by Mark Baxter 4th January 2017, 4:35 pm
"Oh, so we're going all out now?" Mark asked as the crowd gathered around them. "Very well. I urge you all to take a step back." He said, gesturing towards the people who were watching them. Mark removed the bronze bracelet he had been wearing on his left wrist, and it promptly transformed into a katana made of the same material. He twirled the blade around for a few seconds before raising it into the air, whereupon a lotus flower made of electricity would form on the tip of the blade, no more than a couple of inches. The pedals of the flower would fall to the ground, creating 8 more lotuses on the ground. What was left of the original lotus exploded into sparks, which were blown away in the wind. Whenever each of these sparks touched something non-organic, it would bloom into a new lotus. Soon, electric lotuses were everywhere.
Mark had been reciting an incantation throughout all of this, so while people were focused on the lotuses, storm clouds had been gathering in the sky, and Mark's blade crackled with black electricity, as did the clouds. As he finished uttering the final word of the incantation, a single strike of black lightning hit his blade, covering Mark in a black aura for a few seconds. Once this aura faded, he was practically unrecognizable. There were black markings all over his body and his hair had turned black, and was now a yard long. He slowly swung the sword in front of him, and it left behind black sparks. He flicked his katana and the black sparks flew away, one touching each of the lotuses and causing them to explode in a shower of harmless yellow and black sparks.