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[center][h2]Scarlet Thorne[/h2][/center]

[b]"Psh. Talk about a sore loser,"[/b] Scarlet replied to Lucian's final words. She flicked his blood off her knuckles, and turned her attention towards the horde of demonic humanoids. They continued to pour from the portal, intensifying the situation. One of them charged the horned goth girl and attacked with surprising strength. Scarlet batted his arm away and countered with style; she leapt up and severed the creature's head with a fluid kick. It flitted across the theater and burst into a splash of crimson on the far wall. Handling one of the zombie-like beings was no trouble, but this situation was a lot more complex than that. Besides, she spotted one of the demons reviving after having been slain.

[i]'What do I do? Hit them all with a massive attack? Should I try and bring this whole building down? Or should I put barriers around the portal? But that isn't a permanent solution...'[/i]

[color=7ea7d8][i]'Use the darkness in their hearts to your advantage,'[/i][/color] came the reply of a new voice within her head. 

Somehow Scarlet began to realize what he meant. [i]'Yeah... Yeah, that might work.'[/i]

She held out her pale hand and called out to the weapon that she knew would be waiting for her. In a puff of inky clouds it appeared - a black keyblade with jagged teeth and a red handle. A terrible chill came over her just from holding it. This was most certainly an evil tool. Somehow she already knew what its purpose was. It would twist unwilling beings into creatures of pure darkness; creatures that she could command.

She used the keyblade to pierce the next demon she fought. At once, it transformed into a tall, slender heartless with long trailing antennae. [b]"Heel,"[/b] she commanded it with a layered voice. It obediently stood up straight and waited. Then Scarlett struck down another demon, and another after that. Each time she defeated a demon with her superior strength, she would force it transform with the keyblade of heart. After a few minutes, she had gathered a small group of heartless minions. [b]"Fight with me,"[/b] she told them - and they did. They jumped into the fray silently, but eagerly - trading evenly with the red-eyed zombies.

Scarlet herself was feeling a strange type of fatigue however. This wasn't like physical exhaustion, or simply running out of mana. She clutched at her chest, not comprehending at first. Was wielding this power over darkness weighing on her own heart?


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