Genisus DeRynn

Description: His Past
Genisus DeRynn is a young man, in his early twenties with spiky black hair, that if he kept combed down would reach down to his shoulders. He has a tattoo of a black snake-like dragon coiling around his wrist that reaches to about his mid forearm. He has claimed to have come from a country just east of Fiore when he was much younger with his parents. He has stated that a few years after moving to the country, his parents were murdered by a bandit, right in front of him. The details of this account tend to conflict at times, the only part that is truly certain about this is when the dragon Bahamut appeared and killed the bandit before he could kill the younger Genisus. After being saved by the Dragon, he took the boy to an unknown guild and intended to leave him with the guild master. However Genisus, who was heartbroken and sad, became determined to follow the Dragon and learn everything he could from him. After following the Dragon for several hundred miles across Fiore, and nearly dying twice, he convinced Bahamut to teach him. It was at this time that he learned his Abyss Dragon Slayer Magic. Soon after he taught him his magic, Bahamut put much of his power, and soul, into a lacrima which Genisus then fused with his body, died of old age, but continued to teach and give advice to him, even in death.

After encountering a few other Dragon Slayers in his travels, he learned that his Dragon father did not leave him after teaching him his magic. After confronting the black dragon's spirit, he was told about the Dragon Soul Seal, and the Magna Carta. After asking about if he would Dragonify, Bahamut told him that he would not go through that transformation, as when he fused with the lacrima, he was in essence, fusing with a piece of Bahamut, and thus was enough to create the antibodies that would prevent a full dragonification to occur.

Description: The Present
During an unknown time, Genisus told Bahamut that he was going to leave and become a dark mage in order to find a way to prevent his magic from solely relying on the negative feelings of others and himself. Bahamut had agreed that this may help him evolve his magic in a way that he couldn't, and told him the be careful and not to fall to far into the darkness. When he was leaving, the dragon told him that he would always be near when he needed him, and left him with these words, "Fall as far as you can without losing sight of who you are. The true power of your magic comes not from negativity, but from acceptance of the darkness that is always inside of you." With these words in mind, Genisus left on his journey and soon found a dark guild. He would continue like this for 2 years before returning to the resting place of his teacher, he found that a dark guild had built itself on the resting place, and was trying to get the spirit of the ancient draogn to appear before them. When Genisus confronted them, he fought a female mage with storm magic. As he underestimated his opponent, he was quickly defeated and captured. The guild then proceeded to use magic suppressing handcuffs to seal of his magic and prevent his escape. While he was trapped, they stole parts of his magic and sealed it into a lacrima that the leader of the guild planned on using. After some time, a mage named Aaron saved him and they defeated the guild with their combined powers. After that, they became good friends and alongside the dragon Etherion, they traveled and trained together.

Magic and Abilities:
Shadow and Darkness Manipulation: (影又闇操り, Kage mata yami ayatsuri): While he trained with Bahamut, Genisus learned how to perfectly control both darkness and shadows. This is the ability to create, and control shadows and any form of darkness. While darkness on its own is mostly used to cloud and obscure something, or someone, when combined with shadows Genisus can channel it into a variety of effects from being an absence of light, or a physical thing. With this power Genisus can even control beings and creatures that live in darkness, but rarely ever uses that ability because the more creatures he summons the harder they are to control, even with his Dragon Slayer Magic. Genisus has been shown to even create walls and weapons out of darkness to fit his own use, he has even created a chair simply because he was too lazy to stand. It is presumed that he got this from Bahamut as he is also very lazy.

Requip Magic: (換装:Kansō): Requip is a Spatial and Caster type magic that focuses on the summoning and use of armor, cloths, and weapons for various uses. Genisus has shown to be able to use this magic at a very basic level, having only summoned weapons, and changed cloths with it. Despite his basic use of the magic, the speed at which he uses it is impressive, it takes him less then a second to summon cloths or a weapon, and has been shown to do it without the use of magic circles, or hand gestures. He uses this magic to summon his primary weapon, and his, most precious item, a scythe called Bahamut.
 * Sword: (刃: Ha): One of the most basic creations of this magic is a sword. While this may be true, Genisus has been known to use this to create multiple swords, not only giving him plenty of weapons to use, but allowing his opponents to use some as well, thus making the fight even.
 * Cloths: (布: Nuno): Probably the one spell that Genisus prefers over all of his others. He rather enjoys this spell as he feels that he will never have to worry about if his cloths get destroyed.
 * Bahamut, Tartarus King: (バハマート, 深淵王将: Bahamūto, Shin'en ōshō): Genisus's own personal weapon. As he values it a lot he keeps it away from the prying eyes, and idle hands of thieves and thus only brings it out through requip, when he needs too. The weapon itself is a large 6 foot long scythe with a 4 foot long blade made of dragon scales. Under normal circumstances, when dragon scales are removed from a dragon, they begin to lose their colors and become pliable, Genisus managed to take two large scales from Bahamut after he died, and infused his own magic within them, thus hardening them and giving them the black color. On the blade itself is an inscription stating the name of the weapon, Genisus himself did this to thank his foster father for allowing him to use his scales. The handle of the blade is made of an unknown metal that can easily withstand other magical weapons that would otherwise damage normal metal. A unique ability of this weapon is that since it is infused with the Abyss Dragon Slayer Magic, whenever it cuts someone the inside of the cut will turn to dust. The wound won't get worse, but the one who has been cut will feel extreme pain, as if they lost the whole limb where the cut is located.

Dragon Slayer Magic:
Abyss Dragon Slayer Magic (深竜の滅竜魔法: Shin'en no Metsuryū Mahō), is a Lost and Caster type magic that focuses on the slaying of Dragons, which were huge ancient creatures that had the traits of a bird, lion, and reptile (which reptile is unclear as some dragons have been known to take the form of a snake), and lived on Earthland. This gave rise to Abyss Dragon Slayer Magic which focuses on the creation, manipulation, and consumption of darkness and therefore, shadows, and is a form of Darkness Dragon Slayer Magic. Darkness in essence, is simply the absence of light in any given area, whether it be magical, or otherwise. Shadows are the creation of something passing over a source of light and are found in almost every environment and place in Earthland and Edolas. Despite this being a form of Darkness Dragon Slayer Magic, its power taps into Taratus, the "Bottomless Abyss" that is said to be located as far below hell as heaven is from earth, and said to be the prison of the worst, strongest, and most evil monsters that ever existed. Abyss Dragon Slayer Magic, does not just include the element of darkness, but also encompasses the "Darkness of one's Heart" which is the evil, and negative feelings that a person has kept hidden from the world and therefore consumes them, turning them against their friends and family. This allows an Abyss Dragon Slayer to not only consume shadows and darkness, but also consume the darkness from within someone else in order to empower their own magic.

This magic is truly a unique magic, even among other dragons as the original dragon who used this element did not take on a mate, nor did they pass on their knowledge until much later in their life. When they finally did pass one their magic, they died shortly after, leaving only one Abyss Dragon Slayer in the world. The original Dragon who used this form of magic was The Giant Dragon of Tartarus, Bahamut. An ancient dragon who was born just after the beginnings of the to a family that hated humans and wanted nothing more than to win the war. The Dragons then found a way to travel to and decided to bath their newly born son in the darkness of the abyss. This caused two things to happen, Bahamut was granted a new element and unfathomable amounts of power, and his genes changed and he started to grow in size at a fast rate. The evil dragons began to teach Bahamut to hate humans, but didn't get far as they were betrayed and a group of dragons and dragon slayers that supported coexistence attacked them, and killed them. Despite the sheer amount of dark magic that surrounded the young dragon, the dragons decided to take him under their wings and teach him to want to coexist with humans. Despite this, Bahamut ended having no feelings about humans at all, when he was old enough he left on his own. It was only after the war ended that, for an unknown reason, he decided to take on a slayer. He however did not want to take on a slayer that would turn against him, or use their magic for evil. It was another century before he found a young boy about to be killed by a dark mage that he found his slayer. He saved the boy and left him at a guild in a near by town, expecting to never see him again. The boy, however, had other plans, and followed the dragon to his lair, and convinced him to teach him, he agreed and thus, the only Abyss Dragon Slayer was born.

Description:
As mentioned above, this form of magic is a lost, castor type magic that focuses on the slaying of dragons which were huge, ancient creatures that had the traits of a bird, a lion, and a reptile. This magic would also change the biology of the user's body into one that was better suited for the act of slaying these mighty creatures. The user was granted the lungs of a dragon, to eat, breath, and use the roar attacks of their respective element. They were granted the skin of a dragon in order to be more durable from attacks of mages who used the exact same, or elements similar to their own. The claws and fangs of a dragon, perfect for penetrating the scales of a dragon which could not be penetrated by most other forms of magic. In the case of an Abyss Dragon Slayer, the elements that they could control and consume, and are unharmed by are darkness and shadows. This form of magic differs from most users of darkness in that is does not taint the heart of the user, nor does it completely rely on the negativity of the user. In a quote from the original user of this magic, "The strength of this magic does not come from negativity, but from the acceptance of the darkness within our heart, and the ability to overcome it, and use it for ourselves." This quote states the true nature of this magic, which is that, the user must accept their own darkness within themselves. Genisus has done this by meditating for hours on end in order to find his true darkness and accept it as a part of him. He has stated that even though he has darkness inside himself, it does not control him, but he controls it. While most darkness dragon slayers allow themselves to become consumed by their own element, the users of this magic are complete masters of their own darkness, and the darkness around them.

As stated above, this magic not only draws power from darkness around the user, such as shadows, but can also draw power from the negativity in others, and in the user. However it works in a different way than most other magic's that use negative energy, instead of instilling negative emotions into the user or other person, the magic actually takes the negativity out of the user in order to power the user. Fear, Pain, Sorrow, and Anger/Hate are four of the emotions that can be absorbed and assimilated by this from of magic.

Subspecies Abilities:

 * Pitch Black Metamorphosis (純粋な黒の変態:Junsuina kuro no henka): One of the most basic, and yet strongest Abyss Dragon abilities and is the Abyss Dragon's version of regeneration. When used, the user will draw all of the darkness and shadows from around them and cover either their entire body, or the part that is injured, with it. While this is done, the darkness will begin to rapidly heal the caster while nourishing them with darkness in the process. While using this, whatever part of the body is covered with darkness will be unable to move.
 * Umbra Transformation (陰影変換:In'ei henkan): Similar to how shadow dragons can transform into a shadow and travel that way, this variation is a bit more advanced and has shown to be more versatile. While the user can still turn their whole body into shadows, they can also change specific portions of their body into shadows as well, with little effort. In this way, the user can easily dodge attacks without a full body transformation and retaliate in almost an instant.
 * Teleportation: (瞬間移動: shunkanidou): A side ability to the "Umbra Transformation" is that the user can travel through a world of shadows to different destinations. This ability is commonly confused with the normal type of teleportation magic, it differs in where the user ends up during their travel. While users of normal teleportation move through normal space, this variation is different in that instead of traveling through space, the user travels directly through shadows. The user could even appear out of someone else's shadow.
 * Twilight: Dark Transformation: (日暮れ: 闇化成: Higure: Yami kasei): Twilight: Dark Transformation is a subspecies ability of the Abyss Dragon Slayer Magic that allows the user to change aspects of their darkness to that of other elements, thus allowing them to adapt to various situations. This ability is this magic's variation of Illegal Change: Multiscale in that it allows the user to change their normal element into that of another. This is also not dissimilar to an alternative mode that has been demonstrated by other dragon slayers, however it could not be totally placed into the same category as those modes are advanced forms of their own elements while this ability allows a total change in the aspects of their own. In order for the user to activate this magic, they must have complete and utter control of not only their magic, but over their entire being. The user will then focus on their magic, and one of the four negative emotions that an Abyss Dragon Slayer can consume; Fear, Sorrow, Pain, and Anger/Hate. Each of these negative emotions allows the user to focus onto their darkness at a molecular level, giving them the ability to change the aspects of their darkness into that of another element. a noted side effect of this transformation is that despite the change in darkness, the color does not change from black.
 * Anger: Flash Fire: (怒り: 一閃火災: Ikari: Issen kasai): While focusing on the emotion of anger, Genisus is able to manipulate the molecules of his darkness and excite them to a point that the temperature inside and outside of his darkness increases to that of melting almost anything that they see, and transforms his darkness into black colored fire. This also gives him full control, and creation of more fire, and presumably the ability to consume fire, however he has never tested this.
 * Fear: Reverence Bolt: (恐怖: 畏敬落雷: Kyōfu: Ikei rakurai): While focusing on the emotion of fear, Genisus is able to manipulate the molecules of his darkness and excite them to move far faster than the previous ability, and cause the electrons to become far more active and create electricity. This causes his darkness to change from its normal form, to that of black lightning that can not only shock the opponent, but leave severe burns and scars on their body. This also allows him to have full control over, and the ability to create more, lightning and other electrical abilities. He may also be able to consume more as well, but has never shown an interest in trying.
 * Pain: Dark Terra:(苦しみ: 闇大地 :Kurushimi: Yami daichi): This form of darkness comes from the user focusing on the emotion of pain, in order to further their focus on their own darkness and perfectly control the molecules within the darkness. While they have this brief moment of perfect control, they are able to stop the motion of the molecules in the darkness, effectively turning it into a solid. This is the furthered as they completely stop the motion and bring the molecules together, creating the new element of earth. This allows the user to have perfect control of most forms of earth, being able to create more, and potentially eating more.
 * Sorrow: Crushing wave: (悲哀: 破摧周波: Hiai: Hasai shūha): The final element that can be attained through the use of this subspecies ability. Through focusing on the element of sorrow, the user is able to further their control over their element and gain the ability to manipulate and compress its molecules. Through this control the user then slows down the movement of the molecules until the darkness is that of a liquid, the user then compresses it and completes the darkness's transformation into water. This then gives the user the ability to create and control water, as well as consume it. Genisus has once tried it but stated that it tasted like tears and has never tried it again. This incident gives raise to the question if all other element transformations have a specific negative taste, or if it was just how Genisus was feeling and thus imprinted onto the water.

Basic Spells:

 * Abyss Dragon's Roar: (深竜の咆哮: Shinryū no hōkō): Is one of the most basic spells that any dragon slayer can use. As this form of Dragon Slayer Magic focuses on darkness and shadows, the user will breath in and concentrate the shadows and darkness in and around them into their mouths. They will hold the elements in their mouth like this for a second before opening their mouth and releasing all of the pent up magical energy in a large, black blast. This blast has two effects, it has a blunt effect, and it has a disintegrating effect that can completely disintegrate the target if they take this roar, at full force, and head on. A variation of this is that the user can curl their lips as if they are going to whistle, and then let out the energy in a concentrated laser that can slice through objects and people.
 * Abyss Dragon's Neo Black Fang: (深竜の初黒牙: Shinryū no hatsu kurokiba): One of the trade mark spells of the Abyss Dragon Slayer, the user concentrates the darkness and shadows around them onto one, or both of their arms, in order to punch, and slash at their opponent/s in close quarters. This spell can be amplified if the user so chooses so that when their fist or hand makes contact with the opponent, they will begin to disintegrate in a fashion similar to the effect of the Abyss Dragon's Roar.
 * Abyss Dragon's Spear Fang: (深竜の槍牙: Shinryū no yari kiba): A variation of the Abyss Dragon's Neo Black Fang. The user focuses all of the darkness and shadows around their arm, or arms, and then further concentrate it until it is like that of a blade. The user can then slash at their opponent and the attack will not only leave slices on the opponent, but will also begin to disintegrate them as well.
 * Abyss Dragon's Scythe: (深竜の大鎌: Shinryū no Ōgama): A close range spell that Genisus loves, making it his favorite spell. The user claps both of their hands together and concentrates darkness and shadows inbetween their palms. The user will then quickly separate their hands creating a dark black scythe made of darkness. The weapon is 6' feet long with a 3' long blade. It is incredibly strong and can hold up against most magical weapons and can even cut through many forms of armor.
 * Variation: Abyss Dragon's Terra Edge: (変化: 深竜の大鎌: 石塊殴打, Henka: Shinryū no Ōgama: Ishikure ōda): A variation on the traditional Abyss Dragon's Scythe spell, When the user has activated the Twilight: Dark Evolution: Dark Terra. While the user is utilizing their new earth element, they infuse the scythe with the black earth, which then gives the scythe more of a blunt effect as it strike the opponents. A new effect to this is that when struck, the part of the body that is struck will turn into soil and fall apart.
 * Variation: Abyss Dragon's Searing Edge: (変化: 深竜の大鎌: 灼熱端, Henka: Shinryū no Ōgama: Shakunetsu-tan): A variation on the traditional Abyss Dragon's Scythe spell, when the user has activated the Twilight: Dark Evolution: Flash Fire. While the user is utilizing their new element of fire, they infuse the scythe with the black fire, which gives the weapon a burning effect as it strikes the opponents. A new effect to the weapon is that when the weapon strikes an opponent, it not only burns them, but also, whatever body part was struck, turns them to ash.
 * Variation: Abyss Dragon's Torrent Edge: (変化: 深竜の大鎌: 奔流端, Henka: Shinryū no Ōgama: Honryū-tan): A variation on the traditional Abyss Dragon's Scythe spell, when the user has activated the Twilight: Dark Evolution: Crushing Wave. While the user is utilizing their new element of water, they infuse the scythe with the black water, which gives the weapon a much sharper strike when it slashes the opponent, it also is able to move around solid objects and reform. Another new effect to this is that when an opponent is struck by this weapon on any body part, that body part will begin to turn into water itself, which the user can then user as a weapon.
 * Variation: Abyss Dragon's Thundering Edge: (変化: 深竜の大鎌: 雷端, Henka: Shinryū no Ōgama: Kaminari-tan): A variation of the traditional Abyss Dragon's Scythe spell, when the user has activated the Twilight: Dark Evolution: Reverence Bolt. While the user is utilizing their new element of black lightning, they infuse it into the weapon, giving it a shocking effect that can paralyze the user, as well as it being able to electrically shock an opponent if they block it with any metal weapon. One of the other new abilities of the spell is that wherever an opponent is struck, that part of their body that is struck will immediately become paralyzed, permanently.
 * Abyss Dragon's Rough Silk: (深竜の乱暴絹: Shinryū no ranbō kinu): A spell that focuses much of the darkness and shadows around the user into their hands. The user stretches their arms in a manor similar to the . When completed the darkness and shadows will rush out to the opponent and surround them in a vortex, slashing and stabbing at them. If used enough times, it will leave the opponent severely injured and near death. It is one of the prefered attacks of Genisus DeRynn and it gives him a moment where the opponent can not see him.


 * Abyss Dragon's Wing Beat: (深竜の羽鼓動: Shinryū no hane kodō): The user puts their palms together and bend their elbows downward. While in this form darkness and shadows will appear from their back and move along their arms. The user will then separate their hands at a fast pace, thereby spreading open the wings on their back. This will create a shockwave of darkness that can injure the opponent and also create distance between them and the opponent. This can also be used to block another ranged attack.

Intermediate Spells:

 * Abyss Dragon's Dark Eternal: (深竜の闇不朽: Shinryū no Yami fukyū): One of the stronger spells of this magic. It is similar to a fire dragons brilliant flame, in the aspect that it concentrates the element of the user into a large ball, but that's where the similarities stop. To activate this spell, the user bends their arms and opens their palms, placing them in front of their stomach. While doing this a black magic circle will appear below the user and dark magic will begin to concentrate in the shape of a large black sphere. When fully formed, the sphere will be about as tall as the user and as wide as a car, the user will then push his hands forward and the sphere will shoot out in a fast burst. If the opponent tries to dodge, the attack will follow them.
 * Abyss Dragon's Jet Black Stream: (深竜の真っ黒流れ: Shinryū no Makkuro nagare): The user activates this by covering their body in dark magic energy and shadows. They then rush forwards at a blinding speed colliding with their opponent with their own style of attack, whether it be a punch, kick, or a head-butt. The collision will cause a small explosion and will send the target flying away. This attack can also have a concentrated effect, where the user can slash through the opponent, leaving them with a wound, and some severe confusion at what just happened to them.

Advanced Spells:

 * Dragon Slayers Secret Arts (滅竜奥義, Metsuryū Ōgi): Like most of the spells, the element that is used in the spells is darkness, but a much stronger form than in the ordinary spells. The darkness of the dragon slayer arts are what Genisus has referred to as "True Darkness". The color of the darkness is so dark that it distorts the light around it, and is said to be the darkness from the pits of Tartarus itself. While these spells are incredibly powerful, they have been known to harm the user if used to often. What ever the art that the user may be invoking, it will take away all of the negative emotions of the castor, and channel them into the spell. The stronger the spell, the more energy needed, whether it be dark energy or negative energy. When the spell is cast, it will leave the user feeling very happy and content, while leaving them without negative thoughts. Despite sounding great, if there is no darkness around for the user to eat, then this can leave the mage completely defenseless if the spell did not kill the opponent on contact.
 * Shadow of Apophis: Scythe Fang Valley: (黒影暗闇蛇神:大鎌牙渓谷: Kokuei kurayami hebigami: Ōgama kiba keikoku): This is one of the strongest spells at the disposal of an Abyss Dragon. When activated, the user creates a massive magic circle, that stretches over half a kilometer, or about 547 yards, by shooting one of their hands out diagonally pointed at the ground in front of them. The user then quickly raises the opposite hand into the air, this is followed by hundreds of scythe blades made out of pure, pitch black darkness and shadows shot out of the ground. This attack can kill any number of enemies in the given area. An interesting point of this spell is that the user can control where the scythe blades appear, to a degree. They can control the blades to stay away from any of the users friends, or anyone that isn't a target. This however does require a bit of extra energy, but can save a few extra lives.

Supplementary Abilities:
Tartarus Drive: (深淵前進, Shin'en zenshin): As a third generation Dragon Slayer, Genisus has the ability to access the Drive spell that increases the output of magical energy from the lacrima inside of Genisus' body. While using this spell, the power of Genisus's spells become much stronger and it gives him much more of a killing intent when he needs it. It also allows him to use spells that could not be previously used in his "base form". This spell gives Genisus an aura of black energy that obscures most of his body, like a black mist. Genisus refers to this as his favorite spell as his amplified magic presence and the appearance of the dark mist generally startles his opponents giving him a clear opening to take them down. It is also noticed that this form gives him an extreme increase in speed, not only physically, it also allows him to travel faster through shadows. Dragon Force: (竜の力: Ryū no chikara) The strongest form that a dragon slayer can take. It is the final form a dragon slayer can take that does not involve turning into a full dragon. This ability causes scales for first and second generation dragon slayers, and scale like markings for third generation slayers. This form amplifies the power of a dragon slayer to a point that they could completely outclass most other mages, even an S-class mage. While in this form, pitch black scales appear across his chest and arms, all the way up to his neck, black scales will also appear under his eyes, while his pupils turn into slits. His canines will also become longer, being seen coming out from under his lips, and his fingernails will also grow to be more like claws. While in this form, all of his physical attributes are increased, namely, his speed. This forms almost triples his nor mal speed, making him almost impossible to see when he is moving, he tested once to see just how fast he was and was told that an after image could be seen for a few seconds, if a second. At one time he combined both this form and his drive causing his magic power to go through the roof. This combination of these forms gave him the nickname of the "Demon Dragon" as while shrouded in the black energy he looked completely like a demon with the powers of a dragon.
 * Abyss Dragon's Jet Black Lancer: (深竜の烏羽玉槍, Shinryū no ubatama yari): A variation on the Abyss Dragon's Jet Black Stream. As opposed to allowing the darkness to surround him, Genisus focuses the energy into the palm of one of his hands that he stretches from his side. He then shoots his hand forward, palm out, and a blast of dark energy will explode out in the shape of a spear.
 * Abyss Dragon's Breath of Tartarus: (深竜の息闇: Shinryū no Iki yami): The advanved and most powerful, none art, breath attack that Genisus can use. He can only use it while his Drive spell is active, due to the amount of magic particles that he must breath in. The process is exactly the same as a normal breath attack, but when he lets out the magic in his roar, it is ten times larger than the original, and can easily disintegrate anything in its path. The darkness that he lets out is actually darker than the typical darkness, and is the same "true darkness" that he uses in his slayer arts. He has once destroyed an entire village, it was abandoned, with the full power of this roar.

Modes and Forms:
Vantablack Mode: (純粋暗闇形式: Junsui kurayami keishiki): This is the strongest mode that Genisus has at his disposal. He himself created it after he trained by himself for 2 years. It is a form that he created as a sort of advancement on his Dragon Force but he can activate it independently from that form. The mode takes immense amounts of concentration and creates scales on his body that are similar to the Dragon Force, but are more abundant and have a very distinct effect to them. A very distinct feature in this form is the color of his eyes completely change. The whites of his eyes turn pitch black while the colored parts turn bright white. The exact reason behind this is unknown, even to Genisus himself. The scales are a color of black that is incredibly rare, it is so ark in fact, that almost no light can escape from it. This is possible due to the properties that light has, and how rays of light are effected when in darkness. While darkness is in essence just the lack of light in a given area, it can trap light that passes into it, but while there are varying shades of black and darkness that allow light to be able to pass through, the color of the scales in this mode are so dark, that only about .035% of all light is able to escape it. This gives the mode a unique ability that makes it Genisus most powerful ability. That is that it can take light into the scale, and turn it into pure darkness, thus giving Genisus an almost infinite supply of energy. This also gives all of his attacks an incredible boost in strength, his friends Aaron and Etherion have stated that this power boost would be enough to take down the fire dragon Etherion. While this mode is powerful, Genisus has not yet been able to master it, and is only able to activate it every few weeks, and can only keep it active for about 10 minutes. Although Genisus has stated that this is easily enough time to take down his opponent, no matter the strength.

Abyss Dragon King Mode: (深竜王の: Shinryūō no): After Genisus had taken in the spirit of Bahamut from the Dragon Lacrima he gained a black snake like dragon tattoo that appeared on his right wrist. This was due to the power that Bahamut had implanted into the Lacrima. It was the last amount of power that the dragon had, and he chose to give it to his foster son. This caused Genisus too gain this new form where a wall of darkness would surround the area that he was in, and his draconic features would become much more prominent. He would also become surrounded in the darkness, creating a black, dragon like visage around him. Genisus has never actually used this power to it's fullest, as he want's to save it for an opponent who he feels he needs it too win.
 * Abyss Dragon King's Roar: (深竜王の咆哮: Shinryūō no hōkō): Genisus has stated that this is the roar of the king of darkness. It is an enhanced form of his normal dragon's roar. He is able to take in much more magical energy as he breaths in, and when he expels the breath, the roar is far larger, and stronger than even his Abyss Dragon's Breath of Tartarus.
 * Abyss Dragon King's Annihilating Combat: (深竜王の壊滅戦闘: Shinryūō no kaimetsu sentō): One of Genisus favorite spells to use while in this form. It concentrates shadows and darkness along his arms, and his legs. He will then charge his opponent at blinding speed and begin to throw close combat attacks to his opponent in very quick succession. His final blow will either be a punch that sends the opponent to the ground, or one that will send them into the air where he can then continue his combat.

Enhanced Smell: As a dragon slayer, Genisus has an enhanced sense of smell allowing him to easily track and find targets. He has even stated that he can smell while in shadows forms and while he travels through the shadows. He says that it makes it very easy to find targets or anyone that he just doesn't like.

Enhanced Speed and Reflexes: Even without his dragon slayer magic, Genisus is already incredibly fast, he warrants it as a side effect of the daily running and speed exercises that he does. He has shown to be able to dodges and get out of tough situations with remarkable speed and be able to react to and block a weapon that is already an inch away from his head. Truly his speed is not to be messed with.

Master of Hand to Hand Combat: While an incredibly powerful mage with an abnormally high amount of magic power, Genisus also trains in a multitude of martial arts, his style is not dissimilar to a Muay Thai fighter as he uses his elbows and knees continuously in combat. He has not found very many opponents that are on his level of hand to hand combat, one of the most powerful is Aaron Fox, who he has only been able to tie with, and never has won a fight against him.

Master with a Scythe: Genisus' weapon of choice is a scythe. He claims that it gives him both a sharp weapon to slash with, and a blunt weapon to just smack people around with. He has shown incredible mastery with this weapon, despite the length of the weapon, he has even fought with it in a hallway with relative ease. His usual style with it is to use a grip that is lower on the handle to give quick and long slashes to his opponent, only using a wide and strong grip when he has an opening to finish his opponent on. On several occasions he has used just one hand and rapidly spun the scythe around him to take out a large group of enemies.

Trivia:

 * Genisus was originally supposed to be the antagonist of the Fairy Tail: Hunted series. The idea got changed when the author began to enjoy writing him and decided to have him be one of the Protagonists. He was also supposed to be a fire dragon slayer, but the author decided to use the element of darkness because it fit more with his backstory and his personality.
 * His element is based on the Greek myth of Tartarus, which is a bottomless pit that was used as a prison for the Titans when they lost against the Gods of Olympus.
 * The name Genisus was derived from the first book of the Old Testament and means "rebirth". It was spelled wrong by the author when the character was first made, but was kept due to the name looking more Greek, and fitting more with his origins.
 * Genisus' favorite food is anything spicy, his favorite type of music is alternative rock music, but he detests any screaming music, or rap music. He also likes the color blue, despite the black cloths that he normally wears.