A Chronicle of Heroes. Book One: From the void

From the Void: Chapter Seven

Mōhai, the smallest crimson light entity, watched intently from the outskirts of the tumultuous confrontation. The entity had been stationed as Yuham’s guardian, and he was ever-watchful of the ongoing clash. The guardian Avar was unyielding in front of this dark entity and countered all of Abraxus’s evolved forms. Mōhai’s aura, however, was focused on analyzing and locating Abraxus’s consciousness. In a flash, he raced toward his fellow light entities, pushing through the residue of the ongoing  astronomical collisions.

“Dear Mōhai,” Zaki asked upon sensing him, “why are you here?”

Mōhai’s red and silver core shifted and let out wisps of crimson waves as he replied, “The darkness is very cunning, its intelligence is evolving more than we expected with every passing moment; this worries me. I think its consciousness has been shielded with an impenetrable darkness ever since you tried to destroy it. I cannot seem to locate it. I should be like both of you, undaunting and courageous. But I don’t know why I feel worried for you and Yuham.”

“Mōhai, you are the light of all that is good and pure,” Avar stated. “The evil we face is in direct conflict with your aura, even more so than ours. Your concern is just a warning to end this conflict as quickly as possible. I appreciate your presence here, but for now go back to Yuham. Save your energy for us all!”

Mōhai vanished in another flash of light, and Avar and Zaki turned back as the followers started detaching crystallized bars of solidified shadow, ribbed with jagged edges, from their hardened forms. The minions were mimicking the indestructible light structures that Avar and Zaki used; they brandished them toward the light entities with relatively matched speeds, leaving inky, black trails in their wake.

Avar and Zaki, who were now on the defensive, still resolutely parried the strikes as they were forced to slowly fall back toward Yuham and Mōhai. As the rods of shadow slammed against the light, sparks equal to the size of mini suns began to disperse all over, flashes of luster and obsidian alternating between every strike, forming flaring nebulas of glittering matter that burst forth throughout the realm.

Zaki’s light began to flicker, slightly at first, but then more rapidly as the followers showed no sign of abating. Their slashes became more aggressive and deadly, resisting Zaki’s attacks. The minions expelled more gusts of shadow from their forms, plunging the battlefield into murky blackness and preventing the entities from advancing any farther into their master's realm.

As Zaki fought a few cosmic leagues away from Avar, he countered an incoming strike from the dark entity. Emboldened by his thoughts for Yuham and the infinite light, he advanced, resolute against the darkness. Avar rushed toward Zaki, lashing out at Zaki’s opponent, and with a massive strike of pure, golden-red magnificence, broke the hardened structure along with the follower in half. The two orbs of light, isolated amid darkness, shone with great brilliance, but the pitch-black layers of these menacing, conscious followers kept thickening.

As the followers pushed the two resolute light entities back in Mōhai and Yuham’s direction, the tips of their dark, solidified bars hummed with a putrid energy. Zaki could feel the coldness and despair they sent forth throughout this tangled field of primordial cosmic debris.

Avar met the follower head on with golden bursts of explosive, white light as he counter-attacked the followers left and right. All the while, Zaki was impeding his own minion with a thin, linear shower of concentrated turquoise spikes that the minion blocked with its dark, indestructible beams. With more energy that brightened Zaki’s outer core, the shower of spikes grew intense and the follower’s shield started dissipating. Unexpectedly, the follower’s consciousness latched itself onto another mega extension, passing closer to Zaki, and the darkness around the light entity swirled.

Suddenly, the newly-formed follower appeared on Zaki’s right. Sensing its reappearance, Zaki instantly summoned beams of light toward the minion. The follower instantly countered them and was ready to strike Zaki’s main outer light core, which had been left vulnerable. Again, Zaki’s light shimmered slightly as he braced himself, preparing for the clash that would inevitably follow.

But to Zaki’s amazement, the dark follower was paralyzed along with all the others. A shrill cry followed and with a streak of shadow, all the followers fled, whooshing into the unseen depths of the dark realm and blending into its protection. Their shrill hisses of panic were clearly audible long after they had disappeared, lingering among the dense clouds of shadow that had once obscured the battlefield, but were now thinning out. Zaki and Avar looked back and shone out an aura of relief.

“Nysa,” Avar sang out, and the space around his light seemed to brighten when he uttered the pious name of the most original light.

A gentle warmth spread throughout the battlefield, dispelling the coldness that had been brought forth by Abraxus all this time.

And then, the entire realm was illuminated by a dazzling violet nebula streaked with golden and saffron clusters, swirling and repelling even the smallest of dark particles. Zaki and Avar were transfixed by the sights around them.

Abraxus tried to gaze upon the unique presence that was Nysa, floating above the green and gold entities. Her structure was one of particular elegance, curving smoothly to form a shape that seemed to be a combination of Zaki’s and Mōhai’s forms.

“I am with you,” she seemed to whisper and, like Yuham’s words, this phrase settled firmly within the souls of all the light entities, instilling dread within the dark realm, which shook violently.

Zaki looked back toward the space within the forcefield that Abraxus’s minions had occupied before their fearful retreat.

“Do not hesitate against this malicious existence of eternal despair, Zaki,” Nysa murmured, her light flickering radiantly. “As you know, I am the most original and unique form of the infinite light. You notice how the darkness’s particles repel my nature–that is why they fled from the intensity of my existence and I, too, cannot remain here for much longer.”

Nysa addressed Avar now, her form rippling with deep indigos. “I am entrusting you to overcome this perilous entity. Since both of you can hold my light, synchronize with it and use it to eradicate this evil calamity once and for all.”

Nysa raised her indistinct inner core and her light particles, shimmering with every shade of violet, converged around her before suddenly raining down over Zaki and Avar. As her light merged with their structures, the energy that surrounded Avar and Zaki took on a faint, purple hue.

Avar’s inner core turned toward Nysa, and his entire form flashed, expressing his utmost respect and gratitude. Nysa’s structure hummed soothingly before dissolving into a mist of purple light, leaving a cloud of soft, purple gleams that flickered gently throughout the realm.