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Mysterious Shadowy Figure
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 Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:31 pm
Storm clouds roll in from the plains to the north and unleash their fury on the inhabitants of Eyris frequently in the Learanian springtime. People dash through the streets on those days, running from shelter to shelter, overhanging roof to covered fruit stall to church doorway to the warmth and safety of home. The children splash in the puddles and dance through the cold droplets with their hair soaked to their heads.
When night falls, however...
The children flee from the streets. They huddle into their beds and keep the lamps lit. Children, who have yet to have their minds clouded by reason and education, know the Truth, and rightfully fear the Dark. These nights, when storms sweep in from the plains, the Dark settles in.
Few recognize the different kinds of Dark, but they exist, and they range from the benevolent silvery Hunter's Dark, which gives sight and guidance on even moonless night, to the malevolent, absolute Darkness of the stormy night. It is a Dark that pervades everything, invades the mind, crushes light and suffocates life.
And within it, eyes that watch. Eyes that belong to those who wait beyond the Dark.
It is said that Gods sow the seeds that grow into the future, but those gardeners are gone now.
It is now more accurate to say that Gods create the wounds that fester into the present.
The eyes behind the Dark peered into a darkened bedroom of the manor on the hill outside the city. A bed made for two contained but one, and she cried out against the plague of her dreams.
"Yes," murmured the one behind the Dark. "This one has festered nicely..."
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Down below, in the basement of that very same manor, a door that led to Everywhere and Nowhere opened. It beckoned...
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:31 pm
The dark. Ah how it seems to trouble the former dragon queen Melethia Dagon. She had her own personal darkness. In fact she figured her darkness was messing with her enough that it was the cause of her blindness. Blindness would make perfect sence to take. All Melethia would see was darkness.
Melethia was currently in her room, listening to the rain that was falling. She heard a door open but she shrugged if off as someone just going into a room. She contuned to listen to the rain, unaware of what was going on.
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Mysterious Shadowy Figure
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:34 pm
Something from beyond the Door began to call to the red-haired sage, something that crept past her senses and tugged directly at her soul. It sank into her, taking away her will, and forced her out of bed.
It lured her throughout the house, down and down, into the basement below. There was the Door, waiting for her. It drew her, slowly, to stand before it, and yet it forbade her to go inside. Beyond it, there was...
Everything.
Nothing.
It held her there...
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:35 pm
Melethia was a bit freaked out that her body moved on it's own. She had struggled to move her body herself but it was no use. When her body stopped at the door, Melethia was more than freaked out she was down right pissed and terrified at the same time.
"What the hell is going on!?" She tried to say.
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Mysterious Shadowy Figure
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:36 pm
Her voice was muted by the overwhelming power that poured forth from beyond the Door. Like a cat that has cornered its prey, it waited for the right moment to strike. It let the wound fester...
Darkness swelled beyond the Door, it churned and pushed outward. It was true, pure, malevolent Dark, it spread out along the walls and snuffed the light. It took over everything it touched. It soaked through the sightless woman's skin, searching and seeking. Coldness gripped her, but it all felt far away by now, like watching someone else shiver.
The freezing grip of the Dark held her tight as it rolled through her like a sieve.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:37 pm
The entering darkness made Melethia's skin crawl. She would had scream but was unable to. She would have ran but was unable to. She felt the presence of her darkness come. She struggled to maintain control of her body. She didn't want that to be free. She knew how bad that side of her was.
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Mysterious Shadowy Figure
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:38 pm
The Dark pulsed as it pulled at her soul, and her darkness was torn away, leaving a gaping hole where it had been. The Dark enveloped it and consumed Melethia's darkness and then drew out of her, sliding back off the walls and into the Door. It had what it had come for, and disappeared as quickly as it had come, leaving the ordinary Creeping Dark of the cellar behind it.
The Door slammed shut.
Released from its power, Melethia was allowed to drop, comatose, to the stone floor.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:39 pm
Melethia fell to the floor. Who or when she would be noticed? Who knows. And what was taken from her? No one hopes to find out.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:00 pm
It mustn't have been too much later, because when Nino walked down into the basement, there were two people already down there. Not one woman, but two. She looked to the floor where Melethia lay. "Mel! What's going on?" She turned her attention to the woman standing close to Melethia. "Who... Who are you?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:18 pm
"That is none of your concern child." The woman said to Nino. "You should be more worried about yourself." She took a step towards her.
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Mysterious Shadowy Figure
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:30 pm
The shadowy figure of the woman before Nino wavered and twitched in the half-light of the cellar. There was no substance to her, simply what appeared to be congealed darkness attempting to hold a rough shape.
As the figure stepped forward, the door began to creak open. The sound of the creaking hinges was entirely too loud, and seemed to fill the room. Ghastly light filtered through the crack of it, casting out into the room as it opened wider.
As soon as the light reached the shadow figure, the darkness blew away, leaving in its place a terrible specimen of a woman! The light disappeared instantly as the door slammed shut, once again louder than it should be, as can be told to you by anyone who has experience with doors.
The power of the Calling Dark has been released...
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:44 pm
Nino squinted into the darkness. "W-what was that?! Who was that? Who are you?"
She took a step back.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:43 pm
"As I said before," The woman answered, "It's none of your concern." She formed a sword in her left hand. "You should be more concerned about yourself." She took another step forward and then looked down. Her foot was on Melethia's arm.
"Out like a light. Oh well, there wasn't that much more use to her anyway!" She yelled as she kicked Melethia's body towards Nino with her clawed foot. The kick left a scratch on Melethia's arm, just enough to make some blood drip.
"You can take her, run, and face my wrath later... or you can stand there and face my wrath now." She confidently sneered, staring down the mage as she did so. Red eyes met blue with a sense of cool ferocity, almost daring Nino to look away.
"It's up to you. It doesn't matter to me, child."
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:05 pm
Nino wasn't sure what kind of power she was facing. She must have come from the other side of the door. --But where?
She looked down at Melethia. "You're not going to just do whatever you want here! We're not the kind of people you just push around..."
She bent down and tried to pick up Melethia. She slung her arm around her shoulder and backed out the door. She moved as quickly as she could down the corridor.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:19 pm
The woman saw Nino leave. She had quite the smirk on her face.
"I don't think Master would be too happy if he saw me let a person go like that. Though he will be happy later once I let my wrath be unleashed." She told herself before slipping into the darkness.
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