Okay, here goes my first fic with an OC in it….hope you guys like it!
Darkest Nyx
Darkness. Destruction. Chaos. Murder.
The words raced through the Irken's mind, never stopping. She sighed, and her SIR hopped up, sensing her distress.
"What's wrong boss?" she asked.
"Just worried about the mission….." Nyx sighed, leaning back in her pilot chair.
"Don't worry about it! The Tallest know what they're doing. It's not like they're sending you on a death mission or anything. And besides, you've already proved that you can conquer a planet-fighting some shadows shouldn't be any harder!" Mira said, grinning eagerly.
Nyx looked at her curiously. "You do know that we're not only fighting shadows, right? We're fighting they're masters, too."
"Yeah, of course I know that….but keep in mind that you're a Shadow Master too. That means you'll be able to bend the will of the shadows so they listen to you!"
Nyx glared at her SIR. "Did you even pay attention when the Tallest explained?"
Mira's mood dropped an inch. She spoke to her feet when she said, "…..not really…."
Nyx sighed. Now she'd have to explain about shadows again.
"Okay, I'll start from the beginning. Everyone has a shadow, and everyone can see it, right?"
"Right!" Mira said, listening for once.
"Well, some of us can control our shadows, and the shadows of others around us. They're called Shadow Masters. I'm a Shadow Master."
"No way." Mira said sarcastically. If Nyx wasn't a Shadow Master, she wouldn't have been assigned this mission.
"There aren't many Shadow Masters, and that is mostly because some don't know they are. Those who do know are thought of as strange, and most consider themselves outcasts. Some start groups so they can be together, and not stand out from the crowd."
Now they were getting into territory Mira didn't know.
"One of these groups kept itself secret for years, and only recently have we found out what its been up to. They call themselves Midnight Riders. The leaders are Shadow Masters, and they have a way of controlling normal people. They have created a machine that takes the shadow of a person, and are able to control the owners."
"How's that?" Mira asked.
"Well, you're shadow is you're other half, so if your other half was missing, you'd do anything to get it back, obey the captor, fight, even kill. The Midnight Riders want to capture as many shadows as possible, so they can eventually enslave the universe."
"Wow….when do we come into play?" Mira asked, trying to actually take in what she was hearing for once.
"Well, one of them, the main leader Jek, is the little bitc-"
"Language." Mira reminded.
"Grrrr….ok, he's the guy that ordered for Cyrus to be captured….." Nyx sighed.
"Who's Cyrus?" Mira asked, wondering why Nyx hadn't brought him up before.
Nyx's eyes clouded over, and she looked down.
"He's my fiancé." she whispered softly.
Mira's eyes softened. "Hey, it's ok, just tell me what happened so I can understand, kay boss?"
Nyx wiped her mismatched eyes (one was dark green, one was purple).
"Okay….Cyrus and I were going to be married. He's Irken to, by the way. We were two weeks away from the wedding, when he left for a trip. He didn't know he'd be taking it; some guy came to our house and told him where he'd be staying…he left soon, believing it was a vacation, given to him by the Tallest….but it wasn't. I called him…he didn't answer…I told myself maybe he wasn't allowed to have his phone on him….a week later, he still wasn't back. "
Some of the tears spilled, and Mira wiped them away, murmuring words of reassurance to her master.
"I decided to ask the Tallest about where he was…but when I asked them, they didn't know what I was talking about…later that day, they received a transmission from Jek that Cyrus and many other Irkens were being held hostage….they were going to be test subjects for a new p-project…"
Nyx cried into Mira's shoulder now, and Mira patted her on the back, crying a little too.
"…they were g-going to sever their shadows away…but, something w-went wrong….one of the machines wasn't hooked, or maybe they did it just to torment the Irkens watching…but anyway you p-put it….the machine malfunctioned…everyone of them was killed….I saw it all….I saw…my love die…."
"Oh, boss, I'm so sorry…I never knew…" Mira whispered, holding Nyx's hand as she sobbed. They stayed that way for a while, the ship driving on autopilot.
After almost a half hour, Nyx looked up from Mira's shoulder, eyes red and swollen. She had a deadly gleam in her eyes.
"He will pay. Jek will be punished for murdering them all. We're going to destroy him and all of the Midnight Riders, even if it takes the rest of my life, the rest of eternity even…."
As Nyx spoke, a shadow crawled out from under her chair. It was Nyx's, jet black in color with glowing green and purple eyes. The shadow wreathed around its master, eyes narrow and shining. Its mouth opened, and it said in synchrony with Nyx:
"We will have revenge."
