Challenging Darkness
They were ready and embraced deeply one last time, drawing in each other’s essence through their nostrils and returning vibrations of energy from their hearts into each other’s latching grasp. Upon release they shared a moment, looking longingly, apologetically, with promise, into each other’s eyes; before tenderly ramming their foreheads together with a playful nudge.
The Twin Souls turned together; rhythm building slowly at first; their flame was ablaze brighter than ever before. They struggled to maintain a level measure of breath as their hearts pounded in unison and minds raced in and out of each other’s dreams. Their dance attempting to gain sure footing with the beat of their music, both reciting the lyrics of their song that stirred the passion contained within their recital.
Visions of colors painting notes upon their notched and gouged blade edges that stretched into their future, a rhythm of their heart and measure of their love promoted confidence and emblazoned strength upon rehearsed grace and balance, as they filled the stage they had set with their presence.
The Ttwin Souls were tuning their frequency; a culmination of unity required to control the combined intensity of their flames and the chaotic powers that emanated from their bound souls. They prepared themselves for the journey ahead; to place their battle on its final path neither of nor into darkness, but against Darkness, Extinction’s champion.
Almost all at once it happened, their frequency tuned and their play achieved a resonance they both strained to contain.
The intensity of the tune, first witnessed as an implosion, drew the essence and rust stained dew off the battlefield’s carnage, in upon the two warriors. The Flame’s growing roar seemed to leach the flow of life itself from the matter surrounding the twins as their souls drank, ever consuming, needing, and lusting for fuel to rage on.
With raw power syphoned from the lungs of the consumed, their flame spewed a force unmatched across the landscape.
The flame they shared roared, racing along outcrops of shattered ground. Arcing talons of ember climbed entangled clumps of root up rungs of mangled branches and perched upon charred treetops of the surrounding spindly evergreens with devouring devastation.
With unbridled force it’s consumption sent unwitting warriors nearest to their position to the ground, with lungs devoid of air and gasping as it scorched blood soaked, scarred, armor and ignited the flesh that clung from those unfortunate to be within it’s grasp.
As their flame’s control was brought under command they whispered hushes to their internal out lashes of pain. The souls of fallen warriors were caught in the intensity of their union and the individual battles of fellow warriors were over before this great encroaching clash to come had begun. Their fallen forms only adding count of bodies to the devastation that was strewn across the field by battles past. This was part of their darkness, the part of their history maintained in their chapters. Wherever they journeyed, destruction would follow, and sorrow would be found: written in the scars left upon the souls devastated by their flame’s intensity.
The Twin Souls focused attention to song and allowed their music to became entangled upon the remaining gasps of air caught in the Twin Soul’s burning aura.
Beaming smiles were forced upon their advance, mirroring the confidence resonating from their steps as they danced along the path to Darkness. With their music echoing through the dank: troubled laughter escaping between outbursts of mayhem calling caws piercing croos, and rubble strewn upon their trail of antics; the play carried on.
Snarling sneers, melding with coy, sly, grins, presented a front of grimacing determination. A determination their flame struggled to maintain upon the presentation of the charade of their promenade; as the Twin Souls too carried their own darkness into the fight.
Their darkness embodied as demons previously feared and chained; now standing commandingly in the viewports of their libraries, reflecting the stares of darkness from the reflections of Twin Soul’s glowing eyes.
It was in these reflections, Darkness it’s self was challenged by it’s own illustrious power. Recoiling from the horrors contained in it’s self image, Darkness gave a glimpse of it’s self as it’s shadowy veil stagnated briefly. A glimpse that was not missed by the Twin Souls as their engagement pressed on, upon a phalanx of vengeance and retribution. The true form of their foe now visualized as more than a shadowy construct. Darkness had given, in a moment of weakness, a view of it’s physical form to the Twin Flame; a physical form that could be struck.
For one brief moment, for the first time Existence could manage to remember, Darkness wavered.
Seizing the moment, the Twin Flame’s hearts ignited with the purest of light; it projected outward, carried upon the strength of their union. A true light intensified by the command of the knowledge contained within the chapters of their libraries, the determination of their monster’s play, the loyalty of their custodian, and the challenging ferocity of their demon’s charge.
This force of light was brought to bear riding the gnarled bite of Vengeance’s battle-axe and the honed slash of Retribution’s broadsword; challenging Darkness to defend it’s self against their combined zeal. An onslaught that carried a song wrapped in play and dance, conjuring dreams of promise, recounted in wicked tales of their own tamed demon’s tribulations and dark origins; a weapon of darkness turned against it’s own master.
This was the first strike of a battle destined to turn the tide of the war in which their fate was linked and the first step in their promenade.
The battle against Darkness for the fate of their souls, and their place; a place together, in this verse, had begun. Champions of Existence and that of Extinction were engaged to determine a victor and sway the stalemate that held this moment captive, from Eternity.
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