The Rise of Darkness {Plot}

[Nekomata]

_{The Rise of Darkness}

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This vast and endless world of ours has always been filled with magnificent creatures that have roamed the land freely. Creatures both mythical, and not so mythical, elemental and element-less all co-existed in the world either alone in isolated clans that would rarely meet.

There were only a few exceptions to the isolationism most groups had practiced, one of which was a ceremony greatly celebrated in the continent of Vulcarna. Once every few years the clans would gather together and their warriors for compete against each other and put their skills and abilities to the test. The time for this tournament was during the festival of Mt. Vallice - Whenever the great mountain erupted.

It was on the morning of the first tournament in many years that the world as every one had known it would drastically change from that day on. One warrior, a Tiger Nekomata who had trained vigilantly since birth in order to prove her clan's worth, had been ready to depart for the festival. Just as the representatives of her clan were about to depart her master stepped before her.

He had sensed something within the young warriors heart. At first he had believed that he was simply imagining the darkness that was building up in the warrior's heart, but he could no longer turn a blind eye. The young Nekomata had once been a true fighter of the elements, but somewhere during her training something went astray.

The warrior was enraged that she would be denied the right that she had worked so hard for and began to plot revenge. She was by no means a fool though. She slipped away when non one was watching and met up at the festivities. The fights had only begun when she dived into the arena and struck out to all that were competing, even at those who were once her friends.

The abilities she had used were unknown to all in the arena. Both fearful and powerful, they were classified in a new elemental group - The Dark Element. No one could escape the Twilightic cat as she shed the blood of many warriors from all clans. Anyone who had not already died was frozen with fear, or already dying. Those with weak hearts were already being consumed by the darkness, converting into the same twisted beast as the Nekomata.

It was only a matter of minutes until the Dark Nekomata had consumed a group of warriors with her Dark Magic. It was this that the warrior's master had seen within her, a darkness that had long been thought to have vanished from the face of the world. She was not the honorable and fair warrior that he tried to raise her to become, but a ruthless killer with cruel and vanquishing paws.

The darkness began to spread from the bloodied tournament. It flowed out of Vulcarna into the oceans, and back out into the other continents. Trees began to lose their color and wither, the wind died into still air, the earth began to decay and the water lost it's clarity. The world was enveloped in a dark shroud that became the Nekomata's domain.

It seemed as if the world was as good as doomed for destruction and darkness, but hope had not been destroyed. Another Nekomata from the warrior's clan had stepped up. She had been the one sent in to the tournament, and one of the few that still remained after the dark Nekomata's vicious attack. Darkness began to flow over the younger and smaller Nekomata, only to be dispelled by a flash of fire.

"Yugito." She hissed as she stood to her feet. "You shall not be allowed to do this to our world. You will have to kill every last one of us first." There were still a few warriors remaining against the darkened warriors under Yugito's rule, though they were all battered and exhausted.

In an instant the two sides began to strike. The world seemed to shake as the light of fire clashed with darkness. Each time Yugito called upon the dark energies, a part of the world seemed to weaken even further. When the fire cat struck back, life seemed to be returned to the world.

It seemed as if the two sides were evenly matched in what they were trying to accomplish. The world froze as the decisive strike was made. One last blast of fire was made, and Yugito had fallen to the ground. With lightning reflexes the Tiger Nekomata sunk her large fangs into the flaming paw of her opponent.

"You may have your pathetic fire to fight with... but I assure you that I will never be defeated by you." Darkness, not blood, began to seep from the wound inflicted on the fiery warrior. "You will live a cursed life. Both you and your fire will forever be destined to die by my paw, sister." Yugito's words faded as the darkness began to consume her body. "I will return. Then she and the other darkened creatures vanished into the darkness.

The war had only begun on that dark filled day. While the darkness subsided from most parts of our world, there were corners where the darkness would lurk silently in the shadows. The brave Nekomata who had defeated Yugito disappeared shortly after, leaving only a name for the world all the creatures lived in.

"Hisso Kurori"

"The Silent Shadows"

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