THEY SAY THAT AS YOU DIE YOUR LIFE FLASHES BEFORE YOUR

EYES. HOWEVER AS IF TO TORTURE GALE, HIS MIND KEPT FLASHING

TO THE MOMENT HE PLUNDGED INTO THE WORLD OF DARKNESS TO

SAVE HIS TEAM. IT PLAYED BACK OVER AND OVER LIKE A BROKEN

FILM AS IF TO TAUNT HIM FOR HIS CHOICE. A MOMENT HE

PONDERED MANY TIMES IF HE HAD MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE.

IN HIS HAZE A TEAM OF LOST SOULS... HIS TEAM... FOUR

MEMBERS OF HIS GUILD THAT HE GATHERED TO PROTECT THE

WORLDS FROM DARKNESS. AMONGST THEM WAS HIS SECOND IN

COMMAND, A POWERFUL DARK WITCH NAMED TRISH. SHE HAD LONG

CURLY HAIR THE COLOR OF GOLD THAT SHE TIED BACK IN A PONY

TAIL UNDER A GIANT WITCHES HAT. SHE WORE BLACK OPEN TOED

HEELS IN A SCHOOL GIRL UNIFORM, COVERED IN A TATTERED ROBE.

RUNNING ALONG SIDE THEM WAS A VERY MENACING CREATURE. HE

WAS A ONE OF A KIND EVEN AMONGST HIS WORLD A CREATURE MADE

OF WOOD THAT WAS AS FRIENDLY AS HE WAS FRIEGHTENING. HIS

NAME WAS GROOT AND MADE IT KNOWN WITH THE FEW WORDS HE

COULD SAY. LASTLY, TRAILING BEHIND WAS A YOUNG BOY NAMED

HIRO, WITH INTELLIGENCE FAR BEYOND HIS YEARS. HE WORE A

SUPER SUIT HE MADE WAS PRIMARILY INDIGO WITH RED ACCENTS

AND BLACK ARMOR, WITH BLACK CLOTHING UNDERNEATH THAT

COVERED MOST OF HIS BODY, ALONG WITH STEEL-TOED BLACK

SNEAKERS. HE USED THIS SUIT TO CONTROL SWARMS OF TINY

ROBOTS TO DO HIS BIDDING... IT IS BECAUSE OF HIRO THAT

GALES NEW JOURNEY HAD BEGUN.

AS BRILLIANT AS HIRO WAS HIS OLDER BROTHER, TADASHI, WAS

FAR MORE SUPERIOR. CREATING MANY WEAPONS, INCLUDING BAYMAX,

THAT HAD BEEN OF HELP TO HIS GUILD IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST

THE DARKNESS. HIS LATEST CREATION WAS A SHIELD OF PURE

LIGHT THAT WOULD BATHE AN ENTIRE WORLD BANISHING ALL

DARKNESS FOR YEARS TO COME. HOWEVER HIRO HAD MANY DOUBTS,

AND BEGGED TADASHI TO HOLD OFF TESTING THAT HE WOULD

EXPLAIN WHEN GALE AND HIS TEAM ARRIVED. TADASHI'S MASTER

CALLAGHAN HAD RELUCTANTLY AGREED ON THE TERMS JUST AS THE

TEAM HEADED OUT. AS THEY CLIMBED THE ROAD LEADING TO THE

CITY SAN FRANSOKYO, FEAR ENGULFED THEM AS THEY FELT THE

CHILL OF DARKNESS CHILL THEIR BONES. IN THEIR PATH MANY

DARK BEINGS WITH ENRAGED RED EYES APPEARED BEFORE THEM.

THESE WERE THE SHADES, THIS SIDE OF THE CASTLES FORM OF

DARKNESS. AS THE SHADES INVADED THE WORLDS THEY WILL DIVE

INTO THEIR PREYS BODY PREYING ON THEIR INNER DARKNESS. AS

THEIR DARKNESS GROWS THE SHADES MULTIPLY BEFORE BURSTING

OUT TAKING ON TRAITS OF THEIR HOST. THESE SHADES DID NOT

BELONG TO THIS WORLD HOWEVER. LUCKILY THEY WERE SMALL

SHADES VARYING FROM SMALL FELINE LIKE RED EYES EQUIP WITH

SYTHE LIKE TAILS TO THE LAVA DROWLING HYENA

THE SKY GREW DARKER AND DARKER AS THEY APPROACHED AND HIRO RAN

AHEAD CLEARLY FRANTIC AS HIS WORLD WAS IN PERRIL. WHEN THEY

REACHED THE TOP THEY WERE DEVESTATED TO SEE THE CITY IN

RUINS BEING LOOKED DOWN ON BY A HOLE IN THE SKY CRACKS

SLOWLY SPREADING FROM THE DARK HORIZON AS MORE AND MORE SHADES

POURED FROM ITS MOUTH. HIRO'S FACE FROZEN WITH FEAR HE

COULD ONLY MUTTER, "THEY USED IT...". IT WAS CLEAR THE

WEAPON THAT WAS MEANT TO SAVE MANY DOOMED THEM ALL, UNLESS

SOMETHING WAS DONE. GALE LOOKED AT THE HORIZON PREPARING

FOR THE BATTLE AHEAD, NOT REALIZING HE WOULD INDEED SAVE

THEM AT THE COST OF BEING ENTRAPPED IN THE DARKNESS... A

NEW HORROR WAS AWAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE.

THE DREAM FINALLY COMING TO AN END. A NEW SENSE OF LIGHT

SEEMED TO FILL GALE. THIS WAS SOME SORT OF MAGIC RESTORING HIS LIGHT, A FAMILIAR FIERCE BRIGHT LIGHT AND

ONE AS COLD AS A BREATH OF ICE, LIKE THE TWO SOULS HE CHASED AND ADMIRERED

THIS LAST YEAR.

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