Hey there! This is my first authored story. Hope you'll like the plot even if I put a lot of words in them. Just try to read will all your might...

Just kidding! Read as you wish... (I'm so nervous!)

Disclaimer: I do not own The Law of Ueki

Prologue

From the Depths of the Lake

The moon shone brightly over a wide, deep lake in the middle of a dense forest. Its water was very still as if frozen, and also it was black. No signs of life can be spotted and the banks were dry and cracked. Any traces of civilization were miles away – the trees surrounding the lake were thick and tall, and were very close to each other that only the smallest of animals could penetrate through it. But still nothing did. The lake, uninhabited and unexplored, wasn't a place where people enjoyed swimming or where they took water. It wasn't where animals stopped to refresh themselves. It was something else…

As peaceful as the water was, the lake gave a feeling of death and suffering. The silence was full of deafening screams of agony and anguish. There was no life. Light only came from the moon, which was reflected clearly on the smooth surface of the water.

A faint purple light suddenly originated from the depths of the water at the center of the lake. It was gloomy and it gave an ominous glow. At first it was feeble as, if someone had dropped a flashlight through the liquid. But it continued to grow brighter and brighter. Something was rising from the lake. It came to a point where it was as if lightning struck the body of water – enormous beams of light were already escaping through the black surface. Whatever it was that was rising was almost out.

A bubble popped.

It was immediately followed by a myriad of bigger ones that sent splashes water flying through the air. The faint glow was no more – the light was already blinding. Wind howled furiously throughout the forest making trees outrageously twist and leaves rustle. A few black birds zoomed away from the woods and gave off loud shouts of warning. They knew that it was coming.

The sky was instantly covered with thunderous clouds that also completely covered the moon. Lightning broke and thunder roared breaking the wide silence that laid over the lake. At once, the whole area seemed to have been under a terrible storm – the black waters of the lake now seemed like an ocean full of angry, powerful waves; wind continued to blow harder than ever so that even a few trees had been uprooted; and worst of all the ground shook immensely and a loud rumbling was added to the noise.

A vast beam of light finally completely penetrated the lake and continued to rise endlessly towards the stormy sky. All conditions became worse and more grievously intense. As the light grew brighter, the water at the center of the water rose with great force.

There had been something that had just come out of the water.

When all of the water had finally cleared from the thing that had emerged from the depths of the lake, the light subsided a little revealing what seemed like a purple-glowing sphere, which seemed to have been the source of the immense light. With all of the disastrous ruckus that occurred at its surroundings, it looked like a sun at the middle of a great storm. It gave off a deadly aura and an enormous amount of energy was felt coming from it.

Slowly, the light grew weaker and weaker until the sphere of energy only gave off a bright purple glow. Lines subtly appeared on the surface of the sphere, following a vertical pattern. But after a while they became more distinct and thicker, as if they were carved. The sphere opened slowly following the lines that had just formed, and as it happened the light diminished until darkness took over. The wind had stopped howling, the earth was still once again, the sky returned to peace and the dark clouds thinned quickly until a clear night sky had shown.

When moonlight hit that something that came from the lake, it was no longer a giant ball of light – instead, a tall, dark, slim figure took its place. It looked like a person but there was just something that didn't make it quite human. It was standing on the water, which was now still as it was before the light appeared, as if it was studying its new surroundings. A pair of sharp, pointed eyes glistened from its head and immediately, it floated higher from the water. When it was already at a considerable altitude to perfectly examine the environment around, it rotated its body slowly to survey the dark lake and forest wherein he was floating. Although the moon only gave feeble light, it was enough for the strange being to see every little detail. It could nevertheless see in complete darkness.

Its eyes wandered toward the moon and a subtle twisted smile had appeared on its face. A hoarse, triumphant laugh erupted from the being, his voice was low and was mannish and somehow, the voice sounded evil. His laughter echoed gravely all throughout the thick forest.

He gained altitude again and but this time, the water below him was trembling immensely. His laughter died away and a intent glare was seen on his face. He faced north and charged for it. As if he had just been catapulted from the black waters of the lake, he flew at an incredible speed leaving a path of destruction in his wake – water vaporized into thin air and plants withered and died. So as he departed from the dense forest, he left the whole ground full of petrified, dead trees.

Hmmm... who could this strange guy be?

well, i guess we'll find out together...at the next chapters (hopefully)...