Peek in the Past

Bladen walked into the castle still lost in his thoughts.

' What in the hell is going on, how long have I been in that hell hole, damn why is everything hurting my head. I get out of this slumber thinking that I would get a nice glass of wine with women, ahhhh women, but now m here in this graveyard and a few fools .'

Scrouche and the other members had followed behind him and were now right behind Bladen, but no one knew how to initiate a conversation with this sleeping beauty.

" Common now will someone of you all would like to enlighten me as to why I"ve been woken up from my slumber and why would someone send such kind of present on my welcome ", looking out into the distant land from his window, asking the very obvious doubt on his mind.

Finally, Haden took it as a signal and started to tell the highlights.

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It was a fine spring evening schools, playgrounds, restaurants, marketplaces, and the public carts were packed with people, not a single place was void of the hustle and bustle of the people. Realms were finely mixed without any discrimination and everything seemed and felt peaceful until the loud cracking sound of the dark clouds that now not only covered a single city but somehow the whole planet was submerged into the darkness. Everyone seeing the turn of events started to run taking shelter wherever they could find.

And then a beastly voice was heard in their minds, this was no trick, it was a sprite ( creature gifted with powers) and not just any sprite but a powerful one that could control its extent to such great lengths. In the clouds, a skull was forming with two enormous horns and a black shadow that swirled around it like flames.

' Bow in fear or I will ensure that you all will beg for death. The sound rang in their heads and everything went dead silent. No one knew the name of the voice and so they named him The Dark Being.

Everyone had left whatever they were doing and returned to their homes, but then started the masquerade of death. Humans started falling sick, incurable diseases engulfed the young ones and the death quickly went from tens to hundred to thousands. In desperate measures to save themselves, they started offering their cattle and even old people to the Dark Being.

Vampires and werewolves did not bow in their pride and so they were cursed. The vampires were cursed that they will no longer be able to bear young ones and a bite from their closest breed, werewolves will bring their immortal life to an end. Whereas the werewolves were cursed to have a mortal life and could only bear a single offspring. Tree creatures did not follow the dark being and thus faced his wrath. They were cursed that if they drank the water they would die a horrible death, though none believed and drank the water, and half of them died whereas others got a half-life. No Nymph could procreate anymore and the forests started to die. Celestials were no better, proud fairies, they angered the dark being more, and ended up with the greatest loss. Their powers came from their believers and without them they were a walking show without any powers, and hence they were cursed and they will have no believers anymore, therefore powerless and these saintly beings did not even have any powers left to balance the nature giving the world a setback with no rains, famine, droughts, earthquakes and what not.

The only beings left from the dark being's wrath were the witches and the hunters. Hunters chose to underground for the time being and had not surfaced after that living their lives like cowards in hiding never once were they targeted by the dark being for they lay low and never caused a riot. But to everyone's surprise, no witch died or was hexed, and not even did they go into hiding like others. All had their suspicions but to no luck, their guesses died down and no one knew if the dark being was afraid of the witches or was completely some other reason for their well-maintained life.

Time went on and all the realms had accepted their fate, but after a century of their lives under his rule, things started to worsen. Even after everything was done to them, people from each realm started to disappear anonymously only to be found later with either their bodies wounded and their minds being fried or having a memory gap. Sometimes their bodies or body parts were found stranded and sometimes nothing as if they had vanished from the surface of the earth. These numbers had only increased by leaps and bounds and no one had a clue what was happening or how to stop it.

Having no other way, all the realms joined forces to stop the dark being only to have their large armies wiped off the face of the earth in one go or have a good blow that pushed them further back. Waging a war had shown them where they stood in front of their enemy and with no forces left to fight they resorted to help. But everything came with a price and the war as well had a price to be paid, for the humans and the werewolves paid it with their numbers and the vampires and celestials' forces were no longer willing to fight, leaving only the rulers to do something or let them live their rest of the lives in fear of the dark being.

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Listening on intently Bladen was curious about three things,

' Witches, what role did they play in all this?".

'Who killed the guards if it not being the Dark being then who could have the cursed power of shadow?'.

' What the hell had happened to the people of his realm, his elves, his followers ?'.

Staring at Scrouche and Drupal, he waited to ask but he knew it wasn't the right moment.

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