The Truth Within the Darkness
By: Spice
Prologue
It was dark and cold and quiet. This lonely place I dwelled in. I wasn't aware of much here and my mind and memories where dull from the length of time I spent sealed away in my self made prison. Never did I truly know how much time passed as I slept on neither did I realize why I had sealed myself away. Time and rationality stopped for me and so too did my sense of self. I became scarred and worried that eventually I would forever lose who I was and what I was. These thoughts plagued my mind nearly every second I slept, when it didn't occupy my mind I thought of nothing.
I didn't know how many years I slept in this freezing, cold, desolate place, that was until a disturbance occurred. I didn't notice anything different at first, so far gone I was in my slumber, until the cold went away and was replaced with a burning heat. Where once the only sound I could hear was the fierce wind blowing at random times, now I could hear voices. These voices were many and odd to my liquid filled ears and I had trouble understanding what was being said. I tried and tried to understand but after all this time alone and asleep made my understanding of languages nearly none existent, the sounds of the voices and the words they spoke greatly confused me. All I could tell was that there were males and females around my self made prison of crystal-like stone.
As I warmed up more and became more aware, I felt an intense urge to be free of my crystal prison. I can't really recall what happened next, all I remember was an intense, eye searing white light, then a explosion of sound, then blissful darkness as I fell unconscious. I next awoke to the same blinding light of a world outside my crystal prison which surprised the beings that where standing near what was left of my crystal prison, I surprised them when I had awoken once again. Five of the beings surrounded my person so after speaking rapidly in a language I couldn't understand. 'What are these beings?' 'Why are they so loud.' 'Leave me alone!'
I freaked out at all the noise and the lack of space around my person that I did the first thing my instincts told me to do, I lashed out towards the beings, screaming my fear loudly which caused the beings to step back quickly for fear of becoming injured by my long, curved, sharp, red claws. Suddenly there was a being in front of them with a black, shinny object pointed at me, I didn't know what it was called until much later, and out of it came a small, rounded, fast object that pierced my scaly, hard, black skin in which I roared in agony at the pain that little object caused. All I saw was a crimson red cover my vision and then the blackness of losing consciousness once again. When I came too a third time I noticed one of the beings was dead, decapitated and covered in long, angry, red slashes, and that my claws were soaked in blood. I knew right away that it had been myself that was responsible for the being's death and regretted it immensely. I turned to the other beings that were still watching me with fear and crooned out in a small, quiet, voice that I was sorry for the death of one of their own. They jumped in surprise at the noise I made and looked at me weirdly. I noticed that they didn't understand what I was saying just like I couldn't understand them, so I got up on unsteady hind legs and moved toward the being's dead body and started nuzzling it, licking it clean and making it look the way it did before my claws had gotten into it's skin. I turned my muzzle up at the other beings and started pushing the body toward them with my ears laid flat on my head in a submissive gesture.
It was the old looking male that understood what I was trying to tell them first. He moved his clawless appendage onto one of the other being's shoulder in what I could only guess was supposed to be reassuring. It was then that I noticed the smell of salt water which caught me by surprise. I looked up and saw that the small, slender female of the pack had the salty smelling water going down her huge, green eyes. I stopped pushing the dead being toward them and started moving toward the female instead. The female and the other beings noticed this and stopped moving for fear of setting me off once again, the other beings in the room that I hadn't noticed before took out more shinny, black objects like the other one had. The old odd smelling male noticed this and spoke in that strange language to the beings holding the shooting thingies to put them away or at least I think that's what the male told them, as they put away the shooting thingies.
I continued moving toward the female who had become so afraid of me that she had fallen to her knees because her legs couldn't support her anymore. It only took me a few seconds to reach her where she kneeled on the ground shaking like a leaf. I moved my head up to her face and started licking off the tears hoping she would understand what I was trying to say. 'Please stop leaking salt water from your eyes.' I moved my clawed hands and grabbed her moving her closer to my form so I could move my muzzle up to her head of long, smooth, soft fur she had on her head. I started nuzzling her odd fur that was on her head in what I hoped she realized as a gesture of bonding. Luckily she did and started relaxing as I continued to groom my new pack mate. The other beings looked in awe and disbelief at my actions. I didn't quite notice though as my eyes where in the female's fur still nuzzling her. Deep in my throat I made little purrs and growls indicating that I liked her and didn't see her as a threat. The other two beings that smelled funny moved closer to study me more. It was the old being with the odd smell moving a little too fast that I saw that caused me to stop grooming the female and growl at the incoming male. This caused the female to turn around to face me and start cooing at me in a soft, sweet voice that I finally calmed down to allow the two male beings to come closer than what I was comfortable with.
Hey guys how do you like this so far. Should I continue with this story? This story was born from my love of Final Fantasy 7 series so it is a fan fiction of sorts while being an AU story. Please leave a comment or a review.
