Ok, this is my first story so don't be too harsh on poor little me. And I know the title could have been a lot more original, but I got lazy. This first chapter really doesn't have much to do with the Hylden Queen. If you skip most of it then you won't miss much if you played BO2…aww, then what's the point? I promise it'll get better! I hope it's not to stupid of a story like my sister says it'll be, but here goes nothing…without further ado, here it is, The Hylden Queen…
The Hylden Queen
In the bowels of a prison, they let their hatred grow. Where no time passes, where torture frequents all of its inmates, they let the decay settle in there hearts. Where the goal was once purification, corruption now reins. In the eternal prison, she watches as no progress is made…
In her cell, she sees it all begin. A crocked smile graces her solemn, beautiful features, they cannot hold her back for much longer now…
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Kain smirked, at the ghost. How could she even begin to think he would give his life up? What had the world ever sacrificed for him?
Kain knew what was to happen next, this drama was the only thin to see behind closed eyes, and slowly it was driving all other memories out. He wondered how many times before that was all he could see, the sight of magnificent pillars, once tall and proud, brought crashing down upon themselves by one man's refusal. How long until he could speak only those words spoken before the decision that Nosgoth would be his? And how long, he wondered most of all, until he did not wake at all?
At this last thought, images of a strange woman clad in a royal blue with foreign markings about her face flashed through his mind, shocking his eyes open. For a moment, he merely stared up at nothing before absorbing his consciousness.
"Good evening…"Kain sat up, clutching at his throbbing head. He glanced up. So the girl was real and, presumably, knew him. Further small talk escaped the stranger's mouth, but nothing of consequence. Kain surveyed his surroundings. At one point in its probable short life, the room must have been fashioned for a nobleman, though its once elegant features were now riddled with years of decay. His surroundings were by no means familiar.
"Where am I? I don't recall…"
"Yes…" said the woman as if coming to a conclusion "they said your memory would be effected by your long slumber." The woman paused to give Kain the once over as he had now gotten to his feet. "I am Umah, and I am her to help. Know this, your name is Kain and you were once a great general-"
"I know my name." He had heard his named being called to many times by that damned ghost to forget it.
"Then do you also remember your nature?" continued Umah, apparently un-phased by Kain's rude interjection.
"Of course…" Kain sneered and flashed long white fangs as he followed Umah out on to a balcony.
"You are in Meridian, the currant capital," she stated to answer Kain's original question. "And this is what has become of Nosgoth…" Umah finished making a large gesture with her arms to include the whole view their perch had to offer. The view, however grand it might have been, was mostly obscured by industrial smog. When Kain said nothing, she continued. "You have been asleep for two hundred years, in that time much has changed. Since your down fall, the Sarifen have reestablished power and vampires have been hunted mercilessly and the Sarifen lord, he who wrote your ending, rules it all."
Kain needed no reminding of his defeat, the very mention of it made Kain burn with anger. "Show me to this Sarifen Lord and he will be dead within the night!"
"If it were that easy, we would have killed him ourselves, in your current state, you would be lucky to make it past just one of his vampire servants…!"
"Vampires in service to the Sarifen? Are they mad? What ever happened to the natural order of things? Vampire praying upon human!"
"That is what we are trying to reestablish by undermining the rule of the Sarifen. And destroying the Sarifen Lord will do just that…"
"You sound so sure that killing the Sarifen lord will topple the foundations the Sarifen have built upon…"
"He is their only source of leadership they have, it will destroy the Sarifen. Have patience Kain, you shall have your revenge, but first we feed..."
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Her eyes glowed green in the darkness, a grim reminder of her rightful heritage, and an eternal reminder of her hatred for them. Soon, very soon now, they would find that which they call 'the eternal prison' could never stand eternity… She smirked; those who imprisoned her would feel her wrath at last.