Prologue: Darkness Descending
A deep darkness fell slowly, light sucked dry, sound omitted, heat rendered none existent.
From the ground it erupted, a swarm of huge purple tentacle rose up, breaking
the ground into chunks of rock and crushing those huge chunks in their grip
like they were chunks of sand, the plain full of grass quickly turned into a
field of rubble.
The tentacles slowly formed into one mass, on the top a cluster of smaller shoots
shaped into a small throne.
A body quickly formed, growing out of the flesh of the tentacles a woman
appeared, black hair and deathly pale, sitting on the tentacle made throne, a
pair of green eyes gazing with an air of dark nobility.
A small tiny yellow flame appeared at the foot of the massive tentacles, moving
about as if it is an illusion, appearing and disappearing, slowly as it
advanced a faded figure became more and more solid, a tall robed man, holding a
long scepter with a lantern chained to it, inside the fire blazed.
His head a particularly small pumpkin, his legs nonexistent, as if he is levitating
above ground.
The tentacle lady stared him down as he advanced, a look of annoyance appearing
on her face as the pumpkin man levitated on the tentacle mass making its way to
her.
The two were high up on the mass, one say and the other levitated, an aura of
darkness and horrifying terrors whizzed around them, somewhat visible even as
if a shroud of black, crimson and muddied yellow was created from the meet up.
Suddenly a quite step was stepped, a small black cat appearing by the two as if
it was the wind, coming from nowhere and invisible to all.
It slowly opened its mouth and surprisingly spoke in a voice of an old man "Vendora"
it looked over to the lady, on the throne one yellow eye after another opened
looking over at the cat, the throne of tentacle slightly adjusted, small
tentacles connecting to the body on it. Vendora smiled and replied with a nod.
"Foustly" the cat looked over at the floating pumpkin man.
A slit opened on the pumpkin head and quickly formed into a zigzag pattern, the
pumpkin as if slicing open a mouth for itself smiled a wicked smile, a pair of
holes opened for empty eyes and smoke escaped from them, and suddenly…
"HaHaHa… Ha.. Ha… Haaaaaa!" A crazed laugh escaped Foustly's mouth
and his body stretched backwards, his robed slightly revealing a form of skeletal
structure hidden under.
Vendora's face soured at the sound of the laugh.
"To business then" The cat continued.
"We three rulers of the deep dark have always been at relative peace, yes,
our subordinates ate and destroyed each other to their liking and our powers
stayed at relative odds, no need to step forward for small quarrels after
all" The cat told in his voice of an old man, the two figured of darkness
did not show any annoyance for the useless explanation, that cat was always one
to like to talk and yet.. His true meanings where always profound and mysterious,
he was the oldest and wisest of the three and so respected.
"Yet three years ago… That demon lord rose up to infamy, his strength
somehow capable of rivaling either of us three and his forces swelling as his
infamy rose… a year ago Foustly too had yielded finally adding all of us under
him and becoming the Supreme Being as he is called now by most" As he
spoke the other two showed clear expression of rage and true loathing, they had
been pushed to a corner by that devil and had their honor trampled about.
Unlike the cat who bent his knee on the first day of the demon lord campaign
they fought a long drawn out battle. Yet as the cat stopped his words for a second
the two flashed a smile. The cat was always the scariest in ways of deception and
hidden trumps… they knew something was odd to the cat's actions right from the
start and knew they should have followed in his example, yet didn’t have the
option with the pride they held in themselves.
"I indeed yielded for a reason as you suspected, yet probably not because
of the many reasons the many spies sent to my castles reaped" he nodded to
himself.
A violet violent light shone form his eyes, an oppressive aura fell down as his
tiny body exerted enormous strength "Today my friends, Ill tell you the
origins of that devil, the tale of a simple demon, a simple farmer, finding the
corpse of a demon dying of old age of all things… and consuming it… the corpse
of the once forgotten demon lord" no reaction from the two, they too had heard
this story of origin amongst all of the others, although the old age part was
new.
Vendora finally fresh out of patience "So?" a hissing voice roiling
about.
Faustly still not responding due to respect.
"So, my dear Count and Countess… now that we are sure of the identity of
that… problem…" he spoke very slowly.
"Do you know what they do to true demon lords?" He asked quietly.
Foustly erupted in crazed laughter "Even crazier than I…" he added
between bursts of laughter.
"You'll doom us all, a hero of man left to grow to such power is the bane
all the thrice demanded hell pits, and anyways… how will we the humans to intervene?"
Vendora's words filled with the acidic venom of ill intent.
The cat grinned evilly, his whole figure distorting "Shall I show you to
the dark summoning gate I have been working on?" he asked in an innocent
voice.
The two starred at him… then a look of flashed and appeared on their faces, an
evil grin of themselves formed, a crazed laugh and roiling tentacles, oh what
would they do with a fresh human of talent in their hands… oh the horrors he
will create… the three disappeared into the darkness and the plain of rubble returned
to its now desolate, yet living state.