Reign of Darkness
Part 3: Death or Destruction?

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	Warrior of the Cross stood there in awe at his transformation. He 
knew he should not have transformed, he knew it was impossible for him to 
transform when he wanted and needed to, let alone fighting someone he had 
allready defeated. But here he stood in his Ultimate Evolution, without 
having commanded the transformation to take place. Behind him, Deathcaller 
shouted something, but Ray wasn't listening. Abbie nodded her head and a 
small tenticle extended from her computer and took a DNA/Vortex signature 
from Deathcaller. Ray then turned to his opponent, "Do you have any sins you 
have not asked forgiveness for and repented of?" Deathcaller looked at Ray 
with a puzzled look, but spit on his sandals.

	"I'll say it again, 'Do you have any sins that you have not repented 
of?" Deathcaller merely laughed, but soon stopped as he caughed up blood. Ray 
sighed, then said, "Then you will meet with whatever punishment God has 
intended for you when you die." Holding one hand out, Ray fired a small beam 
out of his hand. However Ray didn't realize the power stored within his body, 
and the beam contained thousands of times more power than he wanted to use. 
When the dust settled, Ray realized that he had destroyed a fourth of 
Coruscant's planetary mass, and had ripped a whole wide open in the Vortex. 

	"So, Chosen One, your ultimate evolution is more powerfull than I am 
at this moment. How unfortunate that I cannot exact my revenge upon you now, 
but I can wait. What I lack in power I make up with my ability to transform. 
You need me to intitiate your transformation, but I do not need you. Chosen 
One, the angel of death is about to call your name, and I will be there to 
listen with the upmost glee." With that, the dark figure standing in the 
shadows disappeared.

	Ray transformed back to his normal form, then fell to the ground 
exhausted. "RAY!" Abbie yelled as she ran over to catch him. "Kouesi: Vortex 
form! Get over here now! Ray's down!" The ship sitting at the docks in 
Coruscant's tower morphed into a wooden craft, then teleported to 
where Ray and Abbie were. 

	Kouesi's human form stood beside Abbie as she tendend to Ray. Ray 
stirred a little and opened one eye, "What happened?" Abbie rubbed a wet rag 
over his forehead as she looked into his eyes, "You don't remember what 
happened?" Ray tried to shake his head, but flinched. "Ray, you 
transformed. No, not to super-human either. Ray, you scared me so much, I 
didn't know what to do when I saw you." Ray looked up at Abbie, "What do you 
mean? What did I transform to? The last thing I remember was becoming 
Ultimate Chosen One, then a void. Next thing I know I'm lying here 
and you two are fussing over me like I just died." Abbie slapped him in the 
shoulder, "Ray, you honestly don't remember do you? Ray, you transformed 
beyond super-human. You were Warrior of the Cross."

	Ray sat in his chair on Kouesi's bridge. He stared off into space 
letting his thoughts wander to wherever they may. "What happened back on 
Coruscant? One minute I'm fighting some two bit super-human who got lucky, I 
use the Sword of Darkness to show him who's more powerful. Suddenly I wake up 
on Kouesi with a hangover the size of New York and Abbie and Kouesi both are 
worried to death about me." Walking over to the bar, Ray poured a stiff shot 
of whatever he grabbed first and downed it too fast to taste what it was. 
Suddenly, a dark presence came aboard the ship. "Chosen One, it's been a long 
time." Ray's sword materialized in his hand within a nanosecond. "I sensed a 
dark presence when fighting Deathcaller, at the time I thought it was the 
Sword of Darkness's feedbacks. But the energy felt to....organic. I must say, 
I honestly thought I would have been able to sense you my old 'Friend.' It's 
been what, seven years since you died?" The man stepped foreward into the dim 
light. Standing on the other side of the ship was a man with a black three 
bladed sword. "Yes, I believe that is right, Ray Doss: Chosen One of Good." 
Ray held his sword in a combat position, "It's been a long time, Cordran: 
Chosen One of Evil."

	"So tell me Cordran, how did you come back?" Ray asked keeping his 
guard up. "That's for me to know and you to try to find out. Haha, my dear 
Chosen One, you'll have to beat it out of me to find out. But you don't have 
a prayer at doing that now, so I would recommend training, mastering your 
transformation, and meeting me in the ring at a later time." Ray smirked at 
that, "And what, pray tell, makes you think I can't kill you right here and 
now? I am an ultimate evolution, as well I have the Sword of Darkness. But if 
we fight, it won't be on this ship, I won't endanger the girls." Cordran 
smiled, "Have it your way, don't say I didn't warn you." With that, the two 
entered a void space in the Vortex.

	Cordran held his sword up at his shoulder while Ray held his athis 
hip and offset to the right slightly. "So, Cordran, when did you start using 
a dark Chosen One blade as opposed to your fire sword?" Cordran charged as he 
explained, "Well, the fire sword was created from an unfocused Vortex 
crystal, when you destroyed it the first time it unlocked my Chosen One 
powers. Now I the Chosen One of Evil, I feel it fitting that I use the dark 
version of your own pitiful blade!" The last word was stressed with a fast 
slash to Ray's legs, but Ray jumped and countered with an attack to Cordran's 
neck, which was blocked at the last second. "Okay, question two; How 
the hell did you get out of hell?" Cordran frowned slightly as he expertly 
side-stepped a sloppy attack, "I thought I already told you, you would have 
to beat that information out of me?" Ray was getting upset, he should have 
beaten Cordran by now. But not only was Cordran still up and kicking, he was 
out-doing Ray. "That's it! I'm going to finish this now!" Ray focused his 
power into one point in his body, then released it all and screamed, "I AM 
THE CHOSEN ONE!" Cordran merely smiled at this, then snapped his finger and 
trasnsformed as well. But Ray wasn't done yet. Ray focused his power again, 
then trasnformed into Ultimate Chosen One. "Well, Chosen One, it appears you 
do have higher power forms than I do. Unfortunatly for you I have but one. 
But, you won't see it for a long time Chosen One, noooo. Now, prepare to 
die." 

	Ray charged and when he got close enough to Cordran, he swung with 
all his speed, but Cordran leaned back and twisted at his heels while down. 
As he was coming backup he drew his sword and gun, instead of attacking with 
his sword he fired a massive beam out of his gun. Ray finished the arc of his 
swing, drew GUN, and used his current momentum to carry him till he suddenly 
stopped and fired GUN to cancel out the beam. When the two beams met, they 
swirled around each other then exploded, throwing dust and light all around, 
but GUN was able to counter the weaker gun and it's shell plowed toward 
Codran without resistance. The bullet glanced Cordran in his left leg, 
causing the area around to wound to glow and release energy. While Cordran 
was screaming in agony, Ray used the light and smoke to escape to somewhere 
else.


	Ray leaned against the rail on the top story of some high rise in 
some dimension he didn't care to find the name of. Looking up at the stars, 
he thought about what had just happened, "When did Cordran come back? More to 
the point HOW did Cordran come back? And why did I run when I had him on the 
ropes? GUN nearly destroyed one of his legs, and that was a glancing 
shot. I know why, he was more powerful in "Chosen One" form than I am in 
Ultimate Chosen One. I'm a super-human and he is still more powerful." Ray 
sighed, but felt a strange tingling on his back. He reached back and found 
that the Sword of Darkness was on his back. Pulling it out, he felt the dark 
power emminating from it. "Why is this so powerful? Did meeting Cordran focus 
a large amount of dark power into it? Why.....why....AAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" 
Suddenly the sword clamped down hard on his hand and began to flood Ray with 
it's dark Vortex power. "No, no, I must fight it. I CAN'T GIVE IN NOW!" He 
felt his sanity slipping until he could not hold it any longer. 
"Hehehehehehe, I'll kill him. Heheh, I'll go down this path of death or 
destruction, maybe even both, hehehe. I'll destroy them all! I'll blow them 
all up, AHAHAHAHAH. But, how? hehehhe, I know. I'll take over Nexus Central 
Command. Then, I will be able to counter Cordran's coming Reign of Darkness, 
ehehehheAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. AND THE BEST PART IS: I'LL DO SO BY STARTING 
MY OWN! AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!