The part of the Dark Lord of Nightmares that was the great beings soul and emotions, the part known as the Lady sat on her thrown

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Authors Notes: This Chapter was fairly difficult to write as I felt the focus was starting to shift of our hero the Dark Lord of Nightmares. That is why I took so long to write this chapter. I also forgot to include a disclaimer in the last chapter, so that's why it's here. I know this chapter is exactly what I promised but this seemed to work better.

Reflections of the Dark Lord

Chapter 2

The Third Ancient Race: The Dragons

The part of the Dark Lord of Nightmares that was the great being's soul and emotions, the part known as the Lady sat on her thrown. She glared at the orb that allowed her to view her creations, with dismay. On Earth the gods had the upper hand, in the Overworld it was the forces of Dark Star, there was no consensus! No side creative or destructive, good or evil had managed to gain the advantage. The Lady grew bored, and depressed and furious all at the same time. These creations where supposed to help her determine her true nature but so far they proved unable to do so. She idly played with the goblet in her hand. In a few moments the rage swelled up inside her and she threw the chalice at the orb. The moment the goblet hit the ground it disappeared, along with the crimson liquid contained. She descended the golden stare case her black cape and blonde hair flowing behind her. "Maybe it's time, we added some more pieces to the game," She addressed the other part of herself the knowledge and power that is the Sea of Chaos.

YES IT'S TIME!

The blonde inclined her head slightly. "And what shall we make?"

A NEW RACE, ONE ON THE SIDE OF GOOD BUT WITH A DARK SECRET.

The Lady was bubbling with excitement. She couldn't wait. She recombined with the Sea to use its knowledge and power. Once she discovered what she must do she reassumed her human form. She grabbed a handful of the light crystals and descended to the Earth. She appeared before Seiphide. "Greetings to you Lord of the gods," She bowed.

Speiphide returned the courtesy. "And greetings to you great Mother. What brings you to my humble abode?"

The figure with the Golden Aura gazed around Sephiede's 'abode'. The palace was far from humble with tall columns made of white marble, sculptures, paintings and many other beautiful and extravagant, items. Then something dawned on the Lady, this was creation, and it was far different than anything she had herself created. The Dark Lord of Nightmares had made little in the ways of frivolous things. She enjoyed a certain dramatic flair in her garment and her thrown. But she had created little to just amuse herself. "So these things," She indicated the artwork, "They are the creations of your kind, Sephiede? They are beautiful. It would have never occurred to me create things like this."

"Thank you. These are mostly the works of the Water Dragon King. She enjoys a certain artistic flare," The mightiest of all god's replied. "But this is only a small portion of our creations. For example…"

"Really?" The Dark Lord of Nightmare's original purpose was forgotten. There would be plenty of time to bring a new species into existence. The creative and kind part of the being yearned to stay. She wanted to examine all the creations the gods had, to touch and feel and taste them. And there was another thing. It took a moment for her to realize what it had been. Then she had it she was lonely. All those millennia spent sitting on her thrown observing events and not taking part in them, never having anyone to talk to other than that other part of herself, Sea of Chaos. She was lonely; she had never had a friend or a companion. She turned to the Lord of the gods again, "May I stay with you? For just a little while…"

"My Lady…"

"No wait let me finish. I am not ordering you as your maker. I will not punish you if you say no. I want to be your guest but only invite me if you really want me to be here. I am asking a favor Seiphiede. Tell me do you want me to stay?" The Lady asked.

"We would be honored."

Again the Dark Lord of Nightmares bowed to the king. The Lady issued an order to the monsters to cease hostilities while she stayed with the gods. She did this for two reasons; first she would not be able to learn anything from their battles if she was in her limited form and away from her thrown, and second she did not want anything to interfere with her holiday.

The Dark Lord spent the rest of the day with Sephide. The god showed her around their domains. The Lady took in every detail, absorbed every bit of artwork and landscape of the gods' temples. That night Sephiede gathered all the god's for a banquet to be held in the Dark Lord's honor.

"Friends, fellow god's," The giant began, "Today we are blessed by the presence of a very special guest. The great mother herself, the Dark Lord of Nightmares has come to visit us. She wishes to observe the handy work of us her creations. She also asks that during her stay with us we are to treat her as if she was just another god. The Lady has also enforced a cease-fire with the Mazoku. Tonight let us celebrate."

The Dark Lord of Nightmares stared at the food. She had drunk wine before (it was something to do in human form to forget about the frustration that the great riddle caused her.). But she never had consumed food. She turned to one of the god's, "Um, Water Dragon King?"

"Yes m'lady?"

"What here is good to eat?"

"Every thing is, but let me see," the female god started to reply, "Hmm, I think you'd like this, it's called venison it is very delicious. And drink this champagne."

The woman in the golden aura followed the god's advice. The sensation she experienced would be impossible for a mortal being or even a god to understand, their bodies where meant to eat, but the Dark Lord of Nightmares had not had occasion to eat solid food since the beginning of time (a fact she now regretted). "This is delicious," The Water Dragon King could not believe herself, The mother of every living creature was actually crying.

"Would you like some more?"

"Please."

The rest of the night went buy uneventfully. Then the god's and the Dark Lord retired for the night. The Dark Lord found herself in a spacious guest room. She looked around and saw many new things there. She approached the large vanity mirror and looked at her reflection. She had never seen herself from the outside before and was struck by her own beauty, and she saw what a dramatic effect, the golden aura she shrouded herself in gave. Than she layed down on the soft bed. She soon fell asleep. This too was a new experience for her. She found herself dreaming, one more thing she had never done before. She was the Mistress [Not that kind of Mistress, you Hentai –LB] of all terrible dreams, and had spoken to both gods and monsters through dreams, but she had never dreamt herself. And despite her name the dream was a pleasant one.

She dreamt she was in a field of flowers and there where two shadowed figures. One of them looked similar to the Water Dragon King, and one similar to her physical self. "Who are you?"

The Bigger of the two figures the one who looked like the WDK stepped forward. She could now see it was golden and had a large wingspan, "We are of the two races who are to come. We will help shape your destiny."

"And why have you come to me?" The Dark Lord of Nightmares asked.

"To let you know that you have to return to your purpose." The one who looked similar to the human-form Dark Lord replied. As she stepped into the light, the Lady noticed that this was female and much shorter than herself, she had brilliant red hair and a much smaller chest size. "Tomorrow you must return to your mission. You have learned all that you need to know from the god's artwork."

"I see," The Blonde did not wish to leave she was enraptured by the culture of her creations. But she knew the dream girl was correct. At the end of tomorrow she would give the god's their new race and then say her good-byes and leave.

The next day past by far to quickly for the liking of the Supreme Being. She had fun and wished it would never end. But as the saying goes 'all good things…'

The Dark Lord had gathered the god's at the end of the day, "Thank you. All of you, you have helped me explore the creative side of myself. But now the experiment to determine whether it is that creative side or the destructive side that will hold sway must continue. When I return to my thrown room, the cease-fire will be over and the Mazoku will attack again. But before that I have a new race to introduce."

"A new race?" Sephide asked. Sephide had never thought another race would be necessary. There was the monsters and the gods and all the animals of the Earth. He thought that those alone would suet her purpose. Then he remembered 'I shall reappear to you many times as I introduce the other races, which will help you' was what she had told them at the begging of time. "Who's side will they be on ours or the Mazoku's?"

The Lady truly liked Seiphide, he was bright and always got to the point when it was important to do so. "Most of them will side with you. Some of the lesser-developed ones will be wild and some may side with the monsters follow Gaav the Demon Dragon King. Water Dragon King, Fire Dragon King, these are your charges," She held her hand high in it were the crystals she brought with her. She through them to the ground, and where they landed beings instantly came into being. The looked like the Water and Fire Dragon Kings, and Like Gaav but they where different in some ways. "Behold the Dragons," The Dark Lord of Nightmares said with pride. "These ancient dragons will serve you well. And from their children other types of Dragons will arise. Once again I must leave you. Return to your art, your culture, and most importantly you war. And thank you," With that the Great Mother disappeared, and things returned to they way they where before.

The Forces of Shabranigdo attacked immediately, but now the gods had a new ally.

The Dark Lord of Nightmares reappeared in her thrown room she looked around the golden room with dismay. It was so drab lifeless. She called into existence a canvas and an easel and started to create, differently then she did as the Sea of Chaos, she started to create with her hands, she started to paint.

Millennia passed. The Dark Lord of Nightmares thrown room had expanded and now contained all types of artworks she had made. And now at the foot of her thrown was a bed where she could sleep and dream. She had matured a lot through her creations. Even if they had not determined weather creation or destruction was the proper course they helped give her a outlet for her creation.

She decided it was time to look up on her latest creations, the dragons. The Dragons had evolved over time into different sub-species. The Ancient Dragons had abandoned their purpose and turned to pacifism, and it seems they had a weapon made by Darkstar of the Over-world, interesting. And what was even more interesting is that is seemed the Golden Dragons had declared war on their older cousins.

The Dark Lord of Nightmares held up her hand the her mouth and yawned. She seemed to have little patience with the experiment since she stayed with the god's those two days aeons ago. Then it hit her she was still lonely…

Coming in chapter 3: The Dark Lord of Nightmares visits the Earth one more time to introduce the final races. Then the Dark lord of Nightmares does something unexpected. All this in the next chapter: 'The Dark Lord's love, creation of the first man' The true nature must be revealed!