Hello guys, sorry it took so long but here is Chapter 4 of my fanfic. Enjoy!

The Tales of Darkness

Chapter 4

The Unknown

It was dark outside as all the lights around the city started to go out from the windows of houses. People were getting ready for bed. Eventually the street lights came on. The air was still. The only noises that could be heard were either from cars going by every now and then, the stray cats that were rummaging through garbage cans, and someone running down an alleyway in panic. He kept running until he finally ran into a dead end. He turned around, fear in his eyes.

"Please, don't hurt me. I haven't done anything to you," he pleaded falling to his knees.

"Oh really?" said the man standing in front of him. "Then explain this!"

He grabbed the sack on the man's belt, and pulled out a key.

"You should know better than to steal from those you don't know," said the sinister man and pointed his crossbow at him.

"P-Please," said the man shaking. "I d-didn't k-know…"

"Didn't know what!" roared the man now pointing the crossbow so close to him that it was right in-between his eyes.

"That's enough Ecru," said a calm collected voice.

Behind Ecru was a man in a long white cloak covering his whole body from head to foot except his face which was strangely covered by a grey metal mask.

"I'll deal with him," he said approaching the cowering man.

"W-What are you…?"

But the man was cut off. It seemed as though he was sort of choking but he didn't feel any pain from his throat. Instead he felt like something was draining from his body, like his life.

Then the man collapsed on the floor gasping for air.

"Wha-What did you do to me?" he gasped.

There was a short pause and then the cloaked man said.

"I took away your aura."

The man's eyes widened.

"What?" he cried looking both scared and shocked.

"Finish him Ecru," said the man walking away.

The man named Ecru turned to face the shocked man and fired his crossbow.


Ecru and the cloaked man had made their way to their hideout. They entered a room which looked like an empty office except it was all dusty and there were cobwebs everywhere. They both walked over to the desk, Ecru then pressed a button underneath it and the part of the room they were standing on started to go down. After a few minutes they had reached their destination. The room was very large and had a lot of technology everywhere as though they were in a laboratory.

The cloaked man walked over to his desk and sat down, as well as Ecru but in a chair that was opposite of the desk.

"Did you really have to go and do that?" asked a man in the corner of the room

A very tan man with golden yellow eyes walked over to Ecru and crossed his arms. He was wearing an Egyptian headpiece and was wearing a gold sleeveless armored chest piece. He was also wearing long bronze wristlets around his arms, and long orange pants along with gold armored boots. He also had brown feathers all over his arms and instead of fingers, he had talons.

"Hey, he stole something from us so I had to go after him," laughed Ecru.

Ecru was tall and thin with black messy hair and orange eyes. He was wearing a black buttoned shirt with a dark blue vest along with a red scarf that he wore around his neck. He also wore black jeans with red trim and silver boots. He also had a long scar over his left eye from his forehead to his cheek which was covered by a black eyepatch.

"You had already taken away his aura so there was no reason to kill him," said the man still standing over Ecru.

"Well then, what did you expect me to do Rajah?"

"Maybe you should have just scared him to death," said another voice from the other side of the room.

A very tall buff man walked over to them. He had spiky yellow hair, with black highlights and light blue eyes. He was wearing a black collared shirt, along with lightning blue pants and purple boots.

"Not funny Ochre," said Rajah glaring at him.

"What? You want some?" said Ochre crossing his arms.

"Quiet, both of you," said the cloaked man from behind the desk. "There is no reason for pointless bickering."

Both Rajah and Ochre stood there, eyeing each other, and finally broke apart, facing their leader.

"All that matters is that we got back what was stolen from us," he continued. "Now, Ecru, have you found the location yet?"

"Sure thing, Xenon," said Ecru pulling out his scroll and showing him the map that had a red 'X' that seemed to be north of where they were.

"Excellent," said Xenon getting up from his desk. "The time has come for us to begin the project."

Together as one they headed to the elevator.


They had walked for a very long time until, after about two hours, they had reached their destination. It was a very tall skyscraper. It looked as though it was touching the sky itself. They looked around and saw a lot of security. Xenon looked over at Ochre and nodded.

"Show time," said Ochre cracking his knuckles.

He got out of his hiding spot and started walking towards the security as though he was a worker there.

"Halt!" said a few guards.

Ochre stopped and smiled.

"I mean you no harm."

One of the police officers walked over to him.

"Identification please."

"Oh come now. Is it really necessary?"

The police officer raised his gun.

"Your identification please," he said slowly.

Ochre sighed. He grabbed the police officer's gun out of his hand and broke it in two like a twig. He then grabbed the officer and threw him against one of the trucks that was nearby. The rest of the officers started running toward Ochre. He drew out his long nun-chucks and threw them at the officers who were closing in. They extended right to their feet and when they did, Ochre then tossed them in the air and smashed them against the pavement. Electric volts scattered everywhere electrocuting all the police officers.

"Nice work big boy," said Ecru as he and the rest of the group were joining him. "Next time though you should leave some for us."

Ochre merely grunted. They all entered the building. There were all sorts of mechanical devices and a lot of guards that were all pointing their guns at the intruders. This time, it was Rajah's turn. He pulled out and extended his staff and pointed it at all the guards. He shot a bolt of lightning which hit one of the guards, but as soon as it did, Ochre motioned his hand at the guard. Suddenly, the bolt of lightning found its way to the next guard, and then the next, and then the next. After a few minutes, all the guards fell to the floor.

"Boring," sighed Ecru. "Enough with the electricity, let's do something different next time."

"Fine then," said Rajah calmly. "You can get the next set of guards."

They made their way to the elevator. Ecru pressed the thirtieth floor and the elevator started to move upward. After a few minutes, there was a small ding noise and the doors opened. It was dark inside. The only source of light was coming from the other end of the room. It was bright and blue.

"Heh," sniggered Ecru. "Too easy."

He aimed his crossbow at what seemed to be a security camera, except there was a red line coming out of it. Ecru fired, and the camera was destroyed. He then aimed his crossbow all around the room at all the other security cameras, destroying each of them one by one. As he was doing this, Xenon was making his way to where the light was.

"That should be all of them," said Ecru putting away his crossbow. "Kind of wish there were guards to kill."

Rajah chuckled a little.

"What? Something funny," said Ecru crossing his arms.

Rajah just shook his head and turned to look at the shining light that was really bright now that they were closer to it.

"Isn't it beautiful?" said Xenon gazing up at it. "Ochre, if you will."

Ochre reached for it and pulled hard, until it popped out. He held out his hand to show everyone. It was a very bright crystal that almost blinded them all, but was very pretty indeed. Ochre pulled out a small box and put the crystal inside.

"So how is this thing going to help us?" asked Ecru as they started walking back to the elevator.

"All in due time Ecru," stated Xenon.

By the time they got halfway through the room, the elevator doors opened and an entire squad of police officers came out each of them pointing a gun directly at them.

"Put your hands where we can see them," called a man using a megaphone.

Xenon sighed and stepped forward.

"You sure Xenon?" said Rajah knowing what he was doing. "It may take a while to get all that energy back."

Xenon turned to face Rajah.

"With that crystal, we won't need to worry about it anymore. It will be a part of an unlimited energy source for our plan of operation."

He turned back to face the squadron. As soon as he did the man shouted:

"Fire!"

But before any of the officers could pull the trigger, there was a blinding flash of white light.

"W-What's goin-" said one of the officers but couldn't finish his sentence.

BOOM!

There was a huge explosion as the entire top floor of the building exploded. As the smoke cleared, Xenon turned to face his comrades. They were all being protected by a barrier that Rajah had created.

"Man," said Ecru as the barrier disappeared. "You still scare me sometimes, you know that?"

"Is the crystal safe?" asked Xenon.

Ochre held out the box and opened it. The crystal sat there, untouched.

"Good," said Xenon. "Now, let's get back to base before they send the whole army."


They were back in the laboratory, discussing how they could have done a better job with the plan.

"All I'm saying is that we could have been stealthier," said Rajah sitting in a chair.

"Yeah, but where's the fun in that?" laughed Ecru also sitting down.

Xenon and Ochre were approaching the wall that was behind the desk. It automatically opened as soon as they stood face to face with it. Inside was what looked to be a metal suit. Ochre grabbed the crystal and put it inside the chest part of it. The crystal floated and began to spin slowly as it gave a small sliver of light.

"Only four more to go," said Xenon gazing at the rest of the pieces of the metal suit.

"Wait, there's more?" said Ecru getting up. "I thought it was just that one?"

"True we could just use this one crystal," said Xenon turning to face Ecru. "However, once it's used, it can never be active again. But, if all five are joined together, then the power becomes infinite."

He walked over to his desk and sat down as the doors behind him closed.

"We set out tomorrow. So be prepared."


Gun fire was heard all around the city as Xenon and his team progressed through the streets to get to their destination. Once they got to the building, Ecru kicked the doors open and started firing at every guard he could see. Rajah had put up a barrier to protect them from the guards that were still firing at them.

"Why can't they just give it a rest," cried Ecru over the loud noise of gun fire.

Eventually, all the guards had been killed and they all got in the elevator and headed to the top floor. Once they got there, all the guards in the room immediately started firing but had no luck as Ecru had already killed every single one. They all walked toward the other end of the room and found another crystal that looked exactly like the other one they had already gotten. Ochre pulled it out and put it in a large box that had three other slots.

"Not surprised they all look the same," chuckled Ecru as they made their way towards the elevator.

"Well, what did you expect Ecru? They're supposed to look the same," stated Rajah.

Once they were back outside, they started to walk down a winding road. A few minutes later they found the airship that they had taken and walked inside.

"Take us to our next location," said Xenon to the robot piolet.

It nodded and the ship had taken flight and soared through the sky.

"So where to next?" asked Ochre crossing his arms.

"Vale," said Xenon looking out the window. "Surprisingly, they are keeping three there."

"Of course," said Rajah sitting down. "They know what happened yesterday so they want to keep them all protected at once."

"Precisely," said Xenon.

"Kind of dumb if you ask me," laughed Ecru putting his hands behind his head.

After about a few hours, they arrived at Vale. They landed in the docking area and found their way into the city.

"This place will be heavily guarded so use everything you've got," warned Xenon.

"Got it," they all said.

They finally had reached the building and, sure enough, it was very heavily guarded.

"It's like they brought the whole army," said Rajah in a serious tone.

"What's the plan?" asked Ochre.

Xenon thought for a moment and finally said;

"Give them hell."

And with that Ochre, Rajah, and Ecru all darted towards the guards and fired everything at them. Ecru was shooting everywhere and stabbed every guard he got close to by splitting his crossbow into two small daggers. Rajah was blasting different elements of dust, burning, freezing, and shocking every man that tried to swing at him with their swords. Ochre was simply grabbing and throwing people against the walls of other buildings or was shocking them with his nun-chucks. Twenty minutes later, all the guards were dead. They all walked into the building and surprisingly found the place empty.

"Where is everyone?" questioned Ecru as they made their way to the elevator.

"They must know we're here," said Rajah. "It could be a trap."

They all entered the elevator and headed to the top floor. When they arrived, as expected, a lot of guards were in the room all aiming their guns at them.

"Okay, I'm getting really sick of this," frowned Ecru.

"Not another step," said a voice from across the room.

It looked to be the leader of the group and he was aiming his pistol at a small box on a table.

"If you take another step I'll blast these crystals to pieces."

Xenon smirked.

"Kill them."

Once again, gun fire was flown everywhere. Rajah quickly ran towards the right side of the guards, dodging every bullet that came towards him, and began waking at every guard with his staff. Some of the guards started to charge towards him but were blasted away as fire had come out of Rajah's staff. Ochre was in the center of the group, grabbing people with his nun-chucks and electrocuting them. A guard was about to slice at Ochre's back with a sword but was shot in the chest by Ecru who was standing guard for Xenon.

"Enough of this," said Ochre under his breath.

He retracted his nun-chucks and began to absorb all the electricity from them. His body was surrounded by an electric force field.

"Shoot him!" shouted the leader of the platoon.

But before they could, Ochre pushed his hands forward. Enormous amounts of electricity came out of them, shocking every last remaining guard that was there.

Xenon made his way towards the now trembling leader who still had his pistol aiming at the box.

"Fool," said Xenon and began to take away the leader's aura.

Once he had finished he turned towards the box.

"Open it."

Ochre had opened the box and there was shock on everyone's face. Instead of three crystals, there were only two.

"Where is the last one!?" shouted Xenon facing the man.

The man laughed.

"It's gone."

"Tell me where it is!"

"No, you'll have to look for it on your own. Not that you'll find it anyways."

Xenon turned towards the elevator.

"Kill him."

And with that, Ecru shot at the man and his body fell limb.


"Man what a day," said Ecru stretching his arms.

They were all back in their base. Xenon was gazing at the suit which now had four crystals all gleaming inside each body part.

"So what now?" asked Rajah.

Xenon turned to face all of them.

"We will turn Remnant upside down to find the last crystal. No matter what it takes."