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Tania awoke with a start. There
was a face above her and she unthinkingly snapped the Pandora Blade up at it.
If she aimed just below it then she could cut the artery, to cut the entire
head off was a waste of energy. Only
three months with this blade and I’ve already learned that it’s wasteful to cut
off the head, I’m slashing at heads that appear in the dark. There was a
clang and a flash of light. Tania instantly relaxed as she saw the light. She
knew it was Jordan now, trust him to try and scare her like that. Jordan smiled
and said, “Morning Beautiful.” Tania smiled back. “Didn’t I tell you to stop
calling me that?” He shrugged as he said, “Maybe. Am I not allowed to remark on
a beautiful woman?” She groaned, “Get a girlfriend Jordan.” “It’s not through
lack of trying Tania.” He took his blade from hers and it melted into his arm.
As he turned the tattoo was there shining on his back. She traced a finger over
the lines through his shirt. “Does it always glow when you do that?” He turned
around and frowned at it. “Not normally, but nothing seems to be wrong so I’ll
run with it.”
He sat down on the bed next to
her. “Out of all the places I thought I’d go in three months I didn’t think it
would be your bedroom at three in the morning.” She hit him in the chest and he
laughed. “Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. But still it’s hard to believe that
we’ve adapted to this life so easily. I mean three months ago how would you
have reacted if I’d showed up in your bedroom at this time of night?” She brought
her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around it the sword now pointing
at the ceiling. “I don’t know. It’s like these months have been years, I’m so
far from the person I was back then It’s like their a stranger.” He looked her
straight in the eyes. “You’re still Tania, nothing can change that, not the
blade, not what we’ve been through.” He looked haunting in the moonlight, like half
of his face was completely missing. She was tempted for a moment to reach out
and see if his face really was there. “But I’m slowly changing what it means to
be me. Jordan for all your honeyed words I’m still not the same person I was
back then.” Jordan slowly placed a hand on hers, the one holding the Pandora
Blade. With slow and deliberate movements he unwound each individual finger
from the grip. “So what if you could take it all back, what if you could become
what you were back then?” She looked at him then her fingers involuntarily tightened
on the sword. He looked at that and said softly. “Can you answer without
holding onto the sword? I want the answer from you, not you and it.”
She slowly let it go and Jordan
stood back. She clenched her now empty fist. It seemed wrong to be without the
sword, it had become part of her. But she’d never needed it before. “I don’t know
Jordan. The choice would have to be right in front of me.” Flipping the Pandora
blade so it was held out handle first he said, “Well now it is.” She looked at
him, “You’re saying that you can undo what we did? But that’s impossible, not
even…” “Tania, I can undo what the sword did to you, not what we did. We will
always have saved the world. I’m just asking you if you want to keep doing it.”
She smiled at him and reached for the sword, “It was a pretty good feeling.” He
jerked the sword back. “I’m asking you to think for yourself Tania. For once
don’t be privy to the feelings that thing invokes in you.” She snatched the
blade and swung at his head. He swayed backwards but the blade still sliced a line
on one side of his face. The Eon Blade seemed to move of its own accord and slapped
the Pandora Blade out of Tania’s hand. Suddenly his face was next to hers, “Do
you understand why I can’t let you keep the blade now?” The blood dripping down
his face seemed to glow in the moonlight. “Not everyone’s as fast as me and it
won’t always be me you’re threatening. We both got told if we took up these
blades we’d lose something.” Tania looked at the blood as it fell from his face
like a teardrop. She sobbed once and said, “I never thought the price would be
me.” He wrapped his arms around her and she cried into his shoulder for a
moment. After a minute she looked up and smiled. He smiled back, “Get dressed,
we’ve got to go to the Heaven Gate.”
He stood outside as she changed
from her Pyjamas into Day clothes. He rooted through his pockets and found
three metal objects. One was his coin, the doubled tailed silver dollar. He’d
scratched a heart on one side a long time ago. It had ruined the value of the
coin but he didn’t care about that. Everyone knew he had a double tailed coin
but nobody knew about the heart. You’re
such a hopeless romantic Jordan. The second item was a real coin. There was
once a time when Jordan would have been happy to find two dollars in his pants,
but now he just put the coin back in his pocket. The last was a small sword. It
was a key ring. Or at least that’s what people thought. He tossed it into the
air and it grew into a hollow sword. Evangileon, the sword of the Primarch. He
slid the Eon Blade into the middle then the Pandora blade. Evangileon flashed
as the Pandora Blade slid into place. He held just above his back and it turned
into a gold mist. It flowed into his back and slowly became the Tattoo that
usually held the Eon Blade. He sighed and pulled out the other coin. Heads I do, Tails I don’t. The coin spiralled
high into the air as Jordan flicked it. But before he could catch it a hand
shot out and grabbed it. He turned and saw Tania’s smiling face. “What’s the
coin toss for?” He just shrugged and said, “Is it heads?” She looked at him in
a condescending way. “Maybe if you hadn’t used the double tails coin so much I’d
actually check.” He pointed at her clenched fist. “Real coin, and this time it
really is chance.” She opened her fist and the Queens head glared up at both of
them. Tania flicked the coin up and Jordan caught it out of reflex. “Wow,
honesty for once, anyway we have to get going right?” Jordan didn’t reply but
simply turned towards the door.
They both walked up the familiar
path to the Heaven Gate. But when Tania rounded the Corner after Jordan she saw
something she was not expecting. The Heaven Gate was open. “Jordan, shouldn’t
you have shut that?” He turned around and she saw a sad smile spread across his
face. “I opened it. And this Tania is where we say goodbye.” Tania dropped into
a ready stance and tried to summon the Pandora Blade. “No, no that’s not what I
meant.” Jordan covered his eyes with his hand. “Will you give me the benefit of
the doubt before you try and kill me?” She stood out of the ready stance but
still looked suspicious. “The gates are shut by the blades but the connection
is held in place by them as well. As long as the blades exist in this world
then we will have to fight. I can shut the door and keep those bastards out
forever. We have to get rid of the sword from this place. And I have to go with
them.” Tania’s mouth dropped. “What? Why, just throw the blades through.”
Jordan shook his head and held out his hand. Evangileon dropped into it from
nowhere. “Evangileon can cut through the dimensions regardless of whether or not
a connection exists. I have to keep it out of the wrong hands.” Tania walked up
and tried to take Evangileon. “I can’t let you do that Jordan. What about your
friends and family, what about us?” Jordan became angry. “What about the people
who will die if I don’t? Will you doom them to death so you can keep a friend
in your life?!” She stopped, and stared off the side of the hill. “You’re the only
other person who knows what it feels like to wield one of those blades. What
they can do to you. Please don’t leave me alone with that.” Jordan stepped
forward but stopped as Tania held up a hand. “Please Tania, I have to do this.”
The turn was explosive and so was the reply. “No Jordan you don’t have to do
this, you want to. The Eon blade has stirred up some wild desire for you to go
around sacrificing yourself for others and you’re only too happy to oblige. The
world has managed fine with these blades in it until now, why can’t it continue
to have them!”
Jordan looked down at the sword
grasped in his hands. It felt right, powerful he’d never felt this good. And
yet something was still eating away at him. He stuck the sword in the ground
and went over to beside Tania. “I want to leave because of you. I’ll never be
happy with just friends and I thought that after all that we did then you might
feel differently. But you don’t do you?” She looked at him, “You can’t leave
because of me, can you?” Jordan ran a hand through his hair. “Tania it kills me
to be with you knowing that I will never be able to be loved the way I love
you. I can deal with it for a time and maybe I’ll get over it someday. But I’d
rather not take the chance. At least I’ll be happy with the memories I do have.”
Tania’s eye widened, “But, you’re still a teenager, you’ll get over me.” He
smiled at her. “The Eon blade, it makes you believe that your love is righteous
and pure and everything like that. And I’ve looked though the records, nobody
ever gets over it.” He turned and picked up Evangileon. “I’m sorry you had to
know. I…” His voice failed him and he kept walking.
“Jordan, please don’t go. I love
you.” She hated herself as she said the words. She knew it wasn’t true and he
would to. He stabbed the ground back into the ground and walked back over to
her. He looked her right in the eye, his face an inch from hers. He kissed her
lightly, only for an instant. “No you don’t.” He whispered. He turned back to
the gate and started walking, he snatched up the sword as he went. He climbed
the steps to the gate and hoisted the sword onto his shoulder. He was going to
walk through but something stopped him. He turned back and pulled something out
of his pocket. He rubbed it once and tossed it into the air. It glinted in the
sun and Tania caught it easily. She opened her cupped hands and saw the eagle
that was on Jordan’s Double Tails coin. “Careful with that he called.” She put
the coin into her pocket still numb that he was really doing this. As he
stepped through the gate he called back over his shoulder, “Catcha later
Beautiful.” She opened her mouth to tell him to stop flirting but the gate
snapped shut before she could say anything. She walked to the pedestal that
opened the gate and slapped a hand on it. Nothing happened. She slapped a few
more times. “He wasn’t kidding.” She looked at the hulking structure of the
Heaven Gate and she sighed. “Why’d you have to go and be a hero?”
She sat down at the top of the
gate and leaned against it. It was cool on the back of her head. She pulled out
the coin. There was the Eagle polished to a shiny finish. She flipped it over
and did a double take. There was a crude heart carved into the finish of the
coin. She flipped it and it landed heart side up. She laughed softly to herself
as she stood. Even when he was another dimension away he was still trying to
flirt with her. She walked down the track away from the Heaven Gate and
groaned, “How am I going to explain this to everyone?”
Jordan heard the Gate snap shut
and turned to face what was ahead of him. Heaven was flat at the moment. Like a
desert except with firm footing. He stepped forward into the unknown. Evangileon
once again melted into the tattoo on his back. He smiled to himself as a howl
split the air. A few seconds later three Heaven Hounds burst out of the ground
towards him. His feet blurred as he spun to the right and the hounds jumped
past. They turned and leapt again and this time he summoned Evangileon. It cut
through the hounds and they crashed into the ground behind him. From that
moment on he knew that he’d be a man of the sword for the rest of his days. But
he was fine with that. Because he was dam good with a sword.
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Of course some of this might not make sense because your not me and don't understand some of the mechanics of the world that they live in. For instance why Tania was reassured by a flash of light. This is because the Eon Blade and Pandora Blade flash with energy every time they touch. And other stuff like that which I am to lazy to explain right now.
I was surprised at how much I managed to write. And it will probably get longer knowing me.
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