In a dark room, a TV was playing, showing the news. A woman was giving a report of an incident about a house fire where two adult people died.
"Good evening, this is Jane reporting live from Channel 7 News. Earlier this night, a devastating house fire claimed the lives of two adults. The victims, a couple, were known to be loving parents to their young child who, miraculously, survived the fire. However, in a shocking twist to this already heartbreaking story, the child is currently missing. Authorities are on high alert and a city-wide search is underway. We urge anyone with information to come forward," the news reporter said.
The TV was clicked off, and a man yelled: "Do these fools take me for an idiot?!"
The buff bald man, one of the men behind this incident, was sitting down eating lunch when suddenly a notification came through his phone. When he checked his phone, his boss had messaged him to come and meet him in his office.
In a shock, he wrapped up his lunch, threw it in a trash bin, and started going towards the location. He nor anyone has seen the boss.
The same notification was sent to the skinny guy, the other person behind the incident, and he was also heading towards the location after he got the notification. They both thought that they were going to get a bigger award for the mission they completed.
The message they received read, "Thinking more about this mission I gave you guys, I don't think I awarded you enough. You guys did kill a kid after all. So come by my office, I have four briefcases of cash lying around here."
When they both arrived at the location, they went through the main lobby to the highest floor with an elevator. They then opened the door that led to the boss of the building's door.
However, when they opened the door, the boss was revealed to be the most unexpected person. Even they, who had worked for him for the past few years, wouldn't have expected it to be him.
"So this is who you were the entire time," the bald guy smirked.
The boss, however, had a serious look on his face and told them to come inside the room and close the door behind them. When they did that, he pulled out a gun and told them, "You really think I'm a fool, don't you."
"What are you talking about?" the skinny guy said in a shivering voice.
The boss shot him and followed with, "You killed the parents instead of the kid." And then shot the bald guy after that.
"Clean these bodies up, I have an important meeting soon," he said. Out of the shadows appeared a young lady who then proceeded to clean the mess up, and the boss walked out of the room.
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A person with four orbs floating around his face was standing in the yard.
"Get behind me, Yamikuro!" Bernardo yelled. His hand then caught in flames, and he asked, "Who are you?!"
"I'm here to take the darkness. Is it inside that kid?" the person answered.
"No, I mean who you are, not what you are doing here," Bernardo said.
"Oh, I'm a god called Sphairos. You knowing that information doesn't matter," he replied and started walking towards them.
"Don't come any closer!" Bernardo then put both of his hands in a fist.
Sphairos stopped walking and looked Bernardo dead in the eyes. One of the four orbs that was floating near his head made its way into his hand, which he grabbed on tightly and then let loose, making it float towards them. While the orb was floating towards them, the effect around it started getting bigger and bigger as it was moving.
When the effect around it was finally big enough to reach the ground, it started making the ground disappear almost as if it was being erased.
Bernardo then threw his hand in front of him and unleashed a massive fireball while telling Yamikuro to run away because he couldn't handle an enemy like that yet. The fire seemed to have no effect on the orb, as it seemed like the orb was making the fireball disappear into thin air.
In shock, he jumped out of the way, and the orb kept moving towards the house, which it finally completely destroyed, leaving no evidence behind.
"Damn it," Sphairos said to himself as the orb appeared around his head again. "It seems like I have to take care of you first, old man."
Sphairos then took two different orbs and put them once again in his hands then let them loose making them float towards Bernardo.
The orbs seemed to clash against one another, with one of them making the ground float up towards the orb and the other making the ground decay.
"These are orbs of Gravity and Entropy," he said, "You're not able to dodge them this time."
The orbs seemed way bigger than before and they kept growing even bigger with each second.
The god then tried to look where Yamikuro could have ran. It was difficult to find him by just looking around because of the vast trees and bushes that were around him and he didn't want to push himself to throw another orb because he already launched two of his orbs towards Bernardo.
Meanwhile, Bernardo stood in a position where one of his hands was above the other, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. A massive outline of a dragon started to appear around him, "Ascension: Shi no hi no kaibutsu," he said in a loud voice.
A massive fire dragon appeared around Bernardo and the ground around him started to burn. He directed the dragon towards the two orbs in which the dragon and the orbs collided causing an explosion pushing Bernardo and Sphairos down.
Bernardo hadn't gained his vision entirely when he saw that Sphairos had already stood on his feet with another orb in his hand.
"I didn't expect that from someone like you, I'm impressed," Sphairos said as he sent another orb floating towards him.
"I hope Yamikuro has run far away from here," Bernardo said to himself and stood up.
He threw another fireball towards the orb when he realized it was the same orb the god threw earlier that destroyed the house.
The orb didn't seem to grow much bigger so Bernardo ran to his right avoiding the orb and then running towards the god throwing multiple fireballs.
When Sphairos noticed that he jumped into the air throwing an orb but this time he didn't put it in his palm and then let it float instead the orb was flying at a fast speed towards Bernardo.
The orb managed to hit Bernardo's leg as he was trying to jump away from it and as soon as he touched the orb, his leg decayed away.
Standing in front of the god with just one leg he knew this battle was coming to a close.
"You did well. No one has managed to draw battles against me out so long," Sphairos said as he grabbed the orb of Nullity, the orb that makes things disappear into thin air. He then let it float this time instead of throwing it like last time and said, "You're strong but you aren't able to dodge it this time."
Bernardo stood there not trying to dodge it and looked to the sky smiling, "I hope I was able to help you, Yamikuro, even if it was just teaching you the basics of the darkness."
However, out of nowhere a massive gust of wind hit Sphairos in the back and threw the orb off it's trajectory a little bit.
"NOOO!" Yamikuro yelled and jumped out of the bushes as he saw the orb fly past Bernardo whose half of the body disappeared.
Yamikuro seemed completely different this time, his eyes were shining bright purple instead of being green colored as they were before and the right upper half of the right side of his face seemed to shatter with the purple color shining through it.
Bernardo noticed that as he was falling to the ground he knew that Yamikuro had let the darkness loose.
"Yamikuro, why did you come out?" He said to himself, "And the darkness... You've let the darkness gain control over you."
Yamikuro ran towards Sphairos in a speed so fast that he was barely able to react to it and Yamikuro seemed to have purple veins visible through his hand when he threw a punch on Sphairos.
"Impossible," Sphairos said as he was sent flying back, "You're just a kid.. Yet you're able to use the darkness. How is that possible?!" His voice got angrier.
Yamikuro looked dead into Sphairos' eyes and tried running towards him again. Sphairos smiled and threw an orb towards Yamikuro hoping he'll stop running towards him.
To his shock Yamikuro appeared behind him being able to throw another punch towards which made Sphairos fly down.
Sphairos jumped backwards and yelled, "What are you?!"
He then threw two orbs towards Yamikuro out of desperation. One of the orbs was flying straight towards Yamikuro however, he yelled out the words, "Ascension: Hajimari no saikuru."
Suddenly Sphairos found himself in a dark place where Yamikuro was shining purple in front of him, "So both of you can use ascensions. I've heard of such powers existing even among humans but I never would've thought I'd run into two of them at the same time. This is truly an interesting encounter," Sphairos tried to stay calm.
Yamikuro didn't say anything and he put his hand in front of him that made the area around them lightly lit up. Sphairos could see purple hands in all sizes around them, they were almost acting as trees. Suddenly from Yamikuro a wave of smaller moving hands started moving towards Sphairos. He tried to use his orbs but he wasn't able to grab them so he jumped up.
Yamikuro wasn't moving, instead he put his hands apart and closed them, making a clapping noise. Two hands, slightly larger than Sphairos, moved towards him from different sides.
Sphairos acted quickly and tried to stop the hands with his own by pushing them away from himself. As he was struggling, Yamikuro jumped towards him and punched him to the ground.
"Is this really how I'll die?" Sphairos started getting worried as he struggled to get up from the ground.
Yamikuro was walking towards him when suddenly he grabbed onto his chest and mouth throwing up blood. The area Yamikuro made started disappearing.
Sphairos noticed that and managed to force himself onto his feet, "It appears you've reached your limit. I'll have to end you before things get too dangerous," He grabbing the orbs around him.
"Yamikuro... How were you able to use an ascension... Just a moment ago you weren't able to even use the darkness powers at all..." Bernardo mumbled to himself.
Sphairos took out all the orbs around him and made a massive orb onto his palm that he was struggling to hold.
Yamikuro noticed the orb as Sphairos was throwing it so he put his hands on the ground and a purple barrier that covered the entire yard and reached far into the sky appeared. The barrier blocked the orb and the other side of the barrier, where Sphairos and Bernardo were exploded.
Before that, Bernardo pushed himself to say his final words, "It seems like both of us are dying here... God..."
"Shut up!" Sphairos yelled as he knew that this was the end for him.
The impact of the orb hitting the purple barrier was so big it was seen from tens of kilometers away and it wiped out a big area around the explosion. After that Yamikuro passed out from the exhaustion of using too much of the darkness' powers.