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Looming in the Darkness

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Chapter 1 - Prologue

In the border of kingdome of Greattico where four mountains peek can be seen, and vast of forest. In the deep of the four mountains there's a giant lake where the city lay their foundation in the middle of the lake. What fascinating of this city is, it is in the center of the lakes, there's a high rise of walls as wide eyes can see on the people who's on the other side of the lakes who's going to het into the town. but what's more interesting is, no one can get into the city by land, but only by a boat to transfer people from the side of the land into the city. That's why there's so many harbors on displayed on the side of the lake, and the businesses here was booming, the sailer was taking advantage of this transportation for the tourist.

Hundreds years since this place was established by great merchant lord who was discovered for the first time that this land has potential to build great world trade for merchants since this place was surrounded my many kingdoms.

As a people was ducking on the harbors, there's already a carriage was waiting for them. A certain man who just arrived in the city with the appearance that you can't tell who's thia man because of his cloak hiding his face. He peek his eyes to see surrounding.

"So this is the place going to be started..." said the cloak man.

He then proceeded to walk toward the carriage, which is made out of wooden box, having a roof against of any climates, then lantern on the side of the roof, with two wheels on both sides, also giving little bit of fashion and details on carriage with a paint..

The cloak man tossed a coin to the coachman, and coachman bow his head to respect the person who paid him a money. He then walk toward the carriage, and reached the handle the door of carriage to open for the cloak man to get inside the carriage. Inside the carriage a two red couches luxury looking chairs a table with a water, then a window with a curtain.

The cloak man step into rail and went inside the carriage. Without saying anything to the coachman, the coachman close the door, and went into driving sit where water buffalo horse was laying on the ground (its combination of horse head and heights, and buff for buffalo body with much more muscles, and horn on head , because it call water buffalo horse cause it's love get wet or being relax on the water.)The coachman grab the lace where the water buffalo horse animal he could control for maneuver of any direction or a guide.

YEP! YEP!

Water buffalo horse stood up and start pulling the carriage toward the city gate. After being inspections by the guard on the city they smoothly went inside. the sound buzzing sounds on the street, and a sounds from hooves of water buffalo horse and from the wheels of the carriage making sounds clattering on the pavement stone.

"Sir this place have most good vibe since I last move here..." the coach man started talking to entertain the passenger and also started introducing each building they passed by.

"That bar over there has a hood alcohols..."

the cloak man also turn to see where the coachman was saying.

"Oh that mystic cat there, they have good products you can buy but it's expensive for people who can't afford of their products like perfume and make up for woman. will if you want to buy for someone..."

The coachman continues talking, while the cloak man listening.

While the cloak man was staring at the window on the carriage, he was able to see what the town look like with traffics was going on slowly driving with bumpy road he was able to discern.

The city was more livelier than out side the city, the house was full of decorations with banners and symbols or logo, and there's also many food stool displaying their expertly cooking skill of their own, and lingering of smell of the aroma or herbs was mix on the foods on the street where people buy. The house was build in stones and woods, it has deferent style display, also a lantern of pole where you can find every fifteen yards. The kids on the street is playing make believe like a hero and a villain's party.

At the end of the destination of road where you can find parking lot for carriage, it's in the middle of the town where big giant water fountain engraving name

WELCOME TO THE SIGHTERIA

The door in carriage was opened by coachman, cloak man went down on carriage and saw a big plaza.

"Sir welcome to our Sighteria!" welcomed by coachman.

"Thank you..." plainly said by the cloak man and he toss another coins

...

The coachman catched the coin and felt awkward after hearing the man voice at the same time receive the tips. He scratched his head "Umm sir I got going now."

"Mhmm" the cloak mam just nodded his head.

After seeing agreement of the cloak man he didn't bothered to disturb this man and climbed on the carriage and drove away.

The cloak man look around the plaza, saw someone's waiving at him. He walk towards with them. After little gesture and completely small talk.

"So how's everything?" asked by the cloak man.

"everything's fine, all the place was pointed out on the map has already been set it up." reported by a man with commoner looking with his apron.

"Good, LET THE CARNAGE BEGINS!"

...

Later on that night, a certain building where located in the back of the restaurant on the main street, there's a apartment house where people can stay for night and the family was running to it.

"Mother, where's father?" asked by a boy in his early teens, his appearance can only describe like a boy next door. his not ugly or handsome but average looking just like a background character. He has dark brown eyes with a sharp looking on his eyes, big eye brows, slim or a flat like kids in asians nose, and little bit fat, his name Simpleton.

"He'll be back soon honey..." His mother answered politely, "anyway what we should cook for tonight?"

"I want rabbit roasted and and..."

"Take it easy your mother will do anything for you honey, but we have limited food so look on the food storage and decided which we can cook before your father get back."

"Yes, mother.."

The boy went into the kitchen where the food storage was located. He open the storage door and looking around he saw row of raw meats was hanging, some spices and also a sock of all grain's this playing on the ground.

"Mother I want hamburger steak!" yelled by Simpleton.

"Alright then so can you prepared the ingredients for me honey," His mother asked.

"Okay" he replayed while already grabbing the ingredients. He knows already what he need to grab because he always stock to his mother whenever she cook.

Suddenly the door open, and got startled by duo's mother and son. It's Simpleton father who swung the door, he's still wearing armored knight with a blood on.

"A father welcome home!" he tried to walk toward his father but got stop by his mother by grabbing his shoulder.

Simpleton father's working on the city as a guard captain. Simpleton understood why his mother stopped him, he look at his father and asked.

"What's wrong father?"

His father look at his directions and sigh relief and walk toward them in hurry, instead answering the question of his son, grabbed his son's Simpleton on arm and also his wife.

"Hurry there's no time!" he drag them towards the rooms where's his father and mother bedroom.

He flipped the bed and smashed the wooden floor with his sword's several time, until another wooden door led to the ground.

"Honey, what's going on!?" finally Simpleton's mother asked his father.

"The city is on the chaos right now, I don't know what happen, but the people started changing into monster. I only happen to know because when going back here people started attacking me. And that's what I saw pillar of smokes everywhere, so I hurriedly get back here."

After hearing this from his father story he couldn't believe. It was peaceful this morning, playing with his friends. But it was his father story so he believe it. His mother had wide open eyes with shocking revelations.

"Hurry get insides, I haven't finish but digging this place, but enough to fit of two people. Also there's already supply..." He pause for moments, he then said "Stay here, I'll be back a seconds." He close the lid.

"Honey wait?..." Shouted by his wife.

But his husband already exited the rooms. For seconds awhile he got back and brought all the ingredients from the kitchen and meat in the basket, he also brought a blankets with him.

"Here take this, this might worth for whole months and here's the instruction making a dried meats and jars. there's also two water basin is you guys be fine." He handed a two baskets covered by cloths.

"Honey what bout you, are you coming with us?"

"Sorry I can't I need to protect the people who needs me."

"but but can I be little be selfish and come with us." his wife started tearing her eyes.

"I'm sorry, I want to this only me can save the people." He then releasing a transparent aura that's has color of blue like a Dragonball sayan. His wife grab his hand pull toward to her fave and they kissed for long time until someone disturb their moments of kissing goodbye.

"Hurry they are here, son take care of your mother please." asked by the father.

"Yes father, father..." simpleton paused and then "please comeback to us."

"I will, and i have mission for you son, listen carefully okay"

"Don't open the door even I said so, don't open okay"

Simpleton was puzzles for moments and he answers.

"Yes father."

"Good" he then gave his son a kiss on the forehead.

After closing the lid and saw his father was already putting back together the bed where was before as if nothing hole on the grounds. Soon a sounds fighting broke out.

Simpleton and his mother was clutching tightly. above the grounds was shaking and a dust keep falling from above their heads.

A moments later, become quite, he knew his father wasn't on the house anymore and went to the other place to rescue some people from the danger. His father was real hero to him. One day he want to be like his father.

...

Outside the city seven cloak man hovering above the city, and there's giant magic formation that's covering above the city. With this cloak man has deference of auras color on them.

"Let's get started" said the Light aura cloaked man.

They started mumbling that you never understand what they are saying. The circle formation above the city started get brightening. The soldiers saw this with there's eyes wide open.

"THIS CAN'T BE..."

"NOOOO..."

People started panicked even more and guards trying shooting with their aura, and some other who was station the wall with their archer shooting with arrows but also some mages casting more magic. But it's no avail from those seven mages who had powerful defensive shield. A certain man who was on the rooftop of the six story building releasing a powerful aura, and other place to. This man was Simpleton father staring at the sky. He then lunch him self toward the seven cloak man with his sword pointing towards at them and also to those releasing aura. they are captains and generals of the city. The first to arrived was Simpleton father. He slash out the beerier of one the seven cloak man. It was the red aura cloak man.

The cloak man looked at his beerier was almost cracked and got pissed off. He then cast a spell to repel the who almost got broke crack his beerier. A three flame arrows came out of nowhere. Then the cloak man gesture his hand towards to the swordsman. The flame arrows sail towards the direction of the swordsman.

Simpleton father saw flame arrows coming towards him, he ready himself to depleted them or blacked, he can't evaded since he was on the air falling down.

BobOBOOM!!

It exploded upon contacting on the swords. He look like air plain being out controls and some smokes trailing to him while his falling down.

"Hmp what impudent a low being." said the cloak man sarcastically. It happen to his companion to was being attacked but sending their enemy to the grounds.

The finally the spell was completed, the sky has even more darker than before and you can't see a stars or the moons. The people on the grounds started even more transforming into a demons or even more monsters. This is the inner demons or monster was hiding in the dark on people(Deferent races) desires was sleeping on and now it was forcefully open of their inner monster.

"NOOOOOOOOO...." Shouted by many people even Simpleton father. Their body was being tearing apart, and evolving into monster.

"Will look at this, what a beautiful sight."

"Soon the world peace has return into disasters hehehe... how the kingdoms will responded with this."

"Let's go to the other place that have been prepared."

Soon the seven cloak man flow in the next directions.

...

On the undergrounds the mother and son was being agony on pain, clutching on their skin.

"Gahhhh... it hurt it hurt" yelled by the duo.

Also binet on the grounds of duo family, there's a bone shaped like human but have a tail like scorpion, and bone a sharp bone claw. started wiggling after little it creat some space to move around. But it didn't stop there, it start digging the earth towards the family who was in pain. It di and dig until it reach on the surface of duo's. but first it look around as if it can see anything, the bone human shape scorpion approached on Simpleton sides. The bone start slice a skin on Simpleton forehead using his sharp claw. After blood was coming out, the scorpion human bone was dip it the claw on the blood as if adsorbing like a mosquito or litchis, It paused for a moments. The bone start falling apart. And after that, the bone start crawling of each of the bones toward Simpleton body. Horrify is they start cutting up Simpleton body blood was gashing out but was being absorbs, they then start pulling a bone of Simpleton to match their own bone structures and then replacing the bone that was pulled by putting themselves.

GRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

Since Simpleton being agony of pain, he also saw what happening, he couldn't believe himself, he was being butcher by this skeleton and replacing the bone he has by putting themselves in. His face white as shit of paper he couldn't help but fall in unconscious.

The darkness that coming out on Simpleton was being absorb back to his body. While Simpleton was unconsciousness, the bone that is in Simpleton is controlling the body. It walk towards it's mother after that Simpleton who consciousness open it mouth and start absorbing the black miasma on Simpleton mother. After it feel of full, it fall tye body of Simpleton went lumpy.

Now that Simpleton was being replace of new bone and start regenerative slowly. Simpleton has now a small tail on his back like a scorpion.

His skin started changing into dark, the ears become pointy like elf, the hair color become like a ashes. the teeth that look like plane have no sharp has now turn like a razor like a saw or beast, and the eyelashes is thicken and the color turn into ashes. Same as the eyeballs change the color into yellow and slanted like a cat eyes. Also his hands have now three sharp claws in between his knuckles like on the x-men wolverine character. The body have more Simple also have a tattoo on it, it vaguely seen it like Nightcrawler from x-men.

Simpleton mother's started feel relaxed after so much pain was being ripping apart. The blood still lingering.

...

In the city, the sky now was turn into red blood color, no sunlight was being penetrated. the City building much like turn into dark stone. The people who was being forcefully change their race. From Elf turn into dark elf, dwarf turn into genomes, demi beast much more ferocious, the beast on forest also start changing, the lake turn into dark water, fishes becomes a bone skeletons, but the most changing here is human. Since they were so adopted from deferent environment. They have wings like a bat, a horn like ox or goat, and deferent kind of tail. They are either demon race or a vampire, or even become skeleton. But there's so many kind race was being born.

...

In the border of the Greattico a watch guard seen the top of the four mountain pick hill saw a dark gloomy cloud, a spark of lightning was heating on the ground,and also hard blowing of the winds.

"Warn the people there's storms coming."

"That's weird it's on middle of summer why would be a storms coming." said the other guard who was watching at the hills.

"Dunno, but just report to the captain to let him know."

"Okay."

On the barracks where the captain was righting a report to the capital. He has golden hair, a square jaw, and sharp. His eyes, has golden brown eyes, but when you look at him, the gaze on his eyes like a lion who ready to pounce you.

And a sound of knocking on the door

DOK DOK DOK

"Come in"

A knight on his early twenty, saluted his captain.

"Report"

"Sir, there's a big storm coming from the top of four mountains," the knight replied with a loud voice.

"A storm?"

"Yes Sir! a storm"

"Why is there a storms in the middle of summer?"

"I dunno know, Sir!"

"stop shouting I can hear you."

"Yes sir"

The captain stood up and walk around the disk towards the exited door while the young knight was saluted. He saw his captain with a big build and have many scars on the body of his captain.

The captain walk toward wall staircase that you can get on top of the walls.

Once he reach at the top of the wall and the knight stop saw their captain was coming so the greeted him with a knight code.

"Give me the telescope..." while the captain was look on the top four mountains where dark gloomy clouds at. He was frowning with his brows. the knight next to him gave his telescope it's retractable telescope.

The captain peek on his eye on the telescopes then extend the telescopes to get closer view on the mountains. He got closer view the mountains there's really gloomy cloud coming closer to them, no it's getting wider and wider by the seconds.

His guts telling him something on that mountains but he don't know what was it. He then saw shadow one, two shadow, into three and many more they are flying towards at them. Without further to see he yell.

"PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE! ALL SOLDIERS ON YOUR STATIONS AND ARM YOUR SELF!!! WRING THE BELL AND GAVE A SIGNAL TO THE OTHER STATION AND ALSO SEND A LETTER TO THE CAPITAL."

The knights next to the captains got startle but

they able to calm down. They hurriedly get into their stations.

A sound of clattering armors, a marching soldiers, and also a banging of bells. Everyone suddenly get on busy working.

Dong!

Dong!

Dong!

...