From the Ashes

Seven days after what felt like the end of the world, on a lonely island drowned in lava, rose a man. It started as a dark rumbling from the center of the earth. Then a new darkness started to rise from the magma. Manny welcomed the Darkness, "Eclipse, you will be the new Boogeyman. You must go find Tragedy and Bad Dream they will help you fufil your purpose."

Red eyes glowed in the night, "Eclipse," a raspy deep voice said. He stood on the now blackened earth where his home had been. "I'm dead?"

Manny no longer answered.

"Well, I guess I have time to look around," He pulled his shirt down and admired himself in the water. He had his dark skin still, his teeth somehow looked whiter, and his eyes were blood red. His hair had also bleached to white ashe color. He wore a white tank shirt that showed his tribal tattoos and ashe gray jeans.

He died when the dormant volcano took out his whole island, the eruption started in the middle of the night and no one realized until it was too late. He died in a very painful way and it seemed like most of his island had too. "Did the moon cause this?" he thought walking along the shore, "and how am I supposed to get off this island without a boat?" He pushed a black rock with his foot. He really wanted off the island, the more he thought about it the more the urge to jump in the sea hit him. Until he finally ran and jumped in the water. He swam in the direction he knew mainland was.

A shark swam beside him for a while but when it couldn't keep up it left. Eclipse made it to the closest town and started to walk around. A black horse made of sand ran up to him. It bit at his sholder and nuzzled him. He put his head to its forehead and saw his island burning. The darkness of the monster made him smile. He hadn't been evil in his life. He was a very normal man, but he had mental issues. He saw things that weren't there. Like the horse. No one ever saw the horses, the lady in red, or the little annoying blue bugs. He saw them, he had started to hate them. The lady in red especially because when she came someone usually died. He was regarded as a seer but it didn't stop people from being afraid of him. A rumor spread through his village that if you angered him he would send the lady in red to kill you.

Determined to make sure it was real he jumped on the back of the horse. Its body supported his massive frame. His feet hung in the air. "They were real. This whole time they were real," He smiled. "Let's go give someone a Nightmare," he squeezed the horse with his thighs and off they went to a house.

This city had seen his island burn, they had heard the screams of his people, so he haunted their dreams. He gave people visions of his people, visions they couldn't have seen. He made the city cry out. Then he moved to the next boarder city. As he went more horses followed him. He learned of the three day disaster that had caused his death. In three months many of the boarder cities in the U.S. had nightmares. The tragedy swept the nation.

Also, in three months, people started to forget the events. He had seen spirits going by him. He imagined he looked alive. Most of the spirits he saw had unnatural skin tones. The Golden skined man made of sand at least looked healthy. The Void skinned man who sometimes took horses away looked devilish. Then there had to be an abundance of white, like sugar, white skinned spirits. Those ones looked like ghosts. He laughed to himself, "and I am supposed to be the scary one."

He moved inland and saw his first Tornado, he revealed in its power. He gave nightmares for weeks on that. Then, as the three months ended he made his way to the North Pole. He found the spirits sitting around a large table. Again, he marveled at the creepiness of their skins. A pink man, a pale green woman, a rabit the size of a man. Again he thought about his 'normal' appearance.

Then his eyes landed on her. His lady in red. Her outfit consisted of a blood red bikini top, a large black cloak, and a pair of red capri pants. The outfit showed her pale white skin covered in blood splatter. Somehow she looked like a murder victim and a model at the same time. She was the only calm one in the room. His heart pounded in his chest.

North's big voice echoed through the room, "We need to discuss how to prevent future catastrophes."

'I guess this is as good a time as any to introduce myself,' he thought releasing a dark laugh along with extreme heat. Like his body was filled with Magma. "O aʻu le puipuiga," (I am that prevention.) his voice echoed through the room. As soon as the last word left his lips he pulled back his dark energy and listened.

North smiled awkwardly, "well, I guess that was our new Boogeyman. He seems.... perfect for the job."

Eclipse smiled at that, North just told the room that he scared him. His eyes then went to the red lady. She smiled and held her chest. Her eyes down cast but he could see her excitment. 'is she attracted to me?' he thought then quickly shook his head. She is a monster. I can't accept her ever.

"Tragedy," a pale man in blue spoke next to the red lady, "you okay?" The lady in red nodded in response.

Eclipse gripped his chest in anger. Tragedy was the lady in red! He looked up to where the moon shown through. Great he had to work with the enemy. He sat there in anger waiting for the meeting to conclude.