Dark Realms Book 1:
Tales of the Master

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Chapter One: The Rise of the Master

Something just isn't right in Balamb....

Quistis thought to herself as she twirled her straw in her coffee. It has been two years since the fall of Ultimecia,
and the re-building of a new an improved Balamb Garden. Squall was dead, and she had been regretting not being
able to save him. She, Selphie, and Zell had been teaching classes, and Rinoa was back in Timber, attempting to
re-assemble The Forest Owls, so that they could protect Timber should there ever be another threat. No one knew
where Seifer was, but they figured he was too selfish too forgive and forget the past, and was off brooding
somewhere.

But this wasn't why Quistis thought something was amiss. Recently, citizens of Balamb have been turning up missing,
only later turning up dead, completely drained of blood. Some of the people that had actually been found were
driven insane, claiming it was demons that took them, and started babbling something about a "master." Quistis
decided that she'd bring this to the gangs attention.

After speaking to several citizens in the Balamb Coffee Shop, Quistis quickly made her way to the Garden.

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Lucifina had finished feeding on a young girl she had picked off of the Esthar streets. She sat in the darkness
of an abandoned mansion on the bad side of town, Sneering at her vampire comrades, who were playing cards at a
dusty table, betting odds over a young woman, who was tied up and whimpering, afraid of the demonic creatures
playing with her life.

"Look at you fools! We are trying to ressurect the ultimate vampire, and you are playing cards!" Lucifina snarled,
changing her face back to it's human form.

"Look, Luci. Dis Mastah' guy is from another realm is he not? So why Da fuck are we ressurecting him here?
I say we fuggettaboutit, Kill as many people as we can, and declare supremecy!" Said Bob, one of Lucifina's
hench-vamps. He then turned to the ickle human girl in his vampire form and made an obscene tongue gesture.

"Because," Luci smiled. "Because you'll find out why when I'm good and ready to tell you."

"Full house!" said Danni, another lowly vamp. "I win!" He changed and drank the girl faster then one could
blink.

Lucifina rolled her eyes. "Well, things will get better tomorrow when he arrives. We will meet with several of the
others tomorrow at the Hellmouth.* They have prepared an irresistable sacrifice for the Master. One that shall
open the Hellmouth and bring him forth. The Slayer...."







*the Hellmouth in this world would be the location of the lunatic pandora.