Life&Death

“Last time I saw him, he was teleported away by weird priest people” Soul started playing with a knife, making nearby people nervous. “What should we do next?”

Soul prowled through the Alleyverse a couple miles north of where the destruction happened. Dual aluminum swords crossed in his back, aluminum knives in his belt, aluminum cloak on, aluminum flared in his stomach. He was taking no chances. ”I should have had my aluminum cloak during the battle!” He said cursing his lack of foresight . Elefthera spun around him, looking like a reflective stream of liquid. ”You can’t always be prepared.” El said ”Yes, but if I had this cloak I might have been able to kill Rhazien!” Still muttering, Soul stalked indignantly into a bar to wait for the next stage of his plan.

Soul Glared at Rhazien, as the man stalked towards him. A flash of light appeared which stunned the still slightly dazed Soul. By the time Soul regained full control of himself, his prey was already gone. "Storm it all." he muttered. "Even my massive shockwave didn't let me kill him." Soul looked around the destroyed landscape of what used to be a thriving part of the alleyverse. Corpses of random people lay strewn about as casualties in a battle between many extremely powerful people. Sheathing his weapons Soul stalked off. The plan was a disaster. The only part that succeeded was the killing of Night. Feeling a flash of pain for his old friend, and guilt for losing the Aviar he promised to watch over, Soul flew off in the direction of where he left Zayev. Soul thought over what had happened, and tried to come up with a new plan, one that would finally kill Rhazien. But for now, he had a promise to keep.

Soul laughed as he was lashing up into the air. Spinning slowly he added lashings of his own upwards as well, rising to extreme heights. His stormlight was replenished as well as his aluminum. After a full minute of falling upwards, he briefly burned aluminum and then added dozens of lashings back downwards. Using adhesion, terminal velocity was no longer applicable to him and he gained insane amounts of speed. What took him a minute to fall up, took him less than 5 seconds to fall back down. Smashing into the ground he created a huge crater and a shock wave exploded out from him. Buildings were destroyed and people were thrown dozens of feet. Woah. Don't do that again. Soul stood up dizzily, half of his replenished stormlight was now gone in the huge amounts of power that took. Quickly summoning his shard blade again, he paused and looked for a new angle to attack. Rushing Rhazien was clearly not working.

After getting slammed in the face by Rhazien, Soul spun into a building that amazing was still upright. This didn’t last because Soul’s pinwheeling body smashed it. Crawling out of the rubble he grinned. His aluminum stores dropped dramatically after slamming into Rhazien. “Clearly he tried to send me to Shadesmar. Fool.” Summoning his Shardblade he charged back. Slower this time.

Fear washed over Soul. But aluminum flared within his chest making him immune. Dashing once again towards Rhazien he lunged for the man.

Soul ducked, using quick lashings to increase his speed. The Shardblade swished over Soul’s head as he slid forward on frictionless knees to swipe the legs off of his opponents. As he did this Soul stopped compounding Identity, and returned to a seminar all state. Rational thought returned and his recklessness disappeared.

“Or more accurately, we’ll go through you!” Soul dashed up and trust both his Shardblade and his aluminum sword towards the two men.

A man appeared next to Rhazien. ”He will die first.” Soul swore in his mind. Subconsciously he could hear El yelling at him to stop tapping Identity but he didn’t listen, this was more important. Soul rushed forward preparing to attack.

Massive explosions lit up the sky, and metal fell from the sky. ”I’m sorry El” Compounding Identity Soul reverted back to when he just snapped. Soul felt strength flood his body as all hesitation left him. His mind had healed since his snapping, making him normal enough to not attack everyone, this healing left him as Identity reversed the process. Anger, bloodlust, fear, rage, death. Tearing a citizen apart with stormlight enhanced strength, Soul grabbed his weapons. Soul turned back towards Rhazien, he would not escape this time. This time Soul would finish the plan.

Soul dismissed all lashings and plummeted downwards. He summoned hi Shardblade again since he dropped it during his flight upwards and looked for his aluminum sword.

Soul felt the tassels wrap around him, which slowed his speed a lot. He quickly burned aluminum which did absolutely nothing expect burn away his stormlight. Cursing and struggling he sucked in more stormlight and lashing himself straight up. Pulling Akrasia with him he didn’t move as quickly but he still gathered lots of speed. “El! Get this off of me!” He yelled, shortening his sword into a wide bladed knife he sliced some of the tassels and then quickly enlarged the sword back to normal, slicing through the rest of them and letting Akrasia fall while he himself shot upwards.

If you don’t mind dying painfully, but that’s none of my business.

Soul shook himself and responded to Seltimus’s wish for assistance. Cursing the weakness of being controlled by someone beyond the fourth wall, who happened to have homework he rushed at Rhazien. He would apologize for the fourth wall later, and probably hire a permanent repair crew because at the rate he was breaking this he would need one. With multiple lashings, and no friction Soul rushed very very fast and slammed into Rhazien.

Soul burned aluminum, making the allomancy stop affecting his emotions. Lifting his shardblade, he drew an aluminum sword and faced the rival surgebinder. "The more powerful you are, the better the challenge, and the better the victory will be when I kill you!"

Touche

Soul landed in the ruined shop, Aviars flying all around. "Where are you." He muttered, looking for Faye, He saw Rhazien grab Mace and then disappear. "Rust those Elsecallers." He cursed. Looking around some more he saw Nei'an trapped in rock. Again. Dashing over Soul summoned his shardblade and cut him free. "What's the plan now? Night is dead but Rhazien is in Shadesmar! Should we continue our attack?" Turning as an explosion destroyed another building, Soul saw a man get buried amidst the rubble. Cursing his oaths, to which El formed as a person, just to shake her head disapprovingly, just to form back into a shardblade, Soul ran towards the man, to see who it was. Clearing away wood and stone, Soul uncovered Akrasia. "Seriously? I do all this work for you?" He stabbed at his face but the man disappeared right before the blade landed.

I guess you have a point. But you haven't seen Soul in action yet.

Soul Pain blossomed in Soul's leg as razor sharp teeth tore into it. Quickly punching the Tamaskan in the face he lashed the unfortunate beast onto a wall nearby. Turning he got a face full of metal as Night rammed his sword through Soul's eye. This was not going as planned but Soul simply grinned. "It's been too long since I've killed someone." He muttered spitting blood. Night As Soul punched and lashed Zayev into a wall Night screamed. Putting all his anger and fear into his attack we swung his weapon into Soul's face. Rushing over he grabbed his beloved dog. "No, no, no, no." Soul Soul felt his emotions being tampered with as his bloodlust increased, but didn't do anything about it. He needed the stormlight and the emotions didn't matter at the moment. Breathing in tons of stormlight Soul attacked faster then a human could see. Lashings and abrasion made Soul faster than anyone except a steelrunner. Night didn't even notice Soul coming until the knife entered his spine. Night Checking the wounds of Zayev, Night breathed a sigh of relief. He was fine. Turning he saw his corpse slump to the ground with a knife in it's back, spinning back towards Soul Night felt the same knife impale him. Due to his premonition he avoided death, but just barely. "Why?" he whispered as he collapsed, paralyzed from the neck down. Soul "Why?" Night whispered. Soul frowned, he didn't know why this man acted so confused. They hated eachother. Looking back Soul remembered fights, but also shared experiences. This didn't make sense, until he stopped tapping Identity. Beliefs and feelings that were suppressed flooded back into him as he looked upon his old friend. Quickly burning aluminum so his emotions were no longer affected, Soul started weeping. "I am sorry. I have to do this. Forgive me old friend." Quickly tapping Identity again, as well as extinguishing his aluminum the feelings of sadness disappeared. Sheathing his knife, Soul summoned El as a long, thin blade. "I will take care of Zayev & Faye." Soul said as a last goodbye and comfort to Night, his longest friend that he had to kill. Night Feelings of fear were still strong due to the allomancy of Rhazien. But Night also felt peace as he saw his friend appear again in his killer's face. He understood now. Soul didn't want to do this, he couldn't do this, but he had to, so he must have tapped enough Identity to revert back to when he was willing to kill Night. "I will take care of Zayev & Faye." Night smiled slightly. Even as Soul killed him, he still honored what he would know Night's last request would be. Night felt at his dog's fur, and looked at Faye. Then, Night closed his eyes. Soul As Night closed his eyes, Soul rammed the sword through his chest, killing him instantly. Soul turned, just as Deathants exploded everywhere. Sucking in stormlight Soul lashed himself towards the wall. grabbing Zayev he lashed them both out the still broken ceiling. Soul grabbed at Faye but missed as she flew away in the commotion. "Storm it all." Soul cursed. Flying away he found a safe spot to put Zayev. He looked at the Tamaskan, who looked right back with sad eyes. Soul stopped tapping identity again and felt the sadness of killing his friend. "Don't make me feel guilty. I had to do it." He admonished the dog. Great now I'm talking to animals. "I know you had to do it." El appeared as a woman who looked like she was made out of a liquid mirror. She stood about a foot tall at the height of Sou's head. "That doesn't mean he hast to like it." "I know." Soul replied, closing his eyes again, not looking forward to returning to the battle. Tapping Identiy again soul regained his strength and bloodlust. "Stay." He told Zayev and lashed himself back towards the chaos.