A Dusky Night (Full Story)

## Chapter 1

The entrance of the Shadowlands is like a friendly
twilight night during the daytime. It’s like watercolor purple paint being
dabbed throughout the sky with an airy squishy sponge. It reminds one of being
amongst a grove of trees blocking out the daytime sun. One’s shadow begins to
fade as if it was becoming night. Have you ever closed your eyes for more than
10 seconds that is not sleep? It’s sort of like you’re drifting off into a
pitch black void. This is the vision of midnight in the Shadowlands. You can
start hearing little animals come out of hiding. They come out of their little
homes and begin hunting for food, like mangoes.

Dusk is one of the only hybrids alive. A hybrid can
be a mixture between two or more animals, sometimes even a human. Based on the
animals that are being mixed, the abilities of the resulting hybrid can be
quite a plethora of talents. Dusk lives at the middle of the Shadowlands. He is
a hybrid of an artic wolf, a dragon, and a human. He has wolf ears and jaw, a
dragon tail and wings, and a human body. Dusk is a pacifist, and tries to find
a way out of conflicts. He has seen enough wars to understand why people fight.
He knows that making a big fuss over something won’t help in the long run.

He tries to hide from wizards, because they hunt hybrids.
Wizards are humans that have really powerful magic. There are different kinds of
magic that wizards can use. For instance, making a plant grow faster than it
normally would. Another example would be making things turn invisible. Wizards
hunt hybrids because they believe that the powers the hybrids have are too
dangerous.

A wizard goes into the Shadowlands and believes that
the thing making the Shadowlands so mysterious is a new form of magic. He is a
wind wizard that studies mysterious places that are out of the middle of
nowhere. The wind wizard had heard rumors about the Shadowlands being full of
some sort of new kind of magic from one of his wizard friends.

When the wizard entered the Shadowlands, he disappeared
from the naked eye, he lit his wand full of light, but didn’t find much of
anything. Then he tries to see something out of normal and he hears a
mysterious voice asking if he is lost. The mysterious voice is Dusk’s, who is
cloaked in shadows. The wind wizard aims a levitation spell on Dusk, but it is
difficult to aim at something hidden between the foreground and background.

The wind wizard keeps on trying to aim the
levitation spell in the direction of Dusk, so he can find out who asked him if
he was lost. The wind wizard can’t aim at Dusk, because of how hard it is to aim
at something you can’t see. So the wind wizard gives up and tries to find
something else out of the ordinary.

## Chapter 2

Dusk sees someone running from some sort of goddess
and is curious regarding the matter. So he moves down from where he was at, and
gets closer to the ground and tries to ask the person what the problem is. However,
Dusk is too camouflaged and is only ignored. So Dusk decides to get a little
closer and he tries again. Then the person stops to catch his breath and tells
Dusk why he is running from the goddess. The person was questioning one of the
goddess’ orders and he ended up angering her. Then he introduces himself to
Dusk as Galy.

Galy is a joyful human, tries to play matchmaker,
and almost always is making a pun. When made fun of, he will try to counter
with a pun. He is joyful because he looks on the bright side of life. The
reason why he makes puns a lot of the time is that he just can’t take something
serious, or he makes a pun to remember the serious/important thing. He tries to
play matchmaker because he likes to see people happy.

The Goddess, whose name is Blaze, who was chasing
Galy, is now inches away from attacking him with a sword. The Goddess sees Dusk
half hidden in darkness and is a little shocked, because most hybrids were
wiped out by wizards for their abilities. Therefore, the goddess thought she
was looking at a ghost or mirage. Galy was about to start running, but figured
that sprinting was not going to get him far. Galy turns and observes the
confusing shock in Blaze’s face as she looks at Dusk, as Dusk is going back into
the shadows.

Blaze is hot headed, because being the goddess of
war is stressful. Blaze has to find a sort of convoluted way to get the least
amount of men killed during war. She tries to figure out when and how armies
are going to attack. Blaze does not like Galy's puns, and gets angry at his pun
associating Blaze’s name to glazed donuts. When Blaze was human, she was the
first female warrior, and that is why she wears roman battle armor. She is
chasing Galy, because Galy wants to free a town that recently was conquered,
but she thinks this mission will get too many men killed.

Blaze and Galy are arguing on who is right, while Dusk
still is hidden in the shadows. Dusk comments, “You are both right, but since
the conquering forces are not currently guarding the town, I think that it
would be wise to immediately rescue the people in the ravaged village.” Blaze
looks, but does not see anyone and is now angry and takes it out on a nearby
tree. Galy makes a pun about how dark and creepy the Shadowlands are, but fails
to figure out that night is coming and the ecosystem of animals is not all that
friendly to humans. Some of the animals that are not friendly to humans include
dragons, snakes, and lycans. A lycan is a werewolf that can shapeshift into a
wolf from human form. Dusk convinces the animals who are hostile to humans to hold
off on killing Blaze, her army, and Galy, because he can tell it would end up
with the creatures getting hunted by wizards and maybe even humans too.

## Chapter 3

Now it is day and all the nocturnal animals are back
in their homes. Blaze, Galy, and the army soldiers are in the middle of the
Shadowlands, which is a confusing labyrinth of darkness at day. So, they are
kind of lost in the labyrinth, but figure out how to get out by staying
together and eliminating paths a lot faster than one person could do alone.
They start heading towards the end of the Shadowlands, which can be a light at
the end of a tunnel at day, but they get there at night, and it is a route
towards safety.

It is night and Blaze is informing her soldiers that
the new plan is to try to free the town, because she can see that her old plan
will be too dangerous. Blaze is a bit confused that she didn’t see the problem
in her plan sooner. Blaze is a little suspicious on how Dusk knew that her
soldiers’ top priority originally was to plan on attacking the enemy generals,
rather than freeing the town. Dusk had figured out Blaze’s intentions by
analyzing her facial expression. Blaze is now a little scared, but more pissed
off that Dusk was examining her. She asks in an enraged tone if he works for
the enemy armies. He answers with “I want this war to end, but not by causing
the end of the world.” Blaze is now confused and ready to punch someone in the
face. Dusk, at the edge of the Shadowlands, is now a safe distance from the
glow of the campfire that Blaze’s soldiers’ are huddling around. Dusk is fading
back into the shadows like a phantom, before he can be seen by anyone.

Dusk now knows that he does not have a lot of time
before he has to go back to limbo, or he will fade out of existence. The reason
Dusk needs to return to limbo, which is a bubble between time and space, is
that he is kind of like a ghost in a way that ghosts return to their graves.
Dusk returns to limbo and hopes he was not followed, but is being follow by
Galy. Galy is still following Dusk as Dusk is going to limbo. Galy is sort of
scared because he is seeing that Dusk is slowly disappearing into thin air
while walking to limbo. Dusk, now half invisible turns around and sees shock
and fear in Galy’s face. Galy in fear runs, but runs at Dusk and accidently tackles
Dusk nocking the cloak off. He sees that Dusk is a hybrid and gets more scared.

Dusk is trying to not have Galy freak out or run and
tell Blaze, because Dusk knows that it will only be a greater problem for him.
Dusk, now 55% invisible, is calming Galy down the best he can. He has Galy keep
this a secret, but he still is trying to follow Dusk. Dusk is now flying to
limbo as fast as he can in the dark sky. He is trying to not disappear from
reality and gets to limbo just in the nick of time, but is kind of worried that
he is still being trailed by someone or something.

## Chapter 4

Galy has given up on trying to catch up to Dusk and
walks back to the army camp. Blaze is now second guessing herself about whether
she actually saw Dusk in the first place, since not one god or goddess knows
anything about Dusk. Blaze realized that Arora the Goddess of Reincarnation was
acting suspiciously, like the she was trying to hide something, like a
depressing sadness about Dusk.

Blaze asks Galy, “Where did you go?” Galy answers
“nowhere!” He is lying and Blaze easily sees past Galy’s deceit, asking again
“where did you go, and please don’t lie this time.” Galy answers quietly, “I
followed that shadowy figure that you are interested in and found out that he is
like a ghost, he disappears at day, I think.” Blaze, who is now even more
confused, says “this is like trying to take a photo of my own shadow by myself
in a dark void room.”

Blaze is now having an even harder time trying to
figure out whose side Dusk is on, because of how hard it is to find someone
that seems to be unable to track down. Galy, is now reflecting on how Dusk is
able to defy the physics of perception, since Dusk is more visible in darkness
than light. Dusk, while in limbo, is thinking, “Why did I suggest to Blaze that
she should try to rescue the town instead of trying to fight the conquerors? I
could have possibly let fate take its course. Now Blaze is going try to recruit
me to be a military advisor, but I am a pacifist!” Meanwhile, Blaze is starting
to piece together that Dusk is trying to have both sides of the war come to a
compromise.

Dusk is being stealthier now because he knows that
Blaze is trying to figure out why he is helping both sides. Galy is now kind of
regretting telling Blaze Dusk’s secret that he knows. Blaze is ready to try and
catch Dusk in the darkness. Dusk sends the goddess of reincarnation Arora an
anonymous letter thanking her for not letting Blaze find out that he has a
shattered soul, which can make him a deadly weapon since it makes it to where
he can’t feel some emotions. It is now night and Dusk leaves limbo ready to go to
the place where Blaze grew up, but Blaze can’t track him down there without
feeling some sadness.

Blaze was born a human and became an angel when she
died. After ten years of being an angel, the place in which she was raised was
sadly destroyed in a war. She became a goddess of war out of revenge for her home
being destroyed by a nearby kingdom. The reason Dusk knows about this place, is
because when Dusk and Blaze were alive their paths crossed. Blaze thinks that
it was Dusk who had killed the Queen of her birthplace so many years ago.
Although Dusk did not actually kill the Queen thirty years ago, he did not know
what to do, except to run as far as he could from the heir to the throne. The
new King found Dusk and framed
him for murder.

## Chapter 5

The person that ruled and framed Dusk for murder is
Spite, who is very violent. Spite decided that instead of having Dusk burned to
death, he would keep him blindfolded and chained to a throne leg, like a wolf
in captivity. Dusk would try to escape every opportunity he had, but he couldn’t
flee and got punished for it by Spite clawing him with a sickle.

Dusk knows the reason why Spite framed him is
because Dusk lived by himself and all of the people he loved were dead, so
nobody would be present to deny Spite’s claim. In addition, Spite knows that
Dusk is not at all human and that there is something strange about him. Dusk
knew how condescending, unemotional, and unnerving it was to be around Spite.
Dusk tries to hide his hybrid abilities from Spite, even though Dusk sort of
would rather kill Spite with his gifts, he knows that it won’t help anyone.

Dusk feigned a blank grin while Spite faked a joyful
smile, yet Spite was really badly hurting on the inside. Spite almost always
had a smile on his face, but inside he felt sadness and pure hatred towards Dusk.
Dusk had a feeling that a revolution was coming to kill Spite as a revenge for
his part in destroying the village so many years ago. The invading forces
hurled spears, swords, and launched arrows towards Spite. Dusk saw Spite’s dark,
emotionless green eyes turn to raging death black eyes, right as Spite’s soul
floated downwards towards the Netherworld (a.k.a hell). Dusk was found dead in
the escape route behind King Spite’s throne. His death was caused from his wounds
from when he was stabbed by Spite with a dagger. Right as Dusk died his spirit
went to limbo somehow where there is no time or light.

Dusk’s flashback slowly fades back to reality as Blaze
arrives at the sad place and sees that Dusk’s amber eyes portray a little bit
of sadness and remorse because he remembers what had happened. He is trying to
give a hint to Blaze as to why he is helping both sides of the war by showing
her evidence. The evidence is that two people he cares about are on both sides
of the war and he does not want to feel like he is betraying either of them.
The two people are Arora the Goddess of Reincarnation and the Skel the God of Death.

## Chapter 6

Dusk is
sort of starting to fade away, since he is feeling like he shouldn’t have
existed. Blaze, who is now catching on to why Dusk is helping both sides, is
kind of concerned that Dusk is trying to do this alone. Dusk, who is 75%
invisible is looking at the expression on Blaze’s face, the look she is giving
Dusk is of why do this alone? Dusk is reappearing slowly, hoping that Blaze is
not going to kill him. Now that he has showed that he only wants the war to end,
he can go back to doing his job which is taking care of the Shadowlands’ wildlife.
Blaze is now ready to possibly try and help Dusk end the war without killing
anyone.

Dusk is
now completely visible and is kind of happy to have someone to help him to stop
the war. Dusk is hoping that they can stop the war, and have Skel the God of Death and Arora the Goddess of Reincarnation’s friendship fixed. Dusk is trying to figure out what
started the war, so he thinks back to what Arora had told him. He thinks that the letters that the gods and
goddesses communicated with each other were getting delayed since the letters
were getting mixed up.

Dusk figures
out that someone faked a letter from Skel
or Arora. Dusk is
guessing who or what would want to break up Skel and Arora’s friendship. He
believes that it was Spite who falsified the communications in order to get
revenge on Dusk or Arora. He is a bit worried, because if the war keeps going there
might not be a world left.

Blaze
goes back to her army to give them the new plan, which is to pretend that they failed,
so to stall the war. Dusk is going to investigate the netherworld, trying not to
have his past repeated, so he turns invisible and eavesdrops on Spite’s demonic
conversation with someone. Dusk, still invisible, follows Spite out of suspicion
that he caused the war. Dusk flies away as Spite starts to turn around to try
to attack Dusk. Spite knows that Dusk and he did not die on good terms, so it
makes sense that Dusk does not want to be seen by him.

## Chapter 7

Dusk is
trying not to be biased against Spite, but from what he figures out, Spite did
write the fake letter to mess with the gods. Dusk knows that Spite is kind of
happy there is a war, but Spite does not know that it might end the world, so
Dusk is not overreacting. Dusk doesn’t hate Spite, he just does not trust Spite
that much, so that is why Dusk followed Spite just to check if his suspicion
was justified. Dusk does not ever want to fight Spite, but Dusk might need to
if Spite makes the war worse by angering another pair of gods. Spite kind of dislikes
Dusk, because Dusk is like some sort of dark lab accident to him.

Galy is wondering
why Blaze would make an order to stall the war and goes to investigate, but
knows that Blaze might have acquired information from or out of Dusk that could
be crucial to the war. Galy goes to find Dusk and makes the statement, “Dusk is
as shadowy as darkness, but as friendly as a sunrise is peaceful.” Galy runs
into Dusk as Dusk is becoming visible to save energy. Galy asks “Dusk, how did
you convince Blaze to stall the war?” Dusk answers “you can tell a lot by a
look on someone’s face, and evidence.”

Galy asks
“why are you concerned about the war?” Dusk quietly answers “would you try to prevent
something bad from happening if you could?” and then Dusk disappears from view.
Now it is night and Dusk is telling Spite to stop angering the gods and goddesses
from Spite’s dream. When Spite wakes up he decides to ignore Dusk’s warning and
messes with another god to make a bigger war. Dusk sort of knows Spite would
just ignore his warning, so he lets out all the ghost people Spite killed, so
they decide to take revenge on Spite by undoing his chaos. Spite is confused
why some of his chaos is undone, which aids Dusk in stopping the war.

Dusk
wants to stop the war more than to try to fix his friendship with Spite. Dusk
knows that it is not his fault that Spite is insane. If anything Dusk is trying
to get Spite to question his actions. Spite figures out that what Dusk said about
not angering another god is true, but now Spite wants to stop Dusk from ending
the war. Dusk tries to save his energy in case he has to fight Spite, but hopes
it does not come to that.

Dusk is on
his way to provide evidence of Spite having falsified the gods’ letters, which
had triggered the war in the first place. He is doing this in an effort to stop
the war on both sides, but he is flying at a medium pace wile invisible so he
does not burn too much energy. Spite is planning on attacking Dusk when he is
bringing the evidence, so he can destroy the evidence and try to make Dusk give
up on stopping the war. Dusk knows that Spite will try attack him so he slows
down to land and sneaks up on Spite. Spite has a feeling that Dusk is near, but
does not see him. Dusk is right behind Spite as Spite turns around to look and
sees Dusk right there. Spite tries to attack, but Dusk dodges and then says
“what is the point of starting a war like this?” Spite attacks again, but narrowly
misses and answers “why do you care if the war gets bigger?”

Galy is close
by and hears the battle between Dusk and Spite. He decides to get Blaze for
help. Now, while Dusk and Spite are fighting, Galy is informing Blaze, who is
now getting her army to help. Blaze is going to interfere with the battle, but
finds the forged *god* letter on the
ground, picks it up, and then intervenes with the fight. Spite is surprised
that Dusk had informed the gods about the fake letter, and Spite knows that he
won’t escape now. The war has ended, no one has died, and Skel and Arora’s
friendship was fixed. Dusk got to do his job, Blaze figured out how to be less
stressed, Galy is still his joyful self, and Spite was punished for starting
the war and writing the fake letter.

The End