Users of the Ember

The chimes of a church bell rang throughout my ears. The area turned dark. Only Viego lit himself up. Viego was set ablaze, with one arm held up in a fighting position. The area around us turned pitch black before starting to light up. Torches were placed around us in a narrow corridor and skulls were stacked on top of each other until they reached the ceiling.

Bones were scattered all over the place and with each step my body marched towards Viego, the bones cracked and snapped, echoing throughout the empty halls.

"You dare putting me up against yourself in a complete 1 versus 1?"

Viego gave me a confident smirk, and with his legs stretched out, ready to leap, he looked me straight in the eyes and said.

"I will win."

I stomped the ground, impaling Viego with hundreds of black spikes, penetrating up into the skull ceiling.

The ooze glowed red before bursting open.

"Brin."

An arrow whistled through the wall, echoing deep within the catacomb. It was burning, shining, and extremely beautiful, it had a said swirling around in the air, following its trajectory.

In a millisecond, it exploded and burst the walls of the catacombs. Skulls and bones came crumbling down upon me as my body had been turned into ashes.

Viego readied another arrow and shot it again at the heap.

"Eld."

Releasing the arrow created a warping sound that distorted sounds around it. It created a buzzing sound that went around in circles. Embued with the Aeon of Ember, the arrow burned through everything down the corridor.

More and more bones cascaded down from above, it was endless amounts of human remains.

Viego put away his burning bow and looked down at the burning catacombs, sizzling and crackling were heard. But then Viego took a step back when he heard the sound of rummaging in the pile. A hand stretched out and grabbed the earth. Pushing its way out, the Aeon of Freedom reemerges, fully unscathed.

"You are one sick guy."

I gave him a grin before putting my arms in the air.

I bend my back backward and yell out to him to try even harder.

Viego started sweating but his confidence didn't disappear.

"Freedom, do you know how many Aeon of Embers have existed throughout history? The number of people striving for their passion? Throughout history, there have been more than 300 documented Aeon of Ember users! Do you know why?!? Because their passion killed them before they could fulfill any of them!"

Viego readied up another shot.

"Not happening."

Spikes impale him from the bottom of his feet, going up his leg, going out of his chest.

He dropped the bow on the ground before bursting into flames.

The ooze melted away and Viego had a new weapon on him.

"A whip?

I dashed towards him with the blade in my hand, catching it with his whip he yanked it towards him before embuing fire to his fist and punching me in the face. My face was burning but it quickly dissipated.

Viego stood there throwing out a whip attack. The whips caused lacerations on my skin that burned through my flesh and left red marks on it.

"Enough."

A giant spike of ooze shot from my hand and impaled him right in the torso. Completely erasing his chest. His body combusts into flames as he appears a bit further down the corridor.

"You gonna play like that?! 300 times?"

Viego smiled from a distance. He stomped around with his feet and started flinging his arms around.

"Check it, check it!"

Is that clown dancing over there? I ran straight towards the mockingbird. The sword was right in front of his temple a nanosecond from touching him.

"Bam."

My head explodes and brain matter scatters across the hall.

"Upsies."

My body flies up into the ceiling crashing into bones. Before exploding and burning up.

"Toasted."

The rest of my limbs that hadn't been damaged got burnt and even if I regenerated they would continue burning.

"Disintegrate."

The whole hall is consumed in a bright light that envelopes everything in front of Viego.

"Check it."