Somewhere an alarm bell bonged, sending all of the guards of the Great Palace into high alert. There was a clutter for weapons and armor as those that weren't patrolling or given posts reported to the closest commanders and awaited orders. It would make moving along with his plan a whole lot more complex. Guards who were seen not conforming to the alarm bells would be looked upon with suspicion and called to state name and rank. And he just didn't have the time for all of that. A new plan was needed, he thought. Why did things always have to be so difficult. It wasn't like they weren't already damn near impossible.
He felt the urge, the need to use the power that was pent up inside him. He could do it, reach his old friend and end it all, all he had to do was tap into that miraculous energy that flowed through his veins. He had when he had broken into this place. It was so easy. It wanted to be used. It felt alive when mixed into his blood, churning something that was so decayed, so base and... dirty for lack of a better word, and turning it into something more, something so very incredible, unbelievably powerful that it could rock the foundations of the earth itself.
But then what would he become? Using that power would turn him into a siren, an alarm into every head in the palace and they would all converge on him and he was very, very afraid of that. Not for him, of course. He was afraid for them. The power would swamp his senses, demand that he take full use of it, draw from it's true source and he alone would remain at the center of the carnage, the new god, baptized and sacramented in the blood of those that dared oppose him.
And it would bring a new, unspoken prophecy into play, one that had those that knew of it shunning from their mind from the sheer abomination that it held.
He took a deep breath. No. That wasn't what he wanted. He was here to stop a prophecy, but he knew the consequences. He was the only one that could stop this, but he was playing with fire, and was hoping that it wouldn't turn and burn him.
"Hey, you!" A voice sounded behind him, his eyes flickering around," Stop right there!"
He did stop, but not for long, His powerful lean body came to a full halt and he flickered into motion again, flying across the room. There were three of them, blades drawn, glittering gold despite there not being any light reflecting off of them. His own blade was drawn, and before these men could react, they were dead as his feet, blood slipping from their wounds and drenching the flagstones. He spun around, sprinting as fast as he could, as hard as he could, feeling that temptation growing with each step he took closer to the Source.