Usurpation of the Dark
Chapter 2: Two Strange Men
Seam leaves the small cave he's set up a temporary outpost at to look for Jevil. The fog in the fields is thin, at first, but the closer he gets to the great door it becomes so thick he can't see his own whiskers. He bats the fog away before noticing a blue light within its core.
"Jevil, is that you?" Seam lets out running towards the light. He approaches it and with a whirlwind of dark energy, all of the fog and mist is blown away! Seam closes his eye and covers his face as debris and grass blows from all directions of the light. Before long, it's safe to open again and look out. However, all he sees is his compatriot Jevil, simply standing there, looking around like he's confused or something. Seam walks closer.
"Jevil?" He asks, causing him to look back as if it's the first time he heard Seam at all. At first he seems shocked, but looking at his friend, as well as up and down around the candy trees and newly sealed great door, Jevil can't help but smile.
"Ah, Seam… how nice of you to come see me, see me!"
"Jevil, who was that man you were speaking to? I couldn't see them, but I could hear them!"
"Haha!" He cackles in a strange deep tone, catching Seam off guard.
"Strange? My stuffed friend, that man was the only truth I've heard my whole life. I've learned so much, so much! I must tell the kings!" Jevil laughs again before disappearing from sight.
"J-Jevil?!" Seam blurts, never having seen Jevil teleport before. What was that? Did he always know how to do that? Regardless, Seam snaps out of it and runs through the field to approach the castle, before stopping. He notices a small door with glowing energy underneath it. That DEFINITELY wasn't there before. Seam approaches it and it opens, sucking him in!
"Ehhh?! What is this…?! I'm… not falling, but I'm going forward… where am I going? Curses, I must reach the castle!" He says to himself before realizing, with a blink, he's somewhere else. He looks around and realizes he's at the edge of the forest, just outside of the Castle's entrance. He looks back to see the door is still there.
WHAT IS GOING ON?!
Seam, almost out of breath, runs his large self over to the castle, noticing the gate is down. The gate is… NEVER down. Are the kings on alert? Regardless, he uses his magic to effect the ground beneath him and jump in a puff of smoke, landing with the grace of a cat upon a nearby window, entering the castle much to the surprise of a diamond soldier within.
"HALT IN THE NAME OF THE… wait, Court Wizard Seam! It's you, don't scare me like that." The soldier with the angular head lets out.
"I apologize, but why is the castle locked?"
"You didn't hear? Our jester returned and begun attacking the kings!"
"WHAT?!"
"CHAOS, CHAOS!" Jevil cackles as the throne room is torn to pieces in a tornado of intense magical energy! The Heart King launches a barrage of spinning heart attacks along with the Diamond King's spears of light, but Jevil merely takes the hit with the bounce of the head, his entire body having been reshaped in the light of a strange energy!
"Come now kings, I only wish to share my truths with you! Darkners, Lightners, don't you get it? It's all meaningless! Join me in true freedom!" He babbles incoherently as a magical tornado of horses envelopes the throne room! The kings brace for impact, the round table splitting from the magical attacks and the pennants falling to the ground, the walls cracking from the chaotic energy!
The throne room doors shoot open as Seam enters!
"Jevil! What are you doing?!" He asks, Jevil's head turning a perfect 180 degrees to look at his friend in a strange and unsettling way.
"SEAM! You're just in time for the party, let me share my wisdom with all of you! Strong, Fast, and Free!" Jevil laughs with his tongue sticking out, but before he can finish cackling, Seam has launched a fireball that causes his head to spring about aimlessly. Jevil looks over shocked.
"Jevil, surrender, you've gone too far!" Seam growls like a lion as his entire form crackles with energy! Jevil can only laugh as his magical attacks fizzle away, giving the four kings room to reorganize!
The Spade King launches his chain of justice from his large gut to wrap around Jevil as the Club King launches a barrage of triple pronged attacks, but Jevil can only laugh as small numbers such as 10 and 11 fill his vision.
"Not strong enough." Jevil's smile fades as he looks at everyone at once, his head spinning.
"Not fast enough." His teeth show as all of the attacks around him shatter and he teleports to the ceiling of the room looking down.
"NOT FREE ENOUGH!" He says as a torrent of scythes drop down! They hit the ground and explode, causing the entire castle to shake! Recognizing this attack, Seam nears the four kings and puts up a massive barrier to protect them from the Devilsknives that fall from Jevil's seemingly infinite wellspring of energy! Seam winces, but all the kings also unleash a barrage of attacks to knock Jevil off guard with a chuckle! Seam then reflects the absorbed energy back at Jevil, slamming him into the ceiling and causing it to break, having Jevil and a small clump of solid stone blocks fall a dozen yards from roof to floor! They all circle around Jevil's rubble as he tries to get up, but all five of them use their magic at once and in a rainbow of magical energy, it appears they finally have him pinned!
"HAHA, I've never had such fun, fun!"
"Jevil, get a hold of yourself!" Seam demands, but Jevil looks over and puts on the most serious expression he ever has before.
"Seam, hell's roar bubbles from the depths, and our tiny cage isn't strong enough to keep it out. Whether we fade into obscurity, whether the Lightners come or not, nothing will save us from our fate as prisoners." As he says that, the room goes silent, Jevil apparently no longer resisting.
Before long, deep in the depths of the castle Dungeon, realizing that Jevil is too powerful for any of them to truly destroy, they get their strongest magic casters, Seam, the kings, and a few wizards from the four castes, to construct a cage at the lowest point of the kingdom. When they finally lock the door, Seam takes the key out, only to hear Jevil chuckling within.
"Hehe… you think you can stop what's coming by building a cage around your whole world?"
"What? Jevil, we have put you in prison… when you come to your senses the kings except a full explanation for what the hells you've been babbling." Seam says. The kings look on as the two "friends" speak.
"Hehe… you think I'm in a cage, Seam? From in here I can see everything, touch everything… I am the only one free, you are all in that tiny… tiny cell."
"It doesn't look that way from here…" Seam squints, but Jevil merely laughs as the key within Seam's hand shatters! The kings cover their faces in case shrapnel were to fly at them, but to their amazement, it breaks only into three fragments, Seam himself is still holding onto the base as the other two disappear into the darkness. They all look back into the cage, the faint blue light Seam saw from before is present within.
"If you think you can stop what's coming, then I encourage you to try. For now, I will sleep… scamper around your tiny cell, Kings. And Seam…?"
"What…?"
"I hope one day you will see the truth as I have."
After that, the dungeon goes silent. The kings and Seam regroup and return to the castle. Servants and workers begin cleaning the mess, but the Throne Room appears irreparably damaged, only one throne is even left standing after all the carnage, the throne of Spades. The heart king sighs.
"What… happened to him? Was he always capable of such power?" He asks. The diamond king looks over to Seam.
"Court Wizard, you were closer to him than anyone. What happened?"
"I… I don't know. He seemed to find someone… someone in the dark. The REAL dark." He cryptically explains. They all look to each other.
"The Knight?" The king of clubs asks. Seam shakes his head.
"No, someone… even stranger, even darker. I'm… sorry my lords, I've failed you." Seam says with a heavy voice, removing a token from his vest and putting it on a table nearby. He leaves the room, the king of spades looks at the table. It's a symbol of the kingdom. Seam resigned…