Darkness Befell Us

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(PREVIOUSLY ON DARKNESS BEFELL US)

When the train arrived in the city, I realized that the city had a way bigger population than the one where I got into the train from, people were busy, moving up and down, and while I was walking I saw the deep hole with a tapping around it stating "NO CROSSING"

I put two and two together and realized that is where the missile landed, I felt bad at what I saw, many people must have lost their loved ones in this incident, I was meeting with the Leza tribe leader when it all happened, I came and found out that Bale had assisted Tenia to send a missile to the Hnerez tribe,

I could not believe she was still trying to prove a point to Karth who might still did not remember her, I knew it hurt her to the bone and now I knew most of her strategy, she wanted to kill Karth's girl in order to get her revenge, she wanted to capture the woman through Sera but she failed because Sera failed to do her job according to the queen,

I came in front of a rather tall tower I am guessing is where the leader stays, it was better looking than the other buildings around and anyone could easily tell it was the leader's tower and it also had security at the entrance there were on alert for anything,

I had to figure out a way to get in that tower I needed to talk with the leader

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(NOW)

Karth (narration)

I was getting out of the hall with Noth when Garon approached me saying there was a man at the entrance that wanted to talk to me, I walked to the door with Noth behind me and found a man who I must say I had never seen before,

I asked him to come in and he looked like he was thinking about something but he decided to come in anyways,

"Can we talk in private?" he said looking at Noth and Garon,

"He is my second in command and Garon is security duty so you can say anything in front of them," I said and looked at him,

"Actually I have to go," Garon said and left Noth and I with the strange man,

"Come with me," I said and he followed Noth and I to the larger hall, when we got in we faced him and he looked ahead thinking,

"When I tell you who I am promise you will not over react because I am here on good terms, I am not here to cause problems," he said and I looked at Noth wondering who the hell the guy was,

"Umm we promise," Noth said before I could even answer, I glared and him and he just smirked,

"Okay I am Zod, son of Nazak," he said and I had to clue of what was going on still,

He looked at us and we looked at him back because we did not know what was happening, maybe he was someone important but he had to explain more,

"I am second in command of the etocrite queen," he said and my eyes almost popped out,

"You promised you would not over react, like I said I am here on good terms," he added looking between Noth and I,

"I do not believe you, you look human," Noth stated,

"Well as etocrites we can shape shift and I turned myself into a human but that is not the point, I am here to help, you know the queen is coming for you, she is coming after your tribe and no any other," he said and I could help but ask a question I have always wanted to ask,

"Why is she after my tribe and I?" I asked looking at him,

"Well the real thing here is she is after you and she knows damaging or harming your tribe will get to you," he replied,

"Why is she after me, I just do not understand," I said frankly,

"She has always been in love with you even after all these years, she has used my tribe just to get to you, haven't you ever thought of why a human would lead my tribe, she made them believe that humans are the worst, that humans want to kill us, she made sure she got her way with us, I tried explaining to my brothers that she was just using them but they failed to understand and that is why I am here I need to save my brothers from that monster, she also sent me for that metal but I am not going back, I want to help defeat her for good," he said and I could help but wonder why the woman was in love with me,

"She used my father and now she is using my brothers she does not care if they die all she cares about is being powerful in your eyes that is all she needs, that is all she ever wanted," he said,

"And that reminds me, where is your girlfriend?" he asked and I wondered why he asked that,

"She is around, why?" I said simply,

"Look if I was not clear before the etocrite queen is the most evil being and if she wants something she will do anything to find her way to it which in this case is you, so you have to have an eye on your girl every second of the day," he said and I believed him, she killed many of our people years ago,

. . . . .

For over two hours, Zod was telling us about the etocrite queen and her strategy, her first move was to kidnap Nen and try to use her against me, she wanted Xasv that metal was so powerful so I could just imagine what she would use it for, she probably would get the ability to wipe us all out and I could not let that happen,

"I have to go back and assure her that I was not able to get into the mountain, she trusts me more than she should," Zod said and put his hood back on, we walked him to the door and said our farewell,

Well if it is information he wanted from us we did not give him any, yes we cannot trust him as yet but I have to make sure Nen is safe, that is the one thing I believed from him

. . . . .

When I got to my room Nen was sitting on the bed, when I entered the room she came up to me smiling and wrapped her arms around my neck,

"Today you were so busy but now I have you all to myself," she said and kissed me,

"I was just with Noth the whole time, you know he just realized he likes Santi and also he found out she is with Farath," I said looking into her eyes,

"Oh my God how did he take it?" she asked sadly,

"How do you think he took it, he loves Santi and now he has to see her being with someone else and not him, he was sad but he said he is not going to go against Farath because they are friends and also he did not tell Farath that he likes Santi, if he did I do not think Farath would have fallen for Santi," I said feeling sad for my brother,

She nodded sadly and pulled me to the bed with her, we sat and just talked it felt good hearing her laugh it had been so long since I heard her laugh, I guess I was too busy most of the time and every time we would see each other we would just have sex, it was good but I just realized that we needed to talk more, like just sit and talk about how the day has been, tell her my funny stories,

I guess I cared more for the problem we had at hand and abandoned her, she was my everything and I did not want her to feel like she was less than anything to me, I needed to show her more that I appreciate her being my side