Fear The Darkness(OPen)

[Ghast Ral'Ghoul]

It hides in the darkness, eyes never resting, an slick smile crossing its face. it knows what makes you fear, it knows what your nightmares are. Pull your blankets up tight and don't ever peek, the darkness always there.
Old Coruscanti Childrens Tale.


Teenagers, always it had to be teenagers who defied the wisdom of seeking that which should not be sought. Emboldened by tales of the monster that haunted the woods they tried to seek it out, to find it or to party. That was what they liked, to party where no one would disrupt them. They never headed the warnings of their elders, the myths and stories were never real to them it was always just to scare them into good behavior.

The glowing embers of their fire announced their presence to what they had not sought or believed existed. It watched them with the billows of darkness surrounding it, enveloped in the cloak of the force that would hide it from their unbelieving gaze. Its head cocked as it watched them, five of them two males and three females. It was interested in them, it would watch them and it would feed on their fears as they were enveloped in the folds of the waking nightmares that washed upon those that its gaze was caste upon. It smiled under the festering folds of its mask, it needed repairs and they would provide the mortar and flesh.

It reached out with its clawed hand, the surgically implanted talons waving as it summoned the energies it had found. The teenagers laughed and drank as the fog began to roll over their joy, one of them mentioned having to use the privy and departed into its home. It smiled as it moved unseen by the teenager and it giggled lightly as he saw it. The teenager looked around “ Jellaca is that you?” it asked to the wind. It giggled as he lurched towards it allowing the shadows to drop as it extended its palm towards the being and blew a cloud of dust into the teens face. “ Fear” it said as it disappeared again.

Reality warped for the teen as he saw the trees grow angry and reach for him, shadows danced in the palid moonlight. He screamed and started to run deeper into the woods as it stalked him, laughing all the while. It threw its voice in all directions as the teen ran, huffed and puffed to catch his breath. It grabbed at its hand and raked its flesh with its claws drawing a cascade of crimson liquid forward. It smiled as it dropped the shadows and used the energy to cast images into the teens mind of it. Its face withered and writhed with larvae and its body bleed and squirmed as the boy let out his keening screech and clutched at his chest as it reached for him with jagged hands.

The crimson ebbed from the teens face as he clutched at his chest and slumped over, heart pumping no more. It smiled as its head went back as he relished the fear, the waking nightmare that had caused the fatal reaction in the teen. It grabbed the body by the leg and began to drag it deep into the darkness while it could hear the teens friends coming. To early to spoil its meal with their discovery of its first prey.

 

[Darth Vaildra]

Fear, a calling card of sorts for Lord Sebastian. Unlike the nightmare attacking here, Sebastian looked completely and utterly normal, well when he wanted to. Among the One Sith there were whispers of a child's tale becoming real. These whispers spoke of something that was exactly what Sebastian was looking for.

As the nameless nightmare dragged the body across the fallen leaves it did make a ruffling sound in unison with the crunching from the nightmare's feet. The noise, alongside that of the friends looking for their lost one, was all there was. Until. A crackling noise like that of someone walking came from the Nightmare's left, no one was there. It moved, it was on the right, no in front of him, behind him. The sound did not come from everywhere, but it moved and was suddle, so suddle that it would make listening ears wonder if they were really hearing that noice.

Then there was the wind, it had become chilly within the last few minutes, moving through the trees to cause some to softly brush against each other making creaking noises, all coinenidence? The wind casted up leaves that would form into what looked like people, but the leaf people would vanish into clouds of leaves once looked upon.

It all stopped, everything was normal again.

The Nightmare could return to his work, that was until the bells. They were in the woods, where could bells come from? A proper nightmare would know this other tale:

"Don't look at the shadows, for they are alive. Kill someone, and it will find you. Fear them, and it will devour you. Walk alone at night, you will have company. The Reaper lurks in the shadows and the last thing you will hear are the bells of the souls it has stolen."

The leaves then formed once again as people, walking slowly towards the Nightmare. The large tree near by casted a large shadow and out from it slowly came the hand of something human possibly, without skin or muscle. It slowly rose revealing a large skeleton in a black ripped robe tow was the size of the nightmare. And holding a Stcthe that was just as big. the Reaper had arrived. It's hallow eyes looked into the very soul of the nightmare and slowly moved towards him casting death to the plants it touched.

If the nightmare could keep a sound mind in front of the reaper he'd notice the sounds of the friends were no more. Their torn and ripped bodies were now walking towards him as well like something from a zombie movie, yet more real. The eyes of his fallen victim, still in his clutches would open as the mouth let out a moan.

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[Ghast Ral'Ghoul]

[member="Lord Sebastian"]

It's head cocked slightly as it watched the death rise, as the prey in its hand began to moan and to work its way free. It understood fear, it knew what it was but it did not feel the fear that quelled the normal. No it didn't feel the emotions that fueled most mortals, that triggered the flight or fight reflexes that forced others to not think. Its mind stayed level as it took a step back and watched as Death had come for it. No not death, all things on this plane of existence were of flesh and blood but not all things were easily dispatched. The dead things that came towards him one such ponderance of an oxymoron.

The dead that lived, nosferatu, the undead, these things felt neither the pain of his steel or the delicacy of fear. They felt no pain, they felt no emotion only instinct and only able to be fully destroyed and not killed. Remove a limb and the bodies would still slither to you, it knew of the dreaded blackwing virus but it had avoided that mess by staying always to its haunts.

" It of fear, it of death, decaying flesh in the the moonlight. It comes for me, delivered to oblivion, symphony of bells and hallowed night" it began to sing as it raised its claw ready to fight. " Ghast not fear that which brings delight, fettered flesh in the pale midnight. Only darkness in this day, soul taker, spirit maker fight this day to claim my flesh, in the morning only the bells be left" its voice was like the groaning whisper of the dying last breath.

It smiled a grin of death as it one by one curled and released its clawed fingers back into a position to fight.

 

[Darth Vaildra]

Tick, tick, tick. These were not the sounds of a clock or the passing of time. These were the sounds of metal against rocks. Out of the shadows that the reaper came from came the silver haired Sith came up behind the Reaper and then walked through the Reaper as it disappated into the shadows once more. The dead fell and the leaves fluttered to the ground.

"I could continue this ruse, but that doesn't serve my purpose. Fear, fear is a powerful tool and all feel it, even you young one." Lord Sebastian walked closer to the man before him. He was truely dressed as a nightmare, but this was not something that could cause fear into the Harbinger of Fear. He smirked at the masked boy. Sebastian had used only wind and shadow shaping and only those to create his ruse.

"Fear is about timing and creating beyond what the mind can create. This is why sometimes all you need is a bump in the night and the mind will make the fear. Tell me, what is it you seek?"

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[Ghast Ral'Ghoul]

[member="Lord Sebastian"]

It stared at the new comer for many moments while it decided what it would do, finally smiling at the man. Jedi, no jedi do not kill like it, Sith, sith kill like it and enjoy to kill like it. But could be something else, many religions have come and gone in its time in the galaxy, few sustained as the old one.

" What does it want? It... wants " Ghast ran a clawed finger down his chin as if he was in deep thought, it reached down to the corpse at its feet and began to remove the flesh of the face.

" Eternity" it finally said as it removed its mask and placed the lump of flesh onto his looking almost lovingly at its work as it inspected for areas in need of patching. " It wants to feel the fear it craves and feed upon. To feel the agony of the ages, to feel the happy that others have. To taste that which it can not have, in darkness it shadows it must dwell, not for people or society. It wants to understand" Ghast pointed at the corpse.

" Inside others is something it does not have, oblivion, eternity, purpose, lost, happy, fear it does not have. It cuts them and rends them until it finds that which gives, that which it misses" it placed the mask back on its face, the crimson of fresh blood showing his handy work.

 

[Darth Vaildra]

[member="Ghast Ral'Ghoul"]

Who knew behind the mask that there was something real.He nodded as the boy spoke and then returned the desire, "killing, a fun thing to do, but purposeful killing is much better. Tell me, are you flanker with the Sith? All these things you want to know, we can teach lead you to aquire. Currently there is the One Sith, but..." He smiled as he knew something the Nightmare didn't know.

"From the shadows, a new Empire will arise, this Empire will be everything you seek and all I ask is for you to join my side. I will teach you and help you get all that you seek and in return, you will do the same for me one day."