The End of the Oblivion Symphony

Darkness Approaches

"All these years, and my project is finally coming to fruition!" bellowed the dark king as he approached a sinister machine.

The machine was a big turbine, with round flailing arms, spinning faster as the machine started up. The room was dark-lit. Hues of candles cast across the halls of the magical center of the castle. A humming was coming from the machine, casting a light from the center of the room. It glimmered, almost like a flashing strobe. The light flashed faster and faster until it became prominent. Slowly the humming grew louder, but it was subtle enough to hear other things around you. A few moments pass before a laser blasts into the sky, engulfed a dark aura 3 miles around the dark king's castle in all directions.

The ground starts to quake as the orb rips the castle and all the ground beneath it into the sky. Slowly onlookers in the distance looked in horror and disbelief as they witnessed the fortress of their once benevolent king rise into the heavens, surrounded in a sinister cloud.

"The king has gone mad!" exclaimed one citizen.

"What dastardly deed has he planned for our fair world this time!?" screamed another in horror.

Back inside the castle, the dark king is laughing. All of the things he has worked hard for, all the blood, sweat, and tears he and other people he directed put into this forthcoming, were going to change the world into darkness. Summoning forth creatures of incredible power and vast ability was just the first peril this world was to suffer. The world would know true pain. True horror. They will all hope for death.

"Sir Alexander!" yelled a knight in prestigious armor. "Our plan is a complete success." This man was the king's right hand man. The only one the king trusted, and that was saying a lot. The king cast his own son from the kingdom for merely being too inquisitive toward the direction of his father's ruling. "It's time to unfold part two of our long awaited plan."

"The time has come at long last! The world will know true darkness!" roared the king as he paraded to a lever at the end of the machine. His hand stretched for the lever, grasping it with immense grip. He threw the lever and laughed maniacally.

Out from the device jolted a beam of black, malicious light. The light torched the king in a fire of darkness, bestowing incredible power upon him. The king was only in slight pain, but it was nothing compared to the pain he had planned for the rest of the world. Then, from the onlooker's view from the outside of the castle, meteor-like objects were ejected from the castle into all parts of the world. When the objects fell, they made craters.

"What was that!?" cried one person as he approached one of the craters.

He gasped and collapsed from what he saw. For at the bottom of each crater, there was a portal to another plane. Creatures of darkness were spewing from the gaping holes. Each monstrosity was worse than the last. Some were disfigured. Some with horns. Others were ferocious beasts, ravenous and thirsty for blood.

A creature with the body of a strong man, torn outstretched wings, and a head of a triceratops grasped the man and yanked him closer. The man was stopped abruptly by a strong knee lodged in his stomach. He was then tossed into the air as another dragon-like fiend flew by and crushed his body in his jaw. Seeing the man getting devoured, the crowd became hysteric and ran for their lives.

"Now that the darkness is spreading, all we have left is to wait," explained the king as he threw his cape in a flourish turning to walk out of the room. "The world will soon tremble!"