SailorRaybloomDZ's Rayman one-shots

Story from the Land of Livid Dead

Originally posted on October 26th, 2014

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Land of the Livid Dead, a place full of crazy dancing skeletons. That's how few people call it. Even though most of them have never been there, there's one that actually has. This person lived there since he was a baby. He had the experience from there. Would you have ever guessed it was him? The one we know as the mean villain haunting our hero? Why did he leave the land? What made him do that? Let me tell you the story of him.

One day, when it was going to get darker in the Land, the young boy was running around with a handmade slingshot. He was searching for something to shoot at. As he was running, he noticed a pair of bats sitting on a rock. He hid behind the boulders and prepared his slingshot. Suddenly, the scream of a bat was heard. It cried as its wing was in pain. The boy was only looking at his cause, when someone behind spoke to him.

"What are you doing?" 

The person was Grim Reaper, the one who was taking care of the young boy. He put his hand on his shoulder and took him to his small house. It was built inside a giant rock so it had no windows, instead there were a lot of candles. It looked very poorly on the inside too, only a few books on shelves, one table and a small chair. 

Grim Reaper seated the young boy on that chair and stood in front of him. There was a short silence between those two as Grim Reaper was waiting for the young one to speak. He was sitting quietly looking at the ground.

"Tell me," started Grim Reaper, "what have you done?" 

Silence... No word at all. The question was repeated once more: 

"What have you done?" 

Again... Nothing... Only... mumbling. 

"I can hear you. I may be old but I'm not stupid. So tell me your answer." 

".....Nothing." The young boy said."I've done nothing." 

"Yes, you have. That's why I took you here." 

The young boy slowly looked at Grim Reaper. "If you know why I'm here, why are you asking what I've done?" 

"So you could realize your mistake." 

".....I did it on purpose. I did not make a mistake." 

"Why did you do that?" 

The young one slowly looked at ground again and stayed quiet. Grim Reaper repeated his question again, but no answer was coming

"Young boy, I'm talking to you..."

"I'm no young boy! I'm Dark! DARK!" shouted so called Dark, who gave himself a name. 

"Fine, Dark. Tell me, why did you do that." 

"Do what?" 

"Why did you hurt that bat?" 

".....He was annoying." 

"And just because of that you had to hurt him? He was only flying around, he barely noticed you. You could have also killed it." 

Dark mumbled to himself again. Grim Reaper didn't comment on his words this time, he just continued his speech. 

"Bats are weak and small, you mustn't hurt them." 

".....They try to look under my cloak." 

"They're only curious. They won't harm you." 

"One of them tried to bite me!"