The Lightning Prince and the Sword of Darkness

Chapter 18

Someone called us.

I knew who it was based on the strength I felt when I first heard the call. It was God, calling on us, to have a conversation. Just a normal sentence for a boy in his teens, isn't it?

I suppose that we entered a portal just then, because we were in the Planet of Gods, with God standing in front of us. I didn't know what those people were seeing, but I saw the looks of disbelief in their eyes, and I imagined that they would have seen the same person I am seeing.

"Hello there!" He said, cheerfully, "I am the original and the oldest God. I am the creator of life and gifted humans creativity, knowledge. I was the one who gave them the strength of feeling emotions and as you might know, I was missing for a long time. Even by my standards, the wait was too long. I finally saw you lot travelling with Wilhelm and I must say, I would have shown myself to him had he not chosen to make the Element of Sorcery extinct."

I could feel Wilhelm's guilt. I suppose I understood somewhat. I might have done that myself. Else, I would have the power of Sorcery as well, exclusive for me and that was not something I wanted.

I didn't want to waste a lot of time. It was midnight, I wanted to sleep, "Was there any reason for your call, God?" I asked

He nodded, "Yes, I can tell that the Planet of Weapons is not the place for the sword. It is somewhere else. Somewhere I cannot say without losing my powers. I can also say, it is not in Corviopolis either."

I forgot all about Corviopolis, and silently thanked God for telling us that. But what for did he bring us all the way here, I had no idea. It couldn't be for that, could it?

God also continued, "Have you had a thought about what I said earlier, Daniel?"

I did not know what to say. I had thought about it, but it was hard to locate what he meant. I had a very, very lucky guess though, "Was it about the Sorcery element, God?" He smiled and I knew I got it correct, but I still didn't know why he was telling me that. Was he expecting me to resurrect them somehow?

God knew what I was thinking about, "Yes, Daniel. That is exactly what I want. I also ask you a question, it will help you later on." I looked at him with concentration, "Zeus is the god of skies, Ra was the Sun God. Tyr was the God of Bravery. What are you the god of?"

Now that just put me into another world. I was the best at something, I just didn't know what it was.

God shook his head, as though dissapointed, "We will see later, Daniel. Until then, remember your strengths" he looked at me, pleased. I don't even know why, "You're the only ever Holder that is a god and a Chosen One who happens to be a Prince as well. You're just too much powerful. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" And he closed his eyes, when he opened it, I was back in the Planet of Weapons

All 5 of them looked at me, "Y-you were telling the truth all along. God showed himself to you." Keith was very astounded.

I was in no mood to accept compliments. I had only one thing on my mind :sleep. I needed that. And food. I needed sleep and food.

Obviously, that wasn't given to me. I slept for some time and I had a huge sword pointing at me, the voice was fairly pleasant, "Do not move, Lucifer. I suppose you value your life?" I opened my eyes and I came to contact with a guy smiling at me. He was the guy I told to be our back up for the fight. I didn't like to admit, but him looking all confident, scared me.

"You!" I managed to spit out, I glanced at the others who were all knocked out cold. Keith had blood coming out of his head. That was when I should have realised that they were about to save me. I just imagined myself saving them again and I bonked the guy with turf. I woke up to see all of the people that fought beside me, pointing their weapons at me.

I knew the situation was hopeless, and I was sleepy. I managed a "Why?" and passed out. I hated that. Why was it always me who was passing out. I didn't see Luke pass out every twelve hours. My soul decided to go for a trip and this time, I could tell where I was.

I was in myself. I don't know how you explain it. I found out myself with a glowing thing. Was it a ghost? a spirit? an echo? it looked at me, "I am the Holder spirit, defender of the Elemental Nation, and most importantly, I am you." and the spirit suddenly came forward and joined with me.

"Not fully him!" A voice came at me, "I am the Chosen One, the defender of the Planet of Elements itself. My form last time was a mistake and it cost both the nations, I admit, but now I am right in choosing you!" And he also joined with me.

"You aren't all, Holder and Chosen One!" Another spirit came to me, "I am your God form. I am the giver of power and granter of immortality." it came to join with me, but as it came the spirit's glowing died. It stared at me in horror. "Betrayal" it shrieked, and fell down. I could feel the two spirit's glee.

Was this why I had no god power? Due to the co-orperation of Holder and Chosen One's spirits? My vision changed and suddenly I saw the older version of the two spirits. How could they look old? They already were really old and didn't look like it! But I could see the two of them were facing severe pain. Both of their heads had their glowing gone.

I knew what this was. It was the godly part of me taking revenge on them. So, this was why I didn't have a lot of powers compared to Wilhelm or even Roël.

"I apologise, Please! Forgive me!" One spirit was begging for mercy.

"What did you do to me!? I am not wrong in doing this!" and the spirit glowed brighter, I could swear it was grinnning.

The vision subsided, and I snapped my eyes open. Luke and Jason were carrying me.

On a coffin.

I know I always pass out, and my breathing might have been less, but come on guys! Why a coffin?

I flew out the coffin, and grinned at them. "Good morning, crew!" Nice weather, eh?

Jason took out his spear and jabbed at me with the blunt side. "Why aren't you shadow-y and all?" he asked

I frowned, "Shadow-y?"

"Yeah, you just turned into a shadow. I could find a coffin and that worked." Jason said, jabbing me again.

Why did I turn into shadow? I didn't even fight a lot. I suppose that the fighting earlier might have caused me to..melt into shadows?

I remembered that we were double-crossed, "What happened in the Planet of Weapons after I passed out"

All of them grinned, "Keith performed the greatest bit of trickery. They took us all to a carriage. They left Keith for the last, because, he had 'fainted'" Thalia put air quotes for fainted, "We were trying to fight them, and all of them fought as well. Keith, from the back came with water and immediately froze all of them. He also froze us, but we all escaped. They would be chilling in their caravan right now."

All of them laughed a lot at that. Me, not seeing it, and also me being consumed with the embarrassment of me passing out, did not laugh.

I looked around, it all seemed dark. "Where are we?" it did not look like the Planet of Light.

Thalia grinned, "Welcome to the Planet of Darkness, my friend"