The darkness Within

ck and painless… For me anyways! ” chuckling at her dark joke Dalia grabbed Remi by the wrist and dragged her towards the large obsidian Altar. As she neared the Altar, Remi saw a deep groove that ran down the middle disappearing underneath the body. The groove was filled with blood that was leaking out of a hole in the center of the table.

Panicking as she saw the blood, Remi begged her to let her go. Unphased, Dalia had the men remove the body and hold Remi down on the Altar as she started to chant in a language never heard in the waking world.

Remi gasped as a deep bone-chilling coldness seeped into her. Her body convulsed as her life force drained ever so slowly away from her. The skin on her body was turning grey and her bright red eyes became a dark ruby red losing the luster they once held.

”No! ” she thought, ”What is happening to me?! What have I done to deserve this? ” Tears started to stream down her face as her body shook uncontrollably. She was terrified of what was happening and what would happen next.

The room began to tremble and shake as a portal opened up in the center of the Altar, a portal leading to the underworld. Dalia stepped back and watched as the portal opened wider and wider, a deep and powerful voice echoed from within the abyss speaking the same language as Dalia.

Barely conscious Remi felt a tugging sensation from within her chest and she knew that something had been awakened. The men holding her down stepped back, eyes wide with terror. She was no longer the same Remi, there was something darker and more powerful now living within her.

”Wh- What is this!? ” Remi thought to herself as she lay there half dead, unable to move even an inch as she felt a surge of energy coursing through her body, as if something was taking over. She was scared of what this new power meant and what it would cost her.

The ground suddenly began to quake and the walls of the temple started to crumble. Dalia quickly grabbed Remi and jumped through the portal, leaving the men behind in the chaos.

On the other side of the portal, Remi found herself being tossed on the ground in a dark and gruesome landscape. A landscape that seemed to stretch on endlessly. She felt the strange power coursing through her veins, communicating with her that she had been granted access to the underworld.

Dalia grinned, her sky-blue eyes twinkling mischievously, ”Welcome to the underworld, my dear. ”

Remi trembled as she struggled to look around, the darkness of the underworld seeming to swallow her whole. Strange creatures lurked in the shadows, their eyes glowing a deep red. Remi felt a chill run down her spine, as it slowly set in, that she was now part of this dark and mysterious place, with no way home.