The storm over Astralis Academy had not moved in three days.
Black clouds crawled across the sky like living beasts, pulsing with veins of violet lightning—Kael's kind of lightning.
Students whispered his name like a curse, like a prayer.
Kael.
The Voidbearer.
The boy who walked out of the Abyss.
But tonight… something was different.
He stood alone at the edge of the ruined training grounds, the stone beneath him scorched black from his last outburst. His hair, streaked with silver from overusing his latent god powers, fluttered in the shifting winds.
His aura—usually cold, hollow, merciless—flared with something unfamiliar.
Something human.
Elira's voice.
Her presence.
Her belief in him.
It clawed at the darkness inside him, refusing to be silenced.
He clenched his fists as the storm around him trembled.
"I shouldn't feel this," he muttered. "I wasn't made for this."
A soft laugh echoed behind him.
"You say that every time you grow stronger."
Kael didn't need to turn.
Elira approached—her steps light, her aura calm but sharp like moonlit steel.
"Your power is evolving because you're no longer fighting alone," she said.
He hated how easily she said things that shook him.
But they weren't alone tonight.
THE LEGENDS GATHER
Footsteps echoed across the broken courtyard.
Darius arrived first—muscular, confident, swinging his flaming gauntlets casually.
"Storm boy, you're causing earthquakes again. If the principal asks, I'm blaming you."
Selene followed—quiet, expression unreadable, her shadow-wrapped scythe floating behind her like a hunting phantom.
"I felt your energy spike," she murmured. "It woke the dead three floors down."
Liora, the cheerful light mage, hurried in carrying a backpack of potions.
"I brought emergency snacks. And bandages. And anti-void remedies. Just in case you explode again!"
Lyra, her twin, rolled her eyes, bow slung across her shoulder.
"He's not going to explode. Probably."
And finally
A cold gust swept through the courtyard.
Arion materialized from thin air, his ethereal chains rattling softly.
"I sensed the convergence," he said calmly. "Something is coming tonight."
Kael exhaled slowly.
This was his circle.
His strange, chaotic, powerful circle.
His friends, whether his darkness accepted it or not.
FLASHBACK — HOW KAEL MET THEM
1. DARIUS — THE FIRST BROTHER IN FIRE
Kael remembered it clearly.
The first week he arrived at Astralis, an upper-class bully had mocked his "dead eyes."
Kael snapped the bully's wrist without touching him.
The academy nearly expelled him.
Then Darius walked up to him and said:
"You don't scare me. Want to eat lunch?"
Kael stared at him for ten seconds straight.
"No," he answered.
Darius sat anyway.
"Too bad," he said. "We're friends now."
Kael still didn't understand how it happened.
2. SELENE — THE SHADOW WHO UNDERSTOOD HIM
Training hall. Midnight.
Kael had nearly lost control of his void aura again it was consuming him from the inside.
Selene stepped out from the darkness and simply said:
"I know what it's like… when the shadows bite back."
Then she stood beside him silently for hours.
She never judged him.
Never asked questions.
To Kael, that silence was loyalty.
3. LIORA & LYRA — THE TWIN CONSTELLATIONS
Their meeting had been… chaotic.
Kael walked past them in the library.
Liora accidentally tripped and spilled a glowing star-map on him.
Lyra immediately nocked an arrow at him.
Kael caught it between two fingers.
"You dropped this," he said coldly, handing it back.
The twins stared at him like he was a supernatural miracle.
The next day they followed him everywhere.
4. ARION — THE CHAINED PRODIGY
Kael found him chained in the old cathedral basement—abandoned by the academy, feared for his spirit-binding powers.
Arion had asked quietly:
"Why… help me?"
Kael answered without emotion:
"You look how I feel."
He broke Arion's cursed chains with pure void energy.
Arion never left his side again.
5. ELIRA — THE LIGHT THAT REACHED HIM
She wasn't just his friend.
She was the only one who could stand in front of his raging power and not flinch.
The day he first met her, she told him:
"You're not a monster, Kael."
No one had ever said that to him before.
And it changed everything.
BACK TO THE PRESENT — THE THREAT
Lightning split the sky.
A second tear opened above the academy—dark, swirling, filled with ancient eyes.
Arion stiffened.
"That… that's not a portal. That's a summoning conduit."
Selene's scythe rattled.
"Something is forcing its way into our world."
Elira gripped Kael's arm gently.
"Your aura reacted first. You must have sensed it before all of us."
Kael's eyes glowed silver-black.
"I know what it is."
Darius cracked his knuckles.
"Good. Because I'm ready to punch something big."
Kael whispered:
"They're coming for me."
The storm roared like a beast.
A colossal figure began pushing through the portal—its form shifting, made of both celestial and demonic energy.
The air rippled.
Kael stepped forward, aura exploding outward in a shockwave.
For the first time, the darkness inside him did not whisper destruction.
It whispered purpose.
"Get behind me."
Elira's eyes widened.
"You're going to fight it alone?"
Kael looked at all of them—his circle.
His legends.
"No," he said quietly, voice deeper, darker.
"We fight together."
The ground cracked beneath him as his power surged.
His humanity flickered like a small flame—
but it was there…
And it was growing.
The sky ripped open.
A monstrous silhouette pushed through the swirling rift above Astralis Academy. Its body was a war between light and darkness—angelic feathers dripping molten gold, demonic claws forged from pure shadow.
Its voice cracked the sky:
"KAEL OF THE VOID… YOU CANNOT ESCAPE WHAT YOU WERE CREATED TO BECOME."
Students screamed and ran for shelter as gravity warped.
Lightning spiraled down in jagged branches around Kael and his friends.
Elira stepped beside him, eyes blazing.
"What is that thing?"
Kael's aura darkened the air.
"A Celestial-Demonic Executioner. A hybrid guardian used to destroy abominations."
Darius raised a brow.
"So they sent a giant glowing judgment monster… for you?"
Kael didn't answer—his eyes were locked on the creature.
Because he knew the truth.
They weren't hunting him.
They were retrieving him.
Elira sensed his shift.
"Kael… stay with us, okay?"
Her voice cracked the whispering madness clawing inside him.
He exhaled, steadying himself.
"No one is taking me anywhere."
The monster raised its jagged spear, shadows coiling around the tip.
Lightning shot down toward them like a divine punishment.
THE BATTLE BEGINS
Kael's aura exploded outward.
BOOM.
The blast launched his friends backward—but none fell.
Darius slammed his flaming gauntlets into the ground, anchoring himself as heat surged.
Selene melted into shadow, reappearing behind Kael like his silent guardian.
Liora shielded the others with a dome of shimmering starlight.
Lyra's enchanted arrows ignited with cosmic flame.
Arion lifted his hands, ethereal chains spiraling around his arms.
They were ready.
Kael moved first.
He vanished—
then reappeared midair, palm crashing into the monster's face with a shockwave that blew apart clouds.
CRACK.
The Executioner staggered backward.
The academy trembled.
But the creature only laughed—a horrible dual-voice echo.
"GOOD. STRUGGLE FOR ME."
It swung its spear.
The slash tore the air open like paper.
Kael fell back, landing beside his team.
COMBINED STRIKE — "LEGENDS FORMATION"
Darius grinned wildly.
"Let's melt this overgrown lantern!"
Selene whispered, "On your mark…"
Kael raised his hand.
"Formation 7."
Everyone moved instantly.
Liora summoned a burst of radiant stars, forming multiple floating runes.
Lyra fired arrows through each rune—each arrow splitting into seven burning trails.
Darius charged forward, gauntlets erupting into volcanic fire.
Arion called spectral chains that wrapped around the creature's legs, slowing it.
Selene vanished into its shadow, preparing the killing blow.
The monster roared as the arrows struck, exploding in cascades of cosmic fire.
Darius leaped, fists blazing—
BOOM!
The punch cracked the Executioner's armor.
Selene emerged behind it, scythe dripping black shadow.
SLASH.
A deep cut tore through the monster's back.
It screamed, stumbling.
Kael saw an opening.
His aura turned silver-black, swirling like a storm.
He clenched his fists.
"VOID BREAKER."
He launched forward
He struck
And the entire world shook.
The Executioner flew back, crashing through three layers of dimensional fabric before stabilizing itself.
For a moment…
they were winning.
But only for a moment.
THE EXECUTIONER AWAKENS ITS TRUE FORM
The monster's two halves—celestial and demonicripped apart, splitting into two bodies.
One glowing with holy light.
One dripping with demonic miasma.
Both spoke in unison:
"ASCENDED MODE ACTIVATED."
Elira's face paled.
"Two?! That's cheating!"
Darius wiped blood from his lip.
"So we just hit them twice as hard."
Kael stepped forward again.
But something was wrong.
His vision blurred.
A burning pain surged through his chest.
Elira grabbed his arm.
"Kael? Hey—hey look at me. What's happening?"
He gritted his teeth.
"It's… my original programming. The Executioners trigger it. They're trying to force a reversion."
Arion whispered, horrified:
"They're trying to overwrite your soul."
Kael staggered.
His aura flickered violently.
The monster raised its spear—aimed directly at his heart.
Elira screamed:
"KAEL MOVE!"
He didn't.
He couldn't.
THE TEAM SAVES HIM
Before the spear hit, something golden collided with him.
Liora.
She wasn't strong enough to tank it alone—
But she wasn't alone.
Lyra's barrier reinforced her.
Darius caught the spear with flaming hands, muscles burning.
Selene's shadow wrapped around Kael's form, stabilizing his body.
Arion's chains blocked the dimensional rupture.
Elira held his face between her hands.
"You're not a weapon," she whispered fiercely. "You're not their creation anymore. You're ours."
Kael felt warmth spread through him.
Her warmth.
Their warmth.
And something inside him snapped—
but in a good way.
His humanity surged like a heartbeat he had forgotten he ever had.
KAEL ASCENDS — "HUMANITY MODE"
His aura burst outward in a blinding wave.
Silver.
Black.
But also—
white.
Pure white energy laced with emotion.
Elira stumbled back, eyes wide.
"Kael… your aura—it's changing!"
Darius nearly dropped his gauntlets.
"Is this—holy crap—is this a new form!?"
Arion whispered:
"He's… stabilizing both sides. Human, void, celestial, demonic. Perfect balance."
Kael stood tall, glowing with a calm, overwhelming power.
He met the Executioners' gaze.
"You don't control me anymore."
The ground beneath him cracked.
"I choose my own purpose."
He vanished.
THE FINAL ASSAULT
Kael reappeared between the two Executioners.
Every movement elegant.
Controlled.
Godlike.
He moved faster than sound—
A punch sent the celestial version flying into the clouds.
A kick buried the demonic one underground.
Darius howled with laughter.
"That's my boy!"
Selene's eyes glowed with awe.
"Incredible…"
The Executioners tried to reform.
Kael raised one hand.
His voice rumbled like thunder:
"VOID—PURGE."
A massive sphere of compressed energy formed between his palms.
He slammed it into the ground.
The explosion swallowed the entire battlefield.
Light.
Shadow.
Silence.
When the dust settled—
Both Executioners were gone.
The sky healed.
The storm vanished.
Only Kael remained, standing tall, glowing faintly with his new balanced power.
Elira approached him slowly.
"Kael… are you okay?"
He looked at her.
And for the first time
He smiled.
A small, painful, real smile.
"I think… I'm finally becoming myself."
She grabbed his hand tightly.
"We'll make sure you don't lose that."
The others gathered around him—
laughing, exhausted, proud.
The legends were together.
And for the first time, Kael didn't feel like a weapon.
He felt like someone worth saving.
________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sorry Guys that I have not being updating the story I have being busy lately with school and all that but I will try to update the story up to like 3 to 5 Chapters and I will try to update the story 3 to 4 times a week And I had to take my time to arrange this chapter and other chapters still to come if you love this chapter just.