Foolish Humans

Shadow falls into a slumber.. Though he is conscious of whats around him, and this startled him. Shadow has realized that he is once again glowing, but it hurts not. This time he has risen above the bed he lay! With a loud *BANG* shadow vanished, along with the mysterious rod of ore. "Wh.. Where am I?".. Shadow opens his eyes and is quickly blinded with an immense light. He is surrounded with the light, everything is a glowing, vibrant white. In the seemingly empty space, a strange, deep, gravelly voice acknowledges him and says "This is where the light you shed from your being imprisoned itself. You see Cecil-"
"I am not Cecil."
"The light has always been with you, but never within you like it used to be. No one can dispel a power and expect it to be gone forever. It doesn't work that way."
"WHO ARE YOU!?!"
"I am you Cecil, your other half. I am the manifestation of the Light you though you destroyed within yourself. I am what made you Cecil." The Voice is no longer just something shadow hears, but shadow sees a persona of pure light no more than 8 feet from him, with eyes of light, hair of what looked to be of the purest of silk.
"Come step to me."
Shadow nervously steps closer and closer until the being vanished.
"We are one again.. Cecil.. During my time here I adopted the name Abner, or Father of Light. Your form in total darkness has a name too. But not until you name it."
Shadow immediately responds " Efah. The Darkness." .. Shadow blinks and realizes he is back in Vergils manor, he yells aloud "VERGIL! COME QUICK!"

I burst through the door with Yamato drawn and Alice was behind me with the butcher knife in her hands. I noticed that nothing was amiss in the room and made Yamato vanish. "What is wrong Shadow?" I asked as I scanned the room.

"Watch!" Shadow exclaims as he enters Abner Pure and his entire body is engulfed in light and bright, white wings spread from one end of the room to the other. "We were right."

I smirked at the sight. "So are you going to continue being Shadow or are you going to dawn your original persona?" I asked him calmly. "I still have your armor from when you were Cecil in the basement." I stated.

"I am to remain shadow." Shadow cocks his head "Howcome you still have that age old armor?"

I chuckled. "I keep it because you never know, you may wish to return to Baron, and doing so as Shadow may cause unnecessary panic... not to mention the look on your wife's face when she finds out what you had become." I said calmly as I headed for the door. "Now get some sleep. Tomorrow we begin your training with your new power." I said as I left the room.

"Ok vergil. *I wonder if he still has the stone the rod came from*" Shadow lays back down and dozes off.....

I enter into the laboratory in the basement, where Warren and Loreant were inspecting the stone. "Have you discovered what this stone is actually made of?" I asked as I approached them. "Not yet my lord, but we can't touch the damn thing." Warren said as he began to run a magnifying glass over it. Loreant knocked a chunk off and began to speed up time around it, the light that radiated off of it didn't even dim in the slightest. I held my hand to my chin. 'Could be pure light.' I thought and chuckled.

i exit a portal just outside of vergils manor. i open the door and walk in and imediatly sense shadow and vergil. i follow his power till i find him in the basemen. "vergil....we need......to talk." i say to him as i stand next to him. im breathing hard and trying to catch my breath.

"Nero..?" Shadow says, looking at Nero with a curious tone.

i look at shadow then turn and walk out the door expecting vergil to follow

I tapped my chin in thought, and followed Nero. "Mind telling me what this is about?" I asked when I caught up to him.

i pull out a rod that is wrapped in a cloth. "i found the source of the rod you two were talking about" i say. i set the rod on the table. "i was at mundus's castle in disguise when i found a room full of these rods." i say. i then smash the rod with my right hand. the energy in it gets absorbed by my hand. the shards are now a crystal blue that seems to be dimmed down. i reach out and yamato flies out of vergils hand. i pick up a piece and touch it to yamato. the piece instantly starts shining blue very similar to how my hand does when its holding yamato."mundus found the demonic material that my hand uses to absorb energy. the room i found was full of those crystals." i say before looking at the door behind me to make sure nobody walked in. "it was shadows room"

I began to tap my chin in thought. "So he was suppressing Cecil from Shadow's personality. Perhaps if we keep these crystals away from Shadow... or perhaps 'reprogram' them, we'll get the old Cecil back." I said, more in thought then to Nero. "Nero, I need you to collect as much of these crystals as possible in order to do research." I said calmly.

"ok but be careful with him, he may change his mind at anytime" i say as i hand Vergil Yamato. i look down at my hand for a minute before looking at the crystal shards. "what if we find the source of my arm?" i say with uncertainty

I chuckled. "Perhaps if we are able to find the source of your arm, we may be able to revert it back to it's normal form, so that you would be less conspicuous." I replied before waving my hand. "Now go do as I ask. I require these crystals." I said before examining the rod that Nero had brought me. I summoned a peon and threw it to him, and it vanished as soon as the rod made contact with it's flesh. "Interesting..." I said as I took the cloth and wrapped the rod again.