Authors note :
Hey guys this is the first of the many mini stories I wrote and will write
i know i said i wouldn't write any new stories and i'm holding to that promise
If i do start there i'll end up with dozens of crazy scenarios that i'll want to write
but for now they'll be one shots to be written out as full stories in the future
Hopefully you enjoy it
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The bright lord had played many roles in his time
an elven lord, a smith, a father, a husband, a prisoner , a vengeful enemy, a wraith
A mortal ranger, a warrior,a vengeful father, a conqueror he was all these things and many more but not a hero
no for all the good he's done he has never claimed that title, it simply wasn't his role to play
while he's saved the world from darkness he never did it for the goodness in his heart
It always came from the desire to gain something, a lot of the time it was vengeance but it was something
He conquered, well enslaved would be a more fitting term the ruthless Orc/Uruk tribes that besieged middle earth
He aided the slaves taken by the Orcs and gave them freedom
He united the darkness of mordor when it fell and spread about after the fall of their dark lord
It should have ended then but there was darkness within the power as with all things power comes at a price
The bright lord was made up of two but as the war raged on their bond became stronger,
but their ring wanted only one master
The Uruks shouted out they served the Bright Lord
Just as the ring liked it, it was such a delightful feeling to be worshiped
Over time as its power grew and it gained dominion over the minds of more people its desire only grew stronger
Talion and Celebrimbor forged their new ring of power to combat Sauron's ring of power
Sauron's darkness with their light
When the darkness fell the light claimed dominion,
It liked it that way
It did not see darkness as acts so vile,
no it saw all that followed as light
And
all that opposed as the darkness it fought
When the time came to destroy the ring as Talion and Celebrimbor were weary and ready to rest
they removed the ring and made the preparations necessary
Only to be attacked by their own most loyal uruks
Uruks - "Protect the bright Master"
The bright lord's most loyal and most powerful attacked him
each a warchief of great renown all capable warriors battle tested and able killers
Talion - " I am the Bright Lord You damned Fools"
Talions strength was matched against the power of the wielder of the blade he was blocking
Uruk - "Ther is nly one Bright Lorrd an you ain it"
Talion was confused but most of all feeling drained
having worn the ring and leaned on its power for so long to be without left him feeling feeble
Talion - " Celebrimbor what is happening"
Talion was not panicking but he did feel worry as the ring falling into another's hand could be a great danger to middle earth
Celebrimbor - "Talion quick kill them and finish the ritual the ring it's consuming me, it knows what we planned for it and is draining me to take my power"
But it was too late Azgoth the Wise one of the Bright Lords most accomplished commanders reached out and plucked the ring
Azgoth listened to his master calling to him requesting his aid to serve him loyally and wear the ring
He pushed the ring into his finger and felt a great force course throughout his body digging into his mind and reaching out into the depths of his very being
He did not fight it, no he embraced it as he had always done serving the Bright Lord was his purpose
The True Bright Lord took hold over Azgoth's mind and his body
A blue glow was spreading out around him covering him in an ethereal flame
Talion was in shock seeing the way things had turned against him after years of ruling as the bright Lord
The Bright Lord walked across the room towards Talion who broke his sword clash with the other warchief and turned swinging his blade
But it was futile The Bright Lord reached out and Grabbed hold of the blade
Talion grunted and exerted force to no effect then quickly dropped hold of it and reached out to his dagger to go for an underhand stab
Which was countered also, the bright lord reached out and simply took hold of the offending limb and dropped the blade with the other
He forced talion to his knees and pushed his left arm wielding the ring unto his face and growled out "You..are Not The Bright LOrd"
He began to tear away at every fragment of Celebrimbor and consumed them
When Celebrimbor faded Talions spirit left his weary bones
The Bright Lord raised Talions body and Laid it out then plucking the ring from Azgoth's finger he placed it back onto Talions finger
While the Bright Lord may live within his ring he still desired his own body and the one he chose was the one inhabited by his maker
He desired to have the very fingers that had forged his essence be his own as he had always seen it be
Talions eyes opened Blazing a blue so pure it light up the room he stood within
For a being so bright the smirk on his face couldn't have been darker
And so began the reign of the true Bright Lord a man 'forged' by the purpose of its creation
Made to subjugate the world's darkness and rule it for the light
The Bright Lord had held no Name Prior only his title but he would carve it into the very echelons of existence
The Bright Lord looked on at his loyal followers the strongest Uruks in all Middle Earth
Forged by the darkness of Mordor and broken by his light then remade to serve the light, to serve the Bright Lord
Azgoth - "Master we are ready, what are your orders oh Bright Master"
The Bright Lord basked in the praise for a time feeling their devotion and fealty course through him
Bright Lord - "Rally the armies and raise the Uruks for the War to come, When this ends Your Lord Will Rule All"
The Uruks grinned and shouted out exclaiming in joy to engage in a grand war was what they had desired since the end of the last
Middle Earth fell to the Bright Lord, first fell the Realms of men as their castles were taken and their strongholds broken
Rohan stood Bravely but the thousands of Caragors and Grougs fighting alongside the Uruk invaders broke their Cavalries Charges never allowing them victory
Gondor was the last to Fall but it too fell prey to the Bright Lord's Ambition
Though the Realms of men feared extinction the people were not slaughtered
They were subjugated and enslaved by the Bright Lord who used them to bolster his armies increasing his numbers
The fall of the hobbits was swift and brutal they were merely a casualty of the Bright Lords Ambition and so the shire burned
Then came the Fall of the Proudest People the Dwarves they fought Bravely killing many before the last of their strongholds fell
Sadly for all their strength and pride the Bright Lords made slaves of their people bringing them under his control and putting then to work
The Dwarves forged the armors and weapons of the Bright Lord's Army Preparing them to face all Other foes
The elves had all left at this time for none remained to witness what became of middle earth
The wars took many years and stained Middle earth with too much blood to ever be counted
But the Entirety was taken and its people worshiped Their Bright Lord
The Wizards known as the Istari Stood against his armies but their oaths bound their power and so they too fell
In Slaying the Most powerful of the Istari the one known as Gandalf he gained an unexpected boon the ring of fire forged for the elves
The bright Lord knew his power was not to be underestimated but he knew that the masters of the Istari were far greater
So ordered his servants to search to the very Depths of middle earth and search for all the other rings of power
He knew he was not alone for Celebrimbor had made many to gift away to the realms of Men, Dwarves, and Elves
The first found were those given to the Nazgul they had been Slain some time ago but their rings still held power
The Bright Lord drained theirs to boost his own, while theirs may have once been tainted by the ring of Sauron they were not forged in Darkness
The next rings he obtained were those held by the Dwarves, They had been long buried in ancient tombs were Sauron has hidden them
But the dwarves that served him were Faithful and dug ever deeper until they were claimed finding 4 of 7
The Bright Lord consumed them as well, He desired the rings of Elves but they were now out of reach having been taken back across the seas
The 3 that remained had been consumed by dragons, they were powerful yes but with his armies so vast and his power grown
They laid siege to every dragons hold and slayed the wyrms once he claimed those last few he felt his power reach greater depths
Only now did he attempt to wear the ring of fire forged by Celebrimbor knowing if his power was not greater he would suffer
But he had taken the steps to grow so the ring fell to his desire and made him ever stronger
When middle earth was united and his power grown he remained idle expecting to be attacked by the Valar but they never came
This agitated him, was he so lesser that they did not even acknowledge him as a threat, was his Light so little that they did not see in him a competitor
This fueled a rage to his depths, he would show them him power and claim dominion over the entirety of this world
Decision firmly made he ordered his loyal subjects to forge a vast war machine
one to be used centuries in the future when their power would be unmatched
The Bright Lord Plotted and dreamed of proving his power to the Valar falling ever deeper into the darkness of the lesser rings he consumed
Though they were not forged in darkness Sauron had taken part in their construction and inlaid a seed of darkness blooming in their new master
The Bright Lords ambitions were greater than he had ever desired in the past they were now to topple gods and Be The God of this world
He created rituals with the aid of his mystic uruk tribes to boost his power by consuming the life of the verdant forests once inhabited by the elves
He began to consume the very life of middle earth for his desires
When his ambition could wait no longer his mighty navy set sail across the sea using his power to guide them by force to the undying lands
It was only by sheer force that the gap between worlds was bridged
The valar threw great power at him but he continued forward by consuming the life of middle earth to bolster his power
His servants caring little for their crumbling world desiring only to serve him and his goal
His vast hordes of servants waged war against the elves residing there and many of whom died unable to defend themselves as war was not expected to ever come about
He discovered the two rings of power that were thought lost to him and donned them here completing the set of Celebrimbor's creations
The Bright Lord used his power to begin to drain the very life of the undying lands, gaining power from the dying elves
Using this newfound power he was preparing to topple the Valar when Eru Ilúvatar the great being intervened
Eru did not involve himself much with the happening of his creations
But now when on the verge of collapse he could stay his hand no longer
He wiped away the corrupted world and all the life touched by the Bright Lord
The Bright Lord was shocked and filled with envy for there to be a being so powerful as to wipe away all that he had forged
In mere moments all that he built was taken from him, all of his servants vanished from being
He could feel their lives fade
Eru looked down at him feeling rage and pity to see the creation of his children grow so corrupted by the taint of sauron
Another brought low by the betrayal of Morgoth and his legacy in Sauron
How many more will come to mock him for his faulty creations
His failure in creating a greater existence
Bright Lord - ...You took it.. You took it all… everything i worked for ...gone
Eru - It was never Yours, the things created were never brought into being to be enslaved to one
Bright Lord - THEY WERE NOT SLAVES, I saved them from the madness of middle earth and all its corruption
Eru - To follow you for your power to sway their minds means only that they were slaves
Bright Lord - NO, they had a choice. If any of them truly desired to be free my hold would have broken. They Chose to follow, it offered them Unity, Safety the very ability to have purpose was enough for many
Eru - They should have found purpose on their own
Bright Lord - WHY, would it truly have been better for them to wander blind and lost in middle earth, to meet a bloody and gruesome death after failing to find meaning
Eru - All have a purpose
Bright Lord - Do not lie to me, You abandoned this world, like all the others since Morgoth's rebellion, You abandoned Middle earth to suffer and bear its own woes Alone
Eru - You claim to be able to do better
Bright Lord - To do Anything no matter how small is far greater than doing Nothing time and time again
Eru - You are trapped by the inability of a being like you to see the greater span of existence and my duty to do nothing
Bright Lord - AND YOU are Blind choosing instead to remain behind your station as an excuse for your Failures
Eru did not respond, remaining silent merely gazing further into the Bright Lord's existence before coming to a decision
He took hold of his form and striped it apart ripping away the flesh, going beyond the ring to the very essence of its spirit
There he could feel the darkness of sauron but also the discord within all the elven children he vanished to middle earth.
Eru took pity for this wretched being forged for the light but tainted at birth it was a cruel fate like many before him
Eru made a choice that he had never made before, where in the past he wiped away all mistakes regardless of twisted pasts this time he made an exception
He would vanish this Bright Lord to another existence in some other world one without gods
He would strip Talions and Celebrimbor's legacy of its darkness and send it out to seek a worthy future one where he would not fall to his darkness as he had before
And when time has long since forgotten he will visit him there and see what he has created with this second opportunity handed down to him
Now all he had left for to do was to choose a world for this Bright Lord, it almost brought a chuckle to his lips to know that the final legacy of Morgoth's darkness was a being of light
The irony was simply too amusing even to a being such as himself
Just then in a fit of humor he thought of the perfect world to vanish a being who sailed across worlds
Will the sea devil curse him for it sure did he care
Haha of course not
Goodbye Bright Lord
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Luffy was wandering lost and alone on the final island of the grand line, Raftel the promised island of the pirate king Gol D. Roger
That didn't matter to him though, the title and riches were worthless when compared to all the friends he lost along the way
From Bon Clay's sacrifice to help him reach Marineford to the devastating pain of losing his brother Ace and now on the day he dreamed of all his childhood he lost so much more
His crew sacrificed their lives fighting Akainu and his relentless hordes of Marie ships, his nakama forced the thousand sunny to sail further ahead while they remained behind to hold off the navy's forces
Luffy was forced to say goodbye as his beaten body was dragged back to the thousand sunny again and again by his first mate Zoro whenever he escaped and tried to return for his nakama
Luffy accused him of betraying them, only to have his skull crushed by Zoro's vicious grip and was forced to listen to him
Zoro accused luffy of failing them if he went back when they sacrificed themselves to save him and give him his dream and sacrificed their lives and their own dreams to make him their pirate king
Luffy was forced into silence and begrudgingly accepted their sacrifice even though with every goodbye his heart was ripped apart and emptier
When Zoro was all he had left he was already only marching to honor the sacrifice of his fallen Nakama
And then he lost him too
What was left in this world for him when all his friends were now gone
Hes reached Raftel but at what cost, Is he truly the pirate king if he had his dearest friends taken from him and was stranded on the last island that crowned him king
Even the thousand sunny had left him
It was broken to thousands of pieces the last of which dragged him unto the beach of the island
As broken and shattered as Luffy was he stood up and began to walk further ahead into Raftel searching for the Fabled treasure that Roger left behind
He climbed cliffs and crossed gorges and swamps that oozed death, all the wildlife that stood in his way were slaughtered
Luffy had no mercy for anything that stood ahead of his goal to insure that his Nakama did not sacrifice themselves in vain
The innocence and sunny nature for which he was known for was growing colder and fading faster by the minute
The longer it took him to find the treasure that his friends died for, the faster his spirit darkened
Luffy wandered for minutes into hours into days for all he knew, there was no sun or stars above
The grey across the sites was growing darker and drowning out what little color remained
When luffy wandered into a vast cavern, he had no knowledge as to how he came inside this place but he had no reason to stop
He walked and walked, when a sight ahead drew his gaze it was a vast valley of treasure and nothing more
"Did they all die for this, what is gold without my friends"
Luffy fell forward and collapsed on the earth at the entrance of the vast cavern depths, he fell over the edge into a pile of treasure, his rubber body bounced off the treasure and rolled down the side
Further and further into the darkness he fell, but he did not care it was his end, hed done as his crew asked of him he reached raftel and found the one piece
And now he would die there amongst the treasure that Nami would have once demanded he take back with them so that she won't lose it to someone else
Luffy had only enough strength in his body to roll over unto his back
He looked up at the dark ceiling and and lost himself in the despair that came
As he looked high above he saw a bright light spark for a second and fade as quickly as it came, dropping a single bright silver ring
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Authors note:
Well there you go guys i said i had a story to write and here is another one, honestly i don't have a plot i can go anywhere i want from here any world any adventure but for now it'll stay here
P.S. I wrote this story BEFORE shadow of war came out so no need for anyone to try and correct me about this not following the shadow of war story
And ive got to say that the game was awesome i played it all the way to the real ending