It was the end of the school day when the sky suddenly darkenned; day becoming Night. I can still remember the tremble in Trey's voice as the clouds parted the reveal the largest rift ever recorded up till that point and we heard the first trumpet...judgement day had come.
The hero's weren't fast enough; not even the fastest of them got to us before the first of the darkith swarm got to us. Insect like beings, the very popular scavengers of the known Universe...the cockroaches of the cosmos each swarm ruled by it's own Queen.
One of the darkith foot soldiers had pinned me to the ground even as I tried to run. I can still remember the chill up my spine, my throat dry unable to cry out for help from withing the stampede of human feet, the presence of the darkith on my back ironically soaring me from an agonising death by human feet. I felt for sure I was done for until the darkith that was trying to lift me off the ground suddenly dropped me.
"Get up wimp."
It was Trey with a glowing long sword in hand and a somewhat forced twinkle in his blue eyes.
A twinkle that soon died as the giant stinger of a darkith captain suddenly tore through his armoured stomach.
I watched him process what the sudden weakness in his limbs meant, I was petrified by the looks in the eyes of my best friend and one who just saved my life as life drained from him.
Ever the fighter, Trey had tried to stab the captainas a distraction while mouthing ..."run"... He was too weak to speak and I was too much of a coward to even move through my fear.
The garith captain simply threw him aside like a rag doll in annoyance and turned to me his blade ended tail rising behind me, the Darkith tell of an impending strike.
Everything slowed down once the darkith captain struck.It was like I was suddenly pushed outside of time.
I watched every thing in painfully slow motion despair in my heart but the only thought ringing in my head wasn't to avenge my best friend whose blood I could still see on the end of the darkith's tail or even to try to check if I could still save Trey ... I did what he had told me to do.
I ran.