Battle

    The old woman waited.
    She waited for the battle that was soon to come. She had been waiting preparing for over 50 years, and millennia beyond that.
    She waited for the battle, for her other half to appear.
    Out of darkness he came. He appeared to be as old and careworn as the woman, yet his strides were full of strength, full of power. He stopped a full meter away from her.
    "We meet again," he greeted.
"We battle again," she completed the traditional greeting. There was a pause, in which the tensions grew, until she spoke. "We have met in better places." he glanced around the ally.
    "True," he conceded. "But we have also met in worse." another silence, this time he was the one to speak. "We have spent longer in these bodies then in any other." she nodded. "Then you should realise that you can't win. I've seen things that prove that my cause won't loose."
    "Yes," she replied. "I also have seen those things. But have also seen other things that prove that my cause won't loose either."
    A longer silence this time, in which both began to change, both started to fade, become indistinct.
    "Our next battle will be our last," she said almost sadly.
    "My course won't be lost," he shouted angrily.
    "No," she replied, remaining calm despite the anger directed at her. "Our causes will go on. Only we will end."
    "Never!" he screamed
She smiled at him as the light in side her became visible and more brilliant. He snarled back at her. "I won't attack before the time is here, so stop taunting me."
    "But the time is here," she said and with that the sun came over the horizon. And the beings that were once the old woman and the old man struck.
    It was unlike any other battle that has ever been seen. The darkness and the light striving for supremacy.
    But whatever she threw at him he simply absorbed. Then the sun rose high enough to strike him. It hit him, eating its way down into his core.
    "You cheated," he screamed. And with that he lunged himself at her, passing unscathed through her defences and reached her core just as the sun reached his.
They were extinguishing each other travelling closer and closer to mutual extinction.
    Then at the last moment they disengaged and moved on to their new body, to a new battle.
    "Next time will be the last," she sent to him.
    "Next time I wont let go," he sent back. "Next time will be different to all the othera. In each one you have cheated, next time I wont let go until I have taken my true form as the light, and returned you to the darkness where you belong, where all evil belongs."
    There was spite in his voice.
    She only laughed at him.