Madness: Shadows Tales

the light brigade and atom

10.
Kale rolled up in a carriage stopping it on a field of dirt. Right next to a dirt road in the country side of a small town outside of oregon. The surroundings were dusty. As the wind was blowing and the sky was cloudy.
Kale stepped off it with creta and mera. They waited for about an hour. Then they seen a black bolt of lightning appearing a little ways off in the distance. Luka,atom and a handful of red and black sleek demons came through it.
Luka starting running towards kale stomping his feet. he was angerly screaming the whole way to him saying you motherfucker! How could you! You're the only one who knew.
He ran right up to kale pushing him onto the ground. Kale fell over into a dusty dirt heap. Creta used her mind throwing luka back. Kale stood back up. Then He spoke with sadness, i didnt know they'd killed your wife! Im sorry! But you wouldnt of come unless we did something drastic.
Luka tried to walk forward but unseen forces prevented him. He puffed his red cheeks out screaming, who killed her! Who.
Kale answered him i dont know and you know i wouldnt tell you anyway but list-, he got interrupted by luka. As he screamed to the heavens, you listen here you bastard! Give me the fucking necklace! It has a power you wouldn't understand! Hand it over right fucking now!.
Creta chimed up with anger of her own saying, you know what you entitled evil fuck! You're not leaving! None of you are. Im glad they killed her. She was a bitch!
Luka yelled at creta, thats it bitch. Youre done!he started to walk toward her but atom put his hand out. He spoke to them through their minds with his dark menacing low pitch voice saying give us what we want or feel death as one.
Kale replied to him calmly saying,sorry to disappoint you buddy but we need you. Then kale snapped his finger.
Out of knowhere his sisters and brother appeared from a white cloud of smoke. it had risen from the ground behind atom and company. Right infront of the blacklightning.
Kale then spoke calmy, we're not here for just you Luka. We want atom to join us.
Luka laughed as he spoke histerically, you think he'd join you? He's the destroyer of worlds. Atom will never join you. You know this, luka looked at mara. Then he continued to speak, lets go bitch! Im putting you back in your cage. As for the rest of you. You're gonna die like the rats you are.
Luka held his right hand out at kale.  he shot a swirling black and white light at him. Kale blocked it with a wall of light.
Then From behind atom and company. Ash shot a white blinding light at the demons. It blinded them. Klara snuck up on them. As she started to stab one of them with a white bladed sword. kiara had done the same stabbing another. Ash started to fight luka.
Atom blasted a black glowing light at kale and creta. He walked up to them.  Atom punched creta sending her flying back. Kale headbutted atom. He stepped back. Atom turned his arms into black spikes. Then he tried to punture kale with them but he dodged each of the blows.
Klara and kiara took out the demons with ease cutting and slicing them with their swords. Ash continued to fight luka. They went back and forth for awhile but luka was no match. Ash had him on the ground within a minute with his sword pointed to Luka's neck. He screaned at ash, fucking do it. I know you want to! Ash replied with reason,  i love you luka. I don't care what you've done you're my brother!
Luka put on a smug smile. As he replied, thats why you wont win! You are bound by love. That'll be your downfall. He shot a black and white swirling light at him sending him flying back but klara and kiara kicked him back down holding their swords against his neck.
Atom shot creta back with his black light. Then he sent a black gooey mold that stuck her to the ground like hot tar on a road. Kale and atom started going at it. atom took his spikey arm and charged it forward into kale's gut. It went right through his body. Shooting blood out the back of it.
Kale fell to the ground. As atom was  hunched over him with his arm still in him. Kale pulled himself forward onto atom's spikey arm. They were face to face. Kale coughed out blood. As he looked into atom's eyes. Then he spoke in a low whimpering whisper, i knew this was gonna happen. I felt it and seen it in my dreams. Death had to happen sometime but atom i have a gift for you! You will feel for the first time in your life. Just know I love all things. Including you!, kale opened his mouth sending out a white light. It swirled into atom's mouth. Atom started to convulse. He fell over. A light started to pulse from within him. A shockwave shot out of him sending a blinding light around him. As It cleared. It showed a grey pulsing light moving around in his black soul and body. His eyes lit up with a whitish yellow glow. Then he passed out.
everyone started staring at atom. Luka took his chance. He shot out a light and retreated into the black lightning bolt.
Kiara screamed in pain. Then the rest of them followed suite. Creta grabbed kale's dead body. It dissolved into a white light. it shot itself into all the sisters and the brother. They seen all his memories all the sadness the happiness. Everything! There eyes glowed with kale inside them.
Apart of it found its way to luka. He expierenced the same feelings. As kale was the only one he truly loved. He then vowed revenge against his family.
11
When atom awoke he was in an oak cage with scripture on it. Down in the cellar of the santuary where the children were raised. He started to feel kale's gift of light inside of him. For the first time in all the years he'd been alive. he felt emotions other than darkness. He seen flashes of memories from kales and his own life. He screamed in pain for months. As he felt all the bad things he had ever done.
Ash klara and kiara took turns visiting him. They would talk to him about everything he'd ever done. They took care of him. They fed him light from there hands.
He asked them why they were doing this. Why they were being nice to him. after he had killed the one person they loved more than anything. Plus all the bad things he had done to them. Everytime they'd reply apart of him is in you. he was the guiding light in this world. now you have to be.
Atom would sit in there every night screaming in pain and every day wollowing. for he remembered every life he took. Every soul he shed and consumed. He asked them. how they could live with all these emotions. They'd all reply the same way. We know our cause was for good. We did all these things to help people. We fought wars to save the greater good. From you. You saw Eden's plan as your own.. We dont blame you for what you did. You followed her orders. You lived in the dark. Now you feel the light. We did what we had to. You did what you wanted. Even if it meant destroying everything. Now you see both side's. You can make your own choice's. You dont have to follow her.
Creta wouldnt go down there for she knew she'd kill him without a second thought but atom asked to speak to her. He told her im sorry. What i did will never leave you. I took the one person you loved. If you want me dead. i know understand it but im still sorry.
As the sixth month mark approached they had to move atom to kale's island. On the island atom had full conversations with them. He told them. he was starting to understand. What being in the light meant. That all these wars he fought. All these thing he did.  He never questioned any of it. he just did it. That what he did was wrong and he wanted people to suffer. He was following eden blindly. He now knew that the underworld was a place where evil flourished without consequence.
Ash talked to him telling him, kale believed in you since the beginning. He thought deep down that you could be good. He told me that many times. Im not perfect either. Ive had my problems with blood lust. Im a fighter at heart but he helped me understand that it wasnt the only way to quench my thirst. I love to fight but you pushed me to my limits. Which made it worse. I had to find peace. I did that. When i eased the war inside myself. I changed. Then i fought to help others gain there freedom  but i forgive you and i hope you've changed as well. ive seen firsthand what eden can do to a person. Look at luka but You had no choice. As she was your maker but now you do.
Klara told him, i found peace in what i loved. Raising those around me to be better. To see better! Ive raised many children and animals. Each with there own special light inside them. Kale showed me evil doesnt have to be bad. Just like good isnt always full of light. I forgive you too but you gotta find that yourself. Know who you are. No one can tell you that but you.  i hope you see that eden isnt what she pretends to be! A savior. Be your own person atom. Find yourself. I hope its here with us. You took apart of my world but i wont hold it against you.
Klara wasnt so nice and kind. She screamed at him for months saying you took everything from me. He was my everything that made me whole. I lost everything to you and eden! Everything. You played me for a fool. My first true love then my world. He helped me become whole again. After all those years of searching. He brought the light back to my heart how could you!" She left crying everytime but still came back. Eventually she calmed down and the two talked about everything. They became friends.
After about a year atom had changed. He was fully starting to understand human life. What it meant to be alive. To find love in the form of family and friends. As they bring you a real strength and forgiveness. he watched them mourn. Expressing there love for the world and the people in it. He started to understand. He started to feel his own passion. He knew now what he had done under Eden's thumb was death and destruction but for what. Why? All he knew was he wanted to be better.
They taught him revenge solves nothing that fighting and violence only made it worse. That the death and destruction he caused was all for an evil wicked intent. Brought by an evil infection named Eden. . He knew she only wanted one thing. Darkness spread to everything under the light. He now understood love in any form can change a person and that change has to come from within.
He started to repent. To open up to them. Showing a side of him unseen or heard of. They didnt know if he actually changed but they were gonna find out soon enough.
12
Luka told eden what happened. They looked for atom but each time they fell short. They sent search party after search party but they found nothing. When they first found him after six months at the monastary. They were defeated and luka had to run back with his tail between his legs.
Then they had moved atom to another santuary on kale's private island. It was well gaurded by two statues with a sparkling glow that hid itself from the world.
luka found a way around it.  he sent out ships with black marble statues. Eventually They found the location.
Luka then sent an army of ships to it with thousands of different demons,pale creatures and smokey figures. They went through the mirage of clear water and seen the island full of light. the sun gleamed a brighter glow, the air was cleaner and there was no clouds in sight.
They jumped out of there ships in all different directions. They surrounded the island and started to invade it. They killed the villagers,destroyed there schools and trampled the sacrid grounds.
An army of soldiers came to defend its honor. Ash and his famous gaurds came too. They started blasting black and white lights back and forth. It was mayhem. Ash's evil turned troops shot white bullets from there guns. While Luka's soldiers retorted with black light blasts. They let out black snakes that slithered on the ground to bite ash's soldiers.
  kiara stayed close to the santuary where atom was. While klara and her horse charged into the battle with Reno and his troops. The place became known as hell on earth. As the dark statues turned the sky black with darkness. The clouds tured grey. Then black lightning started to strike.
Everyone was busy fighting while atom sat in the cellar. Eden's troops were overtaking the island. Black lightning struck ash. He fell to the ground. he was then mobbed by hundred of troops.
Luka let out a war cry. As he screamed its time for you all to pay. Ash stood back up replying with malice, not today pip squeak.  Luka yelled back it's a new day. Behold our glory! Bloodshed to all those standing against us.
Luka and ash started going back and forth at eachother with there swords. Ash had to fight harder than luka as his evil army was coming at him from all different sides. Ash was stabbing and jabbing them but luka sliced him in the leg. Ash turned around and chopped Luka's right arm off.
More lighting started to strike ash. He fell over hunching on the ground. Luka yelled in truimph, your times up big bro. Luka thrusted his sword right across ash's neck cutting his head clean off his body. Luka then drank his essence. It swirled right into luka mouth. His arm grew back.
Luka charged forward with dead bodies everywhere. Both good and bad. Demons and pale creatures from both sides with the light soldiers falling too.
Luka made his way forward. He seen statues of his brothers and sisters made of ivory colored stone. He spit on them. It started to corrode the statues with a black gunk. He laughed.
  Then klara appeared. She screamed at him, cant let you pass luka. Even if i gotta kill you. What we're doing here is for the greater good. Think of kale. He loved you. We all do! Stop this madness.
Luka with his lips foaming black gunk. Started to laugh. He looked like a rabies filled dog ready to attack. He screamed with joy saying, not today bitch. You took my wife and my brother from me. Now you have atom. The time for talk is over. The time for retribution is here.
He charged at her but with the strength of ash in him now. They fought but she was no match for him. They went back and forth for a minute with there swords. He knocked hers right out of her hand. Then he stabbed her in the heart and told her, another one bites the dust. she fell onto the ground. He lifted her head and sucked in her essence.
Luka made his way to the santuary. Through the carnage of dead heaping piles of evil and good. He came to the doorstep of the santuary.
Kiara was standing at the door with an army of her own. Luka's army charged as luka screamed any last words sis cause ill give you one chance to step away or you die too.
Kiara replied nope! If today be my last. Im going down kicking your ass. Luka charged her. They went at it but now luka had klara's and ash's power in him.
The evil army destroyed kiara's forces. As they outnumbered them 10 to one. Luka sliced kiara up. She had cuts all over. Stab wounds everywhere. Her arms now hanging down by her side. She started hobbling around. Then luka went in for the kill. He sliced the back of her legs. she started to walk forward but she collapsed. Luka walked up to her. grabbed her head and held it up. He screamed, i told you to step away! Now i gotta do what i gotta do. She wimpered back, no you dont luka! We're still family no matter what. i still love you.
Lula took his sword and thrusted it across her neck. then he sucked in her essence.
He walked up to the santuaries doors. He kicked them in and made his way down to the basement. Where atom was being held.
He seen atom in the light filled oak cage. He smiled at him. then said smuggly, its your lucky day. Daddy's here to save you.
Atom looked up at him. As he was hunched over. He said, whats going on?
Luka answered him snoothly, its the revolution and today's your independence day. We're bringing you home.
Luka grabbed the cage but with all the light in him. It still burnt him. He took his sword and slashed at it till it broke open.
He grabbed atom's arm and lifting him up. They were face to face. Atom had taken his other arm turning it into a spike.
He looked into Luka's eyes. Then said are they dead? Luka replied with a grimacely smug attitude, every last one of them.
Atom thrust the spikey arm through luka. Luka spit out black blood on him. as the foam was leakimg down his own body. Then he said how could you? We've been through it all together. You choose them over me. What the fuck did they do to you?
Atom replied i choose me. Its nothing personal. He opened his mouth unnaturally wide. It showed nothing but darkness and a long black slimey veiny tongue. he ate luka whole consuming all the light in him and all his brothers and sisters.
Then he walked out of the santuary and destroyed all of Luka's army. He gathered all the survivors. Then told them, its a new day for the new found glory. We will rise together and destroy eden as one!