• Its hard to imagine that only three weeks ago i was leading a normal life, had normal friends and actually had a girlfriend. All that has changed since the Dark Ones arrived...

    I was walking home from school on a particularly snippy day during mid Winter. I had just crossed a road when I heard a shriek definitely female coming from inside a house that was close by. My first instincts where to run away and leave the woman to deal with whatever it was that was happening. But I had been raised better than that by my father a has been cop that now drank his sorrows away after my mom died. I walked slowly to the back of the house and peeked though a window and saw something that i shouldnt have.

    The memory of it was burned into my head and i can never get it out. The woman was on the floor in what appeared to be a kitchen. There was something.. i still can't really describe what it was. But something with a dark mist coming out from its hood that circled the woman. Her skin dried instantly and she looked like an old woman. The creatures head cocked up a notch and slowly turned towards me. I saw the serated teeth in its mouth, it had no nose and there where deep gouges in its flesh that the mist came out of. But worst of all the eyes... the thing is there weren't any it was just empty sockets with tears of blood permanently coming out in a steady stream. I screamed and ran....

    I didn't know how long i ran for i just know that the only reason i stopped was because I had run out of breath and was gasping for the sweet sweet air. After a while i wondered what i had seen but nothing came to mind. All i know was i saw something horrible that never should have been seen. I also know that even without eyes it had seen me and knew me inside and out.

    I kept running at a slower pace and got about halfway through town before i got a prickly feeling up my spine. Someone was following me and i didn't even have to look to know what it was. But just to be sure i spun arouns in a quick 180 and ran backwards. What i saw almost made me fall on my a** screaming for mercy. There where about 10 of the cereatures now fanned out in a line floating towards me with great menace.

    They almost caught up to me before i felt a hand on my arm and i was being pulled in the other direction. I looked behind me and saw a glowing figure. At first i thought it was an angel but later i learned it was something called an Ix. It pulled me farther and farther from the figures. Even though it wouldnt matter considering they had stopped chasing us anyways. They had stopped right after the Ix had started pulling me away.

    About two hours later i founf myself in forest with the Ix it started chattering to me in a singsong voice. But i couldnt make out the words. It nticed i couldnt understand this so it switched to english.
    " WHY WHERE THEY CHASING YOU!?!?!"
    the Ix had asked me i barely registered what it had said before it started rambling again
    " THEY SHOULDN'T EVEN BE HERE ON THIS GOD FOR SAKEN ROCK YOU CALL EARTH!"
    I didnt understand why the creature was screaming at me so i just said something simple
    " what are... they?"
    I said this in a whisper thinking they might show up if i talked to loud.


    THEY ARE THE DARK ONES!!!" He screamed at me. I had figured it was a he because of the booming voice it had.
    "what are the dark ones?"
    "OH RIGHT YOU'RE STUPID KIND DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE YET DO THEY?"
    I nodded sailently hoping it would tell me what they are...

    END OF PART ONE