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Path To Darkness, Light and Dark Part 1:

 

The dark winds blowed through my hair

I gazed past the mountains

I turned up my head to swallow some rain

There I stood in front of the cave

It was power that greeted me

Insanity constantly gripped my mind

I searched for years, gone down my own path

The path of darkness

The curropt power tainted my soul

Persuaded my mind lulled me in

It was finally time to enter the cave

And collect the power for my darkness

I took the first step in

The cave wascold and eerie

I descended downward following the winding cave

There in my heart I could feel it

The tendrils of darkness enveloped me

My soul grew even thicker

Power raced in my veins

Emotion sank into my heart abandoned

The weight of all others gone

Each aetheric cord severed

I was born anew

At the end of a cave lay a stone tablet

"Freed from thine eartly shakles

"Humanity lost, no emotional battles

"These words will bless you

"In an unholy way, born new

"1000 years of despair cast. On the planet

"With no human to stop it

"You sall rule and serve your own

"The darkest star will now be shown"

I finished the inscriptions aloud

Again I felt the dark my body lifted into the air

The earth shook, an earsplitting sound came forth

I stepped out slowly to reveal my kingdom

Rain grew more severe and I saw the darkest star

The sun was black, with a cold heat

My new empire was a black world of night

I achieved it all through

My path to darkness

Looking down at my domain I smiled

Then watcching to see a new happening

A man clad in black, almost invisible rose from the ground

He turned to me eyes dark with misery

"Thank you for winning me my domain"

I threw my hand out, he flew off the mountain

"This is my planet, my darkness"

He levitated in air, turned to me

His arms grabbed air

My body began to feel crushed

"Your power is from me fool"

I was slammed to the ground

"Asteron king of evil shall rule

"But you had good spirit, name?"

My head raised, spirit crushed

So much power, weak in his shadow

"Cross, lawrence cross"

He left me lying in the dirt as he flew

I layed there for hours defeated.

My new power did not protect me

From the emotional turmoil of this humility and defeat

A meteor fell from the heavens

It put off a shining white light

At first I saw a human shape

I felt something strange. Another lapse in my power

Hope

I had to know what it was..........

 

 

Turning Point, Light and Dark Part 2:

 

It was the first light in hours since the darkness

My power humiliated

I stood above the crater looking down

The darkness did little to vanish my curiosity

It appeared from the distance humanoid

I approached taking fast steps

My glory was interupted and shattered

Revenge shall be struck at any who stood

The figure rose from the ground slowly

As I got near it

"She" looked at me

Long brown hair flowing down her back

The ground around her was burnt

She was shorter than I, with a thin body

Her eyes held years of wisdom

She appeared a yound maiden but felt much older

Her beauty struck me, pretty as a goddess

Though clad in nothing she held a dagger

We walked towards eachother

She gave off an inviting warmth

Her and outstretched, she grasped my neck

Suddenly her aura changed

It was powerful and menacing

Pain shot through my body

I was pushed into a near tree

It splintered from force but I felt no pain

"You did this" her voice echoed, sweet and frightening

"Are you aware even of what?"

" I did it to gain gods power"

"You released asteron and traded the world

"For naught but weak power"

My power was all but weak now

"He humiliated me I shall strike back, take this land

Her grip tightened choking me

" how your power is weak

Darkness cannot overcome light

Only live where light is not"

I was released, and landed on my knee

She smiled at me and the pain receded

Her aura becoming warm again

"I shall show you light for a moment"

My body then grew light

The womans lips were on mine

When they left I was assaulted by heart

The darkness left me

My power grew stronger but different

Warmth flooded my body

A tear fell from my eye

I felt what id never felt before

Happy

In a moment again it all vanished

My heart again was cold and heavy

I was weak and vulnerable

"You felt the power needed to stop this"

In an instant I was a changed man

"I am the goddess alevia"

I realized the folly of my actions

"Now come with me......."

 

 

 

Bewitching Beauty, Light and Dark Part 3:

 

Though the world was black

She gave off a precious light

As she led me hand in hand

I hadn't an idea where were to go

For only recently was it clear

I had to stop asteron with some great power

Power from the light

Her presende was ever great

Regardless her physical stature

She led me for hours

Until my steps grew heavy and slugginsh

"We shall stop here for a rest

"In this form I am ever vulnerable" she muttered

A small camp was set up fire lit

I gazed meekly up at her

I sat while she stood

"Why did you come to earth?"

"Because I was needed"

Her mystery undoubtedly attracted me as much as her appearence

It was clear she saw my fear and humility

She sat down next to me and gazed into the fire

"Why is it you veiw me as such a great being"

"You're a goddess who nearly killed me"

She smiled this time I knew it was real

"In this form I am weak

"Easily you coulve overtaken me why not?"

"It wouldn't have made a good impression"

She eyed me and I turned away

Unknowingly reddened

"Still the humility of your loss rings clear"

I looked down serious again

"But now you live a stronger man"

She clasped my hand

A pang of affection rang through me

Easily seen by her eyes

"Though your true strength shall come"

A splatter of ran hut me from above

Soon it began again to rain

It was hard to imagine a black sun

One that still gave off heat

But now the sun was a full moon.

Soon our fire was doused

Alevia was shivering slightly

Her hand quivered in mine

Although it seemed she was a goddess proud.

Too proud to admit her weakness

I had known her little

Yet still I felt a rising affection

It seemed just a simple lust

As a goddess she could easily have that effect

Stories common told

A goddess has beauty to bewitch mortal men

I wanted not to be lulled in

An obvious bewitching

Still I knew the scent and feel of magic

This had neither

It did feel a natural attraction

Perhaps she was truly just beautiful

And she spoke with an intelligence rarely seen

I covered Avevia in my jacket

She smiled.....

 

 

 

The Zenith, Light and Dark Part 4:

 

The midday sun reached the zenith

I trailed slightly behind alevia

I had long since given up the notion

That she had been bewitching me

Not I truly beleived in her beauty

But the more appeal she had the greater her mystery

I quickened my stride to match her own

"What is it you wish to ask of me?"

My mouth had yet to open, I grinned

"Who are you?"

"I am who I say I am

"Goddess alevia, she who commands energy

She who gave reiki to mortalsm"

Her mystery grows in her answers.

I found myself inexplicably drawn closer to her

"Why are you here?"

"Can you not see cross lawrence?

You are no humble peasent nor holy saint

Many things have ill stricken you"

She said no more

"Than I have a goddess to aid me?

"I suppose her beauty would be to win me over?"

We shared a quiet laugh

It was then I was taken by surprise

She grabbed my wrist and pulled me close

Her face hardly inches away

Her hair fell over my shoulder

It ccovered me in a sweet scent

Her amrs wrapped around my back

My breathe became heavy.

She looked up face turned into mine

Just as my arms were around her she pushed free

"My beauty can do more than win you over"

She smiled too wickedly to be a goddess

I let out a half sigh regaining my composure

"When taken by surprise perhaps"

She danced up to me and grabbed my hand

And pulled me down the road

We walked for the good of a minute

"When I win you over it shall be no surprise

"You shall be aware and enjoy it

"And be powerless to stop it"

Even if a simple tease

It was too strong for me

I had known her for hardly a day

And yet I was harboring emotions for her

I smiled fondly to myself

She replied by squeezing my hand

Instantly I became aware again

Almost 10 men were approaching us

Each of them carried a bloodlust

A group now barred our path

8 men formed a ragged bandit patrol I shall make quick work off all of them

A 9th apparated in the middle

He gave ppff a powerfull dark aura

Even I recognized his strength

Alevia turned to me

"We fight tgether"

She kissed my cheek "good luck"

 

 

 

Dimming of Sight, Light and Dark Part 5:

 

“Cover your eyes Lawrence,

“To see what I am to do would destroy you”

Her very words held a strictness I couldn’t break

“face the leader of these men

“I shall stop these ones”

A cold breeze fluttered through the forest we stood in.

The men each armed with a various amount of tools

Stood snickering on the path.

No ordinary bandits were they

“Alevia they outnumber you,

“I wouldn’t put a woman in a danger like this”

She twitched irritably “an honorable thought

“now my dearest defender, avert your eyes”

My eyes went to the ground, a light cascaded across the floor

Erasing all shadows, but in no harmful way

The light alone warm, so unusual to this darkness that rains down

It was almost as if seeing the light induced my affection.

Dawning on me the thought came

The light was meant to induce affection

Tis why my eyes were cast downwards by her words

And as if at once the light was sucked away and nothing returned from something

Eight men of nine were fallen to the ground

Eyes shut tight, mumbling something softly

One of the nameless men called out to my goddess

“I love you” an honor he had no right of

As I thought I realized the affectionate feeling bore little effect on me

In the way I thought of her as mine

A word no man has to call a woman before she herself allows

But the time was nigh to find such words

As one man stood amongst the sniveling

A man so lost in the shadows

That not even the strongest light could pierce through him

Upon what next my eyes beheld

My body would act without my mind

What I knew as a dark missile raced towards Alevia

And my own magic reached out and stopped it

Denying my own free will to save her

The missile was broken in the air

Turing my head rose and I smirked

“pay you shall for what you’ve done”

Wind whistled past my hair

And every droplet of water from night’s last rain scattered from my clothes

And struck him like needles.

What power I would have respected now was dwarfed

By the will to defend

And the body which would once have been mine

Now lay destroyed upon my feet

For that moment my mind was on the glory of such victory

Until I turned to look at alevia

For a moment I thought I had seen attraction in her eyes

But perhaps mistaken was i

As I could now see so clearly she was proud

My newfound powers stemmed already from her own light

I cared not, for my power had grown

I was broken from this power lustful trance by alevias words

“I have already told you, you would find yourself enjoying me

“but alas I am not a woman without a bit of a indecisiveness

“prove worthy yourself of my truest light

“and the false light of lust will cease to be in your eyes “for only I shall be in your eyes

“I shall command your sight”

Words like hers are always so mysterious

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