I'm back! And this one's gonna be goood! Got the first chapter here for you. Enjoy enjoy enjoy!!
Nightmare War
Chapter one, Fiery rainbows
The fireball thundered earthwards, shedding debris as it went. To any onlookers it would have appeared to be a meteor, an enormous lump of rock falling from the infinite vastness of space. But very few people are out at 4 AM, so the phenomenon went unnoticed.
As it approached the ground, the fireball picked up more and more speed, until it appeared to be nothing more then an orange streak in the sk, a rainbow of fire against the starless night.
The fireball met the ground at an angle, sending it skimming across the field like a stone across a pond and wherever it came into contact with the earth it left a scar of burnt grass and flying dirt. With each bounce there came a deadening crash that shook the leaves from the trees, but with nobody around to hear it, it might have well landed silent.
The object finally came to rest, flames still licking hungrily around it. The burning raged on, never ceasing, it seemed it would never stop, that it would burn forever at its resting place in the valley.
For a full hour nothing happened, the fire just lay into the meteor, burning itself out. Eventually the flames dwindled, and finally smouldered and dyed completely. As smoke rose into the dark sky something stirred within the meteor, something living, something trying to get out. The meteor, it seemed, was a pod of some kind.
Suddenly the pod exploded, sending shards of molten rock flying every which way. The force of the explosion sent hordes of dust and dirt leaping from their settlements, they hung in the air for a time, like a solid smoke. A gust of wind caught hold of the dust cloud and sent it off towards the blood-red ocean in the distance, the dirt and dust dancing in eerie patterns.
What the dust revealed was not pleasant to look at and even worse to meet in a dark alley. Long, talon-like claws curved from a disfigured, black hand. Two bony arms, each one covered with short, spiked horns, connected themselves to an armour-plated torso. On the palm of each hand was a circle, barley visible against the darkened skin. This was sign of the power manipulators, carried by only the most powerful creatures, enabling the owner the ability to use the very particles in the air to their advantage.
A forked tongue slid over two sets of dagger like teeth, stained with the blood of a thousand helpless victims. Where the lips should have been, however, there was nothing, the roots of the teeth were visible.
At the back of the creatures head were more spikes. The short and strait points covered the entire back of the creature from its head to its long, muscular legs. The revolting monster looked like the creation of some warped and twisted cartoonist, the sort of creature that looks like it's out to get someone… that was exactly what it was out for.
All across the surface of Turpell, homeworld to the Cantamates and legendary warrior The Tester, thousands upon thousands of these pods crashed to the gound and from each emerged a monster. This was an army, an army with invasion in their sights, blood on their teeth and murder in their minds.
It didn't take long for word to reach the Tester, but it was still too late. The Cantamates were great fighters and had held their own against the invaders but for every enemy defeated, another was waiting at the sidelines. His race was being overwhelmed and he knew it wouldn't be long before they fell.
It was clear what had to be done, for if the Cantamates fell, the invaders (who had fought against them many times but never with such power) would then set their sights on the other creatures of the galaxy.
The Tester turned his ship towards the place he knew he would find the only warriors that could best him, and therefore the only hopes to save his home and the rest of the galaxy… and blasted full speed toward Planet Mobius.
Well there's the start of it. Will our heros side with the Tester? Well of course they will! I wouldn't have a story otherwise now would I? R&R please guys, cheerio!