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Friday, September 12, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #TheDarknessAges

“Man does not live by bread alone.”
Pillsbury Doughboy* #quote


CJ will be coming over tonight. Also look out behind you, there could be something behind you. Anyway onto the flash fiction!


The Darkness Ages


            Reloriz, the 51 foot, blue scaled, Lord Of Dragons, terrorized cities for many years. The people feared the days when his large black wings cast their shadow over the streets. Screams filled the streets as his three spiked tails whipped through cars, buildings, and all else in their path. He couldn't claim invincibility though. He may have been able to fill the air with his fire breath, or chomp into buildings with his teeth, but the military or police could wear him down and he would have to flee to heal.
           His attacks on his cities weren't pointless rampages. Ever since a vortex appeared in 2050 plus-ish (people debate its appearance versus its discovery), creatures of darkness have come to feed off the peoples despair. Advanced technology has allowed the human race to recover and fight back from these attacks much better than it would have been able to at that start of the century. Though perhaps that could be for the worse as it makes Earth a better world for the creatures of darkness to feed off of.
          While terrorizing a city, Reloriz heard a building crashing to the ground that he did not knock over. He found this to be the strangest thing and turned around to see another creature of darkness wrecking the city. Reloriz's could see that this monster was young, a trait he did not share. Years ago the blue scaled dragon lord's scales were red. As his species aged they turned blue, like the graying of hairs. And Reloriz's scales were very blue.
         This turtle-like creature of darkness showed its young age as it only had one head when an old version of its species would have three. The other two partially formed heads were still retracted in the shell in their slots. A normal turtle who didn't stand up right would only have five slots for the legs and head. This creature had many openings for many limbs and the three heads. It walked with gorilla feet and sprout many tentacles. A few of the remaining limb slots, like the heads, had yet to be formed.
        The Lord Of Dragons spoke to the turtle-like creature in the language of the creatures of darkness. “Boy, what are you doing in my city?”
         The turtle like creature responded, “Don't call me 'boy'. My name is Eorin. And I can be wherever I want to be old man.”
         Reloriz immediately grew angry. “Not according to the Pact.” The people in the city wondered why both monsters stopped attacking and what they were talking about in the strange language.
         Eorin laughed. “Should I really care about some dumb Pact that my great-great-whatever how many times grandparents made? First to a settlement gets it is such a sacred rule? Well I don't care about rules.”
          Reloriz stomped the ground to make a massive quake. “That rule has kept peace and prevented war between the creatures of darkness for millenium! We prey on weak creatures. We don't form groups against each other. We don't fight against each other. We pick a place, milk it, move on.”
          Eorin took one of his tentacles and wrecked a building in defiance. “I'm not forming a group with anyone. I'm just taking your city. It's a big one. I'll get plenty of despair from here for myself.”
          The Lord Of Dragons pointed to the south. “There's a human settlement in that direction. You can get your despair there.”
          Eorin responded with a snide tone, “It's puny. I'm taking this place. I can beat you old man!” The turtle-creature then dashed and tackled Reloriz. The people looked on in shock as they fled. Never in the thirty year history of the invasion of the creatures of darkness had there been infighting between them.
          After being launched The Lord Of Dragons roared. “Grave mistake child! For breaking the Pact your death will be slow and painful.” Reloriz breathed fire at Eorin. He turned his shell at him in response. No damage appeared to occur no matter how much fire the old dragon launched from his body.
          Once Reloriz ran out of breath Eorin turned to face him and spoke, “Old men like you and your stupid Pact just limit us. I'll be taking this city from you alone, but maybe later I'll start traveling with friends and really wrecking these humans. I'll feed off despair like never before!” The young monster then grabbed the old one with his tentacles and placed him in a choke hold. The creature of darkness had no problem ending the old man to establish his superiority. The people wanted the Lord of  Dragon's death for so long, but they did not expect another creature of darkness to be the cause.
          News of a creature of darkness breaking the Pact spread very quickly. The humans didn't know of the Pact by name, but they knew they never fought. The creatures of darkness paid attention to human news to find out human movements. A monster breaking a Pact implanted ideas into the masses of the creatures of darkness.
        Before breaking the Pact appeared unholy. But as soon as one monster took the plunge into doing it more and more did. Infighting became rampant between the creatures of darkness as they fought for the largest cities. At first monsters forming groups harmed humans. But the creatures of darkness lost numbers extremely quickly.
        Eventually their numbers became so small that they brought themselves to near extinction and then humanity's military finished the job.

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