Short Stories

Hidden Horrors of Stone City

This civilization has always been held together by a magical stone, the stone helps balance all the magical power in the city. However one day something went terribly wrong, as the stone began to start to fade and turn black. No one could figure out why, so the ruler had called specialist from all over the land to come and figure out what was wrong with it but no one could figure out what was wrong with it. One by one the stone began to be consumed by the darkness and our city began to lose it's grasp on the magic force.

Here's where Harriet comes in, it seems that she was a special case as she been specifically trained to deal with these kinds of dark sources. It might take a while to deal with this stone though as it seems its an unidentified darkness... After a long ride it seems Harriet has finally arrived. "I sure hope this works out." She muttered as she took a step into the building. Immediately after entry she began to make my way to the stone. To her surprise the stone had been pretty much completely consumed. "That sure is a sight to see.." She said as she stared at the large black stone. It looks likes the stone has been fully covered in black from head to toe. With that Harriet began to get to work, she first began to take a look around the stone but it seems there were no clues. "This is gonna be such a hassle.." Harriet muttered. After a long inspection she began some test to possibly determine the cause. While she was busy testing something had started to creep out of the stone, it was a very tall, dark figure. The figure snuck away as Harriet was busy testing, when it finally got out it took the nearest person and slowly consumed them, then it multiplied and took another form. Not long after it began to take the form of the person, it started to walk around and act normally, no one would have never noticed as it perfectly impersonated them. Meanwhile Harriet had finally finished her test and contacted her company. -ring- -ring- "Hello, Harriet speaking." "Hello ma'am, have you found any information about the stone?" "Not currently but i'll send the samples I found.." "Okay, you can leave for today. Well contact you when you need to go back." With that their conversation was done. Harriet decided to back up and head back home to rest.

"I'm finally home, todays work sure was a hassle.." Harriet said as she reached to open the doors to her home. Welcoming her at the door was her adorable lover Gloria. "Welcome home sweetheart!" Gloria said kissing her on the cheek. "So how was work?" "It was more work than normal today." Harriet replied chuckling, as she reached in to hug her lover. "Oh well, you should go and take a bath, I'll make dinner while you do." Gloria suggested, "Okay" Harriet responded. While she headed to the bathroom Gloria began to head to the kitchen to start cooking. Meanwhile it seems that something else was happening with the stone, the stone had began to glow extremely bright. Small tiny black shadows began to crawl out of it, after a while the stone had stopped glowing but it seems the room had already been filled with the dark shadows. The shadows then began to flood out of the stone room out and began to consume all the rest of the people in the building. After a long process it seems all of the people in the building at this moment had all disappeared and were replaced by the use to be shadow figures.

Back at Harriet and Glorias place they had already began to start eating. "You really are the best chef!" Harriet said smiling with a mouth full of food. "Thank you.., but don't talk with your mouth full!" Giggled Gloria. They both talked for a while asking stuff like how was their day or what did the other person did, it started to get late so they decided too start heading to bed. Finishing up they started to get in bed now, "Goodnight!" they both said. A while it seems that only Harriet has fallen asleep but Gloria was still wide awake. Something was off about her though, her eyes seemed to have turned pitch black. She then began to start turning into the shadow figure from before, oh how surprised would our Harriet be..