Reign of Darkness Part 8: Ray Vs. Cordran ------------------------------------------------------------------- OkAY, bout f-ing time I got around to this. With not knowing how to deal with the "6" lack of time, when i have time too tired to write, and all this stuff. I felt the need to almost give up. But, i pulled through and am finally to the part of the story I had worked up since before we finished Sword of Darkness, let alone before I started this series. My friends, it is time to begin the battle of the two Vortex Powerhouses, the two kings of interdimensional space, and the two representatives of the greatest and longest battle in the history of the Universe. On one side, Michael Ray Doss: The Chosen One of Good. And on the other side: Jonathan D. Cordran: The Chosen One of Evil. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ray stood in a grand ball room. "Abbie, Kouesi, do me one favor please." They both nodded, "Good, leave me now." Abbie looked at him in disbelief, "No, I risked alot to find and help you stupid, I'm not going to pack up my bags and leave now!" Ray didn't look at her. "I am going to be facing my worst enemy. I have been protecting you from the six, but, I'll need all of my power to fight Cordran. The last thing I need is you getting hurt, or killed, in this battle." A voice came from behind Ray, "Now, don't force her to do something she doesn't want to Doss. She is, after all, your wife. Oh, how happy it makes me to see you whipped like this. Young lady, please feel free to stay, i'll need to....celebrate, when I kill your man." Cordran smiled and licked his lips at the thought. Ray turned to him and his eyes flashed purple, "CORDRAN!" Abbie looked at Cordran in horror. "You, you can't be!" Cordran smiled, "Can't be what?" He asked as he stepped fuly in the light. His face looked just like Ray's, "Can't be, the same as him?" Ray and Cordran stood facing each other, "Abbie, get out of here now!" Turning, Ray threw her and Kouesi through a portal and sealed the area form Vortex travel. "Now, if you don't mind doing the same over there, Cordran, we can get started." Smiling, Cordran cast a similar spell to seal the area off from Vortex access. "Now, dear Chosen One, shall we begin?" "Of course, my good man, the rules: Fight to the Death. The winner shall be proclaimed the true Chosen One." Standing where he was, Ray focused his power around him, unleashing all of the energy he had bottled up in his body. The room began to shake and his float up as Ray opened his body to the power of the Vortex. Extending his right hand, Ray began his chant: "With the Power of Might; with the Sanctity of Life; and WITH THE CLARITY OF SIGHT: I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!!!!" A surge of energy flooded Ray's body, changing his clothes into his Chosen One armor, his arms bulked out, and his hair stood on end. Cordran began a similar transformation from the other end of the room. His power increased in an instant, his body bulked up and his eyes glowed with an unholy power. Raising his hands, Cordran exclaimed, "I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!" Shane sat up quickly in his bed. Dashing to the observation room of NCC, he found Mac waiting for him. "So, you felt it too?" Shane rolled his eyes, "What, you mean that sudden explosion of power coming from one place? Nah, I just felt like making some porno's using NCC's equipment." Shaking his head at his companion's sarcasm, Mac turned on the main screne. "This is the dimension the power is coming from, now, let's focus in more on that solar system." Mac continued to focus down until he had the strange power source in view. "So, Ray's fighting, what's the big deal? He just found another guy that's got some juice to him. I don't see why that woke me from my sleep." When Mac turned to leave, he noticed Shane's eyes were wide with horror. "Iiiiitttttt, can'tttt be. No, it's not possible. It can't be!!!!" Mac shook Shane, "What's the big deal, it's not like Ray hasn't fought people since he left here." Shane pointed to Ray's opponent. "That man, he's dead. I WATCHED HIM DIE!" Mac looked again, but still didn't get it. " MAC! Don't you see? That man died seven years ago. Seven years ago Ray led the Supreme Guardians to fight him. That is Cordran!" Mac turned in disbelief, "So, you two weren't making it up, there IS an evil Chosen One?" Mac nodded in understanding, "I see now, that's why there is so much power radiating from there. There are three powerful Vortex entities there." "Three?" Mac looked up with a serious look on his face, "Ray, Cordran, and the Sword of Darkness." Ray and Cordran completed their transformations. The stood facing each other, both daring the other to move. Finally, Ray's eyes narrowed as he said, "Let's do this." The two fighters' images blurred as the flew at each other. Ray flew at Cordran a full speed, then entered the Vortex and appeared behind Cordran, slamming his fist in his opponent's back. Cordran was flung through the air, but, flipped upright and landed softly on the ground again. "Nice blow Chosen One, I must say I am almost impressed." Ray didn't stop moving, though, drawing his sword, Ray portalled again, but Cordran turned around anticipating the attack. Ray didn't use the same tactic twice though, this time he appeared to one side, and Cordran barely was able to bring his own sword up in defense. Cordran tried to counterattack, but Ray flew out of the way at the last second. Turning in mid-flight, Ray turned and placed his hands together in front of him, "KAMEHA-MEHA!"The blue energy beam flew right at Cordran, but Cordran stood there and took the blast. "Enough of this foolishness. We are both far more powerful than this. I am going to show you my true power, and end this, that I might rule the universe as the one and only Chosen One!" Cordran stood there and growled with an other-worldly voice. "Satan: Lord of darkness and the underworld, give me the power to crush your enemy. That we might storm heaven and rule the universe!" Cordran's power began to increase expotentially, his hair grew long and firery. His hands and forehead began to glow, and a symbol took shape. An inverted cross with "666" on both sides of the horizontal beam, and where the two beams intersected layed a pentagram. "SOLDIER OF THE ABYSS!" Ray gazed on in horror, "WHAT? CORDRAN'S A GOD?" Ray's resolve solidified as he watched, "I know what I must do. Allmighty God, Father in Heaven. Hear my request. Please, give me the strenght to face this new foe in Your holy name, amen." Ray's eyes glowed with his new power, his crystals shattered and became Crosses. His hair spiked and turned blue with power, Ray Doss was once again, Warrior of the Cross. Ray and Cordran gazed at each other, sizing up each others ultimate forms. Ray drew his duel-ended sword and lunged foreward. Cordran created a fire sword and blocked the attack without effort. "Come now, you can do better than this, Chosen One!" Waving one hand, Cordran screamed, "FLAMES OF DAMNATION!" The flames of Hell flew at Ray, who was barely able to defend against them, and got flung across the room. "HOLY LIGHT OF JUDEMENT!" Ray's swords began turning, and fired of the beam of light, but Cordran deflected the attack without effort. Taking flight, Ray charged Cordran from above, but was outmanuvered at the last moment. Ray hit the ground and sprung toward Cordran anyway, who met him with an iron fist to the jaw. Ray tried to pull out of the dive, but landed hard against the far wall anyway. "What has happened? He is more powerful than I am by far! I can't take him out like this." Ray sighed at what he realized he must do, "Time to use my trump card, not even Cordran can withstand one of the 4 swords." Cordran approached slowly, "Whats the matter, Chosen One? Can't get up?" Cordran kicked the wounded Ray across the room again. "You have become so pitiful that this battle is hardly worth my effort." Painfully, Ray was able to get to his feet. "You think you've won this easily? Guess again, I STILL HOLD THE POWER OF AN ANGEL!" Ray's body began to glow with a dark light as ten rings appeared on his hands. "With the power of evil and hatred, with the calling of death and destruction, with the wickedness of all creation, I SUMMON THE SWORD OF DARKNESS!" Cordran instantly felt the immense power radiating out of Ray, "So, he decides to use his toy after all?" Seven super power crystals appeared in front of Ray, and the mighty sword he had so desperatly fought to destroy now served his will. Or did he serve the will of the sword? It mattered not. But had he taken the time to notice, he would have seen the crosses on his hands begin to dim. Ray held the seven foot sword in front of him, taunting his foe to be foolish enough to attack him now. Cordran merely laughed and attacked with greater power than before. Ray was able to deflect most of the attacks using the Sword, but, the harder he fought Cordran, the stronger Cordran became. "ENOUGH OF THIS!" Ray growled as he lept into the air, "DESTRUCTION RAINS FROM ABOVE!" The Sword of Darkness let loose all of its dark power on Cordran at once. The ground around him desintigrated, but, Cordran was left not only unharmed, but more powerful than ever. Ray felt this, and made the realization in stunned silence. Cordran was the Chosen One of Evil, the human embodiment of Dark Vortex power. The Sword of Darkness was the weapon embodiment of that same power. He had been trying to kill the king with the king's most loyal knight. Ray flung the weapon in disgust, "Worthless piece of junk! You have caused me nothing but trouble and heartache for the past five years!" Ray then looked down at himself. His robes had lost their luster, his crosses were barely visible, and his hair didn't even stand up anymore. "I am a shell of my former self, I have let the dark forces corrupt me, and the whole time I blamed that stupid sword, but, it was me. I am the one who welcomed the temptation, and I used the Sword of Darkness as my rationalization as to why it was happening. I AM A DISGRACE TO CHRISTIANITY! I AM NOTHING! I am at the bottom rung, the abyss descends below me, and I am hanging on with one hand. My hands are so stained with blood that Poseiden's mighty currents would be turned crimson with their discolor. Father, abba, daddy; I have failed you, but I will make things right. I now repent of my sins, I turn my life back to my Savior, and once again make the commitment to Him which brought me from the shadow of the Valley of Death! I will do right by my wrongs." Ray's eyes flared as he looked upon his sworn enemy and his voice lowered to a menacing whisper, "And I will start with you." Cordran laughed so hard at this speech his body began to ache. "Do you honestly think that your 'God' will save you? That he will let you beat me after you have so openly defied Him? No being is that graceous." Ray's eyes flashed with new found power. "But He is that graceous, the only thing stronger than my God's power is His love, His grace, and His mercy. And the only thing stronger than my power now is my faith!" Ray's body glowed with new power, his crosses grew brighter than before, his hair flew strait up, and his eyes glowed like two suns in their sockets. Ray's arms extended out and his body glowed brighter and brighter, "LIGHT OF THE HEAVENS!" The wash of heavenly light covered the arena. Cordran could not even open his eyes, and he still felt the burn of the light. When the light subsided, Cordran could hardly see, but tried to attack anyway. Ray dodged each attack with ease, then counted with a closed fist. "HAND OF FATE!" As his punch sunk into Cordran's stomach, Cordran now flew to the fall wall, and through it. "Who is weaker now? Satan has no power where the light of God shines bright." But Cordran was not down yet. Stading to his feet, Cordran powered up his final attack, "SHACKLES OF SIN, STING OF DEATH!" Ray watched as the attack grew closer, he could feel the dark power of Satan coming toward him. But he did not counter, he only sang. "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty. All praise go unto the Son of Man. All praise go unto the Son of God. All praise and honor go unto the Holy Spirit, that fills my heart and keeps me on the straight and narrow!" Cordran watched in glee as his attack hit Ray dead on, then flew right through him. "Like I said, Satan has no power over those who worship the living God. Now, see what happens when the power of God meets those who worship Satan." Ray's sword hovered over his head and became an energy spear. "DEFEAT," the spear flung toward Cordran, "AT," It drew nearer as Cordran screamed in terror, "THE," The beam hit him the chest and hit the ground behind Cordran, "CROSS!" The spear shot up and became an energy cross that Cordran hung on. "NOOOOOOOO, THIS CANNOT BE! I CANNOT BE DEFEATED, I AM THE TRUE CHOSEN ONE!!!!" Cordran's body grew limp as the cross disapaited and left a hole in his chest. By the time Ray landed beside his foe, he was dead. Abbie walked up beside Ray and held his arm, "You did the right thing, who knows what he could have done to the universe?" Ray let out a sigh and released his tension and power, reverting to human form. "I know, it's over, it's finally over." As Ray began to walk out, he felt as if, somehow, this wasn't over yet. Deep within the pits of Hell, Cordran stood before Satan. "Fool, you failed me for the last time!" Satan extended a claw from his arm and stabbed it through Cordran, then lifted his arm up and carried him around on it, "WHO SHALL TAKE HIS PLACE?" But Cordran's eyes lit up and his power increased, "You might want to make sure I'm dead first! I have been relying on you too much my lord, it's time to take matters into my own hands." Cordran's laughter echoed throughout Hell as his body changed yet again into an even more powerful state. Taking Satan by the claw, Cordran threw him into the lake of fire. "I AM THE NEW RULER OF HELL, AND MY NAME SHALL NOW BE: OMEGA!" Cordran smiled and looked up to Earth, "Yes Chosen One, you are right, this is not over, not by a long shot." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Uh Oh, looks like Ray is going to need some help to fight this new foe, strong enough to whoop even Satan. Stay tuned to HFUF for the final battle between Ray and Cordran.