What the Darkness Kills (a HTTYD Fanfiction)

Prologue

A flaming passion. A burning love. It was all going to disappear- I didn't want to lose it. Did I want it in the first place? Could it ever have lasted? Could it ever have been... real?

I would never know.

The truth... the honest truth. Did it even exist?

Was this it?

Why did it have to be so hard?

The world around me was so dark. Obsidian black. I couldn't see anything... but I knew that one more step meant that it could all come to an end.

I wanted it to end.

Didn't I?

Nothing made sense. My mind was a jumbled mess of emotions that I couldn't decipher. I heard the voice of my subconscious... Of what my true inner desire was...

Take the leap.

One more step.

The images flashed through my mind. Of what would happen... of the faces of my loved ones...

The hesitation only killed me further.

I wanted to do it.

I needed to do it.

I had no purpose anywhere else.

Just take the last step.

I looked behind me.

Nothing.

Just darkness... just an endless shadow.

I felt it, I felt the way the darkness swirled inside of my soul.

Everything... just pure black.

The shadows, they were drowning me. I couldn't last much longer.

Could anyone?

The probable answer...

No.

Not when the darkness was out to kill.

The darkness is coming.

It is what it isn't.

Your fate rests,

Deep in the soul of Alyzn.