Excerpt

Around golden eyes bright lights violently crashed into one another ripping clouds into pieces, shattering what was once so quiet and peaceful. Rainbows spilled colors like blood giving the skyline mixed signals and the wrong reasons to shine. The chaos had finally corrupted one of the most sacred places in the Astria Galaxy and only golden eyes were left standing, quiet and solemn, but not defeated. As he watched he shook his head slightly, he never thought that he would see the day the sky cried. He felt his aura leave him, taking the best part of him and locking it behind the black hole that would soon house the key to this world. All he could do was watch, as his eyes shifted one color to the next, mixed emotions creating the same tidal wave inside of him as the chaos did to his world.

He was sitting on the edge of a tattered cloud when he saw it: One by one, those with the power to see the magic, lost it and every trace of the colors vanished, now limited to the skies highest depths, awaiting the day to shine again.

The colors continued to splash across the sky in a haze of splotches and streaks. Then in the midst of the chaos, one large eye materialized on the horizon. The eye was outlined in gold and edged with golden spheres that glistened brighter than the light of the sun. The eye opened quickly to reveal a pupil that was a deep magenta with a midnight blue catlike slit in the center. It appeared to scan the world as it gave off a light red glow where it subsequently closed as quickly as it had opened. The red glow radiated brighter and poured into the skyline, engulfing the eye in its wake. Moments later the glow dimmed, until it vanished, leaving no trace of its visit.

As this happened, somewhere, a woman cringed as her ruby skin suddenly felt oddly chilling. Some parts of her skin had begun to glow an eerie metallic in the otherwise dim room. In the midst of her silvery hair, an object burned worse than fire. It was a pain like she never experienced before and in one instance her eyes shot open and she screamed.

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Pools of cerulean gazed upon the world of which they had been placed. This was the first time they had seen this world yet they were far from being the part of a child.

Thisthis place whispers swirled around the pools. This is where it will happenand where things of the past have happened then there was silence. Footsteps it whispered and quickly curled up in the nearest corner, letting the leftover shadows cover it, and closed its eyes so that all of it was hidden. The footsteps stopped a few inches from its hiding spot.

I know you are there, come out. I am a master of the shadows so I sense your presence; you are going to have to do better than that if you want to disappear. He smirked, his yellow-green eyes reflecting the bright sunlight. I could teach you. He added, an evil grin gracing his thin lips. It opened its eyes, the blue of them radiating with fury.

Go away. It whispered flatly. You are not my equal.

And you are hardly my master he smirked again, Now that we have our roles established, we can get back to the issue at hand. A short pause, Come out. He put his clawed hand on the wall that connected to the corner that it hid within. His hand lit up with a green glow and pulsed energy into the wall that glided along the spaces in between the bricks giving them a fuzzy haze. As it crept along the energy lit the space around the corner, tracing a circle in the bricks above its head and continuing for a while along the opposite wall. Its face was then lit up in a green glow, its grey skin barely distinguishable from the wall behind it. Thin black lips expressed extreme anger with every curve and then focus went from its lips to the rest of its face. Wait a minute. His eyes widened a moment, You cant be! and he took his hand from the wall, instantly dispersing the light into a smoke that faded into the air. But you ARE. The smile upon his lips widened to show his fangs and thoughts raged through his mind as he stood there, quietly plotting to himself.

How DARE you! it suddenly hissed as a black smoke began to radiate off of its figure. Didnt I tell you to GO AWAY?! And with a swipe of its hand, it let off a ball of smoke straight for his head.

Hey! he muttered as he ducked just in time to hear the smoke whoosh by his right ear. Then as he turned he saw two more hurtling towards him. Pushing his weight onto his back leg, he leaned on it, barely missing one, the other he pushed up, rolling his weight, jumping over it. Rolling on the ground he found himself dodging a fog of smoke balls. Some of them hit his pale green skin, and like hot tar, stuck to him and burned. AlrightENOUGH! he shouted, as he took the arrow pointed end of his tail and hit the next incoming ball, which turned and flew straight back to its origin.

It held a hand up and caught the spherical smoke and instantly absorbed the energy back into itself as the smoke mixed with the air and vanished. Its moves were quick and yet graceful all the same. As soon as the energy was absorbed it brought its arm back around and with a single forceful swipe extracted the energy in a trail of black smoke that ignited the ground around the man like a suffocating fire.