Consumed by Darkness (Maverick/CLOSED)

"Gah!" Maverick yelped as the huge. blunt blade of a Berserker Nobody hit him the side and sent him crashing into a wall. Maverick fell to the stone ground and groaned softly as he got up, he wiped the blood off his lip and charged at the beast. Maverick reached behind him and his spinal cord was edging out his skin and he yanked it out and lashed it. It wrapped around the waist and cut deep, effectively immobilizing it as well. Maverick leaped into the air and fired off several rounds of bone fragments from his finger tips. Each one pelted the skull of the Berserker and it fell to its knees, making the bone whip attached to it cut even deeper and then it died. Puffing into white fluff to be devoured by darkness.

Maverick landed and find himself panting, not out of tiredness but from blood lust. He stopped immediately when he realized this and staggered back as he brought his hands to his face and stared in horror. Sure he had killed before but not for fun, and he certainly never enjoyed it. It must be the darkness, it was growing deeper and deeper. Soon it will cloud all of his judgment and turn him evil. He had to run, even though it wouldn't help it made him feel better. Maverick broke into a fast run as he shuffled past the few people here and his eye sash almost slipped off from wind flow.

"Just run, run, run, that's all I can do. All I have left, my freedom is not mine. Damn you Elaeus.'[/i] Maverick was screaming in his head as he ducked into a dark ally and leaned his back up against the wall and slid down breathing heavily. He stopped and almost got up when he sensed someone else was here as well. He scanned there area with his eyes and only could sense heat, not a Heartless or Nobody, someone he knew from awhile ago and...no, it couldn't be could it?

"Mikael? Is that you?" Maverick asked somewhat weakly as he slowly got up praying it was his friend and not someone else.

Maverick let out a sigh of relief when he heard Mikael’s voice and he got to his feet and walked to Mikael. He just wanted to give his friend a hug and tell him everything that has happened. From the time of his tainting, Maverick was beginning to feel so alone he wanted to end it all. He never believed his friends turned against him, but Elaeus took advantage of his weakness and convinced him otherwise.

“Yes, yes it is Mikael. You have no idea how glad I am to know you’re alive. After leaving the Underworld, I had a feeling I was never going to see you again. Not alive anyway. But th—“ Maverick froze when Mikeal uttered those words. Fallen? Into the darkness? But Mikael had such a strong light energy in his heart. He knew that darkness was evil and needed to be destroyed. So how could he have fallen to it?

”No, no, no, no, NO!!” Maverick screamed as he slammed his fists into the wall, His mind was filling with hatred for Mikael, not for the person, but for the darkness that was in him and growing. He began to hate Elaeus, he convinced Maverick that all his friends will submit to darkness and it seemed he was right. Maverick stopped when he saw he was putting a good sized hole in the wall and blood was streaming from his hands as well as tears going down his face. He started to walk to Mikael and asked him a very simple question,

”When?”

Mavericks mind flickered when Mikael mentioned that a woman by the name of Jadis sent an orb of darkness into him. Wait, the lady he left a few days ago went by the name Jadis...the two couldn't be one in the same could they? But how? That woman Maverick was with seemed kind, gentle, and generally caring. Could she really be the one at fault for his friends downward spiral into the dark?

"No, it doesn't matter now. The Mikael I know is still in there, wanting this to be over. The light wont give up...on him. I just don't belong in its shining wonder."[/i] Maverick stopped walking as his thoughts continued to flicker between Mikael at the Disney Castle raid to Jadis to Elaeus and then back to Mikael. Its official, all of this was his fault, if he hadn't came in contact with Mikael, he might still be normal. All....his....fault. But as Maverick heard Mikael's plead for death he jerked his head to the side like he had been slapped. His friend was wanting death? No, not when some hope for him could remain.

"Mikael...I...have to show you something..." Maverick almost said to quietly for the man to hear. He ran up and grabbed his arm and drug him out to the main streets, into the light. He let him go and took a few paces ahead of Mikael and turned to face him. His arms outstretched as if to greet him, a small howl began to fill the air as the shadows around Maverick crept up his body like a snake slithering across a floor. It focused itself in his hand and formed small black wisps of darkness. Swaying back and forth as if to mock both of them for falling from grace.

"You're not as alone as you think you are Mikael. You don't need to die. This isn't a life sentence...there's a man. I could ask him to help you control it...." Maverick sounded almost hurt as he said it. Never would he want this on his friends. He belonged in the darkness. Not them.

"Who... Who is this man you speak of?"

Maverick stopped the darkness that was beginning to cover his entire arm and it retreated back into the ground. He gave a heavy sigh as he turned his back to Mikael and thought on who to bring him to. Seed seemed like too much for Mikael to handle, that crazy Heartless would more than likely drive Mikael deeper into the dark. Elaeus...last resort. Ever. Mavericks eyes twitched on how he just realized how easily Mikael agreed on meeting whoever Maverick decided to bring him too. Either his friend is so desperate to become normal or has already fallen to the darkness and is just playing around with his emotions.

"I...I don't know who to bring you too. Each one is as evil as the last, with one being the last person I would want anyone to meet. Are....you sure you want to control the dark? I can do terrible things to people, look at me. Hated by everyone....almost everyone." Maverick opened a portal in the center of the space between himself and Mikael.

"If you want to meet them face to face then enter. If you want to go unconscious...than fight..." Maverick retorted as the last two words seemed to burn his throat as they came out.

Maverick smiled as Mikael was beginning to sound like his old self again. His friends spirits seemed high, which is a good thing for the current situation. Maverick let himself doubt his will and strength and became one with dark and he will be damned if he allows himself to stand idly by as his friends stand at the same crossroads he stood at.

"...That's what I thought from the beginning Mikael. I knew deep down that no one hated me. Elaeus was..." Maverick stopped himself as he put his left hand over his heart. Where Elaeus' darkness held a tight grip on his heart, just waiting to pull down into the dark void. Mavericks eye twitched as a pain shot through his body with the epicenter being his heart, his darkness was getting excited again. He gave a cough but as he pulled his hand away he saw it was covered on small blots of blood. Never a good sign.

Maverick quickly turned from Mikael and walked past the portal, closing it as he neared it. "No, I wont be able to fight against them with you...But I'll help you put a group together to fight them. I know some people, maybe." Maverick pondered on who these people he spoke of actually where. Sora would only be mad if he saw what Maverick had become, the King as well. Erika and Max! Of course, they should be able to help.

"That's it! We can get--" Maverick shouted excitedly as he turned to face Mikael again but as he did the same pain that shot through him just minutes before came back with more kick to it. Maverick doubled over in pain and stumbled to a wall and leaned on it with his right hand as his left covered his chest where his heart would be. His eyes were glued to the ground where his shadow was twisting and curling at an ominous rate.

Maverick could instantly feel his darkness try and coax out the darkness in Mikael out. The shadow below Maverick shot up his body and tried to make a connection with Mikael, but Maverick was able to suppress it just in time. A tendril was about to make contact and who knows what would happened. Maverick tried to get back to his feet but the pain was too great, maybe Elaeus was trying to turn him into a Heartless at this moment.

"N..No. I wont let you Elaeus..." Maverick said weakly as he barely shoved Mikael's hand off his shoulder and finally got to his feet. But his shadow flew up and swirled over his body. Maverick let out a scream as he bashed his head against the wall and the shadow went back down to the ground. Except it left a gift, Mavericks eyes were now yellow as the sash around his eyes was absorbed by his shadow. With a tremor in his hands he reached up and felt his eyes as to feel for himself they were still there.

He turned to face Mikael and he said with pain in his voice, "I knew it..I'm dangerous to everyone around me. I...I have to leave Mikael, please. Please try and fight this. Good-bye..." Maverick turned back around and began to run as fast he could. And he was back at square one. Running was all he could do now.