Thread: Portal - Darkness Dawning (Black_Out and Eternal Thrill)

In the moments before the bells rang, the Lady of the Estate was doing her best to contain her fury and disappointment. Where was her precious young daughter at this most important moment? And for that matter where was Ansel whom she had seen her rebellious daughter dancing with not very long ago upon the crowded dance floor. Susan Thompson seethed inside, though the regal lady kept her composure as always and headed towards the main table as the moment was drawing near. The thoughts of where Eve had vanished away to still clouded her mind as she joined her husband and his company at the head table before he rose to address the gathered crowd. Where is my daugher, where are you Evalina? Sebastian slapped his black ichor stained hand against his forehead as he laid in a momentary daze from the impact his toppling body had made with the hard stone wall of Evelinas room. He saw two or three images of Eve in shock, checking on him? She was asking if he was alright, or something like that. He could feel the sharp shards and dusting of glass from the broken window all about him and he winced as he went to try to push himself up but instead slumped as his hand stuck into a sharp thin splinter of glass. His lost eyes blinked as he slowly shook his head and he cringed as he felt the slick black blood dripping down his face. He looked back for that hazy image of the young noble woman, but she was gone from his side, ducked behind the screen to cover herself in clothing. Sebastian felt a touch of revulsion course through his body as the black fluids of Ansel fell across his lips and the foul taste of it was swept into his mouth. He fell over onto his side, spitting up whatever he could as he tried to get the rancid taste of death out of his mouth. Sebastian was still clenched over on the floor, gagging and spitting up in reaction to the vile fluids that had smeared over his lips. ..Ughh..fuck...what the ...fuck.. He gasped out gutturally as he barely caught sight of Evelina ducking out of the room in her darkened attire, a pair of fanciful curved blades in her hands. She disappeared with a swift turn down the right length of the waiting hallway, was she heading back towards the ballroom? The talented rogue wiped his sleeve across his mouth as he managed to bring himself up enough to rest his back against the wall. Beyond the tiny sliver of glass that stuck out of his hand Sebastian couldn't tell in that moment if he had been wounded in the scuffle as he was so smeared in the rancid black blood of Ansel that he wasn't sure if any of it was his own. Eve came quickly down the stairwell and by the time she was halfway down the steps the sound of the shrieks of horror and anguish had begun to lessen into an eerie almost complete silence. Still her momentum carried her downward and she could hear the twitching echoes of movement, the crinkling and crackling sounds of glass being crushed under boots and bodies that were moving down in the vast ballroom rose upward through the stairs she was rushing down. With a renewed sense of urgency Evalina ran in long strides down the spiraling steps, barreling into the tightly spun tubular walls of stone. As she neared the bottom she tripped in her haste and slid out of the doorway into the farthest fringes of the ballroom where inhuman moans were now growing, taking root, and vanquishing the silence. Fortunately there was no one in her immediate vicinity in this tucked away corner of the massive ballroom that was aglow with flickering chandeliers and sconces that were far darker then they normally should be. She saw them, the gathered party goers, the staff, the guards, everyone that was down here were rising from the floor that was littered with chairs that had been knocked over. Table cloths had been yanked in desperation from tables, leaving contents from some of them scattered across the floor. Shattered glass sparkled in the delicate lighting as the freshly dead corpses rose, flesh falling away, decaying before Evelina's very eyes. None seemed to notice her, as they all turned their attentions to a figure that began to float up into the air above them from the location of the head table. Radagast was washed in soft red nimbus of light as he hovered upwards into the air, a massive black book floating open before him and his cold blank eyes were focused upon it's unfurled pages. The wizards arms were spread wide open to his sides, palms upturned as he chanted out in a voice that sent a chill through the ballroom. His own flesh was falling away, sinking into the bones as his voice drew the attentions of everyone in the room, even her Mother and Father that remained at the main table, looking like ghostly apparitions of their former selves. They swayed as if hypnotized by the strange archaic words that were blasting out of the spoiled lips of Radagast as he read from the book of death. Her Mother's specter like black crackling visage turned to look out over the ballroom and she moaned out in a voice that carried to Evelina. Where...is....my daughter.....someone....find....my precious daughter so she can join us... By this time Sebastian had managed to get himself to his feet and was looking down through the broken window, and though the screams of the citizens of Crescent filled the air, he couldn't help but look down to the distant courtyard beneath him. There he saw Ansels splattered and broken body, struggling to find a way to move, to get back onto it's feet, but settling for simply crawling as it looked back up towards the window and caught Sebastians stunned look of horror. Last edited Sep 10, 2018