s new?” I say, clicking the buttons on my legs and taking out my handguns.

“Oh, someone's gonna start up their killing mood?”

I chuckled. “Heh, look closer,” I said, tapping one of my guns near my eye.

Dillen was confused at first...then his eye’s widened. “Your eyes...how?!”

“Accident, surprisingly I owe Core some thanks for taking my Killing Mood away and the reason for it.”

“Yes, the Psychopath blood in us. Sad, such an amazing gift wasted on you, the only one in the family unwilling to kill.”

“Well here’s the thing…” I say, summoning Keyblades all around Dillen. “I think we can both agree it’s time for that to change.”

Dillen looked around at the Keyblades, then grinned as he looked back at me. “For once, we’re on the same page.”

I summoned Keyblades, they came charging out of the ground and sending Dillen up into the air. I jumped on one flying with the crowd and rode it like Vanitas in Birth By Sleep. Damn, why haven’t I done this before? Dillen saw this and did the same, but I had the advantage, our speeds and the trees around us made it hard for him to get a proper aim on me.

I fired off some rounds, Dillen using his new darkness abilities to form a shield before they hit. We clashed, using Master Keeper I locked it with his rifle. “Come on baby bro, pull out that big ol important X-blade. Show me what it can do.”

“Heh, sorry, I don’t like using X on garbage.”

“Face it, you don’t even know how to use it. You only got the X-blade cause that God fellow knew you had what it took to wield it, and remade its body and gave it to you. It didn’t choose you, you are just as pathetic as before, playing hero to forget that you belong to our family.”

I stared Dillen in the eyes and laughed. “Since when did I ever call myself a hero?” I summoned X in my other hand, and let loose. One swing sent Dillen flying, breaking his rifle in the process. I disbanded Master Keeper and summoned Discord. I stood over him, pointing Discord at Dillen’s back. “I just accept the consequences of my actions, good or bad. Thundraga. Make it hurt Discord.” Dillen was hit with the spell, his body burning and cooking from the amount of Electricity I had Discord put into it. When it was over, Dillen was a fried corpse. I heard a slow clapping. Turning around, I saw my grandpa. “Been watching?”

“Yeah, and I gotta say, for once I’m proud of you boy.” Grandpa said, walking out from the trees. He wore his usual attire, a brown jacket with overalls underneath, large steel toe boots on his feet, and an anti-tank rifle in his hands. “You can kill a person.”

“Now, you see, that’s where you’re wrong.”

“What?”

“You, Dillen, and everyone who sided with Core and stayed with him. You lost the right to be called humans. You’re monsters. Men don’t kill men, monsters kill men, and men kill monsters. Chains!” I shot chains of light out of X, they quickly wrapped around grandpa.

He grinned. “What’s the matter, boy? Can’t take me on properly?!”

“In a fair fight, no, you always cheat. I have something far worse than death in mind.” I listed Discord up. “Open portal. Void.”

“WHAT?!?!” Grandpa yelled as a hole opened up behind him. Looking at it just felt wrong.

I picked up Dillen’s corpse by the leg and was dragging him over to grandpa. “You always said the best do-gooder is a dead do gooder….Well, in my opinion, a good monster Is a dead monster. Heh, but eternity floating in the void...it’s just cruel enough for you grandfather.” I used all my strength and threw Dillen’s body at Grandpa, knocking him backward and into Void. It swallowed him and once he was in it, the portal closed.

I shook my head. That was creative...but out of character for me. Where did that idea come from? I jumped at hearing an explosion go off nearby. “Eh, no time to think. Gotta find John.” I said to myself, running towards the explotion.