Emotions Forgotten

Right of the Curse

Beginning the day at midday, Asun wakes to the harsh sunlight peeking through the trees of his favorite watering hole. He realizes that he must begin his daily routine to survive. He hastily rises from his comfortable position on the grass to make his way through the forest. Running playfully he passes all the usual fauna and flora that surrounds him day by day. The shadows seem unusually ominous today. Feeling slightly paranoid he checks around him for any abnormalities in the forest. All seems to be in order in the forest until he realizes that it is the day that marks his first awakening in the forest. Being Pale in his steel colored skin, as he feels the chill run down his back at the thought of his aging. Despite his five foot seven height he seems to tower over most things in this forest except the trees. He dashes playfully in the forest until he comes to the point he would never cross. He never crossed into this next area for unknown reasons besides he felt strange as he approached. Today was different he didn't feel strange at all, instead he felt drawn in. He hesitated at first, but then he strolled into the brush and out the other side he came to a clearing. The clearing had a stone like structure that seemed to be crumbling. He approached cautiously. The sunlight now seeming to emblazen the sky into his skin. He made his way into an overhang he found on the side. Shade feels nice to his skin here as if he was made of shadows. He found an opening and crept inside slowly as to not cause a stir amongst any that dwell within. He quickly found corridors of stained stone. The stone seemed to be stained with a substance that sucked the light out of the room. This caused it to be almost empty of all light. Despite the lack of light, he was used to the night being blackend, he was able to see regularly. He made his way through the corridors being drawn into the depths. He found a small room with a raised section in the center as if it were to hold things on top. He approached and noticed a slight gleam strike off of something on the raised section. He hesitated at first but curiousity took over and he picked it up. Without hesitation it sank into his skin and entered him. At first it was painful but it quickly subsided as a new feeling entered him. One of emptiness and grief. It was as if the stone held the depression of thousands inside itself. As quick as the feeling came it left. So it exited his body and fell into the cloth satchel he is wearing. He heard stirring with the walls around him. All at once light poured into the room and shone on the wall. A voice seemed to float out of the light. It said: "Young one you have stumbled into the ancient tomb of your ancestors. That gem is now part of you and it once belonged to the most powerful warrior of the land. You now hold the power to absorb light and turn it into pure darkness. Your body can fuse with that black sapphire and become shadow itself. The longer you use the stone the more of your soul is replaced by the soul trapped inside. Make sure to remember that. Got it memorized? With these words I leave you to your path of choosing what you shall do with this gem." The light vanished into the shadows. Finally the darkness crept back in after moments of the harsh light subsiding. Taken by what he had all just witnessed and felt Asun began to run through the corridors as fast as he could to clear his head of what just happened. He is stopped by tendrils of light seeping through the walls. He yells in agony as they whip at him. As he begins to think he is done for the emptiness sets in. The gem emanating darkness causes him to feel the emptiness control him as he rises and lashes tendrils of the pure darkness all around him as he feels it surround him. He feels it stop as the darkness explodes around him and he can see blackened flames come from his hands. He realizes what he must do to make it out. He begins to use the darkness as a weapon and lash tendrils and blades made of darkness at the tendrils of light that are coming at him without hesitation. He slashes several with little black blades then he fuses them into a midsized blade to cut and block the tendrils. He spends what seems hours rushing through the corridors slashing at the tendrils. He makes it to the exit to find massive tendrils and a creature made of light blocking the doorway. He quickly slashes the tendrils but barely does a scratch. The creature with it bipedal monstrous appearance swings a battle axe made of light and knocks Asun back. He slams against the wall from the blow causing him to slump slightly. He quickly regains his stature and enlarges his black blade into one of enormous size. He begins swinging his massive blade at the tendrils making quick work of them. He then slashes upward carrying himself with the slash up and the quickly slashing back down at the creature. The creature blocks but then loses its footing and creates an opening. Asun then pulls the gem into him and becomes the shadow and begins screeching as he savagely attacks the creature causing a strange colored glow to come into his body as he rends the head off the creature. This causes the gem to fall back into the satchel as it ejects from within him. Scars of seemingly jet black tears drag down his face.

He begins to dash through the forest as quick as he can, making his way back the way he came. He feels quicker than before. The gem has left part of the soul inside him. He roams the forest the rest of the day in search of animals to feast upon. He comes across a large stag. He watches as it bends its neck to chew some grass. Large and surely has enough meat to feed a few, the stag takes a defensive stance. It could smell him. Asun quickly whipped his arm causing his arm to be engulfed in darkness. The stag took a moment to react but began to charge at him. He threw his arm forward and launched the darkness at the stag. As it connected the stag stumbled and began bellowing in pain as the darkness burned into it harshly. He walks up to it and makes a slashing motion at the stag. A trail of darkness streams behind and wraps around the neck of the stag. Asun clenches his fist tight. The darkness quickly sinks into the flesh of the stag and removes its head. He takes out his little stone dagger and begins to peel the flesh away and cut out the meat to be eaten. He pulls all the meat he can off the stag and lays it on a rock. He collects wood quickly so he can make a fire to cook with. He starts up the fire and skewers the meat on sticks so he can roast the meat. He burns the meat slightly but he still eats it.

Full from his meal he slowly makes his way back to his area of rest. As he approaches he notices it seems that someone else has been there recently. He quickly takes a defensive stance. Out from the bushes comes a man cloaked heavily in a shiny material. The man has a big shiny stick on his back that resembles the little stone dagger that Asun carries. The man pulls it out and holds the end of it with both hands pointing it to Asun. Asun quickly pulls his little stone dagger out and grips it with an axious stance. The man quickly swings his weapon and Asun barely dodges. The weapon chops right through a log that was in the way and makes a large ting. The man quickly yells. "My sword will rend your puny flesh you evil creature. Asun smiles and replies back in a mighty roar. " I am not evil. If anyone is evil here it is you with your rampaging attitude." This sets the man off more and he begins rushing his swings trying to hit Asun. One connects and launches Asun into the air. Asun gasps as he is hit. He gains his balance in the air and whips his arms up and makes a replica of the man's weapon out of darkness. He slashes straight down at the man on his way down. The man blocks with his weapon and knocks Asun back. Asun lands on a tree and is now horizontal to the ground. The man yells out, "fire", as he thrusts his right arm forward launching a ball of fire at Asun. Asun reacts quickly and lunges from the tree. He slices the fireball away as he passes it to slice at the man.

The man dodges and grasps Asun and slams him down. " I will tear you asunder!" Yells the man. The man stabs down with his mighty weapon. Asun still dazed from the slam barely rolls out the way. The man keeps jabbing at Asun as he keeps rolling away. Asun eventually pops up from his rolling and bounces from tree to tree. The man is angry and starts slashing through the trees cutting them down. Asun launches from the wreckage with his large dark weapon and slices through the man. Asun lands and slides a few feet before he stops. The man quickly turns to slash at him but the collapses and falls in half causing his bodily fluids and insides to spew around him. Covered in the stag blood and the blood of this foe Asun pulls the darkness back inside him. He grabs the large weapon and the strap for it and equips it. He feels strange as if he knows how to use it. He feels like he has done it before. He shrugs it off and goes and washes up in the nearby pond. He goes to rest and he begins crying uncontrollably. After hours of crying he lays there awake for many hours. The sun had gone down twice before he had fallen asleep. He slept for three days and awoke on the fourth. He didn't want to do anything and couldn't figure out why.

He noticed the gem was touching his skin and he quickly put it back in the satchel. He wandered the forest passed the temple searching for way to reverse the stones effects on his soul. He ventured far and made it out of the forest and saw strange structures dotting the landscape. He made his way towards them. Some where clustered some were huge and distanced from the others. He made his way to the clusters. He passed a few of the huge ones on the way.