"Timpani! What did you do with her? I must see her!" Blumiere cried as he burst into his father's study.
He had just gone to see his love, Timpani, but when he got to their arranged meeting location, she wasn't there. They had agreed to meet so that they could leave and marry, so he knew something was severely wrong when she didn't show.
"Still your tongue, Blumiere... Can't you see you've been duped by a dirty human?" Blumiere's father calmly replied, sitting at his desk.
Blumiere shook his head in frustration. He had tried so hard to hide his love for Timpani from his father before. He knew that his father hated humans.
"You have brought shame to my name... And to the entire Tribe of Darkness!" His father's temper was rising. He didn't put up with disobedience from anyone in his tribe, especially not from his own son.
Blumiere answered in a storm of rage. "And so what if I did? That doesn't matter to me! She's my entire world!"
Blumiere's father stood and faced his son, taking no notice to his ignorance. "Well, then it will interest you to know... That she no longer resides in this world."
Blumiere stammered in utter disbelief, taken aback by his father's words. "What... What do you mean by that?" Tears began to swell in his eyes.
His father sighed. Blumiere just didn't understand. "This is the price those who resist their own fate must pay, my son."
He had warned the girl not to come back after he caught Blumiere sneaking out one night, after realizing what they were up to.
Blumiere's tears began to flow from his eyes, wetting his monocle. "She... No... It can't be so!" He didn't want to believe... He couldn't believe that she was gone!
"Someday you will see, son. Our kind and humans must never mix."
Blumiere ran out of the room, ignoring his father, desperate for his loved one.
Blumiere's father remained standing next to his desk and shook his head. He will have to learn sooner or later... He sat down again at his desk, before realizing what his son would do now. His eyes opened wide as he stood again and started running towards Blumiere.
"Blumiere, my son, don't! Even your ancestors could not handle that dark book..."
Blumiere's father caught up to his son in the chamber containing one thing: the Dark Prognosticus. Blumiere had already taken the book off of its pedestal, and was fingering it in his gloved hands. Tears were still falling from his eyes.
"If you open it... There's no telling what might happen!" Blumiere's father cautioned his son.
Blumiere stared up at him with eyes that were bloodshot and filled with anger, nearly scaring him.
"I do not care, father! A world without her is empty. A LIFE without her is empty."
Without waiting for him to respond, Blumiere turned open the pages of the dark book he held in his hands, without thinking of the consequences. All he wanted was for this horrifying universe to be gone forever, the universe that took away his beloved Timpani.
"Speak, Dark Prognosticus! Teach your dark history! I await your command!"
BLEH HEH HEH! BLECK!"
He cackled as he took in the power the Dark Prognosticus had to offer.
"Blumiere... What have you done?" His father asked quietly, shocked and dismayed as he stood in the doorway, watching the entire ordeal unfold.
"Silence! The first prophecy beckons. I will erase every inch... Of this blasted world!" Blumiere lunged forward, knocking his father to the floor.
"Blu-Blumiere! Don't do this! Blumiere!" His father tried to reason with him, but he soon realized that he could only lay there and watch in horror.
"Blumiere is no more! I am Count Bleck! And no one shall stand in my way!"
Count Bleck raised his sapphire staff, summoning his energy, preparing for one single, powerful attack to fulfill EXACTLY what he said he would do.
"BLEH HEH HEH! BLECK!"
