Darklight: The New World

Part 57: This Mortal Coil

"No!" She screamed. Rammachandra's voice was unnaturally loud. But to Soran it was muffled as he slumped to the floor, only semi-conscious.

"I'll destroy you all! You think you can hold me, you abomination of nature!?" She bellowed, pointing a gloved finger at Ana. Rammahandra held her hands out towards the forcefield which crackled with electricity. Ana screamed in pain as the massive feedback power surge coursed backwards along the EM field that she had created around Rammachandra, freeing her. The Darklight Sai's leapt from the ground and into her hands as she sprintd for Soran. Yasmine placed herself directly in Rammachandra's way but with a mere wave of a hand Yasmine was flung several meters, her head hitting the floor and knocking her out.

"No!" Soran yelled as he snapped back to life at whitnessing the attack. Draz was still at his side. As Rammachandra leapt into the air with unnatural strength in order to strike them down, Soran and Draz stuck their Darklight Weapons into her body whist she was still airborne and unable to parry their attack.

Both Draz and Soran removed their weapons from Rammachandra's body and she fell to the ground with a cry of pain. Yet again Rammachandra's primal rage had betrayed her. There was no blood, only black smoke that billowed from the stab wound Soran left in her stomach and the gash that Draz's Darklight Axe had left in the side of her neck. As she panted in pain, trying to hold on to this mortal coil that she had tried to claim as her own for so many years - her eyes started to glow a bright green. She looked up at Draz and Soran.

"You are fools" She told them with a laugh. "You will never be free of me. I am Rammachandra, I am eternal. I returned from death and I shall do so again. Every time Arcane powers are used, every time the Darklight Weapons protect your frail forms. They are all reflections of my face. Every time you use these tools you use an aspect of Rammachandra Leon, and she will be born again".

"You're a fool, Rammachandra" Draz said to her. He was looking down at his former idol with upmost pity as the smoke began to billow from her mouth and nose. Through her cough she was still laughing. Her body was now completely obscured by the smoke.

"No Draz, you are the fools". The green light formed the shape of two eyes and was suddenly dazzling through the black smoke and the two men had to shield their eyes from its intensity.

"You know nothing of what lies in wait for you" Her body was gone, dissolved into a mass of black smoke that was twisting in the air like a tornado in front of them. The eyes had grown large and looked down on the two men.

"You will see the truth of how pathetic you all are!"

With a final maniacal laugh the tornado of black smoke billowed outwards suddenly, dissipating into the warm Nestro air. The green light of her eyes lingered for a few moments, boring into Soran and Draz before fading to nothing - leaving the two men standing on the scorched and half-crystalized sand of the Nestro Desert.

Yasmine was getting to her feet, holding her head as the two men looked at each other. With a genuine smile Draz held out a hand to Soran, who took it in his injured hand and shook it.

"What about those?" Draz asked, pointing to the Darklight Sai's. "I don't think they should be kept in close proximity".

"Agreed" replied Soran. With a wave of his hand he lifted Rammachandra's soul-infused weapons into the air and encased them in rock-solid translucent ice.

"Tha' shoul' do the trick" Said Yasmine as she joined the two men. "But wha' now? Utopia ain't got a leader and th' worl's gon' be pretty up tight 'bout that whole 'fire in th' sky' thing". Soran ignored her.

"How the hell did you get here?" He asked her as Ana landed the Lordship nearby and Draz started walking towards her, asking her if she was ok.

"Soran... yo' held back tha' fire for three hours. I met Ana at th' edge of Nestro coz she sai' she could get me to ya". Soran looked down at the ground.

"Thank you" He said without looking at her. She lifted his chin with her hand and smiled at him.

"And thank you" He shouted over to Draz, who saluted at him using the Darklight Axe.

"Come along you two" Draz replied shouting at Soran and Yasmine. "There is still much work to be done".