Starting Point chapter 3

Starting Point chapter 3: New Friends, New Rivalry

A teen awoke to see his hometown burning all around him and many people being killed by shadowy creatures, he quickly got up and started to run towards his home. When he finally reached his home he ran straight to his room and grabbed his katana that was hanging off the wall and headed back outside. Then he headed back to the place where he had awoken and started to search for his parents in all of the chaos. Eventually the shadowy creatures noticed him and started to attack him. As he drew his katana and slashed them he noticed that it had no effect on them, so he tried his hardest to run past them and continue his search for his parents. Eventually he was able to get past them until a large group of them completely surrounded him and attacked.

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Then Distortion awoke screaming and covered in sweat while lying in his bed back in the Castle of Beginnings. He took his time to caught his breath and wondered what that dream meant. Then he thought to himself if that was what happened right before his death, but why were the Distort there it didn't make sense to him. Then Master Teo barged through the door and immediately asked what was wrong. Distortion told him that he was having a bad dream and after hear that Master Teo let out a huge sigh of relief then told him to meet him on the grounds for his training then left. Distortion got out of bed and saw that he wasn't wearing his cloak that his darkness gave him. Then suddenly a dark flame covered him and once the flames quickly died down he was wearing the cloak. He thought to himself that he knew that he'll never get use to that and then headed out of the room. As he walked through the crystal white hallways trying to find the training grounds he heard a faint sound of a piano playing, then out of nowhere Master Teo appeared and showed him the way to the training grounds.

The training grounds was quite big, it had a few trees around a dirt brown rectangular box in the ground.

"This is the training ground, this is where you'll learn how to use your powers, and advance your fighting skills." Master Teo told Distortion, and then Distortion got on the rectangular box and faced Master Teo.

"Ok before we start do you have any questions?" Master Teo asked.

"Ya, so far just two, first off what's up with these cloaks?"

"Well you see the cloaks have two functions. One, they immediately show others that we are Lords, and two they're to store any Distortional energy that might escape from you body."

"So it's keeping the energy inside, just like a winter jacket on a cold day."

"Exactly, now what's your other question?"

"Well this one is just hypothetical but what happens if you don't fight your inner darkness and it says that it wants to help you, hypothetical speaking." Distortion said with unease in his voice. Then Master Teo started yelling out in anger that it would be the greatest mistake in the person's life because no one can ever gain control of their inner darkness. He then told what had happened to the last Lord of Distortion and how she never fought her darkness and was eventually consumed by it and had nearly destroyed the fabric of reality as he knew it. Later the two of them finally got back on course and started the training.

"Ok Distortion this technique is a simple one, all you have to do is gather enough energy into your hands and release it through your finger tips, which in turn will create lightning. Now I want you to do exactly what I just said and aim it right at me."

"Ok but is there anything else I should know before I try?"

"If you don't succeed try, try again, and after you master it I'll teach you how to add the power of distortion into it."

"Ok then, here I go."     

Distortion tried to gather the energy that he need to this task but he could feel anything, so he just raised both of his hand towards Master Teo and hoped that something would happen. Then by his surprise black lightning started to shoot out of his finger tips and headed straight to Master Teo, who was in shock that he was able to do it on his first try, and launched him to the nearest wall. Distortion quickly closed his fists and ran towards Master Teo to help him get back on his feet.

"O my god, I'm so sorry Master I really didn't think that would work." Distortion said while helping his fallen master get back on his feet.

"And why would you say that?" said Master Teo while his smoke came out of his cloak.

"Well I actually didn't feel any energy in my hands so I thought that I would just try it for a laugh."

"A laugh, you nearly shocked me to death! But on the other hand you are the first ever person to fully master that technique in one try. You have to be proud of that."

"Indeed, it usually takes someone about 50 years to fully master that technique." said a mysterious voice.

Then Distortion and Master Teo looked to their left and saw a tall albino like women, who looked like she was about the same age as Distortion whatever it was, with long white hair and pinkie-red eyes and she was wearing a dark blue cloak.

"Distortion I would like you to meet Katrina Flynn, she is the current Lord of Time." Master Teo said while holding his side out of sure pain.

"Nice to meet you Katrina, I'm Distortion."

"I know that you're the Lord of Distortion, but what's your name?"

"Distortion"

"Katrina, apparently he didn't like his old name so he now wants everyone to call him Distortion." Master Teo explained.

"Ok then I'll play along with his name game, but he better not do what the last Lord did or I'll personally slash his head off with my double edged glaive." Katrina said

"Geez why do you have to be so cold?" Distortion asked with a saddened face, and then Katrina ran towards him grabbed him by the collar of his cloak and looked him dead straight in the eyes and said.

"The last Lord of Distortion created the Distort, killed millions upon millions of people, nearly destroyed a dimension in the final battle and killed my best friend who lived in that dimension in that same battle 300 years ago, a friend that I will never see again. So you tell me one good reason why I should be so cold?"

Distortion staying silent while looked down to the ground, then Katrina let go of him and started to walk away.

"I thought as much. Many people will be blaming you for what the last Lord did, so watch your back."

"I'm sorry." Distortion said

"What?"

"I sorry for what she did, and you shouldn't treat me like I'm that bitch. I'm the new Lord of Distortion and I promise to you and Master Teo here that I'll do my best to eradicate the Distort and bring back the balance to all the dimensions."

Katrina looked surprised for some reason as he gave off his small speech, like she was seeing something from the past. Then all of a sudden there was a faint sound of clapping coming from the hallway that led to the training ground, it got closer and closer until everyone was able to see its source. It was Marcia, apparently she was able to hear Distortions little speech and she wanted to talk to him.

"Well, well, well, I must say Distortion that was quite a fascinating speech."  Marcia said while having a somewhat smug grin on her face.

"Marcia what the hell are you doing here?" Katrina said out in anger

"Shut it you imperfect freak of nature, I'm trying to talk to our newest residence. Ok now, Distortion you say that you want to do my best to eradicate the Distort and bring back the balance to all the dimensions, well I can easily help you out with that."

"I'm listening." Distortion replied

"All you have to do is listen to every little thing that I' tell you do and everything will be as right as rain again."

"Don't listen to her; all she wants you to do is become her slave." Katrina said with concern

"Shut the fuck up you pathetic piece of shit."

"ENOUGH, I'm getting sick of this. Marcia by what I can tell about you your rude, arrogant, power mad and the one I hate most of all, a bully. So I think that I'm going to decline your offer bitch."

"How dare you! Your insolence will be your downfall, for I challenge you to a duel."

"Wait we're allowed to fight with the other lords?"

"Of course, it helps you and the other lords improve on your combat skills." Master Teo said

"Ok then Marcia I except your challenge."

As soon as Distortion said those words, the two of them walk to the center of the training grounds and summoned their weapons, Marcia's weapon was a golden fencing sabre, but before the battle began Master Teo told them that he will be the judge of this battle and absolutely no kill the other, and before Master Teo could say begin Marcia started to attack. Distortion tried to block or dodge her attacks but she was too quick. Eventually Distortion was able to find a flaw in her attack pattern and when he tried to attack she was able to counter it and she also managed to break his katanas blade clean off the hilt, and before he could do anything else she stabbed him directly in the heart and slowly pierced it more inwards until his chest meet the hilt of her sabre.

"MARCIA WHAT ARE YOU DOING???" Master Teo yelled out in anger.

Marcia didn't reply she was all too happy to see Distortion's blood gush out of his wounded heart. Then she started to whisper something into Distortion's ear. She said softly in his ear, your all bark but no bite pathetic, I just hope that the next Lord of Distortion can at least learn that it's best to follow me than go ageist me. Then she slashed upwards to the sky and Distortion flew clean off her sabre and into the sky. Marcia started to head back into the castle while she was counting down the seconds until his corpse would plummet to the ground, when she finally reached zero all she could hear was nothing, nothing at all. She quickly turned around and saw Master Teo and Katrina looking, in shock, at Distortion's limp corpse floating in the sky.
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Inside Distortions Heart

Once again Distortion found himself on the platform where he first met his darkness, and strangely enough his darkness was standing right in front of him.

"Back already?" said Distortion's darkness

"O shut up."

"But seriously good job, you managed to get us kill in less than a day and the only way to survive is to merge."

"Wait what about my memories and powers?"

"I already finished with your memories and I made sure that they were time locked, so when the time is right you'll be able to remember it. And once we merge your power level will be up at 100%."

"Wait two last things before we do this."

"Well then hurry up we don't have much time left."

"One, how do you know so much about the Lords, and two, will it hurt?"

"One, you'll find out in due time and two no it won't. Ok now let's do this before our time runs out."

Then Distortion's darkness vanished from his sight and suddenly Distortion was bathed in a dark aura with healed his wounded heart.
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Meanwhile


While everyone was looking at Distortion's limp corpse floating in the sky, a dark aura completely engulfed his body until all they could see is a dark sphere floating in the sky.

"NO, NO, NO, NO, NOT AGAIN ANYTHING BUT THIS." Master Teo yelled out

"I can't believe it, he let his darkness consume him." said Katrina

"HA, that loser couldn't handle me beating him so he let his darkness consume him." Marcia laughed

Then the dark sphere started to vanish and inside was Distortion unchanged, except for his wound being healed. Distortion opened his eyes which immediately changed from his normal brown eyes to the exact same eyes that the Distort have. He started to take a step but he didn't realise that he was still in the air but that didn't matter because he was now able to walk in the air, he looked down towards Master Teo, Katrina, and Marcia and said only two words, Round Two. Marcia quickly jumped into the air and swung her sabre at him but he suddenly disappeared and reappeared on the ground, in his hand was the hilt of his broken katana, he touched the hilt with his other hand and with that same hand he stretched it as far away from the hilt and a new blade was created. As Marcia fell back to the ground Distortion slashed his newly forged blade into the air and hit nothing, Marcia started to laugh, because she thought that he was now blind, until she was cut a thousand times. Marcia thought how he was able to cut her even though he was still on the ground, before she could think of the answer Distortion placed his katana by his side and jumped towards Marcia and slashed her, and as passed her he quickly jumped in mid-air and headed right back at her of another slash. She tried her best to block his attacks but she was unsuccessful because with every cut that hit he gained speed, Distortion continued on for about another five minutes until he jumped up overtop of Marcia and slammed his foot into the back of her head. After that Marcia quickly plummeted to the ground and upon impact her body created a large crater in the training grounds. Distortion slowly landed back onto the ground and his eyes changed back to there normal colour and he started to walk towards Master Teo and Katrina, who had their weapons ready just encase, but after taking 5 steps he fainted onto the ground. Then Master Teo and Katrina ran towards Distortion and Marcia and quickly sent them to the castles infirmary.


-To Be Continued