I open my eyes and find that I am lying on a bed in a dark musty room. I sit up and a rattling fills the thick air. "It must be the bed." I mutter wondering how old it is.
Looking around I see a leathery expressionless purple face with black eyes and a scare like lightning over its right eye. I suck in my breath hoping it hadn't seen me. Then I realize it is my reflection. I so despise enchanted mirrors. I search the mirror with my mind for an enchantment but find none or a well hidden one.
Gathering my thoughts I focus my magic on the mirror till the surface is covered with spider web cracks. Still my reflection does not shift. It just looks even more deformed.
Timidly I reach up behind me and my fingertips brush nobly wings. Throwing the covers off I jump out of the bed. Looking down I find fish scales sticking from my arms down to my ankles. I drop to my knees, in rage and agony.
The door swings open and three shadow men step in. Shadow men are made of pure darkness and evil. "I see you are enjoying your gift..." The first one says slowly.
"You?! You did this to me?!" I screech.
"Why of cores..." The third one drawls.
"Why?" I whisper afraid of their answer.
"To return you to your former glory-" The second one starts.
"so you can lead us in a bloody battle..." They finish to together
"NO! NEVER!" I shout so loud the mirror shatters. Sharp pieces fly through the thick musty air and shatter to even smaller bits when they hit.
"Why do you refuse?" The second asks.
"I am not a monster anymore." I hiss coldly.
"What made you change?" The first asks, his voice rough like fingernails on a chalkboard.
"My father, my brother, Lloyd, and so much more." The words tumble from my mouth like a river.
"Lloyd?" The third asks, I swear he raises an eyebrow but it is hard to tell in the dark room.
"Yes." I snap at them.
"Come and see if Lloyd still cares for you..." The first drawls. Then they turn and walk in to a dark hallway. Rising to my feet and follow them, as I step out into the hall the door closes itself with a thunderous boom. I follow the shadow men through long corridors and down steep creaky spiral staircases. We go down, down, down, the shadows seem to get thicker and thicker. I feel like I am suffocating from the shadows. We pass through great rooms, each one with more shadow men than the last.
We go down through the dungeons. Mushrooms grow in the corners thriving from the small amount of water dripping from the sealing. The cells are big and each one holds a Death Bringer (hybrid dragon) or other gruesome things. I shudder as one growls and the sound echoes of the walls, it is the sound of suffering.
Going down yet another staircase we enter a small cavern. It has soft glowing moss coating the walls, and cones of rock coming-out of the ceiling and floor. In the middle the top of a stone cone has been carved into a bowl and has pool of water in it. The water drips from a small blue gem embedded in the rock above the stone bowl.
"Look in and see what has become of Lloyd... If you dare." The shadow men hiss as one. I step forward and peer into the pool of water. My vision is clouded over with images of Lloyd. One is of him walking hand in hand with another girl. Several are of him hurting Lucy or turning the opposite way when she comes near him. Another is of him laughing and walking away shaking his head after my brother asks Lloyd if he still loves me.
I step away tears pouring out of my eyes and spilling down my cheeks. As I do an image of Lloyd flashes in my head. His green eyes glitter coldly, his eyebrows are slanted down in a smirk, and one corner of his mouth curled in a venomous smile. His voice echoes in my head, "I can never love a monster like you."
I collapse to the floor weeping. Unable to stop. My heart burns with pain. I feel like I am falling in an endless void of searing pain drowning from heartbreak. I truly feel cheated and broken.
A little voice in the back of my mind says to me, "No this is not Lloyd. Lloyd would never do such a thing." I ignore it still drowning in my pain.
"She is broken..." The second starts.
"Yes but she will......... heal...... Take her to the throne room!" The first snaps. I am lifted to my feet and pulled to a the biggest room I've seen so far, it is big enough for me to shift into a dragon and stand on my back legs or lay on the floor and stretch out with still room to spare. A black chair of obsidian sits high in the middle of the room, it seems to draw the shadows into itself. Pillars line the walls reaching up to hold the sealing in place. In between the pillars are windows showing out to the blackness beyond the walls of the castle.
The shadow men place me in the obsidian throne and step away. I lean to my left propping my elbow on the arm rest and resting my chin in my hand. My sobs have listen to silent tears dripping down my cheeks. I am not crying over Lloyd any more, but what he has and will do to Oh Lucy, what’s happening?! I scream in my head.
Days roll by in darkness, my eyes fixed on a faraway point that only I can see. I do not see things happen around me, but I still know what happens like I watch it. I don't sleep nor do I eat and drink, and I don't move. My sadness from Lloyd breaking my heart has dissipated to a fiery anger. I only cry over what Lucy might be going through, and if my mind flashes back to the look on Lloyd's face or his words, "I can never love a monster like you." Also the constant blackness, not a single star and the voices of the earth are silenced. I do not hear the voices of the wind, plants, water, animals.... it's just.... empty.
Nothing, I am just so used to them but now they are gone. I've tried many times and I cannot escape this wretched trance. My mind is muddled, I am unable to think of anything other than pain, sorrow, anger, lose, and darkness. I am unable to remember anything that happened before I woke up in the bedroom in the castle. I am under a spell. I know it but cannot break it. All my magic has been drained from me. Consumed by the shadow men.
At one point all the shadow men gathered and had a crowning ceremony for me. It was truly gruesome. I knew what was going on around me but I do not see it happen. As a slim circlet of silver and black gold was placed on my head they sang in harsh tones, the music was haunting. All throughout the ceremony dragons were killed, baby dragons. An egg was placed at my feet and then the little dragon would burst through its shell, then it was slaughtered it's blood at my feet. I tried to stop them from killing the baby dragons but their haunting song held me in place. I was nothing but a mere grain of sand compared to the shadow men's numbers.
Then one day the three shadow men I had first met entered the throne room. "She is broken..." The second says.
"She is no longer fit to lead us..." The third continues.
"Yes but... she holds information..... of the enemy...... we can torture her till she......... tells." The first finishes. The pull me up from the throne and drag me to the dungeons. I try to fight them but their grip is tight. They through me into a cage and lock the door.
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Ninjago's Shadow
Fanfiction{Book 2} Not all is as safe as it seems. I feel a darkness rising from the shadows. Love hangs by a thread and a fallen star my be the only key... ((home made cover))
