Where The Light Resides

Chapter 1: What Hath Thou Brought?

I spun around quickly and brought my arm up to block the blade of Rendan’s sword. The strange metal bounced off of my iron arm plating. I jumped and kicked him in the head with a spinning round kick. He flew across the room and slammed into the far wall, and collapsed into a heap on the ground.
“You’re a being of the dark!” Rendan yelled at me. “You will never win this battle!”
“And you are a being of light,” I said calmly back. “And therefore vastly insuperior to my power!” I held my hand up into the air, and a mass of darkness appeared and formed into a long blade. I swung it at him, and he managed to pull his own sword up just in time to block. Still, the power of the blow knocked the sword out of his hand. He watched as it flew away from him, then turned his head slowly to look back at me.
“You know damn well that you can do nothing that can kill me…” he said slowly, dragging out every word.
“Even though that might be true, that doesn’t mean I can’t bring you close to it.” I turned the blade onto its side and brought it down onto his head. “Now, I want some answers.”
“Ne… Never…” He coughed, his head squashed under the pressure from my dark blade.
“First question,” I said, ignoring him. “Where is the clan of the light?”
“I will… Not tell you… Anything…”
I pushed the blade even harder against his skull. He screamed out painfully, as I said, “The rules said that I myself can’t kill you, but they never said that I can’t throw you into oblivion to let THAT kill you. Now, talk.”
“I told you… I won’t… Say… Anything!” Rendan began to glow as he spoke, and the immense amount of light energy he was creating slowly disintegrated my blade. I pulled it away swiftly, and he slowly stood up. He was looking straight at the ground as he got up. When he was standing straight, his head shot up to look at me. His eyes glowed with the power of thousands, and he focused all of the energy into the palm of his left hand. With his right hand, he reached out towards his sword, and it flew through the air to rest in his hand. He forced the energy into the blade of his sword, and settled himself into a fighting stance.
“Well,” he said with a strange power in his voice. “It looks like the playing field is more evened out… Shall we continue?”
I flung myself at him, but he ducked quickly and punched me in the stomach. I flew up into the air from the impact, and he jumped up after me. He brought his sword up to cut me, but I created a dark shield in front of me as he brought it down. I wrapped the shield around the blade, and threw it away once more. I dropped down to the ground, and focused all the darkness around me into my body. The darkness dripped off of my body into the air, as if it was a black, slowly crackling fire.
“You cannot defeat me, Rendan!” I yelled at him. “My power is eternal, and yours is but a piece of sand in comparison!”
Rendan flew down towards me, banishing the dark shield from his blade. He brought it down on my head, but I side-stepped out of the way and spun around to nail him in the side with a hook kick. He blocked it with the side of his blade, then swung it around to have the point at my neck.
“You will leave me alone, Nastan,” he said, looking straight into my eyes. “You will leave me alone, and you will die miserably.” He put his sword down, and turned to leave.
“You are a fool, Rendan. Never turn your back on your enemy. Even you should know that.” I rose my hand, and all the darkness around me formed into one solid sphere in my hand. “Risaga!” I yelled, and the sphere blasted Rendan in the back with infinite amounts of darkness. The light power around him slowly faded away, and fell to the ground.
I walked up next time, knelt down to his know unconscious figure, and whispered in his ear, “I myself knocked you into a state where you are an inch away from death. Now I shall let the elements of nature finish you off.”