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Return of the darkness | evilkicks | 3

 

You wrote the exam and finished long before anyone else. It was an easy paper. When you and the other students exit the exam room you breathe deeply while the others start to party.

Everyone is celebrating, well except for you. In time students from other schools arrive and everyone is enjoying. There is something which has troubled you from the morning. The voice in your dreams won’t leave your memory no matter how hard you try to forget.

You hear a voice behind you, almost even crying. You turn around and see it’s a girl and she is telling something to her friends. One is even trying to comfort her.

“What happened I don’t know. I was lost in a place. Darkness surrounded me. Not just any darkness, one which I could feel a flame.” She tries to speak “These nightmares don’t scare me anymore like I told you but today was different. Remember I told you that I could feel someone close by, right? Well that someone spoke to me in a terrifying voice. I remember each word he spoke. He said ‘FINALLY IT SEEMS I WILL BE FREE . THIS IS MEANT TO HAPPEN TONIGHT. THE DARK CORNERS IN MY WORLD ARE DISAPPEARING; A NEW LIGHT WILL SHINE ONTO ME. I WILL RISE AGAIN AND RECLAIM WHAT IS MINE, VENGENCE THE ULTIMATE SALVATION AND PLEASURE, CHAOS WILL RULE FROM EAST TO WEST. I WILL TAKE PLEASURE IN TORTURING AND RULING OVER THE FOOLISH RESIDENTS OF THIS SO CALLED EARTH, THE ROOT OF THE WORD MEANING PEACE AND JUSTICE, ALL THE THINGS WHICH THOSE WHO LIVE LIKE A VIRUS, THOSE INSOLENT FOOLS WHO DARED TO DISOBEY AND IMPRISON ME, THOSE WHO STRETCH FROM THE EAST TO WEST, THOSE WHO THEMSELVES DEFY. MY IMPRISONMENT, THE NORTH, WILL RIP OPEN AND AFTERWARDS I SHALL RULE OVER THOSE CREATED FROM DUST, THE HUMANS, THOSE CREATED FROM ASHES, THE' something I can't prnounce, 'AND THOSE CREATED FROM THE ESSENCE OF LIGHT, THE ANGELIC GUARDIANS.’ Exactly that but there is more…”

“‘But for now, for now I can only………… imagine ………….imagine the taste of ……. You! How can such a foolish human, and a human one, ever be able to stop the likes of me? Why is it that you are one of the only survivors of the Glorious'something, which was way too hard to pronounce,'which was created by the absence of my flesh? Why is it that you survived, descendant of the wretched beasts who imprisoned me? My essence hasn’t completely faded from this WORLD; it still is hunting those who dare defy me. It is what you foolishly refer to the seemingly insignificant word, war.”’ The girl startled looks towards you. You have been listening to her but this you spoke. You couldn’t take it anymore.

“Y-you have had this dream also, Alex?” she asks

“Yeah” you reply. Her name is Suzy. “What is happening” you wonder out loud.

There was a band playing a song in the atrium. The song they were playing was played all over the school through speakers. Suddenly the band stopped and another voice started speaking, a voice you knew well. “Foolish insolent humans. I am a messenger sent to you by the greatest being ever to exist, who the humans long before you banished. Now he will return gloriously and rule over everything on this planet and elsewhere. Now fall, drop to your knees and die so that the one who invented war and hatred can come back to his righteous place.”

This was enough for you. In the background there was no struggling sound and suddenly people started screaming. The voice belonged to your best friend Marcus. How could he speak such a thing? And what is going on here? You followed by Suzy rush towards the atrium. The door has glass in it and when you look through in it you don’t want to go in there. Dead bodies. Everywhere. And the whole atrium was messed up, with water rushing through broken pipes in broken walls. Many people were hanging by their head from the ceiling. Turning away you run towards the farthest room, forgetting the exit is nearby.

Once you reach there you notice you and Suzy aren’t the only ones, there are several other people all sitting in a circle as though a meeting is going on. They turn towards your arrival and gesture for you to sit.

One man starts speaking “A huge tragedy has occurred. Before I explain to you what is happening I will tell you this: you all didn’t come randomly here though it felt that way. I summoned you. We will start by introducing ourselves, and be fearless this room no one else will enter for I have made it for that purpose. My name is Danish. I am from the middle east.”

A girl sitting next to him speaks “Umm my name is Anna.”

A third girl says “I am Holly”

Sitting next to her is a boy “I am Kyle.”

You say “My name is Alex, and uh yeah.” You mumble trying to ay something.

Suzy says “My name is Suzanne, Suzy for short.”

Another boy says “I am Andrew.”

A final voice speaks and you recognize it “Well I am Amanda and what is going on here?”

That is all the people present. 4 girls and 3 boys and the man who ‘summoned us’. All the girls here attract you.

“Let me start by saying this. How many of you have had a nightmare of a fiery darkness and today a voice spoke”. Everyone raised their hands. “No one else in the world has had that dream, showing that you are connected. You are all descendants of a tribe, whose lines have almost been wiped out. All of you are the only child and have no cousins from at least one parent. Your ancestors were part of the tribe known as artha, which in their language meant the bringer of peace and justice. They all lived on an island isolated from the rest of the humans. In that island, in its essence a power existed. How should I describe this? Yes who ever lived on that island overtime gained a small amount of power, the power of the will control one thing. This power came right from the core of the planet, the island itself no one knows why it draws power from the core. With each generation this will power grew and grew, as it sould be passed down. A whole kingdom formed in that island, full of these mages. One time a kings eldest son was about to become king, his father, his mother, his siblings and all others did not desire for him to be the king. They knew that would hurt the kingdom so they killed him by poisoning him. His body withered away with time but he was powerful, so powerful that even though his body was destroyed his mind was able to survive. Before this time there were very few wars and the worst of them resulted only in a few deaths. The prince grew more powerful by each day; soon he started to speak into the souls, spreading his wicked power over them. With this he started conflicts, huge conflicts between kingdoms from all across the world. The wars weakened the humans who were much fewer back then. He was able to gain a physical form once again and this time he took control over the world. He was ruthless and desired chaos, destruction and everything negative. From that kingdom rose a clan which tried with all their might to stop the prince. Generations after generations they found their answer. The prince ruled from the island, they evacuated everyone from it quickly and together willed the island to turn into a gate to a dimension of fiery darkness in which they trapped the prince. The island-portal was then sealed off. The prince wasn’t completely cut of from the world. His essence still remains. There are so many wars, that is what his essence is causing. The clan which sealed him grew and became a tribe and called themselves artha, while the planet was called earth. You are their descendants. The artha knew that the prince would grow strong enough to tar away the seal so they hid the powers within them to be grown and passed down until to the ones in whose time the prince returns, unsealing their power before he comes back. The prince is returning and all of you have the power to prevent his return and moreover destroy him forever. This is your job. Any questions?”

You all sit wondering what to think. All of this does sound ridiculous but it explains what is happening now. Finally you ask a question “What can we do, we don’t have any powers? And my best friend Marcus was on the speaker just some time ago, what is wrong with him?”

“As for your powers you just need to find them within your own hearts. Doesn’t worry about them when the time will come you will know what to do. About your friend Marcus? He is a descendant of the artha just like you. The prince needed someone in this world for his freedom. He needs 7 keys collected to be able to return. So the price is whispering into the most powerful descendant’s heart and getting him to do this job. What you need to do is collect the 7 keys, which are indestructible, bring them near the portal, but not in it. The prince will be free to move within the island, but won’t have any powers. Kill him then. Before we start our job, or mission we need some time. I need to locate the keys and the island itself, which is hidden. Relax for now. I will summon you when the time is right. See you all at the next meeting. Follow me and I will show you your rooms.”
He gets up and out of the room. You all follow him out and stare at the hall way. Instead of the school being here a long path is present. Danish informs you all this is the only corridor connecting to the transport room, which can be transported to anywhere on earth. He shows you all around the place, its completely isolated from the world, the transport room is the only entrance and exit. There is everything here.

After a while he leads you to your room. You lie on the bed and think about what just what happened. Some time passes and you want company. You want someone who can comfort you. Who should you go to? Your options are:
• Anna
• Holly
• Suzy
• Amanda

 

Who will you visit?

 
 
 

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