What If You Don't Deserve Her?

Obsidia's body started to amalgamate more, with most of her bone fragments now sticking out of her body, she was like a walking blade. One quick movement of her arm and the entire building was cut into shreds. 

I confidently stood on a block of untouched cement, falling to the ground about fifty feet away from her, and looking at her dead in her broken eyes.

"Obsidia Carnivora is my name. I was created by Eirikr Asterio to combat none other than the Legend, Sky Asterio himself. My name is chosen very specifically because I can easily break the bonds that humans for," She began.

"I don't care."

"I know you don't, but you should. I'm going to make a point to you that will have you shooting back in surprise so far you hit Hell. You see, Sky Asterio..." Obsidia paused, moving large amounts of shattered buildings out of her way, leading for a straight path toward me. She held up her left hand with a closed mouth, saying nothing.

"I was brought into this existence, told to kill, told to lie, told to steal, and I listened like a good little servant. You can't beat me, because you have independence. I will not stop, whether I have to break all of my bones, destroy the body of my vessel, whatever I need to do to beat you. I would do anything. I'm obedient, and those who would fall short of their tasks are not."

I held up another saber, pointing it directly at her left hand.

"I don't care how obedient you are, Faith doesn't deserve what you have done to her! She doesn't deserve you!" I yelled.

I closed the distance in a fraction of a second and plunged the Iridescent Saber into Obsidia's stomach.

She took the hit, cut off my arm, and turned her face to look up at mine as I was dodging backward.

It felt as if the world froze around her as Obsidia opened up her mouth once more.

"And what makes you think that you deserve her?" She said. Just as she predicted, my body was violently shaken by the statement she made, and a fragment of Iridescent-colored bone slid across my cheek from the front of my skull to the back. It left a scar on my cheek that wasn't healing...

What...?

What if...I don't...deserve...her?

The fight came to a standstill as the skin on my face sizzled. I had felt this before...and the wound still hadn't healed. 

Obsidia became the second person to scar me in my entire life...

"You are thinking about it, aren't you? What if the things you've done to this body compound the fact that you don't deserve her? What if it's the entire reason that you don't deserve Faith, Sky?" Obsidia asked me. I paused, looking at the ground while gripping my Iridescent Saber.

Obsidia closed the distance instantly and struck me with a punch in my chest. Iridescent Strands coalesced into a single, finite point, and I was hit with so much power that I felt my ribs shatter. A shockwave of wind cleared all of the debris around us and shattered so much structure around the city that it felt as if a crater was all that was left of the entire place.

"That hit...oh...that one did some damage, didn't it?" Obsidia sadistically smiled after a few moments of walking through the smoke.

I lost. I can't even move my body. I spent so long training, so long pushing an idea into my mind...everything was for nothing. I looked up at Faith's destroyed body and smiled as she got closer.

Obsidia ran in with another punch and I used Mom's gravity to slow her down to almost a standstill, cocking my fist back and grasping her throat with as much power as I could manage.

"Faith...I know you can hear me in there..." I paused, looking at her dead eyes illuminate.

"It's useless! You idiot! She's trapped...there's no breaking her free! She's embraced me! To the point of no return!" Obsidia screamed. From the depth of her throat, a fragment of bone shot out from her wicked tongue and placed a neat, vertical slice through the horizontal one already on my face. I looked up at her with the same dead look that she gave me and smiled.

"So...we're not different after all, are we? Giving up...I'm sure it's a necessary part of every Asterio's development..." I began. With Obsidia locked in the air, I used Belle's Incarnation to freeze the world around me, causing a flurry of exhaustion to captivate my body.

"Ever since I first met you, Faith, I found your existence to be an anomaly. I knew you were created to save me, and to help me progress my power, and to protect me...but that's not what I wanted. I recruited you into my group because you were a capable person and you deserved the same thing I gave everybody else...but only at the end of this road do I look into your eyes and see something...something worth so much more...the capability...I bet it's what other people see when they look at me." I smiled, letting my grip loose. Obsidia still floated in the air with a grim look.

I sat down on the floor in front of her, crossing my legs, and looking up at Obsidia.

"You've come a long way. You've shown me the power I never thought to be possible. I thought of myself to be the amalgamation of all people I've ever met...but you've surpassed that, and became an amalgamation of people you've never met. With the power of the bloodlines coursing through your veins, it's only a matter of time before you surpass me in strength," I said.

I watched as time slowly began to speed up once more. I had a little bit more time...

"Faith..."