King of Darkness - Part One (522 hits)
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Submitted by Enter The Midnight (View user info) at 2005-02-10 01:31:29 EST
"Do you believe in ghosts?" He leaned in closer to me with gleaming eyes, a wild expression on his long, pale face.
"Sort of..." I murmured, looking away from his intense gaze. "I've thought I've seen things before."
"You mean like shadows where there shouldn't be shadows, movement of stationary objects in the dark, the feeling of being watched, and strange figures leering at you from the darkness on either side of the road to your house late at night?" He seemed to grow excited as he spoke, as though the thought of ghosts pleased him. Thunder rumbled distantly, though the night sky above was clearer than the purest crystal, and the stars were bright enough to cast long, whimsical shadows on the dead grass, the branches of the hibernating trees reaching up like the clawed hands of something long forgotten. The night air was a chilling stillness, and only our hurried whispering could be heard against the backdrop of dead silence.
"Yeah...but how did you know such things?" I narrowed my eyes, locking my gaze back upon his.
"Because...would you believe that these ghosts and spirits do not walk the earth independently of each other? There is someone controlling them all...someone who commands the very fabric of the supernatural. He is lord of the dead, king of the night and creator of nightmares. A being far mor terrible than even demons can imagine."
"What? What the hell are you talking about?" I stepped away from him, sensing a growing insanity inside his wild eyes. "That's ridiculous. There is no such thing."
There was a long, awkward pause, and for a moment, the night seemed to listen for an answer. He leaned in towards me, his face losing all expression and becoming deadly serious. "Would you like to meet him?" he asked suddenly, shattering the silence like a brick through a window.
I just stared at him, confused, irritated and rather frightened by his demeanor. "Okay man, you're freaking me out. I'm gonna go now." I turned away from him and began to walk back towards the road."
"I think you need to meet him," he chuckled to himself, but I heard him clearly. "Kastontonai atsuganex, Nukogohsofazen!" he cried loudly into the skies, something I couldn't understand, but the syllables were decipherable. I stopped, and turned to face him.
"What the fuck did you just say?" I started to rant, but then my blood ran cold with the abrupt changes I beheld.
The skies had lost all starlight, and clouds rushed over them, like a snarling black ceiling, boiling furiously with an angry explosion of thunder. Was this a freak storm or something? A glittering fork of lightning licked the darkness for a brief instant, and as I glanced at my companion, I could have sworn I saw the outline of his skeleton inside his flesh. I shook my head violently. A trick of the light, I thought. Thunder exploded overhead again, and a bitterly cold wind howled through the trees.
"Dude, I think we need to get out of here." I started back towards the road, but froze again when something shot up out of the ground inches from my nose, and towered high into the air above me. It was huge, looming and marble gray--a tombstone? Another one broke through the dirt to the left, another to the right, and then dozens in every direction, as far as the eye could see. A graveyard was forming before my eyes. I glanced back to my companion, who was simply staring towards the west, silent now, and I followed his gaze, only to have my jaw hit the dirt and my eyes grow so wide I thought they would burst from their sockets. A massive black wall of fog-like darkness was churning its way towards us, ripping the trees out of the ground like a tornado might, but the wind had become completely still. A pair of evil phosphorescent green eyes shone fiercely from just beyond the blackness. The clocks began to chime.
Something shifted in the dirt below me.
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Submitted by Sherman (user info) at 2005-02-24 01:24:18 EST (#)
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Submitted by algermetiphist (user info) at 2005-02-10 17:54:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2005-02-10 08:32:55 EST (#)
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Are you going to continue this?
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-02-10 07:11:48 EST (#)
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I liked a lot of the imagery. I was a little lost though, because no description is given about where these people are, or what their gender is, etc. Pretty well done though.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2005-02-10 03:35:39 EST (#)
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Nope.
Submitted by ellsmall (user info) at 2005-02-10 01:38:01 EST (#)
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Well damn!!