User:The Inexistent/Erion

"Only in balance can one find solace. If the light overwhelms the darkness, the darkness will be forced to fight for equality."

- Erion

Erion, known as E'tude Use'd by some, was a warrior that fought in the Keyblade War. He fought on the side of darkness.

Journal Entry
''Legend has it that he was conceived of pure darkness, giving him complete control over it... He had the power to plunge entire worlds into darkness. It is unclear what happened to him after the events of the Keyblade War''

Early life and first exile
Erion, from a young age, was able to manipulate both light and darkness. He, like most youth, was taught that light was a supreme entity, and that darkness was to be shunned. He believed this for many years, practicing only his power over light.

One fateful night, his world was invaded by darkness. Heartless appeared everywhere, consuming the hearts of thousands. Those who were proficient in the art of battling with light were sent out to slow the creatures.

Erion, having great power, defeated countless Heartless. However, the force against him was too large; he was overwhelmed.

In a fit of instinct, he summoned the power of darkness that he had suppressed for so long. With it, he could command the Heartless to stand down. Had he not subdued his powers for so long, he would have been able to call off the entirety of the Heartless. Because he could not, however, the darkness consumed every other being on the world. In despair, he fled this world, now calling it "The World That Never Was", for he wished to never remember it. To protect any who might try to enter the world, he created barriers of light and darkness, which were impenetrable to any being with a heart.

After abandoning this world, he realized why the darkness fought. Light had had supremacy for eons, spread by those who wished to have control over the universe. As such, darkness had to fight for equality. Erion realized that if light had been the weaker power, it would have manifested to fight.

He knew that, with his world and all those he loved, went his hopes and dreams. This caused him to become jaded over a short period of time, no longer feeling. Instead, he devoted his life to fighting for the darkness. He banished himself to the realm of darkness, where he honed his skills, and learned how to wield a Keyblade.

Fight for balance
After spending years within the Realm of Darkness, he emerged, a being brimming with darkness. He began his quest; to prevent other worlds and beings from sharing the same fate as his world and friends. He journeyed around the cosmos, travelling in the Corridors of Darkness, locating uninhabited worlds. After finding such a world, he would fill it with darkness, letting it succumb to Heartless, hoping to sate the thirst of the darkness. He swore to himself that he would never let a world full of life fall to darkness by his hand.

Krogna and Xel
Eventually, Erion found a barren world that already had a high content of darkness. Curious, as he had never seen this before, he investigated. On the world, he found two great Keyblade masters, named Krogna and Xel. The masters were engaged in a duel, Krogna fighting for the side of darkness, and Xel fighting for the light. It was clear that it was to be a battle to the death. Krogna was a legend, for he had plunged many worlds into darkness, most inhabited by sentinent beings. Erion, fearing that he would continue, decided to aid Xel in Krogna's defeat.

To his dismay, Xel refused his help. Xel was known as an extremely zealous master of light, destroying any wielder of darkness that she encountered. Krogna shouted to her that, as he was their common enemy, they should both destroy him, and then continue their duel.

The duel began by Xel firing a powerful beam of light at Erion, knocking him back in a cloud of smoke. Both Krogna and Xel perceived that he was dead, as he was a master of darkness. But, due to the fact that he had been trained in the art of light as a child, he was able to survive the blast, albeit with the loss of three fingers. He stood back up and fought. In the ensuing battle, Xel was slain by a blast of darkness from Krogna, while Krogna was knocked to the ground, bleeding. Erion stood over Krogna, debating what should be done. Before he could decide, Krogna used all of his life force to hit Erion with a blast of darkness, which permanently took the color from his Keyblade, and fused his three damaged fingers into a gleaming obsidian claw.

The blast had knocked him to the ground, and he lay motionless for hours, until he was awakened by the landing of two Keyblade gliders. Riding them were twins, one boy, and one girl, who were students of Xel's. Upon seeing their dead master, they assumed the culprit was Erion, the only living warrior on the battlefield. They both attacked him immediatly. However, he repelled them, and knocked them to the ground. He attempted to explain that he had not taken the life of their master. However, the boy rose and began attacking Erion. In self defense, Erion slew him by striking him with the Keyblade.

His sister, motivated by hatred and sorrow, stood to fight Erion, who did not wish to kill. She fought, and he used his power over darkness to subdue her multiple times. But, she continued fighting. In an act of desperation, she shot a signal of light into the sky, which she told Erion would summon Xel's other apprentices. She then engaged Erion in final duel, ending in their Keyblades locking, crossed. Erion, however, offered her one final chance to surrender. She claimed that she would not relent until one of them died. In an attempt to disarm her, Erion used his power of light to drain her heart's power, while pulsing darkness through her Keyblade. After a few seconds of this, her heart lost the strength to control the Keyblade, causing it to disappear. Because it vanished, the resistance that had held Erion's Keyblade back was released, and the Keyblade burst forth and struck her.

She feel to the ground, still alive. Erion, feeling an emotion for the first time in years, prepared to end her suffering, much to his own pain. She did not wish for him to do this, but he felt he had no other choice, and he enveloped her in darkness.

Just as she perished, Xel's other apprentices appeared. There were a dozen or so, each bewildered by the fact that this one novice had destroyed their master and Krogna. Their leader, Sah, ordered that Erion be executed. In an attempt to destroy him, the group fired beams of light at him repeatedly. He, however, could easily withstand the blasts. The leader, Sah, decided the only way to finish this was to engage in a duel with Erion.

The two began the duel. Sah explained that he too knew that light and darkness had to exist in harmony, but the light demanded penance for Xel's death. The terms were simple; if Sah was killed, Erion would be left alone by the apprentices. If Erion was slain, then Sah would become a master. Erion, in an attempt to stop the duel, threw his weapon to the ground. Sah did the same, but continued the duel. Using the light, Erion drove Sah back, while summoning a wall of darkness behind him, causing the light and darkness to destroy each other with Sah in between. Erion won instantly. Because he had displayed his complete devotion to balance, he was given the name "E'tude Use'd" by the apprentices, a name which meant "The Mediator of Balance".

Second exile
Erion again retreated to the realm of darkness, banishing himself. However, something in him had changed. Destroying the students of light that day had summoned in him feelings of regret and hatred he had subdued for years. He suddenly could feel the pain of those he loved, those who had died. However, he didn't blame the darkness, the very force that took them from him. He blamed the light, the force responsible for driving the darkness to such measures. Something in him had changed, and it had been changing since the moment Krogna had died. The darkness that Krogna had implanted in him grew and grew, a burning anger that would eventually consume him.

His remaining emotions all vanished, and he became a recluse, bent on destroying any imbalance in the universe. He continually wore his Keyblade armor, now black as night, a reflection of his soul. He renewed his pledge to the darkness, vowing that he would do anything he needed to.

Three tasks of darkness
One night, he was awakened. He found himself not in the world he had arrived at the day before, but in the realm of darkness once again. A voice was speaking to him, and he could not discern its source. It told him that it would guide him to complete three great tasks that could take all of his life force, but at the same time restore balance to the worlds. He would be led to these tasks by a force inside of himself, and he would know what to do when he arrived there.

First Task
Erion journeyed. He was guided to a world of unknown name. It was comprised of a great city, full of people. He arrived in the rafters of a palace, where he could hear the king of the land ordering the execution of the final "dark cleric". In this world, darkness was outlawed, and those who spread it were destroyed. The guards stepped forward, readying their weapons for the execution.

Erion jumped down from the rafters, landing between the king and the cleric. He warned the king that the destruction of darkness was dangerous, and that action would be taken if he did not repeal the cleric's sentence. The king refused to see reason, and ordered the execution be carried out immediately. The guards approached, but Erion swallowed them in a blast of darkness, creating two Heartless in the process. The king rose, laughing. He summoned a Keyblade, much to Erion's surprise. The two engaged in battle. The king could easily withstand a blow with the Keyblade, and countered all darkness with light. In response, Erion shot a blast of light at the king. Bewildered, the king slashed downward at Erion. He dodged, forcing the king's Keyblade into the floor of the palace. Erion cast blizzaga, freezing the weapon to the ground.

The king stood back, realizing that he had been bested. Erion unleashed great darkness on the palace. Heartless appeared everywhere, including a Darkside, which ripped the roof off of the place and destroyed much of the room. The king was enveloped by Heartless, believing his world had been overwhelmed by darkness. Once the king had been defeated, Erion recalled all of the darkness. He did not have the intention to destroy the world. Instead, he left the cleric in charge, hoping it would give the darkness a foothold in the world.

Second Task
He continued his journey. After the destruction of the three souls in the palace, he felt nothing. He no longer had the slightest feeling of value for life. He now cared only about the darkness. After traversing many worlds, he was led to his second task. This world was a giant sphere, heavily populated throughout.

Because of the influence of Krogna, he felt that letting the darkness gain a foothold in this world would not be sufficient. He needed to destroy it entirely.

He used the corridor of darkness to warp into the world in the direct vicinity of its heart. He found, however, that the heart was completely light, and was guarded by a fanatical group of light priests. He immediately began his assault, sending a beam of darkness from his Keyblade towards the heart.

However, the most powerful of the monks had created barriers of light to protect the heart. Erion increased the amount of darkness he was sending to the heart, quickly breaking through the first two barriers. The third, however, was great in strength. Two of the zealots, realizing what was happening, began to fight back. They fired their most powerful light attack's at Erion's beam. Erion sent stray shots of darkness at them, but it did little. Using all of his energy, he focused his darkness so much that his heart was empty. The power contained within the blast was so great that it killed the two monks, destroyed the third barrier, and reached the heart. All at once, the world turned black. The heart of pure light was now streaked with darkness. Erion had collapsed, now on his knees. Like a great star reaching the end of its life, the heart shed the remaining light within itself, blinding Erion and searing him.

Third Task
He awoke once again in the realm of darkness. All at once, he felt a pain in his chest. He could once again feel select emotions. The light from the heart had been powerful enough to eradicate some of Krogna's darkness. He could now feel sorrow, anger, hatred, and regret, and he no longer had a ruthless attitude towards life. However, his Keyblade still lacked color, and his armor was still black.

Weak from this transformation, and weak because his heart now lacked any strength, he moved on to complete the third task, a process which would result in an event known as the "Keyblade War".

Armor
Erion, like all Keyblade wielders, has his own Keyblade armor.

Weapon
http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab82/KRCCFNF/Equilibrious.png Equilibrious, Erion's Keyblade, devoide of color. http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab82/KRCCFNF/Equilibrius-Copy.png Equilibrious, before it lost its color. Erion gained the ability to use the Keyblade in the Realm of Darkness. The Keyblade, being an expression of his quest, represents a balance between light and darkness, and is aptly named Equilibrious. The Keyblade's design is completely monochromatic, as its color was destroyed by Krogna's soul.