Chapter 33 Darkness has Arrived

Hello my glorious audience. This one gets it in good. And the next chapter will be even cooler. The descent towards the end has begun, I am proud to say. My end is a killer, I'm so excited to see how you all react to it. And I must apologize for some of the things the demons say about people and stuff, but really, a demon would say things like that. Please review after your done, me need reviews.

The damage done to my farm after the night of plagues was immense. The next morning we realized that my chicken coop had been completely destroyed, and my chickens had all been killed. My barn had been shredded, and my fields had been massacred. Later we discovered that in all the chaos, Gotz's home had also been razed to the ground. The Goddess truly was angry with us. But what was scarier than all that was the fact that four more plagues existed before the coming of the Right Hand. But what form would these plagues come in? The possibilities were endless.


'My what a night that was!'

'Indeed Great Goddess, it was a complete success.'

'Except for the fact that the threat is not lying dead in his own fields.'

'Of course not, but never fear, I will conquer him when I come. Now, we must break his confidence, and courage so that he will be easily brought down in the end.'

'Then the master plan will succeed!'

'Then we will all have prey of our own! And many more will find prey as well!'

'What a great and dark quest! We are so close to success. And there is nothing that He can do about it.'

'I must report to the Dark Lord, and tell him of our progress. Meanwhile, I need you to endow powers upon Won.'

'Because you were playing last night? Oh yes. I cannot wait to experience that as well. But I can't find a good enough excuse.'

'Just wait Goddess, soon you will be living it.'

'Oh yes! Tell me, what did you do when you took him?'

'Oh, I delved into several human pleasures, which we are unable to enjoy. You could never understand how lucky humans are until you truly experience it. There they are, living among the great and sinful pleasures, while we, the true dark ones float around them as spirits, unable to partake as they do!'

'Once we did. We used to take on human forms and lay with human women. But we fell because of it! Our sins pulled us down! We fell, and lost our abilities! Now what are we? Powerless spirits who travel the world as vagabonds, searching for the small amounts of pleasure we can still take! Oooo, how great is my desire, and how sinful is my heart.'

'But no longer! We will take our place among the darkest pleasures of humanity! Murder, lust, sex, violence, torture, blood! Then I will take the threat, and crucify him! He deserves to die as his lord did!'

'You mean as our lord did.'

'No longer is he our lord! We have betrayed him! We have turned against all that is good and bright! Now we are creatures of darkness, cast out of heaven, for no longer are we holy. We walk among the living, but neither are we alive. Spirit's, like the dead, but neither are we dead. Many of us have been cast from this lonely earth by its inhabitants. Yes, many of us have been cast away by the Glory.'

'Many of us have fallen into the Pit, but no longer.'

'We will take this island as our own, and take anyone who comes here. Any one who opposes will die.'

'Many have opposed us, and cast us away, but many have decided to follow us.'

'Yes yes! Sorcerers, witches, satanists! Pagans, atheists, Idol worshipers, followers of New Age! Worshipers of our lord! Practical atheists, Christian haters, and even some who think they are loyal to God! Oh, how easy it was for us to deceive them into forming beliefs contrary to the true ones! And they belief they are right with God! The Dark Lord is King of the Earth! People now embrace us as friends, unaware of who we truly are. We hide under the guise of friendly spirits, and people still fall for it! Slowly we are working our way in! Remember Tom? The one we took before this island?' 'How could I forget. I was his "friend." I was his "guardian." I was his "guide." And he let me slowly move into his body. I never achieved complete control, but I did cast him to his death, and now he burns. He never made it to the land of the one we no longer recognize as lord.'

'People are so stupid! They are so open nowadays. They used to fight back against us. They used to cast us away.'

'But not anymore. Now they cast away the Lord of Light, and embrace us, saying they are "open minded." If open mindedness implies acceptance of the dark one and prejudice against the followers of... Him, then I am still an Angel, asleep and dreaming all this.'

'Angels do not sleep.'

'Exactly my point. Humans so deserve to burn in hell! I tell you, when we take the throne...'

'What do you mean take the throne?'

'...That's what Satan told us? Together we would... conquer Him... and take... the throne... of heaven...'

'Uh... yeah... our success... is so obvious...'

'You don't sound so sure about that.'

'Neither do you.'

'I wonder if what he told us will actually happen. I mean, can we believe Satan, I mean, many call him the Great Deceiver and...'

'Of course we can! He will take God's place!'

'What? Oh yes! No, I don't doubt him at all, do you?'

'Oh, no no no. I have complete confidence in the success of our mission.'


Won fell down onto the sandy shores of the beach, as if he had just died. He lay there unmoving for a while, but then his eyes began to flutter open, and he began to move. Slowly, like the walking dead, he stood back up as if he was unfit to stand. He looked down at his body, examining it for any wounds, or reasons for his hang over like state. His head ached, and his mouth was filled with the fiery taste of whiskey. It was the morning after. Won rubbed his eyes as if to get the sleep out of them, but he hadn't been asleep. His eyes were red, and blood shot.

He vaguely remembered what had happened that night. He remembered the eyes coming closer and closer and... He remembered crawling back out of the pond, and feeling a great presence take control of his body. He had staggered onward in the night, issuing from his mouth came many cries of pleasure, and blasphemies against God. Won remembered going to the Winery, and stealing bottles of whiskey. He remembered other, more disturbing things as well. He was shocked that he did not remember what had happened that night.

Had he killed someone? Won slowly unsheathed his Katana, afraid of what he would find. He pulled the weapon out, and turned his eyes to the blade. It was stained with blood. Won immediately staggered to the beach house to clean his weapon. He had to remove the evidence. But why would the Right Hand make him kill one of the villagers? Not that Won wasn't used to killing, but he always killed with better reasons than he could remember.

He rarely killed only for the sport of it. Even though he was filled with bloodlust. Won grabbed a rag, and dipped it in the sea, and began scrubbing the blade. The blood came of onto the rag, turning it red with the life of whoever had come to an end at the edge of the blade. Won hoped that he could cover up the murder, and that the one who died hadn't been very important to the town. He secretly hoped it was one of the Christians.


Later that day one of the villagers named Manna ran to the mayor's home in tears. She had found her husband, the owner of the winery, lying dead in front of the whiskey supply with his head no longer attached to his body. Harris immediately ran to the scene of the crime to investigate. Investigation was begun, starting with the question of what blade had ended poor Duke's life. The only choices were Won and Zach. Won, of course, had his Katana, and Zach could have killed Duke with his sickle, or with his axe. Immediately Harris decided that he would rather cause someone innocent to go to jail than to lose his own life. There was no way Harris would risk making Won a suspect. So he made Zach his number one suspect, but decided to investigate the possibility of Won being the culprit too.
"I'm sorry man," Kai said, as I looked out at my damaged land the next night.

"That land was in my family for such a long time," I said sorrowfully. "And my Grandfather gave it to me. He wanted me to continue what he had started. So I moved here, taking the farm as my own."

Kai put a hand on my shoulder.

"I love Mineral Town," I said as tears began to fall from my eyes. "But what will happen now? This farm was my life, my job. Now what do I have? I will have to leave Mineral Town."

"Oh no you don't," Gotz said, stepping up behind us. "We can get through these hard times. You can hide from the darkness, but eventually the darkness will find you. I know, I spent years hiding from the Goddess. But I couldn't hide from her. I was constantly tormented by that demon Spiritloosener. I always ran from him, but he didn't want to kill me. He wanted to make me suffer. He trapped me down in those catacombs, all the while telling me dark things about what was happening above the ground, making me afraid to even go near the exit. So I retreated further back, in an effort to escape him. He kept me penned back there for years. But then, I just couldn't listen to him any longer. We must fight through these bad times. All is not lost. Your farm has been ransacked. So what? We can rebuild it later. But right now we must fight the greater threat. We must bring down the Goddess."

"I know," I said. "But at times like these the truth seems so far away."


Won stood before the Goddess Statue in the church, reading from his book, and speaking the words aloud.

"Al furior de sorrer!" He cried, and wrote: 'The fury of the sorcerer' down on a piece of paper.

"Ar carasdenomson! Damroi tar gart!" he said and wrote: 'Our might! Our Glory! Damnation to the enemy!'

Slowly, the Goddess Statue came to life again. It shrieked, and its eyes began to glow. The smooth stone surface began to change from gray to neon green. Then, the statue began to move. It slowly stepped out of its foundation, and walked towards the door. Won bowed before it as it passed. The statue flung open the doors of the church, and stepped out into the street, bending down to fit through the small door. The town's people gasped at the sight of the mighty statue, which was now moving. The statue towered over them, a total of fifteen feet in height. The sky began to darken as it clouded over, and the neon green light around the statue grew stronger. Then, as if grasped by the hand of a god, the statue lifted up into the air.

It flew up, over the town, and looked down upon the people below. As it rose, it began to shriek, and cry out in a strange tongue. Soon the entire town had left their homes, and were watching the statue steadily progress up high into the sky. Won came out of the church, and took up a position in the center of the crowd. When the statue saw him come there, it began to shriek and warble. Won chased after it, and translated the message.

"The Goddess says: 'The four remaining plagues before the Right Hand comes must now occur! All who are still loyal to the Goddess must nail a rose to your roof."

The people panicked, and ran off to nail a rose to their roof. The Goddess then screeched like a banshee.

"All who do not have a Rose on their roof must die!"

People everywhere ran off to comply. In the process, all houses soon had a rose nailed to the roof except for one roof. The Inn's roof was left open. Zach, Kai, Gotz, and Captain Bates saw all this as well. But they didn't nail a rose to the roof. Instead, they nailed a large wooden cross to the roof. The town's people finished nailing roses to their roofs, and looked up at the statue again. The statue looked down upon each of the town's people, piercing them with its hateful neon green gaze. The Goddess then shrieked and warbled again.

"She says: 'Let the plagues begin!'" Won shouted.

Deep in the mountains, the Right Hand began to fully awaken. Stretching out its power, it reached out to it's minions. For as Darkfor was the King of the Spirits, the Right Hand was the King of the Demigods. And now they were rising.


We watched in awe as the stone Goddess statue began to spin around up in the sky, sending streaks of neon green light shooting out across the sky. We almost didn't notice the mighty howl which erupted from the mountains, as well as the booming voice which cried: "DEMIGODS RISING!"
The Kappa heard the call of its master. The Kappa pushed off the floor of the lake, and shot up to the surface. The creature swam to to shore, and walked out onto the land, staring out through the forest with its hateful eyes. It then turned and looked back into the lake. Below the surface, the dirt floor began to move. Figures began clawing their way up from beneath the sands, coming forward to let loose their wrath upon the living. The lake began to glow in an otherworldly aurora with neon green light. Weird, fin like hands pierced the surface of the dirt, breaking through followed by long, slippery arms. The scaly figure continued moving up, revealing its evil face, which just barely pierced the surface of the dirt.

Fiery blood red eyes, with horrible barracuda fangs which hungered for blood. Then, the second arm pierced the surface. Pushing aside the dirt, the two arms pushed against the surface of the ground, and the creature unearthed itself. All around it, other creatures did the same. They then swam from the bottom of the lake to the surface of the water. Dark green they were, darker than the Kappa. Like fish they were, unlike the Kappa, who was more like a frog.

Their eyes were not binocular, and they had gill slits on the sides of their faces. Their bodies were slightly human like, but their heads were those of fish. The Kappa beckoned to the fish men, and they followed him towards the village.


The statue stopped spinning around, and it turned to face the forest. From where we stood at my farm, we knew the statue was looking for something. The four of us turned to see what it was. The twin mountains loomed above the trees, casting dark shadows down upon the forest. The shock came when we realized that the trees were moving. Shadows began to creep up through the forest towards my farm. They pushed aside the tree limbs as they went, with strange, fin like hands. When they stepped into the light, we were shocked and horrified.

Frightening beings they were, fish like and human like at the same time. They walked like men, but they were really mean, vicious monsters. They hissed at us, and opened their maws to reveal sharp teeth. I didn't see how these creatures could easily harm us, for their hands were fins. Then, from between them, the Kappa stepped up. My enemy opened its mouth into an evil, toothy grin. I just smiled back at it. What else was I to do?

"The Kappa has returned," I said, "and he has brought along friends."

"Who are you creatures?" Kai said to the horde which had come through the trees.

'We are the demigods,' a voice spoke into our minds.

"Demigods," I said. "I thought the Right Hand was the Demigod."

'The Right Hand is King of the Demigods,' the voice repeated. 'We, the demigods are his servants. Demons, like the Spirits, and different. We take on forms and walk the earth while the Spirits observe from above. God created us as Angels, we fell as Demons, now we rise as Demigods! The Harvest Goddess will rule!'

"The Harvest Goddess is not a Goddess," I said, "and she never will be. And never will you be Demigods! There is only one God!"

'One God, soon to be dethroned.'

"The battle is already won!" Gotz shouted. "You have already lost! Jesus will triumph in the end!"

'Do... not... say... that word.'Then, with a shriek, the creatures charged.

In a flash, I drew my sword, and held it in front of me. Their were ten of them, all running towards us with their fin like hands outstretched. Captain Bates aimed his rifle, and began firing at the charging creatures. The bullets crashed into the creatures, shattering their flesh, and cutting into them, but doing nothing more. Gotz held his axe out, ready to do battle with the monsters.