Death is only the beginning a Short Story by Erex

[Erex]

Death is only beginning What is death exactly, is it a phase of life, or is it something more? Something dark that lurks in the shadows? Nov’ra an Tey’talian from Desh’ade was walking through ancient ruins on his world. The ruins were thought to be haunted by the Demons from his civilizations dark past. His people used to worship an demon known as Nigrash, the Order of Nigrash is now a cult that is hunted. It’s said that this temple is the last of the Nigrash temples that feed on someone’s dark energy, an energy that runs through their veins in the form of black wine. While Nov’ra was searching through the temple he heard something call his name, something dark something evil was lurking in the shadows, something terrible. Then a dark shadow was behind him, calling his name, when he turned around it was a little girl, but he felt its evil presence, but didn’t know what to do. The presence was pure dark energy, when he ran, the little girl blocked the hallways and he couldn’t go past here. She opened her mouth and a deep guttural, evil voice came out of here, her jaw dropped to an impossible length showing her teeth, as if she was ready to feast on him, her fangs were large, and sharp she started to speak “You shouldn’t have come Nov’ra now you will pay the price, and now you will be my vessel for glorious conquest, now burn” Nov’ra was on fire when he awoken he no longer knew his name, when he looked in the mirror he noticed he realized himself, “I am Dvr, Dark Lord, conqueror of the universe, I shall conquer the weak, and enslave the strong, no one can harm me.” Within months the planet of Desh’ade was on its knees begging for mercy, he ordered his men to murder every child to ensure they couldn’t rise up. The parents were begging that they be killed instead, for on Desh’ade children were more important than the adults. The parents begged, and it was exactly what he wanted, he ordered his men to murder the parents, and all that was left was children, he then began to program these children that he was their father. 2 years later Desh’ade was ready for war, they amassed fleets of ships that could take on the galaxy, and the fleets were armed to the teeth. The galaxy was his to claim for a burden for glorious conquest, and to free them from their petty whims. He was prepared. To make the galaxy know that if you fought him, you will pay severely, he razed planet by planet, leaving no life, it was void of energy, you would feel sick being on the planet. It was a disturbing sight, the death toll amounted to the trillions, where ever this Dvr came, death followed him by the millions. 7 months of war, the galaxy surrendered, the death toll was countless. Only darkness prevailed, but there was a prophecy that the conqueror, would fall by a child. That child was his own flesh and blood. In his sleep his son took a knife and killed his father, bringing an end to his evil reign, his mother was murdered by this conqueror, and he wanted revenge. Revenge felt amazing to him, it made him feel alive, and now he was the leader of the galaxy, and yet he freed it. But they decided to follow him, creating the galactic Alliance of Systems, a democracy. Darkness was only the beginning.