The Darkness Within
-Prologue-
The human names of the characters are used. If you do not know them, I advise you Google them.
Pandaria, a massive continent that dominates most of the globe is divided into five regions; Affria, the Ameros, Europia, Asariya, and Nordica. These regions are reined by a king and queen, and are further divided up into countries that also have their own rulers.
These regions all fall under the rule of the Royal Family of Nordica, who has been in power for nearly eight hundred years. The Royal Family consists of five leaders, or role bearers; the King, the Queen, the Rook, the Bishop, and the Knight, each with his or her own sacred duties to his or her own kingdom and Pandaria as a whole.
There are nations outside of the rule of the Royal Family, but they are island nations, many of which are either small or lie relatively far away.
But for the most part, Pandaria has remained in peace for seven hundred years for the most far. However, dark creatures lurk in the shadows of the massive empire. Demons and creatures that everyone knows to fear; from krakens to dragons, along with, wyverns, mermaids, werewolves, kelpies, selkies, sirens, rocs, thunderbirds, Minotaurs, hellhounds, and hundreds upon thousands more.
The creatures that are in the end, the source of all nightmares; the creatures that are the reason humans fear the dark. As a whole, the demonic race is relatively primitive, but still powerful. Only the strongest of leaders could unite the demons under one cause. Very few would be stupid or brave enough to try.
There is a legend of a man… He was the man that nearly took the entire world into his grasp after an ungodly conquest that left millions dead. He was simply dubbed the Demon Prince.
Back in the early years, before King Erasmus united Pandaria under Nordica rule a foreign man from the depths of the ice-locked lands of Antrica arrived along the coast of the Kingdom of Britain, wrapped thickly in mystery and charm. He quickly became renowned for his haunting and beautiful tales of crystal cities, a utopian society, and strange beasts the likes of which no one from Pandaria had ever seen before.
It was through these stories that he managed to work his way into the royal court of Britain. Within days of his arrival, he seduced Queen Cinnabar, securing his position in court. Following this secret affair, he quickly began to rise through the court, replacing the ministers and advisors that died from mysterious accidents, illnesses, and suicides. He began to fill other positions with certain people, people who were under his control.
Within a year of his arrival at the court, the king was found dead in the royal chambers, dead from unknown causes. Queen Cinnabar soon married the man and he became king, known to all as 'King Delmas.' No proof of this being his actual name has been uncovered. Ten months into their marriage, Queen Cinnabar gave birth to a male heir that they names Qorran. The queen died the next day, supposedly of birthing complications. The kingdom was now entirely in Delmas' control.
Ever since Delmas had become part of the court, the Kingdom of Britain had been expanding outwards, until it had enveloped the neighboring kingdoms of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Under Delmas, the kingdom began to expand even further. However, he did not go about this using a normal army. Demons began to appear on his side of the battlefield, proving to be superior in many cases before they were overwhelmed. The kingdoms of Belgium, France, and Austria quickly fell to the demon-human armies that Delmas had raised.
As his armies grew, more and more kingdoms began to fall to his might. Within five years of the start of his campaign, he held most of modern-day Europia in his hands. Leaders of other countries, who thought Delmas might stop after one or two kingdoms, were terrified that he might turn his eyes to their country next. The countries began to train their armies quickly to prepare for the oncoming war.
King Orn of Sweden proposed an alliance with several countries; Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, the United States of Ameros, Canada, China, Japan, and Egypt. This alliance became known as the Great Panrasian Pact. The other countries still free of Delmas remained out of the way of the budding war, not wanting to join before they were sure of the outcome. The Swiss Confederacy decided to become neutral, and it has remained neutral ever since.
Six years after Delmas ascended the throne, the Great Panrasian Army began to move against Delmas. Man and demon clashed at battlefield after battlefield, turning the ground beneath them into a brown and red marsh.
At first, the demons were the victors, constantly overpowering the quickly demoralizing Panrasian Army; they were simply too great, too strong.
Towards the end of the first year of battle, a man appeared. No man ever saw his face, and few heard his voice, but in him the Army managed to find strength. The first time he appeared, it was in the midst of a battle near the border of Prussia and Germany. The Panrasian Army was suffering massive losses and was being pushing back deep into German territory. Then the Shadow Knight, as they came to call him, appeared. With astounding ease, he cut a path through the demons, slaying them left and right. The men began to rally at this, and leapt back into battle with a renewed sense of hope. They won that battle, the first since the war had begun.
That began the turning point of the war; the Panrasian Army began to sweep the demon hordes back into the island nation of Britain. Two years after the war began, they had Britain surrounded. Halfway through the year, they had London surrounded. With London surrounded and his army decimated, King Delmas decided that he would rather die than surrender.
When the Panrasian army broke through the demon lines into London and to the castle where Delmas and he son were located, they found a pit, the embers within still hot. Within, they found two bodies; that of a grown man and a young child. There is no doubt that Delmas was killed; dozens of witnesses swear to the fact of that he pushed his son into the pit and jumped in after him, into the roaring inferno they had going on at the time.
But there are discrepancies about whether or not that the child's body was actually his son's. Despite all of the witnesses, not a single one can state that it truly was the young prince Qorran.
As time began to pass, the rumors began to die down, but the fear of Delmas did not. He is not something to tell your children about to scare them out of doing something. His is a name rarely uttered, if at all. Only in situations where it is absolutely necessary is he mentioned, and even then, he is known as the Demon Prince.
-Prologue END-
Hi. It's Kiyohara. I decided to start a solo fanfic, obviously on the topic of Axis Powers Hetalia. I showed the first chapter to Xandra before I had even thought about a prologue. She looked at it and was like, "What? I don't understand! Who are these people!?" I probably should have told her I was using human names XD. As always, I do not own Hetalia or the characters, except for various OCs (Delmas, Orn, Camilla, etc.) Those I will tell you if I own them. I will also tell you a characters name if Himaruya has not yet named them.
Aaaaanyways, I hope you enjoy The Darkness Within and a review would be absolutely amazing. For now thought, viso gero! (Goodbye in Lithuanian). Or at least, that's what Microsoft Word is telling me.